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Headline Singur .

By Amitadyuti Kumar .

30 December, 2006 .

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Countercurrents.org .

It was the 3rd week of May, 2006 the 18th day to be exact. The Left Front Government was sworn in for the 7th time in a row. Almost immediately Singur, an otherwise non-descript rural area in the Hooghly District, suddenly made the headlines. On that afternoon, the Chief Minister Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharyee, sitting alongside Mr Ratan Tata, the chief of a dominant Indian capitalist group -the TATAs, announced in a press conference that Tata Motors had made an agreement with the state government to set up a factory for small cars at Singur. In the press conference it was also made public that the state government would hand over 1000 acres of land in Singur. It cleverly remained silent on whether any Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) had been signed. .

Towards the evening the news spread in Singur and so did the peoples anger. The next day marked the beginning of public outrage. It did not wait for any organizational strength, political leadership. The fear of unemployment and starvation was so palpable that it broke all the barriers of age, gender and whats more their political identities. It is not the first time that farmers land is taken away. Haldia, Bakreshwar or Rajarhat have their own sordid tales of how the government had given away their land to the industrialists or promoters, all in the name of development and industrialization. There were resentments and protests in those areas too. But the administration strengthened by the muscle power of the ruling party CPI (M) chose to ignore the popular sentiment. Protest and opposition in Singur assumed a different dimension, and because it assumed a different dimension, Singur could find a place in the media, if not hitting the headlines. Even the ruling CPM organ the Ganashakti had to find place for two to three news item/ commentaries a day without exception for the last seven months---because while struggling for their right to life and a dignified livelihood Singur people has brought to the fore certain basic and important issues regarding development-industralsation-urbanisation and the eventual eviction and destruction of farmland. The more the issues were raised and in-depth discussions and debates went on, the more the government, the ruling party and their leaders took refuge in more and more lies and deceptions. The movement of the people of Singur for their right to life and farmland no longer remained the struggle of Singur people alone. It gave rise to more serious questions about the efficacy of development projects that keep 96% of the population of the area outside its ambit. The intelligentsia, economists politicians and sociologists came forward to find solutions of such riddles and have tried to deal with the issues. Their overwhelming opinions supported by facts and figures, expert opinions, and past experiences in home and abroad conclusively point to the fact that the .

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The Kolkata Press Club also condemned the baton-charge and demanded punishment for the officer who ordered it. .

The police stopped thousands of protesters on Thursday from storming the site of a proposed Tata factory in West Bengal, which has become a test for the new economic policies of the ruling Leftists. .

West Bengal, which has the world's longest-serving democratically elected Left government, is wooing foreign and domestic investment after years of focusing on land reforms and empowering poor peasants. But a move to hand over nearly 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of a prime agricultural land to Tata Motors Ltd for a small-car project in Singur, about 50 km (30 miles) north of Kolkata, has come under scathing criticism. .

In the past month, there have been three general strikes in the state and occasionally violent protests. .

Aseem Shrivastava Writes in his article, `The Communist State As A ?Developmental Terrorist? in Countercurrents.org: .

The sorrows of Singur are typical of India?s feudal globalization. .

?Will I be allowed to harvest the paddy that is still growing in my field or will the police attack me again?? .

- Bharati Das, who was brutally assaulted by the West Bengal Police in her own home last week because she resisted the forced acquisition of her land by the state for purposes of industrialization, speaking to the press in New Delhi, December 7, 2006, left hand bandaged and tears in her eyes. .

The iron law of opportunistic pedestrians and motorists applies universally to political parties and their leaders in ?the world?s largest democracy?. As pedestrians (read: party in opposition) they are quick to feel the assault on their rights by cars (read: party in power) clipping past. But when riding in their own fast cars (occupying high offices themselves), the challenges put to them by the opposition strike them as ?obstacles to development?. The latest instance of this wonderful democratic practice comes from the state of West Bengal which has been governed by the Communists (CPI-M) since 1977. .

Over the years since the beginning of economic reforms in India in 1991, few groups have been as critical of land-grab by governments and corporations in India as the CPI-M. .

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What Role For Palestinian Supporters Today? .

By Agustin Velloso .

13 August, 2007 .

Countercurrents.org .

1. Supporting Palestinian resistance: today as in 1947. .

After receiving from Chilean e-journal www.hojaderuta.org ("hoja de ruta" means "roadmap") the question What does it mean today to engage in political action for the Palestinians? the first thing I thought was : the same thing it meant forty years ago (in 1967) and sixty years ago (in 1947). That is to say, to support Palestinian resistance, which amounts to fighting the Zionist project in Palestine. The reason is that the problem has not changed: a colonialist enterprise is in motion of a scope that threatens the very existence of Palestinians as a people. .

Israels colonialism is the most extreme kind, since its aim is to expel Palestine's original inhabitants and appropriate their land to make room for Jews from all over the world who want to settle in the whole of Palestine. Since 1947, the way to achieve this aim has been through violence: combining the expulsion of as many persons as possible with repression of the ones who stay put and resist. .

The Zionist project, allegedly designed to protect Jews from all over the world, is being implemented through the sacrifice of millions of Palestinians, whose only crime is to be born in Palestine, the land they have inhabited since time immemorial but which Zionists have coveted since the XIX century. .

Now, the question is how to deal with Zionism in the XXI century. The Palestinian cause exists because Palestinians are Zionisms victims just as the Iraqi cause exists because Iraqis are Imperialisms victims. Both cases are totally contrary to human rights, international peace and the rights of nations. Supporting the Palestinian people (or the Iraqis) does not mean one considers them superior to other peoples, nor that one is pro Islamist nor, obviously, does it mean one is anti-Semitic, regardless of the perversion of this term by Zionists. .

On the contrary, if we agree that all nations are to live in peace in their own land and enjoy all rights internationally accorded to them, we must side with the people who are prevented from doing so and consequently fight those responsible for that violation. .

Although the Palestinian cause is the same today as in 1947 and the ethical response to it does not change, circumstances have changed over the years .

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Hyderabad to edit English organ Citizen. Socialist Party made him a candidate from Bikramganj parliamentary constituency in the general election of 1957. He lost the election. He again contested Bihar assembly election of 1962 from Kurtha constituency. He again lost. However, in 1967 he won from Kurtha constituency. 1969 saw mid-term election of Bihar .

assembly. In this election his party Shoshit Dal won six seats. He too handsomely won. .

However, in 1972 he lost the election. .

He did not support Jai Prakash Narain led student movement of 1974. He was of the view that though the issues of the movement were good, the leadership was not good. He kept his organization separate from Jai Prakash led movement. .

With every passing year the martyrdom of Jagdeo Prasad is becoming more and more solidified on the stone of time. His legacy of blending culture with politics and of uncompromising struggle against caste-based exploitation and oppression will continue to shine like lode star for the millions and millions of marginalized people of this country. ... .

(The above write-up is based on memoirs and articles on Jagdeo Prasad published in Hindi monthly Mandal Vichar, August, 2007) .

[source : countercurrents.org] .

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RSS' TRYST WITH TERRORISM: PAST & PRESENT.

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By Shamsul Islam.

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20 January, 2013.

Countercurrents.org.

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Despite shrill public denials by the RSS top-brass that its.

swayamsevaks or cadres never indulged in terrorist activities, the.

RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, while addressing a meeting of the.

RSS members on January 10, 2011 at Surat (Gujarat) made a.

significant statement saying that.

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of the majority of the people whom the government has.

accused (in various blast cases), a few had left.

voluntarily and a few were told by the Sangh that this.

extremism will not work here so you go away.1.

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It was a candid admission by the supremo of the RSS who was.

naturally better informed about the happenings within his.

organization which works in a clandestine fashion that many of.

these alleged terrorists were part of the RSS. This statement raises.

few questions which RSS as an organization must answer. The first.

is that RSS must share the names of those terrorists who left.

`voluntarily' or were asked to `go away' with the people of this.

country and especially with the police investigating agencies of the.

Indian State. In fact, the latter should have by now put Mohan.

Bhagwat under scanner to seek the names of these `terrorists' not.

only in order to verify whether the ones so far arrested were the.

same who were referred to by Mohan Bhagwat but also to know.

about others who may still be indulging in terrorist activities and.

have not been brought to book as yet..

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The whole issue raises another pertinent question. When RSS.

claims that a particular person indulging in terrorist activities is not.

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1 `No place for radicals in RSS, says Bhagwat', The Indian Express, Delhi, 11-01-2011, p. 3.

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