LTTE :Liberation Tigers and the Tamil Eelam Freedom Struggle

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Birth of the Tiger Movement
From "Liberation Tigers and the Tamil Eelam Freedom Struggle" by the Political Committee of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, 1983

Anton S. Balasingham
The revolutionary ardour of the Tamil youth, which manifested in the form of indiscriminate outbursts of political violence in the early seventies, sought concrete political expression in an organisational structure built on a revolutionary political theory and practice. Neither the Tamil United Front nor the Left movement offered any concrete political venue to the revolutionary potential of the rebellious youth.

The political structure of the Tamil United Front. founded on a conservative bourgeois ideology could not provide the basis for the articulation of revolutionary politics. It became very clear to the Tamil masses and particularly to the revolutionary youth that the Tamil nationalist leaders, though they fiercely championed the cause of the Tamils, have failed to formulate any concrete practical programme of political action to liberate the oppressed Tamil nation. Having exhausted all forms of popular struggle for the last three decades, having been alienated from the power structure of the Sinhala State, the Tamil politicians still clung onto Parliament to air their disgruntlement which went unheard, unheeded like vain cries in the wilderness.

The strategy of the traditional Left parties was to collaborate with the Sinhala capitalist class and therefore their theoretical perspective was subsumed by the hegemonic ideology of that dominant class; which was none other than chauvinism. This suicidal class collaboration made the Left leaders to turn a blind eye to the stark realities of national oppression; it made them to ignore the revolutionary conditions generated by the Tamil national struggle; it made them incapable of mobilising the revolutionary aspirations of the Tamil militants.

Confronted with this political vacuum and caught up in a revolutionary situation created by the concrete conditions of intolerable national oppression the Tamil revolutionary youth sought desperately to create a revolutionary political organisation to advance the task of national liberation. It was in this specific political conjuncture the Tiger Movement took its historical birth in 1972.

The movement was formed by its present leader and military commander Velupillai Pirabaharan. At the time of its inauguration the movement called itself The Tamil New Tigers and later on 5th May 1976 the organisation renamed .itself as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. From its iinception the Tiger movement took into its ranks the most resolute, the most dedicated most zealous young Revolutionaries.

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[bliich]

good job!

the video is showing what is really happening in sri lanka :(

i wish it would finish soon

[rasgeetsingh]

indian govt is responsible for all this.They betrayed Tamils n put them in big mess.But brave tamils kicked the ass of indian Forces n Sri lankan army.keep it up.

[lttechildslave]

don worry. karuna, douglas, pilleyan & anandasangaree will finish u soon.