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On February 5, 2025, flood victims in Sultanpur, under the aegis of the Ghaghara River Flood Control and Village Protection Struggle Committee, Ballia, burned copies of the Union Budget 2025 and protested against the anti-people, anti-farmer, and anti-labor policies of the Modi government.
The leaders of the Ghaghara River Flood Control and Village Protection Struggle Committee, Ballia, addressed the gathering, stating that the Union Budget 2025-26 is a severe attack on farmers and working-class people. The budget ignores the long-standing demand for a legally guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all crops. It also fails to provide any significant relief to farmers and laborers, with no loan waiver scheme or increase in fertilizer subsidies.
The budget proposes 100% privatization in the insurance sector, which is a dangerous move. It also fails to address the issue of rising corporate profits, which have increased from ₹10,88,000 crores in 2022-23 to ₹14,11,000 crores in 2023-24.
The committee demanded that the government withdraw the anti-people proposals in the budget and provide relief to farmers and laborers. The event was attended by hundreds of people, including Kanhaiya Shahi, Balwant Yadav, Garib Rajbhar, Vikrama, Surendra Yadav, Rajaram, Amarnath Yadav, Shriram Bharti, Harendra Gupta, Nand Ji, Shanti, and Usha Devi.
Anju, Convener, Ghaghara River Flood Control and Village Protection Struggle Committee, Ballia, February 5, 2025.

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Fascism is not to be debated, it’s to be destroyed!

Anti-Fascist People’s Convention organized by Anti-Manuvadi Fascist People’s Forum, Raichur at Lingasuru, Raichur, on 30th January, the day, when Gandhiji was martyred by RSS. Let us unite the working class and oppressed people to wage a united struggle against the hindutva fascism.

Inquilab Zindabad!
Jai Bhim! Lal Salaam!

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Representatives of mass struggles united against water, forest, land, livelihood and environment loot in the name of development https://redstaronline.in/2025/02/01/representatives-of-mass-struggles-united-against-water-forest-land-livelihood-and-environment-loot-in-the-name-of-development/ https://redstaronline.in/2025/02/01/representatives-of-mass-struggles-united-against-water-forest-land-livelihood-and-environment-loot-in-the-name-of-development/#respond Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:35:24 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3183 Press – Release 29 January 2025 – Representatives of mass struggles united against water,…

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Press – Release
29 January 2025

– Representatives of mass struggles united against water, forest, land, livelihood and environment loot in the name of development

– 15 member Bhopal supporters group formed

Bhopal. An important meeting was held at Hindi Bhawan, Bhopal on January 28 to establish coordination between various mass struggles against the displacement and environmental destruction in Madhya Pradesh. More than 50 activists representing 17 different public struggles of the state participated in this one-day meeting organized by Jan Sangharsh Coordination Committee Madhya Pradesh and Climate Justice Campaign (CJM) Bhopal. The meeting was chaired by senior co-leader Umesh Tiwari who led various public struggles in Baghelkhand area of Madhya Pradesh. The presence of renowned environmentalist Soumya Dutta from Delhi was remarkable, the program was conducted by Vijay Kumar and Gratitude Rajesh Kumar.

The meeting included tribal leaders from the areas affected by coal quarry, farmers displaced by large dams, representatives from local communities battling rural and mining projects on the verge of losing their land due to the Tiger Reserve. All of them shared their experiences and needs of the struggles going on in their areas. Representatives involved in the meeting said thousands of people have been forcibly displaced due to alleged development projects, statistics say about 50,000 families have been displaced due to various development projects in the state over the last five years. Most of these have not received proper compensation or rehab. Representatives said in a voice that local communities are being forcibly displaced from water, forest and land due to the current development model, which is not only affecting their livelihoods but also massively destruction of the environment. We all need to learn from each other to strengthen our struggles and challenge the current model of destructive growth. The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh is trying to crush mass struggles and divide on communal basis, need to strengthen its unity against it.

The meeting was formed a 15-member Bhopal supporter group including lawyers, journalists, technical experts and social workers. This group will support, technical, legal and ideological support to struggling communities. In the next three months, all the small and big struggles of the state will be connected to the Jan Sangharsh Coordination Committee. Similarly every six months Coordination Committee meeting will be held to discuss the progress and challenges of struggles. In the meeting, a pledge to unite the general public by rejecting BJP government’s “corporate-based policies” and politics of communal division.

Soumya Dutta, who came from Delhi, expressed deep concern over the climate crisis that human civilization has faced the hottest years in the last ten years, reflecting the failure of the current development model. They said the current concept of development must be changed to tackle the climate crisis. The current government is massively changing environmental laws to make the loot of corporate companies accessible. The current government is claiming to reduce carbon emissions on international platforms and on the other hand issuing licenses for mass coal and other fossil fuel mining to its corporate friends Adani-Ambani. They said we need an alternative model of development that is environmentally friendly and protects the interests of local communities.

Umesh Tiwari chaired the meeting said the nature and priorities of various conflict may vary, but the goal of all is one – protecting the rights of the environment and local communities. Today may prove to be a milestone in the history of people’s struggles in Madhya Pradesh. For the first time so many local struggles have come on one stage. We believe that only by uniting small struggles we can challenge the anomalies of the current development model.

Future

Vijay Kumar
People’s struggle coordination committee Madhya Pradesh
Mobile number – 9981773205

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Our people continue to stand firm and resist in the face of Zionist plans aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause – Com Maher Al-Taher https://redstaronline.in/2025/01/19/our-people-continue-to-stand-firm-and-resist-in-the-face-of-zionist-plans-aimed-at-liquidating-the-palestinian-cause-com-maher-al-taher/ https://redstaronline.in/2025/01/19/our-people-continue-to-stand-firm-and-resist-in-the-face-of-zionist-plans-aimed-at-liquidating-the-palestinian-cause-com-maher-al-taher/#respond Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:11:30 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3167 Our people continue to stand firm and resist in the face of Zionist plans…

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Our people continue to stand firm and resist in the face of Zionist plans aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause – Com Maher Al-Taher

During an interview on Al Jazeera Mubasher and Al Mayadeen, Dr. Maher Al-Taher, the Polit Bureau Member and the official in charge of international relations at the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said: “The prisoner exchange deal, in its first phase, includes the release of a number of our comrades in the occupation prisons, including our women PB comrade Khalida Jarrar and the fighter Abla Saadat, the life partner of our Party General Secretary comrade Ahmed Saadat. The list also includes a number of male and female prisoners of the Popular Front.”

He said: “We congratulate our steadfast prisoners in the occupation prisons from all factions who have written the most wonderful types of steadfastness and defiance of the Zionist enemy.”

He added that reaching the signing of the exchange deal and the ceasefire would not have been possible without the legendary steadfastness recorded by our people in the Gaza Strip for 15 continuous months, in the face of a war of extermination in full view of the entire world. Al-Taher stressed that the main challenge we face today is the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, treating the wounded, bringing in aid, and addressing all the effects and consequences of the barbaric aggression on our beloved Strip and on our Palestinian land.

Al-Taher also stressed that our people will continue to stand firm and resist in the face of the Zionist plans aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause, stressing that our people will continue the struggle until they regain their full national rights.

The great national leader, Daoud Maragha, also mourned “Abu Ahmed Fouad,” saying: “With hearts filled with sadness and pain, we bid farewell to the great Palestinian leader Abu Ahmed Fouad, former Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who spent six consecutive decades, until the last moment of his life, serving the cause of his people and nation, believing in the option of resistance as a strategic option in confronting the Zionist enemy. This leader remained committed on his principles like someone holding onto hot coals, neither compromising nor giving in, believing in continuing the struggle until every inch of Palestinian soil is liberated.

(Comrade Dr Maher Al-Taher is Polit Bureau member and spokesperson of the International Bureau of PFLP)

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Shah’s Rajya Sabha Speech Reveals the Standard Hindutva Hatred towards Ambedkar! https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/30/shahs-rajya-sabha-speech-reveals-the-standard-hindutva-hatred-towards-ambedkar/ https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/30/shahs-rajya-sabha-speech-reveals-the-standard-hindutva-hatred-towards-ambedkar/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:45:44 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3140 (Editorial- Red Star Monthly, January 2025 issue) Shah’s Rajya Sabha Speech Reveals the Standard…

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(Editorial- Red Star Monthly, January 2025 issue)
Shah’s Rajya Sabha Speech Reveals the Standard Hindutva Hatred towards Ambedkar!
On 17 December 2024, while speaking in Rajya Sabha on the 75th anniversary of the Indian Constitution, Home Minister Amit Shah said: “It has become a fashion to say Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar. If they had taken god’s name so many times, they would have had a place in heaven for seven births.” However, according to the tenets of Hinduism, it would be impractical on the part of Dalits and untouchables to worship the Hindu gods created by the upper-caste Brahmins. For, as per Rig Veda’s “Purusha Sukta” and “Manusmriti”, it was the god who created the caste system according to which the Dalits and Untouchables are condemned to live as subhumans. From this logic, god is inimical to the oppressed Dalits. At the same time, Ambedkar, who was the deadly enemy of casteism and caste-based Hinduism, is the ‘real God’ of the Dalits and oppressed caste people. Therefore, Shah’s speech reveals the usual Hindutva hatred towards Ambedkar and an insult to the Dalits for whom Ambedkar is the saviour.
In the neofascist context today, Shah’s statement on Ambedkar cannot be considered a casual or isolated one since Ambedkar’s unravelling of the inhuman caste system remains as one of the most powerful ideological weapons in the fight against RSS. The RSS, the world’s longest-running and biggest fascist organisation and its political tool, BJP, are well aware of the strategic relevance of Dr Ambedkar in the Indian anti-fascist political discourse today. In this context, both RSS and BJP are pursuing a two-pronged tactic, i.e., on the one hand, opportunistically appropriating Ambedkar, thereby hoodwinking the Dalits and Untouchables, and on the other, stigmatising, denigrating and defaming Ambedkar whenever an opportune situation arises. Amit Shah’s Rajya Sabha statement on Ambedkar quoted above belongs to the latter category.
As is obvious, throughout his political career, Ambedkar had been vehemently attacking the caste system and its guidebook Manusmriti, the ideological basis of RSS fascism. Ambedkar’s burning of Manusmriti in 1927 became historical from this perspective. Ambedkar’s publishing of “Annihilation of Caste” in 1936, in which he characterised caste-ridden Hindu society or Hinduism as a “veritable chamber of horrors”, is the antithesis of what RSS and Hindutva ideologues propagate about Hinduism. However, Golwalkar, the prominent and most influential Sarsanghchalak of RSS who also put forward the essential postulates of a majoritarian, theocratic Hindurashtra, had unequivocally identified Hinduism with casteism. The antagonism between Ambedkar and RSS became too striking in the late 1940s when leaders of both RSS and Hindu Mahasabha went on abusing Ambedkar when he piloted the Hindu Code Bill. At that time, Swami Karpatriji Maharaj, one of the leaders leading the agitation against the Hindu Code Bill, declared that an “Untouchable had no business meddling in matters normally the preserve of the Brahmin.” Led by Hindutva leaders, on 12 December 1949, Ambedkar’s effigy, together with that of Nehru, was burnt at Delhi’s Ram Leela ground.
Again, when the Constituent Assembly adopted the final Draft for the Indian Constitution on November 1949, prepared under the leadership of Dr. Ambedkar, on 30 November 1949, i.e. within four days, the RSS, in its mouthpiece Organiser, demanded Manusmriti as India’s Constitution. Subsequent Issues of Organiser reiterated that position. Not only RSS it’s fraternal organisation Hindu Mahasabha was also openly upholding this stance. Even 75 years after the adoption of the Constitution, whose main architect was Ambedkar, there is no dearth of proponents of Manusmriti that treats Dalits and women as subhuman. Even many judges in Indian courts are hardcore Manuvadis, having no qualms in quoting Manusmriti during trials. Revealingly, the Supreme Court in February 2023 had even dismissed a public interest litigation petition to remove the mythological Manu statue holding Manusmriti in front of the Rajasthan High Court in Jaipur.
To be precise, all well-meaning people have to bear in mind that the tirade against Ambedkar and the heinous move to alter the very character of the Constitution on the one hand, and growing adulation towards Manu and Manusmriti on the other by RSS/BJP are taking place in the specific neofascist context today. Having full hold over the Indian regime since 2014, and with both state power and street power under its control, RSS is engaged in its maddening pace towards the establishment of a theocratic Hindurashtra in which the Dalits and all oppressed including religious minorities, will not have even basic human rights. Therefore, the spitting of venom on Ambedkar by Shah, a Hindutva stalwart, should be seen as part of the broader agenda of hardening RSS fascism in India.

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Anti-Manuvadi Anti-Fascist Peoples Forum Raichur https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/26/anti-manuvadi-anti-fascist-peoples-forum-raichur/ https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/26/anti-manuvadi-anti-fascist-peoples-forum-raichur/#respond Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:33:56 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3127 Anti-Manuvadi Anti-Fascist Peoples Forum Raichur # M Gangadhar, Aslam Pasha, M.R Beri Cell No…

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Anti-Manuvadi Anti-Fascist Peoples Forum Raichur
# M Gangadhar, Aslam Pasha, M.R Beri Cell No : 9880152070
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Press Statement
25.12.2024
The corporate agent government led by the Sangh Parivar is moving in power against the interests of the people of the country. Not only that, it is defying the constitution of the country and promoting corporate-Manuvad. It has challenged the democratic, secular republican system. It is going to turn the multinational, multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multilingual, multi-cultural India into a Brahminical-capitalist Hindu nation. There are dozens of examples of this. Recently, Amit Shah made fun of the architect of the Constitution, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, in the Rajya Sabha, which has brought shame to the entire country.
Fascist measures of the central government:
1. Removing the ban on government officials and employees from participating in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activities.
2. The participation of Hindutva-oriented programs by the Prime Minister and other central government ministers, MPs, officials, and Supreme Court judges.
3. Hindutva Fascist parties are using The Election Commission, CBI, police military and government institutions to supress people.
4. Creating an atmosphere of hatred and continuing the anti-Muslim attack through the Citizenship Amendment Act, the new Waqf Act, the complete ban on cow slaughter, etc.
5. Continuing the widespread attack on Dalits’ right to equality, reservation, identity, and food culture by blatantly promoting Manu-casteism as an eternal culture.
6. Continuing the male patriarchy on women by openly denying their freedom.
7. The republican rights of state governments are being snatched away through GST, one nation one election, one police, new transport policy and changes in CrPC.
8. Four labor codes have been passed to build highways to extort the labor of more than 50 crore workers in India.
9. The struggle of farmers across the country for the legal guarantee of support price is being ignored and the agricultural sector is being sacrificed to corporate capitalists.
10. The history of the country is being completely Brahminized and the educational curriculum is being transformed into an ignorant Sanatanist education.
11. The entire country of India is being demolished and a Brahminist, capitalist Hindu nation is being built in its place, and Manasmriti is being raised over the country in place of the Constitution.
Through all these mismanagement and evil policies, the Modi government stands as an anti-national, anti-people fascist force. It is an urgent task for all oppressed and working class to build a united struggle at all levels against this.
Against this backdrop, the Anti-Manuvadi Anti-Fascist Peoples Forum Raichur has come into existence in collaboration with more than 14 Dalit, farmer, labor, Kannada, Muslim, Christian, women’s organizations.
Under its leadership, a protest will be held in front of the District Collector’s office on 1/1/2025 and a demand letter will be sent to the President of India through collector.
To create a platform in the taluka and hobli level After that, a big district-level conference will be held and a challenge will be given to the Hindutva forces. To build and carry this platform for a long-term continuous struggle.
Coordinators who participated in the conference
M. R. Bheri
M. Gangadhar
Mohammad Fayazuddin
G. Amresha
Rabindra Patti
Anjana’s shepherd
Shanmukappa Bhaskar Raja
M. Niranjan kumar
25.12.2024
Raichur.

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Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM), Tamil Nadu organizes Seminar on ‘Communist Approach towards Dr B R Ambedkar and Annihilation of the Caste & Necessity of Caste Sensus in India’
Date  & Time: 21.12.2024 at 5 PM
Venue : Diet Inn, Somasundara Bharati Nagar, Chennai
Speakers:
Com R Manasayya, Polit Bureau Member, CPI (ML) Red Star – Communist Approach Dr B R Ambedkar and Annihilation of Caste
Com Manoharan, Tamil Nadu State Secretary, CPI (ML) Red Star – Why Caste Sensus is Necessary
Com Karki Velan, Chennai District Secretary, CPI (ML) Red Star – Experience of Panchami Land Reclamation Movement
Com Iniyavan, Tamil Nadu State President, CAM – What is needed for Caste Annihilation
Presided by: K Com Natarajan, CAM Chennai District Committee
Welcome Speech: Com Tamil Murasu, Chennai District Secretary, CAM
Vote of Thanks: Com Bharati, CAM TN State Committee
Organized by : Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM), Tamil Nadu

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In Solidarity with CPI (ML) Red Star and its PB Member Com R Manasayya; Against RSS- Sri Ram Sena Threat on Com R Manasayya and Party https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/08/in-solidarity-with-cpi-ml-red-star-and-its-pb-member-com-r-manasayya-against-rss-sri-ram-sena-threat-on-com-r-manasayya-and-party/ https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/08/in-solidarity-with-cpi-ml-red-star-and-its-pb-member-com-r-manasayya-against-rss-sri-ram-sena-threat-on-com-r-manasayya-and-party/#respond Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:25:40 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3097 Protest march to Lingasur Assistant Commissioner Office and Public Meeting by Dalit Organisations and…

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Protest march to Lingasur Assistant Commissioner Office and Public Meeting by Dalit Organisations and Progressive Sections
In Solidarity with CPI (ML) Red Star and its PB Member Com R Manasayya; Against RSS- Sri Ram Sena Threat on Com R Manasayya and Party
On 06.12.2024, a mass protest march and public meeting were held by various Dalit organizations, intellectuals and progressive sections under the leadership of Dalit Joint Forum against RSS- Sri Ram Sena Fascist threat on CPI (ML) Red Star Polit Bureau Member and TUCI General Secretary Com R Manasayya. Furious on the fierce ideological and political offensive by Com Manasayya against Manuvadi Brahmanical Hindutva forces, the ideological base of RSS-led Hindutva fascism, Sri Ram Sena, has been continuously threading Com R Manasayya. Various progressive forces and secular democratic intellectuals have come forward to protest against this fascist threat on Com Manasayya and the movement led by him in Karnataka.
As a part of these, various Dalit organizations and intellectuals organized the protest march and public meeting at Lingasur in Raichur District of Karnataka. During the protest march and public meeting, the leaders and speakers represented by various organizations emphasized the united struggles against the fascist move towards Hindurashtra, against the implementation of Manusmriti, against Hindutva Fascism and the importance of upholding Democratic values and principles of the Indian Constitution. The speakers also condemned the venomous statements and speeches of the notorious President of Sri Ram Sena, Pramod Mutalik, who demanded and threatened to deport the leader of the oppressed masses, Com R Manasayya, from Raichur district.
After the public protest meeting, the organizers handed over the letter to the Assistant Commissioner, addressed to the Home Minster. The letter demanded the State Government intervene and take the required steps to curb this fascist offensive. After Com R Manasayya issued a statement on 17th November against Sri Ram Sena and their leaders who insulted Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar by equating him and putting his photo with Fascist V D Savarkar, after this statement, Sri Ram Sena and their leaders were threatening Manasayya publically and demanding his apologies. They also announced a ‘funeral march’ of Manasayya to his house if he did not apologize. The Dalit Joint Platform leaders stated in their letter to the Home minster that if the state does not interfere with the required steps by taking appropriate legal action against these fascist leaders and if the state does not give necessary protection to Manasayya, they shall go ahead expanding peoples’ protests from Taluk to Taluk and District to District level and provide people’s protection to the leader of the oppressed masses in Karnataka.
The protest program was jointly led by Karnataka Dalit Sangarsh Committee (Bhimavada) leaders Sri Lingappa Parangi and Mohan Gosli Karadakala, Lingasagur Taluk Chalavadi Mahasabha leader Sri Sanjeevappa Hunukunti, Dalit leader Sri Hanumanthappa Kunekallur, Dalit leader Sri Kuppanna Hosamani, SCST Association leader Sri Jamadagni Kotha and Umesh Aihole, Dalit Sangharsha Rakshana Vedike (Narayana Gowda Bana) leaders Sri Jilani Pasha and Hanumantha Nayaka, Karnataka Vijaya Sene leaders Sri Hanumantha Badiger and Rangappa, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (Shivaramegowda Bana) leaders Sri Mahadeva Sarjapura, Hanumantha Chalavadi leaders CPIM Mudagal Hobli unit, AIRWO association leader Rukmini, RCF leader M Gangadhara, Adesh Naganoor, Chidananda Lingasura TUCI leader Shri Chinnappa Kotriki and Shri Tipparaj Gejalagatti, KRS leader Veerabhadrappa Hadapada, Sharanabasava Echanala.

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Why did the RSS targets R Manasayya? https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/03/why-did-the-rss-targets-r-manasayya/ https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/03/why-did-the-rss-targets-r-manasayya/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:48:27 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3090 Reason 1) For the past 40 years, R. Manasayya has been active as a…

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Reason 1) For the past 40 years, R. Manasayya has been active as a professional revolutionary in the Dalit peasant labor cultural movement and has fought tirelessly against the Hindu epidemic of untouchability, caste discrimination and devadasi system.
Reason 2) R Manasayya is one of the leaders of the movement for an alternative culture by linking Ambedkarism-Marxism with India’s Lokayat Buddha, Siddha, Sharana, Sufi and Arudha tradition of thought and practice.
Reason 3) At every stage, he is exposing the true color of the Vedic Hindu Vedas, Agamas, Puranas, Shastras, and logics, and is promoting the ideas of Buddha Basava Ambedkar and Karl Marx through his brilliant speeches.
Reason 4) He has been in the forefront of the activity which is exposing step by step the anti-Dalit Backward Classes machinations of Vedic reservation.
Reason 5) He opened the Raichur Shahinbhag camp against CAA-NRC-NPR and played an important role with Dalit Muslims and progressives in the 74-day and night long struggle.
Reason 6) He is among those who organized the Veda Sammat Maha Mamsa Bhojan Koota (beef festival) held in front of the Raichur District Collector’s office in 2009 and launched the big movement for the right to food of Indians.
Reason 7) He has been continuously giving a counterattack to Brahminism since 2004 by claiming that the Constitution is the national scripture against the RSS’s Uttara Karnataka Jatha, which had set out to “Make the Bhagavad Gita a national scripture”.
Reason 8) R. Manasayya is giving a very eloquent speech in the open campaign to expose the true colors of the Veerashaiva and Lingayat mutt leaders who carry the Manusmriti on their shoulders and call themselves Basava… Basava… in their mouths.
Reason 9) Recently, Sri Kodekal Basavanna Shakha Matha Amaragyana Peetha has established and has ignited the spark of a cultural rebellion to promote the Kodekal Amara Kalyana tradition and the valuable popular literature of the country’s philosophical scholars. More than 200 bhajan groups have come out to sing in favor of the people’s philosophy against the foolish caste system and religious differences. Amaragyana Peetha has come into action with a vision of uniting all the non-Vedic tradition Matts of Karnataka. R Manasayya is working as the president of this registered Amara Gnana Peetha.
Reason 10) He is the main guide in the recent land struggle of Karnataka Raitha Sangha AIKKS for the additional thousand acres of land of Nadagouda in Jawalagera. His role is also very important in the two-decade land struggle in which 10600 acres of additional and other land was distributed to the landless Dalits and backward classes in the twin districts of Koppal and Raichur. He has also strongly raised the demand for additional land distribution of the matts.
Reason 11) He played a leading role in TUCI, which made 492 contract workers permanent in the Hutti gold mine in 2013, leading the struggle to shape the future of tens of thousands of workers.
Reason 12) The Lingasagur BJP MLA Manappa Vajjala and BJP state president Vijayendra, who have swallowed Rs 5000 crore in the name of Nandawadagi lift irrigation and NRBC renovation, have exposed their cosmic corruption. R Manasayya played a role as a charioteer in the struggle of the Karnataka Raitha Sangh AIKKS, which led to the payment of bills and the halt of work.
Reason 13) The speech given by R Manasayya, who received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the Karnataka State Scientific Conference held in Lingasagur on December 31, 2023, has exposed the anti-farmer, anti-labor, anti-Dalit and anti-national color of the Modi government.
Reason 14) R Manasayya’s thoughtful speeches in religious philosophy meetings of several monasteries have started to gain public recognition.
Reason 15) R Manasayya, a staunch supporter of the CPIML Redstar Communist Party, played a key role in organizing the anti-fascist conference at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur on March 10, 2023.
Reason 16) Similarly, R Manasayya gave a strong rebuttal to Pramod Muthalik’s Hindu Rashtra speech at the Sri Ram Sena parade program at Hatti Gold Mine on November 16. He thundered that Hindu Rashtra is not possible, India belongs to everyone here.
Reason 17) The poet, thinker, and brilliant orator has been in the struggle arena for four decades, mainly as a comrade of the working class and the oppressed people.
Reason 18) He is a senior leader in the Dalit farmer-worker struggle arena who continued to fight despite 132 police cases filed by class enemies and the authorities.
Reason 19) Born as the son of a serf and an untouchable in a village with powerful landlords, he is fighting today as a member of the Politburo of the CPI(ML) Red Star Party and All India General Secretary of the Trade Union Center of India through the People’s Support People’s Defense Movement.
Reason 20) Most importantly, he is achieving primary success in bringing the Dalit weaker section youth who belong to the Sangh Parivar back to the people’s fold.
Reason 21) He has gone down to the depths of the people as a revolutionary artist who learns and teaches under the banner of the Dalit, farmer, laborer and communist movement.
Mohan
Basavaraj Badiger
M. Saroj

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Indefinite Relay fasting struggle crosses 100 days…! https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/03/indefinite-relay-fasting-struggle-crosses-100-days/ https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/03/indefinite-relay-fasting-struggle-crosses-100-days/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:09:48 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3085 The Mundakkai-Chooralmala landslide disaster of the Wayanad district of Kerala was one of the…

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The Mundakkai-Chooralmala landslide disaster of the Wayanad district of Kerala was one of the biggest natural calamities that claimed hundreds of lives, including women, men, children and even pregnant women. It is the responsibility of the government to rehabilitate the victims of the Mundakai disaster, in which more than four hundred people died; many people went missing. They lost everything, including property, and thousands of families lived in the face of the disaster.
Foreign company Harrisons is challenging the people of Kerala by taking the district administration’s move to take over a small portion of the HML and Elston estates that is required for rehabilitation under the Disaster Management Act 2005.
Just as the resettlement of Puthumala, Pettimudi and Kavalapara disaster victims is not done, Mundakai resettlement cannot be allowed to remain uncertain.
Harrisons is a foreign company that has illegally occupied hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Wayanad and other districts, leaving tens of thousands landless and homeless, including plantation workers and tribals.
The mainstream Left party that came to power in 1957 abandoned even the slogan “Land to the tiller.”
In the name of the protection /conservation of the plantation economy, the ruling so-called
The ‘ left’ government subordinated land laws to colonial interests. In 2016, Dr. M. G. Rajamanickam tabled a Special Officer’s report to the Pinarayi Vijayan government that advised the Pinarai government to confiscate all the 525,000 acres of plantation land illegally held by the illegitimate foreign plantation mafia. But Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan kept this report in cold storage.
Harrisons, Elston and the government are also colluding on the issue of land to resettle the disaster victims. As part of that, the company filed a case in the High Court against the government’s order to acquire land under the Disaster Management Act, and the government informed the court that it will not acquire the land until the court orders. It also assured that compensation would be paid for the land vested with the government. This is a betrayal of the disaster victims, a challenge to the people of Kerala, an insult to the progressive forces and a sabotage of rehabilitation.
Since the government was not very keen to enforce the laws of the land and enhance rehabilitation by capturing the government’s own land, our Party, CPIML RED STAR, launched an indefinite strike at the Wayanad Collectorate, raising the slogans below.
Declare the Wayanad disaster as a national disaster,  Write off all the debts of the disaster victims,  Take back all the land grabbed by the plantation mafias, including the Harrisons, rehabilitate the disaster-prone people, including Mundakai with agricultural land and habitable housing, 
A mass march to the headquarters of the HML company, which is subverting rehabilitation, was part of strengthening the strike of the disaster victims in front of the Wayanad Collectorate for the last 100 days under the party’s leadership.
K V Prakashan

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