Denouncing the regime and imperialism
There
is no doubt that the current Indian regime with its the Hindu fascist
government led by Narendra Modi of the BJP (Hindu nationalist party,
in fact fascist) is one of the most brutal in the country's history
for the extent and depth of the atrocities that is perpetrating
against its own people ("Silent genocide", according to
Arundhati Roy) basically at the service of imperialism.
This
huge and impressive civil war is the only "human
built-structure", we could say with a joke, to be visible, like
the Great Wall of China, from space, but the world press does not see
it, and consequently most of the " world public opinion"
does not "perceive "it; this fact is certainly due to the
information denied by the imperialist bourgeoisie, above all, which
highlights some news only when it is forced by the breadth of the
event that scares and serves to put the popular war in a bad light,
and by the Indian comprador bourgeoisie who, as always, seeks to
apply the "conspiracy of silence" by trying to redress the
ongoing people's war to a fact of internal terrorism.
Both
the imperialist bourgeoisie and the Indian bourgeoisie try to stun
the world public opinion with their speeches that encompass India in
an aura of "democracy" ("the greatest democracy in the
world" they call it, words that many democratic and
revolutionary intellectuals just as daily they commit themselves to
deny with their writings and their actions), trying to hide the
concrete and hard facts of this real war against their own people.
The
forms that this war has assumed are now well known: Operation Green
Hunt, as the Indian mass media called it, and with this name is known
worldwide, is the last "operation", in its third phase, in
order of time, which is flanked and contains the other historically
occurred "operations" (Jan Jagatan, Salwa Judum 1 and 2,
Mission 2016 and Mission 2017, Operation samdhan-2022, Samadhan ...)
through which all Indian governments have tried to eliminate ("wipe
out", and "eradicate" and similar phrases) the
People's War and the Party that leads it, the CPI (Maoist).
This
"operation" is naturally denied by the Indian comprador
bourgeoisie, in order not to recognize the "civil war" side
of the ongoing conflict, and consequently the state of political and
war prisoner to the fighters of the CPI (Maoist), and when he speaks
of it he says that it is a generalized and large-scale attack on
terrorism, applying the existing Indian laws like the Uapa (Unlwaful
Activities Preventing Act), but this propaganda fiction, this denial,
is refuted daily by the response it receives from the People's War.
And
when a revolutionary movement, like the ongoing people's war,
develops with intensity, such as to jeopardize the "tranquility"
of power (former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has defined the
People's War as "the greatest threat to security and internal
unity of our country") the bourgeoisie on the one hand clenches
its ranks to face the threat, on the other, however, the same
effectiveness and intensity of the struggle leads to the need to
stand in these two fields more and more clear between revolution and
counter-revolution, a polarization begins.
This
is the normal dialectic of the relations of force that the class
struggle creates.
Faced
with this civil war, all the parliamentary parties are on the side of
the government, all those who in one way or another profit, whether
they are still crumbs, from their support more or less open to the
government or more or less open against the people's war: big
industrialists and great financiers, landowners, comprador
bourgeoisie, corrupted peoples…
On
the other hand there are the popular masses of the country which has
over 1,300,000,000 people; most of them, including about 800 million
peasants, are first and foremost inside the grip of poverty in all
its nuances: from the most extreme one that every day makes dead on
the streets, the deaths of children due to malnutrition, deaths of
women for violence of every kind, for childbirth, for the dowry,
deaths of indebted peasants who commit suicide in the thousands every
year, the extreme poverty that lurks even in the realities of urban
megalopolis ...
It
is this very hard and impressive reality that they try to hide; what
the bourgeoisie certainly sees and of which makes propaganda and
which partly blinds this immense poverty, is the sparkle of the
"industrialized" part of the country, sold as an "economic
miracle" (growth of 7 percent a year!), greatly appreciated by
imperialism! "Miracle" which actually consists in selling
the country to the multinationals.
Here
too the media play their part: highlighting Bollywood is part of this
reality, highlighting the "excellence" of the country in
terms of advanced applied technologies, a large market of goods and
"work" with thousands of young engineers, scientists, in
fact a great reserve of "arms" and fresh minds for the
imperialist countries, whose heads of state and government encourage
when exchange visits to the "highest levels", dragging on
swarms of capitalists who must conclude Business.
But
all this sparkling can not fully cover the fires lit by the guerrilla
warfare conducted by the People's Liberation Guerrilla Liberation
Army under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
It
is to this popular war that the government responds with Operation
Green Hunt, third phase, a gigantic and prolonged operation of
repression and annihilation of the armed struggle of the masses and
the mass struggle in general, conducted through open or hidden
massacres (false encounters) , deportations of populations,
devastation, mass rape and huge and systematic waves of arrests,
disappearances, that touch the countryside and cities, universities
and mass movements with systematic violation of human rights; a
repression of all expressions of request for civil rights and
liberties, with indiscriminate arrests of militants of the Party, of
ordinary peasants presented as terrible terrorists, of workers
condemned for life for defending their rights, as of so many other
personalities, intellectuals eighty-year-olds accused of being "urban
maoists" who "make war on the state"; and then again
with the killing of women directly or through mass rape used as a
weapon of war. Many of these activists become political prisoners,
they are about 15,000, including Prof. Saibaba, artists, lawyers,
student leaders and of course some prestigious Maoist leaders such as
Kobad Gandhi, Ajit and others.
The
last massacre in order of time is that of Gadchiroli, in Maharashtra,
where at least 42 Maoists were slaughtered in cold blood; first there
was that of Malkangiri in 2016 when 31 Maoists died ...
The
substantial support of imperialism is added to the internal support
of this war against its own people within the country itself. In many
ways, the atrocities of imperialism and in many parts of the world
take place, sowing death and destruction, (operations often silenced
by the media and governments like those in India) with direct armed
support when necessary, support with arms sales, with the
facilitation of international loans; with the direct and
propagandized diplomatic support made of visits and agreements of the
main exponents of world imperialism, with the joint military
operations, with the coverage of corruption at the highest levels and
of the crimes of the government (Modi is in fact responsible for the
slaughter of the Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, when he was head of the
government of that state), and coverage of the Indian expansionism
that presses on Nepal and Pakistan, coverage of domestic oppression
with all the contempt possible for the "human rights"
called into question only when it is convenient to put pressure on
the opponent on duty.
Imperialism
also acts with commercial and military agreements (the so-called
MoU-Memorandum of understanding, the treaties) because India is a
subcontinent rich in raw materials, water, forests and land (Jal,
Jungle, Zameen - water, forest, earth are the elements in which
hundreds of millions of Indians live that the ongoing people's war
must save from the clutches of imperialist exploitation. To these
three elements the people's war has added two more to fight for:
Izzat and Adhikar, respect and rights).
This
is why the government is particularly fierce in the states of the
so-called "red corridor", the part of the country where the
people's war is more active and strong, a dozen states and hundreds
of districts, which cuts the country from north to south. West
Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Western Maharashtra
to Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. These states are the poorest in
India and at the same time those that hold the greatest mineral
riches. Orissa, for example, contains 70% of all reserves of Indian
bauxite, 90% of minerals of chromium and nickel, 24% of the coal of
the entire nation. India is the world's second largest producer of
cement, the third of steel and the first of reduced iron (direct
reduced iron). It is also one of the largest leather producers in the
world. The Indian reserves of rare earths are estimated at 3.1
million tons, or about 3% of the world reserves, of which India is
increasing its extraction capacity. India also has the availability
of cotton and a great variety of fabrics, making it a privileged
destination for the relocation of clothing companies... reserves and
raw materials that become increasingly fundamental for capitalist
production.
Even
Italian imperialism (whose current investments in India are about 6
billion euros) plays its part in the exploitation of the Indian
proletariat and these resources. The last visit of the President of
the Council for example has served to get in tune with the policy of
the government Modi, which goes under the name of "make in
India", inaugurated by Modi in 2014 and which is a great appeal
to multinationals of various types to invest in India. And so
many hungry Italian multinationals were in fact in tow. Investment in
India has a double aspect at this stage and fits into the current
scenario of India's role in the imperialist and multipolar set-up of
the world.
For
Italian companies it is the search for market outlets, profits and
penetration typical of imperialism; what is not exactly the same as
before is the role of India, which uses imperialist investments to
grow its economy, always deformed, but nevertheless able to make
India a global economic presence, not only economic but political,
military in the geostrategic structure of the world.
An
asset in which every imperialist country tries to carve out an
important part. Many multinationals from various imperialist
countries are present in the country.
But
it is a structure that especially American imperialism tries to
dominate and that combines its interests in the area by bringing
together trade, with direct investments that only in 2017 are around
50 billion dollars, with the sale of goods and services for billions,
and among these an immensity of weapons (India is the largest
importer of weapons in the world at present), with the massive
presence of multinationals, and on the other, political exchanges,
given that the United States (which from the military point of view
it lets Israel also act) uses India in the Asian zone as a control of
the area and against the expansionism of China.
This
enormous pressure of imperialism on India accentuates the terrible
forms of oppression that the government exercises on its own people.
But
the opposition to this barbarism speaks up louds not only with the
blows of the people's war and great mass mobilization, but also with
active internal and international solidarity: in fact, for several
years events have been taking place all over the world in solidarity
with the political prisoners, in support of the People's War, first
against Singh and now against Modi, with countless conferences and
meetings (in Europe, the one in Hamburg in 2012 marked an important
point that forced the Indian government to intervene at the European
Union); inside and outside the country with campaigns against the
current wave of arrests, against Hindu fascism and against the
current Operation Green Hunt, with interpellations to the European
Union, initiatives that also become obstacles on the way of the
genocide put in place by the government, initiatives of solidarity
that become a weapon to be used in an increasingly determined and
strong way.
December
2018
International
Commettee to support Peolple’s War in India
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