New Series Vol. 8 No. 6(November 2001)
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Back Cover
Editorial
Ayodhya and Agra:
The saffron hordes are back in the game
The foreign policy of any regime, it is said,
is essentially a continuation of its domestic policy. Nothing bears this
out more strikingly than the recent manoeuvres by the saffron rulers.
Even as the nation’s attention was riveted on the escalating tension on
the Indo-Pak front, thanks to the ongoing war in the neighbourhood, the
socalled hidden agenda of the Sangh Parivar was forcefully brought into
the forefront, through the sordid episodes in Ayodhya and Agra.
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Commentary
The communally motivated ban on SIMI
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WTO MINISTERIAL
On the Draft Ministerial Declaration
Document
PB Statement on War
Reject and Resist Bush and Blair’s Imperialist War of Aggression against
Afghanistan
Stand for World Peace and International Solidarity against Imperialism
and Racism
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SPECIAL REPORT
MUZAFFARPUR OUTBURST
Politics of criminalisation must be buried forever
SPECIAL ARTICLE
November and the Legacy of Leninism
REMEMBRANCE
JD BERNAL BIRTH CENTENARY
Revolutionary Homage to John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971)
Cover Feature
Lonely Superpower’s Weary Winter of War
After September 11, the world has changed
beyond recognition. That’s what the American rulers and their propagandists
and analysts are claiming ever since the tragedy of terror struck New
York and Washington on that fateful September morning. September 11 or
9/11, as it is written in the American style, will go down in history
as the day America discovered terrorism. And when America discovers something,
even if it is an old secret the rest of the world has long been living
with, the world has to acknowledge it with unmitigated awe. After all,
that’s the prerogative of being the world’s sole superpower. And when
it comes to the discovery of terror, the world must be made to feel terrified
to remember America’s tryst with terror. And hence the first war of the
new century.
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People Fighting Against War and Terrorism: The
Struggle for Peace in the US
A report from New York
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A report from London
MORE THAN 40,000 people took over the streets
of central London on 13 October in the biggest ‘Stop the War’ protest
here so far, ending in a huge rally overflowing Trafalgar Square. Originally
called by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, with the participation
of all the left parties, the demonstration brought together people from
a range of different sections and perspectives, including students, trade
unionists, the anti-globalisation movement, Asian and Middle Eastern communities,
ongoing anti-imperialist and anti-zionist campaigns, and ad-hoc anti-war
forums like Media Workers Against the War, in a passionate and angry expression
of opposition to the war. The demonstrators chanted slogans like ‘Justice
– No War!’, ‘War and Globalisation! Resist! Resist!’, ‘Bush, Blair, CIA,
How many kids have you killed today?’, and invoked the Gulf War with ‘George
Bush! We know you! Daddy was a killer too!’
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No war but class war!
A report from Hong Kong
IT HAS got to be the only instance in modern history where there was a peace movement off the ground even before a single shot in the war had been fired. Following the attacks of September 11, as supposedly ‘sovereign’ governments around the world line up like sheep to follow the United States in its dubious ‘War on terrorism’, many of their citizens are out on the streets declaring that WAR IS TERRORISM!
CPI(ML) in the anti-war movementCPI(ML) characterised the US war on Afghan
people as an imperialistic war of aggression even when the war preparations
were underway and launched a nationwide campaign against war well before
the US airstrikes began. Party’s “anti-war campaign” from 24 to 29 September
evoked a good response from left, anti-imperialist, democratic and peace-loving
people.
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WHAT OTHERS SAY
From a joint statement of Arab Communist and Workers Parties
Excerpts from a speech by Fidel Castro
From a statement by the National Democratic Front of Philippines
Excerpts from a statement from the Socialist Alliance in Australia
From a statement by South Asia Solidarity Group, London
From a statement of the Executive Committee of the CUT (Unified Trade Union Federation of Brazil),