"I would like my comrades to remember that during the early days of land distribution in West Bengal, it is the Party cadres also who took hold of above-ceiling lands, guarded that land day and night with sticks to prevent it from getting further recaptured, and established people's holdings on those lands. It is with that revolutionary discretion such operation was undertaken by the Party cadres. Today, it is with that revolutionary spirit CPI(M) cadres-supporters should prevent the physical annihilation of the Party."

this situation can be termed the same now. the roles are reversed. say in nandigram and then in singur and in lalgarh.

its very easy to say we fight with committed comrades and they fight with hired goons.

its sad we don't realise its our base which is now with 'them'.

there is severe erosion of support for our party within the working class and the small peasentry.

just because our name is communist party doesnot mean we are the natural leaders of the proletariat class. we have to behave like one.

we are not behaving like one.

i am loosing my patience.

our role should be in protecting our cadres. but how many of us spoke when tribals were tortured. how many of us spoke for the farmers who were shot dead by the police. how many of us stood by the side of the small farmers when they were fighting for their land.

we could have spoken atleast within our party fora.

my point is for me every oppressed person who is fighting for his right deserves our support.

unfortunately...its all power to the people..to.. all power to the soviets..to all power to the party...to...all power to the secretary.

the dilution is on.

within the party fora i did protest over the police firing in nandigram. the way in which the land aquisition drive was undertaken in nandigram and singur.

i was not silent then, i am not silent now.

after 33 years of administration and to say all the rhetoric of state and the police and the bureaucracy would never be accountable.

its a failure of home ministry. accept it. correct it.

don't hide behind the rhetoric of state repression.

it is politically naive to compare the situation in bengal to the spanish revolution and then to all the other struggles where we had to take weapons.

all this is to hide the failure of the home ministry. nothing else. it is shame full the way police conducted themselves in nandigram. then during the investigations on the assisination attempt on the chief minister. and then when the maoist started attacking cpm workers.

as per the thread there are two kinds of revolutioneries one the vocal (real ones) and the other the silent (collaboraters).

my problem with the self declared vocal revolutioneries is they have woken up only now when our comrades are getting attacked.

i would like all of them to be vocal also when ordinary workers or farmers are attacked.

if all of us would have been vigilant towards the revisions taking place within the party and its actions. things would not have reached this point.

i never said it is a law and order problem.

i said we have to recognize our mistakes. our alienation from our constituency;namely the working class and the small peasantry and the tribals.

we have to isolate our enemies from our constituents. we have to win them over.

we are perceived as estate agents of tata and the salim group. this has to be corrected.

i have strong reservations on the word 'resistance' the way it is been used here.

it is very short sighted. and it is a never ending cycle.

the problem is when somebody says the problem should be tackled administratively. he is a traitor. he is politically naive.

if somebody says the problem should be tackled politically. he is again a traitor. becaused it is already presumed he is/was silent when our comrades were getting murdered.

the only people who support armed resistance against the trinamool are the legitimate revolutioneries.

i am sorry to say the line between maoists and us is getting blurred that way.

i also would like to add the kejuri armed recapture of nandigram was a FAILURE. the cannore expt is a failure.

lalgarh expt is a success till now.

in my opinion.

politically

we need to win over our constituents on an urgent basis.

for this we have to adress their grievences.

apologise for our mistakes.

com saibal had some very good points to make.

we should take very visible steps in expelling the careerists in the party.

the lumpen elements within the party should be isolated.

INCLUSIVE developmental programmes should be undertaken.

administratively.

complete deweaponisation of bengal.

declare " anybody in possession of weapons would not be spared"

police would be trained to deal with provocative (violent) agitations. they would be trained to tackle insurgency operations.

they would never fire upon agitating farmers or workers, be it of any hue.

these are some of the points i think can address the problems.

regards.

prakash kutty.