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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 .
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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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Jallianwala Bagh yeh dekho, Yahan chali thhi goliyan, Marne waale bol rahe thhe, Inquilab ki boliyan.
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1.8.05.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSIT STUDENTS" UNION .
Gurgaon: Why Police Savagery Against Workers Should Concern Us Pollee Brutality Against Workers .
The first day of the monsonn session of lnd1an Parliament was in progress on July 25; but all eyes were on the streets of Gurgaon, watching the shocking images of thousands of workers of the Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India being beaten to a pulp inside the compound of the mini-Secretariat in Gurgaon. and being forced to crawl on their knees holding theirears. .
Workers of the Honda Factory in Gurgaon had been struggling or basic rights for months-but they, like most workers in the .
hundreds of MNC sweatshops surrounding Delhi remained 'invisible'. Their daily lives-where they stood in constant terror of losing their job, where they had to take written 'permission' to v1sit the toilet, where a visiting Japanese official got away with kicking a worker, and where any worker who voiced protest was kicked out-were unknown to most people. .
Pollee Assault Was No Aberration .
The police brutality was no 'mistake' or 'over-reaction'-it is part and parcel of globalisation, where Governments, police and Administration ot developmg countries are expected to serve MNCs rather than defend the rights of their own people. .
The TV footage ofthis organised police savagery opened a window onto the enslaved world ofworkers in places !ike Gurgaon and Naida-which are laboratones of nee-liberal econom1c policies. where workers of the unorganised sector toil, stripped of their basic human rights and dignit1es. .
Just last month, the Indian PM had proudly claimed that the British Raj, far from being a tormentor of Indian people, was in fact a mentor for the institutions like police and bureaucracy and had 'served India well'. Within weeks. the Congress Govt.'s police showed its colonial DNA-re-enacting Jallianwala Bagh in its eagerness to brutalise workers in order to defend MNCs! .
Batons, Bullets and Bleeding Workers: But FDI Must Flow On! .
For the lnd1an rulmg class. the gory tale of Gurgaon not about workers' nghts, it's about protecting the interests of foreign Investors like Honda. The Japanese Ambassador threatened that the workers' spirited protests is tarnishing India's 'image' as an investment destmat1on, and the MEA rushed to reassure that fore.ign investors need not worry; the 'legal interests of .
investors' will be ~afeguarded. .
Even as PM Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi expressed 'anguish' over the police brutality over workers 1n Gurgaon, Home Min1ster Shivraj Patil has justified the savagery, say1ng 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, not .
just baton blows!' .
The Myth of 'Trade Union Extremism' .
Many editorials 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 or un1onise-militant or other wise! Honda officials complained that most of those who marched on the streets of Gurgaon to protest the brutality were 'outsiders', not Honda workers. But that only goes to show the solidarity ofthe working men and women of Gurgaon with their comrades in the Honda factory. It is that solidarity that has turned Gurgaon into a theatre where .
repress1on meets w1th heroic 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 theirjobs. But the rest of the 'agreement' .
brokered by Hooda r~inforces all the injustices against which the workers were fighting in the first place. .
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Workers get their jObs back-if they sign an 'unconditional apology'! .
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Workers are debarred from ra1s1ng any demand for one full year; increase in wages will be linked to 'productivity'! .
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Workers must sign an undertaking to maintain 'discipline' and meet production targets (read 12-hour day and no c;lemand for wage increase or humanisation of work conditions}. .
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No punishment of police officials responsible for brutality; on the contrary, cases (on false charges of murder, etc... ) against64 workers to continue. .
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Government refuses to recognise the vast number ofinjured workers-who are deprived of proper medical treatment or compensation. .
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Fnends, Gurgaon must concern us because it IS a s1gn of the t1mes to come-a map of the India that globalisation WIShes to create, where malls and multiplexes hide the horror of workers' explo1tat1on and brutalisation. Students of JNU, true to the tradition of students' sensitivity to social 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 partiCipate in the Bandh on July 28; JNU students organised a collection dnve of funds for the mjured workers. Today, Unions and .
workers all over India are observmg a Protest Day aga1nst the pol1ce brutality and Government's Insensitivity towards workers of Gurgaon. JNUSU appeals to students ofJNU to show solidarity with the workers' cause byjoini~g the Protest Day in JNU too-by wearing black badges and participating in the workers' protest programme at Parliament Street today. .
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Ena l'anda. Muqbil Ahmar,.
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Y. P.. JNUS U Gen. Sccy., JNUSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU.
President. JNUSU .
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tlW AISA Halls .JNU Students' For Spirited Protest With Black Flags.
Against Killer Policies of Manmohan Singh on His Visit to JNU ! .
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14.11.05.
Protest Against Violent Attack on Protestors Launched by NSUI-JPF-ABVP.
Under the Patronage of Administration and Police !.
OnPMManmahanSingh's visit to JNU today,students protested againstthe UPA Governmenrs anti-people policies by showingblack .
flags. Students dared to voice their spiritedprotestagainsttheArmed Forces Special Powers Act,the Patents AmendmentAct,the police .
atrocity on workersin Gurgaon and students InGaro Hills, as well as the UPA Govemmenrs pro-US foreign policy and economic policy1 and .
its compromisewith communal forces.While AISA and otherdemocratic groups protested,while the SFI-AISF held back from the.
patronised the violence by ABVP..JPF and NSUIIumpens.Several AI SA activists including women students were roughed up and .
protes~ the ABVP and NSUI joined hands to attackthe peaceful prot8stors physically.The police and JNU Administration tacitly.
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sufferedinjuries. .
JNUstudents have had aglorious tradition of feartessly expressing dissentagainst those in power: this campus showed black flags to .
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Indira Gandhi during Emergency and protested against Advani's visitin 1996.Today's protest has kept alive that tradition. I Protest and dissent is the very life breath ofdemocracy.NSUIand ABVP-defendersofthe brutal anti-people policies ofthe Congress .
and BJP-tell us that to protestagainst the PM is "anti-nationalo, and that the protestors have "tarnished JNU's !mage" by failing to welcome .
the PM. Let u~ask ourselves,do we "welcome".
The killers in the uniform of the Assam Rifles,who raped Manorama Devi in Manipur?.
Thepolice who re-enacted Jallianwala Bagh in Gurgaon 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~in Gujarat?.
The IMF-Wortd Bank-dictated economic policies that force our farmers to commit suicide, that rob us of ourright to employment, .
that reserve education for the rich and that hand overour Iandi water and key sectors of our economy to MNCs?.
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The killerPatent Laws that snatch health and medicine from the reach of the poor?.
The sellout of India's sovereign foreign policy by voting against Iran in the IAEA at US dictates?.
Hownationalisris it to "welcome the above killer policies? Ifnot, how can we "welcomeA the very person who is implementing these.
itis also protecting the perpetrators ofthe Gujarat carnage.Manmohan Singh recently refusedto makeavailablethe late KR policies,who is responsible forthem? The UPA Governmenthas notonly continued with theNDA'seconomic andforeignpolicies,.
Narayanan's letter toVajpayeeregarding Gujarat,to the Nanavati Commission. ..
Can we hear Manmohan Singh's speech to us on 'Children's Day', and remainsilent about the children yourmen in uniform .
killed in Kupwara and Garo Hills?.
Today's events reflect national politics perfectly: the Congress and BJP may claim to be sworn enemies, but inthe face of .
radical opposition, they unite forces to launch repression on dissenters! And the CPI and CPI(M), for all their show of .
"opposition", limit themselves to token, paper protest, and stand by and watch the ruling classes launch repression on .
struggling peoplelin campus too, thebroad unity between the entirespectrum o*' ruling parties andtheir 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 against the NSUI-ABVP-JPF violence,and by clapping for Manmohan Singh's speech, exposed the fact that they too,.
love forManmohan. For the SFI-AfSF, "protest" against Manmohan was merely acompulsion ofappearing radical in JNU: in .
supportthe same policies as these parties!tnspiteofstarting with apretence ofprotest, SFI-AISF lostno time to reveal theirtrue.
reality, they have been eager to we/come him as aguest ofhonour in various ideological fora oftheCPI(M)-notably the Sliver .
Jubilee celebrations ofCPI(M) Telugu Party Organ Prajashakti last August. Believe it or not1 Manmohan, ideologueof neo· .
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liberalism,wasalso invited to release a book on Globallsation byCPI(M)'s own ideologue, the lateBiplab Dasgupta!.
SFI-AiSF is trying to hide itsown reluctanceto protest by claiming that theJNUSU President.
JNUSU, had "agreed.. foran inauguration by Manmohan. To "prove" this, they are citing an Administrativecommunique. This .
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communique makes itVERY CLEAR thatthe decision to invite Manmohan was apre-decidedfact unilaterallyconveyed by the ~ during her tenure inthe lastVC in the meeting,and was in no way "decided" or "agreed to" by the JNUSU President..
NSUI1S hunger strike Is nothing but asham to cover up its criminal attack on peaceful protestors.All its leading leaders and .
activists-including Wasim Sagar Azmi, PrashantSlngh, NS Nag,Nikhil Chaudhury,Zahid, Madhumita,MarufHussaln,Chandan, Vijay, .
Barton, Councillor Rop John along with JPF leaders ManinderSingh Chauhan, Pranlt,Gopal, Rahul Rai, Navneet and several others from .
ABVP, JPFandNSUI were publicly involved in abusing and assaulting the protestors. Several protesting students wereinjured-including .
women students.The way in which the police force protected and encouraged the goons clearly shows that the JNU Admin. used these goons .
as henchmen to attack the protestors. This method of Admin,to use hooligans to deal with apeaceful, democratic expression ofdissent, is .
commonin other Universities, but is adangerous new trend in JNU, and is amatterof grave concern..
AISA along with other demcratic student groups will hold aprotestmeeting tonight against theviolenceby ABVP-NSUI.
action to punish those who blatantly attacked and injured peaceful protestors. .
lumpens patronised by the JNU Admin. and the police, and will continue the protestto demand that the Administration take.
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