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SFI's Ranting Against Maoists and Call For "Course Correction" inCPI(M) : Do These Carry Any Moral Weight? .

CPI(M) Vs CPI(M) .

The SFI leaflet dated 22.6.09 rants against the CPI(Maoist) for its acts of violence against political opponents, reCP/.

especially cadre of rival Left parties, for violence against the poor peasantry, for opportunist alliances with the bourgeois gvern-opposition and so on. .

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we reiterate that the Maoists' actions of killing individual CPI(M) leaders is not only reprehensible, it is further proofof the incompatibility of the Maoists.

' ideas and actions with the needs of any radical people's movement. With their rSS toexclusive and sensational military actions and aversion to the mass political process, they ultimately only produce a rts ofdampening and disruptive effect on any powerful people's movement while letting the Mamata Banerjees reap the .

klingpolitical benefit of people's struggles and sacrifices. .

p forHowever, coming from the CPI(M) camp, SFI's allegations against the Maoists ring rather hollow and carryno moral weight. Take the allegation of barbaric violence against political opponents and cadre of rival Left parties..

Can we forget how the CPI(M) perpetrated the mass massacre of adivasis in Karanda village of Burdwan in.

1993 -for their ocrime" of voting for CPI(ML) during the panchayat elections? les,.

Or how Comrade Halim was first grievously injured and then brutally hacked to death inside a hospital for.

his "crime" of leaving SFI and joining CPI(ML) in the same Burdwan district in the same year? The Keshpur ibal massacre a decade ago, too, was an act of political punishment. .

And ofcourse, there is the CPI(M)'s violence on rural poor who dared to break with the CPI(M) on the issue .

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of corporate land grab at Singur and Nandigram. The SFI waxes eloquent about the Maoists' lawlessness and ps. Iflack of respect for democracy. .

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Well, can they tell us if the cache of arms and even NREGA job cards found at CPI(M) leaders' houses in sis,.

Khejuri (Nandigram) was a sign of exemplary democracy? .

Were the CPI(M)'.

s infamous motorbike gangs and 'Harmad Vahinis' (armed brigades) instances of its com-~etymitment to law, peace and democratic process? When the CPI(M) cadre laid violent siege to Nandigram, s tounleashing sexual violence and brutality, the gentleman Chief Minister gloated thatthe people ofNandigram las-had been "paid back in their own coin." Even if one were to accept the CPI(M) view that Nandigram's movement andwas an act of violence against the CPI(M), how would that justify a CM advocating retaliatory violence? Is suchviolence-even if one were to accept the CPI(M)'s false claim that it was retaliatory-any different from the Maoists' I.

violence against political opponents? .

And what ofthe report (Indian Express, 18 June) that the police in Jhargram had "outsourced" security to a ~.

"syndicate" run by Tinku Mahato (one ofthe CPI(M) men later killed by the Maoists); this security syndicate I-for was "allowed" to police the Highway and collect "taxes" from vehicles. Is this very different from the extor-1rat tion of which the SFI accuses the Maoists?! bn As for opportunistic alliances: it is quite true that the Maoists do forge opportunistic alliances -not just with Mamata I.

but also, for instance, with the Congress in the 2004 Andhra Pradesh elections. But hasn't the CPI(M) too forged to .

opportunistic alliances galore -even with the Congress at the Centre? 1eroe.

State Repression and the CPI(M) 1rh.

The SFI leaflet nobly says that it is against a repressive approach towards Lalgarh, saying, "As the operation of the rin.

security forces in Lalgarh progresses, one can only hope that not a single innocent life is lost. But can one forgive this.

utterly opportunistic and diabolic tactic of the Maoists?" Such piety is laughable. How can the killing of innocents by the.

paramilitary and police be blamed on the Maoists, howsoever ~t.

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'diabolic' they might be?! By this logic, BJP's Raman.

Singh in Chhattisgarh too would be justified in Salwa Judum and paramilitary repression-all in the name of countering.

the 'diabolic' Maoists! ~.

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And the AFSPA and all draconian laws are always justified by CPI(M) in the name of 'diabolic' terrorists..

After all, ifthe CPI(M) Govt is really interested in avoiding the loss of a single innocent life, why has itfailed ~ .

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to meet the perfectly democratic demand of the Lalgarh adivasis: of apology and punishment for the police ~officials guilty of state terror on women in their villages last year? Why did it instead opt for the paramilitary.

repression? It should be noted that the allegations of police atrocities made by the PCAPA have been found to be true ~.

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by a senior official of the West Bengal government (Backward Classes Welfare Secretary RD Meena) but instead oftaking adequate corrective measures as demanded by the PCAPA the state government has only announced meagrecompensation of only a few thousand rupees to the eleven women victims of police repression!.

SFI sheds crocodile tears for innocent adivasi lives lost due to paramilitary sent in by its own government. Wewonder if they have any tears to spare for the adivasis ofAmlasole. not that far from Lalgarh, where there were hungerdeaths in 2004. The CPM Govt's Tribal Affairs Minister had then denied the starvation deaths, saying, "As long as.

there are leaves, snakes, rats, adivasis cannot go hungry." And in contrast to the starving adivasis, is the CPM'slocal committee's shining office in the same district: a sprawling 10,000 square feet complex replete with all the com-forts. .

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