Volume 38 No. 1 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA August 15, 2004 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 3.00 Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Memorial Day Countrywide Observance The becon that guides us everyday, every moment to build up class and mass struggles as true communists is the Thought of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, the great leader of the proletariat. When 5th August, the day the working class lost the great leader twenty-eight years back, returns, it urges us to renew our pledge to carry forward the tasks he had bequeathed to us. Like every year, this year too, we observed the day with profound emotion. On 5th August, Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, the General Secretary, SUCI garlanded the portrait of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh at the Salt Lake Commune, Calcutta. Comrade Yakub Pailan, Staff member, hoisted the Red Flag and garlanded the portrait of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh at the Central Party Office in Calcutta. On the 5th August Comrade Ranjit Dhar, Staff member, hoisted the Red Flag and garlanded the statue of the great leader at the Study centre of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought at Ghatsila, Jharkhand. At all party offices and party centres in different parts of the country, Red Flag was hoisted and great leader’s portrait garlanded. All leaders and cadres wore the Badge of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. Comrade Sukomol Dasgupta, Central Committee member, inaugurated the Exhibition of Quotations from the works of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh held in Calcutta. Memorial meetings were held in different parts of the country starting with the song on Comrade Shibdas Ghosh and ended with the Internationale. Comrades also listened to recorded speeches of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh in many places. Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, General Secretary, giving red salute to We give below the report of memorial meetings received so far. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh at Salt Lake Commune at Calcutta on 5th August. party of the Indian proletariat, the BHUBANESWAR, ORISSA SUCI as the true Marxist-Leninist The memorial meeting was held party. Comrade Datta also paid at Lohia Academy Trust, tribute to Comrade Frederick Engels, Central Committee Flays Bhubaneswar on 5th August the great leader of the proletariat, Hike of oil price recalling the teachings and life- who had also expired on the same struggle of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, date. He said: All of us know that Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, General Secretary, SUCI in a statement the founder General Secretary of Engels was not only a co-fighter of issued on 1st August, 2004 condemned the highly anti-people act on the part SUCI. Hundreds of students, youths, Karl Marx, the co-founder of of the Congress-led UPA government to impose within a gap of one month women, peasants, workers and Marxism and world communist another dose of steep rise in petrol and diesel prices on the common people, intellectuals attended the memorial movement, but his life-long friend. whose rapidly dwindling purchasing power is now at a record low. Most meeting. Comrade Raghunath Das, Both of them worked together to undemocratically, the UPA government has effected the current hike State Committee member and prepare the Manifesto of through an announcement by the public sector oil companies who have also Bhubaneswar District Secretary international communist movement now been empowered to arbitrarily refix the oil prices within 10% variation presided over the meeting. Comrade and campaigned for it. Both of them without referring to the government. Tapas Datta, member, Central together not only inspired all the Comrade Mukherjee also said that the UPA government and its allies Committee and Secretary, Orissa workers’ movement in Europe, but like the CPI(M), CPI who wax eloquent about the interest of the poor and State Committee was the main also participated in it and provided toiling masses, are despicably taking no initiative in creating world wide speaker. Comrade Uddhab Jena, the necessary leadership. public opinion against the international oil cartel led by the US imperialists State Committee member also spoke. Continuing, Comrade Datta said, to artificially jack up prices and cause immense hardship to the common Comrade Datta highlighted the Comrade Shibdas Ghosh is another people bleeding white under ruthless capitalist exploitation. Rather they are painstaking struggle conducted by great proletarian leader in this era making this international price manipulation by the oil barons a plea to Comrade Shibdas Ghosh for the from whose life-struggle we draw Contd. on page 8 historic emergence and growth of the Contd. on page 2 PAGE TWO AUGUST 15, 2004 PROLETARIAN ERA Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Memorial Day Contd. from page 1 us to strengthen the leadership by Comrade Shibdas Ghosh is a shining GUWAHATI, ASSAM lessons for conducting class and criticism and self-criticism and to example of this. When he left home The memorial meeting was held mass struggles. The most important live constantly with the masses in he was only thirteen years old. His on 5th August at Bishnu Nirmala international event which stirred his order to lead them. Thus the party poor parents depended solely on Bhavan, Guwahati. Comrade Asit mind was the establishment of which started from West Bengal, him. When reminded of this, he Bhattacharyya, Central Committee socialism in Russia through a gradually and steadily spread to said: all poor parents are my parents. member was the main speaker. revolution under the leadership of other parts of the country due to his I must strive to end their sufferings. Comrade Bhattacharyya said that Lenin. Comrade Ghosh wanted to continuous guidance and It was the tears of the poor that drew despite the existence of united CPI, bring about socialist revolution in stewardship. New chapters have Netaji Subhas Chandra out of his a party professing communism and our country in order to eliminate the been added to the history of home. Saratchandra said that he had despite the presence of M.N.Roy, exploitation of man by man. With peasants’ movement, workers’ taken up the pen to write about those the Marxist leader, Comrade this end in view, he developed a movement, student movement, who had given their all but had not Shibdas Ghosh was the only leader profound treasure-house of women’s movement and language received anything in return. In our who presented, decades back, a knowledge even though he had not and education movement country, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh truly scientific and historical much formal education. He successfully conducted by the party was the first to perceive and say that analysis of the anti-British conducted incessant and intense in the country. revolutionary politics demanded a imperialist freedom movement ideological campaign covering all higher, nobler faculty of mind; before the people of India and aspects of life to develop ideological CALCUTTA, cultivation of revolutionary politics showed that because it was under centralism to build up a genuine WEST BENGAL was impossible with intellect only; the leadership of the national revolutionary party. He conducted The memorial meeting was held without love and deep feeling, capitalist class, people could not ideological campaign at Rani Rashmoni Avenue, Calcutta intellect would be misguided. He achieve true emancipation through uncompromisingly against the amidst inclement weather, attended showed that one cannot become a independence. The economic- common beliefs, tradition and by many thousands of people who Marxist with just honesty and political situation of the past 57 unscientific ideas. In the process, he came from all the districts of West dedication. The need is to acquire years clearly showed how correct developed into one of the foremost Bengal. Besides Comrade Manik correct Marxist methodology, to was that analysis as also the Marxist thinkers of the era. He taught Mukherjee, State Secretariat apply correct Marxist process to guidelines for anti-capitalist his followers to live and lead the member and President of the build a revolutionary party and to socialist revolution for revolutionary life by examples and meeting and Comrade Provash determine the correct revolutionary emancipation from all sorts of not by precepts as he wanted them to Ghosh, Central Committee member line by applying Marxism-Leninism exploitation provided by him. Not learn and grasp Marxism for and State Secretary as also the main to the concrete condition of the only that. While building up the realization of it through speaker, other leaders who were on country. SUCI as the real revolutionary party revolutionary action and not to serve the dais included Comrade Anil Sen, Comrade Ghosh further said: of the working class — the any academic purpose. Just as he Comrade Sukomol Dasgupta, Mass media had virtually blacked vanguard of this revolution, the carried on uninterrupted discussions Central Committee members, and out the great leader Comrade great leader had presented an with other freedom fighters in the jail Comrade Yakub Pailan, Staff Shibdas Ghosh and his teachings. analysis about the method and in the wake of the 1942 movement, member and member, State But by dint of his revolutionary process of building up a communist he laid great emphasis on common Secretariat. thoughts, dedication and party, which was now attracting constant living and discussion to Comrade Provash Ghosh in his indomitable struggle he has today people connected with communist develop uniformity of thinking and address said: Each year, 5th August made his place in the minds of movement in different countries of singleness of purpose, which asks our conscience — how far have millions, his thoughts have crossed the world. Comrade Bhattacharyya continued after coming out of the jail we applied the revolutionary the national boundary. If we want to said that as a genuine revolutionary and after forming the party, SUCI in teachings of Comrade Shibdas know the future of market economy, party was necessary for revolution, the year 1948 through a convention Ghosh in our life, how far have we the real character of bourgeois so also the need was to develop at Jaynagar, West Bengal.