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[Tapas Ray]

Radhika,

I didn't ask you to get your eyes tested! That was another list member, 
with whom I am honoured to share my last name.

While on the subject, I think getting one's eyes checked once in a while 
is not such a bad thing. I do it, too. But you have to be careful. Think 
of those ads that urge you to get this or that tested, so that they can 
sell you some new drug or surgical procedure. If I were you, I would 
read between the lines of the advice you have received. Isn't there a 
suggestion for you to go to one particular clinic, which has the last 
word in ophthalmological expertise and equipment?

Tapas



radhikarajen at vsnl.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Shuddha, 
>            when I say the red color is truely inspiring I mean the entire humanity which struggled for the right to work, right to earn decent livelihood, education for the progeny all over the world across the continents, the red colour was not color but blood of the savage oppression then and now who rule by proxy, to be "our" representatives as we stand divided with colour of our skins, religions and castes and regions.The blurring of this idealogy is seen every where even in CPM ruled states like Tripura and west bengal, in China and now defunct Russia. As new class of comrades took over the working class relegated to be slaves with KGB and chinese secret police controlling the rights of the working class, in India politburo is the new class above the cadres and working class, and Tapas want my etes to be tested in good spirit, ofcourse he should be in "high spirits to suggest that. !
> 
>   I have seen the working class unity in its true form till the different colours of the political spectrum started the divided the working class. One unity of working class got divided as INTUC, AITUC, CITU NOBW ets and thus lost all its steam.!
>   
>   Regards.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net>
> Date: Friday, May 2, 2008 4:27 pm
> Subject: 
> To: Sarai Reader List <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Cc: radhikarajen at vsnl.net
> 
>> Dear Radhikarajen,
>>
>> You said, - "True colour red is inspiring of the sacrifices many 
>> made  
>> for the dignified life, job security and decent life, but with the 
>>
>> modern lifestyles the very values which inspired are some what 
>> blurred."
>> I was a bit intrigued by this statement. The Chicago Haymarket  
>> Protestors, in whose memory we celebrate May Day, (as Asit 
>> reminded  
>> us) inspired the international working class movement of the late  
>> nineteenth century to observe, annually, on each May Day the  
>> celebration of a demand for an eight hour working day. This was 
>> done  
>> with a withdrawal of labour, with festivities, music, dancing and 
>> non- 
>> militaristic parades (the military parade that used to be held in  
>> front of the Kremlin, and the one that continues to be held in  
>> Beijing are both obscene perversions of the miltiant anti-
>> militarist  
>> traditions of May Day). As a result of this, May Day is the only 
>> non  
>> secterian festival that can be celebrated by any working person,  
>> anywhere in the world. It signals an instant, but deep and 
>> enduring  
>> solidarity.
>>
>> From what I can see around me, people have to work much longer 
>> than  
>> eight hours these days, in order to get a decent wage. Real wages 
>> are  
>> falling, and all over the world, the hard won benefits of peace,  
>> health care, education, holidays, equal rights for women, freedom 
>> of  
>> speech & conscience and the liberty to live one's personal life as 
>>
>> one chooses (especially, but not only, for gay and lesbian people) 
>>
>> are under attack. All of these were won by working people, after  
>> miltiant battles,  all over the world. Not a single one of these 
>> was  
>> a sop offered by ruling powers. If all the precious liberties we 
>> have  
>> today are under attack, then I do not see how the 'very values 
>> which  
>> inspired them' become 'somewhat blurred'.
>>
>> On the contrary, I think they get sharper and more acute. The 
>> world  
>> we are living in today is more riven by class conflict than any 
>> other  
>> time in history. We still have nothing to lose but our chains.
>>
>> And as I said yesterday, only a world to win.
>>
>> best
>>
>> Shuddha
>>
>>
>> Shuddhabrata Sengupta
>> The Sarai Programme at CSDS
>>
>>
>>
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