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 In the last few weeks, masses of Kashmiri youth, men, women and children have poured out onto the streets of Srinagar and towns and villages across the Kashmir Valley in protest against the Indian state. The intensity and extent of their revolt has increased from day to day. They have defied repeated firing by the police and paramilitary forces, which has left a shocking 43 dead in the last 52 days. They have not been deterred by the much-publicised calling in of the Army which has staged several flag marches through the streets of their towns...
The “debate” in Parliament on the issue and the “resolution” prepared by all parties to be passed in this session, exposes starkly the “concern for the aam admi” of both the government and its opposition. On the one hand, the government has recently taken measures that are exacerbating the inflationary situation and has taken no steps over the last two years to ease the situation and ensure that the working people are able to afford the purchase of essential items of consumption. On the other, running up to the date of opening of the parliament’s monsoon session, the opposition parties created a big hue and cry ...
Sixty three years ago, on 15th August, India declared its formal independence from British colonial rule. The masses of people, who had fought and sacrificed to throw out the British colonisers, hoped that this independence would bring an end to the colonial and imperialist plunder of our land, labour and natural resources. They hoped that the oppressive and alien colonial institutions that subjugated our people, denied them their rights and kept them out of political power would be uprooted and a new political power be established in which the working people would be the decision makers and masters of their own destiny...
 The Lok Raj Samiti of Sanjay Colony, located in the Okhla industrial estate was re-established on July 25, 2010. Besides hundreds of members of Lok Raj, the residents of Sanjay Colony participated in the public meeting on the occasion. The members of Lok Raj Samitis of neighbouring chawls participated as representatives of their colonies in this meeting. An exhibition of photographs was on display. This exhibition was evidence of the various struggles of the people led by the Lok Raj Samiti...
65 years ago, the United States of America (USA) dropped atom bombs on two towns of Japan. On August 6, 1945, the atom bomb was exploded over Hiroshima, and on August 9, 1945, over Nagasaki. Nearly three lakh women, men and children died within a period of two months after the dropping of the bombs, half of them on the days of the bombings. The long term effects of the radiation has effected entire generations. The people of Japan and the rest of the world can never forget or forgive the US imperialists for this grave crime against humanity...
After hundreds of small and big protests by workers, peasants, and working people demanding that the UPA government take immediate measures to control prices of essential commodities, the Indian people organized a massive Bharat Bandh on July 5, 2010. The Communist Ghadar Party of India as well as various other political parties, trade union organizations, traders' organizations, as well as student and youth organizations gave the call for this day of action. Mazdoor Ekta Lehar congratulates the workers, peasants, working people and traders of our country for making this Bharat Bandh a resounding success...
The Communist Ghadar Party of India has been agitating for a Modern Universal Public Distribution System through which all people will be assured of adequate supply at affordable prices of good quality foodgrains, pulses, sugar, cooking oil, edible oils, cooking fuel and all other essentials of mass consumption necessary to ensure nutritious food. This is a struggle of the working masses for their right. The government of the capitalist class has tried thousand and one tricks to turn this right into a privilege, which means it can deny it to people as well as curtail it on this or that basis. All over the country, organisations of the people have taken up the struggle for the realisation of this right in earnest, mobilising the masses of people in the struggle. In the last few issues of MEL, we carried reports on the ongoing struggle to realise this right in the capital, Delhi. Below, we carry a report of a struggle of working women in a working class district of Mumbai to realise this right...
Once more, the UPA government is planning to bring a Bill dealing with communal violence before Parliament. Communal and sectarian violence has been the bane of Indian political life for decades. It has been responsible for the deaths of lakhs of men, women and children, and for ruining the lives of countless more. The problem is only getting worse, assuming the proportions of regular, large-scale genocide, as we have seen in the gruesome killings of November 1984, the massacres in Mumbai after the demolition of the Babri Masjid and those in Gujarat in 2002...
5 July 2010: Millions of people across India participated in the all India Strike against price rise.
Editorial
The storm raised in India and abroad over the trial court verdict on the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984 has deepened the crisis of credibility of the Manmohan Singh regime. From the painstaking evidence gathered by those fighting for justice for the lakhs of victims of this tragedy, it is clear as daylight that the then Rajiv Gandhi regime was more concerned about rescuing Warren Anderson and the management of Union Carbide from the wrath of the people, than about ensuring justice for the victims of the gas tragedy. It is clear as daylight that the Congress leadership of that time was more interested in protecting the interests of foreign capital than in protecting lives or in compensating generously for the deaths and disabilities...
The Delhi Regional Conference of the Party held in June reviewed the work of the Party since the last Conference in April 2009, and charted the future course of action. The delegates reflected the work of the party — workers, student and youth activists, veteran comrades, as well new comrades who have come forward to join the ranks of the party inspired by its ideals and its work. Nearly 40% of the delegates were women...
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Attacking workers in the name of "aam aadmi"
"Right to Food" belongs to all!
Employment, food, shelter; education, health care; water and electricity are our Rights!
National Food Security Bill: Blatant assault on the right of the working masses to guaranteed food
Step up the struggle to assert the claims of labour on the social surplus
Nationalise and Socialise Procurement and Distribution of Food!
Enhance Food Subsidy to support a Modern Universal PDS!
Cut Down Arms Spending and Suspend Interest Payments!
The UPA Government headed by Manmohan Singh has completed the first year of its second term in office. Workers must make a sober assessment of this regime which is attacking workers and their rights in the name of the “aam admi”. This fortnight, Mazdoor Ekta Lehar looks at the UPA Government in relation to the conditions, aspirations and demands of the working class.....
 A campaign on “Right to Food for all” is being carried out by Lok Raj Sangathan in Delhi. Members and activists of Delhi Samiti of LRS, and workers are participating actively in the campaign. It is well know that more than 35 crore people of our country go to bed hungry. This is nearly one-third of the country’s population and half the number of hungry people worldwide, although the total population of our country constitutes only one-sixth of the world's population. Our country has also the dubious distinction of having the largest number of malnourished women and children. Due to an unprecedented rise in the prices of food items in the past two years, the problem of hunger and malnutrition has become extremely acute. Government has not taken any effective steps to control the price. ....
 On the morning of 28th May, when the correspondent of the Mazdoor Ekta Lehar went to the Air India Corporation Employees Union office located at the Indira Gandhi Air India terminal (Domestic), he found the door sealed with three locks. The employees who were around were so terrorized by the Management that they refused to divulge the whereabouts of the Union officials. After some time, the Joint Secretary of the Union, Shri Anand Prakash sent someone to fetch us and our correspondent was able to talk to him....
On June 6, 1984, Operation Blue Star — the armed assault on the most sacred shrine of the Sikhs, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, was launched. In the name of “flushing out terrorists”, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the army to attack the Golden Temple with heavy tank and artillery fire, killing more than 4,712 people, according to the figures released in the White Paper on Operation Bluestar that was placed by the government before parliament. The sacred shrine, the Akal Takht, was razed to the ground. Operation Blue Star was executed on a day sacred for women and men of the Sikh faith, the martyrdom day of Guru Arjun Dev, when thousands of ordinary people had gathered at the Gurudwara....
 On the evening of May 26, the CMD of Air India announced the termination of jobs of 17 union leaders of Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU) and the All India Aircraft Engineers Association (AIAEA). He also announced the suspension of 15 engineers and threatened action against scores of other workers. The management has announced “derecognition” of the ACEU, the main union of Air India, and the AIAEA. By the evening of May 27, services of 58 union leaders and workers have been terminated, and 24 workers have been suspended. According to the Union leaders, their offices have been sealed all over the country, and union records have been taken away by the management....
Reports from Delhi, Mumbai, Kanyakumari, Barabanki, Lucknow, Kanpur, Unnao, Faizabad, Chattisgarh, Puducheri..
 On May 1, 2010, workers with red flags in their hands, and fists raised, participated in May Day rallies all across our country. Workers from different branches of the economy participated in these actions. The call of our Party to the working class to unite around one program of the working class was enthusiastically received, as well as taken up, by workers...
Reports from Greece, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Cuba, Indonesia, Japan, Palestine, Nepal, New Zealand, Ireland, Britain, USA, Canada...
May Day 2010 was marked by demonstrations and rallies of tens of thousands of workers in countries all over the world. Workers protested against the attacks by the capitalists on their jobs, wages and working conditions. They denounced their governments for defending the interests of the capitalists and vowed to intensify the struggle in defence of the rights of the working people. They raised their voice against imperialist war and for solidarity of the working people of all countries...
Call of the Communist Ghadar Party of India on occasion of May Day 2010
Why cannot we workers stick to one program, which we will fight for uncompromisingly? We must demand of every party and union that claims to represent workers to stick to this program and this program alone. Then, very soon, we will be able to realize it. We will be able to bring to power such a force that is capable of implementing our program. Our program emerges from our struggle and our conditions...
Government sneaks in privatisation in the name of disinvestment
On April 8, 2010 the UPA government’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gave its approval for the disinvestment of 5% of the Government of India’s shareholding in the Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL), one of the giant Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs). The approval also covered the issue of fresh shares to the extent of 5% of its existing share capital...
National Food Security Bill:
The UPA government is preparing to introduce a bill in parliament that is called the “National Food Security Bill”. Mazdoor Ekta Lehar condemns this bill as a blatant assault on the right of the working masses to guaranteed food. Far from ensuring any food security, the aim of this bill is to create the illusion that the UPA government is concerned about eradicating hunger and malnutrition, while in fact the bill guarantees nothing to the working masses of town and country...
Statement of the Central Committee of Communist Ghadar Party of India, 26 March, 2010
With huge claims by the institutions of finance capital and the armed forces and warmongers taking first priority, there is never enough money for delivering the wide range of public services for which the central state is responsible. The least useful and least productive expenditures dwarf and crowd out the most socially necessary components, such as investments in education, health, roads, drinking water and adequate food supply at affordable prices...
Militant rallies to mark the centenary of International Women’s Day
Hundreds of women and men participated with great enthusiasm and militant spirit in a mass rally in the working class districts of Mumbai to celebrate International Women’s Day...
More than a thousand women and men, representing nearly 30 organisations, participated in a militant demonstration from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar in the heart of New Delhi, on March 8 this year, to mark hundred years of the declaration of International Women’s Day. The demonstration was organized under the banner of the ‘Centenary Committee to celebrate International Women’s Day’....
Call of the Central Committee of Communist Ghadar Party of India for 8th March, 2010
The truth is that the Lok Sabha is not really in the hands of the lok, the people. Political parties of capitalists dominate the electoral process, and those who are elected follow the ‘whip’ or command of their respective parties. One party or a coalition controls the Cabinet, which has wide ranging executive powers...
Nationalise and Socialise Procurement and Distribution of Food!
Enhance Food Subsidy to support a Modern Universal PDS!
Cut Down Arms Spending and Suspend Interest Payments!
The solution to the problem lies in bringing the purchase and sale of food under social control, thereby removing the role of private profiteers in this sphere of the economy. This means only social organizations – central, state and local governments, trade unions, peasant, women and youth organizations, should play a role in storing and distributing food...
This year marks a very important event – the 100th anniversary of the declaration of International Women’s Day. In 1910, at the International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen, Denmark, the German socialist leader Clara Zetkin had proposed the observance of an international day of struggle of women for their rights and their emancipation...
March 8, 2010 will mark 100 years of the declaration of International Women’s Day. On this occasion of more than hundred years of struggle by women all over the world for their rights and dignity in society, Mazdoor Ekta Lehar brings out the source of oppression of women in society, thereby pointing to the way to bring about an end to this oppression..
Statement of the Central Committee of Communist Ghadar Party of India, January 10, 2010
The working class did not succeed in becoming the leader of Indian society 60 years ago. Its latent potential has been locked up by parties that call themselves communist but have become cheer leaders for the Indian Republic. Such pseudo-communists teach workers to worship the 1950 Constitution, instead of preparing them to establish their own state with a new Constitution...
The working class of our country needs a vanguard party that would lift the veil of anti-consciousness that has been imposed on the class. Such a party cannot be an electoral machine; nor can it be a military machine. It has to be an instrument for empowering the working class and all the oppressed. It is this kind of party we have been building and strengthening over the past 29 years, the Communist Ghadar Party of India... || Read in Hindi
29th anniversary celebration of the Communist Ghadar Party of India:
A grand political and cultural program was held in Delhi on 25th December, 2009, to celebrate the beginning of the 30th year in the life of the Communist Ghadar Party of India. This was followed by a two-day conference to discuss the present situation, the challenge facing the Indian working class and communists, and in particular, the challenge facing the Communist Ghadar Party as it begins the 30th year of its work of organising to bring the working class to power.... || Read in Hind
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People's Initiative in Lok Sabha Election 2009
Three working class activists of the Party are contesting the Lok Sabha Elections as people's candidates.
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Com. Birju Nayak (South Delhi) || Suryakant Shinge (South Mumbai) || Com. T. Wilson (Kanyakumari)
Voice of Toilers and Tillers
Racist violence in Australia: Strongly condemn racist attacks on Indian students and workers in Australia
(Statement issued by the Delhi committee of Hind Naujawan Ekta Sabha on 20 June, 2009)
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Response to the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2007 and the Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2007
A rally to highlight the depth of the agrarian crisis and extend solidarity to India’s farmers!
Hundreds march to parliament on December 10:
Let us build a new India to guarantee human rights for all!
Protest Dharna against
fake "encounter killings"
Election 2007
23 March: Delhi Municipal Corporaton elections: Election campaign of Jan Pratinidhi Manch candidates echoes among the residents
22 March: An appeal from Jan Pratinidhi Manch
Delhi Municipal Corporation elections: Delhi citizens campaign for "people's candidates", not party candidate's!
Communists and People's Initiatives against Party Dominance
Colourful campaign for people's candidates in Delhi Municipal elections
People's convention on judicial accountability and judicial reforms
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From the CGPI Archives
Elections
Elections to six state assemblies: Defeat the program of liberalisation and privatisation! Fight for the democratic renewal of India(Statement of the CC of CGPI, 31 October 2008)
Time is ripe to build a political front against imperialism and the Indian bourgeoisie! (Statement of the CC of CGPI, 13 July, 2008)
The program of privatisation and liberalisation needs to be replaced with the program for reorienting the economy to provide protection and prosperity for all
Against Communalism and Fascist Terror in Punjab
20 years after the November 84 massacre of people of the Sikh faith: The struggle to punish the guilty must be continued without let-up! Let us work for a clean break with the colonial legacy!
Against Communalism and Fascist Terror in Punjab (Statement of Communist Ghadar Party of India, People's Voice, Sep-Oct 1984, Vol - 6, Issue - 9 & 10)
Resolutely Condemn the Savage Communal and Fascist Terror Unleashed by the Indian Ruling Classes! (People's Voice, November 1984, Vol-6, Issue-11)
Human Rights and National Oppression in Northeast India
Human Rights and National Oppression in Northeast India (Paper presented at the Human Rights Conference in Imphal, December 8-9, 1994)
On the Right of Nations to Self-determination (Paper presented at All-India Conference on Rights, New Delhi, February 23-24, 2002)
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