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Comrade Nihar Mukherjee Remembered with Tears and Resolve They Streamed In, All, to Converge Upon Volume 43 No. 14 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST) March 15, 2010 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 4.00 Comrade Nihar Mukherjee Remembered with tears and resolve They streamed in, all, to converge upon. Not in gaggles, not in flocks — banded in groups and rallies they came with grief-laden hearts glimpsed in their silent, heavy steps, mingled with resolve in gait firm and erect. You could see, you could feel, the whole being glimmered a stuff different. Their movement, all their conduct spoke out what they are pledged to : transforming their selves to equal what history behoves them to do, and to elevate themselves to proletarian characters through collective activity, collective living, collective thinking; be ceaseless without flinch, waver, deviance in this struggle on the revolutionary political line. A struggle which is within and without at once. For, capitalism never sleeps, never ceases to worm its way in and degrade and debase character. Even The great tragedy that has come all fronts, individual and collective, draw deep inspiration. Next to it was hunger and humiliation that it down on our life in the passing to materialize the anti-capitalist set up a Party book stall where inflicts comes nowhere near to this away of Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, socialist revolution on this soil. At comrades thronged to eagerly lethal power in its armour. In the our beloved General Secretary and a the call of the Central Committee of collect works of Comrade Shibdas darkness and thorns in people’s great life-long revolutionary who the SUCI (Communist), the Ghosh, books containing his lives the ray that shines, truly led the Party onward in correct Memorial Meeting was held at the invaluable speeches, publications of shines, is the beacon of thoughts the pursuit of the teachings of Comrade Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata. writings of Comrade Nihar Great Leader bequeathed — Shibdas Ghosh, has been the test for The Stadium and its precincts Mukherjee, and also other party Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. He it is the leaders, the Party rank and file were decorated in solemn dignity, literature. And then there was a huge who showed the road to honour, the to assess how far have they wrapped around in red flags and red portrait of the departed leader. The life that gleams in dignity, the advanced in this struggle. banners. By the side of the main Memorial Meeting was scheduled to fountain-head of strength to power It was the 3rd of March, the day entrance, a photographic begin at 3 p.m. But from around 12 the struggle, the unbending resolve of Memorial Meeting, on which the presentation of many moments in noon people started to pour in, offer for revolution and cherished Party paid tribute to Comrade Nihar Comrade Nihar Mukherjee’s life floral tributes at the huge portrait emancipation. Mukherjee and took the vow anew was arranged for comrades and and enter the stadium. The state The great Marxist thinker, our to carry ahead the task of struggle on people who flocked there daylong to leaders, organizers, workers and leader, teacher and guide, who gave sympathizers, masses of the toiling a new meaning to the nobility of Comrade Provash Ghosh people came from all corners of the communism and held it high after country, from Assam to Gujarat, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and elected General Secretary from Punjab to Kerala. By 2-30pm, Mao-Zedong, taught us the In the meeting of the Central Committee of the SUCI the venue was full and a big unwavering commitment of a (Communist) held at the Salt Lake commune of the Party in gathering of people, who could not communist even when a great the morning of 4 March, 2010, Comrade Provash Ghosh, Member, enter inside for lack of space, tragedy might befall. Polit Bureau, was elected the General Secretary of the Party. Contd. on page 8 PAGE TWO MARCH 15, 2010 PROLETARIAN ERA Homage of the Central Committee, SUCI (Communist) to Comrade Nihar Mukherjee Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, audacious, indomitable struggle of those united Left-democratic unfulfilled dream of our great General Secretary of the Socialist building the genuine communist movements Comrade Nihar leader Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. Unity Centre of India party in the vast stretch of this land Mukherjee was imprisoned several The Central Committee recognizes (Communist), lifelong comrade- without social identity any to name times. In course, he emerged as a this role of Comrade Nihar in-arms of the great leader of the and means of any kind to fall back front-ranking leader of Left- Mukherjee with deep admiration. proletariat, Comrade Shibdas upon for food and shelter, spurred democratic movement. In The Central Committee Ghosh, passed away on 18th on alone by an unwavering remembrance of this exemplary considers it to be its honour-bound February last at Calcutta Heart commitment to the ideology of role of his, the Central Committee duty to record that from then Clinic & Hospital. He was Marxism-Leninism and a deeply pays its deep respect. onwards, Comrade Nihar suffering from multiple serious entrenched resolve to accomplish The sudden and premature Mukherjee waged a relentless and ailments for which he had been the task of proletarian revolution, demise of Comrade Shibdas exemplary struggle that under prolonged treatment. When it was a daunting a task to conduct Ghosh, our most beloved leader, heightened and deepened his he passed away, he was ninety. revolutionary activities or even to teacher and guide, on 5th of realization of the thoughts and The Central Committee expresses arrange the minimum necessities August 1976 struck the Party like teachings of Comrade Shibdas its profound grief at his demise. for the sustenance of the lives of a thunderbolt plunging the whole Ghosh. He at the same time, for While paying its deep respect, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh and other of the Party into unplumbed grief. the upliftment of the ideological the Central Committee recalls that comrades. It was Comrade Nihar A deep sense of void cast itself and cultural level of the entire Comrade Nihar Mukherjee at a Mukherjee who with immense over. At this crucial hour, the Party, took different measures to tender age of 13 plunged into the patience and endurance shouldered Central Committee of the Party involve all the leaders and cadres vortex of revolutionary current of the responsibility of arranging the elected Comrade Nihar of the party in this struggle. With the Indian freedom movement. He necessary resources to continue Mukherjee, who by dint of his this very objective, he established joined the revolutionary the Study Centre of Marxism- organization Anushilan Samity as Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought an activist. In course of his at Ghatshila. revolutionary activities he left Being mired in election- behind his family, gave up his oriented politics when other Left academic career and became a full parties abandoned the course of time revolutionary. During this democratic mass movement, period he came in contact with Comrade Shibdas Ghosh called Comrade Shibdas Ghosh who also upon Party leaders and workers in had joined Anushilan Samity in his 1975, to build up democratic mass early teens. Both Comrade movements single-handedly, if Shibdas Ghosh and Comrade necessary, in order to advance Nihar Mukherjee were arrested people’s cause. On his demise, the and sent to jail during the ‘Quit party under the leadership of India’ movement for taking Central Committee members offering Red Salute to the departed leader Comrade Nihar Mukherjee rose to important role. While in Anushilan the party activities and save the struggle had already emerged as carry out the behest of the Great Samity, Comrade Nihar lives of the comrades, particularly the worthy successor of Comrade Leader of the Proletariat. Not only Mukherjee was attracted towards of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. With Shibdas Ghosh, as the General in West Bengal, in other states too, Marxism-Leninism. Later, he profound reverence and gratitude, Secretary of the Party. Comrade the party, under his leadership, embraced this noble ideology as the Central Committee recognizes Nihar Mukherjee also readily developed class and mass the philosophy of life. As the CPI this unexcelled role of Comrade responded to this need of the Party struggles conducive to anti- did not grow as a true communist Nihar Mukherjee in building up and the wishes of its members and capitalist socialist revolution. In party and as there was no other the party. shouldered this most difficult this process of defending people’s communist party worthy of its A historic necessity and social responsibility unhesitatingly. In interest, the SUCI (Communist) name, in order to fulfill the urge developed, after course of his life-long historic earned a coveted space in people’s indispensable precondition for independence, for uniting the left struggle, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh hearts as the only trustworthy revolution, Comrade Shibdas and democratic parties and forces, organized the party as ‘one man’ force of left-democratic Ghosh took upon himself the including the then undivided CPI, on the Leninist principle of movement. Also, under his able arduous task of building up SUCI on the platform of joint struggle democratic centralism by leadership, the mass and class as a genuine communist party on against the anti-people rule of the concretizing Marxism-Leninism fronts of the party in various states the Leninist model by concretizing Congress. At the behest of on Indian soil. In his absence, continued to grow in strength and Marxism-Leninism on the Indian Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, Comrade Nihar Mukherjee not spread. Comrade Nihar Mukherjee soil. Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, as Comrade Nihar Mukherjee played only protected and strengthened also took bold steps in a close comrade-in-arms of the a leading role in giving shape to the unity of the Party but also strengthening, both ideologically Great Leader Comrade Shibdas such a Left-democratic front.
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