Maoist Kilings in Dantewada

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the ghastly killing of 35 persons including 24 civilians in Dantewada in Bastar by Maoists in a landmine blast yesterday.

The attack on the private passenger bus by the Maoists only highlights their bankrupt policies of attacking ordinary citizens in various parts of the country including tribals who refuse to accept their dictates.

The CPI(M) appeals to the people to raise their voice against the murderous attacks on people and their livelihood and resist their depredations against peaceful citizens.

CPI(M) wants land returned to Dalit families

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has urged the State government to return the 53 acres of land that had been grabbed from 20 Dalit families at Siruthavur village, to their heirs. Addressing the media here on Sunday, G. Ramakrishnan, State Secretary, termed unjustifiable the recommendations of the K.P. Sivasubramanian Commission that the lands allotted to Dalits in 1967 could be taken up for distribution to other landless Dalits. If it had not been for the 20 families lodging complaints, and the Communist Party submitting a memorandum to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi about the land grabbing, the enquiry commission would not have been appointed. Hence, the land should be distributed to the heirs of the families, he said.

Refutes charges

Mr. Ramakrishnan also refuted the charges made by the Chief Minister that the CPI (M) had supported the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in the by-election without the latter demanding it. He said that it was the decision of the party's executive committee to support AIADMK. Moreover the AIADMK had sent a letter seeking the CPI (M)'s support in the by-elections.

Stating that untouchability was still prevalent in many forms in the State, he said that a two-day State-level conference of the Tamil Nadu Untouchabilty Eradication Front would be held at Pudukottai on May 28 and 29 and would be attended by the party's national general secretary Prakash Karat.

Citing the Pallipalayam incident, where a CPI (M) functionary was hacked to death for fighting usury, Mr. Ramakrishnan said that the party would organise a conference at Pallipalayam in Namakkal district on May 23, demanding abolition of the same.

He opined that with higher education still remaining a distant dream for many, the Foreign University Bill would only further reduce the chances of the poor getting higher education, and the CPI (M) would oppose the Bill.

The party also demanded that textbooks for matriculation schools under the Samacheer Kalvi Thittam be published and distributed by the State.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

Khap panchayat: signs of desperation? - Jagmati Sangwan

The number of cases in which the totally unconstitutional caste panchayats have openly defied the law of the land by issuing illegal diktats has increased manifold.

In Haryana today, rapid capitalist transformation is accompanied by a regressive feudal consciousness. As education and political awareness spread among Dalits, women and backward sections, alongside there is a massive consolidation of caste (khap) panchayats in defence of the status quo. The number of cases in which the totally unconstitutional caste panchayats have openly defied the law of the land by issuing illegal diktats has increased manifold. Attacks on young couples, Dalits and progressive-minded people have become frequent. 

A recent landmark judgment by the Additional Sessions Court at Karnal in the Manoj-Babli “honour” killing case, in which five accused were given the death sentence, sent shock waves among caste panchayat leaders, as it reminded them that they were not above the Constitution. The court took serious note of the fact that the policemen deployed for the security of Manoj and Babli actually facilitated the accused in perpetrating the crime.

Though geographically small, Haryana is socially and culturally heterogeneous. For example, in some areas and among certain castes, marriages within the village and even intra-gotra marriages are not uncommon. At the same time, such marriages are treated as incest in certain other areas, and among other castes. Even the caste or khap panchayat is not a feature prevalent throughout the State, as many believe, but is confined to a particular region. Thus, a section of people of one particular caste proclaims itself as the cultural representative of Haryana, refusing to acknowledge the customs and traditions practised by others in their own neighbourhood. 

A look at the demography of the State and its development statistics would help to contextualise the problem. The State that stood second in per capita income in the country has one of the lowest sex ratios (821 in the 0-6 age group). Female foeticide is rampant, and the situation is so bad that wives are being brought from far off States. Not once have these panchayats called a maha-panchayat to pass a resolution against female foeticide or dowry or even in connection with the crisis in agriculture — problems staring the people of Haryana in the face. 

After the judgment in the Manoj-Babli case, however, a congregation of caste panchayats representing the Jat neighbourhoods from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan was called at Kurukshetra on April 13. It was decided that panchayats would now fight for legal status to legitimately maintain the “social order.” One of the main agendas of this sarv-khap panchayat was to push for amendments to the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 that would ban marriages within the same gotra (clan within which men and women are considered siblings and hence cannot marry). Under this Act, marriages between certain lineages from the paternal and maternal sides are already barred.

Most of the khap panchayat diktats are against couples who are not from the same gotra. In fact, not more than one case of honour killing has been of a couple within the same gotra. By creating the false impression that all marriages of choice between young couples are incestuous, what the khaps are actually opposing is the right to choose a marriage partner. Among the several instances of khaps issuing fatwas in Jaundhi, Asanda, Dharana, Singhwal, Hadaudi, Maham-kheri, Ludana and other villages, not a single one was an intra-gotra marriage, yet the married couples were declared siblings, and families made to  suffer boycotts and excommunication from their villages.

A sad example of the gotra row is that of Ved Pal Moan, brutally beaten to death last year when he tried to secure his wife who was confined by her parents at Singhwal village in Jind district. He was escorted by a police party and a warrant officer of the High Court. Ved Pal had married neither within his gotra nor within the same village. In this case, another absurd code was invoked by the khap: that the couple violated the custom of not marrying in the neighbouring village as it forms part of bhaichara (brotherhood). A khap congregation held in March 2009 publicly pronounced the death sentence for Ved Pal, and it succeeded in executing it in June. As couples are selectively targeted, it is clear the real motive is to control women's sexuality to ensure that property remains within the patriarchal caste domain (mainly Jats in Haryana). 

The sarv khap panchayat also called for social boycott of individuals who raised their voice against the caste panchayats. A former police chief of Haryana, himself a self-styled caste leader, went on record threatening khap-critics. How can a former DGP publicly threaten law-abiding citizens, and yet continue to enjoy the hefty perks and pension out of the public exchequer?

The caste panchayat leaders have decided to stifle any voice of assertion from the backward sections. On April 21 more than 20 houses of Dalits were burnt down at Mirchpur village, in the presence of a police force, allegedly by thugs belonging to a dominant caste, resulting in the death of an 18-year-old handicapped girl and her ailing father. A panchayat of khaps convened at Mirchpur three days after the carnage not only declared all arrested persons innocent but also issued an ultimatum to the government for their release! This was exactly the pattern adopted by caste panchayats in the Gohana (2005) and Duleena (2002) incidents, where brutal attacks on Dalits took place. 

Even elders from socially and economically weaker families are not spared. At Khedi Meham in December 2009, the father of a newly wed groom was forced to hold a shoe in his mouth in front of the whole village by the panchayatis. Ordinary citizens are caught in the contradiction between two sets of values — the blind consumerism of the neo-liberal dispensation, and the outdated feudal values represented by the khaps. The first is no replacement for the second, and indeed, pseudo-modernism only strengthens the forces of revivalism. The alternative to both types of distortions lies in the spread of healthy and progressive values that can be unleashed through only a new social reform movement in the entire Hindi belt.

Limited but crucial role

The judiciary does have a crucial role to play but has its limitations too. On June 23, 2008 Justice K.S. Ahluwalia of the Punjab and Haryana High Court made a revealing observation while simultaneously hearing 10 cases pertaining to marriages between young couples aged 18 - 21: “The High Court is flooded with petitions where … judges of this Court have to answer for the right of life and liberty to married couples. The State is a mute spectator. When shall the State awake from its slumber [and] for how long can Courts provide solace and balm by disposing of such cases?” A legislature with little political will and a pliant executive will have to be made responsive under pressure of a mass movement.

The voices of dissent are also getting consolidated under the umbrella of organisations like the AIDWA and other democratic forces. The younger generation must stand forth as responsible social activists and lead the struggle for change in an otherwise feudal society that lives by the dictum “Jiski lathi uski bhains” (the powerful call the shots). In Haryana each passing day is costing the lives of innocent women and men. 

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

This woman wages a lone battle against khaps

CHANDIGARH: Top politicians kowtow to them. The police watch from a distance when they hold their mahapanchayats. Lovers shiver at their mention. But, if the dreaded khap panchayats in Haryana's badlands fear anyone, it's a 50-year-old woman — a former international volleyball player — who is contemptuous of their diktats.

Three decades ago, when three girls from rural Haryana could not join Jagmati Sangwan to represent India in volleyball for Asiad because they were married off by their parents, it marked a turning point in her career: the beginning of a long struggle against oppression of women.

It pained her when India returned with a bronze as she believed the three girls would have got the country gold. What rankled her more was the fate of numerous girls in Haryana whose cause she then took up with a gusto.

It was in 2002 that Sangwan won a major battle when she barged into a mahakhap panchayat at Sir Chhotu Ram Park in Rohtak. Khaps do not allow women into their meetings. But, Sangwan, made of sterner stuff, couldn't be pushed around. None dared ask her to leave.

Jagmati's voice against khap fatwa is so strong that she has become an eyesore for these Taliban-type courts. Irritated by her, khaps have termed her a "gang leader".

"They try to defame me but I continue my fight for the rights of women and the weaker sections. The khaps are anti-women and anti-Dalit," said Sangwan, director of Women's Study Centre, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak.

Sangwan has a force of over 1,000 women activists, being state president of the All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA). When the powerful panchayat in Karora village of Jind district was adamant on social boycott of the family of Manoj after the infamous honour killing in which he and his wife Babli were murdered for marrying "despite belonging to the same gotra", Sangwan was the first to support their families.

"It would have been difficult for us even to survive without the support of Jagmati," said Chanderpati, the mother of Manoj. Not only this, when police did not arrest influential khap leader Ganga Raj in the honour killing, Sangwan called for a statewide protest, forcing the leader to surrender.

Sangwan began raising her voice against the khaps in 1988, when a girl was raped for revenge after her brother eloped with a girl from the same village in Jind. "We forced the police to lodge an FIR against the rapists and kept the victim with us for six months to ensure her safety," said Sangwan.
(Courtesy : The Times of India)

CPI(M) wants prices of farm inputs reduced

Party wants Swaminathan panel report implemented

Says MNCs are allowed to trade in 198 commodities

BANGALORE: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member and All India Kisan Sabha general secretary K. Varadarajan on Saturday urged the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government to implement the M.S. Swaminathan Committee Recommendations for reducing the price of fertilizers, seeds and pesticides and increase the minimum support price of agricultural produce.

Criticised

Speaking at an interactive session organised by the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha on fertilizer policy here, Mr. Varadarajan criticised the centre for its failure to give relief to farmers. Accusing the centre of dancing to the tunes of the U.S., he alleged that the UPA Government was more serious than its predecessors in implementing the “liberation, privatisation and globalisation” policy. This the reason for reducing the fertilizer subsidy by Rs. 3,000 crore in the last budget.

The Government raised the price of urea by 10 per cent as a disincentive to save soil quality and farmers from low productivity. If it was sincere, he said, the Centre should have reduced the price of potassium and sulphate.

Mr. Varadarajan accused the Centre of reducing food subsidy by Rs. 428 crore. Even the discretion to reduce the subsidy for fertilizer had been passed onto the company concerned, subjecting farmers to further harassment and fraud.

The CPI(M) leader alleged that the Government was allowing multinational corporations to trade in 198 agricultural produces in the country.

Farmers and those who depended on agriculture would be unable to compete with them as their prices would be low, because of their mass production. Bt. Cotton and Bt. Brinjal, introduced by companies such as Monsanto, would destroy Indian farmers.

All these had prompted the CPI (M) and Kisan Sabha to launch an agitation against the Centre in West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala.

He said they would join non-Congress and non-BJP parties and mass organisations to take up the struggle wherever the CPI(M) had less influence.

The State unit leaders such as Maruthi Manpade and Bayya Reddy spoke.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

Maoist Killings Condemned

The brutal killings of the five CPI (M) members and supporters in West Midinapore and Purulia districts in West Bengal on a single day, May 14, by Maoist gangs is yet another instance of the true nature of the Maoists. It gives the lie to the manufactured campaign that the Maoists are engaged in a struggle to defend the cause of the tribal people and other oppressed sections.

The Maoists killed four CPI(M) supporters Nazrul Mir, Sanatan Ahir, Swapan Ahir and Ashok Ahir in Chandavilla village in Binpur-2 Block of West Midnapore by taking them out of their homes in the middle of the night. Their bodies were found near the Highway, bearing marks of torture. All the killed were agricultural labourers.

Another CPI (M) activist, Srikanata Mahato, was picked up from his house in Pathardi village in Arsha Police station area in Purulia district and shot death after his family members were beaten up.

With these murders, the number of CPI (M) members and supporters killed by the Maoists since the Lok Sabha elections in the three districts of West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura is now 121. They all mostly came from tribal and poor backgrounds.

The civil rights groups and intellectuals who support the Maoists by speaking out only against the police and paramilitary operations must answer the question – are they defending the Maoists so that they carry on such killings of political opponents with impunity?

The CPI (M) will continue to fight the Maoists politically and organizationally with all the resources at its command. It will expose the game of the Maoists who are out to help the anti-Communist forces like the Trinamul Congress in West Bengal.

The Polit Bureau expresses its deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of the martyred comrades.

Left Parties Statement

The Left parties, the CPI(M), CPI, RSP and AIFB met today and issued the following statement:

Food Security Anti-Price Rise Movement

The Left parties took stock of the ongoing movement against price rise and related issues. It decided to hold a national convention on price rise, food security and connected issues in the beginning of July, from where the future course of action will be announced.

Posco Struggle: Stop Use of Force

The Left parties condemn the firing and the resort to force by the armed police against thousands of men and women who were resisting and blocking the predatory moves of Posco to take over large tracts of fertile land in Jagatsingpur-Paradeep area of Orissa.

Today more that 40 platoons of armed forces were mobilised. They moved down to the Posco site and confronted the thousands of men and women who have been sitting on dharna for the last several months. The armed police resorted to tear gas, lathi charge and fired with rubber bullets in order to disperse the protesters who have now retreated to the villages. This has caused injuries to more than a hundred, including 60 women. The CPI MP of Jagatsingpur was taken into custody the previous night. State CPI and CPI(M) leaders were present on the spot when the firing took place. Canards are being spread by the government that some of the protesters threw bombs. This is a total falsehood.

The people were also protesting against the Posco’s move to have a captive port alongside the existing Paradeep port, which will have an adverse impact on the Paradeep port. Posco is also proposing to have captive iron ore mines instead of purchasing ore from the Orissa Mining Corporation. The proposal of Posco to draw water from the Mahanadi Barrage will seriously affect the irrigation system and also damage the ecological balance in the region. Ignoring all these concerns the Centre and the state governments have been backing Posco in their efforts.

The Left parties demand that the state government stop the use of force against the agitators.

Maoist Killings in West Bengal Condemned

The Left parties strongly condemn the killing of four CPI(M) workers, all of them agricultural labourers, in the West Midnapore district and one activist in Purulia district of West Bengal by the Maoists. It calls upon all democratic forces to condemn such violence.

Andhra Government following World Bank diktat: CPI (M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist) has criticised the State government for following the dictates of the World Bank in diluting welfare schemes like reimbursement of scholarships to students.

The CPI (M) said the policy decisions on cutting down allocations for welfare schemes were aimed at securing assistance from the World Bank under the AP Economic Reform Programme and not due to financial stress as was being claimed by the government. The government should elicit the views of all political parties before embarking upon policy measures that were aimed at shelving welfare schemes, CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu said.

In an informal chat with reporters here on Thursday, Mr. Raghavulu said the weeding out of ration cards in the name of existence of bogus cards amply showed the government's keenness to implement the World Bank-dictated policies.

Asked about the reports of Justice B.N. Srikrishna panel's invitation to APCC president D. Srinivas and TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, he said it was unfortunate that the two parties were creating confusion among the people with their inability to take a firm stand on the Telangana issue.

He faulted Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram for claiming that the solution to Telangana was lying within the State.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

SFI On NCHER BILL

The UPA government introduced the NCHER Bill in the last session of Parliament. This Bill if passed would drastically change the structure of policy making in the higher education sector of India. The main thrust of this bill is to centralize the powers relating to higher education in the hands of an all powerful 7 member committee. What is even more dangerous is this body would not have any accountability to the Parliament unlike existing bodies like the UGC etc. The HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has claimed that this bill would rejuvenate the higher education system in the country. The legitimacy for this bill was drawn from the report of the Yashpal Committee appointed by the prime Minister.

In a major turnaround which has exposed the nefarious designs of the government and the HRD minister, Prof. Yashpal who headed this committee has accused the HRD Ministry of distorting his recommendations. In an interview to the Telegraph Daily dated May 6, he has in fact gone on to question the intentions of many of the changes inserted by the ministry. He has expressed serious concerns that such a move would lead to the concentration of powers inn the hands of a few without any accountability. He has also said that the provisions in the NCHER Bill would actually curb the autonomy of the educational institutions rather than protecting and strengthening it. Prof. Yashpal has said that he is getting increasingly frustrated with the government.

The statements made by Prof Yashpal have vindicated the position taken by SFI and other democratic sections within the higher education stakeholders in the country. The government owes an explanation to the country in the wake of these serious allegations. The revelations by Prof Yashpal are yet another addition to the bankrupt policies of the UPA government, which is continuously losing credibility in the eyes of the people.

The SFI demands that the NCHER bill should be withdrawn immediately. The NCHER bill along with other policies of the HRD minister constitutes an attack on the democratic structure and the spirit of the very grain of diversity India has. The SFI will fight against these policies tooth and nail.  The SFI CEC calls upon all its units to expose the UPA’s sinister designs and rally the student community against the onslaughts on education sector.

Red army's Victory: Greatest symbol of power of resistance and revolutionary struggle

Excerpts from speech by Fidel Castro Ruz, May 8, 1975

"Fascism arises in the world just after the October Revolution, fascism arises in the world as a tool against Marxism-Leninism.

Were the capitalist countries and the imperialist countries that created the conditions for the emergence of fascism in the world, and the campaign of the fascists, from which emerged in Europe, was heading for anti-communism, the extermination of the Communists and to the destruction of the Soviet Union.

Once defeated the first intervention against the October Revolution, began to emerge with the brutal force political current in Europe. Fascism was the ultimate expression of bourgeois and imperialist reactionary thought, and since Hitler came to public arena declared their intention to attack one day to the Soviet Union proclaimed its racist doctrines and ideas about the extermination of entire peoples, of the enslavement of tens of millions of men and conquest of new territories.

It must be said that all mankind paid dearly for this political phenomenon, that all mankind paid dearly for this travesty of the bourgeoisie and imperialism, because even the capitalist countries, at a given time, were attacked by fascism.

We all remember those tragic years that preceded the war, we all remember the policy of conciliation with the fascism of the capitalist countries, we all remember the criminal division of Czechoslovakia, which was broken up and distributed to satisfy the expansionist ambitions of fascism, the capitalist governments shamefully giving in meet the demands of Hitler.

In essence, the policy of those powers is poised to launch fascism against the Soviet Union, to push Hitler's hordes to Russia.

We all remember how at that time began the war by invading Poland, the reactionary government of then chose the risks of isolation and aggression to coordinate their defense with the Soviet Union.

We all remember how, after the invasion of Poland, began the invasion of Norway, Holland, Belgium, France, Denmark. And remember too how the armies of capitalist countries virtually collapsed without resistance. Within days, in some cases and in others a matter of weeks, one after the other nations were defeated.

The news that the tanks were in the rear and aerial bombardments, completely demoralized the bourgeois armies, who were unable to resist Hitler's aggression. And when the fascists had virtually dominated Europe, with all the resources and technology of the European economy, began in June 1941, the cowardly and treacherous attack against the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union had endeavored to preserve peace, the Soviet Union had attempted to unite all anti-fascist forces in Europe, the Soviet Union got tired of constantly preach the need to stop fascism. But it hit the blindness and deafness of the leaders of the capitalist countries.

What happened, however, when the invasion of the Soviet Union? All know the saga of Brest-Litovsk, in that strength for weeks when Nazi troops were already deep in his rear, resisted heroically, with a handful of men, the charge of an entire division.

The Soviet people are not demoralized, Soviet soldiers did not lose even when tanks and enemy troops were tens of kilometers in the rear!

Hitler's armies were accustomed to combat reactionary social systems, social systems against capitalists, against bourgeois armies. And when there is aggression against the Soviet Union meet for the first time with a different type of army with a different type of soldier, with a type of people moved by other motives, and are from the first moment fierce resistance : Soviet soldiers died defending their positions!

The Soviet soldiers refused to surrender, Soviet troops were not ever up! And when they were surrounded, and again attacked and fought back to try to get through. And despite the tremendous blows dealt the treachery of the enemy in the early days of the war and in the early months, at no time this people and this army is demoralized.

The example of the Soviet Union, and the epic of its Great Patriotic War, show, first and foremost, the superiority of the socialist system, the strength of the socialist system and the strength of the Marxist-Leninist ideas!

Nazi troops, accustomed to walk victorious in Europe, proud of his victories, convinced of the invincibility of blitzkrieg tactics, also imagined that the Soviet Union would collapse, Leningrad and Moscow would be taken within weeks, the war Lightning would win there too. And yet, everywhere met fierce resistance. It even came to Leningrad, but failed to take the city of Lenin. And the people of Leningrad endured the fascist siege for 900 days!

If we analyze the history of all wars, will be very difficult to find a city that has withstood a siege of 900 days. Leningrad died of cold and starvation, collapsed on the streets constantly bombarded by artillery fascist but men and women of Leningrad did not surrender!

Fascist troops approached Moscow with the bulk of their forces ... but Moscow could not be taken, Moscow did not give up, resisted Moscow, and not only resisted but counterattacked and took the offensive.

They moved the second year of the war on Stalingrad considerable fascist forces, and came to Stalingrad, and even took a part of Stalingrad. But Soviet troops, a few hundred meters between the city and the river, resisted. And there fought the greatest battle in the history of wars! ...

Again, in the third year of war, the fascists tried to take the initiative and powerful forces met again toward Moscow. And he pounds the famous Battle of Kursk Arch, which was one of the fiercest fighting of the war, in which again the fascist troops crash continues the heroic resistance of the Soviet soldiers.

And then, when the Soviet army takes the offensive, when it was finally time to settle accounts, it starts moving towards the territory of the fascists. And write immortal and glorious pages in projecting the heroism of the soldier, the patriotism of the people, the superiority of the technique and, above all, the superiority of revolutionary principles.

Soviet troops did not stop until the very heart of fascist Germany, until the day that the top of the Reichstag brought the glorious and victorious banner of the Soviet people! ...

How could the Soviet people react, recover from the initial shock of more than 5 million soldiers and the most powerful war machine aggressively until then had known the world? How could those people in the midst of this attack, despite the depth of the advance of enemy troops, despite the enormous material and human losses, recover? For if great was the feat of the soldiers was unusually large feat of all people.

This is explained primarily by the presence of a seasoned Party: the Party of Lenin, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, organizer of the revolution, construction organizer, organizer of the people and armed forces, organizer defending the socialist homeland.

... The fact remains, historical, indisputable is that precisely the people and the Soviet army who carried the main burden and decisive in the defeat of fascism. It was the Soviet people who paid the higher price, and that made the main contribution to the victory. Without that contribution would have been absolutely impossible to defeat fascism. You can not compare the participation of any other country to supply the Soviet ...

What would have been the fate of humanity? What would have been for all the peoples of the world? What would have meant the absence of such a force that shield? If humanity did not meet again the horrors of a world war, this is due to the policy of peace and the might of the Soviet Union.

The overthrow of fascism created new conditions for everyone. Before the Second World War, if we looked at the maps of Africa, we were that there was not a free people throughout the African continent, if we looked to Asia, we saw that there were few who were not colonized peoples on that continent; if we looked to Latin America, we saw absolutely dominated by U.S. imperialism. A few powers had divided the world, enslaved and exploited.

Because when the Soviets fought and died in Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, Berlin, were struggling and were dying for us too! His heroes are therefore also our heroes. Its martyrs are our martyrs. His blood is our blood! ...

Forwards victoriously the cause of revolution and socialism, the cause of Marx, Engels and Lenin, Ho Chi Minh cause, the cause of Martí and Maceo, Camilo and Che, the revolutionary cause of all the Because of the Marxist-Leninists, the cause of socialism, the fair cause of communism. And the extraordinary contribution that the Soviet people has given to this cause of humanity, the peoples of the world will be eternally grateful! "