12-10-2006, 02:45 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>CPM cheer girls turn jeer girls </b>
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Ashok Malik | New Delhi
The vanguard has ditched the people. Could this past week go down as the period when the CPI(M) finally freed itself of luddite economists, Lodhi Garden liberals and Kautilya Marg Communists - to become a "normal" party? Â
From being an obsession of the Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee, the proposed Singur car project in West Bengal has moved to something much bigger - the cause for a divorce of the Party from its fellow travellers. From Medha Patkar to Arundhati Roy, the familiar "people's activists" and radical chic are opposing the CPI(M)'s sharp turn to the right.
The CPI(M)-led Government in Kolkata has been bitterly attacked by activists who, till the other day, were little short of card-carrying members of the Party.<b> From Gujarat to American imperialism to economic reform, they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Brinda Karat and Sitaram Yechury manning the same barricades as it were. Today, they find themselves orphaned. For the Communists it is a dharma sankat, or whatever is the Marxist equivalent of that.</b> <!--emo&
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In the past week, Arundhati Roy has turned up outside the CPI(M) headquarters in Delhi, protesting against farmland being given to the Tatas and the denial of passage to protestors wanting to go to Singur. Policies such as the one the Left Front Government was following, Roy warns, would force the poor and marginalised into violence.
In the State itself, Patkar has joined hands with Trinamool Congress and has been arrested after being denied access not just to Singur but even to Kolkata's Presidency College where she had sought to address students.
Among other "progressive" intellectuals who have expressed anger at the CPI(M)'s Singur initiative are Sachin Choudhary, Editor Mainstream, Deepankar Bhattacharya, Maoist leader, writer-activist Mahasweta Devi, lawyer Prashant Bhushan and socialist Surendra Mohan.
The accusations against the Bengal Government and its police are fairly harsh.
These were brought up at a meeting between protesting activists and CPI(M) Central Committee member Nilotpal Basu on Thursday, December 7, but he apparently brushed them aside.
The chargesheet against the Buddhadev Government was detailed in a Press statement released by the National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM).<b> The NAPM is an apex activist agency, set up in 1992, with Patkar as co-ordinator. Its previous targets include the Narmada project, Pokhran nuclear tests and Coca-Cola. The CPI(M) is a new entrant on its list of public enemies.</b>
On December 2, NAPM issued a release charging the Left Front Government with "rampant sexual abuse of women" in Singur, as "brutality reaches new heights." It criticised the Government for "openly supporting and facilitating the objectionable land acquisition for car plant of Tata company. "Unleashing terror, CPM cadres were seen today helping police forces in identifying houses of protesting farmers."
Painting a scenario of police-ruling party collusion to selectively target chosen households of a section of the population, the release added: <b>"Turning Singur into a battlefield, age-old farming and fisher-folk communities are being evicted using the British days' Land Acquisition Act (1894) to serve their masters ... This pathological obsession of the rulers (surprisingly in this case Left parties) with the capitalist paradigm of development is in contradiction to the socialist ideals of our Constitution."</b>
The activists have demanded "withdrawing of police force from the area" and "across the table negotiations." Singur now awaits response to this proposal for talks between representatives of the "independent, mobile republic" and the Government of West Bengal.
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Hahahha, this is fun. They are copying CHina, lets see whether they have guts like chini.
Pioneer.com
Ashok Malik | New Delhi
The vanguard has ditched the people. Could this past week go down as the period when the CPI(M) finally freed itself of luddite economists, Lodhi Garden liberals and Kautilya Marg Communists - to become a "normal" party? Â
From being an obsession of the Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee, the proposed Singur car project in West Bengal has moved to something much bigger - the cause for a divorce of the Party from its fellow travellers. From Medha Patkar to Arundhati Roy, the familiar "people's activists" and radical chic are opposing the CPI(M)'s sharp turn to the right.
The CPI(M)-led Government in Kolkata has been bitterly attacked by activists who, till the other day, were little short of card-carrying members of the Party.<b> From Gujarat to American imperialism to economic reform, they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Brinda Karat and Sitaram Yechury manning the same barricades as it were. Today, they find themselves orphaned. For the Communists it is a dharma sankat, or whatever is the Marxist equivalent of that.</b> <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> In the past week, Arundhati Roy has turned up outside the CPI(M) headquarters in Delhi, protesting against farmland being given to the Tatas and the denial of passage to protestors wanting to go to Singur. Policies such as the one the Left Front Government was following, Roy warns, would force the poor and marginalised into violence.
In the State itself, Patkar has joined hands with Trinamool Congress and has been arrested after being denied access not just to Singur but even to Kolkata's Presidency College where she had sought to address students.
Among other "progressive" intellectuals who have expressed anger at the CPI(M)'s Singur initiative are Sachin Choudhary, Editor Mainstream, Deepankar Bhattacharya, Maoist leader, writer-activist Mahasweta Devi, lawyer Prashant Bhushan and socialist Surendra Mohan.
The accusations against the Bengal Government and its police are fairly harsh.
These were brought up at a meeting between protesting activists and CPI(M) Central Committee member Nilotpal Basu on Thursday, December 7, but he apparently brushed them aside.
The chargesheet against the Buddhadev Government was detailed in a Press statement released by the National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM).<b> The NAPM is an apex activist agency, set up in 1992, with Patkar as co-ordinator. Its previous targets include the Narmada project, Pokhran nuclear tests and Coca-Cola. The CPI(M) is a new entrant on its list of public enemies.</b>
On December 2, NAPM issued a release charging the Left Front Government with "rampant sexual abuse of women" in Singur, as "brutality reaches new heights." It criticised the Government for "openly supporting and facilitating the objectionable land acquisition for car plant of Tata company. "Unleashing terror, CPM cadres were seen today helping police forces in identifying houses of protesting farmers."
Painting a scenario of police-ruling party collusion to selectively target chosen households of a section of the population, the release added: <b>"Turning Singur into a battlefield, age-old farming and fisher-folk communities are being evicted using the British days' Land Acquisition Act (1894) to serve their masters ... This pathological obsession of the rulers (surprisingly in this case Left parties) with the capitalist paradigm of development is in contradiction to the socialist ideals of our Constitution."</b>
The activists have demanded "withdrawing of police force from the area" and "across the table negotiations." Singur now awaits response to this proposal for talks between representatives of the "independent, mobile republic" and the Government of West Bengal.
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Hahahha, this is fun. They are copying CHina, lets see whether they have guts like chini.