Saturday, December 10, 2011

CPIM Manipur State Conference

The 16th Manipur State(Organising Committee) Conference of CPI(M) was held at Imphal on the 2nd and 3rd December 2011 instead of 3rd and 4th December because of disruption caused by 36 hrs bandh on the 3rd and 4th December called by various insurgent groups to protest against Prime Minister's visit to Imphal. The Bandh was total from 13th December dawn to dusk. It was attended by 41 delegates representing 550 members. About 12/13 delegates from rural areas could not attend the conference due to disruption.

Central Committee Member Com. Noorul Huda, while inaugurating the conference explained the impact of continuing global economic crisis led by the USA and its attempt to shift the burden of crisis on to the shoulder of working people of developing countries and the surrender of UPA-II government to the dictates of the World Bank, IMF and the WTO as a result of which poorer sections of people, both in rural and urban areas, have been suffering extreme misery and distress for long years. He pointed out that because of 3 month long economic blockade in the National Highways imposed by Naga and Kuki tribal leadership, prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene, cooking gas shot up 5 to 10 times more, compared to other states. Petrol was priced at Rs.100-120 per litre, cooking gas Rs.18-200 per cylinder. Potatoes sold at Rs. 50-60 per Kg and onion Rs.70-80 Kg. He condemned the extremely inhuman and callous attitude of both UPA-II Central Government and Ibobi-led State Government in Manipur. The only alternative before the people was to doggedly fight against the policies of the Central and State Governments.

As many as 20 delegates participated in the debate on State Secretary's report placed before the conference. All of them highlighted the suffering of the workers, peasants and middle classes and called for sustained movement and struggles against the anti-people ruinous policies of the present Central and State Governments with a view to forcing them to render adequate relief to the suffering people. They also urged that the party and the mass organisations should put up a united movement against the Government's policies.

It was the united voice of the delegates that the party and the mass organisations should reach out to the masses of workers, peasants and the middle classes, keep closest of contact with the people and strengthen the mass organizations in a sustained and continuous manner.

The conference adopted resolutions on subjects like skyrocketing of prices of essential commodities, repeal of draconian Armed Forces Special Act, defeat conspiracy to divide Manipur state, unity and united struggle by tribal and non-tribal people, against unemployment and corruption at high places, speedy development of road, electricity, drinking water facilities, against attack on the left and fighting people of West Bengal.

The conference elected Com. Salam Sarat as the State Secretary and a State Organising Committee of 13 (one seat vacant) and 2 permanent invitees. The conference also approved the State Committee's decision to put up 2 candidates in the February 2012 State Assembly elections in Manipur.

Dates of CPIM State Conferences ahead of 20th Party Congress




No
Name of State
Dates of conferences
Venue
1.      
Andhra Pradesh
February 02-04
Khammam
2.      
Assam
February 03-05
Guwahati
3.      
Andaman & Nicobar
November 25-26
Billiground
4.      
Bengal
February 15-19
Kolkata
5.      
Bihar
January 29-31
Motihari
6.      
Chattisgarh
December 15-17
Ambikapur
7.      
Delhi
December 08-09

8.      
Goa
January 21-22
Porvorim
9.      
Gujarat
December 28-29
Rajkot
10.  
Haryana
January 29-31
Bhiwani
11.  
Himachal Pradesh
December 23-25
Mandi
12.  
Jammu & Kashmir
To be decided
13.  
Jharkhand
January 6-8
Hazaribagh
14.  
Karnataka
January 8-10
Chikballapur
15.  
Kerala
February 07-10
Thiruvananthapuram
16.  
Madhya Pradesh
December 26-28
Rewa
17.  
Maharashtra
March 25-27
Akole
18.  
Manipur
December 3-4
Imphal
19.  
Orissa
November 18-20
Parla Khemundi
20.  
Punjab
December 18-20
Sangrur
21.  
Rajasthan
December 28-30
Ringus (Sikar)
22.  
Sikkim
To be decided
23.  
Tamilnadu
February 22-25
Nagapattinam
24.  
Tripura
Jan. 29 – Feb. 01
Agartala
25.  
Uttarakhand
December 16-18
Tehri
26.  
Uttar Pradesh
December 23-25
Kanpur

Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russian Federation regarding irregularties in the elections to the Duma

 
The elections showed that the "United Russia", as well as related wild corruption, rising food prices and utility tariffs, the introduction of universal paid health care and education, bureaucratic arbitrariness, judicial lawlessness and total "okoshmarivanie" Entrepreneurship strongly rejected by the people. Citizens outraged by increasing social injustice, false "democracy" and the constant falsification of the people's will. They are extremely indignant at the arbitrary protection rackets and extortion in law enforcement, lack of life opportunities for young people and the humiliation of the party in power.
 
Tens of thousands of meetings with voters, who have spent activists, candidates and leaders of the Communist Party during the election campaign, shows the growing gap between society and government. For most citizens, it is obvious - "United Russia" was not nearly the half of the voters that she " Drew "infamous" Ministry of the election. " Such a result would be dishonorable ousted only through the use of administrative press, forcing the authorities are dependent on groups of voters, manifestations of overt criminal act.
 
The party in power again in the form of an even more blatant showed their reluctance to provide a fair process of people's will. Our observers and members of electoral commissions were fixed, "marvels of ingenuity," counterfeiters and public outrage, all the forces opposed distort the will of the people.
 
Thousands of Communist Party members, as well as other parties who have been illegally removed from the polling stations. Many have experienced physical violence, victims of the moral and psychological pressure, and the Communist Party observer at the polling station № 0635 with. School District of Krasnodar Krai Belorechensk Babenko SM tragically died after a conflict with the counterfeiters. In many election commissions "counting" votes was conducted up to two days in the hope to starve out the observers. They are, in effect, held hostage in an attempt to force the recognition of false results.
 
Power off at the mill to the absence of popular support to get more than half the seats in the Duma.
 
In many regions of the voting day was announced to the workers and quickly set up some temporary electoral commissions in enterprises without party agents and observers. Agitation for "United Russia", including even the "day of silence," engaged heads of local administrations, which is also a flagrant violation of the law. Identified numerous "carousel" with absentee ballots. For the convenience of ballot box stuffing election commissions in some regions have even gone to such a violation, as the expansion slot in the ballot boxes. Particularly severe pressure, as we know, were the voters in rural areas and in some regions of the Northern Caucasus.
 
Unfortunately, the police very often get up on the side of the perpetrators. Law enforcement officials expelled observers often "did not notice the" gross violations of and condoned forgers.
 
However, all these outrages did not break the will of the people, his desire for truth and justice. Even in the manipulation of absentee ballots gave citizens an adequate response. Given that many state employees, employees of municipal enterprises and institutions were forced to receive absentee ballots by force, half a million of them - one in three, voted with their feet, they came to these fraudulent elections.
 
Communist Party proposed an alternative program of recovery, revival of the country, justice, democracy and the rule of law. Despite the buckets of lies from the famous telemerzavtsev, millions of readers of newspapers dirty, intimidation and pressure, popular support for the Communist Party has almost doubled.
 
Communist Party has won many major industrial, scientific and cultural centers - from Novosibirsk, Omsk and Vladivostok to Voronezh, Ryazan and Orenburg. In Orel, and Novosibirsk regions for a list of the Communist Party voted out of every three voters. Significantly increased support for the party in Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Irkutsk, Moscow, Kaliningrad, Pskov, Smolensk, Magadan, Murmansk and other areas of the Altai, Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky, and Perm regions. Seriously strengthened its position the party in Moscow. Unanimously vote for the Communist Party in Buryatia, Khakassia, North Ossetia-Alania, Chuvash, Mari El, the Nenets Autonomous District. In many of these regions we were able to keep the vote, to minimize fraud.
 
We express our gratitude to the millions of our voters have confidence that the Communist Party. Sincere thanks to the hundreds of thousands of our activists and supporters, who told the truth about the election program of the party to the farthest corners of Russia, managed to break through the filters under the control of the "party of power" media. Four hundred of thousands of communists and allies, as observers, election officials, community correspondents did their best to honest elections, so they sounded at the top of the voice of the people.
 
The past election campaign was the most dirty and dishonest in the past 20 years. Such tyranny was not even in the "dashing 90 th." All the structures involved in organizing and conducting elections, resemble an octopus, based on a rigid set - to squeeze out the desired result for the party in power. This leads to massive humiliation of citizens, increasing tension and confrontation in society. Continuation of this vicious practice, and inevitably will result in the present course of social upheaval, especially at a time when the regime finally loses the confidence of the majority of citizens.
 
Communist states that have passed the State Duma elections were unfair and not free. We consider them illegitimate, both moral and political points of view. Neither President Medvedev nor Prime Minister Putin is not guaranteed by the constitution provided the conditions for fair and democratic elections in the country.
 
We do not recognize election results in the republics of Mordovia, Dagestan, Tuva, Chechnya and Ingushetia. We note that the expanding zone of massive violations and fraud. Among these areas Tambov, Saratov, Rostov, Tula Region, Krasnodar, St. Petersburg and the capital region.
 
Legal Service of the CPRF ​​Central Committee has prepared statements and appeals to the courts, law enforcement agencies to thousands of violations of the election. All these facts and the names of officials connected with the illegal acts will be announced in a special "Black Book", which is published by the Communist Party after the elections. Communist Party demands to cancel the vote in the regions, municipalities, precincts, where registered gross violations of election legislation.
 
The party in power should dismiss and punish regional leaders, heads of local administrations and the Chairmen of election commissions of the Russian Federation, where the recorded total mockery of the will of the citizens.
 
Communist Party expresses disbelief and demanding the resignation of the chairman of the Central Election Commission, VE Churov, as unable to organize a fair and clean elections.
 
The State Duma shall be established a parliamentary commission to investigate irregularities in the election.
 
All those responsible for fraud must be punished.
 
We urge voters vigorously defend their rights. We invite you to attend 18 - 20 December at the All-Russian protest against an unprecedented falsification of election results and the numerous arrests of civil activists. Only through joint efforts can protect the right of free choice, to achieve the change of socio-economic policy, Russia's return to the path of construction, the people, focus on the needs and aspirations of all citizens.
 
We appeal to the opposition parties, trade unions, youth, community organizations, civic activists, regardless of their political affiliation, to unite in defense of democracy and justice, human rights, to counter the omnipotence of corrupt officials, encroached on the property recently robbed the citizens - their right to vote.
 
However, we do not accept attempts to pro-NATO ultra-liberal forces using popular resentments in order to push the country into "orange" confusion and chaos.
 
The only source of power in the Russian Federation - its people. It is written in the Constitution. And the voice of the people must be heard!
 
Communist Party has done and is doing everything to defend the vote of every citizen of the Russian Federation in the country to restore law and order.

CPIM Delhi State Conference calls to strengthen struggles at local levels


Albeena Shakeel

The 13th Delhi State Conference of the CPI(M) took place on 8-9th December 2011 in Harkishan Singh Surjeet Hall at Azadpur Gaon, Delhi. The Conference began with flag hoisting by Delhi State Secretariat Member Mohan Lal and laying flowers on the Martyrs Column. A condolence resolution was adopted condoling the deaths of Polit Bureau members Harkishan Singh Sujeet, Jyoti Basu and M.K.Pandhe, along with Kalindi Deshpande and Alam Sher Siddiqui. The Conference also condoled the deaths of party comrades who were killed in political attacks or struggles as well as the people who had lost their lives in people’s struggles, terrorist and communal violence, accidents and natural calamities.

The Conference was inaugurated by Party General Secretary, Prakash Karat. He spoke of how many had predicted that capitalism would triumph undisputed after the demise of the Soviet Union. However, since mid-2007 capitalism is in its greatest crisis ever since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Advanced capitalist countries have been unable to recover from the crisis and are transferring the economic burden of the crisis on to the working people. It is clear that the promise of peace held out by Barack Obama is vacuous and the US along with its NATO allies is continuing with its military aggression. Several points of challenge to the neo-liberal order have emerged across the world: the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US, the anti-austerity movements in Europe and the advance of left-wing forces in countries across Latin America. The economy of China too is growing fast and is predicted to surpass the US economy by 2020. The US and its allies are struggling to maintain their hegemony over the world. In our country too, two decades of neo-liberalism have had an adverse impact on various classes, including the peasantry, workers, lower middle classes, small manufacturers and traders, etc. While the party is trying to overcome the electoral setbacks suffered by the Left over the past couple of years, the future of the Party and the Left movement lies in strengthening struggles against the adverse impact of neo-liberalism on the people. In Delhi, intensifying local struggles among various sections of the people would be the way forward.


A presidium consisting of Brahmjeet Singh, Rampal and Sehba Farooqui presided over the Conference. Vijender Sharma presented the Report on behalf of the Delhi State Committee. He outlined how the Congress government in the state had intensified its neo-liberal onslaught over the past few years. Apart from being steeped in corruption over the CWG, the Delhi government had failed to take any significant step against price rise, had reduced expenditure on the people and had backtracked on many of its promises made before the assembly elections in 2008. Based on the experience of work, he urged upon the delegates to intensify struggles against imperialism, anti-people economic policies, communalism and casteism. He called upon the delegates to discuss ways to intensify sustained struggles on local issues of the people, against the adversities faced by the working classes, especially unorganized sector workers, on expanding work in new areas by targeting slums, building sustained struggles for ensuring the rights of dalits, minorities and women, and making more concerted efforts in priority areas.

A total of 165 delegates participated in the Conference. 56 delegates participated in a political and objective debate spread over two days and enriched the Report. Resolutions were adopted on the rights of the working people, against price rise, against corruption, on the rights of women, on the rights of dalits and Muslims and against communal and terrorist violence. The Report was adopted by the Conference. The Conference elected a 25 member State Committee with P.M.S. Grewal as its Secretary.

Jogender Sharma gave the closing address and urged upon the delegates to intensify struggles on local issues. He drew on the positive experiences and achievements of the Delhi Party and urged upon comrades to conduct focused and sustained struggles on issues concerning the people. He especially urged upon delegates to expand the work of the Party in targeted slum clusters, among unorganized sector workers, on citizens issues like educations and health, and on social justice issues.
The Conference was followed by a massive Public Meeting in Azadpur Village. Vijender Sharma presided over the meeting. Asha Sharma, secretary of the host North Delhi Local Committee and Rampal, Secretariat member, addressed the massive gathering and urged upon the people to join the struggles of the CPI(M) on people’s issues. Polit Bureau member, Brinda Karat spoke on the anti-people policies of the UPA government and its failure to curb price rise due to its faulty policies. She criticized the proposed Right to Food Bill and said that it would further curtail the Public Distribution System. She said the UPA government was completely steeped in corruption and had failed to reassure the people about its intensions to curb corruption. She spoke on how growing numbers of people in Delhi were finding work in the unorganized sector and demanded comprehensive social security for them. She also said that the government’s move to bring FDI in retail needs to be withdrawn completely because it would lead to massive job loss and would adversely affect small retailers as well as the farmers, small traders and manufacturers of the country. She called upon the people to strengthen the Left alternative in the present context in order to advance the rights of the people.