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Proletarian Era THE CENTRAL ORGAN OF S.U.C.I.Vol.
39 No. 9 December 15, 2005 In this issue ·
Comrade Nihar Mukherjee’s ovation
to Ramsey Clark ·
SUCI demands
exemplary punishment to those involved in ·
Lessons of Great
November Revolution —beacon to emancipation of humanity ·
Fighting people of
South 24 Parganas accord rousing reception to fraternal delegates from
abroad ·
Comrade Nina Andreyeva to AIDSO and AIDYO Comrades ·
4th All ·
Comrade Nihar Mukherjee’s
ovation to Ramsey Clark Dear Mr. Clark, On behalf of our party, the Socialist Unity Centre
of India, and the anti-imperialist people of India, I hail your bold courageous
decision to defend Saddam Hussein, President of sovereign Iraq, in the mock
trial masterminded by the imperialist Bush regime, the most vile and demonic
enemy of the mankind, particularly when the lawyers appearing on the side
of Saddam Hussein are being murdered with impunity. It is the US imperialists
who invaded and occupied the territory of Iraq under fraudulent pretext,
flouting all canons of international law and trampling underfoot the barest
precepts of democratic norms, values and practices and barbourously
killing thousands of innocent civilians including the old, women and children
by indiscriminate bombing, use of internationally prohibited sophisticated
chemical and other destructive weapons. It is Bush and his associates who
should be tried in the international court for mass murder, illegal occupation
of other’s land, loot, arson and marauding with gusto. The gallant
resistance of the valiant patriotic Iraqi people against the imperialist
aggressors has become a symbol of the anti-imperialist struggle of the
democratic minded peace loving people of the world. It is a great inspiration
for the brave Iraqi fighters to find an eminent jurist of your stature from the
heartland of the occupying imperialists refusing to the red eyes of his own
government to stand in support of their struggle, for justice, in defence of
mankind and to uphold the cause of humanity. You rightly deserve heart felt
ovation from all the anti-imperialist fighters round the globe. With greetings, Nihar Mukherjee Kolkata General secretary,
SUCI demands exemplary punishment to those involved in In the context of
the specific disclosures made by Shri Aniel Matherani, India’s
Ambassador to Croatia and a long term party functionary of the Congress
attesting the serious charges already lavelled against
Shri Natwar Singh, Union
Minister and Congress leader, in regard to securing undue favour and benefits
from the illegal oil sales by Lessons of Great November Revolution —beacon to emancipation of humanity To the people who long to break the shackles of
capitalism, bring about emancipation from savage exploitation of man by man, free civilization from the fetters of
capitalism, the Great November Revolution of Russia that shook the world 88
years back and ushered in a new era, still is an ever-flowing source of
inspiration. It is an occasion for all
genuine communists, the advanced vanguard of the proletariat, to renew their pledge
to close rank and march ahead with yet more grit, determination and valour to
bring about world proletarian revolution.
To commemorate this historic event and take a solemn vow to carry
forward the historic task of accomplishing anti-capitalist socialist revolution
in India, the Central Committee of our party, SUCI, like all previous years,
convened a mass meeting at Mahajati Sadan, Calcutta on 25th November, 2005 to discuss the problems of
international communist movement in the light of Great November Revolution. On this occasion our party held an all India
gathering at Mahajati Sadan,
Calcutta, where, at the invitation of our party, attended and addressed Comrade
Nina Andryeva, General Secretary, All Union Communist
Party (Bolsheviks) from Russia, Comrade Heather Cottin,
Leader of the Workers’ World Party, which is fighting for the
emancipation of the workers inside the imperialist US, Comrade Nisha, representing Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of
Turkey, Comrade Khalekuzzaman, Convener, Socialist
Party of Bangladesh and its Central Committee member Comrade Mobinur Haider Chowdhury. The meeting was
presided over by Comrade
Tapas Dutta, veteran member of the Central Committee. Comrade Nihar Mukkherjee, beloved General Secretary of our party, the
SUCI, and a life-long comrade-in-arm of Comrade Shibdas
Ghosh, our leader, teacher and guide and one of the
foremost Marxist thinkers of the era, also addressed the meeting ignoring his
various ailments. It was a momentous
occasion for all those present to listen to the valuable speeches of the
distinguished speakers including eminent foreign dignitaries. Venue, the huge hall of Mahajati
Sadan was already over-packed with the masses spilled
over even to the street at the front well before the beginning of the
meeting. On the dais were seated alongwith Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, Comrade Tapas Dutta and the foreign dignitaries, Comrades Anil Sen, Sukomal Dasgupta, Sitesh Dasgupta, Provash Ghosh, Asit Bhattacharya, Krishna
Chakraborty (all central committee members) Comrade Ranjit Dhar and Comrade Manik Mukherjee (West Bengal
State Secretariat members). On
this august occasion
of the November Revolution Anniversary beloved General Secretary, Comrade
Nihar Mukherjee flagged off
the release of the Third Volume of the Selected Works of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, one of the
foremost Marxist philosophers of the era, with the words that this Works
would further illuminate the Communist movement, home and abroad. He handed over the first copies of this Third
Volume to the foreign dignitaries present. Comrade Nina Andreyeva,
holding aloft the noble banner of Lenin and Stalin in the countries of the
erstwhile Comrade Andryeva read out
to the audience, from her written address in
Russian. The speech was rendered in English
simultaneously. After Comrade Nina Andryeva,
Comrade Nihar Mukherjee,
beloved General Secretary of our party delivered his address. With his badly frail health Comrade Mukherjee spoke, being seated on request, at length, taking
tremendous strain, on different questions, issues and problems of the
international Communist movement in the background of the teachings of the
Great November Revolution as taught by Marxism-Leninism and Comrade Shibdas Ghosh’s Thoughts. After his speech, Comrade Heather Cottin, The meeting ended with the Internationale. Comrade Nihar Mukherjee’s Speech Comrade President,
Comrades from abroad, Comrades and Friends, You have already heard that the meeting has been
convened by the Central Committee of our party to scrutinize in the light of
the teachings of great November Revolution, the problems that have cropped up
in the international communist movement. At present, the world communist
movement is passing through a critical phase with the modern revisionism
growing as a distinctly pronounced trend in the mainstream. Advanced cadres and
leaders have gathered here to take note of the various developments taking
place in the different countries to search out, both from the country and
abroad, the correct path to overcome the impasse and successfully carry out the
behest of November Revolution. I am sorry because of paucity of time; I shall
not be able to dwell at length on the subject. So I shall very briefly, in a
pointed manner, place before you certain vital aspects. As you know,
we are passing through a time when in the absence of mighty socialist camp led
by the USSR, the imperialists-capitalists headed by US imperialists, unable to
come out of the insoluble crisis they are ridden with, are on a rampage,
pursuing their hegemonistic aspirations, overlordism and brigandage with impunity. Alongside
military invasion and illegal occupation of others’ territories, they are
now conducting their loot and plunder through neo-colonial route of exporting
finance capital and ruling either by installing a puppet government or by
forcing the governments of the weaker nations to be pliant with and subjugated
to their dictates . They are also causing economic blockade or resorting to
escalated violence to circumscribe the weaker nations. Indian capitalism has
also assumed imperialist character, given rise to a financial oligarchy by
merger of industrial capital with banking capital and is exporting finance
capital abroad to exploit cheap labour and raw material. Thus, the Indian
monopolists have become junior partners of world imperialism. In this
connection, I would like to draw your attention to the fact Fascism has now
become a general feature in every imperialist-capitalist country. Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, our leader,
teacher and guide, founder General Secretary of the SUCI and one of the
foremost Marxist thinkers of the era, taught us that Fascism is not naked
military dictatorship. It has a two-fold, two-faced character, a dual policy of
suppression and persuasion. Somewhere it adopts the form of individual
dictatorship, somewhere the autocratic rule of military junta and yet in some
other countries, it takes cover of pseudo-radical slogans to deceive people and
carry out its savage exploitation. Fascism is the naked dictatorship of the
capitalist class, a historically conditioned form of counter-revolution in
which capitalism seeks to stave off revolution by an anticipatory move. And for
that matter Fascism needs lackeys. The lessons of November Revolution also show
that both Lenin and Stalin had to fight such lackeys lurking in the
revisionists and social democrats. In fact, social democracy, as Comrade Ghosh showed, is now “the last prop of
Fascism.” Therefore, it is incumbent on the proletarian revolutionaries
to fight social democracy, which has appeared as the main danger before
anti-capitalist revolutionary movement. For the genuine communists everywhere,
it remains now to re-arm themselves, more than ever before, with deeper
realization of the lessons of Great November Revolution and act up to the
behest of the giant communist authorities starting from Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin-Mao
Zedong to Comrade Shibdas Ghosh,
responding to the burning needs of humanity. You know that capitalist-imperialist world has
become extremely jubilant after dismantling of the socialist camp and are out
to malign communism, calling it obsolete. Is it really so? Why have we chosen to become communists? Is
it out of any fancy? We must understand this first in the light of the lessons
of the Great November Revolution. As against all previous revolutions where one
set of exploiters was replaced by another set of exploiters and the people
continued to remain in the thraldom of exploitation, if not subjected to
oppression that is more ruthless, November Revolution, successfully
accomplished in 1917, stands out as a historic landmark, seeking to sweep away
exploitation of man-by-man altogether. Successful achievement of revolution in
a single country, To make
Russian Revolution a success, Lenin had to deeply analyze the particular -
specific situation of the then Russia and the basic problems prevailing there
by concretely applying the Marxist methodology, i.e. the science of Marxism-Leninism
or Dialectical Materialism which was developed as a science of all sciences by
dialectically coordinating, integrating and generalizing upon the particular truths discovered by the various disciplines of science to fully
comprehend the ever changing material
world, grasp the inherent laws of its development and provide direction to act
in the process of the inexorable laws of the nature to change the world itself.
The Bolshevik Party under Lenin successfully awakened the workers, poor peasants,
landless farmers and a good section of the intelligentsia based on
Marxism-Leninism to accomplish revolution. The working class provided
leadership to the revolution. Earlier nobody could even dream that illiterate
workers would succeed in overthrowing the mighty Tsarist regime. How could this
be possible? It was possible because of the invincible weapon of
Marxism-Leninism handed down to them by Marx-Engels and Lenin to enable them analyze and understand correctly each of the intricate
problems and resolve them. In the process of organizing revolution on Russian
soil and drawing the workers and peasants in
the vortex of revolutionary struggle, Lenin by his profound wisdom illumined
every sphere – economic, political, social, cultural and moral from
correct Marxist outlook and
categorically pointed out the hangovers of the old society putting hurdles in
the way. It was Lenin who said, “Socialism comes from without”. The
spontaneous movements of the workers, the trade union movements centering round economic demands do not automatically
generate socialist consciousness
among the workers, steep them into communist ideology. This consciousness comes
from outside and is to be acquired through a completely separate struggle. The
worker has to acquire the higher thoughts of communism by conducting a powerful
life struggle following correct Marxist methodology. That is why Marx said that
trade unions should be transformed into schools of communism. Marx was also
categorical in saying that “in order to change the world, workers will
have to change themselves first.” Simultaneously they should try to
change the poor peasants and other section of the toiling masses since the
emancipation of the entire toiling people is interwoven with the emancipation of the working class. Even the middle class
intelligentsia, drawn towards the noble ideology of Marxism-Leninism ought to
declass themselves through struggle to attain
communist character. That is exactly what Lenin did. While correctly applying
the general theories of Marxism-Leninism in the concrete situation of Russia,
he imbued the working and the toiling masses including the peasants, the
closest ally of working class revolution, with the noblest ideal of communism
so that they could arm themselves with this invincible weapon to lead the
revolution. Marx said long back “Just as philosophy finds its material
weapon in the proletariat, the proletariat finds its spiritual weapon in
philosophy.” Even if the workers are illiterate, they must be taught to
acquire this philosophy through struggle and then and then only as Marx said,
they will be free and emerge as real ‘man’. Lenin successfully
carried out this essential task of imbibing the illiterate workers the essence
of Marxist philosophy and thus roused them to lead November Revolution to
victory. To overthrow
the oppressive bourgeoisie from power in the country, Lenin also had to fight
capitalist-imperialists outside I must also mention in this regard that
revolutionary movement is no simple a task. It is a complex process, having
many twists and turns, ups and downs. Those who engage themselves in the
process of becoming communists must understand this and must go deeper into
every problem to make way through the zigzag of revolutionary struggle. Marx
had said long back that the communists are sure about the future because they
are thorough about everything, every aspect of life, society and objective
world. Because the communists are endowed with the science of Marxism-Leninism
to penetratingly, analyze every problem and issue and resolve them to find the
way out. In course of developing revolutionary movement in
Russia, Lenin, analyzing the then world
situation following Marxist methodology, showed that capitalism had by that
time reached the stage of imperialism characterized by export of finance
capital as against export of commodities. Hence, he called the era, the era of
imperialism and proletarian revolution. We are still in that era and hence we
the communists in every country consider ourselves the respective contingents
of world proletarian revolution. In order to accomplish proletarian revolution
in our respective countries as part of the world proletarian revolution, Lenin
stipulated three essential pre-requisites:
a correct revolutionary theory; a correct revolutionary party and united
front of struggles of the workers, peasants and other sections of the toiling
masses for the revolutionary purpose of giving birth to alternative political
power of the people crystallized in the Soviets or proletarian democracy. By correct revolutionary theory, Lenin had
not just spoken of strategic correctness. He meant a complete epistemological
category developed, as elaborated by Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, by dialectically coordinating the understanding and
experiences of different branches of knowledge and science covering all aspects
of life, to provide answers to all problems, whether of the Nature, or the
Society, or Life, analyze all problems, excavate their roots and indicate the
correct course to resolve them. Here lies the importance of correct
understanding of the revolutionary theory. Secondly,
Lenin held that any type of political party could not make revolution a
success. He visualized a proletarian revolutionary party to be ideologically
and organizationally compact, reflecting a model embodied not only in its
leaders but also in the rank-and-file. A proletarian revolutionary party is a
cadre-based party meaning thereby that the cadres are developed as efficient
organizers by continuously elevating their ideological-political standard and
qualities to be able to analyze and judge for themselves
the concrete situation obtaining in every sphere, economic, political, social,
cultural, and moral. They must also understand what is meant by knowledge.
Knowledge is creative. One who has acquired knowledge cannot but be equipped to
apply it properly. Some people often argue that though they possess the
knowledge, they are unable to act towards its creative application. This is an
erroneous argument. By creatively applying the general principles of Marxism to
the concrete situation of If you turn to our country, you will find that the
party which grew with the name Communist Party of India (CPI), now
disintegrated into so many factions, could not grasp these essential aspects of
party building, Marxist methodology of analysis, concrete and creative
application of the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism in the concrete
situation of the country to develop correct revolutionary theory and base
political line and above all, the kernel of proletarian ethics, morality and
culture. We know from our personal experience that many of the founders of the
CPI were big scholars of Marxist classics, excelled in pedantry, made lot of
sacrifices, donated family properties to the party, and even gave life for the
party. They could write articles, give quotations from Marxist authorities,
organize schools of politics and study circles. Yet they could not build up a
genuine communist party on the Leninist model because they lacked the
proletarian class outlook, methodological approach and cultural-ethical
standard in all fields of activities including day-to-day behaviours, habits
and practices. They only blindly copied the international communist leadership,
had no originality, pursued wrong line and even remained isolated from the
mainstream of national liberation struggle. Being convinced that
notwithstanding its “Communist” signboard and communist vocabulary,
the CPI was no better than a petty- bourgeois party, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh took upon himself
the task of fulfilling the historic necessity of building up a genuine working
class revolutionary party on the Leninist model on this soil, developing its
class and mass fronts, to accomplish Indian revolution and establish socialism.
It was an extremely difficult, arduous, painstaking struggle. At the initial
stage, our numerical strength was meager. But, the
power of Comrade Ghosh’s thoughts was so
strong, so penetrating that even big parties could not afford to ignore us.
Right from the days of preparations for developing a genuine communist party,
Comrade Ghosh repeatedly emphasized on following
correct Marxist-Leninist methodology covering all aspects of life. I remember, in the concluding session of the
founding convention of our party way back in 1948, Comrade Ghosh
elaborately dwelt on the teachings of Lenin in building up a correct
revolutionary working class party and how the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism
have to be concretely and creatively applied in the concrete situation of our
country. Comrade Ghosh also,
taking lessons from the Great November Revolution, taught us how to imbue the
toiling masses of various ethnic, lingual and religious groups of a vast
multi-nationality, multi-religious, multi-lingual country like ours with the
noble ideology of Marxism-Leninism through tolerant persuasion, education and
cautious delicate handling of all sensitive, sentimental, emotional factors
linked up with their respective life styles, cultures, social positions and
beliefs. After successful accomplishment of revolution,
Lenin devoted himself towards establishing socialism and defending nascent
socialist state and the revolutionary theory of Marxism-Leninism from all
attacks, both from within and outside. I have already mentioned about
imperialist encirclement of Lenin also taught us that even after change of the
economic base of the society from capitalist to socialist, class struggle
changes form and continues in a subtle way in superstructure, that is, in the
realm of thought and idea. Hangover and remnants of old society, culture and
habit persisting among the people provide sustenance to bourgeois ideology.
Lenin was aware that the ousted bourgeois class was coming out with newer
dispensations to regain power and endanger socialism. Dwelling on this aspect,
Lenin cautioned, “the bourgeoisie in our country has been vanquished but
it has not been uprooted, not yet destroyed, not even utterly broken.”
…”They still retain a part of certain means of production, they
still have money, they still have social connection. Just because they have
been defeated, their energy of resistance has increased a hundred and thousand
fold… The class struggle waged by the overthrown exploiters against the
victorious vanguard of the exploited, that is the proletariat, has become
incomparably bitter.” He further showed, “… we have not torn
up the roots of capitalism and have not undermined the foundation, the basis,
of the internal enemy. The latter depends on small scale
production”… “abolition of classes
means not only driving out the landlords and capitalists that we have
accomplished with comparative ease; it also means abolishing small commodity
produces. … The forces of habit of millions and tens of millions are a
most tenable force. … It is a thousand times easier to vanquish the
centralized big bourgeoisie than to vanquish the millions and millions of small
owners, yet they, by their ordinary, everyday, imperceptible, elusive,
demoralizing activity achieve the very results which the bourgeoisie need and
which tend to restore the bourgeoisie...’’ Clearly, this task is
immeasurably more significant than the previous one, and until it is fulfilled
there will be no socialism.” Thus, he forewarned that at any opportune
moment, the bourgeoisie might stage a comeback; restore capitalism if there was
complacency on the part of the Soviet communists and the Soviet people, any lax
in class struggle. After the demise of Lenin, his disciple and worthy
continuer, Stalin, took the reins in his hands to carry forward the task of
socialist construction, protecting socialist state and fortifying
Marxism-Leninism against all attempts of distortion and vulgarization. In the days of mourning for Lenin, Stalin made a
solemn vow in the party and said, inter alia,
“Departing from us, Comrade Lenin adjured to us to guard the unity of our
party as the apple of our eye. We vow to you, Comrade Lenin, that the behest
… we will fulfill with credit.” But the ‘Left’ deviators led by Trotsky and the
‘Right’ deviators under Bukharin, Kamenev, Zinoviev furtively set
up their own capitulatory theories against Leninist principles, attempting to
demoralize and infect the leaders and the rank and file of the Bolshevik Party
with disbelief in the possibility of victory of socialism in the But history took a different turn after
Stalin’s demise when the revisionist Khrushchev leadership, taking
advantage of the lowered ideological-political standard of the people and the
party, usurped power in the party and the state. Stalin had noticed the
lowering of the ideological consciousness way back in 1934 during the 17th Congress of
the CPSU and warned, “if the confusion of mind
(i.e. survivals of capitalism) and these non-Bolshevik sentiments obtained a
hold over the majority of our party, the party would itself be demobilized and
disarmed.” Even Report of the 19th Congress of the CPSU in 1952 under
Stalin’s guidance called for strengthening ideological organizational
work to counter these evils and for waging a determined struggle against the
vestiges of bourgeois ideology and private property mentality still present.
But his death within a short period prevented him from steering this struggle. Discerning the documents of the 20th Congress of
the CPSU in which revisionist Khrushchev leadership, under the guise of
fighting cult of personality trained its gun on Stalin,
Comrade Shibdas Ghosh
apprehended that “in the name of fighting out the cult of individual
… they are in reality directing their fight against an individual …
Comrade Stalin”. He also warned that if the defects reflected in the
Report were not removed in time, it would open ‘floodgate of
revisionism’. When in the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, the revisionist
Khrushchev leadership embarked upon a calculated strategy to malign
Stalin, wipe off his memory and
teachings from the minds of the people, reject all his formulations and the
tested and tried policies as blunders, Comrade Ghosh,
following Marxist-Leninist method of analysis, could make out that in order to
reverse the process of socialist construction and vulgarize Marxism-Leninism
surreptitiously under the garb of socialism, it was imperative for Khrushchev
and the ilk to openly denigrate Stalin’s unquestionable image in the party and among the Soviet people in
general. Voicing his concern and serious resentment, Comrade Ghosh said, “The measures adopted by the Twenty
Second Congress of the CPSU with regard to Stalin have assumed greater
importance because of the fact that firstly, it may have the effect of
de-Stalinization which in its wake will challenge the very understanding of
Marxism-Leninism…. In fact, the present understanding of Leninism, as
distinct from Social- Democracy and Trotskyism, is due to Stalin. …
Stalin’s understanding of Leninism is the correct understanding of
Marxism-Leninism. This understanding has brought the communist movement to its
present stature. … To black out Stalin would … mean invitation to
all sorts of counter-revolutionary ideas to pass off as Marxism-Leninism.
… In short, it would objectively uncrown Lenin himself.” Earlier
also, Comrade Ghosh, way back in 1948, commenting
upon the way Cominform handled the issue of
Tito’s deviation, noticed “serious shortcomings in the ideological
and political fields of activities in the world communist movement” and
influence of “mechanical process of thinking”. Incidents that
followed thereafter vindicated his apprehensions in toto.
After Stalin’s death, Mao Zedong took some initiative to resolve the
ideological differences. A great debate ensued between the CPC under Mao and
the CPSU controlled by the revisionist Khrushchev leadership. Two international
conferences, one of 12 and the other of 81 Communist Parties were convened but
nothing tangible emanated. I have no time to deal with all these in details
today. But having drawn lessons from the way Khrushchevite clique had captured power in the USSR and
then began to reverse the process of socialism and alarmed at the infiltration
of revisionist thoughts in the CPC itself, Mao Zedong launched a historic
cultural revolution, courageously involving the entire party, the state and the
Chinese people with a view to wiping out, both individually and collectively,
all bourgeois thoughts and culture, all reactionary ideas from the thinking
process. For about 10 years, it continued in the form of a countrywide movement
of criticism and self-criticism on all important economic, political, social
and cultural issues including conduct of the leaders. As a result of this
unprecedented political upheaval the revisionist line pursued by Liu Shao-chi, Deng Ziaoping and
others was defeated and all capitalist roaders were
ousted from the party. Hailing this gigantic social experiment, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh said, “I hold
that this Cultural Revolution has a sound scientific basis, judged by yardstick
of Marxism-Leninism, and the way CPC is conducting this Cultural Revolution is
really magnificent and full of great significance. Communists all over the
world who have dedicated themselves to the revolutionary movement have a great
deal to learn from it.” However, despite such magnificent achievements of
great Cultural Revolution, Comrade Mao issued a very serious warning to the
communists of the posterity in the following words, “…struggles
against the capitalist-roaders in the Party is the
principal task, but not the object. The object is to solve the problem of world
outlook and eradicate revisionism. … If world outlook is not reformed,
then although 2,000 capitalist-roaders are removed in
the current great Cultural Revolution 4000 others may appear the next
time… The struggle between the two classes and two lines cannot be
settled in one, two, three or four Cultural Revolutions... So we must keep in mind
the uprooting of revisionism and strengthening our capability to resist
revisionism at any time.” Here, I
like to mention that Comrade Ghosh after highlighting
the outstanding features of this historic event, drew attention to two very
important issues, the features of a new type of ‘economism’
and a new type of ‘individualism’ appearing in socialist societies.
To quote his words, “In the period of socialist economic reconstruction,
there is a danger that a tendency of a new type of economism,
of hankering for ‘material incentive’ and ‘benefit’ may
grow among the common workers.” “The economism,
in the period after revolution, obstructs the workers from being conscious of
their responsibility as cadres of international proletarian revolution, hinders
their sense of obligation to the society and dampens the urge for complete
dedication and sacrifice which is essential for the individual’s freedom,
growth and development.”… “As a result, behind the urge of a
worker to produce more actually works his sense of privilege and material
benefit … to reflect a mentality absolutely incompatible with the basic
aim and object of socialism. Such a mentality breeds a typical individualistic
and opportunistic trend among the workers.” … “In the
socialist society of today, it is the old bourgeois concept of individual
freedom and mental make-up that stands in the way of conducting a new struggle
for the individual’s freedom and emancipation at this new
stage”… “This economism-individualism
in a socialist system… I have already termed as ‘socialist
individualism’ ” … “The Chinese leadership, in my
opinion, while fighting individualism, has moved close to grasping the root
cause of the problem. But till now, they have not succeeded in providing a
clear and precise theoretical basis of the problem.”
‘‘…while conducting the struggle for the complete victory of
socialism, the main object of the struggle for emancipation of the individual
should be to transform the antagonistic nature of contradiction existing
between the individual necessity and social necessity into a non-antagonistic
one.” Thus, Comrade Ghosh not only provided us,
following correct Marxist methodology, the genesis of the problem but also, as
I have mentioned earlier, clearly stipulated that in order to fight out and
overcome this problem, “a more intense and arduous struggle is to be
conducted for complete identification of the self-interest with the interest of
(socialist) society through unflagging dedication and constant vigil.”
This was the “new standard of ethics and human values” he set
before the proletarian revolutionaries and exhorted to develop a powerful
movement centering round this new concept of
communist morality. Otherwise, he forewarned that, “apprehension of the
reappearance of the trend of individualism in future … will
remain.”.. “it
would give birth to revisionism and that would only let in the restoration of
capitalism.” As those who are extremely concerned about my ill
health are requesting me not to prolong my speech further, I would like to
conclude with the following words : After dismantling of the No doubt, in the pervading darkness, in this crisis
period of international communist movement, there is a silver lining. Vanguards
of proletarian revolutionary movements in various countries are coming forward
to set up genuine communist parties on the Leninist model like the All Union
Communist Party of Russia (Bolsheviks) in Long Live Great November Revolution Long Live Marxism-Leninism Long Live Proletarian Internationalism! Comrade Nina Andreyeva’s
Speech Comrades, Presently, the international communist movement is
passing through a bad time. Beginning from the time of Khrushchev, the party
that advocated dictatorship of the proletariat transformed itself into a social
democratic one, the party of the whole people. Taking advantage of the fact
that the leadership of the communist party, the CPSU, degenerated, became
opportunist, and the leaders of the party elite, turned into “influential
agents” of imperialism, world imperialist powers, in connivance with the
degenerated leadership of CPSU, undermined the The last general secretary of the Central Committee
of CPSU, M. Gorbachev, two years after he was driven out from the post, openly
said in 1993, “My aim of life was to destroy communism”. A
fellow-campaigner of Gorbachev, ideological frontliner
of counter-revolution, Secretary of CC of the CPSU, mentor of Zuganov, Yakovlev in 2002 said in
an interview given to central organ, Popular Workers Union (No.11-12, 2000)
– “Bolshevism cannot shirk its responsibility. Abolition of the
whole communist system is a must.” Under such “communist”
leaders as Gorbachev, Yakovlev and the like the CPSU
was sure to perish and exactly that happened. Being undermined from within, the The dismantling of the The destruction of the ruling CPSU and dismantling
of Imperialism got a scope to take more stringent
measures with impunity against communists and the anti-imperialist fighters all
over the globe. Fall of CPSU and collapse of the socialist
co-operation among the countries of During the first ten years of bourgeois
counter-revolution in In In When the top party-bureaucrats had come to know
about the founding of AUCPB, from fear of Bolshevism
they organized a handful party bureaucrats (the top bureaucrats were afraid of
showing their faces) and engineered creation of so-called communist parties.
The party-bureaucrats knew it well that a significant majority of the people
did not accept the official analysis on the change of society and was still
strongly adherent to the socialist values. In March 1988, my article, “I cannot renounce
principles” was published in the magazine, “On Soviet Russia”
in “Pravda” and in “Soviet Russia”. I received a large
number of letters from the masses of the people at Technological Institute of
Leningrad University where I worked. 80 per cent of the
letters supported my stand on socialism, against anti-Stalin hysteria, against
the present regime’s design to
bring into the limelight the symbols of the fascists — … the insignia of the Eastern legion of Hitler’s S.S.
(Presently this enemy flag is the state flag of Russia) and only 20 per cent of
the letters supported “democracy and glasnost and free enterprise”
and threatened me with physical assault. To prevent the growing influence of our party over
the masses of people, a handful of party-bureaucrats quickly propped up their
communist parties hostile to us, the AUCPB. After the foundation of AUCPB,
first came up Communist Workers’ Party, its leader being V. Tiulkin, now a member of state Duma
of Russian Federation. In the beginning of 1992, with the aid of old so-called
Marxists but actually Trotskyte platforms within the
CPSU propped up the Russian Party of Communists, which afterwards split into
two parties. After the adoption of Constitutional Laws,
communist activities were prohibited by the I repeat, the purpose of
building up so many parties was to smash the communist movement and to prevent
the growth of our Bolshevik party. Now a days, the word “Bolshevism”, which the
bourgeoisie invented out of their hatred, is being used by revisionists to
fight that very Bolshevism. In September 2004, presidential administration
itself built a party bearing the same abbreviated form of the name AUCPB. It is
now well-known that these “new-Bolsheviks” have chosen the name of
the party having the same abbreviated form as ours “as recommended by the
responsible office-bearers of the ministry of Russia Federation.”
Bureaucrats of different level of Putin administration,
part and parcel of Putin’s “vertical
power” have joined this party. In February 2005, O. Shenin,
driven out of the UCP-CPSU, has built his new party CPSU as a party of
communist Bolsheviks. Firstly they have plagiarized many of our principles and
yet claim to be Bolsheviks; secondly their bolshevism often proclaims
anti-bolshevism, revisionism. They have confused “social” with
“socialist” revolution and thus basically support
half-bourgeois-half-socialist principles. It is clearly evident by their programme
that they are sitting on the fence and thereby are confusing the inexperienced
members. O. Shenin spews fierce hatred against AUCPB
and continuously publishes provocative and false lampooning criticism against
us. The CPSU mainly contains persons like old generals of the army and party
men of the erstwhile CPSU and who for long years are on pension. They are eager
to speak from
the stage but refrain from doing anything. Moreover, O. Shenin
is engaged in spreading slander against the AUCPB on the international level by
misinforming and confusing the leaders of the communist parties abroad. Presently, more than 50 so-called communist parties
are at work in the territory of erstwhile There are other communist parties in erstwhile For the last 10 years, CPRF, the social democratic
party of Zuganov is participating in the elections to
the state Duma where anti-people laws are being
adopted; so they are helping
to strengthen bourgeois restoration. In my speech, I deal at length to bring into light
the problems of the communist movement in the territory of erstwhile The shattered condition of the communist movement
in capitalist countries appears to be a general phenomenon and it is the result
of the success of the legal organs of the bourgeois states. Today the communist movement in all capitalist
countries faces one and the same question – how to bring back, to attract
the wage-earners to the Marxist-Leninist ideology and socialism, how to imbue
the working class with confidence in their strength, how to arouse among them
the idea that socialism is the only way for liberation. Naturally, this leads
to another question – what should the communists of the former We faced these questions when we built our party,
and even today they still remain the focus of the AUCPB. We have thrown light
on these questions in our theoretical works and in the documents of Plenum and
Congress of our party. I have placed and discussed these questions in my speech
delivered at the International Forum of communist and workers’ parties
held in Smolney, In our opinion, today we live in a situation when
instability of social organizations accelerates with the passage of time, it
has lost the ground of its steady development, we live amidst a systematic
crisis of civilization resulting from the world economic crisis, side by side we
see global political crisis along with the destruction of world order and
social life. We see ecological problem resulted from the technological activity
of civilization. Along with these there is the problem of human individuality. Imperialism transforms human being into a plain and
simple commodity, a commodity for buying and selling; it pushes the society to
refuse all spiritual creations of civilization, morals, equality and humanism.
Finally, it pushes man to refuse all that is humane. Productive forces of the society have reached a
highly socialized character and have grown to such an extent, that individual
ownership of production cannot match with it. The way to make these two
complimentary is to organize strikes, revolutionary strikes, which has historically
become the only process for the development of productive forces. In this
regard Lenin said, “This would be utter folly and totally utopian to
think that without applying force, without dictatorship transformation from
capitalism to socialism, is possible. This petty-bourgeois democratic anarchist
rubbish is being preached since long. Today history presents the question like this
– either imperialism in its frantic and blind attempt to linger its
existence will let loose the world war, now, which might be a nuclear war, or
revolutionary proletariat will follow the course of history and rout imperialism
and save human civilization from being doomed by nuclear catastrophe. In order to organize its fight for right the
proletariat should have a party of its own. “Proletariat needs its party
to fight for and to protect dictatorship. Party is the weapon in the hands of
the dictatorship of the proletariat” – said Stalin. Stalin also
said, “Revolutionary proletariat should have a revolutionary party, which
adheres to a revolutionary theory. Today that theory is Bolshevism, that is,
the Leninism in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution.”
Bolshevism is, in general, the theory and tactics of proletarian revolution,
and the theory and tactics of dictatorship of the proletariat, in
particular.” Contemporary proletariat needs a Bolshevik party.
This is why, the communist parties, active in communist movement, should
undergo BOLSHEVIZATION. In short, Bolshevization means adoption of Leninism by
a communist party; this means a revolutionary transformation of socio-political
system; this means, building of the party basing on democratic centralism,
criticism-self criticism and strict and conscious adherent to party discipline.
This means, resolute stand against opportunism, revisionism and petty-bourgeois
romanticism. Bolshevism means the proletarianization
of revolutionary movement, freeing it from tailism, parasiticism, compromise and capitulation. Communist and workers’ movement must adhere
to Leninism on bolshevism because, “An idea becomes a power when it is
followed by the people”. “To us theory is the basis on which steps
of actions are taken, theory is for confidence.” Bolshevization of communist parties and communist
movements has both subjective and objective process. It is objective, means it
is independent of our desire, because it is based on law-governed change of
class composition; it is based on opposition to opportunist and compromising
course of petty-bourgeois romanticism by revolutionary-proletarian wing of the
communist movement. Subjective process of bolshevism means attainment
of a standard in ideological political, preparatory and organizational matters
of revolutionary classes and the party, its ability to resolutely lead the
masses in movements. It is impossible for us, the Soviet Bolsheviks, to
fully settle the accounts with the bourgeois counter-revolution and finally put
an end to it without bolshevizing the communist movement on the To us, the Soviet communists, Bolshevization means
not only fight for socialism but also for revival of While talking on the inevitable task of
Bolshevization, we must remind ourselves what Lenin taught us. He said,
“If the struggle against imperialism is not inseparably connected to
struggle against opportunism then it is nothing but an empty phrase.” In his essay “international character of
October Revolution”, V. I. Stalin showed, “We cannot put an end to
capitalism, without putting an end to social democracy within workers’
movement.” He also said, “Social democracy is the ideological prop
of capitalism.” Stalin also pointed out that before the final victory of
the dictatorship of the proletariat, social democracy may hold in its hand the
banner of Marxism, may not reject the idea of dictatorship of the proletariat
but in reality they do not do anything to hasten the victory over capitalism,
never organize anything that poses threat to capitalism. In this way social
democracy verbally takes or almost takes a Marxist stance. Since long social
democracy dissociated itself from the essence of Marxism and after the victory
of dictatorship of the proletariat, openly and undoubtedly it stood against
dictatorship of the proletariat, the offspring of Marxism. That is why Stalin
said, “There is an abyss between social-democracy and Marxism.” About the composition of the party, it is known to
all, quantitative composition of the party finally leads to quality. But large
quantity does not mean high standard. The CPSU serves as a good example of
that. The 19 million strong CPSU collapsed within a few days. But in those very
days Workers’ Party of Korea and Communist Party of Cuba stood firm
against powerful imperialism. Both People’s Democratic Republic of Korea
and V. I. Lenin taught us, “A very small party
may be quite capable to lead the masses. In critical moment, existence of a big
party is not indispensable. But to achieve victory the party must be able to
feel the pulse of the masses.” “To be successful, revolutionaries must
specifically know who may be his ally in struggle, who is a reliable ally and
where is the enemy.” Within the communist movement the so-called popular
forces are, in fact, the allies. In anti-imperialist, anti-globalization
movements and in peace movement we may take them with us, but still these
movements are yet to be integrated. In order to forge unity and for better
results in the struggle against world imperialism, it is imperative to develop
co-operation among these three forces that oppose imperialist and fascist
ruling regimes of the capitalist countries; in general, activities against
imperialism must be united. Unity of activity of all the forces that stand
against imperialist politics of war and international gangsterism
may be achieved primarily by setting up one centre of unity which may work
through internet and the centre should have the ability to circulate the
information in various languages. Initially, those may be English, French,
Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese and Korean languages. Communist Party of
Germany had established such a centre in Thirteen years back, Workers’ Party of
Belgium, Ludo Martin being at the top, had set up
such a centre and on it we rested our great hope. But now we see apart from
gathering information about legal and extra-legal movements of the world, apart
from organizing seminars, presence of communist leaders and adopting
well-thought out resolutions, mutual discussions, did not advance any further. I think that considering the position and the
activity of Workers’ Party of Belgium, it is the right place — the
Centre of Europe and the headquarters of NATO. We suggest, with a little hope
of course, that Workers’ Party of Belgium should come forward and
co-ordinate the activities of the communists and other protesting forces of the
present world, right at the headquarters of NATO. So, in my opinion, the question awaits quick
settlement. Some anti-globalization movements are in essence
petty-bourgeois movement, some are American type of anti-globalization
movement, and some are spontaneous. Instead of anarchism and spontaneity, we
must instill in these movements socialist ideology. One of the principal tasks of the communists and
workers’ movement is to establish and strengthen the leadership of
communist and workers’ parties over these movements. In March 1919, when Lenin was alive, Communist
International was established, which played a very important role in the
massive growth and development of international communist movement and
proletariat parties in different countries. Ideological and tactical foundation
of Comintern was Bolshevism. In the beginning when Comintern started functioning, Stalin placed the question
about Bolshevization of the communist parties of the world, which is the
foundation of idealogy, tactics and organization of
Leninism, which means the quantitative and qualitative growth of the communist
party; the party which is uncompromising to the enemies of socialism and eager
to fight for social rights of the workers and labouring masses. Comintern extended all-out support to communist and
workers’ parties of the world and national liberation movements in
different countries. After the victory of bourgeois counter-revolution
in the Communist Party of China is no more in a
‘sitting on the fence’ position. In reality, they are not taking
any part in the communist movement. Peoples Republic of China being desirous to
be a superpower, has stepped back from socialist principles, has given legal
right to private ownership of means of production. Near the capital city and
other large cities, five storied buildings for party bureaucrats and business
elites have been raised. They just shut their eyes to growing inequality
between rich and poor year after year. Due to rise of the cost of medical
service, hike in the fees not only of higher education but also of school
education, many citizens are deprived of medical treatment or education. Communist Party of China has already become
“party of the whole people”. Businessmen are taken into the party.
May we ask: whose interest they are upholding? The process through which The communist parties of the capitalist states are
working under different material condition and with scanty resource. So, none
of those are in a position to revive Comintern,
though leaders of some parties pretend to be capable. Recently, the very
anti-Stalinist, opportunist O. Shenin who hides his
anti-communist character with revolutionary phraseology and posing himself to
be a dedicated fighter for Bolshevism, claims that he can revive Comintern. But we think that this is only to invite the
ruling regime to further strengthen his CPSU. This is exactly what Shenin wants, that is to undermine the opposition and
thereby destroy the world communist movement. These party bureaucrats are
habituated to talk tall and thereby mesmerize the audience. Then comes the question, who
is able to lead the world revolutionary process? Great Lenin taught us, “Our theory is not a
dogma but a guide to action.” For this it is necessary “…to
apply general and fundamental principles of communism in the particular
condition of relations between classes and parties, in the particular and
objective stage of development of society towards communism, which varies from
country to country which we must work out, grasp and learn.”
“… we must be able to find which link of the chain we must catch
hold of with all our might at our command and then proceed to hold the next
link; thus by catching link after link we shall proceed. We must observe every
link, its form, its structure, its particular feature that is different from
the other links in the chain of history. This is not an easy task.” We think that in present – we have experience
of preparation and conduction of a successful socialist revolution (surely
taking into consideration the reality of present era, availability of high
standard of information communicative system, and very powerful oppressive
machinery of the state) – we have rich
experience of 70 years of successful socialist construction under the condition
of encirclement by the imperialist powers; – We have analysis of the mistakes committed in
the course of building socialism in the – we have political
organization, a staunch follower of Bolshevism, that is the All Union Communist
Party of Bolsheviks ; – we have a younger
generation, politically conscious, ready to go with us, ready to give shape to
the party programme; – We observe, the
citizens who want the revival of socialism are growing in number. Through
survey it is found that presently 39% of them support socialist values and only
12% are in opposition (the rest is non-committal); – – We see, more and greater number
of people, part time workers from – ruling class does
not have one and single political party which reflects and protects their class
interest. (There is a crowd, almost similar parties with different names having
officers and members of the old CPSU, etc.) According to Lenin, “Revolution cannot be
engineered, cannot be lined up through a programme, to issue an order for
revolution is futile, revolution grows in a course.” – “the
course of revolution cannot be predetermined… useless to call up a
revolution. We can only work for revolution to mature.” “Social
confidence in revolution means the revolution has started.” From the above teachings of Lenin, we may know our
task – “ To WORK FOR REVOLUTION.”
This is the voice we raised in the 4th Congress of AUCPB held in April, 2005. We, the Bolsheviks, have faith in Revolution. [Since all quotations of Lenin used in the text are from Collected Works
of Lenin in Russian language editions, the references have not been mentioned
here ; and free translation from Russian have been made Responsibility of
translating the speech in English from Russian is ours. — Ed. Proletarian
Era] Speech by Comrade Heather Cottin The world communist movement is at a
crossroads. There is now a clear
understanding that Imperialism is both weaker and more dangerous than it has
ever been. Pushed to the wall, the Bush
administration is likely to invade There is a sign on Donald Rumsfeld’s
wall, “When faced with an unsolvable problem – expand the
problem.” This war in The bourgeoisie is
dangerous Capitalism is both more aggressive and more
vulnerable than ever before. In the The bourgeoisie is
shameless The cost of the wars on People don’t understand it very well. The bourgeois media keep them ignorant. The crisis In the The bourgeoisie is
heartless From the scandals of the Bush administration, to
the theft of every service that made life possible in the capitalist world, the
bourgeoisie is on a path of corruption, war and emiseration. This is clear in the Refugees from Imperialism, as Lenin taught us, is the highest
stage of capitalism; and it is devouring human beings in every corner of the
world. Imperialism, which the capitalists call “globalization” is
crushing the working classes everywhere through “free trade,”
privatization and de-industrialization. Conditions are abysmal in the The US-controlled United Nations promised five
years to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
“with a 50 percent reduction in extreme poverty and hunger; universal
primary education; reduction of child mortality by two-thirds; cutbacks in
maternal mortality’’, and a host of other goals. But in Fidel Castro said recently: “Hunger continues to be a daily reality for
852 million people while trillions of dollars are spent on weapons that will
kill the hungry, not hunger. Debt
services paid in 2004 was five times what the South received as official aid
for development, and 13 million children continue to die every year from
preventable diseases, while another trillion dollars is misspent on
mind-numbing advertising.” No matter how many times the bourgeois media says
that socialism failed in the * Between 1988 and 1998, absolute poverty rates
in * About 50 per cent of the population in * 60 per cent of the 7.6 million people of * The total number of people living in poverty
in the former socialist countries in 2003 was about 150 million. The single largest group of impoverished
Russians is able-bodied men in their 30s and 40s. About 25 per cent of Russian households are
poor. Many of the poor belong to the 30
million pensioners. Unemployment is
rampant in the once-prosperous and productive towns the Soviets built in the distant
North. * Poverty in * * Since NATO destroyed the last socialist
government of * In * Under socialism, women were educated and
employed. Children and single mothers
received all the education and health care and housing they required for a
decent life. * Now, nearly 62 per cent of families with
three or more children less than six years old are poor. Single-parent
households are much more likely to be poor than other types of families. Women head more than 90 per cent of such
households. * Under capitalism, the sex trade takes its
victims predominantly from the women and children of formerly socialist countries
of (http://meero.worldvision.org/st childrenincrisis.php.) Prostitution rings bring minors from the * Agence This is what capitalism does. This is the grim harvest from the destruction
of socialism. Bourgeois foundations,
like George Soros’ Open Society Institute, the
Ford Foundation, Oxfam, talk about “poverty reduction”, or
“Misery reduction.” But
those are capitalist panaceas, and their function is to hide the depredations
of capitalism. Imperialist and comprador
bourgeoisie with their state apparatus have sold the patrimony or the people of
these regions to the highest bidders. The countries of Capitalism and war bring misery to the people of
the world. The only system that can
eliminate these scourges is socialism, and only socialist revolution can bring
that about. That is the lesson of the
Bolshevik Revolution. Lenin saw that World War I and the oppression of
the working classes and the peasantry throughout the world necessitated the
overthrow of the bourgeois state. That
is the central lesson of the Bolshevik Revolution. The working classes around the world need Leninist
leadership to point out that imperialist war and the expansion of capitalism
are the main causes of their oppression.
Workers everywhere need their own independent organization. A party : a
proletarian Communist Party. Women must become leaders in Leninist vanguard
parties because the revolution will rescue their sisters who are the victims of
the sex trade. This trade is ravaging Lenin told us that, “the domination of the
world [by the imperialists] has brought the ‘swallowing’ of all the
forces of society by the rapacious state power close to complete
catastrophe.” He said “an
organization of revolutionaries as an essential factor in “making”
the political revolution.” He
recalled Marx’s profound remark that ‘‘the destruction of
the bureaucratic-military state machine is the precondition for every real
people’s revolution.” The proletariat in Today, the proletariat of many countries are
lacking that spirit because of many factors, not the least of which is the
terrible manipulation of minds by bourgeois media, foundations and governments. But there must be vanguard parties to lead
the people. In some countries, the consciousness of the
proletariat is sharp. Cubans are armed
and ready to defeat any imperial intervention.
In In the This was not just a terrible storm. It blew winds of change within the Black and
Latino communities. It brought class-conscious
Blacks and Latinos as well as poor whites into solidarity. It awakened class-consciousness among workers
because they actually saw poverty and racist oppression on TV. The media hid this until Katrina. The George W. Bush rescued no one poor. He awarded $62 billion to Halliburton and
Bechtel in reconstruction contracts.
They also had the business in The whole world watched as mostly Black people died
on their rooftops, on the streets, in the Superdome,
no one to the rescue, no water or food. When poor blacks commandeered school buses to
save their neighborhoods, they were arrested. 2000 young men are now in prison in The In The Black people know how the People have sentimental feelings about animals, and
the evacuees from Katrina had to leave their pets to die. The More hurricanes swept the An earthquake just devastated The people of the world need a new system. At the mercy of nature and bourgeois
indifference, under fire in imperial wars, languishing from hunger and
privation from imperial policies, billions are in extremis. Capitalism kills. Lenin said in 1917, “By educating the workers’ party,
Marxism educates the vanguard of the proletariat, capable of assuming power and
leading the whole people to socialism, of directing and organizing the new
system, of being the teacher, the guide, the leader of all the working and
exploited people in organizing their social life without the bourgeoisie and
against the bourgeoisie.” We need Leninist revolutionaries. We need socialism. Comrade Khalekuzzaman’s
Speech Respected President,
honoured leaders from abroad, central leaders of the SUCI, comrades and
friends! Red Salute and revolutionary greetings to you all
from the Socialist Party of Bangladesh and the exploited masses of I thank the organizers for inviting me and Comrade Mobinul Haider Chowdhury to attend this august gathering on behalf of our
party and for the opportunity to address this gathering. Comrades! The
lessons of the November Revolution of
1917 are as extensive as they are profound. The working class of Man appeared in the course of evolution of the
living world 2/3 million years ago. The evolutionary development into modern
man dates from over 150 thousand years back and the formation of human society
dates back to 12/13,000 years. Primitive clan society continued for about 6 to
7 thousand years followed by 4 to 4.5 thousand years of slave society.
Thereafter came the feudal society which lasted for
about 2,500 years. Capitalism appeared when feudalism had reached its closing
phase. Capitalism within 300 to 350 years assumed reactionary character and so arose the historical and social urge for a yet higher
society. Then it can be said that Marx, keeping in
view this social urge set the goal of attaining a classless communist society
from the class-divided society and called the transition period between the two
socialism, quite distinct from the earlier concept of utopian socialism. The
November Revolution translated into reality this scientific concept of Marxism. At present, capitalism is 500 years’ old.
Side by side, 88 years have passed since the inception of socialist
civilization. A civilization, when it develops, does not get established and
become durable at one stroke. The capitalist civilization, too, had to advance
through many ups and downs. November Revolution also bears out the truth that
Marxism is a science that cannot advance without creative application. We can
consider 1893 to 1917 to be the period of preparation for this revolution. Then
came the revolution in 1917 followed by the years 1917
to 1956, the period when socialism was built up. And 1956 – 1989 was the
period when the germs of capitalism ate into the body of socialist society,
making for a return to capitalism along the revisionist path. And in 1990 came
the re-establishment of capitalist-imperialist system. Since then, the broken
up pieces of erstwhile You are fortunate that Comrade Shibdas
Ghosh, the founder of the SUCI and one of the
foremost Marxist philosophers of the era, has left the imprint of creativity of
his revolutionary struggle on many a question including the investigation of the
ideological-philosophical-cultural-political roots of revisionism, on the
concept of ethics of a revolutionary party of the proletariat, on problems
posed by individualism in the era of decadent imperialism-capitalism and even
on the problem of individualism appearing in a socialist society and how to
combat it. We firmly believe that you will be able to turn the possibility of
revolution in India into a reality if you can carry forward uninterruptedly his
teachings side by side with the lessons of November Revolution. We consider
that his teachings will be conducive to and effective in advancing the
revolutionary movement in our country as well as in other countries of the
world. Comrades! Just as the crisis of the capitalist-imperialist
system is intensifying more today on the one hand and they have pushed the
whole world towards war and war frenzy, on the other, the rationality and
potential of world communist movement are also being more clearly manifest. But
the proletarian movement is stricken with a host of problems like widespread
lack of unity, lack of co-ordination between the revolutionary struggles in the
countries, the absence of an international centre despite the socialist
movement being international in character, weakness in coordination and
consolidation of the worldwide struggles of workers-peasants under the globalized capitalist-imperialist economy, newer, diverse
manifestations of revisionism, the lagging behind of the communist movement in
the context of combating the constant attacks, conspiracy-machinations and
tactics of capitalism-imperialism, etc. We consider that the SUCI can play an important
role in freeing the world communist movement from such problems. We expect to
have from your party some guidelines in this light. In conclusion, I would like
to make the following 3 proposals on behalf of our party. 1. The present time demands that the parties
adhering to socialism all over the world should exchange the experiences gained
in their struggles and build up unity through uninterrupted ideological
struggle. In this process, we can gradually advance towards forming a Communist
International by overcoming the past weaknesses and limitations. Some
initiatives with this aim are already seen in parts of the globe. It is
important to coordinate and widen such initiatives through regular contact. 2. In order to co-ordinate the anti-imperialist
struggles that are going on in country after country, it is necessary, through
efforts of communist revolutionaries, to have a central co-ordinating body for
directing the anti-imperialist movements, which would advance the local and
national movements in a coordinated stream in the world arena. 3. A capitalist-imperialist, globalized,
so-called free market has come into being. Keeping this perspective in view,
establishment of an international body and its local branches can be considered
in order to coordinate the struggles of the workers-peasants from country to
country of the globe to advance these along the revolutionary stream. Our
expectation is that the SUCI will play an important role in all these. Fighting Comrades! After counter-revolution succeeded in the erstwhile
Workers of the World, Unite! Long Live Revolution! Comrade Nisha’s
Speech Comrade Nisha from MLCP
Turkey said that it was difficult for her to talk in English so she would keep
her address very brief. Hailing the comrades of the SUCI party and comrades
from abroad on behalf of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Turkey and She said, we think that even in such a situation
with the present level of development of capitalism, Lenin’s theory that
it is possible to achieve revolution in a single country still holds true.
Apart from this we think the objective basis for revolutions on a regional
scale have increased and one of the many tasks the communists everywhere in the
world have is to discuss and analyse this situation and create political means
and answers to this situation. The communist movement also has the task of
intensifying and coordinating the anti-imperialist struggle all over the world.
But unfortunately when the communist movement is confronted with such a huge
task, it is suffering from an ideological and organizational crisis. This is
not a crisis of Marxist ideology; Marxism is the invincible philosophy of
emancipation of mankind. But the problem is that when there is a need to
provide correct answers on political and ideological questions of the world
based on this ideology, the communist parties in different countries have
failed in this respect. As a result, the collapse of the revisionist bloc has
created a void in class thinking and class identity. Instead of class identity
what has become impressed on people is feminist identity, ethnic and communal
identity, NGO identity etc. The bourgeoisie have succeeded even if temporarily
in creating the idea that people do not need a party or organization. This
situation brings home what huge and manifold tasks the communists of the world
are confronted today in order to give defeat to and overcome the influence of
imperialists. Therefore, we think the communists need to make concrete and
correct plans in order to achieve closer fraternal relations between different
communist parties, to unify and coordinate the world communist movement. We
believe that on the basis of equal rights, criticism and self-criticism and
concrete political, ideological and organizational activities, the communist
parties need to build up unity. Comrade Nisha said : The world communist movement took lesson from
the Paris Commune. We also must take lesson from the October Revolution and the
subsequent fall of the revisionist bloc and in this way, we can overcome the
present problems and fulfill the huge tasks of the
communist movement. She said : I would like to hail this meeting again with our
belief that the world proletariat, world communist movement will win in the
light of the great October Revolution. Long live Marxism-Leninism !
Long live revolution ! Long live socialism ! Long live proletarian internationalism ! Presidential address of
Comrade Tapas Dutta In his presidential
address in Hindi, Comrade Tapas Dutta
briefly touched upon the way Lenin concretely applied the science of Marxism on
the Russian soil to bring about the first proletarian revolution in the world
and then protected socialism from
the hostile encirclement of the imperialist forces. Paying glorious
tribute to Lenin,
Stalin compared him with a mountain eagle having a roving and probing
eye into everything, every problem. After Lenin’s demise, the mantle fell
on Stalin to carry forward the work of socialist construction which was
accomplished with unprecedented speed. The targets of 5-year plans were
achieved before time. Hitler pounced
upon Comrade Nina Andreyeva to AIDSO and AIDYO Comrades On 26 November morning, Comrade Nina Andreyeva, general secretary, All Union Communist Party of
Bolsheviks, visited central office of the SUCI in Calcutta and sat with the
Central Committee members of the party to exchange views and opinions on
important socio-political issues. After this meeting, the members of the AIDSO
and AIDYO met Com. Nina to convey their revolutionary greetings and presented
her, apart from copies of organ and literature of their organizations, a
memento with a portrait of Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, great leader of the proletariat, along with a
quotation culled from his works embossed on it. Receiving the memento, Com. Nina stared at it
for a moment and said, “Just by looking at his portrait, one can say that
he was a man of wisdom. He is your Lenin.” Comrade Provash
Ghosh, member, Central Committee, SUCI, who was
standing beside, pointed out, “Com. Shibdas Ghosh considered himself a student of Lenin.” “ That is right”, affirmed Com. Nina, “but
he is Fighting people of South 24 Parganas accord rousing reception to fraternal delegates from abroad The leaders of fraternal parties, namely Comrades
Nina Andreyeva, Russia, Comrade Nisha,
Turkey, Comrade Mobinul Haider,
Bangladesh, were given a mass reception
by the All India Krisak O Khetmajur
Sangathan (AIKKMS), the organization of the peasants
and agricultural labourers, on 27 November at Baharu
School Maidan, Joynagar,
South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. On their
way the leaders were received at different places by organizers and workers of
these areas. In Baruipur the leaders were welcomed
with flowers and slogans. Flowers were also handed over to Comrade Manik Mukherjee, Vice-President
AIAIF. From there a convoy of 20 motor cycles with the red Soviet flag escorted
the car with the leaders. On the way at Suryapur, Narayanitala, Dakshin Barasat the leaders were again welcomed and showered with
flowers. As the car reached the Comrade Yakub Pailan, the South 24 Parganas
District Secretary, SUCI, presided over the meeting. Comrade Asit Bhattacharyya, member, Central Committee, was among
those present. Comrade Yakub Pailan
presented the fraternal leaders with Red Flag. Comrade Renupada
Halder, Secretary, KKMS South 24 Parganas
district handed over clay statues of toiling men to the fraternal leaders. Mass leader
and SUCI MLA Comrade Debaprasad Sarkar
delivered the welcome address. Comrade Nina Andreyeva,
General Secretary, All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, congratulated the
struggling people present there. She said : our
party is struggling to bring back socialism in the former Soviet Russia. I have
heard about the glorious history of struggle of the poor against the rich in
this region. Here it has been Comrade Shibdas Ghosh who has guided and conducted the revolutionary
activities. It was here where SUCI the revolutionary party of She said, socialism is the future of mankind. In Comrade Lenin established socialism, the only road
to emancipation. Great Stalin was his true disciple. Whatever economy was still
there it was existing because of the base that Stalin built up. Imperialism had hated socialism from its very
inception. Just after the birth of socialism, the army of twenty imperialist
countries surrounded it. Again in 1941 the imperialist fascists swooped down on
the Comrade Mobinul Haider Chowdhury, member, Central
Committee, Socialist Party of Bangladesh, congratulated the peasants and
agricultural workers assembled there in thousands and said, your locality bears
the heritage of the historic struggle of SUCI and KKMS. We get the news of the
struggle of the peasants and agricultural labourers of your locality against
the jotedars-money-lenders and capitalist rule and
exploitation. This always inspires us in Comrade Chowdhury
recalled how Comrade Shibdas Ghosh
after the demise of Stalin when Khrushchev came out with one accusation after
another against Stalin warned the communists that this would virtually strike
at the base of socialism and if Khrushchev continued on that path it would
jeopardize the very future of Soviet socialism. He said, we were very young at
that time and could not really grasp the true implications of this warning.
Because the communist movement did not heed the warning, ultimately the
inexorable law of history asserted itself and Soviet socialism collapsed, and
we are confronted with a grim situation. Comrade Shibdas
Ghosh showed how revisionism has gradually eaten into
and destroyed socialism from within. He also showed how individualism in
capitalist countries and socialist individualism in socialist countries could
go against collective interest and threaten socialism. Comrade Chowdhury said in
conclusion : amidst death of hundreds of revolutionaries
in Then spoke Comrade Nisha,
member, International Bureau, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Turkey. She
conveyed revolutionary greetings to the struggling people present on behalf of
the toiling people of She said, I have come to
know about the struggle of the people of South 24 Parganas.
But people of the world do not know about it because of the blackout by
imperialist media. Because imperialism fears the unity and solidarity of the
world’s toiling people. But from the science of Marxism-Leninism we know
that your struggle and our struggle will certainly be victorious in the end. Comrade Prativa Mukherjee, President AIKKMS, West Recalling the savage attacks that are coming down
on struggling comrades in this district, how implicated in false cases 26
comrades have been condemned to life imprisonment, she said, a conspiracy has
been waged even against Comrade Probodh Purkait, MLA who was elected to the Assembly from this area
nine times on the strength of people’s votes. Implicated in palpably
false case he has been awarded life sentence. In this district more than 141
comrades embraced martyrs’ death alone. Every inch of advance we have
made is at the cost of blood. She recalled how in South 24 Parganas
Comrade Shibdas Ghosh moved
from one village to another to build up peasants and agricultural
workers’ movements and Tebhaga movement. He
conducted school of politics with peasants, explained Marxism-Leninism to them
lucidly and organized school of politics. Leaders like Comrades Sachin Banerjee, Subodh Banerjee, Pritish Chanda, Yakub Pailan, and Amir Ali Halder (who was killed
by CPI(M) criminals) they all walked to these
villages, to village after village, with the revolutionary teachings of Comrade
Shibdas Ghosh and built up
organization. She said, in an agriculture-based country like The meeting ended
with the Internationale. 4th All Dedicated to the cause of medical ethics and
science, the Medical Service Centre (MSC) is today a well-known name in the
sphere of health. Be it in super-cyclone ravaged Orissa, in earthquake devasted Bhuj in Similarly, wherever attacks come down on
health-care workers, attacks on people’s right to health care, and in the
movement for saving the public health system from privatization, against abolition of General Nursing &
Midwifery (GNM) course, against capitation fee in government medical colleges,
MSC can be found spearheading people’s movements. As a part of this
movement, and with the aim to widen and consolidate it further on a national
level, the MSC held its 4th All India Conference in Apart from the 825 delegates from 16 states and two
The open session of the three-day conference was
held at Saheed Bhaban in The first phase was presided over by the eminent
surgeon, Dr. Asim Roychowdhury. In the next phase, a seminar was held on ‘the
yardstick of the entrance of medical education :
merit or money’. Professor Dr. Subhash Chakraborty presided. The speakers included Dr. Satyajit Singh, Secretary, Doctors for Peace and
Development, In the third phase,
‘Scientific Seminar’ was held
where renowned physicians deliberated on female foeticide, cancer awareness, diabetes,
handling flood, earthquake or calamities like ‘Tsunami’. Simultaneously, a seminar was held at the IMA
Hall on ‘Privatization and Commercialization of Helath’
participated in by the delegates. Within all-pervading gloom in trade union movement
in the country and particularly in West Bengal under the rule of the CPI(M)
Front government masquerading as left and openly serving the capitalist class
interest coupled with the atmosphere of despair created by the bourgeois and
petty-bourgeois big trade unions’ anti-struggle and most compromising role
the only uncompromising and revolutionary central trade union in the country,
19th West Bengal State Conference of UTUC-LS guided by the great leader of the
proletariat Comrade Shibdas Ghosh’s
thoughts was held on and from 2-4 December 2005 at Barrackpur,
North 24 Parganas to chalk its future course of
intense struggle. The open session of the conference started in the
morning of 2nd December with a mass meeting at Hindi School Maidan
of Barrackpur.
At the entrance of the meeting place was erected a gate in memory of
Comrade Asutosh Banerjee,
the departed President of the All India Committee of UTUC-LS. More than five thousand toiling people,
mainly from nearby districts, attended the meeting. It was presided over by Comrade Sanat Dutta, President of the West
Bengal State Committee. Comrade Anil Sen, President of All India Committee of the organization,
delivered the inaugural speech. Comrade Tapas Dutta, All The delegate session
was held on 3rd and 4th December at Sukanta Sadan. Altogether
1200 delegates from different sectors and industries attended the delegate
session and 122 delegates actively took part in the deliberations over the
Secretary’s Report, Resolution and charter of demands. Comrade Provash Ghosh, member, Central
Committee and Secretary, West |
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