[Reader-list] Kashmiri-intifada

[Inder Salim]

Thanks dear A Mani

It is always very wonderful to read a new perspective concerning K Issue.
which in fact is extending  K boarder and beyond.... Here the term
like Marxist might open new vistas of different terminology to connect
itself with others to bridge the growing new robust youth who are
already looking different with new avenues to express change of status
quo. Thereby softening the crest of the terms .... It is JP Sartre
warns about how we owe our expression to the sumptuousness of terms
and phrases and terms. so,....

It is really heartening that POK has a visible base of such a wave
which can sabotage  the USA deep state politics in our region. The US
aversion of terms like communist has a history of its own which has
created right wing demon, and it looks it is a matter of time before
these demons realize the benefits of new understanding the universal (
change )  rather than remain confined to religious bigotry and
fantasy, which only provides an alibi to US and allies to strike at
will, and keep us fighting each other. Time should come soon when we
refuse to buy their arms to kill our people..

Azadi in Kashmir needs a broader conceptual frame to sustain the
dialogue of Freedom..

The are many terms in vogue at the moment in Kashmir which can
radically change to more universal terms like Pro-Freedom Movement,
People for Change, Boarder Riders etc. which can attract more and more
free minds from both sides of the boarder and beyond.

the change is inevitable, may be it is too soon to see a big wave
picking up the entire region. I am optimistic,

with love

is

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:46 PM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
> See http://www.marxist.com/kashmiri-intifada.htm
>
>
> The site is of course completely Trotskyist, but the article should be
> of some interest.
>
> Excerpt
> "Time and again the masses of Kashmir, and specially the youth, have
> been crushed by state repression but the movement keeps on erupting.
> However, the present movement is in the hands of a different and a new
> generation (which was raised in the violent period) and instead of
> emotional slogans and metaphysical ideologies it is based on the firm
> realities of deprivation with clear economic and social demands. The
> rulers of India cannot therefore label it as being sponsored by
> Pakistan or Islamic fundamentalism.
> .........
>
> The character of the movement shows that there is growing
> radicalisation in Kashmiri society and particularly among the youth,
> and the distrust in religious and so called nationalist parties is
> proof that this radicalisation is clearly going towards the left. The
> CPI(M) which has some basis in Kashmir if not vast support, but it
> needs to provide a clear programme of revolutionary socialism that
> would inevitably connect with the aspirations of this movement and
> transform the whole dimension of the conflict in Kashmir on both sides
> of the ‘line of control’. If the central leadership of CPI(M) instead
> of following the policy of bourgeois Indian nationalism and the
> so-called “national democratic revolution” based on the two-stage
> theory, were to adopt a clear Leninist class policy on the national
> question by providing solutions to all the problems, including that of
> national liberation, linked to a socialist revolution and unite the
> struggle in Kashmir with the class struggle of the Indian proletariat,
> the state would face a formidable challenge that it would not be able
> to confront and would be forced to withdraw its armed forces and end
> these brutalities. Such a victory would open up the floodgates of a
> revolutionary upheaval throughout the South Asian subcontinent. The
> compromising policies of the left parties’ central leadership have
> crippled the CPIM in Kashmir and it has thus failed to gain the
> support among the youth which it could easily have won.
>
> ..............
>
> This will also have a revolutionary impact in Pakistani Occupied
> Kashmir where the Marxist forces are already growing and gaining
> popular support. The JKNSF has gained a mass basis amongst the youth
> on a revolutionary programme and with the slogan, “Freedom is our aim,
> Socialism is our destiny”.
>
>
> However, a socialist revolution in Kashmir cannot remain confined to
> its borders; in fact it is very difficult to carry out a socialist
> revolution within Kashmir alone without the class solidarity and
> active participation of the working masses of Pakistan and India and
> even if a revolution were to be victorious it could not be sustained
> for long the capitalist imperialist states of India and Pakistan
> remain intact. But the situation is changing not only in Kashmir;
> there are new revolutionary storms that impend across the horizon,
> across the whole of the subcontinent. The conditions for social
> upheaval and militant class struggle are being created everywhere."
>
>
>
>
>
> Best
>
> A. Mani
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> A. Mani
> ASL, CLC,  AMS, CMS
> http://www.logicamani.co.cc
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