Present International, Domestic situation – Our tasks
The capitalist-imperialist system is in economic crisis worldwide since
2008. The intensifying general crisis is bringing in great changes in world politics.
US started to become strategically weak since mid-1970s and lost the status of
superpower by the beginning of second decade of 21st century. Yet US
imperialism stands the number one enemy of the people of the world. Social-
imperialist China became the main contender to the US in economic, political
and military sectors for the past decade and is competing for the re-division of
world. COVID pandemic that started affecting in the beginning of 2020 continues
in certain countries though less intensely. The ongoing contradictions among the
imperialists led to Ukraine-Russia war since 2022 February. Tensions are on the
rise between US and China on the issue of Taiwan. The preparations for war of
imperialist countries for re-division of the world is stepping up the danger of
World War III. The past few years have been witnessing a spate of anti-
imperialist struggles in the backward countries and a spate of working class
struggles in capitalist-imperialist countries all over the world. The sharpening
fundamental contradictions at the international level are leading to these
developments.
The contradictions are – 1. The contradiction between
imperialism and oppressed nationalities and people 2. The contradiction
between bourgeoisie and proletariat in capitalist, imperialist countries 3. The
contradictions among imperialist countries and among monopoly capitalist
groups. The contradiction between imperialism and oppressed nationalities and
people is the main contradiction. Let us analyse the developments that came
forth out of all these in the past two years and the favourable situation for
revolution.
The contradiction between imperialism and oppressed nationalities
and people
Imperialists have been unleashing globalisation policies for the past
three decades through their agents, the comprador bureaucratic capitalists and
landlords in Asian, African and Latin American countries. They are
indiscriminately looting the natural wealth, cheap labour force and markets of
these countries through Foreign Direct Investments, loans and aid. They are looting the savings of middle class people through Foreign Institutional
Investment in the speculative market. Imperialists are imposing high duties on
imports in their countries and are following protective policies. On the other
hand, they are pressurising the backward countries not to impose high duties on
their exports. US and its allies Britain, France and Germany have been making
wars of aggression on the countries that did not heed to their dictates. The
comprador rulers are selling off public sector industries and properties to
imperialists, domestic and foreign corporate companies in the name of
privatisation as a part of imperialist globalisation. They are lifting welfare
schemes or reducing allotment of funds. They are raising taxes on drinking
water, irrigation water, transport, electricity and other such things. This resulted
in decrease of purchasing power of the people. Prices of essential commodities
are sky-rocketing. Comprador rulers are cruelly suppressing the struggling
people and their struggles against the pro-imperialist globalisation policies
unleashed by the governments. All these are intensifying the contradiction
between imperialism and oppressed nationalities and people.
Since the world economic crisis in 2008, people’s struggles against
imperialism all over the world and against imperialist comprador ruling classes
in the respective countries intensified. Exploitive ruling classes imposed
lockdowns in the name of containing COVID pandemic. This especially shrunk
the lives of the working class, peasantry, middle class and small capitalists all
over the world. The small and medium kind capitalists are forced to sell off their
industries to the comprador bureaucratic capitalists and Multi-National
corporates companies, to sub-contract for giant corporate companies and to
restructure. Acquisitions and takeovers of small companies by big corporate
companies is rising all over the world. With this, there is a rise in concentration
and accumulation of capital with the giant corporate companies. Wealth is being
accumulated in an unprecedentedly large scale for a handful of MNCs and TNCs
in all sectors. Contention further increased among these corporations to loot
natural wealth, cheap labour force and markets, for their areas of influence and
to sustain their hegemony on those.
People of Latin American countries are on one hand making street fights
against imperialist globalisation and on the other are electing candidates of leftparties. We see such candidates being elected Presidents in Bolivia, Chile, Peru,
Columbia, Honduras and Brazil in 2020 to mid-October 2022. In fact, these left
parties are fundamentally in the interests of imperialists, comprador
bureaucratic capitalist and feudal classes. These countries mainly unleash
policies in favour of Russian and Chinese imperialists. These countries
nationalise the investments of MNCs and TNCs of the US and West European
countries in the name of nationalisation policies, or else do not permit the
investments of those companies in their countries. To an extent, those serve the
interests of national capitalists, workers and middle classes.
With the rise in exploitation and oppression of the imperialists and
comprador bureaucratic capitalists, presently all countries such as Tunisia,
Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Egypt, Panama, Ecuador, El Salvador, Argentina,
Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India are caught
in the web of high prices, inflation, poverty, unemployment and burden of loans.
Outdated semi-feudal exploitation is seen in all these countries. These are
making the people’s lives miserable and they are making struggles against
imperialism and its compradors, the comprador bureaucratic capitalists and
landlords.
Food and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and other such
countries are leading to political crisis. There is a rise in contradictions among
ruling class cliques. People of these countries are making militant struggles. The
President of Sri Lanka had to leave the country in 2022 when people encircled
the Presidential palace in protest to food crisis and high prices.
Anti-imperialist, anti-feudal revolutionary movements have been going
on in certain countries since the past. Although the revolutionary movement in
Philippines suffered certain losses in the recent period, it is advancing in the path
of Protracted People’s War. Indian Revolutionary movement is putting up stiff
resistance to the heavy offensive unleashed by the enemy and sustaining.
Revolutionary movement is re-consolidating in Turkey. Although weak,
revolutionary movement in Peru is going on. Revolutionary movement is in
primary level in Columbia. People of Palestine are fighting with dare for the
liberation of their motherland in the leadership of Hamas against the chauvinist
aggression, military massacres and aerial attacks of Israel with the support ofUS. Nationality liberation struggles are going on in few Asian, African and Latin
American countries against imperialism......
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