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Oppose Jingoism, now terming their erstwhile ally ‘anti-national’. When PDP and the National
Conference came together to form the Govt. in J&K, RSS-BJP Govt.
Warmongering
dissolved the state assembly as an opposition led Govt. would not have
permitted them to use the Kashmir situation for their electoral purpose. On
Pulwama attack, questions have been raised about different aspects of
commission and omission which call for answers. It is pertinent that J&K
By launching an air strike inside Pakistan this (February 26) morning, is under the rule of the Central Govt. In the treatment of Kashmir situation
Indian Govt. has adopted a course which may lead to conflict between the by the Govt. and the corporate media, the Kashmiris and their concerns
two countries, a conflict which is not in the interest of the people of the two are absent. It is appearing to be a fight for a Kashmir without Kashmiris.
countries. Whatever may be the actual damage caused by the air strike,
There were attacks against Kashmiris in different parts of the country,
this attack deep inside Pakistan is being seen as a humiliation by the
mainly in the states where police machinery is under the control of RSS-
Pakistan Army and is bound to lead to further escalation by some sort of
BJP or NDA Govts. In capital Delhi, Uttarakhand, Haryana, UP, Bihar,
retaliation by them. The Air Force action has been termed as a ‘non-military
Kashmiri students and traders were targeted by the mobs collected by
pre-emptive action’ by the Govt. of India. It was avowedly aimed at
RSS-BJP cadres. They were roughed up, rusticated and asked to leave
destroying a training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Balakot in Manshera
and go back to Kashmir. The Govt., including the Prime Minister, kept
district of Khyber Pakhtundkwa province. It is the first time since 1971
silent on these attacks and Modi made a very general statement only after
that Indian Air Force has crossed the Line of Control. Jaish-e-Mohammed
the Supreme Court had issued directions to the state govts. to provide
had claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the CRPF convoy near
protection to Kashmiris. However, nowhere was any action taken against
Pulwama in Jammu & Kashmir on February 14. In this attack 42 CRPF
those who had been guilty of these attacks.
personnel were killed.
RSS-BJP Govt. and the corporate media have launched a jingoist war
RSS-BJP Govt. has been running a communal and jingoist campaign in
mongering campaign which has serious portents for the country and the
view of the coming elections in the country and is trying to utilize Pulwama
people. It shows the desperation of these forces in view of the coming
attack for its election campaign. It has betrayed all the promises it had
elections, so much is at stake for them in view of the deepening economic
made to the people, particularly on generating employment, increasing
crisis and deteriorating conditions of the people. However, such escalation
incomes of peasants, recovering black money, ushering in growth etc. It
has a momentum of its own. While western imperialist powers and Israel
has failed on all these counts. Its jingoist campaign is to cover up these
may back Indian Govt. on the air strike in view of their strategic and
failures and to set an anti-Pakistan agenda for the coming election. RSS
commercial interests and the interests of thier military industrial complex,
and its affiliates link this agenda with their anti-Muslim communal campaign.
the brunt of the burden will have to be borne by the people of the country.
They are trying to impose their majoritarian outlook and policies designed
to impose thier Hindutva on the people and are using their control over the RSS-BJP Govt. has torpedoed all attempts at improving relations with
state machinery for that purpose. Their attacks on the minorities, particularly neighbouring countries. Its attitude towards opening of Kartarpur Corridor
Muslims, under different pretexts are examples of that. However, their efforts is an example though it is not in a position to block it. It has discouraged
at bringing the communal Citizenship Bill have been fought back by the all people to people contact which can bring to the people of the two countries
people of North Eastern states. the facts of the problems faced by them.
RSS-BJP have been planning to use the Kashmir situation for their CPI(ML)-New Democracy opposes war mongering and demands de-
communal jingoist agenda for the coming elections. Having run a coalition escalation between India and Pakistan. Both the countries should desist
Govt. with Mehbooba Mufti led PDP, they dissolved that coalition and are from military action across LOC and international border. We call upon the
At the root of the US offensive lies the US drive to get hold of Venezuelan
oil. Venezuela has one of the biggest oil reserves in the world. Before the
rise of Chavez, US firms used to control oil exploration. But over the
decades their participation has been replaced by the Russian oil giant,
Rosneft, which has stakes in nine major oil fields in Venezuela.
US Imperialism’s Attempted
Imperialism’s Even while Trump Administration has announced withdrawal of forces
Some of the Speakers at the Convening Committee announced at the Convention. IFTU
Convention : Saeed Naqvi General Secretary B. Pradeep (Third from left) and AIKMS
(Above left), Dr. Mashqoor President V. Venkataramaiah (Fifth from left)
(Above right) and our hands.
Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan Echoes of the continuing fascist offensive against minorities were heard
(Below right) as Dr. Mashqoor ex-President of the Students Union of Aligarh Muslim
University stood to speak about the charges of sedition slapped on him
and 11 other students of AMU just a few days earlier by the UP Govt. of
Seema Azad from Uttar Pradesh. This session was presided over by Yogi- that too with a slew of charges under other criminal provisions. He
Narayan Dutt. The evening was then devoted to cultural performances. eloquently described the offensive against Muslim students and also how
he has been charged with raising slogans of Pakistan Zindabad on his
The second day began by continuing the sessions on attacks on
campus at a time when he was actually present in Delhi. A powerful voice
Minorities and Dalits with Damodar Turi highlighting attacks on adivasis.
of the Dalit fightback came to the dias with Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan,
The next session began with Masiuddin Sanjari from UP representing
leader of Bhim Army, who spoke to lend his support to all struggles of
“Fasivad Virodhi Manch” narrating the ordeals the Muslim community is
resistance. Sanjeev of Satyasodak Samaj also spoke in this session and
facing. Retd. Prof. Biswajit Chakravarty spoke about the attacks on the
added several aspects of the attack on Dalits.
minorities in Assam especially in view of the NRC and the now lapsed
Citizenship Bill. Duddu Prabhaker of KNPS gave a detailed view of the Then began the last session of the Convention, titled Voices of
oppressive caste system in the country. This session continued after the Resistance against the Fascist Offensive. Baldev Jha presided over the
session on Media was held as an intervening session. Saeed Naqvi (former session and he also spoke on the topic. Aparna from the IFTU was the
editor Indian Express) and Anil Chamadiya (Journalist) were the two next speaker and she highlighted the myriad colours of the fight back of
speakers. Both presented wide ranging and different aspects of the current people of India to the fascist offensive and the need of the hour of bringing
fascist offensive and also the possibilities of social media as a weapon in all these streams of resistance together to beat back the offensive. Other
The Crisis
At the Maharashtra govt’s declared FRP (Fair & Remunerative Price) of
Women Must Build Organized consequent to the development of private property and thus it will have to
be fought in all social systems in both theory and practice till the full
Struggles and Widen Consciousness to democratization of society and abolishing of private property. Thus the
Fight Patriarchy! women’s movements divide today, just as the suffragette movement for
right to vote had done, into those who restrict movements to maybe even
major reforms but while defending the status quo which maintains patriarchy
Fight the Pro imperialist, Pro Landlord and those who fight also to abolish the basis of Patriarchy.
Patriarchal, Anti Dalit, Anti Minority
The assault of patriarchal Hindutva forces is not restricted to policy
Assaults of Hindutva Forces and RSS-BJP making. While shedding tears for Muslim 'sisters' to enact the Triple Talaq
Central Govt.! Bill with the express purpose of demonizing Muslim men, it practices
lynchings by police backed hordes to murder the fathers, husbands and
2018 has been an eventful year for women in India. Apart from attacks brothers of the same 'sisters'. No sympathy has been expressed for Dalit
on women and their partners for inter caste and inter religious marriages or women- that worst off among all exploited-but their families are similarly
friendships, apart from cases of domestic violence and sexual assaults lynched. The right to marry of their choice of upper caste girls and women
from harassment to rape dotting the whole map of India, there have been of the majority community are curtailed in khap panchayat backed "bahu
some All India women centric events. On the one hand were the events in beti izzat" mobilizations in defence of Manu’s strictures for women and
Sabarimala and the Central Govt.’s scheming Triple Talaq Bill to woo “Muslim against ‘love jihad’. The last is entirely a creation of the Hindutva myth
Sisters” of the Prime Minister. On the other was the poignant, assertive makers. Sabarimala beats it all in the deployment of rabid anti women
Me Too Movement of women from various work spheres against sexual hordes including women by Hindutva forces to do violence against women
assaults at workplace. In addition were big mobilizations on sectoral issues. of reproductive age of majority community who want to worship at the shrine.
Women peasants and agricultural workers took part in big ways in the Manuwadi "traditions" are invoked to falsify history and rouse obscurantist
mobilizations of peasantry in various parts including in the Capital, focussing and patriarchal backwardness in the land which worshipped productivity
on the agrarian distress. The beginning of this year has seen a two day All and the mother goddess from primitive times. It sharply brings out the
India strike by the working class and the participation of large sections of need for the women’s movement to strengthen movements to build
working women in the same to greater or lesser extents. Women students progressive scientific outlook if the fight against feudal, upper caste
and teachers have fought the assaults of Hindutva on Higher Education patriarchal values which Manuvad enshrines, is to be truely fought.
and institutions including the moves for saffronization, commercialization
The Me Too movement took off with the combined inheritance of the
and ‘’Dronachariazation’’ of Higher Education.
Vishakha judgement and the post Nirbhaya case movements. It brought
The developments from the stirrings of women for equal right to vote, to the issue of sexual violence including harassment at workplace to centre
the sharp division in this movement and the emergence of the socialist stage in a new way from that done by Bhawari Devi’s experiences. The
women’s movement for right to vote for all women irrespective of colour burning questions surfaced once again of democratizing workplace culture,
and property form the historical background to the declaration of 8th March by making this issue part of objectives of class and sectional organizations
as International Working Women’s Day by the Socialist Women’s especially by fighting patriarchy within these organizations and by all
International. The understanding of women’s emancipation has had to demanding elected gender harassment committees at workplaces. The need
entwine with the movements for building an egalitarian society in every also comes to the fore of women themselves coming forward to take part
country and in each country women’s movements have been able to analyze in work and leadership of class organizations to help both themselves and
the concrete context of why this is necessary. The birth of Patriarchy was others fight regressive patriarchal values. Women must also fight for equal
2016 140638 89.25 125526 There is absolutely no attempt is seen to improve Students Teacher
ratio. As we can see from above para, a class as usually about 60 to 100
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students which is far more than the ideal ratio of 1:20 or a maximum of
2018 136663 68.90 94160 1:35. How are they being taught; how will they listen to the teachers is not
the bothering the government. There ae many schools which do not have
Similarly, if one glances at the results of XII, many interesting facts teachers of particular subjects. Many times, the same teacher is asked to
can be revealed. Result of class XII is always worse than that of X. If we teach in two schools due to shortage of teachers. The effects of this do not
compare the number of students who appeared in X two years ago, we can need an explanation.
see that number is constantly decreasing since 2015, the years of effect
of the present ‘reformed system’. All the students are given Mid-Day meal up to class VIII. The quality of
the same has been questioned many a times. Many times children fell
Some basic issues ignored for show off sick, rats jumped out of food. But there is no improvement seen in this.
Some NGOs are given the contract of supplying Mid Day meal. Instead of
Amidst this propaganda, certain basic issues have not been addressed. this if women of areas are given this job, and it is made compulsory that
What is apparent is that at many places new buildings have been erected. teachers and principal will eat the same food with students, it will be helpful.
Though they made unnecessary rooms at places, but did renovate old creaky
buildings and increased capacity of some. But in these beautiful buildings, Another issue is of the School Management Committee (SMC) which is
basic facilities are not available. Toilets used by students are not useably mandatory under RTE Act. It must have the local MLA into it. But usually
Secondly a very big section has been put out of the regular school This contradiction alone is opening the eyes of the working masses in
system, much in the line of prescription of WTO/WB. And Delhi government all countries and helping to expose the hypocrisy of the imperialists
is sacrificing students to artificially raise its results. Clemanceau, Lloyd George, Wilson and their governments.
In fact, this government is much too keen to follow the liberalization We are being helped, however, not only by the capitalists’ blind hatred
agenda under different garbs. It has transformed the system to produce of the Soviets, but also by their bickering among themselves, which induces
only literate students- cheap workforce for MNCs, encourage PPP and them to put spokes in each other’s wheels. They have entered into a
NGOization of Education. It is not addressing real issues like proper student veritable conspiracy of silence, for they are desperately afraid of the spread
teacher ratio, availability of sufficient teachers of all subjects and classes of true information about the Soviet Republic in general, and of its official
nor is bothered about recruiting permanent teachers. Availability of basic documents in particular. Yet, Le Temps, the principal organ of the French
amenities like clean available toilets, teaching aids, well equipped labs, bourgeoisie, has published a report on the foundation in Moscow of the
computer labs etc. is also not ensured. It has not even bothered to think as Third, Communist International.
how can one improve the standard of all the kids and improve entire
For this we express our most respectful thanks to the principal organ of
education.
the French bourgeoisie, to this leader of French chauvinism and imperialism.
Some model schools, “schools of excellence” and new buildings are We are prepared to send an illuminated address to Le Temps in token of
only for showcasing and covering up the real issue. It has no vision for our appreciation of the effective and able assistance it is giving us.
quality free education available and accessible for all.
The manner in which Le Temps compiled its report on the basis of our
The Third International has been founded in a world situation that does The international alliance of the parties which are leading the most
not allow prohibitions, petty and miserable devices of the Entente imperialists revolutionary movement in the world, the movement of the proletariat for
or of capitalist lackeys like the Scheidemanns in Germany and the Renners the overthrow of the yoke of capital, now rests on an unprecedentedly firm
in Austria to prevent news of this International and sympathy for it spreading base, in the shape of several Soviet republics, which are implementing the
among the working class of the world. This situation has been brought dictatorship of the proletariat and are the embodiment of victory over
about by the growth of the proletarian revolution, which is manifestly capitalism on an international scale.
developing everywhere by leaps and bounds. It has been brought about by The epoch-making significance of the Third, Communist International
the Soviet movement among the working people, which has already achieved lies in its having begun to give effect to Marx’s cardinal slogan, the slogan
such strength as to become really international. which sums up the centuries-old development of socialism and the working-
The First International (1864-72) laid the foundation of an international class movement, the slogan which is expressed in the concept of the
organisation of the workers for the preparation of their revolutionary attack dictatorship of the proletariat.
on capital. The Second International (1889-1914) was an international This prevision and this theory—the prevision and theory of a genius—
organisation of the proletarian movement whose growth proceeded in are becoming a reality.
breadth, at the cost of a temporary drop in the revolutionary level, a temporary
strengthening of opportunism, which in the end led to the disgraceful collapse The Latin words have now been translated into the languages of all the
of this International. peoples of contemporary Europe— more, into all the languages of the
world.
The Third International actually emerged in 1918, when the long years
of struggle against opportunism and socialchauvinism, especially during A new era in world history has begun.
the war, led to the formation of Communist Parties in a number of countries. Mankind is throwing off the last form of slavery: capitalist, or wage,
Officially, the Third International was founded at its First Congress, in March slavery.
1919, in Moscow. And the most characteristic feature of this International,
its mission of fulfilling, of implementing the precepts of Marxism, and of By emancipating himself from slavery, man is for the first time
achieving the age-old ideals of socialism and the working-class movement— advancing to real freedom.
this most characteristic feature of the Third International has manifested
How is it that one of the most backward countries of Europe was the
itself immediately in the fact that the new, third, “International Working
first country to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, and to organise
Men’s Association” has already begun to develop, to a certain extent, into
a Soviet republic? We shall hardly be wrong if we say that it is this
a union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
contradiction between the backwardness of Russia and the “leap” she has
The First International laid the foundation of the proletarian, international made over bourgeois democracy to the highest form of democracy, to
struggle for socialism. Soviet, or proletarian, democracy—it is this contradiction that has been
Launch Vigorous Struggle states. Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of rejected claims, which
approximately come to 3.5 lakhs, followed by Odisha with nearly 1.5 lakh.
Livelihood of Tribals
the next date of hearing. If their numbers are added than it will rise to
several million households. Once this order is implemented, it will uproot
millions of tribals and other traditional forest dwellers from their land and
livilihood and cause unprecedented hardship to them.
(A serious attack has been launched against the land and livelihood of
the tribals of the country. Supreme Court has ordered eviction of nearly 11 The court order which came as an outcome of a case filed by some
lakh families of tribals and other traditional forest dwellers. This attack is some wildlife groups challenging the validity of the Forest Rights Act (FRA),
estimated to take more than 23 lakh tribal families in its ambit. RSS-BJP is a major blow to the struggle of tribals and other traditional forest dwellers
Govt. has repeatedly failed to even appear before the Supreme Court to seeking justice and to establish their rights. AIKMS has the opinion that
defend Forest Rights Act 2006. This Act was a result of struggles of tribals Modi led Union government has been trying to weaken this law as it gives
and other poor traditional forest dwellers. A statement issued by AIKMS some rights to forest community over forest land and is a hindrance to
on February 23 is being published here. Corporate interests. That is why the Govt. has calculatedly failed to present
its lawyers on February 13 to defend this law before the Supreme Court,
We should launch a vigorous and broad campaign against this attack
leading a three-judge bench to pass orders giving states till July 27 to
and mobilize tribals and other traditional forest dwellers in this campaign.
evict tribals whose claims had been rejected and submit a report on it to
We should try to coordinate this effort in different parts of the country and
the Supreme Court.
try to develop a country wide movement against this attack.)
AIKMS has been saying that the orders on the claims claims filed by
The Central Executive Committee of All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha tribals and traditional non tribal forest dwellers which have been rejected in
(AIKMS) has strongly opposed the Supreme Court’s recent order for the some states, need to be reviewed. In several states there have been reports
eviction of more than one million tribals and other traditional forest dwellers on administration going particularly slow on even accepting community-
from the forest lands across 16 states. These are the people whose claim level claims. The rejections in many cases are faulty, need to be reviewed
applications for forest right under the Forests Rights Act – 2006 are already under new regulations that the Tribal Affairs ministry brought in mid-way to
rejected. Once this court order is implemented, more than one million tribals reform the process. The law does not lead to automatic evictions and in
and other traditional forest-dwellers will be evicted from their respective some cases the claimants are anyway not in possession of lands they had
forest lands where they have been living and which they have been sought as their ancestral forests.
cultivating for decades. The last time country-wide evictions took place
was in 2002-2004, then also triggered by a Supreme Court order, which led Rejection does not always mean that the applicant’s case lacks merit.
to many cases of violence, deaths and protests in the vast forest areas For most forest dwelling communities, the process of applying for an
and uprooting of around three lakh tribal and non tribal forest dweller abstract notion like rights is daunting. At the same time, states are wary
households. of vesting forest rights to the tribals as this could, among other things,
complicate their ability to divert forest land for industrial and mining
The total number of rejected claims from 16 states that have reported activities. States have devised several strategies to reject claim applications
rejection rates so far to the apex court, add up to 11,27,446 tribal and to serve the interest of corporate houses. States like Jharkhand and
other forest-dwelling households. But according to the petitioners Himachal Pradesh have refused to accept applications by Other Traditional
approximately 20.5 lakh claims were rejected out of 44 lakh claims across Forest Dwellers. Gujarat told applicants to submit, along with other evidence,
Kerala 39999 ST 894 (This Table is according to the submissions made by the state govts.
before the Supreme Court. Extent of Land in case of AP pertains to the
land of the claims rejected. Note that only in Chhattisgarh eviction from
Madhya 426105 ST 204123
the forest land has been undertaken.)
Pradesh 153306 OTFD 150664