Yesterday, the blog Maoist Road, Internet organ of all the centrist « Maoists », published an article copied from the Internet, about the events in India following the gang rape in New Delhi (a 23-year-old woman was attacked by six men on a bus two weeks ago, gang-raped, beaten and ultimately thrown from the vehicle, and died two days ago).

It is amazing to see that these people that pretend to support the people's war in India know so little, not to say nothing, about this country.

In the article (which is reproduced below), we read so

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Protesters try to break police barricades at Jantar Mantar India

NEW DELHI: Angry protesters at Jantar Mantar tried to break police barricades as they gathered to mourn the 23-year-old braveheart and demand speedy justice for her.

The protesters clashed with the police, who are present at Jantar Mantar in large numbers, according to TV reports.

Police have imposed prohibitory orders around India Gate and Raisina Hill and barricaded all roads leading to the area, as well as shutting down 10 Metro stations in central Delhi.

"We will be protesting silently, but if the police become violent, we will also have no other option but to retaliate. We demand a special session of Parliament to discuss the issue of rising incidence of rapes in India," Rohit Chahal, state secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad said.

If the people of Maoist Road knew about India, they would know many important things. First of all, that India is not a country of peace, on the contrary. Rape is a weapon used since very long by the reactionaries, especially gang rape by high caste men against dalit women.

And rape is also a harsh reality in a country where female foeticide and female infanticide are such important. The movie Matrubhoomi is famous for depicting this terrible truth.

So, if the Indian press talk now about this gang rape, it is for no other reason that it concerns the city and a student and this all disrupts public order, not because of mass protest.

If the people of Maoist Road knew about India, they would have know immediately that the document they pasted give voice to “Rohit Chahal, state secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad”.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad is in appearance an “All Indian Student Council”, but in fact the student wing of the fascist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a paramilitary nationalist volunteer organization.

It was a former RSS member that killed Gandhi because fascists considered that he was too near from the Muslims.

In India, the gang rape – something not new in India, again – is being used by fascists forces to promote law and order. The clashes with the police were done by fascists, who wanted to use the ceremony of cremation.

And at the parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party – BJP, Indian People's Party – took the lead of the protest.

It was the senior leader of the BJP – the main opposition party - Sushma Swaraj, that called for the death penalty for rapists. In the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, she asked: “What is the government doing to curb rape cases in the capital? The rapists should be hanged, we need tougher laws to stop rapes.”

When there was demonstrations following the rape, that turned into very violent clashed with the police, it was possible to find as main figures General Vijay Kumar Singh, who served as the 26th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, or Baba Ramdev, a famous “spiritual leader” which is near from the RSS....

It was also possible to find “volunteers for a better India”, an umbrella organization of Ravi Shankar, very famous spiritual leader which is the “guru” of the “middle classes”! Or Arvind Kejriwal, a “NGO” fighter against corruption, who launched his own political party...

The problem, of course, is that the people of Maoist Road, full of cosmopolitism, imagined that a protest against gang rape was automatically made by progressive forces, like it would have been in Western Europe during the period 1945-2010.

We say 2010, because now in Italy a major force that would make an intervention are the fascists of the Casa Pound. Whereas the Italian “Maoist Communist Party” talk a lot on... the Internet against cybermaoism, the fascists from the Casa Pound develop a new style, a new aesthetic, a new militancy, making the left looking “old”.

Because this is being realist: the Internet blog Maoist Road published an article apparently progressive, dealing in fact mainly with activism of the Indian fascists, whereas in the country of Maoist Road, Italy, the fascists progress in a terrible way.

The word “cybermaoism” used by Maoist Road has no sense, because the Internet exist materially and is a necessary weapon, it is the modern press.

But the word “cosmopolitism” has a sense, an ideological sense, for us communists. And Maoist Road is a cosmopolitan project, which uses People's War as a “mobilizing myth” in the sorelian tradition.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Protesters try to break police barricades at Jantar Mantar India

NEW DELHI: Angry protesters at Jantar Mantar tried to break police barricades as they gathered to mourn the 23-year-old braveheart and demand speedy justice for her.

The protesters clashed with the police, who are present at Jantar Mantar in large numbers, according to TV reports.

Police have imposed prohibitory orders around India Gate and Raisina Hill and barricaded all roads leading to the area, as well as shutting down 10 Metro stations in central Delhi.

Comprising mostly students, the protesters are demanding tougher anti-rape laws.

"We want to carry out a peaceful protest; we want to carry forward the movement. But why do police restrain us from protesting at India Gate?

"We will continue to protest even if they barricade major stretches of roads and shut all Metro stations... The police can't stop us from raising our voices," Praveen Pandey, a law student at Jamia Millia Islamia University said.

"We want speedy justice in the gang-rape case. We want strict laws. Till then, we will continue our protest," said Deepali Sharma, a student of Amity University, who came to the protest along with friends.

The protesters, including some elderly people, mourned in silence the braveheart who died on Saturday morning in a Singapore hospital.

"We will be protesting silently, but if the police become violent, we will also have no other option but to retaliate. We demand a special session of Parliament to discuss the issue of rising incidence of rapes in India," Rohit Chahal, state secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad said.

The 23-year-old gang-rape victim was cremated Sunday morning in secrecy after her body was flown in from Singapore, officials said.

The woman was brutally gang-raped on December 16 in a moving bus.

(With inputs from IANS)

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