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Rs.Rs. 10/- Central Organ of CPI(ML) Volume 11 March 2010 Issue 3 English Monthly Mobilised Under All India Krantikari Adivasi Mahasabha (AIKAM), Adivasis to Organise 48 Hour Dharna at Delhi S the Approach Paper on Adivasi Question the bogey of ‘Maoism’ the adivasi areas are converted Aprepared by the CC of CPI(ML) clearly states: into killing fields of para-military and police forces “The adivasi or tribal people comprising more than 100 utilising many black laws and Salwa Judum like state millions along with the dalits are the most oppressed terror tactics. and exploited sections of the society”. At the global It is in this situation the CPI(ML) has decided to level from the colonial phase itself the mercantile organise All India Krantikari Adivasi Mahasabha with capitalism followed by the imperialist powers had red flag carrying the symbol of bugle and bunch of grain unleashed most barbarous attacks on the adivasis and aboriginals. In the neo-colonial phase these attacks at the centre. Immediate steps are taken to mobilise have become more and more heinous and pernicious. the adivasis at state level under the banner during the March to project the specific problems faced by them. If the forest policy pursued by consecutive governments in this country, the increasing With the fighting slogans: Jal, Jangal, Jameen displacement of adivasis in the name of numerous Hamara Hai, Stop Displacement of Adivasis, Kick-out projects, etc. especially under imperialist globalisation MNCs and Corporates, under the banner of AIKAM are examined it can be seen that this section of the thousands of adivasis shall march to Delhi and organise population is the worst affected by it. Atrocities on a 48 hour dharna on 21-22 April to put their demands adivasi women and adivasis as a whole are intensifying. before the people and the rulers. All progressive, The interference of religious fundamentalist forces and democratic forces are requested to make this struggle NGOs has only aggravated their problems. Now under of the adivasi people a great success. ● On Land-grabbing in Against SEZs Jharkhand Under the THE way in which the Indian state is selling its Recent SC Judgement sovereignty over vast swathes of land in the name of SEZ (Special Economic Zones) is shameful. The THE recent judgement of the Supreme Court, using situation of workers in India is, in any case, the technical legal devices of “res judicata” and deteriorating to sub-human conditions day by day. This limitation, has negated the protection given to tribals intolerable situation is rendered even more heinous in from alienation from their land, which has been given to the SEZs, where even basic democratic rights and them by the Chotta Nagpur Tenancy Act (CNT Act) and labour rights, recognised in the whole country and the the Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act (SPT Act). This has whole world are being flouted. India has the largest only opened the doors for the big bourgeoisie and number of notified SEZs in the world. The people are landlord classes, as well as for imperialist MNCs, to grab already conducting massive agitations against SEZs the land of the adivasis and to heighten their exploitation. as was seen in the states of Odisha, Maharashtra, W. Even social centres of villages like the one in village Bengal, UP, etc. Hochar are being acquired and handed over to the Parties like the CPI (M) are opposing the formation capitalists under this loophole, which has been created of SEZs in some states while enforcing their formation by the Supreme Court. with the threat of police guns in the states where they Bhopal All India Special Conference of the CPI(ML) are ruling. In this manner they are only fooling the resolves to oppose this judgement of the Supreme Court people. Bhopal All India Special Conference of the and further resolves to organise a massive CPI(ML) condemns the formation of SEZs and calls for demonstration of the adivasis from all over the country the scrapping of the SEZ Act, 2005 and the disbanding against this judgement in New Delhi. ● of all SEZs that have already been formed. ● 2 RED STAR Platform for Communist Revolutionaries v March 2010 Mobilise Masses for Contents ❖ President’s Speech: Militant Struggle Against Reactionary and Arrogance... 4 ❖ Resolution Adopted by Neo-Liberal Policies the CC of CPI(ML) 5 ❖ On Question of Telengana 6 CCORDING to all available indications and the repeated ❖ AP State Organising Committee Astatements of the finance minister, the central budget going to be presented of CPI(ML) formed 7 within a week shall be yet another onslaught on the vast maees of people who ❖ RYFI Conference Calls for are already suffering from ever-intensifying miserable conditions due to Second Independence Struggle unprecedented price rise, unemployment and under-employment and against Neo-colonial Slavery 8 commercialisation of all welfare and service sectors. The prime minister, who is ❖ All India Krantikari Kisan an IMF nominee, and the Congress-led UPA government under his are acting Sabha Formed 13 with a vengence to paupersie the masses and to devastate the country in order ❖ Formation of All India to fatten the elite classesa dn the imperialist masters. So they shall be ploting to Revolutionary Women’s use the central budget, pursuing neo-liberal policies at faster pace, in present Organisation 15 condition of intensifying crisis within the imperialist system, for aggravating ❖ Declare Solidarity with Ms. miserable living condition of the masses. Sharmila’s Indefinite Fast The economic agenda of US imperialism like its military agenda is very Against AFSPA 16 clear. By printing three trillion dollars worth currency notes, using it to bail out ❖ Time has Come for a New the very same banks and monopolies who caused the present imperialist crisis Awakening of the International and utilising the hegemony of dollar in the market, it is working hard to transfer Women’s Movement ! 17 the consequences of its crisis to India and other countries under neo- ❖ The Political Organisational colonisation. Besides it has taken decisive steps to stop outsourcing to India. Report 19 Meanwhile, the military tie ups under ‘strategic relationship’ with India are utilised ❖ Neo-Colonialism: The New to involve it more deeply in the Af-Pak imbroglio. At Copenhagen we have seen Order of Imperialist Control26 how the Manmohan Singh government was utilised to save the US from the ❖ Remembering Darwin 31 difficult situation it was facing. Thus while the vast masses are subjected to ❖ Film review: Avatar 32 pauperisation, along with this the neo-colonial slavery leading to acceleration ❖ Kerala: CPI (ML) Intensifies of US influence in various fields is also intensifying under the UAP government. Land Struggles 34 That the US administration and the MNCs are working according to a well ❖ On the Trade Union’s Call for drafted plan at global level to create a food crisis and inflation by reducing the Mass Protests on 5 March 35 food production in India like countries and bringing the agrarian sector under their control is known to the UPA government. Wide-spread discussions are Our Web Site : www.cpiml.in takeing place about it everywhere. Even then the MNCs are allowed to every aspect of agricultural production from seed production. Even after the pernicious effects of Bt Cotton cultivation including increasing peasants suicides, Bt Brinjal Edited, Printed, and other genetically modified seeds are finding advocates among central and Published & Owned by state leaders. Contract, Corporate, MNC farming is being spread to more areas. Millions of acres of agricultural land is taken away in the name of real estate and K.N. Ramachandran various developmental projects. Thus the UPA government is collaborating R-8, Prathap Market witht he imperialists and MNCs to devastate the agricultural sector, further Jangpura-B, intensifying the price rise. New Delhi - 110014 These treasonable policies of the UPA government are known to the ruling Phone : (011) 24370233 class parties in the opposition and the social democrats leading governments in Kerala, W. Bengal and Tripura. But non of them are coming forward to demand [email protected] the reversal of these policies. Even when they stage token protests against price rise, they limit these to mishandling by the UPA government. This is because Printed at Param Offestters, all of them are collaborating with the imperialists, MNCs, Corporate houses and A-9 Okhla, Phase-I, New other reactionary forces who are creating price rise and inflation. All of them are, Delhi-20 thus, conspiring against the masses, hoodwinking them in various forms. Though the budget session may witness walk-outs and cancellation of sessions due to RED STAR Platform for Communist Revolutionaries v March 2010 3 the dramas going to be staged by all Any change in this situation can happen only if the people are aroused and those in opposition and even by some mobilised to come to the streets to challenge the reactionary policies of the parties like DMK and Trinamul, which central and state governments. The masses should be inspired to wage struggles are part of the UPA governement, they like storming the godowns, storages of Corporates and MNCs, etc. and will not dare to bring down the distributing the food grains to the people. Only by doing so the government can governement voting unitedly against be compelled to change its policies. Let the revolutionary left forces concentrate it. their efforts for developing these militant struggles. ● President’s Speech: Reactionary and Arrogance Par-excellence HE UPA government has 2009. During last six years the UPA government has hiked prices of petroleum Tinsulted the country and the products’ 10 times in the name of hike in intenational prices. But still petrol and people through the Presindent’s diesel prices can be sold at half the prices if the central taxes on it are cut.