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Redstar Hindi – February, 2025 Issue

2025-02-19T04:51:58Z

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The recent move by the Chhattisgarh High Court which denied marital rape and also denied to take any action against that is condemnable.

2025-02-16T14:36:32Z

The recent move by the Chhattisgarh High Court which denied marital rape and also denied to take any action against that is condemnable.

AIRWO expressed deep concern over the recent verdicts of the judiciary influenced by Manusmriti

For more than 10 years, the country has been ruled by the Sanghi Manuvadi fascist forces. These people are far right wing and are extremely anti-women, extremely anti-Dalit/oppressed, tribal, and poor working class. That is why under their inspiration and patronage, the judiciary has also adopted a completely fascist/dictatorial trend like the legislature and the executive. Earlier, the decisions of Gujarat and Allahabad High Courts have been completely anti-women based on Manusmriti. The recent decision of Chhattisgarh High Court is also inspired by the cruel Chhattisgarh High court not even denied marital rape charge but took no action even victim died during unnatural sex and husband insert hand into her anus without her( victim) consent.Due to this she died and she has given her statement before death.

Even the judges are rejecting the values of gender equality and women empowerment mentioned in the Indian Constitution. The country is going through a dark phase.

All India Revolutionary Women’s Organization ( AIRWO) emphasized that the judiciary now full abide according to the rulers of India led by fascist RSS who follows the obscurantist, most reactionary patriarchal manuvadi/ bramhanvadi thought who considers the mind and body of women as their property.

AIRWO demands that judiciary should stick the values enshrined in Indian constitution as well as we demand that marital rape exception should be removed from Indian Dand Sanhita prepared by fascist Modi govt because it is anti women.

M Selvi

General Secretary

All India Revolutionary Women’s Organization AIRWO

16 th February 2025

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Take strict action against the caste fanatics who chopped off the hand of a Dalit student who drove a bullet bike in Tamilnadu – Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM)

2025-02-15T15:34:34Z

Take strict action against the caste fanatics who chopped off the hand of a Dalit student who drove a bullet bike in Tamilnadu

– Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM)

CAM expressed its concern that along with RSS manuvadi fascist attack all over India,this type of gruesome manuvadi incident happened in Tamil Nadu .

A student named Ayyasamy, who belongs to the Schedule caste, is studying in the third year of B.Sc. in the village of Mela Pitavuor near Manamadurai in Sivaganga district of Tamilnadu. His uncle Bhoominathan presented him a bullet bike in 2023. Ayyasamy’s house, which was being driven despite the threats of caste Hindus who threatened not to drive it in the village areas, was severely damaged by caste fanatics. He filed a complaint at the nearby Sipcot police station on the same day. But no action has been taken so far. When Ayyasamy again came to house on the evening of 12/2/25, caste Hindu Vinod Kumar, Adhi Easwaran and Vallarasu attacked him with murderous intent. “If you have hands, you can drive a bike in caste Hindu street? How can you drive a bullet bike in front of us?” They severely insulted his family and caste in flethy words and chapped off both his hands.He was admitted in Sivaganga Hospital and the due to his critical condition then move to Madurai Rajaji Hospital. If proper action had been taken against the caste fanatics who committed such heinous acts when they complained, this atrocity would not have happened again. The Sivagangai District Police Officer and the District Collector should take strict action under the Atrocities Act against the police who did not take proper action on tht time and should provide proper medical assistance to the victim student Ayyasamy. In addition, the government should provide a job to the victim Dalit student or his family member. On behalf of the All India Caste Annihilation Movement, we urge the DMK government to provide appropriate protection and assistance to the Scheduled Caste student and his family who were affected by this atrocity.

# Sivaganga District Police Department should take strict action against the caste fanatics who cut off the hands of Dalit student Ayyasamy!

# Tamil Nadu Government should take immediate action to stop the attacks on Dalits and tribals that are increasing day by day in Tamil Nadu!

Bandu Meshram,Tuhin,M K Dasan

All India Convenors

All India Caste Annihilation Movement( CAM)

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Resolutely Condemn Fascist Double Engine’s Trampling of Jamia Students Right to Dissent !

2025-02-13T16:11:56Z

Resolutely Condemn Fascist Double Engine’s Trampling of Jamia Students Right to Dissent !

CPI (ML Red Star resolutely condemns the repression unleashed on peacefully protesting students by both Jamia Administration and Delhi Police. This should be viewed in the context of the Manuvadi ‘fascist double engine’ directly taking over the reins of National Capital.

As a mark of the anniversary of 2019 Anti-NRC protests, Left-affiliated student organisations in Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMIU), Delhi had arranged programs in the Campus under the banner of Jamia Resistance Day. The JMIU authorities have suspended two PhD scholars in connection with that. Against this, various student organisations have organised peaceful protest programs in the Campus. It is against this right of the students to dissent and freedom of expression that JMIU and Delhi police, through their coordinated move, have detained 12-13 students who were in peaceful sit-in protest for Campus Democracy, and later taken under police custody in the early hours of 13 February. Their whereabouts are still unknown. In addition, disciplinary actions including suspension and expulsion from campus in violation of disciplinary of even accepted procedures are initiated against student leaders representing different organisations such as Niranjan from AIRSO, Saurabh from AISA, Jyoti and Fuzali from DISSC , and so on, with the malicious intention of jeopardising their studies altogether.

While saffron-corporate stranglehold over Indian campuses, demolishing campus democracy and scientific thinking, is an ever-intensifying process under Modi regime and as part of NEP 2020, the ascending of fascist double engine in Delhi and concomitant rise in overall fascist atmosphere has added a new dimension to this reactionary offensive.

We call upon all progressive-democratic forces to come forward demanding the authorities to unconditionally release all students who are taken into custody, to revoke the suspension of students by JMIU Administration and ensure democracy and freedom in the Campus.

P J James

General Secretary

CPI (ML)Red Star

New Delhi

13.02.2025

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Condemn the oppressive action of Jamia Administration and Delhi Police on the students of Jamia Millia University in Delhi!

2025-02-13T16:05:00Z

Condemn the oppressive action of Jamia Administration and Delhi Police on the students of Jamia Millia University in Delhi!

Release all students taken into custody unconditionally immediately!

Take back the suspension of students expelled by Jamia University administration and restore democracy on campus!

Revolutionary Cultural Forum RCF

Delhi. The Sanghi Manuvadi fascist administration has been brutally repressing the students who are giving peaceful protest on the democratic place and students issues at Jamia Millia University, Delhi campus. 12 students from sit in protest site have been arrested by Delhi Police at 5.30 am. The university administration has been suspended by serious allegations on many students including Niranjan, Jyoti, Saurabh, Yagyesh at 12 AM yesterday night. Jamia has the highest anti-student fascist environment in all Delhi universities. Along with winning the Delhi elections, the Fascist Sangh family has made its cruel intentions clear. But they will not crush the loud voice for students freedom and democracy. They can’t stop the blooming of flowers in spring.

Long live the revolution!!

#AIRSO

#jamiamilliaislamiauniversity

#StudentSupport

Tuhin,Asim Giri

All India Convenors

Revolutionary Cultural Forum (RCF)

13 th February 2025

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As Fascist Double Engine Takes over National Capital !

2025-02-13T15:59:48Z

As Fascist Double Engine Takes over National Capital !

Rather than the ignominious defeat of AAP, the alarming issue before Indian people is the fascist BJP’s return to power in Delhi after 27 years. AAP under soft-Hindutva Kejriwal with its post-ideological politics and hence having no alternative to neoliberalism and neofascism has been in power since 2013 solely based on ‘freebies’ (as against the welfare schemes under erstwhile state-led Nehruvian development model) such as free electricity, water and bus service for women. Now, since the AAP lacked an ideological-political base among the Delhi voters, it became easy for the ‘fascist double engine’ to directly take over the reins of Delhi with the promise of better freebies than AAP.

Of course, while the responsibility on the part of Congress, the leading player in INDIA Alliance, in BJP’s sweeping victory is more evident, Kejriwal was the first who came forward breaking the opposition unity that would have avoided the threatening regime change in Delhi. For, immediately after the declaration of 18th Lok Sabha election results that denied BJP a majority mark in Lok Sabha, on 6 June 2024 itself, an overconfident AAP declared in Delhi: “For the State Assembly elections, there is no need for the INDIA alliance. We will fight the polls with the help of the people of Delhi, and we will win.” Same was the mindset of Kejriwal when he played the spoiler’s role in Goa, Haryana and Gujarat and in the latter he took on a hard-Hindutva posture even challenging the BJP whether it has the guts to implement the anti-Muslim UCC. In this contex, the people of Delhi together with all the working and oppressed people of India have to realise that Kejriwal’s ‘Hanuman plank’ and his efforts to enter in the good books of RSS are no match for the ‘Ram Rajya card’ of BJP, the principal political tool of RSS today.

Delhi Assembly election results once again brings to the fore the inherent weakness of the neoliberal ruling class parties ranging from the Congress and including the depoliticised CPI (M) like parties in resisting and defeating the maddening far-right, pro-corporate, majoritarian, and Manuvadi fascist offensive on the part of RSS/BJP. The opposition parties like AAP who have no political alternative to corporate-neofascism are failing even to comprehend that they cannot win elections merely copying the majoritarian, anti-Dalit and patriarchal ideology of the far-right, neoliberal fascist party in a milder or soft form at different levels. They are also not at all concerned with the fact that such an effort is not a panacea for the life-threatening situation faced by the common people of the country. For instance, AAP’ s own anti-corruption plank became meaningless on account of it’s basic inability to realise that neoliberalism and corporatism are the source of corruption today. And its efforts to cling on to urban middle class vote-bank was easily defeated by BJP through its latest budget that successfully patted on the dreams of middle class and through its hold over Delhi administration using the office of Lt. Governor and clout over the election machinery.

In brief, the threatening Delhi election results amply reveal the limits of ‘freebie politics’ and populism in defeating fascism; rather the fascists are more capable to use such tools in furthering their agenda. While coming out in the open and organising the people on the basis of their core issues, politicisation of the working class and all oppressed based on a political alternative to corporatism and neofascism is the immediate need of the hour. In this context, it is upto the progressive-democratic forces and all genuine antifascist sections to unitedly rise up to the occasion and come forward resolutely building up resistance against the intensifying fascist offensive today.

P J James

General Secretary

CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi

09.02.2025

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US Shackling Indian Deportees: Modi Regime’s Somersault from Justification to ‘Flagging Concerns’ is Condemnable

2025-02-08T15:12:33Z

US Shackling Indian Deportees: Modi Regime’s Somersault from Justification to ‘Flagging Concerns’ is Condemnable

On 6 February, amid unprecedented protests in both houses of the Indian parliament on handcuffing and chaining of Indian deportees on a massive C-17 US military aircraft, External Affairs Minister Jaishankar had justified the US move as a “standard operating procedure” (SOP). He also informed the protesting members that deportation of illegal Indian immigrants from US was not a new development but an ongoing process and, quoting data, also said that since 2009, a total of 15756 illegal Indian immigrants had been deported to India, the highest deportation being in 2019 with 2042.

However, details regarding the 104 deportees in leg shackles and handcuffs and on the inhuman treatment meted out to them including women and children restrained “with ropes around their legs” on board the military plane on a 42-hour flight came out in the subsequently. Following this, on 7 February, the Modi government has come out with an explanation that it has “registered concerns” with US administration over the handling of 104 illegal immigrants. However, except newspaper reports, information on a formal diplomatic protest by India on this issue is still lacking in the public domain, and the US embassy in Delhi has not released anything in this regard.

At the same time, this belated ‘flagging of concerns’ on the part of the Indian government which, being a lackey of the US regime under Trump, was quick to justify the heinous deportation procedure as SOP, should be seen in view of the unprecedented protests from opposition parties and surging people’s fury across the country. According to accepted international procedures, the use of military planes for deportations of undocumented immigrants is often considered as intimidating the country of origin, and hence very rarely used in normal situation. That is why, Columbia and Brazil like Latin American countries strongly objected to deporting their nationals in military planes and demanded the Trump administration to send their citizens in a dignified manner. In spite of being a small low-income country, and strongly objecting to deporting their citizens in military aircraft, Columbia, for instance, had sent a civilian flight to the US to bring back them back.

Thus, when Columbia demanded dignified deportation, the fascist Modi government being a junior partner and, at the same time, a lackey of US was justifying the inhumane and undignified treatment meted out to Indian nationals. Like Columbia and Brazil had done, India should have bargained with US for using regular commercial flights or chartered civilian aircrafts for transporting Indian citizens. Instead, its servility to US imperialism has resulted in the imperialist master treating Indians as if they are “criminals”, “murderers”, “drug dealers”, and those who committed other heinous acts. It is an insult to the country and its people. What took place is the deportation of only the first batch of Indians. Around 725000 undocumented Indians are already there in US. Ironically, while Modi regime is claiming to make India, Vishwa Guru and Viksit Bharat by 2047, according to international studies and reports, with more than 50% of world’s “absolute poor”, India is now a “citadel of global poverty” and with unprecedented joblessness, it is also becoming a “wasteland” of unemployment. It is in this context that the hapless Indians, in search of livelihood and survival, are forced to migrate to US even without authorisation.

Meanwhile, it is to be noted that Modi regime’s extreme servitude to US imperialism is the inherent characteristic of its own mentor RSS which uses BJP as its political tool. For instance, when the Indian people were standing in solidarity with the heroic struggle of Vietnamese people against US imperialism, wholeheartedly supporting the US war effort, the then RSS supremo Golwalkar sent his message to the then US president thus: “By God’s grace the USA is the leader of the Free World. Dharma and Adharma are today engaged in a world-wide war. In this war the USA heads the side of Dharma.” No doubt, this relationship between both is now reaching newer heights and seeking newer horizons as neofascist Trump has ascended to power in US. Modi regime’s shameless response to the horrific, undignified and inhumane experience of hapless Indian nationals in US warplane is a logical corollary of this “cultural nationalism” of its mentor which is essentially casteist and servile to US imperialism.

This has another dimension too. An instance is Modi regime’s unjustified denial of visa to Indian-American politician and former Seattle City Councillor Kshama Sawant for visiting her ailing mother in Bengaluru. As a member of ‘Socialist Alternative’, she was the only member of the Party to date to be elected to public office in US. As Councillor of Seattle, in 2023 she got a law passed against caste discrimination and untouchability practiced by caste-elites from India. As such, Seattle became the first US city and the first in the world outside India that banned caste discrimination. Obviously, this goes against the core ideological orientation of RSS that identifies Indian nation with casteism. She also took initiative for passing a resolution in Seattle City council condemning BJP government’s 2019 anti-Muslim CAA and NRC. That is why RSS/BJP is keen to put her on a ‘visa reject’ list.

In brief, Trumpian inhuman treatment meted out to Indian nationals and Modi regime’s condemnable response to it are to be viewed in the broader context of the unholy alliance between both the neofascist regimes – Tump administration as the imperialist master and Modi regime as its neocolonial lackey. In this context, we appeal to the people to grasp the true essence of the rhetoric and false propaganda of the Modi regime regarding making India Vishwa Guru and the hollowness of RSS’ much trumpeted “cultural nationalism” and resolutely come forward exposing and totally denouncing the fascist regime’s gross disregard for the poor and hapless Indian people. We also appeal to the working and democratic people of both US and India and the world over to unite and rise up in solidarity from the perspective of ‘unity of working and oppressed peoples of the world’ against neofascists of all hues.

P J James

General Secretary

CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi

08.02.2025

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Flood Victims Burn Copies of Union Budget 2025

2025-02-06T15:11:06Z

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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Redstar English Monthly – 2025 February Issue

2025-02-04T07:34:31Z

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Budget 2025: Patting on Middle Class Dreams in Gross Disregard of the “Absolute Poor”!

2025-02-01T16:56:01Z

Budget 2025: Patting on Middle Class Dreams in Gross Disregard of the “Absolute Poor”!

As expected, the 2025 Budget speech of Indian Finance Minister reveals Modi regime’s resolve to accelerate far-right neoliberal policies along with pampering or patting on the dreams of India’s growing middle class in gross disregard of the country’s most downtrodden working and oppressed people, which according to global studies, comprises more than 50% of world’s 70 crore “absolute poor”. Comprising around 35 crore, in a population of 145 crore, these most deprived and oppressed people engaging in menial, unskilled manual work are being registered under MGNREGA, the much trumpeted Employment Guarantee Scheme, that had earlier promised minimum 100 days employment per year for them across States.

As estimated by experts last year, at least a minimum of ₹ 2.70 lakh crore – around 1.5% of India’s GDP in 2024 – should have been allocated in the budget for MGNREGA to provide 100 days employment to the “absolute” or extreme poor in India. However, under Modi regime, that is engaged in achieving “Viksit Bharat” by 2047, the budgetary allocation to Employment Guarantee Scheme has been steadily going down over the years. As per budget estimates, in 2021, it’s allocation was 0.56% of GDP, which declined to 0.41% in 2022, 0.33% in 2023 and 0.25% in 2024. Revealingly, in its over-enthusiasm to placate the middle classes, characterizing the budget as a “testament to country’s middle class”, and to ensure their vote-bank, and making “Viksit Bharat” as consumption-driven, while Modi govt has foregone around ₹1 lakh crore in 2025 budget by way of income tax reductions and various exemptions, it has not even made a mention on MGNREGA this time, thereby totally condemning the “absolute poor” to a life of horrific poverty, agony and misery. While World Bank defines “absolute poor” as those having less than $1.90 per day, for India the criterion is $1.15 a day!

Meanwhile, India is having world’s lowest corporate tax regime and Indian billionaires wealth has been surging 42% in the last financial year. However, the entire burden of taxation has been on India’s common people through world’s most regressive GST. It is in this context that 2025 budget has envisaged to liberalise the tax regime further, coupled with a series of “ease of doing” and “investor-friendly” measures including pro-corporate prodding in the form of further liberalisation, deregulation and globalisation in policy-making and execution. All infrastructure projects and development programs mentioned in the budget, and for research and devlopment, urban development and even for nuclear energy projects, crony-capitalist involvement is ensured through so called PPP scheme. The ₹20000 R&D Initiative for Small Modular Reactors envisaged with private participation and the proposed amendments to Atomic Energy Act, and Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act will expose India not only to nuclear catastrophe but also transform it as a dumping ground for costly and unsafe nuclear plants and nuclear waste from imperialist powers. And to facilitate all these corporate offensives, the 2025 Budget, for the first time, has proposed an Investment Friendliness Index for accelerating neoliberal corporatisation in States with the involvement of MNCs and their Indian junior partners.

An ingenious move in this direction, probably to appease far-right neofascist Trump, is the unprecedented opening up of Indian Insurance sector for 100% FDI. It will pave the way for the free entry, loot, and exit by the notorious and blacklisted US insurance companies. The abrupt elimination of seven tariff rates in the foreign trade sector along with the plan to simplify and streamline the custom tariff structure altogether in the budget is another impact of the Trumpian threat. Obviously, the budget also has rhetoric on such frontier technologies as AI for which India has no other option other than to abjectly depend on tech tycoons from either US or China. In this regard, a proposal for an investment of ₹500 crore for a Centre for Artificial Intelligence is also there. In brief, following the various pro-corporate announcements in the Budget, the stock market indices, both Sensex and Nifty, shedding their initial volatility, also began surging as the Finance Minister concluded her speech.

However, the concrete Indian realities are far-away removed from the illusions spread by Modi regime and pliable corporate media. The IMF, the neocolonial arm of US with latter’s veto power in it, has already made its forecast that Indian GDP growth rate will not exceed 6.5%. As concerned people know, the parameters of India’s budget including its fiscal deficit target in the neoliberal period is ultimately decided by the FRBM Act (Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act) passed by Vajpayee government in 2003 as per IMF diktats. As such, in spite of its motto of an 8% GDP growth for accomplishing Viksit Bharat in 2047, and such other claims as fastest growing economy, etc., the Economic Survey, in line with the projections of IMF, had to confine the GDP growth rate to 6.4% in the year ahead.

At the same time, as already noted, with more than half of world’s absolute poor, India is often called a “citadel of global poverty”, and inequality under Modi rule has become horrific with 1 percent of superrich holding more than 40 percent of country’s wealth. More than 90% of those who are employed are in the informal/unorganised sectors with no job guarantee, social security and having no provision for minimum wages. Still, with world’s largest share of jobless people, India is like a wasteland of unemployment. The more than ₹10 lakh core Capex – Capital Expenditure – mentioned in 2025 budget (in the last budget, it was ₹11.11 lakh crore) under PPP and other routes will be primarily diverted to money-spinning and quick profit-yielding speculative spheres by crony capitalists rather than for developing employment-oriented productive spheres. The budget also makes a mockery of Indian federalism by extending apparent bonanza for Bihar like States under ‘fascist double engine’. To be precise, therefore, the budget and its provisions that work within the logic of neoliberal corporatisation cannot break the vicious circle in which the country and its people are placed. And the so called “Amrit Kaal” that is repeatedly echoed by the ruling regime cannot whitewash the harsh realities confronted by the common people of India. It is upto the working class and oppressed people together with all progressive-democratic forces to expose the true essence of the budget, with the people’s perspective for a political alternative.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
01.02.2025

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