STATEMENT ON LALGARH By the writers and the intellectuals of West Bengal, who stood by the Movements in Singur & Nandigram
ENGLISH VERSION Shouldn’t we ponder over? An almost unprecedented mass-upsurge has been sweeping over West Bengal for the last three years…as evident from the experiences of Singur, Nandigram, and Lalgarh. Realising that their life and occupation are being endangered in the name of ‘development’, the downtrodden have stood up and built up massive protest movements, not led by any party or individual, but out of their own initiative. Consequently all the forts of conspiracy and persecution of the autocracy are being shattered. In this context the Central Government, the self-styled ‘nationalists’ and the State Government, the self-styled ‘communists’ have joined hands to impose anew devastating state-terror in Lalgarh. The Joint Force have been persecuting the vast masses of people, conducting wanton plunder and destruction. People have to leave their homes and take shelter in forests etc to save their lives. Even the women are being subjected to dishonor and sexual persecution. Like all democratic people we do condemn and oppose these acts. But at the same time the situation has become complicated due to the activities of the CPI(Maoists).our democratic sense imbues us to demand that every person must allowed to express their opinion and act according to their belief, and also that no one should be gagged, tortured or killed for holding opposition views. We oppose and condemn CPI(M) just for these trampling and raping acts on people’s democratic rights, which it has done during their rule in West Bengal, and has even been doing this at the present moment in Keshpur and many other places. But the same acts are being done by the cadres of the CPI(Maoist) Party in West Medinipur, along with their politics of individual annihilation. In our opinion, these acts of theirs are harming the process of mass-upsurge in West Bengal, and , in particular, the people’s glorious movement in Lagarh. At the same time these activities have been creating some sort of ‘justification’ of the state-terror and CPI(M)’s party-terror. While condemning the state-terror and all party- terrors performed by CPI(M) and other parties, we also do oppose the above–referred activities. When the state is making schemes for imposing state-terror on a larger and much-co-ordinated scale, it is not possible to carry forward the mass-upsurge in West Bengal by abandoning the mass-movements and following the politics of trampling of opposite views and policy of mass-annihilation. This lesson has been learnt again and again from the concrete experiences of the past. Shouldn’t we ponder over ? Mahasveta Devi Sankha Ghosh Bibhas Chakrabarti Tarun Sanyal Asoke Sen Aparna Sen Naba Datta Saonli Mitra Joy Goswami Pratul Mukhopadhyay Dipankar Chakrabarti Nabarun Bhattacharya Shaibal Mitra Jaya Mitra Kaushik Sen Meher Engineer Sachchidananda Bandopadhyay Pachu Roy Sabyasachi Deb Srijan Sen Pulak Chanda Subhendu Dasgupta Sanat RoyChowdhury Kalyan Rudra Gautam Sen Sandip Bandopadhyay Bolan Gangopadhyay Sumit Chowdhury Krishma Bandopadhyay Amitqdyuti Kumar Bipul Chakrabarti Tapas Chakrabarti Rushati Sen Saswati Ghosh Punyabrata Gun Siddhartha GuhaRoy Debaprasad RoyChowdhury Premangsu Dasgupta Anup Bandopadhyay Kumar Rana SubhashisMukhopadhyay Pradip Datta Pranab De ParthaSarathi Bandopadhyay Pranab De Aditi Chowdhury Bhaskar Gupta . . Published by Dipankar Chakrabarti (Shyam Vihar :5/1D. Raghunathpur. Kolkata-700 059 PHONE:94328 77560) -- Click for exclusive coverage on the New Bajaj Pulsar 220 the fastest Indian bike http://www.zigwheels.com/Features/Bajaj-Pulsar-220-DTSi-Special-Coverage/Pulsar_20090623-1-1 _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
