Boycot The racist Sri Lankan Government and its military establishment

The Sri Lankan army has killed 20,000 Tamil civilians in the name of fighting LTTE. Even a refugee camp of Tamil civilians, who had been displaced and homeless by the Sri Lankan attacks, has been bombed and destroyed killing all of them. The recent media reports of massacre of Sri Lankan Tamils and other atrocities of Lankan army clearly shows that the war was not against Terrorism, or against Terrorist outfit LTTE, as claimed by the Sri Lanka Government. It was a racial war against the whole Sri Lankan Tamil community. That is an act of cowardice, racism and war crime. The racist Sri Lankan Government and its military establishment must be tried in international courts for this grave crime against humanity. The Sri Lankan state has acted like Israeli state which killed thousands of Palestinians and Arab civilians in the name of fighting HAMAS. These enemies of humankind must be boycotted and punished by the international community and the people of the democratic world.

EARN

Dogs should be barred from doing men's task!!

Recently, in a Bengali film named ‘Jackpot’ there is a remake version of a famous Bengali song ‘Jibone Ki Pabonaa’ originally composed by famous music director Sudhin Dasgupta and sung by Great singer Manna Dey. This kind of distortion of our great works of art & creativity is highly unacceptable. Earlier, one of the greatest Bengali songs of all times, ‘Ami Banglaye Gaan Gai’ by Protul Mukherjee has been misused in a mediocre mainstream Bengali film directed by Provat Roy. That badly distorted version was sung by an average singer named ‘Babool Suprio’( god knows how two first names can make a single name!). I think that was a great insult to our Bengali art & culture and to a great singer like Protul Da. Actually, when dogs try to do what men should do, this type of mishap happens.

Down with Israel

I strongly condemn the recent military attacks carried out by the Israeli occupying forces in the Gaza Strip on 27 December 2008. The attacks began at approximately 11:30am and lasted for approximately three hours. These attacks have destroyed most of the Gaza security offices including police stations, resulting in the deaths of more than 200 Palestinians. More than 350 have been injured with at least 120 critically.
The number of deaths resulting from these attacks indicates a wilful targeting of the civilian police forces in these locations and a clear violation of the prohibition against wilful killings. Wilful killings are a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention under Article 147 and therefore, a war crime. Both the time and location of these attacks also indicate a malicious intent to inflict as many casualties as possible with many of the police stations located in civilian population centres and the time of the attacks coinciding with the end of the school day resulting in the deaths of numerous children.

What did Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert mean when he stated that the people of Gaza weren't the enemy, that it was Hamas and Islamic Jihad which were being targeted? Was that statement made to infuriate the people of Gaza out of out their state of shock, to pacify any feelings of rage and revenge? To mock them? Were the scores of children on their way home from school and who are now among the dead and the injured, Hamas militants? About half an hour after the first strike, three schoolgirls happened to be passing by one of the locations when a missile struck the Preventative Security Headquarters building. The girls' bodies were torn into pieces and covered the street from one side to the other.

A short time earlier, US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters dropped over 100 bombs on dozens of locations in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip killing at least 195 persons and injuring hundreds more. Many of these locations were police stations located, like police stations the world over, in the middle of civilian areas. The US government was one of the first to offer its support for Israel's attacks, and others will follow.
Israel's war crimes and other grave violations of international law in Gaza as well as in the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, could not have been perpetrated without the direct or indirect complicity of world governments, particularly the United States, the European Union, Egypt, and other Arab regimes.

The UN Security Council must call an emergency session and adopt concrete measures, including the imposition of sanctions, in order to ensure Israel's fulfilments of its obligations under international humanitarian law.
The High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions must fulfil their obligation under common Article 1 to ensure respect for the provisions of the Conventions, taking appropriate measures to compel Israel to abide by its obligations under international humanitarian law, in particular placing pivotal importance on the respect and protection of civilians from the effects of the hostilities.
The High Contracting Parties must fulfil their legal obligation under Article 146 of the Fourth Geneva Convention to prosecute those responsible for grave breaches of the Convention.
EU institutions and member states must make effective use of the European Union Guidelines on promoting compliance with international humanitarian law (2005/C 327/04) to ensure Israel complies with international humanitarian law under paragraph 16 (b), (c) and (d) of these guidelines, including the adoption of immediate restrictive measures and sanctions, as well as cessation of all upgrade dialogue with Israel.

POSHUKHAMAR

Poshukhamar is a result of constant conspiracy to malign socialism. The play “Poshukhamar”, which was based on “Animal Farm” written by George Orwell, attacks Stalin policies and Soviet Union’s proletarian state. In the play, it was shown that Stalin’s regime was repressive and anti-democratic. George Orwell, who claimed to be a Marxist, was originally an Anti-communist and a supporter of bourgeois democracy. He was against Dictatorship of the Proletariat and socialism. He was aided and funded by imperialist powers, the main enemy of communism and working class, to attack socialism and to malign its leaders. Persons like Arpita Ghosh and Saoli Mitra are the supporters of that so called “Orwellian communism” which is an anti-socialist ideology to counter the real thoughts and aspects of socialism and communism.
The speculation about the millions who died in the Soviet Union is part of the dirty propaganda war against the Soviet Union and for this very reason the denials and explanations given by the Soviet Union were never taken seriously and never found any space in the capitalist press. They were, on the contrary, ignored, while the 'specialists' bought by capital were given as much space as they wanted in order to spread their fictions. And what fictions they were! What the millions of dead and imprisoned claimed by Orwell and other 'critics' had in common was that they were the result of false statistical approximations and evaluation methods lacking any scientific basis.

"Narokio"

Yesterday I went on to see the latest production of “Pancham Vaidik”, the Bengali play “Narokio”. It is based on Jean Paul Sartre’s play “No Exit” written in the mid-40s of the twentieth century. In this plat director Arpita Ghosh has purposefully depicted its on of the main characters, corrupted politician Samrat Sircar as Comrade Joseph Stalin. Though in the original play “No Exit”, the central character Garcin, a reporter, who was liar and immoral, had no resemblance with Stalin. Arpita has a constant habit of maligning Comrade Stalin, the great teacher of the proletariat. In her previous play “Poshukhamar”, which was based on “Animal Farm” written by George Orwell, she attacked Stalin policies and Soviet Union’s proletarian state. In the play, it was shown that Stalin’s regime was repressive and anti-democratic. George Orwell, who claimed to be a Marxist, was originally an Anti-communist and a supporter of bourgeois democracy. He was against Dictatorship of the Proletariat and socialism. He was aided and funded by imperialist powers, the main enemy of communism and working class, to attack socialism and to malign its leaders. Persons like Arpita Ghosh and Saoli Mitra are the supporters of that so called “Orwellian communism” which is an anti-socialist ideology to counter the real thoughts and aspects of socialism and communism. These self proclaimed champions of humanity judge Comrade Stalin’s thoughts and activities by the anti-people policies of CPIM, which is a revisionist social-democratic party and no a real communist party in any case. People who don’t know the abc of communism should not have the right to judge and criticize the great leaders of communism.
In her last column in The Telegraph, Malavika Singh called Comrade Stalin and Comrade Mao Tse Tung mass-murderers. These types of miss-propagandas are based on utter lies and misinformation. Imperialist powers always have their paid agents and whores as have their weapons to fight communism.

My letter published in The Telegraph

The death sentence against Saddam Hussein came at the end of a farcical trial (“Saddam walks to death with defiance”, Dec 31). The Bush administration and its allies had no right to execute Saddam simply because the coalition forces have done more harm to Iraq than the deposed dictator. For one, the invasion of Iraq was an unprovoked act of aggression that was justified with lies and carried out in defiance of international law. The imperialist forces killed thousands of innocent Iraqis in the name of “regime change”. More worryingly, Iraqi people are still being terrorized by the occupation forces. The imperialists must be resisted at any cost before more crimes and atrocities against humanity are committed in Iraq.
January 04, 2007

It is not the image of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee that helped the Left Front come to power
for the seventh time in a row in West Bengal. The real reason is the lack of an organized
opposition in the state. The so-called slogan of development and industrialization of the
previous government, headed by Bhattacharjee himself, has proved to be completely hollow. In the name of development, the government is forcefully occupying the land of poor farmers,
destroying their livelihood, while giving promoters and foreign firms absolute freedom to build
shopping malls, flats and multiplexes for the rich. Slum-dwellers and hawkers are being evicted
in the name of beautification and development. To talk about rehabilitation is blasphemy.
However, there is no real industrialization happening. Bhattacharjee has brought some
investment in the services sector, particularly in IT and retail. But nothing has been done for the
manufacturing sector. As a matter of fact, around 65,000 factories have closed down, resulting
in millions losing their jobs. Of around 7.5 million registered unemployed people in the state, the
so-called IT boom has been able to provide jobs for only 40,000 or thereabouts. Therefore, if
the people have voted for him, it was not for “Brand Buddha” but because they had no
alternative.

Monday, May 15, 2006