As part of the International day of Solidarity action by the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) for the release of the Chinese worker – Wu Guijun, the New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) held a solidarity protest at Town Hall in Bangalore. About 30 people attended the protest which included students and activists. We also brought out over 10 posters both in English and Kannada.
“This barbaric feudal remnant can be confined to the dustbin of history”
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A protest is being organised by New Socialist Alternative (CWI-India) on 23rd Oct. 2013, in solidarity with the Workers’ Cause in China.
Wu Guijun, a worker and Trade Union activist has been held in police detention since 23rd May of this year – in protest against the criminalisation of workers’ struggle in China. Wu Guijun’s imprisonment brings to us the memory of more than a year long jailing of the 147 heroic Maruthi Suzuki workers in India. Around the world, the working class are once again showing combative spirits and are challenging the capitalist rulers.
The Indian political scenario is at precarious cross roads. On the one hand the abysmal failure of the Congress led UPA government in all fronts is so glaring. On the other the BJP, the fox that came in to the ruling arena in the late 1980’s precisely feeding on the discontent of the dispossessed and the disarray of the left, has used the undeserving credibility that it gained in the coalition experiment of the so called National Front led by ex-Congress-man V P Singh.
The following article appeared in countercurrents.org written by the radical political activist and filmaker – KP Sasi.
After the first screening in Chennai, a fundamentalist organization called Hindu Makkal Katchi complained to the police in Chennai to stop further screenings. A BJP newspaper published their version, saying that the film was justifying a `terrorist’. No court has ever proven that Abdul Nasar Maudany was guilty so far, even though he has spent more than 13 years of his life in two jails as under trial. In such a situation, the Sangh Parivar agenda has been to replace the function of the courts by judging an innocent man as a `terrorist’. It will be only a matter of time that this game will be fully exposed. The police in Tamil Nadu visited the organizers of the film screenings in order to question them several times and took copies of the film from two places of screenings. But due to strong support of various organizations in Chennai as well as some of the sensitive sections of the mainstream media, they did not take any further action. I am grateful to many individuals and organizations who expressed their courage to stand by this cause. I also express my gratitude to Hindu Makkal Katchi, since because of what they did, more people are watching the film in Tamil Nadu now.
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