Red Star Over India: As The Wretched of the Earth are Rising – Jan Myrdal

The account is a political analysis of the ‘greatest internal security threat’ to the nation. After forty four years of the spring thunder the Naxalite movement haunts the status quo. It, despite many difficulties, doesn’t go into the oblivion, rather comes back and tries to uphold it’s alternative social structure and politics. The author Jan Myrdal after spending a fortnight among the protagonists of Jantana Sarkar, questions the military solution as the panacea of all ‘evils’. He, on the contrary traces back to history and testifies what the Maoists are upholding todayjustice, equality and liberty- the forgotten chapters of the Indian freedom movement in general and various government resolutions in particular.



Content



A Personal Note



A Note on the Present Civil War in India

Back to India

Raising the Questions

A Further Digression on Principles

To Dandakaranya

What Independence ?

A Note on Split Version

What Terror?

Singing the Poetry of the People

On the Politics of Infirmity and Cultural Specificity

In the Camp

The Standing Wave!