Austrian report of the
campaign to support people's war in India:
As organization, the Revolutionary Construction (RA), we start the
campaign in the beginning of September on a traditional political rather left
festival in Vienna. Together with RKJV (Revolutionary-Communist Youth League)
and AIL (Anti-imperialist league), which are part of the RA, we handed out
flyers and collected signatures for release of all political prisoners in
India, stop of the “Operation Green Hunt” and against the ban on the Revolutionary
Democratic Front (RDF). Collecting these signatures was part of our action
during the whole campaign, in demonstration, meetings, when we handed out
flyers and in each personal surroundings and at work. We collected these
signatures because of a mobilization as wide as possible, for agitation and to
get donations. That worked, we had a lot of discussions, got donations and up
to jet we got about 1000 signatures.
The committee for supporting people's war in India was formed at the second
meeting in the end of September. There we had presentations, discussions,
worked together in small groups, planed our actions for the next time and
concluded a program to work for the committee. There we also formed working
groups to the topics women's struggle, the culture movement, newspaper and the
workers movement. It was a beginning with a lot of action from each person,
full of revolutionary energy and zest for action!
On the 29.9., an international day for solidarity, we made an
enunciation in solidarity with the Anti-AKW activists in India and
Antony Samy, who got murders by the police. Altogether we had 7 meeting with
presentation, videos and discussions to the following topics: the economic
situation in India, the “Operation Green Hunt”, the people's war and it's
growth, the political prisoners, the RDF, about the workers struggle in the
automobilindustries as well as women's struggle and cultures struggles on
examples of mass organization of the CPI(Maoist). We also did a meeting in an
other city in Austria.
The working group newspaper published two newspapers during the campaign and
did a lot of translations. In cooperation with literature sales department
“Partisan” they published “The Documents and Resolutions of the 9.
Congress/Congress of unity of the CPI(Maoist)” as the first publication in
German. The working group women's struggle created some posters for a small
exposition and the group workers movement informed us regularly about workers
struggles in India.
The group culture struggle organized a solidarity party. We make a
demonstration in front of the Indian embassy, which should be repeated soon as
finishing the campaign. Also there was shown a Bollywood movie about the
people’s war in India
by the AIL. During the campaign we handed out 5000 flyers, sent out about 15
e-mail newsletter and create a homepage for the committee to support people’s
war in India.
The work of RA members was especially in the beginning very important
for the campaign to run, but after some time comrades of the AIL, comrades of
the YDG (New Democratic Youth) and single persons get more and more involved in
the work. Much support was given from the members of the RKJV.
During the campaign it was very interesting to see the reaction from
the people on the street. Hardly anyone knows about people’s war in India and the terror by the Indian State.
This depends on the interests of the Austrian ruling class on the terror
against peoples in India.
They don’t report about this official media and they tell the Austrian peoples
that they have nothing to do with Indian peoples. Sadly there was hardly any
support from the “left scene” to the campaign. That is an expression for the
ruling chauvinism and “Eurocentrism”. Because of that it is an important task
to do propaganda to support people’s war and to give information about the
terror of the Indian
State and Imperialism.
And also it is very important to show the position of proletarian
internationalism to the peoples and also to the “left”. Our fight for
liberation is international, it is tight
connected to the struggles in depended countries. Without liberation of the
depended countries, there will be no progress with revolution in the
imperialistic centers.
We could also do some success. For example, the participation of people
was getting more compared to the campaigns over the last years. With the
campaign we managed to bring new people in our political environment, some get
activated and we get closer connected to our comrades of the YDG.
With the signatures activities, the
flyers and information stands we managed to get one step forward to a wide
composed front to support people’s war in India. Many people were interested
and showed solidarity with there signatures and donations. That was a small
step, but there is still a lot of work to do. For the next campaign it is very
important to activate and organize more people. We did a mistake this year in
planning too much for the campaign. Because there were less peoples to work on
there own and to organize. Most of the people who does it, are members of
organizations and have a lot to do for political activities. Especially in the
workers movement we had a lot of activities in Austria these months. Because of that mistake we sometime get into chaos and were not always
in time, so we are sorry that our presentations does not arrived in time.
We have to analyze of our work in the time, but we can already say
something we learned: We have to build up new people who can do political work
and also we have to support the initiative of the people more than we did it.
That is necessary to build up a wide front of solidarity with the people’s war
in India and to spread a
revolutionary perspective to the peoples to mobilize them for struggles also in
Austria.
Fight Imperialism! Long live
the victory of people’s war!
RA (Austria) and the committee
to support people’s war in India
November 2012
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