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This blog deals with the deep-rooted conspiracy how the rainbow alliance of Maoist-TMC-Congress-SUCI with support and fund of capitalists, land-lords, finance capital, corporate media, imperialists and few sold out perverted intellectuals, so-called human right organizations and anti-national NGOs are bent upon weakening the mainstream leftist movement in India.
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MAMATA COMPLETES ONE YEAR OF HER MISRULE
Fascist and imperialist stooge character exposed by TMC led
west Bengal Govt. By welcoming for hidden agenda with Hilary Clinton, this new
Govt. is going to complete 1 year as Bengal in a
pathetic and paralytic condition. Some
examples.
- Health Welfare system collapsed many patients just died before proper medication include child patients.
- Mid day meal in schools in many districts has forced to stop due to fund.
- Industrial trade union has getting severe threat form denounce workers right to reduce service period for joining strike.
- In the name of reform in education they just create political influence on several committees.
- Violence in education campus beats several students, professor and teachers.
- NREGA Scheme has built on fake list and fund siphoning towards their party fund.
- Huge sacking among unorganized workers from various industries to create terror reign.
- Religious sentiments play on Govt. Policies create discrimination these Govt. not recognize economically backward community many more to come.
Please come up with fearless mind and protest of dark 1 year
for Bengal and the people of Bengal .
Sunday, May 6, 2012
CENTENARY OF PRAVDA
CPI(M) Greets Pravda & CPRF
The following is the text of the greetings sent by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russian Federation and to the Editorial Board of the Pravda on May 2, 2012. CC member, Associate editor, Loklehar, Rajendra Sharma is representing CPI(M) in these celebrations.
DEAR Comrades,
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) greets the Editorial Board of the Pravda and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russian Federation (CPRF) on the centenary of the Pravda.
As Lenin had defined, a communist newspaper along with its 'exposure' of the ills and limitations of the present social system, should be a collective agitator, collective propagandist and a collective organiser. Pravda, a newspaper started by the outstanding communist leader Lenin, was run by him on these lines and became a model for all the other newspapers started for the socialist cause.
Indian Communists too, learning from the Russian experience, had started and ran many newspapers in the vernacular languages to expose the British rule, rouse the people into popular movements and also propagate the ideals of social justice.
Apart from the many vernacular dailies, that are continuing in the post-independent era, the CPI (M) is bringing out the weeklyPeople’s Democracy, the official organ of the Party and Loklehar in Hindi, since the last 40 years. These organs are helping the Party to resist the ideological offensive of the ruling classes and to strengthen the Party.
In the background of the global economic crisis, the most severest since the Great Depression of the 1930s, there is all the more a necessity for the newspapers of the type envisioned by Lenin. The increasing struggles worldwide show the growing discontent among the people. They are searching for alternatives. It is thus imperative upon us, the Communists and the media run by us to place before the people the correct path for bringing an end to their travails and exploitation. The newspapers help us in strengthening the 'subjective factor', as Lenin called it, to utilise the condusive objective factors for transforming the society – establishing a socialist system.
Once again, we extend our warm greetings to all of you, and also thank you for inviting our representative to be present with you and share thoughts on this august occasion.
P SUNDARAYYA BIRTH CENTENARY OBSERVANCE BEGINS
THE CPI
(M) Observed P Sundarayya’s birth centenary at AKG Bhawan in New
Delhi on May
1. A meeting was held at the Party headquarters which was chaired by S
Ramachandran Pillai, CPI (M) Polit Bureau member.
Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Party addressed the gathering. He said
the observance of the birth centenary of Comrade P Sundarayya is an occasion to
commemorate the life and work of an extraordinary Communist leader. He spoke about the life and great
qualities of Comrade PS. He said the 20th Congress of the Party has called for
a year-long observance of the birth centenary of P Sundarayya. This centenary year should be utilised
for a campaign to build and strengthen the Party. The Polit Bureau will soon announce
the programme for this observance, he said.
Now, it is the turn of the alternative media in West Bengal to be at the receiving end of governmental intolerance. There is a clampdown on a unique mobile alert service in Kolkata, writes RANJIT SUR, in The Hoot
Friday, May 04 09:39:52 , 2012
The Mamata Banerjee Government in West Bengal is trying its best to
gag the language media. It is not news anymore. To some extent she is exposed in
this regard, and people are protesting against such a move. But gagging a small
but very important alternative media centre remained out of sight of the
people. It is mainly because the big press or the corporate media have not
shown any interest over it. Moreover, most of the media persons even do not
understand what alternative media could be. So the news of gagging of the
Dodhichi Newsletter did not find any place in any major publication in Kolkata,
in print or on TV media, barring a line or two in a couple of news media.
What
is the Dodhichi Newsletter? According to its director, Dr Shyamal Roy,
“Dodhichi Newsletter is a Kolkata-based cellphone text messaging service
disseminating information, news, and views not appearing in the mainstream
media.” It is in operation running since 2010. In a letter addressed to Home
Secretary, Government of India,
Dr Ray said: “ Our service provides a platform to hundreds of freelance
news-gatherers, social and cultural activists, and NGOs and reaches out to a select list of
thousands of message receivers, among them MPS, MLAs, Ministers, political leaders as well as eminent personalities
in various fields.
This
writer himself is a message receiver and sender listed with Dodhichi. It’s a
unique service, at least in Kolkata. There is no other service of this kind
here. During the last two and a quarter years it has provided wonderful service
to all the mass organisations and their activists.
Whenever
an organisation calls for a demonstration or rally, or any State crackdown
occurs on any mass organisation, a single text message (SMS) sent to Dodhichi was enough to inform and mobilise
all the activists. Through the Dodhichi mobile newsletter the SMS containing
the information reached hundreds of interested persons within seconds. Within a
short time, the activists could decide on their duty or they could assemble at
the place of demonstration or at the site of the happenings.
During
the last months of Budhadeb Bhattacharjee government Mamata Banerjee got the
benefit of this service, as it was the time of anti- government and
anti-establishment mass movements. Dodhichi was very active in sending news of
these movements to its subscriber activists and supporters. But within months
of Mamata’s coming to power she began expressing her displeasure publicly
against this SMS service. In several public outbursts she publicly criticised
this service and Facebook and Twitter. The first direct attack occurred
about six months ago during the Chief Minister’s outbursts against APDR, a
rights organisation. The Government of West Bengal cancelled permission to APDR to hold a
public meeting in Kolkata, and many intellectuals including Mahasweta Devi andSankha Ghosh critisised the Chief Minister for this
attack on democracy. As Dodhichi was actively sending SMS containing all
condemnations and about all protest programmes, one morning policemen in plain
clothes went to Dodhichi’s office located on the outskirts of Kolkata. As
informed by Dr Ray, the policemen introduced themselves as journalists and
entered his office. But within minutes they started collecting mobiles phones,
computers, and data base registers. Dr Ray and his family members protested
vigorously, and the policemen slipped away.
This
time, the Mamata government did not make the same mistake for fear of public
resistance. It went the other way round to stop Dodhichi Mobile Newsletter. As
Dr Shyamal Ray complained to the Central Government, “on 9 April we discovered
that most of our SIM cards (57 of them) had suddenly been
deactivated, causing us to suspend our service and of a great deal of
inconvenience to those availing of it. The service-provider (Docomo) when
contacted, could not give us a credible explanation.” It was at the height of
Nonadanga anti-eviction movement when a series of rallies and processions and demonstrations
was going on in the City against the Mamata government’s eviction drive and
throttling of democracy in the State. And alas, without Dodhichi’s mobile SMS
service.
Why
did this happen to Dodhichi? Dr Ray wrote to the Government of India : “Next day, Khabar 365 din, a Bengali daily published from
Kolkata, presented a front-page story suggesting that Dodhichi Newsletter had
been disbanded by orders from the State Home Department.” This writer has gone
through the concerned front-page report. The report said that the reason for
the Home ministry’s action, as usual, was “anti-state campaign” by Dodhichi
through SMS service. Dodhichi’s Dr Shyamal Ray, on enquiry by this writer,
expressed his anger and raised the question: “what is anti-state campaign and
who decides it?” He explained: “Dodhichi only sends news and views related to
legal and constitutional activities and mass movements. What is anti-government
does not necessarily mean anti-state. Everyone has the right to criticise or
support the government’s policy and send news and views of the movements for or
against the government’s policies. This is constitutionally guaranteed”. So, he
wrote to the government: “…we are still in the dark about why our service has
been abruptly terminated in this manner, without stating any reason and without
notice. And if the story published in the Bengali daily is true, then it
certainly is tantamount to ‘censorship’, a violation of our constitutionally
guaranteed free speech”. He urged the Central Government, to “clarify the
matter immediately and instruct the service provider to re-activate the SIM
cards so that our service is resumed at the soonest.” The letter was written on
April 11. Even as of April 22 he had not received any reply from any quarter.
The copy of the letter has been endorsed to the Home Secretary, Government of West Bengal too. However, the 57
SIM cards remain in-operative, and a severe hate campaign is going on against
Dodhichi and against its subscribers and contributors in some pro-government
newspapers branding them as anti-state and members of “urban Mao-network”.
It
is clear that it is a coordinated move of the government and the ruling party
to silence this mobile newsletter. The design is to stop spreading of news of
the government’s anti-people activities and to cause as much hindrance as
possible to anti-government mass movements.
Dodhichi
Mobile newsletter has not stopped fully. The spirit of Dr Shyamal Ray, a
super-annuated physician, is indomitable. Dodhichi is still running the service,
though in a small way, with SIMs from a different service provider which has a
number of restrictions and do’s and don’ts.
According
to Dr Shyamal Ray, he has a data base of 500300 subscribers who send to and
receive SMS from him on various issues. He has divided these numbers in groups
according to their areas of interest. The group interested in rights movement
and other mass-political activity has 550 subscribers. There are cultural
groups interested in music or drama and there are group of MPs and MLAs,
doctors and so on. Dodhichi’s service is free of cost. All the subscribers need
to do is register their mobile number, name and address with him along with
their area of interest. How does he run this service? Where does money come
from? Dr Ray says that initially he had to spend Rs. 2.5 lakh procuring good
quality mobile phones and a computer. The money was from his superannuation
benefits.
Now
his monthly expenditure is Rs. 2000 which he gets from his headmistress wife,
daughter, and son-in-law. He receives no money from any other source. He
himself runs his office along with his family members. He works for 12 hours a
day.
Dodhichi
is insignificant so far as the number of its subscribers is concerned. Yet the
rulers seem to be bent on crushing it. Is the government afraid of alternative
thought? Not only that Dodhichi’s services should be allowed to continue
without any governmental intervention, but more such vibrant services should
flourish in different parts of the country.
(The author is a secretariat member, Association for Protection of
Democratic Rights, and contributes to newspapers and websites in Bengali and
English)
Saturday, May 5, 2012
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