The exchange reproduced below is an illustrative example of phony radicalism.
How two "radicals" - one implicitly and the other explicitly - are holding up (a) report in the media egging on the state just not to take stronger armed actions against insurgents in Lalgarh but also gag all expressions of democratic dissent is proudly being held up as an endorsement for politics of insurgency. Quite an eye-opener. Sukla [Pls. read the exchange below:] Quote that was really an interesting article Unquote That's not an "article", by any stretch. "Correspondent"s do not contribute articles. They file news reports. Much more importantly, this one is meant to egg on the sate government to take stronger armed actions against all expressions of dissent by branding them as "Maoist". By teasing it on its "failure". It's obviously a perversion of radicalism, like the earlier "press release" posted by "sandy", that one finds it something commendable. The attempts of the state government to clamp down on public expression of democratic dissent is utterly condemnable. So is the attempt by a section of the media, as is evidently the case here, to operate as over-enthusiastic cheer leaders. Sukla On Tue Aug 18 sandy singh wrote: (that was really an interesting article about how the struggling masses in Lagarh are cocking a snook at the police and "replicating the Maoists strategy of dodging the police and carrying on with their activities even after the security forces had completed their area domination in Lalgarh,” ( to quote the PCPA leader). Even amidst heavy clamped down by the security forces to arrest the movement of the people and prohibit them from holding their meeting they have failed to prevent it. The news item illuminates the fact that the movement is still alive and kicking albeit in different forms and shape and in-spite of all the premature and eager post-mortem done by the some commentators proclaiming the death of the movement due to the involvement of the Maoists. The people of Lalgarh knows all too well who are their enemies and who are their friends. The state along with the ruling party CPI M party has been identified as one and the same while the Maoists as very much of their own (much against the pious wishes of all those who are out to lecture them against the prospects of their joining hand with Maoists. It appears that the Adivasis are not paying heed to these self-appointed referees). Indeed Maoists have emerged, inspite of their annihilation programme against the village gentry and CPI M cadres who by virtue of their class position and affiliation becomes a target for the struggle, as a conscious and organized expression of resistance. A defence shield of Adivasis and a collective weapon against state terror. Clearly people have broken free of the limits imposed by the parliamentary norms of democracy to chart thier own course of struggle that seamlessly integrates both the violent and non-violent forms of struggle as the one. They seems to be not "trapped between" the totalitarian Maoists or the oppressive state as the many "civil society" members whose pet theme, among others, is to create a spurious and artificial disjunction and a disconnect between the Maoists and the Adivasis, where none exists. The adivasis at least are not trapped the leadership of the movement has come from their ranks, they are willingly taking the destiny in their own hand to give birth to a new kind of struggle that truly represents and reflects the anger of the poor and dispossessed) sandy On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:30 PM, R.B.wrote: > Cops fight windmills, rebels hold rally OUR CORRESPONDENT Midnapore, Aug. 17: The People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities today foxed security forces, defied prohibitory orders and held a rally 3km from a village where the cops had turned out in large numbers to foil its gathering. While the police were busy dismantling the dais at Gohomidanga and bringing down microphones, about a thousand people led by Chhatradhar Mahato assembled at Mongladanga. About 400 jawans drawn from central and state forces moved into Gohomidanga this morning and took control of an 8km stretch of the metalled road connecting the area with Lalgarh town by noon. The power supply to the dais built for the rally was snapped. Aware that the police would try to prevent its much-publicised meeting, the Maoist-backed committee had thought up a fallback, the cops hadn’t. After the outfit cocked a snook at them, the police tried to crow their success in foiling the meeting at Gohomidanga. In Calcutta, inspector-general (law and order) Surajit Kar Purkayastha said: “They had wanted to hold a meeting in front of the police outpost at Gohomidanga. We prevented them from doing so. They only managed to hold an impromptu secret meeting some distance away.” The “secret” meeting, however, took place in the presence of about 1,000 men and women carrying sticks, axes, bows and arrows and other traditional tribal weapons and an army of media personnel. They rigged loudspeakers run on battery and Mahato and several others spoke at length. While Mahato was addressing the meeting, another thousand committee supporters kept the police “engaged” by moving ahead towards Gohomidanga. The police chased them with batons for up to half a kilometre, burst tear-gas shells and fired twice in the air, till they were satisfied that Gohomidanga was secured. According to senior committee leaders, their strategy was to give the police the impression that they were bent on holding the rally at Gohomidanga while arranging for a meeting at an undisclosed spot. This afternoon, when the police were waging a quixotic fight to foil the meeting, Mahato ensured that a few processions headed towards the planned site and wrongfooted the police. “It was a replication of the Maoist strategy of dodging the police and carrying on with their activities even after the security forces had completed their area domination in Lalgarh,” a committee leader said. Mahato, who is wanted by the police, said the administration would not be able to prevent the committee from holding public meetings despite clamping Section 144 across Lalgarh. His suggestion was that the popular anger against the security forces camping in schools would work in their favour. “The forces are torturing the villagers and innocent people are being arrested and beaten up. Studies have stopped in schools. So no one can forcefully stop our movement,” he said. Although the IG claimed “success”, several senior officers conceded that the fact that Mahato held a televised public meeting with loudspeakers a few kilometres from an area of heavy police deployment highlighted yet again the forces’ abysmal intelligence network. “Just as the police are not getting any information on Maoist movement in Lalgarh, they were in the dark about Mahato’s meeting,” an officer said. Maoist leader Bikash tonight threatened “more extensive” attacks on the police and CPM leaders. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
