SFI pamphlet dated 30th Aug '07

30-08-07

INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL: COMPROMISING OUR SOVEREIGNTY TO SERVE US INTERESTS

Friends,

The National Common Minimum Programme sets out the basic tenet of the foreign policy of the UPA Government in the following terms: “The UPA government will pursue an independent foreign policy keeping in mind its past traditions. This policy will seek to promote multipolarity in world relations and oppose all attempts at unilateralism.” There is no mention of any strategic relations or partnership with the US. However, the UPA Government has tried, since its inception, to circumvent and breach this important provision of the NCMP and continue with the NDA Government’s policy of deepening India’s strategic ties with the US and become its subordinate ally. However, within a month all these formulations were forgotten and series of strategic tie up with the US was achieved:

INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL AND INDIA'S STRATEGIC TIES WITH THE US:

● On June 28, 2005, just prior to Bush-Manmohan Agreement of July 18, 2005, New Framework for India-US Defence Relationship was signed. In this Agreement, it is stated, U.S.-India defence relationship derives from a common belief in freedom, democracy, and the rule of law, and seeks to advance shared security interests. Considering that the Iraq invasion was justified by the US as bringing democracy to West Asia, a reference to a shared belief in democracy and rule of law cannot be acceptable to the Indian people.

● The Bush-Manmohan agreement was followed immediately by India’s vote against Iran in the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA). Senator Lugar in his opening remarks in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had noted, approvingly, “We have already seen strategic benefits from our improving relationship with India. India’s votes at the IAEA on the Iran issue last September and this past February demonstrate that New Delhi is able and willing to adjust its traditional foreign policies and play a constructive role on international issues.” Manmohan Singh’s oft-repeated claims that India’s foreign policy would not change due to this Deal, is not borne out by his Governments’ record, especially when the US officials are busy selling the agreement to the US Congress on the strategic value of India aligning with the US.

● Currently, the Manmohan Singh Government is negotiating a Logistics and Service Agreement. This would virtually reduce India to an American ally in Asia. It essentially allows refueling and complete access to Indian facilities for all US ships and aircraft. The US navy can bomb Iraq and Iran and then come to India’s ports for rest, recreation and refueling, before going back for another round of hostilities. Step by step, from a vote against Iran, we are now to become hosts to the US navy in its military misadventures in West Asia and elsewhere. More importantly, as far as the 123 agreement is concerned, the Hyde Act categorically demands India to fall in line with US as explained below:

HYDE ACT AND INDIA'S INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY:

The Hyde Act is an enabling legislation that allows the US Congress to consider an agreement for civilian nuclear co-operation under the section 123 of the US Atomic Energy Act. The Hyde Act said very clearly that India’s foreign policy needed to be congruent to the US; it had to work in tandem with the US on isolating Iran. It demanded that India join the illegal PSI regime. It also restricted India’s access to technology to fuel and import of reactors. It denied access to technology for the fuel cycle – enrichment or reprocessing – and also for heavy water. It also made clear that in the event the Deal was canceled, the fuel supplies from the US would not only stop but the US would work with other suppliers to stop their supplies to India too. This is a major issue as earlier also, the US had stopped supplies to Tarapur reactors. If we put in a substantial nuclear program using imported reactors, this would mean our power program could be held hostage to the US’s continued goodwill.

All these tie ups with the US and the Hyde Act provision of the 123 agreement, seriously compromises our sovereignty and independent foreign policy. Should we allow our sovereignty be compromised by acting as junior partners of the greatest war machine and imperialist power that the world has ever seen? It is in this context that the Indo-US nuclear deal is not a narrow issue of the Left. It is about struggling to ensure that the sovereignty of our country is protected.

Today, it is the Left forces, who are spearheading the struggle against US domination of our country and the tendency within ruling classes to act as junior partners of imperialism. It is shameful that when the Left is engaged in a heated struggle against US imperialism, the 'infantile' ultras of AISA in the most sectarian manner is attacking the Left, only strengthening the hands of the right wing slander. Their political bankruptcy gets reflected by the fact that instead of mobilizing opinion against the deal, they are more interested in parroting the slanders of the media against the Left. This is a manifestation of their frustration, since the CPI(M-L) is irrelevant as far as the future of this deal is concerned. With regard to their point about voting out this government, let us remind our friends in AISA that the RSS Chief KS Sudarsan has said the same thing in a latest editorial in Organizer. So it is quite obvious whose politics they are serving by taking this position. We appeal to the student community to stand united against the Indo-US nuclear deal and in defence of our sovereignty and rally behind the Left.

Sd/- Rajiv Kumar Ranjan, Secretary, SFI-JNU; Sd/- Roshan, President, SFI-JNU

Comrade Karat's Interview on Nuclear Deal in Frontline

OUR STRUGGLE AGAINST US IMPERIALISM LONG LIVE!!

JNUSU-SSS Public Meeting on 31st Aug

ATTEND IN LARGE NUMBERS!!

VENUE SHIFTED TO ROOM NO. 203, SIS

JNUSU Notice on Lyngdoh Committee

28-08-07

Friends,

The HRD Ministry as well as the UGC have sent letters to the JNU Administration urging it to implement the recommendations of the Lyngdoh commission with regard to conduct of the JNUSU elections. The Administration in turn has forwarded the letter to the JNUSU President for a response on behalf of the JNUSU. While the formal response of the JNUSU has to await a consultative process within the student community, certain points should be mentioned at the outset.

• Immediately after the constitution of the Lyngdoh Committee, the JNUSU President who was the Vice-President at that time met the Committee and expressed our views there. In front of the committee the JNUSU opined that the election process in JNU is a unique process where the entire JNUSU as well as the JNUSU Election Committee derives its strength and legitimacy from the student community and not the Administration through a continuous democratic process of debates and discussions. We urged upon the Lyngdoh Committee to consider the JNUSU election process as a model for the entire country. The history of student movement in JNU bears witness to the fact that the JNUSU elections are devoid of the use of money and muscle power which has become a menace in most of the universities of the country.
• In this light, we believe that the JNUSU election process guided by the JNUSU Constitution has no provision for any interference of the JNU Administration. Therefore, the question of any such intervention in our university does not arise.
• It is to the credit of the consciousness of the student community in JNU that any organization using muscle power or money power are democratically rejected by the students, which has ensured that this menace does not infect our campus. The Lyngdoh Committee or the Supreme Court’s concern regarding this becomes irrelevant in the case of our university.
• As per the recommendations of the Lyngdoh Committee, there is an age limit for students’ to contest elections, which is 28 years for research students. JNU is a campus where majority of the students are research scholars. Hence any imposition of age limit will only exclude a large section of the student community from the democratic process of elections in our university. The committee also proposes 75% minimum attendance to be eligible to contest elections. In our university where no attendance record is officially maintained, with a majority of students being research scholars, this recommendation too is irrelevant in the case of JNU.
• The Lyngdoh committee also recommends that candidates will have only one opportunity to contest the elections for office-bearers. This will completely restrict the democratic rights of candidates to contest for the four office-bearers post one at a time.
• The Committee also recommends that students against whom disciplinary action have been taken by the University authorities cannot contest elections. In the last semester itself we witnessed how the JNU Administration took completely unjustified disciplinary actions against student activists. This recommendation in a sense gives the Administration the opportunity to settle political scores with union leaders.

The JNUSU Elections is one of the defining features of our University which gives our university a unique place in student movement of our country. As has been mentioned earlier, without any recommendation of any committee, the JNU student community showed utmost maturity to contest the election in the most democratic and peaceful manner, never giving any opportunity to either the Administration or the police to interfere in the election process. We are confident that this year too, the JNU students will conduct the elections in the most democratic manner, keeping up to the democratic ethos of our campus leaving no scope for the Administration or any other external agency to intervene. In this light we believe that the JNUSU Election should be conducted according to the JNUSU Constitution. The JNUSU will be shortly starting a broader discussion on this issue. The copies of the letter sent to us by the Government as well as the JNU Administration will be available in the JNUSU office from tomorrow to enable all the organizations and concerned individuals to know all the issues involved and frame their positions vis-à-vis this issue.

Sd/- Dhananjay, President, JNUSU; Jyotsna, Jt.Secy, JNUSU.

Release of Nicholas Burn's Statements in US Senate on Nuke Deal

DOWN WITH THE IMPERIALIST GAMEPLAN OF US!!

OPPOSE THE OPERTATIONALISATION OF THE 123 NUCLEAR AGREEMENT!!

UNITE AGAINST UPA's ABJECT SURRENDER BEFORE BUSH ADMINISTRATION!!

SFI release on Caste Violence in Gohana

DOWN WITH CASTE VIOLENCE!!

PUNISH THE PERPETRATORS ON AN IMMEDIATE BASIS!!

OUR STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE LONG LIVE!!

JNUSU Pamphlet dated 27th Aug '07

Date: 27/08/07

Friends,

Research is of paramount importance in any country especially in the Third World, whereby it ensures that the intellectual self-reliance of the country is maintained. Financial Assistance is an integral part in this whole process wherein research scholars are able to sustain their activities without any worries for the want of monetary support. However, due to the impact of the neo-liberal economic policies, the government had started its retreat from the higher education sector which also resulted in hikes in fees. It is a success of the student movement of JNU under the leadership of JNUSU that in spite of the attack of neo-liberal policies, a low fee structure is maintained in our university. However, in order to take this struggle forward to ensure quality research in the university, the JNUSU raised the issue of financial assistance and fought a historic agitation in 2006. As a result of this struggle the administration was compelled to ensure that the amount of MCM for the BA/MA students was increased to Rs. 1000 and for M.Phil/Ph/.D to Rs. 1500. The administration promised to raise the amount for BA/MA and also raise the annual income cap in due course of time. However, they refused to adhere to this promise and after a 12 day indefinite hunger strike of in last July, the administration was pressurized to raise the amount for BA/MA students also to Rs. 1500 along with raising the income cap to Rs. 1 lakh, thereby bringing to a logical conclusion the long struggle waged by the JNUSU in the enhancement of scholarships for students.

This historic agitation under the leadership of JNUSU had a tremendous impact in the policy making in the education sector, where the JNUSU demonstrated at the UGC office demanding that all M.Phil/Ph.D students in all central universities be provided scholarships to pursue their research. The UGC has already announced this scholarship. After the agitation last month, the JNU administration was forced to principally agree that in the face of the relative autonomy granted to all universities, the cut-off date for the fellowships be fixed from July 2005. However, even days after the agitation, the fellowships have not been disbursed to the students. Moreover, the MCM for the M.Phil/PhD students have been stopped I view of this scholarship leading to financial distress for the students. The JNUSU President today has submitted a letter to the VC demanding immediate disbursal of scholarships to the students, failing which the Administration will have to face demonstrative actions. We appeal to the student community in the coming days to rally behind the JNUSU in pressurizing the administration to act upon this genuine issue.

With regard to the Rajiv Gandhi Fellowships for SC/ST students, the students are required to submit a progress report of their research work in the centre office through their supervisors at the earliest. This has to be done so that the university can send the utilization certificate for the fellowship to the UGC, which is required for the disbursal of the second installment of the Fellowships.

Sd/- Dhananjay, President, JNUSU.

Sd/- Jyotsna, Jt. Secy, JNUSU.

On Blasts in Hyderabad

DOWN WITH THE NEFARIOUS DESIGNS TO DESTROY OUR UNITY!!

UNITE TO MAINTAIN OUR SECULAR TRADITIONS!!

SFI Pamphlet dated 25th Aug '07

25/08/07

INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL: WHY THIS SCURRILOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST LEFT?

Friends

THE Left’s opposition to the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal and the associated efforts to draw India into a US-dominated strategic partnership has, naturally, led to a violent reaction from the ruling classes and its media voices. Over the past couple of years, since the first joint statement on strategic partnership released by prime minister Manmohan Singh and US president George Bush in July 2005, the Left has been drawing attention to the dangers of India being turned into a supplicant of US imperialism. Apart from negating the consensual declared objective of pursuing an independent foreign policy, such a partnership with US imperialism has consequent serious implications on India’s defence and security concerns.

The important point that merits consideration here is that instead of meeting the criticism of the deal and its consequences, a scurrilous campaign has been mounted against the Left. US imperialism’s cheer leaders and the drumbeaters of the Indian ruling classes are advancing absurd reasoning of the CPI(M)’s opposition to the deal instead of contesting what we publicly state.

THE INDO-US NUCLEAR DEAL AND THE ISSUE OF ENERGY :

One such reasoning is that while the government is engaged in this deal for increasing the electricity generation capacity in the country to benefit our farmers and poor people, the CPI(M) is opposing it at the behest of China. This is not unusual for the ruling classes to resort to such obnoxiously low level arguments when their analytical bankruptcy to contest the CPI(M)’s point of view is exposed. Further, the resort to such tactics is also to conceal their unabashed eagerness to ally with US imperialism at the expense of exposing the country’s sovereignty to greater vulnerability.

Let us take up the issue of augmenting India’s energy capacities and generating more electricity. There can be no two opinions on the need to expand our capacities to generate more power. As India develops further, energy augmentation is of utmost importance. The moot question, however, is whether the nuclear energy expansion is the only option, or, even the best option that we have at the moment.

As of 2005, nuclear power generation was 3,310 MW or a mere 2.5 per cent of India’s total power generation capacity. Now, if this were to increase to 10,000 MW by the year 2015 as planned, this would still be only 5 to 7 per cent of India’s projected capacity generation then. Thus, this deal and the attendant consequences to India’s sovereignty and foreign policy are being undertaken for such a miniscule part of our power generation.

This, apart, is nuclear power generation the most cost-effective? On the contrary, it is the most expensive option. As compared to coal, nuclear energy would be one and a half times more expensive. Compared with gas, nuclear power would be twice as expensive. So is the case with hydro electricity. Therefore, by all counts, nuclear power is the most expensive.

The National Hydro Power Corporation has estimated that India has at least 50,000 MW of untapped hydro electric potential. They have estimated that in Nepal, the untapped potential would be higher at 83,000 MW. On the basis of our friendly relations with Nepal and through international agreements, the tapping of such huge hydro electric potential will not only augment our energy capacities at half the cost of nuclear energy, but will also tame these rivers which regularly consume the lives of hundreds of people through torrential floods. This year’s floods have been described by the United Nations as ‘unprecedented’ in human memory.

In addition, India is indiscriminately allowing the export of coal and other non-renewable mineral resources. Instead, if this coal were to be utilised for generating electricity, it would cost us much less than producing nuclear energy.

Given this, the government’s arguments that the Indo-US nuclear deal is to augment our energy resources and to provide electricity to the farmers and poor sounds, indeed, hollow. On the contrary, it appears that as a consequence of this deal, huge commercial orders running into thousands of crores of rupees for the purchase of nuclear reactors would be placed on US and other advanced countries corporations. The profit bonanza to multinational corporations is there for all to see with the attendant benefits to sections of corporate India. Is India then actually going in for this deal to bolster US economic interests? Can we allow this to happen under the false propaganda of benefit to the Indian farmers? If the same amount of resources were to be spent on generating power through hydro or coal, as would be spent on the purchase of nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel, India’s energy augmentation would be many times higher. Thus, the nuclear deal not only exposes India to greater vulnerability on various scores, it drains a huge amount of our scarce resources and, thus, prevents India from exploiting fully its available less expensive energy options. These are the facts.

WHO ARE AGENTS OF CHINA AND PAKISTAN?:

The more bizarre disinformation campaign is that the CPI(M) is opposing the deal at China’s behest. This charge, however, does not apply to the BJP presumably, for its opposition of the deal. The reason for the BJP’s opposition, of course, is entirely different from that of the CPI(M)’s. Given the BJP’s track record when in government, the current opposition is a mere posturing and smacks of a ‘hurt’ that such a deal ought to have been concluded under its government and not under the UPA government!

Be that as it may, those who know of the CPI(M)’s birth and history will know that for nearly two decades both the international communist giants – the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China – opposed the CPI(M)’s policies from different perspectives. The CPI(M)’s policy directions are determined by its own perceptions of what is in the interests of India and its people. Those who are willing to eagerly surrender India’s sovereignty to US imperialism should be the last ones to dole out unsolicited advise and certificates of patriotism. If our detractors are worthy of character and substance, then they ought to meet our arguments on their merits rather than take recourse to such perfidy.

We heard similar arguments when the CPI(M) opposed Pokhran-II. In fact, the then NDA’s defence minister, George Fernandes, publicly announced that the nuclear tests were necessary to meet the Chinese challenge. Once Pakistan responded by its nuclear tests, India’s huge advantage in conventional warfare vis-à-vis Pakistan was wiped out in a single stroke. Far from enhancing India’s security and defence potential, the BJP/NDA through Pokhran-II reduced us to the level of Pakistan’s capabilities. The BJP today argues that the Indo-US nuclear deal limits our strategic programme which can only be to China’s and Pakistan’s advantage.

Who, may we ask, is vigorously pursuing this Indo-US nuclear deal which, we are told, will limit India’s strategic capacities, thus, providing advantage to our neighbours? It is those who are propagating and supporting the deal who are, thus, by this logic, acting at the behest of China and Pakistan!

While the pen-pushers of US imperialism and the Indian ruling classes continue to spread canards exposing their complete incapacity to meet the CPI(M)’s objections on merit, the Indian people, surely, will not allow India to be reduced to a US supplicant.

In the 60th anniversary of our independence, the 150th anniversary of 1857 and the 250th anniversary of the battle of Plassey which heralded the colonial rule over India, we cannot allow any erosion of our hard won sovereignty and independence. On the contrary, we need to strengthen it.

(This is from the forthcoming editorial of Peoples' Democracy, Dated: 26-08-07).

Sd/- Roshan Kishore, President, SFI-JNU.

Sd/- Rajiv Kumar Ranjan, Secretary, SFI-JNU.

SAHMAT Programme on Sri Krishna Commission Report

UNITE AGAINST THE COMMUNAL-FASCISTIC POLITICS OF RSS-BJP-SHIV SENA!

SFI Release on Statement of Left Intellectuals on Nuclear Deal

DOWN WITH THE UPA's KOWTOWING BEFORE THE US!!

UPHOLD INDIA's INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY!!

SFI Pamphlet dated 21st Aug '07

21/08/07

AISA’S ALTERNATIVE TO JNU: SHAMELESS BETRAYAL AND WHITE LIES

Friends,

The student community is still waiting for answers as to what are the reasons for the double standards of AISA and DSU and their ever changing positions on the incident of 19th February. In just six months their position has changed diametrically from glorification of the gherao to an abject surrender in front of the administration. What is more shameful is the fact that the inspiration for such betrayal and backstabbing of the student community’s mandate came from the even more radical JNUSU General Secretary from AISA, who was the first among 11 students to get his punishment waived off by secretly submitting an appeal expressing regret which has not been made public till today. Thoroughly demoralized by the abject surrender of its own activists along with the radical than thou revolutionaries of DSU, the AISA has been indulging in baseless slander against the SFI and the JNUSU President.

This audacity reached unacceptable limits when AISA’s pamphlet dated 18/08/07 alleged that the JNUSU President had submitted a letter of appeal on 16/08/07. The pamphlet says, “…so the administration took its precautionary pound of flesh – and got its ‘letter of appeal’ from the JNUSU President on August 16.” The JNUSU President has challenged both the AISA and JNU administration to make any such letter public which was submitted on the 16th of August. He has demanded that if the AISA can not substantiate this baseless slander then it must tender a written apology or else he shall be forced to file a defamation suit against the AISA. If the AISA leadership fail to produce the letter or do not tender an apology for such deliberate attempts to malign the office of JNUSU President, they would have to face the consequences in terms of legal action. However such acts reaffirm the questions that are looming large over the kind of politics which the ultra left especially AISA stands for in our campus in the name of a “radical alternative”.

1.The only defense of AISA offered so far for its baseless slander against the JNUSU President is that it has 'relied' on the statement of the Chief Proctor given to The Hindu. By relying on the Administration to slander the JNUSU President proves beyond doubt that the AISA's
political bankruptcy has reached towering heights where it is meekly surrendering before the Administration, while using the statements of the Administration to attack the democratically elected JNUSU President. So much for their commitment to democracy and the elected
representatives of the students. The baseless attack by the AISA on the JNUSU President is nothing but an attempt to malign the office of JNUSU President in utter desperation to hide their own inherent political contradictions which has resulted in a situation where the
JNUSU General Secretary who in the last semester was crying hoarse not to give regret (in the UGBM) to prove his revolutionary credentials, have now gone overboard to produce regret letters to the Administration, again to prove his so called 'revolutionary' credentials.

2.It is indeed ironic that the AISA is finding so much confidence on the statement of the Chief Proctor. It is the same Chief Proctor’s office who had suspended Rajan Pandey, the Jt Secy of AISA JNU unit for indulging in violence against a YFE activist. AISA had accused the dministration of acting in favour of the right wing and the YFE. But when it comes to a statement against the JNUSU President by the ame Administration, the AISA clings on to it, as if those were the only truths in the world, again proving AISA's political bankruptcy and ontradictions. Moreover, while writing fiery pamphlets defending the criminal act of Rajan Pandey, the AISA as yet has not taken any agitational course of action against the Proctor's office for suspending him. This proves beyond doubt that the AISA has become a tooge of the Administration, where it will meekly give regret letters to them, use every motivated statement of the Administration to attack the JNUSU President, but will not launch an agitation against the Chief Proctor, who according to them is victimizing their own activist. Shame on AISA's hypocrisy and bankruptcy!!

3. How could the JNUSU President fight for revocation of fines on the other rusticated students if they themselves were too willing to submit the fines and get their punishment revoked? And why did the JNUSU General Secretary and the Vice President not do anything about this matter rather than convincing everybody to pay the fines when the JNUSU President and Jt Secy had not got their registrations because of their Principled position of not giving appeals or paying any fine.

4. Acting in the most shameless fashion the AISA has said that the struggle against the denial of registration to the JNUSU President and Jt Secretary was based on a “selfish motive of protecting the skin of SFI leaders”. This completely reveals the ideological bankruptcy and lack of any commitment whatsoever towards the institution of JNUSU by the AISA. It also makes clear as to what was AISA’s real motive ehind not joining the struggle against the unjust punishments imposed on the JNUSU President and the Jt Secretary. Both the AISA and the administration wanted to settle their scores with the SFI by ensuring that registrations were denied to the JNUSU President and the Jt Secretary.

It is more than obvious that in order to hide their utterly contradictory and opportunist positions, the AISA is launching a complete slander campaign against the JNUSU President. But by doing such a baseless campaign against the JNUSU President, the AISA is taking the consciousness of the student community for granted. WE appeal to the members and sympathizers of AISA to see through the disruptive and complete unprincipled politics that their leadership is indulging in. We once again challenge the AISA to produce the so called letter submitted by the JNUSU President and appeal to the student community to give a fitting rebuff to these traitors and saboteurs of the JNU student movement.

Sd/- Roshan, President, SFI-JNU.

Sd/- Rajiv, Secretary SFI-JNU.

JOIN JNUSU’S PROTEST DEMO AT UGC ON 22/08/07 (TOMORROW)

Demanding Immediate Disbursal of Rs 3000 And 5000 Scholarship for M Phil and Ph D Students From July 2005

ASSEMBLE AT AD BLOCK AT 10:30 AM

SFI Poster on the JNUSU Demo at UGC

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SFI Pamphlet dated 20th Aug '07

20/08/07

Whatever happened to the radicalism of DSU!!

Friends,

In the last few months this campus has been a witness to the worst kind of opportunism and profound political ideological bankruptcy from the biggest proponents of revolution (the DSU). From their shameful glorification of the Gherao of the registrar on the 19th of February to the abject surrender in front of the administration (a class enemy in DSU’s terminology) things have come a full circle for them. Unable to overcome their frustration and guilty conscience for this surrender and betrayal of the mandate of the student community, which has even robbed them of their petty bourgeois radical rhetorics, they have unleashed a series of baseless and ridiculous attacks on the SFI and the office of JNUSU.

Devoid of any political and moral authority because of their own surrender before the administration by paying the fines (which can only be justified by their extreme eagerness to get the punishments revoked and a strong aversion for any principled struggle) they are increasingly succumbing to the malicious right wing slander against the SFI and the JNUSU. However, contradictions galore heavily if one looks at the positions DSU has been taking in order to hide its infantile petty bourgeois treachery vis-à-vis the JNU student movement. After the incident of 19th February the DSU took no time to brand everyone an agent of the administration who termed the gherao as regrettable. Even when the resolution of the JNUSU council was passed by the UGBM they violated the resolution by expressing regret for inconvenience caused if any in their individual appeal letters. If the SFI, JNUSU and a large part of the teaching community were agents of the administration when they termed the gherao as regrettable why did the DSU express regret at all? Did the fear of punishments make them comfortably abdicate their principled position?

During the whole period of agitation against punishments, the same JNUSU was the most radical body for the comrades of DSU. Has the JNUSU suddenly changed its character in a few days? Or is it the case that now the punishments have been revoked and DSU can once again indulge in sectarian attacks on the SFI and JNUSU?

Why did the activists from DSU not even try and put up a fight against the "unjust" fines imposed by the administration? How is it the case that for the people whose mission is to "reclaim the union from compromise driven political formulations" have completely changed their political position vis-à-vis the punishments in just 6 months? On the 20th of February it was revolutionary to glorify the gherao and any regret was sheer betrayal and treachery. On the 20th of August expressing regret and submitting fines has become the hallmark of revolution for the ultra left in the campus. One wonders if the goalposts of radicalism for these revolutionaries are decided by the mirror image of what the SFI is doing in this campus and not on any principled uncompromising ideological basis.

The hollow logics and self defeating arguments of the DSU by which they are trying to put the blame of everything on the SFI and JNUSU President is aptly captured by Com Stalin’s description of the Mensheviks in Russia. He said,

"There are two groups of Marxists. Both work under the flag of Marxism and consider themselves ‘genuinely’ Marxists. Nevertheless, they are by no means identical. More, a veritable gulf divides them, for their methods of work are diametrically opposed to each other….The first group usually confines itself to an outward acceptance, to a ceremonial avowal of Marxism. Being unable or unwilling to grasp the essence of Marxism, being unable to put it into practice, it converts the living, revolutionary principles of Marxism into lifeless, meaningless formulas….Discrepancy between word and deed is the chief malady of this group.[preaching radicalism to the students and accepting the punishment by the administration by paying fines] Hence the disillusionment and perpetual grudge against fate[it is because of SFI and JNUSU that we can not do anything], which time and again lets it down and makes a ‘dupe’ of it. …Comrade Tyszka described this group very aptly at the London Congress when he said that it does not stand by, but lies down on the point of view of Marxism." (Excerpt from Lenin as the organizer and leader of the Russian Communist Party).

We warn the DSU against indulging in such malicious and unprincipled attacks on the SFI and the office of JNUSU to overcome their own sense of betrayal and treachery to the student community. Rather than preaching radicalism to the SFI and student community they should try and provide an explanation for the extra mile they have gone in placating the administration by paying the fines which they themselves termed as unjust.

From their shameful justification of the Gherao to the unprincipled compromise with the administration by paying fines, DSU’s acts smell of an unprincipled liberalism best described by Comrade Mao, "…To be aware of one’s own mistakes and yet make no attempt to correct them, taking a liberal attitude towards oneself….liberalism is a manifestation of opportunism and conflicts fundamentally with Marxism…"(Excerpt from Combat Liberalism)

We appeal to the student community to politically isolate these forces and maintain a rock solid unity which would carry forward the legacy of JNU student movement.

Sd/- Roshan, President SFI-JNU; Rajiv, Secretary SFI-JNU.

JNUSU President's Fitting Reply to the Baseless allegations by the Ultra-Left

JNUSU Pamphlet dated 19th Aug '07

STUDENTS UNITED SHALL ALWAYS BE VICTORIOUS!!

(Above: Submitted by JNUSU President to VC on 10th Aug informing the administration of their breach in the agreement of 12th July and calling for immediate revocation of all punsihments)

(Above: Covering Letter to the 10th Aug letter, submitted by JNUSU President to VC on 17th Aug on the Indefinite Hunger Strike)

(Above: Letter from Chief Proctor's office stating the unconditional withdrawal of punishment of Jyotsna, JNUSU Jt. Secy) (Above: Letter from Chief Proctor's office stating the unconditional withdrawal of punishment of Dhananjay, JNUSU President)
(Above: Letter from Chief Proctor's office stating the withdrawal of punishment of Sandeep, JNUSU General Secretary, which is clearly based on the regret letter submitted by him on 17th July, and also granted by the administration after taking into cognizance his 'good conduct' during the interim period. It also warns him "not to repeat in future incidents like the gherao on 19th February, 2007")

CARRY FORWARD THE LEGACY OF PRINCIPLED STRUGGLES AGAINST ADMINISTRATION!!

DEFEAT THE HYPOCRITE AND TREACHEROUS ULTRA-LEFT!!

We congratulate the student community for the withdrawal of the fines on the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary by the JNU Administration. Though the insensitive administration had taken a stiff position, it was the long and arduous struggle waged under the leadership of the SFI-AISF that the adminsitration was forced to come to the negotiating table and accept all the genuine demands of the students. By using the Gherao of the Registrar on 19th February, 2007 as a pretext, the administration had sought to crackdown on the JNU student movement. However, the valiant struggle of the students under the banner of the JNUSU which included a 12 day indefinite hunger strike during the month of June-July compelled the administration to accede to the students' demands.

While the SFI kept reiterating the position that the JNUSU Office-bearers should not give any sought of appeal to the administration as it would undermine the sanctity of the JNUSU as an institution that has had a historic legacy of 3 decades of valiant struggles, the AISA and its General Secretary in the JNUSU went overboard submitted appeal letters to the administration along with the other concerned students. The administration went back on its agreement with the JNUSU on 12th July, '07 and imposed fines on the 8 concerned students even though they had submitted appeal letters as pointed out in the agreement. The administration also revoked the fine on the JNUSU Genereal Secretary, Sandeep (displayed above) based on the regret letter he had submitted. However, the revocation was clearly on the condition that he had to watch his behaviour in future. This clearly reflected his meek surrender before the administration, thereby treacherously back-stabbing the entire student movement. Following his path, the other 8 students after offering lame opinions, also paid their fines to the administration to get their registrations done, inspite of the continous appeals by the SFI and the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary not to do so.

However, the SFI mainatined its principle position and refused to submit any letter to the administration or pay even a single pie as fine. Carrying this forward, the JNUSU President submitted two letters to the Vice-Chancellor on 10th and 17th August, '07 (Displayed above) asking him to intervene in the matter and not to precipitate things, thereby creating an impasse. It was also conveyed to the VC in letter on 10th Aug that the JNUSU would be forced to go into agitational course of action if the punishments were not revoked. The covering letter dated 17th Aug clearly stated that since the JNU administration had not revoked the fines, the JNUSU had launched an indefinite hunger strike. Following this pressure, the adminsitration was forced to get its act together and revoke the punishments on the JNUSU President & Joint Secretary through two letters from the Chief Proctor's Office. This revocation carries no conditionality and also the text & tenor do not point out any need to watch their behaviour or the fact that punsihments were being revoked for their "good conduct" unlike in the case of the JNUSU General Secretary.

This victory once again reaffirms the legacy of the JNU Student Movement and its pivotal force, the JNUSU wherein the glorious and valiant struggles waged in the last 30 years have led to major achievements for the student community. The SFI-AISF led JNUSUs in the past years have upheld this tradition and thorugh the numerous struggles have time and again defeated the nefarious designs of the administration. The compromising positions of the Ultra-Left in the campus, that is the AISA and DSU have once again stands exposed before the students who refuse to go beyond the rhetoric and easily succumb before the adminsitration. We appeal to the student community to isolate such treacherous and spineless forces and rally behind the SFI-AISF in the coming days to achieve all the genuine demands of the students.

Release against High Fee Structure in Orissa

STUDY AND STRUGGLE RIGHT PATH!!

SFI Pamphlet - 18th Aug, '07

18/08/07

Carry forward the legacy of principled struggles against the anti-student administration!
Expose the hypocrisy and treachery of the General Secretary of the JNUSU!

Friends,

We would like to congratulate the student community for forcing the administration to withdraw the unjust fines imposed on the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary without imposing any further conditionality. On the 1st day of the indefinite hunger strike itself the Chief proctor’s Office issued letters to the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary which says that on the basis of letters written by the JNUSU President on 10th August and 17th August, the fines imposed on the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary are being waived off. The administration was also forced to remove the humiliating text and tenor of the letter given to other students earlier which said that these punishments are being removed because of the “conduct” of these students and carried a warning of such actions in the future as well.

This is a big victory for the JNU student movement and after yesterday’s agreement, the JNU student community has foiled the nefarious designs of the JNU administration to suppress and browbeat the JNU student movement and the office of JNUSU on the pretext of the incident of 19th February after a prolonged struggle, which was started on June 23rd.

The student community under the leadership of the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary has forced the administration to accept the principled position taken by the UGBM held on 8th March that after the students have expressed regret for the unfortunate incident of 19th February all punishments should be withdrawn without imposing any further conditionality on the students.

While this victory has once again reaffirmed the stature of JNU student movement it is very unfortunate that certain organizations and their representatives in the JNUSU have made every possible attempt to betray and backstab the spirited struggle of the student community which was based on the UGBM’s principled position. The SFI strongly condemns this politics of treachery and betrayal by the ultra left (read the AISA and DSU) in our campus. Unable to provide an explanation for their abject surrender in front of the administration by paying fines to get registration (the inspiration for which came from the JNUSU Gen Secretary’s unilateral submission of regret to the administration in order to get his punishment revoked), these self proclaimed revolutionaries have now shamelessly resorted to the logic of right wing forces to attack the SFI and the JNUSU President. In its yesterday’s pamphlet the AISA has said that there is a nexus between the SFI and the JNU administration and that is why the fines on JNUSU President and Joint Secretary have been removed. Depicting absolute bankruptcy and degeneration they have repeated the right wing’s slander against the JNUSU that hunger strikes are mere electoral gimmicks and an eye wash for the new students. Such slander and mud slinging against the left, which often converges with the extremely right wing reactionary
attacks is another hallmark of infantile petty-bourgeois type of ultra left politics in communist movement since the very beginning.

The SFI would like to warn these coward and saboteur elements to desist from spreading such lies and inflict any further damage to the glorious legacy of JNU student movement which has been built after immense sacrifices and struggles by the students of this university over more than 3 decades. If they do not have the political ideological motivation and courage to fight against injustice and oppression then they should rather sit happily in their rooms and shed away all their revolutionary rhetoric aimed at misleading the student community. The Gen Secretary of the JNUSU along with the AISA and the DSU owe an explanation to the student community for their continuous betrayal and ever changing positions on the incident of 19th February. We would like to challenge the JNUSU Gen Secretary and these organizations to take up a position vis-à-vis these questions before trying to malign this historic victory of the JNU student movement over this authoritarian and anti-student administration.

1. The AISA and DSU both celebrated the gherao in their pamphlets after 19th February. The General Secretary and other representatives from AISA in the JNUSU council abstained on the resolution expressing regret on the incident of 19th February which was moved by SFI-AISF representatives. The DSU voted against the JNUSU Council’s resolution expressing regret on the incident of 19th February. Do the AISA and DSU sincerely believe that the incident of 19th
February was a regrettable one and was an aberration in the student movement in JNU?

2. Why did the DSU activists violate the resolution of the UGBM when they submitted letters to the administration expressing regret for inconvenience caused if any, which was a violation of the UGBM resolution?

3. Why did the JNUSU General Secretary unilaterally submit an appeal expressing regret to the administration when there was no consensus on this issue in the all organization meeting held before the agreement was reached?

4. Why did the other rusticated students submit their fines when it was decided in an all organization meeting that imposing fines was a breach of the agreement on the part of the administration?

5. On what basis have the AISA and DSU accused the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary of disassociating from the struggle, when it was only them who refused from submitting the fines and were hence denied registration till the 14th of August?

6. If the AISA and DSU thought that the JNUSU President has abdicated his responsibility of fighting for the students then why did not the Vice President and General Secretary start an agitation against the administration rather than convincing everybody to submit the fines? Were the JNUSU General Secretary and Vice President trying to act as good boys of the administration?

The SFI would like to challenge the AISA and DSU to provide answers to these specific questions, which they have shamelessly evaded so far. We would also advise them to refrain from spreading lies and misinformation in order to conceal their own ideological, political and moral bankruptcy. It takes more than empty rhetoric against the SFI and the Left movement in India to fight against injustice and an anti-student administration; it is clear that the AISA and DSU are bereft of even an iota of self-respect and resolve to fight for the rights of students. SFI appeals to the members and sympathizers of AISA and DSU to seriously introspect about the kind of opportunist and compromise-driven politics which is being justified by their leadership in order to settle scores with the SFI. The conscious student community of JNU would give these traitors a fitting rebuff in a not so distant future.

Sd/- Roshan Kishore, President SFI-JNU; Rajiv Kr Ranjan, Secretary, SFI-JNU.

Release against Attack on Shivaji Panikkar

Questions to AISA

Release against Sena Attack on Outlook Office

Indefinite Hunger Strike

Join JNUSU’s INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE

Day 1

1. Roshan, councillor, SSS
2. Sejuti, councillor, SSS
3. Amit.

Charter of demands:

• REVOKE FINES AND UNCONDITIONALLY PROVIDE REGISTRATION TO THE JNUSU PRESIDENT AND THE JOINT SECRETARY, WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.
• IMPLEMENT THE UGC SCHOLARSHIP OF RS. 3000 AND RS. 5000 FROM JULY 2005 IMMEDIATELY.
• IMPLEMENT INCREASED MCM SCHOLARSHIP WITH RAISED INCOME CAP IMMEDIATELY.
• MAKE XI PLAN PROPOSALS PUBLIC AND DISCUSS WITH ALL SECTIONS OF THE JNU COMMUNITY.
• EXPEDITE THE FUNCTIONING OF THE EQUIVALENCE COMMITTEE FOR ALEEMIYAT AND FAZEELAT CERTIFICATE’S RECOGNITION.
• OTHER DEMANDS.

SFI-AISF

1857 Exhibition and Public Meeting of JNUSU

an evening against imperialism!
reliving the spirit of the struggle for independence!

Exhibition on 150th anniversary of the
first war of independence:1857 by SAHMAT

&

Public Meeting

60 years of Independent India

SPEAKERS:

• Aijaz Ahmad
• Gopal Guru
• Prabhat Patnaik
  
  
  Chair:Anuradha Chenoy

19th august ‘07
Neelgiri dhaba
9 p.m.

Sd/- Dhananjay, President JNUSU; Jyotsna, Jt. Secy. JNUSU

JNUSU

SFI Pamphlet 14th Aug, '07

August 14, 2007

RISE IN DEFENCE OF THE JNUSU!
ISOLATE THE TREACHEROUS ULTRA-LEFT!!

Friends,

The JNU administration has so far refused to revoke the fines imposed upon the President and Joint Secretary of the JNUSU. The last date for registration being over, the fact that the administration has stuck to this patently unjust and outrageous position of imposing fines upon JNUSU office-bearers, proves that the real motive behind the punitive actions taken on the apparent basis of the 19th February incident, was to weaken and browbeat the JNU student movement and its spearhead, the JNUSU.

The JNUSU President and Joint Secretary have taken a principled position of not paying the fines, imposed upon them on the grounds that they were “unable to control the situation” on 19th February. It is highly unfortunate that the General Secretary of the JNUSU has got his fine waived by striking a deal with the administration and submitting an individual appeal expressing regret over the 19th February incident. The JNUSU Council and the UGBM having collectively expressed regret in the last semester, there was absolutely no basis for any of the JNUSU office-bearers submitting regret letters on an individual basis. Neither was this a part of the agreement between the JNUSU and the JNU administration. It is clear that by breaking ranks with the other office-bearers, the General Secretary of the JNUSU has become a party to the nefarious design of the JNU administration to politically victimize the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary. This is yet another instance of a sordid betrayal of the JNU student movement by the ultra-Left.

From glorifying the gherao of the Registrar after 19th February to the abject surrender before the administration by the General Secretary of the JNUSU and the activists of AISA and DSU, who paid their fines yesterday, the ultra-Left has traversed the entire cycle: from an act of sheer adventurism to an unprincipled and pathetic submission before the authorities. This does not surprise the SFI, since all this is typical of the ultra-Left. It fits so well Lenin’s description of the Left-deviation in the Communist movement: “The petty bourgeois ‘driven to frenzy’ by the horrors of capitalism [violation of minimum wages in JNU in the present case] is a social phenomenon which, like anarchism, is characteristic of all capitalist countries. The instability of such revolutionism [the gherao of 19th February], its barrenness [glorifying the gherao initially and denying it later], its liability to become swiftly transformed into submission [JNUSU General Secretary submitting an individual apology letter to the administration and AISA and DSU activists eventually paying fines], apathy, fantasy, and even a ‘frenzied’ infatuation with one or another bourgeois ‘fad’ [leveling false accusations against the SFI and the CPI (M) and blaming them for everything] — all this is a matter of common knowledge.” (Excerpt from Leftwing Communism, An Infantile Disorder).

The cynical attempts by the AISA and DSU to justify their crass surrender before the administration and payment of fines in their pamphlets yesterday also fits well Lenin’s description of “Leftwing Childishness”: “There could not be better confirmation, in political literature [AISA and DSU pamphlets issued yesterday], of the utter naïveté of the defence of petty-bourgeois sloppiness [paying the fines after calling them ‘unjust’] that is sometimes concealed by “Left” slogans [DSU pamphlet had the heading ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back’].” Writing on compromises, Lenin had written: “There are compromises and compromises. One must be able to analyze the situation and the concrete conditions of each compromise, or of each variety of compromise. One must learn to distinguish between a man who gave the bandits money and firearms in order to lessen the damage they can do [JNUSU and UGBM expressing regret on the 19th February incident] and facilitate their capture and execution, and a man who gives bandits money and firearms in order to share in the loot [JNUSU General Secretary submitting regret letter to the administration and AISA/DSU paying fines in order to fix the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary]…to reject compromises ‘on principle’ [like AISA and DSU], to reject the admissibility of compromises in general, no matter of what kind, is childishness, which it is difficult even to take seriously. A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must know how to single out concrete cases when such compromises are inadmissible, when they are an expression of opportunism and treachery, and direct all the force of criticism, the full edge of merciless exposure and relentless war, against those concrete compromises [the present surrender by the ultra-Left]…that is really tantamount to the worst kind of opportunism, treachery and betrayal.” (Excerpt from Leftwing Communism, An Infantile Disorder) In keeping with this understanding, the SFI hereby declares an ideological-political war against this opportunism, treachery and betrayal by the AISA and DSU.

AISA and DSU, through their actions have once again proved that ‘Left’ and rightwing deviations are two sides of the same coin. Writing in 1937 Comrade Mao Tse Tung had said: “We are opposed to die-hards in the revolutionary ranks whose thinking fails to advance with changing objective circumstances and has manifested itself historically as Right opportunism. These people fail to see that the struggle of opposites has already pushed the objective process forward while their knowledge has stopped at the old stage. [AISA and DSU have failed to realize that the valiant agitation fought under the JNUSU leadership has changed the objective situation] This is characteristic of the thinking of all die-hards. Their thinking is divorced from social practice and they cannot march ahead to guide the chariot of society, they simply trail behind, grumbling that it goes too fast and trying to drag it back or turn it in the opposite direction. [By submitting regret letters, paying fines and surrendering before the administration] We are also opposed to ‘Left’ phrase mongering. The thinking of ‘Leftists’ outstrips a given stage of development of the objective process; some regard their fantasies as truth, while others strain to realize in the present an ideal, which can only be realized in the future. They alienate themselves from the current practice of the majority of the people and from the realities of the day, and show themselves adventurist in their actions [the gherao of 19th February].” (Excerpts from On Practice)

The surrender and betrayal by the ultra-Left should not, however, be allowed to weaken the JNU student movement. SFI calls upon the JNUSU to launch an immediate agitation against the JNU administration demanding the revocation of fines imposed upon the JNUSU President and Joint Secretary and implementation of the agreement signed with the administration, involving enhancement of MCM scholarship, UGC fellowship and other demands. SFI calls upon the student community to rally behind the JNUSU to defend its prestige and sanctity and successful implementation of the agreement between the JNUSU and the JNU administration, which the latter is trying to violate.

Sd/- Roshan Kishore, President , SFI-JNU; Rajiv Kr Ranjan, Secretary, SFI-JNU.

JNUSU-SIS Public Meeting on Pakistan

Public Meeting


TURMOIL IN PAKISTAN: Will it Lead to Democratization or Talibanization?

Speakers:

Prof. S.D. Muni
Nadeem Naresh

3.00 pm
16th Aug, Thurs.
SIS Room No. 203

JNUSU-SIS

Sd/- P.K.Anand, Tiainla, C.Lalengkima
Councillors,SIS.

Anti-Imperialist Porcession on 15th Aug, '07

On the 60th INDEPENDENCE DAY
To salute the martyrs of freedom struggle
& To carry forward their revolutionary legacy

JANAM Presents

• "Waqt Ki Aawaz"
• "Sangharsh Hi Hai Rasta"

DASTAK Presents "Dilli dooor hai…."

Jhelum Lawns
9.00 PM
15th August

followed by TORCH LIGHT PROCESSION against IMPERIALISM

Join in Large Numbers!!

SFI-AISF

Letter to the VC on Unjust Fines

10th August, 2007


To
The Vice Chancellor,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi.

Sir,

This is in response to the decision of the Proctor’s office to commute the rustication of the 8 students to fines and retain the fines imposed upon the President and Joint Secretary of the JNUSU.

The JNUSU considers this as a violation of the agreement signed between the JNU administration and the JNUSU on 12th July, on the basis of which the students’ agitation was called off. According to the agreement the students who were rusticated were to be allowed registration by 14th August on the basis of appeals expressing regret over the 19th February incident. While the students concerned had submitted their appeals, their registration has been made conditional upon their paying fines. There was no mention of fines or any other such condition in the agreement. Such a decision by the administration, coming after the students concerned had submitted their appeals reflect a vindictive attitude towards students. This also amounts to a breach of trust. We do not recollect any instance in the recent history of JNU where the JNU administration has gone back on a commitment made in a written agreement. This would do enormous damage to the credibility of the JNU administration and vitiate the relations between the administration and the student community.

It is also shocking that the Proctor’s office has retained the fines imposed on the President and Joint Secretary of the JNUSU. The Chief Proctor has also made statements in the press justifying the fines on the basis that the JNUSU office-bearers have not submitted appeals expressing regret. You would recall that in the course of the dialogue with the administration during the agitation, the Joint Secretary and President of the JNUSU had categorically refused to submit any such appeal. Therefore this never found any mention in the agreement. To insist upon this, after an agreement has been reached is not only unethical on the part of the administration, but also reflects a mindset which seeks to browbeat the JNUSU office-bearers with whom the administration has signed an agreement. This is nothing but victimization of the JNUSU office-bearers for having fought for the rights of the students.

Besides, the charge leveled against the JNUSU office-bearers of “not being able to control the situation” during the 19th February incident is dubious, to say the least, since the administration itself can be held guilty on the same basis. The JNUSU Council as well as the UGBM, which is the highest decision making body of the student community, have already expressed regret over the 19th February incident which has been earlier communicated to you by the JNUSU office-bearers. The President and Joint Secretary of the JNUSU cannot and would not submit any individual appeal since there is no such mandate from the student community.

In the backdrop of the agreement reached with the administration on 12th July, the JNUSU was looking forward to a good beginning to the monsoon semester, particularly when hundreds of new students have joined the university. The departure of the administration from that agreement has deeply pained us and is threatening to vitiate the campus atmosphere. Therefore, we call upon you as the head of the institution to immediately intervene in the matter to resolve the issue by reversing the recent Proctorial decision. You would appreciate that the JNUSU would be left with no other option but to launch another agitation in case the unjust decision is pursued.

Regards,

Sd/- Dhananjay, President, JNUSU.

SFI Release on Statement by Left Parties on the Nuclear Agreement with US

Comrades,

We have brought out the statement of the 4 Left Parties on the Indo-US Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, which is in 3 pages (A3 size) and is dated 9th Aug, '07.

SFI-AISF pamphlet on 9th Aug, '07

9/08/07

Unite against the authoritarian administration!!
Revoke all fines on rusticated students and JNUSU President and Jt Secretary!!
Isolate and defeat the opportunist politics of AISA &DSU!!

Friends,

The SFI AISF congratulates the student community for their spirited protest against the breach of agreement on the issue of revocation of punishments to 11 students by the administration. Yesterday’s protest march and a total strike in the university today has sent a strong signal to the administration that the student community would not tolerate such breach of faith by the administration and the completely unjustified and unethical fines imposed on the rusticated students and the JNUSU President and Jt Secy must be removed. We would appeal to the students to remain united behind the JNUSU in any future course of action decided by it. Only a rock solid unity of the student community would ensure that the JNU administration is forced to remove all these fines and implements its own agreement in letter and spirit.

The SFI AISF firmly believes that the JNUSU President and Jt Secy should not tender any kind of appeal to the administration to get their fines revoked. It is highly unfortunate that the Gen Secy of the JNUSU has given yet another appeal expressing regret to the administration in order to get his punishment revoked. As of now he is the only one among the 11 students who is not facing any kind of punishment. Unable to provide any explanation to the student community for this meek surrender in front of the administration the AISA and the DSU is accusing the JNUSU President and Jt Secy of breaking the agreement with the administration.

We would like to repeat some questions to the AISA which they have not answered so far. The AISA had accused that the JNUSU President and Jt Secy are violating the UGBM resolution by not submitting these appeals. We would like to ask the AISA that which UGBM resolution mandated the JNUSU office-bearers to tender another round of appeals to the administration. The UGBM clearly said that there should be an unconditional withdrawal of all punishments against these students. In fact it was the DSU which violated the UGBM mandate. The regret letters submitted by their suspended students after the UGBM said they regretted the inconvenience caused if any, which is a clear violation of the UGBM resolution. This is why the SFI AISF was opposed to submitting any kind of appeals to the administration when the agreement was being discussed in an all organization meeting. It was only when the rusticated students expressed their willingness to submit these appeals that we decided not to come in the resolution of this process. But as far as the JNUSU office-bearers are concerned there is no question of them giving yet another round of appeal. The agreement clearly mentions that all concerned students would be enabled to register on the basis of appeals submitted to the administration. The JNUSU office-bearers have not been denied their registration in the first place. And this is why the Gen Secretary’s act is all the more shameful where he and his organization have gone overboard in order to placate the administration.

We would also like to ask the AISA and the DSU whether or not they sincerely regret the incident which took palce on the 19th of February. Both of them had celebrated the Gherao in their pamphlets after the 19th. The AISA representatives had abstained on the resolution expressing regret moved by the SFI AISF in the council. The DSU also opposed the resolution of the council in the UGBM. In fact charges were leveled both by the AISA and the DSU that by expressing regret over what transpired on the 19th the JNUSU President and the SFI AISF had compromised with the legacy of struggles which the JNUSU has been known for. We would like to ask the AISA and the DSU that if they were so convinced about not expressing regret over the incident of 19th why did they do it at all?

This double speak is all the more interesting with the AISA. Ever since the 19th when in came to accepting within the student community that this incident was a regrettable one and was not in accordance with the democratic traditions of protest, which the JNU student movement is known for the AISA has had a lot of problems. But they did not have any problems in expressing regret in front of the administration at any point of time. Nothing else can explain their fiery revolutionary rhetorics against any kind of regret by individual students in the UGBM when all 3 suspended students form AISA including the JNUSU Gen Secretary had already submitted their individual regret letters.

Such double speak and political bankruptcy clearly reflects the degenerate and unprincipled stance of the ultra left vis-à-vis the JNU student movement in our campus. The SFI AISF and the student community no not need any lessons from them as on what constitutes the sanctity and prestige of the JNUSU. The sheer bankruptcy of their position emerges from the fact that within a span of 5 months they have arrived at a completely opposite stand on the question of regret. After 19th February it was being said that expressing regret would undermine the Sanctity of the JNUSU and now it is being argued that it the JNUSU President and Jt Secy do not give appeals they are undermining the Sanctity of the JNUSU. So much for their alternative model of the JNUSU! It is highly unfortunate that the ultra left is using the language of the administration and in a subtle manner of the right wing in the campus which has been saying that the JNUSU office bearers are the one who were the biggest culprits in the 19th February incident.

Acting in their typical petty bourgeoisie infantile style the DSU has accused the SFI AISF led JNUSU of tokenism in the name of protests. We would like to warn the DSU against such attacks on the JNU student movement which only shows their lack of understanding and commitment towards the JNUSU. We would like to make it clear to these ultra revolutionaries that movements and protests are not won on empty rhetoric but by mobilizing students against the administration. The entire campus had seen the steadfast commitment of the SFI AISF activists when they worked tirelessly during the agitation to ensure that all the unjust punishments against the 11 students were withdrawn. SFI AISF led JNUSU have had a glorious history of struggle against both authoritarian administrations as well as reactionary and right wing political attacks on the secular democratic culture of our campus. As far as tokenism is concerned we would also like to ask the DSU that why did their activists not come in the school (except a couple of them) to help the JNUSU enforce its strike in the morning. Was DSU showing only a token support for the JNUSU strike? The student community of this campus has always shown these ivory tower revolutionaries their due place in JNU and if they continue to indulge in baseless and unjustified attacks against the JNUSU then they would be given a fitting rebuff for this kind of opportunism and sectarian acts.

We also appeal to the AISA to stop spreading confusion and misinformation among the students and maintain a unity against this authoritarian administration. If their Gen Secretary does not have the spine to stand up against this administration in order to get his punishment revoked we would appeal to the AISA not to create any obstacles in this struggle. The students of this campus would not tolerate any breach of agreement by the administration or any attempt to browbeat the office of JNUSU which has been the vanguard of the student movement in this campus since the last 3 decades.

Sd/- Rajiv Kumar Ranjan, Secretary, SFI-JNU.

Sd/- Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, AISF-JNU.