Volume 52 No. 13 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST) 10 Pages February 15, 2019 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00 Red Salute Comrade C K Lukose PAGE TWO FEBRUARY 15, 2019 PROLETARIAN ERA RED SALUTE COMRADE C K LUKOSE Comrade C K Lukose, Kerala when he was an developing collec-tivism in the in the history of people’s movement Member of the Polit Bureau and engineering student at Kollam in the Party, transforming it into a well- in Kerala. Eminent personalities like former Kerala State secretary of late 1960’s. Since then he was in built organization. By conducting Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer came SUCI (Communist) breathed his last the forefront of the struggle to countless discussions on forward to lead ‘Janakeeya on 13 February 2019 at the Medical organize our Party in Kerala, fundamentals of Marxism- Prathirodha Samithi’ which organized College Hospital, Thiruvanantha- happily taking up the arduous Leninism-Comrade Shibdas Ghosh many victorious movements. This puram following a sudden cardiac struggle. He played a crucial role in Thought, he developed ideological movement contributed significantly to arrest. He was 71. He was under the struggle to face the difficult standard of the comrades by the growth of the Party. prolonged treatment for Parkinson’s situation created due to the providing them a strong Comrade Lukose inspired disease. untimely death of Comrade V. philosophical foundation. Carefully children to take up struggle to Comrade Lukose came Natarajan who was a prominent guiding the struggle of hundreds of acquire higher values and culture in forward to build SUCI (C) in organizer of the Party in its Party comrades in their personal life. With this aim, he initiated and formative years in life in the light of Marxism- nurtured state level children’s Kerala. Comrade Leninism Comrade Shibdas Ghosh camps. Today, after 25 years of Lukose was the Thought, he helped them to develop starting this movement, we witness Secretary of the as able organizers of the Party. He many of the members of the Kollam District travelled tirelessly throughout the children’s camps becoming full time Organizing Co- state to build the Party and its class organizers of the Party. mmittee of the and mass organizations. Under his He was also looking after the Party for a long dynamic leadership Party Tamil Nadu State Organization of time. Later in organization developed all over the our Party. Under his guidance Tamil 1988 he became state of Kerala. Nadu State Organization of the the Secretary of Comrade Lukose played a Party could achieve significant the Kerala State significant role in organizing progress. Committee of the AIUTUC, the revolutionary trade Even when his mobility was Party, elected in union of the working people. He was seriously affected due to prolonged the first state the Vice-President of the All India illness, he guided the Party on all Comrade C K Lukose with Comrade Provashda Ghosh, conference. His Committee and President of the important organizational matters and General Secretary, SUCI (C), last year. Standing on the Kerala State Committee of activities with his clear thoughts on back (right) is Comrade K Radhakrishna, Polit Bureau leadership was member. instrumental in AIUTUC. Under his able leadership, the basis of Marxism–Leninism people’s movement in Kerala thereby remaining as a source of attained a different character. He put inspiration to all comrades. At his Central Committee Mourns forward the idea of developing a new sad demise, we have lost a people’s struggle committee called prominent revolutionary leader of Sudden Demise of Comrade C K Lukose ‘Janakeeya Prathirodha Samithi’ to working class in India. Deeply condoling the sudden demise of Comrade C K Lukose, fight against the ruinous policy of RED SALUTE distinguished member of the Polit Bureau, Comrade Provash Ghosh, globalization. It was a decisive step COMRADE C K LUKOSE General Secretary of the SUCI (Communist) issued the following statement on 13 February 2019: With deep sorrow and grave shock the Central Committee of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) , mourns the sudden demise of Comrade C K Lukose, member of the Polit Bureau of the SUCI (Communist), today morning at Trivandrum, due to cardiac arrest. Comrade Lukose who came in touch with the party and thoughts of the Great Marxist thinker Comrade Shibdas Ghosh during the 1960s completely dedicated his life for building up the party in Kerala. In course of his struggle in building the party he not only dedicated himself to the cause of revolution but also undertook the struggle for identifying himself with the cause of class, revolution and party. He built up and guided innumerable struggles of the downtrodden people and working class of the entire state of Kerala and thus became most beloved to them. He was elected as the state secretary of the Kerala party during the first state conference held in 1988 and as a member of the Central Committee at the second Party Paying Last Tribute to the Departed Leader Congress of SUCI (Communist) held in 2009, as well as at the third Party Congress held in 2018. Subsequently he was also elected as a member of the Polit Bureau of the Party. The Central Committee recalls with deep respect the revolutionary character acquired by him and the services rendered by Comrade Lukose to the cause of the people and to the party even when he was afflicted with Parkinsonism which gradually started restricting his mobility as well as his speech, but which could never douse his spirit or thinking in which he upheld higher concepts of revolutionary ideology, communist morality, culture and values till his last breath. His death is not only a loss for exploited masses of the state of Kerala but for the entire country too. Surely his outstanding revolutionary struggle and dedication will remain a source of inspiration to all involved in building of revolutionary movement throughout the country. Red Salute Comrade C. K. Lukose! The Last Journey PROLETARIAN ERA FEBRUARY 15, 2019 PAGE THREE Interim Budget of BJP Government Basketful of sops, freebies and sickening self-eulogy hide large scale economic offensives tearing people into shreds If a budget was supposed to post? According to the fifth annual workers, and then hopping from one the fallacious logic of increase in have a tag line, then the interim employment-unemployment survey place to another as migrant and EPFO membership, the interim FM Union Budget 2019 of the BJP at all-India level, about 77 (i.e. 3 out often slave labour. Ultimately, turned claimed in the interim budget that government presented in the of 4) per cent of the households are into street beggars, they are dying “There is an increase of nearly 2 Parliament by an interim Finance having no regular wage-earning/ on the streets like cats and dogs. crore jobs in two years reflecting Minister (FM) was best suited to this salaried person. But the government This is the reality of capitalist India. formalisation of the economy and job slogan— please vote for the BJP, is unfazed. Since the employment Then whose growth is being creations.” Once again, the interim please! The interim FM said that his scenario is so horrific, the BJP celebrated? The one percent super- FM contradicted the published report government has brought the country government had stopped publishing rich or the vast multitudes of and this time from the PF authorities “solidly back on track and marching job statistics from 2015 onwards. starving, jobless, roofless, semi-clad themselves. Only in last month, the towards growth and prosperity”. But much to its discomfort, Business and abjectly poor Indians? More EPFO revised down the net But if one takes a voyage along the Standard, an economic daily, wealth is amassed by the aforesaid enrolment numbers for September- objective reality, one finds the claim published a report based on a NSSO 1% super-rich, more impoverished, April from earlier estimate of 4.12 to be not just spurious but attracting survey withheld by the government. rickety and destitute are becoming million to 3.73 million. derision on the growing desolation As per that ‘leaked’ report, India’s the 90% countrymen. In such a and destitution of the toiling millions. unemployment rate stood at a situation, providing growth statistics The MUDRA logic As usual, in the finest continuity of whopping 45-year high of 6.1% in with much fanfare is nothing but The BJP government’s the past, not a single burning 2017-18. Centre for Monitoring mocking at the growing destitution of standard response to the jobs problem tearing people apart has Indian Economy (CMIE) had the poor and deprived. But then the question has been that there an been addressed. Instead, all bogus reported loss of 11 million jobs by interim FM had a ‘knock-down improvement is glaring in self- and bluffs have been bluntly one stroke following demonetization. argument’ at his disposal. He said in employment and one of the packaged to once again take people A survey of the Labour Bureau of Hindi that when there is so high an indicators of this is the high number for a ride. But interim FM Sir, central government has also economic growth, there must have of MUDRA (Micro Units “Sweet words butter no parsnips” confirmed drastic fall in jobs in eight been generation of lot of Development and Refinance nor could “a chalk be passed as existing labour-intensive industries. employments. Is it so, Mr. FM? Are Agency) loans disbursed to the cheese.” Your caricaturist pain to It also reported that more than half you sure about what you have needy.