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The Biplabi Krishak Mazur Samity (BKMS) and the
Krishak Sangram Samity (KSS) united through an unity conference that was held
from 2nd June to 4th June at Nadia. The name of the united organisation is Mazur
Krishak Sangram Samity (MKSS). Since a long time these two organisations have
been organising the peasants’ movement as a part of the New Democratic
revolution. The BKMS was organising the peasants at Bankura and Midnapur while
the KSS was active among the peasants of Nadia, Maldha and Murshidabad. The
unity between these two organisations is very important because it will carry on
the relentless struggle to put an end to all sorts of exploitation of the
peasants. The united organisations will carry on the struggle in the path
beaconed by the armed Naxalbari peasant uprising of 1967.
On 2nd June , the first day of the 3 days
conference, an open rally and meeting was organised at the library ground at the
Krishnanagar town hall. About 2500 peasants including common people,
participated in the rally. Later, the open meeting was presided over by comrade
Akram and Comrade Amiya Kundu. Comrade Ruhul Amin and Comrade Karabi delivered
speeches on behalf of the KSS followed by the representatives of different
areas. The speakers described how, nowadays, peasants are under the clutches of
feudal exploitation, how the government is forcing the total ruination of the
peasants through the World Trade Organisation. The speakers pledged to
re-establish the revolutionary tradition of West Bengal. Revolutionary songs and
dramas were performed by the activists. The mass meeting came to an end as the
people who gathered at the meeting site vowed to develop the peasant movement in
line with the revolutionary peasant movement of Andhra, Bihar and Dandakaranya.
Procession of the MKSS Activists
On 3rd June at Dompukur of Chapra Police Station
the closed door session of the conference resumed. The conference hall was named
after martyr comrade Dhananjay Halder from the turbulent 70s. At first the
father of a martyred comrade offered a garland to the martyrs’ column followed
by the delegates of different areas and fraternal organisations. The elder
brother of a martyred comrade, a delegate of the conference, hoisted the red
flag. The representatives observed one minute silence as homage to the martyrs.
Later the conference began.
A 3 member presidium was elected to preside over
the conference. Comrades Akram, Amiya and Karabi comprised the presidium. In the
first day of the session the delegates of different areas put forward their
respective work reports. In the next half, the chief guest comrade Niranjan Basu
delivered a precise and concrete message. Comrade Basu is a veteran communist
(83 years) connected with the movement for a long 60 years. He enriched the
session by an enthusiastic summing up of the past. He stressed on: (a) to
establish the leadership of the landless peasants on the peasant movement, (b)
half of the sky, i.e women, should be involved in the various movements,
including the peasant movement. He wished that there will be a resurgence of the
revolutionary past by the peasants who are ready for the supreme sacrifice, and
build a massive peasant movement.
The West Bengal state committee of the
CPI(ML)[People’s War] sent a letter to the peasant delegates of the conference.
The letter stressed the need for the building of a revolutionary peasant
movement by taking lessons from the previous history of peasant movements.
Later a discussion started on the programme and
constitution. After a detailed, lively discussion the draft was passed
unanimously. Some immediate programmes were taken from the conference itself.
The delegates of Midnapur, Nadia, Murshidabad and Maldah put forward a summing
up of their respective areas of peasant struggles. Finally, an executive
committee of the United Peasant Organisation, Mazur Krishak Sangram Samity (MKSS),
was elected. The conference came to an end on an optimistic note of building up
of a powerful revolutionary peasant movement in the future. |
