Kerala cinema is currently witnessing a deluge of naxalite/maoist inspired movies with some of them even going on to become blockbusters.
Thallappavu and Gulmohar are just two of the most recent ones with a naxalite theme..
Com Varghese it seems did not shout his last slogan in vain... almost four decades after
his death "Inquilab Zindabad" is once again reverberating throughout Kerala .
You can know more about these movies in the below posts.
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Showing posts with label Kerala. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Chengara Land Struggle Petition
Dear Friends,
Please sign the petition "Justice for Chengara Protestors" and circulate the message among your friends/contacts.
http://www.petitiononline.com/chengara/petition.html
As some of you already know, a land struggle was launched on August 04, 2007, by the landless people (mainly Dalits and Adivasis) at Chengara in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India. They have been marginalised and oppressed for generations.
They have claimed land in the Chengara estate, a rubber plantation, which had been leased to the "Harrison Malayalam Plantation" by the government of Kerala. The land lease exhausted in 1996. According to Laha Gopalan, President of the SJVSV (Sadhu Jana Vimochana Samyuktha Vedi (SJVSV), leads this struggle), the land deal (for 1048 hectares) itself was illegal. The company ("Harrison Malayalam Plantation") has illegally occupied, excess land to the tune of 6000 hectares.
The landless people who have flocked there from all parts of Kerala demand that this government land be redistributed to them. This has been part of a long standing promise of the Government. Now there are about 7,500 families, and more than 30,000 people in the estate, living in makeshift arrangements.
Since August 3, 2008 a road blockade has been going on, led by the united front of trade unions defending the right of 80 workers in the occupied Chengara plantation. The Trade Union Action Council is planning a march on September 3, if these landless people are not evicted by then.
Human Rights Activists like Medha Patkar, Arundhati Roy, C. R. Neelakandan, Ajitha and many others have come in support of the struggle.
The landless adivasis have been oppressed and deprived of their rights for generations which resulted in the 1975 legislation of The Kerala Scheduled Tribes (Restriction on Transfer of Lands and Restoration of Alienated Lands) Act. But successive governments either left or right by their inaction either purposefully or by lack of will has shirked of the responsibility of implementing the legislation for the last 30 years.
Delhi Forum (delhiforum@gmail.com Web: http://updatecollective.wordpress.com/ http://delhisolidaritygroup.wordpress.com/ ) has created an online petition, to bring justice for Chengara Protestors.
http://www.petitiononline.com/chengara/petition.html
Please do sign this petition and circulate it widely amongst your friends and other contacts.
You may visit the urls listed below, to know more about this struggle.
http://sanhati.com/articles/535/
http://kafila.org/2008/06/14/beyond-just-a-home-and-a-name/
http://www.indianchronicle.com/newsdetail.asp?s_id=101
http://www.keralanewstime.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=48
http://www.ambedkar.org/News/SRKerala.htm
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1821/18210490.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8hu9KQBvNc
Please sign the petition "Justice for Chengara Protestors" and circulate the message among your friends/contacts.
http://www.petitiononline.com/
As some of you already know, a land struggle was launched on August 04, 2007, by the landless people (mainly Dalits and Adivasis) at Chengara in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India. They have been marginalised and oppressed for generations.
They have claimed land in the Chengara estate, a rubber plantation, which had been leased to the "Harrison Malayalam Plantation" by the government of Kerala. The land lease exhausted in 1996. According to Laha Gopalan, President of the SJVSV (Sadhu Jana Vimochana Samyuktha Vedi (SJVSV), leads this struggle), the land deal (for 1048 hectares) itself was illegal. The company ("Harrison Malayalam Plantation") has illegally occupied, excess land to the tune of 6000 hectares.
The landless people who have flocked there from all parts of Kerala demand that this government land be redistributed to them. This has been part of a long standing promise of the Government. Now there are about 7,500 families, and more than 30,000 people in the estate, living in makeshift arrangements.
Since August 3, 2008 a road blockade has been going on, led by the united front of trade unions defending the right of 80 workers in the occupied Chengara plantation. The Trade Union Action Council is planning a march on September 3, if these landless people are not evicted by then.
Human Rights Activists like Medha Patkar, Arundhati Roy, C. R. Neelakandan, Ajitha and many others have come in support of the struggle.
The landless adivasis have been oppressed and deprived of their rights for generations which resulted in the 1975 legislation of The Kerala Scheduled Tribes (Restriction on Transfer of Lands and Restoration of Alienated Lands) Act. But successive governments either left or right by their inaction either purposefully or by lack of will has shirked of the responsibility of implementing the legislation for the last 30 years.
Delhi Forum (delhiforum@gmail.com Web: http://updatecollective.
http://www.petitiononline.com/
Please do sign this petition and circulate it widely amongst your friends and other contacts.
You may visit the urls listed below, to know more about this struggle.
http://sanhati.com/articles/
http://kafila.org/2008/06/14/
http://www.indianchronicle.
http://www.keralanewstime.com/
http://www.ambedkar.org/News/
http://www.hinduonnet.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Maoists unite to form broad alliance in Kerala
Blog of Revolutionary Peoples Front Kerala - http://rpfkerala.blogspot.com/
KOZHIKODE: The CPM state committee decision to promote Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and the move to provide more land for the mega projects in the state will add momentum to the agitations launched by the various pro-Naxalite organisations.
Sources said that there would be more militant agitations over land in the southern districts of the state in the coming months. Pro-Naxalite organisations like the Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF), Porattam, CPI-ML and other outfits have formed a joint platform at a meeting held in Kottayam on June 21.
Dalit leader K K Mani has been elected the convener of the committee. This is the first time these organisations, which are often at loggerheads, are coming together on an agitation front. A convention of the committee will be held in Thrissur on September 2. “There are already agitations demanding land for the landless at various parts of the state.
This takes a new turn when the government starts evicting more people for the so-called development projects.What is happening in Chengara now is the first step of replicating Nandigram here”, RPF state secretary Ajayan Mannur told to this website's newspaper.
A convention of the pro-Maoist organisations and other outfits involved in land agitation met at Ranchi in 2007 January and accepted ‘no displacement at any cost’ as their slogan. The convention formed ‘Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan’ to carry forward the stir against displacement for mega projects.
The Maoists are not exactly happy with the land agitations in the state which usually end after govt announces a package. They want the people to resist the eviction moves at any cost. The course of future agitations will be in this direction.
The national leadership of the Maoists has brought out a document to show the ‘hollowness’ of the rehabilitation packages. It says that though these packages may sound attractive on paper, none of the promises has been implemented by the governments.
Newindpress
KOZHIKODE: The CPM state committee decision to promote Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and the move to provide more land for the mega projects in the state will add momentum to the agitations launched by the various pro-Naxalite organisations.
Sources said that there would be more militant agitations over land in the southern districts of the state in the coming months. Pro-Naxalite organisations like the Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF), Porattam, CPI-ML and other outfits have formed a joint platform at a meeting held in Kottayam on June 21.
Dalit leader K K Mani has been elected the convener of the committee. This is the first time these organisations, which are often at loggerheads, are coming together on an agitation front. A convention of the committee will be held in Thrissur on September 2. “There are already agitations demanding land for the landless at various parts of the state.
This takes a new turn when the government starts evicting more people for the so-called development projects.What is happening in Chengara now is the first step of replicating Nandigram here”, RPF state secretary Ajayan Mannur told to this website's newspaper.
A convention of the pro-Maoist organisations and other outfits involved in land agitation met at Ranchi in 2007 January and accepted ‘no displacement at any cost’ as their slogan. The convention formed ‘Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan’ to carry forward the stir against displacement for mega projects.
The Maoists are not exactly happy with the land agitations in the state which usually end after govt announces a package. They want the people to resist the eviction moves at any cost. The course of future agitations will be in this direction.
The national leadership of the Maoists has brought out a document to show the ‘hollowness’ of the rehabilitation packages. It says that though these packages may sound attractive on paper, none of the promises has been implemented by the governments.
Newindpress
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Sunday, July 01, 2007
Cops deny Maoist claim
Thiruvananthapuram, June 30: A pro-Naxalite website claimed that the Maoist leader Sande Rajamouli, who was shot dead by the AP police in an encounter at the Dharmavaram railway station on 23 June, was in fact intercepted in Kerala, while making a phone call from a public booth, near the Kollam bus stand. But IG Mr Arun Kumar Sinha said that this was not true. “We were not contacted by the AP police. According to protocol, if Rajamouli was captured in Kerala, he should have been produced at the nearest police station. Also, there are no eyewitness accounts of any scuffle having taken place near the bus stand,” he said. SNS
The statesman
The statesman
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Monday, June 11, 2007
Naxal leader was murdered, says CBI
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Naxal leader was murdered, says CBI
Kochi, June 10: The CBI special court here has directed two former senior police officers to appear before the court on June 16 when charges would be framed against them in connection with the death of Naxalite leader A Varghese in 1970.
Varghese, who police claimed had died in an 'encounter' 37 years ago in Thirunelli in Wynad district, was in fact murdered, according to CBI, which investigated the case.
CBI special court judge P Chandrasekhara Pillai directed B Vijayan and K Lakshmana, who retired as DGP and IGP respectively, to be present in the court on June 16 when the charges against them will be read out. The court will also decide when to start witness examination.
The plea of Vijayan and Lakshmana to discharge them from the case was rejected by the court on Friday.
Former CRPF constable Ramachandran Nair, the first accused in the case, died in November last year.
The case according to CBI is that on February 18, 1970, Naxal leader Varghese was shot dead by Ramachandran Nair allegedly at the instigation Vijayan and Lakshmana, the then DIG and Dy SP respectively of Kozhikode.
Wynad district was the helm of Naxal activities and Varghese was accused in many Naxal attacks, especially in police stations and had been evading arrest.
CBI stated that Varghese was arrested, brought to CRPF camp at Thirunelli and shot.
However, police claimed that Varghese died in police encounter which was confirmed by the Kozhikode Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) who conducted the autopsy.
The Mananthavady police, in whose jurisdiction Thirunelli falls, closed the case as police 'encounter'.
After a lapse of 29 years, in 1999, Ramachandran Nair, who had retired from service, approached the Kerala High Court with a prayer seeking inquiry into the death of Varghese, which, according to him, was not a police encounter but was instigated allegedly by Vijayan and Lakshmana. Nair filed an affidavit in the court to the effect that he shot Varghese, who was blindfolded and tied to a tree. He fired only one bullet and Varghese died.
Chennaionline
"Before I am killed, give me a signal so I can shout a slogan" - The last wish
of Immortal Comrade Varghese
Naxal leader was murdered, says CBI
Kochi, June 10: The CBI special court here has directed two former senior police officers to appear before the court on June 16 when charges would be framed against them in connection with the death of Naxalite leader A Varghese in 1970.
Varghese, who police claimed had died in an 'encounter' 37 years ago in Thirunelli in Wynad district, was in fact murdered, according to CBI, which investigated the case.
CBI special court judge P Chandrasekhara Pillai directed B Vijayan and K Lakshmana, who retired as DGP and IGP respectively, to be present in the court on June 16 when the charges against them will be read out. The court will also decide when to start witness examination.
The plea of Vijayan and Lakshmana to discharge them from the case was rejected by the court on Friday.
Former CRPF constable Ramachandran Nair, the first accused in the case, died in November last year.
The case according to CBI is that on February 18, 1970, Naxal leader Varghese was shot dead by Ramachandran Nair allegedly at the instigation Vijayan and Lakshmana, the then DIG and Dy SP respectively of Kozhikode.
Wynad district was the helm of Naxal activities and Varghese was accused in many Naxal attacks, especially in police stations and had been evading arrest.
CBI stated that Varghese was arrested, brought to CRPF camp at Thirunelli and shot.
However, police claimed that Varghese died in police encounter which was confirmed by the Kozhikode Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) who conducted the autopsy.
The Mananthavady police, in whose jurisdiction Thirunelli falls, closed the case as police 'encounter'.
After a lapse of 29 years, in 1999, Ramachandran Nair, who had retired from service, approached the Kerala High Court with a prayer seeking inquiry into the death of Varghese, which, according to him, was not a police encounter but was instigated allegedly by Vijayan and Lakshmana. Nair filed an affidavit in the court to the effect that he shot Varghese, who was blindfolded and tied to a tree. He fired only one bullet and Varghese died.
Chennaionline
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
Anniversary of Naxal Varghese martydom today
Read about the encounter Killing of Comrade Verghese below
Before I am killed give me a signal so that I can shout a slogan
Anniversary of Naxal Varghese martydom today
Sunday February 18 2007 11:45 IST
Before I am killed give me a signal so that I can shout a slogan
Anniversary of Naxal Varghese martydom today
Sunday February 18 2007 11:45 IST
KALPETTA: The 37th anniversary of martyrdom of Naxal Varghese, the revolutionary who was killed by police in the Thirunelli forests, would be observed on Sunday.
According to the district committee of the CPI-ML (Red Flag), PN Salimkumar, leader of the organisation, would hoist the flag at the martyr’s column at Ozhukkanmoola, near Mananthavadi on Sunday morning.
State leaders of the organisation PC Unni-checkan, KT Kunhikkannan, Vijayan Kuzhiveli and Kunnel Krishnan would participate in the public function to be organised at the Gandhi Park, Mananthavadi, on Sunday evening.
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