National Seminar on
Challenges Faced by the Forces Struggling to
Change the Present System in India
The Central Committee of CPI
(ML) organized a seminar at
Hyderabad on 9 and 10 th
September 2018. It invited many
left and communist parties to
participate in the seminar and
present their papers on the topic:
“Challenges faced by the forces
struggling to change the present
system in India. Six organization
namely CPI, MCPI(U), CPI(ML)-Red
Star, CPI(ML)-ND, PCC-CPI(ML)
and CPI(ML)-ND consented to
participate in the seminar.
The seminar was held at VST
Function Hall and was attended by
300 delegates from AP, Telangana,
Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West
Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra and
UP, Delhi. The seminar was
conducted by a presidium with
Comrades Aloke Mukherjee,
Madhu and Suseelan as its
members. The seminar paid
revolutionary homage to all those
martyrs who laid their lives for the
cause of transforming the Indian
society by observing one minute
silence.
In his welcome address Com.
P.Jaswantha Rao extended
revolutionary greetings to all the
fraternal organizations and
delegates. The CC of CPI(ML) took
this initiative, he explained, to start
a dialogue among all the forces
that are struggling to change the
present system so as to locate the
challenges and problems faced by
them and to find common ground
to coordinate their efforts. With this
aim the CC of CPI(ML) prepared
the key note to facilitate the
discussions in the seminar and
asked the delegated to express
their opinions freely and
objectively. He concluded that this
September - 2018
is only a beginning and these
efforts should be continued in
future in all possible ways to find
the commonness.
Com.Arvind Kumar Sinha
presented the key note to the
seminar on behalf of the CC of
CPI(ML). He vividly explained the
intractable crisis of capitalism and
its degrading effects on the lives
of the people both in India and the
world. He explained the onslaught
unleashed by the Indian ruling
class on the people and growing
fascist trends in the form of rabid
Hindu communalism.
Com. V.Ramanarasimha Rao
presented the paper to the seminar
on Behalf of Com. Surawaram
Sudhakar
Reddy,
General
Secretary, CPI as he could not
attend the seminar.
Com. MD. Ghouse. General
Secretary of MCPI(U) presented
their brief paper with sufficient
explanation. (All the papers were
published in this issue-Editor)
Com. Y.Sambasiva Rao
presented the paper on behalf of
CC, CPI(ML)-ND.
Com.S.Venkateswara Rao
pre-sented the paper on Behalf of
Com.
Chandram, General
Secretary, CPI(ML)-ND.
The delegation of CPI(ML)-
Red Star also attended the seminar
with a paper. As the contents of the
said paper are not relevant to the
topic of the seminar, the presidium
asked the leader of the delegation
to speak on the subject. Com.
Hariprasad read out some parts of
that paper.
Com.Dhruva Narayan, spoke
on the topic on behalf of
P.C.C.CPI(ML). He appreciated the
initiative, theme of the seminar and
suggested some issues for united
action.
Com. Nikhileswar, a well known
revolutionary writer in his speech
appreciated initiative taken by the
organizers of the seminar and
hoped such efforts would be
continued in future to engage all
the forces in the fight against the
oppressive and exploitative policies
of the ruling class.
Com.D.Paparao, an intelle-
ctual and democrat expressed that
the seminar has to also focus on
the neo-liberal economic policies
which are playing havoc with lives
of the people.
Com. Harsh Thakar narrated
some episodes in the history of
communist movement and asked
the delegates to discuss the way
to come out the present situation.
After the presentation of the
papers by the participating
organizations, question and
answer session was conducted.
The leaders of the delegation
clarified and explained their stands.
This session continued on the
second day also.
On the second day of seminar,
10 th September, many delegates
expressed their opinions on the
papers presented as well as on the
problems faced by the movement.
Com. Arvind Sinha in his
concluding speech said that we
made a humble beginning and the
leaderships of the various
organizations sit together to
discuss the problems faced by the
movement. This takes more time
and
need
patience
and
dispassionate approach. He
appealed to the organization to
continue this effort.
The seminar concluded with the
singing of the ‘Internationale’.
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