A statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein being destroyed in central Baghdad
Stalin statue destroyed
Removing the statue of Lenin, during collapse of communism
Lastly, Busts of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi lie broken in full public view at the Congress headquarters. (Source)
A two-storeyed house being built by CPM Lalgarh zonal committee secretary Anuj Pandey and his relatives became the symbol of what the Maoists termed “exploitation of peasants” and was partly demolished. Villagers converged on the house in Dharampur, beating drums and chanting: “Come and watch how a zamindar’s house made with money sucked from poor peasants is being demolished.”
Then they started breaking down parts of the house. The first-floor balcony railing was ripped out, the boundary wall on the roof demolished, the marble floor dug up and all doors and windows were smashed. Pandey, along with his two brothers, owns 40 bighas in the area — an enviable possession in a district where Bengal’s poorest of the poor live.
Pandey, a CPM wholetimer who earns Rs 1,500 a month, said he was building the house along with his brothers, one of whom deals in agri-products business. “The house is not yet complete,” Pandey said.
“They targeted my house because I stood up to the Maoists and stopped their advance beyond Lalgarh.”
With dusk descending, the villagers suspended the demolition.“We’ll complete it later,” Maoist Lalgarh leader Bikash said.
Before November 2008, Lalgarh was just another obscure village, 42 kilometers from the Midnapore railway station. But if you scratch beneath the surface you would find a simmering 
The state didn't wither away in Lalgarh, it just wasn't ever there. In the last 30 years, the Left Front has not built roads to connect far-flung villages, with virtually one bus plying between district headquarters of Jhargram and Belpaharai daily. Also, adjoining villages are Amlasole and Amjhora from where first hunger deaths were reported in the state, pointing to the ruling Left Front government's oppression and dispossession. The NREGA has failed to provide succor to villagers living on Ayodhya hills and in villages dotting the forests around Belpahari. Hardly any of them have got work for the mandatory 100 days.
The funds allotted to development of adivasis are regularly siphoned away by Panchayat [Read CPM] leaders. The majority of houses are still of mud and thatched roof of dry leaves while CPI (M) leaders have grossly misdirected funds allocated for Indira Awaas Yojna. Funds are distributed by local Panchayets, and people who truly need the benefits have hardly heard of the scheme, while sons and daughters of local leaders got houses. No house in the villages around has access to electricity, schools are but buildings without teachers, irrigation canals are perennially dry and the only toilets are the fields and forests. Health Centers in the villages are at best occasionally visited by doctors and medicines are never available there.
This became ideal hunting ground for maoist who fed on the disillusionment with the laid-back and corrupt CPM administration.
It was in this background that Lalgarh captured nations attention on 2nd November when a land mine explosion targeted the convoy of West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and union steel and mines minister Ram Vilas Paswan as they were returning from the inauguration of the Jindal Steel Works special economic zone (SEZ) in Salboni in West Midnapore district. The Shalbani land mine explosion resulted in hyperactivity of the police.
What began as rumblings of protest took the shape of a spontaneous mass uprising the next day. On 7th November, when the ruling CPI(Marxist) was “observing” the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution throughout West Bengal, ten thousand Santhal men and women, armed with traditional weapons, came out and obstructed the roads leading to Lalgarh, disconnecting it from Midnapur and Bankura. Roads were dug up and tree trunks were placed on the road to obstruct the entry of police vehicles, in the same way as it had been done in Nandigram.
The English media instead of presenting the full picture has conveniently portrayed the happenings in Lagarh as Maoist movement and is trying to sweep the utter failure of communist movement under the carpet. Even by their own admission, the agitators of Lalgarh number about 40,000 people and no more than 35 armed Maoists who are camping in Lalgarh since March 2008, while very recently, another group of 10 cadres has slipped in.
It may be true that maoist are stroking the flame of discontent and disillusionment of common masses and providing leadership to otherwise unorganised protests. But it would be a huge mistake to brsch aside Lalgarh movement as Maoist movement!
Tailpiece: It is amusing to see Members and supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxists (CPI-M) staging a sit-in demonstration in New Delhi to protest against the violence by the Maoists in the West Medinipur ditrict of West Bengal.
When times are bad its really bad… CPM now cannot even protest in their home turf!
People destroying Berlin Wall brick by brick which led to downfall of USSR
People Destroying CPM office brick by brick. Hopefully will be end of communism in India.
While millions across world tuned into Obamas inaugural speech, Chinese media tuned out from his references on communism.
Obama said in his 18-minute inauguration address said
"Recall that earlier generations faced down communism and fascism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions,"
He later added:
"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
After the Chinese translator said the word "communism," the China Central Television feed went briefly silent, then shifted to an anchor who stumbled through a question to an analyst about what type of difficulties Obama faced with the US economy. The analyst looked equally caught off-guard. In the text translations available on top Chinese Internet portals Sina and Sohu on Wednesday, the word "communism" is omitted and the paragraph on dissent was gone.
Leopards never change stripes
The Special court in Kozhikode, Kerala sentenced 62 of the 63 convicts in the May 2003 Marad carnage case to life imprisonment. In May 2003, A group of Hindu fishermen sitting on the beach near a temple is attacked suddenly, without provocation or warning, by a mob of Muslims armed with swords. After a chaotic ten minutes, nine people are dead or bleeding to death on the beach. Many are seriously wounded. The attackers vanish into the night.
The police commissioner, TK Vinod Kumar later stated:
"It was an operation carried out by a well-knit organisation. It was a quick and sudden attack which was over in 10 minutes. The attack came from a particular community.
Crime Branch Inspector General of Police, Mahesh Kumar Singhla later confirmed that most of those arrested included the activists of the NDF, the IUML and the CPI-M.
Report of the Marad Carnage Inquiry Commission, headed by Justice Thomas P Joseph, said the then state government had failed to protect the lives of innocent citizens and "unjustifiably" refused a CBI inquiry after 14 fishermen were killed in Kozhikode by armed mobs. The role of Islamic organisation National Democratic Front and IUML has also come under the commission's scanner. Two IUML leaders — Mayin Haji and Moydeen Koya — are named as active accessories to the carnage. Many of those who gave evidence to the commission said IUML leaders, particularly P K Kunhalikutty and E Ahmed, were protecting the violators.
Inspite of commissions finding neither Congress & IUML Led UDF nor CPM led LDF has taken any actions to punish the masterminds.
During last assembly election, NDF activists were seen actively campaigning for Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan. Some CPM veterans admit they played vote bank politics. T K Hamsa , CPM MP says
“We are a democratic party and we have all the right to play vote bank politics come what may,”
NDF leader E Aboobacker says
“Why has Pinarayi Vijayan suddenly turned against us? How can a person blame us while investigations are still on,” .
Not surprising coming from a state where a special session of the Kerala Assembly was convened to pass an unanimous resolution by both LDF and UDF members calling upon Tamilnadu Government to release Terrorist Madhani who is lodged in Coimbatore Jail.
We wish you a Happy Birthday. May soul of Slain PWD Engineer Manoj Gupta forgive you. May Good sense prevail on Assorted communists led by CPM .
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Today in parliament, It was heartening to see Ruling and opposition rising above party politics. However, the only exception of CPM. Even this hour of crisis, they decided to play for their ideology.
CPM sought to link signing of the Indo-US nuclear deal with the Mumbai terror strikes, alleging that the country has been exposed to "new dangers" with the signing of the pact. CPM leader Sitaram Yechury asked:
"What brought the terrorist outfits to our shores? With the Indo-US nuclear deal you are seen as an ally of the US, a strategic partner. There seems to be a total lack of appreciation of this thought from the government's side,"
Mr. Yechury then how about all the attacks before the signing of deal? I guess it might be in anticipation of the deal
