Volume 48 No. 11 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF (COMMUNIST) January 15, 2015 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE Price : Rs. 2.00 Poster boy of international gangsterism is the Guest of Honour of Modi-led BJP government Rolling out a red carpet is Modi-led Indian government to the head of illegal invasion and occupation of arming it with most modern a butcher imperialist state, a state pursuing international gangsterism, Iraq on totally fraudulent pretext and sophisticated weaponry and military despotism, overlordism with boundless brutality to serve its vile hegemonic then trying to keep their stranglehold training to unleash a war of rebellion interest, a state which in the name of containing terrorism is exporting on the country by installing a puppet to dislodge the Syrian president. In ‘democracy’ in B-2 bombers and unmanned drones to various West regime on the one hand and by fact, theirs has been a design to instigating ethnic strifes and violent launch a barbarous aggression upon Asian and other countries, and ‘civilizing’ people in country after country conflicts between religious oil rich Middle East. And not to at gunpoint, a state which itself is the chief promoter of ravenous terrorism communities, on the other, shattering forget, the heinous role played by throughout the world, killing lakhs of innocent civilians through aerial the hitherto existing largely secular US imperialists in the break up of bombing and rampant use of most lethal weapons of mass destruction ethos of unity and peace in the Yugolsavia to implement their including nuclear weapons, a state which is illegally aggressing and country, establishing political-military grandiose design to disintegrate the occupying sovereign national countries through naked military intervention control over Afghanistan, dethroning Balkan states and establish US and raising the scepter of violence and perjury flouting all canons of elected president of Libya by domination there. In order to pry international norms, rules, laws, conventions and practices with impunity, a engaging NATO in military assault, away Bosnian and Kosovo province state which is imposing totally illegal and immoral sanctions upon any state orchestrating regime change in Haiti from Yugoslavia they were terming it rogue, if it does not bow down to its arm-twisting. And it is the in Western hemisphere through instrumental in triggering and figurehead of such an imperialist state, guilty of perpetrating worst crimes direct military intervention preceded fanning civil war and ensuring the by worst political trickery and victory of separatist forces in Bosnia on humanity, that Modi and the BJP-RSS finds the most suited person to economic strangulation and and Kosovo, through direct military grace the occasion of observance of the country’s 64th Republic Day as abducting the democratically elected intervention. Thus, using their brute the chief guest. president of that country, pulling military force, US imperialism has Greece in 1947, Iran in 1953, strings from behind to exacerbate opted for unleashing and Plunder and butchery of US Guatemala in 1954, Indonesia in ethnic conflicts in Sudan which led orchestrating limitless aggression on imperialism 1965 and Chile in 1973, not to speak to division of that country, propping weaker and smaller countries of the The history of US imperialism in of many others. They have built up so-called ‘Free Syrian Army’ world. Palestine, Somalia, Haiti, military bases in almost all corners the last several decades has been a (FSA) and liberally funding it, Contd. on page 2 chronicle of plunder and butchery, of the world. US imperialists generating local and partial wars invaded Dominican Republic in 1965, around the globe, weaving ploys to Grenada in 1983, and Panama in SUCI(C) hails bold stand of destabilize various countries by 1989. Pursuing “Monroe Doctrine” fomenting ethnic-communal strifes US hegemons intervened in the and insurgency, interfering in the affairs of the Latin American states Indian historical Congress internal affairs of other countries, continually from 1914 to 1933 which Comrade , Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the subverting the barest precepts of includes 19-year occupation of Haiti, following statement on 02-01-2015: democracy and carrying out 18-year occupation of Dominican The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) hails the bold stand espionage activities. The US Republic, multiple interventions in of the Indian Historical Congress against attempts to distort history, and imperialist rulers have been taking to Panama, 8-year occupation of for their timely intervention that mythology and history cannot be all these means at their disposal, Nicaragua and so forth. They equated and it would be disastrous to pass off mythological fantasies as every dirty trick, intrigue, launched aggression on Democratic historical facts. It is a shame for our country, which can boast of intervention, aggression, subversion Republic of Korea in 1950, attacked scientists of the stature of Jagadish Chandra Bose, Prafulla Chandra and power of money as well as socialist Cuba in 1961, waged a Ray, C. V. Raman, S.Ramanujam, S. Chandrasekhar, Meghnad Saha, psychological warfare simply to devastating war against Indo-China, S. N. Bose and many others who heightened the international prestige establish its hegemony over the particularly Vietnam and Cambodia of Indian Science, that our Prime Minister has publicly announced that world for plundering the resources from late fifties to mid-seventies. the elephant’s head on Ganesha idol proves that plastic surgery existed for its own benefit and at its sweet They subverted sovereign in ancient India and made other such fantastic claims. The antics of the will. The US imperialists have Nicaragua with the help of BJP and other outfits of the Sangh Parivar and their leaders on such presented to the human civilization Honduras-based Contras. issues have made our country a laughing stock in the international arena. the hated doctrine of pre-emptive Everywhere, they perpetrated It is well known that every nation has mythological tales containing strike, thus assuming unbridled genocidal assaults on the native many fantasies, but none of them considered these as historical facts. power to attack, overrun and smash populations, slaughter of hundreds of But such things are going on rampantly with the backing of the any country, which, they may simply thousands of Philipinos, Indo- Government. Their ulterior motive is to destroy the scientific and logical think, could either loath to obey their Chinese, Latin Americans, Asians bent of mind of the people, and implant in their minds all sorts of diktats or turn into a danger to them. and Africans. Mass killing of the superstitious, blind, irrational beliefs. The objective is to stir up fanatical The US imperialist sharks have Palestinian people and illegal communal sentiments, instigate fratricidal strife and destroy the unity of manipulated and engineered occupation of Palestine land by oppressed, toiling people. We strongly condemn these activities and call insurgency through notorious CIA Zionist Israel continues with active upon all sections of people to raise their voice against these heinous and Pentagon and their agents, in US support. conspiracies and organize to foil their despicable attempt to divide the one country after another in Europe- The latest additions to the list of people. Asia-Africa- Latin America —in crimes they have committed are PAGE TWO JANUARY 15, 2015 History of US imperialism in the last several decades has been a chronicle of plunder and butchery Contd. from page 1 Asia, Africa to Latin America, all atom bomb on the cities of threat saying, “The entire area Kosovo-Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, the independent sovereign states are Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 should be so filled up with Iraq, Libya, Syria—all bear eloquent reeling under this US threat of ‘yield killing 2.66 lakhs of people and radioactive radiation that no life can testimony of blood-thirst, power- or perish’. US imperialists have been reducing two cities into rubbles. The appear there in next 120 years.” In craze, cruelty and inhuman openly saying that those not pliant to intensity of nuclear radiation was so fact, US imperialism left no stone barbarism of US imperialism, how their wishes are ‘enemy countries’ much as to afflict the survivors with unturned to wipe out this socialist US imperialism in pursuit of its and should be ready to face the serious fatal diseases like blood state from the world map. Similarly imperialist interests does not shrink eventualities. They have thus cancer. Many were crippled for life. in Indonesia, US imperialism backed from committing any crime arrogated to themselves the position Children were born crippled. The military dictator General Suharto in whatsoever against humanity. The of international gendarme to people there bear even today the perpetrating one of the worst kingpin of imperialist designs and establish their control over the whole mark of genetic distortions. It was a carnages in history where over 5 deception, behind growing incidence world. Finding it difficult to continue holocaust that shook the entire lakh people lost their lives. In Angola of social conflicts and civil wars, the their direct economic and political world. Similarly, in Vietnam, the US in West Africa, the US imperialists in perpetration of genocides and exploitation through holding colonies imperialists in a span of 11 years their bid to dislodge the elected massacres, most barbaric and often and semi-colonies, the imperialist from 1964 to 1975 killed 1.35 crores government armed rightist insurgent boastful bombings, including drone powers headed by US imperialists (13 million) of Vietnamese by group UNITA and generated a civil attacks killing innocent women- have resorted to neocolonial dropping destructive napalm bombs, war there in which 7.5 lakh people children-old dismissively termed exploitation of the countries across resorting to indiscriminate carpet lost their lives and over 65 thousand collateral damage, behind all these the globe, particularly the newly bombing, spraying ‘agent orange’ were maimed. The US imperialists cruel inhuman acts the world over resurgent, yet small and weak and such other poisonous gas from dropped 35,000 cluster bombs, used lie the shadow, the claws and national states. The world witnessed the air to burn stretches of land thousands of rounds of radioactive tentacles of the war-monger profit- their nefarious war-monger including farmlands, forests, gardens depleted-Uranium bombs, along with hungry US imperialists. character through the series of and human habitats. So horrific was bunker busters and cruise missiles in Analyzing the character of Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and imperialism, Lenin had observed Afghanistan, for example. After long back that “Imperialism illegal occupation of Iraq by US generates war”. Without war, imperialists and installation of a imperialism cannot survive. War is puppet regime there, the Iraqi necessary to keep up their people started united resistance all existence. War is, so to say, their over the country and the brave mode of life. First and Second World freedom fighters began sacrificing Wars have proved how correct has their life to liberate the country. To been the analysis of Lenin. The role brutally crush the resistance of of US imperialism in the post-world freedom-loving heroic Iraqi people, war period has further corroborated the US imperialists carried out fresh Lenin’s prognosis. US imperialism is onslaughts on civilians; smashed a vendor of war. Comrade Shibdas villages after villages taking resort to Ghosh, worthy continuer of Lenin carpet bombings and cunningly had said that imperialist economy is precipitated a Shia-Sunni divide suffering from an hourly crisis. In among the people to disrupt order to overcome this crisis, it has solidarity of the freedom fighters. A militarized its economy. Yet, it is US imperialists killed these children in Afghanistan study, entitled “Cancer, Infant unable to get out of the crisis. It is Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in planning one device to come out of events like their war in Korea, this carnage that even humanist Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009”, by Dr the crisis only to plunge into a intervention in Greece-Cyprus issue, Bertrand Russell was prompted to Chris Busby, a visiting professor at greater crisis. So, its economy is two-decade long imperialist write a book titled “War crimes of the University of Ulster, more and more tilted towards war. bloodbath in Indo-China, particularly Vietnam”. Even in Korean War, the MalakHamdan and EntesarAriabi The very need to stave off the crisis Vietnam, to mention a few among US imperialists besides undertaking showed dramatic increases in infant of economy is driving US many. In fact, assassination of massive bombing and orchestrating mortality, cancer and leukemia in the imperialism towards generating one political leaders, conspiracy, over 2500 military attacks on Iraqi city of Fallujah, exceeding after another war; find out newer blackmail, money power in elections, socialist North Korea killing 12 lakh those reported by survivors of the means to foster war. Exactly that is military coup, installation of puppet Koreans, had conducted bacterial atomic bombs that were dropped on being seen in the world today. And regimes by toppling popular war, massively used internationally Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the US Presidents are none but the governments, all hatched, sponsored banned chemical weapons and other 1945.The survey was carried out by chieftains who adorn the seat of and engineered by the much-hated weapons of mass destruction. They a team of 11 researchers who governance of such a country CIA and the US imperialist rulers even poisoned the water sources visited 711 houses in Fallujah. playing subservient to such became the order of the day in and air dropped poisonous food to Findings showed a four-fold barbarous mentors, the ruling countries of Asia, Africa and Latin kill people. 51, 000 industries, 28, 000 increase in all cancers and a 12-fold capitalist class. America. It is such actions that led schools, 4500 hospitals, 579 increase in childhood cancer in Noam Chomsky to call USA “the laboratories and 2.8 lakh dwelling under-14s. Infant mortality was US imperialism — greatest leading terrorist state”. Arno Mayer, houses were razed to the ground. In found to be 80 per 1,000. There is enemy of mankind Emeritus Professor of History at November, 1950, General a 38-fold increase in leukemia, a The US imperialists armed to Princeton University, has stated that MacArthur ordered US air force “to ten-fold increase in female breast the teeth with all kinds of lethal “since 1947 America has been the raze all towns, villages and industries cancer and significant increases in weapons including nuclear arsenal chief and pioneering perpetrator of of North Korea into rubbles.” lymphoma and brain tumours in have been threatening other ‘preemptive’ state terror”. Napalm bombs were dropped to adults in Fallujah. What is striking is countries with armed interventions, demolish the city of Hoeryong. The not only the greater prevalence of star wars and nuclear warfare if US imperialists destroying then US President Truman openly cancer but the speed with which it they dare to disobey their whips or human civilization announced that they were seriously was affecting people. The sex ratio oppose their hegemonic design and It may be recalled that it was considering dropping atom bomb on between newborn boys and girls had pursuit of imperial overstretch. From US imperialists who dropped first North Korea. MacArthur issued a Contd. on page 6 PROLETARIAN ERA JANUARY 15, 2015 PAGE THREE Saffron Brigade’s heinous crime of forced conversion After the resounding victory in the Lok Sabha elections, the RSS-BJP- Christians. But each of them will be prohibited from practising, preaching VHP and other constituents and affiliates of Hindu communal Sangh Parivar nourished by absorbing the essence or propagating any other religion and is gearing up for the next big game, to achieve total Hindutva dominance of of other religions and develop the entry of non-Hindus in the area the country’s political and social space. In the first three months since according to its nature maintaining should be banned.”Similarly, just a Narendra Modi’s massive electoral triumph, many corners of the country its distinct identity… We want to week back, 500 tribal Christians in have begun to smoulder in slow fires of orchestrated hate and distrust take mankind to that end where Gujarat’s Valsad district were against the Muslim minorities. Raised on a staple diet of anti-Muslim there is no Veda, Bible or Koran but forcibly converted. Forced propaganda, and encouraged further by the open propagation of these all works will be performed through conversions of Muslims and sentiments to reap a polarized vote in states like UP and Bihar, and even integration of the Veda, Bible and Christians are taking place in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, high-pitched communal Koran… we not only tolerate all Madhya Pradesh and Kerala also. tempers are being roused with alacrity so that communal polarization gives religions but believe all of them to be Dharam Jagran Samiti, an RSS electoral benefit to the BJP which has nothing to offer except this worst true.” And finally, he commented offshoot, has distributed pamphlets divisive politics. that , “”The conquest of India by the in Aligarh seeking donations for The Sangh Parivar constituents anyone can do anything with us. We Muslims gave the poor a taste of converting Christians and Muslims emboldened by the BJP’s ride to can’t afford to lose our lives over emancipation. That is why, one fifth to Hinduism. The pamphlet says it power began inflaming communal religion and conversion.” Another of the population of this country costs Rs 2 lakh to convert a passion centred on small local convert claimed that they were became Muslim. This did not happen Christian and Rs 5 lakh to convert a disputes like quarrels over land for duped:”We were not aware that it on the strength of arms. It is sheer Muslim. It set December 25 as the shrines and graveyards, an offending was an exercise to convert us to insanity to think that such had date for a major conversion loudspeaker in a place of worship, Hinduism. We were told that we happened because of power arms ceremony and put down an annual fire crackers in processions etc. would get a lot if we pose for and acts of destruction. The poor target of 2 lakh conversions — 1 Next to feature in the saffron pictures with idols of goddess Kali. wanted to be free from the clutches lakh Muslims and 1 lakh Christians. brigade’s insidious plan was raising I didn’t know I was being converted. of the zamindars and the priests.” In Rajeshwar Singh RSS, regional head the bogey of love jihad. It was I still believe in Allah. We have order to hold brief in favour of their of UP told TOI that RSS spends Rs propagated that Hindu girls were never had any differences with evil deeds like “conversion”, Sangh 50 lakh every month on conversion entrapped in love relationship by Hindus and we don’t see ourselves Parivar spokespersons like Doongar of an average 1,000 families. “It Muslim boys and then forcibly as different from Hindu scrap would have to say in public that they spends Rs 8-10 lakh per month on converted to Islam. The VHP and collectors.” What is still more denounce and disapprove what fuel costs alone in west UP,” he the RSS began taking up isolated cunning is that the Sangh Parivar Vivekananda had said. Would they added. The question that arises cases of love and elopement and groups insisted that such functions dare to say in public that Vivekanada naturally is who is funding this mass trying to convert them into a political be called ‘Gharwapsi’ was not a Hindu? Do they have the conversion then? Glaringly, big and social controversy. But the (homecoming), not conversion, guts to do so? moneybags with ulterior motive of trickery got exposed in no time. So, ceremonies. According to them, if So, what these Sangh Parivar keeping oppressed people divided the Hindutva fanatics have now one goes in history, they would find affiliates are doing is nothing short are financing the forced conversion embarked on the agenda of forced that all the ancestors of the converts of a crime. And for that notorious programme of arch communal conversion of Non-Hindus into were Hindu; so it is a ‘Gharwapsi’. criminals have been pressed into Sangh Parivar. Hindu religion. It was going on for We do not know which history these action. Kishore Balmiki, the main Moreover, why the BJP quite some time but surfaced arch communalists are talking about. accused in the ‘reconversion’ row in government who is pretending to be prominently after the news of forced Even if that be true, does it sanctify UP, has a criminal history. He was against conversion is allowing such conversion of 300 Muslims in Agra coerced or deceitful “conversion”? arrested in 2001 for smuggling illegal criminalities to continue unabated? by Hindutva groups affiliated to the Doongar further said that liquor. Convicted in that case, he had Answer to a great extent has been RSS came to light. Those targeted “Conversions have happened when done time in jail. Even the Sangh provided by an RSS pracharak have been extremely poor people Hindus, under the threat of the gun, Parivar is using all dirty tricks to associated with the BJP’s who eke out a living by picking rags moved to Islam. Now our brothers force non-Hindus into conversion. In organization; “Hindutva is and doing odd jobs. They were told and sisters want to come back… May last, 50-odd Christian families supplement to the development that if they were converted, they Islam is like a jail; they want to in Sirsiguda village of Chhattisgarh plank and only a mix of the two would get BPL cards,ration cards, unchain themselves and since we were denied their PDS rations on could ensure electoral victories.’’ houses and their children would get believe in atithidevobhava (guests the grounds that their ration cards The cat is thus out of the bag. The a better schooling. They were also are gods), we will welcome them were fake. The persecuted families BJP which has come to power with threatened by the RSS backed back.” The BJP-RSS display photo filed a complaint with the district the support of the ruling capitalist Hindutva organizations that if they of Vivekananda and claim that they Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer class is pledge-bound to subserve refused they would be evicted from are following his ideals.Really? Protection Department on June 16. the class interest of the latter. The their land which is generally owned Referring to history, Swami After the authorities arrived in the oppressive ruling class needs the by Hindus. One of the targets Vivekananda had said that village to investigate the issue, those people to be in stupor of bluntly made a confession that the “Mohammedanism came as a who deposed before them, mainly unawareness about the fact that the RSS people assured them of better message for the masses ... the first Christians, were beaten up by a cause of all their misery, penury and place to live, better food and message was equality. There is one group of 150-odd VHP activists, in deprivation is the exploitative schooling for children and hence he religion — love. No more question full public view, with the local capitalist system bestriding the did not mind changing religion, as of race, colour, (or) anything else” policemen remaining mute country like a deadweight. For that, religion does not give them food to He further said, “if anybody dreams spectators. Even though an FIR people’s thinking process has to be eat. It is hunger and poverty which of the exclusive survival of his own naming the perpetrators of the blunted and their unity divided. the Hindutva zealots have been religion and the destruction of the violence was lodged the next day, so Alongside, there should be a surfeit exploiting to pursue their sinister others, I pity him from the bottom of far no arrests have been made. The of deceptions and hoodwinking. That agenda. While BalrajDoongar, the my heart, and point out to him that shops in the village were made to is exactly what the BJP and its Bajrang Dal’s Uttar Pradesh upon the banner of every religion refuse to sell their goods to the mentor RSS-Sangh Parivar are convenor, claimed that the will soon be written, in spite of Christian families, who have been after. The strategy is that while conversions were voluntary, those resistance: Help and not Fight, repeatedly warned by VHP activists Modi, the BJP prime minister will stated to have been converted Assimilation and not Destruction, to either convert to Hinduism or delude people with hollow promises contested it, saying they were Harmony and Peace and not leave the place. The Sirsiguda gram of development and deceptive talk tricked into a conversion event in Dissension.” He further said, panchayat issued a fiat stating that of banning forced conversion legally, Agra. Admission of one of the “Christians need not become to “preserve the traditional cultural the RSS-Sangh Parivar in keeping hapless victims before the media is Buddhists nor need the Muslims to unity of the village; non-Hindu with their moorings will exacerbate revealing: “We’re poor people and become Hindus or the Buddhists religious practitioners should be Contd. on page 5 PAGE FOUR JANUARY 15, 2015 PROLETARIAN ERA Brutal tortures by CIA exposed in a report It has not been so long back that inhuman carried out these inhuman tortures in the prisons. Along with Manning there have been Julian torture meted out by American soldiers to Caught napping, Obama, the current President, Assenge and so many others, who ‘blew their prisoners at the infamous jails of Guantanamo had no option other than feigning to be apologetic whistle’ in their attempt to uphold human rights by Bay or Abu Ghraib had caused all sane people to in his gesture. But that would not cut any ice as revealing the brutality of US imperialism and react in utter abhorrence and indignation. In fact even under his stewardship,US imperialism exposing the kind of ‘democracy’ the US upholds it is now an open secret that the CIA has on a continues to bloody its hands-- killing unarmed and they had to face the worst sort of US regular basis been subjecting those in their and helpless men-women-children in several atrocities as a result. These whistle blowers custody to brutal torment. Of late, a report has countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, wanted the world people to rise up in protest but been revealed on 9 December, by none other etc. and pursue its hegemonic design full-throttle they had their voice gagged by the same. Such is than American Senate Committee that has once under the garb of ‘protecting democracy’. the true face of American democracy! more brought this up to public notice. Certain publicity media of our country have What is more astounding a fact is that the The report carries terrible descriptions of been shameless enough to be eloquent in their same CIA which romps home all over the world torture like water-boarding meaning keeping the praise of this incident of CIA’s torture being in search of ‘terrorist offenders’ and has over the prisoners unclad under water or pouring water on disclosed by the Senate, terming it as ‘strength of years been itself committing not only grave their head until they suffer from a sense of American democracy’. They mean, so powerful human rights violation by subjecting them to the drowning ; letting them lie with hand and feet tied is this democracy that despite such instances of worst sort of tortures but has also reportedly been ( that might cause even death and it has also ‘mistakes’ and ‘limitations’ occurring at times, involved with crimes no less than drug-trafficking happened so); not allowing one to sleep for a they are not afraid to reveal them in front of the and even plotting and attempting assassination of stretch of up to 180 hours prostrated in a box countrymen. It is only natural for those stooge such prominent personalities as Patrice Lumumba which did not allow either standing or sitting ; media to offer explanations of the kind in favour President of Congo, General Rene Schneider and threatening them with an electric drill while of US imperialism which justify the killing of the Cuban President Fidel Castro etc. Even hooded ; forcing water and food up one’s rectum; lakhs of people in all the different countries journalists who have from time to time attempted having prisoners’ family members threatened with of the world as sheer ‘collateral damage ‘in their to uncover the truth related to crimes of the CIA death and other beastial assaults of the kind. One bid to contain terrorism! While eulogizing US e.g. Gary Webb (of the San Jose Mercury News) man held in the infamous “snake pit”, a CIA imperialism, these media desist from offering the have been ‘hounded to death’. Yet none of the prison in Afghanistan, died of hypothermia after explanation as to what kind of a democracy is tormentors guilty of the above acts as well as at being chained naked to the concrete floor of a this- where year after year, the government the various CIA detention sites are known to have cold cell. Another died from abuse after being agency for detection- itself resorts to and rejoices been prosecuted against even though every act of repeatedly dragged up and down a hallway in macabre glee over unbridled torture of the torture is a violation of international law. outside his cell. Among the worst sort of prisoners . Great Lenin had once said that democracy is treatment meted out to suspects was in COBALT Not long back in last August, the American the best shell under which capitalism can – a secret CIA detention site dubbed ‘dungeon’ court sent 25 year old Bradly Manning to jail for function. And one finds that the Pentagon and the where among other horrors, prisoners would be long 35 years. His offence was, he had disclosed CIA are using that shell to cover up and carry out kept in complete darkness and bombarded with through Wick licks, a video of American soldiers their nefarious activities, custody tortures, vile loud music and noise. Thus the perpetrators did in Afghanistan gunning down innocent common acts of aggression and naked military intervention not ever fall short of varied and violent means of people from helicopters. Witnessing the atrocities and brutal killings. It is for the oppressed people torturing those they had arrested with allegations meted out by American imperialism there, this of the world to develop sustained and determined of terror deeds. The shocking report released army person had felt they have lost all their movement against imperialist aggression and found that the techniques employed by the human values. He was bound by his conscience attack based on Marxist-Leninist thought and Central Intelligence Agency were “far more to communicate the images of such brutality to inspired with the lofty ideal of proletarian brutal” than the spy agency had previously the people of the world. US imperialism internationalism and solidarity with the admitted to.The horrific stories that had so responded by throwing him to prison. revolutionary parties providing the leadership . shocked the civilized world during the “War on Terror” to the extent that many were left wondering who indeed were employing terrorist tactics, the identified terrorist outfits or the Pentagon regime. Following this disclosure of CIA’s torture regime, US President Barrack Obama, while acknowledging his debt to the CIA for the service it renders to the US Government, had to confess as a face saving that the stern procedures On 8 January a protest demonstration of peasants was held by the AIKKMS in Pratapgarh district of UP followed by this organization is not commensurate against anti-peasant Land Acquisition Bill. A meeting with the ‘values’ American nation stands for and at the end of the rally was addressed by district and that the activities of the CIA have indeed local leaders and memorandum submitted to the tarnished American Nation’s honour in the eyes On 8 January AIDSO Gulbarga(Karnataka) local Upajiladhikaripatti . of the world and hampered their interests. The committee organized a protest rally against merging barbarism has been of such an extent that Obama of a government high school, with present students, could not but indulge in a salvaging act and alumni and students from other schools participating mouthed an assurance that he would use his and AIDSO district leaders addressing. authority to forestall any recurrence in future. It would seem as if this be the first time he has come to know of such happenings! The fact is that ever since the terror attack of 11 September in 2011 in that country, people of the world have repeatedly been vocal in condemnation of the inhuman procedures followed by the CIA while wresting confession from the suspects. Yet neither any of the former presidents nor the present one has ever cared to feel ashamed and meant to mend their ways. Rather as per A massive protest demonstration was held at Purulia A few thousand of biri workers staged a protest rally in on 5 January on burning problems of revelations, it was with the consent of the former at on 7 January on 22-point charter of people’s life US Presidents like George Bush that the CIA demands a few of which has been wrested PROLETARIAN ERA JANUARY 15, 2015 PAGE FIVE

shameless corruption, brute BJP sponsored good governance criminalization. The subservient politicians are running after power Once the BJP-RSS combine college students, teachers, even everywhere, from administration of and pelf; the bureaucracy-police- and the NDA government led by employees as well as the central all sectors, not excluding education, military live on corruption and them had made “feel good” government staff would be left with health etc., with bureaucracy, even arrogance; judiciary plays is role campaign a prop for them to lead little choice but to report to and judiciary casting ‘adverse effect on with ‘intervention at every turn’ them through the election battle. But attend their institution.However, in the perception of governance’. It leading to ‘Adverse court orders, it did not work; it did not help them the face of strong criticism has also been added that for good ending finally in acquittal’ of not just get over the 2004 Lok Sabha nationwide and inside the parliament, governance reform is needed, small fries in crime, but even the election hurdle. Now once again in the government tried to save face among others, with missionary zeal, leading monopolists blatantly charged the power in 2014, the BJP-led stating the reports were “ false and ‘totally absent in about 80% of the for corruption and fraud. Even the union government with RSS in the baseless”, the programmes were “ administrative, police, and other watchdog of democracy, the plush wings, this time more openly, has voluntary” as well as “online” and institutions. On the contrary, in the high-tech fourth estate is now jumped on a new campaign of “good the institutions, that is schools, name of development, ‘reforms’ are running on paid news. With all these governance”. It has been their main colleges, universities and union being hijacked by industry, that ornaments of the capitalist system, poll plank in the recent Jammu and government offices would remain includes the giant multinationals’. the ‘reforms’ are hijacked by the Kashmir assembly elections, closed to observe Christmas holiday The columnists are also concerned power-that-be, the privileged, the attesting to the fact that the slogan on 25 December. The facts show in the absence of effective action to ruling class and their subservient is a vote-catching device. that the move was not just prevent communal riots on the part elements. As evident from the Nevertheless, as the next step, duplictous, it was all pervading. of the governments. But what is columns of the conscientious section they have chosen to broaden its Now what is this kind of remarkably lacking in these columns of media, all these are known to scope. The Union government governance being offered? It needs is the plain and simple fact: why, them. Only what is missing is the planned and decided to observe the no mention how significant and dear despite all tall talks and all pious admission that if this be the situation, last Christmas day, 25 December as the Christmas Day is to the wishes, good governance remains a any pledge for ‘good governance’ is the “Good Governance Day” on the Christians. But apart from that is mirage even after sixty years of sure to meet with either of the two occasion of the birthday of Atal Christmas Day really just a independence? Why it is becoming ends: one, proving itself a hoax, or Behari Vajpayee, the first BJP Christian holiday? Jesus Christ is necessary today to call for it? The two falling flat in front of this mighty prime minister and Madan Mohan not only the founder of Christianity; reality is we live in a capitalist system until and unless it is backed Malaviya, a nationalist leader of the he was the icon of struggle of the system which is an inalienable part by genuine people’s power that early days of independence slaves against the oppressive slave of the world capitalist system itself. recognizes the task of overthrowing movement. masters and tyrant kings. To that Capitalism, the world over has the capitalist system that breeds There are two significant parts extent he was a history maker. So turned into a moribund system these maladies. associated with the issue: what kind the proposal of observing the bogged in insurmountable all-out The BJP sponsored ‘good of good governance is being offered Christmas Day as a “Good crisis, economic- political-social- governance’ drive has shown itself and what is its kind that the GovernanceDay” and the birthday cultural. This is reflected every day, off as a mere ploy for alluring a prevailing system permits at the end. of some leaders not only offends, every moment in every capitalist- majority community vote bank and First the offer. It was if not hurts a community, it refuses imperialist country of the world, not has already proved itself as an unmistakably shrouded with dubious to accept the historical role of Christ excluding India. Hence economy attempt to vertically split communal dealings from the government. On acclaimed by the world. Is this a suffers from acute market crisis and harmony denying history and one side, the prime minister apprised mark of good governance in a concomitant industrial stagnation; humanity. It is sure to prove itself a his party MPs that “Atalji’s birthday secular country? Or, is it a step and politics suffers from frantic dangerous hoax. There is nothing is a day of pride for us. The towards which the rabid effort to keep the system running otherwise in it. People must beware recognition of BJP is with good Hindutvavadi leaders would like the and arising from it arrogant power- of it. (Source : Times of India and governance.” The HRD ministry country to push, where the slogan hunger without any concern for dated17-12-14, issued a high –power circular on 9 would be “ We are all Hindus” , humanity and values and sustaining Times of India dated 24-12-14 December asking over a thousand anybody else “must either adopt the on false promises, fraudulence, December) KendriyaVidyalayas to “ensure Hindu culture and language, must active participation” of their learn to respect and hold in students in different ‘innovative reverence Hindu religion, must Saffron Brigade’s heinous crime programmes’ and to submit a entertain no idea but those of the detailed compliance report. The glorification of race and of forced conversion circular was virtually the same as culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and Contd from page 3 the BJP leadership for public the one by the Navodaya Vidyalaya must lose their separate existence to their Hindutva agenda of fanning consumption brings any legislation to Samiti (NVS) sent to Navodaya merge in the Hindu race, or may religious fanaticism, spewing hatred declare forced conversion illegal, it Vidyalayas on 10 December. Even stay in the country, wholly against the religious minorities, would not come a cropper to the central universities had been asked subordinated to the Hindu Nation, persecuting the minorities in various Sangh Parivar who would by the HRD ministry (12 claiming nothing, deserving no ways, engineering communal immediately claim that there is no December) to observe “Good privileges, far less any preferential strifesand riots, raising slogan of forced conversion but only Governance Day” on Christmas treatment - not even citizen’s Hindu Rashtra, polarizing people ‘gharwapsi’. The wicked is never Day by holding seminars etc., and to rights”? along religious line to create Hindu starved of subterfuges! This nasty submit “compliance report” to the Now the second question: What vote bank and thus precipitating and conspiracy has to be foiled. It is minister by 29 December. Then is the kind of good governance that perpetuating divide among the toiling incumbent on all secular, again, though the union government the prevailing system permits at the masses so as to scuttle possibility of democratic-minded conscious people denied any plan to ask its staff to end? a united conscious rise of the to rise in protest and resist such a mandatorily report to work on 25 The columnists of the print masses against gruelling capitalist dastardly attack on mankind and December, a gazetted holiday, and media are coming out with their pen oppression. This strategy is now civilization. Thinking people must the parliamentary affairs minister on the issue. At least some of them going full throttle and as a part of come forward, close their ranks, assured people to freely celebrate have rightly struck some important that, the programme of forced unleash a fierce ideological 25 December in “whatever manner relevant points. Thus a note of conversion of the non-Hindus to campaign against the sinister they like”, all ministries and caution is issued that good Hinduism has been rolled out by the doctrine of Hindutva, fight all sorts departments were ‘expected’ to governance cannot be achieved with arch communal saffron brigade. The of distortions and trashes dished out organize functions to mark AB a ‘crime-tainted polity in Parliament, so called opposition of the BJP by the Hindutva protagonists and Vajpayee’s birthday as ‘good state assemblies and Council of leadership to conversion is a big thereby foil the heinous conspiracy Governance Day’. In all cases, it Ministers etc’, or with corruption hoax and only aimed to play to the to obfuscate truth and throw a meant that the school or university/ and wrongdoing prevailing gallery and befool people. Even if spanner in people’s unity. PAGE SIX JANUARY 15, 2015 PROLETARIAN ERA US imperialists are the creators and abettors of global terrorism Contd. from page 2 growing in their natural course; with knowledge of the US rulers and (ISIS), the Islamic fundamentalist changed. In a normal population this a weak central government, the worked on funds from Saudi Arabia militant group that has seized a is 1,050 boys born to 1,000 girls, but countryside was left at the mercy of and USA, maintaining close ties chunk of land stretching from for those born from 2005 to date cruel, arrogant warlords. Taking with the CIA. In fact, the US rulers northern Syria to central Iraq by there was an 18 per cent drop in advantage of this wretched condition and the CIA used such a dangerous launching an armed warfare and has male births, so the ratio was 850 as a fertile ground, the already force, over and above the appeared as one of the most males to 1,000 females. The sex- existing religious fundamentalists Mujahedeens and other dreaded terrorist groups holding ratio is an indicator of genetic raised their head and took the rein fundamentalist forces, shamelessly humanity to ransom was formed out damage that affects boys more than of the affairs. Towards the end of to whip up their anti- Soviet of the al-Qaeda affiliate. All these girls. A similar change in the sex- the seventies the Mujahedeen, an campaign in Afghanistan. terror outfits have their parentage in ratio was discovered after alliance of Islamic fundamentalist By 1989, when the adventurist US imperialism which itself, as Hiroshima. US forces later admitted groups was born with overt and move of the revisionist leadership of shown above, has been on a spree that they had employed white covert support of the CIA and the the Soviet Union leading to the act of terrorizing the world and bullying phosphorus and depleted uranium as US imperialists. Finally, as admitted of military intervention failed everyone to submission flaunting its well as other munitions. Thus toxic in the CIA’s own documents, secret miserably, they were compelled to brute military might. legacy of US assault on Fallujah is US aid to the opponents of the pro- withdraw their forces. Government stated to be ‘worse than Hiroshima’. Soviet regime in Kabul was initiated was formed with the support of the Why then this invitation to US in 1979. The next ten years saw Mujahedeens. But the situation did President? US imperialism—precipitator of rebellious warlords harnessing not change. Terrible power struggle Barack Obama, the US global terrorism Afghan people into a cruel anti- among the warlords leading to an President, like all his predecessors in To justify meddling into the Soviet war and gruesome mutual almost 3-year long artillery and recent times, is the political face of internal affairs of other countries on tribal strife. In this troubled water rocket assault on Kabul reduced the US imperialism, perpetrator of this or that plea, gun boat diplomacy ghastly crimes and violence, wanton and armed intervention of and drone killer, flagrant violator of human attacks on foreign lands, the US rights, raider on others’ freedom, imperialists often talk of containing forerunner in marauding and pillage menacing rise of terrorism. But who and shameless undertaker of all other than the US imperialists are kinds of dastardly acts which hold the creators and abettors of global the mankind into ransom. Making terrorism? Where did terror outfits him a guest of honour is akin to hold like Mujahedeen, Al Qaeda and gravest of crimes in high esteem. Talibanis originate from? Let us But why then the Modi government trace back history a bit. is so keen to have a tryst with the After the British imperialists had figurehead of such an enemy of withdrawn from the Indian mankind? To seek an answer, one subcontinent in 1947 and India and needs to understand the hidden Pakistan were born in their present agenda. As Obama represents US shapes, it was a new beginning for imperialists, Modi also represents Afghanistan too, albeit not without the ruling Indian monopolists who problems. Afghanistan sought aid have already acquired imperialist from the USA to modernize its character through widespread army; the US refused. It then turned Holocaust of Hiroshima export of finance capital and towards the Soviet Union. To begin seeking to expand their sphere of with the relation with the Soviet created largely by them, the CIA city virtually to rubbles, killed influence in the relatively weaker Union was cordial, and even during and the US imperialists kept on thousands of Afghans, drove countries of Asia, Africa and Latin the late fifties and early sixties, it instigating the mutually warring hundreds of thousands into squalid America. Overseas direct helped the growth of democratic rebellious warlords as well as the refugee camps, created political investments by Indian corporates forces in Afghanistan as a result of different factions of the chaos, and blocked millions of exiles more than doubled to US$ 5.23 which certain democratic reforms Mujahedeen liberally providing from returning. The rest of the billion in March 2014 as compared to were attempted for the first time in them with arms, money and country disintegrated into isolated US$ 2.16 billion in March 2013, that land. But subsequently soon satellite reconnaissance and fiefdoms dominated by local according to data released by the after the revisionist leadership had intelligence data and even arranging despotic warlords. In this pathetic Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The usurped power in the Soviet Union, for recruitment from among the murky situation there emerged the figure ought to have increased in the they started to develop hegemonic Afghan refugees and their military Taliban militia in 1994, once more last eight months. The Indian attitude and their activities and training often with the help of with the blessings, patronage and monopolists have been for long measures based on such an attitude Pakistan. support of the US imperialists as cherishing the dream of being generated anti-Soviet sentiment in Along with that, in 1988 there well as of the Pakistani rulers. The recognized as a formidable global the Afghan people.That, in turn, was created the Al Qaeda, another Talibans recruited thousands of power almost on a par with other made room for the US imperialists conglomerate of rabid Islamic young Afghan men, refugees and imperialist superpowers. This, the to sneak into the Afghan issue, fundamentalists. Spread in different orphans from the war, who had ruling Indian monopolists know, can through the notorious CIA countries and led by Osama bin never seen their country at peace best materialize if they could conspiracies and virulent campaign Laden, a non-Afghan mujahedeen, and had themselves been rootless, befriend US imperialists more against the Soviet domination in this fanatic Muslim fundamentalist jobless, economically deprived and closely by strengthening economic, particular, and socialism in general. force was based on utterly hence restless and aimlessly political and military tie-ups with Economically, politically and socially reactionary, obscurantist ideas and desperate. In absence of any left them. On the other hand, the US the country was thrown into tatters: thoughts; in the name of religion, it and democratic force, these imperialists also need to have a people were misled; democratic trounced all kinds of progressive Talibans gained rapidly and finally strong ally in Asia to serve its processes were disrupted from thoughts and annihilated any with the aid of the Pakistani army imperialist interest and contain China taking root; democratic forces were opposition to its views. Laden captured Kabul in 1996. Even the to the extent possible, particularly in thwarted from emerging and founded this organization in full Islamic State in Iraq and Syria Contd. on page 7 PROLETARIAN ERA JANUARY 15, 2015 PAGE SEVEN Coinciding economic and political interests of ruling capitalist classes of India and US making them closer Contd. from page 6 It may be mentioned in this other member countries of the Australia are also looked down upon a scenario where they have fast lost connection that after attaining NAM. After sad dismantling of the as servile order- takers of the most credibility and acceptability among political freedom, the ruling Indian world socialist camp because of despotic inhuman oppressive regime the weaker countries as a civilized capitalist class in its drive to foster revisionist conspiracy aided and of the world. The way the Indian country that may be befriended. So speediest industrial development and abetted by the imperialist powers, monopolists are pursuing steps to is the need to have India as an ally. develop India as a powerful the contradiction between the make India a pliant state of US In fact, US imperialists are trying to capitalist country simultaneously imperialist camp and socialist camp imperialism completely disregarding build up an axis with India, Japan engaged itself in bargaining with ceased to exist. So, also became the glorious anti-imperialist tradition and Australia in Asia-pacific through both socialist and imperialist- inoperative the two-fold of the Indian people, the tradition of strengthening of diplomatic, capitalist camps to buttress its contradiction of the resurgent expressing solidarity with the commercial and military immediate class necessity. Exploiting national bourgeois states liberation struggle in colonies and cooperation. There is another fully the advantage of the division of simultaneously with both the semi-colonies and maligning the important aspect. Of late, there is the world into two diametrically imperialist and socialist countries. venerated freedom fighters like growing resentment among the opposite systems, capitalist and So, NAM became virtually defunct. Subhaschandra, Bhagat Singh, people of entire West Asia against socialist, the ruling Indian Moreover, in the changed unipolar Asfaqullah, Surya Sen, Pritilata and sustained presence of US military in monopolists were playing between world, US imperialism has been on others, points at the same fate only— various countries, increased hostility the two, alternating tilt between the the rampage. On the other hand, the plunging into the dungeon of disgrace by the Pentagon rulers in the region. two camps with the sole object of ruling Indian monopolists in order to and dishonour. Yet, as per the order Often this resentment is bursting developing their capitalist economy further their aspiration to emerge as of the ruling Indian monopolists, forth in the form of protest as fast as possible in the given an Asian superpower have been Modi, their most faithful servant, is agitations. Suppressing this growing international situation. In order to feeling greater necessity to tie knots set to greet Obama with all humility. people’s resentment by flexing extract mileage from both the camps with US imperialism. The Let there not be an iota of doubt that military arm is proving difficult, if not and at the same time with an eye to coincidence of economic and the very move to build up closer ties counter-productive on occasions. capture the markets of resurgent political interests, mutual bartering of with US imperialism is totally inimical Moreover, within US also, there is capitalist countries particularly in the the interests of the ruling capitalist to the interest of the toiling oppressed mounting discontent among people Southeast Asia and Middle East, the classes of the two countries and a Indian people who cherish a glorious against this prolonged escalated ruling Indian monopolists then convergence of political interests are past of great anti-imperialist military initiatives and war in the maintained a show of neutrality, thus amply clear. The root of India’s movement. It has become imperative Middle East. Under pressure of pretended befriending with the pro-US tilt lies in this vested class a task on the part of the anti-war people’s protest, US imperialists are socialist camp, played on the interest of the ruling Indian peace loving democratic-minded also forced to withdraw military genuine anti-imperialist sentiment of monopolists. people to thwart this tilt of India from certain countries. However, the Indian people, acted as For all the criminal acts referred towards Pentagon rule, by adopting they from their vested imperial champion of peace and strove to to above, the US imperialists are all possible initiatives and releasing a interest cannot afford to loosen form a bloc of the nascent capitalist most hated today and facing more powerful anti-imperialist, particularly their grip over oil-rich West Asia. countries known as Non Aligned and more isolation in the field of anti-US imperialist movement So, they are cozying up to the Indian movement (NAM) under its international politics. The rulers of round the country. Raised be the ruling monopolists so that through leadership. But, because of the the countries which had in the past slogan in high pitch—‘Go back India which has some influence in growing imperialist trends in its aligned with the US imperialists like Obama’,’ Down with US the region, they could have their im- economy, India’s anti-imperialist Israel, Pakistan, Taiwan, Philippines, imperialism, the worst enemy of perial interest served and protected. stance was weaker than that of Thailand, Turkey and even UK and mankind today’.

On 9 January AIDYO organised a state level rally of thousands of students from 30 districts of Karnataka. demanding mid -day meals, increase in stipend and withdrawal of Semester system. The AIDSO Foundation Day was celebrated in Delhi on 9 January at Gandhi Peace Foundation Hall AIDSO Foundation Day observed as Vidyarthi Sabha with similar 60th anniversary of AIDSO Foundation Day programmes at the premises of the Shantiniketan was celebrated at different corners of the School, Rajiv Nagar, Hingna Road, Nagpur. country. Below are a few of the reports. In Tripura the Day was celebrated at the Vidyasagar High School, Agartala through different programmes like hoisting of flag the organization, placing of floral tributes at the martyrs’ column by the state and district leaders of AIDSO and student representatives of different schools, colleges and inversities, observation of silence in memory of the victims In Saraikel-Kharsawan district of Jharkhand at of terror attack in Peshwar of Pakistan and Kuluptanga, a seven-year old adivasi girl child was Kokrajhar of Assam, and later a meeting On 23 December AIDSO Telangana Andhra kidnapped on 20 December 2014 and murdered. addressed by the leaders and followed by cultural Peadesh state council held a massive sit-in at Local people lead by the AIMSS organized gherao programmes. Hyderabad on immediate release of stipends, of local thana, a candle march, and observation of At Nagpur, Maharashtra the Day was against abolition of pass-fail system in school etc. silence, forcing administration to act. RNI No. 13932/67 P. R. No. KOL / RMS / /145 / 2013-2015 SUCI (C) disapproves Supreme Court Chief Justice’s praising of Modi Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the following statement on 12-01-2015: It is most disquieting to find the Chief Justice of Supreme Court showering praise on Prime Minister Modi during an interaction with journalists describing him “a good leader, a good human being and a man with foresight”. This very certification militates against the very spirit of democracy in which the Judiciary is supposed to maintain its autonomy and neutrality and remain non-committal about not only any executive but any person in public. Any violation of this is tantamount to overstepping the barrier of the concept of ‘Separation of Power’, the bourgeois democracy rests on. We totally disapprove such an unprecedented and irresponsible In Moscow in the recently held plenary session of statement of the Hon’ble Chief Justice of the country as this is going to Communists of Russia (a communist party of Russian Federation), generate confusion among people and smack of bias on the part of the their Chairman Comrade Suraikin showing the book 'GREAT Judiciary. STALIN And a reply to the anti-communist smear campaign' by Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary SUCI(C), to the Joint Rally against Kokrajhar Mass Killing delegates of the session. A joint rally was taken out on 30 December, at Shilchar, Assam, by the left parties to protest against the Kokrajhar mass killing. The sudden shooting unleashed by NDFB(S) on last 23 December at Shonitpur and Kokrajhar had taken a toll of more than 80, rendering more than a lakh Make SUCI(C) Candidates Victorious homeless and compelled to take refuge in camps. Condemning this barbaric incident SUCI(C) Assam State Secretary in Delhi Assembly Election Comrade Chitralekha Das severely criticised the incident as well as the Constituency Candidate inaction of both the central and state governments to ensure safety and security of people despite their having earlier information about impending terror attack. Comrade Das demanded that such atrocities be immediately 1. Burari Comrade Meera Chaurasia stopped, all necessary steps be taken to ensure safety of people’s life and property, compensation be given to the next of kin of the deceased and 2. Sadar Bazar Comrade Ritu Kaushik necessary compensation and treatment to the injured. She also called upon every peace-loving democratic minded people to develop movement against 3. Badli Comrade Rakesh Kumar both the state and central governments to create pressure on them to act immediately and adequately. Obama Visit : Observe Protest Day on January 24 Six Left parties, the CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML)-Liberation, AIFB, by the CIA with the approval of the US government has recently SUCI(C) and RSP have issued the following statement on January 3, exposed the US as amongst the worst violator of human rights and 2015 : democracy in the world. THE Modi government and the BJP have unleashed the forces of The BJP government is pursuing a pro-US foreign policy which is Hindutva which threaten the secular and democratic values of the Indian contrary to an independent non-aligned foreign policy. This is being done republic. It is at such a juncture that the government has invited President in the interests of Indian and foreign monopoly capital. Obama of the United States of America to be the chief guest of the The Left parties strongly protest: Republic Day on January 26. 1. The decision to renew the India-US Defence Framework Agreement It is a supreme irony that the day which symbolizes India’s for another ten years. This is a pact which will yoke India to independence and sovereignty is being graced by the head of a country American military strategy in Asia. which has done the most to assault and destroy the sovereignty of many countries around the world. President Obama himself is responsible for 2. Seeking to pressurise India to change its foreign policy orientation vis the aggression in Libya and for the rerun of bombing and sending troops a vis Palestine, Israel and Iran to suit US interests. back to Iraq. The US is doing everything to destroy Syria as a national 3. The relentless pressures exercised by the Obama administration on entity. India to open up the financial sector to US capital, as a result of which The Left parties protest the visit of President Obama because: the Modi government has promulgated an ordinance to allow 49 percent FDI in the insurance sector. 1. The United States is targeting and destabilising governments and countries in West Asia by military interventions like in Iraq, Libya and 4. The strong pressure of the US to weaken the patents regime in India Syria. to benefit the US drug companies, so that they can sell drugs in India at high prices. 2. The United States is the patron and staunch supporter of Israel which occupies Palestinian land and Arab territories and subjects the 5. America’s pressures on India to give up its food security programme Palestinian people to colonial oppression. by undermining public procurement and the public distribution system. 3. The United States has shifted a substantial part of its naval and 6. US pressuring India to weaken laws that protect labour rights and military resources to Asia as part of the pivot of Asia and is creating environment, to benefit US corporations. new military bases and tensions in the Asia-Pacific region. 7. The Obama-Modi efforts to dilute the civil nuclear liability law to 4. The US intervention in Afghanistan and role in Pakistan have nurtured favour US nuclear companies. fundamentalist forces, the disastrous consequences of which serve as The Left parties call for a Protest Day against the visit of President a warning to India. Obama on January 24. 5. The US which wages wars in the name of defending democracy, is Halt US Aggression facing massive protests at home against racial murders by its police Stop Interference in India’s Domestic Matters force. Further the terrible record of torture and Islamophobic profiling Stop US-India Strategic Collaboration

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