Re: [Marxism] India : Sanhati statement on the firing by CPI(M) harmads in Lalgarh
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Utter falsehood.. Curious that Sanhati takes no cognizance of more than 250 CPI(M) cadre murdered by the so-called Maoists and their comprador friends Trinamul Congress in WB.. hypocrisy, thy name is Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Indian indigenous tribe scores Avatar-style victory over British company
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In a mark of the political significance of the project's rejection, the scion of India's most powerful dynasty, Rahul Gandhi, flew by helicopter to a rally near the proposed mine on Thursday. Mr Gandhi, whose father, grandmother and great grandfather were all Indian prime ministers, told residents that there is a ''rich India'' whose voices are heard everywhere and a ''poor India'' whose voices are seldom heard. ''This is your victory,'' said the general secretary of the ruling Congress party. This Gandhi boy is just using this opportunity to further his own image as the next natural heir to the Congress throne and hence naturally to the next Prime Minister of India.. this is a shameful and hollow show of power.. it is his very own congress party that are following agricultural policies that have over the past decade resulted in more than 100,000 farmer suicides across India.. when this guy talks of a "poor India", one feels anger at this brazen hypocrisy.. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] India Faces Intifada Like Revolt in Kashmir
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This government has screwed up the Kashmir issue real badly.. they prefer apathy and inaction to doing anything constructive.. more than 50 Kashmiris were killed in security forces' firing against rallies and demonstrations.. of course, there is funding from across the border, the ISI etc.. who knows, maybe even the US government could be double-dealing, they supply arms both to Indian and Pakistan, sad thing is the dubmass rulers in both countries lack the self-esteem to stand up against years of US double-dealing.. the current rulers are too busy introducing financial sector reforms, labour reforms, selling off even profit-making public sector units, bringing in foreign educational providers, getting further enmeshed in the strategic embrace of the Americans, buying up American weaponry etc. etc. farmer suicides have continued unabated all these years in the so-called rising superpower.. the public distribution system has been demolished, there are foodgrains available in govt godowns, but the delivery system has been emasculated and folded up, yesterday the Supreme court ordered the govt to give away foodgrains free of cost to the poor rather than let them rot in the godowns.. here is a link to an article by P. Sainath on the foodgrains issue.. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/article565477.ece - Original Message From: Tom Cod To: rajeshcher...@yahoo.co.in Sent: Fri, 13 August, 2010 5:11:39 AM Subject: [Marxism] India Faces Intifada Like Revolt in Kashmir == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/world/asia/13kashmir.html?hp Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/rajeshcherian%40yahoo.co.in Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Maoists kill headmaster: was {Villagers take to streets against Maoist bandhs}
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/bengal-maoists-kill-headmaster-in-west-midnapore-39422 Kolkata: Suspected Maoists shot dead the headmaster of a primary school in West Midnapore district of West Bengal for refusing to let his students join a pro-Maoist procession. Rabindranath Mahato was just leaving his Indraboni Primary School on Friday around 3 pm when six persons in three motorcycles swooped down on him, hacked at him with choppers and then shot him dead at point blank range. As fellow teachers and students fled in terror, the six youth left shouting pro-Maoist slogans. Mahato's murder came two days after villagers at Radhanagar chased away activists of the pro-Maoist People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), who wanted the villagers to join a procession they were holding. On Friday, over 7000 residents of about six villages came together and held their own procession to protest against the strong arm tactics of the PCPA. The villagers complained of harassment of women as well by the PCPA. While the villagers protest may have been a one-off incident, people are turning away from pro-Maoist groups, say the police. And as the isolation of the Maoist groups grows, they are taking to more killings of innocents like the headmaster of the primary school. Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/bengal-maoists-kill-headmaster-in-west-midnapore-39422?cp Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Villagers take to streets against Maoist bandhs
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/24/stories/2010072461140500.htm Kolkata: Disgruntled over regular bandhs and blockades called by Maoists in Jangalmahal (forested south-western part of West Bengal), thousands of villagers from more than 10 villages in Jhargram sub-division of Paschim Medinipur district took out a rally in the area on Friday. They were protesting against the atrocities perpetrated on them by the Left-wing extremists and supporters of the Maoist-backed Police Santrash Birodhi Janasadharaner Committee (PSBJC). They alleged that the Maoists and PSBJC supporters had beaten up both men and women from the villages when the latter refused to participate in a rally organised by the former. A group of Maoists and PSBJC members had gone to Radhanagar village in the area on Wednesday night and asked the residents to participate in a protest rally against alleged police torture on women members of the Maoist-backed Nari Izzat Bachao Committee on Tuesday. Most of the villagers, however, refused to listen to the group and chased them away. The Maoists returned to the village on Thursday and allegedly beat up residents for daring to defy their order. Saying that the incident points towards growing animosity against the Maoists in the region, Additional Superintendent of Police, Jhargram, said the people have “finally raised their voice against the prolonged suppression by the Maoists”. “More than 5,000 people had gathered against torture by the Maoists as well as the regular digging up of roads, felling of trees and calling bandhs. They said they wanted to live in peace,” he added. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] India
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Valuable comments, comrade dan.. It is naive to think that such a well-entrenched state could be in anyway threatened by the so-called 'Maoists' in India.. the army has not yet been used against them.. it is only the paramilitary/police forces that have been employed by the state against them.. there is now an ongoing debate within the ruling establishment about using the airforce.. the army is still out of the picture.. it looks like bringing the army/airforce in is just what the pretenders to Maoism really want.. these people would benefit by the attention such an action would create.. but in the process, there would be tremendous 'collateral damage'.. adivasis whose villages have been overrun by the armed gangs will get caught in the crossfire, and innocent lives will be lost.. which would then add fuel to the media fire, with accompanying international attention.. - Original Message From: dan To: rajeshcher...@yahoo.co.in Sent: Fri, 28 May, 2010 8:09:17 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] India == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I feel sympathy for the underdogs, the adivasi, and so am of two minds concerning the Maoists in India. I love to see the state apparatus being challenged. Come on, we all have a tender spot for rebellions, insurrections, mutinies, guerillas, well-laid out traps, jungle redoubts, infiltrations, ... Because they are the underdogs and the might of the Indian army is so much greater than what the Maoists can muster. But, and here comes the BUT, but are the adivasi really in charge, not of tactical operations, which they clearly are, but of overall strategy ? Are they not trading the exploitation of comprador Indian bourgeoisie for the shakles of "the Great Party" ? I have misgivings about Rao's (the leader of the CPI(M)) ideology. I've read many of his writings and interviews and find him callous, devious, power-hungry, and prone to condemn anybody who deviates from his line. He reshapes the entire organization's ideology at every congress, pointing out deviations, new alliances, new enemies, pointlessly lecturing people on history, setting new goals, using Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist (in that order) rhetoric in such a way that his Hindi becomes stilted and formulaic. I find his idea of a "party" quite frightening. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/rajeshcherian%40yahoo.co.in Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] India
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == "Rural based resistance". A better term would be 'jungle-based counter-revolutionary activity' - Original Message From: S. Artesian To: rajeshcher...@yahoo.co.in Sent: Fri, 28 May, 2010 5:54:36 PM Subject: [Marxism] India == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Anybody have further information on this derailment in India, which killed app 65? Any information refuting, hopefully, government charges that the derailment was deliberate sabotage executed by the rural based resistance? Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/rajeshcherian%40yahoo.co.in Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Moderator's Note
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is there a struggle for self-determination in Kashmir? Yes.. Does Kashmir belong to Pakistan? No.. Has there been organised infiltration into Kashmir by the Pakistani ISI (funded and supported for long by the US) ? Yes.. So is the Indian state the sole problem with regard to Kashmir? No.. Are both the Indian and Pakistani states and US imperialism the problem? Yes.. The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Statement against Government of India ’s planned military offensive in adivasi-populated regi ons
Naxalites experiencing widening support ? I would strongly counter that view.. If you look at Andrha Pradesh, they have been routed from there.. these people survive by the barrel of the gun, and by terrorizing innocent people in far-fetched villages.. if they believe that India can be conquered without democratic processes and purely by military means, what can one say ? If one takes the case of Bengal, the support for these infantiles is coming right from the right-wing Mamta Banerjee and such other anarchist forces.. one can get a sense of the opportunism involved in such tactics.. Of course, a dialogue is welcome.. but we seem to be getting staples from single-agenda anti-CPI(M) lobbies like Sanhati.. - Original Message From: Bhaskar Sunkara To: rajeshcher...@yahoo.co.in Sent: Tue, 13 October, 2009 7:42:11 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Statement against Government of India’s planned military offensive in adivasi-populated regions I'm generally sympathetic to the CPI-M, but it's important that any analysis of the Naxalites focus on why they are experiencing widening support. Marginalization, corruption, landlordism, caste discrimination and the very painful processes of urbanization and proletarianization. Seems to me that you seem unwilling to do this or engage comrades in substantiative discussion on these topics. Connect more, do more and share more with Yahoo! India Mail. Learn more. http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] India: An Update from Lalgarh
Hello comrade EPoliticus, my remark was a criticism of Maoist violence in Bengal, and their opportunistic alliance with Mamta Banerjee against the CPI(M).. I support the CPI(M).. over the last five days, about 15 people including CPI(M) cadre have been murdered by these petty criminals who dream of bringing revolution to India through cold-blooded murder.. - Original Message From: Politicus E. To: rajeshcher...@yahoo.co.in Sent: Thursday, 10 September, 2009 9:49:55 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] India: An Update from Lalgarh Rajesh Roy wrote "Meanwhile, CPI(M) cadres are being murdered on a daily basis in Bengal by the infamous ultra-left right-wing political alliance." Comrade Roy, my impression is that your remark is an attempted slur. I hope that I am mistaken. Elaborate on your political position, or provide a link to an publication that represents your political position, and we can engage in an open political discussion. epoliticus -- "In the tender annals of Political Economy, the idyllic reigns from time immemorial ... the present year of course always excepted." -- A German refugee, circa 1867 -- http://epoliticus.wordpress.com/ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/rajeshcherian%40yahoo.co.in See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] India: An Update from Lalgarh
Meanwhile, CPI(M) cadres are being murdered on a daily basis in Bengal by the infamous ultra-left right-wing political alliance.. - Original Message From: Politicus E. To: rajeshcher...@yahoo.co.in Sent: Tuesday, 8 September, 2009 10:50:36 PM Subject: [Marxism] India: An Update from Lalgarh The following was published on 8 September 2009 at the Sanhati website. Note that P.S.B.J.C. refers to the People's Committee against Police Atrocities. epoliticus Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/rajeshcherian%40yahoo.co.in See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz. http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
