Volume 41 No. 1 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA August 15, 2007 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00 With due solemnity and reverence country observes Relation between leaders Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Memorial Day and cadres should be Fifth of August is the day, the working class portrait of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. Comrade dialectical, not mechanical lost two great leaders of the proletariat. While Ranjit Dhar, Central Staff hoisted the Red Flag and Comrade Frederick Engels had passed away in garlanded the statue of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh — Nihar Mukherjee 1895, it was on this date thirty one years back at the Study Centre of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas that Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, the founder Ghosh Thought at Ghatshila, Jharkhand.Comrades General Secretary of Socialist Unity Centre of at all the party offices and centres throughout the India, the revolutionary party of the country, country, joined by masses of toiling people, breathed his last. As the day returns, it urges us observed the Day, wearing Comrade Shibdas for an introspection as to how far could we carry Ghosh badge, garlanding the portrait of the great forward the tasks Comrade Ghosh bequeathed on leader, rending the song on him and the us. And taking a stock of it, we further renew our Internationale. pledge to carry out more vigorously the behest of Earlier on July 29, in observance of the thirty- the great departed leader, teacher and guide and first Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Memorial Day, one of the foremost Marxist-Leninist thinkers and Calcutta District Committee of the party played to philosophers of this epoch, so as to be able to rise a house of the party cadres, supporters and up in a revitalization and consolidation struggle, sympathizers, the recorded speeches of Comrade now we are headlong involved heeding the call of Ghosh made to the open and delegate sessions of Comrade Nihar Mukherjee addressing at the Central Committee of the party with all the AIDYO State Conference held at Suri of Salt Lake Commune, Calcutta on 5th August seriousness and dedication. Birbhum district of West Bengal on 20 and 21 Like each of the past thirty one years, this year June, 1975. The clarion call of the great leader to Comrades, too the party observed the Memorial Day across the party workers for building up themselves as We have assembled here in the Salt Lake the country with profound reverence and emotion. communist revolutionaries and strengthening Party Commune, Calcutta, today to observe On the Fifth August morning, at the Salt Lake SUCI on one hand and for waging intense mass with due solemnity the 31st Memorial Day of Central Commune of the party in Calcutta, the movements under the revolutionary leadership on Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, the founder General brief proceedings of the Day, were initiated with the other hand refurbished the zeal and Secretary of our party. Following a course of the rendition of the song on Comrade Shibdas determination of the leaders and cadres, old and an intricate and painstaking struggle, Comrade Ghosh. Following it, our beloved General new alike, once more. Central Committee Shibdas Ghosh had founded the SUCI, our Secretary Comrade Nihar Mukherji offered floral members Comrades Provas Ghosh and Asit beloved party, as a genuine Marxist-Leninist tribute to Comrade Ghosh’s portrait. He was Bhattacharyya and West Bengal State Secretariat party on this soil. There is a great and long followed by Comrades Sukomal Dasgupta and members Comrades Manik Mukherji, Prativa history of this historic arduous multi-faced Sitesh Dasgupta, both members of the Central Mukherji and Chhaya Mukherji were present on struggle which cannot be dealt with in one Committee and all other comrades present on the the occasion. meeting. I would, therefore, like to highlight occasion. The occasion was further graced by On August 3, at the Metro Channel in only a few aspects of this relentless Comrade Nihar Mukherjee’s inspiring speech. Calcutta, Comrade Sukomal Dasgupta, veteran inconceivably strenuous struggle of party The same morning at the Central Party Office Central Committee member, inaugurated the building which bear extreme importance in our at 48 Lenin Sarani, Calcutta, Comrade Yakub Exhibition of Quotations from the works of life today. Pailan, Member of the West Bengal State Comrade Shibdas Ghosh with a view to In the process of developing a genuine Secretariat, hoisted the Red Flag and garlanded the Contd. on page 6 Marxist-Leninist party of the proletariat on this soil and giving a concrete shape to the same in the SUCI, Comrade Ghosh enriched and elaborated the Leninist concept of revolutionary party building and brought its understanding to a new height. The kernel of this improved understanding has been the emphasis he laid on establishing and keeping alive the dialectical relationship between the leaders and the cadres inside the party in tune with the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. Comrade Ghosh initiated this dialectical A part of the mammoth gathering at Rani Rashmoni Road, Calcutta on 5th August, 2007 Contd. on page 2 PAGE TWO AUGUST 15, 2007 PROLETARIAN ERA Ceaselessly cultivate teachings of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Contd. from page 1 have to ceaselessly cultivate the Leninist organization. He said that devolves on the party leadership to process from the very inception of teachings of Comrade Ghosh, we would not adopt a written nurture him with care, to inculcate the days of party formation. He used carefully and meticulously read his Constitution at the very foundation in him the very ingredients of this to encourage the comrades to enter published works both individually stage of our party because we would noble ideology. The very party into contradiction with him, debate and collectively. You will be not like to impose it on the party body, under which he is placed, various issues with him following dawned upon many illumining from above. If the party comrades owns this responsibility. Only this dialectical methodology and used to thoughts in the process of getting do not attain the ideological way, the struggle becomes living, tell them “Don’t accept, what I say, acquainted with the vast storehouse consciousness to imbibe the true education of the cadres becomes do not assume what I say as of his invaluable contributions. spirit contained in the provisions of purposive, dynamic. We do not infallible until and unless you after There was no branch of the Constitution on the issues like always act that way. Once one due examination on the anvil of epistemology which was not sense of organizational discipline, applies for membership, the leaders logic and reason find the same to be illumined by his profound wisdom, nature of the mutual relationship no doubt assign some work to him. correct.” Pursuing this course of no discipline of knowledge not among various party bodies starting But often they do not keep track of struggle, he developed a batch of within his easy reach. In course of from the cell to the local, district, what he is doing. So it is pointless comrades and the number gradually handling the newer problems of life state and central committees, and to blame any such comrade if he increased. It is not that everyone and newer questions arising in the instead blindly follow those rules fails to discharge his responsibility could come up so equipped as to various all fields of epistemology, and provisions only because those because the leaders evidently did correctly follow this dialectical he enriched the treasure house of form part of the Constitution, then not take any care to groom him process. But some of the comrades Marxism-Leninism. Try to acquaint such following is bound to be properly. If the leaders default in could attain that level. Right from yourselves with these developed and mechanical. Here also a correct shouldering their responsibilities, the very beginning, he initiated this enriched understandings, cultivate dialectical process should be why should we only blame cadres dialectical process within the party them in your life. Let all of us build operative. That is why, he opted for for failure? and created a healthy environment ourselves the way he wanted of us. evolving the Constitution, in the The task is not that easy. To of open interaction of ideas and I would like to stress that self- dialectical process of acquiring attain a communist character, it is opinions, discussion in dialogue, development is a continuous correct understanding of these not enough to accept the communist debate and argument between the process which has no finality in various provisions by the party ideology in words. One must leaders and the cadres. With that excellence. Take my case. Though I comrades through conventional subject himself to the tortuous objective, he from the very outset have come to this position today, it practice and giving formal struggle for reflecting in his life the stressed upon organizing the study does not mean that I have learnt constitutional shape to the ideology, politics and culture of circles. He himself conducted these everything. There is no end to organizational rules, norms, communism. When in course of this study circles. Through lively learning. I have also to progress principles and procedures only struggle, one can place his self- discussions and debates in these through learning more and more. when they attained an adequate interest subordinate to the interest study circles, he took every pain to Moreover, there is no guarantee that standard through this struggle. This of the class, revolution and party, he see that the comrades acquire a having learnt something once, I is called the principle of adopting becomes eligible for becoming a correct outlook, a correct and clear would not commit any mistake, not the Constitution as the objective member.