People's Democracy

TRIPURA

November Revolution Anniversary Observed

A LARGE number of people in Tripura solemnly and spiritedly observed on November 7, statewide, the 87th anniversary of November Revolution, amid an ongoing exodus from the ranks of the state’s reactionary forces to swell the Leftist camp. Incidentally, the growing exposure of the bourgeoise parties’ anti-people and anti-national ethos and activities, coupled with the growing credibility of the Left Front and the success of the CPI(M)’s recent ideological campaign, has been leading to massive erosion in the support base of the state’s opposition Congress party and its ally, the INPT that is the overground political wing of the outlawed extremist outfit NLFT. A sizeable section of the participants in the November 7 programmes were, therefore, those who recently reposed their trust in the Left.

The day started with the hoisting of red flags at various offices of the CPI(M) and of the mass organisations led by it; all these offices were draped in red and illuminated in the evening.

The day was also marked by a record smashing sale of Daily Desher Katha, the party’s state organ, that was issued with a November Revolution supplement.

With the break of the day, numerous CPI(M) activists and supporters fanned out from door to door in a jubilant mood to sell the paper. This evoked a huge response, leading to an all time high total circulation of 2.10 lakh copies, 1.90 lakh more than the regular subscription. Khowai subdivision in West Tripura district topped the list with the extra subscriptionary circulation of 28,000 copies.

The red flag at the party’s state headquarters was hoisted by the Central Committee member Bijon Dhar who was also the chief speaker at a hall meeting organised on the occasion in the afternoon at Rabindra Bhavan, Agartala, while Polit Bureau member and chief minister Manik Sarkar was the main speaker at the hall meeting at Ranirbazar Town Hall, a few kilometres from the capital town.

Addressing the meeting at the overflowing Ranirbazar Town Hall, Manik Sarkar laid stress on ideologically equipping those who have recently turned a new leaf in their lives by taking to the Leftist path, and on winning over those who are still languishing in the bourgeois camp. In a long but lucid speech, he elaborated the history of the November Revolution as well as the do’s and don’ts for party activists. He said capitalism is the way to prosper by parasitism, without solving any problems. It is the people’s experience and awareness of such suicidal nature of capitalism that has caused the recent worldwide turn around, opening new horizons for the movements of the toiling masses in several countries. Regarding the national situation, Sarkar said that the Left Front governments of West Bengal and Tripura are the brilliant beacon lights of hope for the entire country, and that is why conspiracies are afoot to malign them through tactics born out of defeatist desperation on the part of the reactionary forces. Only a strong fighting organisation can combat such conspiracies, he affirmed.

Addressing the Rabindra Bhavan hall meeting in Agartala, Bijon Dhar also laid stress on political consolidation of the new entrants to the Leftist camp and on buttressing the extension of the party’s mass base with ideological, political and organisational measures. He said the November Revolution is not a thing of the past. On the contrary, it is still shaping the future of man and the world. In fact, while capitalism is self-destructive, socialism is indestructible. He cited the example of socialist China with a 9 per cent annual growth rate, as the greatest economic powerhouse in the trouble-tossed present day world. He also referred to Latin America that is opening a new chapter of triumphant march to socialism. Dhar concluded by saying that the Left Front government’s aim is not to merely stay in power but to make the most of the existing machinery for mobilising the maximum number of people under the working class leadership, against the country’s bourgeoise-feudal system, in order to bring about another November Revolution. (INN)