CPI(ML)'s 'Anti-War Campaign' Echoes anti-Imperialist Sentiments of People Nationwide Party's "anti-war campaign" from 24 to 29 September evoked massive response of left, anti-imperialist, democratic and peace-loving people. In Bihar, Party organised anti-war people's march in Patna and several other district headquarters on September 26. Led by Party GS Com. Dipankar Bhattacharya and several other Party leaders including Com. KD Yadav, Rajaram Singh and Dr. Shahida Hasan, marchers covered the main roads of Patna. The march culminated in a mass meeting, where Com. Dipankar called upon the peace-loving patriotic and democratic Indians to reject and resist the US war of aggression and saffron Vajpayee Govt.'s shameless surrender to the US. He said that whereas in the '80s US priority was to defeat USSR in the cold war, the focus has now shifted against China and Islamic countries. He expressed solidarity with the anti-war demonstrations and agitations building up in Washington and otther centres of US against the US war games. In Delhi, large number of Party activists and supporters took out an impressive anti-war protest march on September 29 from Mandi House to Parliament Street. Carrying placards reading "Killer US has struck again, it is Operation Total Injustice", marchers shouted slogans "Bush-Vajpayee, hands off war efforts", "Asia will be turned into the graveyard of imperialism", etc. An anti-war meeting was held before Parliament Street Police Station, addressed by Party leaders Com. Swadesh Bhattacharya, Kumudini Pati, Rajendra Pratholi, Ranjit Abhigyan, Kavita Krishnan and NM Thomas. Com. Asit Ganguli, an RSP leader also addressed the meeting. Speakers decried Vajpayee's surrender to US war efforts and involving Indian people in imperialist war machine as cannon fodder, and "Americanisation" of Kashmir issue, by tagging it with America's so-called 'war on terrorism' and leaving the onus of resolving it on Bush administration. Subsequently, the agitators burnt the effigy of George Bush. In West Bengal, Party along with other ML groups and Shramik Sangram Committee organised 'Anti-war People's March' in Calcutta on Sep 24. It started from Subodh Mullick square to reach US Information Center at Park Street. Party leaders Com. Kalyan Goswami and Basudev Bose; 'New Democracy' leader Com. Pradip Singh Thakur, COI(ML) leader Com. Subrato Bose and Com. Tushar Bhattacharya led the march. On 29th September, protest programmes were taken in different parts of the state. In Krishnanagar of Nadia district, 150 Party activists staged a procession shouting slogans against American imperialism and their war efforts against Afganisthan and the effigy of president Bush was burnt. Rally and effigy burning programmes were also held in Bhadreswar, Boinchi and Dhanekhali in Hoogly district and in Jalpaiguri and Siliguri. An anti-war march was staged in Raiganj of North Dinajpur and a street corner was held at Barasat of North 24-Paragana. In U.P., Party and all its mass organisations took out a massive anti-war march in Lucknow on September 27 attended by hundreds of people from several districts. Starting from Char Bagh and passing through main streets of the city, the march reached State Assembly where it a meeting was held, addressed by Party State Secy. Com. Akhilendra Pratap Singh, Lal Bahadur Singh, Arun Kumar, Ramesh Sengar and others. Similar marches were also held at Varanasi on September 28 and Kanpur and other places on September 29. At Jaipur in Rajasthan, hundreds of people took out an 'anti-war march' on September 29. It reached Raj Bhawan, where an anti-war meeting was held, addressed by State Secy. Com. Mahendra Chaudhary and others. At Kakinada in East Godawari and Bishannapeta in Krishna districts of Andhra Pradesh, anti-war marches were taken out. State Party Secy. Com. N Murthy led the march at Kakinada. At Port Blair in Andaman, anti-war people's march was held on Sep 29. It was led by Com. NKP Nair, Sadasivam and Gopal. In Assam, anti-war marches were organised on 29 September in Guwahati and several other districts. In Tripura, marches were taken out in Agartala, Udaipur and Amarpur. Everywhere the speakers condemned the Vajpayee Govt. for endangering India's sovereignty and independence by turning into a pawn in the US war game and diverting the attention of the people from their struggles against hunger, unemployment and poverty. They also lambasted at RSS-BJP for fanning another round of communal frenzy by vitiating the atmosphere already laden with war jingoism. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
