Volume 39 No. 1 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA August 15, 2005 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00 Countrywide remembrance and resolve mark Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Memorial Day Twenty-ninth Memorial Day of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, the founder General Secretary of our party SUCI and one of the foremost Marxist thinker of the era, was observed on August 5 last in different parts of the country with due solemnity and reverence. Party units at the state, district and local levels, joined by the masses of toiling people observed the day, wearing Comrade Shibdas Ghosh Badge, garlanding the portrait of the great leader, rendering the song on him and the Internationale, and above all, renewing their pledge to carry out the behest of Comrade Ghosh and to rise up in a revitalization and consolidation struggle with all earnestness and dedication, heeding the call of our Central Committee. ORISSA Bhandaripokhari, Bhubaneswar, The 110th Death Anniversary of Cuttack, Kenderapara, Jasipur, Comrade Frederic Engels, the great Khurdha, Barang, Rajgangpur and leader of International Communist undivided Koraput. Comrade Tapas Movement and 29th Death Dutta, Secretary, SUCI Orissa State Anniversary of Comrade Sibdash Committee and member of the Ghosh, the founder General Central Committee of our party Secretary of our Party and the guide addressed huge gatherings at Jajpur of working class movement in India and Jasipur. Other state committee was observed on August 5, in a members addressed the gatherings at befitting manner all over the state. different places of the state and On 5th August at the Salt Lake Party Commune, Calcutta On this occasion, Red Flag hoisting, discussed on the valuable teachings garlanding of the portrait of the and different aspects of the life Comrade Nihar Mukherji, the beloved General Secretary of the SUCI, offering great leaders, Engles and Shibdas struggle of Comrade Sibdas Ghosh. Red Salute to the portrait of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh. He also read out the 5th August Pledge. Floral tributes were placed also by the Central Committee Ghosh were done in party state head At Jajpur, the meeting was quarter at Bhubaneswar and in all members, Comrades Sukomal Dasgupta and Sitesh Dasgupta, as well as by presided over by Comrade Comrade Mubinul Haider Choudhury, member, Central Committee of the district and local offices. Memorial Jagabandhu Baral, state committee Socialist Party of Bangladesh. The song on Comrade Shibdas Ghosh and the meetings were also organised on member and Jajpur District Internationale were sung. All the inmates of the commune participated different areas at Jajpur, Rourkela, Secretary of SUCI. emotionally and pledged to revitalize themselves with the ideals of Angul, Jagatsinghpur, Delanga, Contd. on page 2 Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, the Great Leader of the Proletariat. IMDT Act Repeal SUCI calls for united democratic movement to safeguard minority community In Assam, the situation that has people to the correct direction, the Comrade Bhattacharyya pointed the BJP proposal against the IMDT cropped up with the repeal of the Goalpara District Committee of out that five years back the Act in the Parliament. It, however, Illegal Migrnts Determination by SUCI held a massive public rally at parochial force AASU had moved started surreptitiously to side with Tribunal (IMDT) Act by the the West Goalpara College Campus the Supreme Court with the unjust the demands of parochial forces. Supreme Court, is creating grave on July 27 last. Comrade Asit demand of repealing the IMDT Act, The case in the Supreme Court apprehension in regard to security of Bhattacharyya, member, Central under the patronage of the BJP-RSS made the road clear for it. After it people, particularly of the religious Committee, SUCI and an eminent combine and as representative of the assumed governmental power, it and ligual minority communities of mass-leader, presented a threadbare then AGP government of Assam. As was left with the choice of the state. In this background, with a discussion of the situation and Congress depended on the minority withdrawing the affidavit submitted view to finding out ways to resolve problem in his speech as the main vote bank for its parliamentary ends, by the AGP government and of the problem as also to guiding speaker in that meeting. it could not lend direct support to Contd. on page 6 PAGE TWO AUGUST 15, 2005 PROLETARIAN ERA Central Government is abolishing posts at will, causing huge reduction Countrywide observance of 5th August in the number of employees. Each Contd. from page 1 has also analyzed the grave situation rally was held in the afternoon of year, thousands of peasants, poor Comrade Dutta narrated in his in the country causing as a result of August 5 at Rani Rashmoni Road, people, are committing suicide, emotional addresses that mere globalization and liberalization Calcutta. Seated on the dais were dying of starvation. Women in large observance of a memorial meeting policy of the government. He also the Central Committee members numbers are forced to come out on would not be enough. By releasing a gave exposure to the role of parties Comrades Anil Sen, Sukomal the streets to sell their bodies. What struggle to lead the life in the line as like CPI, CPI(M) who have turned Dasgupta and Sitesh Dasgupta, a cruel, terrible picture ! But where Comrade Shibdas Ghosh has towards bourgeois parliamentary Comrade Mubinul Haider is the country-wide protest established by leading a painstaking politics more and more. In this grave Chowdhury, member, Central movement against all these? The struggle by which he ultimately situation ours is the only party that Committee of the Socialist Party of parliamentary political parties are became one of the outstanding realizes the historic inevitability of Bangladesh, and the SUCI West enmeshed in utter hypocrisy, Marxist philosophers of the world, dictatorship of the proletariat. And Bengal State Secretariat members shameless falsehood and deceit. Comrades Yakub Pailan, Prativa What is going on is the politics of Mukherji, Sanat Datta and Soumen vote banks – Hindu vote bank, Bose. Comrade Manik Mukherji Muslim vote bank, Yadav vote bank, presided while Comrade Provash Dalit vote bank etc. Acrimony and Ghosh, member, Central Committee strifes centring round religion, castes and the West Bengal State Secretary, and community are being stoked up was the main speaker. and the parliamentary parties are In his speech, Comrade Manik utilizing these for making electoral Mukherji said : The anniversary day gains in their petty interests. And all 5th August is being observed in these parties claim to be secular. almost all the states of the country. Even the Congress whose hands are Through his life-long struggle, smeared with the blood of numerous Comrade Shibdas Ghosh developed communal riots and who opened the a comprehensive knowledge about locks of the Babari Masjid gate to the ideology and politics of anti- facilitate the BJP’s gaining capitalist socialist revolution and ascendancy through practising rabid along with it, he also founded and Hindu communalism, claims to be built up the correct revolutionary secular. And the CPI(M) is Comrade Tapas Dutta addressing at Jajpur party, SUCI for leading and certifying the secularism of directing this revolution. In this we can pay proper homage to his we are to go to the people to educate Congress in order to develop way, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh memory. Comrade Ghosh started his them with the teachings of our party closeness with it to gain advantages emerged as the living symbol of the political life at his early age by and for this we are to learn the same from the Central Government and for aspiration for emancipation of the joining Anusilan Samitee, a deeply. We must try our best to build winning one or two seats in the revolutionary outfit in the line of up party in Orissa and still are elections in the other states uncompromising struggle in the anti- struggling hard to understand the through alliance with the imperialist movement against British thoughts of Comrade Ghosh that Congress. In the absence of rule over India. While in jail, he without socialism there is no protests and mass started studying Marxist classics and alternative for emancipation and movement, the dark forces initiated a struggle to form a genuine only Marxism-Leninism and raise their heads and rank communist party on the line laid Comrade Sibdash Ghosh’s thoughts opportunism goes on in the down by Comrade Lenin as the then can show the path, he said. If we can name of politics. The undivided CPI was not at all a carry forward the struggle to CPI(M) and its associates communist party. On release from accomplish this task of emancipation enjoy governmental power Jail he, with a very few compatriots of the working class that will be the in West Bengal and Tripura at their tender age having no real homage to our beloved departed with the patronage of minimum means for survival, name leader Comrade Sibdas Ghosh. national and foreign and fame, but with a determination monopolists and do not and taking it as a historic WEST BENGAL want to do anything that responsibility formed SUCI through At the party central office, might sour the relation with a Convention on 24th April, 1948 at Calcutta, Comrade Manik Mukherji, them. That is why the Comrade Pravash Ghosh addressing in Calcutta Jaynagar. In that Convention member, West Bengal State CPI(M) and the CPI kept Comrade Ghosh was elected as the Secretariat and Central Staff, hoisted exploited masses of India. That is their “opposition” to the anti-people General Secretary of the Party. From the Red Flag and paid floral tribute why the observance of his memorial Indo-US military pact limited to just that day he never looked back till 5th at the portrait of the Great Leader.