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 On June 21, 2008, the Lok Raj Sangathan (Punjab) organised a stirring public function on the School grounds in the village of Gurusar Jagah, in memory of Shaheed Bhola Singh. Over a thousand women, men and children from the nearby villages and towns participated in this function, which began at dusk and went on till well past midnight...
Among the participants was the delegation from Bangladesh, which included prominent women trade union leaders, political and social activists in various fields. Leaders and activists of the Communist Ghadar Party of India, All India Forward Bloc, BBPPF, Lok Raj Sangathan, CPI, Workers Party, SUCI, CPIML (New Democracy), CPIML (Liberation), Nepali Janadhikar Suraksha Samiti, Forum against State Terrorism, and other organisations took part in the program. ...
The 13th plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Ghadar Party of India was convened in the first week of June 2008. Reviewing the situation in the world and in India, the plenum noted that capitalism is in acute crisis and the liberalisation and privatisation program is greatly discredited. This offers an opportunity for the working class and communist movement to make a breakthrough...
Gujjar agitation for Scheduled Tribe status:
MEL / PV condemns the state repression unleashed on people of the Gujjar community by the Rajasthan government. More than 40 people have lost their lives since May 23, 2008. Instead of addressing the political issues raised by the agitating people, the government of Rajasthan, has quickly converted the political problem into a "law and order problem"...
Karnataka:
Six months after being deprived of Chief Ministership and leadership of a coalition government by the manouvers of Shri HD Kumaraswami of the Janata Dal (S), the BJP has come to power on its own after buying the support of 5 “independents” and making all of them ministers in the new dispensation...
40 people have been killed and dozens injured in police firings on agitating people of the Gujjar community in Rajasthan since May 23, 2008. Peoples Voice/Mazdoor Ekta Lehar condemns the Rajasthan government for unleashing police terror on agitating people. Once again, as in last years agitation by the Gujjar community, as well as numerous other agitations of the peasantry in different parts of the state, the government of Rajasthan ...
Following the terrible bomb blasts of May 13, 2008, in which so many innocent people lost their lives or were grievously injured, the working people of Jaipur showed their concern and solidarity with the families of the victims in various ways. Doctors and nurses, students and teachers, the rickshaw pullers and the shopkeepers and other common people...
Government’s move to create special vigilante force in Manipur:
The Manipur government announced on May 3 that it is planning to create a special vigilante force, by recruiting residents of Heirok and Lilong Chajing, allegedly to protect them from kidnappings, extortions and attacks by underground militant groups. This follows the gruesome killing of three youth in Heirok in Thoubal district of Manipur on March 24 and a person in Lilong Chajing in Imphal West district on April 23, by members of underground militant groups...
The Lok Raj Sangathan and Lok Shasan Aandolan organized a public meeting on the theme “Nepal-Road towards People’s Power and Challenges” on May 24, 2008. Activists from CGPI, CPI, SUCI, CPI(ML), CPI(ML)-Liberation, HMS, IFTU, Kamgar, Indian Airport Employees Union, Mahamumbai Shetakri Sangarsh Samiti, Jagrut Kamgar Manch, Yuva Bharat, RADA, Ekta, Indian Centre for Human Rights and Law...
The long-pending Women's Reservation Bill, which calls for reservation of one-third of all seats in legislative bodies for women, was once more tabled before Parliament on the very last day of the Budget Session. Naturally, there could be no discussion on it at all, and the bill was promptly sent for “cold storage” to a parliamentary committee, after the media gave a lot of coverage to MPs from the SP and RJD loudly voicing their opposition to the bill. Meanwhile, women MPs from the Congress, BJP...
As we go to the press, news reports are coming in of a series of bomb blasts in Jaipur. At least 7 separate explosions were set off, in a 20 minute period, just after sun down on May 13, 2008, when masses of people were thronging to shops, eating places, as well as temples. Over 80 people have been killed and over a hundred injured, many grievously, in these blasts. Mazdoor Ekta Lehar/Peoples Voice extends our deep and...
 The People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) Manipur organized a discussion on the significance of the recent political developments in Nepal, at the Manipur Press Club, Imphal on May 1, 2008. The meeting was attended by over 130 personalities, active in the movement in Manipur....
May Day 2008 Celebrations:
 
As the various contingents of workers arrived, youth activists of the Communist Ghadar Party of India greeted them with the latest issues of Mazdoor Ekta Lehar, the organ of the party, which called upon the workers, on May Day, to build the worker-peasant front to capture political power and squarely blamed the capitalist system for the problem of rising prices...
 100 years ago on July 13, the mill workers struck work for eight days, to demand the release of Lokmanya Tilak who had been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for his writings against the British imperialists. Today on the 100th anniversary of that historic strike, the working class must come out with its banners unfurled, declaring “End to the anti-social Capitalist Offensive”. We must build a worker peasant front to challenge all the fronts of the bourgeoisie...
Elections held in Nepal on 10th April have resulted in a broad popular mandate for complete abolition of the monarchy. The Constituent Assembly that has been elected is expected to formally announce the abolition. This is a development of historic importance for the people of Nepal...
...the important point that the lessons of the past century points to the need for political power in the hands of the people and not in the hands of political parties who rule in the name of the people. The role of political parties...is to organize the people to make them capable of governing themselves...
On April 10, 2008, the people of Nepal voted to elect a 601 member Constituent Assembly that will draft a constitution, a fundamental law, for their country. People’s Voice / Mazdoor Ekta Lehar congratulates the people of Nepal in the successful holding of the elections for the Constituent Assembly...
As we approach May Day, the world capitalist system is entering another period of intense crisis, triggered by recession in the US economy. Thousands of workers in the US are losing their jobs every month. Soaring food prices are driving millions deeper into poverty in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Capitalists all over the world are attacking the livelihood and right....
The month of March saw widespread protests against Chinese rule by Tibetan people inside the People's Republic of China. The protests took place not just in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and other parts of Tibet, but also in several other towns and provinces of China where Tibetans reside. Tibetan exiles in other parts of the world, including in India, have also staged many protests and demonstrations. Tragically, in the course of the agitations inside China, a number of people ....
People’s Voice is happy to announce that a delegation of the Communist Ghadar Party of India is in Nepal, to participate, as invited international observers, in the historic elections to the Constituent Assembly elections in Nepal scheduled to take place on April 10, 2007....
All eyes are on Nepal as the people of that country go to the polls on April 10. These elections are extremely significant because the representative body that they elect will not only choose the new government and function as a law-making body, but will also draw up a new Constitution for Nepal....
 After completing their valorous long march, covering a great distance of more than two thousand kilometers through Nagaland, Assam and Manipur, the youth activists of Young Horizon (a youth’s organization in Manipur) were enthusiastically welcomed at Kangla, Imphal on 28th March, by a large gathering of people, old and young....
Let us carry forward the struggle
 International Women’s Day was enthusiastically celebrated at MDU Hall, Imphal on the 8th March of 2008. More than six hundred women and men from different communities from every nook and corner of Manipur participated in the celebrations....
The long-pending Women's Reservation Bill, which calls for reservation of one-third of all seats in legislative bodies for women, was once more tabled before Parliament on the very last day of the Budget Session. Naturally, there could be no discussion on it at all, and the bill was promptly sent for “cold storage” to a parliamentary committee, after the media gave a lot of coverage to MPs from the SP and RJD loudly voicing their opposition to the bill. Meanwhile, women MPs from the Congress, BJP...
As we go to the press, news reports are coming in of a series of bomb blasts in Jaipur. At least 7 separate explosions were set off, in a 20 minute period, just after sun down on May 13, 2008, when masses of people were thronging to shops, eating places, as well as temples. Over 80 people have been killed and over a hundred injured, many grievously, in these blasts. Mazdoor Ekta Lehar/Peoples Voice extends our deep and...
The People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) Manipur organized a discussion on the significance of the recent political developments in Nepal, at the Manipur Press Club, Imphal on May 1, 2008. The meeting was attended by over 130 personalities, active in the movement in Manipur....
May Day 2008 Celebrations:
As the various contingents of workers arrived, youth activists of the Communist Ghadar Party of India greeted them with the latest issues of Mazdoor Ekta Lehar, the organ of the party, which called upon the workers, on May Day, to build the worker-peasant front to capture political power and squarely blamed the capitalist system for the problem of rising prices...
100 years ago on July 13, the mill workers struck work for eight days, to demand the release of Lokmanya Tilak who had been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for his writings against the British imperialists. Today on the 100th anniversary of that historic strike, the working class must come out with its banners unfurled, declaring “End to the anti-social Capitalist Offensive”. We must build a worker peasant front to challenge all the fronts of the bourgeoisie...
Elections held in Nepal on 10th April have resulted in a broad popular mandate for complete abolition of the monarchy. The Constituent Assembly that has been elected is expected to formally announce the abolition. This is a development of historic importance for the people of Nepal...
...the important point that the lessons of the past century points to the need for political power in the hands of the people and not in the hands of political parties who rule in the name of the people. The role of political parties...is to organize the people to make them capable of governing themselves...
On April 10, 2008, the people of Nepal voted to elect a 601 member Constituent Assembly that will draft a constitution, a fundamental law, for their country. People’s Voice / Mazdoor Ekta Lehar congratulates the people of Nepal in the successful holding of the elections for the Constituent Assembly...
As we approach May Day, the world capitalist system is entering another period of intense crisis, triggered by recession in the US economy. Thousands of workers in the US are losing their jobs every month. Soaring food prices are driving millions deeper into poverty in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Capitalists all over the world are attacking the livelihood and right....
The month of March saw widespread protests against Chinese rule by Tibetan people inside the People's Republic of China. The protests took place not just in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and other parts of Tibet, but also in several other towns and provinces of China where Tibetans reside. Tibetan exiles in other parts of the world, including in India, have also staged many protests and demonstrations. Tragically, in the course of the agitations inside China, a number of people ....
People’s Voice is happy to announce that a delegation of the Communist Ghadar Party of India is in Nepal, to participate, as invited international observers, in the historic elections to the Constituent Assembly elections in Nepal scheduled to take place on April 10, 2007....
All eyes are on Nepal as the people of that country go to the polls on April 10. These elections are extremely significant because the representative body that they elect will not only choose the new government and function as a law-making body, but will also draw up a new Constitution for Nepal....
After completing their valorous long march, covering a great distance of more than two thousand kilometers through Nagaland, Assam and Manipur, the youth activists of Young Horizon (a youth’s organization in Manipur) were enthusiastically welcomed at Kangla, Imphal on 28th March, by a large gathering of people, old and young....
Let us carry forward the struggle
International Women’s Day was enthusiastically celebrated at MDU Hall, Imphal on the 8th March of 2008. More than six hundred women and men from different communities from every nook and corner of Manipur participated in the celebrations....
 On March 11, 2008, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh was the scene of a militant anti imperialist Convention organized by the All India Forward Bloc. The Convention was a step to strengthen the unity of the anti imperialist movement in India and world wide, and to increase awareness among the Indian people about imperialist designs...
March 8 is International Women's Day, the day that celebrates the struggles of women all over the world for their rights and their emancipation.
International Women's Day was first celebrated nearly one hundred years ago, at a time when capitalism and imperialism were developing rapidly, and millions of women were entering the work force. Capitalism, far from bringing freedom to women, only enslaved them in factories, broke up their families, and increased the burdens...
Historic initiative of the CC of the CGPI:
 The two-day School organized by the Communist Ghadar Party of India in Delhi on February 23-24, 2008 represents a historic initiative of the Party. During this school, the delegates studied with great enthusiasm, the historical development of the communist movement ...
 They shouted militantly “Down with the UPA government - murderer of peasants”, “Peasants demand protection of their livelihood”, “We demand – guaranteed procurement at remunerative prices!” to draw attention of the people of Delhi towards the issues and problems of peasants....
Sectarian violence has been unleashed against the people of Mumbai in the past week. Following a sustained campaign targeting the working people from UP, Bihar and Bengal for the problems of Mumbai, small shops and taxis were wrecked, while working people such as taxi drivers and others beaten up mercilessly because of their language or state of origin...
The Communist Ghadar Party of India, founded on 25 December, 1980, celebrated its 27th anniversary in Delhi. Comrade Lal Singh, General Secretary of CGPI, was greeted with applause as he took his place as Chairperson, along with youth communist leader, Comrade Santosh. What followed was a lively and participatory discussion on issues of paramount significance - summing up the lessons learnt from the life and work of the Party in the last 27 years, the present situation in the world and in India, and on the definition and role of the working class in solving the problems of society...
Politics of assassination serves only the imperialist and reactionary interests. It does not benefit any section of the people who are striving for freedom and social progress. ...
Experience of CPI(M) rule in West Bengal reveals:
The bourgeois media is attacking communism by presenting the CPI (M) and its conduct in Nandigram as an example of communism. The conduct of the CPI (M) and its leadership is not communist. It is a monstrous upside down rendering of communism. It is capitalist in essence and communist only in name...
Comrade Shiv Kumar Mishra, veteran communist revolutionary, breathed his last in his native city of Kanpur on December 12, 2007. In his passing away, the communist movement of India has lost an indefatigable fighter, who devoted his entire active life to the cause of revolution and national liberation...
International Human Rights Day is being observed in India this year in the midst of a hot debate over the gross violation of human rights by parties in power, whether Congress or BJP or CPIM.. At the centre of this debate is the very definition of human rights, what they are and what they imply about the duties of a State in modern times....
Hundreds march to parliament on December 10:
 Calling for an end to state terrorism and the violation of rights of all sections of the people, hundreds of activists of various people’s organisatons gathered at Mandi House in New Delhi on December 10, on the occasion of International human rights day. They then proceeded in a lively and colourful demonstration to Parliament, to protest againstn....
Elections to the state assembly in Gujarat are being held in two phases on December 11 and December 16. Both the campaigns being run by the Congress and the BJP – the two main contenders for power – as well as the coverage in the media are being conducted in such a manner as to deliberately exacerbate tensions and inflame divisions among the people not just in Gujarat but in the country as a whole. They are also designed to spread misinformation about the widespread opposition....
CPI(M) leader and Chief Minister of West Bengal, Buddhadev Bhattacharjee, stated at a press conference in New Delhi on 4th December:, “We have failed in Nandigram. It was an administrative and political failure. We have learnt lessons from Nandigram that we have to take people into confidence. We have to ensure that Nandigram does not repeat itself.” Bhattacharjee also expressed regret for his provocative pronouncement made last month that those opposed to the CPIM....
 On November 18, 2007, a public meeting was organised in the Rajendra Bhavan Auditorium, Delhi with the theme "Building the Future — Organising for Peoples Power". This followed the successful conclusion of the 4th All India Convention of the Lok Raj Sangathan the previous evening....
 The fourth all-India convention of Lok Raj Sangathan successfully concluded on 17th November, 2007, at New Delhi. Held under the theme Building the Future — Organising for People's Power, the convention adopted the Report of Work since October 2005, unanimously adopted the Constitution of LRS and re-elected the All-India Council (AIC), with a new President. The convention also adopted several resolutions, including political positions....
Violence and terror have been unleashed in Nandigram, West Bengal, by the Communist Party of India (Marxist). In a pre-meditated and planned act, a brutal assault has been carried out on the peasants living in Nandigram, by the party in power in the name of “recapturing” this area. While the police and CRPF were instructed to stand by, CPI(M) openly deployed a heavily armed force of criminals and musclemen....
Celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution:
 A grand public meeting was organised by the Communist Ghadar Party of India on Sunday, November 4th, 2007, in the Maharashtra High School Maidan, on Currey Road in Mumbai to mark the 90th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution....
Hectic lobbying by the US in India for the nuclear deal:
Hectic efforts are going on to ensure that Indo-US strategic alliance is firmed up.
In this direction, the “operationalisation” of the 123 nuclear agreement between India and the US is being considered as a major step. This “operationalisation” requires India to sign an agreement with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) as well as the NSG (Nuclear fuel Suppliers Group of countries), and finally the ratification of the US Congress...
The declaration of Emergency by President General Pervez Musharraf marks the deepening of the crisis that has engulfed the state and ruling circles of Pakistan.
Immediately following the declaration of Emergency, the Pakistan government has arrested judges, lawyers and political activists opposed to the Musharraf regime. There have been clashes between protesting lawyers and the police in Lahore and other towns...
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People's Voice (English)
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Voice of Toilers and Tillers
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
Statement of Communist Ghadar Party of India
(People's Voice, Sep-Oct 1984, Vol-6, Issue-9&10)
(People's Voice, November 1984, Vol-6, Issue-11)
(Paper presented at the Human Rights Conference in Imphal, December 8-9, 1994)
(Paper presented at All-India Conference on Rights, New Delhi, February 23-24, 2002)
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