Thursday, December 13, 2012

International Conference on 24 November in Hamburg: the message form Cultural Working Group - Austria



Report of Cultural Working Group

In the last few months as a part of the international campagne „Support the peoples war in India“ we, the working-group culture, discussed and studied about the revolutionary culture-organisations, how they work and fight in India and also which kind of solidarity-work we can do here in austria as a working group. Our focus lies on the culturefront. With this focus we wanted to propagate the peoples war also in Austria and make the austrian people get interested and thinking. Our goals, as the Cultural Working Group, were to inform ourselves and to discuss at first, to be able to inform the people to spread solidarity. With this focus we concentrated and worked towards the main part of our solidarity work, organising a solidarity-celebration to support the peoples war in India. Our question was, what the meaning of the revolutionary-culturework in India is, which part of the fight and how we can reach the people here.

In tis context we prepared a Presentation with the focus on how the culture-organisation Chetna Natya Manch is doing their work and fights a important part of the peoples war.

As a next theme, we concentrated and discussed about the hindu-fascist Indian State and the repression they use to opress the progressive, revolutionary and democratic people, which they also use against the revolutionary culture-organisations and their members. As an example, the Adivasi Uttpal Baski, who was illegaly arrested by the police in Mai 2012. We could clearly see on this example, which danger progressive cultural work for the indian state is and how liberating and important it can be for the people. Based on this we put our work under the slogan „Art is a weapon“.

Until then we concentrated on the mobilisation and organisation for the solidarity-celebration. Also important for our work was to prepare with people which are not in any organisation to make them interesting. We did really not reched this goal, but we could get a few new people interestied by drawing a transparent with the slogan „Let’s create a established base of higher culture for the broad masses“.  By agitation, meetings and poster activities we tried to get attention for the celebration and the international campain to support the peoples war in India. Quantitatively, the celebration was not really successful, but we reached a few new faces, by discussing and celebrating together.

To sum it up it was a callanging task to win people making solidarity-work for progressive fights, sometimes it was hard, but we think we was able to walk a few small stepps forward, knowing what revolutionary cultural could be and propagating it, the solidarity of progressive movements in general  and specially with the peoples war in India. We look forward to start the work of the Cultural Working Group again within the next campain.

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