Report of Cultural Working Group
In the last
few months as a part of the international campagne „Support the peoples war in
India“ we, the working-group culture, discussed and studied about the revolutionary
culture-organisations, how they work and fight in India and also which kind of
solidarity-work we can do here in austria as a working group. Our focus lies on the culturefront. With this focus we wanted to
propagate the peoples war also in Austria and make the austrian people get
interested and thinking. Our goals, as the Cultural Working Group, were to
inform ourselves and to discuss at first, to be able to inform the people to
spread solidarity. With this focus we concentrated and worked towards the main
part of our solidarity work, organising a solidarity-celebration to support the
peoples war in India. Our question was, what the meaning of the
revolutionary-culturework in India is, which part of the fight and how we can
reach the people here.
In tis context we prepared a Presentation
with the focus on how the culture-organisation Chetna Natya Manch is doing
their work and fights a important part of the peoples war.
As a next theme, we concentrated and
discussed about the hindu-fascist Indian State and the repression they use to
opress the progressive, revolutionary and democratic people, which they also
use against the revolutionary culture-organisations and their members. As an
example, the Adivasi Uttpal Baski, who was illegaly arrested by the police in
Mai 2012. We could clearly see on this example, which danger progressive
cultural work for the indian state is and how liberating and important it can
be for the people. Based on this we put our work under the slogan „Art is a
weapon“.
Until then we concentrated on the
mobilisation and organisation for the solidarity-celebration. Also important
for our work was to prepare with people which are not in any organisation to
make them interesting. We did really not reched this goal, but we could get a
few new people interestied by drawing a transparent with the slogan „Let’s
create a established base of higher culture for the broad masses“. By agitation, meetings and poster activities
we tried to get attention for the celebration and the international campain to
support the peoples war in India. Quantitatively, the celebration was not really
successful, but we reached a few new faces, by discussing and celebrating
together.
To sum it up it was a callanging task to
win people making solidarity-work for progressive fights, sometimes it was
hard, but we think we was able to walk a few small stepps forward, knowing what
revolutionary cultural could be and propagating it, the solidarity of
progressive movements in general and
specially with the peoples war in India. We look forward to start the work of
the Cultural Working Group again within the next campain.
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