[Reader-list] [Announcements] Rally to Protest NandigramKillings

[Amit Basu]

I agree with Mritunjay that much of our wishful thinking and political imaginations are still sectarian in many senses. In politics, which I consider very much a public practice can not remain such if the claim is to be pluralistic. Also in this turn of the situation in West Bengal we need to be OPEN because this is a BREAK. So previous categories of analyses will hardly be of much use, because this NOT in continuity with the evolutionary history of militant mass movements in West Bengal.
  If I feel moved by the actions of resisting people of Nandigram, then I ned to ask myself first what kind of engagement I am making and with what kind of prejudices? More than a planned, sustained movement to achieve some goal in the near/distant future, Nandigram has already successfully raised the crucial questions to act upon. Even if the law and order damage is controlled and the movement subsumes into banal parliamentarism, the questions will just not evaporate. People who actively resisted will be different in their thinking with the impact of this new discourse.
  In solidarity,
  Amit

Mrityunjay Chatterjee <joy at sarai.net> wrote:
  Dear all,

I seroulsy don't think that CPIM is responsible for what ever happening. 
It is us who are responsible. Because neither CPIM not the Trinamool or 
naxalites or congress or BJP or any other organisation is outside us and 
our desire and lethargy. I just wonder who would 'outst' 
'self-rightious' us?

When communists were communists? Shuddha's lists shows its demise much 
before any one us took birth. But we still believe in the religion 
called communism. It is not the problem of CPIM, it is our problem.

Which political practice was ever transparent? Millions have died in 
history due to political callousness who had ever asked for apology?

Your last line is the death nail for all of us, as we all know Congress 
or BJP is no better than CPIM.


Finally my problem with protests is exactly that, it jumps into binary 
oppositions. And this binary opposition was never there. Let us not run 
after mirage.

Best wishes
Joy

Taraprakash wrote:
> It is the duty of every responsible citizen to outst, as soon as possible, 
> this right wing CPM government, that is now leftist only in the name. Don't 
> forget the brutalization in Bengal of those who do not support CPM and those 
> who know that CPM is actually misusing the letters 'c' and 'm' in their 
> name.
> Whatever little difference was left between Congress and CPM has been done 
> away with after Singur and Nandi Gram. Too much power has already corrupted 
> them. The High court has already ruled that the deal in Singur was not 
> transparent.
> It is only 2 days back, that the government has declared not to go ahead 
> with land acquisition in Nandi Gram, what if they could do it before killing 
> more than 30 people. (many hundreds are still missing). The height of 
> shamelessness was defending the West Bengal government after whatever 
> happened in Nandi Gram, by the CPM leadership; the height of shamelessness, 
> they have massacred the innocent people and not a word of apology. The 
> height of shamelessness when people justify killing and abduction of 
> hundreds of people in the name of defending few people, not because they are 
> innocent citizens of the state, but because they are CPM activists.
> Let us not forget what happened recently in Singur and Nandi Gram, and those 
> who know what happens in West Bengal to those who dare to oppose CPM, no 
> matter leftist or otherwise, let us not forget. CPM in West Bengal is as bad 
> as any sectarian repressive government is, time for them to give up the red 
> flag and time for them to look for fresh nexus with congress and BJP.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mrityunjay Chatterjee" 
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 11:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] [Announcements] Rally to Protest 
> NandigramKillings
>
>
> 
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I had been following the postings and the news on nandigram. Let me
>> condemn the act of violence in nandigram. But when we go for protest, we
>> tend to look through the language of victim and culprit. To complicate
>> the situation I would like to say we don’t have any clear victim or
>> culprit. Police is surely responsible for the firing, but at the same
>> time, oppositions and other political parties are equally responsible
>> for the instigating the people of nandigram and making them scapegoat.
>> So let us not just get into senseless lazy activism of protest, rather
>> think deeper. This is my request.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Joy
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