Com Kalyan Paul is no more with us. On 20th May'2010 morning, he had to face a severe road accident. Immediate after the accident he was admitted to "Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences" popularly known as Devi Sethi's Hospital at Mukundapur, Kolkata. Attending doctors immediately informed that the condition of the patient was very much critical. Since then he was admitted to Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU). Unfortunately,today morning the condition of Com Paul worsened and he passed away at around 7.30 am. As per the doctor's version due to loss of excessive blood, the blood pressure fell rapidly and ultimately died of cardiac failure.
Com Kalyan Paul joined his services of Milk Federation as the Senior Messenger in the year 1983. He was the oldest serving employee of the Milk Federation. Since 1990, the formation of "W.B.C.M.P.F Employees' Union", he became one of the pioneer member of the trade union. He left behind his deceased wife and two daughter.
Throughout his service tenure he remained ever faithful and committed to his entrusted official job. He also took great interest in the trade union activity as well. Comrade Paul will always be remembered for his generous behavior, reliability and sense of commitment. We lost one of our beloved and finest comrade. We all pay our homage to his departed sole and our deepest condolences to his family.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Unresolved Contradiction
Truth. Truth. Truth. Perhaps search for truth is one of the greatest driving force and reality of each and every intelligent human being in general and philosophers in particular. Workers of the dairy industry is no exception. The experience of life taught the workers to stay vigil and search for the truth is the only thing which matters the most.
Division of workers in different Trade Unions makes no good to the unity and struggle of the workers. This happens to be the age old experience of the workers. At the same time, it is also their experience that even mere staying mum in a workers organization is also no good neither for the worker nor the organization. Any living organization is bound to have it's inherent contradictions. And serious efforts to resolve those contradictions makes the organization more progressive and living. The organization leaps forwards as it resolves the contradiction. Avoidance or mere bye passing any contradiction neither make any good to the organization nor to the members.
Sometimes, it becomes inevitable to depart from the organization for the sake of resolving a age old unresolved contradiction, which can determine the fundamental course of the organization based on certain basic philosophy. Therefore in certain cases breaking-up of a organization, in search of truth or to resolve a basic philosophical contradiction, actually helps that organization to leap forward in a certain definite direction.
The workers of the "West Bengal Co-operative Milk Producers' Federation Employees' Union" are at the cross roads in this venerable time. The rightist forces functional within the Employees' Union are actually standing in the cross roads. The upsurge of Trinomul Congress in the political arena has encouraged them to part away from the left oriented Trade Union. It's true that it's the high time for them to depart. Otherwise in the changed political scenario they may not find their feet on the grounded.
The workers of the Milk Federation as of now apparently stands united in a single trade union. The external political pressure is ever growing in a steady space. The internal turmoil of the trade union is directly proportional to the external turmoil. Therefore the future course of movements of the workers will be clearly determined by the external forces but not by themselves only. The outcome of the present contradiction between the right and left alienation will surely determine the future course of the trade union or the formation of a new Trade Union. Perhaps the "Benmilk Employees' Union".
Division of workers in different Trade Unions makes no good to the unity and struggle of the workers. This happens to be the age old experience of the workers. At the same time, it is also their experience that even mere staying mum in a workers organization is also no good neither for the worker nor the organization. Any living organization is bound to have it's inherent contradictions. And serious efforts to resolve those contradictions makes the organization more progressive and living. The organization leaps forwards as it resolves the contradiction. Avoidance or mere bye passing any contradiction neither make any good to the organization nor to the members.
Sometimes, it becomes inevitable to depart from the organization for the sake of resolving a age old unresolved contradiction, which can determine the fundamental course of the organization based on certain basic philosophy. Therefore in certain cases breaking-up of a organization, in search of truth or to resolve a basic philosophical contradiction, actually helps that organization to leap forward in a certain definite direction.
The workers of the "West Bengal Co-operative Milk Producers' Federation Employees' Union" are at the cross roads in this venerable time. The rightist forces functional within the Employees' Union are actually standing in the cross roads. The upsurge of Trinomul Congress in the political arena has encouraged them to part away from the left oriented Trade Union. It's true that it's the high time for them to depart. Otherwise in the changed political scenario they may not find their feet on the grounded.
The workers of the Milk Federation as of now apparently stands united in a single trade union. The external political pressure is ever growing in a steady space. The internal turmoil of the trade union is directly proportional to the external turmoil. Therefore the future course of movements of the workers will be clearly determined by the external forces but not by themselves only. The outcome of the present contradiction between the right and left alienation will surely determine the future course of the trade union or the formation of a new Trade Union. Perhaps the "Benmilk Employees' Union".
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