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West Bengal Observes Total Strike at the Call of SUCI Volume 40 No. 9 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA December 15, 2006 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00 Protesting against police brutality in Singur West Bengal observes total strike at the call of SUCI It was spontaneous and December to protest against one of CPI(M)-led West Bengal activists of other political parties overwhelming. The people of West the worst police savageries that government creating a smokescreen including the local Trinamool Bengal true to their glorious raved wild on the poor peasants and of industrialization — a hoax that Congress (TMC) MLA as well as tradition of standing up against any villagers in Singur, a fertile rural we exposed in a couple of articles in aggrieved workers of the ruling assault on humanity, injustice, belt in the agglomerate of Calcutta, the issues of Proletarian Era dated parties joined these committees. barbarism, despotism on 2nd of December. 15th September and 1st December, While the fighting villagers refusing wholeheartedly responded when our 2006—decided to acquire 1,000 all carrots of monetary party gave a call of 24-hour general Blood-curdled Singur acres of multi-crop agricultural land compensation and braving all threats strike in West Bengal on 5th It may be recalled that the in Singur by evicting the poor and intimidation by police and peasants, sharecroppers and ruling party goons tried all available agricultural labourers making a democratic means to make the living out of it and hand over to the government listen to their genuine Tatas who reportedly preferred this grievance and abandon the perilous particular plot for setting up a move to extinguish such rich fertile modern automobile plant. The land for namesake of affected villagers decided to resist industrialization, CPI(M) this forcible acquisition and our government’s has all through been party activists immediately took an attitude of autocratic arrogance upon themselves the imperative task and utter disdain towards the of organizing the peasant masses in legitimate voice of the toiling various people’s committees and people. So committed and volunteer brigades to unleash an subservient has been the ruling party united protracted struggle to foil the and its government to the class- conspiracy of the government. At interest of the Tatas, that it the initiative of our local party unit, ultimately decided to let its armed many such struggle committees police and hoodlums go berserk and B.B.D. Bag, the main office centre of Calcutta, on 5th during the office hours were formed. Sensing public mood, Contd. on page 2 Dangerous portent of US-connived arms build up of Germany and Japan Fast developing arms build up and arsenals. They cannot forget to seek for external market and in unique and threadbare Marxist and militarization in Germany and that they were the key factors that course of that vie with each other analysis, he had concluded, before Japan, have become a matter of ignited the pyre of humanity in the for domination over the global the world witnessed it in reality, that serious concern to the well-meaning two world wars, though one may market through grabbing of colonies imperialism was not only the people of the world. People’s wonder, what made them take such and semi-colonies. The more this highest stage of capitalism, it was memory is still alive with the moves that could have and actually crisis aggravated, the sharper and the most decadent and crisis-ridden horrors and devastations of the two proved to be self-annihilating. bitter became the competition and too. The acute market crisis, it world wars, more so the second As capitalism developed and conflict among the imperialist bogged into, lead it inevitably to world war, which were perpetrated consolidated in different major countries themselves, ultimately generate war for domination and by none other than these two capitalist countries, giving rise to leading to war for domination and power. Now, it was only a matter of capitalist-imperialist countries, with monopoly and then to imperialism power. It was their compulsion; it time to prove how precisely correct Italy as the third in their there, being based on exploitation of was their inevitable end. Lenin was in his analysis. The combination of the Axis power. labour power of their respective tremendous economic crisis and Thus peace-loving people can toiling masses leading to their more Imperialist war to avert crisis recession forced the imperialist hardly hold them back from and more impoverishment, it also only aggravated it countries to hold each other at their shuddering at the thoughts of these gave birth to increasing acute crisis Here we must recall the throats in the first world war. As two imperialist countries once again of internal market. This compelled invaluable thesis of Lenin, the great Germany was vanquished, the other teething themselves with lethal arms those capitalist- imperialist countries proletarian leader. Based on his Contd. on page 6 PAGE TWO DECEMBER 15, 2006 PROLETARIAN ERA Singur is fighting the battle for the whole country Contd. from page 1 were arrested and till now under city of Shantiniketan), even an SDO with fences for ‘smooth handing snatch the land shedding blood of custody. It was so horrifying a did not hesitate to take the ‘law’ in over to the Tatas’. The reporters the innocent peasants and poor spectacle and so ghastly an act that his hand and in full media glare who tried to force entry into the villagers. even the bourgeois media mercilessly beat one of our party ‘forbidden area’ were treated A massive contingent of armed particularly the electronic media activists. Yet, the ruling party and its equally brutally by the police. Many police personnel numbering over could not but cover the incident servitors could not scare the striking of them have been hospitalized. 16,000 alongwith several battalions branding it barbarism on the part of people from expressing their Obviously the question is raised that of RAF gathered at the spot on the the custodians of law and order. solidarity with the fighting Singur if everything is so hunky dory for fateful morning of 2nd December to Everyone burst into protest which peasants and hatred towards the the government, what is the protect ‘law and order’ of the Tatas found expression in his or her CPI(M) government by extending necessity of such swallowed that the state government wholehearted support to the strike full support to the strike call. suspense or secrecy? Why the apprehended would be violated by we called on 5th December. While congratulating the people people of the country are denied the ‘outlaws’ comprising rural poor for coming out so spontaneously in their democratic right to freely to go and have-nots under notice to Significant success of the making the strike a grand, Com. to Singur and see for themselves the relinquish their legitimate claim over Strike Provash Ghosh, State Secretary of actual state of affairs? Even Medha the piece of land they survive on and Despite the fact that the call was the party said: this aptly showed that Patkar, eminent social activist and perish in the abyss of despair and given barely at a day’s notice and the capitalist class and their leader of Narmada Bachao Andolan destitution. Backed by this armed there had been two strikes earlier in representatives – earlier the (Movement for saving Narmada) force, the government officials the immediate past, the strike was a Congress and now the CPI(M) was prevented from entering Singur proceeded to initiate the job of total success braving all threats, governments – have not succeeded after the gory parade on 2nd fencing the earmarked land. When intimidation and terror on the part of in completely destroying the December. She was physically the peasants including women the CPI(M) and its government as struggling heritage of the people of assaulted and taken into custody. protested, the police pounced upon well as incessant anti-bandh Bengal. The peoples’ conscience Smt. Patkar, who earlier visited the them in display of ravenous campaign in the bourgeois media. and humanity are still alive, the spot, took part in the mass audience monstrosity. Apart from severe There was no work in the high spirit of protest has not died down. conducted by the local peasants and lathicharge, the police also court. All district courts remained had a feel of the movement, was indiscriminately fired tear gas shells non-functioning. Offices, markets, Singur is now a forbidden effusive in appreciating the role of and rubber bullets causing grievous weekly wholesale garment market territory our party in organizing the struggle injuries to many including women shops, schools, and colleges were The situation of Singur is now and mentioned that in all her press and children. Uttering filthy closed. The ruling party compelled extremely tense. There is no trace of conferences, public meets and other language, the police torched every some of its followers to come to many who were arrested. The discussions. house in the village, dragged the office and sign the muster. But they relatives of those missing fear that people out and mercilessly beat did not work. There was enthusiastic they are dead. Apprehending torture Country burst in protest them. Women were not spared. They response in the industrial belts as and arrest, male members of many One to all including many were pulled by their hair, thrown on well. Compared to other days, the villagers are absconding. The eminent intellectuals, artists, the floor, kicked, punched and state government plied more number macabre tale of the feral ferocity of litterateurs, educationists, pounded with baton. Their clothes of trams and buses.
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