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...1beration-AISA fuels it with petit-bourgeois platitudes. When the Left 1rgamsations were stopped from even distributing their pamphlets at the Ramlila grounds, when they are not allowed to address the audience, how did Liberation manage to uengage" the crowd thronging in to join Anna Hazare in his spectacle? .
AISA/Liberation's campaign is an end in itself: Can they fight corruption through mere campaigns, without being part of "REAL struggles on the grounds? And how do they intend to struggle on the ground: with the 'Anna model' of legalistic, 'peaceful struggles'? They claim that "Throughout these months, AISA has taken on the issue of corruption head on, consistently mobilising public opinion on a positive radical left agenda". What is this 'positive radical agenda'? Caught in the labyrinth of parliamentary politics, Liberation has iorgotten that India has witnessed many movements against corruption in the past. None of these movements eradicated corruption. What they did instead was a change of governments. Not accidently, all these movements against corruption (during JP's call for Total Revolution, or during VP Singh's campaign against Bofors scam) strengthened the fascist forces. AISA has written that "the root cause of corruption lies in neoliberal policies of privatization", as though there was no corruption earlier. In this half-baked formulation, 1t has refuses to identify corruption as a symptom of the semi-feudal semi-colonial relations of exploitation and oppression. AI SA-Liberation has today been forced to say that corruption cannot be eradicated by a single legislation. But what other strategy does Liberation have instead? More than one legislation to fight corruption? More importantly, how does Liberation intend to strike at the so-called root of corruption? By asking the state to pass more laws against neoliberalism? .
From when for a 'Marxist-Leninist party', corruption has become a central issue? AISA headlines 1ts pamphlet as "Mindless rhetoric CANNOT wipe out REAL struggles on the ground·. We agree. The mindless rhetoric of "anti-corruption campaigns" cannot replace the struggle for revolutionary social transformation. But revolution is not in the agenda of Liberation, which is completely cut-off from the real struggles of the masses and has been rejected by the struggling people everywhere. The only thing Marxist-Leninist about Liberation is its name. Otherwise, it had long transformed itself completely into an NGO, and replaced class struggle with parliamentary poli'.ics (where they have aligned with feudal and reactionary forces like Nitish Kumar's erstwhile Samata Party, social-fascist CPM etc) and made alliances with various kinds of NGOs "'.1d NGO-Ied 'movements' which in fact serve the imperialist agenda rf nee-liberalism. On the one hand, AISA-Liberation sees great ~ussibilities in this corporate funded, RSS backed, managed and .... '"~ntrolled anti-corruption drive. On the other hand, when the people of Lalgarh, Nandigram, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Orissa and other .
aces are waging uncompromising struggles against the onslaught ( 1 their lives and livelihood through state repression and corporate .
Jot of land, forest and other resources, AI SA-Liberation distances 1tself from these movements and people by saying the Maoists have 'hijacked' them. When the people of Kashmir are on the streets .
,emanding azadi, AISA-Liberation distances itself from the national .
)eration struggle by branding it lslamist and fundamentalist. Instead, nonly pays lip-service against 'human rights violation'. Kavita Krishnan has written that "The people saying "I am Anna" or "Vande Mataram" are not all RSS or pro-corporate agents". But when people in Kashmir utilise Allah ho Akbar as a rallying call for their national liberation struggle, Liberation and its rainbow coalition partners in .
civil society' brand this movement as an lslamist movement. .
However, they have absolutely no problem joining hands with the .
same right-wing forces on the issue of corruption. Likewise, AISA-.
Liberation sees no problem in being part of the anti-corruption drama .
that is funded by Jindal, Ambanis, Tatas, Ford Foundation, Lehman .
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Brothers etc. .
AISA/Liberation's Lokpal: They expect that the Lokpal -should not just to punish government officials but also the corporations. They ask "Why should the Tatas, Ambanis and other m corporate honchos NOT be punished for looting public resources? .
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Their role in keeping the regime of corruption going must be nailed down and penalised" (28.8.2011 ). Wise words and lofty wishes ay indeed, but pathetically empty! The AISA wish-list goe& on, "NGOs, corporate houses and the med1a should also come under the ambit of the Lokpal". Since wishes are horses for AISA/Liberation, they should also consider the demand to bring the embassies of US, Britain and Israel under Lokpal! Who doesn't know that these are the base-7ica1 camps of the multinational corporations plundering the Indian people and their resources? This will serve LiberatiortAISA well in advertising its commitment to 'anti-imperialism'! Above all, why should Lokpal itself be left out of the purview of Lokpal? After all, who will guarantee that the very institution of Lokpal too will not beco"''a) corrupted tomorrow, even with the "sufficient checks and balanceS' JCh suggested by AISA? Moreover, it is acommon knowleage that the bulk of the expenses of all parliamentary parties are met by black-money made through corruption, and this is how they generate the crores of rupees spent on election campaigns for the parliament to the panchayat. Being a parliamentary part) SHorr. to the Indian Constitution and its electoral system, why should the CPI(ML) . Liberation, or for that matter any other parliamenta.-y party, be spared from the scrutiny of Lokpal? As a revisionist party which has become ideologically corrupt to the core, can anyone believe if Liberation/AISA makes the claim that they never indulge in corrupt practices and underhand financial aea'irgs to raise therr party funds? Of course, Liberation can very well point out that it is not corrupt simply because it never got achance to be corrupt -being always out of power and deprived of ministerial berths-even though such an argument will not be all that convincing for the sceptics. Finally, by demanding that the Parfiamentary Standing Committee also include RSS, VHP and other Sangh outfits under the ambit of Lokpal, J~ AI SA/Liberation can pat itself on its back for putting forward a "~ satisfactory, foolproof and exhaustive wish-list! Lenin must have turned in his grave when AISA redefined the present era as the "era of scams, corruption and blatant state-sponsored loot of public resources" (26.8.2011). Never mind if the communists all over the wortd have characterised the present era as "the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution·! AI SA/Liberation's abandonment of Marxism-Leninism is nothing but a clear :ndication of its abandonment of class struggle itself. They have conveniently forgotten that the defining principle of Marxist philosophy and politics is class struggle, not 'corruption'. AISA maliciously and deviously (mis)quotes and distorts the statements in the press release of CPI(Maoist), and then expects DSU to respond to it. AI SA thereby is trying the old trick of identifying CPI(Maoist) as the 'parent' organisation of DSU, and thus acting in a similar manner to the state and its agents in the campus like ABVP, NSUI and SFI. Instead of spreading canards against DSU and the revolutionary movement, why not AISA-Liberation 'intensifi the struggle for the Jan Lokpal bill and lead the Anna Hazare 'anti corruption movemem, now that it has been shelved with mutual agreement of the parliament and 'Team Anna'?! .
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Deux heures passé dans les loges afin de voir comment une représentation se déroule,sans ne rien laisser au hasard tout doit être au cordot
Pétillant, plein d'humour.
Le mot hypocrisie n'appartient pas à son monde, celui dont la voix au timbre si particulier nous brosse un tableau contenant la tonalité Folk de ses débuts et la musique jazz de son adolescence en Nouvelle-Zélande. Son dernier album "Des inédits.... Pour le plaisir" est un témoignage de différentes rencontres musicales, mais il ne s'agit pas "du mot fin" bien au contraire!
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Taken at Marwell Zoo, Colden Common, Winchester, Hampshire on 23/07/2008, Wednesday.
Using monochrome picture style in camera setting -Canon Eos40d with Sigma 18-200mm lens
Originally a Raw file processed 1st in Canons' Digital Proffessional Photo software to produce a jpg file which was then manipulated, sized and framed in Serif Photoplus X2 image software -a British company.
Le Galaxie C-5
Le Galaxie C-5 est l'un des plus gros avions de transport militaire au monde et le plus gros des Forces armées Américaines. Construit par la société Lockheed-Georgia, en Georgie. Le modèle B qui viendra à Québec date des années 80 et est équipé de quatre (4) moteurs TF-39 développant chacun 43,000 livres de poussées chacun. Il peut opérer à poids maximum (env. 800,000 lb ou 350,000 kg) d'une piste de près de 6,000 pieds de longueur. 28 roues répartissent son poids. Il peut transporter un total de 270,000 lb ou 122,500 kg de cargo n'importe où sur la planète avec des ravitaillements appropriés. Notre gros oiseau nous arrivera de la Base de Travis, près de San Jose en Californie.