On the occasion of Bhagat Singh's Birth Centenary

Khatkarkala resounds with revolutionary slogans 

 Programmes were held in various parts of country on the occasion of the Birth Centenary of Bhagat Singh. Communist Revolutionary organizations took much initiative on these.  Not only throughout India, programmes were held even in Pakistan. In Pakistan, Punjab government changed the word ‘criminal’ in the FIR lodged against Bhagat Singh to ‘patriot’. But even today, in India, in Punjab ‘s Banga Police station, Bhagat Singh is still described as ‘criminal’. Even outside this subcontinent, programmes were organized in Canada, England and other countries.

            The widespread participation of common people in programmes held to mark Bhagat Singh’s Birth Centenary was all the more remarkable in context of the fact that the ruling classes of India have advanced a lot in surrender to imperialism specially US imperialism. The people of India are recognizing the pro-imperialist character of ruling classes and are coming forward in struggle against them. Bhagat Singh and other patriotic martyrs have become the symbols of the anti-imperialist aspirations of the people.

Khatkarkala Rally

‘Shaheed Bhagat Singh your task is unfulfilled; we will unite and fulfill them!’ This was the slogan raised by over 20,000 men, women and children who poured into the grounds of the CPI(ML) New Democracy’s mass meeting through the Rajguru gate at Bhagat Singh’s ancestral village of Khatkarkala on 28^th Sept. 07. The mass meeting was organized by the Punjab State Committee of the Party to mark the 100^th birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh, and the mass meeting took place next to the Shaheed memorial on the main highway passing through the village. Seated on the tractor trolleys, buses and other vehicles, holding aloft red party flags, the people arrived from various districts of Punjab.

Apart from the preponderance of the peasants and workers who came to take part in the meeting, lawyers, other professionals and other intellectuals were also present. Over 1/3 of the meeting consisted of women, many of them having brought along tiny children with themselves. A rally of over 4000 students and youth under the banner of Naujawan Bharat Sabha and Punjab Students Union walked from a close by village to Katkarkala to take part in the CPI (ML) New Democracy’s mass meeting. Holding aloft banners and raising slogans, the rally’s entry into the pandal packed it to the limit and people overflowed onto the road. The participation of girls and women in the rally was impressive.

While many of the little girl beseeched the organizers for time to present songs, only one girl, a cancer patient, could be fitted in. She presented a poem composed by her- what fun will I have when I become a neta-  which was a pun on the parliamentary parties. Many youth performers performed, including Victor Raju, who rendered the composition of Sant Ram Udasi. Sahjali and Lok Sangeet  Mandli also performed before the audience. Mukhtar Singh Jaffar and Gurpinder Singh presented Bhagat Singh’s life in form of poems.

Apologist of US imperialism Manmohan Singh Resign !

Scrap Nuclear Deal with US !

Shame the Semantics of Ruling Left !

Patriotic Forces must come forward to force Deal Rejection !

Shameless apologist of American imperialism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is forcing a nuclear deal with US imperialism on the country. A Party running a minority coalition Govt. has dared to sign a deal binding the country in perpetuity, without allowing the people of the country any advance knowledge of its provisions or right to give their opinions In the darkness of secrecy and   servility, they have cooked a broth inimical to the interests of the country and people. Having deepened the imperialist penetration in all aspects of economic life of the country, they are seeking to tie India to the chariot wheel of the strategy of world hegemony of the sole superpower, US imperialism.

The 123 agreement (name derived from the enabling provision of the Atomic Energy Act, 1954 of the US) itself vindicates that it will be implemented in accordance with the national laws, (Clause 2.2), Hyde Act in case of America .Manmohan Singh and Pranab Mukherjee in parliament and their spin masters in the media have tried their best to obfuscate the issue and hide the Hyde Act. The deal can be scrapped giving one year’s notice. The reasons may be violation of the Agreement or violation of IAEA safeguards or nuclear testing which though not mentioned by name but the language specifies (“taking into account” the “changed security circumstances”) that we are dealing with it. The Hyde Act, in accordance with which this Agreement is to be implemented clearly states (Clause 110) that it will be terminated if President of US determines that India has detonated any nuclear explosive device.

On May 27, 2007 Police killed Comrades Radha and Sudhakar at Gundetiwada village forest area of Vararamachandrapuram Mandal of Khammam district and announced that they died in an encounter. The two young comrades of Self-defense Squad had been injured in an encounter with the police. AP police later killed them in cold blood as evidenced with their injuries shot from near.

Andhra Pradesh Provincial Committee of CPI(ML)-New Democracy has condemned this encounter and demanded an enquiry into it by a sitting High Court Judge. Demanding to charge the police officers responsible for the murder and to stop all types of fake encounters and repressive measures, CPI(ML)-New Democracy has appealed to people and democratic forces to observe June 8, 2007 as protest day against this encounter.

Since 1967 Naxalbari peasant armed struggle, communist revolutionaries in India are waging struggles to achieve New Democratic Revolution taking agrarian revolution as key task. Since 1969 police has killed many leaders and cadres of the revolutionary movement. Even then the revolutionary struggles have not stopped and people are coming forward to participate in revolutionary struggles.