Pledge of Fifth August

Volume 38 No. 24 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA August 1, 2005 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00 Pledge of Fifth August NIHAR MUKHERJEE The 29th death anniversary of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, the founder General Secretary of our party, the SUCI, our teacher and guide and one of the foremost Marxist philosophers and thinkers of the era is going to be observed on 5th August next. We all have to realize particularly today the deep significance of this day. We have not only to grasp, but thoroughly assimilate the invaluable teachings that he evolved, culled and left for us through his life-long hard and arduous struggle to build up a genuine revolutionary party of the proletariat in this country and in conducting revolutionary struggles so that we can I said for this, start with a handful. And this develop ourselves in body, mind, ethics and culture, precisely was the guiding principle when I started this behaviour and conduct – in every respect, to become party with just a handful of compatriots. Everybody adequately equipped. laughed at us then. The CPI, then an undivided party, ridiculed us. They taunted, we had sprouted like a We all know that Comrade Shibdas epistemology upon which he did not dwell mushroom. They derided : if the SUCI is a party, Ghosh, in course of concretizing Marxist- with ease. With his deep wisdom and then a bat also is a bird; how is it that they, too, Leninist teachings on Indian soil in the post- intellect, he illuminated all complex problems would sit with us! ... I endured all this silently. I Lenin period of the international communist – political, social, educational, cultural, ignored all their ridicules and just proceeded along movement, not only further developed and ethical, of art and literature and of modern with firm resolve to build up the party. With what enriched them, but through incorporating sciences. He explained and highlighted even result? ... Today, the CPI(M) considers the SUCI an some new aspects, raised the concepts and complex issues of Marxism-Leninism in such even greater enemy than the Congress. Because, they understanding of Marxism-Leninism to a new a way that these became crystal clear and apprehend it is the SUCI which would dig the grave height. This is what we call Comrade Shibdas easily intelligible to even peasants or workers of its politics of trickery. The SUCI would expose the Ghosh Thought without which it is not with little or no education. He clearly design of not only the Congress but also of the possible today to correctly analyze, throw understood that revolution could never be pseudo-socialists in the cloak of leftism. Because it light upon and solve any national or successful in a relatively backward country carries in it the seeds of revolution. international problem of the present times. like India unless wide sections of workers — SHIBDAS GHOSH There is no branch of science and Contd. on page 6 (On Problems of Mass Movements) West Bengal State Committee on life term for Comrade Probodh Purkait Why CPI(M) conspires to implicate SUCI MLA and others in a false case Friends, you have enquired with our of the news media or distorted and twenty years back in 1985, a group Stunned, worried and pained at workers, telephoned our party falsified in the newspapers and TV of criminals, who belonged to the the sudden flash of the news that office. We have stated in a press channels visibly influenced by the Congress at that time and had Comrade Prabodh Purkait, MLA conference convened on the day the CPI(M). Hence, we consider it our subsequently switched over to the from Kultali Constituency of West sentence was pronounced that a duty to briefly apprise you of our CPI(M), opened fire on one of our Bengal for over three decades and a conspiracy of the CPI(M) has comments in the matter. party workers with a view to killing veteran peasant leader of the SUCI worked behind the incident. But our Why are we alleging that there him. As a sequel to that, two of alongwith four other SUCI workers viewpoint has been either carried is a conspiracy hatched by the those criminals lost their lives at the have been sentenced to life, many of out partly or incompletely in most CPI(M)? Because, in an incident Contd. on page 2 PAGE TWO AUGUST 1, 2005 PROLETARIAN ERA Comrade Prabodh Purkait and others victim of CPI(M)-Government’s dirty conspircy Contd. from page 1 urgency in pursuing the appeal of won the seat by massive votes are five district committee members hands of the infuriated mob. Though the state can by no means be a because the everyone knew that of South 24 Parganas and two Prabodh Purkait and other convicted normal state of affairs.Rather it Prabodh Purkait and the other members of Burdhaman district SUCI workers were in no way further shows clearly that a political leaders and cadres of the SUCI were committee. Apart from that false connected with the incident, the conspiracy of the CPI(M) has been not guilty. In the past, there have murder cases have been lodged police-administration under operative behind the scene. been several attacks on Prabodh against 53 leaders and workers from instructions from the CPI(M) But why this conspiracy against Purkait with murderous intention. other districts. implicated them in a false case. The the SUCI? First of all, a powerful Once he was so brutally assaulted The reason you know very well. case continued in the Session’s mass movement at the initiative of that his life could be saved only In this state, the SUCI has been Court for years and thereafter, in our party and under the leadership after prolonged treatment in the ceaselessly developing democratic 1997, Prabodh Purkait along with of Prabodh Purkait has been going hospital. Hence, after having mass movements on the various 33 others was acquitted by the said on in Kultali against two deadly exhausted all other means, the demands of the workers, peasants, court. We filed an appeal in the anti-people schemes of the state CPI(M) leaders ultimately had to middle class, teachers, students, and High Court soliciting release of the government. One is that the state mastermind a heinous conspiracy so women and against all the anti- six persons who were sentenced to government is constructing a dam that they could snatch the Kultali people policies and decisions of life by the Session’s Court in the by destroying Hukharania, a flowing seat from the SUCI by preventing both the central and the state same case. While hearing of our living river. Following an appeal Prabodh Purkait from contesting governments. People from all walks appeal was going on, suddenly it made against this move, the elections, intensifying terror and of life including many honest was found that not the real Supreme Court has even issued a rigging and in the process breaking workers and supporters of the complainants but the public ‘show cause’ to the state the morale of the people. CPI(M) are joining these prosecutor himself became government in the matter. The other You are well aware that though movements in large numbers, hyperactive with a separate appeal is that the state government through in West Bengal we are not the helping in many ways to develop seeking punishment of Prabodh sponsorship of the Sahara group is opponents of the CPI(M) in the race these struggles. Under pressure of Purkait and others. Because of this on a spree to set up floating hotels, for grabbing seats. Yet the CPI(M) these powerful movements, the state hyperactivity on the part of the swimming pools, bars, tourist lodges leadership is resorting to worst government has been compelled to public prosecutor, the appeal of the etc. on and along the rivers of violence to wipe us out. So far, they yield to many important demands state government was tagged with Sundarbans in order to cater to the have murdered 141 of our leader including re-introduction of English our appeal and the hearing began in entertainment requisites and a host and workers. Nine of our workers at primary level. “SUCI is the only the month of July. Noted and of vulgar amusement requisitions of courted martyr’s death when police force of democratic mass veteran lawyer Dilip Dutta appeared the capitalists, business tycoons, opened fire during movements. movement”, “the boys and girls of on behalf of Prabodh Purkait and both domestic and foreign, and the Many of our workers have been this party are honest, committed to others. But he got opportunity to children of the moneyed class. Thus maimed by attacks from the police ideology, possess exemplary argue the case in the court only on plans are afoot to pollute the natural and the CPI(M) sponsored anti- character; fight courageously two days, the 7th & 8th of July. environment, disturb the ecological socials. A sizeable number of these braving brutal police atrocities”- Thereafter hearing was declared balance, vitiate the social climate valiant fighters were workers, such perceptions are gaining wide over and on 20th July, life sentence and destroy the local culture of that peasants, students and teachers who acceptance among all sections of the of Prabodh Purkait and others were area. Under the leadership of in the prime of their life dedicated people both inside and outside the pronounced. Prabodh Purkait, thousands of local themselves to the struggle for state. There is an overflow of love We would like to remind you people have organized themselves emancipating the oppressed people and affection towards the party.

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