part 2 of 2
The People’s War in India
in the international context and the world situation
The imperialist
system is going through the most severe crisis since the 1930s. The current
attempts to address and overcome the crisis only serve to deepen and extend it.
The crisis
has its origin in the laws of running of the capitalist system itself. It is
the expression of the limits of production for profit, and the contradiction
between productive forces and relations of production, including the general
and global nature of the production and private appropriation. In the world
scene this means an ever growing gap between the wealth of a handful of
imperialist countries and the poverty of three quarters of human beings in the
countries oppressed by imperialism, between the wealth in the hands of the
bourgeoisie and the relative and absolute impoverishment of proletarians and
masses in the imperialist countries , between the overflowing richness of a
parasitic and comprador bourgeoisie and the living conditions of misery and
hunger of the proletariat and broad masses in the countries oppressed by
imperialism.
The world is
still faced with two possibilities: the exit from capitalism or a painful
temporary recovery from this crisis by strengthening, enhancing the mechanisms
of capital and thus prolonging the misery of the masses.
The
imperialist bourgeoisie all over the world take advantage of the crisis to
restructure imperialism on a global scale and save the interests of their class
for their profits.
This leads
to unloading the vicious weight of the crisis on the workers and masses. In
both the oppressed countries and imperialist countries, unemployment, job
insecurity and the cost of living increase, exploitation is ratcheted up to
modern forms of slavery, workers' rights are reduced, social achievements won
through years of struggles are erased, factories are closed with massive
layoffs, peasants are ruined and driven to suicide, cuts in social expenditures
and privatization of education and healthcare grow, the logic of
commodification and profit is extended even to primary goods, such as water,
air, sun, etc..
In the
countries oppressed by imperialism, the protests, rebellions and liberation
struggles have found in the revolts in Arab countries and in the Persian Gulf a new height and a new dawn. Young people,
proletarians and the masses and, in some cases, organized sectors of workers,
attacked and overthrew dictatorial regimes subservient to imperialism that
seemed permanent. This has paved the way for new anti-imperialist,
anti-Zionist, anti-feudal, new-democratic revolutions.
In this new wave
of struggle and resistance we must support and strengthen the struggle for the
liberation of peoples and for new democracy, towards socialism and communism.
This is the
context in which a potential new wave of the world proletarian revolution
develops and emerges. It has as its reference points and strategic anchor the
people's wars led by Maoist parties.
In this
context, the people's war led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
successfully withstands unprecedented attacks by the enemy and is able to
expand and advance.
The kind of support to the People's War in India,
that we need
As we said
before, on one hand, we formed the International Committee to go over the
simple struggle against the war on people waged by the Indian regime and its
crimes, and, on the other hand, in each country we built the Committee not as a
cartel of groups, but as mass organization aimed to unite and mobilize
proletarians and masses around the support to the PW, rejecting any attempt to
turn the activities of support into an occasion of self-propaganda or to
criticize and discuss other positions existing in the revolutionary and
communist movement or even the those of the CPI(Maoist). Often, both these
narrow or “leftist” tendencies, in the name of different pretexts, had the same
effect to desert the campaign and the national chapters of the Committee. But these problems could not stop
the development of our work and the process that has lead to the Conference
today, where we all together are make clearer and stronger our internationalist
solidarity.
While the
criticism to the statement or international relationships held by single forces
participating the International committee is legitimate, to break the unity of
the International Committee in support of PW because of that criticism is
unacceptable. First, because this Committee has a limited task, the support to
the PW in India; secondly because the CPI (Maoist) itself appreciates the
International Committee of support; thirdly because the International Committee
includes forces from different countries and therefore it moves in a context in
which the different positions existing at national level are not the decisive
factor for the work of the Committee.
For all these reasons,
those who desert the struggle of the International Committee, no matter what
they argue, support in the speeches the PW and boycott in the facts this
support. They agree with the Committee only if it has their positions and not
to develop the widest possible support.
The Committee calls Workers:
We call the
workers, temporary workers and unemployed people, to hail the struggle of the
masses against the reactionary regime of India and the imperialist powers
that support it.
It is
important to realize that the masses in India are fighting against the
bosses, who sack and exploit them, against high prices, corruption and state
terrorism. They are waging big demonstrations and strikes, occupations of
factories and other actions against the bosses.
In India,
the government has decided to sell the natural and human resources to Western
imperialist transnational companies joint with the new monopolies that own the
big steel and automobile industries like Tata, Essar, Jindal, Mittal, etc.,
which extract profits from the fierce exploitation of workers – often women and
children; profits that allow them to become purchasers and share-holders of the
great international monopolies in those sectors, in alliance with the bosses in
imperialist countries.
The struggle
for the rights of working people, for jobs, wages, better living conditions;
the fight for freedom, for democracy; the struggle to topple the power of the
bosses and put the power in the hands of the workers and the broad masses:
those struggles have an international character and they unite us all over the
world.
For those
reasons, we call the workers to express our outmost solidarity to the Indian
masses and the party that leads them; we congratulate them for fighting against
the enemy’s attacks and advancing towards victory.
We particularly call women to support the people's
war in India
The international
press has found that women are at the forefront, leading the revolution in India.
Reports referred
that among the Maoists operating in the areas of people's war in Maharahstra,
many are women, and women are members of the Committees of division,
Commanders. Women are even more than men are among the cadres and added
commander. Women are the first to attack repressive foundations of the State.
The state and its
repression are particularly fierce on women, using even the rapes as weapon. At
the same time, the class and sex oppression on women is long lasting. But that
is why the protracted people's war and attracts and helps the participation of
many oppressed women and this actually makes the people's war a war of masses.
This makes the is
people's war an international phenomenon of the struggle for women's liberation
and the revolution in the revolution, to fight on two fronts, the class
struggle and the struggle of gender, that masses of women need to impose their
path and bring a general view, transforming the revolutionary struggle.
As the writer
Arundhati Roy, prominent personality of the anti-globalization and women's
movements, said, these comrades come form long years of struggle of women
within the party, not only for their rights, but to convince the party that
equality between men and women is at the center of an ideal of just society.
These women come
from rebellion against feudal legacies, the traditions of forced marriage,
abduction of women, violence and the brutal mutilation. They have not won all
the battles, but - adds Arundhati Roy - "Which feminists have won?"
that is why The
struggle of the Indian comrades is an example and inspiration for the women's
movement in all corners of the world.
To the Youth we say:
In
India there is an ongoing
People's War waged by the heroic People's Liberation Guerrilla Army and led
by the glorious Communist Party
of India (Maoist) that is
changing the face of the second
most populated country in the world.
In the "largest
democracy in the world", where indeed
the majority of people
live in poverty and are dispossessed of their fundamental rights
to increase the profits of Indian capitalism, servant
of imperialism, in the liberated areas the people’s democracy is growing for the poor masses, peasants, adivasi and tribal people, women, a real embryo
of the state of new Democracy prelude to socialism. The
reactionary Indian state wants to nip in
the bud all this.
With genuine internationalist spirit, young revolutionaries have to support the People's War in India
as it is decisive for the advance of world
revolution, for the young revolutionaries in the imperialist citadels and metropolises, the
People's War in India is a
source of inspiration and encouragement in the revolutionary work.
Therefore
it needs to inform and
mobilize young people in support of
People's War in India in
schools, universities and working-class
neighborhoods.
To all the communist, revolutionary,
anti-imperialist, internationalist solidarity forces, we say:
The International Committee of support to the People’s war in India invited to participate and support the
International Conference in support of People's War in India and the following decisions.
The international conference deals a hard blow to imperialism and Indian
regime in the world and to the Indian expansionism, and is a major step to
support to the people's war in India,
to establish the road of People's War and revolution, the proletarian
internationalism in the world.
The International Committee calls, in order to inform
and discuss as best as possible about India and the People's War in India, the line and
the action of the CPI (Maoist), the development of the Indian revolution in the
international context, how to support it, to organize everywhere is possible of
initiatives, in most cities, towns, workplaces, neighborhoods.
These initiatives, autonomously called by each force, should be coordinated
with the International Committee, having as reference the international calls
issued.
Comrades,
The
International Committee of support to People's War in India, with its history, its
trajectory, the difficulties it found, is a work in steps, of networking, of
finding the real forces that actually can be united.
It is a
revolutionary mass work.
It is a
work to be fused with the proletarian struggles and the revolutionaries
experiences of the class struggle.
It is the
opposite of a dogmatic and sectarian approach.
It is a
work that goes beyond the democratic mobilization against the State repression
in India, because if we
focus only on this aspect, we will end to make imperialism to appear strong and
unbeatable, while in India
the State and imperialism defend themselves and the People's War successfully
withstands and grows.
In this
work we appreciate the commitment of brave intellectuals, like Arundhati Roy,
Ian Myrdal and others, but our aim is to mobilize base comrades, those who live
in direct contact with masses, to build a real, international and
internationalist movement.
To say so,
the International Committee, with its formation, its life, its campaigns, has
passed through the “strategic defensive”. After the International Conference in
Hamburg, it
enters a stage of “strategic equilibrium”, in which it cannot be cancelled but
yet cannot win and pass to the offensive.
We call all
the forces that have contributed to this work to advance together, to continue
this work in every country, to use all the forms of struggle, from the propaganda,
to spread information and unite masses, to the actions to hit the symbols of
the Indian Regime and imperialism.
Let’s support the People’s War in India,
until the victory!
International
Committee of Support to People’s War in India,
November 2012
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