WSP(India) Conf 2017 mins

[Socialist Party Head Office]

REPORT OF THE PROCEEDING OF THE SPRING SCHOOL & TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA) HELD AT HEAD OFFICE, 4 & 5 MARCH 2017:

 

• SPRING SCHOOL: Saturday, 4^th March, 2 PM to 7 PM (with breaks):

(called to order at 3.35 PM)

 

– Participants: Binay Sarkar, Sumitra Mondal, Hari Sadhan Ghosh, Md. Tabrez Anwer, Dipankar Roy, Indrani Mazumder, Raghu Narayan Chaudhuri, Pradip Kumar Singha

 

– Chairperson: Sumitra Mondal

 

– B. Sarkar welcomed comrades.

• B. Sarkar presented his talk on the scheduled subject: Who’s to blame for capitalism?

To begin with, he upheld the Marxian method of evaluating any situation. He analysed the three basic and interrelated principles of Marxism: the materialist conception of history, class struggle and the theory of surplus value. Under any circumstances Socialists – the scientists of the working class – must appropriately apply these principles to get hold of the facts. Without hesitation one must also bring Marx and Engels – the initiators of Marxism – into the focus of this method. B. Sarkar then applied this method to bring out historical implications of the present state of affairs of class struggle, pointing out that the workers of the world are still vacillating to will and organize towards the much necessary World Socialist Revolution because of their utter confusion created and imposed by all capitalist ideologies and all-pervasive propaganda. However, this historical task necessarily rests on the working class and in no way on the capitalist class. Under this circumstance it is an uphill task for us socialists to rouse class consciousness and organize our class. However, he urged, we the socialists have to accomplish this uphill task of emancipation to usher humanity on to the realm of freedom.

• Reading and discussion continued until closure at 7 PM (having a tea break from 5 PM to 5.45 PM).

 

• TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2017: Sunday, 5^th March, 2 PM to 7 PM (with breaks): (called to order at 2.30 PM)

 

– Present: Hari Sadhan Ghosh, Pradip Kumar Singha, Dipankar Roy, Binay Sarkar, Sumitra Mondal, Raghu Narayan Chaudhuri, Indrani Majumder

 

– Chairperson: Hari Sadhan Ghosh

– Discussion continued on class struggle and the theory of surplus value

 

 Annual Party Vote:

– Self-nominated and uncontested:

General Secretary: Binay Sarkar

Treasurer: Pradip Kumar Singha

Auditor: Hari Sadhan Ghosh

Head Office Organizer: Sumitra Mondal

 

– MSC: Agreed.

Conference closed at 6.45 PM

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