COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA
(MAOIST)
Central Committee
Press Release
CPI (Maoist) conveys it’s
heartedly wishes to all working class, the toiling masses of India
and rest of the world on
the occasion of May Day. This time we
are going to celebrate May Day at that historical juncture when the
global
Capitalism is undergoing one of its worst crisis.
Imperialism is staging severe repression and exploitation
on
oppressed countries and its toiling masses as well as all
over the world. Inter- imperialist wars are intensifying and
is
heading towards nuclear war. The proletariat all over the
world has today transformed into a mere appendage to
supply-chains
as a source of surplus value. This has degraded all the elements of
its existence and devoid it’s
humanely life, compelling it to
revolt against this given reality of Capitalism that dehumanizes the
vast majority of the
human population. In semi- feudal and
semi-colonial country like India different forms of capital coexist
and the
working class exist into different contingent. Still in
India labour is not entirely free as it is in the capitalist country
and
there is prevalence of the process of surplus extraction via
the unpaid domestic labor, labor bondage and casual labor.
Social
and economic inequality has taken a giant leap since Modi came to
power. Top hundred billionaires in India
controls wealth of
around 54 lakh crore. Such a huge amount is enough to finance the
union budget for 18 months at
least. Concentration of wealth and
resources in the hands of exploitative classes has caused tremendous
distress in
Indian economy and to the working class.
Agriculture
conditions: BJP government policies at the centre and other ruling
class parties at the state has failed
to create favourable
conditions for the accumulation of profits for the small, medium as
well as large scale farmers.
The recent budget by the central
government has constructed a plan of 20 lakh crore rupees for credit.
This is nothing
but an outrightly mockery of the farmers demand
for the cancellation of debts, framing laws on MSP and reduction
of
the input costs. Whatever surplus is generated by the small
and medium farmers are extracted and exploited by the
landlords
and Monopoly finance capital, and the end result is that such surplus
fails to develop the production.
According to the last census,
the total population of landless labourers was around 14 crore, and
going by the recent
trend their population has further
increased. Around 83 percent of rural households holds less than 30
percent of land,
and this clearly states the concentration of
lands in the hands of new feudal landlords and corporate
classes.
Employment Scenario and attack on working class: Around
90% of the labour force in India is involved in informal
sector.
In the financial year 2022-23, around 10,655 micro, small and medium
enterprises have closed down and this
is the highest in the past
four years. This informal sector constitutes around 30 percent of the
economy and 40
percent of the labour force has been struggling
from demonetization, GST and Pandemic. The share of government
jobs
in the organized sectors is rapidly going down the hill. From
2014-2021, the total job applications were above 22
crore but,
the Modi government was able to give around only 7 lakh jobs in
government sectors. Apart from this
around, 44 percent of
government jobs are temporary or on contract basis. At the same
period crores of workers and
employees lost their jobs due to
Modi government pro imperialist and pro Comprador bourgeoisie
policies. The
informalization of the Indian economy has further
led to the exploitation of the working class and the peasantry.
One
of the major factor behind the steep decline in the share of
wages (from 30% in the 1980s to 9.5% in 2009) compared
to the
huge increase in the share of profits (from around 15% to 55% during
the same period) has been the rapid
contractorisation of the
labour force.The proportion of contract workers in formal sector
manufacturing increased
from about 12.26% in 1990–91 to about
42.27% in 2013-14. The labour participation rate has fallen from 42.9
per cent
to 39.8 per cent in the past few years. The decline in
real wages have attacked the purchasing power of the workers
and
the toiling masses. Between 2016-17 and 2021-22, there has been a
drastic 62 percent decline in jobs in the
cement industry, in
the metal industry the employment has gone down by 10 percent and in
the mining sector jobs
have gone down by 28 percent. According
to NCRB report 2021, around 80 thousand daily wage laborers
have
committed suicide in the last two years. In fact it is not
a suicide but a murder orchestrated by the ruling
classes.
Privatization of Key Public Sectors: As BJP captured
the political power in 2014 it has unleashed a series of
programs
to privatize the core public sectors which are the arteries of the
Indian economy. It is trying all its effort to
hand over the
Coal India limited and Singareni Collieries Company Limited to Adani
and Ambani. In order to facilitate
that
move it has enacted Coal Mines (Special) provision Act, 2015 that
allows the private players to produce and sell
coal on their own
administered price. Under National Monetization Program, BJP
government is willing to privatize
400 railway stations, 150
passenger trains, 2,843 km of Dedicated Freight Corridors and track
infrastructure, among
others. Several Public Sector Banks,
Insurance sectors, telecom and other have been kept in line for
privatization.
Corporatization of natural resources is heading
forward with the help of fascist onslaught on the people's
movements
against the privatization of the natural wealth of our
country.
International Working class struggles: The French
working class movement clearly shows the political and
economic
crisis of the bourgeoisie system in France. Macron is sustaining its
rule through decree and severe
repressive measures on the mass
working class movements. On March 23rd, the working class movement in
France
against the new pension policy and other working class
problems acquired a militant form which made the ruling
class to
describe the movement as an act of insurrection. The revisionist
parties in France are all marching shoulder
to shoulder in order
to protect the Fifth Republic from the onslaught of the working
class. The Revisionist parties are
trying all its effort to
destabilize the ongoing workers movements in France through its
compromise tactics that plays
in the interest of the
bourgeoisie. The genuine Communist and revolutionary forces need to
wage a political and
ideological struggle in order to continue
the working class movement for building socialism in France. It is
necessary
at present for the French working class to go for
general strike in order to break the spine of the system. In
United
Kingdom series of working class protests erupted from May
2022 that has also given rise to the political crisis in the
United
Kingdom. In USA, the nurses’ movement, Amazon Workers movements and
other working class movements
are continuing. All these
resembles the intensification of the class contradictions arising
from the deepening crisis of
the global capitalist system.
Trade
unions in India rather being having partisan approach towards working
class movements, it is in fact
adjusting itself to the
compulsion of the system. In front of the concentric power of the
capital and the government,
the working classes is divided into
diverse isolated parts. Trade unions are not taking the working class
movements’
one step further in terms of political directions.
At present the working class movements are displaying
spontaneous
consciousness that is largely linked to the
dominance of partial demands as put forwarded by the Trade
unions.
Unions Strikes have become formal in essence which is
losing its potency for any minimum transformation in the
living
conditions of the working classes in India. Between 1991 and 2022,
there has been a total of 21 strikes call
given by the central
trade unions, but all these strikes could not put any pressure on the
state and it depicts a kind
holiday strike. The Indian working
class movements is passing through a toughest time in its history and
only through
having a clear political approach of forming unity
with the peasantry and other toiling masses it can overcome from
its
persisting weakness. Today trade unions all over the world
are under the grip of revisionist and social democratic
forces
which has entangled the working class movements in the chains of
economism and reformism. It is the duty of
the working class to
fight against this anti proletariat ideology by building militant
working-class movements and must
move forward in the aim of
capture the political power.
Comrades,
The existing
production relations is exploitative and is acting as a fetter on the
development of the production
forces. The persisting
backwardness of the Indian production relationship that is connected
with the imperialist
Monopoly finance capital, Comprador
Bourgeoisie capital and landlords are impediment to the overall
development of
the working class and the masses. The Indian
working class and the peasantry must overthrow these fetters
by
making New Democratic Revolution successful and by marching
towards socialism. Central Committee of CPI
( Maoist) gives a
call to all mass organization, workers and peasantry, women,
intellectuals,students, Dalits,
Oppressed and nationality
organizations to built a joint militant political working class and
peasantry movements
against the four labour codes, anti farm law
and Brahmanical Hindutva Fascism all over the
country.
Abhay
Spokesperson
Central Committee
28 avril 2023
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