Volume 47 No. 23 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST) July 15, 2014 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 3.00 Red Salute SUCI(C) denounces Union Budget 2014 Frederick Engels as Corporatization of Indian Economy, exhorts the countrymen to reject it Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, spiral, weeding out the middlemen and ensuring SUICI(C), has issued the following statement on minimum price to the poor peasants—some of the the Union Budget 2014 on 10 July 2014 : pressing issues concerning common masses. It has Studded with surfeit of promises, routine also not stated specifically that the benefits of the allocations and stunts, the budget presented by announced tax and duty cuts should mandatorily Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley is a document be passed on to the end consumers and not of corporatization of Indian economy with liberal ‘absorbed’ by the manufacturers. The very entry of FDI in key sectors, allowing private capital announcement of setting up an Expenditure in many areas through PPP route, plethora of cuts Management Commission to look at expenditure in sales tax and customs duty to the manufacturers reforms, we apprehend, is a device to decide and and “revival” of Special Economic Zones (SEZs). implement subsidy cut and such other anti-people Privatization spree has been so large an extent that fiscal measures outside Parliament on the lines of 5 December 1820 — 5 August 1895 the Finance Minister himself has stated that “India the much condemned Railway Tariff Authority ‘‘It is the essence of bourgeois has emerged as the largest PPP market in the vested with the power of revising the fares and socialism to want to maintain the basis world.” By allowing 49% FDI in a crucial sector surcharges of its own. of all the evils of present-day society like defence, the very security of the country has So, in the budget, there is no ‘directional step’ and at the same time to want to abolish been compromised. Raising the FDI cap in the as claimed by the Finance minister, for the the evils themselves. equity holding of insurance sector to 49 per cent common people. All the proposals are in the ...Whoever declares that the via disinvestment route is actually a policy reversal interest of the corporate sector and industrial capitalist mode of production, the ‘iron since in order to remove the vulnerability of the house euphemized as ‘investors’. We are of the laws’ of present-day bourgeois society, Indian insurers at the hands of the private firm opinion that this so -called pro-reform budget are inviolable, and yet at the same time operators, the LICI was once created by neither cure capitalist economy let alone it being would like to abolish their unpleasant nationalizing all private insurance companies. The brought back on the rails but would devastate the but necessary consequences, has no very announcement of raising PSU bank capital people further since splurge of FDI, feast of other recourse but to deliver moral through retail sale of shares is nothing but privatization, binge of capital market reforms to sermons to the capitalists, moral disinvestment of the nationalized banks which has boost speculation and gambling have landed sermons whose emotional effects long been resisted by the people of the country. country after country in the West in complete immediately evaporate under the The government’s decision to revive the SEZs, bankruptcy and collapsing of the giant financial influence of private interest and, if ugly underside of which is no more hidden from institutions. necessary, of competition. public cognition, indicates how the government is While the chambers of commerce, giant ...The gospel of harmony between keen to offer a bountiful waivers and concessions monopolists and their servitor economists- capital and labour has been preached for to the big capital, both domestic and foreign. As columnists might sing paeans for this budget of almost fifty years now, and bourgeois usual, the most unproductive military budget has BJP government, people of the country pressed philanthropy has expended large sums been hiked to as high as Rs 2.29 lakh crore from under the grinding wheel of ruthless capitalist of money to prove this harmony by Rs 2.03 lakh crore of last year. Indirect tax has economic oppression ought to reject it lock, building model institutions; yet, ... we been raised to Rs. 7525 crores which will be borne stock and barrel and compel the government are today exactly where we were fifty by the common people. The budget has remained under pressure of movement withdraw fiscal years ago.’’ conspicuously silent about employment generation, and economic measures inimical to people’s — ENGELS [The Housing Question] arresting harrowing price rise, containing inflation interest. “I can say without hesitation that Comrade Yakub Pailan was a successful creation of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh” — Comrade Provash Ghosh at Jaynagar Memorial Meeting (This is the English translation of the speech delivered in Bengali by Today is the first day when I can teachings of Comrade Shibdas Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), at the memorial see him no more. I cannot make you Ghosh. You all are grief-stricken. meeting of Comrade Yakub Pailan, veteran member, Central Committee understand how immensely painful it The weather has been inclement for and Secretary, South 24 Parganas district, SUCI(C), held at Jaynagar is. You all know that our Party is a quite some days. Yet, you have on 22 June, 2014. The responsibility of translation error as well as big family. It is not an organization gathered here in thousands from far inadequate representation, if any, solely lies with the Editorial Board for merely producing some MLAs, remote areas. Today thousands are of Proletarian Era.) MPs and ministers. This is a shedding tears for a person whose Comrade President and comrades, me. (Voice choked with emotion) I revolutionary Party. In our Party, name did not find place in the I have been requested to say have been regularly coming to this there is a deep affectionate newspapers or the TV. People do something in this memorial meeting. district since 1951. Every time I met relationship among the leaders- not shed tears so profusely for those But this indeed is very difficult for him, I had discussions with him. cadres based on the revolutionary Contd. on page 2 PAGE TWO JULY 15, 2014 PROLETARIAN ERA Comrade Provash Ghosh’s speech Comrade Pailan quietly struggled to develop himself as a true revolutionary Contd. from page 1 compatriot of Comrade Prativa the philosophy of Marxism-Leninism who get wide publicity in the media. Mukherjee. Comrade Jiad Ali Bakshi is the creed of the oppressed people. The tear that is wrenched from introduced Comrade Pailan to With this teaching before him, he within at the loss of someone very Comrade Sachin Banerjee in 1949. engaged himself in the struggle for close to the heart, a very close Everyone of Jaynagar town and the developing himself as a communist relative cannot be purchased with elderly people of South 24 Parganas based on Comrade Shibdas Ghosh money, does not come out so easily. district are acquainted with Comrade Thought. So great a personality, so endearing Sachin Banerjee’s name. Comrade In those days, there was no to all of us was Comrade Yakub Sachin Banerjee had met Comrade transport available in this district for Pailan. I heard from him that once Shibdas Ghosh, the great Marxist going from one village to another. he used to sell rice in the village thinker and leader, teacher and guide There was no bus, no van rickshaw. market, on the streets, to the shops of proletarian revolution in jail. In I still remember that in 1951, of Kolkata. He also worked as a those days, Comrade Sachin Comrades Sachin Banerjee, Subodh tailor. He came from a semi Banerjee was associated with the Banerjee, Yakub Pailan and many proletarian family. Totally unknown Jugantar group, a revolutionary others used to travel from one place and unheard of a person who was outfit. He set up a good number of to another on foot, on boats wading denied formal education. But how clubs in this town. By concretizing through thick mud, to organize the could he win the hearts of thousands Marxism-Leninism in the concrete poor peasants, share croppers and and thousands of people? What was situation of India, Comrade Shibdas agricultural workers, and imbue Comrade Provash Ghosh addressing at Jaynagar his strength? I am of the firm Ghosh had then released the most them with Comrade Shibdas Ghosh opinion that the question of properly arduous struggle for building up a Thought. At that time no one knew problem. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh understanding the worth of Comrade genuine revolutionary communist the Party, no one was aware of the said that Comrade Yakub Pailan was Yakub Pailan and paying due party on the soil. Comrade Sachin name of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. the best person to shoulder the respect to him is intimately linked Banerjee joined Comrade Shibdas To accept Comrade Shibdas Ghosh responsibility. Questions arose that with realizing proper answer to this Ghosh in that arduous struggle as a as the teacher during that period, Comrade Pailan though a dedicated question. close revolutionary compatriot. He dedicate the self in building up the soldier but did not have any formal Based on history and science, brought Comrade Shibdas Ghosh to Party forsaking everything else in education. Would he be able to Marxism teaches us that no one is this town. It was in this Jaynagar life, was a very significant and rare discharge such a responsibility? born a genius.