BE IT SURAJKUND OR KAGAR, WE WILL NEVER PUT DOWN OUR PENS- THEY ARE OUR WEAPONS IN THIS STRUGGLE AGAINST INJUSTICE!
CONDEMN THE NIA-STF RAIDS IN THE HOUSES OF POLITICAL ACTIVISTS IN WEST BENGAL!
ABOLISH THE NIA-THE GESTAPO AGENTS OF HINDUTVA FASCISTS AND CORPORATE CAPITAL!
RELEASE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IMMEDIATELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY!
On 1st October, since 6 a.m. in the morning, around 11 mass movement activists, journalists, trade union activists and civil rights activists' houses were raided in West Bengal by a joint operation conducted by the NIA, the Gestapo forces of the Brahminical Hindutva fascists RSS-BJP, and the fascist TMC government police's Special Task Force to contain Naxalism. These raids were conducted on basis of the age-old excuse of "the suspicion of them being involved in the organizational work of CPI(Maoist)". They have confiscated books, mobile phones, pen-drive and computer hard-drive from RSF activist Comrade Suddha Satya Ray, film director and former member of RSF Abhinjan Sarkar, trade union activists Comrade Shipra Chakraborty, Comrade Sudipta Pal and Comrade Somnath Bera, journalist Prosenjit Chakraborty and all others including Bipasha Sarkar, Sushil Thakur, Jayanta Ghosh, Gour Majumdar, Siddheswar Biswas. Alongside this just to increase the harrassment, they have been summoned as witnesses to the Ranchi office of NIA instead of the NIA office that exists in Kolkata. It has turned out to be the norm of the "Viksit Bharat" that activists struggling for justice are branded as Maoists. State repression is brought down upon those who protest against the attempt to hand over the Jal Jangal Zameen of the country to the different Indian and Foreign big corporates. All who struggle against the genocide, rape, aerial bombings of the Adivasis, struggling against this ploy, and against the sustained attack on the workers, peasants, women, Dalit and minority community people of the country are branded as Maoists. National Security Adviser, Ajit Doval proudly claims that the civil society is the new "war front". In the name of defeating Maoism, from the Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case to the different raids in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and states across the country, is a manifestation of the Surajkund Action Plan taken by the Central Government to curb "Naxalite pen-wielders" along with gun-wielders. Home Minister Amit Shah has been conducting meetings across the country with administrative and security chiefs and proclaiming the death toll of Maoism. Ironically, this goalpost constantly moves- what was initially said to be 2022 during the times of Bhima Koregaon, has now become 2026. Similarly, the state government of the fascist TMC are also enraged since these activists have been involved in protests against corruption, rape and genocide perpetrated by them from the very beginning of their regime. Most recently, the huge mass movement against the rape and murder of a PGT intern at RG Kar Medical College saw the participation of these activists. We know that various courts in the country have stated in various judgements that, it is not a crime under the law to believe in the ideology of Maoism or even to be a member of CPI(Maoist), unless the person is directly involved in acts of violence. However, various prominent social activists, lawyers, trade union activists and human rights activists are branded as "overground workers" of one specific banned Maoist organisation and are kept in jail without trial for years. Thus, the trial itself becomes punishment. We apprehend that in order to suppress the ever-expanding mass protests because of the increasing economic crisis in the country and the centre and the state's anti-people policies, the centre's NIA and the state' STF are hatching a plot similar to the Bhima Koregaon case. We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, strongly protest the raids conducted by the NIA and STF in the homes of 11 political activists in West Bengal to frame fake cases against them. We call upon all the progressive, democratic, and left forces and individuals to build mass resistance against this state repression brought down upon the political activists.
Signed by
Individuals: 1. Prof. Saroj Giri, Delhi University 2. Prof. Nandita Narain, Delhi University 3. Prof. PK Vijayan, Delhi University 4. Prof. Karen Gabriel, Delhi University 5. K.Murali, Author 6. N Venugopal, Editor, Veekshanam, Hyderabad 7. Seema Azad, President, PUCL UP 8. Deepak Dholakiya (Delhi), Indian Community Activists Network (ICAN)@ 9. V. K. Singh, Trade Union activist & Author, Varanasi 10. Sonmati Kumari, Advocate High Court Allahabad 11. Dr Ashok Kumar Somal, Rtd IFS from Himachal Pradesh, Working with BJA and LRNA 12. Himanshu Kumar, Civil Rights Activist 13. Chaturanan Ojha, AIFRTE Uttar Pradesh 14. Sharanya Nayak, IPLLK, Koraput 15. Pradyuman Behera, Researcher, Mumbai 16. Rajaraman, Student of Indigenous Movements
Organisations: 1. AISA 2. AIRSO 3. COLLECTIVE 4. CASR 5. RSF, West Bengal 6. CRPP, West Bengal 7. DYSA,West Bengal 8. PDSF, West Bengal 9. Anushilan, West Bengal 10. APDR, West Bengal 11. ACRA, West Bengal 12. SKM, West Bengal 13. SSM, West Bengal 14. RSA, Andhra Pradesh 15. SFS, Punjab 16. DSA, Kerala 17. JMP, Kerala 18. Porattom, Kerala 19. SFPD, Karnataka 20. BsCEM, Delhi 21. Nazariya, Delhi 22. PACHHAS, Delhi 23. Mulnibasi Students & Youth front, Odisha 24. Mulnibasi Literature Club, Odisha 25. BSM, UP 26. ICM, UP 27. ILPS 28. Ground Zero Network 29. People's Coalition for Food Sovereignty 30. RSYM, Bangladesh 31. Chhatro Gonomoncho, Bangladesh 32. PDSU, Bangladesh 33. BSU, Bangladesh 34. ABFSU, Myanmar 35. ANSU, Nepal 36. ANNISUR, Nepal 37. FMN, Indonesia 38. Tenda Merah Kolektif (Red Tent Collective), Indonesia 39. Serve the People, Vietnam 40. PSC, Pakistan 41. YDG, Turkey 42. YDK, Turkey 43. Partizan, Turkey 44. Federation of Socialist Assemblies (SMF), Turkey 45. Socialist Youth Movement (SGH), Turkey 46. Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF), Turkey 47. Partizan Martyrs and Prisoners Families (PŞTA) (Turkey) 48. Marxist Students' Collective, England 49. Anti-Imperialist Front, Britain 50. Portland Revolutionary Study Group, USA 51. Oakland-Berkely Revolutionary Study Group, USA 52. Material, USA 53. Common Teachers Forum, Delhi 54. Anti-Imperialist Action, Denmark 55. Anti-imperialists– Helsinki, Finland 56. People’s Dawn, Brazil 57. People’s Student League, Brazil 58. People’s Women’s Movement, Columbia 59. Red League, Germany 60. Red Mangue, Brazil 61. Red Unity– Revolutionary Youth League, Brazil 62. Revolutionary People’s Student Movement, Brazil 63. Revolutionary Committee of Albacete, Spanish State 64. Revolutionary Committee of Madrid, Spanish State 65. Revolutionary Committee of Valencia, Spanish State 66. Struggle Committee, Norway 67. Student Movement Serving the People, Columbia 68. Young Revolutionaries/League of Young Revolutionaries, France 69. Anti-Imperialist Action, Ireland 70. Communist Committee of the Netherlands 71. Action for Democratic Rights of the People (ADRV), Austria 72. Coordinating Committee of the Anti-Imperialist League 73. Union of Migrant Workers in Europe (AGEB) 74. Purple-Red Collective 75. The Swiss Turkish Workers Federation (İTİF) 76. Austrian Turkish Workers’ Youth Federation (ATIGF) 77. Präriebrand, Sweden
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