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and in factories, the peasantry and the labourers. But our bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to tackle them..
The sleeping lion once awakened from its slumber shall become irresistible even after the achievement of what our.
leaders aim at. After his first experience with the Ahmedabad labourers in 1920 Mahatma Gandhi declared: "we must.
not tamper with the labourers. It is dangerous to make political use of the factory proletariat." (The Times, May 1921)..
Since then, they never dared to approach them. There remains the peasantry. The Bardoli resolution of 1922 clearly.
depicts the horror the leaders felt when they saw the gigantic peasant class rising to shake off not only the domination.
of an alien nation but also the yoke of the landlords..
.
It is clear that our leaders prefer a surrender to the British than to the peasantry....".
.
The War that exists at the heart of our `democracy'.
.
In Bhagat Singh initial writings, there is an inclination towards anarchism and revolutionary terrorism, but he was quick to.
recognize and grasp the superior revolutionary essence of Marxism. He spoke of the indispensable need for an organized.
communist party and the centrality of a communist politics for independence and socialism. He emphasized the proper.
combination of all forms of struggle and prepared a draft revolutionary programme that was marked by a consistent and.
comprehensive revolutionary approach..
.
The India of Bhagat Singh's dreams was no ram rajya, nor an idealized world of milk and honey. He warned against the.
terrifying dangers of communal politics and spoke in no uncertain terms against the brutal realities of caste oppression..
.
The India that we live in today is no longer a British colony and the sun has long set on the British Empire. It is,.
however, the land of the brown sahibs that Bhagat Singh warned against. When we observed "Republic" Day this.
year, a police officer under whose custody Soni Sori was tortured and abused sexually was awarded a `gallantry' award!.
To raise one's voice against state repression, against corporate land grab, against displacement is now termed by the.
powers-that-be as "sedition". Corporate honchos who loot our resources and politicians who rewrite laws to protect a.
regime a corporate profiteering roam free, while people's doctor Binayak Sen is jailed for years together for talking of.
systemic state-sponsored malnutrition and poverty..
.
70% of our people live on less than 20 rupees a day, but our rulers are far too busy attending banquets organized by.
the US President, leader of the biggest imperialist power in the world. Our sovereignty has been mortgaged to foreign.
interests. Love for the country has been redefined as `love for the corporates'. Vast enclaves of land are being given over.
as tax-free havens of corporate loot and plunder. When people suffer, the state turns a blind eye; when they protest, it.
turns a deaf ear. A state of war has been declared: it goes by the name of `Operation Green Hunt' whose targets are the.
poorest people: the dalits and the adivasis of our land. The Indian state today is as unafraid as its colonial predecessor.
to shoot down people when they raise the flag of protest..
.
From Bhagat Singh's last "Petition to the Punjab governor":.
.
"Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural.
resources are being exploited by a handful of parasites. They may be purely British Capitalist or mixed British and.
Indian or even purely Indian. ... All these things make no difference. ... The war shall continue..
.
It may assume different shapes at different times. It may become now open, now hidden, now purely agitational, now.
fierce life and death struggle. It shall be waged ever with new vigour, greater audacity and unflinching determination.
till the Socialist Republic is established and ... every sort of exploitation is put an end to and the humanity is ushered.
into the era of genuine and permanent peace.".
.
The face of freedom.
.
Yet Bhagat Singh lives on in the struggles of our times and the cry of "Inquilab Zindabad" still resounds. Beyond the films,.
beyond the statues in parliament, beyond the attempts of India's ruling class to subvert Bhagat Singh's revolutionary.
legacy, his memory endures. It has lived on in Kayyur and Punnapra-Vayalar, in Tebhaga and Telengana, in Naxalbari,.
Srikakulam, Bhojpur and Nandigram..
.
Bhagat Singh's nationalism began with the students and the youth. He urged that they should go deep among the masses,.
to the colonies of workers and hamlets of the rural poor. For all those of us who wish to fight for an Anti-imperialist and pro-.
people patriotism, Bhagat Singh is the face of that freedom. For those of us who wish to raise the voice of protest against.
imperialist agendas, against corporate loot, against draconian laws, against caste violence, religious fundamentalism.
and patriarchy, Bhagat Singh provides us energy and inspiration..
.
We remember also the words of Com. Chandrashekhar, who responded to a question asked to him during the JNUSU.
Presidential debate with the fearless reply: `Yes, I have ambitions. My ambitions are to live like Bhagat Singh and.
die like Che Guevara!'.
.
To speak of Bhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru, to speak of revolutionary poet Avtar Singh Paash, to speak of.
Chandrasekhar is to reclaim our history, to make it our own, to declare this country is ours; it does not belong.
to imperialist capital or its indigenous agents. It is to declare that while we are witness to the suffering of our.
.
Piyush, Vice-President, AISA, JNU Omprsad, Jt.Secy., AISA,JNU.
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2012 ID-13747
.
and in factories, the peasantry and the labourers. But our bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to tackle them..
The sleeping lion once awakened from its slumber shall become irresistible even after the achievement of what our.
leaders aim at. After his first experience with the Ahmedabad labourers in 1920 Mahatma Gandhi declared: "we must.
not tamper with the labourers. It is dangerous to make political use of the factory proletariat." (The Times, May 1921)..
Since then, they never dared to approach them. There remains the peasantry. The Bardoli resolution of 1922 clearly.
depicts the horror the leaders felt when they saw the gigantic peasant class rising to shake off not only the domination.
of an alien nation but also the yoke of the landlords..
.
It is clear that our leaders prefer a surrender to the British than to the peasantry....".
.
The War that exists at the heart of our `democracy'.
.
In Bhagat Singh initial writings, there is an inclination towards anarchism and revolutionary terrorism, but he was quick to.
recognize and grasp the superior revolutionary essence of Marxism. He spoke of the indispensable need for an organized.
communist party and the centrality of a communist politics for independence and socialism. He emphasized the proper.
combination of all forms of struggle and prepared a draft revolutionary programme that was marked by a consistent and.
comprehensive revolutionary approach..
.
The India of Bhagat Singh's dreams was no ram rajya, nor an idealized world of milk and honey. He warned against the.
terrifying dangers of communal politics and spoke in no uncertain terms against the brutal realities of caste oppression..
.
The India that we live in today is no longer a British colony and the sun has long set on the British Empire. It is,.
however, the land of the brown sahibs that Bhagat Singh warned against. When we observed "Republic" Day this.
year, a police officer under whose custody Soni Sori was tortured and abused sexually was awarded a `gallantry' award!.
To raise one's voice against state repression, against corporate land grab, against displacement is now termed by the.
powers-that-be as "sedition". Corporate honchos who loot our resources and politicians who rewrite laws to protect a.
regime a corporate profiteering roam free, while people's doctor Binayak Sen is jailed for years together for talking of.
systemic state-sponsored malnutrition and poverty..
.
70% of our people live on less than 20 rupees a day, but our rulers are far too busy attending banquets organized by.
the US President, leader of the biggest imperialist power in the world. Our sovereignty has been mortgaged to foreign.
interests. Love for the country has been redefined as `love for the corporates'. Vast enclaves of land are being given over.
as tax-free havens of corporate loot and plunder. When people suffer, the state turns a blind eye; when they protest, it.
turns a deaf ear. A state of war has been declared: it goes by the name of `Operation Green Hunt' whose targets are the.
poorest people: the dalits and the adivasis of our land. The Indian state today is as unafraid as its colonial predecessor.
to shoot down people when they raise the flag of protest..
.
From Bhagat Singh's last "Petition to the Punjab governor":.
.
"Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural.
resources are being exploited by a handful of parasites. They may be purely British Capitalist or mixed British and.
Indian or even purely Indian. ... All these things make no difference. ... The war shall continue..
.
It may assume different shapes at different times. It may become now open, now hidden, now purely agitational, now.
fierce life and death struggle. It shall be waged ever with new vigour, greater audacity and unflinching determination.
till the Socialist Republic is established and ... every sort of exploitation is put an end to and the humanity is ushered.
into the era of genuine and permanent peace.".
.
The face of freedom.
.
Yet Bhagat Singh lives on in the struggles of our times and the cry of "Inquilab Zindabad" still resounds. Beyond the films,.
beyond the statues in parliament, beyond the attempts of India's ruling class to subvert Bhagat Singh's revolutionary.
legacy, his memory endures. It has lived on in Kayyur and Punnapra-Vayalar, in Tebhaga and Telengana, in Naxalbari,.
Srikakulam, Bhojpur and Nandigram..
.
Bhagat Singh's nationalism began with the students and the youth. He urged that they should go deep among the masses,.
to the colonies of workers and hamlets of the rural poor. For all those of us who wish to fight for an Anti-imperialist and pro-.
people patriotism, Bhagat Singh is the face of that freedom. For those of us who wish to raise the voice of protest against.
imperialist agendas, against corporate loot, against draconian laws, against caste violence, religious fundamentalism.
and patriarchy, Bhagat Singh provides us energy and inspiration..
.
We remember also the words of Com. Chandrashekhar, who responded to a question asked to him during the JNUSU.
Presidential debate with the fearless reply: `Yes, I have ambitions. My ambitions are to live like Bhagat Singh and.
die like Che Guevara!'.
.
To speak of Bhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru, to speak of revolutionary poet Avtar Singh Paash, to speak of.
Chandrasekhar is to reclaim our history, to make it our own, to declare this country is ours; it does not belong.
to imperialist capital or its indigenous agents. It is to declare that while we are witness to the suffering of our.
.
Piyush, Vice-President, AISA, JNU Omprsad, Jt.Secy., AISA,JNU.
..