DYFI hooligans harass commons during bandh

Kerala responds with hartal
Sunday December 31 2006 10:36 IST

T’PURAM: The impromptu hartal called by political parties in the state barely hours after former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was hanged on Saturday caught the public on the wrong foot.

All the major parties - barring the BJP - announced hartals from 3 p m to 6 p m - in one voice. Dharnas and marches against the “imperialist arrogance” marked the hartal.

The abrupt call for hartal by political parties, who were cribbing over issues nearer home over the past few weeks, hit normal life. Shops had to hastily down shutters and trade across the state was hit in a big way.

The Kerala Vyapari-Vyavasayi Ekopana Samithi has put the rough estimate of losses due to the hartal around Rs 50 crore.

Local DYFI leaders organised a blockade by laying boulders across the main road at Pulloorkonam near Kovalam. Locals and tourists were caught in the blockade for nearly an hour. The situation was brought under control after police arrived at the spot.

Tension prevailed at Alummoodu, Neyyatinkara, after hartal loyalists assaulted a few women selling fish.

In Thiruvananthapuram, the majority of the shops downed shutters by afternoon. Dharnas and marches were taken out in many places including Bheemapalli and Chakka. Political organisations burned American President George Bush in effigy in many places.

Police have tightened security across the state, especially at tourist centres, police officials said.

Stating that the “American imperialism has raised a grim challenge to the world peace once again through the execution of Saddam Hussein,” Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said the Iraqi leader would be remembered forever as a martyr who heroically fought the imperialist interests.

“It is deplorable that the heinous act was carried out when the Muslims worldwide were preparing for Bakrid,” he said.

Through its act, America had once again demonstrated that it cared little for world peace and the sentiments of the majority of the humanity, he said.

Source: Newindpress.com
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Communists and Islamic fanatics hold joint rallies

Communists and Islamic fanatics take to streets to condemn Saddam's execution

Kozhikode, Dec. 30 (PTI):
Even as political parties and other outfits in Kerala have called for a hartal this afternoon to condemn the execution of Saddam Hussein, the city witnessed demonstrations by various organisations to vent their anger against "US imperialistic designs".

Hundreds of activists of pro-CPI(M) DYFI and the National Development Front, a Muslim fundamental outfit, Sunni Students Federation and outfits affiliated to the Indian Union Muslim League took out protest marches condemning the "heinous murder" of the former Iraqi President and the "imperialistic designs" of President George W Bush, police sources here said.

The activists held demonstrations in various parts of the city, including the crowded Palayam bus stand, Kidson corner and Maananchira localities, they said.

The NDF activists burnt an effigy of George Bush at Mananchira circle.

In Kasaragod town, the execution of Saddam Hussein evoked widespread protests with major political parties taking out huge demonstrations to condemn the execution.

The constituent parties of the ruling Left Democratic Front and opposition united democratic front, Solidarity Youth Movement affiliated to Jamaat Islami section took out marches here, which were attended by large number of people.

The Muslim League, a UDF constituent, also took out a separate march to condemn the Iraqi developments, leading to the execution of that country's former President.

The DYFI plans to hold a march later to protest the incident. No untoward incidents had been reported during the series of demonstrations, police sources said.

Source : The Hindu

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Communist Students clash with each other

SFI-AISF clashes hit CPM-CPI relations
Monday November 20 2006 00:00 IST

T’PURAM: Clashes between the workers of the SFI and the AISF have turned an irritant in the CPM-CPI relations. The student organisations of both the parties have been on a collision course for the past few weeks, especially in Kollam district.

The continuing clashes have even become a law and order problem now. Earlier this month, the AISF workers disrupted a meeting addressed by the SFI state president Sindhu Joy at Kottarakkara St Gregorios college.

The other day, a girl student of Chavara Govt College and a member of AISF state committee were seriously injured in an attack, allegedly by the SFI-DYFI workers. Clashes occurred in several other places also, in which many students were injured.

The state leaderships of both the SFI and the AISF are now engaged in a war of words in a very provocative manner. While the SFI leadership flayed the AISF for protecting criminals, the latter retaliated by stating that the SFI had turned an abode of criminals. Meetings and counter-meetings are also going on.

Both the CPM and CPI are extending all sorts of help to their junior comrades in their fight by forming sub-committees at the college-levels. The CPI was very much agitated over the approach of the police in the clashes between the student organisations.

CPI Kunnathur taluk committee secretary has demanded action against a policeman who allegedly helped the SFI workers to attack an AISF worker at Sasthamcotta the other day.

The state executive committee meeting of the CPI which concluded here on Saturday had discussed the issue in a serious manner. Kollam district is a stronghold of the CPI in the state and the AISF has improved its position in few colleges there in the recent years, thanks to the factional feuds in the CPM.

In some areas, those who left the DYFI and the CPM joined the AIYF and the CPI, and helped the AISF in strengthening its base. At TKM Arts and Science College, Karicode, the AISF has been the winners of the college union elections for the last two years.

The clashes were the fallout of the attempts by the SFI, with the active support of the CPM, to regain its lost ground.

Source: Newindpress.Com

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Threatening calls to pilot

Threatening calls to pilot

Threatening calls to pilot
Thursday December 28 2006 10:43 IST

T’PURAM: The family of Dilip Desmond, the pilot who was assaulted by some persons at the Akkulam toll booth on Friday, is under severe threat. Dilip and wife are now getting innumerable calls from mysterious sources asking them to withdraw the case filed by them at the Petta police station.

Dilip, wife Shiny and friend Dr Anirudhan were attacked following an altercation with the toll booth employees.

A district leader of the DYFI is holding the contract for collecting the toll and there are allegations that the police are playing hide and seek under political pressure.

Source : Newindpress.com

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Communists celebrate enslavement of Tibet

On June 10, 2001 Indian Communists celebrated the enslavement of Tibet.

Vol. XXV
No. 23
June 10,2001

50th Anniversary of Tibetan Liberation Celebrated

P Malhotra
THE fiftieth anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet was held at New Delhi on June 5 at A K Gopalan Bhawan in which several prominent leaders participated. The large gathering was addressed, among others, by CPI(M) general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet, CPI general Secretary A B Bardhan, Devarajan of the Forward Bloc and the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China’s to India who delighted everyone by speaking in good Hindi before switching over to English.
Addressing the audience, Harkishan Singh Surjeet complimented the people of Tibet for the progress made in the last 50 years of liberation. He said the people of Tibet had made considerable progress and there was all-round development. The Chinese government was also complimented for the development it had undertaken in Tibet. Surjeet said the developed world had been misleading the people by being critical of the progress of the common masses of Tibet. In fact the underprivileged had seen a remarkable progress in a very difficult terrain and atmosphere. Surjeet was critical of the people who doubted Tibet being a part of China. He said if Tibet had not been liberated the region would never have made the remarkable progress that it has. Inspite of all propaganda against China, the fact is that the people of Tibet had cooperated with the Chinese government after their liberation in 1951 which fact had led to full development of the area.
In his short speech, Bardhan highlighted the fact that the life expectancy in Tibet had gone up to over 65 years from 36 years in 1950. This in itself showed that the people’s life standard had improved and they were better off. He criticised the double standards of the NDA government where the government had one stand on Tibet being an integral part of China while the former defence minister George Fernandes spoke of Tibet’s independence.
Devarajan said the coming together of Tibet and China is a fact of life and had been done in the 13th centaury. There was now no need to go over it again and again.
Speaking in Hindi, the Chinese ambassador complimented the CPI(M) for having organised this function and thanked all the important leaders present. He said Tibet is today an autonomous territory where the Chinese central government had invested large sums of money for all-round development. There was total religious freedom in the region. All people were allowed to perform their religious practices and hold Buddhist beliefs.
The ambassador said the Chinese central covernment had carried democratic reforms in Tibet in 1959 which changed the life of 95per cent of the population. These former serfs are now masters of their own destination and the entire class, who had earlier lived in abject poverty, is now well off. At the time of the liberation, 5 per cent of the Lamas controlled 90 per cent of all land and 80 per cent of the social wealth. Today the rural income per person has gone up to over 1100 yuan in Tibet; the urban per capita income is over 5000 yuan.
The ambassador said the signing of the 17-article agreement on the peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951 was an epoch-making turning point in the history of Tibet. This had brought in stability, unity and a transformation from poverty to prosperity, from isolation to openness.
He said even the Buddhist monasteries were being improved. There was no tax in Tibet. The central government has invested over 441 billion yuan in Tibet for its all-around development.
The Chinese ambassador looked forward to better relationships with India.
Proposing the vote of thanks, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury thanked all present and the Chinese delegation for have participated in the function. He pointed out that the Tibetans had improved their standard of living and that the life in Tibet was much easier than it could be otherwise because of the difficult physical conditions there. He looked forward to a closer relationship between China and India. (INN)

Source: People's Democracy
URL : http://pd.cpim.org/2001/june10/june10_tibet.htm
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How CPM blocked the screening of Taurus

Old news from the BBC.

Bengal communists rage over Lenin film
Taurus, a film by Russian director Alexander Sukorov on the last few years of Lenin's life, has led to a major controversy among the ruling Communists in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The film was to be screened in the Calcutta annual Film Festival on Friday.

The film potrays a weak and infirm leader, a stark contrast to the firebrand revolutionary who established the world's first communist state But it was withdrawn at the last moment.

Several senior Communist leaders have criticized the film for allegedly distorting the later life of Lenin.

But the state's Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, a big film fan, was believed to have personally suggested the film for screening to the festival committee.

Portrait everywhere

Statues of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin may have vanished in many former Communist countries but he stands tall in the heart of Calcutta.

The city's main thoroughfare is named after him.

His potrait, along with that of his successor Stalin, are prominently displayed in offices of the ruling party.

But when Mr Bhattacharya suggested the screening of the film Taurus at this year's Calcutta Film Festival, little did he know many of his colleagues would react as sharply as they have.

The film on the last few years of Lenin, by Russian director Alexander Sukorov, potrays a weak and infirm leader, a stark contrast to the firebrand revolutionary who established the world's first communist state.

Earlier this week, Bengal's former Chief Minister Jyoti Basu and the Left coalition Chairman Biman Bose severely criticized the film and described it as a complete distortion of history.

Taken aback, Mr Bhattacharya said he would comment later.

A Communist cultural front started demonstrations in some film festival venues, demanding that the film not be screened.

On Friday the audience went in to see Taurus, only to be shown another film, Mother and Son, by the same director.

Many were annoyed.

Avoiding controversy

Festival director Angshu Sur said that the only print of Taurus they had received had to be sent off to London for screening in a festival this week.

But sources in the festival committee said the film had been withdrawn at the behest of the Chief Minister who was keen to avoid a controversy within the party.

The Chairman of the Film festival committee and a leading film and theatre personality, Soumitra Chatterji, told journalists the potrayal of Lenin in Taurus was close to the accounts given by his biographers.

Observers say the Communist party leadership are unhappy with the Chief Minister for taking some recent initiatives without prior approval of the party - and they say the leadership may have used Taurus to embarrass Mr Bhattacharya and show the people that the party, not the Chief Minister, is in charge.

Source : BBC

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Anupam Kher drags CPI(M) leader to court

Anupam Kher drags CPI(M) leader to court
Actor and former Censor Board Chairman Anupam Kher, today initiated criminal proceedings in a magistrate's court against CPI (M) General Secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet, for allegedly describing him as an "RSS man."

The complaint was filed in the court of Magistrate C B Havelikar by Kher, who personally appeared along with his lawyer Majeed Memon.

The court adjourned the matter to November 17 for verification of the complaint.

Kher, who was unceremoniously removed from the post of Chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), dragged Surjeet to court for writing a defamatory article in CPI-M journal 'People's Democracy'.

Kher alleged in the impugned article that he was dubbed as an "RSS man" responsible for saffronising process to suit the Sangh's ideology.

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Source: The Hindu

CPM delegation to meet Chinese FM for first time

CPM delegation to meet Chinese FM for first time
Beijing, Oct 16: In an unprecedented event, a delegation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which is here on a visit to China, will hold parleys with the country's Foreign Minister tomorrow.

The meeting between the CPI(M) delegation led by politburo member Sitaram Yechury, which arrived here today, and Li Zhaoxing comes ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's first visit to India.

It is for the first time for a CPI (M) delegation to meet with a Chinese Foreign Minister, Yechuri said.

"It is an unprecedented event," he said, adding the Chinese side attaches importance to the visit which comes ahead of Hu's maiden trip to India in November. Hu is also general secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the top military organ.

Invited by the international department of CPC, the delegation's visit is aimed at promoting bilateral ties and cementing party-to-party relations. They will also meet a politburo member of the CPC.

Yechuri also said China is keen to strengthen relations with India and the visit also takes place at a time when India and China are marking 2006 as the 'Year of India- China Friendship.'

The CPI-M delegation would also meet with the vice minister of the CPC's international department, Liu Hongkai and discuss party-to-party affairs.

They will have in-depth exchanges with the CPC on party-to-party affairs, international and regional situations.

The CPC leadership is expected to brief the CPI-M leaders on the key decisions taken at the party's plenum held last week, especially the plan to establish a 'harmonious society.'

The CPI-M delegation also includes Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar. The other members are former West Bengal Minister Mohammad Ameen, Central Committee member and MLA from Andhra Pradesh P Rammaih and party leader from Maharashtra Kumar Shiralkar.

During their visit, the delegation will travel to Tianjin, a northern port city, Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, an under-developed area in southwest China as well as Shanghai, the Communist giant's gleaming metropolis.

They will interact with Chinese leaders to find ways to carry forward the activities of the special study group formed to resolve the border dispute between India and China besides touching upon other aspects of bilateral relations, sources said.

They will discuss the relevance of India-China-Russia triangle, India-Brazil-South Africa-China quartet and the possibilities of formation of an Brazil-India-China-Russia- South Africa grouping, they said.

The visit comes at a time when there is a growing bonhomie in bilateral ties as also increase in trade and investment and high-level visits. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had visited India last year and had revived the age-old "Hindi-Chini Bhai" slogan.

CPI(M) as also other Left parties have taken up strongly with the Manmohan Singh government, which they support from outside, the hurdles in the wake of Chinese investments in key sectors like ports and other infrastructure.

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Source:Zee News

We'll favour Presidential pardon for Afzal: CPM

We'll favour Presidential pardon for Afzal: CPM

Thursday September 28, 04:09 AM
Endorsing its Kashmir chief's view for a rollback of the death sentence awarded to Mohammad Afzal, the main convict in the attack on Parliament, the CPI(M)'s Central leadership has said it will favour an intervention from the President to stop the death sentence from being carried out. But, the party clarified, that did not mean a soft approach towards terrorists.

Yusuf Tarigami, the CPI(M) chief of Jammu and Kashmir, had said that the death sentence was unacceptable when the peace process in Kashmir was in progress. According to him, there ought to be a presidential intervention to stop Afzal's hanging.

Reflecting the its ambivalent position on capital punishment, there was however no immediate move by the party to petition the government to have Afzal's death sentence commuted. The party was of the view that in making his demand, Tarigami was going by the sentiments of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) politburo member and leader of the party in Parliament, said, "Our party is in principle against capital punishement. But the legal process should be pursued fully. Our position is not ambivalent on terrorism. We believe that such actions should be given the maximum punishment and it should be a deterrent punishment.

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Negotiate, CPI (M) tells ULFA, Centre

Negotiate, CPI (M) tells ULFA, Centre

GUWAHATI: The Assam unit of the CPI (M) on Monday urged the Union Government and United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to hold direct talks without any precondition.

State CPI (M) secretary Uddhab Barman and senior party leader Hemen Das told reporters that the party was of the view that the present deadlock came into being due to preconditions set by both. The party said both sides could discuss their conditions across the table once they sit for direct talks. It also urged the State Government to convene a meeting of all political parties and intellectuals towards evolving a consensus on the issue. The Centre called off unilateral truce on September 23 .

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Source: Hindu

The World According To CPM

How CPM sees the world


THE SAD REALITY (i.e., "capitalist propaganda")




















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US pushed N Korea to brink: CPM

CPM advises India to abandon nuclear weapons, justifies North Korea going nuclear.

US pushed N Korea to brink: CPM
From Shruba Mukherjee DH News Service New Delhi:
Terming the nuclear test conducted by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea as an unfortunate act, the CPM said on Wednesday that the US was singularly responsible for creating deep sense of insecurity pushing Pyongyang into taking such steps.

The CPM statement, which came two days after North Korea conducted nuclear tests, also asked the UPA Government to “boldly decide” to initiate and press for a nuclear disarmament agenda and commit to rollback its own nuclear weaponisation program as part of this process.

“The Indian government has condemned the test, stating that it is against nuclear proliferation and the creation of another nuclear weapon state. In 1998, when India conducted the Pokhran tests, the worldwide condemnation was on the same grounds,” the party said.


“The Indian stand has always been that the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty is discriminatory and hence it refused to be a signatory. After declaring itself a nuclear weapon state, India’s stand that other countries should not acquire nuclear weapons does not carry much conviction,” it said.

“Likewise, if Israel can stockpile 200 plus nuclear weapons, how can India argue against Iran exercising its legitimate right as the signatory of the treaty to conduct uranium enrichment?” it asked.

The CPM said the nuclear test by North Korea would create new tensions in the East Asian region. The global moratorium on nuclear tests, which had not been violated since India and Pakistan conducted tests in 1998, had now been broken, it said.

However, the CPM claimed that this ‘destabilising act’ should be seen in the context of US aggression.

Ever since the 1950s, the United States had intimidated and threatened North Korea. Apart from stationing 40,000 troops, the United States placed nuclear weapons in South Korea and conducted regular joint military exercises with them.

The North Korean government has stated that it is arming itself with the nuclear deterrent to protect its national sovereignty and to possess a “powerful self-reliant defence capability”.

“The United States is singularly responsible for creating this deep sense of insecurity for North Korea. The country has directly experienced the savagery of the American war machine during the Korean war that led to the division of the Korean peninsula,” the CPM said.

The party also reiterated its opposition to purchasing arms from Israel in the wake of a CBI investigation into the Barak missile deal and demanded that the case should be “pursued impartially” in view of allegations that firms from that country indulged in bribery.

In a statement, the party Polit Bureau said the case against former defence minister George Fernandes and former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sushil Kumar for receiving kickbacks in the Barak deal once again highlighted the “high level of corruption” which takes place in such deals.

“It is shocking that successive governments have failed to tackle this problem and prefer to let a nexus of ruling politicians, bureaucrats and arms dealers to indulge in corrupt practices,” it added.

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Souce: Deccan Herald

For CPM, mum’s the word on N Korea

For CPM, mum’s the word on N Korea

Ananda Majumdar

Posted online: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST

NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 10
Despite its strong anti-proliferation stance and ideological opposition to armament of any form, the CPI(M) politburo is yet to formally put out its reaction to North Korea’s first nuclear test on Monday. This was the same party that spoke out against India’s own government after Pokhran-II in 1998.

Again, the August 1999 draft report of the National Security Advisory Board on Indian Nuclear Doctrine saw CPI(M) leaders meet then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and later say they were opposed to nuclear weaponisation and deployment. The CPI(M) believed it had reason to be upset with the draft report for it said that in the absence of global nuclear disarmament India’s strategic interests required effective, credible nuclear deterrence and adequate retaliatory capability should deterrence fail.

Could fraternal relations have come in the way of its ideological stance to give a thumbs down to the nuclear test by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea? Time and again, and every time foreign affairs and US hegemony has figured in CPI(M) meetings, so has DPRK. In fact, North Korea is presented as either standing tall to the US and a victim of the US’s machinations, its heroism always juxtaposed against the CPIM)’s hatred of the US. The DPRK, the CPI(M) believes, is a victim because it does not fall in line with America’s “hegemonic plans”.

For instance, at the CPI(M)’s last party congress in April 2005, when Prakash Karat became general secretary, the political resolution said its fears of the US using 9/11 to “expand the imperialist offensive” had come true. After Iraq, the US was targeting two other countries in President George Bush’s ‘axis of evil’ — North Korea and Iran.

The CPIM)’s lack of response could be explained from the same political resolution that said, “While reserving the right to produce new weapons and expanding the use of nuclear weapons, the US embarked on a counter-proliferation campaign targeting countries such as Iran, North Korea and Brazil to prevent them from developing nuclear technology. In contrast, Israel, under the special protection of the US, is allowed to keep nuclear weapons.”

In March this year, the International Department of the CPI(M) Central Committee stood shoulder to shoulder with its fraternal party to condemn plans for holding an ‘international rally’ in Brussels that was to highlight human rights violations in North Korea. The CPI(M) saw this differently, saying it was a “smear campaign aimed at tarnishing the image of DPRK”.

Such common purpose with North Korea has often been on view, despite Kim Il Jong’s questionable reputation on the human rights front and the widely held view that he heads a regime that can scarcely be trusted to be responsible with weapons of mass destruction.

Back in September 2003, the CPI(M) central committee prepared a report on “current developments it chronicled how the US had been forced into negotiations with DPRK when the latter refused to halt the re-commissioning of a nuclear power plant. Sanctions, the CPI(M) said, could not be imposed because of opposition from China. “The United States insisted on North Korea unilaterally dismantling its nuclear programme before any economic or political issues from North Korea could be discussed. This was rejected by the DPRK,” the CPI(M) document said.

The CPI(M) is more than quick in reacting to important developments. But, for the last two days there was no official word from the party on North Korea’s nuclear test. The only notice put up was for a blood donation camp on Saturday in view of the large number of dengue cases in the Capital.

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Source: Indian Express

CPM offered me money to topple Antony

CPM offered me money to topple Antony

Former Senior Marxist leader and minister KR Gowri Amma has said Communist Party of India-Marxist bosses in the state had offered her the deputy chief minister's post and money to topple the AK Antony government.

"They offered me a top post and another cabinet berth to my party and Rs 2 crore for my party, the Janathipathipathya Samrakshana Samithy," the veteran leader, who had a long stint in the government right from the first EMS Namboodiripad ministry, told a regional television channel on Monday.

Gowri said the party leaders had approached her when the tussle between the Antony and Karunakaran factions in Congress was at its peak in 2003.

"Both, state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan contacted me to topple the Antony government," Gowri claimed.

The plan, she said, was to support dissident Congress leader K Karunakaran to become chief minister with the support of a Congress faction and minor UDF partners.

"They also offered Rs 5 lakh each to my legislators," she added. Gowri floated her outfit after being expelled from the CPI-M in 1994.

She said the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) faction leader Prof A V Thamarakshan, who was then with the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), contacted her with the proposal. Later, Achuthanandan and M A Baby, now Education Minister, met her with the same proposal. Achuthanandan met her in Kollam reiterating their offer later, she claimed.

Denying the allegation that he had offered money, Prof Thamarakshan said the offer was only to make Gowri, 87, the deputy chief minister if she switched sides and it was made at the instance of CPM leaders.

"I talked to her on behalf of Vijayan and Achuthanandan. Money was not in the package," he said. He said he arranged the meeting between Gowri and Achuthanandan. He said Achuthanandan's reaction after the meeting was: "Operation success".

The CPM has dismissed the Gowri's allegations. Party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said they do "not deserve even a reply." However, he said he would talk on the subject later.

In a statement here, Achuthanandan said "after being expelled from the CPI(M) and getting defeated in the last Assembly elections, Gowri has come to the level of leveling absurd allegations."

"How could a person like Gowri, who had for long been in the CPI(M) state committee, even think of the party offering bribe for securing power?" he said.

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Source : Hindustan Times

Yechury to lead CPI (M) team to China

Yechury to lead CPI (M) team to China

New Delhi, Oct. 7 (PTI): Ahead of Chinese President Hu Jin Tao's visit to India this month, Communist Party of India (M) leader Sitaram Yechury will be leading a high level delegation of his party to China.

The delegation will include Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who will meet the Chinese Communist Party leader during the 8-day visit.

The CPI (M) has a long standing relationship with the Chinese Communist party, Yechury said describing the visit as a goodwill one.

The visit assumes significance as the major Left party, an outside supporter of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government will be holding talks ahead of the Chinese Presidential visit to India on October 16.

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Source : The Hindu

CPI-M blamed for Marad violence

CPI-M blamed for Marad violence

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's former chief minister A.K. Antony yesterday said the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) was "the accused No 1" in the Marad sectarian carnage of 2003 that happened during his tenure.

CPI-M state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan had on Wednesday described Antony as "the accused No 1"‚ in the incident in which nine people were killed.

He specifically pointed out that in spite of intelligence reports about the possibility of the flare-up, Antony had failed to take precautionary steps.

Replying to the charge, Antony pointed out that the report itself said that most of the people involved in the incident were workers of the CPI-M and the party always tried to shield them.

Antony said the CPI-M's hands were "stained with the blood" of the 2002 riot at Marad, which preceded the 2003 incident. If there was no violence in 2002, there would not have been any in 2003, he added.

On Pinarayi's charge that Antony as chief minister was primarily responsible for the violence, Antony said the judicial probe into the incident had brought to light the fact that CPI-M had sought to derive political mileage out of the communal divide in the area.

As many as 79 accused in the first Marad violence were CPI-M workers. The Commission had clearly stated that peace efforts between the two communities in the area was not to the liking of the CPI-M, which wanted to exploit communal polarisation in the area, Antony observed. Antony claimed his government acted swiftly to check the spread of violence after the 2003 incident.

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Party waves the sickle, cuts off cash crops from Kerala farmers

Communists have started harassing farmers in Kerala.

Party waves the sickle, cuts off cash crops from Kerala farmers


The Party can change the profile of a beedi cooperative and get it to make pickles but the farmer cannot change his crop to make profit. If a Kerala farmer quits growing paddy and grows another crop on the same farmland, he will have CPI(M) comrades landing with sickles and axes to ‘restore’ the farm for paddy.

No matter if growing paddy is just not profitable, no matter if you have stiff farm loans to pay back.

Last week in Palakkad, the comrades, chanting slogans invoking hardliner V S Achuthanandan, descended to destroy arecanut and other crops in many farms. About a dozen of them have been booked for it.

The sickles and axes have been coming down on many parts of Kerala’s ruralscape as a strong ‘corrective’ political statement, right from the ’90s. They continue to swing.

The late A Kanaran MLA, top honcho of the CPI(M)’s Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Union (KSKTU), had effectively used it to get local Muslim landlords in north Kerala’s Nadapuram belt to fall in line, his men laying waste acres of their standing cash crops overnight.

In Alappuzha, Kanaran’s hardline guru and Politburo member Achthanandan unleashed his men on paddy farms whose owners—many of them marginal farmers—had to switch to other crops. It finally took a high court order to get the cops to halt the destruction, at least temporarily.

The basic CPI(M) line is that losing paddy to less labour-intensive cash crops means more rural unemployment, particularly hitting farm labour, traditional Red reservoir. It also wants to hold up the ecology-environment threats from depleting farmlands. The area under paddy in Kerala has dwindled from 8 lakh hectares a few years ago to 3 lakh now.

The flip side, however, is that with highly trade-unionised wages shooting up and input costs rising, paddy is hardly attractive anymore. A big chunk of farmers who had killed themselves in despair in the last two years in Kerala were paddy growers.

A few days back, Achuthanandan was quoted saying that chopping down crops on reclaimed paddy fields was ‘‘party policy,’’ but denies it. The powerful reformist section of the CPI(M), openly gunning for him, denounced it. Achuthanandan now says the party will continue its ‘‘peaceful’’ agitation in every Kerala panchayat, and will not allow any more fields to be lost to paddy, ‘‘at any cost.’’ ‘‘I’d never asked our comrades to destroy any kind of crops, only to oppose paddy field reclamation. But our young men get excited and naughty sometimes,’’ Achuthanandan told The Indian Express.

‘‘The party condemns any act of destroying crops. This has been communicated to the ranks,’’ claims M A Baby, CPI(M) central committee member.

Party waves the sickle, cuts off cash crops from Kerala farmers (The Indian Express, Monday July 4 2006, via Yahoo News)

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Two CPM groups clash

Two CPM groups clash

Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, May 1: Poll-related violence continued unabated in West Bengal today. A clash among two groups of CPI-M cadres in Hatgachia area of South 24 Parganas left four persons injured. In another incident, some CPI-M cadres went on a rampage, destroying property of Congress supporters and wounding at least eight men last night.
The Congressmen had left the CPI-M before the Assembly polls citing highhandedness of CPI-M leaders. After they came to know about the attack, Congress supporters from neighbouring villages rushed to their rescue resulting in a clash that dispersed only when a team from Habra police station intervened. To avert further violence, a police picket has been posted at Baogachi. However, no arrests could be made in connection with the incident.
Protesting against the CPI-M’s attack and the failure of law enforcement to bring attackers to book, the Congress today observed a 12-hour bandh in Habra. Most markets remained closed, buses and auto rickshaws stayed off the road. Irate Congress supporters today blocked railway tracks at Habra and Guma railway station disrupting train services for nearly two hours in Seahdah-Bongaon section. Police detained a few Congress supporters for forcibly closing shops in Habra. Accusing police of acting under the instruction of the CPI-M, Congress leader Mr Abdul Hamid Mondal said: “Instead of arresting the CPI-M cadres, police have detained three Congress supporters who were assaulted by CPI-M goons.” Local CPI-M leaders have denied charges and said that a brigade of Congress cadres attacked the Baogachi village last night. “When villagers and CPI-M cadres put up stiff resistance, congress backed criminals started assaulting villagers forcing our men to retaliate,” said a local CPI-M leader.
“The CPI-M launched its first attack on breakaway CPI-M cadres just after the polls were over on Friday night. Similar attacks were launched on Saturday night as well. We had submitted a memorandum to the police yesterday demanding a crackdown on the attackers,” said Mr Mondal.
“They attackers fled when police reached around 9 p.m.,” said Mr Narayan Saha, a Congress leader.

Two CPM groups clash (The Statesman, May 1 2006)

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Housewife ‘assaulted’ by comrades

Housewife ‘assaulted’ by comrades

Statesman News Service
KRISHNAGAR, April 30: A 23-year-old housewife was critically beaten up and then stripped off by a group of four CPI-M youths, when she denied making physical relations with them.
The victim has lodged complaint with the Thanarpara police against the four accused such as Habibur Mondol, Abbas Mondol, Siraj Mondol and Mannan Mondol, all are known as CPI-M workers in the locality, while the police have failed to arrest none of the accused so far.
Though, a case has been initiated by the police against the accused and the victim has been sent to the hospital for her required medical examination. According to the complaint lodged with the police, the woman who is a mother of three children was recently given an ill proposal by the four youths who are all neghbours. But, the woman refused their proposal and declined making any physical relations with them. On the last Thursday, in absence of her husband in the house, she was forcibly taken out by the accused in the night and brought to a nearby field where the accused brutally beat her up. She was stripped and molested. Soon after it, she lost her sense. After two hours, she regained her sense and in the melee of the state, of what consequences, she had faced, she could not recognize.
She then returned her house and became shaky following the incident. As her husband went to Burdwan for daily-jobs and returned home yesterday, she narrated the incident to him.
Heard about the incident, the victim’s husband accompanied her to the police station and lodged complaint with the police.

Housewife ‘assaulted’ by comrades

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Six CPI(M) supporters convicted for murder

A fast track court today convicted six CPI(M) supporters, including a gram pradhan for murdering six persons at Rampur village in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district in 1982.

Fast Track First Court judge, Siddhartha Mukherjee convicted the six including Satya Biswas, currently gram panchayat pradhan, Manindra Nath Ray, Chiranjit Sarkar, Barun Dey Sarkar, Sisir Ghosh and Bholanath Mandal under sections 148, (rioting, armed with deadly weapons) 364 (kidnapping or abducting to murder) and 302 (murder) of IPC.

He will anounce the quantum of sentence tomorrow.

According to the prosecution CPI-M supporters took out an armed procession at Rampur of Baxirhat in Tufanganj sub-division on June 12, 1982 in the morning.
A fast track court today convicted six CPI(M) supporters, including a gram pradhan for murdering six persons at Rampur village in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district in 1982.

Fast Track First Court judge, Siddhartha Mukherjee convicted the six including Satya Biswas, currently gram panchayat pradhan, Manindra Nath Ray, Chiranjit Sarkar, Barun Dey Sarkar, Sisir Ghosh and Bholanath Mandal under sections 148, (rioting, armed with deadly weapons) 364 (kidnapping or abducting to murder) and 302 (murder) of IPC.

He will anounce the quantum of sentence tomorrow.

According to the prosecution CPI-M supporters took out an armed procession at Rampur of Baxirhat in Tufanganj sub-division on June 12, 1982 in the morning.

The six victims - Santosh Dey Sarkar (32), Achhimuddin Sheikh (35), Nirod Barman (30), Sharat Barman (33), Sunil Barman (30) and Chhaimuddin Sheikh (38) were dragged in front of the CPI-M office at Rampur market, tortured brutally and killed.

Six CPI(M) supporters convicted for murder (New Kerala, Apr 27, 2006)

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