The Influence and Impact of Naxalism on West Bengal Politics Sukla Sen
[Author’s introductory note: The following is the English version (translated by the author) of the original write-up in Bengali, carried by a special issue of the organ of a left student organisation, in early 1971. Special care has been taken not to “update”, while translating, with the benefit of hindsight. Hopefully, offers an interesting real time view, and assessment, of the Naxalite movement in West Bengal, while very much raging and (still) on the rise. Arguably, of a rather uncommon genre. 29 10 2018] It was during the regime of the first United Front government, back in 1967, that under the leadership of a section of the CPI (Marxist) a peasant movement was organised in the area covering Naxalbari, Kharibari and Phansidewa in the district of Darjeeling in North Bengal. Almost with lightning speed, it could have its reverberations felt all over India and in Bengal, in particular, it was able to leave its deep imprint. As of today, in 1970, in the soil of West Bengal, it has struck even deeper roots. The sections of the Bengal society which have been shaken up most by the Naxalbari movement or, to be more accurate, Naxalite politics are the students, semi-students and non-student youth and adolescents. One can scarcely run away from the stark fact of considerable Naxalite influence on the student-youth of West Bengal. That’s precisely why those who are committed to the goal of developing healthy and vibrant student and mass movements must cast a hard and impassionate look into the dynamics of interrelations between Naxalism and the student-youth community of today. In order to make this exercise meaningful, one needs to carefully trace the trajectory of evolution-transmutation of Naxalite politics since inception. .... < https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSRcedjlifp4wvL27bnw13g_CA5Syy5lkn695rJUeG7cEsne8uQaATyG9aKt0AX3mV6CJHhfvW7MWL0/pub > -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
