People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No.
37
September 12, 2010
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Vol. XXXIV
No.
37 September 12, 2010 |
IN its
two-day meeting
held over September 1-2 at the Muzaffar Ahmad Bhavan in Kolkata, the
Bengal
state committee of the CPI(M) called upon every worker and leader to
bring to
reality the ambience that calls for a positive change in the political
scene of
Bengal today. No sacrifices should be
shunned, no pro-people activities, especially pro-poor, slackened, and
the
forces of anarchy out to destroy the carefully-nurtured democratic
environment
of
The state
committee let it
be known in clear and in ringing tones that there was a positive sign
of
protest amongst the masses to defeat the forces of anarchy in the
political
arena. This must be kept firm in mind and contact with the masses made,
as
before, a continuous and ever-widening political-organisational drive.
In the long
and meaningful
discussion sessions, the members of the state committee were at one in
noting
that during the month-long August campaign on issues touching the lives
and
livelihoods of the people, especially the poor, has had its effect in
more and
more popular participation in the CPI (M)-led movements and struggles.
The
effort was to reach out to the masses with the Party’s political
campaign along
with the need to resolve the emergent problems troubling the daily
lives of the
people, the rise in process of common commodities taking the prime of
place as
did the issue of anarchy and counter-democratic ploys of the enemies.
It was duly
noted by the
state leadership that more than in the recent past, the enthusiastic
participation in the party-led programmes of campaign-movements from
amongst
the poor and from the backward classes of every community has visibly
increased
and the trend continues to display long-term prospects of the right
kind.
REBUILD
THE RANKS
The section
or sections of
the people that had been even marginally alienated from the acts and
activities
of the Party have chosen emphatically to rejoin the ranks and regroup
for mass
struggles to have a politically meaningful significance.
The state
committee
members made a special mention of the situation in the jangal mahal
area. The state unit noted the
militant nature of
protest and resistance of the masses that are now quite infuriated
against the
anti-people and anti-poor acts of commission perpetrated on them by the
so-called, self-styled ‘Maoists.’ People
in massive numbers have taken to the streets in the jangal mahals
widest
areas across the districts of Midnapore west and Bankura to frustrate
the
anti-people and anti-poor designs of the reactionary elements. The
pro-people
and pro-poor initiatives of the state Left Front government have
continued to
receive, as in the past, the fullest support from amongst the people.
A POLITICAL
TASK
OF IMPORTANCE
In
conclusion, Biman Basu,
state secretary of the CPI(M), stressed the importance of the political
task of
bringing back to the Party ranks those of the Party workers, supporters
and
sympathisers who had chosen to break ranks with the Party for some acts
of the
Party that had irritated them into doing what they have done.
The hired
goons of the
enemy must be countered by maintaining and deepening an enduring
contact with
the masses, all the while, all the way.
The party and the people shall advance by defeating the
machinations of
the forces of anarchy and mayhem. To
make this aim fructify, the intensity of the campaign-movement must be
sharpened and widened in the days, months, and years to come, he
stressed.
Biman Basu
also
highlighted the need to ensure that the working of the Panchayats were
organised successfully, again taking the masses into confidence. He
also
underscored the need to increase the Party initiative and Party
monitoring in
the concerned sectors. He said that
while striving to make success out of pro-people developmental work and
undertaking the correct political initiative, the masses must be
mobilised and
mass deputations submitted everywhere against the massive corruption
and
assorted crimes against the people perpetrated by the opposition- run
Panchayats, Panchayat Samities and Zillah Parishads.
JATHAS
PROGRAMME
A wide and
deep programme
of jathas under the aegis of the
Bengal Left Front would be organised in the villages as well as the
urban
stretches between the last week of September until the first week of
October,
based on the emergent needs of issues touching the lives and
livelihoods of the
masses. The party committees at the appropriate levels must make it a
task to
ensure that the programme was carried through and properly implemented
in a
planned manner. The other important point was the drafting of demand
charters
to be placed appropriately with the union government and the Left Front
government here in
The jathas’ success depended on the panning that has to be
taken up
beforehand by drawing up and implementing a detailed programme of
smaller
meetings and street-corner meetings in the rural and urban areas. The
Left
Front workers must meet the people at the household level to speak to
them and
to listen to their problems and woes, to guide them and lead them. The
Trinamul
Congress and indeed the entire spectrum of the opposition in
