Siraj Sikder Works
Report Given to the First National Congress of
Proletarian Party of East Bengal
(January 1972)
Comrades,
The first national congress of the Proletarian Party of
East Bengal will be considered as an important event in the history of the
revolution of East Bengal and the proletarian party of East Bengal. The first
congress of the proletarian party of East Bengal is being held at a time when
serious change of the society of East Bengal has been made, cadres of
proletarian party of East Bengal have created epic of dedication and bravery and
achieved valuable experience in exchange of blood.
For this reason, this congress is very much
timely.
Historic process of establishing Proletarian Party of
East Bengal
Since after the emergence of class society, the
oppressed classes repeatedly rebelled against the exploitation and oppression.
Their, those very rebellion and struggle had carried society ahead.
Since after Mir Jafar, out of greed, had invited British
bandits and handed over Bengal and India to them, people of this country,
repeatedly rebelled against foreign exploitation and plunder. Those rebellions
could not succeed due to lack of correct leadership.
British bandits, for the sake of their capital, created
bureaucratic capital. They kept feudalism alive. By depending on feudalism,
bureaucratic capitalism and their dependent reactionary intellectuals, they
exploited and plundered this country.
During that time, proletarian party entered the
political munch of this country. In order to organize and lead the workers
peasantry masses, Communist Party of Indo-Pakistan was borne in early 30s of
twentieth century. Form the very beginning of formation of thisparty,
reactionary intellectuals dependent on imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic
capitalism captured the power of party and misguided party.
Rabindranath was the representative of the reactionary
intellectuals dependent on imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism.
Led by Rabindranath, these reactionary intellectuals had captured the cultural
field of the superstructure of colonial and feudalist India.
Gandhi, who served the interest of imperialism-feudalism
and bureaucratic capitalism, had seized the political field of super
structure.
They created public opinion in favor of non-violence
non-cooperation and politics of compromise with the imperialism, feudalism and
bureaucratic capitalism, from which, the intellectuals who came in proletarian
class, could never freed themselves. All these unchanged non-Marxist Thought
under the cover of Marxist phrase, manifested as revisionism and opportunism.
They became tail of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic
capitalism.
They failed to lead Telengana Peasants Guerrilla
Struggle, Tebhaga Peasants Struggle and countrywide rebellion of
1945-46.
As a result, the British colonial bandits handed over
political power of India to that bureaucratic bourgeoisie, feudalists and
reactionary intellectuals who are divided and compete among themselves on the
basis of religion.
Because of the political, economic, cultural and
religious oppression by the British colonial bandits and their collaborator
reactionary Hindu bourgeoisie, feudalist and reactionary intellectuals, people
of East Bengal joined Pakistan.
The ruling regime of Pakistan kept continuing
imperialist exploitation, let bureaucratic capitalism develop freely and
sustained feudalism by compromising with it. Thus, they kept bourgeoisie
democratic revolution unfinished.
At the initial stage of Pakistan, the revisionist
communist party had not recognized the social progress that happened as a
consequence of East Bengal’s joining Pakistan and end of direct rule of
imperialism.
They had not taken the program of completely
overthrowing imperialism-feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, and wiping out
all the obstacles of national development of East Bengal, rather raised the
slogan of socialism by bypassing the stage of social development and made
Trotskyite deviation.
Later, those revisionists followed legal and peaceful
parliamentary path. After communist party was banned, they join NAP [National
Awami Party – Translator].
Most of the intellectuals of East Bengal got leftist
influence through the formation of Youth League and its development, Great
Language Movement, the later period’s formation of Students Union and its
development, NAP etc.
But the revisionist leadership failed to make merge all
the intellectuals to workers-peasants, study and practice Marxism and transform
them into proletarian revolutionaries by ideologically transforming them through
steeling them in revolutionary class and national struggle. As a result of not
opposing national oppression over East Bengal and not starting armed struggle to
overthrow imperialism-feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, tens of thousands
of intellectuals could not be recruited to party.
Meanwhile, great debate of pure Marxist revolutionaries
started led by Chairman Mao against Soviet modern revisionists led revisionists
in international communist movement. In 1964, works of Chairman Mao arrived in
East Bengal from China.
Consequently, very rapidly the revisionists were
unmasked in front of proletarian revolutionaries and ideological preparation is
created of rebelling against the revisionists.
At last, to overthrow the revisionists, Chairman Mao
called for Great Proletarian and Cultural Revolution “It is right to rebel
against the reactionaries”. Being inspired with that great call,
Marxist-Leninists of India led peasant rebellion in Naxalbari and forged
political party of proletariat of India, the Communist Party of India
(Marxist-Leninist).
Proletarian revolutionaries of East Bengal rebelled
against Moni Singh-Mozaffar revisionists. By taking their rebellion as an
opportunity, the Huq-Toha neo revisionists, copying Jyoti Bose-Nambudripad,
formed Marxist Communist Party and followed the revisionist line of Jyoti
Bose-Nambudripad. They betrayed on the national question and on the question of
armed struggle.
General cadres rebelled against the capitulationist
neo-revisionists. By taking that rebellion as an opportunity, the
Trotskyte-Gueverist Deben-Bashar, Alauddin-Motin and the conspirator Kaji-Rono
cheated general revolutionaries. Meanwhile, the Huq-Toha new revisionists, by
naming themselves as Marxist-Leninist, tried to cheat proletarian
revolutionaries of East Bengal and India.
Proletarian revolutionaries rebelled against all these
different forms of revisionist capitulationist reactionaries, and on 8 January
1968, formed “East Bengal Workers Movement”, the preparatory organization for
establishing proletarian class representative political party.
Cadres of East Bengal Workers Movement went to rural
area to merge with workers-peasantry and to guide them to armed struggle and
made example of correct step of ideologically remolding themselves by taking
lesson from them (workers-peasants).
Some petit bourgeoisie intellectuals were kept in cities
to work among the leftist students and others. A section of those betrayed with
workers Movement in greed of being leadership. As a result, Workers Movement
lost leadership in mass organization of intellectuals. Representative of these
betrayers Nurul Hasan, AKM Fazlul Huq, Mahbubullah at last became different
forms of revisionist and opportunist.
Different forms of revisionists of East Bengal by not
opposing national oppression on East Bengal, kept people of East Bengal
leaderless. Bureaucratic bourgeoisie, feudal and reactionary intellectuals of
East Bengal took that opportunity and united people on the basis of national
question.
Imperialists led by US imperialist, used national
movement under leadership of reactionaries, to make pressure upon Pakistan so
that she may establish anti China anti Communist Indo-Pak military
alliance.
As result of the post 25 March fascist activities of Pak
military fascists, the national movement led by bureaucratic bourgeoisie,
feudalists and reactionary intellectuals got defeated. Many of those took refuge
in India.
The Soviet Social Imperialism, in order to establish
domination over Asia in competition with US imperialism, neo colony in East
Bengal through India and control in Indian Ocean, used national movement led by
reactionaries via India.
With the help and support of Soviet Social Imperialism,
India, at last attacked Pakistan, captured East Bengal and established colony in
East Bengal.
East Bengal Workers Movement took the correct political
line of completing unfinished national democratic revolution and solution of
national question of East Bengal. On the basis of that correct political line,
correct military line of initiating guerrilla war through annihilation of
National enemy was forged.
Works of East Bengal Workers Movement rapidly developed
and organization developed in different places of East Bengal.
Chairman Mao said, “It is armed struggle, by which,
party grows, develop and consolidate”. Cadres of East Bengal Workers
Movement initiated armed struggle by domestic weapon. They, for the first time
in East Bengal, threw bomb on reactionary establishment of Pakistan Council and
US information centre. Our guerrillas for the first time annihilated national
enemy in Fatikchari.
East Bengal Workers Movement, for the first time, raised
present day national flag of East Bengal in Munshiganj, Jhalokathi and other
places. The sketch of national flag was prepared by the East Bengal Workers
Movement. Bangladesh puppet government at last accepted that flag.
As a result of post 25 March repression, cadres of East
Bengal Workers Movement fell in temporary casualties. But cadres recovered and
gathered again and guided people of East Bengal to correct path.
In Payarabagan, for the first time in the history of
East Bengal, regular armed national liberation force led by proletariat was
borne. While carrying armed struggle in this region, party built regular force,
carried political-military work in armed force, carried party work, established
political power, distributed lands of national enemies to landless peasants,
developed armed organization of people, resolved encirclement and suppression
problem, developed armed force, expanded guerrilla war and resolved various
other important problems. Consequently, for the first time in the
history of East Bengal, Base area was built. All these experiences are very much
important for a revolutionary party.
The struggle of Payarabagan became a legend in whole
East Bengal and India.
In the course of that armed struggle, political,
organizational and military line of East Bengal Workers Movement proved correct,
total bankruptcy of different forms of revisionists was proved, cadres of
organization was steeled in revolutionary practice, armed struggle and united
front developed. Thus, material condition for establishing a political party of
proletariat ideologically, politically, organizationally and militarily was
created.
In the meeting of Revolutionary Council and meeting of
leading cadres of East Bengal Workers Movement, the historic decision of
establishing political party of proletariat of East Bengal, the “Proletarian
Party of East Bengal” was taken. Thus Proletarian Party of East Bengal was
established in 3 June 1971 and the historic role of East Bengal Workers Movement
ended.
Hundreds of revolutionaries sacrificed their life to
establish this revolutionary party of East Bengal. At last their dream has
become fruitful.
Different forms of revisionists and the Pak military
fascists made all out effort to crush East Bengal Workers Movement in
sprout.
Different forms of revisionists made malicious slander,
bad name and rumor against East Bengal Workers Movement and its cadres.
Sometimes, they denied the existence of East Bengal Workers
Movement.
The Pak military fascists arrested many cadres and
sympathizers of East Bengal and declared warrant with big money reward for
arrest many of them. Investigation regarding East Bengal Workers Movement was
directly carried by the central intelligence agency under the president of Pak
military fascists, and the military force. Even they brought specialist and
equipment from Canada and America.
In Jail, arrested cadres were questioned to make them
reveal information, especially whereabouts of Siraj Sikder to catch him. Many
were ruthlessly tortured all the ways. In cantonment, many were tortured and
threatened by the Pak military fascists and foreign specialists. All these
torture was carried under the leadership of Brigadier Durrani of Jessor
Cantonment.
Arrested comrades were solitarily confined in death row
condemn cell. Tough system was maintained so that they can’t meet each other.
Even for that reason, they were scattered in different Jails.
They tried to trap them in greed to betray with
organization.
The Pak military fascists targeted only us as enemy
among the leftists and deployed all of their strength against us. Absolute
opposition, repression and entrapment by the different forms of revisionists and
the Pak military fascists totally failed.
The East Bengal Workers Movement sustained, kept
continuing its progress, gained great victory and completed its historic
role.
Activities of Proletarian Party of East
Bengal
Within a short span of time, first national congress of
Proletarian Party of East Bengal was decided to be held. But at that time, the
Pak military fascists carried serious encircle-suppress campaign on Payarabagan
with its total force of Barisal district with assistance from surrounding areas.
On gunpoint, they forced hundreds of Muslim people to take part in that
attack.
In face of the serious pressure, cadres of Proletarian
Party of East Bengal were withdrawn from Payarabagan.
Under the leadership of our guerrilla units, very soon
guerrilla war spread in Gaurnadi, Madaripur, adjacent areas of Payarabagan,
Mathbaria, Khepupara, Patharghata, Padrishivpur; Munshiganj, Savar and
Narshingdi in Dhaka district, Tangail, Pabna, Faridpur and different places of
Khulna district like a prairie fire.
The reactionary bureaucratic bourgeoisie, intellectuals
and feudalists of East Bengal sold East Bengal to India and social imperialism.
To justify occupation of East Bengal, India established a puppet government by
them and used them as food for artillery. They emphasized on annihilating
Proletarian Party of East Bengal and its cadres, the Party that is the only
obstacle for them to establish colony in East Bengal. They took step to crush
our front by trapping us in fake discussion or by secretly infiltrating or by
attacking. They used their mass support in that.
Our cadres failed to use our mass support in open mass
struggle; organizing and educating people, keeping our ranks always clean,
working being merged with people and educating cadres appropriately in party
line. As a result, almost in all the places, of our Base Areas were wiped out,
many cadres were killed and disappeared, and many weapons were
lost.
By attacking us in this way, they proved that when the
communication with imperialism is disconnected, the bourgeoisie don’t dare to
smash communists; rather, they take help from communists to protect themselves.
On the other hand, when they have communication with imperialists, they take
step to smash communists. Despite, severe losses of Proletarian Party of East
Bengal, party had been able to rearrange and deploy cadres.
In the mean time, Indian expansionism, in the name of
helping liberation struggle of East Bengal, attacked and captured East Bengal,
established colony in East Bengal and established its puppet government
here.
The soviet social imperialism, its lackey Indian
expansionism and their lackey six mountain’s lackeys transformed East Bengal
into an anti communist anti China Base.
Thus, national democratic revolution of East Bengal
remained unfinished.
The excuse of Moni Singh-Mozaffar revisionists of
peaceful power seizure by parliament proved totally bankrupt. They took refuge
in India and exposed their reactionary character as tail of Indian expansionism,
social imperialism and Awami Legue.
Huq-Toha neo revisionists saying class contradiction as
principal contradiction and following class enemy annihilation line, annihilated
people and shook their hands with Pak military fascists.
The Motin-Alauddin, Deben-Bashar Trotskyte-Gueverists
became divided on national question. By saying class enemy annihilation,
Motin-Alauddin Trotskyte-Gueverists collaborated with Pak military fascists. The
Deben-Bashar Trotskyte-Gueverists and Kaji-Rono conspirators withdrew class
contradiction principle and class annihilation line and said national struggle
principal without any self criticism. Having sponsored by Jyoti
Bose-Nambudripad, they formed the ‘so called coordination committee’. Different
forms of revisionist factions in co ordination committee welcomed establishing
colony by India in East Bengal, and they welcomed Bangladesh puppet government
of India. They openly opposed China and became tail of six mountains’ lackeys,
Indian expansionism, social imperialism and imperialism. They are blindly
following Jyoti Bose-Nambudripad in East Bengal. The are Jyoti Bose-Nambudripad
of East Bengal.
Proletarian revolutionaries of East Bengal Workers
Movement and who later was related to Proletarian Party in their four years
revolutionary practice, have been able to further more combine universal truth
of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought with the concrete practice of revolution
of East Bengal, and achieved very much precious experience in ideological,
political, organizational and military field.
Political
Correct politics is an organization’s life and
fundamental precondition for party’s development, consolidation and
Bolshevization. An organization’s political task is to analyze society with
dialectical and historical materialism, discover contradictions responsible for
its development and its law, guide for solution of those and perseveringly
materializing it. Correct politics gives rise to correct military and
organizational line; proletarian class and people unite under party’s leadership
and their victory is confirmed.
Our experience has proved that a political party,
however small it may be, if there is a correct line, it must develop, gets
bigger and finally win. Experience have further proved that in armed struggle
and serious revolutionary storm, the face of different forms of revisionism and
other opportunism is exposed and their bankruptcy is also proved and they are
defeated and condemned.
Political strategy is solution of fundamental
contradiction and tactics is solution of stage of a contradiction. East Bengal
Workers Movement appropriately put forward fundamental contradicts that are
responsible for social development of East Bengal, principal contradiction,
solution of contradictions, stage of social development of East Bengal, solution
of contradiction of that stage, method of that solution, role of different
classes; adopted correct strategy and tactics and applied
that.
The political line of East Bengal Workers Movement
advanced through struggling different forms of revisionists’ two lines of
on the one hand right, and ultra left which is left in form but
right in essence on the other, as well as its line is proven correct through
being tested in fire of practice.
The Moni Singh-Mozaffar revisionists tailed behind the
bourgeoisie on national question and surrendered to it. On the other side, the
Huq-Toha neo revisionists, Deben-Bashar, Alauddin-Motin
Trotskyte-Gueverists and the Kaji-Rono conspirators abandoned national question;
by saying feudalism versus peasantry contradiction principal, made ultra left
deviation, that is, by bypassing stage of social development and
dragging future task to present made Trotskyte deviation, and voluntarily handed
over leadership of national question of East Bengal to Awami league, the
representative of imperialism, social imperialism, expansionism and East Bengal
bourgeoisie and feudalism. Thus, they misguided people and helped making East
Bengal a colony.
Wrong and capitulationist politics gave rise to their
organizational treacherous steps. The Huq-Toha neo revisionists, Motin-Alauddin
Trotskyte-Gueverists, secretly colluded with Pak military fascists, helped them,
became their intelligence department’s informer and became Razakar [ Razakar, Al
Badar, Al Shams etc were the genocidal notorious mercenary local
armed force of Pak military fascists in East Bengal comprised of Islamist party
cadres-goons - translator]. As a reward, the Pak military fascists didn’t arrest
them, if arrested, freed them, didn’t burn down their houses and gave them to
freely carry open publication and sell those and gave them opportunity of free
movement and shelter.
The Deben-Bashar Trotskyte-Gueverists, Kaji-Rono
conspirators and other revisionist factions took shelter in India, colluded with
Jyoti Bose-Nambudripad, formed coordination committee, said national
contradiction principal and became tail of six mountains.
On national question of East Bengal, only we were the
competitor of Awami League. Its proof is in official paper of Pak military
fascists and their activities against us. We represented the people and
progressives of East Bengal who are against imperialism, social imperialism,
expansionism and East Bengal bureaucratic bourgeoisie and
feudalism.
Despite our small organization, financial limitation,
lack of cadres, and inexperience, wherever we worked we got support of
workers-peasants, intellectuals and patriotic masses.
As a result of Pak military fascists’ attack, after 25
March, Awami League totally collapsed and proved its failure to lead East Bengal
people in struggle. In such time of distress of people of East Bengal, the East
Bengal Workers Movement, within a short span of time, developed more than eight
guerrilla front in more than five districts, spread guerrilla war to wider
regions and historically proved proletariat’s capability to lead national
question.
Awami League became armed by Indian expansionism, social
imperialism and imperialism and started war of national subservience. They took
the task of smashing genuine freedom fighters of East Bengal as main
task.
The Proletarian Party of East Bengal made analysis of
Liberation Force and Awami League fascists, correctly characterized them as six
mountains’ lackey in documents entitled “our policy regarding Awami League and
different forms of revisionists” and “Six Mountains’ Lackeys Disguised as
Patriot”. In it, party further put forward the correct line of opposing both Pak
military fascists and six mountains’ lackeys.
With the support of Soviet social imperialists, the
Indian expansionists, in the name of helping national liberation war of East
Bengal, intervened in internal affair of Pakistan, occupied East Bengal and made
her its colony.
Led by Great People’s China, other principled countries
and nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America and world opposed the intervention in
internal affair of Pakistan, attack on Pakistan and seizure of East Bengal by
Indian expansionism with the support of Soviet social imperialism. As a result
of Indian intervention and occupation, our led great struggle of people of East
Bengal was obstructed.
In context of emerged situation due to Indian occupation
in East Bengal, Proletarian Party of East Bengal appropriately put forward its
strategy and tactics through “Finish the unfinished national democratic
revolution”, “Present task” and “Open letter”.
At the present social condition of East Bengal, the Moni
Singh-Mozaffar revisionists, by saying the subservience of East Bengal as
independence, are tailing behind Awami League, expansionism, social imperialism
and imperialism.
Divided in internal contradiction, the
lackey of Pak military fascists, the neo revisionist Huq-Toha, are making futile
attempt to cheat proletariat and masses of East Bengal and world by posing
themselves a revolutionary by saying East Bengal a Soviet colony and Soviet
versus East Bengal contradiction as principal. Pak military fascists’ lackey,
the Motin-Alauddin Trotskyte-Gueverists became very much isolated. They are
trying to recover the crisis by forming so called Marxist-Leninist named
bourgeoisie faction. They are trying to unite with Huq-Toha &
company.
Deben-Bashar and Kaji-Rono conspirators, disguised
themselves with the cover of Marxism, are playing the role of Jyoti
Bose-Nambodripad of East Bengal, are opposing China and collaborating with
imperialism, social imperialism and expansionism.
In present national struggle of East Bengal we do not
have any particular strong bourgeoisie competitor. Yet, because of the
contention between US imperialism and Soviet social imperialism, the pro US
section of bureaucratic bourgeoisie, feudalist and intellectuals can take the
opportunity of East Bengal versus India national contradiction and non
antagonistic religious contradiction between Muslim and Hindu people, may create
counter revolutionary national conspiracy and adverse condition (These type of
counter revolutionary conspiracy will be very weak compared to past).
We should be cautious about such possibilities. Therefore, we have to
firmly hold high the national flag and unite broad masses, achieve leadership of
people and finish the unfinished national democratic revolution of East
Bengal.
Military
In military field, Proletarian Party of East Bengal
achieved many valuable experiences through revolutionary practice.
Right from the beginning, East Bengal Workers Movement
correctly realized that “Without a people’s army, people have
nothing”. “Political power grows out of the barrel of the
gun”. “Armed struggle is the highest form of revolution”, “Only through armed
struggle, the development, consolidation and Bolshevization of party
is possible”, “Armed force is the main form of mass organization
under party”.
Workers Movement further realized that “Only through
guerrilla war people can be aroused, organized and their strength can be applied
against the enemy”.
Out of that idea that hills and forests are favorable
for guerrilla war, cadres of East Bengal Workers Movement went to Teknaf to
merge them with workers-peasantry, and to carry guerrilla war. But as they
didn’t have experience of how to start guerrilla war, our cadres took erroneous
step of carrying armed struggle by educating lumpen armed gangs in politics in
forest.
Later, on the basis of concrete experience of India and
Vietnam, party summed up own working experience.
National contradiction is principal in East Bengal. From
that correct politics, correct military line of initiating guerrilla war through
annihilation of national enemy emerges, that is, annihilating a section of class
enemy of peasantry in rural area, who are national enemy and eyes and ears of
government. This type of guerrilla war can be initiated with domestic weapons by
relying upon own strength.
Our cadres formed guerrilla group in both villages and
cities, and within a short span of time, threw domestic bomb on Pakistan Council
and US information center. Consequently, it could arouse masses, organize them
and cadres could be steeled. Party entered the path of development through
struggle from peaceful method of development. The petit bourgeoisie
intellectuals and dogmatists who are illusioned of making revolution through
luxurious legal narrow trade unionism, charged that attack as left
deviation.
In Fatikchari of Chittagong, our cadres organized Tea
garden workers and local peasants in guerrilla group and first attacked on a
national enemy Mr. Haru. Without using the opportunity of carrying the operation
by local guerrillas, our intellectual cadres and guerrillas made that attack.
Yet that attack was not against people’s aspiration and initiative. That is why
it was not a left deviation. People were very much aroused by the attack on Mr.
Haru. They supported huge in number and people started to organize in large
scale. Despite serious enemy pressure, our work continued.
In Fatikchari, our one cadre along with local guerrillas
annihilated another national enemy by domestic weapon. As after 25 March, all
the workers of that place took shelter in India, our communication got
disconnected with them.
In Dhaka, our cadres attacked on BNR (Bureau of National
Reconstruction - Sarbaharapath) and gained broad mass support.
Our organization gained maximum military experience
after 25 March. In Payarabagan, for the first time in history of East Bengal, a
regular armed force was built under the leadership of political party of working
class, national enemy annihilation campaign was carried, several hundred
national enemies were annihilated, and in the course of national enemy
annihilation, people were aroused, organized and mass propaganda could be
carried among them as well as arms and money was collected. Party built
temporary type of liberated area in forty eight villages comprised of several
hundred thousand populations. There, political power was established, village
organizing committee, regular army, village defense force and local guerrilla
group was formed. People were organized in mass organizations like peasant
liberation cooperative and women liberation cooperative; step were taken to form
proletarian party unit by the advanced elements among them, and party unit in
military force.
In military force, regular guerrilla unit is comprised
of seven members. A guerrilla group is made of a party representative who is
familiar as political commissar, a commander, an assistant commander, two scout
and two or four members. Step was taken to form a platoon by three to five
guerrilla groups, and a company by three to five platoons. Platoon command was
formed with a political commissar, a commander, two assistant commanders and
three scouts.
The leadership body of party, military organization,
mass organization and political power of our liberated area was Front Area
Committee No. 1 which was under higher leadership body bureau no.
2.
Thus, when six mountains’ lackeys fled to India keeping
East Bengal people in helpless condition, at that time, Proletarian Party of
East Bengal carried people’s resistance in correct path. Through activities, we
have proved the truth “Everything grows out of the barrel of the
gun”.
Proletarian Party of East Bengal didn’t combine
clandestine party work with open work, that means haven’t deployed some cadres
to carry clandestine work, despite step of building party unit among the masses,
that couldn’t be activated due to lack of time. Due to lack of time, low grade
and inexperience, more emphasis could not be put in ideological training in army
and recruiting party cadres. Due to lack of time, inexperience of cadres in
armed struggle and severe repression by the Pak military fascists, alternative
rear area of Front No. 1 was not managed to be built by sending cadres to those
areas where we worked from the beginning. For the same reason, building party
work, making sympathizers and secret retreat area was not possible in areas
under attack, and at the same time, step could not be taken to build work in
towns, ports and markets adjacent to Front 1 to help its armed struggle.
Consequently……(some words are missing – Sarbaharapath)… got disconnected in
front of …. Yet, if Front Area 1 had tried to sustain till the end in severe
encirclement-suppression, it could sustain without withdrawing
guerrillas.
From Front Area 1, a part of our guerrillas retreated to
Gaurnadi while remaining sustained in surrounding areas of Front 1.
In Gaurnadi region, our cadres and guerrillas
annihilated many national enemies and expanded guerrilla war to Patarhat,
Mehediganj, Ujirpur, Dhamura, Muladi, Babuganj, Hijla, Banaripara, Bamna and
Galachipa etc areas. About two hundred guerrillas were recruited and massive
areas were liberated.
After the withdrawal of encirclement & suppression
on Front Area No. 1, our guerrillas expanded guerrilla war to vast areas of
Kaukhali, Rajapur, Swarupkathi, Jhalokathi and Barisal Sadar Thana. Meanwhile,
five guerrillas extended guerrilla war to Mathbaria region in southern Barisal
and immediately guerrilla war was extended to Patharghata and Khepupara. Number
of our guerrilla reached several hundred from five and from five rifles to our
weapon collection reached eighty Rifles and guns.
Militarism erupted among Mujiv-Tareq in Front 1,
consequently its work was obstructed. First Tareq-Mujiv was ousted from all the
posts and was openly posed as negative example. On the basis of investigation by
the convener committee, those degenerated individuals were expelled for ever
from party and all were called upon to show them as negative
example.
Meanwhile, in Bhola, our cadres with their own
initiative, initiated guerrilla war; annihilated a lot of national enemies and
collected arms.
In Madaripur Subdivision of Faridpur District, our
guerrilla war expanded, national enemies were annihilated, arms and guerrillas
were recruited.
Guerrilla war expanded in Munshiganj of Dhaka District.
Guerrilla war expanded to Savar and Narshingdi areas (In the same
district-Translator). In Savar area, guerrilla war was initiated without arms,
and at last more than fifty rifles and guns were collected. In the same way in
Narshingdi area, a lot of arms were collected.
In Tangail and Pabna districts, our cadres expanded
guerrilla war and liberated vast regions, huge arms were collected, a lot of
guerrillas were recruited and political power was established.
In this way, in greater regions of East Bengal, a lot of
national enemies, Pak military bandits, Razakar and Al Badar were annihilated.
Numerous temporary types of liberated areas developed and in many of those
places, lands of national enemies were distributed among the landless peasantry.
In most of the cases, national enemies were correctly annihilated, while a few
errors might have occurred in some cases due to inexperience of
cadres.
In Pabna-Tangail, the Motin-Allauddin
Trotskyte-Gueverists, as lackeys of Pak military fascists, in the name of class
enemy annihilation, started committing decoity and killing in people’s houses.
People marked them as dacoit. In vast areas, people themselves took initiative
to resist them and beat five of them to death. By the call of people in that
area, our guerrillas were compelled to attack Motin-Alauddin’s bandit gang with
the help of people. At last, they fled from the area.
After 25 March, Awami League and their companions took
refuge in India. In East Bengal, their organization collapsed. During that time,
many of their cadres, supporters, and members of EPR (East Pakistan Rifles –
Translator), Police, Ansar (A state armed force lower than Police – Translator),
Bengal Regiment (East Bengal Regiment of Pakistan army comprised of Bengalis –
Translator) were united under our leadership.
Awami League and their collaborators reorganized in
India and became Indian lackey. They took ‘Smash Naxal’ line of annihilating us
and other patriots who will not agree to them to establish colony of
India.
In context of transformation of Awami League, Motia
group, Moscow NAP and their collaborators into six mountains’ lackeys, our
cadres failed to change our policy regarding them, at the same time, regarding
our own outside party guerrillas, how to recruit outside party guerrillas and
method of working among people.
By not recruiting guerrillas mainly from agricultural
workers and poor peasants, they were taken mainly from intellectuals, they were
not transformed to party cadre or sympathizer through carrying political
education among them and recruitment from such intellectuals who are not party
cadre or sympathizer have not been stopped (they are the ones who later betrayed
and helped catch our guerrillas, disarmed them and
killed them being motivated by the Six mountains’ lackeys); cadres and
guerrillas held meeting with six mountains’ lackeys, have not properly connected
themselves with people and have not carried secret meeting with
them.
In areas where we had mass people’s support, our cadres
and guerrillas, being in secret, have not directed people in mass struggle. As a
result, in many cases, our cadres left areas, by only comparing how many arms
and men we have.
As secret party organization, sympathizer and shelter
was not built among people and all worked openly and became open by not
employing cadres for secret work, all of our liberated areas were lost, many of
our cadres lost their lives while huge arms were lost in fascist six mountains’
lackey’s attack.
That time, some cadres, who lost their balance in
critical situation, expressed some disappointing rightist positions, such as, we
should depend on foreign help, have to centralize all the strength, guerrilla
war is not possible in rural areas etc. These are the manifestation of
intellectuals’ reverse role than workers-peasants in stormy situation. Party,
through several documents (No 1 & 2) on present situation, timely struggled
those positions and put forward the line of depending on workers-peasants at any
situation and following material law of guerrilla war by being
connected with workers-peasants and relying on our own strength.
At present, we have to raise national and class hatred
against six mountains’ lackeys, start guerrilla war through national enemy
annihilation and advance by correcting and recovering past errors and
limitations and following correctness and success.
The national liberation war of East Bengal will be
directed against six mountains’ lackeys, Indian expansionism, social imperialism
and imperialism. This war will be waged led by us by uniting other patriots. We
have to develop it from almost zero, depend on own and people’s strength. This
is why this war will be protracted and ruthless.
National liberation war is mainly war of peasants.
Therefore, guerrillas should be recruited mainly from peasants and workers while
intellectuals must have to be party cadres who will give ideological political
teaching to workers and peasantry.
We have to carry work secretly, wage guerrilla war, and
rapidly educate guerillas in party line to make them party cadres.
By depending secretly on peasants, with domestic
weapons, we can initiate guerrilla war through national enemy annihilation;
through guerrilla war, collect weapons, recruit guerrillas and party cadres,
carry propaganda among people, organize people, steel ourselves, terrorize
enemy, and it is possible.
Regardless of geographic condition, on the basis of
party’s valuable experiences, we have to develop guerrilla war everywhere in
East Bengal and persist in armed struggle, wipe off all the opportunist thought
of developing party without armed struggle, and achieve party development,
consolidation and Bolshevization through armed struggle. We have to build armed
national liberation force as main form of organization.
Organizational
At the time of foundation of East Bengal Workers
Movement, comrades absolutely had no experience of building a Marxist party. But
inexperience could not frighten us. We persisted in practice, and gained the
experience of functioning a political party of proletariat in course of
practice.
At present, Proletarian Party of East Bengal is very
well disciplined and inside party there is a solid center. Cadres have resolute
and firm confidence on central leadership. Cadres are more or less acknowledged
about discipline, secrecy, how to administer organizational units and
responsibility of that.
But still cadres are not efficient in method of coming
from people and bringing it to people, how to finely guide party committee,
administer cadres under their guidance and direct people in open mass
struggle.
East Bengal Workers Movement in its organizational work,
maintained law of dialectics of motion of matter, replaced older cadres with
more efficient new cadres in charge, threw rotten and took green, which resulted
organization living.
In history of East Bengal Workers Movement, there are
very few examples of factionalism and split-ism inside party. On the other side,
different forms of revisionist are torn apart in split-ism and
factionalism.
Correct politics establish iron-hard discipline and
single center inside party. The revisionists’ betrayal, conspiracy and deceit
are responsible for the disunity among them.
At the initial period of formation of East Bengal
Workers Movement, split-ism emerged in Barisal district. There, contradiction
intensified between student organizing group and workers organizing group, and
organization was about to split. It took serious turn because of the inability
of Barisal district leadership in carrying ideological work and they
(leadership) had related themselves to any of the two groups.
Central leadership went to investigate that situation
and he made them read five articles, especially on correcting erroneous ideas
and some documents (included in Lal Jhanda 2) [Lal Jhanda (Red Flag) was
party’s theoretical organ - Translator] with his view to fix ideological
problems before fixing organizationally, and he resolved the
contradiction.
In Hajipur of Mymensingh, the vagabond, greedy for
leadership, betrayer Sadik and renegade Asad and his brother joined adventurist
militarist Baby and formed a clique, claimed ‘party is correct but
leadership is wrong’ and showed themselves as party administrator and tried to
persuade cadres of that area to decoity and anti party anti people activities.
Genuine party cadres and masses defeated their conspiracy and ousted them from
area. At last they became six mountains’ lackeys. It caused huge losses to local
party work.
The root of organizational errors and deviations within
party is the manifestation of petit bourgeoisie ideology. Therefore, in order to
organizationally clear all the illness, cadres have to master ideological
reconstruction and manifestation of proletarian ideology in organizational
field.
East Bengal Workers Movement and Proletarian Party of
East Bengal have taken not unprincipled superficial unity but ideological and
political unity as the basis of organizational unity with inside and outside
organization proletarian revolutionaries. The meaning of unity by leaving
principle and compromising with opportunism is to be opportunist of one’
own.
Different times, different questions came of making
unity, joint action and coordination with different Marxist named bourgeoisie
factions. Always we have firmly opposed the existence of faction and
factionalism, and at the same time, made effort to unify proletarian
revolutionaries inside those factions or who are working isolated. With that
aim, we made open call for unity of proletarian revolutionaries and held several
times meeting with Deben-Bashar and Co.
Along with the development of East Bengal Workers
Movement, to properly organize it, it has studied and practiced the constitution
of Great Chinese Communist Party; especially the present constitution of
Proletarian Party of East Bengal has been composed in light of last four years’
experience.
During the time of severe repression by the Pak military
fascists and six mountains’ lackeys, our party cadres carried organizational
activities neglecting all sorts of suppression even neglecting fear of death,
published various documents and reached those to rank and file and people and
maintained communication with different levels. This time, other political
parties and different forms of revisionists failed to wage any type of
organizational activities centralized way. This is manifestation of our great
success and capacity.
In organizational field, we should strengthen
ideological training, strengthen discipline and leadership in all level and
correctly apply method of leadership. We should abandon of making rumor,
intrigue, violation of order, negligence to discipline and weakening leadership.
By firmly applying organizational line of Chairman Mao, we have to transform all
the levels of organization into fortress of struggle.
The present constitution of proletarian party of East
Bengal has been prepared in light of our experience. You should review the
constitution and approve that.
Ideological
Majority of the cadres of Proletarian Party of East
Bengal is form petit bourgeoisie class. Majority of the people of East Bengal
are petit bourgeoisie. Party is surrounded by them.
Therefore, in ideological field, cleaning
non-proletarian ideology of the petit bourgeoisie, especially of intellectuals,
make them accept proletarian ideology and their ideological transformation is
the main problem of the organization.
In order to achieve ideological transformation and
proletarian world outlook by the cadres, Proletarian Party of East Bengal, have
adopted following correct method through summation of experience:
To creatively study and practice Marxism-Leninism-Mao
Tsetung Thought; merge with workers-peasantry; steel in revolutionary
storm.
For ideological reconstruction, East Bengal Workers
Movement and Proletarian Party of East Bengal is saying three articles, on
correcting erroneous ideas inside party, oppose liberalism as very much
important and to make the style of always study and practice. To gain success in
ideological reconstruction, party prepared Lal Jhanda no 2.
East Bengal Workers Movement, in case of ideological
transformation, did not properly realize the significance of merger with
workers-peasants and tempering in revolutionary storm. He or she
was said developed cadres, who were able to read some Marxist book, monger some
theory and quotation and organize and guide study circle or group comprising of
workers or intellectuals.
Numerous intellectuals’ coming to organization, and so
called developed cadres’ activities proves that we have not realized the real
significance of merger with workers-peasants and steeling in revolutionary storm
in ideological reconstruction.
There are a lot of cadres in our organization, who knows
theory but that is not connected to practice. By not starting from reality, they
start from theory.
The tendency of cadres of reading big books and theory,
but inability to apply gives rise to theoretical quarrel isolated from reality.
Reading theory by not connecting it to practice is the manifestation of fool
making bourgeoisie society education system isolated from practice. If it is
applied in study of theory, its inevitable end is dogmatism.
In complex struggle in domestic and international class
struggle, this phrase monger learner comrades’ role become reversal to workers
and peasantry. They become unclear and vacillating. On the other side, working
class is firm and clear.
There are some cadres in Proletarian Party of East
Bengal who have done some practical work, but are satisfied with their narrow
experiences, don’t regularly develop their quality and working efficiency by
combining experience with theory. There are narrow empiricists. Easily they tail
behind dogmatists.
Between dogmatism and sectarian empiricism, at present,
dogmatism is main danger inside party.
To clear dogmatism and sectarian empiricism, Proletarian
Party of East Bengal has to send dogmatist cadres to practice, especially they
have to be managed to merge with workers and peasantry and work among them
(workers and peasantry).
Narrow empiricists must attentively carry theoretical
study and review.
Firm step should be managed in ideological front, to
unify all the cadres with workers-peasants, make them take part in labor with
them full time or part time and steel in class and national
struggle.
Proletarian Party of East Bengal has taken step to merge
all the cadres with workers-peasantry. It should be a rule of party to stay in
houses of workers-peasantry, take part in production, work among them and make
friendship with them. Otherwise, they should not be given party
membership.
In this way, repeated history of transformation of party
to a revisionist or petit bourgeoisie party by unchanged intellectuals should be
resisted.
In ideological field, we must regularly struggle
different forms of revisionism of inside or outside party and their
manifestations. Their face should be exposed and we should concentrate on our
struggle against them.
International
In 1968, East Bengal Workers
Movement, in its theses, mentioned fundamental contradictions responsible for
the development of present world as follow:
1) Contradiction of US imperialist-led and controlled
imperialist countries and Soviet social imperialist led and controlled countries
versus oppressed countries and nations of Asia, Africa and Latin
America.
2) Contradiction of ruling regimes of US imperialist-led
and controlled imperialist countries and Soviet social imperialist led and
controlled countries versus people of the respected countries.
3) Contradiction among US led imperialists themselves
and among Soviet Social Imperialist led and controlled countries themselves on
the one hand, and contradiction between US led and controlled imperialist
countries versus Soviet Social imperialist led and controlled countries on the
other.
4) Contradiction of US-led and controlled imperialism
and Soviet social imperialist led and controlled countries versus socialist
countries.
The present world is advancing because of the
development of the above mentioned contradictions.
The anti imperialist and anti social imperialist
struggle of people of Asia, Africa and Latin America is advancing in serious
pace.
People of Asia, Africa and Latin America have further
strengthened their struggle against the intervention, control, influence and
oppression of imperialism and social imperialism. Struggle of people of
countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Palestine have seriously injured
imperialism.
The struggle of the people of the very US and the black
people’s struggle took serious turn. The inter-imperialist contradiction became
tense.
Soviet people and different nations have strengthened
the struggle against social imperialist plunder and oppression. The
contradiction of Soviet social imperialism versus its lackey states is
intensifying.
People’s struggle is strengthening against lackey’s
capitulationism.
In order to distribute the world among them, the US
imperialism and Social imperialism intensified contradiction between
them.
The Soviet Social imperialism by following the footstep
of US imperialism, have strengthened its control over India. To establish
control over East Bengal, they violated international opinion and persuaded
India to occupy East Bengal. They committed that filthy crime to capture raw
materials and cheap labor power from here, to establish domination over Indian
Ocean and to establish own influence and occupation in US imperialist and
British controlled areas.
With that aim, they have formed joint military alliance
with Indian expansionists and sent naval war fleet. Their activities are similar
to that of old Tsars. In competition with Soviet Social imperialism, US
imperialism sent war naval fleet to keep control over India and Bay of
Bengal.
At present world, there is risk of world war but
revolution is the main tendency.
Great people’s China and the anti US imperialist and
anti social imperialist countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America opposed
intervention by the social imperialist and expansionists on the
question of East Bengal and took just step by demanding to hand over the
solution of national question to East Bengal people and Pakistan
government. Great People’s China took the opportunity of contradiction between
Imperialism and social imperialism on East Bengal, totally isolated social
imperialism and exposed their face.
As a result of success of foreign policy of Chairman
Mao, China gained her just place in United Nations and has further assisted in
world revolution by being firm in principle. Under the leadership of Great
People’s China, the proletariat, revolutionary masses, oppressed nations and
states of world are being united and they are advancing to finally bury
imperialism and social imperialism.
Great People’s China have not supported or recognized
the establishing of Indian colony and its lackey’s puppet government in East
Bengal. Rather by giving promise of support to the great struggle of East Bengal
people against social imperialism, expansionism and six mountain’s lackey
fascists, are greatly helping South Asian revolution.
People of South Asia must firmly oppose the contention
of social imperialism and imperialism in establishing control, intervention and
influence, and free themselves by strengthening own unity.
Conclusion
Comrades,
In context of social development of East Bengal society,
our political strategy and tactics have always been proven correct in fire of
practice.
From the very beginning, we have concentrated on
building armed struggle as main form of struggle and armed organization as main
form of organization.
In organizational field, we correctly applied Marxist
organizational line. As we persisted in armed struggle led by correct politics
and military line, the development, consolidation and Bolshevization of the
party have been achieved.
In ideological field, in order to remold intellectual
cadres, the concept of ideological reconstruction of them have been clear to
clearer that is merger with workers and peasantry, take part in physical labor
and then taking lesson.
Because of all those our success, our organization,
starting from few cadres developed and spread countrywide and only our
organization sustained even in the face of absolute repression of the Pak
military fascists…………
(Here the report is incomplete as a few ending part of
the report could not be collected - Sarbaharapath
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