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Insurance Worker Insurance Worker Insurance Worker JANUARY 2019 43 Insurance Worker 44 JANUARY 2019 VOLUME 62 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2019 Monthly Journal of All India Insurance Employees’ Association EDITOR: AMANULLA KHAN Insurance Worker THE NEW YEAR RINGS IN WITH NEW HOPES The year 2018 has passed into history and retreat. The inter-imperialist contradictions a new year has dawned. The New Year rings that had remained subdued for decades have in with new hopes. resurfaced again. The contradictions between Hopes of a better life for the vast majority imperialism and the developing and emerging of working and toiling people struggling economies too have sharpened. across the world for a decent existence; The crisis has sharpened social Hopes of a world free of war and of a world contradictions as well with the emergence of where communities would live in peace; the forces of right and fascism. The working Hopes of a world free of hatred and of class today is faced with twin challenge societies where people will respect and love of fighting neo-liberalism and the growing each other. strength of rightist and fascist forces. The These hopes representing the lofty ideals of world is witnessing unprecedented struggles humanity have to be turned into reality through of the working class against attacks on their sustained struggle against imperialism, wages, social security and all time high capitalism and religious fundamentalism. unemployment. France is experiencing The year that has passed into history massive upsurge. Such struggles are bound to has witnessed momentous developments. develop in other capitalist countries. The greed The unprecedented crisis of capitalism has to continuously expand profits by capitalism disturbed the relative peaceful relationship is creating ecological and environmental between the industrial countries. The trade disasters. Increasing numbers of people wars and protectionist policies being adopted and organisations have raised their voice by the capitalists countries more specifically demanding respect to the nature and desist the US imperialism clearly signals a breakdown from its unbridled exploitation. Capitalist of the Washington Consensus. Globalisation greed has staked the very future of Earth and driven by imperialist interests is clearly on the humanity itself. In This Issue YOU HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG, MüÉåiÉuÉÉsÉ MüÐ sÉÉPûÏ, ExÉÏ MüÉ xÉU MR. MINISTER UÉqÉcÉlSì vÉqÉÉï 14 Shreekant Mishra 6 DELHI and PARIS FUDGING GDP DATA A TALE OF TWO CITIES Santosh Kumar Mohapatra 9 Gopalkrishna Gandhi 17 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Insurance News-A M Khan – Prince Among Patriots Working Class Struggles-S.Sridhara Dhrubajyoti Ganguly 11 Economic Tid-bits-J.Suresh For Our Field Force-Arivukkadal No.8, OTC Road, Bengaluru-560002, Ph:080-48529910 Subscription e-mail: [email protected] Cover Design & Lay-out: Annual : Rs. 120 M.Ramu, Kriya Prakashana [email protected] Single Copy: Rs. 10 JANUARY 2019 1 The sectarian violence aided and abetted towards the end of the year is a powerful by imperialism in West Asia shows no sign statement against neo-liberalism and of abating. The desire to control the critical communalism. The economic distress and natural resources of the region by imperialism social atrocities have united people irrespective has cost millions of innocent lives. The of religion, language and region. This growing partisan support to Israel by US imperialism unity will also demonstrate in full measure in has emboldened this rogue nation to play the proposed two day nationwide strike by the Insurance Worker havoc with the lives and living of Palestinians working class on 8-9, January, 2019. with impunity in total disregard to the The insurance employees face massive international laws. The decision of US and challenges in the New Year. Despite brilliant its supporters to recognise Jerusalem as the business performance, the government is capital of Israel has made a two nation solution moving ahead to privatise the PSGI companies. to the conflict almost impossible. Terrorism The privatisation drive of the neo-liberal regime which is threatening the world is the creation will not spare LIC either. Therefore, there is of US imperialism and this imperial nation a greater need today to mobilise support in cannot be condoned for creating the monster defence of our industry to protect its public of terrorism. sector character. The government continues The Year 2018 has been a year of to delay and dither on the wage revision that unprecedented crisis and struggles in India. fell due on 1.8.2017. The massive progress The Indian economy is in a deep crisis. Despite and prosperity of the institutions and their claims of a fast growing economy, no new jobs paying capacity justifies the demand for a have been created. On the other hand the good wage revision. The pension option despite twin misadventures of demonetisation and strong recommendations from LIC and GIPSA hasty implementation of GST has cost millions is not being accepted by the government. of existing jobs in the unorganised sector. Recruitment which is necessary for the very The government’s claim of formalisation survival of LIC is continued to be delayed of economy in real sense is the transfer of due to inexplicable reasons. The government resources from the poor to the rich. This continues to deny functional autonomy to LIC is evident from the enormous inequalities and GIPSA. These are the issues on which and concentration of wealth. Today the top agitation has become inevitable. The New Year one percent of the Indians own 52% of the will witness massive unrest and struggles in national wealth. This is unprecedented. the insurance industry on these issues. This year also saw unprecedented attacks In 1962 in acknowledgement of the Lenin on all democratic institutions and on the Peace Prize, the great Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz Constitution itself. Today every democratic had said: institution is subverted. The ruling party “Human ingenuity, science and industry and its front organisations are spreading have made it possible to provide each one the politics of hate. The religious minorities of us everything we need to be comfortable are threatened. Those who express opinion provided these boundless treasures of different from the government and these front nature and production are not declared the organisations are labelled as anti-national. property of a greedy few but are used for the The patriotism of the citizens is measured in benefit of all of humanity… However, this terms of their submission to the philosophy is only possible if the foundations of human of hindutva. The crimes against dalits and society are based not on greed, exploitation women have increased manifold. There is and ownership but on justice, equality, a clear attempt to create an atmosphere of freedom and the welfare of everyone… I fear and insecurity amongst a large section of believe that humanity which has never population. been defeated by its enemies will, after However, there is growing resistance all, be successful; at long last, instead of to both the economic and social policies wars, hatred and cruelty, the foundation of the government. The country witnessed of humankind will rest on the message of unprecedented mobilisation of farmers, the great Persian poet Hafez Shiraz: ‘Every workers and other weaker sections of the foundation you see is faulty, except that of society against the policies of the government. Love, which is faultless”… The election results of the five State Assembly These brilliant words of Faiz are more 2 JANUARY 2019 relevant today than anytime earlier. They Let the New Year 2019 light the hopes of a inspire us to fight for justice, equality, freedomfuture; a future that belongs to the working, and welfare of everyone. This should be our toiling, dispossessed and disadvantaged of the resolution for the New Year 2019. We must world. Let us resolve to work towards such a resolve to fight the politics of hate by spreadingsociety. the message of love as beautifully said by Jigar Insurance Worker extends warm New Year Moradabadi: greetings to its readers, insurance employees ElÉMüÉ eÉÉå MüÉqÉ Wæû uÉÉå AWûsÉå-ÍxÉrÉÉxÉiÉ eÉÉlÉå and the entire global working class. 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