People’s Resistance to Anarchy, Terror Rises

B Prasant

 

THE CPI(M) West Bengal state committee believes that the mass of the people in the state have started to rise strongly against the terror-tactics of the right reactionary and left deviationist forces.  The rallies and marches, big and small, regional, zonal, and local are witness to massive participation and this is a rising trend.  All the programmes are carried out at the initiative of the CPI(M) and the Bengal Left Front.

 

The state committee of the Bengal CPI(M) met over 31 October-1 November at the Muzaffar Ahmad Bhavan, in Kolkata.  Central committee member, Benoy Konar presided.  Biman Basu, state secretary, led and later summed up the discussion.  The political situation in the state and the charter of tasks were debated and discussed.

 

The recent gatherings as far away as Bankura and as close to the metro centre of the state as in downtown Kolkata, the nature of the gatherings varying from the urban middle class to the rural poor, and always irrespective of local patterns of political alignment and social compulsions, have been, in short, quite remarkable in strength and fervour.  Senior CPI(M) leaders including the Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhatacharjee have addressed the rallies across the width and length of the state, in rain and shine.

 

Biman Basu felt that the massive participation in democratic programmes at the call of the CPI(M) and the resistance seen especially in the western part of the state against the Trinamulis and their terrorist lackeys of the self-labelled ‘left’ persuasion, was a clear indication that the tide was turning this autumn, and the surge would continue to fulminate in the weeks and months ahead. 

 

An important marker in the movements and struggles going on in Bengal was the spirit of spontaneity that informed and encouraged the struggles of the masses.  The fact of the blunting of the assassins’ swords in the western part of Bengal -- and the people’s resistance therein clearly showed that the democratic people of Bengal did not stand terrified of the gruesome killings that had gone on and on for months together, joint forces or no joint forces, in the red clay zones.

 

Biman Basu called upon the mass of the people to stand vigilant and watch over the political developments with fortitude. The opposition shall continue to hatch conspiracies. House-to-house campaigns must be further stepped up.  Local level  meetings must explain the developing political situation to the people with care and patience, encouraging question-answer sessions. 

 

The mass organisations must move with even greater political fervour and conviction.  The task to increase the circulation and readership of CPI(M) publications must never be lost sight of.  The period between 7 and 14 November shall see the anniversary of the November revolution in Russia back in 1917 remembered, explaining its continuing relevance even today, in the developing political situation in Bengal and elsewhere.  Popular lectures would be held and Party publications circulated widely.

 

30 November shall witness both the Sunderbans day and the north Bengal day highlighting the issues that affect the respective areas, the former area known the world over for its scintillating bio-diversity.  The Bengal Left Front shall also carry on rallies in Kolkata and in the districts between 24 and 30 November accenting different political issues that face the various levels and parts of the society.