For the last several years Orissa has become a centre of many militant mass struggles against displacement and land grabbing. The heroic sacrifice of 13 tribals at Kalinganagar in 2006 and the subsequent resistance which is still going on against Tata is a pointer to this fact. Apart from Kalinganagar many spontaneous mass movements are going on in different parts of Orissa. The peasant movement against South Korean company PoSCo at Dhinkia in Jagatsinghpur Dist, movement against proposed Vedanta University (10000 acres of land) at Puri-Konark marine drive, the tribal people’s anti-mining movement at Niyamgiri (Kalahandi), peoples movement against Tata power project at Naraj (Cuttack), anti-mining movement against Aditya Birla’s proposed project at Maliparbat (Koraput) and the movement against Arcelor-Mittal’s 40000 crore steel project at Patna of Keonjhar district are some of the important mass movements going on today. These movements are not only resisting the companies in their attempt to take away the land, water, forest and mines but are also giving a serious blow to the ruling class’s pro-imperialist industrialization and development.  Recently after a review meeting with the major industries about the progress of industrialization in the state, the Industries Minister openly admitted that the work in 14 mega projects in the state including Kalinganagar, PoSCo, Mittal, Vedanta is not progressing due to local people’s continuing resistance. Though the Naveen Patnaik Govt, in the name of development and industrialization, signed 79 MOUs with different companies in the field of steel, Aluminium, power, mining, university etc it is facing stiff resistances in many places. The landslide victory of Naveen Patnaik for the third time has no meaning for these movements. Even after wining for the third time in a row, these movements for land and livelihood are giving sleepless nights to the Naveen govt.

In this background the proposed mining project of Vedanta Alumina Ltd in the Niyamagiri hills is also facing stiff resistance from the local Dongaria Kondha tribals. Though the company earlier managed to set up a refinery at Lanjigarh (Kalahandi dist) by forcefully evicting the tribal people, it is unable to carry on the mining activities.

Support, Strengthen and vote for Communist Revolutionary Organizations

Intensify struggle on people’s issues, develop agrarian revolutionary movement

No support and vote to the ruling class and revisionist parties and their alliances- UPA, NDA and Third Front

For the election of a new central government 15th Lok sabha election is going to be held. After 1947 many governments have come and go in India but basic situation of the people has not changed. People in semi- colonial and semi-feudal India are still groaning under the exploitation of Imperialism, Feudalism and comprador bureaucrat capitalism. Gap between rich and poor is widening. While a small section of rich is becoming wealthier the condition of common people is precarious. Govts. rather than addressing the problems of the people are serving the interest of Imperialists, MNCs, big bourgeoisie and feudals while suppressing the people by force. They are particularly targeting revolutionary movements.  Side by side they are trying to weaken the people’s movements through deception and false promises.

       Elections to Lok Sabha are being held at a time when world is passing through a global economic crisis and imperialism is trying to shift the burden of the crisis on the backward countries while continuing with their policy of hegemony, domination etc.  In our country the impact of deepening economic crisis is adding to the hardships of the people, brought about by the implementation of the anti-people pro-imperialist new economic policies by the ruling classes of the country. Spectre of job losses in the industrial sector, decline in industrial production, stagnation in the agrarian economy, suicides by the peasants and starvation deaths of the rural poor are continuing. The ruling classes are shelving the land reforms and taking away the land of the peasantry and other masses for the aggrandizement of foreign companies and Indian big business houses in the name of SEZ, Industrialization, Urbanization and Development etc.

The demand for separate state of Telengana has been around even prior to the incorporation of this region in the State of Andhra Pradesh in 1956. This demand has been gaining support among the people of Telengana though the movement for the separate state has been going through ebbs and tides. It has also been gaining acceptance from the different political forces- both revolutionary organizations and ruling class parties, though the reasons for both are different.

The base of the demand is in the discrimination and backwardness faced by this region in the united state. Our Policy Resolution (5-18) states that “…These demands have their base in the neglect of these regions and the feeling among the people that their regions are being neglected as they are part of provinces dominated by people of other regions.” Our Party has been recognizing the discrimination against and neglect of these regions which serve as the base for the demand for separate province.

However, our party has not been supporting the demand for separate statehood for Telengana. We have been holding, “We have been supporting the demand for separate province only when it pertains to the people with distinct identity and not as a solution to the problem of uneven development.” On the above premise we supported demands for separate provinces of Jharkhand, Gorkhaland, Uttarakhand and Chhatisgarh but not those pertaining to Telengana and Vidarbha. Our Policy Resolution (5-18) states, “formation of separate province is not the solution of the problems of uneven development. …. Hence, on the questions of Telengana and Vidarbha, our approach is to wage struggle against backwardness and neglect by the rulers of the state on the issues of development and discrimination towards people of the region. We do not support the formation of separate state as it diverts form the real issues facing the people and will not solve even the problems on which it is based.”

Over four hundred Palestinians have been killed in the incessant air attacks against blockaded and cut off Gaza strip bordering Israel and Egypt. Ultra-modern weaponry supplied by US imperialism has been on display against the Palestinians of Gaza. Israeli planes targeted hospitals, schools, mosques and civilian houses not to mention Parliament building, police headquarters etc. Old and young, women and children took the brunt of killings by Zionist criminal rulers of Israel.  For the maximum toll of civilians bombed at the prayer time. A mother pulling her young daughter from the debris, a father pulling his young son from rubble are common sights. People are being slaughtered while all aid and relief is denied through blockade of land, air and sea routes. Hospitals are without medicine, operations are being done without anaesthetics. Moreover, people are without food and basic things necessary to sustain life. 1.5 million people are being caged and imprisoned to face the deadly onslaught of state of art bombers and their explosive payload. A massacre is being perpetrated in “laboratory conditions” prepared by Zionist criminals and their US patrons. Zionist rulers are denying any humanitarian crisis as they do not consider the Arabs living in Palestine as human beings.