Reports

First All India Conference of AIRSO

The first All India Conference of all India revolutionary student organization (AIRSO) was held on 31st May and 1st June 2010 at Com. Khudiram Bose Hall at Thane, Mumbai. Preceding the all India conference, district level and state level conferences were held in a number of states with the participation of hundreds of students. The all India conference was attended by 128 delegates from Kerala, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Maharashtra, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. Though AIRSO committees are formed in Tamil Nadu, UP and Punjab the delegates could not reach.
Under the leadership of AIRSO Maharashtra organizing committee a month long propaganda campaign was held with cultural squads. A reception committee consisting of veterans of past student movements and leading activists of CPI(ML) and class/ mass organizations was constituted whose members encouraged the student delegates with their presence.
On 31st morning the conference started with raising of the AIRSO flag and remembering the martyrs by Com. Akshya president of the AIRSO organizing committee. Revolutionary slogans were raised and in different languages the student delegates sang revolutionary songs. A presidium and steering committee of five comrades each were elected who conducted the conference in a very healthy and democratic atmosphere.
Comrade K.N. Ramachandran. General secretary, CPI(ML) explaining the history of the student movement in India pointed out why AIRSO has become relevant in present day India, where neo colonial slavery is intensifying day by day. The right to education which was earned through historic struggles and to whatever extent it existed is snatched away under commercialization and eliticisation of education. Increasing number of children are denied the right to education and higher education has become the reserved area of the rich. So AIRSO should organize these students in their millions and wage a heroic struggle to overthrow the existing education system for equal education based on national scientific basis, for this they should join hands with all exploited and oppressed classes and sections who are struggling for people’s democracy and socialism.
Com. Akshya then presented the AIRSO Programme which was adopted after an active discussion in which a number of delegates participated. Following this com. Vivek(MP) presented the Constitution which was also adopted after discussion. Com. Sanjay Singhvi, general secretary of TUCI and in charge of the international department of the party presented the messages of greetings received from fraternal parties.
In the evening a drama “Keno Na Manush” (Man Ultimate) a magnificent Bengali theater was presented by Shonvik Sanskritik Chakra of Kolkata. Com. Sambhaji Bhagat, a veteran revolutionary cultural activist of Maharashtra presented a song in his typical style. It was followed by a film Mother of Maxim Gorky presented by  Shonvik Sanskritik Chakra which in spite of the language barrier could successfully convey its revolutionary massage to the young audience. During the day and on 1st June during the breaks the Conference hall was reverberating with revolutionary songs presented in different languages especially Marathi, Hindi and Kannada in which all students joined enthusiastically.
On 1st June morning the Conference resumed at 9am with the reply to the discussion on Constitution by Com. Vivek and its adoption. Then a nine member panel for the all India committee of the  AIRSO was presented which included comrades Akshya , Rupesh and Mathura from Maharashtra, Sandip and Nagaraj from Karnataka, Sumi from Kerala, Sapam from Manipur, Vivek from MP and Deepa from Chathisgarh. The delegates adopted the panel followed by a brief meeting of the AIC which elected com. Vivek as president com. Sumi as vice president, com. Akshya as general secretaries and com. Sandip and Sapam as joint secretaries
Thirteen resolutions indicating the core area of attention were presented and adopted by the delegates. It was followed by messages of greetings by com. Arun Valskar (secretary, CPI(ML) Maharashtra state committee),com. Govinda (TUCI), com. Laxman (AIKKS),com. Vijay (RYFI), com. Meera Khot (AIRWO) and com. Tuhin (cultural front). The AIRSO flag was lowered by com. Vivek amidst revolutionary slogans pledging to build AIRSO powerfully at all India level. The all India Conference of AIRSO thus concluded successfully.
The first meeting of the AIC of AIRSO was held on 1st June evening which took the following decisions:
Firstly a membership campaign shall be organized in all states as soon as the schools and colleges start opening. For this poster, handbills and membership forms will be prepared at state level. Membership campaign and formation of unit committees should be vigorously carried forward and concluded by 31st August.
Secondly, focusing on central slogans Stop Privatization and Commercialization of Education, Stop Entry of Foreign Universities, Implement Free, Equal and Scientific Education for all and Stop Eliticisation of Education, the campaigns to be organized.
Thirdly, initiate discussion on science, technology, environment and development model involving interested teachers also.
Fourthly, organize campaign and cultural squads to take the message of AIRSO among the students.
Fifthly, organize and strengthen the organization from unit committees to state committees
Sixthly, launch a central bulletin in English and Hindi form September 2010
International messages to AIRSO Conference
Message from  Mohsen Hassani, Ranjbaran (Iran)
Dear Comrades,
Thanks for invitation to participate at first conference of all India revolutionary students organizations in Mumbai (31 may- 1 June). We can not participate-it. But we hope that this conference will be successful regarding strengthening of the student  organizations in order to serve workers and peasants revolutionary aims under the direction of CPI(ML).
We will be grateful if you send - us the conference results and achievements.
Comradely gratitude’s
Message from Afghanistan Socialist Association
Dear Comrades,
After sharing the matter of trip of our representative India to join the  All India youth and students conference in Mumbai in the end of May 2010, We regret to say that we cannot send a comrade to that conference, it is because we could not afford the travel cost for him as we did our best to collect fund around $400. Instead will send a message to the conference.
Best greetings,
Message from Communist Party of Lebanon
Dear Comrades,
In answer to your invitation to attend the Students’ Conference, we have some financial problems, so we will not be able to be there. We are very sorry. Maybe we can meet each other in the future
We wish to the students’ conference success and we know that you will continue the struggle until  the revolution.
With our Greetings
Message from Central Committee of the PMLI
Dear comrades,
We thank you for the invitation to the first Conference of the All-India Revolutionary Students Organization, to which however we can’t attend because the PMLI has not a students organization of its own. Anyway, we can’t fail to send you the brotherly and militant revolutionary greeting of the Italian Marxist-Leninist youth and students.
Young people are the most susceptible to change. This is why the bourgeoisie tries in every way to fill them with its non-values and to paralyze them in reformism, parliamentarism, pacifism and legalisticism. The bourgeois school is not a service enjoyed by people and at the service of people, but an instrument by which the bourgeoisie passes its world outlook to the new generations and nurtures the new cadres of the capitalist system. To the people’s sons is denied the higher-levels education, because it is sufficient that they have the slightest school notions to aspire to be workers.
The young revolutionaries in this field have the duty to fight at the head of the young and students masses so that they may conquer the right to study and the school may be public, free and ruled by the female and male students. They must tie this struggle to the struggle for socialism, the only way to prevent young people from remaining subjected to capitalism. This is the common duty of the Indian, Italian and the whole world’s Marxist-Leninist students.
We are sure that, keeping to Marxism-Leninism-Mao’s Thought and under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), you will achieve newer and greater successes in your revolutionary work.
We wish full success to the first Conference of your Organization and send you the warmest revolutionary greetings of the Italian Marxist-Leninist students.
Long live the struggle of the revolutionary students of India and Italy!
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Down with capitalism and long live socialism!
Federico Picerni
Responsible for the Youth Work.