Archive 2009
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January 1-15, 2007 Seminar in Lucknow — The Ghadar of 1857 continues….. India today is at the cross roads wherein two visions, two camps, are clashing. One is the vision, the camp, of the imperialist bourgeoisie which is at the head of our country today. The other is the vision and camp of the workers and peasants, women and youth, and all the toiling and oppressed of our land. Which way will India head …this will be decisive not only for the one and quarter billion people of the subcontinent, but for the people of the whole world in this century.
It is in this context that the Ghadar of 1857 has begun to engage all Indians, as well as people in other countries. The two camps are fighting for the conscience of the Indian people, fighting to establish their own visions of nation building as the highroad for civilization. On December 24, Lucknow, one of the historic centers of the 1857 Ghadar, was the scene of an important seminar on the theme — the Ghadar of 1857 continues. The Seminar was organized by the Communist Ghadar Party of India along with the Lok Raj Sangathan, the Mazdoor Parishad, Uttar Pradesh Krantikari Parishad, Bangladesh-India-Pakistan Peoples Forum, Yuva Bharat, New Proletarian Path and other organizations and groups. The spokesperson of the Communist Ghadar Party of India made an important presentation in the Seminar. He pointed out that the Ghadar of 1857 gave rise to the call “Hum hai iske malik, Hindustan Hamara”. The revolutionaries were not fighting, as some suggest, to reestablish the rule of the Mughal dynasty. They were fighting for a new vision of an India free from colonial rule where the people will be masters and would decide who would rule. This struggle was drowned in blood and the colonialists established a state to defend and perpetuate colonial and imperialist plunder in 1858. The present Indian state which has its root in the 1950 Constitution is a direct continuation of the colonial state established in 1858. It defends capitalism and the remnants of feudalism, and perpetuates imperialist plunder and the colonial legacy. He pointed out that in the conditions of today, the call “hum hai iske maalik, Hum hai hindustaan, mazdoor, Kisaan, aurat aur jawan” defines the struggle of the workers and peasants and all the exploited and oppressed of India. He said the CGPI was working on the elaboration of the Indian theory of revolution, which is absolutely necessary to get Indian civilisation out of the Sandhi it is caught in and open the path for workers and peasants establishing their own rule. He called upon all the participants to contribute to this crucial work. The Seminar was addressed by numerous political and social activists who drew on the lessons of 1857 to establish the flaws in the present system. Those who spoke included OP Sinha of the Workers Council, Masood of the Mazdoor Parishad, veteran freedom fighter Akshay Branachari, Rajeev who spoke on the rule of law and the judiciary, Maulana Ansari, Prof Dikshit of the Nationalist Congress Party of India, Ram Kishore of the Bangladesh- Why should we still remain slaves in mind to the former slave owners? Why should our goal be restricted to emulating our oppressors, exploiters, degraders, and plunderers? WHY DON’T WE PRESENT A PHILOSOPHY, A THEORY, A VISION, emerging from our conditions and history by which India will emerge as a modern nation free from its colonial and imperialist past and present, and actually set a role model for ourselves and the peoples of the world in charting the future course of world civilization? This was the important message that emerged from this seminar – the Ghadar of 1857 continues… |
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