SUCI (Communist) Protests the Steepest Hike in Petrol Prices

Patna, May 24:
Under the auspices of SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee the effigy of PM Manmohan Singh was burnt amid the thunderous slogans and a short meeting was held here at Patna Junction Roundabout on Thursday against the steepest hike in petrol prices.
Addressing the people gathered on this occasion the speakers said, “This hike would bring more misery to the people reeling already under acute price rise of essential commodities.” Terming UPA government out and out anti people the speakers said that the government had decontrolled the prices of petrol in June 2010 in the interest of domestic and foreign oil companies to reap maximum profit. “The rate of petrol has been increased by more than Rs. 35 in three years tenure of UPA-2 government,” said the speakers. The speakers termed this exorbitant price hike an attractive gift (!) from the UPA-2 government after completing its 3 years. Condemning the hike in petrol price all the speakers demanded to the UPA government its immediate rollback. They also demanded to the state government to decrease the prices of petrol withdrawing its taxes.
The meeting was addressed by Shivlal Prasad, M. K. Pathak, both State Committee Members, SUCI (Communist), Baidyanath Sharma, Rajkumar Chaudhary, Anil Kumar and Anamika, all Patna District Committee Members of the organization.

Protest March in Patna Showing Solidarity with Chicago Protest Against NATO and G8 Summit

Patna May 19:

Expressing solidarity with international protests, rallies and marches being organized at Chicago, the venue of the NATO meeting and other places to oppose the NATO and G8 war and poverty agenda to protest against the imperialist policies of oppression, exploitation, aggression and war, the effigy of Barack Obama, chieftain of imperialist world was burnt and a protest march was organized here on Saturday at the call of International Anti Imperialist Coordinating Committee (IACC) , All India Anti Imperialist Forum (AIAIF) and Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) [SUCI (C)]. After burning the effigy at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chowk a well decorated procession with anti-imperialist, anti-war, anti-aggression and anti-capitalist placards and banners was taken out and traversing JP Golamber, Fraser Road and Dak bungalow Crossing reached Patna Junction Roundabout. The participants were raising thunderous slogans against the increasing militarization and worldwide intervention of NATO, continuing occupations in Afghanistan, threat of intervention in Syria and as well as adherence of Indian ruling class to imperialists.

Addressing the gathering at Patna Junction Roundabout the speakers said, ‘’ NATO and G8 represent the interests of the global 1 % and are against the interests of the global 99 %. NATO conducts undeclared wars on Pakistan, Yemen and Syria while threatening war on Iran. It is a brutal military machine that holds more than 80 percent of world’s weapons. Its voices filled with awe, the media have publicized NATO hightech bunker busting bombs, nuclear weapons, napalm and cluster bombs stockpiled at 1000 military bases around the world.”

The speakers mentioned the fact that there have been protests in Europe against NATO summits in Strasbourg in 2009 and in Lisbon in 2010, this is the first time that large numbers of Americans are discussing and challenging NATO. At the same time they mentioned that in anticipation of large-scale demonstrations, the Obama administration decided to remove the G8 summit on May 19 to the less accessible Camp David in Maryland. The speakers demanded stop threat of NATO interventions in Syria as well as immediately withdrawal of troops Afghanistan. The speakers condemned the pro imperialist policies of the Indian government and demanded to break all the ties with imperialists including stoppage of joint military exercises.

“A militant peace movement against growing against the imperialist policies of oppression, exploitation, aggression and war is the need of the hour,’’ said all the speakers in one voice. The protest was led by Prof. Nawal Kishore Chaudhary, Deptt. of Economics, Patna University, Prof. Santosh Kumar, Former Professor in IIT, Patna. Prof. Safadar Imam Kadari, Deptt. of Urdu, College of Commerce, Patna, Er. Vikash Rahi, Shiv Shankar, Secretary, Bihar State Committee, SUCI (Communist), Arun Kumar Singh, Senior Member, Bihar State Committee, SUCI (Communist), Sadhana Mishra, Secretary, Patna District Committee, SUCI (Communist).

Talk on “Global Economic-Cultural Crisis and Marxism”

Patna, April 29:
The All India Democratic Students’ Organization Bihar State Committee organized a talk on “Global Economic-Cultural Crisis and Marxism” on Sunday here in Patna University at History Department Seminar Hall. Com. Krishna Chakraborty, Member, Polit Bureau, SUCI (Communist) was the main speaker.
In course of discussing on the topic Com. Krishna Chakraborty said, “No more development is possible through individualistic and capitalistic culture begetting from capitalistic economic system. Collective culture, proletariat culture on the basis of social thinking is the need of the hour for further progress of the society. So long as capitalism exists, cultural and moral degradation along with economic backwardness bound to persist. To day we need new culture, new values and new morals formed on the basis of collective interest and collective ownership free from individualism.”
He said that capitalism in its dying and decaying stage had become reactionary loosing its revolutionary and progressive role of its advent. It was unable to advance the society further. “Culture, politics, philosophy, values and morals are deteriorating as these are all super structures of capitalist productive system based on private ownership.” Referring Marx he said that production in the field of thinking, philosophy, knowledge, science, culture took place along with material production in society, which is called spiritual production. “Production in society connotes both the production-material and spiritual. Every person in a society relates with other persons with production relation,” he continued.
The Polit Bureau Member of SUCI (Communist) said in replying a question that state and government was not the same. State constituted of police-bureaucracy, army and judiciary while government was the conductor of state. Without changing state, culture could not be changed. It was utmost necessity to change the capitalist production system based on private ownership with a blow of revolution. “Making success the anti capitalist socialist revolution under the leadership of the real communist party by gradually building up mass movements against the burning problems of people’s life is the prime necessity,” he emphasized.
Presiding over the function Prof. Bharati S. Kumar, HOD in History, Patna University said that Marxism was a science. Economic reasons were dominated in society. Marxism was an instrument for real development of human civilization. Prof. Santosh Kumar, Prof. Tarun Kumar, Vikash Rahi, amd Nandkishore Singh were mainly present at the talk.

Mass meeting on 64th anniversary of SUCI (Communist)

Patna:

The 64^th anniversary of SUCI (Communist) was observed in Bihar in a befitting manner. On 24^th April red flag was hoisted at state headquarters in Patna and other district offices. The state level foundation day programme was held on 28^th April as a mass meeting at IMA Hall in Patna. The august gathering of party members and supporters from different corners of the state packed up the hall. The meeting started after singing the song on Comrade Shibdas Ghosh, great leader of proletariat and on 24^th April.

Addressing the meeting Krishna Chakraborty, Member, Polit Bureau, SUCI (Communist) said, “Communist party is the organization of communists. The struggle for becoming a communist is the struggle for fighting out the old outlooks, old thinking brought by birth and the struggle for acquiring the outlook of dialectical materialism. Individualism is the base of the bourgeois culture reflected by many in a bourgeois society. One has to wage struggle to acquire the culture of proletarian class, the collectivism fighting with individualism. No one become a communist without waging the struggle for acquiring dialectical materialism and proletarian culture. Enriching the teachings of Comrade Lenin Comrade Shibdas Ghosh showed this is the basic struggle of a party formation. Those who got organized for building a party, they have to conduct the struggle covering all aspects of life. Along with this formation of a band of professional revolutionaries is a necessary condition for this. The development of the band of professional revolutionaries is not take place evenly. The most developed person within a band of professional revolutionary, whom everyone accepts as his leader, gives birth to collective leadership.”

Quoting Com. Shibdas Ghosh, the great Marxist thinker, philosopher and founder General Secretary of the party Krishan Chakraborty said that there were many honest, sincere and struggling personalities in undivided CPI. In spite of that they could not form a communist party and Com. Shibdas Ghosh and his comrades in arms had to wage relentless struggle to form a communist party. “A party organized well and imbued with communist thinking and culture does not mean it can not be degraded. If the leaders and cadres do not take the struggle to higher forms keeping tune with the changing situation the party may be degraded. The foundation day is the day for recollecting the struggles for building the party and giving it to a new shape. So we have to initiate a struggle for taking the party to a greater height,” said Chakraborty.

Krishna Chakraborty further said, “To have love to masses, to stay amongst the masses and to be a friend of their sorrow and happiness and build up movements against the burning problems of their lives is also a necessary condition for acquiring communist character. In this way we have to conduct the struggle for capturing power organizing the masses one day.” The Polit Bureau member said that SUCI (Communist) was continuously waging struggle against the problems of people’s life from its very inception. The party was developing mass movements against people’s problems throughout the country. Party had organized a huge demonstration on Parliament on March 14. Crores of signatures were collected in support of the movement. “Mass movement is the need of the hour. Central and state governments are taking anti people steps one after another,” he said.

Speaking on Bihar he said that one the one hand CM Nitish Kumar was making hue and cry of developments and lakhs of workers from Bihar were wondering this state to that state in search of job on the other. He asked Nitish to tell how many industries were installed in his six years tenure in Bihar. “The recent judgment of High Court on Bathani Tola massacre and deprivation of the sufferers from justice ridicules the state government’s claim of development with justice,” he said. He said that the problems of unemployment, price rise, and problems of peasants, cultural and educational problems had been even before the independence. Those were increased manifold after the advent of the policy of globalization, liberalization and privatization. Terming Nitish Kumar the arch follower of globalization, liberalization and privatization he said that Nitish Kumar was introducing those very anti people policies in the state of Bihar. Whatever was being done in the name of development in the state that was for the development of the capitalists. “There is an urgent need for struggle against these anti people pro capitalist steps and we cannot get ride of these without destroying capitalism,’’ he said.

The meeting was presided over by Shiv Shankar, Secretary, Bihar State Committee, SUCI (Communist). The meeting was ended with Internationale.