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Views from the Left
Advani’s bombshell

L.K. Advani’s observation that a non-Congress, non-BJP prime minister is “feasible” after the 2014 elections has triggered angry reactions from the NDA and RSS. Now, the Left has said the BJP veteran has unwittingly and reluctantly admitted that the country needs an alternative policy direction.

Linking Advani’s “latest bombshell in cyberspace” to the need for an alternative policy direction, an editorial in CPM’s People’s Democracy says his statement was an admission that “neither the BJP nor the Congress can provide leadership for such a shift in the policy trajectory which is required to benefit both the country and the people”. “The other, not so hidden message of this blog, is the declaration that if it is not himself, then no one else from the BJP can be projected as the PM candidate. It is a well known fact that there is a serious contest within the BJP for this position. The Gujarat CM, the BJP president, the leaders of the opposition in both houses of Parliament and Advani himself have declared their intentions to this effect,” it says. The article notes that Advani has ruled out the possibility of a Third Front government after the elections.

Anna and Ramdev

The latest edition of CPI(ML) weekly ML Update focuses on the Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev movements. An article argues that while Hazare and key member Arvind Kejriwal may differ in their specific modalities, both agree that it was pointless to continue with the agitation against an apathetic and “arrogant” government.

Elaborating, it says what has happened in the name of agitation is a series of fasts in which the masses had little scope to participate. “The ultimate logic and strength of mass agitation lies precisely in exposing, challenging, isolating, and eventually compelling reluctant and arrogant rulers to concede the people’s demands, yet for reasons best known to them, the Anna agitation has avoided the course of a decisive showdown with the powers that be,” it says. “The belated realisation of Team Anna about the need to go political and intervene in electoral battles marks a welcome departure and evolution from its initial non-political and even anti-political protestations... but the decision to suspend the agitation in the name of [an] political alternative can only be treated as a negative lesson, a telling example of how not to go about politics,” it says.

On Ramdev’s agitation, it claims that his real purpose was not to conduct any movement or struggle against corporate corruption, black money or corruption in high places but to “oust Congress”, echoed by top BJP and NDA leaders. “A coalition of equally corrupt political forces (state governments and top leaders of BJP, SP, BSP are all riddled with major charges of corruption) on a reactionary platform can hardly lead any real anti-corruption movement or any alternative to the corrupt Congress-led regime at the Centre. The likes of Baba Ramdev and his corrupt and communal political allies must be exposed,” it concludes.

Politics of distraction

The CPI feels the “bourgeois political parties”, national or regional, are not keen to hold a meaningful debate in Parliament on concrete socio-economic issues faced by the common man and are opting for issues that help them to polarise people along sectarian issues and promote their cause of political sentimentalism or sentimental politics.

“This was evident on the very first day of the monsoon session of Parliament. The debate on Assam riots in Lok Sabha got sidelined by an intemperate remark by L.K. Advani who questioned the very legality of the last Lok Sabha poll. Congressmen had a point when they objected to Advani’s remark, but their whole attitude smacked of a design to scuttle the debate on Assam,” the editorial in CPI journal New Age says.

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Maoist area commander killed in encounter
A Maoist leader was gunned down during a fierce encounter with security forces in a forest in Odisha's Koraput district this evening, police said.

The ultra, identified as Teli Kadraka, was killed in the gunbattle with jawans of Special Operation Group (SOG) and police in Badamatura forest of Bandhugaon area, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Y J Rao said.

The body of the rebel, an area commander of Jhanjabati Area Organising Committee of Maoists, has been recovered, he said adding that a gun, some ammunition and naxal materials were seized from the spot.

The encounter took place when some ultras present in the forest were spotted by the security personnel during a combing operation, police said.

Other members of the naxal group, however, managed to escape, they said.

Steps have been taken to intensity combing operation and patrolling in the entire area after the exchange of fire, they added.
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nawabs wrote:R.I.P. Integrated Action Plan for Maoist-affected areas

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-new ... 03971.aspx
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said recently that the three-member committee chaired by the district collector to select projects and implement them was not very effective.

"There has been no active involvement of local elected representatives. Therefore the money does not get spend where it should be."

Ramesh also said that treating all districts identically was problematic.
If we read between the lines, he is basically saying that the district collectors who work partially under state govts are not listening to the center, i.e. the congress. So he want to institute a system where disbursement of funds is directly under their control instead of giving any role to the pesky state govts (mostly non-congress).

He wants to make sure it is a completely selective dole, selection of recipients to be done entirely by the "jagirdaars" of congress.
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http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/ ... achi-panda
The Final Battle of Sabyasachi Panda
Odisha’s top Maoist commander raises a huge stink in the Maoist establishment. The party reacts by expelling him

It was in 2008 that Panda came into the limelight after the assassination of popular Hindu leader, Swami Laxmanand Saraswati, in Kandhamal district. Though he was made secretary of the Odisha State Organising Committee soon after, it was also around this time that serious differences cropped up between him and some of the Central Committee members [the highest decision-making body of the CPI (Maoist)]. It was believed that the Maoist leadership was not happy with the outcome of Saraswati’s assassination. Panda had hoped that the ensuing riots (against Christians) would swell the Maoist ranks. But excellent coordination between the then district collector and district police chief ensured that about 3,000 men who had signed up for recruitment ditched them at the last moment.
Do people have any doubts why Laxmanand Saraswati was killed to start the kandhamal riots in collusion with the church.

It also lays bare atleast three of the ideological divisions of maoists, the church maoist, the andhra, orissa & how inspite of those cooperate with each other when aims coincide - like the killing of Saraswati and causing riots.
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Speech therapy

The Left has attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for linking economic growth and investment with national security in his Independence Day speech. The latest issues of People’s Democracy (CPM) and New Age (CPI) launched scathing attacks on the PM and labelled his speech as lacklustre, disappointing and listless.

An editorial in New Age comments: “He is once again trying to create a situation that prevailed before the finalisation of the Indo-US nuclear agreement, when he linked the 123 agreement with our energy security. To get this agreement through, he even staked his chair. Is he bent upon to use [sic] the same pressure tactics to concede [to] the demands of International Finance Capital and its tools like World Bank and IMF?”

People’s Democracy argues that the PM’s speech displayed all characteristics of UPA 2 in its fourth year in office: a flailing government caught in the quagmire of neo-liberal policies and corruption. It also slams the PM for remaining silent on price rise. “In the Independence Day address last year, the prime minister had talked about controlling rising prices as the topmost priority. He had also promised a new Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation law which would protect the interests of those dependent on land. In the present address, there is no mention whatsoever of the steps taken in this direction. Prices continue to spiral and the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation law has not been adopted by parliament even after a year. The prime minister was also silent on the Food Security law which is urgently required,” it concludes.

Health & wealth

AN ARTICLE in People’s Democracy attacks the Planning Commission for its chapter on health in the Twelfth Five Year Plan document. It says the essence of the PC’s health chapter was simple — gradually wind up the public healthcare system and hand it over to corporate hospitals.

Noting that the National Rural Health Mission has resulted in some expansion and strengthening of the public healthcare system despite its deficiencies, the article argues the logical step forward would have been to invest in the expansion and strengthening of this system. “But for the present government, the neo-liberal logic was too difficult to resist. The first challenge that was mounted against the public system came in the form of the Rajiv Gandhi Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) and similar insurance schemes in many states. Almost entirely publicly funded, these schemes provided an insurance cover for Rs 30,000 for BPL families... The catch was that institutions accredited as part of these schemes were largely private hospitals. So instead of using this substantial public investment to strengthen the public system and create long-term national assets, public money was pumped into the private sector,” it says.

Left alone

NOW the CPI(ML), after the other Left parties, is set to hit the streets against corruption. It is interesting that its demands include enacting the Jan Lokpal Bill and the repatriation of black money — issues popularised by Team Anna and Baba Ramdev.

The latest issue of CPI(ML)’s weekly, ML Update, talks about the plans. Attacking the UPA, it says the government under Manmohan Singh has seen the worst instances of corruption and corporate plunder. “From the 2G scam to the coal scam, the corrupt government has deliberately allowed greedy corporations to loot the country’s precious resources to the tune of lakhs of crores of rupees,” it alleges. It also takes on the government on food security and unemployment. “The government is hellbent on dismantling the PDS and replacing food rations with cash transfers. All talk of ‘food security’... has proved to be a complete mockery. The UPA government’s model of ‘development’ has been one of jobless growth. Whatever jobs exist are casualised, insecure, and exploitative. Meanwhile, all the social services — education, health, electricity, water — are being privatised,” it alleges. The CPI(ML)’s other demands include the nationalisation of mineral resources, universalisation of the PDS, withdrawal of UAPA and AFSPA and the suspension of Operation Green Hunt.

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nawabs wrote:"Maoist movement is levy-based, not ideology-driven"

http://governancenow.com/news/regular-s ... ogy-driven
“For every ton of iron ore that you remove, a portion of levy goes to Maoists. All they want is levy. I think the Maoists are creating market economy much more than the government,” Ramesh said.
I made this exact comment that Maoists are nothing but hired hands of the Mining Mafia to ensure only they make profits whereas the area does not become developed about 3 years after the Chatisgarh CRPF 75 deaths, I was laughed at then.

People should note 2 things about Maoists in India.

1) Which areas does it develop- where INC is weak and Mining is happening

2) Does Mining stop in Maoist areas- the anwer is NO

3) Does development take place when Maoists are there- No. Infact schools and hospitals are blown up.

Infact, a part from thier claims A.Roy's and Binayek Sens are against tribal and pro Mining Mafia. The only reason Maoism reduced in Nallamalla forest was not because of YSR brillance but because without Mining, there was nmo meed for Maoists.
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Hauling over the coals

The CPM and the CPI have refrained from demanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation over the coal block allocation row, but the CPI(ML) feels the demand must be raised as an “integral part of the bigger battle for [the] reorientation of India’s policies and rejection of the growing nexus between big business and power politics.”

An editorial in CPI(ML)’s ML Update recollects that Singh had three months ago promised to give up his public career and accept any punishment if found responsible for corruption. The editorial adds that far from offering to resign, he is now bent upon rubbishing the CAG and its findings. “Confronted with the 2G scam, Singh had sought to blame it on the intricacies of coalition politics. Now when his own culpability has been exposed in the Coalgate, he seeks to explain it away in the name of compulsions of federalism and constitutional procedures,” it says.

CPI’s New Age says both BJP and Congress are playing a “fixed match” by not letting Parliament function, and that the “loot of the natural and national resources” was a product of economic neo-liberalism... CPM’s People’s Democracy argued the CAG report on the coal block allocation, etc, along with the earlier CAG report on 2G “only reconfirm... that the neo-liberal economic reform trajectory... is leading to crony capitalism of the worst order.”

Foreign hand

PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACY slams the BJP for giving an “Indian vs foreigner” twist to the Kokrajhar violence. The article points out that a BJP MP has argued in RSS mouthpiece, Organiser, that it was time for Hindu society to ponder over their decline and why foreigners have gained so much power to attack them in their own land. “This appropriation of the Bodos into the Hindu fold is not surprising and is being used to legitimise the intervention of fundamentalist groups in order to expand their social and political basis amongst tribal elites,” it says. The article points out “in response to the outcry to deport ‘Bangladeshis’ the Assam chief minister has blamed a ‘foreign hand’ for the current spate of violence.” The Centre too has blamed elements in Pakistan for using social media sites to spread rumours, it says, arguing that “in giving primacy to this as the main cause... the government played into the hands of the communal elements...”

Maruti wheel jam

NEW AGE expresses concern over the deployment of police in the Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki after it reopened. It says the police cordon and the “terms and conditions for lifting the lockout are quite ominous... This meant that in place of working under the guidance, supervision and monitoring of the supervisory and managerial staff... the workers would be forced to work under the bayonet of the gun.”

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WELCOME VERDICT

After a special trial court convicted 32 people in Gujarat’s Naroda Patiya massacre case, the Left has argued that the verdict demolishes the Gujarat government’s claim that the violence was a spontaneous reaction to the Godhra train carnage. “When impunity has become the norm for political leaders who perpetrate communal and feudal massacres in our country, the verdict of the special court in Gujarat stands out as a rare and welcome one,” the editorial in the CPI(ML) journal ML Update says.

CPM weekly People’s Democracy notes that though the conviction has come a decade after the massacre, it has reinforced people’s confidence in the justice system in our country.

The ML Update editorial also argues that the verdict will have an impact on forthcoming assembly elections in Gujarat and that Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s attempt to “project himself as a champion of growth and development rather than communal violence have come a cropper... Try as he may, Modi and the BJP cannot shrug off the taint of communal genocide — that the Naroda Patiya verdict has forcefully underlined.”

COAL CONTROVERSY

In an article in People’s Democracy, CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat writes about the controversy over coal block allocations and his party’s stand on auctions. He argues that competitive bidding for coal can create serious difficulties.

“Competitive bidding would favour the large private players; it would lead to private monopolies and cartels forming. Public utilities and state government-run corporations will not be able to compete. Further, as the experience shows in the coal block allocation so far, it will not be possible to ensure the end-use provision.”

“Another aspect of the competitive bidding for coal will be pushing up the cost of power generation and the resultant pressure on the regulated tariffs in the power sector,” he says and calls for the scandal to be viewed as an opportunity to demand a reversal of the privatisation of natural and mineral resources.

“Mining of coal has to be done by the public sector. If private sector power and steel plants require coal, the allocation should be done through the nodal agency — the CIL. Dedicated blocks can be provided for such enterprises with the mining done by the CIL and its subsidiaries. In the states, state-run mining corporations can be involved in this process,” he adds.

COMRADE HANGAL

CPI weekly New Age carries an article remembering “Comrade” A.K. Hangal who died recently. In his full-page article, New Age editor Shameem Faizee recalls Hangal as a “devoted communist”. He remembers meeting Hangal in April this year to brief him on the decisions of the 21st Congress of the CPI held in March.

“The first thing he told me was that he had sent the renewal of Party membership through his son Vijay and asked me to check whether it had reached to the Mumbai Party secretary. He was very particular in renewing his party membership and attending the party meetings as and when he was asked to do so,” he says.

Hangal expressed his desire to meet the new CPI General Secretary S. Sudhakar Reddy, Faizee recalls. “I have met all general secretaries of the party since pre-Independence days. I want to meet Sudhakar who may be the last general secretary during my life,” he was quoted as saying in the article.

The veteran character actor used to take keen interest in the affairs of the CPI. “He never refused to attend a party meeting and even toured distant places to participate in the election campaign of the Party,” the article says.

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Man ... epage=true

Interview of a Dalit business leader by Chindu..just look at the lingo used...it should be quiet obvious that only hard core card holding commies are selected for such positions..
How do you plan to promote Dalit capitalists in the State?
Is that why you embrace neo-liberalism?
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SLOT MACHINE PANEL

CPM weekly People’s Democracy examines the suggestions made by an expert panel appointed by the prime minister on the controversial general anti-avoidance tax rules (GAAR) announced in the budget by then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

The editorial criticises the recommendation of the expert panel headed by Parthasarathi Shome to abolish the capital gains tax and decries many of its other suggestions. The editorial refers to the Shome panel as a “slot machine” committee (where you get the report you want) and notes that Shome, a former IMF employee, is currently the director of the “most overtly neoliberal institute” in the country, ICRIER: “The Shome Committee has expectedly produced a report... which recommends that the introduction of GAAR should be kept in abeyance for three more years — until April 1, 2016!”

It argues that the panel’s suggestion to abolish the capital gains tax altogether is “scandalous” since even “true-blue bourgeois theorists draw a distinction between ‘enterprise’, which they laud, and ‘speculation’ which they decry.” It concludes that this “the absurdity of the Manmohan Singh government’s thinking. It is so keen to start another stock market ‘bubble’ which it thinks will stimulate growth, that it wishes to make every possible effort, no matter how bizarre it may sound, to attract speculative finance capital into the country. And it sets up ‘slot machine’ committees to legitimise every such effort, no matter how outlandish and how ethically repugnant such effort may be”.

CAMPAIGN FOR FOOD

An editorial in CPI journal New Age discusses the Left’s campaign for food security and its decision to observe September 12 as National Food Security Day. “The campaign for food security is essentially one of the ways to fight the shameless pursuance of the policies of neoliberalism to which most of the bourgeois political parties are committed. Universal PDS is our alternative to mitigate the miseries of the people crying under the weight of unprecedented price rise,” it says.

On the monsoon session of Parliament, the editorial claims that neither the ruling Congress nor the main opposition, the BJP, were interested in Parliament holding a serious debate on urgent socio-economic issues. “Actually, both the Congress and BJP are bent upon pushing back such issues... In such a situation, the only alternative for the people... is to come out on the streets and organise concerted struggle,” it adds.

SENSITIVE PM

The CPI(ML) weekly ML Update focuses on the Washington Post article on PM Manmohan Singh and the government’s reaction to it. It claims that the government’s “overreaction” only painted the PM in a worse light.

“What made the PMO so sensitive to an article in a daily paper? Why did [he try]... to gag the views of a journalist of another country, and try to extract an apology from him? Above all, the question arises — why was Manmohan Singh so sensitive to this particular article, when similar observations about his role appear regularly in the Indian press?” it asks.

It observes that Singh is “especially sensitive” to criticism from any US quarters including the US Press. “He finds it unbearable to be termed an ‘underachiever’ by Time magazine or a ‘tragic figure’ by Washington Post, whereas the same criticism in the Indian press does not bother him. Manmohan Singh’s sensitivity to American criticism is the natural fallout of his excessive concern to get praise and pat on the back from the US,” it claims.

It alleges that US approval has been the PM’s guiding principle in policymaking. “He openly supported the US establishment when its credibility was at an all time low, and feels let down that US public opinion now is not reciprocating, when his own credibility is in tatters and he is the target of public ridicule and anger among the Indian people,” it concludes.

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Now tigers and leopards targeted by Maoists
Rohtas Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said the police drive had effectively ended the 'levy raj' of the Maoists, who could no longer get easy money by targeting road contractors, businessmen or traders. He said the Maoists in Rohtas and Kaimur districts were, however, fast emerging as poachers, smuggling the organs, skin and horns of wild animals to raise money. Among the animals targeted by the Maoists were leopards and tigers, police said.

Police officials say that the Maoists appear to be working in cahoots with poachers. Maharaj said that some days days ago, police recovered arms and ammunition along with equipment used for poaching from Maoists arrested in Ulho and Gotahar villages.

Maharaj said police had arrested Indu Paswan, kingpin of the Maoist poachers, Aug 7. Police also recovered a leopard skin and two sets of deer horns from Paswan.

Four arrested Maoists informed the police that tiger and leopard skins were sold illegally in the market at a price ranging between Rs.2.5 lakh and Rs.5 lakh. Deer hide fetched Rs.50,000 to Rs.1 lakh. A set of horns sold for Rs.20, 000 to Rs.30, 000.
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REFORM IN NAME ONLY

The CPM and CPI weeklies have both criticised the government’s decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail. People’s Democracy says that the government has no legitimacy to implement these measures since the majority of the Lok Sabha is opposed to these decisions. New Age alleged that the prime minister only mustered the “courage” to serve his “real” constituents — the corporate sector, international finance capital and American “imperialists”.

People’s Democracy reiterated the CPM’s oft-repeated claim that the government subsidises the rich and corporate India in larger numbers than the fiscal deficit, while it curtails the meagre subsidies provided for the poor in the name of containing the fiscal deficit.

Another article in the CPM journal argues that while these measures may set off a temporary speculative boom and deliver profits to capital, they will not do much to spur growth or stall the effects of the intensifying global crisis on India. “The policies on diesel and LPG prices and other measures relating to subsidies would also stoke the already high levels of inflation in the country. The UPA government seems hell bent on engineering stagflation,” it concludes.

GROWTH FOR WHOM?

The CPM(ML) weekly ML Update focuses on the PM’s address to the nation explaining the rationale behind the reform measures. An editorial contends that the very claim of “growth” translating into benefits for the people is a lie. “During India’s ‘high-growth’ period, the aam aadmi has seen education and healthcare becoming farther beyond reach [sic] thanks to relentless privatisation,” it says.

It also disputes the argument that steep global oil prices are forcing an increase in domestic oil prices and that India’s oil companies are suffering huge losses. “The truth is that there are no net subsidies in the petroleum sector, and the oil companies are in fact recording huge profits... In March 2012, international crude oil prices fell by more than 20 per cent — yet petrol prices in India were hiked by Rs 7.54 in May.”

“Nor is it true that petrol and diesel prices in India are ‘low’ compared to other countries... By deregulating oil prices, the government has divested itself of any responsibility to protect the Indian people from arbitrary price hikes,” it says.

ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY

People’s Democracy carries an article on the judgment in the Naroda Patiya case based on the court’s observations. It says while the judgment does not make specific observations on the direct involvement of the chief minister and his government, it shows that successive investigating agencies attempted to erase and tamper with the “records of the case.”

The article quotes extensively from the judgment to argue that there was police inaction during the riots. “Rather the police were instrumental in ensuring that Muslim victims returned to their chawls and became sitting targets for the mobs of the Hindutva brigade,” it alleges.

“The evidence provided by this historic judgment shows that... the massacre... [could] have been avoided if the state government and its local officers had fulfilled their responsibilities... the Narendra Modi government is squarely responsible... and must accept the moral and political blame for the riots,” it argues.

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Eric J. Hobsbawm, Historian With a Communist Resolve, Dies at 95
Eric J. Hobsbawm, whose three-volume economic history of the rise of industrial capitalism established him as Britain’s pre-eminent Marxist historian, died on Monday in London. He was 95.

The cause was pneumonia, said his daughter, Julia Hobsbawm.

Mr. Hobsbawm, the leading light in a group of historians within the British Communist Party that included Christopher Hill, E. P. Thompson and Raymond Williams, helped recast the traditional understanding of history as a series of great events orchestrated by great men. Instead, he focused on labor movements in the 19th century and what he called the “pre-political” resistance of bandits, millenarians and urban rioters in early capitalist societies.

His masterwork remains his incisive and often eloquent survey of the period he referred to as “the long 19th century,” which he analyzed in three volumes: “The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848,” “The Age of Capital: 1848-1875” and “The Age of Empire: 1874-1914.” To this trilogy he appended a coda in 1994, “The Age of Extremes,” published in the United States with the subtitle “A History of the World, 1914-1991.”

“Eric J. Hobsbawn was a brilliant historian in the great English tradition of narrative history,” Tony Judt, a professor of history at New York University, wrote in an e-mail in 2008, two years before he died. “On everything he touched he wrote much better, had usually read much more, and had a broader and subtler understanding than his more fashionable emulators. If he had not been a lifelong Communist he would be remembered simply as one of the great historians of the 20th century.”

Unlike many of his comrades, Mr. Hobsbawn, who lived in London, stuck with the Communist Party after the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and the Czech reform movement in 1968. He eventually let his party membership lapse about the time the Berlin Wall fell and the Eastern bloc disintegrated in 1989.

“I didn’t want to break with the tradition that was my life and with what I thought when I first got into it,” he told The New York Times in 2002. “I still think it was a great cause, the emancipation of humanity. Maybe we got into it the wrong way, maybe we backed the wrong horse, but you have to be in that race, or else human life isn’t worth living.”

Eric John Hobsbawm was born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, where a confused clerk at the British consulate misspelled the last name of his father, Leopold Percy Hobsbaum, an unsuccessful merchant from the East End of London. His mother, Nelly Grün, was Austrian, and after World War I had ended the family, which was Jewish, settled in Vienna. The Hobsbawms were struggling to make ends meet when, in 1929, Eric’s father dropped dead on his own doorstep, probably of a heart attack. Two years later Nelly died of lung disease, and her son was shipped off to live with relatives in Berlin.

In the waning months of the Weimar Republic, Mr. Hobsbawn, a gifted student, became a passionate Communist and a true believer in the Bolshevik Revolution. “The dream of the October Revolution is still there somewhere inside me, as deleted texts are still waiting to be recovered by experts, somewhere on the hard disks of computers,” he wrote in “Interesting Times,” a memoir published in 2002.

Mr. Hobsbawm, a cool introvert, found exhilaration and fellowship in the radical politics of the street in Germany. As a member of a Communist student organization, he slipped party fliers under apartment doors in the weeks after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor and at one point concealed an illegal duplicating machine under his bed. Within weeks, however, he was sent to Britain to live with yet another set of relatives.

Forbidden by his uncle to join either the Communist Party or the Labour Party (which Mr. Hobsbawm hoped to subvert from within), he concentrated on his studies at St. Marylebone Grammar School in London and won a scholarship to Cambridge. There he joined the Communist Party in 1936, edited the weekly journal Granta and accepted an invitation to joint the elite, informal society of intellectuals known as the Apostles.

“It was an invitation that hardly any Cambridge undergraduate was likely to refuse, since even revolutionaries like to be in a suitable tradition,” he wrote in “Interesting Times.” He described himself as a “Tory communist,” unsympathetic to the politics of personal liberation that marked the 1960s.

Mr. Hobsbawm graduated from King’s College with highest honors in 1939 and went on to earn a master’s degree in 1942 and a doctorate in 1951, writing his dissertation on the Fabian Society. In 1943 he had married Muriel Seaman, a civil servant and fellow Communist. That marriage ended in divorce in 1950. In 1962 he married Marlene Schwarz, who survives him. In addition to his daughter, he is survived by his son Andrew, his wife’s son by her first marriage; the theater director Joss Bennathan; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Mr. Hobsbawn served in the British Army from 1939 to 1946, a period he later called the most unhappy in his life. Excluded from any meaningful job by his politics, he languished on the sidelines in Britain as others waged the great armed struggle against fascism. “I did nothing of significance in it,” he wrote of the war, “and was not asked to.”

He began teaching history at Birkbeck College in the University of London in 1947, and from 1949 to 1955 he was a history fellow at King’s College.

Mr. Hobsbawm and his colleagues in the Historians’ Study Group of the Communist Party established labor history as an important field of study and in 1952 created an influential journal, Past and Present, as a home base.

The rich dividends from this new approach to writing history were apparent in works like “Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries” (1959), “Laboring Men: Studies in the History of Labor” (1964) and “Industry and Empire,” the companion volume to Christopher Hill’s “Reformation to Industrial Revolution.”

During this period, Mr. Hobsbawm also wrote jazz criticism for The New Statesman and Nation under the pseudonym Francis Newton, a sly reference to the jazz trumpeter Frankie Newton, an avowed Communist. His jazz writing led to a book, “The Jazz Scene,” published in 1959.

If his political allegiances stymied his professional advancement, as he argued in his memoir, honors and recognition eventually came his way. At the University of London, he was finally promoted to a readership in 1959 and was named professor of economic and social history in 1970. After retiring in 1982 he taught at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University and the New School for Social Research in Manhattan.

The accolades for works like his “Age of” trilogy led to membership in learned societies and honorary degrees, but to the end of his life the Communist militant coexisted uneasily with the professional historian.

Not until his 80s, in “The Age of Extremes,” did Mr. Hobsbawm dare turn to the century whose horrific events had shaped his politics. The book was an anguished reckoning with a period he had avoided as a historian because, as he wrote in his memoir, “given the strong official Party and Soviet views about the 20th century, one could not write about anything later than 1917 without the strong likelihood of being denounced as a political heretic.”

Mr. Hobsbawm continued to write well into his 90s, appearing frequently in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. His “How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism” was published last year, and “Fractured Times,” a collection of essays on 20th-century culture and society, is scheduled to be published by Little, Brown in Britain in March 2013.

Although increasingly on the defensive, and quite willing to say that the great Communist experiment had not only failed but had been doomed from the start, Mr. Hobsbawm refused to recant or, many critics complained, to face up to the human misery it had created. “Historical understanding is what I’m after, not agreement, approval, or sympathy,” he wrote in his memoir.

In 1994, he shocked readers of the Times Literary Supplement when, in an interview with Michael Ignatieff, he said that the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens under Stalin, although “probably excessive,” would have been worth it if a genuine Communist society had been the result.

“The greatest price he will pay is to be remembered not as Eric J. Hobsbawm the historian but as Eric J. Hobsbawm the unrepentant Communist historian,” Mr. Judt said. “It’s unfair and it’s a pity, but that is the cross he will bear.”
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Mr. Hobsbawm refused to recant or, many critics complained, to face up to the human misery it had created. “Historical understanding is what I’m after, not agreement, approval, or sympathy,” he wrote in his memoir.

In 1994, he shocked readers of the Times Literary Supplement when, in an interview with Michael Ignatieff, he said that the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens under Stalin, although “probably excessive,” would have been worth it if a genuine Communist society had been the result.
A typical commie 'historian'. Not only tries to escape from the mass murders and brutalities of his camp followers through fake intellectual sleight of hand but also openly justifies it. At least you have to credit him for not trying to lie his way through, unlike his comrade rapist goon friendly historians of India.

Contrast this with yellows asking everyone that speaks for BJP or Hindus to 'explain' and own up for 'Gujerat pogrom'

This justification (where obfuscation and lying are not longer viable options) and obfuscation (where possible) of the horrible history of Marxism and leftism is precisely why 'Marxist historian' is a joke and a oxy moron. You can either be a Marxist propagandist or a historian, not both.

Which is also why the movement has thrown up such great leaders as Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin and our own Beijing puppet Nandigram rapist goons. Let us post more about their atrocities and sham-socialism that becomes goon army for Chinese businessmen....if not this thread might as well get renamed as 'Mass murderer propaganda re-vomit thread'
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Hollow Success

An editorial in the CPM weekly People’s Democracy weighs in on the reforms. It says when India embarked on neoliberal reforms in 1991, critics argued opening the economy to the free flow of goods, services and capital would make the living standards of millions vulnerable to the whims and caprices of a group of international speculators.

“The then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh and other proponents of neoliberalism had pooh-poohed this argument, calling the critics habitual prophets of doom, arguing that opening up the economy would make it so strong, ‘efficient’ and internationally competitive that it would emerge as a successful exporter and a favourite destination for international capital”.

Manmohan Singh’s television address to the nation on September 21, the editorial contends, amounted to a clear admission that the critics had been right. “He drew an explicit parallel between the 1991 crisis and now,” it says, wondering how a 1991-type crisis could visit the economy in 2012 when the earlier “inward-looking” strategy had been buried.

It claims that notwithstanding talk of India’s “export success” and the hullabaloo about India emerging as an “economic superpower”, it remains vulnerable to a sudden loss in speculator confidence, which can bring it to its knees overnight.

WRONGFUL ARRESTS

In the light of the Supreme Court’s recent observation that no innocent person should be branded a terrorist simply because he belongs to a minority community, the CPI journal New Age alleges such judicial pronouncements have further confirmed intelligence agencies and police are working with a definite anti-minority mindset.

“This judicial comment from the apex court points to the reality that since long our intelligence agencies and [the] police are working under the influence of the theory propounded by NDA Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee that ‘all Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims’. To prove this basically erroneous dictum, our police and intelligence agencies have been cooking up stories to target the Muslim youth,” the editorial claims.

“The significant observation in the book is that most of the acquittals are not just due to ‘lack of evidence’. The courts have found that in most cases the so-called evidence provided by the police and the prosecution were tampered and fabricated,” it says.

ADHIKAR YATRA

An editorial in the CPI(ML) journal ML Update focuses on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Adhikar Yatra. It claims the CM’s convoy was met with protesting people throughout its route and alleges these protests were repressed.

“The ‘Adhikar’ Yatra has become an all-out crackdown on the rights of the people of Bihar, and a naked display of high-handedness and arrogance on part of the CM,” it says, and refers to an incident involving party leader Ranvir Yadav, who reportedly brandished a gun at protesters.

“What was worse was, that when the CM addressed the public meeting, he began by praising Poonam Yadav and Ranvir Yadav warmly for making it possible for him to reach the dais and reprimanded the protestors! No case was filed against Ranvir Yadav in spite of the videotaped evidence [against him]. Instead, cases were slapped wholesale on hundreds of protestors,” it says.

“The Nitish Kumar government showed its true colours giving a free hand to the Ranvir Sena, which indulged in violence and intimidation after the killing of Brahmeshwar Singh. Now, by praising and defending Ranvir Yadav and punishing the protestors, Nitish Kumar and his NDA government have proved that they can never defend or champion the ‘adhikar’ of the people of Bihar. It is the protesting and struggling people of Bihar who alone can champion the struggle for their own rights, defying repression,” it concludes.

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Flawed Makeover

The CPM has called L.K. Advani’s call for the BJP to go for an “imaginative repositioning” of its “commitment to secularism” an attempt to mislead the people and potential allies in regional parties so as to to garner support for the 2014 general elections.

“It is indeed ironic that Advani, with the chilling image of the rath yatra that he led, which left behind a trail of death and misery in the communal riots that followed and eventually led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid, should now be speaking in terms of upholding secularism,” the editorial in its weekly, People’s Democracy, argues.

“Such efforts by the BJP to express secular pretensions are aimed at assuming power at the Centre in order to carry forward the RSS ideological project,” it adds. The editorial also refers to Advani’s appeal to potential allies that “they have nothing to be apprehensive about partnering with the BJP”.

“That such appeals are a mere eyewash to garner support in order to have the requisite numbers to form a government at the Centre became clear when he said the situation calls for flexibility in tactics combined with firmness in principles. The tactics are to mislead the allies and the people and the principles are the core of the RSS agenda,” it posits.

Going nuclear

CPI(ML)’s journal ML Update carried a piece on the anti-nuclear plant agitation at Koodankulam, which its general secretary, Dipankar Bhattacharya, tried unsuccessfully to visit earlier this month. Bhattacharya writes about how he and his party colleagues were prevented from visiting Koodankulam and were arrested on the way. He claims that the battle of Koodankulam “is a battle as much for public safety as truth and reason.”

“The people of Koodankulam and Jaitapur are fighting not just to save their own land and lives, but for the safety of generations to come. Tamil Nadu has already suffered the enormous tragedy of a devastating tsunami; must the people be condemned now to live forever in the shadow of the fear of a nuclear tsunami?” he asks.

He claims that developed countries across the world are increasingly moving away from nuclear energy and resorting to safer, cheaper and cleaner energy options. “It is ironic that governments that are systematically sacrificing all our vital national interests at the altar of FDI and humiliating deals with imperialist powers are trying to malign and muffle the voice of truth and justice in Koodankulam by dubbing the movement as being ‘instigated by foreign agencies’... in the process the government has already begun treating Koodankulam as foreign territory where the interests of nuclear powers prevail over the basic rights of the Indian people,” he asserts.

CONFUSING TACTICS

The Left continues to criticise the government for allowing FDI in multibrand retail. “It is neither courage nor determination to do something. It is just surrender to the corporate, both local and foreign,” the editorial in CPI weekly New Age alleges.

Referring to the spate of decisions announced by the government recently, it says that the UPA has adopted the tactics of announcing such decisions at a stroke so that people get confused and the resistance to them is divided. “It just ignores the fact that people crying under the burden heaped through such economic measures have started realising the causes behind such decisions... [The] so-called reforms [the] government is planning are entirely aimed at meeting the demands of corporate capitalists. It has no concern for the aam aadmi in whose name it swears day in and day out,” the editorial argues.

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From the link posted above:

On Robert Services's biography of Trotsky
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Viva Hugo

The CPM and CPI journals celebrated Hugo Chavez’s re-election to Venezuela’s presidency for the fourth term. People’s Democracy devoted its editorial to Chavez’s victory, saying it has ensured regional cooperation among South American countries, who can proceed in their quest for a “path free of neoliberalism and imperialist domination.” Venezuela, it declares, has been the pivot in the Left advance in Latin America with Bolivia and Ecuador providing support and solidarity.

The CPI’s New Age dubbed Chavez’s victory as a triumph of socialism. “Since taking power in 1999, Chavez has become a global flag bearer of ‘anti-imperialism’... Chavez is a fierce US critic and the leading voice of Latin America’s left allied with communist ally Cuba. His win is a historic triumph in the Latin American countries,” an article says.

Both the CPM and CPI alleged that the US has been trying to destabilise the government headed by Chavez and has poured in funds to finance the opposition. The articles, however, point out that Venezuela faces serious problems like rampant crime, inflation and drug trafficking, which need to be tackled.

Liberal loot

An editorial in the CPI weekly New Age argues that the Congress and the BJP are two sides of the same coin when it comes to corruption. It says that, in most scams and scandals that have come to light recently, decisions pertaining to reforms and neoliberalism are at the root of corruption.

Turning to specifics, the editorial says the BJP, which had stalled proceedings of an entire parliamentary session demanding a JPC to probe the 2G spectrum scam, now wants to disassociate itself from the JPC: “Investigation in this committee and outside has clearly established that the allocation of the 2G spectrum to the cronies of ministers and ruling politicians actually started during the NDA regime and was continued by the UPA government”.

The editorial says the same is true for coal block allocations: “Its advent can be traced even to the P.V. Narasimha Rao regime. Similarly, in CWG scam and Adarsh Society scandal, apart from the Congressmen, names of several BJP leaders have cropped up... The loot of PSUs was formalised under Vajpayee regime by creating a special ministry of disinvestment”. It argues that policies of neoliberalism has paved the way for unbridled loot of national and natural resources.

Bihar bind

The editorial in the CPI(ML)’s journal ML Update discusses the bandh called by the party along with other Left parties, the RJD and the LJP in Bihar on Monday. The incident of police firing in Madhubani district had prompted the bandh call. The police firing was the result of clashes between local people and police over the alleged murder of a schoolboy who had eloped with a girl. Both the boy and girl were spotted in Delhi on the day of the bandh. The editorial says sections of the media have started painting the bandh as a false move, reflecting the desperation on the opposition’s part to destabilise the Nitish Kumar government.

“To dub the October 15 Bihar Bandh a false move simply because the teenage couple surrendered in Delhi and the boy who was presumed dead by his own mother was found alive, would be a travesty of truth and an utter misreading of the situation in Bihar...” the editorial says. It says the bandh was by no means limited to the issue of Prashant and Preeti: “It was above all against the increasingly autocratic character and conduct of the Nitish Kumar government”. The CPI(ML) also criticises Lalu Prasad, who has hit the street with the slogan of “parivartan” after a long period of silence and passivity: “His talk of ‘Parivartan’ is only a dream to ‘restore’ his rule in Bihar. Even as the whole country fights against corruption, corporate loot, invasion of FDI and assault on democracy, Lalu Prasad stands most loyally by the discredited Congress party and UPA government”.

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Centre for uniform policy to tackle Maoist hostage crisis
NEW DELHI: Seeking to formalize negotiations as a uniform policy to deal with hostage situation caused by Maoists, the Centre will suggest setting up of a standing crisis management group (CMG) in each naxal-affected state for swift response. The CMG, according to a draft hostage policy formulated by the Centre, will be led by state chief secretary, who will assess the situation before preparing a counter-strategy that must be approved by the state's political dispensation.


Interestingly, the proposed hostage policy - circulated to the states some time ago - makes room for swap deals, unless the Maoists sought to be released in exchange for the hostages are hardcore cadres charged with sedition or heinous crimes. The Centre's alleged 'nod' for swapping Maoist sympathizers and cadres facing minor charges for hostages runs contrary to the stand taken by Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh after abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon was released earlier this year following protracted negotiations. Singh had disapproved of swap deals with the Naxalites, even where the hostage happened to be the CM himself.

Now, there is no uniform policy for dealing with hostage crisis across the Naxal-hit states. The high-profile abductions of Menon in Chhatisgarh, apart from that of IAS officer R Vineel Krishna, two Italians and BJD MP Jhina Hikaka in Odisha, had made the Centre notice the lack of uniformity in response of the state governments concerned. A hostage policy was subsequently sought by former Union home minister P Chidambaram.

As per the draft hostage policy, the CMG in the state facing a hostage situation will set up a panel to negotiate with the Maoists. The panel, apart from comprising representatives of the state government and independent persons who enjoy Naxals' confidence, will have to mandatorily include experts with professional training in handling hostage situations. Such courses, sources told TOI, are offered by some leading security agencies of the West and the Naxal-affected states will be required to depute officers to undergo these training programmes.

The ground rules proposed for negotiations require the panel to engage the abductors to ensure that the hostage is safe while in their custody. A possible failure of negotiations has to be factored in at the time of preparing the counter-strategy, and a back-up plan must be in place. The back-up plan will involve action by the security forces to rescue the hostages.

Keen to have the hostage policy in place soon, the Centre has on October 18 convened the chief secretaries and DGPs of nine Naxal-hit states here to discuss its terms. Sources said the other issues that will figure in the deliberations are standard operating procedures (SOPs) proposed for operations, where Naxalites are found to be using local tribals as human shields.

The meeting will also dwell upon possible replication of the successful anti-Maoist operations in Saranda forests of Jharkhand and in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. Review of development initiatives, including implementation of the Forest Rights Act, recruitment of tribal youth from affected areas, and constitution of a special investigative team to probe Naxal attacks, will also be discussed.

The SOPs to minimize collateral damage in operations where Naxalites may be using human shields include improved intelligence, mandatory use of non-lethal weapons such as rubber bullets at the start, use of night-vision devices for counter-insurgency in the dark and a sound knowledge of the local terrain.
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Nothing to be surprised about of course, if the eye-gougers and womanisers can take money from Beijing, they can do so from Beijing's munna..

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 872024.cms
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Jharkhand police plan to recruit reformed Reds

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... ecruitment
Jharkhand government is working to make amendments in the surrender policy for rebels and enable the state police to recruit them as constables. Jharkhand IG and police spokesperson SN Pradhan said that the department is working on the amendment to ensure better rehabilitation of surrendered rebels. This is probably the first time that surrendered rebels will be recruited in the mainstream police force.

"There will be a provision in the surrender policy that if the person is physically fit, meets all the eligibility criteria and has no criminal case against him/her then we can allow their recruitment in the police force as constable," said Pradhan. He revealed that recently one woman Maoist who surrendered in Ramgarh district has no pending cases despite her being very active in the organization. "If she wants to join the police force, we will consider her case and allow her recruitment after proper scrutiny," said Pradhan.

President of Jharkhand Police Association Akhilesh Pandey welcomed the decision of the state government. "We know that it is very difficult for anyone to have faith on surrendered Maoists but we have no option. We have to develop faith among them. We cannot also rule out the possibility of even some deceiving us and harming the force. We have our own network and we will proceed after proper investigation and hope that the result will be encouraging," said Pandey.

The government is also working on a plan to give some relaxation in physical standards for youths from highly Maoist-dominated areas. A similar model is already in place in neighbouring West Bengal. Pradhan revealed that the state government is going to take up the matter of give relaxation in physical standards to general youths from heavily Maoist hit areas. "We will request the Centre to allow the state to give some relaxation to youths from selected blocks in some districts for recruitment in police force as constable. Again, the relaxation will be limited to youths from specific blocks and in no case will an outsider be allowed to take up the test," said Pradhan.
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Maoists and Anti-KK stir

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India vs China

In an article in the CPM journal People’s Democracy, Left economist Prabhat Patnaik compares India and China’s growth stories and argues that there are fundamental differences between their experiences. He says while the two are often bracketed together as “emerging economic superpowers”, the difference is becoming more apparent as the impact of the economic crisis reaches Asian shores.

“One may be critical of China’s economic policies, notwithstanding their success in ushering in high growth, for a variety of reasons, but it is undeniable that China’s economy is on an altogether different footing today than India’s,” he writes.

He says the first crucial difference is that China’s export success was based on manufacturing, while India’s export success is related to services, especially IT-related services. Per unit value of exports, he says, China creates larger employment than India since the wage rates of those employed in the former are relatively lower than of those employed in the latter.

Another basic difference, he notes, is that China has had a current account surplus on the balance of payments, while India has more or less had a deficit. “China’s surplus has contributed to the building up of its foreign exchange reserves, while India has had to depend upon foreign capital inflows to finance its deficit and its reserves have got built up only because this inflow has exceeded the deficit,” he says.

BY-POLLS VERDICT

CPI’s New Age focuses on the results of last week’s by-polls in two Lok Sabha constituencies — the Congress nominee was defeated in Tehri while its candidate scraped through in Jangipur — saying the writing is on the wall for the UPA. The results are a clear indication of the people’s mood, it argues.

The editorial concentrates on Jangipur, where President Pranab Mukherjee’s son won by a margin of just 2,500. The worrying point in Jangipur result, it claims, is the increase in the BJP’s voteshare.

“It seems that the Trinamool, though it had endorsed the Congress nominee, did not campaign actively and its vote got transferred to the BJP. In the past, the BJP had only once won representation in the West Bengal assembly and that was when Mamata Banerjee had aligned with it. Mamata first became railway minister under Vajpayee. If BJP gets a foothold in the generally secular state of West Bengal, Trinamool Congress will be solely responsible for it,” it says.

The other disturbing feature of the two by-polls, the editorial says, is the role played by newly floated Muslim political outfits. “In both constituencies, these Muslim organisations have cornered a good chunk of the votes. But their campaign has ultimately contributed to further polarisation of masses on communal lines and it has helped the BJP. One brand of communalism breeds the other. The Muslim minority have to ponder whose cause they will serve by communalising politics,” it argues.

DELHI NEXUS

CPI(ML) weekly ML Update discusses the controversy over Robert Vadra’s business ties with real estate major DLF and argues that the Vadra-DLF deal and subsequent Salman Khurshid episode have further damaged an already heavily dented Congress.

It points out that the main opposition party, the BJP, also faces many questions. “One is not talking here of Kejriwal’s findings regarding Nitin Gadkari, showing how the Congress-NCP government favoured him, violating all rules and norms. The revelations have, of course, forced the voluble Gadkari to coin a new euphemism to introduce himself — he now calls himself a ‘social entrepreneur’... It is the BJP’s deafening silence over the Vadra-DLF deal which actually speaks volumes for the party’s anti-corruption credentials,” it says.

“Why? Is it because Vadra is ‘Indian’ enough compared to Sonia Gandhi’s Italian origin? The reason for the BJP’s deliberate silence perhaps has nothing to do with Vadra, it has everything to do with DLF, the `private entity’ at the other end of the deal... DLF doesn’t operate only in Congress-ruled states, it has interests in BJP-ruled states as well, Gujarat included,” it concludes.

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Four 'hardcore Maoists' arrested in Bihar
Police today claimed to have arrested four hardcore Maoists, including a self-styled area commander, in Bihar's Aurangabad district.

"Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a hideout in Seema village and nabbed Maoists, identified as Mritunjaya Mishra (Area Commander of Goh-Rafiganj) and his associates Shambhu Yadav, Dinanath Yadav and Chandrabhushan Sharma," Superintendent of Police (SP) Daljit Singh said.

A country-made rifle, ammunition, mobile SIM cards and memory cards were seized from the ultras, he said.
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Maoists script new plan for Chhattisgarh-Odisha border
Police officers, particularly those heading anti-Naxal operations, aren’t known to speak of the ‘enemy’ with admiration. So it is with raised eyebrows that you react when you hear senior cops talk of Maoist leader Malla Raja Reddy in glowing terms.

“He is very good, particularly in motivating people and the Maoist cadre. His organisational capability is tremendous, as good as Kishenji. He is a man for long-term missions,” is the overwhelming verdict.

Reddy, who hails from Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, like most of the top leadership of the Maoist group, has now been appointed the first secretary of the Chhattisgarh-Odisha Border (COB) committee.


COB will be the Indian security forces’ new headache as long as Reddy is at the helm of affairs. The committee will oversee the activities of the CPI (Maoist) in the eastern part of the Sukma-Darbha plateau in Chhattisgarh and the forest areas of Odisha along the border of the two states. The Mahasamund-Bargarh-Bolangir division will work under the COB committee. Much of this seamless territory was always under Maoist control—some sort of a ‘liberated zone’ as it were—but, to the credit of the security forces, the patch has considerably shrunk over the years.

But it is not as if the Maoists willed themselves to take this strategic step. They were in fact forced into it by a couple of developments earlier this year.

The first one was the CRPF raid on Abujmad, the military nerve centre of the Maoists deep inside Dandakaranya in Chhattisgarh in February-March this year. CRPF officers say they have information that the Maoists lost significant cadre in that encounter while there were no casualties on the security forces side. Their assessment is that the attack made the top leadership of the Maoists realise that Abujmad was no longer impregnable and that the top leaders would need to scout for a more safe hideout. For the CRPF, the operation was a morale-booster, one that dispelled the popular notion that Abujmad is out-of-bounds for them.

The second and equally critical reason for the formation of COB was the rebellion of the secretary of the Odisha unit of the CPI (Maoist), Sabyasachi Panda. The assessment of the officers heading the anti-Naxal operations is that Panda’s exit from the Maoist camp is a huge blow. And, therefore, something had to be done about Odisha before the writ of the outlaws started shrinking in the eastern state.

In a sense, the problem in Odisha was of the Maoists’ own making. The domination of Telugu cadre in the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) committee, which is headed by Modem Balakrishna, alias Manoj, was instrumental in creating a huge rift with Panda whose foot-soldiers are all Odiya locals. In fact, his resignation letter, which he sent to Ganapathi and two other Maoist leaders in August this year, is now in the public domain. It uses strong language while pointing out the disastrous effects of ‘foreign’ rule in Odisha.

Panda wrote : “Our AOB leaders are always for their superiority and tried to keep Odisha committee as subordinates. Politically they never think about Odisha, its people’s condition and political acceptance … In the name of promotion, one type of feudal democracy, similar to that of fascist RSS organisation, prevailed in this party.”

Pointing out that the AOB committee demanded the release of only Telugu cadre in exchange for the release of Malkangiri collector Vineel Krishna in February 2011, the letter, at other places, focuses on the difference in food habits and the taunts the Odiya committee members had to suffer. The faultlines were exposed and showed that the Maoists in Odisha are a divided and bitter lot.

The mandate of the COB is to box in Panda with AOB’s help and spread the Maoist influence deep into Odisha. Sources in Odisha say over 60 foot-soldiers of the party have now spread into Kandhamal, Ganjam, Gajapati and Rayagada districts—all part of Panda’s territory—to “talk to the locals” and to tell them that they can join the Maoist force and even rise up the ladder to become commanders. The effort is also to take them out of Panda’s influence, by describing him as a ‘renegade’ and accusing him of joining hands with the police. The Maoists realise that the police could even use Panda in their fight to free the state of Red influence. Interestingly, the press releases of the CPI (Maoist) that were earlier being issued in Telugu have now started appearing in Odiya.

The big brother attitude of the Telugus in the organisation is not confined to Odisha alone. Even in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, which has a Maoist cadre strength of close to 1,800, about 450 of them armed, there are no local tribal commanders. The entire leadership is Telugu and the security forces are now trying to drill a divide, telling the locals that the outsiders are only exploiting them as foot-soldiers.

Police sources also believe COB will be the new alternate location for a hideout for the top leadership to hold conclaves, especially since Abujmad is no longer seen as 100 percent safe. The Maoist plan reportedly is now to increase its strength and presence in the border areas, particularly the tri-junctions of different states, which invariably are grey areas where no one’s writ runs.

What helps the Maoists is that inter-state cooperation is, for all practical purposes, lacklustre or non-existent.
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Pet project

The real purpose of the recent cabinet reshuffle is to ensure the prime minister’s “pet” neoliberal agenda gets implemented in the government’s remaining tenure, says the editorial in CPM weekly People’s Democracy.

The removal of Jaipal Reddy as petroleum minister, it says, is the most significant indicator of this agenda. “In the recent months, Reliance Industries Limited has been demanding an immediate increase in the price of natural gas even though a revision is due only in April 2014. The petroleum minister had refused to yield to this demand, despite the pressure from the prime minister’s office,” says the editorial, claiming that Reddy has had to pay the price for defying the country’s biggest corporate. “With this reshuffle, the process of putting persons in key economic ministries who are committed to corporate interests and the neo-liberal policies that the prime minister is bent upon pursuing has been completed...”

The editorial is also critical of the “elevation” of Salman Khurshid to the external affairs ministry. It argues that Khurshid’s case shows the Congress’s disdain towards “charges of corruption and dubious dealings by ministers”. Shashi Tharoor’s return too is an indicator of this, it says. Claiming that the reshuffle has put the Congress imprimatur on the big business-politician-bureaucrat nexus, People’s Democracy says more concessions to big corporates and foreign capital, “more assaults on the livelihood of the people and more corrupt deals” are in the offing.

Reddy hurdle

The cabinet reshuffle conveys the message that the UPA is only bothered about meeting the demands of the corporate sector, according to the CPI’s New Age: “It is a government of corporate and for corporate,” says its editorial. Jaipal Reddy’s ouster made it clear he had “become a hurdle in the loot of the richest man of the country,” who, the editorial alleges, was demanding that the price of gas from the KG Basin be enhanced by 300 per cent.

It goes on to say this is the second such instance at the petroleum ministry: “Earlier, under American pressure, Mani Shankar Aiyar was divested of the portfolio as he was not ready to heed the American advice of abandoning the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project...”

The CPI seems to view similarly the denial of promotion to Daggubati Purandareshwari, MoS in the HRD ministry, who had told the media the day before the reshuffle that she would be given independent charge of commerce and industry: “The moment it was known, all those involved got active. Biggest argument against Anand Sharma getting divested of the portfolio... is to send a message that government is having second thought on the FDI for which Sharma has reportedly staked everything...”

People’s agenda

The CPI(ML)’s journal ML Update, critiques the two political rallies on Sunday — the JD(U)’s in Bihar and the Congress’s in Delhi. On the Adhikar Rally, ML Update says Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is using the “Special Status” card for electoral gains only. It also goes on to criticise the CM for not taking the issue of Special Status with a larger platform of other states, like UP, Rajasthan, Orissa and Jharkhand, who are also claimants of the same status, to bolster Bihar’s claim.

About the Congress’s rally, ML Update alleges it was the UPA’s “brazen attempt” to defend the fuel price hikes and subsidy cuts. It concludes that it is now time for the people too to assert their agenda for 2014, which is “to punish the corrupt and anti-people rulers, who are denying the people their rights.”

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Debate: Children raped, targeted, inducted

http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Children- ... 414285.cms
The horrors of the Maoists terror camps have been exposed by one of their own leaders. Times Now is in possession of Maoist leader Kudiam Gujja's confessional video, which reveals how children are raped before being inducted into their terror camps. In the video, Gujaa confessed to the child rapes committed by him and other Maoists. In October, the CRPF rescued two girls who were raped and then recruited into the Maoist Bal Sangh.In a debate moderated by Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Maj Gen (retd) G D Bakshi, Editor - in Chief, Defence & Security and Sudha Ramalingam, Advocate & Vice-Pres, PUCL -- debate whether the Maoist sympathisers can dismiss the accounts of young girls being raped before being recruited as govt propaganda.
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Wonder what makes the laal jhanda crowd rapist goons womanisers and maniac animals.....got to have some pisko reason;

We can safely expect Thapar , Sunder , Roy, Patkar and other intellectual apologists of the rapist goons crawl back to their rocks and not rush to the defense of the women unlike their enthusiasm to defend scantily clad girls getting drunk in pubs targeted by Hindu fascists..

Needless to say Beijing puppet yellow daily will black out and write yet another article attacking Gadkari
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Two maoists sent to Mao by AP greyhounds.
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Five Maos are sent to meet Maoeet Mao in Odisha Police-Maoist encounter

I suspect an intra-Maoist leak. Also suspect that EJs are involved in this.
At least five Maoists were killed in a major police-Maoist encounter near Bhaliaguda village at Mohana in the tribal dominated Gajapati district in south Odisha on Wednesday morning.

“The bodies of the five killed Maoists have been recovered. A combing operation is on in the area,” Gajapati district Superintendent of Police (SP), Asis Singh said adding that a jawan of the Special Operation Group (SOG), the elite force of the state police formed to tackle the Maoist menace, has sustained injuries in the battle.

Police sources said the encounter took place when the SOG and the local police of two Maoist infested districts of Gajapati and Ganjam raided a Maoist camp following a tip off.

All the five ultras who have been killed in the gun battle belong to newly floated Odisha Maoists’ Party (OMP), a splinter group of the CPI (Maoists) formed by Sabyasachi Panda after he disassociated himself from the original Maoist organisation. Panda, who was earlier heading the Odisha unit of the CPI (Maoists), was in the news a few months back for kidnapping two Italian nationals in Kandhamal district.

Singh confirmed that it was Panda who was leading the Maoists’ counter attack against the police during the Wednesday’s encounter but managed to give the slip. A large amount of arms and ammunitions and explosives have been recovered from the spot, he added.

Mili Panda, the wife of Sabyasachi Panda and activist Dandapani Mohanty who successfully negotiated with the senior Maoist for the release of two abducted Italians, has strongly condemned the incident. “It was nothing but a conspiracy by a section of the senior state police officials to force him (Panda) to indulge in violence,” she said.

Mohanty described the encounter as a cold blooded murder. “It was not an encounter but cold blooded murder. The Maoists have been killed when they were sleeping in their camp,” the senior activist said adding that Panda was not indulging in violence since the kidnap incident.
Panda, Odisha's topmost Maoist leader, came to limelight in March this year when he, as the secretary of Odisha State Organising Committee of CPI (Maoist), ordered the abduction of two Italian tourists.

Few months after the release of the hostages, however, the CPI (Maoist) expelled Panda for openly criticising general secretary and supreme commander Mupala Laxmana Rao alias Ganapathy as “autocratic” and “dictatorial” in a letter.
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Hindu/EJ naxal split seems to be becoming more apparent.
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There is also a layer of andhra vs orissa maoist fight going on. Seems like andhra gang is the more powerful one and has deep linkages.
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Volkogonov, Dmitri (2008-06-18). Lenin Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Little is known of Lenin’s private life. This is not only because of the Marxist postulate of the primacy of the social above the personal, but also because of the desire of the revolutionary hierarchs to keep the personal lives of their leaders secret from the masses. While every detail of the life of a minor functionary was regarded as essential information, the life of a Politburo member and his family was seen as a state secret. Their salaries, numbers of servants and automobiles, as well as the size of their houses and dachas—all such information was untouchable in ‘special files’.
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Top ten perpetrators of terrorist attacks world wide in 2011

1.Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M): 371
2.Taliban: 254
3.Al Shabaab: 163
4.Boko Haram: 124
5.Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC): 83
6.Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP): 80
7.Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP): 75
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RoyG wrote:Hindu/EJ naxal split seems to be becoming more apparent.
Gotta happen, it is an alliance of convenience anyway as I said several times, both hoping to make the other a useful idiot. Just as the alliance between leftist fake-intellectuals and yellows and the EJ cabal who rewards them with honorary doctorates, Booker or Magasaysay awards through their bananas and so on.....leftists hate the west, but need their money, publicity and western media mind-share. Same goes for the gun totting lal jhandas

BTW, on the secrecy of the life of top rank in CPM is no different, the rapist goon puppet yellows that write about beer drinking habits of Bal Thackeray repeatedly and in headline highlights, will never talk about the Scotch swilling habits of Jyoti Basu....
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WINTER SESSION

In the upcoming winter session of Parliament, instead of indulging in mudslinging, political parties should engage in discussing the government’s policies and the economic slowdown, says the CPM’s People’s Democracy in an editorial: “The last session was washed out due to the ‘match-fixing’ between the Congress and the BJP, with neither of them wanting a structured discussion on the allocation of coal blocks scam. Similarly, this session is bound to witness an intense mudslinging between the BJP and the Congress given... various scams involving their leaders,” says the editorial, adding, “It would be most unfortunate if this winter session also ends up as a disrupted one.”

Important issues that need to be discussed include poverty, unemployment, job cuts, rising prices across sectors and the like, says the editorial. Criticising the Centre’s economic policies, People’s Democracy says no amount of increased availability of funds for investments will lead to growth unless people have the necessary purchasing power to buy what is produced. “Clearly, the opposite of this is happening,” says the editorial.

MODI’S RECORD

Despite the Gujarat government’s claims, the state has not had any industrial development under Narendra Modi, claims the CPI in its weekly, New Age. It alleges that the reason Modi has been launching personal attacks and talking about “Gujarat Gaurav” (Gujarat’s pride) is because he wants to avoid discussing developmental issues: “Gujaratis have started realising that the slogan of Gujarat Gaurav is as shallow as ‘India Shining’ of NDA [sic] in 2004.” says the editorial. It cites recent RTI responses which, it claims, “reveal” that no new industry has come up during the decade Modi has been chief minister and that the state’s growth rate has fallen.

“Except the Nano plant of Tatas, no other industrial unit has come to the state in the last one decade. Under the garb of industrialisation, [the] Modi government has displaced [a] large number of farmers... Agricultural lands have been acquired with nominal convention,” it says.

The CPI says Gujarat needs a few dedicated legislators to echo the people’s struggle inside the assembly. “In the coming state elections, the two Communist parties have decided to field about a dozen candidates in selected constituencies. If a few constituencies from these district send Communists to the assembly, it may become harbinger for change in Gujarat politics,” it argues.

WAR IN GAZA

The CPI-ML journal ML Update has condemned Israel’s attack on Gaza, arguing that it could presage an Israeli attack on Iran. It has also said that US and EU support of Israel’s “war crimes” reinforces Israel’s sense of impunity. “By attacking Gaza, it (Israel) seeks to test the Arab waters, to see the impact of the Arab Spring on countries like Egypt. So far, Egypt’s new leadership has behaved much in line with its predecessor,” says the editorial.

As far as India is concerned, the editorial makes the case that the government has betrayed India’s long-term solidarity with Palestine by remaining neutral and calling for peace without condemning Israeli aggression. “The Indian people, however, have responded all over the country with solidarity actions for Gaza, demanding an end to Israel’s war and a principled stand by the Indian government,” it says.

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Volkogonov, Dmitri Lenin Simon & Schuster, Inc.

It would not be worth dwelling on the Ulyanov family tree had the official picture not been so obscured by a mass of unnecessary trivia and painted in the colours of ‘class consciousness’, and had so much not been passed over in silence, distorted and blatantly falsified. A brief account, however, may suffice to show that Lenin’s background reflected the face of the entire empire. He had a general idea about his origins, but, although he was Russian by culture and language, his country was not his highest value—not that he particularly felt himself to be a German, a Swede, a Jew or a Kalmyk. He may have described himself as a Russian when filling in forms, but in his outlook he was an internationalist and cosmopolitan, for whom the revolution, power and the Party were to be immeasurably more precious than Russia itself. It is only important to clarify this matter because the Bolsheviks found it necessary to suppress evidence of the perfectly natural mixture of nationalities in Russia in order to present their leader as ethnically ‘pure’.

Lenin’s antecedents were Russian, Kalmyk, Jewish, German and Swedish, and possibly others, symbolizing Russian history, as it were: a Slavic beginning, Asiatic expansion, a Jewish accretion to the national intellect, and German or West European culture. Genetic selection in history is spontaneous and mysterious. But here a digression is called for. When Lenin died, the Central Committee Secretariat commissioned his elder sister, Anna Yelizarova, to collect all the materials she could find and to write a definitive account of the Ulyanovs. Anna, who was one of the founders of the Lenin Institute, set to work, and soon discovered what I also found: namely, that there was a mass of material in the St Petersburg police department archives about her mother’s descent, as well as other materials which M.S. Olminsky, chairman of the Commission for the Study of the History of the Party (Istpart), helped her locate. Some eight years later she had still not divulged her discoveries to anyone. But in 1932, two years before she died, she suddenly revealed her findings to Stalin, and said she wanted to publish them. She knew that her grandfather, Moishe Itskovich Blank, had been born in Starokonstantinov, that his two sons, Abel and Srul, had converted to Christianity and changed their names to Dmitri and Alexander, and that in 1820 both had been admitted into the St Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy, from which they graduated in 1824.15

In her letter to Stalin, Anna wrote: ‘It’s probably no secret for you that the research on our grandfather shows that he came from a poor Jewish family, that he was, as his baptismal certificate says, the son of “Zhitomir meshchanin Moishe Blank”.’ She went on to suggest that ‘this fact could serve to help combat anti-semitism’. Paradoxically for a Marxist who believed in the primacy of environmental over inherited factors, she also asserted the dubious proposition that Lenin’s Jewish origins ‘are further confirmation of the exceptional abilities of the Semitic tribe, [confirmation] always shared by Ilyich [Lenin] … Ilyich always valued the Jews highly.’16 Anna’s claim explains, for instance, why Lenin frequently recommended giving foreigners, especially Jews, intellectually demanding tasks, and leaving the elementary work to the ‘Russian fools’.17 According to General A.A. Yepishev, former chief of the army’s main political directorate, who heard it from Stalin’s personal assistant Poskrebyshev, Anna’s sister Maria handed the letter to Stalin and waited while he read it carefully. His response was categorical and fierce: ‘Absolutely not one word about this letter!’ But a little over a year later, Anna approached Stalin again, asserting that ‘in the Lenin Institute, as well as in the Institute of the Brain … they have long recognized the great gifts of this nation and the extremely beneficial effects of its blood on the progeny of mixed marriages. Ilyich himself rated their revolutionary qualities highly, their “tenacity” in the struggle, as he put it, contrasting it with the more sluggish and unstable character of the Russians. He often pointed out that the great [attributes of] organization and the strength of the revolutionary bodies in the south and west [of Russia] arose precisely from the fact that 50 per cent of their members were of that nationality.’18 But Stalin, the Russified Georgian, could not allow it to be known that Lenin had Jewish roots, and his strict prohibition remained firmly in place.
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“Except the Nano plant of Tatas, no other industrial unit has come to the state in the last one decade. Under the garb of industrialisation, [the] Modi government has displaced [a] large number of farmers... Agricultural lands have been acquired with nominal convention,” it says.
The stellar record in WB is the comparing point!! :rotfl: :rotfl:
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