Ninety years ago, the workers and peasants of Russia became the masters of their country by carrying out a revolution which became known throughout the world as the Great October Socialist Revolution. This world historic act heralded sweeping changes in Russia and the whole world...
October 21, 2007 was a memorable day in the life of the patriotic Indian community in Toronto, Canada. On this day, the Ghadr heritage Foundation organised the Ghadari Mela 2007. Over 500 people participated in a revolutionary socio-political event dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh and the 150th anniversary of the great Ghadar of 1857...
The twin bomb blasts in Karachi on the midnight of October 18-19, which killed 139 persons and wounded hundreds of others, represent a criminal act of terror against the people of Pakistan...
The bomb blasts were designed to produce maximum casualties, in the midst of a crowded procession of tens of thousands of people accompanying PPP leader Benazir Bhutto after her return to Pakistan just a few hours earlier. They were also designed to create maximum sensation, since the whole procession was being filmed continuously by television channels in Pakistan and from around the world.....
On Sunday, 30th September 2007, Indian Workers Association (Great Britain) organised a memorable public meeting in London's Southall Community Centre to commemorate the birth centenary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Comrade Prakash Rao, spokesperson of CGPI was the guest speaker at the meeting. The large audience enthusiastically appreciated the political speeches, messages of solidarity, plays, poetry, patriotic songs, Bhagat Singh Giddhas and Bhangra dances were enthusiastically hailed by the large audience. Nearly three hundred men and women participated in this function.....
On October 7, 2007, the Kent Branch of Indian Workers Association (Great Britain) organized a militant and grand meeting to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the great patriot and martyr Shaheed Bhagat Singh. The meeting was held in the sports complex of the new Gurudwara that is being constructed by the community in Gravesend. Over 200 people participated enthusiastically in this function. Those who addressed the meeting on the occasion included Comrade Amar Jagpalpuri, President of the IWA(Great Britain) Kent Branch, Professor Jagmohan, and Comrade Prakash Rao, spokesperson of the Communist Ghadar Party of India.....
It was an unforgettable programme organised by the Hind Naujavan Ekta Sabha (HNES) on October 7, 2007 that drew hundreds of youth, workers, peasants and their families, on the occasion of the birth centenary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. The spirit of the youth was embodied in the famous words "Sarfaroshi ki tamanna" (Ready to sacrifice one-self) - for the cause of establishing worker-peasant rule in this land....
"No matter, if your Government tries and succeeds in winning over the leaders of the upper strata of the Indian society through petty concessions and compromises and thereby causes a temporary demoralization in the main body of the forces. The war shall continue. It may assume different shapes at different times. It may become open, hidden, purely agitational, or fierce life and death struggle. The choice of the course, whether bloody or comparatively peaceful, rests with you. Choose whichever you like...."
The UPA Government is rushing headlong into a strategic alliance with one of the most dangerous powers hated by wide sections of people in our country – US imperialism. It is refusing even to accede to the demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine the proposed strategic alliance and nuclear deal with the US, let alone conduct a discussion among the masses of the people. It is refusing to allow a vote in Parliament on the subject....
Over 20,000 military personnel of 5 countries — India, the US, Japan, Australia and Singapore — as well as warships belonging to these countries are participating in a joint naval military exercise codenamed “Malabar Exercise” in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. These are supposed to be the largest ever joint exercise involving India ...
With deep anger, Mazdoor Ekta Lehar /Peoples Voice condemns the terrorist blasts organised on August 25, 2007 in Hyderabad in which over 40 people have lost their lives and over a hundred people suffered grievous injuries. Mazdoor Ekta Lehar/Peoples Voice offers its heartfelt condolences to those who have lost their near ...
On August 15, 2007, a public meeting was organized in Mumbai to mark the 60th anniversary of formal independence and to discuss who gained and who lost in 1947. Lok Raj Sangathan and the Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh Smruti Samiti jointly organized the meeting ...
The 24th of August this years marked 10 years since the passing away of Comrade Hardial Bains. A meeting of members and supporters of the Communist Ghadar Party of India was held on 15th August in Delhi, which was the 68th birth anniversary of Comrade Bains. The slogans that adorned the backdrop at the meeting were: Hindustan ki Communist Ghadar Party ke nirmata aur neta Comrade Hardial Bains ko lal salaam...
“The transfer of power in 1947 was a betrayal of the aspirations of our people for sovereignty, for political power to shape our own destiny....” This was the profound conclusion that found expression in presentation after presentation, by writers, teachers, social activists, lawyers, journalists, women activists, student and youth activists – literally people from all walks of life...
The speakers pointed out that the entry of big corporations would not only threaten the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of small retailers and traders across the country, but also millions of hawkers, workers in the small establishments, and others. The entry of big corporates in wholesale and retail trade would inevitably lead to monopolisation and control of the market by them...
Communists in India had made great sacrifices, in the whole period since 1925 when the communist party was first founded in this very city of Kanpur. 82 years have passed since then. The question arises, why after 82 long years, revolution has not triumphed, and working class has received so many set backs. The reason is the betrayal of the working class by its leadership, and the fact that the working class has not had at its helm, that kind of party which could lead it in all conditions...
The signing of the 123 agreement between India and the US reflects the ever growing alliance between the ruling circles of these two countries...The strategic alliance between the US and India, has been in the making for a number of years, especially since the end of the Cold War. The US looks at India as a counterfoil to China, and as an ally against the peoples and countries of West Asia...
On July 27, 2007 Australia dropped all charges of “reckless support to a terror network” against Dr. Mohammed Haneef, who has been in detention since July 2, 2007. This follows international outrage and protests from democratic public opinion both in Australia as well as in India...
On August 15th, India’s ruling class will celebrate with pomp, sixty years of its coming to power and taking charge of the destiny of India...
The actions of the Australian Government's in the case of Dr. Mohammed Haneef must be condemned in the strongest terms. It may be recalled that Dr. Haneef, a second cousin of Dr. Kafeel Ahmed, one of the suspects in the failed London and Glasgow airport bombings in the UK, has been detained under counter-terrorism laws in Australia since July 2...
The Staff Academy of the Joshi Bedekar College, Thane, invited Lok Raj Sangathan to make a presentation on Legacy of Eurocentrism in the Indian Subcontinent in their monthly gathering on 20 July 2007...
Thousands of workers of Honda Motor and Scooter Company (HMSC) and several other companies of Gurgaon and Rewari districts of Haryana participated in a militant rally organised by Trade Union Council of Gurgaon...
Activists of different communist parties and groups as well as activists of the human rights movement, and activists from the different movements in Kashmir and the North East participated in a Convention on Indo-Naga Political Dialogue held on July 19 in Delhi....
A series of events in the past 10 days reveal the grave dangers confronting the people of Britain and peoples worldwide from the aggressive warmongering, imperialist plans of Britain’s ruling circles.....
By Chris Coleman
Imperialist states bent on pursuing a policy of wars of aggression in order to achieve world domination must first prepare the ground in the realm of ideas, in the field of culture. To do so they need intellectuals prepared to put their talents in the service of retrogression and against the people’s cause. Such a person has been the writer Salman Rushdie.......
Braving pouring rain, thousands of people assembled at Plassey in Nadia District of West Bengal on June 23, 2007, to participate in a rally organized on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Battle of Plassey and the 150th anniversary of the Great Ghadar......
Who should be the next President of India has become a bone of contention between different groupings of political parties representing the bourgeoisie. Two main groupings — one led by the Congress and the other led by the BJP — are locked in contention.....
In the heartland of British imperialism, Indian people in Britain got together to commemorate the 150th anniversary of 1857. The meeting, held in Southhall, London, was organised by Indian Workers Association (GB), Respect (Ealing – Southall), South Asia Solidarity Group and South Asia Society......
150 years ago, people of India rose in revolt against British colonialists. They came from all religious and social backgrounds. Hindu, Muslim and Sikhs fought together the forces of the British empire. However the British Imperialist were able to subdue the revolt, carry on looting, exploiting the country and finally partitioning it in 1947 – result of their ‘Divide & Rule’ policies. The masses still suffer from exploitation,, oppression and poverty at the hands of the new rulers.....
As we go to the press, MEL/PV has received the news that at least seventeen people have been killed and several injured in police firing in Rajasthan's Dausa, Karauli and Bundi districts on May 29, 2007. The army has been deployed in various areas of Rajasthan. Mazdoor Ekta Lehar/ Peoples Voice condemns the Rajasthan government for the reign of terror on people.....
These two veteran activists have been in the forefront of defending the rights of workers, peasants, women and tribal peoples, from the onslaught of the state.....
Friday, May 18 was a black day for the people of Hyderabad. A powerful blast killed 10 people and left over 50 injured, among whom were children. The bomb was deliberately set to explode when hundreds of Muslims had gathered for the Friday prayers at the principal mosque in the city, the Mecca Masjid near Charminar.....
The Indian state is once again conspiring to organize a terrible tragedy in Punjab, reminiscent of that organized in the 1970s-80s. Beginning from May 14, sectarian clashes have been reported in several places in Punjab, including Bathinda, Khanna and Ludhiana, between various Sikh organizations and the followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect....
The Communist Party of India won as many as 47 seats in the first elected UP legislative assembly in 1957. What is the reason that support for the CPI has today been almost eliminated in Uttar Pradesh? This is a question that does need serious introspection....
A militant May Day Program was jointly organized by Nirman Mazdoor Panchayat Sangh, Unorganized Workers Federation, Penurimai Iyakkam and 30 other organizations in Chennai...Workers of Mumbai celebrated International Working Men’s Day with great enthusiasm...In greater strength than the previous years, thousands of workers started gathering in Kamgar Maidan..
All this goes to show that the most arbitrary forms of torture and murder of people by state forces is a regular practice in what is called "the world's largest democrac" ... State terrorism is used very systematically to eliminate people who oppose those in power, and it is also to spread fear and terror among the populace at large.....
March 21, 2007 marked the day when five women of Assam decided to begin an indefinite hunger strike because all their attempts to know the whereabouts of their husbands since the last more than 3 years had failed...
The Third Round Table Conference provided yet another confirmation that the Indian State has no intention of seriously addressing the key issues underlying the Kashmir problem. ... not a single group that fundamentally disagreed with the position of the Indian state participated. This turned out to be a conference consisting almost entirely of the established political parties that have collectively been responsible, both at the Centre and in the state, for the mess that the Kashmir problem has become...
From Los Angeles on the west coast of the US to Djakarta in Indonesia, from Istanbul in Turkey to Havana in Cuba, from Erfurt in Germany to Moscow in Russia, workers all over the world militantly observed May Day 2007, vowing to end imperialist war and the capitalist system. ....
Early in the morning of May 1, comrades and supporters of the Communist Ghadar Party of India hoisted the red flag, symbol of the struggle, sacrifice and unity of the working class, at the ground in front of the Central Party Office in Okhla, Delhi....
The Ghadar Heritage Organization, Canada, along with the Desh Bhagat Sports and Cultural Society organized a beautiful socio-cultural program in Toronto, Canada, to mark the 76th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru in the birth centenary year of Shaheed Bhagat Singh....
May Day 2007 Call of the Communist Ghadar Party of India
This May Day, lakhs of us are participating militantly in rallies and marches in hundreds of towns, at tens of thousands of factory gates, as well as village sabhas, in different regions of our country. The red flag, the flag of struggle and sacrifice of the working class, proudly flutters in the hands of workers everywhere...
The meeting was held in the backdrop of vigorous campaign amongst the people by the constituents of the Abhiyan in different parts of the country. With joy, the members heard the report of the excellent function organized on April 13, 2007 in Jalandhar by the Desh Bhagat Yaadgar Committee and the magnificent socio-cultural event organized in Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra on April 15, 2007 by the Lok Raj Sangathan...
The main purpose of the event was to highlight the fact that the "Ghadar" of the martyrs of 1857 is still continuing, to talk about the problems faced by people today and to point out the way forward...
On April 13, 2007, the Desh Bhagat Yaadgaar Committee marked the foundation day of the Hindustani Ghadar Party in a memorable way in the Desh Bhagat Yaadgaar Memorial Center. On this day, an important Seminar was organized by the Committee on the significance of the Great Ghadar of 1857...
In the wake of public outrage at the massacre in Nandigram organised by the Left Front Government of West Bengal, the Union Government had declared it was putting the SEZ's on hold until a new policy was announced. It did not take more than two weeks for the Indian and foreign multinationals and their political parties at the Center and in the different states to get their act together to continue with their SEZ policy...
Faced with the shock and horror expressed across the board by all sections of public opinion, including the anguish of many of their own supporters, the CPM leadership has decided to brazen it out in true social-fascist style....
The brutal attack and cold blooded killing of men, women, and children in Nandigram on 14th March by the West Bengal Police and private goons of the ruling CPI(M) has torn the ‘progressive’ mask from the face of CPI(M) and the regime it heads in West Bengal. They stand exposed as instruments of the brutal dictatorship of the capitalist class....
The Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the unprovoked massacre of peasants at Nandigram by the West Bengal police on March 14, 2007...
With Delhi poised for elections to the Municipal Corporation on April 5, residents in several wards across the city are turning out in large numbers to set up their ward committees and select their own 'people’s candidates', to put for the MCD elections, as opposed to the candidates nominated by the big political parties of the establishment...
These elections took place at a time when the policies of the UPA government at the Center and the Congress Party in the states has evoked widespread opposition from the workers, peasants and middle strata. The "human face" of the UPA government’s program has been revealed as merely a cover-up for the reality of widespread destruction of livelihood and assault on rights...
The Union Budget for 2007-08 was presented by Finance Minister Chidambaram in Parliament on 28th February, at a time when agrarian crisis and rising consumer prices have become major concerns...Overall, he maintained the UPA Government’s commitment to facilitate maximum profiteering by monopoly capitalist corporations, Indian and international, through maximum plunder of the land and labour of the country...
The Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the dastardly firebombing of the Samjhauta Express near Panipat on the night of 18 February as a criminal act against the peoples of both India and Pakistan. Most of the victims were Pakistani individuals and families who were returning home after spending time visiting their relatives in India. The fire killed about 70 passengers, including several children, in a most gruesome manner. Dozens of others lie injured with severe burns in various hospitals, far removed from their homes and families...
Voting for the Punjab Assembly took place on February 13, 2006. In the month before the elections, the Punjab Regional Committee of the Communist Ghadar Party of India carried on a vigorous and inspiring campaign amongst the peasants and workers and working people calling for the active intervention of the people in the electoral process...
A pubic meeting was organized on January 21, 2007, in Kanpur to discuss the challenge before the working class. This meeting was held in the prevailing conditions of continuous onslaught on the livelihood and rights of workers and peasants and working people by the big bourgeoisie and its governments. Hundreds of workers from Kanpur and nearby areas of Uttar Pradesh as well as activists from other parts of India participated in the meeting. The proceedings of the meeting were conducted by Comrades Mona Sur and Mohamad Sami...
Working women, men and their families, and youth from working class areas of Delhi were treated to a fabulous show of dance and skits that kept them tapping their feet to the rhythm and applauding the dramatic political satire and comedy. "Let us learn the lessons of history to usher in the Rule of Workers and Peasants" proclaimed the backdrop on the stage...
Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, was hanged to death on December 30, 2006, immediately after a farce of a trial orchestrated by the puppet regime operating on behalf of the US imperialist occupation forces. The Communist Ghadar Party of India joins the millions of other Indian people, parties and organisations in condemning this barbaric act by a power which sits in illegal occupation of Iraq and is guilty of the greatest crimes against humanity...
US President George Bush has signed the Hyde Act which was passed by both houses of the US legislature to enable the US administration to pursue the deal on nuclear energy cooperation which was unveiled by Bush and Manmohan Singh in July 2005...In case India is seen to be violating the provisions of this Act, India would be compelled to return all the fuel and technology it acquires from the US...
In accordance with the decision of the Central Committee of the CGPI, a two-day Communist School was organized by the Party on December 23-24, 2006 in Mumbai...It was aimed at strengthening the theoretical and ideological training of revolutionary activists...
The workers and peasants and broad masses of toiling people are waging powerful struggles against the capitalist and imperialist course being pursued by the UPA government. Let us make 2007 a year wherein through struggle and sacrifice we make decisive advances in the mission of establishing the rule of workers and peasants...
Members and sympathisers of the Communist Ghadar Party of India resident in Canada participated enthusiastically in a public meeting organised in Toronto by the Ghadar Heritage Organization to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the founding of the Party on December 25, 2006...
Textile workers of Kanpur have decided to organize a public meeting of workers in Kanpur on January 21, 2006. Activists of all trade unions, who support the struggle of the workers will be invited to this meeting. The meeting will chart an action course for highlighting the betrayal of the workers by different political parties, the state and central governments and the textile ministry. This was announced by a leader of the workers...
India today is at the cross roads wherein two visions, two camps, are clashing. One is the vision, the camp, of the imperialist bourgeoisie which is at the head of our country today. The other is the vision and camp of the workers and peasants, women and youth, and all the toiling and oppressed of our land. Which way will India head Â…this will be decisive not only for the one and quarter billion people of the subcontinent, but for the people of the whole world in this century...
The Indian state is once again conspiring to organize a terrible tragedy in Punjab, reminiscent of that organized in the 1970s-80s. Beginning from May 14, sectarian clashes have been reported in several places in Punjab, including Bathinda, Khanna and Ludhiana, between various Sikh organizations and the followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect. The clashes followed the publication of a picture of the head of the Dera Sacha Sauda allegedly posing as Guru Gobind Singh....
The concept that it is the praja (the people) who select the raja (ruler) has been handed down to us from ancient times. So is the concept that a ruler who does not carry out his duty of protecting and providing for the people deserves to be beheaded. The revolutionaries of 1857 declared that "We, the people, are the masters of Hindostan!" But today, almost 150 years after that revolt was crushed by the British colonizers, it is a small class of exploiters who are the masters of India. The 'right" of big capitalists to grow super-rich is trampling in the mud all human rights belonging to the people. Neither the Constitution of India nor the Parliament and other institutions based on it defend human rights. On the contrary, they are instruments for suppressing the people for the sake of preserving the rule of the exploiters...
The general strike on 14th December is a show of strength by the Indian working class. We must show the rulers of India that the working class will not put up with the escalating attacks on our rights and livelihood. Neither will we accept the attacks on our peasant brothers and sisters....
The UPA Government headed by Manmohan Singh has finally come out with its answer to the unanimous demand of the people of Manipur and of all freedom loving people of the country. Hiding behind a bullet-proof enclosure in Imphal, Manmohan Singh made it clear that the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act is here to stay...
"We shall fight, we shall win!", "Let us build our own sangharsh samitis (committees of struggle)", "Onward with the struggle for the right to shelter!" Â- slogans such as these reverberated throughout Transit Camp, near Kalkaji in South Delhi, on the afternoon of December 3. This is the same colony where, in May this year, thousands of residents came together in a rare show of determination, blocked the main highway for four days and sat on hunger strike as well. That was how they faced the bulldozers of the DDA which had come to evict them from their homes, the homes in which they had been re-settled by the same DDA nearly 20 years ago. This valiant struggle, among others, had forced the Delhi government to declare a moratorium on evictions for a year, but the threat of being rendered homeless at a momentÂ’s notice still looms large before these people. The Supreme Court has recently issued strict orders to implement the Delhi Master Plan. Delhi is already going through the intensified drive of sealing of shops and establishments of small shopkeepers and traders, amidst much opposition from the affected people. Colonies such as Transit Camp may well be the next target...
Over 300 communists and activists participated in a two-day Communist School organized by the Communist Ghadar Party of India in November 2006. This Communist School was organised in response to the overwhelming interest among the working class and people, especially the youth, to find an alternative to the existing economic and political system in India. It was organised to strengthen the theoretical and ideological training of revolutionary activists...
The main lesson from the Great October Revolution for Indian communists today is to organise the working class to become the ruling class, in alliance with the peasantry and all the oppressed. This is the necessary condition to end capitalist exploitation, feudal oppression and imperialist plunder. It is the only path to smash the colonial legacy and open the path to all-round progress on the road of socialism. This was the main message emerging from a Conference organised by the Communist Ghadar Party of India (CGPI) on 19th November, 2006, on the theme: Lessons of Great October and the Path to Socialism in the 21st Century...
Well over 100 people attended a Memorial Meeting in Coventry on October 22 to honour the life and work of Kewal Singh Purewal, late president of Indian Workers Association (Great Britain), marking the first anniversary of his passing. The meeting was organised by IWA (GB) and hosted by the local Coventry branch....
With deep anger, the Delhi Regional Committee of the Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the reign of terror unleashed by the authorities on the residents of Delhi, including the police firing on protesting traders, workers and youth at Seelampur on 20 th September. We extend heartfelt condolences to the families of the four persons killed in police firing, including three boys barely into their teens...
The Communist Ghadar Party of India hails the militant protest action of the workers of Century Textile Mills, led by their Union, to oppose the management's move to mass retrench workers and close the mill...The workers who had mobilized their entire families and women and children participated militantly in the rasta roko. The Communist Ghadar Party of India calls upon the workers and working people of Mumbai to resolutely support the just struggle of the Century mill workers and their families...
Over 38 people were killed and hundreds injured in a series of terrorist bomb blasts that shook Malegaon, Maharashtra on September 8, 2006. The blasts were organized just outside a mosque and kabaristan, where people had come in large numbers for Friday prayers in the afternoon on a day considered particularly auspicious for mourning their near and dear deceased ones. The attack was timed to cause maximum death and destruction. The Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns this terrible terrorist attack. We share the grief of the families of the dead and injured.
Nearly a thousand people, cutting across various political parties and mass organisations, participated in a joint protest action near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi on July 31, a day after the inhuman massacre of over 60 people, including over 30 children, as a result of Israeli bombing of their homes in Lebanon...
Israel, with total disregard for world public opinion or the norms of relations between states, has launched a savage invasion of Lebanon. It has deployed its army, air force and navy to destroy, blockade and conquer Lebanon. The Lebanese capital Beirut as well as numerous towns and villages have been bombed out. Hundreds of innocent people, including United Nations Peace Keepers have been killed in these attacks. Lakhs of people have been turned into refugees. This invasion of Lebanon follows close upon the heels of the barbaric assault on Gaza and the West Bank in the territory of the Palestinian National Authority...
All over the country, people are extremely agitated over soaring prices of food articles, including pulses and vegetables. Prices of essential food items have risen while the incomes earned by the peasants who produce food crops have not risen. Both the producers and majority of consumers of food - that is the workers and the peasants - are suffering as a result, while massive profits are being made by the capitalist corporations that dominate foreign and domestic trade...
Yesterday, July 11, 2006, gruesome terrorist massacres were organised in two far removed cities of the country-Srinagar, and Mumbai. Over two hundred people were killed and several hundred more injured in these massacres. The Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns these wanton terrorist crimes against humanity. The CGPI offers its heartfelt condolences for the bereaved families. The CGPI hails the courageous and selfless role of thousands of people who came forward, unconcerned for their safety, to assist the victims in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks. The CGPI appeals to the people to maintain cool and calm, and not fall for the designs of the terrorists and their masterminds....
With great anger, the Communist Ghadar Party of India severely condemns the latest inhuman acts of war and provocation perpetrated by the state of Israel against the Palestinian and Arab peoples....
The Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the growing military and strategic ties between India and Israel. These ties are extremely dangerous and directed not only against the peoples of South Asia, but also against the friendly Arab and other peoples of Asia and Africa...
The Seventh Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Ghadar Party of India was convened in the first half of May 2006. The plenum summed up the work of the party in the last three months, discussed and analysed what the present situation in the world and in India reveals. The plenum took important decisions about the main focus and thrust of the party’s work in the coming months...
The Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns, with deep anger, the barbaric repression unleashed by the central and state governments on protesting medical and engineering students in Mumbai, Delhi, Patna and other cities of India. Such a brutal response on the part of the state authorities to a peaceful protest action by students shows the fascistic face of Indian democracy...
Following the mass revolutionary uprising against the monarchy in Nepal, the existing Parliament has taken control of the armed forces. On 18th May, this Parliament, which is called the Nepal House of Representatives, declared itself to be the sovereign and supreme body of the country. It declared that Nepal is a secular state, and announced a series of measures for curtailing the powers of the king, but without abolishing the monarchy altogether...
May Day 2006 is an occasion to unite around our basic demands and strategic aim of replacing capitalism by socialism, and resolve to defeat those within our movement who are conciliating with the program of the bourgeoisie. It is an occasion to reiterate the economic and political aims of the working class, thereby laying the basis for a united movement with one program, with one unified communist leadership...
With utmost anger the Communist Ghadar Party of India, condemns the bomb blasts at the Jama Masjid in Delhi on Friday, April 14, when thousands of people had gathered to offer prayers. Many of them were badly wounded...
All over India and around the world, women are organising meetings, exhibitions and demonstrations to mark 8th March, International Women's Day. Women of all countries are raising their voices against imperialist war and the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. They are rising in protest against the anti-social offensive of monopoly capital, under the banner of globalisation through liberalisation and privatisation...
With utmost anger, the Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the terrible bomb blasts in the Sankatmochan temple and the cantonment railway station in Varanasi on 7th March. Twenty-one people have lost their lives and many more injured. Following this dastardly act, the people are being asked to remain calm. Be calm and do what – that is the question...
Even before George Bush arrived in India, several political parties and organizations among the people had raised their voices in protest. Thousands of posters had appeared on the walls of various cities declaring that Bush must not set foot on Indian soil; and that he was not welcome in our country...
All over India and the world, people have been shocked, hurt and angered by the systematic campaign by the imperialist media targeting people of the Muslim faith. The Communist Ghadar Party of India unreservedly condemns the imperialists for launching a deliberate provocative campaign against people of the Muslim faith with extremely nefarious aims....
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," Shakespeare wrote in his famous Hamlet some four centuries ago. The events that have taken place during the last weeks and months show that Shakespeare's words have gained new actuality. We who live in Denmark can confirm that everything is not as it ought to be...
For India to progress, the working class and peasantry need to establish their own rule, a Republic of Workers and Peasants. They need to be armed with an outlook that would help them solve the problems the society is facing. There is pressing need to make a clean break with the existing Republic and the entire colonial legacy. This has become especially urgent as the Indian bourgeoisie is taking steps to further fascise and militarise the Republic to serve its imperialist aims....
The reason why US imperialism chooses to launch missiles against any people and country has nothing to do with curbing terrorism. The real reason is economic and geo-political...The Communist Ghadar Party of India calls on all political parties and personalities who care about the sovereignty of nations and states of South Asia to raise their voices in unison, and condemn the US missile attacks in the territory of Pakistan...
A conflict between workers and their employer is being twisted and portrayed in the media as a fight between Ayurveda and communism, represented by Swami Ramdev versus Comrade Brinda Karat. A crowd claiming to be followers of Swami Ramdev carried out a violent attack on the Delhi office premises of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). People's Voice condemns these anti-communist acts that are being carried out in the name of defending ancient Indian wisdom....
The Fifth Plenum of the Fourth Central Committee of the Communist Ghadar Party of India was held on 28th December, 2006, shortly after the conclusion of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the party...
People's Voice condemns the terrorist attack on scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bangalore on the evening of December 28, 2005. The scientists, from various scientific and technological institutions all over India and other countries, had been attending a conference at the IISc and were on their way to dinner within the campus, when heavily armed masked terrorists opened fire on them, killing one scientist and injuring four others. People's Voice/ MEL extends its heartfelt sympathies to the families of those killed and injured in this dastardly attack. ....
We are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our Party at a time when the class struggle is becoming more intense, both within India and on the world scale. The key question is: Are the communist parties prepared to lead the working class and other discontented masses to open the path to revolution? ....
Comrade Lal Singh, General Secretary of the CGPI, in his keynote address, gave a rousing call to all communists to unite firmly and lead the working class to forge a fighting political front with the peasantry and all the discontented masses of people against the bourgeois offensive. The time is ripe, he pointed out, to build such a front for the democratic renewal of India, thereby beginning the revolutionary transition from capitalism to socialism....
The Communist Ghadar Party of India will be twenty five years old on 25th December this year. These 25 years have been years of painstaking work to establish and nurture a single vanguard party of the working class in whose ranks all the Indian communists would militate...
With deep anger, the Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the organizers of the bomb blasts in Delhi on 29th October. It extends heartfelt condolences and sympathies to the families of those killed, maimed or injured in these terrorist acts...
With great anger, People's Voice denounces the visit of the fascist war criminal Tony Blair to India, and salutes all those in India who came out on the streets to protest against his setting foot in Indian soil...
On September 7, when British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in New Delhi, to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with the purpose of advancing the strategic partnership between the Indian government and the European Union, he was greeted with militant demonstrations by the people of the capital...
Fifty eight years after achieving political independence from British colonial rule, India is free but the majority of Indians remain enslaved...
With utmost anger, People's Voice condemns the so-called Action Taken Report tabled by the UPA Government in Parliament, on the findings and recommendations of the Nanavati Commission...
With utmost anger, the Central Committee of the Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the killing of a young man in broad daylight by the London police and security agents on 22nd July. The democratic and peace loving people of Britain are legitimately demanding that the Blair government immediately withdraw the fascist shoot-to-kill orders that empower armed police to murder anyone suspected of being a terrorist....
Over 100 people belonging to many different organisations were arrested while on a demonstration at Jantar Mantar on 15th July, to mark the first anniversary of Mother Protest in Imphal (Manipur). The arrested activists continued their demonstration inside the Parliament Street police station, shouting slogans, making speeches and singing songs, until the police were compelled to release them and allow their delegation to submit a petition to the Prime Minister. Comrade Prakash Rao, spokesperson of the Communist Ghadar Party of India, was among those arrested...
The Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the acts of indiscriminate violence in London on 7th July, in which innocent people were injured and killed at the busy hour in the morning. What is the reason for targeting arbitrary people on their way to work? Who stands to gain from such an act?...
The agreement on a "New framework for US-India defence relationship", signed in Washington on 28th June by the two defence ministers, reveals the extremely dangerous course on which the Government of India is headed...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington on July 18, 2005 will be followed by a visit of President Bush to New Delhi at the end of 2005. These visits are taking place in the context of the US pursuit of a 'strategic dialogue' with India at this time. The Indo-US relations that are sought to be developed can have grave consequences for the future of the nations and nationalities of Asia as well as for the fate of peace in this continent and in the world....
The 31st Shaheed Bhagat Singh Tournament was successfully held in Malton, Ontario, on 18th June. This tournament has been held every year since 1975, which is a remarkable achievement by any standards. It is held in a spirit of unity and progress, symbolised by the slogan, "Friendship first, competition second!"...
Indian women have recognised that it is capitalism that is responsible for perpetuating the remnants of feudalism and all forms of enslavement and degradation of women. They have also recognised the need for political power in order to change their intolerable conditions. Women have raised the demand that they must have a say in decisions that affect their lives, and a say in ensuring that agreed upon decisions are implemented...
The Third Congress of the Communist Ghadar Party of India was held in Delhi during 27-29 January, 2005. With the participation of delegates from all over the country and from Indians resident abroad, the Third Congress discussed and adopted the Report presented by Comrade Lal Singh on behalf of the third Central Committee...
As another New Year dawns on us, I send you warmest revolutionary greetings!
The year 2004 has been a tumultuous year for the peoples of India. It has been a year when the peoples around the world have escalated their struggle against capitalism and imperialism, fascism and war. ...
In the death of Chairman Yasser Arafat, not only have the Palestinian people and the Arab people lost a prominent son, leader and fighter for their liberation, but the world has lost an outstanding anti-imperialist soldier whose name came to be synonymous with the liberation struggles during the Cold War and post Cold War period...
...Hundreds of activists , students, professors, women and children, including victims of the carnage and their children, advocates and people fighting for justice for the victims marched to the Parliament in an exceptional display of their resolve to fight for justice against the communal-fascist Indian state and its criminal political parties, both the Congress Party and the BJP...
November 1, 2004 marks 20 years after the barbaric state-organised communal massacre of Sikhs in Delhi, Kanpur and other places. With voters’ lists in their hands, and the full support of the police forces, mobs led by Congress Party leaders went about setting fire to the homes of people of Sikh faith in slums and resettlement colonies, Gurudwaras, commercial centres as well as in middle class areas. They set people on fire, humiliated them, raped the women and carried out the most bestial crimes with the full support and participation of the state machinery...
A Summing Up of the Discussion
Summary of Speech on August 7, 2004
Summary of Speech on August 8, 2004
Nearly 200 delegates from different parties, mass organisations and groups, as well as progressive intellectuals participated in the deliberations of the Conference... (and) discussed the present political situation in the country around the theme “What has and what has not changed through the replacement of NDA government by UPA government?â€Â. On the second day, the participants discussed the question “What are the roadblocks to the struggle for workers and peasants rule and how they can be overcome?â€Â...
The Conference took place in a militant and revolutionary atmosphere, filled with optimism as well as with a sense of urgency to address the roadblocks confronting the movement...
ON POLITICAL UNITY: There is urgent need to build the political unity of all the fighting forces, irrespective of differences in ideology, in struggle around the common demands of the movement...
ON STATE TERRORISM: The struggle of the people of Manipur for withdrawal of the most fascistic act in India to date, the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, and withdrawal of Assam Rifles from Manipur, is absolutely just and deserves the support of all those who value democracy...
The Communist Ghadar Party of India condemns the brutal rape and murder of 32-year-old Thangjam Ningol Manorama by personnel of the 17 Assam Rifles...
The Communist Ghadar Party of India hails the militant struggle Meira Paibi organisations as well as the broad masses of people of Manipur against the ongoing state repression... (and) calls on the people to step up the struggle for the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, as well as the revocation of the Disturbed Area status for the whole of Manipur...
The class struggle of the toilers and the tillers has reached a critical point. New initiatives are required on the part of communists and all the organised fighting forces...
The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) and it promise of “reform with human face†is part of the tactics of the bourgeoisie to reconcile the exploited and oppressed masses to the anti-social program...
At such a time it is essential to strengthen the proletarian class struggle with revolutionary communist leadership and develop the common program of struggle of the toilers and tillers...
The results of the 14th Lok Sabha elections delivered a negative vote against capitalist reforms, and against both the BJP and the Congress Party that have championed these reforms since 1991. In spite of this, the people are saddled with a government of a so-called United Progressive Alliance, led by the Congress Party...
The Indian big bourgeoisie advanced the date of the 14th Lok Sabha elections with the aim of gaining legitimacy for its program of ‘free market reforms’. However, mass opposition to this anti-people, anti-national and anti-social program is what has been revealed by the elections...
Employees of Modern Food Industries Ltd, Chennai gathered outside their gate to discuss and take pledge to march forward on the occasion of the May day, 2004. The gathered employees enthusiastically raised slogans about their rights and the unity of the working class...
...May day program ended with firm resolve to work to build up the unity of the MFIL workers and continue the fight against the attacks of the capitalist class.
Thousands of workers of Delhi belonging to several trade unions assembled at the historic Ram Lila Grounds and took out a massive procession through the streets of Old Delhi. The procession culminated at the Town Hall where the leaders of trade unions jointly addressed the gathering...
...Addressing the May Day rally, the MEC spokesperson, Comrade Sucharita, gave an insistent call to the workers to reject both the BJP and the Congress fronts in the current elections...
Workers started gathering at Kamgar Maidan from 3 PM. Activists of CGPI interviewed groups of workers on the need for the working class to build the independent program for the renewal of India and to lead all the oppressed people of India against the ruling bourgeoisie...
Hundreds of workers from the Okhla Industrial Area participated in the May Day march and rally organised by the Delhi Hosiery Workers Union, Delhi Leather Karigar Sangathan, Nepali Janadhikar Suraksha Samiti, Jan Pratirodh Manch and the Pragatisheel Mazdoor Union (PMT)...
For more reports on the May Day rallies and meetings across the country see the current issue of People's Voice & Mazdoor Ekta Lehar.
Wage tit-for-tat struggle against every attack on our livelihood and rights! One working Class, One struggle, One program!
The bourgeois news media is reporting many events that show the rising level of consciousness among the voters. In some places, voters have decided and implemented a total boycott, delivering a zero voter turnout. In other places, various popular fronts and mass organisations have organised mass meetings at which the citizens have played an active role, placing demands on candidates rather than listening quietly to their speeches.
The rulers decided to advance the elections at a time when the mass movements of workers and peasants and all the oppressed are on the upswing.
Statement of Communist Ghadar Party of India to the anti-imperialist forces converging in Mumbai. January 10, 2004.
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