Banning maoism is no soulution. It is the solution provided P Chidambaram. sad that WB givt followed it dittio. Chidamabram, as FM in the last UPA givt had accused CPM for the raising and management of funds ( or something like that) or was it on tax evasion.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > Quote > Being far more rational people than the elitist bastards who ask them to > lay down their arms now admit, the Adivasis sought and received the > assistance of Maoists .. > Unquote > > The term "bastard" is unabashedly sexist, upholding certain social values > which have become outdated and even repugnant within circles engaged with > human liberation - women, in particular. > One does not expect "R" to be particularly aware of all that. So let us > leave this aspect at that. > He has obviously used it as a term of nasty abuse against the people, > "the "civil society" champions" who played a crucial role in turning the > tide in the context of Singur / Nandigram, the latter in particular. These > are also the people who are even today braving rather formidable threats to > their persons to raise their voices of concern against the State and its > committed operators unlike Raja shrieking hysterically from a safe enclave > "in the citadel of imperialism". > This is just to put things in perspective. > > I'd not here try to address the deliberate digression of Koraput based on a > (slanted?) story carried by the "corporate media". (Not that I'm too > knowledgeable on that.) > Let us also not get diverted by the evident piece of blatant lie that the > Maoists had any significant role in the Janandolan II in Nepal. That has > already been exposed time and again. We would not revisit in any details the > angry Maoist rejection of the King finally announcing reinstitution of the > earlier dismissed parliament on April 24 2006 to be followed by a > quick somersault. > > Let's come back to Lalgarh. And let's set aside some jargons like > ""autonomously" and all that to obfuscate the issue. > Let us come back to Chhatradhar Mahato, the leader of the PCAPA under the > banner of which the resistance since last November was organised. > > But before that let us take up my central contention: > Quote > *The resistance, which had held for long seven months, collapsed > almost overnight, within seven days of the Maoist misventure.* > Unquote > Quote > The seven month long resistance crashed almost overnight with the > Maoistscoming overground, claiming the authorship of the resistance, > proudly declaring that they tried to kill the Chief Minister and would do it > again and going on a violent spree including killings. > That gave the state the perfect alibi to shed its diffidence of long > seven months and breach the resistance. > If Nandigarm had immobilised the state, after its brutal actions > turned severely counter-productive, Lalgarh, or its latest phase, has > helped radically reverse the trend. > Unquote > Quote > ...the PCAPA under the banner of which the highly successful mass > resistance was going on for the last seven months or so keeping the state > administration out of its own territory even during the last Lok Sabha > election and compelling it to set up voting booths just outside the > lakshmanrekha to ensure that the villagers can cast their votes while still > keeping the state out. That too amidst full-blooded campaign for vote > boycott. > > Unquote > > Let's note that not a word on that! Not even pointless jargons. > > Also compare Pothik Ghosh (an editor of <radicalnotes.com>): > Quote > The Bengal government was extremely cagey until a few weeks ago to launch > a > crackdown. That was largely due to the movement’s mass insurrectionary > character. In Lalgarh, violence has been a collective expression of > disaffection against the oppressive socio-economic order the state defends. > Even the guerrilla operations carried out by Maoists in the area have > become > a seamless extension of this insurrection, which enjoys wide-ranging > legitimacy. It is this legitimacy, which derives from an assertion of > popular sovereignty, that had compelled the West Bengal regime to keep its > Stalinist proclivities — seen in Nandigram — in check for so long. > > A modern State formation also acts in the name of popular sovereignty. But > in an insurrectionary situation, as in Lalgarh, the government comes to be > seen as an external threat to the sovereignty of the people. That renders > the legal-illegal dichotomy problematic and makes it difficult for the > state > to monopolise violence to crush popular movements in the name of curbing > anti-sovereign insurgency. The CPI(M)-led Left Front could ill-afford such > a > risk after the electoral drubbing. > > Alas, Lalgarh has squandered that advantage, thanks to a tactical blunder > by > the Maoists. The recent claims by various Maoist leaders that the PCAPA was > a front of their underground party has given the repressive arms of both > the > Bengal government and, to a lesser extent, the Centre, the alibi they had > been waiting for. They know the police operation in Lalgarh will now be > widely perceived as a legitimate measure to protect popular sovereignty > from > Maoist depredations. > Unquote > > Now back to Chhatradhar Mahato. > Quote > *It is being alleged that Maoists are supporting the PCAPA. Is it true?* > > Not at all. These are concocted allegations by our detractors. > Unquote > > In fact the hosting site < > http://news.rediff.com/interview/2009/jun/22/interview-with-convenor-of-peoples-committee-against-police-atrocities.htm#write> > gives also a link to Chhatradhar Mahato speaking, in Bengali, in a different > format - making a sort of free flowing statement: < > http://ishare.rediff.com/video/news-and-politics/chhtradhar-mahato-speaks-on-lalgarh-crisis/636111 > >. > Here, once again, Chhatradhar Mahato is visibly labouring to explain that > the movement is against more than six decades long deprivation, > discrimination and repression. He categorically rejects "the (slanderous) > attempt of the state and central governments to brand the movement as > "Maoist" in order to suppress it". He is ardently appealing for talks. > Asking the government to address the fundamental causes of the grievances. > Differentiate the movement from the Maoists. > > Not that whatever he speaks is gospel truth. > But that's what he says. > This is to be read together with the fact that not too long ago he was a > leader of the Trinamool Congress. > Also with the fact that when the Maoists were going full blast (rather > literally) with their election boycott call, just about two months back, the > PCAPA negotiated with the State Election Commission to have polling booths > set up just outside the "liberated zone" to ensure voting by the villagers > while disallowing the administration to come in till their demands are met. > > Sukla > > From: "R" > > To: foil <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:00:29 -0400 > Subject: Re: [foil] Lalgarh and Its Broader Implications > Mahato: The PCAPA came into being seven to eight months back, whereas > the Maoists have been here since ages > > Sukla: The seven month long resistance crashed almost overnight with > the Maoists coming overground, claiming the authorship of the > resistance > > There is something in Mahato's statement that jars with Sukla's > assertion that there is on the one hand the "resistance" as he calls > it, and on the other, the spoiling actions of the Maoists. The > assumption is that these two are separate and distinct. That's where > the crux of the strategy lies - a pro-establishment lie-machine that > constantly churns out silly claims - recall it echoes what Sukla and > company said about Nepal as well. There supposedly an autonomous > "civil society" led the "resistance" against Gyanendra, and the > Maoists simply came and "claimed authorship" - In Sukla's political > world, the Maoists are no more than spoilers who come and claim > authorship over things that otherwise happen "autonomously." > > Let us put Mahato's statement about the differences in perspective. He > said that the PCAPA uses only "traditional" weapons while the Maoists > use landmines, etc. Is it conceivable that a population so terribly > marginalized by the state and the society of caste Hindu India can > defeat the state with bows and arrows? Being far more rational people > than the elitist bastards who ask them to lay down their arms now > admit, the Adivasis sought and received the assistance of Maoists; > there is a blurred situation here where large numbers of local people > are not only sympathetic to, but also have embraced the Maoist > struggle. Is this so inconceivable as to escape the sharp wits of the > "civil society" champions who perhaps in their raging urgency to stake > spaces for their own irrelevant brand of politics, feel the need to > mangle the facts on the ground and come up with assertions that almost > match the idiocy of Mamta Bannerji's rantings? > > raja.. > > > > > > > > > http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=c93006b9-d91f-4dda-8d08-99a6d39250d9&Headline=Koraput+headed+the+Lalgarh+way > > It’s a similar story, headed for a similar ending. Koraput, an > under-developed Orissa district, has been cut off from the world for > the last five days and looks in danger of becoming another area > “liberated” by Maoists. > > Like Lalgarh in West Bengal, before it was won back. > > Dispossessed tribals on one side and alleged grabbers on the other are > in the middle of a violent battle for land waging in Koraput, which is > 560 km from Bhubaneshwar. And no prizes for guessing who is winning. > > The administration exists on ground but only just. It has no clue as > to how much land was lost by tribals and is able to only hazard a > guess about how much has been reclaimed by them through peaceful or > not-so-peaceful means. > > The tribals don’t bring their complaints to the local administration > any more. They go straight to organisations backed by the Maoists. In > fact, the tribals are not complaining at all. They simply grab back > what was grabbed from them. > > “They come and hoist a red flag in our agricultural land, signaling > the end of our possession over it. I owned 11 acres of land. Now, I’m > hiding in the houses of my relatives,” said Madhusudan Pondu, 72, of > Balipeta village. > > Both the locals and the administration said Chasi Muliya Adivasi > Sangha, an organisation of dispossessed tribals, is spearheading the > agitation. But its violent ways are blamed on a more radical section > within it. > > The targeted non-tribals have no choice but to leave the area > completely – an estimated 200 people have left the Narayanpatna block > of which Pondu’s Balipeta village is a part, in recent days. > > The Narayanpatna area has been completely cut off for the last five > days as sangha activists have blocked the main arterial road with > trees. > > On Thursday, nine personnel of the Orissa Special Striking Force who > tried to clear the road were killed in a landmine blast triggered by > the Maoists. Now, no policeman wants to go anywhere near Narayanpatna. > > The mainstream sangh leaders held a convention on Saturday but the > hotheads from Narayanpatna stayed away. One of them, Nachika Ling, a > tribal in his 30s, is believed to be leading the radicals. > > This is where the Maoists come in — they are believed to be Linga’s > chief backers. And this is where the story begins to sound like > Lalagarh’s, where a committee of locals agitating against the police > took on the state with the help of Maoists. > > “The Maoists want the hawks within the CMAS to take over the > organization so that they can guide the tribal movement in the manner > the Naxals have done in Lalgarh,” said a senior official refusing to > be identified. > > “Linga is hand-in-glove with the Maoists,” Sanjeev Panda, DIG of > Koraput area, told Hindustan Times. “He was arrested before and spent > two to three years in jail before he was released on bail.” > > Linga and his group are reported to have forcibly occupied hundreds of > acres of land and handed them over to the tribals. The group has also > damaged nearly hundred houses belonging to alleged “land usurpers”. > > But the state hasn’t given up here yet, unlike in Lalgarh. “Presently, > 100 CRPF personnel, about 30 men of India Reserve Battalion and one > unit of Orissa Special Striking Force are deployed in Narayanpatna,” > said police officer Panda. > > And they are not leaving. > > Not yet. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
