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All India Party Congress

Held Successfully(We are publishing here a statement issued by the Central Committee

of CPI(ML)-Democracy on November 2, 2013 on the successful conclusion

of the All India Party Congress.)

All India Party Congress (2013) of Communist Party of India (Marxist-

Leninist)-New Democracy was held successfully in Com. Pyla VasudevRao Nagar. Delegate sessions of the Congress were conducted in Com.Paltu Sen Hall. Delegates representing Party work in twelve states

participated in the Congress with great enthusiasm. Congress deliberationswere marked by high level of understanding backed by long participation in

building and conducting the revolutionary struggles and great optimism inthe prospects of New Democratic Revolution in the country and Partys

due role in it. Party Congress in particular focused on expanding anddeveloping areas of sustained resistance and dealt with problems

encountered in this course.Party Congress began its proceedings by paying homage to martyrs

belonging to the Party and other communist revolutionary organizations, to

those who have fallen in attacks by landlords, mafia and state forces, toParty leaders who have died in the period since last Party Congress, to

martyrs of anti-displacement movements and those who died fightingimperialism and reaction in different parts of the world.

Party Congress analyzed present national and international situationand formulated Partys immediate tasks. International situation has

undergone significant change. Struggles of the people against aggression

by imperialist countries, against reactionaries backed by imperialists intheir countries and also workers struggles particularly in developed capitalist

countries are intensifying. Party Congress assessed that Internationalsituation though complex, is growing favourable for growth and development

of revolutionary movements and peoples struggles in the world.

International situation is marked by deepening economic crisis of

imperialism leading to increasing attacks on the workers in differentcountries, attempts by imperialist countries to seize natural resources and

wage wars for that leading to intensification of the contradictions amothem. Owing to the national struggles of people of Iraq and Afghanist

and other countries against US led military aggression and occupation aexplosion of world financial-economic crisis from 2008, US imperialismdrive for securing world hegemony has stalled. It is no longer in a posit

to wage wars unilaterally and to alone impose war and settle the questof peace in the world. Therefore, Party Congress concluded that unipo

world brought about by the collapse of the Soviet Union and disintegratof the camp led by it, has come to an end and the world has becom

multipolar. Recent developments in Syria have vindicated this position

Party Congress also discussed development of China where capitalihad been restored decades back. With China exporting capital to ma

third world countries, developing zones of investment there, contendwith other imperialist powers for control over backward countries and thnatural resources, it has developed into a social-imperialist country.

Party Congress expressed its support and solidarity with revolution

communist movement against imperialism and reaction, with natiostruggles against aggressions and subversions by imperialist powe

particularly US imperialism, with workers' struggles against attemptsshift the burden of the deepening economic crisis onto them and agai

their worsening conditions.

Party Congress concluded that US imperialism continues to be the mtarget of world peoples struggles. Party Congress resolved to bu

movements against imperialist wars and aggressions with forces opposto imperialist aggressions.

Party Congress discussed in depth situation obtaining in the countEconomic crisis is deepening as exemplified by declining rate of grow

rising fiscal deficit, rising current account deficit, declining value of t

currency, runaway inflation and worsening condition of the overwhelmmajority of the people. Ruling classes subservience to imperialism, thpolicies serving the interests of corporate and landlord classes are at troot of the deepening crisis. New economic policies ushered in at t

dictates of imperialist powers and financial institutions controlled by thhave benefited only a small section while plunging large population in

increasing poverty, destitution and unemployment. All indices of sochealth are low, with India having largest number of hungry, sufferers

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ontinues as shown by growing political instability and conflicts within organs

f power of the state. Party Congress like the earlier one, characterizedhis situation as of growing political instability with policy consensus among

ruling class parties. Revolutionary situation is growing favourable for therevolutionary movement though in semifeudal semicolonial India it is

unevenly developed in different parts of the country.

At the root of the economic crisis is agrarian-industrial crisis. Agriculture

remains stagnant with land continuing to be concentrated in the hands of a

ew with top 5% owning 44% of the land and bottom 60% owning practicallylittle, less than 10% of the lands. Employment of capitalist methods to

absorb the inputs of the MNCs, have only led to declining rate of growth,increasing pollution of soil, depleting water table and increasing indebtedness

f the peasantry while agriculture in the vast areas continues to be carriedn by backward means. Employment of rural poor is declining. While Food

Security Bill, mostly a repackaging of existing schemes, admits to 75% ofhe rural poor being hungry, MNREGS has been mired with low wages andhigh corruption. On the other hand, industry is frequently suffering negative

rowth rate with manufacturing sector being hardest hit. Service sectorontributing 56% of the GDP is slowing, hit by declining demand in western

imperialist countries. Workers and peasants are suffering from attempts tourther squeeze them, with no attempts to implement labour laws and further

ontractualization of labour, and rising cost of inputs and lack oforresponding increase in the prices of produce in agriculture.

Party Congress welcomed the upswing in the movement of tribals andther peasants against forcible displacements, expressing its full solidarity

and support to these struggles. These struggles have posed a concrete

hallenge to the attempts of the ruling classes to further implementation ofnew economic policies and to sell the natural resources of the country at

hrowaway prices. We firmly oppose forcible acquisition of land, diversion

f agricultural land for industrial purposes and any land for MNCs. The newLand Acquisition law is only an attempt to smoothen land acquisition. PartyCongress demanded scrapping of Polavaram project which is aimed mainlyat providing water for corporate.

While increasing unemployment is hitting the youth with fewerpportunities of employment, education is subject to increasing attempts

at opening it to imperialist countries, changing its pattern to suit their entry,high cost of higher education adversely affecting girls, dalits, backwards

and minorities. Ruling classes are facilitating propagation of decade

culture from imperialist countries while preserving anti-women and andalit aspects of the feudal culture.

Condemning increasing attacks on women, particularly on dalit and powomen, Party Congress welcomed recent upswing in the struggle of wom

and youth against attacks on women. Party Congress also vowed to intensits efforts to fight caste oppression and attacks on dalits.

Party Congress also noted that higher judiciary has emerged as one

the main players in implementat ion of new economic policies. While it acton the concerns of upper and middle classes, it showed utter disdaincases of lower classes as shown in acquittal in several cases of massac

of landless poor peasants in Bihar.

Party Congress also expressed its concern at attacks on minoriti

particularly Muslims, on their lives and property. In the context of comielections in 2014, there is an attempt to unleash communal violence

RSS-BJP combine to come to power. Their projection of Modi and his Gujamodel is a combination of majority communalism and all out service

corporate interests. Party Congress decided that we should wage

determined struggle against all forms of communalism, taking Hincommunalism as the main at present and exposing Hindutva.

Party Congress condemned the increasing attacks on democratic rig

of the people of which communist revolutionaries are the main targenactment of black laws like UAPA, strengthening the paramilitary apolice forces in numbers and deadly weaponry, deployment of huge numb

of paramilitary personnel in Chhatisgarh and elsewhere against communrevolutionaries, particularly CPI(Maoist), operation Green Hunt & other for

of war on people.

Party Congress condemned the Govt. attack on struggles of Kashm

people for right to self-determination and expressed solidarity with thstruggle.

Party Congress demanded immediate tabling of Bill in Parliament creation of Telengana and condemned the ruling class parties for trying

create hatred among Telugu people. Party Congress also supported tdemand for Gorkhaland considering these demands as democratic deman

Party Congress resolved to intensify struggles of peasants, worke

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omen, dalits, tribals, youth and students. Among all the struggles, Party

Congress held that building and developing resistance movement is theprincipal task of the Party. Without building resistance movement, Party

annot play a significant role in guiding the struggles of the people in theirection of revolutionary movement. Party Congress instructed the new

Central Committee to devote its full energy to advance this task.

As an organizational preparation for this struggle, Party Congressiscussed in depth a proposal to build a strong party of a particular type

necessary to fulfill its principal task and approved the same. Party Congress

irected all Party committees to follow the approach outlined in the documentand directions issued in pursuance to it.

About the various alien trends in the Party and communist revolutionarymovement, Party Congress called upon all Party ranks to fight right andleft deviations taking right deviation as the main danger at present. Party

Congress approved a special document calling for intensifying struggleagainst revisionism and right deviation.

All India Party Congress reviewed the Party activities over the last nineears. Delegates offered their frank and constructive views, appreciated

hat was done well by the erstwhile Central Committee and pointed outhat they considered were the deficiencies. There was penetratingiscussion on what were the causes of these deficiencies.

All India Party Congress decided that new CC should set up separateState Committees for Party work in Telengana and Andhra Pradesh.

Having heard a report on the splittist and disruptive activities of Coms.

Chandram, Tanya and SV in Andhra Pradesh, their setting up parallel Partyand mass organizations there and also CCs patient pursuance of these

members of erstwhile CC to stop and withdraw splittist activities and theirrefusal to follow CCs decisions in this regard, Party Congress expelled

Coms. Chandram, Tanya and SV from the Party.All India Party Congress elected a Central Committee to lead and guide

he Partys work. New Central Committee elected Com. Yatendra Kumar

as General Secretary of the Party. The concluding session outlined thePartys tasks in the immediate future and called upon all Party committees

and ranks to gear up to unleash the revolutionary struggles and help theCC fulfill the tasks decided by the Party Congress. Party Congress closed

ith rendering of Internationale in which all the delegates participated.

Once Again Demonstration of Multipolar World

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not the fine print. The very fact of such a deal between western powe

particularly USA, and Iran, itself a culmination of the change in internatiosituation, has sent shock waves through the middle-east. The stage this was set by the failure or unwillingness or both of US Admn. to launairstrikes against Syria after August 21 morning chemical attack there a

an agreement, brokered by Russia, reached to bring Syrian chemicweapons under UN control and their ultimate destruction. It was follow

by the phone call made by US President Obama to newly elected Presidof Iran, Rouhani, when he had come to participate in UN General Assemb

Fast forward to nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1 (Five permanmembers of UN Security Council- USA, Russia, Britain, France, China a

Germany). Meeting in early November itself almost reached an agreemeFrance blocked it but not for long. Ten days later the agreement was finareached in Geneva, an interim agreement for six months to be followed

full agreement later. The deal is partial lifting of sanctions in exchange freezing the nuclear programme by Iran at the present stage. The essen

point is agreement by the western powers to Irans right to Uraniuenrichment which has so long been refused by the western powers; res

the ingredients of the deal were already there to be taken.

What compelled the US Admn. to accept this deal even in face of fieopposition of Israel, its powerful lobby in America and also its allies- Ar

monarchs? And what does it signify for USA and the world situation as

whole?

Unipolar world brought about by disintegration of earlier Soviet Unand collapse of social imperialist camp, was beset with deep contradictio

First Gulf War formally proclaimed it. Economic crisis of the sole survivsuperpower was deepening. Its share in the world production and wo

trade was declining. Unipolar world was brought about not by any shaincrease in the economic or military strength of US imperialism, but

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ollapse of its main rival, the other superpower, Soviet social imperialism.

hough US imperialism too was facing the crisis of excessive militaryexpenditure, but due to wider economic base it could manage it better than

its rival. However, the same factors which brought down social imperialistuperpower were working for US imperialism too, and they had to catch up

ith time. Other capitalist countries undermined US monopoly in severalectors while labour intensive production was transferred to third worldountries to utilize their cheap labour, natural resources and markets.

Beset with relative decline in economic power but with opportunity ofbeing way ahead of other imperialist powers militarily, US imperialism

undertook to secure its realm, the world hegemony through military means.Controlling the world energy sources, trade routes and having its military

bases throughout the world, US imperialist rulers sought to fashion theorld under its secure hegemony. They tried to impose world order where

its large monopolies would rule the roost, their economic advantage wouldome into play and wherever that was inadequate, their allies and vulnerable

rulers would be arm twisted, there being no alternative for them. Big military

expansion was put into effect. Attack on WTC towers and Pentagon inSeptember 2001, was utilized by the US rulers to declare war against the

orld people treating whosoever was not with them, as against them.fghanistan was attacked in October 2001 with UN approval and Iraq in

March 2003 without UN approval with the coalition of the willing. USimperialist rulers hoped that with Afghanistan and Iraq firmly under their

ccupation, Iran, with one of the biggest oil and gas reserves will fall or be

ccupied with ease. However, these calculations of the aggressors wentawry. People of Afghanistan and Iraq waged national wars of such intensity

hat they did not remain mere TV spectacles. Body bags started arriving inlarge numbers and US Armys massacres of the people of these countries

increasingly isolated the aggressors.

Riding on US wars of aggression, Zionist Israeli rulers unleashed a warf aggression on Lebanon in 2006 bombing it savagely and t rying to crushHizbullah, the organized anti-Israel resistance of people of Lebanon. The

ar which was supposed to deliver the new Middle-east, turned into a

nightmare for Zionist aggressors and their western imperialist backers andIsrael had to beat a hasty retreat. 2006 misadventure exposed the limits of

power of US and its allies and their ability to impose their will on the region.

These wars of aggression, besides testing and dent ing the military might

of US imperialism also added to its economic hardships. The wars we

being financed by economic bubbles while its trade deficit continuedmount. The bubble burst in 2008 and the world financial economic cri

exploded. Continuing these wars became untenable while oppositionthese wars mounted. Neocons had had their day and the strategy had to

readjusted to the changing times.

The evidence of declining US ability to decide the question of war a

peace was not long in coming. In 2008, egged on by US imperialisSakshavilli Govt. in Georgia moved its Army to militarily capture Osse

and Abkhazia regions which were under Russian influence and patronagRussian retribution was quick and effective. Russian Army threw tGeorgian Army out of these areas which also brought it close to the propos

pipeline carrying gas from Azerbaijan to western Europe through GeorgMore importantly, US remained a silent spectator to this military drubb

of Georgia and looked the other way discolouring the revolution of Georand undermining its lackey ruling there. It demonstrated that period of

unilateralism was over. US no longer remained able to all alone wage a wand enforce peace in different regions of the world. It was first cledemonstration of a multipolar world long developing in the womb of unipo

world, having come into existence.In the background of the explosion of world financial economic cri

and wars of aggression running aground in Afghanistan and Iraq, peopleArab countries started rising against their ruling dictatorships who we

increasing burden on the people implementing neoliberal economic policwhile crushing peoples resistance under military boots. Peoples upsur

termed as Arab Spring started from Tunisia, quickly spread to Egypt aother countries. These upsurges succeeded in throwing out the hat

military dictators in Tunisia and Egypt while the old state structure remainin place. Uprisings in other countries opened the deep fissures in tho

societies and ruling classes worked to deepen these fissures to stem ttide of peoples struggles. US imperialism and is middle-east allies- Isrand Gulf monarchies- were shaken by this upsurge. They saw an opportun

in this adversity for them and sought to utilize this uprising to thadvantage- regime change in some countries towards whose rulers th

were not favourably disposed and suppressing with military might whertargeted their own allies utilizing fissures in their societies. Gulf monarch

led by Saudi rulers tried to turn this spring of peoples protests into chwinter of reactionary bloodshed, tried to drown peoples struggles in Sh

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Sunni war targeting Iran as their main adversary. In order to crush this

serpents head the Gulf monarchies turned what were democratic protestsin Syria into sectarian war recruiting jihadis, funding and arming them and

ran a worldwide campaign to portray it as a part of Arab Spring. US andestern powers saw in this an opportunity to further tighten their control on

middle-east and like in Libya where they overthrew Gaddafi regime withmilitary might, they sought to impose regime change in Syria employingmilitary might in the name of protection of civilians. But this time other

powers did not cooperate as the civil war in Syria continued with Syrian

rmy holding out despite all sorts of help from US, other western powers,Gulf monarchies and even Turkey which saw in these events an opportunityo expand its influence in Levante. Turkish rulers gave up their avowed

policy of zero problems with neighbours in favour of all out interference inSyria to affect regime change.

Protests of Arab people which resulted in dethroning of military dictatorsin Tunisia and Egypt brought Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to power in theelections. Muslim Brotherhood had neither initiated nor participated in the

peoples upsurge but was the best organized force in these societies besidesarmed forces. Coming to power of Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia and more

importantly Egypt, emboldened Turkish rulers who themselves belong toMB, and Qatar rulers whose TV channel Al Jazeera had played an important

role in these changes while Saudi rulers were alarmed as MB has beenhostile to Saudi ruling family and hundreds of MB activists are in prison inSaudi Arabia and its allied monarchies. Saudi ruling family, most important

ally of US imperialism among Arab rulers, had to fight on two fronts- Iranand MB. While Syria became a crucial bone of contention between Saudi

rabia and allied Gulf monarchies and Turkey and Qatar, Saudi rulers alsolent their support to Egyptian Army in overthrowing MB leader Morsis Govt.

his contradiction manifested itself in growing clashes

Control over Syria has been important for US imperialism, its westEuropean allies and Gulf monarchies for a number of reasons. WestEuropean powers, Gulf monarchies and Turkey have been eying pumpingGulf gas through a pipeline running through Syria onwards to Turkey to

estern Europe to reduce dependence on Russian gas supplies. Controlver Syria is also important to US, Israel and Gulf monarchies to weaken

and isolate Iran and disrupt its links with Hizbullah of Lebanon. While thesehave been long term goals of these powers, the tilting of balance in civil

ar in Syria in favour of President Bashir Assads Syrian Army and

intensifying contradictions among US allies in middle-east beca

precipitating factors in Syria for US military intervention. However, Rusand China were this time in no mood to oblige signifying increas

contradictions among imperia list forces and their fear of totally losing ainfluence in the crucial region. US imper ialist rulers, pressed by their all

and deterred by rising anti-war sentiments in their countries and inabilityunwillingness to enter another war in the middle-east, tried to use limitair strikes to pacify their allies and also tilt the balance of forces in Syria

favour of anti-Govt. forces. However, failure to get UN approval a

unwillingness of their domestic opinion with UK parliament voting againsand majority of US MPs being opposed to it, US Admn. had to clutch tstraw offered by Russia to bring chemical weapons of Syria und

international control and destroy them. These developments signified only an increased role of Russia in the middle-east and world affairs, b

more importantly a failure on part of US imperialism to take unilatedecisions on war and peace and to impose its will on the people of Syrmiddle-east and the world at large.

Failure to launch aggressive war against Syria set the stage for U

imperialism to pursue its strategic goals through other means. While i

trying to keep its allies together, it is trying to broaden its reach to influenevents in middle-east and there Iran is an important country. Moreover,

imperialism is also looking to Irans help in keeping its influenceAfghanistan after bringing down its military strength there. Forwa

movement in talks on Irans nuclear programme should be looked in tbackground.

Coming to the deal proper, it faces domestic opposition both in U

and Iran. In America, sections of ruling classes and immensely powepro-Israel Jewish lobby there is exerting utmost to frustrate the deal. U

Congress is embarking on considering new sanctions against Iran, a mocertainly against the Geneva agreement. Sections of the US ruling imperiabourgeoisie do not feel the need for readjustment to changing world situat

and wish to continue with the old strategy and would do all to undermiGeneva agreement though some sections are also eying larger share

Iranian oil and gas. Israeli Prime Minister has termed the deal a historimistake. Basically Israel does not want any powerful country in the midd

east which may become a rallying point for the people and may boost tPalestinian resistance. Gulf monarchies particularly Saudi Arabia are a

against the deal as they fear the spread of Iranian influence and an

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monarchy sentiments in their own countries. Saudi Arabia fears the most

as its neighbour Baharin has overwhelming majority of Shias while it isruled by monarchy allied to Saudi Arabia and USA. Even more importantly,

eastern province of Saudi Arabia where most of the fossil fuel fields arelocated, has a heavy population of Shias. Saudi monarchy has a deep fear

f democratic currents taking hold of their people. Hence it is doing all thatis possible to divert the upswing in peoples struggles in Arab world intoectarian channels and to suppress the peoples risings with heavy hand

along with distributing some doles out of huge oil wealth its rulers have

amassed.

In Iran, the deal enjoys support from the dominant sections of rulinglergy while some sections of clergy and revolutionary guards are opposed

o the deal. Sections of clergy have excelled in their pursuit of wealth,hile sections of revolutionary guards coming from lower middle classes

and even working people, are agitated. But Iranian guided democracy whichtands out in face of its lack in Gulf monarchies, controlled by top echeleonsf clergy would be able to sell the deal. Main threat to the deal comes from

ruling circles of western imperialist powers which are loath to abandonregime change in Iran. The deal may face many stumbling blocks.

But what Geneva agreement signifies is that today imperialist world isno longer a unipolar world and tremors of this change are being felt around

he world. This change, evident since Georgian War of 2008, has beenemonstrated once again by the recent events. Though US imperialism

ontinues to be the biggest economic and military power in the world, it isnot in a position to unilaterally go to war and impose peace, in brief, nolonger in a position to decide the question of war and peace all alone or

ith its coalitions of willing. However, US imperialism continues to be themain trouble maker in the world and main aggressor and plotter against

ountries, nations and people of the world. It obviously is the main target

f world peoples struggles.As the world becomes multipolar from unipolar, it retains some of the

eatures of the erstwhile unipolar world. US imperialism continues to be animportant player in almost all parts of the world while no other single country

has such a wide reach and influence. On the other hand, it may also haveome features of bipolar world which preceded the unipolar world, particularly

in view of the assertion of Russia in middle-east and eastern Europe. Buthe world is not reverting to bipolar world as many other powers have

emerged which exercise dominating influence in other parts of the wo

Africa and Latin America are witnessing deeper penetration of Chinecapital as well as Chinese military presence besides Chinese asser tion

Eastern Asia. China is also second largest economic power, moreovhaving much surplus. Japan is also rearming itself. European countr

are beset with lot of economic problems and political divisions, yecontinues to remain a big economy and position is Germany is gettincreasingly strengthened. The inter-imperialist contradictions a

intensifying in the backdrop of declining power of US imperialis

competition and contention among them for share of natural resources amarkets is escalating.

As this multipolar world has been brought about by the operation of lo

working factors, its emergence has been slow to be recognized. This chanmust be understood by the revolutionary forces as it improves t

international situation facing the revolutionary movements the wor ld ov

IFTU's successful entry inAurobindo Pharmacy Limited

Aurobindo Pharma company with huge turn over of 5600 crores

situated at PydiBheemavaram, Shrikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh. Tplace is a prime sector for Pharma Industry for bulk drug production alo

with prominent companies of DIVIs, Reddy Labaratories, Andhra OrganiMatraix Labs etc.

The employees of Aurobindo Pharma Limited started their struggle fyears back and finally got organized on their own against the managem

to achieve the basic rights like minimum wages, job security, minimamenities. They conducted strikes on Dec. 2012, Feb. 2013 and Mar2013. But the financially strong management threatened them and den

any such relief to the employees. The well educated employees of AurobinPharma Limited approached IFTU after knowing thoroughly about IFTU a

its core activities and successful achievements in Nellimarla Jute Missues along with several other jute Mills whose issues were hand

successfully in the same District. The management got frightened a

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uggested to its employees to select any union other than IFTU. But

employees rejected the management's advice and they selected IFTU.

Immediately Aurobindo Pharma management formed a syndicate with

ome other prominent pharma companies in the same belt, with the solemotive of obstructing the formation of the trade union by IFTU .At the

ame time the said syndicate pressurized and influenced the DistCollector, Superintendent of Police, State Labour Minister, and Dist

Ministers. Aurobindo Pharma management succeeded in delaying theregistration of the union affiliated to IFTU. Then the union continued itsrepresentations and demonstration for our legal rights in formation of the

union. The obstacles created by the political leaders along with State LabourMinister Mr. Danam Nagendra were openly revealed by the Labour

Commissioner in the meeting held at Hyderabad with 10 Trade Unionrepresentatives.

During the process of registration, we exposed the role of State LabourMinister Mr. Danam Nagendra in several ways. IFTU also conducted atate wide demonstration in this regard. In Hyderabad IFTU state committee

onducted massive Dharna also. Other trade unions expressed solidarityith this programme. Employees conducted a rally with effigy of State

Labour Minister Mr. Danam Nagendra at various places.

Management even kidnapped three members listed to register the trade

union by name Jagadesh, Durga and Prasad on May 20, 2013 and offeredan amount of Rs.15 lakhs to withdraw from trade union. After successful

escape from the management's goondas they filed a complaint in localpolice station but the police instead of registering a case against themanagement, filed a case against active trade union members. Later

management understood that they could not even succeed after registeringa false police case so they finally transferred nine key members of the

rade union to Hyderabad unit to demoralize other employees. In protest

against this, employees conducted a tool down strike and later on 12.07.2013it led to strike. In that strike more than 75% of the employees participated.Management tried harassment from all angles like arrests, show causenotices, dismissal notices etc. Even some employees were brought from

Hyderabad unit to continue the production. But the spirit of employees waso continue their protest strongly.

On 06.08.2013 registration process was completed in Aurobindo Phrama

unit after crossing all the hurdles for more than several months. This is

very good result, but the illegal transfer of nine employees from parent uto Hyderbad unit had not been resolved and struggle continued. Managem

rejected talks with IFTU. Thereafter employees conducted ChaCollectorate Rally, Rally to MRO office, Blockage of Deputy Commission

of Labour etc.

When the employees protested on 19.08.2013 police lathicharged IF

leaders and filed cases against K. Sanyasi Rao and Mallik along with members and arrested them, even though employees stood stubbornlyachieve their demands. APCLC, Human Rights Forum, Trade Unio

expressed solidarity with this struggle and conducted several meetinunder the leadership of IFTU. These solidarity meetings gave and improv

employees' self confidence for achieving their goals. On 20.09.2013 IFconducted huge massive protest before Labour Commissioner office

Hyderabad. In this protest Aurobindo Phrama Employees numbering 9travelled all the way of 800 Km to reach Hyderabad and participated in tprotest and all the 10 trade unions expressed solidarity once again w

this protest.

During the process Human Rights Commission reacted and serv

summons to Aurobindo Pharma management. In this situation the Gomachinery and Aurobindo Phrama management climbed down and cal

for negotiations before State Labour Commissioner at Hyderabad resultin an agreement with IFTU with following conditions:

1) All the dismissed 42 employees would be taken back to wounconditionally.

2) The key members of trade union who were transferred to Hyderabunit would be relocated to or iginal unit of PydiBheemavaram, Shrikakul

Dist. unit after 4 months.

On 02.10.2013 IFTU conducted a victory rally at Vizainagaram

In Andhra Pradesh this is first entry for IFTU in multi core pharma secand the first experience also. Aurobindo Phrama consists of 2000 employe

along with 3700 contract labour with huge employees strength in nearpharmacy sector companies. IFTU crossing the primary hurdles to eninto the big corporate den is a big milestone. In future it gives lot of ho

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The issue of violence against women exclusively, sexual violence

pecifically, has come sharply on agenda since December 2012 with thehuge upsurge of movement against it in Delhi. This mass movement in

Delhi was around the gang rape and fight for life of Amanat or Nirbhay. Theocus was pointedly on two issues failure of governance in issues ofiolence against women and against attitudes to women ie patriarchal

alues. The protestors demanded surety of convictions which almost allparliamentary political parties tried to modify to hard action, harsh action

i.e. hanging. But the overwhelming opinion was that laws exist but not theill to implement them. Those who are to implement them the police,

ourts, judiciary, bureaucrats, the ruling polity are conditioned in theame values as the perpetrators of sexual crimes against women. The

need for societys fight against patriarchy was surely the message of themovement, along with a fight against the governance which sustains thisattitude and refuses to implement laws. While moans about the black blot

n the victim and of her future life as a living dead emanated fromParliament, the protestors revelled in her fight for life, for justice, for being

a brave heart. That all these understandings could prevail was due not alittle to the consistent presence of democratic and progressive elementsand organizations among the protestors. All the womens organizations

ere forced to stand with these positions on 8 thMarch, including AIDWA,hough CPM stood for hanging in aggravated rapes.

Similar movements came up again and again in similar incidents inMumbai, Calcutta and even in Delhi itself, though none were of the scale

f the Amanat struggle. In Delhi, repeated movements broke out against

rapes of minor girls and police apathy or inaction, with gradually the demandevolving to disbanding this colonial era police, as at a point, almost routinely

action was being sought against some policeman or the other in the contextf these struggles.

There is however, another lesson also to be drawn. Gangrapes in public

places have been taking place in Delhi in the past few years too. But t

cases that caught attention and became centres of struggles concernworking girls, usually from call centres, returning from work very late

night and becoming victims of lumpens. This was linked to the openingof the night shift for women under the liberalization agenda of globalizati

It was chiefly demanded by MNCs and big corporate running call centrservice sectors like hotels and bars and of course the export and simiindustries which have been placing this demand for long. Howev

provisions for safe to and fro transport of women employees was not talk

about by govts and rarely implemented. The recent gangrape of a Mumjournalis t was also an attack on a working girl in the course of her duThe Amanat case was somewhat different and evoked a massive respon

because of the very ordinariness of the events. A girl and a boy goingsee a film which almost all middle class youth were seeing those days

the early evening in a multiplex. Coming to the bus stop early in the nigand getting no buses for two hours. Boarding a private bus which saidwas plying on the same route. It is the experience of just anyone of t

same socioeconomic status in Delhi. That is not to say that fairly larmovements did not take place in the earlier cases. The point to be noted

all these cases as well as in the recent Mumbai cases and also in t

cases of rapes of minors in Delhi, is that in all of them the rapists weanonymous, alienated, mostly migrants though not all, mostly with unstaemployment, living without families or with unstable social lives, outsithe identification and the answerability which life with roots in the commun

ensures. All were prey to imperialist culture with it commodificationwomen being rolled out in commercials and other programmes on televisi

in advertisements around the city and which supervenes on the conditionin patriarchal values. Their victims were alien to their social existence

belonged to other. This is an aspect which organizations should take noof for it underlines the need to fight the policies of the rulers which aleading to unemployment, to increasing rich poor divide and to this inf

of imperialist values and culture rather than targeting migrants as somruling politicians are doing. The big landlord big bourgeoisie rulers of Ind

while enshrining patriarchal values, are also facilitating th is inpouring amakes Indias youth so much more desirous of their proimperialist polici

In addition of course are several cases in which the cities' lumpeusually tied up with police and / or politicians, drawn from tradition

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misbehave with and perpetuate sexual violence against women not from

heir own communities.

Caste violence against women, including sexual violence

In November 2012 there were a series of brutal gang rapes of Dalit girls

by sons and men of landlord castes in Haryana. Ninteen rapes andangrapes were registered over forty days. As the dalits were all landless

hile the police are drawn mostly from the dominant caste, the real figuremay even be higher. The statistics show that this is no new phenomenon.

Registered rapes were sixty per month in past two years, and fifty permonth from 2006 onwards except for one year when they were forty per

month. The phenomenon of violence against dalit girls and women is on inhe country. Repeated cases of dalit women (older women usually) beingisrobed, beaten and paraded naked in the villages are regularly reported.

In the vast feudal rural areas, violence by feudals and goons target landlesspeasantry, is part of social infrastructure and use of their women for sexual

ratification or simply to assert superiority is a feature where registrationf cases does not figure in the discourse. This aspect is part and parcel of

otal feudal oppression.

One feature in violence on women is clearcut. Other than sporadic cases,ases of deliberate sexual violence are on women perceived to be of alienroup and is also a part of assertion of power against that group because

f the patriarchal perception that women are the property of those men orhe honour centres' of an alien group. Thus this sexual violence is a feature

f those asserting social power or in violence against dalits, or minoritiesr by security forces against nationality struggles and revolutionary

movements. It is a feature of street rapes in cities also. Violence againstomen is also taking place in state violence on struggles, in anti-

isplacement struggles etc. but there the violence is generalized and thearget just what is in front of the attackers, be they men or women.

Khap Panchayats

A sharp rise in Khap pronounced violence against women and youthhas occurred over the past decade or so. It should be viewed along with

he fact of increasing number of gir ls of dominant landed castes going foreducation, going away from home for higher studies, their new exposures

and their breaching of traditional patriarchal dictates. Khap panchayatsare collective patriarchal bodies, which use social power to act as extra

judicial bodies. They are gatherings of all the males of any dominant ca

group dominated by the landed sections of that caste and thus not atdemocratically functioning bodies. They are repositories of backward, a

women, patriarchal values, are self appointed to maintain caste purity absolute forbidding of intercaste marriage to their women, dictating w

should be the relationship between boys and girls within the caste aalso within the village, not allowing any right of choice to girls at all neven within groups acceptable for marriage. They are also the repositor

of power over landless and other workers, especially dalits who are va

majority of them. The dominant castes are agriculture based. Tpanchayats include no women. These khaps of western UP and Haryanall areas of use of capitalist methods in agriculture superimposed

semifeudal production relations have becomes a feature in barbamedieval killings of women of their own kin and of couples too. They ha

ordered and got executed summarily, murders of several young girlstheir own castes for breach of patriarchal norms along with the boys thmarried. The state structure, expecially ruling polity, police and ev

judic iary who are most ly drawn from the same dominant castes suppothem. The Verma Commission's Report has documented some figures

the last six years, these murders were drawn from Jhajjar, Jind, Roht

districts of Haryana, and Meerut, Bagpat, Muzaffarnagar and FatehabadUP (West). In the past four years 560 cases were reported of coupbeing threatened; 121 persons were killed, 48 in UP, 15 in Delhi, 41Haryana and 17 in other states. In Haryana 142 of such cases of threats

murders were reported of which 86% were intercaste marriages. Over88% of killings were initiated by the girls family which felt violated b

they killed both girl and boy. Inter religious marriages do not formsignificant section of these numbers.

However now these type of khap panchyats of a dominant landed caare active in running the Bahu-Bet i Izzat Andolan which has been underly

the current anti Muslim violence in Muzaffarnagar. In this case, their targis love jihad in which they allege a deliberate ploy of Muslims to ma

their girls. The reality rests in education widening the girls horizons, tbetter educational status of Muslim boys and their city based lives

compared to boys of landed castes. In reality inter-religious marriages avery few. The real targets of such propaganda are actually the rights of tgirls and women of the upper castes.

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ictates are the law. Even where the law of the land coincides with their

pinions, the time for implementation is considered too long. So they doleut their own summary justice and dole out medieval punishment. They

never issue diktats against gang rapes of Dalit women, think nothing ofprotecting, bailing out and defending their males when they are guilty of

uch offences. They uphold punishing victims by both killing and socialstracism. They have no diktats against keeping women of any caste and

in any number as keeps. They stand with female infanticide which is rampant

in the area.

The role of police and courts is better explained by examples. Theroom (Ved Pal) of a girl from these castes (Sonia) was lynched in front of

he police force which did nothing. The court fined the SP Rs. 10,000 andlet him go. Bhupinder Sharawat and Rajranis marriage was arranged by

ne of the families. But they were shot in Delhi by the other family; the

accused were arrested, the victims survived. The accused were givenparole by the court.

Sexual violence at work place

The sexual violence against and sexual harassment of women at

orkplace and repeated big struggles against the same finally forced theGovt. In the aftermath of the Delhi movement it enacted the pending SexualHarassment at Work Place Bill. This was hanging fire facing severe criticism

rom womens organizations despite its passage a year earlier in one Housef Parliament. However, the Act negates all the changes proposed in the

Bill by womens organizations, many of which were incorporated into theerma Report and hence will not change things. Interestingly, its Rules

have still (end 2013) not been notified. It shamelessly allows conciliationin complaints of sexual violence, action against the women complainant if

he either retracts her complaints (under pressure this is often so) or isproved wrong (enquiries are owner constituted). The passage of this law

as preceded by a campaign by a leading business daily, outlining howorporates felt chained by the Verma Reports recommendations on thiscore. Even its shadow has not been incorporated in the law, thus servicing

orporate interests. That this law is going to be as ineffective as Vishakaudgements provisions in providing justice is on exhibition in a case in

Delhi. An employee (Class III) of the Chemistry Dept of a govt collegeunder Delhi University set herself on fire and died two months back whenher complaint regarding sexual harassment by the Principal was rejected

yet again in internal enquiry.

Sexual violence at workplace also occurs against domestic workerscities, and agricultural women workers in rural areas. It is only a part of t

total violence against them as they are looked at with a feudal understandof being almost slaves.

Sexual violence against women as part of overall violence at the hanof police and paramilitary against movements in general repression of peo

continues. So too does landlord goonda feudal violence in the count rys

which the state forces indirectly and if needed directly abet. In all casesmass struggles of women against violence, the violence on them by pol

becomes an additional feature. Linked is sexual violence and violenagainst women and girls in state owned homes, institutions, jails, men

asylums, hostels run by govts., where women are often sexually exploitand fairly often used for prostitution. Custodial violence against wom

continues to be a feature of Indias state especially in areas of movemeand more especially in areas led by communist revolutionaries. The heinocase of Soni Soli, who had stones inserted into her private parts af

arrest on the charge of being a Maoist contact, is recent.

Violence on Women of Nationality Movements

Not even the Delhi movement, where the issue of AFSPA and also tof permission being needed to prosecute govt. officers for sexual violenwhich was kept on agenda by womens organizations, could force even t

Verma Report to agree to repeal of AFSPA, leave alone Central Govt. ThManorama (Manipur), Nilofer and Asea (Sopore, Kashmir) can get no just

from Indias legal system. They were all sexually violated and killed Indias security forces Manorama because she was suspected to be

militant and the other two from a well off Kashmiri family simply becauthey were Kashmiris. The armed forces of India exhibit the behavior

occupation forces. The violence on nationality struggles with attendasexual violence on its women remains steadily on. Central Govt allows prosecution of guilty military; cases of sexual violence anyway cannot

dealt through civilian criminal courts due to AFSPA. 22 years ago,Kupwara Dist of Kashmir, under pretext of search operations in Kun

Poshan village, 53 women were raped throughout the night by India's ar(4 Rajputana Rifles). The men were kept outside the village for verificati

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Minister Khurshid rendered the first Governmental apology for the incident

it was also the first time any functionary of the Central Govt. acknowledgedhat such an incident had occurred. No one has ever been indicted, no

ases against any accused exist. Violence against nationality strugglesith sexual violence an ongoing additional aspect remains as important

eature of violence against women.

In the past two years, this violence has been compounded by the Warn People declared by the Central Govt against all movements, especially

hose led by communist revolutionaries. The tribal upsurge which heraldedhe start of the Lalgarh movement was triggered off by barbaric policeiolence especially against women tribals with one womans eye being

estroyed. These tribals were considered responsible for a bomb blast atSalboni where CPMs West Bengal Chief Minister was to do stone laying

or Jindals Steel plant. Physical violence on men and women in searchperations with additional sexual violence especially in dominance

marches, subsequent sexual violence by para military forces in Chintalnar(Chattisgarh) are all cases in point. Brutal paramilitary and police violence

as also let loose on women tribals in the Narayanpatna movement in

disha.

Any discussion on violence against women would be incomplete without

reckoning with anti-minority violence, targeting specifically women inrotesque sexual violence. It is a peculiarly barbaric patriarchal outpouringhich violates women as properties of the men of the community; is done

o dishonour and to show power over it. This is also clear fromMuzaffarnagar where Muslim women have been raped as part of the violence

by dominant caste. While several reports speak of many more cases, fourFIRs of gangrape at Phugana are known to have been lodged by inmates

f one camp, with another woman complaining that her FIR has not beenlodged. Statements have recently been taken from them. In Gujarat too,

Muslim women were targets of rapes, of eviscerations, of cutting open theombs of pregnant women and the violence included even girl children asargets. There are also two cases of fight backs of women related to that

iolence. Ishrat Jahans mother, Shamina Kauser, has patiently pursued aight for justice for her 19 years old daughter killed in a fake encounter by

Gujarat Police and IB and labelled a terrorist. From a different mileu but aighter nevertheless is Zakia Jaffrey, widow of an ex Cong MP who was

burnt alive in Ahmedabad despite the city having a Congress Mayor.

All these aspects are set against the structural violence of the syste

against women, especially poor women. They also operate on men of tclass but due to values and also special needs of women, the heavier e

of the stick is surely with them. They are denied right to adequate foodadequate food and health support facilities in pregnancy and breast feedin

denial of health facilities, denial of educational facilities. 45% of Indiwomen are anaemic, a large-percentage totally illiterate. In addition modeIndia or globalized India has added a weapon by the name of surroga

which is legal under Indias law. It is evidence of a society controlled

haves against the poor women of the country, giving them no living wabut enticing them to sell their bodies, their health for pecuniary gain in tname of altruism (giving happiness to another family) and in the guise

sudden more money to better the life of their children. It is a tragedyshould be a shame to any government. But this is a country of feud

values, with those with money having power and exercising it over lesspeople, with little answerability and so Govts. cater to the market encouraging their own citizens to sell themselves.

Similar is the violence on tribal and other women inherent displacements. Here women are torn away from their social and cultu

mileu, their support systems, the ecology in which they are integrated awhich ecosystem gives them independence and lets them be self relia

Domestic violence is a feature of life in semi-feudal India. The legsupport systems for women in these cases are weak, the social supp

systems of state do not exist and those of natal families mostly bredown pressurizing the women to preserve the marriage. The role of po li

crime against women cells and judges in domestic violence courts is vmuch part of patriarchal social order.

On an overview, the issues regarding violence on women include tfact that it is firstly dictated by class, but within any section violence

them includes sexual violence. The violence experience brings womenagainst the patriarchial order of the system including its governance,

defenders. The fight has to be by huge struggles for which struggle orientorganizations have to be built. The fight must be against governance, agaipatriarchy and every and any expression of the same. But it must also

directed against the system which sustains these values. Not the gooleaders of Verma commission but a social system against patriarchy is t

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fterwword

Just a month prior to what would be the first anniversary of 16thDecember 2012 and subsequent upsurge in Delhi against violence on women,hese cases involving sexual assault/harassment of women are making

headlines. All involve women professionals and are relaed to work place.hey reveal the murky realities of what women face within the major estates

f Indian society.

The first involves the much hallowed institution of the highest Judiciary.

law intern has revealed in her blog her sexual harassment a year ago bya recently retired Supreme Court Judge under whom she was posted for

raining. Another intern promptly backed her and also informed of severalther similar incidents involving the same judge. She also stated that ladyeachers of their law institutions were informed by them to warn all women

interns being posted with this Judge.

The case was mentioned the same day before the Chief Justice of

India. But he passed no direction for an FIR to be registered, no directiveo the police to investigate fully and fairly. He made a three member

ommittee of Judges of the same Court to look into the matter. The Jury

and the accused are one. A private hush hush internal deal. As far as thehighest court and the highest judicial office in the country are concerned,he law does not apply to them and their kind. Demands have been raised

by so many sections that an FIR be lodged; so many cases of sexual

iolence in India eventually close down because the women fail to garnerhe courage or are unable to withstand the social pressures against going

public. After the FIR was lodged, the judges could have met the intern toencourage her to testify. But may be there are too many skeletons in

Supreme Court's cupboard for such a course of action.

After meeting the judges' team, the intern wrote that she felt humiliated,

he felt she was viewed with suspicion. More prosaicly she admitted thathe legal system is protracted. The police, the Govt., no one is moving ashe Supreme Court has suggested inaction. What the other intern wrote is

he more damning and poignant truth- she said that if the women protestedhey would have lost the chance to be posted with the judge and thus get

ood jobs, whereas the boys would continue to avail it. The girls did notenvisage that their speaking up would make their institution debar this

udge. And in fact it did not. Lastly in every court in Delhi the name of

different judges is doing the rounds because so many judges have a hist

of such behaviour. In passing it must be recorded that the incident hhelped to reveal that this Court has no sexual harassment committee ev

eighteen years after the Vishakha judgement.

The Supreme Court committee has indicted the judge but refused

take action against him as he is an ex- judge and the girl is not an internSupreme Court. Both these facts were known to the committee when

was formed. The police have not registered any FIR against the judwhile the Central Govt. has failed to remove him from ChairmanshipHuman Rights Commission of West Bengal.

The seond involved the media, one more hallowed estate. It is not jany media; stinging media, media which writes about values. The edito

chief of Tehelka involved in major sexual violence over two subsequedays with a young employee who was his daughter's friend and friend

daughter. First he apologized and announced his own 'punishment'- tPatriarch. Then he rescinds, character assassinates and sends wheedealers, pressurizes, alleges a political conspiracy, takes help of politi

connections. In this case too it comes out incidentally that no sexharassment committee exists. The lady editor sits on the complaint

rape, does not inform the police on a cognizable offence and apparencalls on the guilty to announce self-flagellation. Her profound indignati

that she tried to do what the victim wanted is misplaced; the establishmeneed to advise victims of their rights and support their fight for justic

Patriarchal values are so pervasive that even women in positions of powfear to be seen fighting against them.

The srings of the system tie up in knots so many who always kn

better. A clearcut congnizable offence, but one political lady spokesperswants the girl to have the 'option' to go before an internal committee (alb

it does not exist); she emphasizes there is no pressure on the girl ev

while the girl goes public about how she is being pressurized. A prominelady writer has also expressed her opinion that the victims should "tatheir own decisions" whether they want to address rape "in a different waThe complaint in question amounts to rape, a heinous assault and a crim

It is not some mere gesture or suggestion, not a question of meharassment.

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Festival at Goa. It against concerns sexual harassment of a young

employee, with the directorate still investigating. Though the venue wasGoa, the same Goa police which is active on Tejpal has not fled an FIR in

his case.

There is another case concerning a woman but its full dimensions areet to be revealed. What is not disputed however is that the state apparatus

f Gujarat- the Home Ministry, the police, the IB officers- was used by theprime ministerial candidate of the second largest all India ruling class party

o mount surveillance on a lady architect. BJP maintains that it was doneue to apprehensions of the father of that woman. How could the rules and

procedures be sidetracked in giving security, and how could provisions of

elegraph act be violated in monitoring cell records? When faced with theemand for an enquiry, BJP spokeswoman retorted that woman's father

oes not want it and he has the first right over her. So the issue is also thata woman is someone's possession, as in other cases.

All the incidents and the collaterals around them only emphasize how

enormous is the task before women's organizations and women's struggles.ne step needed is to enable the women to come forward and report such

ases so that reporting becomes the norm and the consequences thusless the issue. Women who are victims fear the long, lonely legal battles,

much mudslinging, harassment and scepticism from every section. Thushe hesitation to speak out, even as their mutiny against accepting injusticein silence forces them to speak.

There is fear of prosecution at workplaces and in profession. Alreadyhere is a talk of companies and law firms saying that they would hesitate

o employ women. How easy it is to further oppress the exploited, to demandompliance to decadent values. There is no 'woman's' point of view in this

as the system wants to make out, there is a patriarchal viewpoint and a

emocratic viewpoint. This is also an issue that the women's movementhas to tackle, to force an atmosphere where institutions think twice before

uch discrimination, to bring youth movement, movements of professionalroups into this struggle. Women must fight and ensure representation at

all levels in all institutions. They must not be tucked away as women'srepresentatives but fight for positions as equals for their capabilities and

hen there, must keep the democratic and fair point of view alive on allissues, and not be submerged into patriarchal positions.

The sexual harassment committees which women do not demand

fear of being labeled 'women' derogatorily, must be reviewed. Hardly evset up, hardly ever taking positions against the powers that be, set up

solve issues "within the walls" where they are unsolvable. Without poweinternal movement, they are only escape routes for accused a

management.

Patriarchal values are pervasive, which means they inflict all, all of

who live in semifeudal India, where those in positions of power think thare laws unto themselves- they may be khap panchayats, editors, judgor ruling politicians. The task before the movement is to build up struggl

an atmosphere where every afflicted feels the courage to speak becauthe general women's movement empowers her.

Women's organizations must join hands with revolutionary strugglesupturn the system itself which nurtures and nour ishes patriarchy and is

turn nourished by it, to build a new, egilitarian, new democratic society

Bhushan Steel accident has eBhushan Steel accident has eBhushan Steel accident has eBhushan Steel accident has eBhushan Steel accident has exposedxposedxposedxposedxposed

the plight ofthe plight ofthe plight ofthe plight ofthe plight ofwwwwworororororkkkkkererererers in Odishas in Odishas in Odishas in Odishas in Odisha

On 13th November 2013 there was a big explosion at the blast furna

-2 of the Bhushan Steel and Power Companys steel plant at Meramundin Dhenkanal district. As per the official report 3 workers were killed,

were injured and 168 among them are missing till today. A fact findteam led by IFTUs national committee member Com. Sujan Chakraba

along with Com. Pratap Nayak from Odisha and local trade union activ

Com. Bhajamana Behera visited the area on 23rd Nov. The team visitthe accident site inside the factory, talked with some factory workers a

met people of a village affected by Bhushans land acquisition.

This was the latest in the series of industrial mishaps which have tak

place in the company since it started in 2006. In the last 7 years 1people have been killed and hundreds of workers injured in different accideinside the plant but the actual figures are many times more. Regarding t



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latest incident also there was confusion from the very beginning. Neither

he company nor the labour department could provide any concrete dataabout the casualty. Only after a week passed the administration and labour

fficials collected some data about how many workers were engaged onhat day; that too by enquiring from the contractors only. Since the majority

f the workers in the plant are engaged on contractual basis throughontractors engaged by the company and there is no information in theistrict labour office, so it was difficult to ascertain the exact figure. This

hows the utter callousness of the labour department towards thousands

f workers engaged in the plant.Bhushans legacy of illegality and violations has once again exposed

he true face of Naveen Patnaiks industrialization. With the protection of

he Govt the company has been operating illegally violating the laws of theland. It has been running the blast furnace and boiler without permission

rom state Govt or labour department. It has constructed its captive powerplant without getting the clearance of pollution control board. Its plant iset up illegally without the clearance of MoEF and National Highways

uthority. This shows not only the lawlessness prevailing in theindustrialization of the state but also the nexsus of both the Centre and

tate Govt with the company.

Bhushan accident also exposed the pathetic conditions of the workers

particularly the contractual workers in all the industries of the state. Theindustries particularly the newly developed mineral based industries are

engaging a majority of their workers on contractual basis through differentlabour contractors. These workers are forced to work for 12 hours a dayinstead of 8 hours. They are getting a salary of Rs. 2000 to 7000 per month.

Since they are not registered they are deprived of all the labour rights likeminimum wages, provident fund, ESI, bonus etc. Majority of the workers

engaged here are from outside the state particularly from Bihar. Theompany is consciously avoiding employing the local people because it is

easy to deal with the outsiders in respect of agitation. There are onlyhandpicked local workers engaged by the company though it had promisedobs to the affected people of 7 mouzas or villages at the time of land

acquition. Though there are unions from BMS and INTUC here they arebasically working at the behest of the management.

Another example of the utter lawlessness in Bhushan and the illegalupport provided by the state Govt is that though there are 70 cases

registered against the company in the local police station and 200 mo

cases are pending for trial in different courts against the company in tlast 7 years there is no action by police. The local police is working like

private goonda gang of the company and its main work is to terrorize aintimidate the workers. This is a common feature in all the industrial are

of the state. The Govt has established three police stations within 5 kradius of that area. Apart from Bhushan there are plants of other companlike Lanco, KGR etc in that locality. The name of the Police station und

which the plant falls was Bhushan police station but facing embaressme

in the media the state Govt changed the name to Kantabania P.S osome days back.

Deaths of workers in accidents are not new for Bhushan. It is a kil

plant. The company, in order to make more profit, is importing secohand and old machines which are prone to breakage. Secondly, it is engag

many untrained workers at a very low wage to do skilled work. Thirdly, trequired safety measures are not in place. Interestingly Bhushan does figure in the list of 39 accidents prone industries of the state prepared

the states labour department.

In this scenario the IFTU fact finding team demanded Immediate arr

of the Bhushan owner and the top officials of the company for their criminegligence due to which more than three hundred workers were killed in t

last 7 years, dismissal of the Labour Minister, Labour Commissioner aother concerned officers of the labour department who have connived w

the company, payment of Rs. 20 lakh and a regular job to the nearrelative of all the workers who were killed in the accident and 15 lakhs all workers who became permanently invalid and 5 lakh to all the injur

workers, Registration of all the workers particularly the contractual workengaged in different industries of the state and ensure their labour righ

including minimum wage and 8 hour working day and exemplary actiagainst all the administrative and police officers and persons responsi

in the state pollution control board who have been helping the illegactivities and violations of the company all the years.

On 17thNov there was a protest against this incident on behalf of IF

in Berhampur town. Workers of different sectors like construction, moworkers, auto drivers protested against the Govts shielding of the ki

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In Memory of Com. C.P. Reddy

P. Suryam

Naxalbari, prior to 1967 was a remote unknown place in West Bengal.But the spring thunder of 1967 made it a part of Indian history. It is a

ymbol and pathfinder for the oppressed in India.

Srikakulam, in North Coastal region of Andhra Pradesh was known asa backward district plagued by recurring droughts. But the 1967-68 eventsmade it a synonym with revolution.

Godavari valley, was known as one of the most scenic places in Andhraprior to 1968-69, now it has become the centre of resistance struggles inIndia.

Naxalbari, Srikakulam and Godavari Valley resonate the anti-feudal and

anti-imperialist ideologies. They hail Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thoughtand proclaim the need of Peoples War as the path to liberate the Indian

masses. They have been the centres of revolutionary movements. Theyave birth to many more areas of struggle .

The other name for Godavari Valley movement is Com. Chandra PullaReddy. It might be the name of an individual at one time, but today itymbolizes peoples resistance struggles. Building more and more such

areas of sustained resistance is the way to march towards armed struggleor the final liberation of Indian masses.

Areas of sustained resistance have been built with unswerving

ommitment and sacrifices. Com CP as he is affectionately called sacrificedhis life in the jungles of Godavari Valley to clear this path for Indianrevolution.

Com CP was of the view that it is the subjective element i.e. theeakness of the revolutionary organizations that is delaying the Indianrevolution. He was of the view that the revolutionary situation prevailing in

he country is conducive for the onward march of Indian revolution but it ishe disunity and splits in the ranks of revolutionar ies which is delaying the

revolution. He was always emphasizing the need for the revolutionaryrganizations with similar views to unite and thus boost the morale of the

people. Throughout his life he strived for this unity. He passed away in the

midst of these efforts. He wanted to initiate unity discussions with Co

Satya Narain Singh again and started for Calcutta in the first weekOctober, 1984. He suffered a heart attack in the train journey. By the ti

he reached Calcutta it became severe. He was travelling alone. He wadmitted to hospital. Com SNS and others were waiting for him at anoth

place, there was no chance to inform them. They left after two days. CoCPs condition deteriorated and he died on November 9, 1984.

Com CP was born in Velugodu village in Kurnool district in 1917. completed his high school studies in Kurnool and did his F.A. in Madra

He started participating in student movement while in Madras. He joinGuindy engineering college in Madras. In his first year itself he objectstrongly when the principal of the college ordered a scheduled caste stude

to sit in the last row. He mobilized students against this caste discriminati

He was rusticated from the college by the angry principal. Later C

father took him to the principal who demanded an apology from him. refused to apologize even though his father pleaded for it. The princihad to backtrack in the face of the student movement and admit him in

the college without any apology.

It was the period when the anti-British Colonial struggle was surgahead in India, when the Russian masses having overthrown Czar weconsolidating socialist revolution under the leadership of the Bolshevi

when revolutionary struggles were upsetting the feudal establishmentsChina and other countries. It was at this time anti-colonial movement

India was gaining momentum. Com CP was active in this movement. left his studies and became an active organizer in this struggle. He warrested and sent to Alipur jail by the British. He spent six months in j

His father brought pressure on him to go back to college but he was alreataking interest in the peoples movement under the leadership of t

communists. He became a part of the communist movement. The commun

movement in Andhra at that time was very young. Communist partywformed in Andhra during 1933. In 1944 Com. CP became the Kurnool distsecretary of the CPI.

He organizedmany mass struggles in Kurnool district. In Nandikotktaluq people occupied thousands of acres of land under his leadership1947 he was elected to the State Committee of the party. He was al

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He was the candidate for the Nandyal assembly constituency, he lost

because of severe repression. He was arrested in 1949 and released onlyafter the announcement of the 1952 elections. He contested from

Nandikotkur assembly constituency and won against the Congress. Hepoke for 6 hours on the problems of Rayalaseema people in the Madras

ssembly which stunned the entire assembly. Later his speech was broughtut as a book.

While the national movement sowed theseeds, it was the Great Heroicelangana Peasant Armed struggle that inspired him. As part of the plan to

extend this movement he toured Nallamala forests and made plans for theextension of this struggle. He became a par t of this movement by workingin the neighbouring Mahabubnagar district in Telangana region. The

revisionist leadership tried to suppress him as he staunchly opposed theithdrawal of Telangana armed struggle.

It was in this period that revisionists in the international communistmovement under the leadership of Khruschev, Tito and Suslov wereonfusing and misleading the international proletariat. Chinese Communist

Party under the leadership of Com. Mao waged a principled struggle againsthese forces. Nine Comments were released by the CPC in the course of

his struggle. As a result of this struggle the Indian Communist movementaced a serious political and organizational crisis. This crisis led to the

plit in the communist party in 1964.

The major issues in that crisis were;

1) Whether to support the revisionist theories of Russian leaders or toupport the revolutionary theory of the CPC.

) On how to characterize the 1947 transfer of power.

) Whether to support a section of the ruling classes or not.

) On the question of Telangana armed struggle.

) On the issue of Indo-China war.

The present day CPI leadership at that time was one with the rulinglasses. It became a lackey of Russian revisionism. It opposed China

blindly. It supported the withdrawal of Telangana armed struggle afterNehrus army marched (1948 September) into Telangana. It supported

national chauvinism of the ruling classes. It opposed the protracted peopl

war path which alone could bring about the National Democratic RevolutiIt hailed Indias ruling class as an independent class that is anti-imperial

Com CP was one of those who staunchly and resolutely opposed thepolicies.

The Central govt jailed those leaders who were opposed to Indias wagainst China with American support. Com CP wrote 'Internation

Communist Movement and Developments while in jail with the assistanof M. Subbarao another Communist leader in jail. It was hailed as an origi

work by many leaders including Sundaraiah. He requested CP to write thistory of Indian communist movement.

Com CP was a prolific writer. He wrote many articles, booklets, boo

in accordance with the needs of the movement. He wrote The Russia Chdebate while he was in CPM to clarify the position o f these two parties

important ideological issues. This book was of great help to the cadresunderstand the issues involved in the debate. Till now seven volumes habeen released and there are several other writings.

Com CP was aware of the danger posed by the revisionist leadership

China after the demise of Com. Mao. He wrote a book Defend Mao aMao Tse Tungs thought analyzing CPCs 1981 resolution On somproblems of history. It was a clear warning of things to come.

Later he wrote two articles on the creative Marxism of CPC. explained how the CPC is following a pro- ruling class line in relation

India, how it is following a revisionist line in its internal affairs as well external relations. He exposed CPC's deviation from Maos path. Ch

became a capitalist country as CP has warned at that time. Taking tpresent developments, the recently concluded All India Party CongressCPI (ML) New Democracy characterized China as a social imperialist sta

It is exporting finance capital and is competing with other imperialist powemainly US imperialism.

After the split with CPI, CPM also started following the policies of C

It became inevitable that another ideological, political struggle has to conducted against the neo-revisionist policies of the CPM leadership they have agreement on all the important policies of CPI. Thus, within fo

years another struggle came up in CPM.


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In April 1967, CPM leadership released New tasks for the party in thehanged conditions, a draft document. Com. CP immediately submitted

his criticism to the politburo in May, 1967. He criticized the pro- Russian

policies as also on some other national and international policies of theparty. CPM leadership released another three documents in 1967 August.

1) On some ideological issues 2) Programme 3) On left sectarianism (thisas an attack on the revolutionaries in Bengal). These were draft documents.

It decided that there will be no discussion on programme and path. Thus, itexhibited an unheard of dictatorial attitude. It gave up communist

rganizational practices to resolve differences. Com. DV presented hisalternative in the CC itself but the leadership decided not to circulate itamong the delegates. These dictatorial organizational practice led to revolts

in the party.

The Andhra Plenum of CPM was held in Palakollu in February, 1968.he Central leaders of the party Sundaraiah and Basava Punnaiah attended

o explain the CC policies. They could not give convincing replies to theuestions put forth by the delegates. Instead they started admonishing the

elegates. Com. CP explained the document prepared by CP and TN. Itas an alternative to the CC line. Out of the 231 delegates who attended

he plenum 158 supported CPTN document. Only 52 supported the CC

ocument. 8 members remained neutral.

In the alternative Com. CP explained about the ideological issues in theinternational movement, about the August 15 thtransfer of power, about the

omprador nature of the bourgeoisie, about the contradictions in the nationalplane, about the united front, about the right of self-determination to the

nationalities and the path of Indian revolution. Thus, Com CP was one ofhe important leaders who defeated the neo-revisionist line of CPM in AP.

In April 1968, CPM held the All India Plenum of the party at Burdwan. In

his plenum Com CP explained the alternative document to the CC document

or about seven hours. He exposed the neo-revisionist policies of theleadership. He condemned the repression against the Naxalbari movementby the Bengal Government. CPM leadership nominated many of the CCollowers to the committees in Andhra to gain majority for the CC. The

tate leadership had to oppose this openly'. Com DV, TN, CP, Kollaenkaiah were removed from the state secretariat. These four comrades

rote an open letter to all party members exposing the leadership's revisionistpolicies and announcing the revolutionary view point. This letter was written

by Com CP.

The struggle against the neo-revisionist policies of the CPM leaderswas not a co-ordinate

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