Trivandrum: Our Left parties are so much divided and dissipated that instead of identifying and attacking their common enemy, they are more busy sniping at each other. And to fight the common enemy, they have not even identified one Naxalites are no exception The Left parties are proliferating and more and more people are calling themselves as Marxists. It has become a fashion to describe oneself as a Marxist.
One latest instance of the confusion in the Left rank is available from Kerala. Kanu Sanyal, the Bengali Brahmin and a top Naxalite leader, was on his second visit to Kerala to unite the different Naxalite splinter groups. Indian Express (Aug 19) reports Sanyal attacking the Kerala Naxal groups as a bunch of anarchists. He singled out the Venu group for misusing the name of Naxalbari like Charu Mazumdar. He denounced the “peoples court” trial by the Venu group in Kerala. In Kerala alone there are half a dozen Naxalite groups. At the all-India level different groups have come together and formed the Organising Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (OCCR) of which Sanyal is the secretary.
One Naxalite group with its leadership operating from Canada is active in the Bombay slums But the high caste boys who come to distribute the Naxalite literature are not concerned about the caste problems faced by untouchables of these slums. Another Naxalite group brings out a journal from Calcutta, but it is full of articles and reports on every other country in the world except that of India. Our Naxalite comrades spend all their time in hair-splitting arguments about Marxism, Leninism, Maoism but are not interested in discussing the real problems of the Indian Dalits. It is no wonder they have failed to win the hearts of the Indian Dalits.
NAXAL MOVEMENT FAILS?: Chowdary Tejeswara Rao, leader of the Srikakulam Naxalite movement who has been in the jail for the past 11 years, has written to the CPM seeking admission. He has admitted the failure of the Naxal movement and its “incalculable damage to the communist movement”, says the staff reporter of the Hindu (Aug. 17) at Vijayawada.
