Sunday, July 14, 2013

India - Condemn and demand the immediate release of 9 arrested SFI activists!


Strenghthening the militant students movement, free from the clutches of the revisionist left, against the fascist Indian state is the only way forward!!


9 SFI activists, including two students from JNU, Rahul and Neethish, were arrested by Delhi police while a demonstration was going on in front of the Kerala Bhawan on 9th July against the recently exposed Solar-scam and UDF-led Kerala Government’s involvement in it. They protesters were demanding resignation of Congress leader and CM of Kerala, Oomen Chandi whose close aides and associates are directly involved in swindling cores of money with false promises of installation of solar facilities. Till date 9 student activists are behind the bars, after being sent under judicial custody, as their first bail-petition had been rejected on spurious grounds. Understandably, it is a clear ploy on the part of police to secure a judicial custody and prolong the term of imprisonment. Be it brutal crackdown on protesters against Delhi gang rape, indiscriminate lathi charge on dissenting students and faculties against mass-murderer Modi’s entry into Delhi university, or the mass detention of the students protesting against the judicial murder of Afzal Guru, Delhi police in recent past has repeatedly shown their willingness to serve as muscle men of ruling political parties and their leaders.


Corruption is nothing new and not a single parliamentary party can claim innocence from their involvements in huge scams. Congress-led Governments in the center and in Kerala are no exception and after being caught deep in plethora of scams in last couple of years. This new Solar-scam and direct involvement of their its leaders, has left them with no choice but to crack down upon protests before its way too late for the upcoming general election. While people’s genuine anger against such brazen embezzlement of money are absolutely genuine, the cycle of corruption cannot be stopped while the Indian state keeps capitulating to the crisis ridden imperialist market. And thus, crackdown and state repression remains the only answer of the subservient Indian ruling class to mass protests against its anti-people policies. The message is simple democracy is tolerated as far as the ruling classes’ interests are duly protected.

While condemning the arrest of the SFI activists, DSU would like to remind pseudo-left organization like SFI that they can’t stare away from the writings on the wall and pretend innocence. While protesting against UDF-led Kerala government and crying hoarse against the Congress’ clamp down on a democratic protest, they must look for skeleton in their cupboards too. Mired deep in the quagmire of parliamentary rat race, corruption and loot of resources, the same fascist strategies were pursued by their parent party CPI(M)-led LDF when they were in power in the state. Their trade unions in connivance with BJP, Congress led union activists did not shy away from blockading, raping, beating up adivasi and Dalit protesters in Chengara when the oppressed and landless masses were demanding lands and protesting against the corrupt nexus of CPI(M) leaders and corporate plantation houses. They were all too happy in joining hands with Congress and BJP in implementing ban on SIMI, persecuting activists of PFI and other minority organisations in Kerala or targeting landless peasant protesters in Singur, Nandigram or Lalgarh in West Bengal. SFI cannot be oblivious of the facts that their parent party supported SEZs to draw off country’s resources, implemented AFPSA in Tripura and faithfully served this corrupt and anti-people system in each and every step for their own share of pie in the power-corridor of the parliamentary politics. The brutal fist of the state machinery that has now crushed them is actually the one they, along with other parties, strengthened over the years.

DSU strongly condemns the incarceration of the 9 activists and continuing police brutalities and targeting of the students movement across the country. We demand immediate release of the student activists. DSU, however, reiterates its belief that only a militant student movement, free from parliamentary parties’ double-speak and clutches of the revisionist left, that stands and fight along with revolutionary masses of this country can defeat the growingly fascist state and its anti-people policies.

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