India: Revolutionary Students’ Front on Comrade Ashish Majumder
We hereby publish an unofficial translation of a statement issued by the Revolutionary Students’ Front (RSF) on the death of a comrade.
We lost Comrade Ashish Majumder, a devoted activist of the civil rights movement, on last October 8. For a long time, he has been associated with prisoner liberation and democratic rights movements. Although initially associated with the SFI [Translator’s note: Students’ Federation of India, students wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist)] during his student life, he left the SFI after being influenced by the revolutionary politics of Naxalbari and formed a revolutionary student movement in the Vijayagarh-Netaji Nagar region. After the martyrdom of Comrade Subrata Dutta, the leader of the “Liberation” group, the All India People’s Front (AIPF) was formed under the leadership of Vinod Mishra. Ashish was an organizer and activist of the AIPF, but led a fierce two-line struggle in the organization against the total revisionist politics of the leadership – hence he was expelled from the AIPF. Then he was an activist of APDR [Translator’s note: Association for Protection of Democratic Rights] for a long time. Until the last days of his life, he believed in the revolutionary politics and philosophy of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
On behalf of the Revolutionary Students’ Front, we pay him our humble respect and combative greetings, Lal Salaam.
The seeds of the new society he sowed through the spread of the movement for democratic rights can only be truly honored by building that society.
On the 20th, his family and friends organized a memorial service. Location: Rabindrabela, 6/9 Vijaygarh (Pallishree), Kolkata – 700092. Time: 7 pm to 9 pm.
