Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru and to all the comrades....

[Manulearning]

Homage to the revolutionary fighters on their death anniversary.

Biography

Documents

The Problem of Punjab’s Language and Script (1923)

Blood Sprinkled on the Day of Holi Babbar Akalis on the Crucifix (March 15, 1925)

Beware, Ye Bureaucracy (December 18, 1928)

Letter to Shaheed Sukhdev (April 5, 1929)

“The Red Pamphlet” (April 8, 1929)

Joint Statement with B.K. Dutt (June 6, 1929)

Hunger-strikers' Demands (June 24, 1929)

Letter to I.G. (Prisons), Punjab Mianwali Jail (June 17, 1929)

Message to Punjab Students' Conference (October 19, 1929)

Statement Before the Lahore High Court Bench (1930)

Regarding Suicide (1930)

Reasons for Refusing to Attend the Court (January, 1930)

Telegram on Lenin's Death Anniversary (January 21, 1930)

Hunger-Strikers' Demands Reiterated (January 28, 1930)

Regarding the LCC Ordinance (May 2, 1930)

Statement of the Undefended Accused with J.N. Sanyal, B.K. Dutt, Dr. Gayal Prasad, and Kundan Lal (May 5, 1930)

Letter to Jaidev Gupta (July 24, 1930)

Justice Hilton Must Also Go (June 25, 1930)

Letter to Father (October 4, 1930)

Why I am an Atheist (October 5, 1930)

Letter to B. K. Dutt (November, 1930)

To Young Political Workers (February 2, 1931)

Regarding Line of Defence In Hari Kishan's Case (June, 1931)

Last Petition (1931)

Introduction to Dreamland (Unknown)

(Being a new member unable to post links. Their writings are available on marxist.org)

It is important to read their original writings and decide the kind of society they envisioned and make your own contribution towards realising that kind of society. With so many bourgeois parties claiming them to be their own
( right-wing - portraying them for their nationalism, various organizations argue over which photo of Bhagat Singh to use - a turbaned one or without turban! Religious leaders (Some Sikh groups here) go for his turbaned one as it suits them). Also most propaganda restricts itself to showing their posters carrying guns, thus "glorifying" their violence - casting a shadow over their real political thought.

So it becomes important to read their original writings and understand their thought rather than be swayed by various disloyal factions.
Understanding their vision of India and World and contributing towards making it a reality.

Long Live the Fighters!

[ind_com]

"The revolutionaries must always keep in mind that they are striving for a complete revolution. Complete mastery of power in their hands. Compromises are dreaded because the conservatives try to disband the revolutionary forces after the compromise from such pitfalls. We must be very careful at such junctures to avoid any sort of confusion of the real issues especially the goal. The British Labour leaders betrayed their real struggle and have been reduced to mere hypocrite imperialists. In my opinion the diehard conservatives are better to us than these polished imperialist Labour leaders. About the tactics and strategy one should study life-work of Lenin. His definite views on the subject of compromise will be found in "Left Wing" Communism."- Bhagat Singh, 1931

[Rusty Shackleford]

I've never actually read his works but what ive read about him have been inspirational. At least enough to have "Inqhilab Zindabad" under my username.

I'll have to read his works someday for sure!

[Manulearning]

Here is what official textbooks have to say -

ICSE calls Shahid Bhagat Singh ‘terrorist’, court says change it
Published: Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011, 3:20 IST
By Kanu Sarda | Place: New Delhi | Agency: DNA


A Delhi court has directed Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) to remove defamatory references to freedom-fighters in its history and civic book from the next academic session.

The book published by Goyal Brothers Prakashan and written by DN Kundra has a chapter — Revival of Terrorism — in which Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal have been referred to as “militants and extremists”, while Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev as “terrorists”.

The court wants these leaders to be called nationalists and revolutionaries.

Additional district judge Inderjeet Singh also restrained ICSE from publishing the book with the wrong information.

While Maharashtra has 118 ICSE schools, Mumbai and Delhi have 60, NCR 30. Over 1 lakh students from Maharashtra opt for ICSE board.

The court’s order came on a petition by Dina Nath Batra, national convenor of Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti and others seeking deletion of defamatory passagesin the Std-X history and civics Part-II book.

The petitioners had requested the court to direct ICSE to stop teaching from the books with immediate effect as misleading information could poison the minds of youth.

“We are deeply aggrieved by the defamatory, derogatory, insulting and objectionable language used to refer to freedom-fighters who laid down their lives for our country and the people. It is unfortunate that despite getting freedom in 1947, such objectionable and insulting portions regarding our historical past have not been removed from the course material,” their petition reads.

I actually had a similiar kind of experience last year when i was part of a book exhibition. We met a lawyer to whom we told about the books including the ones by Indian revolutionaries and his reply was - " oh bachon ko atankwadi thode bnana hai" ( I dont wish to make my children terrorists). Though realizing he had said something really stupid and offensive, he backtracked it and put the blame on official resources saying " ( I mean, they still call them terrorists)

Kind of ignorance people live in!

[Manulearning]

There is a good 40min documentary on the subject.

Inqilab is a 2008 Indian documentary film directed by Gauhar Raza, about Indian freedom fighter, Bhagat Singh,[1] co-produced by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) and Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD) in connection with birth centenary Bhagat Singh.[2][3]
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Do you have a link to this? Is it in english or with subtitles?

[Manulearning]

Just In -

Protest by right wing against 'Bhagat Singh Day' at Shadman Roundabout #Lahore #Pakistan

Martyr Day of Bhagat Singh observed at his death place, Bhagat Singh chowk (Shadman roundbout) #Lahore #Pakistan 1 hour 14 mins ago

Attackers said anyone demanding the chowk being named for Bhagat Singh will be considered traitor, anti-nationalist and anti-Islam. #Lahore 1 hour 12 mins ago

beena sarwar @beenasarwar
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@rachitattweet Yes, BhagatSingh is known and respected in Pakistan but today extremists attacked civil society activists commemorating him.


Cat Comes out the bag..........Again!

How these right-wingers shout anti-imperialist slogans but underneath they are their true patrons!

[Akshay!]

Wow, thanks for all of those links. Can't wait to begin reading those documents.

btw, I just wanted to add that Gandhi's role in India's independence is Highly over-rated, just like Martin Luther King's role in the civil rights movement. I think it's all done to make it look like all of these movements were "non-violent". Anybody who has even read 2 pages of Indian history knows very well that revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, and others played a huge role (again, just like Malcolm X, Black Panther Party, etc, played a huge role in the CRM). All that said, I don't think that India has really become independent, but that's another story.

[ind_com]

Wow, thanks for all of those links. Can't wait to begin reading those documents.

btw, I just wanted to add that Gandhi's role in India's independence is Highly over-rated, just like Martin Luther King's role in the civil rights movement. I think it's all done to make it look like all of these movements were "non-violent". Anybody who has even read 2 pages of Indian history knows very well that revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, and others played a huge role (again, just like Malcolm X, Black Panther Party, etc, played a huge role in the CRM). All that said, I don't think that India has really become independent, but that's another story.

The radical Indian communist line maintains that India did not become independent and Gandhi and the Nehrus were agents of British imperialism.

[Akshay!]

The radical Indian communist line maintains that India did not become independent and Gandhi and the Nehrus were agents of British imperialism.

I personally wouldn't go that far but I can understand that point of view. As I said earlier, Gandhi etc.. are clearly over-rated (and the role of revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh is rarely discussed) but to say that Gandhi and Nehru were intentionally acting as "agents of British imperialism" wouldn't really be accurate. One could say that they were, like MLK, chosen by the establishment as "lesser of two evils" and therefore the result was a benefit to British imperialism but the word "agent" suggests something else.

[Beeth]

The radical Indian communist line maintains that India did not become independent and Gandhi and the Nehrus were agents of British imperialism.

Lol, that's why these radical Indian communists are treated like jokers - the masses have rejected them entirely.

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

Lol, that's why these radical Indian communists are treated like jokers - the masses have rejected them entirely.

Could this be the reason they currently control or contest considerable territory in eastern India? To be honest, I think that the Naxalbari movement, for all its considerable faults, is closer "in spirit" to the BLPICB than those parties that have decided not to fight the Indian government.