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Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) dependent model of development which is eroding employment and domestic demand. Ruling classes are also trying to sharpen their attack on the people, workers and peasants. They have enacted more black laws and further sharpened their repressive machinery, police and paramilitary forces, employing paramilitary forces and even military in suppression of the peoples struggles at home. For intensifying these anti-people policies and their anti-people rule, the ruling classes are also sowing illusions about their reforms. And besides reforms and repression, they are also intensifying their drive to divide the people on communal and parochial lines unleashing violence against minorities and bringing about communal polarization for electoral gains. As their policies are getting more and more naked, so their conspiracies are becoming more and more brazen. Under their rule people are groaning under high price rise eroding their meagre incomes and under all pervading corruption, but rulers have neither the willingness nor the desire to address the basic causes of these. Aware of the deep alienation of the common people, the ruling class parties, their main leaders, contenders and pretenders to the throne, are all pitching themselves as outsiders to the present power though they are products and beneficiaries of the same. They are talking of various issues only to deflect peoples anger against these classes and their political representatives. They are calling for change, but their call for change is basically to preserve and renew the status quo, this rule of big capitalists and big landlords. There is need to see through their virtual change or makeover change and build struggle for real revolutionary change. There is a need to shed illusions about the wares they are peddling in the electoral market and reject their sham change. There is need to utilize these elections to reject ruling class parties and their hollow promises and advance the struggle for revolutionary change which can change the life conditions of overwhelming majority of people, peasants and workers, dalits and tribals, religious and national minorities, women and youth, aged and disabled, all common people of India. Only communist revolutionaries stand for such a change while all ruling class and revisionist parties want to perpetuate the present anti-people system. The election system is tailored to the interests of ruling classes, with full scope for the use of money, muscle power and media controlled by them. Election Commission exhorts the people to vote, spending huge

CPI(ML)-New Democracy Call to The People for Loksabha Elections

Vote and Elect CPI(ML) New Democracy Candidates! Reject Ruling Class and Revisionist Parties!
Anti-people Rule
Elections to 16th Lok Sabha scheduled in April-May 2014 are taking place at an important juncture. Over two decades of the implementation of the new economic policies of globalization, liberalization and privatization have played havoc with the Indian economy and brought sufferings to the overwhelming majority of the people. Economy is facing deepening economic crisis evidenced by falling growth rate, near stagnant agricultural production, stagnation and decline in industrial production particularly manufacturing, rising external and internal debt burden, falling value of rupee and runaway inflation. Increasing hardships of people are evidenced by declining purchasing power, declining food grain availability, increasing unemployment, high rise in the prices of essential commodities, continued suicides by peasants, continued starvation of the rural poor, rampant malnutrition and anaemia and most of the essential services going out of the reach of common people. While people are struggling against the increasing burden and the attacks on their livelihood, ruling classes are trying to further intensify the implementation of new economic policies, handing over mineral wealth of the country to MNCs and corporate houses, grabbing land and water for SEZs and industrial corridors to serve foreign and Indian corporate, further opening up different sectors of economy to foreign capital and further increasing the burden on the people. They are cutting expenditure on social sectors and distributing freebies to corporate. They are following FDI

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money for this but makes the elections so costly as to take them out of reach of the common people and of organizations fighting for their cause. EC has increased the expenditure limit for a parliamentary candidate to 70 lakh rupees. Ruling class parties obviously have no objection because it is anyway only a fraction of what they spend on elections. EC has ruled out inexpensive means of propaganda thereby increasing importance of expensive means which are out of reach of the common people. Such blatant use of money power and means of propaganda bought through it e.g. media, make the whole exercise coloured and unrepresentative of peoples will and interests. Any way the election system is highly undemocratic. Parties polling only a fraction of votes are able to become masters due to lack of proportional representation. Candidates elected turn their back on voters as they cannot be changed till the next elections as there is no right to recall. There is no mechanism to force the parties to honour their election promises.

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) maximum use of chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides, they have led to falling rate of growth with successive increase in inputs leading to lower rate of growth in production while soil and water have become toxic. Indebtedness of peasants is increasing. Workers are suffering from increased attacks on their jobs and rights. There is increased contractualization of work force even in Govt. departments and organized industries, with low wages and no rights. Job insecurity comes in their way to secure their rights and free unionization is not permitted. In unorganized industries employing nearly 93% of the workers, labour laws are not implemented. There is no job security while social security is absent. Labour law implementation machinery has been trimmed and diverted. Wages of these workers are low, ESI and PF nearly absent. They live mostly in bustees and jhuggis with overcrowding and no basic amenities. Even these are demolished in the name of beautifying cities. Condition of migrant workers is most horrifying. Mineral wealth of the country is being gifted to foreign and domestic corporate while peasants, mostly tribals, are being forcibly displaced from their land and means of livelihood. No attempt is made to develop education, health, employment opportunities and to provide remunerative prices for forest produce. Tribals land, livelihood, habitat and cultural life is being attacked in the name of development while they are forced into menial labour and migrate to far off places for employment. While destroying their means of livelihood, attempt is to absorb them into lowest rung of society, as a source of cheap labour. Though there are a number of laws, but dalits continue to be exploited and oppressed. They do not have possession over the land for which they had got pattas and even homestead land is not given. They are continuously attacked and their property destroyed if they resist the oppression of landlords. Even higher judiciary sides with landlords in such cases. Dalit girls have to face sexual violence from upper caste henchmen of landlords. Even reservation in Govt. services is not properly implemented while there is no reservation in private sector. Caste chauvinism of upper castes continues to weigh down upon them. Minorities, particularly Muslims, are subjected to attacks by Hindu communal forces aided by the police and state machinery which is deeply communal. Attacks on Muslims, their lives and property, is part of the

Deterioration in condition of the people

What has their rule brought to the people? Only misery, privation, destitution, poverty and backwardness. Ruling classes have abandoned land reforms and even the land distributed earlier is mostly on paper. Landless poor peasants and agricultural labourers are not given possession of the agricultural land allotted to them nor even homestead land. Bhoodan lands which were meant to be distributed to landless, are being grabbed by rich and powerf ul. They suf fer f rom rising unemployment and underemployment. Rural employment guarantee scheme is low on coverage with only 15% of those covered getting 100 days of employment. It has low wages and is high on corruption. Tenant peasants have no right over the land. They get no loans for agriculture, their produce is not purchased by Govt. at MSP and they get no compensation in case of displacement and natural calamities like drought and floods. Landowning peasants, particularly small and medium, suffer from neglect of agriculture by the Govt., high cost of inputs and relatively lower prices of agricultural produce. They are not able to employ advanced means of cultivation. In major part of the country agriculture continues to be rain fed and carried on by backward means. In areas where capitalist methods of agriculture are being employed on extensive scale, areas of Green Revolution, on the basis of maximum exploitation of soil and water and

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game plan of these communal forces for communal polarization in their bid for power as witnessed recently in Muzaffarnagar. So-called secular parties of ruling classes on the other hand do practically nothing to defend lives and properties of minorities, only dole out paltry compensation after the mayhem. They consider that Muslims must vote for them as they profess secularism and they keep leaders of Muslim religious organizations in good humour. These leaders try to keep the Muslim masses insulated from the broad democratic struggle of the people. Educated Muslim youth are being targeted, falsely implicated and incarcerated for long period under the charges of terrorist attacks. Communalization of police and administration comes into the open in every case of violence against minorities. And due to their involvement, it becomes difficult to ascertain the guilty based on police and administrative records. Such has been the case in genocide of Sikhs in 1984 in Delhi and elsewhere and in mass killings of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and many other cases. Sexual violence against women is increasing and so are increasing protests against them. Patriarchy continues to push women to lower status in society prescribing to them dress codes, behaviour and vocation. Women continue to face inequality and discrimination in families and society, sexual harassment at work place and sexual assaults in rural areas and cities. Negative attitude of the Govt., police, administration and judiciary comes into open display in cases of sexual violence against women. Ruling class parties shout for enhancing punishment to culprits ignoring that even the prescribed punishment is not given to them. Rural poor women, mostly dalits, are common victims of sexual assaults by landlords and their henchmen, even middle class professionals are subjected to attacks, and even by the high and mighty. Women, particularly middle class professionals, are coming forward to lodge their complaints and seek redressal. But the Govt. has formed a law against sexual harassment which is designed to discourage complainants. There is decreasing employment of women particularly in organized sectors. Rising unemployment is the cause of frustration among the youth. Ruling classes are promoting lumpenization of youth and ruling class politicians, bureaucrats and police officers have been accused of running drug rackets. These parties make youth fodder for their nefarious designs rather than making them contribute to the progress of society and country. Education, particularly higher education, has gone out of bounds for the

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) children of common people with high fees and other costs of education. Functioning of Govt. schools is deliberately neglected by the Govt. to promote private schools. This dual or multiple education virtually debars wards of common people from professional courses and high jobs. Govt. is tailoring syllabi and curricula of Indian universities to promote the entry of foreign universities in India. Similarly, health services have been privatized taking them out of the reach of common people. New Govt. hospitals are few while all facilities are being accorded for the private hospitals whose care cannot be availed of by even middle classes leave alone poor masses. Rise in the prices of essential commodities has been in double digits over the past five years reducing real value of common peoples meagre incomes, pushing common people into malnutrition and related diseases while the producers of these commodities, workers and peasants, are not given the benefit of these high prices, whose profit is pocketed by black marketeers, hoarders and big business. Govt. taxes contribute significantly to the high prices of essential commodities, particularly taxes on petroleum products. Even the Govt. has accepted that two thirds of Indian people need support to meet food needs. But the Govt. provision in Food Security Act has been to reduce the entitlements while somewhat increasing coverage. Only Rs. 1,15,000 crores have been marked for operationalizing the FSA while according to reports, Rs. 1,13,000 crores were already being spent under this head. Corruption in high places has been the identifying mark of the UPA II Govt. in whose tenure many big ticket corruption scandals have been exposed. Commonwealth Games, 2-G, Allocation of coal blocks, Adarsh Society scam, NHM scam, KG basin scam are just a few among them while several reports have highlighted loot and plunder of mineral resources in Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Karnataka and Goa. A powerful nexus of ruling politicians, bureaucrats, corporate and even media barons has been busy robbing the country. These exposures have led to widespread anger among people, particularly middle classes. Huge black money of India lies in tax havens and even the names of those holding such huge black money are not disclosed. Black money estimated to be between $1.5 trillion to $3.5 trillion has been taken out of the country. Besides doling out precious resources, the Govt. has been busy giving

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freebies to corporate while lamenting the subsidies given to poor. The fact is that the tax rebates given to corporate alone are more than three times the total expenditure on so-called subsidies for the poor i.e. on food, fuel and fertilizers. And these too have been cut. While the lot of the people is worsening, Govt. is increasing expenditure on instruments of repression. Police and paramilitary forces are the only Govt. services where recruitment is continuing. Expenditure on police, paramilitary and military forces has been continuously enhanced and they are being increasingly used to suppress struggles of the people, particularly revolutionary struggles of peasantry. There is increasing police interference in workers struggles and fake criminal cases are routinely foisted against the activists of democratic organizations and participants in democratic struggle. AFSPA continues in Northeast and J&K giving immunity to Army personnel against prosecution for wrongful acts. Govt. and the Army has been opposing the demand for withdrawal of AFSPA.

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) policies excluding overwhelming majority of people from growth and making them worse off. BJP is parading Gujarat model of development which is all out service to big capitalists with low wages, forcible displacement of peasants and loot of public exchequer while depressing conditions of poorer sections. Regional parties of ruling classes like Akali Dal, DMK, AIADMK, SP, BSP, RJD, JD(U), Trinamool, AGP, TDP, YSR Congress, TRS, JD(S), BJD, NCP, Shiv Sena, INLD, JMM and revisionist parties like CPM, CPI have no basic differences with main parties of ruling classes on new economic policies and other basic issues. Newly formed AAP too supports corporate. No basic change is expected from these parties. CPI(ML)-New Democracy places the following agenda before the people of the country. 1. To address the deep seated economic crisis, basic change has to be brought about in the economic structure. For this the influence of foreign capital from imperialist countries which obstructs the development of productive forces, robs India of mineral resources and cheap labour and dominates our production system and markets, has to be eliminated. The comprador big capitalists of India act as junior partners of imperialist foreign capital which robs the country and its people. The dependence of Indian industry on the machinery imported from these countries has to be eliminated. Export of mineral wealth of the country as well as of semi-finished low value goods has to be stopped. 2. India has the natural resources, technical knowhow, vast labour force and capital resources to pursue independent growth depending primarily on domestic demand. Dependence on foreign capital is not due to lack of these but due to comprador character of our big capitalists. Support to be extended to handicrafts, cottage industries and small industries in terms of market access and loans. 3. Mineral wealth of the country is to be used only for the needs of the people and all mining agreements with foreign and domestic corporate to be scrapped. Entry of foreign capital is to be barred from different sectors of economy including retail trade, banking, insurance, defense production, telecom, communications, media, basic services and heavy industries etc. 4. To meet the energy needs of the country, priority to be given to

CPI(ML)-New Democracys Call

Ruling class parties are not only responsible for the present abyss, they have no way to come out of this. They stand for more and speedier implementation of the policies which have resulted in the present precarious situation. They want to further open Indian economy to foreign capital, attract FDI at any cost, pursuing FDI led rather than domestic demand led growth model, preserve the semifeudal agrarian relations while promoting imperialist dependent agricultural growth model, keep terms of trade adverse to agriculture and promote profits of MNCs and corporate in seed, fertilizer, pesticide industry, reducing workers wages and benefits, privatizing health, education and other basic services, advocating that facilities to corporate will result in increasing production, increasing employment and improving conditions of people. Last over two decades have proved the fallacy of these arguments and now the ruling class parties are repackaging these failed policies. To camouflage the ill effects of these policies they are resorting to half truths and plain falsehoods. People should see their iron claws behind their velvet gloves, their service to enemies of people behind their promises for the people, bankruptcy of their policies behind their clamour of development, their devouring of the common people behind their claims to be the saviours of people. Ruling Congress is talking of inclusive growth but has implemented

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developing sustainable and environment friendly sources which are plentiful in India like solar energy, wind energy, tidal waves etc. Nuclear plants are not to be opened and plants based on fossil fuel and coal to be run with strict safeguards ensuring no harmful effects on agriculture and health of the people. Free electricity to be given for domestic use of common people, for agriculture and for handicrafts and cottage industries. 5. Lot of workers to be improved, their labour rights guaranteed, contractualization to be stopped and they regularized with application of reservation. Provision of low cost good housing to them near place of work. All workers to be extended basic facilities, social security including pension benefits and rights by the Govt. particularly to those in unorganized sectors and even self-employed. Their work is part of national labour deserving recognition and care. 6. Key to development of the country is development of agriculture in which three fifth of work force of the country is engaged and on which depends the well being of nearly three fourth of the population living in villages. Semifeudal agrarian relations have to be dismantled to free the vast productive forces in the countryside and unleash the real revival of Indian villages. Radical land reforms to be carried out implementing land to the tiller. Immediate possession of patta lands to be given to landless poor who have been allotted pattas. Legal protection to landlords saving their land, holding up vast land in legal disputes and illegal occupation of common lands by them has to end. Liquidation of semifeudal relations in the vast countryside will bring the real change in India and end the domination of this parasitic class in rural areas. Tenant peasants are to be compulsorily recorded and granted ownership rights on landlords lands. All landless poor peasants to be provided agricultural land and also homestead land along with adequate money for construction. Wages of agricultural labourers to be increased, their timely payment ensured and all steps to improve their conditions to be taken. 7. Agriculture has to be helped not only to improve the lot of peasantry, particularly small and medium peasants, but also to develop food security of the country. Indian agriculture can sustain many more than Indian population if Indian agriculture is helped. Costs of inputs

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) to be decreased and modern implements to be provided to small and medium peasants on reasonable rates in the villages by the Govt. run machinery stations. Irrigation to be developed particularly small and medium irrigation projects which do not entail displacement and cause least damage to environment. 8. Imperialist dependent agricultural growth model to be abandoned and agriculture to be developed based on the concrete conditions of India. Indiscriminate high use of chemicals not to be promoted. Indebtedness of peasantry, particularly small and medium peasants, to be addressed. Their loans are to be waived and measures taken that they do not fall into debt. 9. Remunerative prices for agricultural produce to be fixed as MSP and Govt. to procure at MSP. MSP to be declared for all agricultural produce and produce purchased by the Govt. 10. No land to be given to MNCs and no agricultural land to be given for industrialization, real estate business etc. in the name of development. SEZ Act to be repealed. 11. Special emphasis to be laid on development of villages, on providing all facilities and on bridging the gap between cities and villages. Appropriate industries are to be developed in villages and their communication improved. 12. Provision of education including higher education, technical education etc. is the duty of the Govt. All children to be provided free and universal, good and scientific education and multiple standards of education to be eliminated. Similarly, Govt. is responsible for providing good health care and to effect that Govt. hospitals should be opened in sufficient number. 13. Everybody is to be provided essential commodities at cheaper rates. PDS to be strengthened. To check the rise in prices of different commodities indirect taxes to be abolished particularly on petroleum products. 14. Corruption to be eliminated and rights of all people guaranteed in time bound manner. Assets of corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and corporate to be confiscated. Names of those having accounts in

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foreign tax havens and NPAs in Indian banks to be made public. Black money to be brought back to the country. Corruption in Govt. schemes is to be eliminated with exemplary punishment to guilty officials. 15. India suffers from various types of social exploitation, oppression, discrimination and violence. Caste oppression of dalits and backward classes is to be eliminated and those guilty of attacks on them to be promptly and efficaciously punished. Their lands in the illegal occupation of landlords to be restored to them. Non implementation of reservation to be made criminal offence. Reservation to be extended to dalit Christians. 16. Tribals to have rights over forests and its produce. Their rights for podu cultivation to be granted and remunerative prices for forest produce are to be given. Tribal languages are to be protected and developed. All facilities are to be extended to tribal areas. 17. Protection of person and properties including land of minorities to be guaranteed. Officials under whose charge attacks on minorities take place and who are found guilty of dereliction of duty to be charged as complicit to violence. Those found guilty of communal discrimination to be removed from police and administration. Job opportunities and bank loans are to be provided to minorities. Protection of their places of worship is to be guaranteed. 18. Punishment to those guilty of sexual violence is to be ensured. Efficacious laws to prevent and punish sexual harassment at work place are to be enacted and implemented. No need of Govt. sanction to prosecute officials including those of Army in charges of sexual assault. Women to get equal share in paternal and in laws property. 50% jobs and seats in all Govt. services and institutions to be guaranteed for women. 19. Appropriate employment to all youth and unemployment allowance at the rate of living wage to all unemployed. Those guilty of running drug rackets are to be punished. Free travel facilities for job examinations, interviews, tests etc. to be provided. 20. No entry to foreign universities. Opening new and good educational institutions at all levels to fulfill the needs of Indian students and

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) society. 21. Democratic aspirations of people of all nationalities and regions e.g, J&K, northeast, Gorkhaland, to be respected including their right to self-determination and their democratic rights guaranteed. AFSPA to be repealed. 22. All black laws including UAPA, NSA etc. to be repealed. Fake cases to be scrapped and those guilty of foisting them to be punished. No police interference in labour disputes. No paramilitary deployment in areas of peasant struggles. No employment of military and paramilitary forces against Indian people. All political prisoners are to be released and ban on revolutionary organizations and mass organizations to be withdrawn. All democratic rights of the people to be guaranteed and their infringement punished. 23. Arms Act to be abolished and right to carry arms for self-defence to be recognized. People to have right to prosecute police and admn. officials for suppression and illegal imprisonment and no necessity of Govt. sanction for the same. All parochial and archaic laws to be repealed. 24. Strategic partnership with US imperialism to be scrapped. No participation in PSI, in US led moves directed against other countries. Relations with Zionist Israel to be stopped. Support to all nations sovereignty, their struggle against imperialist domination and subversion. India to have an independent foreign policy and stand with third world countries against imperialist dominated present world order. 25. Friendly relations with all neighbouring countries and no big brotherly attitude towards any of our small neighbouring countries. All attempts at whipping up chauvinist propaganda against neighbouring countries to be rejected and relations of friendship and mutual benefit to be developed. 26. The present electoral system is flawed and tailored to suit the interests of big capitalists and big landlords and needs to be changed. (i) Role of money and muscle power to be eliminated.

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(ii) (iii) (iv) (v) All officials of the state to be elected by the people. Any official can be recalled by the people for non-fulfillment of duties, corruption or any anti-people activity. Parties to be made liable to implement their election promises. If NOTA votes are more than that of highest polling candidate, the election to be held again and the contesting candidates and their parties to be disqualified for re-election. Election system to be changed so that support of the people is reflected in the number of elected representatives.

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Mu zaf f ar na gar : Com muna l O n s lau ght on Minorities exposes Opportunism of Revisionist Parties and so called Secular Forces

Protests by Victims of State Abetted Anti Muslim Violence

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Muzaffarnagar's anti-Muslim violence has several lessons. One, it was brazenly organized by Hindutva forces, the RSS and BJP, in a planned manner and with strong support from the local administration. The plans were made well in advance and anti-Muslim propaganda began long before the incident of August 27, 2013, which was utilized by the Sangh Parivar. Two, it happened under the watchful governance of a secular parliamentary party claiming to be committed to protecting Muslim interests. This was not the first under the SP rule, but a culmination of several such incidents in the state since the SP came to power. Three, there has been naked display of sustained state connivance in criminal attacks on Muslims. In such incidents, often the state has adorned the role of saviour of the victims after a few days of violence, but that did not happen in Muzaffarnagar. Four, the state machinery has shamelessly attempted to isolate and ghettoize the Muslim population by seeking written commitments of their staying away from and giving up claims to their own homes and properties as a precondition for state compensation. The administration, politicians and religious representatives, all have connived to inflict this insult on the injured. Muslims have been left demoralized, helpless and under pressure to obey the diktats of their religious leaders close to SP, who have benefitted most from the relief. Five, the govt. openly handed over relief work to minority religious leaders subservient to it, washing its hands off accountability in providing relief. It has steered clear of providing relief and also from providing confidence to the victims which would have come along with such efforts of the state. In fact the state administration, by not being involved in relief, demonstrated

(vi) Dear Citizens,

CPI(ML)-New Democracy is placing the above programme before you for the coming parliamentary elections and calls upon you to support this programme by voting and supporting the candidates put up and supported by the Party. Communist revolutionaries alone can implement this agenda and carry forward struggle on this agenda. They alone are the forces of real and revolutionary change. CPI(ML)-New Democracy is committed to this agenda and pledges to carry forward struggle for revolutionary change. Vote and elect Partys candidates to forcefully raise these issues. It is obvious that ruling class parties including revisionist parties cannot and do not support these points so vital for peoples interests. Hence, CPI(ML)-New Democracy calls upon you not to be misled by their bogus promises and their talk of change which is to maintain anti-people status quo. So, reject these parties. March 25, 2014 Central Committee, CPI(ML)-New Democracy

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its lack of concern for the victims and gave support to the violators of law and order. Six, these attacks have been orchestrated purposefully to serve divergent electoral interests by driving communal polarization in UP and have resulted in full display of secular opportunism of major parliamentary parties. Important leaders of BSP, RLD and Congress were seen openly siding on either side during the early phase of communal mobilization. This should be a further eye opener for people when methods of rule are worsening under the drive to deepen pro-imperialist reforms, when ruling classes are unable to rally people around their reforms and governments are under pressure from imperialist institutions to further deprive people of their meagre facilities and means. Seven, the administration and police have been quite brazen in their support to Hindutva and have played a big role first in permitting the venomous anti-Muslim propaganda and then in the conduct of these attacks and killings. So much so that, when questioned, the officials of the district openly blamed a section of the political class for having lent a helping hand to Muslims! In totality these events again forcefully highlight the nefarious, divisive designs of parliamentary parties in sharpening communal cleavage for perpetuating their class rule in which Muslims have been at the receiving end since 1947. The attacks in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli, planned over a long duration in gatherings which should have been charged for spreading communal hatred, were permitted under the watchful eyes of the law enforcement machinery from end August to mid September in full force and are continuing as per need till date. They left more than 50,955 persons displaced, living in 11 camps. With children dying in the cold and NGOs and others moving the Supreme Court, the state govt. was under question. It responded promptly, first swore on affidavit in the court that the camps have been wound up and all victims have been compensated and later on it moved menacingly to evict the victims and fulfil its declaration. While sections of the media reported the continuing pathetic conditions in the camps, lack of civic amenities, children dying, people unable to go back home for fear of the criminals roaming free etc., the administration worked overtime to remove all remains of the camps. At that time more

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) than 20,000 persons were still in the camps. The state govt. promised immediate compensation to those who would voluntarily leave immediately. Some moved out into adjacent plots and dried up pond land. Such was the govts impatience that the remaining were literally bulldozed, their pitched tents and meagre belongings mercilessly uprooted and thrown out as garbage. All this was on display on electronic channels and press photographs. Few days later all these persons returned, with and without belongings, as they actually had no where to go. While various teams of intellectuals, media teams, NGOs, Human Rights Organizations, Minorities Commission, Womens Commission, political parties came, surveyed, sympathized and went away, the conditions in the camps did not improve. More deaths occurred and people continued to survive somehow, in the cold and lashing winter rain. None were able to make the administration take responsibility for the provision of relief. Most restricted themselves to distributing some alms. Post violence, the continued apathy of the administration has been the single biggest factor leading to the pathetic misery of these victims. Our party, CPI (ML) ND, mobilized its cadres to the camps from nearby districts since September, to study the incident and the problems being faced by the people and to decide what needs to be and can be done. The first task was to lay bare all the facts of these riots in Muzaffarnagar in an open and bold manner and to rally all forces that could stand together on this issue. Several forces including parliamentary left parties were contacted. Some agreed, but in the end only progressive intellectuals from outside as well as from Muzaffarnagar came forward. A well attended Seminar on the subject was organized on the 19th of January, 2014 and this saw a good participation of victims from some camps also. Having allowed so many mobilizations by RSS despite section 144, because they were on private premises, the police tried to stop this effort by pressurizing the owner of the venue, but had to relent in the end as there was no ground to refuse the permission sought. A campaign was conducted throughout UP and particularly in the affected and other West UP districts. This seminar, most importantly, broke the demoralization which had set in over the months and provided a platform for at least some of the secular and democratic sections to expose the one sided propaganda of the Sangh Parivar and rally together with the victims. It provided the victims

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a platform to vent their anger and it placed the blame where it correctly belonged. The RSS/ BJP role in planning and executing the whole genocide was laid bare, the connivance of the govt. and administration in permitting this violence was exposed, the role of all ruling class party leaders aspiring to be on the side of Jats including the BSP, the Congress, the RLD was highlighted, the partisan and communal role of the administration post riots was exposed as were several other aspects. It was not just the first programme of its kind in the area, it has been the only programme so far held in the area itself. Victims of violence rallying together, gathered courage and organized themselves under the banner of Riot Affected Struggle Committee (Danga Pirit Sangarsh Samiti), Muzaffarnagar and Shamli. They held a protest dharna and handed over a memorandum to the DM Muzaffarnagar on Jan. 15, held a mass contact campaign in all camps of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli, held another protest on February 10 in Budhana tehsil, one on March 3 at Muzaffarnagar dist. headquarter, one on March 4 in Kairana tehsil (district Shamli) and a dharna at the Shahpur camp on March 10 which was well attended (300) despite heavy intermittent rain. The demands raised have been payment of compensation to all the victims, rehabilitation of all victims in their homes, provision of security to enable them to return, arrest of all the accused killers, rapists and looters, arrest of all leaders organizing protests to prevent arrest of the accused, suspension and arrest of all the Station House Officers in whose areas violence took place and transfer of all policemen of those police stations, withdrawal of false complaints and a judicial probe into the forced displacement from camps. Leaders of the Khap Panchayats and BKU have been active, especially in Fugana, Lisarh and Lakh in organizing mass meetings to prevent arrest of the accused. They routinely spew communal venom in these meetings and the police present continues to look the other way, though section 144 is in force. There is no attempt to even lodge cases against such mobilizations and for obstruction to govt. work. Interestingly, while the administration was denying existence of the camps, there was a big protest by the Sangharsh Samiti for rehabilitation on January 21 and 22 in Shahpur camp after a heavy downpour and extreme cold conditions. Next day the administration sent large number of blankets

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) and quilts to Shahpur, a camp which according to it did not exist and under the glare of the media, all the victims sent back the entire material demanding land and roofs, not clothes. There have been some reports on payment of compensation to those who have not been displaced or harmed and of thousands of families living in the camps being denied the compensation by the Intazamia Committees, several of them led by Jamait e Ulema e Hind. One paper report listed 8 compensations paid to families listed under one house number even though the entire family has been living outside the village for several years. The rough list of families still staying in the camps as in March 2014 includes 85 families of Kakda village, 44 of Dulehra village and several from Qutba, Kutbi, Soram, Hadauli, Bhaurakalan living in Shahpur camps number 1, 2 and 3. Around 140 families have been displaced from Baraut in Bagpat district and are living in tehsil Budhana of Muzaffarnagar. Hundreds of families still living in 16 camps in various villages in District Shamli include 700 living in Furgan, 140 in Panjit, 55 in Dabehra Khurd, 114 in Akbarpur, 700 in Malakpur. Several families displaced from various villages are also staying with relatives in villages Jauli, Nirpuda, Daha, Dhanaura Tikri, Jhundpur, Lumb, Rathaura and other villages. Some of these families went alongwith the Samajwadi Party Lok Sabha candidate from Muzaffarnagar to the district administration to ask for the promised compensation. Pat came the answer Model Code of Conduct is in place. Payments shall be made after elections. The victims have threatened to boycott the elections if they are not paid compensation. Meanwhile the ADM Muzaffarnagar, Indramani Tripathi, a name identified with helping the communal forces, has declared recently that the administration has changed the voting booths of more than 1300 victims of this violence from their original villages. The process of forming ghettos is on. A word in the end on the role of the revisionist parties in their struggle to establish a secular government. The CPI and CPM did not join in our effort to establish the truth and speak up for the victims. Obviously they did not wish to put any blame on their secular partner, the Samajwadi Party, because it is their ally in their struggle 'to defeat communal forces. So their leaders had gone to Muzaffarnagar and organized a Sadbhavana seminar on December 8 in which there were leaders from other parties

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including the SP, the Congress and Lok Dal. Also present were the Jamait leaders. Blankets were distributed and it is believed that help was given for construction of some houses also. But no complaint against the communal role of the administration and of attackers roaming free and threatening the complainants was entertained. In fact people were prevented from saying so. These left parties have had some presence in the area earlier and had they wished they could have mobilized against these attacks to not only push back the Hindu communal forces linked to RSS/ BJP but also those in the administration. This would also have exposed the Samajwadi Partys design to permit Hindu communalists to attack, to placate the Hindu votes and also prevented demoralization of Muslims. The CPI had a Member of Parliament in 1970, Sri Ved Prakash and an MLA, Veer Singh Shastri, both in alliance with the Congress. They have also contested and obtained respectable positions in a few elections after that. But they chose to rally with the govt. in power, not with the people. Such are the tactics of Parliamentary left parties. This attitude of parliamentary left, CPM and CPI in particular, should not be passed off as mere opportunism. It should be understood that in the contention for power through the parliamentary process, ruling class parties rally masses on some hopes. This comes through reforms and promises and economic crises is forcing cuts in these. With sections of the ruling political class openly espousing the communal card to rally Hindu votes, and with nothing positive to be done for minorities, they find it more fruitful to leave them in fear of worse attacks at the hands of Modi and thus compel them to vote for the so called secular force. Since minority votes are not enough to give power, it is also necessary to placate the Hindu votes and also rally part of them. This explains the need for these parties to be soft on this murderous communal onslaught. For this Muslims must be denied all rights except one, the right to live, for which they are expected to pin their hopes on the left and secular parliamentary forces. Treating them as equals is not on the agenda of Indias ruling classes and the parliamentary left belongs to these classes after all. Seeking answers to the problem of communal division in parliamentary politics, one should be clear that for the parliamentary parties the only operative factor is seeking votes to get into power. Record of Left front rule in West Bengal as exposed by the Sachar Commission speaks

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) volumes about unequal treatment given to Muslims. When these parties have nothing positive to promise to the people, deepening the existing social divisions along religion and castes is the easier alternative. Their path to power is to rally Muslim votes under fear of RSS, along with gaining some Hindu votes. The path to establish a truly secular society in which all communities live as equals can only be through New Democratic Revolution, not through ruling class parties.

13 March: IFTU holds All India Rally of Construction Workers

IFTU Calls for Intensifying struggle of Construction Workers

They poured into Delhi from various districts of Punjab. They came from eastern Uttar Pradesh, from Telengana and Andhra Pradesh, from West Bengal and from Delhi itself. Led by the National Committee of IFTU, building and other construction workers marched in thousands from Ramlila Ground to Jantar Mantar, where the National Committee members addressed the huge gathering in a public meeting. The rally walking from Ramlila Maidan, over Ranjit Singh flyover, through Connaught place towards Jantar Mantar, was decked up in red. It was led by National Committee members holding aloft red satin flags and carrying the central banner proclaiming the All India Rally of Construction Workers. A long banner held vertically depicted the demands being collectively put forth as issues of struggle. They basically concerned implementation of the relevant Acts and laws. A contingent of forty workers from different states followed, holding aloft placards depicting the same demands. And then was the bulk of the rally with almost every participant holding a red flag and walking behind the banners of the different states and raising slogans. At Jantar Mantar the rally settled into the venue of the public meeting which was bedecked with gaily flying red flags and buntings. The participants held out till the very end despite the afternoon sun blazing down on them.

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Com Vyas Tiwari, IFTU National Committee member from Bihar Jharkhand, presided over the meeting. The proceedings began with a music troupe from Punjab which sang the songs of Santram Udasi in Punjabi before the raptly attentive audience. Com. Raj Singh, President of Mistri Mazdoor Union (Punjab) and IFTU National Committee member was the first speaker. In his address, he traced the struggle of the construction workers in Punjab, narrated how they first began to organize (they now number over 30,000), how their charter of demands evolved, how the Punjab

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) 1 2 % cess on all construction is being collected by all states but workers hardly get a pittance from these funds; rather the state itself often does not collect cess from powerful builders. Com Kulvinder, National Committee member of IFTU from Punjab spoke about the lives of construction workers, how they are exploited in terms of nonpayments and how wage laws are not implemented. Govts make no provision regarding shelter for these workers at sites, though it is the responsibility of the state Boards to ensure the same and workers end up living in tin shelters without basic amenities. He asserted that construction workers must intensity struggle and stated that this programme should be taken by the Govt. as a warning of the same. Com. Sujan Chakravorty, National Committee member from West Bengal and Com Radhey Shyam, National Committee member from Uttar Pradesh, also described the exploitation of the construction workers. Com. Animesh Das (President of Delhi committee, IFTU) detailed figures from Delhi. Stating that social welfare facilities were available to workers registered by the various state boards, while 1 lakh 84,000 were registered in Delhi in 2011, only 11,000 were renewed in 2013. The Delhi Board has over 18,000 crores collected as cess of which a mere 3% was disbursed to the construction workers. Com. P.P. Kapoor, IFTU leader from Haryana, on the basis of extensive RTI investigation, spoke about the situation of this section in Haryana and exposed the tall claims of Hooda Govt. Dr. Ish Mishra, Political Science Dept., Hindu College, Delhi University (Janhastakshep) also spoke about the issues of construction workers. The speeches were interspersed by songs sung by participants from various states and by short narratives of the workers especially from Punjab, about their experiences. A five member delegation including Com Raj Singh, Com. Pradeep, Com Kulvinder, Com. P. Prasad (Joint Secy., NCM from Andhra Pradesh) and Com. Animesh submitted a memorandum for the Union Labour Minister. The programme ended with a determination to advance both organization and struggle under the leadership of IFTU, of this growing and exploited section of Indias working class.

Govt. was forced to meet some demands due to the strength of the struggle, the various state wide programmes, Chandigarh rally, the forming of a Manifesto at Bhatinda and the growing hold of the organization. Com Raj Singh also pointed out how, with the onset of globalization, huge malls, buildings, roads were being built, how real estate builders were flourishing and how exploitation of the workers of the construction industry has intensified. He stressed the need to advance the struggle under the leadership of IFTU. General Secretary of IFTU, Com. B. Pradeep, was the next speaker. He said construction workers were among the oldest sections of working class. There are over 45 million workers in this sector now and thus it was the third largest industry in India in terms of providing employment. Despite the reluctantly enacted legislation of 1996, whose enactment and implementation was pushed by the Supreme Court, laws are not implemented, workers face the risk of losing lives or being severely injured.

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While corporate have since long been influencing elections and big media controlled by them has been exercising its preferences from among the ruling class parties, the elections for 16th Lok Sabha are marked by a singularity i.e. the corporate of India pitching for Narendra Modi as the next Prime Minister and the media controlled by them showing less fissures in anointing the winner though the fissures continue to exist on other scores. This is particularly remarkable as the same corporate and their media had been wholesome in praise of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Why have they dumped Manmohan Singh's party and why now? They are praising the so-called Gujarat model of development and want the same to be imposed all over India. What is there in this model which corporate are so enamoured of but which escapes the statistics of either macro-economic data or of human development indices during Narendra Modis rule in Gujarat, which are any way of no concern to corporate? It can also not be the case that all the corporate have benefitted from this Gujarat miracle in such a way as to overshadow performance or profits of their companies elsewhere in India. It is also obvious that it has little to do with Gujarat because they want this miracle man to be moved out of Gujarat, particularly when they ascribe the miracle not to the Party whose Govt. he leads but to he himself. What is in this model that, if replicated in India, it would result in windfall for the corporate? Why have the corporate, who have enormously profitted under UPAs two stints, turned to a new saviour? What are their hopes from Narendra Modi which they do not hope for from other parties and their leaders including other leaders of his own party? It is no secret that the media controlled by corporate have been trying to build a Modi wave to demoralize the opponents and to give advantage to him and his party in seats where the fight is close. It is also known that BJP has Congress as its main opponent in most of the states wherefrom it hopes to garner seats, so a good performance by BJP definitely means a corresponding bad performance of Congress. This scenario leaves BJP and Modi better positioned to attract regional parties who, by any reckoning, are set to emerge as a big force. And this strategy of corporate and of media controlled by them has many components. That Modi wave is a

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Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) creation of corporate controlled media is alleged by most other parties, but it is of interest to know why corporate are putting most of their eggs in one basket. It is worthwhile to note that no wave was predicted in the landslides witnessed earlier even in 1977 or 1984 but was so termed after the election results. This time, it is being built up even as the outcome is quite contested. It had not been always so. During 2009 elections, corporate media was gung ho over India US Nuclear Deal, rubbishing its criticism and ridiculing its opponents. It swore by the incorruptibility of Manmohan Singh and lauded his mastery over economic policies, quoting admiration by leaders of imperialist world and projecting him as the man who saved India from effects of world financial economic crisis. By that time Narendra Modi was already in power for nearly eight years but was counted by them as good only for Gujarat. Less than two years later they started eulogizing Narendra Modi and his Gujarat model. In this regard vibrant Gujarat summit held in 2011 can be taken as a watershed when corporate big wigs went head over heels in their praise of Narendra Modi. What happened in these two years? Before going into this it is pertinent to note that the so-called Gujarat model is a myth so far as economic performance is concerned. So characteristics of this model must lie elsewhere. Gujarat was already among developed states of the country before Modi took over. It was ranked fourth most developed state in mid-1990s under the last Congress Govt. of the state and remained fifth under BJP Govt. led by Keshubhai Patel. It is currently sixth most developed state of the country. Its growth rate has been surpassed in recent years by several states including Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, albeit starting from a lower base. Even in the arena so hailed by corporate i.e. attracting FDI, Gujarat lags way behind Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana etc. Gujarat has neither scored high growth rate nor high employment generation rate. Rather Gujarat and Maharashtra are distinguished by sluggish rate of employment growth even with high growth rate. Moreover, the lot of the economically weaker sections of society is worse in Gujarat. Much data is available on this score. It suffices to say here that Gujarat ranked here as 9th among the Indian states on human development index, a ranking lower than its 6th rank among developed states in India. So there is no scope for lauding Gujarat as a model of well being of the people or their improving status. Neither workers nor peasants, the two major sections of Gujarat populace, are well off or have registered improvement under

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Narendra Modi. But these are not the issues corporate are concerned with. It is worthwhile to note that poverty line adopted by Gujarat Govt. is much lower than even the ridiculously low criterion adopted by the Planning Commission. The real charm of Gujarat model under Modi lies elsewhere. There are many aspects of Modis policies which are hailed by corporate. Among them is the lower wage rate of workers. If we compare with other major states it is lower than even those with same level of development and below all India average. And this is so for both men and women. Labour law implementation machinery is practically absent in Gujarat. On the other hand, land acquisition is very quick. There are a number of land acquisitions forcibly displacing peasants whose struggles have been suppressed by the Govt. of Modi. These are some of the real attractions of Modi for the corporate. But the real issue goes deeper. Corporate are appreciative of Modi as the man who delivers. He pays scant regard to rules and procedures but gets the work of corporate done in no time. It is this aspect which has drawn admiration from Anil Ambani, Tata, Mittals, what to talk of Mukesh and Adani. And there is no issue of corruption here, even the anti-corruption watchdog, Lok Ayukta, is not appointed for over a decade and this is of no concern to corporate who had become overnight admirers of anti-corruption movement which swept the people, particularly middle classes of the Capital. Modis development mantra is sought to be projected as a panacea where corruption is a non-issue, amply proved, if any further proof was required, by inclusion of Yedurappa and Sriramulu in BJP in Karnataka on the initiative of Modi. It is not a coincidence that Sriramulu is a nominee of Reddy brothers of mining scam of Karnataka. It is this quality of Modi, his ability of delivering national resources, that has endeared him to both foreign and Indian corporate. It is where Manmohan Singh Govt. proved to be the most inept in delivering, though not lacking in intent. This brings us to 2011 when a vast movement against corruption swept the middle classes. The big corruption scandals involved grabbing the natural resources of the country or simply looting the public exchequer. Take 2-G scam or allocation of coal blocks, two of the biggest scams to have surfaced in India, where the corporate grabbed the natural resources as largesse from the Govt. Though they were the beneficiaries, corporate have not forgiven the govt. for not handling it competently. These corporate

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) masters are long used to pass the burden of their misdeeds onto the shoulders of their managers, Govt. in this case. They came out against the Govt. for bringing the heat to them. In this regard, of particular significance were Neera Radia tapes which brought corporate manipulation in public view. They not only determined policies of the Govt. but also selected personnel in the Union Cabinet. Radia was representing Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata. It is no surprise that these two corporate chieftains came to the fore to condemn Manmohan Singh Govt. and praise Modi as their choice to lead the country. Ratan Tata cautioned against India becoming a banana republic while Mukesh Ambani saw Modi alone as the future leader of the country. Their arrogance and sense of right is so strong that they do not want even to be questioned, what to talk of being arraigned. And in similar vein spoke all other corporate chiefs who are otherwise at one anothers throat. What unites them in their praise for Modi? Here it is important to note that world financial economic crisis has had its effect all over the world including India and continues to express itself in different ways in different countries on the globe. According to IMF, world growth continues to be weak despite stimuli. India too has suffered decline in economic growth largely due to aping the export led growth model and with demand declining in the western countries. With declining growth, govt. revenues too suffered and revenue deficit and fiscal deficit increased. Along with, repatriation of profits by MNCs and Indias bill due to compulsory imports under WTO continued to grow and so did the internal and external debts of the country. It brought Indian rupee under pressure and this pressure told upon Indian big capitalists who had borrowed from international markets, particularly external commercial borrowings. They wanted the Govt. to attract FDI at any cost to Indian people and to domestic production. Indian corporate, comprador as they are, have their interests tied up with foreign capital from imperialist countries. They participate in the loot and plunder of this country and even invest outside as junior partners of MNCs. India is home to one of the fastest growing list of billionaires. Indian corporate are not satisfied with normal profits accruing from conduct of business. They want huge profits and they can come only from loot and plunder of the country, from grab of the natural resources. No wonder the biggest scams pertained to this grab. A number of reports into mining scams of Chhatisgarh, Odisha, Karnataka, Goa, Jharkhand etc. indicted these

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big wigs of Indian corporate. Tatas, Mittals, Ambanis, Aggrawals, Jindals, Bhushans etc. were among the biggest beneficiaries of these scams pertaining to mining of minerals, allocation of coal blocks, allocation of 2G, privatization of ports and airports etc. These obviously include foreign MNCs with whom they have tie-ups. Corporate want a Govt. which can deliver the vast natural resources of the country to them and their patrons. It is here that Modi steps in, as the leader who has no qualms about procedures, no conscience about the country and no concern about its people. He is a single window clearing agency granting whatever the corporate want. All property is theft, was said by Rousseau long back. All capital is robbery of the toiling masses, their alienated labour, was demonstrated by political economists particularly Marx, also long back. Todays reality is that all corporate are cronies, extracting huge profits from their proximity to power and in India, they are also compradors of imperialism. There are no non-cronies among Indian big capitalists. They all have risen due to their proximity to power and continue to benefit from it whatever their origin and the route of their rise. It is not what Modi did in Gujarat, it is what they want him to do to the country, that is attracting corporate hordes to the Modi bandwagon. Earlier they wanted Govt. to be big to provide them enough scope to earn profits, now they want Govt. to be small leaving business of making money to them. Their slogan now is Govt. has no business to be in business. With new economic policies, the earlier model which was euphemistically called socialist pattern of society has given way to neoliberal model over which Manmohan Singh has been having patent right in India but the corporate are looking for a new patent holder. Obviously big capitalists are assisted in this pursuit by the big media controlled by them. They have vast holdings in the media besides being the biggest providers of their revenue through advertisements. And no doubt big media has come to play an ever increasing role in shaping the agenda of political discourse, projecting interests of corporate as the interest of the people, their loot and plunder as development, to trivialize the real interests of the people and marginalize the voices against this dominant discourse and those voicing real alternate visions. For them even alternatives have to be within this framework, others are simply irrelevant. They try to shape not only what is present but what is to come, manufacturing consent for what is and also for what ought to be. They

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) portray their project of opinion making as opinion polling, have reduced peoples right to know as media barons right to tell and cover their ignorance or, what is worse, avoidance of the reality of the conditions of Indian people, through their arrogance and assumed vehemence. Goebbels would definitely be pleased seeing the strides his art has made in the present era of corporate media. Their efforts are not in vain as they are able to sway some sections, often enough to tilt the balance though not always. Their recent product, Modi wave, is an attempt to sway public opinion to the side of discourse of Modified Development. But their products are not limited to Modi wave, they have many products in the electoral market. They make sure that even anti-corruption remains tied to corporate's apron strings. The policy framework underlying corruption and biggest beneficiaries of it, the corporate and the bureaucratic machinery delivering it, largely remain beyond the pale. So far, ruling politicians, who also make quick buck in the process, must treat being found out as a professional hazard and willingly shoulder the blame to save their benefactors to keep the cycle going. And their conduct can be blamed on the people, as they are peoples elected representatives. Modi wave is also aimed at driving away demons of Indian social reality, of its politics which militate against this product, the genuine concerns of people undermining this project and diversity of socio-economic and political landscape of India threatening this modified vision. Whatever the outcome of these elections, this corporate campaign has two aspects; first, they feel that whosoever may come to power will have to cater to the interests of corporate and second, they feel the necessity of coming out into open to maximize their profits and multiply their wealth. It is an expression of necessity without incurring risk of adversity.

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Two Genocides, Two Culprits, No Closure

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Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) some talk of involvement of his Partymen in the violence but no more. He talked of his own sorrows but refused to acknowledge the sorrows of the thousands of affected families. In 2002 the whole country learnt of the genocide of Muslims enacted across Gujarat under the watch of the then recently anointed leader, Narendra Modi. A string of electoral losses had unnerved the ruling party in the state and the Centre. Law of physics was demonstrated through physical destruction of the Muslims. The mayhem continued for over a month. And all this with active participation of police. While those in power in the state supervised over this genocide, those at the Centre shed enough tears to drown the dead but did nothing to give succor to the living. The foot soldiers were saved and the generals gloated over their success portraying their act as one of saving the country from a neighbour. This spectre was raised in election after election. And the main person in charge, Narendra Modi, did not express even regret and worse he and his party feel no need to do so. He was sad at the killings like when one feels sad while the vehicle goes over a pup. Not difficult to identify who the pups are. He does not even admit to their being humans. These genocides are enough to demonstrate that the main ruling class parties of the country do not mind organizing large scale killings of citizens to suit their interests of power. While they criticize each other for their respective crimes, they do nothing to redress the same. BJP talks of antiSikh genocide but remains mum on how its own leaders at that time blamed Sikhs for inviting the same and how they did precious little to bring the culprits to book during the six years of their rule at the Centre. Not a word. Only during elections they bring it up to score points and garner votes. Or take Gujarat. What has Congress done over the past ten years in power at the Centre to bring the culprits of Muslim genocide in Gujarat to book or of even the spate of fake encounters later? It will be worth remembering that the same Congress gave tickets in 2002 Gujarat assembly elections to many accused of being culprits in the killings. Congress reminds the people not to forget Gujarat but did nothing to be remembered for addressing the same. While ruling class parties cynical and sinister role is all too obvious, failure of the judiciary, particularly higher judiciary, in bringing culprits to book is all too obvious. Judges relied on records of police and administration to ascertain guilt ignoring the fact that these genocides were carried out

1984 and 2002. Eighteen years apart and under different political dispensations, India saw two major genocides of minorities. Both are etched in public memory as state sponsored acts of violence unleashed by the then ruling parties. Both are marked by total lack of accountability of the main organizers and beneficiaries. Both denote cleverly orchestrated acts of violence by the ruling parties to communally polarize the people for ensuing elections. Both resulted in rich electoral dividends from the blood of the helpless victims who fell prey to their vicious political chicanery. Both led to total lack of conviction of the high and mighty who were not named but about whom everybody knows. Both are continuing blots on the countrys conscience. Both have been denied closure. Circumstances were different but crimes were similar and motivation equally sinister. Both were claimed to be a reaction which acted on innocent citizens by which an action was avenged. For both, the rulers of the day never even expressed regret. They were sad but God knows for what- for having done what they did or for not having done enough. There are apologists galore who go for hair splitting to differentiate the two. But the facts are stubborn. Nobody who lived in Delhi or other affected cities could have been unaware of who was behind the genocide of Sikhs in 1984. In the Capital, violence raged for days organized by the then ruling Congress and executed by it with the active participation of police machinery. Large contingent of Army stationed in Delhi was not called in till the earth had shaken enough to atone for the fall of a big tree. It was followed by large scale propaganda against the community as anti-nationals. That is history. The leaders accused of direct participation in the killings were rewarded with tickets in the elections. Even later the Congress leaders of the day, those in power, never expressed any regret. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was not even in Congress at that time, did express regret but not the heirs of the ruling family of his Party. Sonia Gandhi only expressed sorrow, that too much later, but no apology. When Rahul Gandhi was repeatedly quizzed in a recent TV interview he refused to express even regret. He alluded to

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with active participation of police and administration. These genocides and a number of other incidents of violence against minorities, are with the active participation of these wings of the state and demonstrate deep communalization of different wings of the state. Firstly no records of their involvement are kept and even whatever are there, are destroyed. For judiciary to limit itself to records of these wings was to acquit them ab initio . If judgements were to be delivered based solely on the records of police and administration, there was no use of wasting so much time and public money to enact what could only be miscarriage of justice and a farce of a trial. Higher judiciary must also introspect on its own role in not bringing culprits to book and not utilizing vast powers enjoyed by it in the service of according justice to the people. For this a different kind of investigation is required with different personnel under different jurisdiction and with full protection to witnesses whose testimony will indict not only political elements of ruling classes but big wigs in the police and administration. Obviously these wings of the state can do much harm to those who dare to testify against them. Will the Judiciary have the gumption for that? Or will its hesitation to do right continue to be used as a vindication by the guilty, the organizers of the pogroms? It is never too late. These genocides need closure. This can be brought about only by punishing those who perpetrated them. Not only foot soldiers but also generals. It is important not only for the dead but, more importantly, for those living. Not only for relatives and friends of those who perished but for wider sections who are citizens of the country. Not only for the community targeted but all countrymen who wish people of this country to live in harmony, who share common aspirations, who strive for common destiny.

CPI(ML)-New Democracy Organizes Massive Podu Garjana in Khammam

CPI(ML) New Democracy has been organizing tribals against the state Govt.s attempts to take away lands which tribals have been cultivating for decades. A district mass programme was scheduled on 26.2.2014. In the meantime, the struggle for the formation of Telengana state was victorious with Parliament approving bifurcation of the existing Andhra Pradesh. A massive meeting, PODU GARJANA, in Khammam on 26.2.2014 thus marked the triumph of Telangana state formation and became a prologue to fight for the problems of the people and for Telangana state reformation. Red was found every where in Khammam on 26 th of February. Slogans of Telangana were heard everywhere in Khammam. Red sarees, red shirts poured through the streets like a red wave moving in the sea. Nearly 20 thousand New Democracy activists and people went in a procession with red flags. A big procession started from SR & BJNR college at 4 PM. The procession was like a red legion with Telangana slogans resounding. The women walked in the procession with children and lunch boxes in one hand and red flags in another. Arunodaya artists performed ahead of the rally and tribal dances were the main highlight of the procession.At the head of the procession walked CPI(ML) New Democracy leaders Comrades S.S.Mahal, Bhalachandra Shadangi, Gade Diwakar, Gummadi Narsaiah, P. Rangarao, K. Rangaiah, Rama, Chandra Aruna, Jagganna, Gokinepalli Venkateshvarlu, Aavula Venkateshvarlu and Mudda Bhiksham followed by lady activists and then followed by male activists. The procession went to pavilion ground through Wyra road, Collectorate, Bus Stand and Mayuri Centre.

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The public meeting went on from 5:30 PM to 10:30 PM. Thousands of people watched with interest the performances of the artists and listened to the speeches of leaders. The surrounding areas streets were wholly filled with the activists and people. The public meeting went on with nearly thirty thousand people.

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Comrade P. Rangarao, CPI(ML)- New Democracy Khammam Dist. Secretary presided over the meeting. CPI(ML) New Democracy leader from Punjab Com. S. S. Mahal, Orissa State Spokesman Com. Bhalachandra Shadangi, TJAC Chairman Professor Kodandaram, New Democracy state leader Gaade Diwakar, POW President K. Rama, TNGO district general secretary Eluri Srinivasarao, TNGO district president Khajamiya, TJAC district convener Kurapati Ranga Raju, Panchayat Raj Employees Association state president Venkatapathi Raju, AIKMS state general secretary Com. K.Rangaiah, New Democracy district leader, Ex-MLA Gummadi Narsaiah, Advocate JAC leader Boggarapu Venkanna were on the stage.

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) desires of the Telengana people. He stressed that the part played by Khammam people in Telengana movement has been prominent and the part taken by New Democracy has been outstanding. Com. Bhalachadra Shadangi stated that Telengana has a big tribal population and the movement for their rights should be intensified in the new state. Com. Gummadi Narsaiah demanded that tribals should be given all podu lands' rights. Com. K. Rangaiah said that the partitioning of Bhadrachalam division is unjust and called on the activists to build another movement against this partition. Other leaders stated that this is a Garjana of peoples problems. Formation of Telengana is a democratic victory and must embolden other peoples movements. Arunodaya artists Naganna, Ramarao, Krishna, Subbarao, Vijaya, Ajay, Venkanna, Bitcha, Rambabu sang songs and Ramnarsaiahnagar, Bayyaram, Mulakalapally, Ramkya Thanda Arunodaya artists dances and performances were an attraction for the public meeting. Bitcha band performed a skit on barren lands. The whole meeting went on with enthusiasm.

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Earlier, on January 22nd, a meeting for defence of lands of tribals and demanding podu land pattas for all tribals was held in Illendu. Twelve thousand people participated in the rally which went through Illendu town and fifteen thousand participated in the mass meeting. Com. Chandrashekhar presided over the mass meeting which was addressed by IFTU National Committee Secretary Com. V.K. Patole, Com. Aparna (Secretary of Delhi Committee of the Party), Com. V. Venkataramaih, Member of State Committee of the Party. P. Ranga Rao, Khammam dist. leader of the Party, Party leader ex-MLA G. Narsaiah, POW leader Chandra Aruna and others. Arunodaya artists staged enthusing programmes at the mass meeting. Meeting generated a lot of enthusiasm for taking forward the struggle for podu lands.

Addressing the public meeting Com. S. S. Mahal said that the main agenda of BJP and Congress is to make Modi and Rahul Gandhi respectively as Prime Minister while the economic policies of Manmohan Singh and Modi are the same. He called upon the people to make efforts and fight for the real alternative. Prof. Kondandaram said that the movement for Telangana state has been an outstanding movement of the common people. Peoples movement succeeded against the power of the capitalists opposing this. The construction of Telengana should be done according to the aspirations and

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It is not only Crimea, it is Ukraine

Contradictions among imperialist powers have once again brought Europe to the boiling point. In their urge to snatch Ukraine from Russian influence and close the only warm water port of Russia in Crimea, US imperialists and their allies have played a high stake game. But in the present situation of multipolar world, such games are difficult to play and miscalculations come to haunt the players. In 2004 western imperialist powers were able to orchestrate the Orange Revolution, the name given here to regime change through street protests, to bring their supporters to power. Ten years later they contrived the same game but not exactly with same results. Ukraine is suffering from deep economic crisis, needing to borrow billions not to default on its foreign loan repayments. Ukraine Govt. approached EU which referred it to IMF for the conditions for extending the loan, which would have caused the economy to shrink and unemployment to rise. Yanukovych Govt. called off negotiations with EU and went for a pact with Russia with $15 billion loan and one third slashing of petroleum bill. This turning away from EU to Russia, caused havoc in EU capitals and sections aligned to them in Ukraine. Street protests started in capital Kiev in Euromaidan demanding ouster of Yanukovych, the pro-Russian president. Protesters included the Right sector, fascist hoodlums, and targeted Govt. machinery. Police was attacked and so were Govt. functionaries. Large parts of police remained spectators while Army refused to do the Govts bidding. Govt. was on tethers though Yanukovych party had enjoyed majority support in the parliament. In stepped EU troika whose foreign ministers forced an agreement for early presidential elections. But US willed otherwise. The Right Sector and other armed sections of protesters refused to honour the agreement and refused to acquiesce in holding elections in May 2014 as per the agreement. Yanukovych fled Kiev to a south west Russian border town. Protesters forced the MPs to remove Yanukovych from Presidency though they could not muster constitutionally mandated majority for such a removal. With forcible take over in Kiev, protests flared up in Southern and Eastern parts of Ukraine against this take over. They refused to recognize the new

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Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) authorities in Kiev. Crimea, home to Russian Black Sea fleet, where majority of residents are Russians and which was transferred from Russia to Ukraine in 1954 when Nikita Khruschev was CPSU leader, refused to accept the new dispensation in Kiev and its assembly went ahead with holding a referendum on whether to join Russian Federation or to remain in Ukraine with greater autonomy under 1992 Constitution. As widely expected, referendum resulted in nearly 97% voting to join Russia with nearly 83% voting. Russia moved quickly to accept the results and formalize absorption of Crimea in Russian Federation. Protests flared up in Kharkiv, Odessa, Donetsk and other centres of south and east Ukraine with protesters throwing out new Kiev nominees while cleansing of Central Govt. continued in Kiev. Events moved quickly. US and EU powers demanded Russia stop referendum in Crimea. But their real objective was to get Russian recognition for the forcible change in power in Kiev. They were using Crimea as a bargaining chip to get Russian acceptance of change in Ukraine, which the Russian Govt. of Putin termed as a coup. Russia embarked on military exercises on the Ukrainian border sending shivers down the spines of west European countries while Putin reiterated his option of military intervention in Ukraine. The new authorities in Ukraine have mobilized the Army but BBC reported that inhabitants of border areas are opposing such Army deployment. Govt. of Crimea has taken over Ukrainian bases. Events in Ukraine have demonstrated the sharpening contradictions between imperialist powers. Contradictions between Russia and western imperialist powers and between US and EU powers within western alliance are openly playing out. For the time being, while Russia has absorbed Crimea in Russian Federation, EU has drawn closer to new authorities in Kiev. Crisis in Ukraine is due to deep economic crisis plaguing this country. It has also brought to the fore the historical, social, economic and political divisions in this country. Ever since dissolution of Soviet Union and disintegration of the camp of social imperialism, US and EU powers have been trying to push for eastward expansion of NATO to prevent re-emergence of Russia as a world power. Europe, as it emerged out of the two world wars, was gradually changed and several states were born in Balkan and Baltic regions. Russian rulers, emerging out of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, wanted help of western countries in dismantling the erstwhile

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Soviet Union and could not counter the US led western moves to bring central and eastern Europe into their own sphere of influence. It was the period of their collaboration in the rise of Russian private bourgeoisie from the loot and plunder of the state properties of the erstwhile Soviet Union. But gradually the control of this class was consolidated and it is now looking towards expanding its control over the nearby states, particularly those which had earlier been part of the Russian empire. US imperialism got bogged down in the imperialist wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and all western imperialist powers got grounded due to the explosion of financial economic crisis. Russia on the other hand, has suffered relatively less in this crisis and its export of petroleum products along with sale of its armaments relatively strengthened its economic position. Realizing the opportunities, Russia stopped acquiescing in US led moves to expand the latters influence particularly in Europe. In 2008 its strong military response to US instigated Georgian invasion of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was a turning point. US imperialism could not but remain a spectator there. Having consolidated its position in Russian society and state and emboldened by its move in Georgia, Russian ruling bourgeoisie embarked on an ambitious plan to forge Eurasian Economic Union (EEC) comprising of most of the earlier Soviet republics. Ukraine is a central piece in this venture. USA had vowed to frustrate Russian designs on EEC and erstwhile US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, had declared that USA would do everything to frustrate this plan. EEC is a Russian plan is to blend together a solid economic block under its control and use it as a plank to launch its global interests. EEC would also bring all petroleum resources in the region under Russian control and make for its common marketing, frustrating western designs to use these resources for reducing dependence on Russian supplies. It would also render Chinese poaching of Central Asian republics relatively difficult and keep Russia at the centre of dealing with these countries. EEC is thus a central thrust of Putin led Russia for increasing its international role as a leading imperialist power. After 2004 Ukraine had been taken over by Victor Yushchenko and Tymoshenko, supporters of western imperialist powers. But joy was shortlived as economic crisis deepened, social fissures widened and all round corruption led to falling out of the Orange Revolution. Tymoshenko, supported by western powers, had to forge agreement with Russia and ironically had to spend years in jail for alleged corruption in the said deal. The compulsion of authorities in Kiev is due to the very economic structure

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) of Ukraine with its dependence on Russia for supply of gas and also markets. Ukraine is an industrially developed country, being 10th largest producer of steel in the world. Its industries are dependent on supply of petroleum products from Russia. Moreover, 60% of its exports go to Russia, Byelorussia and Kazakhstan. Western Europe cannot absorb the exports of Ukraine, its industrial products have no market in these countries and entry of its agricultural products is resisted by producers of agricultural commodities in EU led by France. So Ukraine can only be absorbed as a backward region of western Europe, as a supplier of natural resources and cheap labour as well as a market for capital goods from West European countries, particularly Germany. No wonder western countries are asking Ukraine to implement IMF reforms as a condition for providing much needed funds. This is the dilemma faced by supporters of western powers in Ukraine. Tymoshenkos deal was no aberration. Ukraine has an unenviable choice between being an advanced part of Russia led camp or a backward region of Western Europe. Ruling elite of Ukraine has emerged from the loot and plunder of state enterprises, a sort of mafia capitalists who became filthy rich overnight as state enterprises were dissolved. Tymoshenko, Yanukovych and a host of other leaders on both sides of the fence have made huge money from this loot. Their going either with Russia or western countries is determined by their selfish interests. As they have recently emerged, there is no such separation of economic and political elite and money makers not only finance the political projects but also personally lead them. The front runner in the coming elections announced by pro-west regime in Kiev is the richest Ukrainian who had bankrolled the recent protests. While USA and West European powers both want to press eastward to stymie Russian efforts at re-emergence as world power, their interests are different and their contradictions find expression in the way they approach this objective. With disintegration of erstwhile camp of Soviet social imperialism vast regions of central and Eastern Europe were opened up for grabs which led to contradictions between USA and west European powers. USA wanted to bring these regions under US control and use this New Europe not only as its preserve but also to control Old Europe. European powers, on the other hand, considered themselves to be the natural claimants to these regions for reasons of geographical proximity and historical, economic and social ties. This contradiction has another

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dimension, that of Russia. USA does not want European powers to deal with Russia directly but only through US controlled NATO. This has been a long held striving of Russian rulers to deal with Western Europe without intervention of USA, a design consistently frustrated by US rulers. These contradictions played out in Ukrainian conflict also. West European countries wanted to ease out Yanukovych while keeping Russia engaged so as to serve as a source of cheaper gas and loans as well as market for Ukrainian products while West European powers export their capital goods besides exploiting natural resources and labour power of Ukraine. It is in pursuance of this strategy that Foreign Ministers of Germany and France along with their counterpart from Poland, went to Kiev to force Yanukovych to reach an agreement with opposition, an agreement which served their interests by easing out pro-Russian Yanukovych rather than by overthrowing him. But US had other designs. The armed wing of protesters backed by US and trained and supplied through Poland, refused to accept the agreement. Army went against Yanukovych. He was overthrown. A leaked audio reporting of the conversation between US Assistant Secretary of State, Ms. Nuland and the US ambassador in Kiev discussing ruling set up to be installed in Ukraine, had Ms. Nuland using abusive terms for West European powers and particularly stressing not to allow them to have their way. In Germany, several leading figures both from social democrats as well as conservatives have argued against the US led course in Ukraine and have blamed US for the present situation. Interesting reports have come of the postmortems of those dead in protests, both police and protesters. They have revealed that both sides had sustained injuries from the same weapons. These reports point to a deep seated conspiracy behind the armed attacks during protests. While EU leaders are keeping mum over these reports, Ukrainian authorities are blaming snipers from secret service of Russia for the killings. However, there were earlier reports of America training Ukranian militants in Poland. In any case there was a third hand other than that of security forces and protesters. While identity of this hand may not be conclusively proved, its existence is being admitted even by authorities in Kiev. Now in Ukraine, there is no easy way out of the quagmire into which imperialist countries have pushed it. Russia has used this opportunity offered by Kiev power grab to amalgamate Crimea into Russian Federation in a blatant show of its military power. There could not be a Second Crimean

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) War as there is no rising power out to disturb the changed status. USA is on decline and does not want to engage in new military confrontation of this dimension. It is not in the same league as the then rising colonial power, Britain. The real battle and also the real moves and countermoves are being made with regard to Ukraine proper. Russian Army is amassed on Ukrainian border, not for immediate invasion, but to act as a pressure while US, Russia and European powers are engaged in discussing how to settle the Ukrainian question or, in other words, how to cut up the Ukrainian melon. Various models are being discussed, that of Belgium, of Finland or any mixture of the two. The two issues are of military neutrality of Ukraine between Russia and Western powers and of rights of the regions, particularly in economic and political affairs. Russian Govt. has outlined its twin proposals of keeping Ukraine out of NATO and federalization of Ukraine, with considerable powers to the regions in determining their own economic policies. European powers wanted to grab the whole of Ukraine albeit gradually while US has forced them into having only part of it and that too under US influence. Notes are being exchanged between Moscow and Washington on different proposals sidelining European capitals from the high table. Divisions between different parts of Ukraine have a long history along with present economic and social reality. Russians constitute nearly 18% of the population (8 million out of a total of 47 million). In addition there are a large number of Russian speaking Ukrainians, particularly in eastern and southern regions, besides differences in religious and cultural practices. Russian is the native language of nearly a third of Ukrainians, with nearly two thirds of people being proficient in Russian which is language of communication for a majority of Ukrainians. It is the native language of overwhelming majority of people in Southern and eastern parts, of just less than half in central Ukraine, of nearly one quarter in mid-west but of very small percentage of people in far western Ukraine. Western Ukraine was not part of old Russian empire. It was divided between Poland and AustriaHungary with the latter having south western Ukraine. In the later period, a part of it came under Russian control with partition of Poland between big European powers. Major part of west Ukraine was again part of Second Polish Republic in the interbellum between two world wars. After the German invasion of Poland and beginning of Second World War, western Ukraine joined Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and after Second WW, Ukraine

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was unified as Ukrainian SSR as part of USSR. This centuries old history has brought about many differences between western and eastern parts of Ukraine besides the economy. Eastern part of Ukraine is industrially and economically developed. It is a major producer of steel and machinery and transport equipments, chemicals and other industrial goods. It is also a major producer of grain, sugar, vegetables etc. Agriculture contributes nearly a tenth of economy (9.9%), industry nearly a third (29.6%) and services the rest. Nearly one tenth of Ukrainians are unemployed while a larger number remains unregistered. With breakup of erstwhile Soviet Union, Ukrainian economy went down and recovered later synchronizing with dismantling of old state capitalism and rise of new private capitalists. However, Ukraine faces a tough task in finding markets for its produce and managing its heavy dependence on imports of petroleum products. US and EU want to absorb Ukraine into their orbit both for military and economic reasons. They seek to make structural changes in Ukrainian economy. The new authorities in Kiev have announced acceptance of IMF conditions saying that there is no alternative. Under these conditions they have announced lay off of over 10% of govt. employees, closure of a number of govt. departments and sharp increase in power charges in Ukraine. Obviously these measures are highly unpopular and expose the real game plan of Germany and USA in Ukraine. It is natural that US and EU do not want democratic exercise in Ukraine as their plan is sure to be rebuffed. It also explains why US and EU did not want will of the Ukrainian people to prevail till they have brought about a complete change in the social power structure. It is one more example where capitalism sponsored by them stands opposed to democratic will of the people like earlier in Greece, Spain etc. US and EU want to intensify attacks on workers and so-called Ukrainian nationalists come in handy to implement their designs. Ukraine is at the cross roads as big powers, USA, EU and Russia pursue their geopolitical game plans, strive for creating economic backyards and military fronts in Europe. National interests of Ukraine and interests of its working people are not on their agenda.

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Middle-East: Growing Conflicts, Smouldering People's Anger

Sharpening contradictions among imperialist powers in the multipolar world and upswing in peoples movement against anti-people rulers continue to shake the middle-east landscape. At the centre of this is House of Saud, rulers of Saudi Arabia, which is trying to ward off enemies to its rule, suppress its people and keep status quo in the Middle-East. Peoples upsurges in Middle-East have petered out, drowned in the blood of sectarian conflicts and reactionary agenda of the main players. It has once again brought to fore that such middle class mobilizations may give vent to peoples anger and shake the establishment but cannot bring about real change in the society and country. Only in Tunisia there is a forward movement in the democratic direction and that is due to the intervention of working class of Tunisia through its trade union organization GATT, which has intervened at critical moments against the movement being hijacked by reactionary forces. However, peoples upsurge in Arab countries has shaken the status quo leading to feverish drive of the rulers of these countries to unleash sectarian violence and deepen sectarian divisions besides unleashing military suppression of the peoples urge for democratic rights and for getting rid of these anti-people rulers. Saudi rulers and their imperialist backers, unable to prevent or crush the peoples upsurge, sought to direct it into Shia Sunni conflict targeting Iran besides supporting military suppression as in Baharin, Yemen and overthrowing regimes not aligned to them e.g. Libya and Syria. They succeeded in Libya but their efforts have been grounded in Syria. Decline of unipolar world dominated by US imperialism has placed some limitations on the drive of Saudi rulers and their imperialist backers. While US has been forced to negotiate with Iran much to the dislike of Saudi rulers, it is unable to launch unilateral wars in the MiddleEast unlike in the past. It had to blink in its threat to bomb Syria leading to disquiet in US protgs in the region. Not only that, Arab Spring brought big fissures in the Middle-East. Qatar

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has been supporting Muslim Brotherhood (MB) while rulers of Turkey have their origins in MB. Antagonism between MB and Saudi rulers is old and drove deep fissures in the pro-US camp in the middle-east. Saudis supported military coup against Morsi, elected President of Egypt and an MB nominee, who was supported by Qatar and Turkey. Not long back, leader of Turkey, Erdogan, had lauded Turkish model for the Arab countries in the hope that peoples upsurges there would bring MB to power. Deep divisions on Egyptian coup brought renewed pressure on these players in rival camps to show result in Syria and US also gambled on it to keep its flock together. But the gamble did not succeed. This resulted in escalation of armed conflicts between rival rebel groups in Syria reflecting deepening divisions among pro-US Arab countries particularly between Saudi rulers and Qatar monarch. On the other hand, there has not been any forward movement in negotiations between Israel and Palestinians to cement the bonds between these rivals. Israel is not willing, even for show, to concede even an inch on the question of national rights of Palestinians. Israeli rulers are continuing their further annexation of Palestinian lands while putting newer conditions for starting dialogue. They want no dialogue at all, not any meaningful dialogue at any cost. US efforts too are only for demonstrative purposes while US rulers remain committed to Zionist rulers. Conflict between Qatar and Saudi rulers have aggravated. There have been explosions in Doha and Riyadh with fingers being raised against the Middle-East rivals. Saudi Arabia, UAE and Baharin have recalled their ambassadors from Qatar. Another monarchy in the Gulf, Oman, has any way mended fences with Iran and played an important role in US-Iran negotiations. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has ceased to be a united forum and recent Arab summit too was reduced to only a formal gathering. Qatar and also Turkey have shown willingness to accommodate Iran, bte noire of Saudi monarchy. US President Obamas recent visit to Saudi Arabia also included question of addressing this rift amidst claims that it was to assuage ruffled Saudi feathers with conduct of USA in Middle-East. The talk of US disengagement from Middle-East, variously ascribed to rising output of shale gas, is a deliberate ploy to mislead the world public opinion. US is not there for its own oil supply but for controlling worlds oil supply from this biggest reserve of petroleum in the world. Ground situation in Syria continues to turn in favour of Syrian Govt. of Bashir Assad. Its forces have been able to drive out anti-Govt. rebels from their positions from Lebanon border disrupting one of their supply lines. A

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) number of former rebel centres have reached their truces with Govt. forces, a euphemism for their surrender. Turkeys attempts to militarily intervene in Syria are becoming increasingly difficult as Erdogan regime faces increasing domestic opposition though its desire to do so is strong as proved by the conversation of its top brass, leaked in a video. Among the rebel forces active in Syria, those funded and supported by Saudi rulers have emerged the strongest. In this chequered scenario, hopes of these forces of a regime change in near future have receded. In this complex situation, Saudi rulers have demanded that bigger weapons like anti-aircraft missiles be supplied to Syrian rebels. Western powers, particularly US, are not willing to do so on their own accord but do not mind arranging them from elsewhere. Thr scene shifted to Pakistan. Recently, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and Emir of Baharin, visited Pakistan. Baharin's king spent long hours at Army headquarters in Islamabad. Its purpose was to enlist Pakistani soldiers for suppressing majority of the people of Baharin who are rising against monarchy there. Pakistani rulers have been using their soldiers as mercenaries for these rich Arab monarchies. But Saudi insistence is on Pakistan supplying lethal weapons for Syrian rebels. This demand obviously has US approval. Initially Pakistan Govt. denied having agreed to supply weapons to Syrian rebels, reiterating its official neutrality in the conflict there. But Sartaj Aziz, Advisor to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief on National Security and Foreign Affairs, agreed that Pakistan would sell small arms and fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. It is a first of its kind. Saudi rulers have been long term clients of western powers, particularly USA. These weapons obviously are not meant for Saudi Army but for Syrian rebels which Pakistan Govt. is routing through Saudi Arabia providing for deniability of supplying Syrian rebels. Pakistani ruling politicians have been old clients of western powers and their lackeys, the Arab monarchs. Arab monarchs engage foreign powers for their security and do not want to arm their own citizens for obvious reasons, so apprehensive are they of their own people. They buy huge catche of weapons from western powers mainly to keep their arms industry in good shape. Middle-East continues to smoulder. Conflicts there are sharpening. Middle-east is in transition and different forces are active to shape it in their own interests. Struggle of the people against imperialist domination and exploitation and oppression by imperialist lackeys alone can provide a pro-people outlet to this crisis.

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Victorious Culmination of a People's Struggle and Tasks Ahead

In its February 2014 session, Indian Parliament approved the formation of separate state of Telengana by bifurcating the existing Andhra Pradesh. Parliament session witnessed aggressive acts by MPs of ruling class parties from other regions of Andhra Pradesh. The Act passed by the parliament received Presidential assent and was duly notified with 2nd June fixed as the date of coming into existence of state of Telengana. With this a long drawn struggle of the people of Telengana emerged victorious vindicating sacrifices of large number of its youth, those who fell to police bullets and those who ended their lives in pursuit of this peoples aspiration. With eclipse of Congress fortunes in non-Telengana regions of Andhra Pradesh, ruling Congress resistance to formation of Telengana crumbled. Having long opposed this democratic aspiration of the people and suppressed their struggle for the same, ruling Congress changed tack and pressed for the formation of Telengana before 2014 parliamentary elections. Ruling class parties do not stand for democratic aspirations of the people in a principled manner but accede to them when either compelled to or when it becomes necessary for their power games. In case of Telengana it has been both. During the debate in the Parliament, several ruling class parties raised the spectre of Telengana formation leading to several such struggles throughout the country, a sentiment earlier propagated by Congress too. The main parties of West Bengal, Trinamool and CPM, raised the slogan of match fixing between ruling Congress and opposition BJP in carving out Telengana forgetting that in the process they too joined hands and did not mind being seen doing so which they loathe otherwise. Gorkhaland drove them into embrace. In India, there are some regions where the demand of separate state is there. Prominent among them is Gorkhaland which has a long history and all attributes to deserve that. It is a democratic demand which CPI(ML)New Democracy has been supporting since the agitation burst forth in mid '80s. The conduct of the party leading the agitation, Subhash Gheisings

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Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) GNLF earlier and Bimal Gurungs GJM now, is one of the biggest stumbling block in achieving this demand. These leaders have been hobnobbing with ruling class parties to achieve this demand, they are depending on these parties rather than people to achieve Gorkhaland and have been sending representatives of Congress and BJP to Lok Sabha to pursue their demand creating illusions among the people about these two enemies of democratic rights and aspirations of people of the country. GJM is supporting BJP candidate in the hope that the Party will form Gorkhaland while leaders of BJP in West Bengal are openly taking positions against it. GJM is against joining hands with revolutionary forces who support this demand, it is against building a sustained broad based movement on the issue, it is against rallying democratic sections in support of the demand for Gorkhaland. It raises serious doubts about their own seriousness on the issue. In this light their pact with Mamata Banerjee on GTA does not seem to be an aberration. Struggle for Telengana emerged victorious because of broad based support, all embracing struggle for the same and willingness of people to offer sacrifices for the same. Joint Action Committee comprising of all the parties and forces supporting Telengana played a pivotal role in achieving this demand. CPI(ML)-New Democracy too played an important role in this struggle, both as a part of Political JAC as well as independently, intervening at critical junctures in the course of struggle. Who can forget intervention of CPI(ML)-ND in 2009 when TRS leader KCR had been kept in Khammam in the course of his hunger strike, when he had succumbed to the pressure for breaking the hunger strike and was to be shifted to Hyderabad? CPI(ML)-ND cadres frustrated this game plan. It was CPI(ML)New Democracy which frustrated the plan of Jagan Mohan to hold a meeting in Warangal against Telengana. Of singular importance was CPI(ML)-ND's role in making the Million March in Hyderabad a success when TRS had developed a lukewarm approach to agitational programmes. Besides organizing a big rally in Khammam with nearly one lakh people, our role in Sakula Janula Samme, Sagar Hara and other programmes bear a testimony to the prominent role of the Party in the struggle for Telengana. And CPI(ML)New Democracy did so not with the cynical calculation of electoral prospects but out of commitment to democratic aspirations of the people of Telengana. CPI(ML)-ND congratulated the people on this success. But we have been clear and are clear that achievement of Telengana is

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a new beginning of the peoples struggles against oppression and exploitation. This is the land of Great Telengana Armed Struggle and glorious Godavari Valley Resistance Struggle for the rights of the peasants, workers and common people. The great struggle for eliminating oppression and exploitation will continue with renewed vigour and determination against the exploiters and oppressors of the people. It is the oppression and exploitation of the people which had brought multitudes of them into the struggle for Telengana. It was their aspiration to get rid of these evils which drove the movement and shone in the sacrifices offered in its course. It has been the quintessence of this movement, whose realization people hope for from this victory. Struggle for its realization can only be carried forward by communist revolutionaries and other pro-people forces. Ruling class parties have neither the agenda nor the orientation to take up this struggle; besides it goes against the interests of the classes they represent. For them it is the time for the end of struggle and time for enjoying power and raking in the profits that go with it under the present dispensation. While different class forces represented by different parties and peoples organizations had come together to fight for Telengana and it was correct to do so, the situation has undergone a change with the formation of the state of Telengana. Even before the formal carving out of the state, ruling class parties which had been participating in the struggle for Telengana have been forging alliances in the run up to elections with the parties and forces who have been opposing Telengana. BJP is trying to forge alliance with TDP of Chandrababu Naidu, one of the main parties opposing formation of Telengana. It is trying to use TDP's anti-Telengana image to extract maximum seats from TDP. TRS led by KCR has been admitting known Congress leaders who have been in the forefront of opposition to Telengana. All these machinations are for maximizing their seats and hence share in power and have nothing to do with fulfilling aspirations of the people of Telengana. Struggle for the rights of the people of Telengana has to be carried forward under this situation. Telengana is home to a large number of tribals who are struggling for their rights over forest land and forest produce, for allotment of land for podu cultivation, for remunerative prices for forest produce, for protection of their language and culture, for extension of basic facilities to their areas and for job opportunities to their youth. Telengana has a large number of

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) landless poor peasants hungry for land; exploited and oppressed by landlords. Telengana is home to large number of dalits and backward caste people, mostly landless poor peasants also oppressed by caste system. Telengana has a good population of Muslims many of them poor peasants and artisans. Telengana students and youth, from among whom so many sacrificed their lives, were in the forefront of struggle in the hope of better education and job opportunities. Aspirations of all these sections of people need to be fulfilled to given real meaning to the struggle of Telengana people against exploitation and oppression. And for all these, there is a need to renew and recast the struggle in Telengana. While there are some pending issues connected with bifurcation, the real struggle has moved onto a new plane. All the progressive and democratic forces in Telengana movement, all constituents of JAC and all peoples organizations committed to real freedom for the people of Telengana must come together to wage this struggle. It is a continuation of the earlier struggle and it is also taking it to a new plane. Many peoples organizations in the Telengana movement had professed commitment to a progressive and democratic Telengana and the time to redeem that commitment has come. All such organizations must come together and step forward for this movement. It is this struggle which will give real meaning to the struggle for separate province, particularly from the perspective of people who have braved hardships and offered sacrifices to achieve what they have. CPI(ML)-New Democracy is fully committed to this course and calls upon all revolutionary and peoples organizations to come together to build struggles on these issues and mobilize the people for achieving them. In the rest of Andhra Pradesh, the main claimants to power, TDP and YSR Congress, want to ride to power by whipping up sentiments against bifurcation. That the people of these regions are not against formation of Telengana though they may have some apprehensions, that too due to propaganda and irresponsible statements by ruling class parties, is obvious from the lack of continuation of movement against bifurcation. People of Andhra Pradesh have many problems, issues relating to displacement due to handing over vast tracts of land to corporate and for power plants, issues relating to rights of tribals, issues relating to agriculture- high costs of inputs, lack of irrigation in many regions and issues related to high prices of essential commodities, rampant corruption and growing unemployment.

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It is these issues that people of Andhra Pradesh are concerned about but the ruling class parties have nothing to offer to the people on these issues and to camouflage their robbing of the people of Andhra Pradesh, they, with help of the media controlled by corporate, are trying to divert the people from these issues. Here also, only communist revolutionaries can take the struggle ahead. While ruling classes are dividing the people for their selfish interests, communist revolutionaries stand for unity of the people for advancing their struggles on genuine issues.

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) several other forms. In our country 44% land is still owned by only 5 percent people. Land ceiling in UP of 12 acres irrigated and 18 acres un-irrigated land was fixed more than 40 years ago and farming has seen changes in equipment and technology. Since the 1970s the productivity has increased nearly 2.5 times. Hence, there is a demand for lowering land ceiling. On the other hand large amounts of land lie fallow, under control of landlords of the area. They also illegally control large tracts which had been taken away from them under the Ceiling Act, they illegally occupy village ponds, village common lands and have cheated the ceiling law by registering their irrigated lands as unirrigated. The introduction of LPG policies having led to rampant and liberalized corruption in govt machinery, in several villages they have illegally got ceiling surplus lands, ponds, abadi lands under occupation of the poor registered in their own names and are now claiming possession and displacing the poor. They have skilfully manoeuvered the old records and are claiming ownership on the basis of the current records.

Allahabad: Thousands Demand Land Rights

More than 4000 peasants and workers from Allahabad, Kaushambi and Mau assembled at the CPIML New Democracy rally on February 19, 2014 raising slogans against rampant feudal oppression in the three districts, police support to the landlords and illegal goonda tax extraction from the earnings of the poor. Leaders attacked the govts liberalization policy labelling it a betrayal of the interests of the people of the country. Giving logical explanations the leaders said feudal and mafia loot in rural areas has increased throughout the country and in our districts while foreign exploiters and their compradors control the economy of the country. The main issues raised, several of which were boldly and clearly spelt out on the banners and in the slogans, related to land struggles, illegal occupation of landlords of ceiling surplus, village panchayat and river bed lands, illegal taxation by forest dept. in stone quarries and illegal extractions by landlords and mafia in sand mining and river bed cultivation. These problems pertain to the Govts' claims of having abolished zamindari, while it continues in all its basic forms with support from the police and administration. There is also bonded labour, forced labour at very low wages, social oppression of dalits, sexual exploitation of dalit and other poor women by powerful. Poor are prevented from using village lands for morning ablutions, from tying their animals on common lands and in

Further these landlords control the highly profitable and high labour intensive river bed farming. They make illegal allotments of plots in the river bed, they charge per plant sown or they make illegal extractions on

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the produce, or a combination of these. As per law this land is to be given as a temporary patta to the village poor for one year. A related issue is of demanding grant of sand mining permits to boatmen, thus effectively ending landlord mafia control over the sand trade and other economic activities in the rivers like fishing, ferrying, farming etc. Another aspect of the land issue brought up related to the Shankergarh area which is part forest, part hill and part plain. Here, in most villages, the village headmen have connived with the landlords to grant village common lands, which are in large tracts in every village, to the forest department for forestation. Though no trees are planted, a minor forest produce, gravel, is extracted and sold. The village poor do the labour at an abysmally low rate and the village landlords, contractors and forest officials reap the benefits. Where earlier struggles have aroused the people and they have attempted to break gravel on their own, they are denied the official permit, ravanna, they are charged by the forest department for encroachment and theft of forest property and they are prevented from selling their gravel by forcibly stopping their trucks. In addition the speakers and people protested against the plan to establish three Thermal Power Plants in the area having a combined total capacity of 7000 MW as these would lift massive amounts of Jamuna and Ganga river water and ground water and the ash would destroy farming and livelihood. The demand for small solar units was raised. The protest meeting also demanded stopping FDI in retail trade and reduction of cost of diesel, petrol and other agricultural inputs. The gathering was addressed by UP Secretary of the Party, Com. Ashish Mital, AIKMS UP President, Com. Dharmapal, AIKMS UP Gen. Secy. Com. Heeralal, Allahabad AIKMS GS Com. Raj Kumar, Vice President Com. Suresh Nishad, Kaushambi AIKMS GS Com Phoolchand Jalalpur, Phoolchand Mainapur, Dhanpati, Dinesh Patel, Babbu Nishad, Bijnor AIKMS GS Com Subhash, Com. Rishipal from Hapur and former Vice President of UP PUCL Shri O.D. Singh. It was presided over by Prof. Raghuvansh Tyagi, Com. Santram of Unnao and Com Bachilal Nishad of Kaushambi. The proceedings were conducted by Com Ram Kailash. Munna Rahi, Kamta, Gaindalal, Ramesh and others of Parivartan Sanskritik Manch sang revolutionary songs.

Resignation of AAP Govt. & After

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Forty nine days after forming the Govt. in Delhi, the Congress supported AAP Govt. resigned. For well over a week before this, Kejriwal had been threatening to resign if the Congress MLAs did not support the Jan Lok Pal Bill which the AAP Govt wanted for Delhi. Within hours of the resignation, AAP members made it clear that the resignation was a planned move. Congress MLAs voting against introduction of the Delhi Jan Lok Pal Bill was the immediate issue but it was really the excuse. AAP did not want to contest the parliamentary polls on the basis of the performance of its Govt. in Delhi. That the Jan Lok Pal Bill of Delhi would not be supported by the Congress MLAs was already a given. The minority AAP Govt. could not be faulted for failure to pass this Bill, when the position of the Congress was well known. The AAP Govt also had no hesitation to take the path of agitation on its demands it could have undertaken a peoples mobilization on the proposed Bill to force the Congress to acquiesce to popular mood. The AAP Govt. could have also gone to the people with its complete explanation of the differences it has with the Central Act. But they instead chose to immediately resign as a question of principle, that they had formed Govt. only to pass this Bill. The issue with the Jan Lok Pal bill was a practical not a moral one; if it was such an inflexible cut off point, AAP should not have formed the Govt. in Delhi at all without putting this as a condition for Govt. formation publicly before the Congress. The response from the supporters of the AAP Govt. was two fold. A section was disappointed and wanted that the Govt. should have continued and done something for the people of Delhi. The second were thrilled because this Govt. had fulfilled its role of becoming a stepping stone for the Partys parliamentary debut. Arvind Kejriwal has now compared the resignation of the AAP Govt. to the resignation of Lal Bahadur Shastri as Rail Minister, which the latter had done taking moral responsibility for a rail accident. No such issue was at stake in the Delhi Govts resignation. A reason of AAP's haste was that it wanted re-election to Delhi Assembly to be held along with parliamentary elections as it felt that they would have a better chance of getting a majority in Delhi assembly.

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Contract Workers in the Lurch

Contract workers of DTC and contract or guest teachers of Delhis government schools were left dangling the assurances given to them of regularization of their services within a month, which they had extracted only a a week earlier through struggle. It now appears that the assurances were given only because the AAP leaders were anyway planning their resignation. The reason lies in the difference in AAPs electoral promise and its position once it formed Govt. and its current position. After forming Govt., Manish Sisodia enunciated that they could not simply regularize contract workers (this was the promise), the problem had to be studied. In regularization, the eligibility criteria for the jobs also have to be kept in mind. Then the AAP Govt. seated a committee to investigate the situation of contractual employment in Delhi Govt. and give a report within a month. The Govt resigned before the report arrived. All this discussion pertains only to contract workers directly under Delhi Govt the issues of contract labour in private sectors of Delhi and the issue of job impermanency of workers in private industry in Delhi was not even in the discourse of the AAP Govt. despite the situation in Delhi. Now in the AAP's parliamentary manifesto it is stated that contract workers working in jobs of a permanent nature "will be regularized". However, when AAP did hold power it prevaricated in doing just this. Other ruling class parties also make false promises to attract voters. The problem with issues of working class is that they inevitably force a choice of class. Arvind Kejriwal clearly stated before an industrialists' body that AAP was for capitalism but not for crony capitalism. He repeated the neoliberal phrase that govt. has no business to be in business. Thus it is clear that such a party cannot abolish contract labour which is an important source of super profits for corporate.

Pro-corporate Position
Several corporates figure in the list of candidates put up by AAP for the Lok Sabha Polls. Arvind Kejriwal has stated that AAP is against crony capitalism. In practice he attacks Adani and Ambani but AAP is appreciative of Tata and does not speak against Jindals and Anil Aggarwal who have also been among their contributors. All these three and others have been named in mining scams of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Goa and Karnataka. Tribals have fought back bravely to defend their rights to their land with its valuable resources. However AAP leaders totally disapprove of the violence by the tribals and common people against a state armed to the teeth. They do not speak about state violence against these movements and their leaders and activists. A prominent leader of AAP in Maharashtra spoke against land being reserved for tribals. In Delhi, when a disgruntled AAP worker threw ink at Yogendra Yadav, Arvind Kejriwal and he preached non violence and turning the other cheek while AAP supporters beat up the man such that he was still reportedly admitted in a Govt. hospital even a day later. The incident occurred in the presence of Yadav. Similar acts were repeated twice with Kejriwal. Each time AAP activists soundly thrashed the offender while Kejriwal tweeted non-violence. Kejriwal lacks aversion to being compared to a variety of prominent names but got into wrong company insisting on being likened to Bhagat Singh (there was a recording of his arranging such a comparison and some questions with a TV reporter, which went viral). Bhagat Singh was very clear that he was fighting for the workers and peasants of India, and for socialism. Kejriwal himself obviously does not share Bhagat Singh's vision, what to talk of the corporate and middle classes who support AAP. Bhagat Singh now is routinely praised by the parties of the very ruling classes he spoke against and who appropriate him in the hope that what he stood for would be forgotten. The pro-corporate orientation of AAP gives itself away in several ways. Maruti workers and many trade unions have been demanding a judicial enquiry into the events of the day at Maruti (Gurgaon) which resulted also

Communalism the Greatest Danger

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in the death of a manager and arrest of hundreds of workers including the entire union leadership on charges of murder. The enquiry is being demanded because the facts of the killing as represented by the management, are untrue. The Maruti workers have held many programmes jointly with other trade unions to demand the enquiry. Families of Maruti workers in jail along with other workers held a padyatra from Haryana to Delhi and trade unions held a meeting in Delhi in their support. Yogendra Yadav was invited by the workers and he spoke saying that while he disapproved of general arrests, those who killed the manager should be sentenced. He however did not speak about a judicial enquiry to establish the truth, rather he said that while the Maruti workers had invited him earlier too, he had looked at the issue in all ways and remembered the family of the murdered manager also. Is it his position then, that the workers killed the manager or that they were responsible for the events of the day? A judicial enquiry is being demanded by many trade unions because the narrative of the management is untrue but is fully used by Haryana Govt. to further suppress workers' movements in MNCs in Gurgaon and Manesar. A unit of Maruti is situated in each. The management association of Manesar has joined AAP. (TOI, January 5, 2014) The AAPs drive against Modi questions correctly the authority of the Gujarat model of development and Kejriwal has been haranguing the press for not reporting the real situation of Gujarat. Thus he has also brought out the aspect which many attribute to AAP itself, that the corporate owned press only highlights what are in the interest of its masters, and different sections are backing different parties quite obviously. The big business houses and corporate are desperate for lifting of all restrictions on their unbridled loot. AAP leaders are exhibiting flexibility to explain all aspects to their advantage. A candidate in one city went for nominations with only her family and explained that taking a big throng along was a waste of resources. Newspapers carried the pictures of her entourage alongside that of Yogendra Yadav, accompanied by a big procession, going to file his nomination papers. It is learnt that the AAPs manifesto at all India level will be supporting reservations for socially backward groups, though how this is going to be reconciled with their upper middle class base in the cities is another issue. The AAP Govt in Delhi left the citizens in a lurch because all their schemes for free water and electricity subsidy were only valid till the next Budget in

Organ of the Central Committee, CPI(ML) April this year. The AAP Govt., immediately before resigning, announced waiver of old and new electricity bills of all those supporters who had refused to pay electricity bills at AAPs call pre Delhi elections, though this has been struck down by the courts. After refusing the trappings of power like security beacons and official residences, the former Delhi CM accepted a five bedroom flat in the exclusive New Delhi area, only to abandon the project hurriedly following a storm of protest in the social media. However he did voice his surprise that there should be such a clamour when all he was doing was moving from a four bedroom house to a five bedroom one. In Delhi, AAP continues to retain attraction for those sections it had brought to the ballot box in the Assembly polls. In metropolises at least, it has bestirred the stagnant waters, as also in the political dialogue in the country. By projecting himself as the real outsider to the political system, promising an undefined change, by freely likening himself to a wide variety of historical and mythological figures depending on the audience (from Bhagat Singh to Lal Bahadur Shashtri to Ram and to Gandhi), Kejriwal and AAP are trying to attract common people who are overburdened in the status quo. Both Rahul Gandhi, whose party has been in power for the past ten years and Modi who has ruled for three terms in Gujarat have also been speaking of themselves as outsiders to the political system and promising change. Kejriwal is seen as authentically so by many sections of upper middle classes who forget that he along with his colleagues and their various NGOs have been around for a very long time. All the ruling class parties are status quoists in content. However the thirst for change which truly exists among the looted and exploited common people is very important. But the change they aspire for can only come through new democratic revolution. This agenda can only come before the people though powerful movements led by communist revolutionaries. The forces which will lead this change must move to grasp the moment and work to mobilize the people for it.

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