It is really unfortunate situation. All spectrum of Communist Parties using violence to their end, constitutional or extra constitutional - using state and outside state,against common people and their struggles. Violence breading and justifying violence.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, damodar prasad <damodar.pra...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Cross-posting Aditya Nigam's write-up from Kafila > > *Maoist Violence in Lalgarh, West Bengal, Must be Condemned* > > The inevitable has happened. As soon as the election results came out and > the wall of fear collapsed and mass anger against the ruling CPM became > evident, the Maoists waiting in the wings have come out into the open. > *However, > what is happening today in Lalgarh and other parts of West Bengal cannot be > justified by pointing at the CPM’s totalitarian terror in the Bengal > countryside.* > > According to reports, the violence, killings of CPM activists and members, > especially in Lalgarh, has now acquired unprecedented proportions. CPM > members are being driven out of their homes or killed. The offices of the > party have been targeted on a large scale, not just in Lalgarh but elsewhere > in West Bengal. > > At Kafila, we had earlier, on 22 April, reported on what is going on in > Lalgarh<http://kafila.org/2009/04/22/lalgarh-media-and-the-maoists-monobina-gupta/>. > That Maoists have been active in Lalgarh is well known. In this report filed > after a visit to Lalgarh, Monobina Gupta had drawn attention towards the > disjunction between the Maoist leadership’s designs and the local Maoist > activists who were having to work along with the popular sentiment. > Monobina’s report went further: > > *In fact, curiously enough, the situation on ground zero is not going > exactly in accordance with the plans of Maoist central leaders who favour > stepping up violence*. Insiders talk about a growing discordance between > the central leadership and the ‘Maoist villager’, active in the movement. > *With the agitation forging ahead, Maoist central leaders want to have a > firmer grip; they want landmines, killings, terror, systematic targeting of > informers*. But the grassroots ‘Maoist’ worker is unwilling. “They realize > any such violent action will lead to their isolation and the death of the > movement. *But Maoist central leaders believe they made the movement and > should have the right to control it,” said an insider*. “One of the > reasons villagers are sympathetic to Maoists is because they know them > intimately, not as some distant commander, but the youth next door, who > works for and with the poor. But violence would find little endorsement,” he > said. > > Today, in the aftermath of the elections, the design of the Maoist central > leadership seems to have won the day. Maoist cadre are out in the open. > Activists associated with the movement and with the Lalgarh Sanhati Mancha, > confess to a feeling of helplessness as the armed Maoist cadre threaten to > take over and derail the movement that has so far afforded little space to > its politics of violence. > > In some of our earlier posts, we had condemned Maoist violence in > Chattisgarh, especially its threats against the human shields > programme<http://kafila.org/2008/10/19/maoist-disruption-of-the-non-violent-human-shields-movement-in-chhattisgarh/>of > the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram and the wanton killings > by them in > Nayagarh<http://kafila.org/2008/02/22/condemnation-of-maoist-and-state-violence-in-orissa/>in > Orissa (22 February 2008). The latter was a statement issued by eleven > intellectuals and activists who had also been raising their voice against > the Nandigram violence. This statement expressed its “complete opposition to > this cult of violence” and had warned that > > *The Maoist atrocity in Nayagarh is particularly unfortunate as it is > detrimental > to the various democratic mass movements all over Orissa that are resisting > the policies of land grab and diversion of natural resources to global and > domestic corporations.* The Orissa government is bound to use this > incident as yet another excuse to crack down on the militant but non-violent > struggles of the people against unjust development policies in the state. > > Today, once again, in West Bengal this is the threat that the democratic > mass movement faces. Maoist violence is once again set to eliminate every > intermediate space of democratic protest and struggle, leaving the villagers > with only two options: either line up with the state or follow the Maoists. > This is the picture everywhere, wherever the Maoists are in command, from > Chattisgarh to parts of Andhra and Orissa. That is the challenge before > democratic struggles and public opinion today. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
