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‘‘It is the essence of bourgeoissocialism to want to maintain the basisof all the evils of present-day societyand at the same time to want to abolishthe evils themselves.

...Whoever declares that thecapitalist mode of production, the ‘ironlaws’ of present-day bourgeois society,are inviolable, and yet at the same timewould like to abolish their unpleasantbut necessary consequences, has noother recourse but to deliver moralsermons to the capitalists, moralsermons whose emotional effectsimmediately evaporate under theinfluence of private interest and, ifnecessary, of competition.

...The gospel of harmony betweencapital and labour has been preached foralmost fifty years now, and bourgeoisphilanthropy has expended large sumsof money to prove this harmony bybuilding model institutions; yet, ... weare today exactly where we were fiftyyears ago.’’

— ENGELS [The Housing Question]

Red SaluteFrederick Engels

5 December 1820 — 5 August 1895

SUCI(C) denounces Union Budget 2014as Corporatization of Indian Economy,

exhorts the countrymen to reject itComrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary,

SUICI(C), has issued the following statement onthe Union Budget 2014 on 10 July 2014 :

Studded with surfeit of promises, routineallocations and stunts, the budget presented byUnion Finance minister Arun Jaitley is a documentof corporatization of Indian economy with liberalentry of FDI in key sectors, allowing private capitalin many areas through PPP route, plethora of cutsin sales tax and customs duty to the manufacturersand “revival” of Special Economic Zones (SEZs).Privatization spree has been so large an extent thatthe Finance Minister himself has stated that “Indiahas emerged as the largest PPP market in theworld.” By allowing 49% FDI in a crucial sectorlike defence, the very security of the country hasbeen compromised. Raising the FDI cap in theequity holding of insurance sector to 49 per centvia disinvestment route is actually a policy reversalsince in order to remove the vulnerability of theIndian insurers at the hands of the privateoperators, the LICI was once created bynationalizing all private insurance companies. Thevery announcement of raising PSU bank capitalthrough retail sale of shares is nothing butdisinvestment of the nationalized banks which haslong been resisted by the people of the country.The government’s decision to revive the SEZs,ugly underside of which is no more hidden frompublic cognition, indicates how the government iskeen to offer a bountiful waivers and concessionsto the big capital, both domestic and foreign. Asusual, the most unproductive military budget hasbeen hiked to as high as Rs 2.29 lakh crore fromRs 2.03 lakh crore of last year. Indirect tax hasbeen raised to Rs. 7525 crores which will be borneby the common people. The budget has remainedconspicuously silent about employment generation,arresting harrowing price rise, containing inflation

spiral, weeding out the middlemen and ensuringminimum price to the poor peasants—some of thepressing issues concerning common masses. It hasalso not stated specifically that the benefits of theannounced tax and duty cuts should mandatorilybe passed on to the end consumers and not‘absorbed’ by the manufacturers. The veryannouncement of setting up an ExpenditureManagement Commission to look at expenditurereforms, we apprehend, is a device to decide andimplement subsidy cut and such other anti-peoplefiscal measures outside Parliament on the lines ofthe much condemned Railway Tariff Authorityvested with the power of revising the fares andsurcharges of its own.

So, in the budget, there is no ‘directional step’as claimed by the Finance minister, for thecommon people. All the proposals are in theinterest of the corporate sector and industrialhouse euphemized as ‘investors’. We are of thefirm opinion that this so -called pro-reform budgetneither cure capitalist economy let alone it beingbrought back on the rails but would devastate thepeople further since splurge of FDI, feast ofprivatization, binge of capital market reforms toboost speculation and gambling have landedcountry after country in the West in completebankruptcy and collapsing of the giant financialinstitutions.

While the chambers of commerce, giantmonopolists and their servitor economists-columnists might sing paeans for this budget ofBJP government, people of the country pressedunder the grinding wheel of ruthless capitalisteconomic oppression ought to reject it lock,stock and barrel and compel the governmentunder pressure of movement withdraw fiscaland economic measures inimical to people’sinterest.

(This is the English translation of the speech delivered in Bengali byComrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), at the memorialmeeting of Comrade Yakub Pailan, veteran member, Central Committeeand Secretary, South 24 Parganas district, SUCI(C), held at Jaynagaron 22 June, 2014. The responsibility of translation error as well asinadequate representation, if any, solely lies with the Editorial Boardof Proletarian Era.)

“I can say without hesitation that Comrade Yakub Pailanwas a successful creation of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh”

— Comrade Provash Ghosh at Jaynagar Memorial Meeting

Comrade President and comrades,I have been requested to say

something in this memorial meeting.But this indeed is very difficult for

me. (Voice choked with emotion) Ihave been regularly coming to thisdistrict since 1951. Every time I methim, I had discussions with him.

Today is the first day when I cansee him no more. I cannot make youunderstand how immensely painful itis. You all know that our Party is abig family. It is not an organizationfor merely producing some MLAs,MPs and ministers. This is arevolutionary Party. In our Party,there is a deep affectionaterelationship among the leaders-cadres based on the revolutionary

teachings of Comrade ShibdasGhosh. You all are grief-stricken.The weather has been inclement forquite some days. Yet, you havegathered here in thousands from farremote areas. Today thousands areshedding tears for a person whosename did not find place in thenewspapers or the TV. People donot shed tears so profusely for those

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Comrade Provash Ghosh’s speech

Comrade Pailan quietly struggled todevelop himself as a true revolutionary

who get wide publicity in the media.The tear that is wrenched fromwithin at the loss of someone veryclose to the heart, a very closerelative cannot be purchased withmoney, does not come out so easily.So great a personality, so endearingto all of us was Comrade YakubPailan. I heard from him that oncehe used to sell rice in the villagemarket, on the streets, to the shopsof Kolkata. He also worked as atailor. He came from a semiproletarian family. Totally unknownand unheard of a person who wasdenied formal education. But howcould he win the hearts of thousandsand thousands of people? What washis strength? I am of the firmopinion that the question of properlyunderstanding the worth of ComradeYakub Pailan and paying duerespect to him is intimately linkedwith realizing proper answer to thisquestion.

Based on history and science,Marxism teaches us that no one isborn a genius. Genius is no divine anendowment. The development of anindividual, flourishment of hischaracter takes place in course ofhis interactions with his ownsurroundings. Who will attain whatstandard, acquire what strengthdepends on how he conducts his lifestruggle, which ideology he is guidedby and whether he wages a strugglecovering all aspects of life. I havecome to know from Comrade Pailanhimself that in his early life, he hadto fight with appalling poverty. Andhe was deeply moved by the wailsand woes of those still poorer. In theinitial stage of life, he was a believerin religion. He believed that god isomnipotent, also had faith in fate. Atthe same time, he wondered if suchharrowing poverty, oppression andrepression would continue unabatedand whether remedy would remainever eluding. He learnt that the greatreligious preachers of the yesteryears had fought against injusticeand exploitation at that time. Yettoday there is religion but there is nofight. Religion is now only confinedto observing rituals. Today noreligion is waging any struggleagainst oppression and injustice,against falsehood. He was seizedwith this question.

When he was in the midst of sucha dilemma, he came in contact withComrade Jiad Ali Bakshi whom manyof you may not know. ComradeBakshi was a Party worker of thisdistrict. Later he built up Partyorganization in the Birbhum district as

compatriot of Comrade PrativaMukherjee. Comrade Jiad Ali Bakshiintroduced Comrade Pailan toComrade Sachin Banerjee in 1949.Everyone of Jaynagar town and theelderly people of South 24 Parganasdistrict are acquainted with ComradeSachin Banerjee’s name. ComradeSachin Banerjee had met ComradeShibdas Ghosh, the great Marxistthinker and leader, teacher and guideof proletarian revolution in jail. Inthose days, Comrade SachinBanerjee was associated with theJugantar group, a revolutionaryoutfit. He set up a good number ofclubs in this town. By concretizingMarxism-Leninism in the concretesituation of India, Comrade ShibdasGhosh had then released the mostarduous struggle for building up agenuine revolutionary communistparty on the soil. Comrade SachinBanerjee joined Comrade ShibdasGhosh in that arduous struggle as aclose revolutionary compatriot. Hebrought Comrade Shibdas Ghosh tothis town. It was in this Jaynagartown that the SUCI(Communist) wasfounded as the genuine communistparty of the land in 1948. ThroughComrade Sachin Banerjee, ComradeSubodh Banerjee was also attractedby the thoughts of Comrade ShibdasGhosh and joined the Party. Based onthe teachings of Comrade ShibdasGhosh, Comrades Sachin Banerjeeand Subodh Banerjee took initiativeto build up movements on the variousdemands of the poor peasants,share-croppers and agriculturalworkers along both banks of therivers of Sunderbans. ComradeYakub Pailan was one of the bravestsoldiers of these movements. Thosewho joined these struggles wereComrades Yakub Pailan, RabinMandal (now seriously ill), RenupadaHaldar (now dead), and few dayslater Comrade Amir Ali Haldar(murdered by the CPI (M)criminals)) and thereafter ComradeNalini Pramanik as well as manyfighting persons belonging to poorfamilies of various localities. Whilethis struggle was on, Comrade Pailancame in direct contact with ComradeShibdas Ghosh through ComradeSachin Banerjee. And that brought adecisive change in his life. He couldrealize that religion which once calledfor releasing battle against injustice,oppression, repression and falsehoodand thus could carve out a space inthe hearts of the people, has nowhistorically exhausted its utility. Needof the day is Marxism-Leninism, theweapon to fight against capitalistoppression and exploitation. Today,

the philosophy of Marxism-Leninismis the creed of the oppressed people.With this teaching before him, heengaged himself in the struggle fordeveloping himself as a communistbased on Comrade Shibdas GhoshThought.

In those days, there was notransport available in this district forgoing from one village to another.There was no bus, no van rickshaw.I still remember that in 1951,Comrades Sachin Banerjee, SubodhBanerjee, Yakub Pailan and manyothers used to travel from one placeto another on foot, on boats wadingthrough thick mud, to organize thepoor peasants, share croppers andagricultural workers, and imbuethem with Comrade Shibdas GhoshThought. At that time no one knewthe Party, no one was aware of thename of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh.To accept Comrade Shibdas Ghoshas the teacher during that period,dedicate the self in building up theParty forsaking everything else inlife, was a very significant and rarestruggle, I hold. This struggle ofthose including Comrade YakubPailan who came forward leavingeverything behind to develop theParty responding to the call ofComrade Shibdas Ghosh, thenunknown and unheard of, wasexemplary. Comrade Shibdas Ghoshthen could not arrange even onesquare meal a day for himself.Comrade Yakub Pailan and othershave also moved from place to placewithout food. They were chased bythe musclemen of the rural kulaksand landed gentry, were attacked bythe police, faced physical onslaught.Sometimes Comrades SachinBanerjee, Subodh Banerjee, YakubPailan and others could manage toget a handful of puffed rice. Eventhat little was also not available onmany days. Yet they movedthroughout the day for building upParty organization. At that time,those who were in the leadership inthis town hailed from middle classfamilies. They could not advance intheir struggle because of beingentangled in family matters. So, theysought relieve from theirresponsibilities. Many of thecomrades were then either in jail orevicted from home and hearthbecause of police onslaught.Comrade Sachin Banerjee wasgoing to Odisha to build up Partythere. Comrade Subodh Banerjee’swas then a powerful voice inside theAssembly. He was busy in that. So,who would take up the leadership ofthe district? The Party faced that

problem. Comrade Shibdas Ghoshsaid that Comrade Yakub Pailan wasthe best person to shoulder theresponsibility. Questions arose thatComrade Pailan though a dedicatedsoldier but did not have any formaleducation. Would he be able todischarge such a responsibility?Comrade Shibdas Ghosh said, yeshe would. Comrade Ghosh had alapidary’s eye. He could identify thejewel. So, he did not make mistakein correctly identifying ComradeYakub Pailan. Comrades SachinBanerjee and Subodh Banerjee tookdecision in the meeting of the districtParty workers that Comrade YakubPailan would be the South 24Parganas District Secretary.Comrade Pailan was hesitant andrushed to Comrade Ghosh andasked how would he discharge sucha responsibility? There were somany educated persons in the town.Even many who are residing invillages had some formal education,at least they were literate. Thenhow would he having no formaleducation, no experience shouldersuch a great responsibility?Comrade Ghosh told him: ‘When Iinitiated my struggle to build up theParty, what did I have? Referring toVidyasagar, he said: Do not say Icannot. If others can do, you toocan. And he said : For revolution, Ishall do what others feel they cannotdo. I have moved with thisdetermination. You should also doso. I have full confidence in you.’History says, Comrade Yakub Pailanlived up to the confidence ComradeGhosh reposed on him. ComradeShibdas Ghosh used to say: Engageyourself in the struggle, changeyourself, develop yourself, win overothers with your quality. ComradePailan took up the responsibility and

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(This is the text of the speech delivered by Comrade KrishnaChakraborty, Member, Polit bureau, SUCI(C), at the memorial meetingof Comrade A. Jalaluddin, Member, Kerala State Committee, SUCI(C)and Vice-President, Kerala state AIUTUC, held in Quilon on 27 June)

“Carrying the struggle that Jalaluddin conducted still further, in astill higher form, to a still greater level, will be the correct way of

paying homage to our beloved comrade.” — Comrade Krishna Chakraborty

Dear AIUTUC Comrades andfriends,

To speak on such a painfuloccasion is really difficult. The oldmemories, storm of emotions whenwe remember days when suchcomrades, such workers came to theparty, started party activities, it takesyou back to those days when thesecomrades in their college daysyouthful days joined revolutionaryparty under the leadership of SUCICommunist founded by a greatMarxist thinker Comrade ShibdasGhosh. It was in 1970, whenComrade Jalal came and Jalal andsome more comrades joined theparty. From the starting of the party,Kerala was known as the land of theleft forces particularly CommunistParty of India. In 1957 itself, 10years before West Bengal, theKerala people voted the CommunistParty of India to Power. CPIgovernment was formed in Kerala.CPI was so popular. In 1964, thisCommunist party of India was splitinto two parties CPI and CPI (M).Both were very much popular in thecountry particularly in this state. In1969, 1st May, a section coming outfrom CPI (M) formed CPI(ML) –Communist Party of India–Marxist-Leninist. In Kerala also there was abig force, many people joined theCPI(ML). This was the backgroundwhen our party activities started. Andthose who started were very youngpeople. Those who came first, manyof you may be remembering, wereComrade James Joseph, Vergheese,Subhash and some of the teachersfrom DKM College of Engineering,Comrade Rajagopalan, afterwardsComrade Divakaran, still then Partyactivities had not started. It wasactually the preparatory phase ofbuilding up of the party. In 1971, no70, we organised a discussion. Agroup of students from DK Collegeof Engineering attended that school.It was a discussion on MarxismLeninism, Shibdas Ghosh thought.After the school of politics, allsupported the party but few of themjoined the party activities and took upthe most difficult task of building theparty here. And on what line. For, theold communist party leaders honestlysincerely tried to build a communistparty in India, but could not build acommunist party. But ours was theprocess of struggle that changed thelives of the leaders and cadres of theparty, that makes one a real

communist, with communist outlook,the Marxist outlook, the dialecticalmaterialist outlook with the culture ofproletariat collectivism fightingbourgeois individualism, the struggleto merge with the interest ofrevolution, with the interest of theproletarian class and party, fightingpersonal interests, all this mostdifficult struggle, but most noblestruggle that makes a man KarlMarx, Lenin, Frederick Engels,Stalin, Mao, Comrade ShibdasGhosh. Such a noble struggle wasnecessary struggle. So to build up aparty here on the Kerala soil it wasa difficult struggle to prove thatthough in sincerity, honesty,dedication, sacrifice nothing lackedin the struggle of the CPI leaders,they were dedicated, they sacrificed,they went to jail, they gave up livesbut still could not build up acommunist party on this soil. But ourparty SUCI (Communist ) party hadto establish in this soil that struggle inthe entire country was very muchneeded. Real revolutionary audacityit needed. It involved an all-outstruggle covering all aspects of life; itwas to build such a character, sucha culture which attracts people in thesociety , people want it, that we willhave to practise and you will have torealise it in your life, your life strugglethat your existence itself reflects anew culture, a noble culture whichpeople can see from your behaviour,your very existence. Such a strugglethis first batch of comradesconducted. One of them is ComradeLukose himself and ComradeNatarajan, dedicated group, a veryserious group of comrades from DKCollege of Engineering struggled tobuild the party. Jalal was known tobe a jolly young man in college. Veryloving type, social in character,mixing with all, but nobody couldbelieve that such a man thoughappearing light yet not light, insteadjolly, took up such a noble struggle;that along with these comrades, suchan arduous struggle, uphill task hetook up. As in other states, in Keralatoo, we started at the beginning itselfa commune though it was not exactlya commune—a commune is a stillhigher standard in living together. Westarted a party centre, in 1977 weopened party centre for those whohad given up everything, who hadwhole heartedly dedicatedthemselves to build up the party, tostart a new concept of life. Among

those few comrades Jalal was there.This attracted more and morestudents. Then came a batch ofmedical students. ComradeVenugopal, Comrade Subramoni,Comrade Mahesh Babu of Allepy,and there were many other students.Some of them also joined the party, atotal submission and process of thestruggle. People of other partieswould crack jokes on this — somecollege students, some intellectualswill build up communist movementand a party. Some of them admit nowthat we used to make jokes; butactually we could not believe thatsuch a serious struggle, such amovement they could build up on thissoil. If you look back to those days,you too would think how it couldhappen. But it happened. It createdsuch an ideological, political, culturalmovement on this soil of Kerala; nowtoday this number is nothing. This isa part of the total number ofcomrades that are present in Kerala.The party is growing. This strugglewas a very difficult struggle, a verypainstaking struggle, it almost lookedimpossible. This required deepconviction not mere acceptance ofMarxism, Leninism, Comrade Ghoshthought. In Marxism, Leninism,Comrade Shibdas Ghosh thoughts, aconviction, belief, faith these aregreat things; but belief and faith alsobreak. But when conviction comes,then I understand by reason thatsociety changes, changes fromquantity to quality and in this processof change from quantity to qualitygives rise to a new social structure,new society, new social - economic,cultural, political, ethical, moral,jurisprudence, educational — totalchange — that we call revolution.Revolution is inevitable as Marx said:it is not just a wish, it is the law ofdevelopment of society, it bringschanges in nature and material world.Marx showed that quantitativechanges inb a society surely lead toqualitative changes, whereby a newsociety is born. .

Then what is the necessity totake up this struggle? Marxismanswers that also. It is not thatchanges just take place in nature, innature changes take placeautomatically from quantity to quality,but in society there is the role ofconsciousness — this consciousnessplays a determining role sometimes,a leading role; without consciousdevelopment of a movementrevolution cannot not grow. ThoughCPI led big struggles, gloriousstruggles, but today you see to whator where they have gone.Reactionary forces are spreading in

the country, not only BJP; BJP ofcourse in the northern states; inTamilnadu Jailalitha’s AIADMK, inWest Bengal TMC, ChandrababuNaidu in Andhra Pradesh(Seemandhra), Chandrashekar Raoin Telangana, Naveen Patnaik inOrissa; these are all reactionaryforces. The whole of India is swayedby reaction. It is our failure, failure ofthe left movement. People wantmovement, we could not give thatleadership. Leadership is thequestion. Correct political line is thequestion, correct ideology is thequestion, a higher culture is thequestion. Without a higher culture, ahigher movement cannot take place,revolution can never take placewithout a noble culture which one daywill bring in a communist society.Noble culture once gave birth tocapitalist society, now it should giveway to socialist society. Capitalismhas produced this kind ofopportunism, ego-centrism, individualfreedom in the bourgeois sensewherefrom individualism comes, andtoday in the dying stage of capitalismit cannot but give birth to pollutedindividualism. People are suffering,this corruption, these crimes onwomen, on children — wherefromthese are coming. They are becauseof total fall in culture; degradationcomes from vulgar individualism, theindividualism which one day broughtrevolution against feudalism whenindividual freedom was not there. Sothis cultural movement is the mostimportant movement, comrades.These very comrades whom Iremembered along with ComradeJalal, these comrades understood thisvery thing. That’s why everybodydoubted, such a small force: Can thisforce build up a communist partyfighting against those big ‘so called’communist parties? It was not easy.Other communist parties knew that itwas not easy. But they did notwaiver. They understood that it ispossible, because they had seenparty leaders, the culture of ourleaders, starting from ComradeShibdas Ghosh, they have given uptheir personal way of living, personallife, old petty bourgeois dreams, oldcareer. If you say career,revolutionary life is also a career. Butthat career is totally different. Herecareer means giving up personalposition in life; new revolutionarycareer means giving up personal andbecoming impersonal, that culture. Tounderstand Jalal’s movement, hisstruggle, if you do not understandthese things; simply knowing somefacts of his life you will not

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understand him. That struggle is stillvalid and will remain valid until classstruggle is over, unless exploitation ofman by man is over, unless classesare abolished. That is the movementof the communists, that is the nobilitythe communist movementestablishes. This nobility thosecomrades established. That nobilityyou comrades are also establishing ina vigorous way. When we areremembering Jalaluddin we shouldremember this noble struggle.Comrade Lukose has placed certainthings and you comrades also know,so all these details I am not enteringinto, of emergency 1974, ‘75, ‘76. Hewas detained by the police on falsecharges. He was teaching in atechnical school and the managementwas very much opposed to him,because of his communist ideas,because of his social movement andall. He suffered in the prison on falsecharges. But that is nothing forrevolutionaries because forrevolutionaries to go to jail, to policecustody is quite possible and that realcommunists consider it a prize too.Prize for my struggle. He was beatenby goondas of other parties, he wasvery bold, very courageous. Nothingcould subdue his courage. Thosewho knew him personally also know,how loving he was. By nature hewas a very loving comrade. Comingfrom a minority community in India.Because of the very many riots in ourcountry because of the communalforces, to have come from theminority community, when you mixwith Muslims you will know, they mixwell but still some sensitivity remains;quite possible, that’s not their mistake,they are not to be blamed for it. Wethe fanatic Hindus are to be blamedfor it. But Jalal was absolutely freefrom this. Nobody could feel he isfrom which community, neither didhe. That’s our culture, the communistculture. We are not Hindus, we arenot Muslims. We are not upper castepeople, nor lower caste people. Weare communists. Communist meansa conscious proletariat. His culturemeans a noble proletariat culture.Conscious proletariat means, he isvery sharp in terms of class struggle,class consciousness; by instinct heunderstands his class position,because he has tried to merge hisinterest with the interest of theproletarian class. All his work arepurposive. Even in gossip he has apurpose and that purpose is inconformity with the revolutionarymovement, conducive to growth ofrevolutionary movement. Hisstruggle is to acquire the highestknowledge of this era. Marxism isbased on development of sciences,

correlation of sciences, Marxismitself is a science, dialectical science,the science of all sciences, guides allsciences. To acquire Marxism meansto acquire knowledge, knowledge ofall things that governs nature, societyand thought. That’s why communistsare great people. That’s why in thewhole world, with the fall ofsocialism throughout the world yousee reactionary forces, total culturaldegradation- fanaticism are growing,Islamic fanaticism, Christianfanaticism, Buddhist fanaticism aregrowing, no reason, no logic, noscience. Science is taughttechnically, mechanically— to knowcertain processes, to work as adoctor, an engineer and that too adoctor who is going to the operation–first offers a namaste to theinstrument and then starts; he may bean honest man but belief is like this;this occurs throughout the world.When revolution developed, whenproletarian revolution developed andassumed its victorious shape in theglorious proletarian revolution ofRussia under the leadership of thegreat Lenin, then onwards aprogressive movement startedthroughout the world. It wasadvanced by Comrade Stalin, heestablished socialism and showed itsstrength. Without any support fromany other country, he built Russiawhich was in a condition that it wasconsidered the sickest nation inEurope; he developed it into a greatcivilization with the unity of thepeople. That unity of people of asocialist state could militarily defeatthe fascist forces Germany, Japan —- the fascist Axis, which France,England could not defeat, but SovietRussia defeated; under theleadership of great Stalin it showedthe strength of a proletarian state.Soviet Russia - it developed in sucha way economically that it fed theworld and today, after the growth ofrevisionism under the leadership ofrenegade Khrushchev and uptoBrezhnev, and Gorbachev now withcounter-revolution you see in Russia. Go to Russia, you see peoplestarving. Old people, retired people,those who led comfortable life undersocialism are today paying the pricefor their wrong acts and mistakes. Itwas to be; socialism is so great, itfrees man from exploitation, it freeseconomy from the control of fewpowerful individuals -capitalists,establishes social ownership oversocial means of production. Itproduces not for profit as incapitalism, it produces to meet thegrowing need of the society, of peoplein socialism. What need — bothmaterial and cultural. It creates anew culture, new society, new

civilization. Those people who havebutchered that very civilization--Khrushchev, Brezhnev or Gorbachevare the worst criminals. For killing aman there is capital punishment givento a criminal; but killing a civilization,what a crime it is! Whole masses aresuffering. We are suffering; thewhole mankind is suffering becauseof this betrayal of the renegades. SoComrades, when I remembercomrades who have conducted thisstruggle to build not just a party but acommunist party like ours, it isbuilding an economic, political, social,cultural, ethical, all out movement. Itis a struggle to build up a newconcept of life with new culture, newvalues, new ethics, new civilisation,much much higher than the old one,making life great. Freeing man fromdegradation, freeing man fromexploitation of man by man. Whenconviction comes, one single manstarts a movement, so was it withLenin, Mao Zedong and ComradeGhosh. Many told him that in a vastcountry like India, you alone with afew comrades in arms of yours, canyou build a communist party,communist movement and revolutionultimately? Old CPI and so manyparties, RSP was not as small as yousee today, came out from theAnushilan Samiti in which ComradeGhosh was also there, he was also inRSP, he came out to build a genuinecommunist party and a communistmovement. Those people also werehonest but process is most important.If the struggle is not correctlyappreciated and taken in lifeparticularly, if the leaders do not leadthe life of communists truly, if theydo not struggle to identify theirpersonal interest with the interest ofthe proletarian class, with revolution,with the emancipation of theproletariat, and finally to identifypersonal interest with the interest ofthe party, you cannot become acommunist how much ever youstruggle, how much you study, stillyou can’t. So comrades, on thisoccasion I tell you again and again,the country needs not only, the wholeworld needs, the world proletariatneeds revolution and that revolutionwon’t come without a revolutionaryparty of the proletariat. Leninshowed it, proved it by conductingrevolution in Russian soil and whencounter revolution came, it furtherestablished the superiority of therevolutionary party, the revolutionaryline; if deviation from MarxismLeninism happens then counter-revolution is inevitable. It does notprove Marxism is wrong. It furtherproves Marxism is the onlyphilosophy that can guide man andmake human society change and

develop from lower to higher, higherto higher, still higher. The belief inMarxism should develop intoconviction; with conviction you cancarry forward the struggle still morevigorously. The struggle thatJalaluddin carried, that struggle hasto be carried still further, in a stillhigher form, to a still greater level,attracting youths of this country,working class of the country, vastmasses of exploited people of thiscountry, towards revolution andcommunist movement. As comradesin the initial stages carried forwardthis struggle, have created such acondition in which today the countryaccepts that SUCI (C) is a seriouspolitical party, you can make it muchbigger and I believe you can do it. Ifa few comrades could take up thischallenge, today we are not fewthough we understand in relation tothe necessity of revolution we arefew, and strength is required;oppression, exploitation all existsbecause of its physical strength-- thearmy, police, judiciary, the state.Economically, politically thecapitalists are strong, we theproletariat have only one weapon inour hands, that is the revolutionaryparty. If the party becomes strong allthis state power is nothing. Allrevolutions, carried out in Russia,China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Koreahave all proved that state becomesnothing when revolutionary massesbecome armed with Marxism,Leninism, most powerful weapon.That’s the need of the hour. Such bigmovement like Occupy Wall Streetwhich culminated in Americaimmediately after Middle Eastcountries from Tunisia to Egypt allyoung countries, countries burst outin powerful mass movement butcould not achieve what could havebeen achieved by such a powerfulmovement. Some achievement willbe there but what could be achievedby such an upheaval could not beachieved. Again we will have to goback to Lenin—without a revolution-ary party there cannot be anyrevolution. As without a revolutionarytheory there cannot be a revolution,so also without a revolutionary partythere will be no revolution. Becausethere was no revolutionary party inthose movements, those could notachieve what it could have. We haveto draw lessons from it and build upthe Party. I believe you all will carryforward this struggle. That will be thecorrect way of paying homage to ourbeloved comrade, ComradeJalaluddin. Paying my respects,homage to Jalaluddin, my belovedcomrade, and red salute to the greatleader of the proletariat ComradeShibdas Ghosh, I conclude.

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Comrade Jalaluddin was among few in Keralataking up struggle to identify himself with the Party

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In the present days of acuterecession and market crisis in thecapitalist world we will comeacross thousand and one instances;those will show that corporates,more so the MNCs, are at theirmost desperate demeanour. Theyjust keep on exploring ever newerareas of human activities forinvesting their capital that lies idle,yet restless to hunt maximum profitby any means. Since long back theyhad targeted the arena of sports andgames. Today they have come toengulf the latter in their entirety.This is glaringly evident through therecent international mega-sportsevents like very recently completedWorld Cup 2014 football (henceforthreferred as WC2014) or the IPL(seventh season) cricket heldsometime earlier.

The country hosting theWC2014 has been Brazil,considered an upcoming capitalisteconomy. Incidentally Brazil, likeany and all other capitalist countries,has since long been facing intenseeconomic crisis that doomed theteeming million there into uttermisery and penury. Mountingunemployment, retrenchmentfollowed; there was lack ofeducational and medical facilities;subsidies were withdrawn fromessential items and services likefood and transport ; corruptionengulfed government officials. It isno wonder then that when BrazilianPresident Dilma Roussef venturedto host the World Cup in thecountry— effecting large scaleoverhauling incurring hugeexpenses for building stadiums, fly-overs, highways and in the processevacuating thousands ofimpoverished destitutes and street-dwellers who were forcibly drivenout of the cities— people from allsections of life erupted in vehementprotest and took to the streets. Thesituation was further aggravatedwith the Brazil government hikingtaxes, transport fares and imposingspecial World Cup cess, etc. Thepeople cried hoarse “No world cup—we want food!” It would benecessary to recall that Brazil is afootball- loving country (with even asmall child dreaming to become aPele or a Garrincha). Yet betweenfootball and question of survival theyopted for the latter.

The question now arises, withsuch simmering public discontentover ever-worsening economicsituation, how could the Brazilgovernment venture to host anaffair involving a staggeringexpenditure ? The obvious answeris: it did so with assurance from thecorporates, which really amounted

Soccer World Cup 2014

Demeaning saga of money-media-corruption-vulgarityto its compulsion under the dictatesof its masters. The Brazilgovernment had the FIFA, theleading world body of football, andits partners- the German MNCAdidas and the US MNC Nikeshare the cost of holding the megaevent totaling to some 14 billion USdollars (as against the 15 billiontotally expended on three earlierWorld Cup games). It is not difficultto infer that the corporates havinginvested such a fabulous amount,would stop at nothing less thanreaping a super-profit. Thus alongwith the ‘beautiful game’ of footballbeing played on the grounds ofBrazil, the all- encompassing gamebeing played in and around themwas that of M-O-N-E-Y— theFIFA World Cup 2014 has been agame of fabulous spending ofmoney, rampant corruption andunethical happenings. But beforescaling the depth the issue hasreached down to, we may need tolook through why we should be socritical of money entering the sportsarena.

Despite all aberrations, gamesand sports evolved in human societyto provide man with a kind of relieffrom drudgery of daily life, that is akind of creative entertainment, thatwould not only stimulate creativesenses of values and ethics, at thesame time contribute to developing ahealthy mind in a healthy body.Among the games, football isimmensely popular throughout theworld. Not only would theparticipants but the beholders, thespectators too would be entertainedwith this beautiful ball-game of speedand skill, emotion and excitement, allcoming up within a brief spell oftime, hardly one and a half hour ortwo. However with the corporatestaking over, sports in general andfootball and cricket in particularhave gradually been robbed of theessence therein. Instead, such sportshave rather turned into money-making ‘show business’ or‘entertainment packages’. Thisunwarranted change is amplyevident from the World Cup 2014,as it has also been from the cricketmega-event IPL Cricket Tournamentplayed earlier in India. Here theparticipants earn money as much asthey can by dint of theirperformance which always do notremain within ethical limits; theorganizers fetch the maximum fromthe events they organize; the media,an essential part of any modernevent also avail of this opportunity toenhance their assets, and besidesthese components of the events inthe open, those underground makemerry from fixing results, black

marketeering of tickets and so on.It was no different with the WorldCup 2014. Let us see.

To begin with, let us check thegrossly evident instances. Theexpenses incurred and the sourcesinvesting have already beenmentioned. To add to these, withtheir coffers full of idle money, thecorporates availed advancedtechnology to create fabulouspropaganda hype over the megasports events. Hoardings andbanners displayed smiling icons ofthe field as well as the celluloid withmuch razzle-dazzle. Media ranamok. For nearly one month, almostthe entire print and electronic mediawere geared and steered to chant onand on the catchy slogans of theevents devoting a lion’s share oftheir space- time assets to cater theWorld Cup 2014 to their readers-cum-viewers. It was not justbecause of the popularity of thegame, by no means in keeping withthe spirit of genuine sports. It wasmore to create the adequate hypecommensurate with the investmentso that the market generated wouldfetch enough money to reap theharvest. Thus parallel to theschedule of matches of thetournament, there were accountsand analysis of which team andwhich encounter would draw howmuch spectators with how manytickets sold. And as has been thecase in the recent days, keen eyeswere set to see that with gradualweeding out of teams in the knock-out stage, the crowd-pulling teamsremained in the fray. The mediathus regulated the campaign for orsubtly against this or that team. TheFifa appeared to be equally vigilant.As soon as a team defeated twofavourite teams quite unexpectedly(though later the winning teamproved its mettle by winning a rankin the last 8, that is quarter-finalstage), the FIFA for unexplainedreasons, and going beyond its rulesof dope testing a few players of acontending team, summoned asmany as seven players of thatminnow, as they call upcoming non-favourite teams in the media, fordope test.

In any case these were all inthe open. There were casessprouting out from underground.May be, they had many suchequivalents not yet brought out, ormay not be. But there was at leastone serious case of match fixingthat came out, implicating an Africanteam to have deliberatelysurrendered for a clean defeat, andone of its important players gettinghimself sent off the game for a badfoul on an opponent. People cannot

rule out if there were not morecases.

In regard to tickets, black-marketeers, called the scalpers,knew no nation-boundaries. TheReliance Industries of India had toissue order for a probe on how andin what way could a bunch ofmuch-coveted and expensive tickets(worth a total sum of US$ 1.2million) bought by them through acompany that works with the FIFAend up in the Brazilian black marketof tickets. Reports were also thereas to the Brazilian administrationinvestigating whether footballfederations of three countriesincluding the host, were involved inthe illegal sale of world cup tickets.So money was flowing wildly, bothabove and below the ground. Andwhy should it not? Before the grandgala of WC2014 started there wereallegations already rending the airthat the FIFA choice of Qatar as thenext venue of the WC 2018 hasbeen effected in exchange of ahuge sum of money from the oilbarons of that country. So from theorganizers to the scalpers allseemed to be involved in makingmoney underhand.

Now about the players and themoney. It is now a well-known factthat the best players of differentcountries scatter around the world insearch of CLUBS to earn money.Sponsors, business magnates,corporates prowl about in theplayers market for fishing theirchosen players. Those should betalented, icons in the public eye andhence crowd-pullers. Fabulousoffers are made. So many kinds offees are in vogue, for transfer, forreleasing from a club, for lien etc.etc. The amounts are staggering;media enthusiastically report theauctioning; the clubs engagingplayers assert themselves as andwhen required. And even that maybe at the cost of their not releasingplayers to play for their countries.The players go on playingthroughout the season till they areexhausted. And the effect wasapparent in the WC 2014 too.Particularly with some traditionallypowerful countries, players seemedto be out of tune. It was thought,perhaps not too wildly, that longseasons were telling upon them;besides, different players of onecountry had been playing fordifferent clubs and their tightschedules prevented them frompracticing together for the WorldCup and their country. So theylacked cohesion and integration. Butafter all, the clubs provided themoney, which the World Cup or the

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football federations of differentcountries could not. So playerswere duty bound, rather money-bound to their clubs and not to thegames first and foremost.

Also it is our experience that towhatever sphere the corporates casttheir avaricious eyes, corruption andvulgarization follow hand-in-hand.The corporates in their bid to attracta larger number of spectatorscommodify sports and games. Theplayers are dressed in bright andgaudy garments with logos of thisbrand or that hailing the respectivecorporate-sponsors. Cheerleaders,reportedly recruited against heftyfees from different college anduniversity gymnastic groups aretrained and groomed to perform theirantics supposedly to entertain thespectators and boost up the playersand thus add to the glamour quotientof different mega sports events.World Cup 2014 did not havecheerleaders, but the Fifa and itsassociates found much morecommercially viable, that is crowd-pulling alluring means of engagingmodel celebrities to perform freelyand wildly to inaugurate or to drawcurtain over the games. The entiremedia and ad campaigns, sparingneither electronic, nor print, nor openair displays, were thicklyinterspersed with extremelyobnoxious images of scantily coveredwomen bodies in filthy gestures-postures- advances often in thename of performing arts, that couldonly repulse any normally thinkingperson with a minimum sense oftaste and ethics vehemently.

On this background, questions arebeing asked with eyebrows raised onthe Fifa talking of fair play and ethicsthat has become a sort of jokes or onthe standard and neutrality ofreferees appointed by the Fifa itself.The case of Qatar winning the bid forthe next venue has been mentionedabove. A few more instances maynot be irrelevant.

The Fifa had no option tobanning a well-known player fromthe rest of the games, after he hadbeen found clearly to be biting anopponent player. But neither the Fifanor any referee could take anotherrenowned player to task. He wasfound with an ever smiling face andseen patting on the shoulder of thereferee, but was also found to betaking fake dives one after anotherto wrench a penalty or a free-kick,admitting at the same breath that hewas an honest player and had takenone dive, but it did not affect thegame. Really however, he had

taken so many other dives some ofwhich might have affected thegames; yet he was never booked(incidentally in an earlier World Cupeven a player of Maradona’s staturewas booked for the same offence).

Then again it was wonderedhow could a goalkeeper take tototally illegal movements andsledging when a shot is being takenduring a penalty shoot-out (thusunlawfully maximizing his chancesof successfully saving the shot) in anas important game as of the quarter-final without being cautioned by thereferee ; how could a referee allow58 fouls to take place in anotherimportant quarter final matchbefore he drew a card for oneoffender; how could an offender doa foul in the same match thatturned out to have smashed avertebral bone of the victim and yetcould go scot free. In fact aspresently all data are stored incomputers, one wonders if the Fifashould look up for any record ofmore fouls in any earlier world cups

than the number of fouls made inthis WC2014, or uglier and morecontinuous use of brute physicalforce to thwart skill undertaken.

Such was the skeleton of theWC2014 below the skin of glitz andglamour. Conspicuously missingwere the flesh and blood: theexcellence, beauty and spirit of thebeautiful game of football. Whatwas once a good healthyentertainment has been shamelesslycommoditized, has been made amoney-making, money-flauntingextravaganza. To make its inroadinto people smooth, the mediacreated an ambience releasing theirthousand and one means to dupepeople with a artificial hype. Henceafter the curtains are drawn, thereal football-lovers should throw aquestion : Were they really satisfiedwith this vulgarly dazzling showdevoid of life, a caricature offootball. The Brazilians or for thatmatter people of any country maythink out loudly again: How arepeople, other than a few corporates

Down with corporate money vitiating sportsand games ! Revive beautiful football !

Contd. from page 5 and their associates, beingbenefitted with such obnoxiousshows of money, particularly whenfor so-called want of funds millionslanguish from lack of food, shelter,health facilities, education evenclean potable drinking water andpollution free air and such otherbasic amenities of life andlivelihood ! They can ask why inthe land of Brazil where football is apassion for people of all ages, menor women, and where a world cupwas being held with so muchgrandeur, marginalized people, youthand children aspiring to be footballplayers, Peles or Tostaos, arerebounded from the gates of thearena. It is so expensive, in its literalterms, that they have to remainsatisfied with their own miniatureworld cups organized by differentNGOs or benevolent individuals withvision. So, along with the demand ofreviving the spirit of football, peoplemay firmly shout the slogan: Downwith corporate money thus vitiatingsports and games!

ASHA (Accredited SocialHealth Activist) workers in the stateof Karnataka have gained severalbenefits recently by their protractedmovement. The state governmenthas declared last year, matchingincentive on par with the centralgovernment in its first budget owingto the relentless struggle by theASHA union. ASHA workers unionaffiliated to All India UTUC hasbeen continuously organizing seriesof successful movements for last 5-6yrs in Karnataka. Also thismovement was supported by manyeminent people belonging to differentwalks of life and thereby earnedimportance.

Nearly 30,000 ASHA havebeen trained & appointed by statehealth department. They areworking in rural areas of all thedistricts in Karnataka for the last 6-7 years under the centralgovernment programme of NationalRural Health Mission (NRHM). TheCM of Karnataka, in the 2013-14Budget said that the ASHA workersdoing yeoman service in the healthsector would be provided withincentive by the state government inaddition to what they receive fromthe central government. But afterorder was issued, matching grantwas not given to ASHA workers for4-5 months. Then perusing thesame, state leadership of the ASHA

Union took along several delegationsand ultimately government hasreleased the matching incentive. Inthis regard when state leaders of theUnion met state health minister SriU T Khader on June 18, 2014, longpending issues regarding providingmobiles and SIM cards, matchinggrant balance were settled. Thestate government has released asum of Rs. 2900/- matchingincentive to each ASHA workers.The minister also assured therelease of matching incentivebalance amount very soon. He alsotold that mobiles and SIM will bedistributed on world population day

Significant achievements of ASHA workers in Karnataka

in July. The state government hasalso appealed to the centralgovernment for hiking the matchinggrant which the state governmentshall follow suit. If this isimplemented, every ASHA will getRs.2200/- (Monthly) regularincentive plus the added incentivesbased on work (from centralgovernment) and the stategovernments matching incentive onpar with the central government.State Secretary of ASHA workersunion D Nagalakshmi and vicePresident of AIUTUC M N Sriramand other representatives from thedistricts were in the delegation.

Delegation of ASHA workers union meeting the Karnataka health monister

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AIMSSThe All India Committee of

AIMSS in two statements maderecently on 1 July and 3 Julyrespectively condemned thestatement of Trinamool CongressMP Tapas Paul as reported in themedia and expressed its reservationover the Supreme Court judgementthat the accused in dowryharassment incidents should not bearrested immediately as soon as thecase is registered, as practiced underthe Section 498 A at present, failingwhich would lead to contempt ofCourt.

The AIMSS observed that thethreat expressed by Tapas Paul toshoot down his political opponentsalso calling upon his boys to rape theCPI(M) workers, if anythinghappens to his mothers or sisters orhis political workers by his politicalopponents, the CPI(M) party, wasnot only anti-women but anti-civilization itself. Whereas politicaldifferences notwithstanding, decentpolitics calls upon for a seriouspolitical debate, politics whichdefends the injustice cannot butproduce such elements who canstoop to such low for the sake ofpower and pelf. The AIMSS calledupon all sections of people,particularly women to come out instrong protest against this statementof Tapas Paul and demands that heis severely punished.

The AIMSS, in the secondstatement, submitted that asadmitted by the Supreme Courtitself, 1,97,762 persons werearrested in 2012 under Section498A, among which charge sheetwas filed in 93.6% cases and theaccused were punished only in 15%cases. In the present patriarchal setup of our country, where crimes onwomen including domestic violenceare growing at an alarming rate, anychanges in laws require a seriousdebate and consensus involvinglegal experts, eminent personalitiesof our society, women’sorganizations, social activists. TheAIMSS urged upon thegovernments, both Union and state,to initiate this process and protectthe interests of women and upholdjustice.

North Bengal Tea PlantationEmployees’ Union

At the tragic death of 6 starvingtea-garden workers of the Raipurtea garden near Jalpaiguri innorthern part of West Bengal, closed

SUCI(C) carries on people’smovements across the country

Our Party SUCI (C), its different frontal organizations, as also unionsaffiliated to the AIUTUC have been sustaining movements across thecountry on people’s demands in regard to their life and livelihood. Thefollowing is a summary of reports made available in the recent times.

since 2002, Comrade TapanBhowmik, president of NorthBengal Tea Plantation EmployeesUnion, affiliated to the AIUTUC,pointed out in a statement on 27 Junelast, that over and above evokingsorrow the tragic deaths createdirrepressible wrath in the minds ofworking people of the tea plantationsas well as at large. Not only theadministration and the plantationauthorities remained criminally muteover a decade, despite repeateddemands to the past as well as thepresent state governments forcancelling the lease of the closedplantation, and taking it over by thegovernment, nothing was done.Instead the government was noteven paying the minimum wage for100 day work. Rather, they, as usual,are trying frantically to establish thatthe deaths are not due to starvation.Comrade Bhowmik humbly raisedthe question : Does the photographof the decimated body of a deadworker coming out in the media,depict in any way that he hadenough to eat. Hence the deathswere natural outcome of criminalnegligence and silence of theadministration including thegovernments. Comrade Bhowmikreiterated the demands of paying allthe due wages and continuing to paythe daily wage right on the day ofwork, of supplying essential fooditems to each family of the closedgardens under the Antyodaya Yojanaand arranging for regular medicaltreatment of the sick workers, andof taking over all closed tea –plantations scrapping their leases.

AIDSOIn a statement issued on 28 June

2014, the General Secretary ofAIDSO, Comrade Ashok Mishra,congratulated the students, teachersand non-teaching staff of DelhiUniversity in particular and commonpeople in general for the victory oftheir sustained movement for overtwo years against the introduction ofthe Four Year UndergraduateProgramme (FYUP) by theUniversity of Delhi ultimatelyeffecting roll back of the FYUP .He made it clear that despite allefforts from different quarters, thereshould be no confusion that it wasnot due to administrative measuresbut the pressure of movement whichcreated such a condition that FYUPhad to be rolled back. Themovement included a long series of

public meetings, campaigns at metrostations and public places, interactionwith the parents and studentscoming to DU to take admission,meetings with trade union leaders,women’s organizations, leaders ofdifferent political parties andsubmission of memoranda to thePrime Minister and the President ofIndia, etc. Initiated by left anddemocratic forces of the universitywhich included DUTA (DelhiUniversity Teachers’ Association)led by its president NanditaNarayana, Democratic TeachersFront (DTF) and students and youthorganizations like AIDSO, AISA,KYS, SFI, and later the PACHHAS,the rationality of the demands andthe logical opposition to the FYUPattracted eminent personalities andeducation loving people cuttingacross their political and ideologicalaffiliation. The all embracingpopularity of the movement andgrowing resentment within peopleeven compelled the ABVP, theNSUI and the INSO to line upagainst the FYUP.

The statement also condemnedthe autocratic atmosphere in DUthat crushes the autonomy ofuniversity by the universityadministration itself, as it takesdecision trampling underfoot theautonomy and rights of stakeholders of university and statutorybodies. Also undesirable andunfortunate was the directive of theUGC to get rid of this antieducation, anti-student FYUP.Though the students and teachersaccepted it warmly, they must alsobe aware that direct Governmentintervention or UGC directive cannotbe appreciated because those alsoruin autonomy of the university. TheAIDSO further drew attention ofthe students, teachers, the academiccommunity and the society at largeto the greater battle that lies aheadagainst the onslaughts of both theearlier Congress led UPAgovernment and the present BJPgovernment on the autonomy ofeducational institutions as well aspeople’s right to education throughthe policy of privatization andcommercialization of education ofwhich the FYUP was one of thefall-outs.Mumbai

Along with other parts of thecountry, Mumbai saw people’smovement. As a part of thecountrywide protest movementagainst rail fare and freight hike andalso against 30% compulsorydisinvestment and privatization ofrailways and PSU’s as well asrampant price hike, hike in fuel

prices, and other issues,demonstration was held on June 23,at Dadar East, Mumbai, by theMumbai Organizing Committee ofSUCI(C). Comrade ChhayaMukherjee, member CentralCommittee SUCI(C), in her addressto the demonstrators as well as thecommon people appealed toorganize themselves for futuresustained movement on theseissues. Comrade Anil Tyagi andComrade Jairam Vishwakarmawere among the others whoaddressed the gathering.

Mumbai also saw theobservance of the AIDYOfoundation day with greatenthusiasm from the youth andpeople of the megapolis held onJune 29, at Thane in Mumbai atSangharsh Nagar, Chandivali,Andheri (East). With ComradeKumar Kulashreshtha , memberThane Organizing Committee,SUCI(C) paying homage at thecolumn of martyrs of class andmass struggles, Comrade ManojSingh, AIDYO president presidingover the occasion and ComradeJairam Vishwakarma, organizer,AIDYO Maharashtra delivering theaddress as the main speaker, theprogramme was graced by theeminent archaeologist, historian andphilosopher as the Chief Guest. Themeeting was addressed by otherleaders too.

Moradabad, UPProtest movements against

railway fare hike, fuel price hike andother issues were held also atMoradabad UP, Seemapuri Chawkin Delhi and elsewhere.

UttarakhandAt Rudrapryag, one year of the

Uttarakhand disaster was observedin a meeting in memory of thevictims on June 16, at the initiative ofMedical Service Centre with theCouncillor Rajesh Natial speakingon the occasion. Also present wereDr. Anup Maity, Dr. AnshumanMitra, Comrade Tapan Dasguptaand others. Mukesh Semwel was inconduction. On June 17, a similarprogramme was held at Banshra-Viri area.

HaryanaOn July 9, at the initiative of Mid

Day Meal Karya Karta Unionaffiliated to AIUTUC, mid-day mealworkers held a demonstration atBhiwani, Haryana and submitted amemorandum to the Chief Ministerof the state through the DistrictMagistrate, demanding increase oftheir honourarium and againstcutting of the same during summerholidays etc.

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What would one call it? Strangecoincidence or handiwork of vestedinterest? Every time the state ofMaharashtra goes to poll, thecountrymen find prices of sugar andonion soaring. It had happened onearlier occasions. This time also,with the assembly election to thestate slated to take place in Octobernext, the people have begun feelingthe pinch. Sugar prices have alreadybeen officially raised by Rs 3 per kg.It is anybody’s guess how muchwould be the subsequent increases.Apart from the official increase,retail price at which the commonpeople purchase sugar in the marketsoars much more by factoring inmiddlemen cost, transport cost, stateto state entry tax and so forth.Similar is the case with onion.Already the upswing in the price isvisible. Even the government isapprehending that the price may goup to as high as Rs 100 per kg in thenext three months. There is alreadythe usual drill on the part of thegovernment to, what it claims, resistthe impending price rise by fixingexport price and imposing restrictionon import. But the people know thatall these measures are hollow,

simply playing to the gallery tobefool the masses. Prices will bejacked up by the sugar and onionbarons at their sweet will to makequick bucks because they wouldneed to fund the parties andpoliticians whom they intend to backin the assembly elections. It is anopen secret that the sugar and onionlobbies have their political agents inthe ruling parties. These agentsensure that the vested class interestof these sugar and onion barons isprotected and subserved. So, whilethese barons trigger price rise bycreating artificial scarcity or raisingbogey of insufficient monsoon, fall incrop production etc., the politicalagents of theirs in the governmentsee to it that they get away with itwith impunity. Thus while theproducer barons swell their coffers,their political agents in the Congress,NCP and BJP guarantee their pelfand power by squeezing the pocketsof the common masses reelingunder ruthless capitalist exploitation.What would the apologists of marketeconomy, reforms and globalizationcall this fleecing of the commonpeople, sugaronomics oronionominics?

Sugar and onion prices soaring onthe eve of Maharashtra elections

Would you believe it? Country’stop ten corporates have outdone thetop ten banks in treasury income.Incredible indeed! Treasury incomerefers to the earnings generated bydeploying surplus cash in bonds andother money market instruments inorder to maximize returns from idlefunds. Although the mainstay ofcorporate earning is sales income,for many companies a large chunkof profits comes from treasuryprofits. For banks, the key earning isnet interest income — the spreadbetween loans and deposits. In thecase of a cash-rich corporate likeReliance Industries, the treasuryincome at over Rs 8,000 crore ismore than a third of the total profit.“An analysis indicates a trend of anincreasing share of ‘other income’ ofnon-financial companies (NFCs),which is observed across sectorsranging from information technology(IT) to heavy machineries. TheseNFCs, aiming to use the huge cashbalances to improve their returns onassets, engage aggressively in‘financial’ activities (commonlyreferred to as ‘treasury operations’),and the ‘interest income’ of someNFCs exceeds the overall net profitof some banks,” said RBI in itsFinancial Stability Report releasedon Thursday. Bankers said thatmultinational corporations can

Corporates making money in treasury operationdeploy funds not only acrossdifferent asset classes, they canmove their money across the globedepending on where their operationsare. Some of them also takepositions in two different markets totap arbitrage opportunities. TheRBI has also expressed concernover the new trends of peer-to-peerfinancing (means lending money tounrelated individuals, or “peers”,without going through a traditionalfinancial intermediary such as abank or other traditional financialinstitution. This lending normallytakes place online) and crowdfunding (means collection of financefrom backers—the “crowd”—tofund an initiative which could be anonprofit e.g. to raise funds for aschool or social service organization,political i.e. to support a candidate orpolitical party, charitable e.g. fundinga critical operation, commercial e.g.creating a new product or financingcampaign for a startup company.)

What does it mean? It meansthat with the purchasing power ofthe people on a steady dwindle; thebig corporates having surplus capitalare diverting funds to speculationand financial operation to maximizereturn. Hitherto, the corporate fundswere making forays in speculativecapital market throughintermediation of Foreign

Odisha AIMSS protests Badaun rape caseAIMSS, Odisha State

committee organized a protestdemonstration at Bhubaneswar on6th June 2014 against the brutal gangrape and murder of two teen agedgirls at Badau of Utter Pradesh aswell as growing atrocities on thewomen throughout the country. Aprotest meeting presided over byComrade Binapani Das, Odishastate AIMSS president, was held

there. Among the speakers wereComrades Swayanprava Nayak,AIMSS State Secretary, ChhabiMohanty, Vice President andothers. All the speakers stronglycondemned the callous attitude ofthe U.P government and its Policetoward the ghastly incident anddemanded immediate arrest of allculprits and exemplary punishmentto them.

Institutional Investors (FIIs),Participatory Notes (PNs) and soforth. Now, with increasingparticipation in treasury operations,these corporates are virtuallydabbling into the area of banking andeven outperforming the latter.Besides, they are also taking part invarious kinds of online financingactivities which are now unfolding tomake passage for idle capital tomaximize return. In other corporateswhich are starved of market andfind no avenue for productive

investment are switching to financialactivities and taking over the role ofthe banks and financial institutions.And it is happening so fast that evenRBI could not but sound a word ofcaution as the banks might well bein a quandary if such things continueunabated. It is another façade ofcapitalist crisis as capital finding noscope for productive investment istrying to find a shelter in mostunrelated and mostly speculativearenas. (Source:— Times of India27-06-14)

Students’ demonstration in KolkataAIDSO organized a massive

well-decorated protest rally inKolkata on 18 June in demand forsolution of admission problem,restoration of the abandoned seats inmedical course, reintroduction ofpass-fail system upto Class VIII and

stopping of atrocities on women. Therally was led by Comrades KamalSai, President and Ashok Misra,General Secretary of AIDSO. Alsopresent were Comrades Sujit Ghosh,President and Anshuman Roy, Secre-tary of West Bengal State AIDSO.

IACC demands immediatestoppage of Israeli attack

on the people of GazaComrade Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary, International Anti-

imperialist Coordinating Committee (IACC) issued the followingstatement on 15 July, 2014:

IACC condemns in strongest terms Israel’s murderous air attackson defenseless Palestinian people of Gaza for over a week. Hundredsof people, mostly women and children, have been killed and thousandsare injured. Israel has been able to indulge in such vicious attacks onthe Palestinian people for more than 60 years because of the continuedsupport by the imperialist powers, notably USA. All along they havebeen helping Israel with military and financial aids and diplomaticsupport. The roots of the conflict lie in Israel’s illegal occupation of thePalestinian land, their rejection of the demand of a sovereign,independent Palestine state and their intransigence in the peace talks. The recent Egypt-brokered cease-fire proposal is a clever ruse topave the way for continued attack by Israel. The cease-fire proposalwas prepared without any consultation with Hamas. Hamas hasjustifiably rejected the proposal and demanded a more comprehensivesolution which would put an end to the Israeli attacks on the Palestinianpeople. The brutal air attacks by Israel are continuing. IACC demandsthat the barbaric Israeli attacks be halted and Israel be appropriatelypunished for its criminal acts. IACC echoes the Palestinian people’sdemand for sanctions against Israel for its decades-long illegaloccupation, flouting of international law, and construction of anapartheid regime. It calls for international boycott of Israeli goods.IACC asserts its solidarity with the Palestinian people in their heroicbattle against Israel and for their struggle for peace, justice and equality.

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waged the struggle: a relentlessstruggle round the clock. Inspired bythe teachings of Comrade ShibdasGhosh, an ordinary person likeComrade Pailan who used to sellrice in the market, worked as a tailorto earn a livelihood, conducted sucha great struggle silently to develophimself as an able communistrevolutionary. I am a witness to that.So is Comrade Ranjit Dhar sitting bymy side.

Now we have a good numberof educated comrades. ComradePailan is an example to them aswell. They have many things tolearn from him. Comrade Pailan hadan immense quest for knowledge.Not that he only laboured hard tolearn reading Party literature, healso struggled to assimilate theessence of the teachings enshrinedthere. What was the level of hisformal education? May be uptoClass III or IV or even less thanthat, I do not know exactly. But hewould not give up if he could notpick up or grasp anything. His wasa tireless endeavour to seekclarifications, answer to hisquestions from whomever he couldapproach. He even read Englishpapers. He would approach anEnglish-knowing comrade and askhim to translate in Bengali. Many ofyou do not know how ComradeDebaprasad Sarkar, President ofthis meeting, was initiated into theParty. Everyone in ComradeSarkar’s family is connected withthe Party. Many of them are Partyworkers. Comrade Sarkar was aschool teacher. He was a supporterof the Party. Comrade Yakub Pailanused to regularly go to ComradeSarkar for translation of our the thenEnglish organ, Socialist Unity. Incourse of that close association withComrade Pailan, ComradeDebaprasad Sarkar was drawn intothe Party fold and is today placed inthe high rung of leadership.Comrade Sarkar respectfullyacknowledges that even today.There is not a single Party literaturecontaining Comrade Shibdas GhoshThought which Comrade Pailan hasnot read repeatedly or not struggledto grasp the contents thereof.Marxism, Dialectical Materialism isa scientific philosophy. His grasp ofthe essence of this philosophy hadbeen so high as to make any of oureducated comrades bend head inshame. He had many discussionswith us. Whenever he met us, hewanted to know a wide range ofthings. From philosophy to politicalideology, national situation,

international situation, crisis ofinternational communist movement,danger of imperialist attack, dangerof fascism — his was a very highunderstanding about each of thesesubjects. He used to learnmeticulously. That is why I say thatI have seen the immense quest ofknowledge in him. In fact, he knewfrom Comrade Shibdas Ghosh’steachings that the power ofknowledge is the real power inproletarian revolution. He used toread any literature, Party organs likeGanadabi and Proletarian Eraimmediately on publication. He usedto struggle to understand nationaland international situations fromMarxist outlook. Whenever he metme or any other leader, he used toask question after question.Comrade Manik Mukherjee has toldme that Comrade Pailan had manydiscussions with him on art-literature. He was well acquaintedwith the works of Saratchandra,Nazrul, Bankimchandra andRabindranath. I would urge uponyou to note this struggle that hewaged as a person coming from avery poor family and having noformal education to go through theworks of such great litterateurs, andto develop himself as a truecommunist leader. You are awarethat in this district he built up amovement against installation of anuclear power unit and succeeded installing the same. At that time, heused to hold discussion with thescientists connected with the Partyand learnt the minutest details inregard to nuclear power. Thescientist comrades have told methat. Alongside undertaking so manyactivities, he toiled day and night tobuild up, safeguard and expandParty organization. But he neverquestioned when was he to find timeto read and study after attending toso many tasks. Work and study wereentwined in him. I particularly like tohighlight this very aspect ofrelentless cultivation of knowledgebefore the comrades of today.Whenever he was assigned a job,whenever he took upon himself anytask, he tried to discharge hisresponsibility with a firmdetermination and dream. He usedto work excessively hard. In fact, hewas engrossed in work. He neverbacktracked by saying that therewere difficulties, problems andobstacles. In the interest ofrevolution, one has to surmount alldifficulties, overcome all obstacles—such was the education he receivedfrom the Party. So ‘impossible’ wasa word unknown to him.

He landed in many dangersmany a times. One elderly comradewho might not have been able tocome today because of ailment, haswritten to me that once in acourthouse of the jotedar (ruralkulak) of Kankandighi, ComradePailan was tied to a poll and beatenmercilessly. Thereafter, he waspushed by the shoulder and forcedto cross the river. But he again wentthere, was again beaten severelyand chased away. And the managerof the zamindar’s estate who led theattack on him was one KeshtoGantait. Comrade Pailan had spokento Keshto Gantait about ComradeShibdas Ghosh’s teaching, teachingsof the Party even when he wasbeing physically assaulted. Thesame Keshto Gantait later became apillar of strength of the Party atRaidighi-Kankandighi area. I haveseen Comrade Keshto Gantait.Comrade Subol Sardar who oncewas the muscleman of the jotedars

(rich peasants) became a Partyorganizer after coming in contactwith Comrade Yakub Pailan.Comrades are reminiscing about allthese incidents with tears. You willcome to know about many suchincidents in the district of South 24Parganas. He always tried toestablish a relationship with the poorpeople who were provoked by thevested interest to attack him. Hemade them understand that this wasa movement of the poor and for thepoor. Why should they try to breaksuch a movement as agents of thezamindar-jotedar? Thus he wonthem over.

Comrade Sachin Banerjee andComrade Subodh Banerjee gavefoundation to Party organization inthis district. Comrades RabinMandal, Renupada Haldar, Amir AliHaldar and Nalini Pramanik hadprovided leadership covering a vastarea, built up Party organization. But

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Wherever were poor people with their wail and woe,Comrade Yakub Pailan was by their side

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Memorial meeting ofComrade Yakub Pailan

A memorial meeting of Comrade Yakub Pailan, veteran member,Central Committee and Secretary South 24 Parganas district, SUCI(C),was held at Sarat Sadan, Howrah, on 7 July. Comrade Ranjit Dhar,Member, Polit Bureau, presided over. At the outset, wreaths were placedat the portrait of Comrade Pailan on behalf of the various statecommittees and mass organizations. Then Comrade Provash Ghosh,General Secretary, Comrades Ranjit Dhar, Manik Mukherjee andKrishna Chakraborty, all Polit Bureau members, Comrades DebaprasadSarkar, C. K. Lukose, K. Radhakrishna, Gopal Kundu, Saumen Basu,Satyawan, Sankar Saha and Chhaya Mukherjee, all Central committeemembers paid floral tribute. Thereafter, Comrades Provash Ghosh andComrade Krishna Chakraborty delivered their speeches. Presidentialaddress was delivered by Comrade Ranjit Dhar.

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Comrade Yakub Pailan played ahistoric role in integrating the variousParty units so developed into theform of a well-knit districtorganization. He was the livewire ofthe district organization. Many ofyou know that in the big meetings,he never gave any long speech. Inthe workers’ meetings also, he usedto place the gist of the matter in fewwords. He never delivered any fieryspeech. He used to convey theessence in a very precise andeffective manner that touchedeveryone’s heart, inspired all.Because, his words came from theinnermost recess of his heart. Thewords which come from the bottomof the heart do penetrate deep intoone’s mind. Teachings of ComradeShibdas Ghosh, emancipationstruggle of the downtrodden,revolutionary movement, the task ofbuilding up and organizing SUCI(Communist), the genuinerevolutionary party of the proletariat— all these were, so to say,absorbed in his flesh and blood somuch so that his words came aliveand could touch people’s mind. Hegrasped proletarian class outlook sointensively that he could examineany issue, any question, anymovement, any aspect of life withease and effortlessly on the anvil ofthat class outlook. This grew as aninstinct in him. Very few of therevolutionary leaders could grasprevolutionary politics and outlook soprofoundly.

Comrade Yakub Pailan was inthe truest sense a fighter for thecause of the poor and downtrodden.Comrade Shibdas Ghosh used to saythat ‘nobler is the spirit that spurs onto revolutionary politics’. Thispolitics is born out of genuine loveand heart-felt affection of thehighest level for the oppressed poor.The very source of revolutionarypolitics is the tender heart for thepoor that is born out of thetransformation in the realm of valuesa revolutionary undergoes with theimprint in his mind of the pain andsorrow of the oppressed millions.Comrade Yakub Pailan had thistender heart. He might have gone toa village, visited someone’s house,spent some time under a tree, sat ina village market, accepted lunchinvitation of any mother or sister—everywhere and in everyone he lefta mark of this tender heart. A hugenumber of poor people of thisdistrict, who might not be Partyworkers, not even sympathizers butgeneral toiling people knew himintimately. Whenever in trouble, theyused to rush to him. They knew thathere was a person who would stand

by them at the hour of need, givethem good advice. There has beeninstance that husband and wifewhose relation was almost at thepoint of breaking had come toComrade Pailan with tears rollingdown their eyes. Many conflictsbetween brothers, between fatherand son were resolved by him.Many people acknowledge it eventoday. The affection and guidancethey received from Comrade Pailanrestored their relation, brought backthe lost sweetness of life. Generalsupporters also came to him with amind that whatever he would saywould be accepted. How could heearn so much of faith andconfidence of people? He earned itby virtue of his higher knowledge,character and tender feeling ofheart.

Once, after being released fromhospital, he came to stay for sometime at the Tollygunge Party Centrein Kolkata where I was stayingthen. He was not keeping well.Doctors advised him to go for astroll in the afternoon. I found aftersome days that some ladies whowork as domestic maids in thelocality were coming to him. Heused to listen to their tales of woewhen he met them during his stroll.They also understood in no time thathere was a man they could trust,have exchanges and seek guidance.He began visiting the adjacent slumareas and tried to build uporganization there. Did any leadertell him to do this? He never waitedfor any formal instruction from theleadership. Wherever were the poorpeople with their wails and woes,they found Comrade Pailan by theirside. How many of such leaders doyou find? I can say without anyhesitation that Comrade YakubPailan was a successful product ofthe teachings of Comrade ShibdasGhosh.

Comrade Yakub Pailan did nothave any personal property. Nor didhe have any personal wants ordesires. His only dream, onlymission in life was to free the poorpeople from the yoke of exploitation,to make proletarian revolutionvictorious, to develop and strengthenSUCI (Communist) based onMarxism-Leninism-Shibdas GhoshThought. He was tuned to this,bodily and mentally. His has been anunforgettable character.

This district gave us two greatrevolutionaries, two greatpersonalities in Comrades SachinBanerjee and Subodh Banerjee.After them, there was ComradeYakub Pailan, a rare strugglingcharacter. We are highly indebted tothe people’s movement of this

district, to the district Party for this.I want to make another point.

He was secretary of such a bigdistrict. He had thousands of hisfollowers who could go to jail, facebullets and batons at his words. Suchwas his influence and commandover the comrades. But the personwho wielded so much of influencehad not even an iota of pride. In him,there was not a trace of self-projection, egotism, immodestywhich holds back a person fromattaining high standard of character.Yes, his sense of prestige was veryhigh. He used to be upset if anyonedisobeyed the Party, disgraced theParty’s ideology. He faced physicalassault, harassment even humiliationwhile doing Party work. He neverfelt that his prestige is harmed. Buthe could not tolerate any dishonourto the Party, any anti-Party activity.It was no trivial a matter. Some ofthe leaders, whatever they mighthave been earlier, lose composureafter having name, fame and wideracquaintance. In our Party, there isa relentless struggle based onComrade Shibdas Ghosh Thoughtagainst such tendencies. There is acult in the Party to elevate the self,attain high standard of character.No one can elevate himself byindulging in falsehood, evadingresponsibility, undermining othersand projecting oneself. Such peopledo not stand out in history. There isa certain kind of people who possessenormous wealth in the form ofhouse, car, bank balance and hardcash. They are known as richpersons. But there is another kind ofpeople who too are rich—not interms of money but in terms ofhuman essence. They might havebeen poor for ages having noshelter, no food and died on thestreet. Yet they are persons ofworth. Their greatness lies in theirideological base. Comrade YakubPailan belonged to that genre. Onehas to learn this from his character.The word fearless is now not in thatmuch of use. Fearless means notbeing afraid of anything. ComradeYakub Pailan was a fearless leader.For the sake of revolution, emanci-pation struggle of the downtroddenand SUCI (Communist), therevolutionary party of the proletariat,he boldly faced all attacks andassaults, overcame all obstacles.Such was his revolutionary audacity.

He had no craving for name,fame, pride or greed for personalproperty. Now that he is no more,you can only find a couple of shirtsand dhoti that he wore. Even thosewere given by the comrades. Yes hehad something of his own which hehas left behind. He has left behind

the teachings of Comrade ShibdasGhosh with which he fought duringhis entire lifetime. He went farahead in identifying himself with theinterest of the poor people,revolution and SUCI (C), therevolutionary party. He attained avery high standard in this respectwhich many of our leaders are yetto achieve. It is not enough if onehas a teacher and guidance. It isimportant to ascertain how thestudent is conducting struggle basedon the teachings of the teacher; howis he applying the teachings in everywalk of his life. That is of primeimportance in so far as hisdevelopment is concerned. The waya blacksmith melts iron in his shop tomanufacture sword, ComradePailan had moulded himself in thefire of revolutionary struggle andcompletely changed himself basedon the teachings of ComradeShibdas Ghosh. His entire soul wasdedicated to the Party. Except theinterest of the poor and revolution,he had nothing else in his life. I havenot seen many characters like this inthe Party. I am immensely inspiredby him.

Comrade Yakub Pailan joinedthe party in 1949. I joined in 1950.He was 5-6 year older than me. In1951, I came to this district todevelop students’ organization. Heused to love me very much. We hadmany discussions. In course of time,I became the State Secretary of theParty. Now I am the GeneralSecretary. The Party has given methese responsibilities. But the sweetrelationship we cherished remainedever intact. There was so much oflove-affection-tender feeling-respect-compassion in thisrelationship of ours. All thesereminiscences are crowding mymind. So, I was feeling disturbed atthe outset in saying something abouthim. So much of memory, so manyincidents, so many discussions aresurfacing in my mind.

If the higher leadership issuedsome instruction or rejected any ofhis suggestions, he himself first triedto understand the reason. If he hadany question, he got it resolved bydiscussing it with the leadership. Buthe never used to discuss thosethings here and there. If he had anydifference of opinion with the higherleadership or higher body, heresolved it through discussion at theappropriate level. Never did heallow anyone to know about suchdifferences. Never did he discussissues anywhere other than at anappropriate forum. He first tried tounderstand the instructions and thenengaged himself in implementing the

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Remarkable was Comrade Pailan’s quest for knowledge

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decisions. If he failed to implementonce, he used to try again and again.His allegiance to the leadership wasbeyond question. He used to firmlyobserve Party discipline andrevolutionary code of conduct. Onthe one hand, he was very seriousduring work. On the other hand, heused to chat with the comrades,make jokes. But there was nothingtrivial. Everywhere he reflected ahigh cultural tone and had arevolutionary purposiveness. Thiswas possible because he possesseda very high cultural standard. If anyworker was found to be laggingbehind, falling victim to weakness orcommitting mistakes, he strove veryhard to rectify him with patience andaffection.

He received so many shocks,was profusely pained at so manythings. During the Congress regime,so many of his close comrades weremurdered. Under CPI (M)’s rule,151 Party workers including a leaderlike Amir Ali Haldar were killed.Even a young comrade like AshokHaldar was brutally murdered. Hewithstood all these pains and wasnever perturbed, never becameshaky. These deaths were severeblows to him but an electoral defeatnever hurt him that much. He wasan ardent student of ComradeShibdas Ghosh. He knew that oursis not a vote-based party. Our Partyemphasizes on struggle, movement,revolution. When elections are held,we participate out of the compulsionof freeing people fromparliamentary illusion. Ours is not aParty of MLAs, MPs and ministers.People of this country have seen alot of MLAs, MPs and ministers.Even today, they have been seeingso many. Both our Party and theCPI (M) have lost in the last LokSabha election. But has this defeatcaused a split in our Party? Haveany of our leaders left the Party?Have any of our Party committeesbeen dismantled? Have any of ourParty workers deserted the Party?But if you look at the media, youwould find that the CPI (M), thevote-based pseudo-Marxists whoruled West Bengal for 34 long yearsis disintegrating. Our Party is notlike that. Based on Comrade ShibdasGhosh’s teachings, Comrade YakubPailan knew that socialism wasestablished in Russia because of therevolutionary ideology and activitiesunder the leadership of Lenin-Stalin.Socialism was not achieved basedon the number of MLAs and MPs.The Chinese revolution wasaccomplished through prolonged

painstaking struggle under theleadership of great Mao Zedong, noton the strength of MLAs and MPs.Vietnam was not freed based on thenumber of MLAs and MPs. Thestruggling revolutionary battalions,the volunteer corps of emancipationorganized on the basis revolutionarycharacter, revolutionaryconsciousness of the poor oppressedpeople have brought about revolutionin these countries. Our Party issteeled in this education. So,Comrade Pailan was not hurt at theelectoral defeat. He was repeatedlypained when so many leaders andworkers reared and steered with somuch of efforts and diligence, weremurdered. When the mothers andwives of those murdered burst intotears before one, how does onefeel? Comrade Pailan had withstoodthat wrenching pain with anunswerving spirit of a revolutionary.He was immensely stirred with painbut never gave vent to that. This isnot so easy! In his struggle to attaina remarkable revolutionarycharacter, revolutionary ethics-culture-morality, he had advancedmuch ahead. All personal necessitieswere left behind. It was an all-embracing struggle. There was nocompromise, evasion orshortcoming.

He was not just a leader of theParty, he was a mass leader. I am amass leader delivering speeches inbig meetings, rousing the masses,developing movements. People areaware of that. They know me. Thisis one task. But the task of buildingup party organization is much moredifficult. Imbuing each and everyindividual with revolutionary theory,freeing them from self-centeredness,completely remoulding them, turningthem into soldiers of revolution andalongside building up committees,conducting those committees,implementing the programmes of theParty—these are the responsibilitiesof an organizational leader. This ismuch more tough and arduous.Many times there are mass leadersas well as organizational leaders in arevolutionary party. And though veryrare, there are mass leaders who areorganizational leaders as well.Comrade Pailan belonged to thisrare category.

In 1993, the criminals of the CPI(M) ran amuck in Maipith, killedpeople, threw the dead bodies intothe river, set houses on fire andraped the women. Hundreds of oursupporter families fled the area.Comrade Yakub Pailan rushed to thespot disregarding his old age. Hereached the place of occurrence. It

was 21 years back. But he wasquite aged at that time. Thecriminals of the CPI (M) attackedhim with bamboo sticks, mercilesslybeat him. He would have been killedthat day had not some of ourworkers embraced him from all thesides and took the beating on them.Why did he rush there? Because, hecould not stay back when thecomrades were under fierce attack.His health broke after that incident.Once he was in a good health. Youjust cannot imagine how hard hecould toil, tolerate any amount ofpain. I am a witness to that. He wasso big a leader but had no wants atall. Comrade Sudhir Banerjee hadgiven him a small room to stay inJaynagar. Prior to that, he used tostay in Durgapur. Before that, hisdwelling place was a mud house.He used to cook in an earthen pot.Four assembled pieces of brickconstituted his cooking stove. Heused to sleep on a small cot made ofropes. So long he could, he washedhis clothes himself, did not allowothers to do so. Till the time hishealth permitted, he cleaned hisroom himself with broom and wetcloth; never let others to do that forhim. I have seen all these with myown eyes. Not many days haverolled by since then. He used to doevery job as perfectly as possible.His shirt might have been torn atplaces but was neat and clean. Hewas very meticulous in everything.

He had immense love for theyounger people. His cousin, Safi,who is associated with the Party,addressed him as elder uncle. Hebecame universal elder uncle to allthe young folks of the district.Whenever the elder uncle wasavailable, he was surrounded by theyoung ones. He used to mix withthem very openly, without anyinhibition whatsoever. He used toawaken their conscience, rousedhuman essence in them by theregale touch of his profoundaffection. They could not say ‘no’ tohim. Initially, he had doubt whetherhe would be acceptable to theeducated people of Jaynagar town.But in course of his struggle, theeducated people of this veryJaynagar town, who were notconnected with our Party or evenbelonged to other parties, could notbut show deep respect to him. Hehad imbibed the teaching ofComrade Shibdas Ghosh that onehas to win others by completelyremoulding oneself. The entirestruggle Comrade Yakub Pailanconducted was for building up andstrengthening SUCI (Communist).

He continued that till he breathed hislast.

Once I had told him incidentallythat we had started a small hospitalin Medinipur. Why cannot he thinkof such a venture in this district? Hetook a big initiative. He dreamt of abig hospital to treat the poor at leastof cost. Comrade Nihar Mukherjeeasked him: When the governmentwas unable to run a hospital, howwould you? Later through hisefforts, the ‘Swastha Sadan’ was setup as a small centre of medicaltreatment. It was his creation. Hekept himself regularly informedabout the functioning of this smallhospital. He used to feel anxious ifany leader or cadre fell sick. Heregularly enquired how were they,where were they being treated,what treatment were they gettingand so forth.

He emerged as the guardian notonly of the Party but also of the poorand general masses. I know of anincident when there was disputebetween one of our Party workerand a worker of another partycentring on land. Comrade Pailanwent there. It was found that ourparty worker had committed wrong.Comrade Pailan ruled in favour ofthe worker of the other party. It wasnot that he supported our Partyworker. He never entertainedfalsehood, had no compromise withuntruthfulness. So many womenused to come to him, narrated theirtales of woe, reported to him theunrest they were facing in thefamily. They felt relieved after theywere lent an affectionate ear. Howmany such leaders could onehave?

So I was saying that all of us arefighting with the teachings ofComrade Shibdas Ghosh. We have toprove till death how far we have beenable to protect ourselves against anyslack, any deviation. But ComradeYakub Pailan has passed that test.He was a lifelong revolutionary. Inever thought that we would belosing him this time. He fell seriouslyill earlier also on several occasions.His breathing trouble was so muchthat he was put in ventilation. But hecame out of that. However, this timehe could not. Of late, he was stayingon the second floor of our districtoffice. Whenever we had come, heused to come down to the first floor.He used to give us red salute, we alsoreciprocated. So long we did not takea seat, he never sat. This was not justa respect to me, it was respect forthe Party. But this time when I camefor a meeting at Jaynagar Santi

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SUCI(C) calls the Railway budgeta blueprint of privatization,

calls for resisting itComrade Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI(C), issued the

following statement on 09-07-2014 :After imposing a steep hike in passenger fare and freight charges by

issuing administrative fiat bypassing Parliament, the BJP government hasnow presented a railway budget which is a blueprint of total privatizationof an all-important essential public service like the Railways. Not a singleproblem faced by the passengers issues like punctuality, propermaintenance of tracks, bogies and the stations, adequate safety fromtheft, burglary, prevention of frequent accidents as well as large scalemalpractices, nepotism, misappropriation and theft, has been addressed.No reference has been made to leash corruption which is making theRailways sick and starved of resources. Instead, there has been hollowboasting of so-called modernization, introduction of high speed even bullettrains and so forth. And for bringing about this much trumpettedmodernization, what has been prescribed is liberal inflow of ForeignDirect Investment (FDI) and wide adoption of PPP (Public privatepartnership) route. Opening the floodgate of privatization will triggerfurther shrinkage of job opportunity, massive retrenchment, morecontractualisation of regular jobs at lower wage and above all, hefty risein fare and freight charges at regular interval. Thus, under the camouflageof so-called modernization, the deck is cleared for extensive loot andfleecing of the passengers. This budget is also discriminatory in so far asgranting new trains and projects is concerned. Whereas Gujarat andKarnataka have received the lion’s share, other states particularly theEastern Zone have virtually drawn blank.

While condemning this most pernicious railway budget studded withfalse promises of modernization which is a camouflage to hand over theRailways to private operators to be run on commercial basis, we call uponthe countrymen to resist such out and out anti-people moves by assertingtheir power in the form of development of a countrywide powerfulmovement.

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Real value of our tears, our heart-felt respect will be realizedif we develop the Party he strengthened with flesh and blood

Sangha ground after a long period,Comrade Pailan came to groundfloor. He greeted me with red salute.I asked him why did he come downwith a such an ailing health. Then heagain came to the meeting atKrishnachandrapur of Mathurapur. Itwas raining. I asked Comrade NandaKundu why did they allow ComradePailan to come there. ComradeKundu told me that he was bent uponcoming. Then, I found him attendingthe meeting at Sikirhat of Kultali. Iwas wondering why was he takingso much of risk? Now after hisdemise, I could realize that he knewhis days were numbered. (voicechoked in emotion) His very comingdown to the ground floor to offer mered salute and attending the threeworkers’ meetings was for beingwith the comrades for the last time.(Voice once again got choked, hepaused a bit) I would not say muchmore today. The real value of ourtears, our heart-felt respect will berealized if we protect and strengthenthe great revolutionary ideology heupheld, the Party he built up withstruggle.

We are passing through a verybad time. Such a bad time had notcome earlier. This country hasproduced stalwarts like Vidyasagar-Vivekanada-Rabindranath-Sarat-chandra-Deshbandhu Chittaranjan-Subhaschandra-Nazrul. They had notseen so much of deterioration ofIndia. There are millions ofunemployed. Millions are dying ofstarvation, without any medical care.Unable to bear with hunger and beingenmeshed in debt burden, thousandsare committing suicide. The girls andhousewives of poor families areinitiated into flesh trade. Thousandsand thousands of women andchildren are being trafficked. Allthese are coming in the media. You

are aware of that. On the one handthere is so harrowing a crisis, whileon the other hand, the BJP and theCongress are vending deception ofdevelopment. By one stroke ofdevelopment, the railway fare andthe prices of diesel-petrol-kerosenehave been substantially hiked by BJPled government. On the other hand,there is drastic reduction in the taxesand duties payable by the Tatas-Ambanis. Arrangements are made toensure that the can draw any amountfrom the bank at minimum interest.The crores of rupees they have takenfrom the banks as loans are beingwaived. And there is one afteranother attack on the poor. You haveseen the 34 years of CPI (M) rule inthe state. You have witnessed howthe poor was oppressed, repressedand terrorized. The TMC came topower by talking of ushering inchange. Now you are experiencingwhat a change(!) has been broughtabout by it. Oppression-repression-terror is continuing as before. Andgravest of the crises is that of humanessence, human quality. The rulers ofthe country are striking at the veryroots of human essence, turninghuman beings inhuman. They arepushing the youth to drinking,gambling, talking indecently aboutwoman physique and all such otherwrongdoings and perverseproclivities. They are delinking themfrom the glorious legacy ofVidyasagar, Nazrul-Saratchandra-Subhaschandra, alienating them fromthe past. The impact is felt in thevillages also. Whole and soleconcentration is on money, securingmoney at any cost, from any source.Grab money from wherever you canand then eat, drink and be merry. Oldparents are driven out of home.Husband is murdering wife. Brotheris selling sister. Where is the bindingof religion? Which religion is fighting

Contd. from page 11 against all these malaises? Whichtemple, which mosque, which churchis raising voice of protest? But, thosewho once preached religion, valiantlyfought against oppression-injusticeduring that time. Comrade Pailanunderstood that it is only Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thoughtwhich can guide us in waging thisstruggle. So, if we are to pay respectto Comrade Pailan, we have tohonour this struggle of his, thestruggle in the midst of which hespent his entire life, exhaustedhimself. Try to know this ComradeYakub Pailan, get acquainted with hisstruggling life, remember him withreverence. An 85 year old personfrom Gopalgunge of Kultali, an oldfriend of Comrade Pailan, who couldnot come here has written a letter tome. In that letter he has urged uponme to see that the boys and girls ofhis family are associated with theParty. This is how the old comradesare thinking to save their children.

I want that greater number ofComrade Yakub Pailans, ComradeAmir Ali Haldars and valiant fighterslike them are born in each of your

families. Develop yourselvesaccordingly. Develop the Party, savethe Party, strengthen the Party.Comrade Yakub Pailan had a dreamof working in a new place.Repeatedly, he requested the Partyto allow him to do so. During thefirst Party congress, he sent thisrequest to Comrade NiharMukherjee through me. He said thatthe district of South 24 Parganascould function without him. Hewanted to go to some place whereParty activities had not started. ButComrade Nihar Mukherjee told him:This district needs you more. Wewant comrades like this who areready to venture in unexploredareas. Conveying heart-felt respectto him, remembering him withreverence presuppose that we try toacquire these qualities of ComradePailan. It means that one ought tofight lifelong to become a truestudent of Comrade Shibdas Ghoshas did Comrade Pailan. I hope all ofyou will come forward and takepledge to pay due respect to him byemulating the example he has setbefore you. With this, I conclude.

Demonstration by the SUCI(C) at Joint Labour Commissioner Office,Siliguri on 4 July against starvation death and plight of tea plantation workers

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