HOW RULING CLASS DIVIDES DALITS

lathi blows, face police bullets, go to jaiا and attack fellow workers. But the leader- ship is never given to them. Their job is to do ard die, not to question where & why. Look at the role played by Dr. Datta Samant, the latest trade union imperialist of Bombay, who is responsible for the closure of Bombay’s textile mills for the past six months throwing out of jobs 3 lakh workers. What a disaster Most of these poor milihands are Marathi Dalits amid whom Dr. B. R. Ambedkar lived & worked. But Ambedkar, who led the country’s first textile strike, did not believe in this sort of trade unionism. Is this Marxism? Our Bombay representative reports that this city’s longest strike has mainly affected the dalits many of whom have started migrating to villages, their unmarried daughters tuming to prostitution, boys taking to thugery Trade union leadership being in the hands of high castes, they hardly evince any interest in the specialised problems of dalits such as reservations etc. Not only the unions do not take up the cause of dalits but many a time they have joined herds with management in persecuting dalits and minorities. In Behersharift, CPI workers themselves killed their Muslim co beedi workers (Economic & Political Weekly, May 16, 1981). In many factories and establishments dalits and minorities have formed their own unions During the Gujarat caste war Hindu ni thar de belonging to INTUC attacked their dalit co-workers inside the mills INTUC got split on caste lines. Da it Parthers alone stood by dalit workers. The birth of SSS as against RSS in Tamil Nadu has conclusively proved the futility of political parties and its trade unions. This was admitted by CPI leader (DV no. 18). Trade unions are being used by the high caste-control- led Left leadership to divide workers in- steed of uniting them. Therefore, let us not take interest in these unions but form our own organisations. Let us not become tools in the hands of this trade union Big Business, FILMS being the most powerful mass media in this country of illiterates, the Ruling Class has started using this against the poor by instilling in them false and even dangerous values. Many big film heroes have, therefore, started joining politics because like films, politics is also fast becoming a business. Hindu religious leaders have blessed these film heroes joining politics. Film journas are there in dozens. AIR and TV are hardy. There- fore, there is an all-round conspiracy. Chief Minister M. G. Remacher dran in TN, N. T. Rama Rio forming Telugu Desam In Archie, Rajkumar jumping into language agitation in Karnataka are the indications of the shape of the things to come. Since it is the votes of the poor that will decide the fate of any election, these film heroes with millions of fars, backed by millions of rupees can easily become political leaders Who bothers about ideology 7 What the FSS. Big Business and Hindu religious leaders want is fascism, And they are using political parties, language. trade unions & films to go nearer this ideal. And they have achieved big success. Therefore we call upon dalits, persecuted minorities and OBCS to seriously ponder over this danger, educate their follow .comrades and keep cut of this five-point divide- and-rule game played by the Indian Ruling Class.