Workers Must Imbibe the Noble Ideology of Marxism-Leninism
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Volume 46 No. 13 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST) February 15, 2013 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00 20 All India Conference of AIUTUC SUCI(C) demands Workers must imbibe the noble ideology of withdrawal of the cosmetic ordinance and calls for a Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought comprehensive set of and lead the struggle for emancipation from measures following due democratic process to curb exploitation of man by man crime and sexual violence — Comrade Provash Ghosh against women (Speech delivered by Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), at the delegate Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, session of the 20th All India Conference of AIUTUC in Bangalore on 6 January, 2013) SUCI(C) issued the following statement on 2 Comrade President and Comrade Delegates, ruling bourgeoisie not only resorts to violence February, 2013 — First of all, let me, on behalf of the to suppress working class struggles but plays It is disquieting and despicable to find that the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), all kinds of tricks, indulges in all kinds of Congress-led UPA government in brazen the party of the Indian revolutionary deceptions to mislead the workers. These subversion of the barest precepts of democratic proletariat, express my revolutionary greetings representatives of the bourgeoisie wearing the norms has unilaterally decided to issue an to the fraternal foreign delegate comrades, to mask of labour leaders and under the ordinance claimed to be against sexual assault on the newly elected President, General Secretary, camouflage of serving working class interest women bypassing, as usual, the parliament and and executives of the All India United Trade faithfully serve the class interest of their leaving out most of the recommendations of the Union Centre and all the delegates present masters. The social democrats do it in a more Justice Verma Committee set up after the gruesome here. This is the concluding session and soon cunning way with leftist vocabularies and gang-rape and murder of a 23-year old the conference would come to an end. Marxist jargons. Now these agents tell the physiotherapist in Delhi in last December. It may Although this conference would be over, there workers: “This is not the time for agitation. If be recalled that many political parties, women’s organizations, eminent personalities and right- thinking people at large provided many valuable suggestions to the Verma Committee which accepted many of those. But the government without allowing any debate and discussion on the suggestions of the Committee and caring little to listen to the opinions of various quarters and democratic-minded people of the country hurried through a cosmetic ordinance particularly when the budget session of the parliament is slated to begin soon and also had taken care to see that most of the suggestions on bringing the law- implementation machinery under the purview of stringent legal provisions in case of any flaw, dereliction of duty or willful negligence are not Comrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C) addressing the Conference. Seated to his right covered nor does the question of sexual crimes by Comrade Krishna Chakraborty and to his left Comrade K. Radhakrishna and Comrade Sankar Saha members of the armed forces being tried under ought to be augury of a new phase of struggle. you go for it, you will be sacked. Better accept ordinary criminal law (i.e., a review of the Armed What message will this conference carry to the retrenchment of some workers. Otherwise all Forces Special Powers Act), finds a place in it. The exploited people of our country? Trade Union will be retrenched. Do not go for strike. If you unusual haste and complete absence of conferences are not rare in our country. But go, then the factories will be closed down etc. transparency shown by the government in conference of this type is indeed rare. There Better go for labour tribunal.” It is not promulgating the ordinance only shows that the are trade unions of the bourgeois parties, also accidental that most of these leaders are known government is not at all keen to stop escalation of of the social-democratic parties. They also hold as ‘Dalals’ (agents of the owners) to the crime, violence and sexual assault on women and their conferences. But those conferences are workers. Sometimes agitated workers batter instead is in pursuit of an ulterior motive to give merely ritualistic and ceremonial in nature, these so called leaders to teach them a good such a serious issue a decent burial under the simply reduced to grand feasts, picnic parties, lesson. But the revolutionary fighters organized camouflage of swift changes in penal laws. with much pomp and grandeur. They spend under the banner of All India United Trade We demand immediate withdrawal of this crores of rupees on their conferences. Who Union Centre and imbued with the teachings of ordinance and call upon the protesting people of finance them? Definitely not the working class. great Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong the country to close up their ranks and unitedly Why do the industrial houses, big business and Shibdas Ghosh are engaged in a serious raise voice to compel the government to follow due fund these so called Trade Unions? Because devoted struggle to educate, organize and rouse democratic process to introduce a comprehensive they are the trusted representatives of the the working class in different parts of our set of measures including necessary amendment of bourgeoisie; in Lenin’s language, chieftains to country. For them, conference is a very serious law with necessary check and balance as per mislead and disrupt the working class programme. While conducting working class Justice Verma Committee recommendations to movement. In the countries where bourgeois struggles in various places, in diverse prevent the rising crimes against women and democracy is functional for a long period, the Contd. on page 2 protect their honour and dignity. PAGE TWO FEBRUARY 15, 2013 PROLETARIAN ERA Comrade Provash Ghosh in AIUTUC Conference Unemployment, retrenchment, price rise, wage cut, wage freeze are endowments of crisis-ridden moribund capitalism Contd. from page 1 temporary as they are unable to find violate agreements and labour laws. the escalating all-out attacks on situations, they gather various types any permanent solution. The Even to form a union has become their life and livelihood that they of experiences, encounter many capitalist economy is facing an difficult. Yes, the agents of the spontaneously exploded in protest. types of difficulties. On the insoluble market crisis. Its market is bourgeoisie can form unions. But if Already the bourgeois media is occasion of conferences like this, shrinking and would continue to there is any attempt to form any worried and commenting that this they assemble together, exchange shrink. Because, market means union to serve the interest of the resentment is against the their experiences, learn from each purchasing power of the people and working class, organizers are government, the system, the other and chalk out a plan of action the poverty-stricken unemployed harassed and even sacked. This is structure of parliamentary not merely to keep in paper but for multitude of people is virtually the present situation and at this hour democracy, the judiciary and the implementation in course of their having no purchasing power. The you cannot resist this onslaught, existing law and order machinery. day to day struggle. At this critical ruling capitalists are only eying cannot achieve a single demand So, the media is advising the hour of our country, the maximization of profit. without a well-organized sustained government to settle the matter at revolutionary message of this Maximization of profit means militant movement. And who can the earliest and ensure that the conference must reach the working maximization of exploitation. develop such a movement? Only a movement subsides immediately. class and the exploited toiling Maximization of exploitation is trade union equipped with Sparks of movement are visible all people round the country. I am sure generating spiralling Marxism-Leninism-Comrade Ghosh around. that as students of Marxism- unemployment, triggering massive Thought, the most revolutionary Leninism-Comrade Shibdas Ghosh retrenchment. So, the purchasing thought of the era. We need to How to lead working class Thought, you will be discharging power is falling rapidly and market understand this. This is one side of struggles to logical this responsibility in right earnest. is getting squeezed. This is the the picture. culmination market crisis faced by the capitalist There is another side of the Who can give an organized Insoluble crisis of capitalism class today. Almost all the picture. There is a spurt of people’s shape to these spontaneous Comrades, it is known to you all capitalist-imperialist countries are movements round the imperialist- movements? Only a leadership what severe economic, political, suffering from the problem of capitalist world. Even in America, armed with Marxism-Leninism- social, cultural and ethical problems sovereign debt. According to latest we find a tremendous surge of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Thought we are facing today, not only in our available figure, the sovereign debt movement which has become can do that. As great Marx and country but in other capitalist- of USA has climbed to 16 trillion famous as ‘Occupy Wall Street Engels had once pointed out, imperialist countries as well. In fact, dollars. India is also faced with movement’. There was no capitalism produced its own grave- at the beginning of the last century huge unprecedented fiscal and leadership, no prior well organized diggers. Who are those grave before the First World War, current account deficits. So, all the preparation. Spontaneously the diggers? Definitely, it is the working Comrade Lenin, the great leader of bourgeois states are maintaining movement burst forth and lasted for class.