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Edition: January 16-31, 2003 Published by the Communist Ghadar Party of India |
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What
is needed for the working class and people As we usher in the year 2003, the questions that are foremost in the minds of workers, peasants, women and youth include the following. Will this be another year when masses of people continue to protest but the bourgeoisie succeeds in moving forward with its anti-people program of privatisation and liberalisation? Will it be another year of state-organised communal violence and fascist attacks in the name of waging war on terrorism? What needs to be done to ensure that our efforts actually succeed in containing and defeating the bourgeois offensive, paving the way for changing the course of Indian society? In India and on the world scale, imperialism and the reactionary bourgeoisie are calling on the working people to turn against each other on the basis of race and religion. They are calling for unity against ‘Islamic fundamentalism’, so as to smash the growing unity against the anti-social offensive. State terrorism and parliamentary democracy have become the main weapons of the bourgeoisie to divert, divide and disperse the fighting forces. The rulers of India and the US, and their respective intelligence agencies, are collaborating in the so-called "war against terrorism". They organise bomb blasts and terrorist attacks, then use it as a pretext to pass draconian laws such as POTA and the Patriot’s Act. They are launching one attack after another on democratic rights and preparing conditions for working people to kill each other, for the sake of the imperialists who want to conquer new territories. The experience of our struggle in the year 2002 shows that when workers from different sectors of the economy unite in action, irrespective of party affiliations, it does throw the bourgeoisie on the defensive. The mass actions of the working class, for instance, forced the bourgeoisie to postpone some of its plans, including the proposed anti-worker ‘reforms’ in labour laws. Mass actions of the peasantry led to deeper crisis for the coalitions in power in various states. As can be seen, it is not only we workers who are taking to the streets to protest against the program of the bourgeoisie. Crores of peasants, faced with the ruinous consequences of the WTO conditions, are increasingly taking to the path of organised struggle. So are health workers and teachers in schools and colleges. Women’s organisations are looking for an alternative to the discredited path of empowerment through reservation within the existing political order. Our youth and students, with prospects for education and livelihood increasingly vanishing, are looking for a way out. A broad front of struggle of workers, peasants, teachers, health workers, women, youth and all the oppressed, against the capitalist and imperialist offensive, is both possible and necessary. Building such a front is an essential condition to defeat the bourgeois offensive. Although many workers’ and peasants’ organisations are ready to unite in action for a particular demonstration or rally against the government and its policies, such unity remains short-lived. At the time of every election, our unity gets broken. In the absence of our own independent political platform, the bourgeoisie manages to divide the people along the lines of their parliamentary party rivalry. What is needed is for the working class to forge the political unity of all the fighting forces around an immediate program for the democratic renewal of India – a program to bring workers and peasants to positions of power. Only then can the anti-social offensive be ended and the economy reoriented to fulfill the claims of all those who toil. This is not a program to bring this or that party or coalition to power. It is a program to empower the hitherto oppressed people by replacing the existing representative democracy with a modern political process of direct democracy, based on a new Constitution of India that the workers and peasants will establish. It is a program to open the path to revolutionary transformations. Workers and peasants must reject the line of those in the communist movement who want to build an anti-BJP front, instead of an anti-capitalist front. The danger to the livelihood and rights of the workers and peasants does not come from the BJP alone. It comes from the capitalist system, which is in deep crisis on the world scale. This is the reason why the big bourgeoisie is resorting to terror and fascistic methods of rule, including communalism, chauvinism and wars of conquest, alongside the so-called "free and fair elections". What is needed is to build and strengthen the organs of class struggle amongst the workers, peasants, women and youth. Unions in the factories must be turned into organs of class struggle and class education. Peasants’ associations, women’s groups and youth organisations must all be mobilised to oppose parliamentary democracy and unite around the program for the democratic renewal of India – for the empowerment of the toiling masses and hitherto oppressed in Indian society. Let us step up the struggle to establish our own rule, a worker-peasant rule on Indian soil! |
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Call
of the CC of the CGPI, January 1, 2003 The year 2003 has opened with the movement against the anti-social offensive attracting fresh forces, drawing them into the class struggle. Communists are faced with the task of providing the theory and organisation that are needed in order to transform the rising resistance to the bourgeois offensive into a movement to open the path to the revolutionary transformation of society, from capitalism to socialism. In order to achieve this task, it is essential to build communist cells in the factories and neighbourhoods, in villages and campuses, and wherever else that the working and oppressed masses of people live and work. The bitter reality is that tens of thousands of workers who militate in unions led by communists and are inspired by the red flag, are today being delivered as vote banks for this or that party. Their struggle against exploitation is being manipulated to bring about a change of party or coalition government at the next elections, with the illusion that such a change would make the government "pro-labour" or at least "less evil" than at present. This manipulation and illusion-mongering is preventing the class from waging its struggle with the aim of preparing to overthrow the bourgeoisie and become the ruling class in society. It is preventing the working class from fighting to establish a new state power and political process – the democratic dictatorship of the workers and peasants – so as to bury capitalism and build a society free from exploitation or oppression of any kind. In order to prepare the working class to become the ruling class, it is necessary to imbue the advanced section of the class with the vision of the alternative to capitalism, namely socialism and communism. It is necessary to elaborate the immediate program to lift Indian society out of crisis, and organise the class to wage the struggle armed with such a fighting program. The decisive factor for success in all this work is the building of communist party cells in the ranks of the workers, peasants, women and youth. Communists, organised in such cells, must wage a sharp ideological struggle against the theory of multi-party democracy and the assertion that workers and peasants are unfit to rule themselves. They must arm the working class with the doctrine of scientific socialism, in close connection with the class struggle, with form and content suited to the conditions of India. They must arm the toiling masses with up-to-date information and arguments to expose and defeat all the lying propaganda of the bourgeoisie. All attempts to blame the workers and peasants themselves for the problems of the economy must be defeated. Every act of loot and plunder by the rapacious big bourgeoisie in the name of ‘reforms’ must be exposed. And most importantly, communist cells must wage ideological and polemical struggle against those within the movement who have turned communism into a mere phrase and future prospect; and turned the working class into a tail of the bourgeoisie. There is tremendous pressure on Indian communists today to give up the work of building and strengthening communist cells, and instead focus only on gathering crowds and delivering votes. Those within the communist movement who have accepted and merged with parliamentary democracy are preventing the working class from emerging as an independent political force. This pressure has to be overcome. The conciliators and their line have to be defeated in ideological and political terms. Only then can the unity of Indian communists be restored on a revolutionary and truly communist basis. Only then can the working class emerge at the centre-stage of Indian politics, with its own independent program. It is the duty of the members of the Communist Ghadar Party of India to set the example to all Indian communists in building and strengthening communist cells wherever the masses are in struggle against the status quo. We must build and strengthen party cells as instruments of leading the class struggle and as the schools of communism in the 21st century. |
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Oppose
the war preparations of thev Anglo–American imperialists against Iraq! The Anglo-American imperialists have stepped up their war propaganda and war preparations in the Gulf region. They have moved their heavily armed warships into the region, called up their reservists, moved in troops into bases nearby, and stockpiled arms and deadly weapons of destruction for aggression against Iraq. In a calculated manner, in contempt of public opinion world wide, the leaders of US and Britain are preparing to conquer Iraq. People’s Voice condemns the Anglo-American imperialists’ war preparations against Iraq. The Anglo American imperialists have arrogantly declared that they will not accept any report of the UN inspectors which does not conform to their perspectives, and that they will only settle for a regime change, i.e. installation of a regime which is acceptable to them and which will carry out their wishes. The imperialist media has been full of reports of how with their imminent control of Iraq’s oil resources, the Anglo–Americans will be in a more comfortable position, and will not be much troubled by rising oil prices. They say they will take over the oil fields, to pay for "reparations" by Iraq! They have thus revealed that one of the main reason for targeting Iraq is their desire to control strategic areas and natural resources. The aggressive war preparations of the Anglo-American imperialists have been condemned by peoples all over the world. In particular, massive protests in Britain and US have clearly shown that Anglo-American imperialism has been unable to win over the people to support its plans. Many states of Europe and Asia have expressed their disapproval of the planned war against Iraq to a greater or lesser degree. It is becoming ever clearer that the US imperialists are trying to fashion a "new world order" under their domination in which the 19th century gun-boat diplomacy covered up with colonial notions of "might is right" will dominate. The twentieth century witnessed the struggle of peoples and nations of the former colonies and dependent countries for independence and sovereignty. Today the peoples everywhere are taking the struggle forward to its logical conclusion of vesting sovereignty in the peoples. The Anglo-American imperialists are desperately trying to turn the wheels of history backwards. The peoples and nations will not and must not permit this to happen. The Indian working class and people are extremely concerned about the Anglo-American assault on Iraq’s sovereignty and are opposed to it as a matter of principle. People’s Voice demands that the Government of India firmly and unequivocally oppose the Anglo-American plans against Iraq. India must refuse to play any part in the Anglo-American war plans against Iraq. It is the Iraqi people who have the right to decide which kind of government they should have—not the US or any other imperialist power. Anglo-American imperialism’s plans for the conquest of Iraq constitute an attack against the freedom loving peoples of all of Asia and of the whole world. |
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Shameless
Collaboration with US imperialism: The government of India has signed a controversial treaty with the government of the United States of America according to which either country will refuse to extradite citizens of the other country to a third country wherein they are accused of crimes against humanity and face possible prosecution. This treaty is evidence of the growing coordination between India and the US, a coordination directed against the interests of humankind. In July 2002, a new international criminal court was opened in The Hague (Netherlands) as the first permanent forum for trying people charged with genocide and other crimes against humanity. Earlier, tribunals have been set up at various times to try specific war crimes. A famous one was the one set up at Nuremberg after the fall of Nazi regime, specifically to try the numerous heinous crimes committed by the Nazis and their supporters. From Korea in the nineteen fifties and Vietnam in the sixties to Afghanistan and Iraq in the beginning of the twenty first century, the armed forces of US imperialism have committed the most heinous crimes all over the world. They have used the deadliest bombs, missiles, and weapons of mass destruction even against civilians, burnt and razed entire towns, villages and provinces as part of their ‘scorched earth’ policy, killed, tortured, raped and maimed tens of thousands of people. It is difficult to find another power which has been so ruthless, inhuman and wanton in the history of mankind. In addition, US imperialism has been the most ardent supporter of the most blood thirsty regimes such as that of Pinochet in Chile, the Shah of Iran in the seventies, Marcos of the Philippines and countless others. If genocide and crimes against humanity have been committed by anyone, it is firstly by the forces of US imperialism! Voices all over the globe have called for an end to such crimes against humanity and a definite mechanism to prosecute the criminals indulging in such intolerable crimes. The setting up of the international court in the Netherlands is a result of such global democratic public opinion. However, US imperialism clearly does not intend to give up its despicable activities, as the preparations for war against Iraq currently show. The US government wants its overt and covert forces to be kept out of the purview of this court. They are doing this by signing bilateral agreements with willing governments, under Article 98 of the treaty that created the court, which the United States government says allows nations to negotiate for immunity for their forces on a bilateral basis. They approached all members of the European Union and others in August 2002 on this issue, but did not get an encouraging response except from a few such as the government of Israel. The US government then even threatened that they would ‘review their commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and European security’. They have managed to sign agreements with only 15 countries so far, and at the end of December 2002, the government of India became the 16th! Indian government officials admitted to the press that the agreement has been signed at the initiative of the US, and is really advantageous to the latter. It was also stated that the Indian government is aware that this action will invite concern and criticism from other governments and organisations, which they have chosen to disregard. The depths to which the Indian rulers have sunk in order to collaborate with US imperialists in a reactionary treaty permitting themselves immunity for war crimes deserves to be condemned by all democratic forces. |
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US Imperialism, Hands off North Korea! US imperialism has stepped up its unjust pressure on North Korea by cutting off its oil supplies, by hindering its trade with other countries, and by threatening to impose more economic sanctions. These sanctions to isolate the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are part of the stepped up efforts of US imperialism to overthrow the present economic and social order in North Korea, prevent the reunification of Korea, and open up a fresh theater of war in the Asia Pacific region. US imperialism has been indulging in all kinds of unjust, illegal and provocative acts against North Korea. Only last month, they cut off supplies of fuel oil and indulged in high seas piracy in an attempt to prevent North Korea from selling missiles to another country. The government of North Korea has given a fitting reply to these heinous activities. They have said that since the US government itself broke the US-DPRK agreement framework by suspending supply of fuel oil, North Korea was going ahead to develop its nuclear energy program. The DPRK has withdrawn from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty arguing that it "must possess the means to deter a nuclear attack by the United States". Ambassador of the DPRK at the UN, Pak Gil Yon said that sanctions against the DPRK amounted to a "declaration of war" against the Korean people. (The Hindu, December 12, 2003) Ever since the Korean War and the American occupation of South Korea, the existence of an independent, democratic republic in the North has been a thorn in the US plans for the region, as well as a source of inspiration for the people of South Korea, languishing under Amerian jackboots, for getting rid of the occupation and unifying their homeland. The end of the Cold War has seen stepped up efforts of the US imperialists to destabilise and overthrow the regime in North Korea. On the other hand, the unification moves of the Korean people are also making headway, in the teeth of opposition from the US. It is in this context, that the aggressive moves of the US and the response of the DPRK must be seen. It is significant that the increasing US pressure on the DPRK provoked one of the biggest anti-US rallies in South Korea on New Year’s eve! The government of South Korea has also warned the US government against imposing economic sanctions on North Korea. The US imperialists do not recognise national sovereignty, the right of nations to determine their own future and to decide what political and economic systems they would like to follow. All countries who do not conform to the US imperialist ideas risk being labeled as ‘rogue states’, ‘terrorist havens’, ‘part of axis of evil’ and so on, in order to isolate them and make them vulnerable to attack. US imperialism is the world’s largest producer, possessor and purveyor of weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons. It uses its economic and military power including the weapons of mass destruction to impose its domination over other countries and peoples. How is it that while US imperialism can have the right to produce and sell weapons to whomsoever it chooses, other countries can do so only with its acquiescence? How is it that while US imperialism can use nuclear technology for generation of power or production of weapons as it wishes, all others must agree to restrictions on the use of nuclear technology? This is the kind of "new international order" that US imperialism wishes to impose over the whole world through force of arms. The Korean people are showing that they are unwilling to accept this. People’s Voice condemns the perfidious warmongering of US imperialism and calls upon all to support the just struggle of the Korean people in defence of their sovereignty, national reunification and peace. |
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Escalating fascist attacks reveal the desperation of the Indian bourgeoisie The developments during the year 2002 show that the Indian ruling class is resorting increasingly to outright fascist attacks on the rights of the broad masses of people, in order to safeguard its rule. The Indian State is being fascised alongside the claim that it is the "largest democracy in the world". The year 2002 witnessed the calculated spread of anarchy and violence by the Indian state and escalation of fascist repression against the people in the name of "war against terrorism". Thousands of innocent people were murdered in the state organised communal slaughter in Gujarat. Anarchy and violence was spread to newer regions of India, including Gujarat, Karnataka, Delhi and Bengal. In Kashmir and in the Northeast, the unbridled state terror and atrocities committed by the central armed forces, that has characterised the rule by the Indian state over the people of these regions, continues unabated. Thousands have been killed, maimed, raped or tortured in these states in the past years, in the name of fighting "insurgency" or "cross border terrorism". Hundreds of people have been killed in state organised terrorist strikes in different parts of the country—Jammu and Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Kolkata, as well as other towns of India. Hundreds more have been killed in "encounter killings" by the Army and Police and Paramilitary forces, in the name of eliminating "naxalites", "Islamic terrorists", "separatists", "Pakistani agents", and so on in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Jharkand. State terrorism has become an everyday phenomenon not only in the border areas, but also in other parts of the country. From West Bengal to Tamilnadu, thousands of people are being tortured in the jails of the Indian state, for the crime of fighting for their rights. Dissent has been turned into a crime by the Indian state. As part of the heightened warmongering against Pakistan, huge contingents of the armed forces were stationed along the border, all the way from Kashmir through Rajasthan and to Gujarat, for nearly 10 months. With their normal lives crudely disrupted, villagers living in the border areas were subjected to untold misery. The Central Government has announced its decision to step up the persecution of people of the Muslim faith, by threatening to evict citizens of Pakistan and Bangladesh from Indian soil. The year 2002 witnessed the enactment of laws that completely negate the democratic rights of the broad masses of people. The NDA Government at the centre passed the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) through a joint session of Parliament, in the teeth of mass opposition. The Tamilnadu Government passed a bill banning strikes in essential services. It also issued an ordinance against "forcible conversion of religions" to negate the individual’s freedom of conscience. The West Bengal Government wielded the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA) to justify the use of force against people organising the tribals. Facts reveal that governments elected through "free and fair elections" are the ones resorting to draconian measures to suppress democratic rights. The propaganda that "left and democratic governments", formed through the political process of parliamentary democracy, can implement a pro-people program and bring immediate relief to the masses, stands exposed as an empty illusion. Multiparty representative democracy is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, which constitutes a minority in society. Today, with the intensification of the crisis of capitalism, the biggest capitalist monopolies and financial giants are demanding that the State should guarantee them the maximum rate of profit in spite of the crisis, by holding the rest of society to ransom. In such conditions, the economic system is unable to fulfill the claims of even all sections of propertied classes, let alone the working population. Bourgeois democracy is being increasingly exposed as nothing but ‘rule by decree’ – the imposition by force of the will of a tiny and shrinking minority in society. Suppression of the right to dissent, suppression of any questioning of the authority, is being promoted as the ultimate form of democracy! These developments show that the rights of the working class and of all human beings are not safe under the existing system of representative democracy. They show that the bourgeoisie has trampled the banner of democracy in the mud. The working class must take up the banner of democracy and lead the struggle of all sections of the people against the fascist offensive for the thoroughgoing democratic renewal of Indian society. |
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Lessons from the Gujarat Elections Different political parties, representing the interests of different classes in society, are drawing different lessons from the outcome of the recent Gujarat assembly elections. The BJP, for instance, is drawing the conclusion that the organising of communal violence followed by whipping up anti-Islamic and anti-Pakistan hysteria, all in the name of ‘Hindutva’ and ‘war against terrorism’, is their best bet to win elections. Some among those who campaigned for an anti-BJP vote are drawing the conclusion that the people have become communalised. What lesson should the communists draw from this experience? One important lesson is that it is extremely harmful for communists to harbour and spread illusions about the Congress Party as a secular and anti-communal force. The election campaign in Gujarat completely shattered such illusions. The Congress Party competed with the BJP to gather votes on the basis of religious sentiment and communal prejudice. The hypocrisy of the Congress Party was so blatant that it published two different election manifestos – one in English swearing by secularism and one in Hindi making no mention of secularism. One of the major criticisms leveled by the Congress Party during the election campaign was that the BJP had failed to deliver on its promise to the ‘Hindus’ to build a Ram temple at Ayodhya. The struggle against communalism and communal violence is a component part of the struggle against capitalism and the bourgeoisie. This struggle cannot make any headway as long as communists do not break with the path of tailing behind the Congress Party and creating illusions about the secularism of the Indian State and about parliamentary democracy. When people are forced to "choose" between two different parties of the same exploiting class, both of which want to divide the polity on a communal basis, it is no real choice. The outcome of such an election does not provide any clue about what the masses of people really want. It serves merely to legitimise the already existing rule and sort out contradictions within the ruling circles. The system of parliamentary democracy permits only the will of the bourgeoisie to be imposed on the polity. At the same time, elections provide an opportunity for the working class and its party to propagate its views and gauge the mood of the people, provided the party of the working class puts forth a political platform that is independent of the bourgeois parties. On the other hand, if the working class party tails behind one of the bourgeois parties in the elections, as some in the communist movement did in Gujarat, then such tactics only serve to spread pessimism and despondency among the toiling masses. A communist party has to educate the working class to not be taken in by the parliamentary system and make it conscious of the need to create a new system which will empower the people. |
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Condemn the fascist attacks by the Tamilnadu police in Dharmapuri According to newspaper reports, on November 25th, in a village near Uttangarai in Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu, police attacked a meeting of suspected activists of the People’s War Group and indiscriminately shot dead their leader Parthiban, alias Siva. The police also arrested 23 activists including four women. Reports in the press say that the police tried to molest the women. The PWG activists were reportedly conducting a study session. People’s Voice condemns this fascist activity of the TN police that is but one of the many atrocities that it has committed on activists belonging to Marxist-Leninist groups and parties. In recent times the Tamil Nadu police has stepped up its anti-people activities to intolerable levels. The ‘Q’ branch of the Tamil Nadu police set up especially for the purpose of spying on political opponents of the state and curbing their freedom of speech and movement is a widely hated wing of the TN police. It was set up in the seventies when the Naxalite movement in TN was at its peak with the express purpose of tracking and eliminating through encounters revolutionary youth who militated against the unjust social order. The branch has to its dubious credit the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of youth through so-called encounters. Following the killing of an activist, the Tamil Nadu Director General of Police B P Nailwal has announced the formation of six special teams to apprehend the remaining four activists, one of them a woman, still at large, in Dharmapuri and its neighboring villages. It has also been reported widely in the press that the reason why Siva was eliminated in an "encounter" was that he was a witness to the shooting of his comrade Ravindran in a similar fake encounter in 2000.A fact finding mission which was constituted by the TN branch of PUCL found several loopholes in the FIR lodged by the police in the encounter death of Ravindran and recommended that the police should follow established procedures even when firing under self-defence. In fact, the local CPI leader who was interviewed by fact finding committee said that as for the fire arms alleged to be carried by the Naxalites, smuggling of fire arms including the sophisticated ones is a common phenomenon and it was not the Naxalites but people of other categories like landowners, forest contractors etc., who are in possession of illicit weapons. Some of the illicit weapons seized by the police are never accounted for but are used for other purposes. He gave testimony that one such weapon must have been planted on the dead body of Ravindran after the "encounter" in order to create an impression that he was actually carrying it. Following the shooting and arrests, Dharmapuri district has been declared a "Naxalite infested" area and all civil rights have been suspended. Arrests, encounters and tortures have been a regular weapon in the hands of the Tamil Nadu government to stamp out any opposition to the widespread and hated anti-social activities of the ruling class. People’s Voice calls on all the progressive people of Tamil Nadu and the rest of India to vigorously condemn this highhanded activity of the TN police and government. |
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Meeting on "State and Revolution" in Chennai discusses issues facing the communist movement People’s Voice is happy to report that a meeting on "Indian State and Revolution" was conducted in Chennai in December. The meeting was organised by Voice of Workers Unity. Several communist groups and workers organisations participated in the meeting and gave their assessment of the crisis of the ruling class in India and issues facing the communist movement in India today to take advantage of this crisis and advance the cause of revolution. Among the participants were representatives from the Communist Ghadar Party of India, Marxia Meygnana Koodam, Puratchigara makkal Pasarai, CPI(M-L), Socialist Workers Union, Kattida Thozhilalar Panchayat Sangam, Pennurimai Iyakkam, and activists from other parties and groups. The speaker from the Communist Ghadar Party of India elaborated on the current international and national situation and the deepening all-sided crisis of the capitalist-imperialist system. He pointed to the necessity for the working class to provide leadership to the struggle against the anti-social offensive, to the struggle against communal and fascist violence and reactionary and imperialist wars for the redivision of the world with the perspective of overthrowing the capitalist system and establishing the rule of workers and peasants. There are those in the communist movement who have been advocating that we should tail one or another front of the bourgeoisie and not build the revolutionary united front of workers and peasants. Instead of defending the "secularism" of the ruling class, the communists should concentrate their energies on building the revolutionary united front of workers and peasants with the program for the fundamental transformation of society. The speaker argued that this anti-revolutionary trend in the communist movement should be fought and exposed without let up. Only then can unity in the movement be forged. The meeting was characterised by vigorous discussion and exchange of opinions on several issues facing the Indian communist movement. There was unanimous opinion that only the alternative of worker-peasant rule can liberate the Indian people from the clutches of fascism, communal violence, poverty, unemployment and so on. The meeting resolved that there is a need for such free and frank exchange of opinions among communist activists while forging their unity on various issues facing the Indian people today. |
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22nd anniversary of the Founding of the Party celebrated amidst great enthusiasm and resolve  December 25, 2002 marked the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist
Ghadar Party of India. To mark this important occasion, the Party organisations
in different towns and regions organised public meetings, and celebrations.
We have received reports thus far of functions held in New Delhi, Mumbai,
Chennai, Kanpur, Kanya Kumari, Sirsa and Toronto, Canada.
The anniversary celebrations everywhere were marked by vigorous and enthusiastic participation by party activists and sympathisers, and their families. A common theme that prevailed at all the celebrations was the recognition of the necessity to build and strengthen the Communist Ghadar Party of India. This is the decisive condition to ensure that the unity of the Indian communists is restored, that the trend of conciliation with parliamentary democracy and state terrorism are defeated. This is the decisive condition to ensure that the working class plays its historic role of leading Indian society out of the crisis, defeating the anti-social offensive of the bourgeoisie and opening the path for the revolutionary transformation of society. As per thedecision of the Central Committee, the forms of the meetings in the different areas were determined by the respective area committees in accordance with the situation. A colourful cultural program, in which large numbers of youth, girls and boys enthusiastically participated, was the highlight of the Delhi anniversary program. The program was organised under the banner "Only the working class can lead India out of the crisis". The program concluded in an atmosphere of revolutionary optimism and determination to work and fight for a future free from exploitation, poverty and perpetual insecurity.
In Toronto, party comrades and their families got together in vigorous celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the Party. There was informed discussion on the International situation and that pertaining to South Asia, and the key role to be played by Indian Communists in Canada. There was vigorous affirmation of the necessity in the conditions of today to strengthen the party organisations in North America while working in close unity with the Canadian proletariat and its vanguard party in addressing the problems confronting Canada and its people. |
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