took up arms , firing indiscriminately . Along with an infant , 11 people were killed in the firing . Thus the Naxalbari armed struggle unfolded before us with struggles lasting from March to May 24 th / 25 th .
Naxalbari Uprising- Struggle of Peasants of Terai Region It is the struggle for land , livelihood and for liberation of masses ( for the establishment of the power to the masses ), a struggle led by the communist revolutionaries .
It brought a sharp response within the CPM , the communist movement and the society as a whole . Students of the University of North Bengal in Siliguri openly declared solidarity with the struggle and condemned the statepolice repression . Students welcomed it in Calcutta . Naxalbari -O - Krishak Sangram Sahayak Samithi was formed . It undertook solidarity programs . CPI ( M ) Bengal State Committee member Com Sushital Roy Chowdhury ( SRC ) wrote in support of the Naxalbari in the party magazine ‘ Desh Hitaishi ’. Eminent personalities like Sushital ( SRC ), Pramod Sen Gupta , Parimal Das Gupta , Asit Sen , Utpal Dutt ( Kallol- Tir ) stood in solidarity with it .
In 1966 , Humayun Kabir ( former Union Minister , eminent Congress leader ) and a few other liberals and progressive persons co-founded the weekly NOW with Samar Sen as the Editor . Samar Sen – had written in support of Naxalbari peasants in NOW . NOW organisers have decided to sack Samara Sen and they did . Few of the NOW organisers , along with others , started publishing ‘ Frontier ’ magazine with Samar Sen as its Editor . Some in solidarity but many politically , rallied with the cause of the Naxalite uprising . ‘ Deshabrati ’ was started with Com SRC as its Editor . The Calcutta Comrades , such as the SRC , consulted CM and the Comrades of other states and organised an All India Conference in Calcutta . The day before the conference , a solidarity meeting was held at the Presidency College Auditorium . Com CM , who was introduced as a comrade linked
June - 2022
AIPLCF Condemns Karnataka Government ’ s Proposal
All India Peoples ’ Literary and Cultural Forum ( AIPLCF ) strongly condemns the Karnataka government ’ s proposal of dropping the lesson on great martyr and secularist Bhagath Singh and replacing it with the speech of Hegdewar in the 10th class Kannada reader . Further we feel that the removal of the names of reformers like Narayana Guru and Periyar from the section on “ Social and Religious Movements of Reform ” in the same text is obnoxious .
In its programme of saffronisation of education the BJP ruled state governments are reviewing the text books and rewriting them in their favour discarding historical truths .
As a pioneer of secular and democratic values during the national movement Bhagath Singh was not only famous for his great sacrifice but also exemplary with his revolutionary ideology for a new society based on scientific socialism . Hence , we the People ’ s writers and artistes demand the Central Government to declare Bhagath Singh as a symbol of secular and democratic culture .
We condemn those who in the name of nationalism and patriotism are propagating chauvinism . We stand with the people of India who support secular and democratic values .
20-05-2022 Kothapalli Ravi Babu , General Secretary , AIPLCF
to the Naxalbari movement in Darjeeling district , did not speak for more than 5 minutes at the Presidency College meeting . He said that Naxalbari struggle was the right path to revolution and Com Kanu Sanyal was the face of that struggle . He said the revolutionary ranks should be ready to organise such struggles . The next day after Presidency College meeting the All India Conference of Communist Revolutionaries in CPI ( M ) was held . The AICCCR of CPI ( M ) was formed with Com SRC as convener . It charted a four-point declaration . 1 . Build Naxalbari -type revolutionary struggles . 2 . Popularise and spread Mao ’ s thought as a continuation of Marxism-Leninism . 3 . Mobilize and organise the working class who tend to limit to economic struggles with the New Democratic Revolutionary Politics ( NDR ). Transform the working class into a leading force for the NDR . 4 . Conduct ideological and political struggle internally and openly against the ( erroneous ) politics of CPI ( M ) leadership-and mobilize forces .
The first issue of the ‘ Liberation ’ monthly was published in English with the declaration of these 4 points .
However , like the Darjeeling comrades in Bengal and the Com SRC , the ‘ Dakshin Desh ’ ( magazine-Chinta ) group ( later on MCC-Amulyasen , Kanhai Chatterjee are its leaders ), which has long waged an ideological struggle against the CPIM leadership , did not join the AICCCR . This is how the revolutionary political movement began to unite . The APPC Comrades in April 1967 decided and passed resolution to oppose the CPI ( M ) leadership ’ s document ‘ New Tasks in New Situations ’, and fight the CPI ( M ) leadership ’ s politics as a whole and began to organize an ideological , political struggle .
The AP leadership saw the Naxalbari struggle as a turning point in the communist movement and sought to rebuild the communist movement through relentless struggle .
Those who still consider the Naxalbari to be not only an inspiration but also a guiding force - must strive to accomplish the unity of today ’ s revolutionary forces and revolutionary movements . What is needed is to establish a revolutionary path for the mass movements . We have to persevere our study for executing our tasks . �
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