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Col. M. Strauss Scantlin speaks at the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday, Novermber 20, 2024.
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Col. M. Strauss Scantlin speaks at the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday, Novermber 20, 2024.
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inter- Public Meeting Prof. Tanika CHS, JNU.
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Nandigram and SEZs: Questions To speak on.
of Development and Democracy.
What's LEFT in Nandigram?.
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A Fact-Finding Report on the Nandigram Massacre.
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10.0M4a9.h0.i370M(Tpemosnsight) Praful Bid- noted Colum-.
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To speak on.
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SEZs: The Only Path to `Develop-.
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Nandigram and SEZs: Questions of Development and Democracy.
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Nandigram continues to live in the shadow of terror. The val- peasantry? How shall we have to deal with it on the day of our.
iant peasant movement there has achieved a success of sorts: it accession to power? ...we foresee the inevitable doom of the.
is one of few places where a Government has had to back off small peasant, but ... it is not our mission to hasten it by any.
from forced land grab; where a proposed SEZ has had to be interference on our part. Secondly, it is just as evident that.
cancelled. But the memories of a massacre continue to haunt when we are in possession of state power, we shall not even.
Nandigram - even as the fear of further violence and land grab think of forcibly expropriating the small peasants (regard-.
through other means continues. less of whether with or without compensation), as we shall.
have to do in the case of the big landowners. ...We, of course,.
Nandigram on March 14: `Mistake' or Massacre? are decidedly on the side of the small peasant; we shall do.
everything at all permissible to make his lot more bearable, to.
The West Bengal Government has admitted that police firing facilitate his transition to the cooperative should he decide.
on March 14 was a `mistake'; the Midnapore SP has admitted to do so, and even to make it possible for him to remain on.
at least one rape by policemen on that day. We have had some his small holding for a protracted length of time to think the.
voices close to the CPI(M) and West Bengal Government ap- matter over, should he still be unable to bring himself to this.
pealing for peace, for a chance to let the wounds of Nandigram decision." (From Frederick Engels, The Peasant Question in.
heal and not become `festering sores'. We are told that the WB France and Germany).
Government has promised `compensation' to the victims of.
March 14. What we need to ask is: were the events of March 14 How true is Buddhadeb's rosy picture of the peasant giving up.
a `mistake' (a knee-jerk response by a few village level cadre his sickle and taking up the hammer to make `progress'? Can.
and policemen) or a planned, cold-blooded massacre? those who are losing their livelihood in agriculture, expect to.
find jobs in industry? Without developing social development.
As a Left columnist Praful Bidwai puts it: "The plain truth is, indices for the people in the agricultural sector (education,.
CPM apparatchiks instigated Black Wednesday's operation to etc...), aren't the agrarian poor bound to be misfits in industry?.
settle scores in the `cadres' favour by using the state's might..
...The Central Bureau of Investigation has gathered evidence Finally, we must ask whether SEZs are really the grand road to.
that CPM "cadres" also fired into the crowd, many disguised in development and progress, as they are made out to be? Does.
police uniform. It recovered 500 bullets from them. It also found the SEZ Act need `modification' and `safeguards', or does it.
a 657 metre-long "blood trail", which suggests "a gunny-bag need to scrapped completely? If the huge amounts now being.
holding a body was being dragged". doled out to SEZs were directly invested by the Government.
in industrialisation instead, would it not be a less painful and.
When a Government and a Party, especially those bearing the surer way of achieving industrialisation?.
`Left' name, indulge in such a planned act of violence on poor.
peasants whose only crime was that they were struggling to We invite you to discuss the above issues with Left intellectuals.
protect land and livelihood from a corporate SEZ, it is doubly and writers..
disturbing. Our response in such circumstances cannot be merely.
to `let bygones be bygones'; to put a bandage to hide gangrenous Praful Bidwai is a senior journalist and columnist. Prof. Tanika.
wounds and pretend they are `healing'. When the peasants and Sarkar has been part of teams of Left intellectuals that visited Singur.
agrarian poor of Nandigram were unwilling to give up their land and Nandigram to record the facts about the peasant resistance there..
for compensation, can we now accept them to trade the lives of She along with others had issued warnings that the land grab and.
their near and dear in exchange for `compensation'? state terror would lead to a `bloodbath'. And after the Nandigram.
Massacre of 14 March, she was among the first to return an.
Does it Have to be "Hammer vs Sickle"? award received from a cultural body funded by the West Bengal.
Government, in protest. She has recently returned from another.
There has been an attempt to justify the brutal eviction of fact-finding visit to Nandigram..
peasants from land to make way for Tatas and Salims, by using.
`Marxist'logic. Marxism, we are told, believes that such eviction In tonight's public meeting, we invite to you to hear Prof. Tanika.
is inevitable according to the logic of capitalist development Sarkar's moving account of her visit to Nandigram, and also.
and progress - and so Communists must hasten the process. Praful Bidwai's discussion of whether SEZs are indeed essential.
According to Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, "It is not easy to be- for development..
come a worker from having been a peasant - but that is how.
progress takes place.".
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Let us compare Buddhadeb's and CPI(M)'s `Marxism' with sd/- Sucheta, Rajan, Sushmita, Bhupendra Saroj,.
Engels' own: "What, then, is our attitude towards the small Ashok, Digvijay, Rajesh,Rahul.
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Col. M. Strauss Scantlin speaks at the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday, Novermber 20, 2024.