Both Candidates Misleading on Iran and Afghanistan

Nepal: seeds of a new people’s army

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Posted by eric ribellarsi on October 24, 2012

The first convention of the National People’s Volunteers (NPV), a mass fighting force and serve-the-people volunteer organization, has taken place, as thousands of revolutionaries marched through the streets of Kathmandu. The NPV was first formed by Comrade Biplab, a leading members of the Nepali Maoists who has been articulating a program for the continuation of the revolution in Nepal. At this meeting, the leadership of the NPV was transitioned from Biplab to Deepak Chalaune, a former Division Vice Commander of the People’s Liberation Army, an army that now has been dissolved by counter-revolutionary forces in Nepal.

Thousands of former People’s Liberation Army fighters are flocking to the new National People’s Volunteers. Kiran, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist declared at this meeting “this very team will hold up the weapons once again if needed,” and demanded that the ruling Bhattarai government of Nepal fulfill a 70 point demand list the Nepal’s revolutionaries have placed on this regime.

Thanks to Bikkil Sthapit for these photos.

Thousands of NPV members march in formation

Biplab speaks

Chairman Kiran salutes the People’s Volunteers

Western Media Ignores Libyan Crisis

Maoist Workers Seize Factory

Aquino's dismissal of abuses complaints is an endorsement of state brutality -- Communist Party of the Philippines

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Aquino has shown utter insensitivity and contempt for the victims of human rights violations, their families, friends and supporters... Aquino's denials remind us of how Ferdinand Marcos lied through his teeth when he claimed that there were no political prisoners under his martial law rule.

PRESS STATEMENT
Communist Party of the Philippines
26 October 2012

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns Benigno Aquino III, president of the reactionary state and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), for refusing to acknowledge the increasing number of human rights violations by its military and police forces, and dismissing these as "Leftist propaganda" which "people do not buy."

To further disparage the complaints against his regime, Aquino even risked making himself look ridiculous when he denounced the oppressed people in urban poor communities for "violating the human rights of the military and police" when they hurled stones and resisted the destruction of their homes by government demolition crews escorted by state agents armed with guns, teargas and truncheons.

In making such dismissive statements, Aquino has shown utter insensitivity and contempt for the victims of human rights violations, as well as their families, friends and supporters. Aquino's denials remind us of how Ferdinand Marcos lied through his teeth when he claimed that there were no political prisoners, when at least 70,000 people were imprisoned under his martial law rule.

EU Does Not Deserve A Nobel Peace Prize

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"Long Distance Revolutionary": New Doc Tells Untold Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal's Life Journey

50 years since India declares War on China - Himalayan Adventure by Suniti Kumar Ghosh

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Democracy and Class Struggle publishes this study by Suniti Kumar Ghosh on the 50th Anniversary of the 1962 Indo - China War , it resonates with many contemporary problems and shows the progressive character of Chinese Foreign Policy under Mao Zedong.

A college teacher for a number of years, Suniti Kumar Ghosh has been associated with the Communist movement since the Telengana days of 1946-47. He was expelled from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1949. He was a member of the All India Co-ordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR), formed after the Naxalbari uprising in 1967, and was a founder-member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Lemnist).

‘India declares war on China’

While leaving for Sri Lanka on 12 October 1962, the prime minister of India declared that he had given orders to the army to throw the Chinese out from the India-China border area on the north-east. Next day the New York Herald Tribune carried an editorial entitled “India declares war on China”.[1]

This declaration of war against China was the culmination of a policy that Nehru and his associates had been pursuing since as early as April 1947 when India was still a British colony. On 25 April, the external affairs department of the government of India, of which Nehru was in charge as a member of the viceroy’s ‘interim government’, informed the British secretary of state for India that “Government of India now wish to be represented in Tibet ... and should be grateful to know whether His Majesty’s Government desire to retain separate Mission there in future. If they do not, it would seem feasible to arrange transition from ‘British Mission’ to ‘Indian Mission’ without publicity and without drawing too much attention to change, to avoid if possible any constitutional issue being raised by China.”[2] At the time a civil war was going on in China. Nehru and his associates sought to resort to surreptitious methods to fulfil their expansionist aims.

On 15 August 1947, the day Britain’s direct rule of India ended, the British mission in Lhasa (Tibet’s capital) formally became the Indian mission. The last British representative in Lhasa, H.E. Richardson, became the first Indian representative there. Richardson wrote: “The transition was almost imperceptible: the existing staff was retained in its entirety and the only obvious change was the change in the flag.”[3]

Genocide as Counterinsurgency – Brief Notes on the “Sri Lanka model”

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October 10, 2012

by Karthick RM

Countering insurgencies is as old as states and empires. As a concept, however, study in Counterinsurgency (COIN) gained momentum in the colonial period so as to deal with frequently occurring rebellions in colonies as well as to counter the “communist menace”. COIN grew as a science with late modernity and the rise of what ‘Taraki’ Sivaram) called “counter-insurgency nation-states”. We must understand that COIN has developed as a science, deployed by specific actors in specific conditions as a science. And by virtue of its being a science, each deployment is closely followed, studied and applied by various states engaged in COIN operations according to the particular conditions they encounter. Some refined political analysts, understanding the geo-strategic importance of Sri Lanka, have argued that the Sri Lankan war machine was ideologically and materially equipped in its COIN operations against the Tigers by a confluence of world powers. Reflecting on this, Mark Whitaker writes in his biography of ‘Taraki’ Sivaram that “by the middle 1990s Sivaram had come to view Sri Lanka’s conflict as a kind of military-political laboratory in which the various repressive forces of late modernity (local and international) were testing their clever, often cruel, counter-insurgency tactics”. Just that the lab rats favoured by the world powers in the island had genocidal intentions, Karthick RM argues in this article.

Speaking at a conference at Trinity College, Dublin on 24th May 2012 titled ‘The Local and the Global: The Geopolitics of Peace and Conflict’ exiled Sinhala journalist Bashana Abeywardane, opined that genocide was used as a Counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy by the Sri Lankan state to crush the armed struggle for a sovereign state of Tamil Eelam led by the LTTE. Citing British military strategist Frank Kitson, who had played an important role in suppressing the Mau Mau uprising and the insurgency of the Malayan Communist Party, Mr. Abeywardane said that when you want to neutralize an insurgency movement, you must destroy its “genuine subversive element” – arguing that in the case of Sri Lanka, the genuine subversive element in the island was the Tamil population as such. He further cited geo-political factors that influenced the decision of the world powers to support the Sri Lankan state’s military offensive leading up to May 2009, arguing that the island held geo-strategic importance only if it was a unitary political entity.

Obama, Romney face off in 2nd debate, MSM covers-up candidate arrest

Political Disobedience vs. Revolution: Significance of the Occupy Movement | The New School

Political Disobedience vs. Revolution: Bernard Harcourt and Raymond Lotta Debate the Significance and Implications of the Occupy Movement

India is ripe for revolution ?

We are posting this episode from Bloomberg TV because it is interesting.But this is a bourgeois liberal view of the present Indian situation.

The Coup: We got the Guillotine!

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Posted by Mike E on October 14, 2012

From The Coup’s new album that drops in two days (10/16).

Boots said in an interview (Wired):

“‘We got the guillotine’ means we have the power to get rid of the ruling class to create a classless society,” he said. “One where the people democratically control the wealth that they create with their labor”

Wanna write a review for Kasama?

for the song lyrics >>>

'Monsanto & Frankenstein next!' Max Keiser destroys 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

Executions, Official and Unofficial… the Killing Thing About American Democracy

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This Is the Imperialist System…
This Is What They Want You to Vote For

October 7, 2012 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

If you are horrified by how Black and Latino youth in cities across the country are gunned down by police for some b.s. reason or for no reason at all…if you are outraged at the blatantly racist way disproportionate numbers of Black people are thrown into and executed on death row…and if you are being pulled into the presidential election circus at the same time, then you need to confront this reality: Voting for either candidate means voting for a system that carries out unjust executions, official and unofficial.

The essence of the democratic “rule of law” in the U.S. is the monopoly over the legitimate use of violence by the state to protect and enforce the rule of the capitalist-imperialist class. In practice, wanton illegitimate killing by police—overwhelmingly of Black youth, as well as Latinos and youth of other oppressed nationalities—is so ever-present that the essential “coming of age” talk Black parents must have with their teenage sons is not about sex but about how to act when stopped by cops, in hopes of minimizing the chance of their becoming another police murder statistic. This terror against African-Americans as a people is the modern-day version of the “legal” lynchings of thousands of Black men during the hundred years of Jim Crow.

Presentations from the E4E: Communist strategy today

We are posting the following for the sake of discussion.We have differences with ideas expressed in the post.

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Posted by eric ribellarsi on October 13, 2012

A panel of revolutionary speakers gathered on August 12 at the  Everything for Everyone Festival. The engagement was significant — both in its unities and diversity. The talks confronted a key issue for communist regroupment and action: How do we build a revolutionary movement today in the belly of this beast?

Let’s engage this discussion — and deepen our common purpose.

The audio of each talk is presented here in YouTube and MP3 format — in the order that they spoke at the  E4E plenum.

The speakers are:

• Mike Ely, Kasama Project
• Geoff Mc, formerly with Bring the Ruckus
• Shemon Salam,  Fire Next Time, formerly w/ Unity and Struggle
• Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
• Sopiko Japaridze, Take Back the Block, Atlanta
• Question and answer session 

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Mike Ely, Kasama Project:

MP3 – Mike Ely

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Geoff Mc, formerly with Bring the Ruckus:

MP3 – Geoff Mc

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Shemon Salam,  Fire Next Time, formerly w/ Unity and Struggle

MP3 – Shemon Salam

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Kali Akuno, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement:

MP3 – Kali Akuno

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Sopiko Japaridze, Take Back the Block, Atlanta:

MP3 – Sopiko Japaridze

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Question and Answers following the talks

RDF Statement - Condemn the Arrest of All India Fact-finding Team members at Koodankulam

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October 14, 2012

Revolutionary Democratic Front strongly condemns the illegal detention and, arrest and slapping of baseless charges on the members of an all-Indian fact finding team to Koodankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu. The members of the team included Varalaxmi (Secretary, Revolutionary Writers’ Association, Andhra Pradesh) Hamid, Secretary, Rayalaseema Karmika Samakhya, Dastagiri, student, Priyadharshini (Democratic Students Union, JNU), Keshavan (CPCL. Tamil Nadu), K.Palanisamy (Anti-imperialist Movement), Jagan (Students Uprising Movement for Social Welfare, SUMS), Agradi (Women’s Uprising Movement), Pratima (lawyer, Orissa), Damodar and Arvind (Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan, Jharkhand). The team was detained at Nanguneri in the morning of 12th October, which is 20 km away from Koodankulam and does not even fall under the 144 zone which has been declared within 7 km radius of Koodankulam. Yet the police detained them first for “illegal assembly”. After a daylong detention, at night, the police framed them under baseless yet draconian charges. They have been booked under sections 143, 188, 194(B), 353,362, 506(i), R/W 17(1) Criminal Law Amendment Act. Some of these charges are nonbailable and the CLA Act in particular is a draconian Act. The team members have been taken to Palayamkottai prison, and will be produced in court on Monday.

'Nobel Committee making another mistake'

Tariq Ali: EU Awarded Nobel Peace Prize Despite Ties To NATO, Crippling Austerity Cuts

http://www.democracynow.org/ Transcript 

AMY GOODMAN: We’re on the road in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on our 100-city tour. Check our website at tour.democracynow.org. We begin today’s show with the selection of the European Union for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for its historic role in uniting the continent. Committee chair Thorbjoern Jagland praised the EU for transforming Europe "from a continent of wars to a continent of peace." The selection of the European Union surprised many, as it comes at a time when much of Europe is facing an economic crisis that threatens the EU’s future. Just this past week, thousands of Greeks protested in Athens against a visit by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who has pushed Greece, Spain and Ireland to enact deep austerity measures. For more on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, we go to London, where we’re joined by Tariq Ali, political commentator, historian, activist and editor of the New Left Review. He is the author of over 20 books, including The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. He joins us by Democracy Now! video stream. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Tariq. 

TARIQ ALI: Hi, Amy. 

AMY GOODMAN: When you got up this morning and heard the news that the Nobel Prize committee has honored the European Union, given it the Nobel Peace Prize this year, your response? 

How will European leaders save struggling economies like Greece, Spain and Italy?

Fueling the Food Crisis

NCW Shamed into Reopening the Soni Sori Case After Gherao

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October 12, 2012

On 10 October, activists from women’s groups and several peoples’ organisations stormed the National Commission for Women (NCW), protesting against the continued inaction in the Soni Sori case. It has been one year since the arrest of 36-year old Soni Sori, an adivasi school warden from Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, and her custodial torture at the behest of the then SP of Dantewada, Ankit Garg. Soni Sori’s right to life and dignity have been violated by various jail and police authorities several times over – from foisting false cases against her, sexually torturing and humiliating her in the police station, denying her medical attention, and most recently, humiliating her by publicly stripping her in prison in the name of conducting physical search. It is also one year since women’s groups first met the NCW to seek their intervention.

Since the first meeting last year, these organizations have approached the NCW on several occasions to take steps against Soni Sori’s custodial torture and continuing ill treatment. Every single instance of illegality by police and jail authorities was brought to the attention of the (NCW). Soni Sori herself wrote to the NCW seeking their help. But all this has fallen on deaf ears.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: How serious a threat to U.S. world domination?

From A World to Win News Service

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September 10, 2012. A World to Win News Service. The twelfth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) took place in Beijing in June. The SCO is a regional organization comprising China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as full members, and Mongolia, Iran, India and Pakistan as observers (Afghanistan was admitted as an observer in this year's summit). The most important feature of this year's meeting was its strong position against "external" intervention and regime-change attempts in the Middle Eastern countries, a clear reference to Syria and Iran.

The summit was intended to be a show of unity and success, demonstrating its members' common interests and concerns regarding world and regional political affairs, while insisting that the SCO is not a military bloc.

China: Rise in forced evictions fuelling discontent

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.in/ While Democracy and Class Struggle has many problems with the selectivity of Amnesty International and its pro Imperialist bias - we agree with its report and the problems and issues it highlights in China. Note Martin McCauley's harsh comments in video above on Bo Zilai has a very "dangerous man" which supports the idea that he has been set up by a combination of Chinese criminal capitalist interests, a theory advanced by Minqi Li. Altogether the great fear advanced by Andrew Leung is that of Maoism in China and the eclipse of Neo liberalism.This reminds me of comment of Henry C.K Liu. "The full impact of Mao's revolutionary spirit is yet to be released on Chinese society. A century from now,

Minqi Li - Neo Liberals Strengthen Control of China

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Democracy and Class Struggle has great respect for Minqi Li, and his views on Bo Zilai may be proved by future events. 

However we feel that working with Princelings like Bo Zilai are also part the Left's and the Maoist's problem in China. 

This goes back to the arrest of the Maoist Communist Party of China Preparatory Commission in Chongqing a few years ago.

However our comrades in China are the best judges of who to work with and our views are expressed has supportive criticism has a new wave of repression of comrades has been underway in China since last March and they need our support.

PDF of Minqi Li here:
The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy
http://digamo.free.fr/minqili08.pdf

The National Question in Scotland

http://www.lalkar.org/ Contributed by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) as a discussion article  Introduction The continuing decline of British imperialism, combined with the continuing decline of the working-class movement, has over the past at least three decades pushed the national question in Britain to the fore.  It is not the first time in history that such a period of reaction and decline has brought in its train disillusionment and a lack of faith in the common forces of the working class.  This lack of faith in a common bright future has caused sections of the British proletariat, particularly in Scotland, to take shelter under a national tent.  Even some organisations and individuals, calling themselves ‘socialist’ or ‘communist’ have not been immune from the disease of creeping nationalism. To the rising tide of nationalism, and the increase in the electoral support for the Scottish National Party (SNP), the Blair government responded by a devolution plan, endorsed in a referendum of 11 September 1997, which devolved some powers to a Scottish Parliament set up under this dispensation.  A Welsh Assembly, though with fewer powers than the Scottish Parliament, was also brought into existence.

Questions of Freedom and People’s Emancipation, by Kobad Ghandy in Tihar Jail

 

Mainstream, VOL L, No 35, August 18, 2012

[Kobad Ghandy from Tihar Jail now writes on the concept of freedom vis-à-vis present-day society as also in relation to a future just order, bringing out some causes for the failure of the erstwhile socialist states. It will comprise a series of five to six articles. —Editor]

PART I — THE CONTEXT

Communism is the return of man himself as a social, i.e. really human being, a complete and conscious return which assimilates all the wealth of previous development. Communism, as a fully developed naturalism, is humanism, and, as a fully developed humanism, is naturalism. It is the DEFINITIVE resolution of the antagonism between man and nature, and between man and man. It is the true solution of the conflict between existence and essence, between objectification and self-affirmation, between freedom and necessity, between individual and species. It is the solution of the riddle of history and knows itself to be this solution. —Karl Marx

Utopian? Maybe. Yet, it sounds like the ultimate in freedom, something toward which one could move towards, step by step. The rose of freedom in the above-mentioned garden, called by any other name, would, no doubt, smell as sweet. It may seem ironical to dream of freedom locked up in a jail within jail (the high-risk ward), with lathi-wielding cops breathing down one’s neck 24 hours a day, denied access to even the normal jail facilities. But dream one must to maintain one’s sanity under such conditions.

As Obama, Romney Hold 1st Debate, Behind the Secret GOP-Dem Effort to Shut Out Third Parties

On Afghan War 11th Anniversary, Vets Confront Mental Health Crisis, Suicide, Violence 3 of 3

On Columbus Day, Indigenous Urge Honoring Native Culture, Teaching Americas' Genocide 1 of 2

Revoke ban on RDF: Arundhati Roy

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Hyderabad, Indian Express News Service, Sept 24, 2012

Writer and social activist Arundhati Roy on Sunday demanded an immediate revoke of the ban imposed on Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) in the state.

Addressing the gathering at a meeting organised by the Viplava Rachaitala Sangham (Revolutionary Writers' Association) against the ban, Roy termed the ban unconstitutional and urged the members to keep on with their struggle against state-sponsored violence. "RDF is not a armed organisation. It's activities are in consonance with the Indian constitution. Then why is it banned?," she questioned.

However, she said that the ban had indirectly helped the RDF in growing strong. "The ban has indirectly benefited the RDF. It has allowed it to grow stronger and the bond among it's members and with the people grow deeper," she said. She lauded RDF's members for fighting for the human rights of the dalits and the adivasis in rural India.

"The ban has forced mass migration of RDF's members from Hyderabad to either Delhi or to the rural parts of the state but still the organisation has grown stronger in the state capital, she said indicating to it's swell of ranks during the first national conference of the RDF in Hyderabad on April this year.

However, she seemed a bit disappointed on finding no expression of emotion or anger on the faces of RDF's members against the ban. "We have stopped thinking and fighting against inequality and discrimination in the society. That is why we are not getting angry," she explained.

The RDF has limited itself to organising meetings in protest against violation of constitutional rights. It is unfortunate that governments are still using outdated oppressive colonial laws to suppress the democratic rights of the people, said president of the state unit of RPI and senior High Court advocate Bojja Tarakam. Virasam state secretary Varalakshmi, HRF president S Jeevan Kumar spoke on the occasion. The seven-year-old RDF is a democratic organisation active across India in fighting for the rights of the downtrodden.

Maoist Political Prisoner, Septuagenarian Sushil Roy

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See, below, four articles on Sushil Roy:  -- an appeal for justice and humanitarian medical release;  --an interview on current CPI(Maoist) political relations; -- a brief biographic note; -- and a 2006 letter written soon after Sushil Roy's arrest, challenging the CPI(M)'s parliamentary road and the WB "Left Front" repression of revolutionaries.

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Septuagenarian Maoist Sushil Roy, known as Comrade Som, who is one of the two oldest political prisoners of the India at present, an inmate of Giridih Mandal Kara (district level jail), has been admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after being brought from a ward at RIMS, a government medical hospital at Ranchi of Jharkhand. He was shifted from the jail to hospital after an inordinate delay first to RIMS in Ranchi, when he was not able to swallow any food for over 10 days and had become extremely weak and virtually crippled as a result of his medical history and cruel neglect of medical treatment for 7 years in jails. This delay was caused by the refusal of the Jharkhand police to provide him a secure mode of transport from Giridih jail to Ranchi. Had it not been for the hue and cry raised by several people's organizations and his younger brother, Dr. Shyamal Roy, who happens to be his only close relative, about his likely death in that jail, even this belated treatment would not have been possible. Shushil Roy is considered to be the senior most leader of the CPI (Maoist) after the united Party emerged in 2004 and he inaugurated the United CPI (Maoist).

Several people's organizations in India have been demanding:

Greece’s Golden Dawn: Deeply Entrenched in the State Apparatus

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Posted by onehundredflowers on September 29, 2012

A banner held at a protest against Golden Dawn

Far from being tamed, parliamentary legitimacy appears only to have emboldened the extremists. In recent weeks racially-motivated attacks have proliferated. Immigrants have spoken of their fear of roaming the streets at night following a spate of attacks by black-clad men on motorbikes. Street vendors from Africa and Asia have also been targeted.

Greek police send crime victims to neo-Nazi ‘protectors’

by Helena Smith

Greece‘s far-right Golden Dawn party is increasingly assuming the role of law enforcement officers on the streets of the bankrupt country, with mounting evidence that Athenians are being openly directed by police to seek help from the neo-Nazi group, analysts, activists and lawyers say.

In return, a growing number of Greek crime victims have come to see the party, whose symbol bears an uncanny resemblance to the swastika, as a “protector”.

Tamil Nadu - Looting tanks and hillocks while farmers denied their rights

http://sanhati.com/articles/5641/

October 2, 2012

by R. Seenivasan [1]

By now, looting of minerals and causing destruction of forests and mountains are well known. However, the damages done to the surviving historic water systems like tanks are relatively less understood and poorly articulated. While, the native farmers are denied their long held customary rights to take silt, sand and soil from their tanks the loot by mafia type miner operations goes unchecked. The article highlights such massive loot by the miners of tanks and adjoining hillocks, and the harassment to those who oppose. The precarious situations of tanks that are facing different abuses are pushed into this new phenomenon.

‘Tanks and hillocks destroyed’

In May 2012, the district collector of Madurai in Tamil Nadu based on numerous complaints from farmers about their ‘tanks (water bodies) being encroached and dug up for mining’ made enquiries and prepared a report. Unlike the usual slipshod and eyewash enquiries made on similar petitions from the ordinary people, activists and historians this report was unusually different. The Collector found many of the allegations made in them were true. He reported, from four revenue villages in Melur taluk that over Rs 16,000 crores worth of granites were illegally mined and carried away. At least 35 tanks, of which many holding water for six months drawing from the Periyar reservoir were encroached and damaged by digging or dumping. The net loss to the government through this mining is still debated and the loot is estimated to be several hundred crores within this district. Thereafter, the collector was transferred out [2].

‘Tank soil smuggler shot dead’

Tamil Nadu - Update on the anti-nuclear protest at Koodankulam

http://sanhati.com/articles/5534/

October 2, 2012

How to Kill a Democracy

by S. P. Udayakumar

Kuthenkuzhi
September 21, 2012

Anoint a colonized World Bank clerk as the Chief Executive with American blessings
And have him dance to imperial tunes and MNC notes with Swadeshi songs and swings.
Include all the rogues, rascals and rowdies as coalition partners and co-conspirators;
Make “Loot and Let Loot” the philosophy of governance and principle of administration.

Grant licenses, permits, and permissions for high amounts of kickbacks and commission;
Even if the country loses income and profit, just increase your cuts without any remission.
Appropriate real estates and properties, accumulate wealth and ascertain aggrandizement;
Hoard the money in Swiss banks, and have Quattrocchis operate ‘em without advertisement.

Open up national economy for Foreign Direct Investment and stringent structural adjustments;
Set up nuclear power plants all over and prop up foreign economies and nuclear establishments;
Build more nuclear weapons, blast more ballistic missiles with corrupt military procurements;
Turn the country into a super-poor superpower with these deadly political determinants.

If anyone challenges any of this, call them anti-national, unpatriotic and even seditious;
Claim they’re waging a war on the State even as you wage on them a war malicious.
Repeat the accusation they’re instigated by external powers, foreign money and spies abhorrent;
Foist false cases, vandalize their properties, raid their homes, send summons and arrest warrant.

Ignore global civil society, deem your citizens your own slaves and treat ‘em as you please;
Flout international norms, forswear human rights, forsake human dignity and citizens’ ease;
Stamp out democratic space, snub any political dissent, and silence any whispers and murmurs;
Turn hope and faith into fear and hate; engage media goons, and employ terrorism discourses;

And thus you can kill your democracy slowly, softly and surely!