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aisa On 23 March: Martyrdom Day of Bhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru (1931) 23.3.12.
and Revolutionary Poet Paash (1988).
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Today, 23 Mach 2012, after long 15 years of the murder of Comrade Chandu, three people convicted of.
his murder have finally been sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Court, after a protracted struggle for.
justice. However, no punishment has been pronounced on the main mastermind behind his murder, former RJD.
MP Shahabuddin nor have the political conspiracy behind this broad daylight murder has been nailed. Today, as.
this verdict in the Chandrashekher murder case is announced, we remember the courage of the countless.
women and men of our country who overcame their fears, who sacrificed themselves to the cause of true.
independence, and who renewing the dreams of equality that still live on..
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As Shahadat Saptah begins, we commemorate the heroic lives of those like Bhagat Singh and his comrades who.
have become symbol of revolution. We remember the brief, incandescent lives of those like the revolutionary poet Paash.
martyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-martyred in Siwan on 31.
March, 1997- who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last..
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Bhagat Singh's Letter to the Second LCC Convicts.
[On March 22, the Second Lahore Conspiracy Case convicts, who were locked up in Ward Number 14 (near.
condemned cells), sent a slip to Bhagat Singh asking if he would like to live. This letter was in reply to that slip.].
March 22, 1931.
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The desire to live is natural. It is in me also. I do not want to conceal it. But it is conditional. I don't want to live as a.
prisoner or under restrictions. My name has become a symbol of Indian revolution. The ideal and the sacrifices of the.
revolutionary party have elevated me to a height beyond which I will never be able to rise if I live....
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Yes, one thing pricks me even today. My heart nurtured some ambitions for doing something for humanity and for.
my country. I have not been able to fulfill even one-thousandth part of those ambitions. If I live I might perhaps get a.
chance to fulfill them. If ever it came to my mind that I should not die, it came from this end only..
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I am proud of myself these days and I am anxiously waiting for the final test. I wish the day may come nearer soon.
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In the life and death of Bhagat Singh, in particular, we find an inspiration for our times and a guide to the struggles ahead..
In the world that surrounds us and the issues that confront us, his words and acts acquire particular depth and meaning..
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Today, as the people of Koodankulam and Jaitapur launch a spirited resistance to nuclear power plants, as they face mass.
arrests as well as bullets and batons from "democratically" elected governments, as people in Jagatsinghpur barricade.
their villages against the state government and POSCO, these struggles are a clear proof that the revolutionary legacy.
of Bhagat Singh, Paash, Chandu and others who lived and died for a better society is alive and kicking..
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A new meaning to patriotism.
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Bhagat Singh's political awakening began at the time of the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre where innocent people.
were surrounded and shot down in cold blood. Over time, as his involvement, with revolutionary politics grew, he grew.
also in courage and confidence..
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Through the struggles he participated in and led, Bhagat Singh gave a new meaning to patriotism. The old cry of Vande.
Mataram was replaced by the slogan of revolution -- Inquilab Zindabad -- which he was among the first to proclaim. At.
the centre of his definition of patriotism were the people of the country. Love for the country became defined as love for its.
people. He keenly followed the struggles of peasants and workers and insisted that without establishing the dominance of.
workers and peasants, the national movement would not bring true independence for India. The capitalists, the traders,.
the princes and big landlords (who were such firm friends of Gandhi); he viewed with the deepest suspicion, arguing that.
they could only be treated as unreliable friends, if not sworn enemies, of Indian independence..
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The nature of the ruling classes.
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While appreciating the mass mobilization that came with the Gandhian struggle, Bhagat Singh also identified the class.
character of the Congress and warned that Gandhi's politics consciously discouraged against any attempt to politicize.
the working class. He spoke, in fact, of the dangers of setting up a rule by the `brown sahibs' that would merely replace.
the imperialist rule with another mask, and where the domination of the overwhelming majority of Indians, the workers.
and peasants, would continue uninterrupted. He stated also that in order to challenge imperialism we must demolish.
the domestic basis of foreign rule - feudal forces and capitalist collaborators, the props and supporters of imperialist.
domination..
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Where the Congress was afraid to voice the demand for complete independence, where Gandhi openly and repeatedly.
condemned the revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh and his comrades were unafraid and raised the battle cry: Inquilab Zindabad!.
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Critique of Gandhian Leadership.
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"I have said that the present movement... is bound to end in some sort of compromise or complete failure..
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I said that, because in my opinion, this time the real revolutionary forces have not been invited into the arena. This is.
a struggle dependent upon the middle class shopkeepers and a few capitalists. Both these, and particularly the latter,.
can never dare to risk its property or possessions in any struggle. The real revolutionary armies are in the villages.
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23.3.12.
On 23 March: Martyrdom Day ofBhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru (1931) .
and Revolutionary Poet Paash (1988) .
Today, 23 Mach 2012, after long 15 years of the murderofComrade Chandu, three people convicted ofhis .
murder have finally been sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Court, after a protracted struggle for .
justice. However. no punishment has been pronounced on the main mastermind behind his murder. former RJD MP Shahabuddin nor have the political conspiracy behind this broad daylight murder has been nailed. Today, as this verdict in the Chandrashekher murder case is announced, we remember the courage of the countless .
women and men ofourcountry who overcame theirfears, who sacrificed themselves to the cause oftrue .
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independence, and who renewing the dreams of equality that still live on. As Shahadat Saptah begins, wecommemorate the heroic lives of those like BhagatSingh and his comrades who have become symbol of revolution. We remember the brief, incandescent lives of those like the revolutionary poet Paash martyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-martyred in Siwan on 31 .
March, 1997-who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last. .
Bhagat Singh's Letter to the Second LCC Convicts .
(On March 22, the Second Lahore Conspiracy Case convicts, who were locked up in Ward N umber 14 (near .
condemned cells), sent a slip to BhagatSingh asking ifhe would like to live. This letter was in reply to that slip.] .
March 22, 1931 .
The desire to live is natural. It is in me also. I do not want to conceal it. But it is conditional. I don 1want to live as .
a prisoner orunder restrictions. My name has become a symbol ofIndian revolution. The ideal and the sacrifices of .
the revolutionary party have elevated me to a height beyond which I will never be able to rise ifI live ... .
les, one thingpricks me even today. My heart nurturedsome ambitionsfor doingsomethingfor humanity andfor my .
country. I have not been able to fulfill even one-thousandth part ofthose ambitions. IfI live I mightperhaps get a .
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chance to fulfill them. Ifever it came to my mind that I should not die, it came from this end only. .
I am proud ofmyselfthese days andI am anxiously waitingfor the final test. I wish the day may come nearer soon .
.
In the life and death of Bhagat Singh, in particular, we find an inspiration for our times and a guide to the struggles ahead. ln~the world that surrounds us and the issues that confront us, his words and acts acquire particular depth and meaning. .
Today, as the people of Koodankulam and Jaitapur launch a spirited resistance to nuclear power plants, as they face mass arrests as well as bullets and batons from "democratically" elected governments, as people in Jagatsinghpur barricade their villages against the state government and POSCO, these struggles are a clear proof that the revolutionary legacy of .
Bhagat Singh, Paash, Chandu and others who lived and died for a better society is alive and kicking. .
A new meaning to patriotism Bhagat Singh's political awakening began at the time of the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre where innocent people were surrounded and shot down in cold blood. Overtime, as his involvement, with revolutionary politics grew, he grew also .
in courage and confidence. Through the struggles he participated in and led, Bhagat Singh gave a new meaning to patriotism. The old cry of Vande Mataram was replaced by the slogan ofrevolution -lnquilab Zindabad-which he was among the first to proclaim.At the centre of his definition of patriotism were the people ofthe country. Love for the country became defined as love for its .
people. He keenly followed the struggles of peasants and workers and insisted thatwithout establishing the dominance of .
workers and peasants, the national movement would not bring true independence for India. Thecapitalists, the traders, the .
princes and big landlords (who were such firm friends of Gandhi); he viewed with the deepest suspicion, arguing that they could onry be treated as unreliable friends, if not sworn enemies, of Indian independence. .
The nature ofthe ruling classes .
While appreciating the mass mobilization that came with .the Gandhian struggle, Bhagat Singh also identified the class .
character ofthe Congress and warned that Gandhi's politics consciously discouraged against any attempt to politicize the 'brown sahibs' that would merely replace the.
working class. He spoke, in fact, of the dangers of setting up a rule by the .
imperialist rule with another mask, and where the domination of the overwhelming majority of Indians, the workers and peasants, would continue uninterrupted. He stated also that in order to challenge imperialism we must demolish the domestic basis offoreign rule-feudal forces and capitalist collaborators, the props and supporters of imperialist domination..
I Where the Congress was afraid to voice the demand for complete independence, where Gandhi openly and repeatedly .
condemned the revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh and his comrades 'Nere unafraid and raised the battle cry: lnqui/ab Zindabad! .
Critique of Gandhian Leadership "I have said that the present movement. .. is bound to end in some sort of compromise or complete failure. I said that, because in my opinion, this time the real revolutionary forces have not been invited into the arena. This .
is a struggle dependent upon the middle class shopkeepers and a few capitalists. Both these, and particularly the .
latter, ,can never dare to risk its property or possessions in any struggle. The real revolutionary armies are in the .
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villages and in factories, the peasantry and the labourers. But our bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to tackle.
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These two processes an advanced section of nationalists reaching out for Marxist theory and the latter developing into an inspiration and guide to the national liberation movement across the globe were fused into a real movement only when the internal conditions got ripened. That happened in 1922-23, when in a matter of just one year all the four early communist groups of our country sprang up in the four major industrial cities of Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Lahore. They emerged locally without any interconnections or any grand plan, and came together in the founding conference of the CPI held in the industrial city of Kanpur on 25-28 October 1925. Here it should be mentioned that a CPI in exile was formed in Russia in 1920-21, but having no roots in the masses of India, this event remained just a footnote in the annals of communist movement of our country. .
Now what was so special about the period starting with mid-1922, which saw a sudden spurt in organised communist activity? It was in 1922 that Gandhi called off the non-cooperation movement at its peak. This generated in all nationalist circles angry debates and a search for an alternative path, for a way out of the leadership crisis, and the quest led the most radical freedom fighters to the crimson path heralding a new dawn on earth, as we have noted above. .
At a particular confluence of national and international factors was thus born, on the soil of India, the communist wing of the national liberation movement. The great hallmark of this radical alternative to Gandhism was that from the very outset it strove to combine the twin tasks of national liberation from imperialist yoke and social liberation of the toiling masses from feudal and capitalist exploitation and oppression. .
That the British rulers recognised communists as their most dangerous enemies was evident from a series of conspiracy cases Peshawar, Kanpur, Meerut and others hatched against them during 1920s and early 1930s. The most famous was the last named. Panicked at the high tide in workers struggles, rapid spread of WPPs, (see below) the revival of mass anti-imperialist movement provoked by the Simon Commission, the revolutionary activities of Bhagat Singh and his comrades, and the coming closer of communists and a section of the nationalist leadership, the government struck back in 1929 with a chain of repressive measures. Most important among these were: the Meerut conspiracy case, the Public Safety Bill and Trade Disputes Bill, and the prosecution of and death sentences to Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. In March 1929, 31 labour leaders (including 3 Englishmen) from Calcutta, Bombay, and other parts of the country were rounded up. They were brought to Meerut for the conspiracy case. The accused communists made very good use of the courtroom for the spread of their ideology, aims and objectives. The British move to drive a wedge between communists and nationalist leaders also proved futile. Nehru, Gandhi and many others visited the Meerut jail while the accused communists also sent messages to the satyagrahis in different jails supporting their just struggles for political status. From the dock communists vigorously exposed the bankruptcy and hypocrisy of British rule in India and their civilised legal system. Not only did workers all over the world launch agitations against the trial and conviction, even men like Romain Rolland and Prof. Albert Einstein raised their voices in protest against the trial. .
The Workers and Peasants Party (WPP), a sort of peoples party, was organised jointly by communists and other revolutionary democrats and utilised by the former as a means of circumventing police restrictions on communist activities and as a united front organ. It sprang up in different provinces under different names, but generally as left blocks within the Congress. The different provincial WPPs were brought under a common platform and common name and knit into an all-India party in 1928. The party witnessed very rapid expansion. But all propaganda and agitation began to be conducted in the name of WPP. For all practical purposes the communist party was becoming an appendage of its own creation the WPP and, in the process, getting politically assimilated in the Congress. The need of the hour was to fight out this liquidationist danger, re-emphasise the primacy and ideological purity of the communist party, and to continue the WPP as a broad democratic, anti-imperialism platform and a legal cover for the underground party. Unfortunately, such higher experimentation was not taken up. The CPI dissolved the WPP in 1929, and under the influence of the Comintern, entered upon a five-year phase of left sectarianism. During this period, the CPI attacked the Congress as a whole, and its left leaning leaders in particular (Bose and Nehru), as deceivers of the masses and traitors to the national cause. But this was not counterbalanced by the other aspect of the Comintern guideline building a revolutionary peasant struggle. In effect, the party got itself largely isolated from the mainstream of national movement even as it failed to expand its mass base beyond a section of the working class. .
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prisoner has been released in certain specific instances, the traumatic life after acquittal for the prisoner denotes the magnitude of the.
prejudice that society has undergone vis-a-vis the hatred and hysteria ofthe 'war against terror' created by the state. .
Political Prisoners are the measure of our humanity: Political prisoners are people who are convinced about the possibility of a bettersociety for the greater common good. Not only were the convinced about the need for a better world but were deeply involved in making ita possif-Jility. One might disagree with their ideology. Yet some might have reservations about the means they resort for the betterment of a.
world of miseries and wretchedness. Those who are in power might strongly disagree with their socio-economic and political aspirations..
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These people, who are defied the light of the day, condemned to live death within the dark walls of the prison by the powers that be,.
belong to a wide spectrum ofpolitical beliefs through which they dream to espouse the social cause that they have given their life. .
It is this conviction that forced Rabindra Nath Tagore to defend the cause of the political prisoner during the days of anti-colonial struggleagainst the British. The people who fought against British were also against the exploitation and oppression of the freedom loving people ofIndia. Today when India is being sold in the form ofSpecial Economic Zones, for loot and plunder of her forest wealth, mineral wealth,water, land, people, everything, by the rich and powerful, made possible by the rulers ofthis country, it is natural for the freedom loving.
people to oppose and fight it. Anyone who fights against any form of oppression, exploitation, mistreatment and discrimination cannot be aprisoner. .
Defending the rights of the Political Prisoner: The jails are often overcrowded with the worst hygiene conditions. The jail manual is hardlyfollow~d. A good number of prisoners are condemned to rot in the prisons as t~Jey nave hardly any means to meet the bail fee. Thepreamble of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights ensures the need for countries to uphold the rights of anyoneresorting to dissent against the policies of the State. This guarantees the rights of the political prisoner. Contrary to the claim ofbeing thelargest democracy in the world, India has not even recognised political prisoner as a category. Though the West Bengal government hascome up with a definition ofthe political prisoner it is never implemented. It becomes important to defend the right of the politicalprisoner to have safeguards against all forms of torture, rape, solitary confinement, right to have a lawyer of their choice, right to books,periodicals, to communicate, assemble among themselves, right to their religion..
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Especially, at a time when there is a growing consensus among the judiciary, executive and the legislature with active connivance of thefourth estate to deny any possible rights to political prisoners. In such a scenario, for a political prisoner, it becomes important to fight forevery moment of her/his life behind bars. There is no other way the right ofthe political prisoner can be achieved as she/he has beendenied the right to express their political opin':>n orto organise on that basis. .
The inaugural conference on political prisoners is a historic and definite step in this direction. The memories ofthe days of emergency.
revisits us acold reminder. It brings back the memories of the days of anti-colonial struggle, that of the valiant resistance of Bahadur Shah.
against the East India Company and the attendant hanging to death ofthousands of Muslims belonging to the slaughter community. Itenlivens the spirit ofthe heroic martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev and Ashfaqullah; of Bhoomaiah and Kishta Goud in Telanganain the 60s; the memory of Maqbhool Bhat being shown the gallows in the 80s. .
In Solidarity, .
Amlt Bhattacharyya .
Coordinator, .
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Convenor's Committee ofthe Conference Preparatory Committee.
Surendra Mohan, A Marx, Amit Bhattacharyya, SAR Geelani, GN Saibaba, Rona Wilson .
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5 March 2008-03-09 .
For the Conference on Political Prisoners .
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Addres~: 185/3, Fourth Floor, Zakir Nagar, New Delhi-110025.
Ph: 09836318354 09810081228 09871498354 Email: thearrestedl@gmail.com .
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Indias Prime Minister declared that the British Raj was an instance of Good Governance, and has also rolled out the red carpet for Bush Raj on Indian soil. Indias rulers, be they of the NDA or UPA, are allowing the US to dictate what our relations with other nations will be, what our farmers will grow
they are selling out every aspect of our economy, our lives. We see Jallianwala Bagh repeated by police with the Honda Workers in Gurgaon. Hunger and peasant distress have reached the same levels that they did under the British resulting in starvation and suicides of the rural poor and farmers. The deep communal wounds left by the British on our polity continue to bleed periodically. .
Isnt Bhagat Singhs warning of black evil replacing and reproducing the white evil coming true in front of our eyes? .
23 March this year marks 75 years of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and .
Sukhdev. The best tribute to those martyrs can only be to pledge ourselves to resisting .
imperialism not just the Bush Raj of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, but the Bush .
Raj sponsored by Manmohan in Gurgaon and Modi in Gandhinagar. .
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-If we fail to identify the Black Evil Indias own ruling class; .
-if we fail to expose the fact that what it calls enlightened national interest is nothing .
but collaboration with the White Evil; our homage to these martyrs will be reduced to .
empty ritual. .
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What are the deals sealed with Bush on his visit to India? .
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Does the civilian nuclear deal have invisible military strings attached? .
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What will the next step in enlightened self-interest be, as defined by Manmohan Singh: Indian troops helping the US to police Iraq and invade Iran? .
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What rights of our farmers has the UPA Government surrendered to Bush as part of .
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the Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture? Faced with these questions, our rulers will reply with lathis and bullets; their apologists will censure and condemn us; but ask these questions we must and will, if we, the citizens of the country, wish to salute the memory of Bhagat Singh and his comrades. On 23 March, join an Anti-Imperialist Convention, to be addressed by leading writers, intellectuals and activists who will speak of the implications of the Bush visit and the aspects of imperialism today. .
The first thing that Bhagat Singh did in the course of his brief but one of the most intense lives ever lived was to give a new meaning to patriotism. Revolutionary patriots before him were all fired with the zeal to liberate mother India from the shackles of colonial slavery. It was not in terms of zeal and courage that Bhagat Singh blazed a new trail of patriotism, he gave it a new meaning and content. .
The country till then was equated to mother, the patriotic songs either sang the glory of mother India or depicted her beauty and pain. Look at the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram for instance. It is all about mother India 's lush green fields and soothing cool breeze sujalam-sufalam, malayaja sheetalam, shasya shyamalam mataram . Take Jana-Gana-Mana, our National Anthem it describes the map and topography of .
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On fhe Marfvrdom Dav or .
Harpal Tyagi, people's artist .
8ha~at Sin~h, Rai~uru &Sukhdev .
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SAR G~elani, GN Saibaba.
2314 March, Todav against War on People .
Conl'ene rs of Delhi Forum ag~inlt War on People Ranjit Vem1a, Anjani.
lpm to 6pm, af Terla .-.im~ges.:~f.re&istance & .repression~ .
People's Poeu & Cultural Activists .
Its been five years since a brutal war has been unleashed by the Indian state that continues to bleed the central and eastern adivasi heartland of India. This war, codenamed, Operation Green Hunt, was launched in 2009 as the biggest-ever internal offensive by the Indian state in coordination with state governments of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Maharashtra. The real objective being to clear the way for big corporate vultures like Esar, POSCO, Mittal, Vedanta, Jindal, Tata, Billiton to get easy access to mineral wealth worth astronomical figures. The mission thereby is to crush the resistance of the local adivasi inhabitants defending their jal-janga/-jameen in the face of violent displacement, dispossession and impending annihilation. But despite its unprecedentedly devastating scale and impact, it is a war that is being waged in relative silence, with least uproar, and near complete media black-out. This is because it is a war that has been waged and time and again justified in the name of two apparently infallible ideas: 'national security' and 'development'. In the words of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, here 'national security' entails the security of the "investment climate" of foreign investors. And 'development' of course entails the unbridled loot and plunder of resources leading to death, displacement and dispossession. Even a recent .
supreme court judgment apprehends with "horror" that with the pursuance of such "predatory" development .
"countless millions would be condemned to lives of great misery and hopelessness". More than 2 lakh paramilitary and elite police forces have so far been deployed in these states. More are pouring in to fight the rich man's war. to "reclaim and hold", to further a project of "territorial dominance". Such are the exigencies of free market. .
An entire arsenal of the most lethal units of the world's largest paramilitary force like CRPF, BSF, ITBP. COBRA, Greyhound, and state police forces are now being supplemented with the direct presence of the Indian Army & the Air Force. Extra-legal vigilante groups like Salwa Judum, Sunrise Sena, Shanti Vahini, Harmads. Bhairav Vahini and so on have also been propped up and renewed. While the banned salwa judum has been conveniently transformed into regular auxiliary units, newer versions of the same salwa judum are being raised in fUK11uev & Rajguru, we thereby appeal to a!! democratic minded students to join an Art .
Workshop against the War on People to express through paintings the images of repression and resistance in the five years of Green l-lunt. .
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..between Jayan (vinee..143) & Rajguru (pokkam)
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On 23 March: Martyrdom Day of Bhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru (1931) and Revolutionary Poet Paash(1988) .
Bhagat Singhs Letter to the Second LCC Convicts [ On March 22, the Second Lahore Conspiracy Case convicts, who were locked up in Ward Number 14 (near condemned cells), sent a slip to Bhagat Singh asking if he would like to live. This letter was in reply to that slip. ] March 22, 1931 .
The desire to live is natural. It is in me also. I do not want to conceal it. But it is conditional. I dont want to live as a prisoner or under restrictions. My name has become a symbol of Indian revolution. The ideal and the sacrifices of the revolutionary party have elevated me to a height beyond which I will never be able to rise if I live
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Yes, one thing pricks me even today. My heart nurtured some ambitions for doing something for humanity and for my country. I have not been able to fulfill even one-thousandth part of those ambitions. If I live I might perhaps get a chance to fulfill them. If ever it came to my mind that I should not die, it came from this end only. .
I am proud of myself these days and I am anxiously waiting for the final test. I wish the day may come nearer soon .
As Shahadat Saptah begins, we commemorate the heroic lives of those like Bhagat Singh and his comrades who have become symbol of revolution. We remember the brief, incandescent lives of those like the revolutionary poet Paash martyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-martyred in Siwan on 31 March,1997-who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last. We remember the courage of the countless women and men of our country who overcame their fears, who sacrificed themselves to the cause of true independence, and who gave birth to dreams of equality that still live on. .
In the life and death of Bhagat Singh, in particular, we find an inspiration for our times and a guide to the struggles ahead. In the world that surrounds us and the issues that confront us, his words and acts acquire particular depth and meaning. .
A new meaning to patriotism .
Bhagat Singhs political awakening began at the time of the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre where innocent people were surrounded and shot down in cold blood. Over time, as his involvement, with revolutionary politics grew, he grew also in courage and confidence. .
Bhagat Singh as remembered by Ajoy Ghosh (later General Secretary of the CPI) .
In 1925 like a bolt from the blue came the Kakori arrests. Most of our leaders were in prison within a few weeks
One day in 1928, I was surprised when a young man walked into my room and greeted me. It was Bhagat Singh but not the Bhagat Singh that I had met two years before. Tall and magnificently proportioned, with a keen, intelligent face and gleaming eyes, he looked a different man altogether. And as he talked I realized that he had grown not merely in years. He was now, together with Chandra Shekhar Azad, the leader of our party. He explained to me the changes that had been made in our program and organizational structure. .
We were henceforth the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association with a socialist state in India as our avowed objective. We talked the whole night and as we went out for a stroll when the first streaks of red were appearing in the grey sky, it seemed to me that a new era was dawning for our party. We knew what we wanted and we knew how to reach our goal. .
Through the struggles he participated in and led, Bhagat Singh gave a new meaning to patriotism. The old cry of Vande Mataram was replaced by the slogan of revolution Inquilab Zindabad which he was among the first to proclaim. At the centre of his definition of patriotism were the people of the country. Love for the country became defined as love for its people. He keenly followed the struggles of peasants and workers and insisted that without establishing the dominance of workers and peasants, the national movement would not .
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to challenge the mafia empire of MP Shahabuddin. 23 March 06.
Bhagat Singh in 1924 had been inspired by Guru.
Tegh Bahadur's lines: `"purja purja kat mare, Shahadat Saptah 7.
kabhun na chade khet"; perhaps the same spirit years of.
inspired Faiz when he wrote the lines, "Katate bhi From 23 March, Martyrdom Day of Bhagat Singh's Martyr-.
chalo badhate bhi chalo; baaju bhi bahut hain sar Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Pash,.
bhi bahut". Today, in the land of Bhagat Singh's To 31 March, Martyrdom Day of Chan- Anti-Imperial-.
birth, Punjab, Bant Singh the Dalit agrarian labourer drashekhar, killed in Siwan by Mafia RJD.
literally has his limbs chopped off for daring to bring MP Shahabuddin in 1997. Conven-.
his daughter's rapists to justice, and yet defiantly.
continues to sing songs of revolution. In Orissa, we 23 March Against UPA's Surrender.
see the same spirit in the tribals of Kalinganagar who Anti-Imperialist Convention of Before US Diktats!.
are shot dead and have their limbs chopped off for Students and Youth For National Sovereignty,.
resisting the take-over of their lands by corporates; Education, Employment !!.
today they continue a brave and determined two- To be Addressed by:.
month-long blockade of a National Highway. Prashant Bhushan Gandhi Peace Foundation,.
Gautam Navlakha ITO, 10 am.
Remembering Bhagat Singh cannot be reduced Comrade Bant Singh.
to hollow ritual; it must be an occasion to redefine the Anand Pradhan All India Students' Association (AISA).
contours of our politics, in a way that brings to the Dinesh Shukla.
fore those "revolutionary armies in the fields and Venue: Gandhi Peace Foundation, ITO.
the factories - peasants and workers" that Bhagat 10 am.
Singh spoke about. It is an occasion to commit.
ourselves to strengthening all those struggles for 24-29 March.
social transformation and anti-imperialist resistance. Public Meetings, Film Screenings,.
Cultural Performances, at JNU.
On Bhagat Singh's martyrdom day, join an.
`Anti-Imperialist Convention', in order to take stock 30 March.
of our rights and struggles - in the fields of foreign Chandrashekhar Memorial Lecture.
and economic policy, agriculture, education and.
employment - in the context of Bush's India visit To be delivered by.
and the growing US shadow over India's sovereignty. eminent historian.
Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya.
On 31 March, 1997, former JNUSU President Venue: SLL&CS Committee Room,.
Chandrashekhar was shot dead by mafia RJD JNU, 2.30 pm.
MP Shahabuddin at JP Chowk. Chandu, who had.
returned to his hometown Siwan as a CPI(ML) 31 March.
wholetimer, was campaigning for a Bihar Bandh Torchlight Procession , 9.30 pm, JNU.
against the massacre of Dalits during Holi by the.
Ranveer Sena. His killing sparked off a massive e-mail: aisahq@rediffmail.com;.
student movement where students faced lathis on.
Delhi streets for a whole month. To carry forward the.
undying spirit of Bhagat Singh to Chandrashekhar,.
..
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to challenge the mafia empire of MP Shahabuddin. 23 March 06.
Bhagat Singh in 1924 had been inspired by Guru.
Tegh Bahadur's lines: `"purja purja kat mare, Shahadat Saptah 7.
kabhun na chade khet"; perhaps the same spirit years of.
inspired Faiz when he wrote the lines, "Katate bhi From 23 March, Martyrdom Day of Bhagat Singh's Martyr-.
chalo badhate bhi chalo; baaju bhi bahut hain sar Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Pash,.
bhi bahut". Today, in the land of Bhagat Singh's To 31 March, Martyrdom Day of Chan- Anti-Imperial-.
birth, Punjab, Bant Singh the Dalit agrarian labourer drashekhar, killed in Siwan by Mafia RJD.
literally has his limbs chopped off for daring to bring MP Shahabuddin in 1997. Conven-.
his daughter's rapists to justice, and yet defiantly.
continues to sing songs of revolution. In Orissa, we 23 March Against UPA's Surrender.
see the same spirit in the tribals of Kalinganagar who Anti-Imperialist Convention of Before US Diktats!.
are shot dead and have their limbs chopped off for Students and Youth For National Sovereignty,.
resisting the take-over of their lands by corporates; Education, Employment !!.
today they continue a brave and determined two- To be Addressed by:.
month-long blockade of a National Highway. Prashant Bhushan Gandhi Peace Foundation,.
Gautam Navlakha ITO, 10 am.
Remembering Bhagat Singh cannot be reduced Comrade Bant Singh.
to hollow ritual; it must be an occasion to redefine the Anand Pradhan All India Students' Association (AISA).
contours of our politics, in a way that brings to the Dinesh Shukla.
fore those "revolutionary armies in the fields and Venue: Gandhi Peace Foundation, ITO.
the factories - peasants and workers" that Bhagat 10 am.
Singh spoke about. It is an occasion to commit.
ourselves to strengthening all those struggles for 24-29 March.
social transformation and anti-imperialist resistance. Public Meetings, Film Screenings,.
Cultural Performances, at JNU.
On Bhagat Singh's martyrdom day, join an.
`Anti-Imperialist Convention', in order to take stock 30 March.
of our rights and struggles - in the fields of foreign Chandrashekhar Memorial Lecture.
and economic policy, agriculture, education and.
employment - in the context of Bush's India visit To be delivered by.
and the growing US shadow over India's sovereignty. eminent historian.
Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya.
On 31 March, 1997, former JNUSU President Venue: SLL&CS Committee Room,.
Chandrashekhar was shot dead by mafia RJD JNU, 2.30 pm.
MP Shahabuddin at JP Chowk. Chandu, who had.
returned to his hometown Siwan as a CPI(ML) 31 March.
wholetimer, was campaigning for a Bihar Bandh Torchlight Procession , 9.30 pm, JNU.
against the massacre of Dalits during Holi by the.
Ranveer Sena. His killing sparked off a massive e-mail: aisahq@rediffmail.com;.
student movement where students faced lathis on.
Delhi streets for a whole month. To carry forward the.
undying spirit of Bhagat Singh to Chandrashekhar,.
..
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Friends, · BHAGAT SINGH AND THE COMMUNISTS.
That the chicken revolutionaries (the Communists), who officially stood aloof from allGandhian mass movements; who,acted as British agents in 1942; who wrote letters to the Chinese in.
1949 to 'liberate' India from Nehru's government; and who openly indulged in subversive activities.
during the Sino-Indian border war in 1962; are trying to hijack the legacy of one of India's most.
valiant sons is indeed a matter ofgrave concern. True, Bhagat Singh was a socialist who was deeplyinfluenced by the Bolshevik Revolution; who saw society in class terms; and who opposed bothGandhian politics and any engagement with organisations like the Hindu Mahasabha whichespoused communitarian causes. But the same Bha~at Singh was not only radically different from.
but also far superior to the CPI comrades in as much as he had a sense of national pride, whichtranscended narrow ideological considerations..
As a young Punjabi leader, Bhagat Singh developed ideological differences with Lala LajpatRai, a 1,rominent extremist Congressman -turned-Responsivist who was undoubtedly th' tallest.
Hindu Mabasabha leader of the Punjab till his death. But due to his personal respect fOr Lajpat.
Rai, Bhagat Singh <lid not directly criticise him. Indeed, what he once did was to print a pamphlet.
entitled ' The Lost Leader,-reproducing a poem ofRobert Browning by the same name-with Lajpat.
organisations w~ich espoused the cause of particular· religiouc; communities, Lajpat Rai believed Rai's photograph on the front cover. While Bhagat Singh, himself an atheist, frrmly opposed.
equally firmly !hat the Hindus should have a political platfonn of their own. to voice their.
communitarian interests vis a vis other communities within the broader frame-work of the nation..
Such was his faith in the Hindu Mahasabha that he once joined issue with Sarojini Naidu over her.
criticisr' of the Mahasabha, and wrote in 'The Tribune, dt. Oct 22, 1925, "a very large proportion.
ofmen who were in theforefront ofthe Non Cooperation Campaign in 1921 andhadsufferedfor.
would compare tlte characte!"S ofthese men one by orze with those wilo are at the helm ofaffairs.
the same, are now in tlte forefront ofthe Hindu Sablta movement. IfI were inclined to retort, Iat the present in the Congress movement, but I will not do so,"(JS Dhanki ed. 'Perspectives onIndian National Movement, pp.300-0 I)..
Despite obvious ideological diffcicncc:;, it v:<l!; Bhag~t S!..'1gh who avenged the death of'LajpatRai due to the lathi blows he suffered during a demonstration against the Simon Commission."T/1e.
death of this great Punjab/ leader, popularly known as Siter-e-Punjab, was seen by the romantic.
youthful leadership of the HSRA as a direct challenge. And so, on It" December,I928, Bhagat.
Singh, AZDd, and Rajguru assassinated, at Lahore, Saunders, a police official involved in the.
lathi-pharge ofLajpat RaL In a poster, lite HSRA (stated), 'the murder ofa"le~derrespected by.
millio11s...at the u11worthy hands ofan ordinary police official...was an insu/1 to the nation. It.
Independence, p.249'). .
was the bounden duty ofyoung men ofIndia to efface it'." (Bipan Chandra. Jne!ia's Struggle for.
In $is, Bhagat Singh proved that a sense ofbelonging to a common nationbecame, in an hour ofnationaHlumiliation, much more important than ideological differences..
rn stark contrast, the r pr ·always decided its policies in India on the dictates of the Comintern..
During the Second World War, an attack by Germany on their fatherland, the Soviet Union. made.
them not only support the British war efforts, but also act as spies and agents of the British. Their .
second father, China, got fu11 support from them in 1962, when our soldiers were dying on theborder. Such being their past, our chicken revolutionaries cannot justly claim the legacy of a greathero like Bhagat Singh. It is perhaps their sense of shame regarding their past which makes them.
Dangc, PC Josh'i. BT Ranadive. etc. .
clamour for the legacy of Bhagat Singh, but never mention a word about actual CPI leaders like SA .
VANDE MATAlUM.
Sd/· Ajit Kumar Singh Sd/Secy,ABVP, JNU Mukesh MishnPresident, ABYP, JNU .
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continue so lotjg as a handful .
labour of the common people .
ters lit.tle whether these exploiters.
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capitalists, or British and Indians ''iM£-rvoly Indians" . .
--Bhagat Singh .
Friends, this very day in 1931, three revolutionary youths.
On.
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev -walked proudly to the gallows an.
demanding a dignified life & freedom for the masses. They wanted .
freedom from exploitation, whether it is the exploit at i on isof it.
foreigner, because.
Indian by another Indian or by a possible that the private capital invested by Tatas & Birlas is .
German o;r Japanese less exploitative than that of an American, firm? '' .
we are.
When we extol the achievements of the three rr!artyrs swayed by the analysis of the ruling class which r educes them to.
their.
thus, under mining.
and 't·e1:rorists', 'free India'.
'Chauvanists'.
contribution to peopie'-s m8vement. Their dreaminof t~a e number o f .
not yet been realised. Escalation fc...llacious andhas unabac.ed atrocities on women,.
unemployeds, constitution .
illusory implementation of provisions laid in the are the benefits (?) that the citizens of 'Free India' have got. .
Enron & mobile phones, Kentuckly and coke, .
In our times . of working clalss and students ,.
accompanied by atrocities on women, .
which presents a scenario of stark contrasts, teachings of Bhagat .
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Si ngh hold a great sign~ficance. The Indian ruling class, whi.cll is adroitly using the caste factor, .
has turned imperialist , factor to.
as the new scam & scandal.
religion factor as well .
sustain and perpetuate its existence. .
the time has come for the students 'the most responsive.
of greatintelligentsia' -To imbibe the teachi ngsagainst thP.
wage a relentless battle at every level society who, though in minority, rule the destiny of .
has numbered us out .
!Jij;~... ' s be aware because the enemy our chargers andfrom within us. Let's mount .
Live Students Unity ! II .
salute to the great revolutionaries·1! I .
Pritpa.l Singh .
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On 23 March: Martyrdom Day ofBhagat Singh-Sukhdev-Rajguru (1931) 23.3.12and Revolutionary Poet Paash (1988) .
Today, 23 Mach 2012, after long 15 years of the murderofComrade Chandu, three people convicted ofhis.
murder have finally been sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Court, after a protracted struggle for.
justice. However. no punishment has been pronounced on the main mastermind behind his murder. former RJD MP.
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Shahabuddin nor have the political conspiracy behind this broad daylight murder has been nailed. Today, as this.
verdict in the Chandrashekher murder case is announced, we remember the courage of the countless.
women and men ofourcountry who overcame their fears, who sacrificed themselves to the cause oftrue.
independence, and who renewing the dreams of equality that still live on..
As Shahadat Saptah begins, we commemorate the heroic lives ofthose like Bhagat Singh and his comradeswho have.
become symbol of revolution. We remember the brief, incandescent lives of those like the revolutionary poet Paashmartyred on 23 March, 1988 and Chandrashekhar Prasad, former JNUSU president-martyred in Siwan on 31.
March, 1997-who lived among the struggling people and were committed to this struggle unto the last..
Bhagat Singh's Letter to the Second LCC Convicts.
(On March 22, the Second Lahore Conspiracy Case convicts, who were locked up in Ward Number 14 (near.
condem11ed cells), senta slip to BhagatSingh asking ifhe would like to live. This letter was in reply to thaJ. slip.].
March 22, 1931 .
The desire to live is natural. It is in me also. I do not ·want to conceal it. But it is conditional. I don't want to live as.
a prisoner or under restrictions. My name has become a symbol ofIndian revolution. The ideal and the sacrifices of.
the revolutionary party have elevated me to a height beyond which I will never be able to rise ifI live ....
Jes, one thingpricks me even today. My heart nurtured some ambitionsfor doing something/or humanity andfor mycountry. I have not been able to fulfill even one-thousandth part ofthose ambitions. IfI live I might perhaps get achance to fulfill them. Ifever it came to my mind that I should not die, it came from this end only..
I am proud ofmyselfthese days and I am anxiously wailingfor the final test. I wish the day may come nearer soon.
In the life and death of Bhagat Singh, in particular, we find an inspiration for our times and a guide to the struggles ahead..
In the world that surrounds us and the issues that confront us, his words and acts acquire particular depth and meaning.Today, as the people of Koodankulam and Jaitapur launch a spirited resistance to nuclear power plants, as they face massarrests as well as bullets and batons from "democratically" elected governments, as people in Jagatsinghpur barricadetheir villages against the state government and POSCO, these struggles are a clear proof that the revolutionary legacy of.
Bhagat Singh, Paash, Chandu and others who lived and died for a better society is alive and kicking..
A new meaning to patriotism .
Bhagat Singh'.
s political awakening began at the time of the horrific Jallianwala Bagh massacre where innocent peoplewere surrounded and shot down in cold blood. Over time, as his involvement, with revolutionary politics grew, he grewalso.
in courage and confidence. .
Through the struggles he participated in and led, Bhagat Singh gave a new meaning to patriotism. The old cry of VandeMataram was replaced by the slogan of revolution -lnquilab Zindabad-which he Votas among the first to proclaim.At thecentre of his definition of patriotism were the people of the country. Love for the country became defined as love for itspeople. He keenly followed the struggles ofpeasants and workers and insisted that without establishing the dominance ofworkers and peasants, the national movement oould not bring true independence for India. The capitalists, the traders, the.
princes and big landlords (who were such firm friends ofGandhi); he viewed with the deepest suspicion, arguing that they.
could only be treated as unreliable friends, if not sworn enemies, of Indian independence..
The nature ofthe ruling classes .
While appreciating the mass mobilization that came with the Gandhian struggle, Bhagat Singh also identified the classcharacter ofthe Congress and warned that Gandhi'.
s politics consciously discouraged against any attempt to politicize theworking class. He spoke, in fact, of the dangers of setting up a rule by the.
.. 'brown sahibs' that would merely replace the.
imperialist rule with another mask, and where the domination of the overwhelming majority of Indians, the workers and.
peasants, would continue uninterrupted. He stated also that in order to challenge imperialism we must demolish the.
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domestic basis of foreign rule-feudal forces and capitalist collaborators, the props and supporters of imperialist domination. .
Where the Congress was afraid to voice the demand for complete independence, where Gandhi openly and repeatedly .
condemned the revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh and his comrades vvere unafraid and raised the battle cry: lnquilab Zindabad! .
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Critique of Gandhian Leadership.
"I have said that the present movement. .. is bound to end in some sort of compromise or complete failure.I said that, because in my opinion, this time the real revolutionary forces have not been invited into the arena Thisis a struggle dependent upon the middle class shopkeepers and a few capitalists. Both these, and particularly thelatter, can never dare to risk its property or possessions in any struggle. The real revolutionary armies are in the.
vi llages and in factories, the peasantry and the labourers. But our bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to tackle.
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