LEFT WILL HAVE GREATER PRESENCE IN THE NEXT BIHAR ASSEMBLY: KARAT

THE strength of the Left parties in Bihar state assembly is set to increase after the present elections, asserted CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat on October 11, 2010 while addressing his first election campaign meeting in the present elections in Darbhanga district. He said this would open the way for greater struggles to ensure implementation of land reforms in the state and remove the backwardness of Bihar.

Karat addressed an election meeting in Gorhela village in favour of CPI (M) candidate in Bahadurpur constituency, Shyam Bharathi. A significant feature of this constituency is the fact that the CPI (M) candidate is a dalit and he is fighting from a general constituency. Forty five year old Bharathi is an active fighter for people's cause in these areas for the last many years and this is his first electoral battle.

Prakash Karat attacked the Nitish Kumar government for pursuing similar neo-liberal economic policies as the UPA government at the centre. He was particularly critical about non-implementation of land reforms and neglect of agriculture in a state where there are maximum number of landless people and more than 60 per cent survive on agriculture. Darbhanga and surrounding districts are prone to floods and drought alternatively but the people are left to fend for themselves with no help from the centre or the state government. The agrarian crisis is intensifying to an unprecedented level with market economic policies driving the governments who are cutting subsidies and increasing the input costs. In such a situation, Karat stressed that the ongoing land struggle in Bihar for distribution of land to the landless assumes great importance. He called upon the toiling masses to further intensify this struggle and elect Left MLAs in order to force the new assembly to implement the land reforms. It is only the Left parties that are offering a genuine alternative to the caste and communal politics of the bourgeois parties in the state. He cited the glorious record of Bengal, Kerala and Tripura governments of the Left in implementation of land reforms.

Karat lampooned the prime minister and Congress leaders talk of robust economic growth in the country by saying that this has only resulted in the growth of dollar billionaires in the country (worth more than Rs 5000 crore) from 52 in 2009 to 69 in 2010. Of them, one person alone has assets worth Rs 1,69,000 crore while some have assets worth more than Rs 50,000 crore. This contrasts with a situation where lakhs of farmers have been committing suicide as farming is becoming increasingly unviable.

Karat criticised the Nitish government for not implementing MNREGA properly in the state and asked the people to question the government. This Act was brought into existence with the tremendous pressure brought upon the UPA government by the Left parties. The Congress and the government were not at all in favour of bringing this Act and are now trying to dilute it through tardy implementation, he charged.

Mentioning the ongoing discussions on the proposed Food Security Act, Karat asserted that the CPI (M) would continue to mount pressure on the government for incorporating the universalisation of PDS in the Act. “The government wants to continue the division of the poor into BPL and APL. This is not acceptable. It is also trying to limit the implementation of the Act to just 150 districts out of the 600 districts in the country. We have to keep up the struggle to force the government to accept universalisation of PDS”, he said amidst applause from the audience.

Referring to the aaya ram and gaya ram culture of bourgeois parties MLAs, Karat told the people that there is no guarantee that the MLAs they voted for under one symbol would tomorrow remain with that party because they are being bought over by money power. Most of these MLAs are contesting in order to increase their assets. He contrasted this with the Left MLAs who are in politics in order to serve the people. They forego their salaries and pensions to the Party and live on the allowance given by the Party. They do not defect to other parties. The people of Bihar, who have a glorious legacy of fighting the British, must uphold that tradition and send more Left MLAs in these elections, he appealed.

Later, over the next two days Prakash Karat addressed election meetings in Madhubani and Samasthipur districts, including a massive meeting in Narhan in favour of sitting CPI (M) MLA and state secretariat member Ramdev Verma who is seeking re-election from Vibhutipur constituency.

Earlier, CPI (M) Polit Bureau member and incharge of Bihar, S Ramchandran Pillai campaigned for the Party in Saran and Champaran districts during October 8 – 10.
(N S Arjun from Darbhanga)

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TMC LED EAST MIDNAPORE ZILLA PARISHAD ENGAGED IN CORRUPTION IN RESPECT OF TENDERS

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TRIPURA : WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR POWER TARIFF HIKE? - Haripada Das

FEELING itself starved of issues against the Left Front government of Tripura, the state Congress has now got a ‘juicy’ issue, i.e. recent hike in consumer power tariff. Over it, they are now making an all over the state.

In June, the Congress led government at the centre abruptly raised the price of natural gas from Rs 2376 to 5133 per cubic metre, i.e. by about 116 per cent. While thus helping the Ambani brothers reap super profits from gas fields which they have been allowed to exploit, the centre did not consider the adverse effects the people and the states depending on natural gas for power generation may face.

It is known that power tariff in a state is regulated by a commission appointed under the Electricity Regulatory Commission Act, passed by the NDA government in 1998. The Congress allowed the bill pass through in parliament. The bill gives the commission absolute authority to regulate power tariff, free from interference by any government. In fact, through this act, the central government snatched from the states all the scope to regulate tariff. Then came the final stroke. The Electricity Act 2003, which also got support from the Congress, pulled out power from the concurrent list. With these two acts, the centre left no scope for the state governments in generation, transportation and distribution of power or regulation of tariff.

PROTEST UNHEEDED

In Tripura, except Damboor hydel plant generating 8 MW per day, all other power plants are thermal plants running on natural gas. During the dry spell when the water level of the reservoir comes down, the Damboor plant ceases generation for several months. An 84 MW capacity NEC plant is based on natural gas while the work on two more gas-based power plants, one by ONGC and other by NEC, are in progress. Altogether, 92 per cent of the state’s total power generation is based on natural gas. So this steep hike in the natural gas price has a disastrous effect on Tripura which is almost totally dependent on gas for power generation.

The government of Tripura, along with those of other north eastern states, vehemently protested against this hike. State chief minister Manik Sarkar and power minister Manik Dey wrote to the prime minister and central power minister urging for exempting at least the north eastern states from this hike. Tripura Left Front Committee and the CPI (M) state committee also protested. All the three MPs from Tripura met Murali Deora, union power minister, and submitted a joint memorandum urging exemption for the NE states. DYFI and other mass organisations organised protest demonstration before the office of the GAIL and ONGC protesting this hike of natural gas price. But the UPA government preferred to serve the interest of the corporate sectors including Ambani brothers, instead of rendering relief to the backward states of this region.

As a matter of fact, the Electricity Regulatory Authority, an independent body to take care of the financial aspects of Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd (TSECL), has calculated a flat rise of Rs 2.09 per unit of power for meeting its additional expenses following the gas price hike. Considering this hike to be too much for the consumers, most of whom are poor, middle class and BPL holders enjoying Kutir Jyoti connections, the TSECL then reduced the hike to Rs 1.40 per unit. Further, in its cabinet meeting held on September 23, state Left Front government decided to pay subsidy to the BPL families and consumers of three lower slabs. The number of consumers that would fall under the purview of this subsidy scheme is 4,24,372 (98.55 per cent) out of the total 4,60,723 consumers in the state. Including the subsidy on the power used for irrigation and drinking water, the additional financial burden to be borne by the state exchequer will stand at Rs 22 crore per annum. (Unlike nowhere in the country, the Left Front government of Tripura provides irrigation and drinking water to the consumers free of cost and bears the entire electricity cost for these purposes.) Altogether, an extent of Rs 77 crore per annum is paid by the government of Tripura as subsidy, in order to render relief to the jhumias, the landless, kisans, agricultural workers, rural artisans, students etc. The subsidy given by the government is shown in

Table 1 below.

In sum, even after the recent enhancement, power tariff now in force in Tripura is still lower than in many advanced states of the country.

DIVERSIONARY TACTIC

To divert the people’s attention from this hard fact and hide the anti-people measure of the UPA government of hiking the natural gas price, the state Congress started making uproar all through the state, seeking to put the state government in the dock. They are propagating that the state government has failed to contain the transportation loss of electricity and is therefore burdening the poor consumers with the cost of lost power. If this could be reduced to zero, they argue, consumers could be provided electricity at a much cheaper rate. Here also, the Congress is resorting to mischief in order to mislead the people. Without some transportation loss or system loss, electricity can never be provided to consumers. It is an unavoidable part of the system in electricity, though its extent varies according to distance from the generating point, character of geographical terrain, number of connections etc. In Tripura, as we can see from Table 2, power transportation loss is much below compared to the many other states in the country.

Inaugurating a 21 MW gas based thermal power plant at Baramura in West Tripura on September 21, chief minister Manik Sarkar expressed satisfaction that the plant had been commissioned at last, despite non-cooperation from the centre. At the same time, he criticised the dilly-dallying negative attitude adopted by the centre for giving a sanction to this plant. It is an accepted norm in respect of the North East that the central government bear the financial responsibility to the extent of 90 per cent for setting up any plant and industry here. But when the proposal for this plant was mooted, the central government refused to allocate 90 per cent finance and imposed the entire liability on the state government. After a long series of arguments and correspondence, ultimately the centre had to accept the reasons put forward by the state government and concede fund sharing in the 90:10 ratio. This plant would have been commissioned two years back, however, in only the central government had extended cooperation to the state government from the beginning, the chief minister repented.

Does the state Congress feel that that its deceitful tactic would not be comprehended by the common people. However, our experience is different. We do believe that the politically conscious democratic people of Tripura would not fail to recognise that the Congress has done nothing for the poor people except making false and deceitful promises.

Table 1: Subsidy on Power in Tripura

Connection category
Unit slab /KW
Pre-hike price per unit
Enhanced price per unit (post- hike rate)
Government subsidy per unit
Post-hike price per unit
Kutir Jyoti
(For BPL families)

Nil
Rs.26.00 (Gross)
Rs.17.00 (Gross)
Rs. 9.00
(Gross)
Domestic (rural)
0-30 Units
Rs. 1.20
Rs. 2.60
Rs. 0.65
Rs. 1.95
Slab -1
0-50 Units
Rs. 1.30
Rs.2.70
Rs. 0.50
Rs. 2.20
Slab -2
51-150 Units
Rs. 1.90
Rs. 3.30
Rs. 0.20
Rs. 3.10
Commercial,
paan shop etc.
0-30 Units
Rs. 2.00
Rs. 3.40
Rs. 0.55
Rs. 2.85

Table 2: Transportation Loss of Electricity, 2009-10




Assam
33.55 per cent
Bihar
40.53 per cent
Jammu & Kashmir
69.09 per cent
Madhya Pradesh
45.36 per cent
Meghalaya
36.93 per cent
Rajasthan
30.53 per cent
West Bengal
34.44 per cent
Jharkhand
50.86 per cent
Chhattisgarh
36.92 per cent
Uttarakhand
31.06 per cent
Tripura
32.00 per cent

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PEOPLE’S MARCHES IN THE JANGAL MAHAL CONTINUE RELENTLESSLY - B Prasant

MARCHES of thousands of the villagers and townsfolk in the remotest and most corners of inaccessible jangal mahal in West Medinipur keep its flourish intact – and the rolling stream of the masses – the Red Flag-held high – continue its joyous sweep as the twenty-odd months of virtually siege-like conditions are finally lifted.

It was a very happy occasion for us veterans with advancing years to thrive and prosper on the occasion, and it was on 8 September. The place was Ramgarh. This is the cluster of villages amidst deep, dense forestry, where the killers, who call themselves ‘Maoists,’ had first committed the heinous crime of shooting and leaving to die painfully, muttering agonising but feeble cries for water to drink before passing away thence into history, the first martyr of a dark dawn, a CPI (M) worker and a poor peasant, Comrade Nandalal Pal.

The initial killing was followed by the taking of the lives in the cruellest manners imaginable of CPI(M) workers, and poor farmers all – Comrades Gopinath Murmu, Behari Bhunia, Sankar Hansda and Sankar Pal, all but Comrade Sankar Pal were members of different tribal communities. Many more such vile acts followed. Smell of terror hung over the villages as a pall of plague.

THE TERROR – NOW GONE

This is the place where the Trinamuli supremo had been driven around, a close week or so before, riding pillion to one of the PCAPA ‘leaders,’ on a motorbike, she back-slapping, as the TV cameras rolled, those very sinister creatures of the dim who had killed Comrade Nandalal.

The outpouring on 8 September of the poor and the toiling, the downtrodden and the anguished, the men, the women, the children, the victim and the ill, even the old and the infirm assured us that the jangal mahal would never ever be allowed to lapse back into a reign of terror, ever.

The moving scene for us was the moment when the Red Flag was hoisted and left fluttering in the breezy and hot summer-like conditions, under the intense blue of the open. That the process of the symbolic rally held afterwards at the very spot where the man-hunters had roamed even a fortnight back, made a great many of the marchers cry their hearts out in sobbing great tears openly, and not silently, was expected – but truth to tell, it was a rare occasion of basic emotional nature for us to witness the droplets of joy and relief roll down the gnarled cheeks of the old, and the taut faces of the young.

TRAGEDY - AND THE TRIUMPH

We recalled then with more-than-a-tinge of tragedy the manner in which the depradationists had run amuck for twenty long months, of the dark of the terror-filled days and death-ridden nights, here at Ramgarh area, for far too long this had gone, the villagers had decide then and there— and the CPI(M) had organised them as befitting a vanguard Party of the working class and the toiling masses.

The masses turned, no longer willing to be amidst the shadow of fear-- and the ‘Maoists’ were on the run - any police action was not in the calculation of the common of the dust and the dirt, the grass and the forest, the flower and the strongly-scented wild fruit. They were disgusted with the quality of low-life they had suffered and they chose to march, and the future, they knew, could only get worse, horribly, disturbingly, agonisingly so if they chose not to act and the time was now.

The local leadership of the CPI (M) told us in grave details the expected manner the attackers, complete with their baiters in such ‘political’ outfits as the Trinamulis, and the different gangs of common criminals (the ranks often merged into one another, we must put an interjecting note here, and their abetters in the ranks of the lurking former jotdars, smaller zamindars, and the money-lending sahukars) chose flight as the better part of valour. They fled, and fled and then fled again.

CELEBRATION- AND TEARS OF JOY

The villagers who crowded around in the rally came from the remotest hamlets with such quaint and to us, townsfolk, quite exotic names in their earthy linguistic deconstruction, tribal with each having a connation related to the tribal life at the centre of which remained the tree and the grass.

The villages were DhyangBhahara, Pitrakhuli, Balibandh, Patharnala, Belasole, Sitalpore, Neriah, Joaldanga, Birghasa, Shusunia, and Majurkata, and many others. During one of the sweeps, the villagers caught hold of the local criminal who had been made ill-famed by the left deviationists as ‘Bullet’ Mahato, his given name long buried in a mire of blood of martyrs. He was duly handed over to the police, untouched, unhandled but being forced to walk as a crowd of thousands looked intently at him, he with eyes low, shoulders in a stoop, walk reduced to a creep.

The marchers went on and rejoiced, sang, and danced, and beat up a storm of the resonance of the large kettle drum. We lingered behind, hope burgeoning, and despair in hasty, inglorious retreat. The people had spoken – the jangal mahal had given a grateful listen. Lalgarh is now at a distance of - a days’ worth of march - eight short kilometres.

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RELATIVES OF NIRMAL SOREN WHO WAS BUTCHERED BY MAOISTS ON 16-07-2010 AT SHALBONI IN WEST BENGAL

MAOIST RAILWAY MINISTER MAMATA BANERJEE PLAYING FRAUD WITH THE NATION OVER THE SABOTAGE IN GYANESHWARI EXPRESS ON 28-05-2010

HUNDREDS OF INNOCENENT PASSENGERS HAVE BEEN KILLED BRUTALLY BY HER MAOIST FRIENDS. STILL SHE HAS NO SHAME OR REPENTENCE.

MAHESHWAR HYDEL PROJECT

MPS DEMAND RELIEF, REHABILITATION FOR OUSTEES

On May 3, members of parliaments from several political parties, including the BSP, CPI(M), CPI, AGP, SP, FB and RSP, wrote a letter to the prime minister in support of the decision to suspend work on the project of Maheshwar Hydel Power Corporation Limited till relief and rehabilitation (R&R) entitlements are completed.

It will be recalled that the ministry of environment and forests has issued a suspension order which was opposed by the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. Text of the letter to the prime minister is given below.

WE welcome the decision taken by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), under the provisions of the Environment (Protection) Act 1986, suspending the work on the Maheshwar project till the rehabilitation and resettlement of the oustees/affected persons is brought up to the pace of dam construction as per the terms of the clearance and till the extent of submergence is known. This intervention to ensure prior rehabilitation of the oustees/affected persons will go a long way to constructively address the issue of displacement in development projects.

We are shocked to learn that the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, instead of welcoming this opportunity to complete the rehabilitation and resettlement of the oustees/affected persons, has written to you asking you to revoke the order of the MoEF.

The situation of rehabilitation and resettlement of the oustees/affected persons has assumed dire proportions and all concerned agencies admit as much. Even the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, in November 2009, had admitted that only three per cent of the oustees/affected persons have been provided house plots and other R&R entitlements. The Shri Maheshwar Hydel Power Corporation Limited (fully owned by the S Kumar’s Group) which owns the project, in its reply dated March 9, 2010 in response to the MoEF’s show cause notice, had revealed that while no agricultural land has been given to any oustee/affected person, only 14 per cent had received house plots and a mere three per cent had received other R&R entitlements. Allotment of a minimum of two hectares of agricultural land was also required by the conditions of the environmental clearance. However, the project authorities by their own admission are yet to even identify agricultural land for the oustees/affected persons. Of the 61 villages whose lands are involved (of these, 22 are those where homesteads will also be submerged), only one has been rehabilitated.

The present situation is that the construction work of the Maheshwar dam is over 80 per cent complete, in clear violation of condition 3(x) of the statutory environmental clearance to the project that required R&R at the same pace as dam construction. Despite this, the MoEF has not used its existing powers to permanently stop the project or revoke the clearance under the Environment Protection Act 1986 but only suspended work till R&R catches up with construction. In these circumstances, we urge you not to take any decision to revoke the Order of the MoEF dated April 23, 2010.

The signatories to the letter were Brajesh Pathak (BSP), Abani Roy (RSP), Barun Mukherjee (FB), Birendra Prashad Vaishya (AGP), Kamal Akhtar (SP), Vir Pal (SP), D Raja (CPI) and Brinda Karat of the CPI(M).

Source: People’s Democracy dated 23-05-2010

PEOPLE OF SUNDARBANS ON GENERAL STRIKE ON 25TH MAY AGAINST DISCRIMINATION OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

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PLANE CRASH IN MANGALORE AIRPORT ON 22-05-2010

TWO INNOCENT PEOPLE MURDERED BY MAOIST BUTCHERS IN JANGALMAHAL ON 23-05-2010. PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS HAVE NO TEARS FOR THEM.

STALIN’S ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE: “WE ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS WAR”

Below we reproduce excerpts from the radio broadcast Comrade J V Stalin made to the Soviet and the world peoples on July 3, 1941, after the Nazi attack on the USSR.

COMRADES, citizens, brothers and sisters, men of our Army and Navy! My words are addressed to you, dear friends!

The perfidious military attack by Hitlerite Germany on our Fatherland begun on June 22 is continuing. In spite of the heroic resistance of the Red Army, and although the enemy's finest divisions and finest air force units have already been smashed and have met their doom on the field of battle, the enemy continues to push forward, hurling fresh forces to the front. Hitler's troops have succeeded in capturing Lithuania, a considerable part of Latvia, the western part of Byelorussia and part of Western Ukraine. The fascist aircraft are extending the range of their operations, bombing Murmansk, Orsha, Moghilev, Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol. Grave danger overhangs our country.

How could it have happened that our glorious Red Army surrendered a number of our cities and districts to the fascist armies? Is it really true that the German fascist troops are invincible, as the braggart fascist propagandists are ceaselessly blaring forth?

Of course not! History shows that there are no invincible armies and never have been. Napoleon's army was considered invincible, but it was beaten successively by the armies of Russia, England and Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm's German army in the period of the first imperialist war was also considered invincible, but it was beaten several times by Russian and Anglo-French troops, and was finally smashed by the Anglo-French forces. The same must be said of Hitler's German fascist army of today. This army had not yet met with serious resistance on the continent of Europe. Only on our territory has it met with serious resistance. And if as a result of this resistance the finest divisions of Hitler's German fascist army have been defeated by our Red Army, this means that it too can be smashed and will be smashed, as were the armies of Napoleon and Wilhelm.

As to part of our territory having nevertheless been seized by the German fascist troops, this is chiefly due to the fact that the war of fascist Germany against the USSR began under conditions that were favourable for the German forces and unfavourable for the Soviet forces. The fact of the matter is that the troops of Germany, a country at war, were already fully mobilised, and the 170 divisions brought up to the Soviet frontiers and hurled by Germany against the USSR were in a state of complete readiness, only awaiting the signal to move into action, whereas the Soviet troops had still to effect mobilisation and move up to the frontiers. Of no little importance in this respect was the fact that fascist Germany suddenly and treacherously violated the non-aggression pact which she had concluded in 1939 with the USSR, regardless of the circumstance that she would be regarded as the aggressor by the whole world. Naturally, our peace-loving country, not wishing to take the initiative in breaking the pact, could not resort to perfidy.

It may be asked: How could the Soviet government have consented to conclude a non-aggression pact with such perfidious people, such fiends as Hitler and Ribbentrop? Was this not an error on the part of the Soviet government? Of course not! Non-aggression pacts are pacts of peace between two states. It was such a pact that Germany proposed to us in 1939. Could the Soviet government have declined such a proposal? I think that not a single peace-loving state could decline a peace treaty with a neighbouring state even though the latter were headed by such monsters and cannibals as Hitler and Ribbentrop. But that, of course, only on the one indispensable condition --- that this peace treaty did not jeopardise, either directly or indirectly, the territorial integrity, independence and honour of the peace-loving state. As is well known, the non-aggression pact between Germany and the USSR was precisely such a pact.

What did we gain by concluding the non-aggression pact with Germany? We secured our country peace for a year and a half and the opportunity of preparing our forces to repulse fascist Germany should she risk an attack on our country despite the pact. This was a definite advantage for us and a disadvantage for fascist Germany.

What has fascist Germany gained and what has she lost by perfidiously tearing up the pact and attacking the USSR? She has gained a certain advantageous position for her troops for a short period of time, but she has lost politically by exposing herself in the eyes of the entire world as a bloodthirsty aggressor. There can be no doubt that this short-lived military gain for Germany is only an episode, while the tremendous political gain of the USSR is a weighty and lasting factor that is bound to forth the basis for the development of outstanding military successes of the Red Army in the war with fascist Germany.

That is why… all the peoples of our country, all the finest men and women of Europe, America and Asia, and, finally, all the finest men and women of Germany denounce the treacherous acts of the German fascists, sympathise with the Soviet government, approve its conduct, and see that ours is a just cause, that the enemy will be defeated, and that we are bound to win.

In consequence of this war which has been forced upon us, our country has come to death grips with its bitterest and most cunning enemy --- German fascism. Our troops are fighting heroically against an enemy armed to the teeth with tanks and aircraft….. The soldiers of the Red Army are displaying unparalleled valour. Our resistance to the enemy is growing in strength and power. Side by side with the Red Army, the entire Soviet people is rising in defence of our native land.

What is required to put an end to the danger imperilling our country and what measures must be taken to smash the enemy?

Above all it is essential that our people, the Soviet people, should appreciate the full immensity of the danger that threatens our country and give up all complacency, casualness and the mentality of peaceful constructive work that was so natural before the war, but which is fatal to-day, when war has radically changed the whole situation. The enemy is cruel and implacable. He is out to seize our lands watered by the sweat of our brows, to seize our grain and oil secured by the labour of our hands….
All our work must be immediately reorganised on a war footing, everything must be subordinated to the interests of the front and the task of organising the destruction of the enemy…..

We must strengthen the Red Army's rear, subordinating all our work to this end; all our industries must be got to work with greater intensity, to produce more rifles, machineguns, guns, cartridges, shells, planes; we must organise the guarding of factories, power stations, telephonic and telegraphic communications, and arrange effective air-raid protection in all localities.

We must wage a ruthless fight against all disorganisers of the rear, deserters, panic-mongers and rumour-mongers….We must bear in mind that the enemy is crafty, unscrupulous, experienced in deception and the dissemination of false rumours….

In case of a forced retreat of Red Army units, all rolling stock must be evacuated, the enemy must not be left a single engine, a single railway car, not a single pound of grain or gallon of fuel. The collective farmers must drive off all their cattle and turn over their grain to the safe keeping of the state authorities for transportation to the rear. All valuable property, including non-ferrous metals, grain and fuel that cannot be withdrawn must be destroyed without fail.

In areas occupied by the enemy, guerrilla units, mounted and on foot, must be formed; sabotage groups must be organised to combat enemy units, to foment guerrilla warfare everywhere, blow up bridges and roads, damage telephone and telegraph lines, set fire to forests, stores and transports. In occupied regions conditions must be made unbearable for the enemy and all his accomplices. They must be hounded and annihilated at every step, and all their measures frustrated.

The war with fascist Germany cannot be considered an ordinary war. It is not only a war between two armies; it is also a great war of the entire Soviet people against the German fascist armies. The aim of this national patriotic war in defence of our country against the fascist oppressors is not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our country, but also to aid all the European peoples groaning under the yoke of German fascism. In this war of liberation we shall not be alone. In this great war, we shall have true allies in the peoples of Europe and America, including the German people which is enslaved by the Hitlerite misrulers. Our war for the freedom of our country will merge with the struggle of the peoples of Europe and America for their independence, for democratic liberties. It will be a united front of the peoples standing for freedom and against enslavement and threats of enslavement by Hitler's fascist armies….

Comrades, our forces are numberless. The overweening enemy will soon learn this to his cost. Side by side with the Red Army many thousands of workers, collective farmers and intellectuals are rising to fight the enemy aggressor. The masses of our people will rise up in their millions. The working people of Moscow and Leningrad have already begun to form huge People's Guards in support of the Red Army. Such People's Guards must be raised in every city which is in danger of enemy invasion; all the working people must be roused to defend with their lives their freedom, their honour and their country in this patriotic war against German fascism…..

All our forces for the support of our heroic Red Army and our glorious Red Navy!

All the forces of the people for the destruction of the enemy!

Forward to victory!

Courtesy: People’s Democracy dated 09-05-2010 (www.pd.cpim.org)

MAOIST BUTCHERS SLAIN INNOCENT VILLAGER ORPHANING HIS WIFE & DAUGHTER IN THE NAME OF REVOLUTION

WIFE AND DAUGHTER BESIDE THE DEAD-BODY OF HARIPADA SINGHA ON BASANTPUR ROAD IN DAHIJURI VILLAGE OF JHARGRAM, WEST BENGAL ON 05-05-2010. HARIPADA SINGHA WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED BY THE PERVERTED AND INSANE MAOIST COMRADES OF ARUNDHATI ROY, MAHASWETA DEVI, MEDHA PATKAR, “PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES” (PUCL), “PEOPLE’S UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS”(PUDR), ASSOCIATION FOR PROTECTION OF DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS (APDR) AND OTHER SO-CALLED INTELLECTUALS AND HUMAN RIGHT ORGANISATIONS AND CORPORATE MEDIA

WHEN TRINAMOOL CONGRESS WAS IN POWER IN KOLKATA CORPORATION

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COMMON PEOPLE SUFFER AS A RESULT OF RISING PRICES WHEREAS THE UPA GOVERNMENT SERVES THE MILLIONEERS

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TWO MORE ARRESTED FROM UTTAR PRADESH FOR SUPPLYING ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS TO MAOIST BUTCHERS

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