All India Students and Youth Convention
On May 13 th 2018, an All
India Students and Youth
Convention was held in Matunga,
Mumbai in an enthusiastic
atmosphere.
The Convention was
attended by the students and
youth from various states like
Maharashtra, Telangana, AP,
Bihar, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Delhi
and Jharkhand. Presidium and
steering Committees were
formed to conduct the Convention
programme with Com. Basu,
Com. Ramana and com. Ansar.
The Convention began at 11-0
AM with the singing of
revolutionary songs.
Com. Shinde Sanjay gave a
brief account of the preparations
for the Convention.
Com. Shashi Yadav, leader
of working class, delivered an
Inaugural Speech. He explained
the pathetic state of educational
institutions in Maharashtra.
There are many schools with no
teachers, no black boards, no
play grounds, etc. Teachers are
not paid properly. About 200 Govt.
schools remain closed on the
plea that there is no money with
the Govt. The Modi Govt. has
promised to bring back the
entire black money stacked
abroad. But, in practice,
thousands and lakhs of crores
of rupees are allowed to be
looted from the Banks by the
corporate
Houses
and
comprador bourgeois like Vijay
Malya and Nirav Modi.
Com. Shinde Sanjay spoke
on “Today’s Education Policy
and Increasing Jobless Growth”.
He said, the Moghul Education
Policy was full of religious ideas
suited to feudal system. The
British colonialists came to India
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with their own Education Policy
suited to the needs of colonial loot
and domination. In 1834, Lord Me
kale, educationist, proposed
english as a medium of education
with an aim of creating a bunch of
bureaucrats and an army of clerks
to serve the colonial rulers.
After 1947, several Education
Commissions were set up in 1948,
1952 and 1964. They were chaired
by the eminent educationists like
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, Mudaliyar
and Kothari. But none of their
recommendations were imple
mented by the governments. New
Education Policies came in 1964
and 1986. They were modified in
1992, but it brought no change in
the education system as the rulers
were committed to continue the
semi-colonial and semi-feudal
conditions of society. With the
adoption of imperialist-dictated
New Economic Policies dictated
by the Govt. of India in 1991, the
privatisation
and
commercialisation of education
had gathered a momentum.
Education had become too costly,
gone out of the reach of poor and
the pressure and dictation by the
imperialist powers and agencies
had gone up. In the face of this
situation, the students and youth
must intensify their struggle for a
new democratic education and
learn from the teachings of Lenin
and the experiences of Socialist
Education carried out after the
Great October Socialist revolution.
Com. Baburao Kumbhargave
, the peasants and workers’ leader,
in his message said that the
governments form the education
commissions only for name sake
and they never care to implement
them. The higher officials in the
bourgeois system in India are
called as intellectuals, but they
are alienated from the people
serve the exploiting classes.
Most of them fail to understand
the problems of people without
integrating them-selves with the
broad masses of workers and
peasants in practice. So, the
students and youth are hoped to
become revolutionary inte-
llectuals by integrating them-
selves with the toiling people.
Com. Laxmi, the leader of
Strimukti Sanghatana and the
editor of Strimukti, AP, in her
message, said that the social
media like Face Book, Whatsapp
and Twitter are badly influencing
the minds of students and youth.
The media is not allowing them
to think and feel about the social
conditions and problems and
revolt against the exploitation
going on around them. So the
conscious students and youth
must oppose the polluted
media. She also referred to
ghastly acts of rape in Katua in
Kashmir, Unnao in UP where the
MLA of the ruling party had
supported the rape and
organised the rally in support of
the rapist. She questioned what
kind of social values the BJP
rulers are promoting through
their abhorable acts.
Com.Bose, Railway Union
leader, criticised the economic
policies being pursued by the
BJP government. He cited that
there are 2,50,000 vacancies in
the Railways which are not
being filled up; yet the leaders
extol about the creation of jobs
for the youth.
The student and youth
leaders from various states
gave a brief account of the
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Class Struggle