SALUTE THE CONVENTION STAGED IN BARNALA ON MAY 16TH BY THE
LOK MORCHA PUNJAB AND THE INQUILABI KENDRA PUNJAB PORTRAYING THE DEMOCRATIC
REVOLUTIONARY ALTERNATIVE IN THE 2019 LOK SABHA ELECTIONS TO THE NEO OR
SEMI-FASCIST RULING SYSTEM WHICH WEARS THE GARB OF BEING A LIBERAL DEMOCRACY.
By Harsh Thakor
A most qualitative event in education of cadres in Barnala took place at Shakti Kala Mandir Barnala at the culmination of the campaign “Build the Revolutionary Alternative” on Wednesday, May 16th. The most autocratic nature of parliamentary democracy ofIndia
which is neo or semi fascist and how to build a genuine revolutionary alternative
was covered. No event in India of such qualitative nature in terms of
projecting correct mass line of active political campaign as this convention of
Inquilabi Kendra and Lok Morcha Punjab. It was a perfect illustration in
correct practice of educating advanced political elements of all sections. I
was privileged to be present and witness the profound impact on the people
present. It is in contrast to sectarian trends of both active boycott and
participation in elections or NOTA which prevail in Punjab
till this day, Morally it continued the legacy of the mass line of Tarimela
Nagi Reddy and Harbhajan Sohi which began over 4 decades ago. Nowhere in Punjab
or arguably in India itself is there such correct mass revolutionary approach
to question of elections Today in Punjab there are erroneous trends of 'active
boycott' practiced by pro-Maoist sections like Lok Sangram Manch and
Revolutionary peoples front as well as deviationist tactics of putting up
revolutionary candidates by groups like Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy C.P.I. (M.L.)
New Democracy.
A most qualitative event in education of cadres in Barnala took place at Shakti Kala Mandir Barnala at the culmination of the campaign “Build the Revolutionary Alternative” on Wednesday, May 16th. The most autocratic nature of parliamentary democracy of
The convention basically connected the issues dealt with the
revolutionary alternative with the immediate demands reminiscent of a wheel and
axle. It emphasized on the fundamental class offensive of the ruling classes in
the parliamentary elections in contrast to its religious, nationalist or
casteist projection.
Speakers summarized the burning issues of the masses in great depth covering all spheres of life. The false nationalism of the Bharatiya Janata party was exposed at its very roots but the Congress was also exposed .Aspect of arrest of intellectuals representing fascist trend was also exposed as well as the relationship between economic policies and the agenda of Around 600 people attended. A march was held at the conclusion of the event.
Jagmail singh and Shirin of Lok Morcha Punjab and Muktiar Phullar and Kanwaljeet Khanna of Inquilabi Kendra were the Speakers with Narain Dutt chairing the meeting, one hopes all the speeches are translated from Punjabi to English or Hindi which are all invaluable in creating revolutionary political consciousness and building mass line.
The organizations called upon the people that instead of looking towards the ruling parties to solve their basic problems, they should organize themselves and struggle to establish a pro-people socio-political and economic system.
Exposing the political extravaganza of electoral process the state leaders of both organizations Kanwaljit Khanna, Jagmail Singh, Mukhtiar Singh Poohla and Sheerin said that like several previous elections the present election is neither concerned with the basic issues of the people nor it aims to bring any qualitative change in the lives of people. In reality, the elections are a tool to divert the attention of people from their basic issues and to resolve the contention between different sections of capitalists, Feudal Lords and Landlords, to decide the next ruler of the country and to provide justification and authenticity to this rule by using people as mere stamps. These elections aim to get a stamp of approval for the policies of ruling classes which actually serve the interests of capitalists, Feudal Lords and big Landlords. To achieve this target, all the parliamentary parties tend to ignore the real issues of toiling masses. In present elections these parties are trying to divert the attention of people towards the futile issues of nationalism and internal security on one hand and towards petty economic benefits or the danger to the democracy on the other. The bogus claims of development by the parties, in reality, are aimed to open the doors of economy for the imperialists and big capitalists to gain huge profits. All the political parties claim that the panacea for all the ills of contemporaryIndia , are the policies of Globalization,
Liberalization and Privatization, however, these very policies are responsible
for all the problems of common people.
The leaders said that, to bring a basic qualitative change and prosperity in the lives of toiling people, there is a dire need to completely change the present anti-people regime. This change can’t be brought out by the electoral process, but, only by constructing people’s power through their popular struggles in the light of the revolutionary path shown by Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Only the conscious and organized force of masses has the capacity to establish the real democracy and is capable of guarding it. Today, there is a strong need, to end the plunder of the country by the imperialists and capitalists, to implement the land reforms and redistribution of land, to end the usury, to come out of all the unequal treaties with the imperial countries, to fill up the treasury by imposing direct taxes on big corporates and companies and to put a bar on their huge profits. These steps can be implemented only by the strength of the organized people. The people have their own organizations which are the alternative to the organizational structures of ruling classes and these organizations have the capacity to bring the basic change in the society if they are provided with the correct revolutionary guidance. Both the organizations held this campaign to perform this task of providing the revolutionary alternative to the people.
The speakers said that the clamor of second or third alternative by the parliamentary parties at present is fictitious and they all serve the interests of the ruling classes. They termed the elections, an attack on the class-unity of masses, and called on to the masses that they should protect their unity from this attack. People should raise their actual demands in the elections and compel the political parties to speak on such issues. They said it is the need of the hour to uphold the path of Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his comrades. A demonstration was also held in the Barnala city at the culmination of the campaign and the conference. Comrade Narain Dutt conducted the stage efficiently.
Comrade Shireen in depth dealt with the fascist trends and the methods of combating fascism. She elaborated howIndia was not in any way a moral
bourgeois democratic and all the parliamentary institutions were fundamentally
autocratic. She narrated how India was fast turning Fascist with arrests of
democratic intellectuals like Professor Saibaba and later the 'Urban' Maoists
and how Hindutva fascsim was linked to the semi-feudal pro-corporate
socio-political or socio-economic structure.With vivid analysis she covered how
fascism could never be fought by relying or allying with nay political party or
defending bourgeois democracy or institutions itself. A distinction was made
between a bourgeois democracy and an autocratic state and how fascism would not
emerge of the Hitler-Mussolini type .but of the type of China under Chiang Kai Shek. She
asserted that only revolutionary class struggle could defeat fascism. In her view
even environmentalists to work for solutions would have to tread the path of
class struggle and not trust or side with any parliamentary or govt.
institutions. Shireen urged people not to undermine the oppressive nature of
the Congress or other parliamentary parties and to challenge the autocratic
state ras a whole rather than just single of the BJP-RSS as a target. She
narrated how Hindutva and Corporate friendly policies were promoted with the
blessings of the Congress and a lot of reactionary phenomena a was like a child
of the Congress itself, be it Babri Masjid demolition or Operation Greenhunt. This
is significant as today there is a trend in the Communist revolutionary camp
that single outs the BJP-RSS and calls for their defeat but does not or hardly
portrays the reactionary character of the Congress and other ruling class
parties.
She also addressed the Immediate demands which covered how in each and every sphere the ruling class parties hoodwink the masses and how their agenda does not solve the basic issues like unemployment, land reforms, illiteracy, minimum wages for workers, housing, electricity, transport etc. It gives concrete examples of how in day to day lives the policies of the rulers act in contrary to the genuine aspirations of the masses. Examples were given of peasant suicides, remunerative prices not given to farmers, minimum wages not paid to workers, inadequate transport and housing, price rise, etc.
Comrade Jagmail addressed the question of the revolutionary alternative. He propagated the substitute progressive angle in every sphere be it agriculture, industry, education, health etc. In detail it covers the revolutionary alternative in terms of agrarian revolution, workers take over of factories, alternative education system etc. He described how a system should run in a revolutionary democratic social order. It discussed how people should build their pro-people revolutionary alternative forms or structures in all spheres rather than have faith in any of the alternatives of the current social order. The aspirations of Shaheed Bhagat Singh were vividly projected as well as how the post-1947 rulers betrayed him from Nehru-India Gandhi to Modi.
He elaborated the developmental model summarizing the kind of alternative that should be developed in a genuinely democratic state where land was equally divided, jobs, literacy, hospitals, electricity, housing etc were available to all. It was critical of the Gandhian angle that was eulogized from 1947 onwards and supported the approach of Shaheed Bhagat Singh in creating a genuine Revolutionary democracy. In depth it explained the pretensions of the so called nationalism of the ruling class parties who in essence only supported the anti-people agenda like with regards toKashmir .
Kanwaljeet Khanna touched upon about the oppression on minorities, particularly Muslims and reminded people of the martyrdom of a famous Ghadr freedom fighter on the same date of May 16th. He also covered the fascist repression inKashmir . In depth it explained the pretensions of the so
called nationalism of the ruling class parties who in essence only supported
the anti-people agenda like with regards to Kashmir .
Speakers also exposed how the policies of the colonial British rulers was continued till today in every sphere be it the transport system, education system, industrial system etc. In details contrasts the policies of the ruling class parties with a pro-people development model.
Speakers summarized the burning issues of the masses in great depth covering all spheres of life. The false nationalism of the Bharatiya Janata party was exposed at its very roots but the Congress was also exposed .Aspect of arrest of intellectuals representing fascist trend was also exposed as well as the relationship between economic policies and the agenda of Around 600 people attended. A march was held at the conclusion of the event.
Jagmail singh and Shirin of Lok Morcha Punjab and Muktiar Phullar and Kanwaljeet Khanna of Inquilabi Kendra were the Speakers with Narain Dutt chairing the meeting, one hopes all the speeches are translated from Punjabi to English or Hindi which are all invaluable in creating revolutionary political consciousness and building mass line.
The organizations called upon the people that instead of looking towards the ruling parties to solve their basic problems, they should organize themselves and struggle to establish a pro-people socio-political and economic system.
Exposing the political extravaganza of electoral process the state leaders of both organizations Kanwaljit Khanna, Jagmail Singh, Mukhtiar Singh Poohla and Sheerin said that like several previous elections the present election is neither concerned with the basic issues of the people nor it aims to bring any qualitative change in the lives of people. In reality, the elections are a tool to divert the attention of people from their basic issues and to resolve the contention between different sections of capitalists, Feudal Lords and Landlords, to decide the next ruler of the country and to provide justification and authenticity to this rule by using people as mere stamps. These elections aim to get a stamp of approval for the policies of ruling classes which actually serve the interests of capitalists, Feudal Lords and big Landlords. To achieve this target, all the parliamentary parties tend to ignore the real issues of toiling masses. In present elections these parties are trying to divert the attention of people towards the futile issues of nationalism and internal security on one hand and towards petty economic benefits or the danger to the democracy on the other. The bogus claims of development by the parties, in reality, are aimed to open the doors of economy for the imperialists and big capitalists to gain huge profits. All the political parties claim that the panacea for all the ills of contemporary
The leaders said that, to bring a basic qualitative change and prosperity in the lives of toiling people, there is a dire need to completely change the present anti-people regime. This change can’t be brought out by the electoral process, but, only by constructing people’s power through their popular struggles in the light of the revolutionary path shown by Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Only the conscious and organized force of masses has the capacity to establish the real democracy and is capable of guarding it. Today, there is a strong need, to end the plunder of the country by the imperialists and capitalists, to implement the land reforms and redistribution of land, to end the usury, to come out of all the unequal treaties with the imperial countries, to fill up the treasury by imposing direct taxes on big corporates and companies and to put a bar on their huge profits. These steps can be implemented only by the strength of the organized people. The people have their own organizations which are the alternative to the organizational structures of ruling classes and these organizations have the capacity to bring the basic change in the society if they are provided with the correct revolutionary guidance. Both the organizations held this campaign to perform this task of providing the revolutionary alternative to the people.
The speakers said that the clamor of second or third alternative by the parliamentary parties at present is fictitious and they all serve the interests of the ruling classes. They termed the elections, an attack on the class-unity of masses, and called on to the masses that they should protect their unity from this attack. People should raise their actual demands in the elections and compel the political parties to speak on such issues. They said it is the need of the hour to uphold the path of Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his comrades. A demonstration was also held in the Barnala city at the culmination of the campaign and the conference. Comrade Narain Dutt conducted the stage efficiently.
Comrade Shireen in depth dealt with the fascist trends and the methods of combating fascism. She elaborated how
She also addressed the Immediate demands which covered how in each and every sphere the ruling class parties hoodwink the masses and how their agenda does not solve the basic issues like unemployment, land reforms, illiteracy, minimum wages for workers, housing, electricity, transport etc. It gives concrete examples of how in day to day lives the policies of the rulers act in contrary to the genuine aspirations of the masses. Examples were given of peasant suicides, remunerative prices not given to farmers, minimum wages not paid to workers, inadequate transport and housing, price rise, etc.
Comrade Jagmail addressed the question of the revolutionary alternative. He propagated the substitute progressive angle in every sphere be it agriculture, industry, education, health etc. In detail it covers the revolutionary alternative in terms of agrarian revolution, workers take over of factories, alternative education system etc. He described how a system should run in a revolutionary democratic social order. It discussed how people should build their pro-people revolutionary alternative forms or structures in all spheres rather than have faith in any of the alternatives of the current social order. The aspirations of Shaheed Bhagat Singh were vividly projected as well as how the post-1947 rulers betrayed him from Nehru-India Gandhi to Modi.
He elaborated the developmental model summarizing the kind of alternative that should be developed in a genuinely democratic state where land was equally divided, jobs, literacy, hospitals, electricity, housing etc were available to all. It was critical of the Gandhian angle that was eulogized from 1947 onwards and supported the approach of Shaheed Bhagat Singh in creating a genuine Revolutionary democracy. In depth it explained the pretensions of the so called nationalism of the ruling class parties who in essence only supported the anti-people agenda like with regards to
Kanwaljeet Khanna touched upon about the oppression on minorities, particularly Muslims and reminded people of the martyrdom of a famous Ghadr freedom fighter on the same date of May 16th. He also covered the fascist repression in
Speakers also exposed how the policies of the colonial British rulers was continued till today in every sphere be it the transport system, education system, industrial system etc. In details contrasts the policies of the ruling class parties with a pro-people development model.
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