i have no illusions about the class charecter of tmc. i am very clear why they are doing this.
i have repeatedly argued our main political fight is to isolate our enimies the tmc, the congress and the maoists.
for this we have to win back our main constituency namely the working class, the small peasentry and the tribals on our side.
many comrades like saibal have given constructive suggestions on the issue.
the two trends emerging to solve the attacks on our cadres are
the police would deal with it.
arm our cadres in self defence and we can handle on our own.
i think both would meet with limited success.
to say the police are defying the orders of the home ministry, if so somebody should say this...
if not, we should accept the failure of the home ministry to protect the cadres of cpm and also the could not act against the police officers who tortured the women in lalgarh. correct me if i am wrong no police officer has be punished for the blunders they committed in nandigram firing, the rizwanur case, the lalgarh interrogation excesses.
when i said the roles have reversed. what i meant was the way we have conducted our selves we have lost the trust of many small peasents, workers and tribals. there is a perception that we are acting as estate agents of salim and tata.
if you see the election propoganda of tmc it looks more left than the left.
this doesnot mean i am saying tmc is left. they are simply hijacking the left agenda.
nobody has to convince me about the class charecter or intentions of the tmc. but they have been successfull in hijacking the left agenda in a big way against the OFFICIAL left forces.
we were not seen as being sensitive to the doubts the small peasentry in nandigram had about the land aquisition for saleem group. certainly people like laxman seth acted in a very high handed manner. the party did not punish him publicly. i think he was given a ticket in the recent elections. if that is true it was like endorsing what he did in nandigram.
we were already on a shaky wicket in the rizwannur case. the higher ups in the police were seen to working at the behest of the girls father who happens to be a big industrialist.
singur we were seen bending backwards to make tata happy. the tmc was able to create an atmosphere of mistrust by saying the land on the opposite side of the highway belonged to a developer close to the cpm.
although we were able to convince the larger part of the farmers to give away land to the tatas a small section were still unconvinced.
there was confusion when the cm said the farmers would be given land with in the plant.
tatas contradicted by saying they were not consulted and said it cannot happen.
cm had to take back the words.
it looked like tata is calling the shots. we are just estate agents for them.
tatas looked in no mood to make any adjustments.
we have to understand in all the three cases, we were seen as siding with the so called class enimies.
we were not seen as natural leaders of the working class but collaboraters of the capitalists and industrialists.
in case of lalgarh. sorry to say we have to defend people like annoj pandey.
lumpen elements have crept into the party. they have to identified, isolated and eliminated(politica lly and organisationally)
this can be done with very agressive inner party democracy.
leninist party principle is democratic centralism and not centralistic democracy.
unfortunately only centralism is emphasised now a days.
i don't have any illusion on bringing about a revolution by the ballot. i would support all the comrades about their strategy to arm our cadres in self defence in all the states other than the states where we are at the helm of the home ministry.
i would not forget chile or the recent expt in nepal which failed. let me be very clear i am not a euro communist.
i had written before the elections about over emphasis on elections and electoral alliances. i had called it palatial politics.
we need to re enforce our class conciousness within our party.
but to hide our deficiencies and failures of the home ministry and justify arming our comrades is pure dishonesty.
i am very positive and happy about the analysis of the central committee for the election failure. they have identified the right problems. i hope it gets implemented. i am hopefull.
the situation in 77 was very different. now we are fighting the tmc which is not overtly seen as supporting the fuedal landlords or the capitalists. there support base is our support base. there agenda is our agenda. they have hijacked it.
so in case of nandigram small peasents of the cpm were fighting the small peasents but lead by our class enemy the tmc.
in case of singur the small peasents led by the tmc and the ngos were fighting the cpm cadres belonging to small peasentry.
in case of rizwanur who was an ordinary man belonging to the minority community went missing. people came on the streets, people from minority community who have sided by us for last 30 years.
in all the three cases we were seen as siding with the capitalists.
i am optimistic. the party has identified the mistakes. atleast in the case of bengal. i doubt in case of kerala.
we should not hesitate to admit the mistakes publicly. apolozise if necessary. this would build a trust amongst our lost constituency.
then and only then we can isolate and eliminate our enemy both politically and administratively.
we shall overcome
regards
prakash kutty.
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