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14.11.05 · ~AISA Hails .JNU Students' For Spirited Protest With Black Flags Against Killer Policies of Manmohan Singh on His Visit to JNU ! .
Protest Against Violent Attack on Protestors Launched by NSUI-JPF-ABVP Under the Patronage of Administration and Police ! .
On PM Manmohan Singh's visit to JNU today,students protested against the UPA Govemmenrs anti-people policies by showing black flags. Students dared to voice their spirited protest against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the Patents AmendmentAct, the police .
atrocity on v.urkers in Gurgaon and students in Garo Hills, as well as the UPA Govemmenfs pro-US foreign policy and economic policy,and its compromise with communal forces. While AISA and other democratic groups protested,while the SFI-AISF held back from the protest, theABVP and NSUI joined handsto attack the peaceful prot.tstors physically. The police and JNU Administration tacitly .
patronised the violence by ABVP..JPF and NSUIIumpens. Several AISA activists including women studentswere roughed up and .
suffered injuries. .
JNU students have had aglorious tradition offearlessly expressing dissent against those in power: this campus showed black flags to Indira Gandhi during Emergency and protested against Advanl's visitIn1996.Today's protest has·kept alive that tradition. .
Protestand dissentis the very life breath of democracy. NSUI and ABVP-defenders of the brutal anti-people policies ofthe Congress , and that the protestors have "tarnished JNU's image" by failing to welcome .
and BJP-tell us that to protestagainst the PM is "anti-national0 .
the PM.Let us ask ourselves, do we t!welcome" .
The killers in the uniform ofthe Assam Rifles, who raped Manorama Devi in Manipur? .
The police -.vho re-enacted Jallianwala Bagh inGurgaon and watched as Dalit homes were torched in Gohana? .
The police bullets which killed students in Garo Hills? .
The political leaders who burned Sikh youth alive In 1984, or Musli~inGujarat? The IMF-Wor1d Bank-dictated economic policies that force our farmers to commit suicide, that rob us of ourright to employmen~ that reseNe education for the rich and that hand over our land, water and key sectors ofour economy to MNCs? .
The killer Patent Laws that snatch health and medicine from the reach ofthe poor? .
The sellout of India's sovereign foreign policy by voting against Iran in the IAEA at US dictates? .
How"nationalist" is it to "welcome the above killer policies? If not, how can we "welcome" the very person who is implementing these 's economic and foreign policies, policies,who is responsiblefor them? The UPA Government has notonlycontinued with the NDA.
itis also protecting the perpetrators ofthe Gujarat carnage. Manmohan Singh recently refused to make available the late K R .
Narayanan's letter to Vajpayee regarding Gujarat, to the Nanavati Commission. .
s Day', and remain silent aboutthe children yourmen in uniform Can we hear Manmohan Singh's speech to us on 'Children'killed in Kupwara and Garo Hills? Today's events reflect national politics perfectJy: the Congress and BJP may claim to be sworn enemies,butIn the face of radical opposition, they unite forces to launch repression on dissenters! And the CPI and CPI(M), for all their show of "opposition", limitthemselves to token, paper protest, and stand by and watch the ruling classes launch repression on .
struggling people! In campus too,the broad unity between the entire spectrum of' ruling parties and their allies was all·too .
obvious: NSUI and ABVP and JPF dissolved all their differences and unitedly indulged in lumpenism. And SFI-AISF, by its silence againstthe NSUI·ABVP-JPF violence, and byclapping for Manmohan Singh's speech, exposed the factthat they too, supportthe same policies as these parties! Inspite ofstarting with apretence ofprotest, SFI-AISF lostno time to reveaJ theirtrue love forManmohan. For the SFI-AISF, "protest" against Manmohan was merely acompulsion ofappearing radical in JNU: in .
reality,they have been eager to welcome him as a guest ofhonourinvarious Ideological fora ofthe CPI(M) ·notablythe SliVer .
Jubilee celebrations ofCPI(M) Telugu Party Organ Prajashakti last August. Believe itornot, Manmohan, Ideologue ofneo-.
liberallsm,wasalso invited to release abook on Globalisation byCPI(M)'s own ideologue,the late Biplab Dasguptal SFI-AcSF istrying to hide its own reluctance to protestbyclaiming that the JNUSU President, during hertenure In the last JNUSU, had uagreed" for an inauguration by Manmohan. To "prove" this,they are citing an Administrative communique. This .
communique makes it VERY CLEAR that the decision to invite Manmohan was a pre-decided fact unilaterally conveyed bythe .
VC in the meeting, and was in no way "decided" or"agreed to" bythe JNUSU President .
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BJP Leader Sh. Jai Bhagwan Goyal with Party Members Visit Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab. Where Sh. Jai Bhagwan Goyal Remember the Martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
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JIWIHIIlll NEHRU UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION .
1.8.05Gurgaon: Why Pollee Savagery Against Workers Should Concern UsPollee Brutality Against Workers .
The firstday ofthe monsoon session of lnd1an Parliament was m progress on July 25; but all eyes were on the streets of.
Gurgaon, watching the shocking images ofthousands ofworkers ofthe Honda Motorcycle and ScooterIndia being beaten toa pulp inside the compound ofthe min1-Secretanat in Gurgaon. and being forced to crawl on their knees holding theirears..
Workers ofthe Honda Factory in Gurgaon had been struggling or basic nghts for months-but they, like most workers in thehundreds ofMNC sweatshops surrounding Delhi remained 'mvisible'. Their daily lives-where they stood in constant terroroflosing theirjob. where they had to take written ·permission' to v1sit the toilet. where a visiting Japanese official got awaywith kicking a worker, and where any worker who voiced protest was kicked out-were unknown to most people..
Pollee Assault Was No Aberration .
The pollee brutality was no 'mistake' or 'over-reaction'-it is part and parcel ofglobalisation, where Governments, police and.
Administration ofdeveloptng countries are expected to serve MNCs rather than defend the rights oftheir own people..
The TV footage ofth1s organised police savagery opened a w1ndow onto the enslaved world ofworkers in places !jke Gurgaon.
and Noida-which are laboratones ofneo-llberal econom1c policies. where workers of the unorganised sectortoil, stripped of.
their basic human rights and d1gnittes .
Just last month, the Indian PM had proudly claimed that the Bntish Raj, far from being a tormentor of Indian people, was in.
fact a mentor for the inst1tut1ons like pollee and bureaucracy and had 'served India well'. Within weeks, the.Congress Govt.'s.
police showed its colomaI DNA-re-enacting Jallianwala Bagh in its eagerness to brutalise workers in orderto defend MNCs!Batons, Bullets and Bleeding Workers: But FDI Must Flow On!.
For the lnd1an ruling class the gory tale of Gurgaon not about workers' rights. it's about protecOng the interests offoreignmvestors like Honda The Japanese Ambassador threatened that the workers' spirited protests is tarnishing India.
's 'image'as an Investment destmatton, and the MEA rushed to reassure that fore.ign investors need not worry; the 'legal interests of.
investors' will be safeguarded. .
Even as PM Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi expressed 'anguish' over the police brutality overworkerstn Gurgaon, Home Minister Shivraj Patil has justified the savagery, saying the police was "compelled" to act as it did. In JNU,student leaders of Hooda'.
s party in campus said in a public speech at a JNUSU meeting, that.
'workers deserved bullets, notjustbaton blows!' .
The Myth of 'Trade Union Extremism'.
Many edJtonals of corporate-owned media houses have claimed that Monday's incidents should be blamed on 'militant.
trade-unionism'. But workers in the SEZs and secure sweatshops of Gurgaon are denied the basic right to organise orun1on1se-militant or otherwise! Honda officials complained that most of those who marched on the streets ofGurgaon toprotest the brutality were ·outsiders', not Honda workers. But that only goes to show the solidarity ofthe working men andwomen ofGurgaon w1th their comrades in the Honda factory. It is that solidarity that has turned Gurgaon into a theatre whererepress1on meets w1th hero1c resistance of working class and common people..
'Deal' Brokered by Hooda for Honda: Blueprint for Bullying Workers.
The workers' struggle has forced Honda to restore the 3000 retrenched workers to their jobs. But the rest ofthe-'agreementbrokered by Hooda r-3inforces all the injustices against which the workers were fighting in the first place. ' .
Workers get the1r JObs back-if they sign an .
'unconditional apology'!.
Workers are debarred from rais1ng any demand for one full year; 1ncrease 1n wages will be linked to 'productivity'!.
Workers must sign an undertaking to maintain .
'discipline' .
and meet production targets (read 12-hour day and noc;iemand for wage increase or humanisation of work conditions). .
No punishmentof police officials responsible for brutality; on the contrary, cases (on false charges ofmurder, etc...).
against64 workers to continue. .
Government refuses to recognise the vast number ofinjured workers-who are deprived ofproper medical treatmentor compensation.Fnends,Gurgaon mustconcern us because it 1s a s1gn of the t1mes to come-a rnap of ~he .India that globalisation wishes to cr~~tewhere malls and multrplexes hide the horror of workers' explo1tat1on and brutal1satton. Students ofJNU, true to the trad1t1on . ofstudents' .
sens1trvity to soc1al issues, immediately responded to the workers' .
struggle. The JNUSU President an~ ~ther;;tudents visited the workers on the night of July 25; a team of 15 JNU students led by JNUSU went to Gurgaon to partlctpate.
in the Bandh on July 28; JNU students organised a collect1on dnve of fu nds for the mjured workers. Today. Unions and.
workers all over lnd1a are observtng a Protest Day agamst the pol1ce brutality and Government's Insensitivity towards worke:S.
of Gurgaon. JNUSU appeals to students ofJNU to showsolidarity with the workers' cause byjoini~g the ProtestDay m.
JNU too_ by wearing black badges and participating in the workers' protest programme at Parliament Streettoday. .
Mona Das, Ena Panda. .
Muqbil Ahmar, Sona Mitra,.
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V. P.. JNUSU Gen. Sccy., JNUSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU .
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Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Memorial. This is the site where the British army under the command of genreal Dyer opened fire and massacred hundreds of unarmed Sikhs on April 13, 1919.
This structure is the centerpiece of the Jallianwala Bagh memorial park. This is an area where British troops massacred an unarmed group that had assembled in contradiction to the regulations in place at the time.
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Even as major world powers maintain a shameful silence on this massacre, the Israeli PM Netanyahu has declared on ...... that "world pressure will not stop us ... there is still more to go." .
For the 1.5 million people living in Gaza, and also for the re~idents of the We~t Bank In Palestine, mayherr. .
and m~ss~cres are nothing new. Israel has been i lc;. ally occupying vast tracts and controlling both areas to .
Ut:\..dUt:!>. ~ulh 13dLi:l csnd Wesl Bank resemble vaS1 .
where economic blockades enforced by Israel are a a .
of daily existence.lsrael still controls access to. ea: , .
and over Gaza's air space and seacoast ar~d Its ces .
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;;;.;d~t,..,·;,;-;..,-.;;;;,.;;~nt of p,;opl,; in ond ovt of Gaza have .
been .slowly choked oil, leadlns ~o life-threatening .
croblems o'f sani'ta'tion, h a t:h,. water supply and .
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transportation. .
Palestine today Is the longest: ever people's res\stcsnce .
to eo\on\a\ism, O(;(;upat\on, ami rac\sm. \t \s ironic tha .
th~ \~1'a~\i ~tat~. supposed\v a rnon~rnent "tsain:o\ Na~ .
racism and genocide, is itself the worst perpetrator of .
racism ana genocide in today's world. Ending this racist occupation and genocide is a call for conscience for the .
whole world. .
As the US-backed world powers, much of the mainstream.media and the ruling class political parties 1n 1ne11a seek to erase the memory of Palestine's occupation and resistance it is important to revisit the history of Palestine, and responds to some of e .
popular myths propagated against Pales i e. .
A re "Both Sides" At Fault? .
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Pro-Israeli propaganda tries to tell us that Hamas rockets justify the Israeli offensive; that Israel is merely exercising its right to self-defence. Apologists for Israel in India tell us that "both sides" are at fault and lnd a should not take sides. .
The truth? A tiny handful of Israeli civilian c:asualfes .
have been reported. And on the Palestinian side? ~ore than 800 massacred, a huge number of them l1tt e children. After launching the ground offensive, lsrae 'warns' Palestinians to leave their homes and flee f they stand their ground and stay, they are assun:e~ to .
be terrorists and killed. What is worse. Paledn::.nc: .
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tQ nee or hide, .
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admitted thctt ClazCI Wd~ csn openalr pn3on. . majority of people in Gaza are trappe.d in the Gaza s~n~ -which as Anne Barnard observes, IS a mere 25-mlle .
' ·1 wideI one of the most.
long rectangle just a few ml es densely popul~ted places in the world, and surroundedd d fences along its northern an.
by com;rete waII s an eastern bOundaries with 15rael and its southern ~~rder with Egypt. In .ollu:r words, Can ~~ li~o :1 usa Jallianwala Bagh, with people trapped withl~, ~~rv~d of food, water and medicine, and peno u:a Y .
bombarded. .
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Israel justifies a.ttacking homes, hospitals, playgrounds and so on by claiming that Hamas is sheltering "terrorists". This is a transparent lie: in the eyes of the Israeli State, every Palestinian is a "terrorist." This is exposed by the words of Ayelet ShakPrl, lsrt:~eli MP of he Je 'ish Home party, who called for the slaughter of .
o ers who give birth to "little snakes." ordechai Keidar, a lecturer on Arabic l~· tl'~ Oar llar'l Ur'liver~ity, who dedt~red .
a only raping Pales inian mothers and sisters would eter 'terrorists'. .
The fact is that what is happening in Gaza tod.ay. cann~t .
1. ......1A:~..c1 by ..eking who ~..od tho firtt mlttdtl I~ I( important to underline the context of Israeli occupation of Palestine. International law recognises the right of .
ot:cupied countries to wage armed resistance. The UN .
ract Findi11~ Mission neaCieCI by Richard Goldstone, that indicted Israel for War Crimes in 2008-09, had Strong\'{ reiected the po\icy of "equating the pos\tion of \srae\ .
e Occupying Power With that of the occupied Pa es ·nian population or entities representing it. The ai erences with regard to the power and capacity to in "ct harm or to protect, including by securing justice .
en violations occur, are obvious and a comparison is .
e,,her possible nor necessary." .
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hat the Goldstone Report observed then, applies this .
time as well: "The Gaza military operations were, .
according to the Israeli Government, thoroughly and .
e e s· e P a ed. While the Israeli Governme -s .
..... i s ope rations as esse ·: a .
response to cKet attacks in the exercise ts --.. -o .
self defence the Mission considers the p an .
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been directed at least in part, at a differen target: the .
people of Gaza as a ·whole." .
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Whose "Right To Exist" and Whose .
"Terrorism"? .
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While the rep·ession and massacre of Palestinians goe· .
on both 2 Israeli government, and the US .
pr~paganda machine work overtime to absurdly paint .
Israel as the rea ·ictim! Israel claims that it has a "right .
to exist", that ts citizens have a right to live without .
the daily fear of rocket attacks and suicide bombers. .
The current war and the continued economic blockade .
a..-e O~lenslbly a p nishment for Hamas's crude .
homemade rock2t~ s~nt into l~raal (which fail to reach .
their targets most oft le time). .
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The fact ot the matter 1s that tr ts acwa Y II! . who are fighting a daily battle for existence, for surviVD'1 for freedom and dignity. f .
Let us take a brief look at the history of t~~-:~~t~i~g Israel . essentially a history of the Ionge . ' · f times spannms .
settler colonial_ism and raCisPml o t?nu! has r~peatedly.
1 t an ent1re century. :a e~ 1 I .
a mos f the furthering Imperial de:. J:>llS .
been made a pawn or itlsh and now .
of various colonisers; the French, the Br EJ .
the United States. .
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