More communist news today. Related to posts 48 and 49.
Today's headline in Pioneer:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?m...t&counter_img=3
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Left vs Left: War of words unleased</b>
Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
The simmering differences between the CPI(M) and CPI over Singur, Nandigram and a host of economic issues have broken into an all-out ideological war.
Unnerved over severe strictures from the Left partners, the CPI(M) has dug up past ideological differences and blamed the CPI's 'revisionist' ways for the 1964 split and its role during Emergency. The CPI has hit back saying that the Marxists' attack was not only unprovoked but breach of agreement between two parties in 1993. Â
While Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury's vitriolic CPI-bashing in the CPI(M)'s Bengali theoretical journal Marxbadi Path left everyone in the Red camp shocked, top CPI leaders accused CPI(M) of attempting to weaken as a whole the Left movement at a crucial political juncture.
Yechury said that during the past three decades there have been three forces in the Left movement in India. One represented by the revisionists CPI, second led by the CPI(M) and the third dogmatic Naxalites.
Claiming that the CPI(M) happened to be the only real Communist party in the country and others are revisionists, Yechury said, "the struggle between the revisionists and the Marxists ended with the split in the undivided Communist party in 1964."
With the CPI accusing the CPI(M) of bailing out the Congress-led UPA Government on anti-people economic policies, Yechury decided to hit where it hurt the CPI most. He asked the CPI to remember its role in supporting the imposition of Emergency by the Congress.
Reacting to Yechury's charges, the CPI has said that, "Since the split, the CPI(M) pursued an ideological narrowness and never took any clear stand either on Russian Communist Party or on the Chinese line."
Writing in party's journal Samyabad, top CPI leader Nandagopal Bhattacharya said "Yechury's attack is not only unprovoked, but smacked of ideological narrowness and aimed at weakening Left unity in the country.
"It is certainly not the time when we look into our past which were given a decent burial and create further deviations in the Left movement," Bhattacharya said. CPI general secretary AB Bardhan admitted that Bhattacharya's write-up had his endorsement.
If Yechury dug up CPI's old wounds for its support to Indira Gandhi during the Emergency, the CPI countered it by reminding the Marxists that during Jayaprakash Narayan's Total Revolution movement on several occasions they (CPI(M) gave up their identity as Communists and joined hands with reactionary forces.)
"Was it not a mistake?" Bhattacharya asked.
Speaking to The Pioneer, a senior CPI leader said: "while we supported Indira Gandhi, but the then CPI(M) general secretary P Sundaria actually met Indira Gandhi and requested her not to ban the party and the CPI(M) was never actually banned."
"Though later party issued orders to the party cadre to go underground, but that was just a tactical move to keep the differences alive in public," he added.
Bhattacharya in his reply also said that there have been no Communist parties in the world which did not make any mistake and ``we have learnt to correct our ways from these mistakes.''
Yechury's tirade against second largest Left partner incidentally coincided with CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc's vehement protest against CPI(M)-led West Bengal Left Front Government's decision on land acquisition in Singur for Tatas and proposed Special Economic Zone in Nandigram.
The Left observers here see this as a clear tactical move by the Left Front Big Brother to put the partners on defensive. "When we need to fight the anti-people policies of the Congress-led UPA Government, Yechury's digging up past mistakes," a senior Left Front leader said. It would only weaken the Left unity and give the Congress and the BJP a handle to smite us down," he added. <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Today's headline in Pioneer:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?m...t&counter_img=3
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Left vs Left: War of words unleased</b>
Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
The simmering differences between the CPI(M) and CPI over Singur, Nandigram and a host of economic issues have broken into an all-out ideological war.
Unnerved over severe strictures from the Left partners, the CPI(M) has dug up past ideological differences and blamed the CPI's 'revisionist' ways for the 1964 split and its role during Emergency. The CPI has hit back saying that the Marxists' attack was not only unprovoked but breach of agreement between two parties in 1993. Â
While Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury's vitriolic CPI-bashing in the CPI(M)'s Bengali theoretical journal Marxbadi Path left everyone in the Red camp shocked, top CPI leaders accused CPI(M) of attempting to weaken as a whole the Left movement at a crucial political juncture.
Yechury said that during the past three decades there have been three forces in the Left movement in India. One represented by the revisionists CPI, second led by the CPI(M) and the third dogmatic Naxalites.
Claiming that the CPI(M) happened to be the only real Communist party in the country and others are revisionists, Yechury said, "the struggle between the revisionists and the Marxists ended with the split in the undivided Communist party in 1964."
With the CPI accusing the CPI(M) of bailing out the Congress-led UPA Government on anti-people economic policies, Yechury decided to hit where it hurt the CPI most. He asked the CPI to remember its role in supporting the imposition of Emergency by the Congress.
Reacting to Yechury's charges, the CPI has said that, "Since the split, the CPI(M) pursued an ideological narrowness and never took any clear stand either on Russian Communist Party or on the Chinese line."
Writing in party's journal Samyabad, top CPI leader Nandagopal Bhattacharya said "Yechury's attack is not only unprovoked, but smacked of ideological narrowness and aimed at weakening Left unity in the country.
"It is certainly not the time when we look into our past which were given a decent burial and create further deviations in the Left movement," Bhattacharya said. CPI general secretary AB Bardhan admitted that Bhattacharya's write-up had his endorsement.
If Yechury dug up CPI's old wounds for its support to Indira Gandhi during the Emergency, the CPI countered it by reminding the Marxists that during Jayaprakash Narayan's Total Revolution movement on several occasions they (CPI(M) gave up their identity as Communists and joined hands with reactionary forces.)
"Was it not a mistake?" Bhattacharya asked.
Speaking to The Pioneer, a senior CPI leader said: "while we supported Indira Gandhi, but the then CPI(M) general secretary P Sundaria actually met Indira Gandhi and requested her not to ban the party and the CPI(M) was never actually banned."
"Though later party issued orders to the party cadre to go underground, but that was just a tactical move to keep the differences alive in public," he added.
Bhattacharya in his reply also said that there have been no Communist parties in the world which did not make any mistake and ``we have learnt to correct our ways from these mistakes.''
Yechury's tirade against second largest Left partner incidentally coincided with CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc's vehement protest against CPI(M)-led West Bengal Left Front Government's decision on land acquisition in Singur for Tatas and proposed Special Economic Zone in Nandigram.
The Left observers here see this as a clear tactical move by the Left Front Big Brother to put the partners on defensive. "When we need to fight the anti-people policies of the Congress-led UPA Government, Yechury's digging up past mistakes," a senior Left Front leader said. It would only weaken the Left unity and give the Congress and the BJP a handle to smite us down," he added. <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->