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	Bases for Communalist Programs
		Historically, communalist politics is anchored in the age-old struggle between the independence of the cities and the imperialistic ambitions of the state.
		Communalists consider the present society as irrational and seek out what is rational in human history in an attempt to improve the human condition, and to remake our relationship between society and the natural world.
		Communalist programs can be formulated and presented differently, but they ultimately rest on the stamina and long-range commitment of the organizations that present these demands.
	www.communalism.org /Archive/6/bcp.html (4031 words)

	Harbinger - The Communalist Project
		Communalists’ attempt to restore the powers of towns and cities and to knit them together into confederations can be expected to evoke increasing resistance from national institutions.
		Most importantly, in Communalist political life, workers of different occupations would take their seats in popular assemblies not as workers—printers, plumbers, foundry workers and the like, with special occupational interests to advance—but as citizens, whose overriding concern should be the general interest of the society in which they live.
		Once a number of municipalities are democratized along communalist lines, they would methodically confederate into municipal leagues and challenge the role of the nation-state and, through popular assemblies and confederal councils, try to acquire control over economic and political life.
	www.social-ecology.org /harbinger/vol3no1/communalist_print.html (9399 words)

	India's Only Communalist -- A Short Biography of Sitaram Goel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After all, he played a key role in the three main "Muslim communalist" issues of recent years: the Babri Masjid campaign, the Shah Bano case and the Salman Rushdie affair (it is he who got The Satanic Verses banned in September 1988).
		By contrast, the historian under consideration accepts, and claims to have thoroughly documented, the allegedly "communalist" view that the major developments in medieval and modern Indian history can only be understood as resulting from an intrinsic hostility between religions.
		Their long-term intellectual importance is that they have contributed immensely to breaking the spell of all kinds of Christian, Muslim and Marxist prejudices and misrepresentations of Hinduism and the Hindu Revivalist movement.
	koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com /articles/hinduism/sitaramgoel.html (3264 words)

	Manas: History and Politics, British India, Hindu Fundamentalism
		In the "communalist" interpretation of Indian history, class, ethnicity, political associations, economic interests, and other variables are, when not ignored, assuredly subservient to religious identity, and more precisely to immutable and preordained notions of "Hindu," "Hinduness," "Muslim," "Islam," and other like categories.
		On the strength of the testimony available from published writings and archival records, a large number of historians have argued that "communalism" was largely the invention or (to put it somewhat more mildly) the consequence of the British policy of "divide and rule," an epistemological imperative of the colonial state.
		What the "communalist" interpretation also overlooks is the fact, exemplified in social, religious, and cultural practices running the gamut from North Indian music and architecture to the reverence of certain saints and poets by Hindus and Muslims alike, that a common and syncretistic culture developed over the course of many centuries.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/British/Hindufund.html (1492 words)

	GruntsMilitary.com - Online Military Forum and Discussion Board :: View topic - Hello gentlemen and ladies.
		Much like the democrats use the term "democratic" for the name of their party even though they don't really believe in promoting a direct democracy in the U.S. The "communists" just named their party after an ideal, like the democrats, but they are not communists in the true sense.
		In a communalist system individual businesses are owned by the workers who work in them and everyone is paid according to some type of full profit sharing.
		If an entire society were communalist, it would have less governmental involvement in the economy than a capitalist system because the recognition of business deeds by the government would also be unneccessary.
	www.gruntsmilitary.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=47028 (1652 words)

	Ministry of Truth
		Those opportunists who attempted to take the communalist road to local power were invariably interested only in the own personal ambitions and their own personal status and authority within their own community.
		The common factor is many of these incidents is that they are predicated on opportunism and the deliberate use of identity political and communal appeal as a vehicle for individuals to pursue their own personal ambitions and, as importantly, bolster their position and status with their own community.
		One of the main reasons I am opposed to communalism, in all its forms, is that by its very nature it tends to define everying it touches by reference to race, religion or whatever other basis isat work in defining a communal identity, irrespective of whether it is relevant to a particular issue or not.
	www.ministryoftruth.org.uk /2006/12/01/labour-peer-alleged-to-have-supported-tories (1377 words)

	Hold the PC election for the Eastern province -Wimal Weerawansa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Accordingly the recognition of the homeland concept by the Indo-Lanka Accord and the subsequent amalgamation of the Northern and Eastern provinces was a great achievement for the communalist, separatist politics.
		Whatever historic sources were considered, the historic homeland concept of the Tamil speaking people in the North and East cannot be justified.This Tamil homeland concept came to the fore in the congress of the Tamil State partly held in Trincomalee in 1951 and in the 1977 political manifesto issued by the Tamil United Liberation Front.
		This was the worst political defeat the communalist separatist politics suffered in the recent history.
	www.lankatruth.com /full_story/2006/octo/21/200610121_5.htm (929 words)

	HyperTree
		I mean, we’re talking of a man who, overwhelmed with compassion, not only released but personally escorted three terrorists to Kandahar in return for the release of the passengers of a hijacked Air India plane, thus courageously giving in to the demands of the terrorists.
		Jaswant Singh, in a feat that should earn him a direct seat in the Politburo should he choose to take leave from the fascist communalist party of his, revealed that there was a mole in the PMO in 1991 and that he has all the details in his upcoming book.
		Hypertree prefers to focus on the pressing issues facing the exploited and the oppressed, such as banning the blogs of the hegemonist upper class bourgeois, but if there is one failing we compassionates have, it is empathy.
	hypertree.wordpress.com (2585 words)

	Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		While it is necessary to fight it politically and through an intensive campaign, it is also necessary to undertake serious research about various controversies generated by communalist forces.
		It is therefore necessary to undertake serious academic studies and link-up with activists engaged in countering the communalist campaign.
		It was this concern over growing communalism and the need for redefining the concept of secularism for a cohesive society that mobilised a group of eminent academics, social activists and prominent citizens to set up the Centre for Study and Society and Secularism.
	www.icapi.org /node/23/print (291 words)

	The Communalist Project
		Most importantly, in Communalist political life, workers of different occupations would take their seats in popular assemblies not as workers – printers, plumbers, foundry workers and the like, with special occupational interests to advance – but as citizens, whose overriding concern should be the general interest of the society in which they live.
		What these demands try to achieve, in the short term, are new rules of engagement between the people and capital –; rules that are all the more needed at a time when “direct action” is being confused with protests of mere events whose agenda is set entirely by the ruling classes.
		Indeed, Communalist candidacies, which explicitly denounce parliamentary candidacies as opportunist, keep alive the debate over how libertarian socialism can be achieved – a debate that has been languishing for years.
	www.communalism.org /Archive/2/tcp.print.html (9399 words)

	anti-caste: "india: hindu fascists whip up religious slaughter" (workers hammer)
		Thousands of other frenzied devotees soon joined the first group and proceeded to demolish the mosque with picks, tridents (the three-pronged weapons brandished by Hindu fascists) and their bare hands, egged on by the marshals beating their drums and the speeches from the platform.
		What is required is the Trotskyist programme of permanent revolution, the seizure of power by the working class rallying behind it the peasant masses, the oppressed castes and national minorities, the subjugated and enslaved women.
		Nationalists and communalists take their cue from the “Death of Communism” reaction spawned by the counterrevolutionary victories in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
	www.anti-caste.org /workers_hammer/hindu_fascists.html (3342 words)

	proXsa: Ghadar Vol 1 No 2 : Breaking the Communalist Mould: The Left in Independent India
		In examining this catalogue of deepening inequity, it is all too common to hear laments for the passing of the "Nehruvian consensus." What is less often realized is that post-1947 Nehruvian secularism was itself a diluted and fundamentally compromised political formation.
		The collapse of this project, combined with the rise of communalist forces and the resurgence of a hard right within the Congress Party, drastically curtailed the space available for a left-secular political discourse by the time 1947 rolled around.
		Here we must remember that the cultivation of communalist nationalism is not necessarily effected only through active collaboration with the communalist forces; equally damaging is the failure to seize opportunities and undertake activities that might have broken the communalist mould of post-1947 Indian nationalism.
	www.proxsa.org /resources/ghadar/v1n2/biju.html (1139 words)

	Respect isn't communalist organisation\|20May06\|Socialist Worker
		This could easily have led to the development of genuinely communalist politics, maybe even with the jihadis enjoying a real increase in influence.
		The emergence of Respect blocked such a scenario because it offered an alternative — a coalition with the secular radical left that could extend opposition to the war to a more general challenge to the society that condemns Muslims to the most deprived place within it.
		This proves that Respect is a communalist party.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=8838 (810 words)

	communalist - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		communalist : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=communalist (137 words)

	LankaWeb News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Thus dawned a regime that instilled in the minds of the masses that communalism, separation, alien servitude, urban grandiosity, rural reticence, anglophile superiority, vernacular inferiority, will be a past nightmare and the true power will be vested in the masses steering the nation under the populist programme “Mahinda Chintanaya”.
		In the meantime, there are reports of attempts being made by the agents of the reactionary forces, underworld rogues, foreign stooges, terrorist conscripts, and chauvinist communalist elements to sail in the favourable migration wind and conspiring to change the course of government towards the anti-national reactionary path defeating the noble desires of the majority masses.
		There are speculations that three reactionary, anti-national, chauvinist, communalist and shameless individuals who vigorously spearheaded the reactionary campaign to defeat Mr.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items06/210406-1.html (1064 words)

	Hindu extremists stop publication of Indian history volumes
		Subsequently, however, the purpose of the series was broadened from providing evidence of the mass popular movement against colonial rule to documenting all the major political processes in the last decade of the British raj, including the rise of communalist parties and the role of the peasant, labour, and socialist movements.
		He has a well-documented record of communalist politics and has consistently defended the razing of the 400-year old Babri Masjid mosque, an act that launched the worst round of communal violence in India since the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.
		Professor Panikkar told the magazine that the ICHR decision was “rooted in a fear of history” and constituted a new stage in communalist attempts to refashion Indian history.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/ind-m16.shtml (1772 words)

	iskcon.com - ISKCON Communications Journal - ICJ
		That Babri Masjid at Ayodhya is alleged by Hindu communalists to have been constructed at the putative birthplace of Rama, using materials from a hypothetical pre-existing Hindu temple on the site.
		Interestingly, one of the dignitaries present was of the Dalmia family (some of whom had contributed handsomely to the temple at Mathura, and some of whom are prominent in Vishva Hindu Parishad activities).
		But if they did harbour Hindu communalist concerns, they did so in a mentally compartmentalised way, neither integrating such concerns into their explicitly devotional life, so far as I could see, nor trying to draw inspiration or legitimation for communal Hindu agitations from krishna-bhakti.
	www.iskcon.com /icj/5_1/5_1communal.html (6865 words)

	Are there any secularists, there? ............
		When it suited him he became a die-hard communalist insisting that religion was the very basis of nationalism.
		Else, it is raging exploitation the 'opium' that the thakedars of religion once used to numb the masses and now politicians both secular and communalist are using to found political empires upon.
		It would help to if one remember that the world of Marx have been used as greatest opiate-more potent that any religion ever was, more exploitative than any thakedar ever desired to be-by his followers to found empires and to carve out a political appeal and constituency.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0402/151.html (852 words)

	Globalization, Feminism, and Social Struggle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the past ten years, nationalist, communalist and religious fundamentalist social movements have surfaced all over the world, moving into the power vacuum created as local elites have been overwhelmed by the new global financial ruling class.
		The emerging struggle is not between East and West, as Samuel Huntington would have it, but within both; it is a struggle between the forces of globalization and the atavistic social movements that have sprung up to oppose it.
		To nationalist, communalist and religious backlash movements, feminism, no matter how rooted in local conditions, represents the globalizing forces that are undercutting patriarchal traditions.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/inequal/cultfem.htm (1837 words)

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		Foremost among these is the lack of action on the part of the state, especially through the police apparatus, despite widespread knowledge of the Godra attack and warnings of mobilization by Hindu communalist groups.
		It also points to the inroads that various Hindu communalist groups, in particular the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal, have made into regions where they were so far weak or absent.
		Although not all areas of Gujarat that are inhabited by these castes/communities were affected, the extent of the spread suffices to posit a gloomy prognosis of the future.
	www.geocities.com /m_v_ramana/gujarat.htm (873 words)

	Respect is a communalist party \| Workers' Liberty
		Alex Callinicos claims in today's Socialist Worker that, despite the fact that all 15 Respect councillors elected in London on May 4th were from the so-called "Muslim community" - indeed, always beating the non-Muslim SWP candidates for the party - Respect is not communalist.
		This is largely justified on the basis that Respect is responding to an anger against New Labour which is particularly common among "Muslim Asians", more so indeed than among the general population.
		Callinicos' defense of Respect neatly sidesteps any of the points which are levelled against Respect by its critics - he does not attempt at all to deal with the 'communalist' charge, nor does he address the criticism that the party programme has capitulated to Islamic dogma.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/6290 (410 words)

	Sri Lanka: Presidential Election - Socialists challenge capitalist and communalist candidates
		In putting forward our programme of socialist demands, we are calling on them to use their vote to support the struggle against all capitalist, imperialist, and communalist forces.
		Now he is trampling on his own past record and acting as a left cover for the communalist camp.
		He is using bogus arguments that a big majority for Rajapakse would mean he could scrap his promises to the JVP and the JHU on PTOMS and the peace talks.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2005/09/30srilanka.html (1421 words)

	The Hindu : VS hits out at League leadership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Achuthanandan wanted to know how he could be branded a communalist merely because he had raised his voice against corruption and injustice that marked the functioning of the Education Department under UDF rule.
		I had opposed the commercialisation of education under UDF rule as a humble worker of the party and Leader of the Opposition.
		Branding me as a communalist because of this is a challenge to the commonsense of the people,'' Mr.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/05/29/stories/0429211e.htm (649 words)

	From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As Stewart Brand's migrations across the 1960s suggest, New Communalist visions of consciousness and community had become entangled with the cybernetic theories and interdisciplinary practices of high-technology research long before computers were miniaturized or widely interlinked.
		In the 1970s, the same rejection of agonistic politics that had fueled the rise of New Communalism undermined the day-to-day governance of all but the most rule-bound communes, and the movement itself melted away.
		Founded in 1970 primarily to serve as a research laboratory for a recently acquired computer subsidiary, Xerox PARC substantially extended the trajectory of human-computer integration outlined by Bush and Licklider and pursued by Engelbart's ARC group.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/817415_chap4.html (6550 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - Milton Friedman on Israel and Jewish Support for Socialism:
		I always thought that Jewish Socialism was a reflection of the communalist ethos of the ghetto.
		The "communalist ethos of the ghetto" was not socialism and indeed predated socialism by hundreds of years.
		Jewish communal life in the ghetto era was based on (mostly) voluntary cooperation, not on state control of economic life and civil society (as under socialism).
	volokh.com /posts/1163740479.shtml (3724 words)

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