West Bengal Left Front - both state and central leaders - have clearly expressed themselves against the ban.And the ban will not come into force till the state government issues appropriate notification.
Sukla On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:49 PM, sunil kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes ban is not a solution. And we should condemn ban against maoists. At > the same time maoism is not a solution to tribal or dalit problems. Really > maoism and so called armed resistance lead the tribals, dalits and other > oppressed people to nowhere but unendingtragedy. Marxists and Maoists are > birds having same feathers > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: damodar prasad <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/6/23 > Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [foil] Lalgarh and Its Broader Implications > To: [email protected] > > > 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 which have become outdated and even repugnant within circles engaged with 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
