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April 16-30, 2007
The Nandigram Tragedy
The Editor,
PV.
Sir,
This letter is being written to express my deep anger and sorrow at the unspeakable tragedy that met at least dozens of hapless men, women and children in Nandigram, and also to express my solidarity with the statement on the matter issued by the CC of the party. The events speak for themselves: irrespective what the Chief Minister Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya may say, what the CBI or any other enquiry may find, or what the courts may see and choose to say, the events represent one of the worst atrocities against a defenceless section of the society. It stands in the same league as the 1984 post-assassination riots, the 1992-93 post-Babri and Bombay riots, and the 2002 state organized Gujarat genocide. These events
prove what the party has been saying all along: the people of India face the gravest danger from the big bourgeoisie, their political parties and the state organs. The facade of liberal democracy donned by the CPI(M) as the 'human face' of the political spectrum has been ripped off once and for all. Any one who had any illusions about their real agenda, which is that of facilitating the entrenchment of the interests of the big bourgeoisie, domestic and foreign, to create conditions for the outright naked exploitation of the valuable natural resources, and the labour of its peoples to enrich a handful of blood suckers, may now see what they really stand for. Hiding behind the well-worn and tired cliche of brining `law and order' to a rebellious region, using the most brutal state apparatus and cadre of lumpens, they carried out a brazen
attack to terrorize the people of Nandigram to yield and submit. Even though for the moment it has been said that the SEZ will not be set up in Nandigram, keeping in mind that their word has no credibility among the rank and file of the people, the message has been sent loud and clearthat they will stop at nothing to pursue the path of liberalization and privatization, hiding behind the slogan of industrialization in West Bengal.
All men and women of conscience must join in condemning the events of Nandigram. The working class and the revolutionary movement must come together and expose the wolf that lurks in the communist camp for what it is.
Sincerely,
A. Narayan
Bangalore
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