PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2004 ID-1877
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I'o;;_:a I All India Students Association(AISA) .
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28.904.
Co~mor.JtingSabeed-e-Axdm Bhaeat Sineh on his Birth Anniversary.
Long Live Bhagat Siiigli's Legacy ofAnti-Imperialist Nationalism!.
'Bhagat Singh this time, don t be bom an Indian, .
I.
The punishment fo!' patl'iotism is the gallows even today,.
... There is a new law, 'you'll be behitui bai'S In a moment,.
.
Let alone bombs, you'll be caught even fo!' giving a speech!' . .
As we rememberBhagat Singh on his birth anniversary, we hearthe echo ofthese words of the poet Shankar Shailendra.In Bihar. today, four dalit landless labourers face the gallows and sixteen are imprisoned for life under TADA for daring todemand minimum wages and social dignity. POTA may be repealed, but Its most draconian aspects are incorporated in other.
existing laws. The mother of all black laws, AFSPA, terrorises the people of Manlpur, Kashmir and the entire North East.Recall that BhagatSingh and his comrades were hanged for throwing a bomb in the Assembly in protest against.
the draconian Public safety and Trade Dispute Bill which made Union activity and freedom of dissent illegal.Today, In Independent India, we see that Bhagat Singh Is being hanged daily..
on 23 March, 1931, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdav were hanged by the British. Their martyrdom sparked off a freshdebate in the entire nation. Thousands ofyouth,with the dreams ofan India free from oppression and imperiaJist domination,.
flung themselves onto the rocky path of revolution. Bhagat Singh and his comrades posed a burning question mark to the.
national movement led by Gandhi. both before and aftertheir martyrdom. Presenting the revolutionary programme in 1931,Bhagat Singh had commented on the Congress," This Is a struggle dependent upon the middle class shopkeepers and.
itfew capitaliststhe real revolutionary armies are inthe villages andfactories-the peasantry and the labourers..
But our bourgeois leaders do notand cannot daretotackle them..After his first experience with the Ahmedabadlabour.ers in 1920 Mahatma Gandhi declared: "We must not tamper with the labourers. It is dangerous to makpolitical use of the factory proletariatu (The Times, May 1921). Since then, they never dared to approach them.There remains the peasantry. The Bardoli resolutJon. of1922 clearly defines the horror the leaders felt when.they.
sawthe gigantic peasant class rising toshake offnotonlythe domination ofan alien nation butalso the yoke ofthe.
landlords." .
Itwas atime when the Congress-led freedom struggle was going through a phase ofpessimism following the calling off ofthe Non-Cooperation Movement; when Savarkar had secured his freedom by writing apology letters to the British; when the.
Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were pledging loyalty to the British. According to the ABVP, this was a phase of 'collaborationwith the British'. But this was the same phas~when Bhagat Singh and other rev.olutionaries set up the Hindustan SocialistRepublican Association (September 1928) and the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, which gavethe freedom struggle a revolutionary.
edge. It was the popularity oftheirmovement which pressurlsed the Congress to adopt the slogan of 'Puma Swaraj'. Gauging.
the danger from the religious idiom ofthe freedom movement as well as the British policy of 'divide and rule' by fanning up.
communalism, Bhagat Singh called for the total separation ofreligion from politics and declared that only a secular society.
can be the foundation for a free India. Itwas Bhagat Singh and his comrades, who first introduced scientific socialism into the.
agenda ofIndian revolutionaries~ This was what made Bhagat Singh and his comrades the target ofcriticism by Lafa Lajpat Rai.
and Gandhiji, who distrusted the 'smell ofBolshevism' that emanated from Bhagat Singh-'s ideas. They were unhappy that,.
.thanks to Bhagat Singh, the nation's youth were taking Lenin as their leader. Bhagat Singh had called upon youth to "take themessage of revolution to the farcomers ofthe country, light the spark of revolution In the crores of people in slums, hutmentsand factories, so as to achieve freedom and make the exploitation ofman by man impossibleb.Even after Bhagat Singh's martyrdom, the dream ofa building a socialist society did not die. Ifthis dream inspired youth in.
the 1930s,thesame dream Inspired the students and youth ofthe Naxalbari movement ofthe 1960sto burn their degrees andrespond to Charu Majumdar's call to sacrifice their lives In the revolutionary peasant movement,with the song, uour motherland.
will be tree on their lips. .
Once again, our 'brown sahib' ruling class, whether it be in the form ofgovernments led by BJP orCongress, is bent on.
selling out ournation's freedom toUS-led imperialism. The need ofthe hourIsto strengthen Bhagat Singh's struggle for atruly.
free and egalitarian India. .
·.
.
We have seen many attempts to distort history and erase the legacy of revolutionaries like Shagat Singh. On the occasion.
ofBhagat Singh's birth anniversary, AI SA Invites you to participate in a discussion on the role ofthe Congress, Communists.
and RSS in the freedom struggle. .
A Presentation :.
Role of Congress, Communists and RSS in Indian Freedom Struggle .
ByKavita Krishnan,.
" Taoti Mess National President AISA, Editorial Board Liberation., 28.9.04 .
9:30 om.
Sdi-Moa~ Oas Prcs1de~ ATS.A Nil Sdi-Sotya VcnJwtu Siddat'"hat Kr. D., V.~ AlSA,JNU .
.
.
PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2004 ID-1877
.
I'o;;_:a I All India Students Association(AISA) .
.
28.904.
Co~mor.JtingSabeed-e-Axdm Bhaeat Sineh on his Birth Anniversary.
Long Live Bhagat Siiigli's Legacy ofAnti-Imperialist Nationalism!.
'Bhagat Singh this time, don t be bom an Indian, .
I.
The punishment fo!' patl'iotism is the gallows even today,.
... There is a new law, 'you'll be behitui bai'S In a moment,.
.
Let alone bombs, you'll be caught even fo!' giving a speech!' . .
As we rememberBhagat Singh on his birth anniversary, we hearthe echo ofthese words of the poet Shankar Shailendra.In Bihar. today, four dalit landless labourers face the gallows and sixteen are imprisoned for life under TADA for daring todemand minimum wages and social dignity. POTA may be repealed, but Its most draconian aspects are incorporated in other.
existing laws. The mother of all black laws, AFSPA, terrorises the people of Manlpur, Kashmir and the entire North East.Recall that BhagatSingh and his comrades were hanged for throwing a bomb in the Assembly in protest against.
the draconian Public safety and Trade Dispute Bill which made Union activity and freedom of dissent illegal.Today, In Independent India, we see that Bhagat Singh Is being hanged daily..
on 23 March, 1931, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdav were hanged by the British. Their martyrdom sparked off a freshdebate in the entire nation. Thousands ofyouth,with the dreams ofan India free from oppression and imperiaJist domination,.
flung themselves onto the rocky path of revolution. Bhagat Singh and his comrades posed a burning question mark to the.
national movement led by Gandhi. both before and aftertheir martyrdom. Presenting the revolutionary programme in 1931,Bhagat Singh had commented on the Congress," This Is a struggle dependent upon the middle class shopkeepers and.
itfew capitaliststhe real revolutionary armies are inthe villages andfactories-the peasantry and the labourers..
But our bourgeois leaders do notand cannot daretotackle them..After his first experience with the Ahmedabadlabour.ers in 1920 Mahatma Gandhi declared: "We must not tamper with the labourers. It is dangerous to makpolitical use of the factory proletariatu (The Times, May 1921). Since then, they never dared to approach them.There remains the peasantry. The Bardoli resolutJon. of1922 clearly defines the horror the leaders felt when.they.
sawthe gigantic peasant class rising toshake offnotonlythe domination ofan alien nation butalso the yoke ofthe.
landlords." .
Itwas atime when the Congress-led freedom struggle was going through a phase ofpessimism following the calling off ofthe Non-Cooperation Movement; when Savarkar had secured his freedom by writing apology letters to the British; when the.
Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were pledging loyalty to the British. According to the ABVP, this was a phase of 'collaborationwith the British'. But this was the same phas~when Bhagat Singh and other rev.olutionaries set up the Hindustan SocialistRepublican Association (September 1928) and the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, which gavethe freedom struggle a revolutionary.
edge. It was the popularity oftheirmovement which pressurlsed the Congress to adopt the slogan of 'Puma Swaraj'. Gauging.
the danger from the religious idiom ofthe freedom movement as well as the British policy of 'divide and rule' by fanning up.
communalism, Bhagat Singh called for the total separation ofreligion from politics and declared that only a secular society.
can be the foundation for a free India. Itwas Bhagat Singh and his comrades, who first introduced scientific socialism into the.
agenda ofIndian revolutionaries~ This was what made Bhagat Singh and his comrades the target ofcriticism by Lafa Lajpat Rai.
and Gandhiji, who distrusted the 'smell ofBolshevism' that emanated from Bhagat Singh-'s ideas. They were unhappy that,.
.thanks to Bhagat Singh, the nation's youth were taking Lenin as their leader. Bhagat Singh had called upon youth to "take themessage of revolution to the farcomers ofthe country, light the spark of revolution In the crores of people in slums, hutmentsand factories, so as to achieve freedom and make the exploitation ofman by man impossibleb.Even after Bhagat Singh's martyrdom, the dream ofa building a socialist society did not die. Ifthis dream inspired youth in.
the 1930s,thesame dream Inspired the students and youth ofthe Naxalbari movement ofthe 1960sto burn their degrees andrespond to Charu Majumdar's call to sacrifice their lives In the revolutionary peasant movement,with the song, uour motherland.
will be tree on their lips. .
Once again, our 'brown sahib' ruling class, whether it be in the form ofgovernments led by BJP orCongress, is bent on.
selling out ournation's freedom toUS-led imperialism. The need ofthe hourIsto strengthen Bhagat Singh's struggle for atruly.
free and egalitarian India. .
·.
.
We have seen many attempts to distort history and erase the legacy of revolutionaries like Shagat Singh. On the occasion.
ofBhagat Singh's birth anniversary, AI SA Invites you to participate in a discussion on the role ofthe Congress, Communists.
and RSS in the freedom struggle. .
A Presentation :.
Role of Congress, Communists and RSS in Indian Freedom Struggle .
ByKavita Krishnan,.
" Taoti Mess National President AISA, Editorial Board Liberation., 28.9.04 .
9:30 om.
Sdi-Moa~ Oas Prcs1de~ ATS.A Nil Sdi-Sotya VcnJwtu Siddat'"hat Kr. D., V.~ AlSA,JNU .
.
.