Speech delivered
on behalf of Struggle India at the First Conference of RDF on April 23, 2012
Respected President of this meeting, other comrades
both sitting on the dias and those in this auditorium,
Really, when I stand before you I am immensely instilled
with inspiration and I feel much honoured to be amongst you.
First of all I wish to congratulate this First
Conference of the Revolutionary Democratic Front and on behalf of Struggle
India, of which Porattom is a part, I extend our militant solidarity. This
Conference is held in an excellent revolutionary situation not just in our
country but at the global level also. But at the same time it is a complex
situation also.
The world imperialist system is running through a most
severe crisis since 1930s. Though capitalism is by its own nature riddled with
contradictions created by overproduction, the immediate cause of the present
crisis is financialisation of the imperialist system. This rejects any control.
Hence all efforts to get out of this crisis through regulation and control of
the financial markets and use of the surplus offered by the comparatively
higher growth rates in countries like China, India and Brazil has so far not
succeeded. All the efforts have turned out to be futile. It has opened up doors
to more crises. And now the growth figures in China and India are also going
down. It is another matter that this growth itself was always disarticulated.
As we know the high figures of 9 per cent growth was accompanied by the harsh
reality of 80 percent living on 20 rupees per day.
Capitalism is a dead end. The world is faced with two
possibilities. Either the revolutionary exit from imperialism or a painful
temporary recovery from the present crisis and thus prolonging the misery of
the masses.
The imperialist bourgeoisie take advantage of the
crisis to restructure imperialism at the global level and save the interests of
their class. This leads to more unloading of the weight of the crisis on the
workers and masses. In both the oppressed countries and imperialist countries,
unemployment, job insecurity and cost of living increase. Exploitation is
ratcheted up to modern forms of slavery. Workers rights are being reduced.
Social achievements won through years of struggle are being erased. Factories
remain closed with massive layoffs. Peasants are ruined and driven to suicide.
Cuts in social expenditure and privatisation of education and health care grow.
The logic of commoditisation and profit is extended even to primary goods such
as water and air. Imperialism and reaction are causing catastrophic disasters
in terms of ecology.
In India, all tall talk about entering the high growth
path despite world economic crisis is now exposed. Now the Finance minister
says that the growth rate is low because of the crisis. The Central government
is in a haste to cut subsidies to the peasants and poor sections while granting
concessions to monopolies. Liberalisation implemented since the 1990s turned
the economy more dependent on imperialism. And this is the root cause of the
present slow down. While Agni-5 is launched high, the match boxes in the huts
are left damp, and can't even spark. That is our real scientific and
technological situation. Real India is rotting under the poverty line.
Unbridled rise in prices, increase of unemployment are the result of
neo-colonial exploitation and domination. This and its internal props must be
uprooted for real emancipation.
In this situation the masses throughout the world are
in rebellion. The Arab spring still reverberates. In imperialist countries the
youth are out on the streets. The slogan of ‘99 against 1’ resounds as a bolt
from the blue.
Aware of the desperate situation they are in both the
imperialist bourgeoisie and the reactionary ruling classes in the oppressed countries
are unnerved. They tremble even at the very noise of leaves rustling. Under the
banner of 'war on terrorism' the imperialists and reactionaries all over the
world are in an unholy alliance against the struggling masses, against those
who refuse to be cowed down by them.
This is the wider context of the Operation Green Hunt
in our country, the war made by the Indian state against the Indian people. The
people's war going on in the Central part of the country raises hope before the
masses throughout the world, a new society free of exploitation is coming up
there. One region of the country exists where the people rule, where
imperialist TNC's and the Indian compradors are prevented from looting the
valuable riches of the land. The imperialists and the Indian ruling classes
can't tolerate this. They, directed by the sole super power US, mobilise to
crush it. But this has led to a new polarisation. Whether for or against,
Maoism, the Maoist movement, has become a topic of discussion. The war on the
people and the resistance against it has become a dividing line.
The Indian ruling classes tried to divert and diffuse
this by blowing up the Anna Hazare movement. But that hasn't given them the
results they expected. Yet we cannot be complacent. We must seize this
opportunity. We must regain whatever space was taken up by the Hazare movement.
We must build barricades and strengthen resistance against the state's
repressive anti-people policies and human rights violations. We must play our
role in realising the truth of the words, “all roads lead to communism”.
We support the war of the people for their liberation.
That is a just war. It is a war for a new society, a new world. We support all
the rebellions taking place all over the world. They are just and necessary.
I have already spoken about the unholy alliance of the
people's enemies. We too must unite. Despite the excellent situation worldwide,
the people's forces, their subjective strength, is still weak. Take India, the
unity of all genuine revolutionary forces is yet to be completed. The unity of
all fighting resistance movements is yet to be fulfilled. We think that this
unity is imperative. It is an urgent demand of the present situation. This is
also true at the global level. The people are fighting. They need unity and
scientific leadership. We support all steps conducive to this unity in India
and at the global level. Forge unity,
strengthen the battle lines – this must be our battle cry.
Indian Army, Get
out of Bastar!
Resist Operation
Green Hunt, Defeat the War on the People!
Hail the new
society emerging in the fighting zones of India!
Glory to the
Martyrs!
Let us make
revolution a mass undertaking!
Let us unite to
bury the human-eating system!
Unite with all
democratic forces! Solidarity with all Fighting forces throughout the world!
Death to
imperialism and reaction!
Without fighting
revisionism there can be no fight against imperialism!
Once again, our
militant solidarity and revolutionary salutes to this conference!
Lal Salam!
MN Ravunni,
Acting Secretary,
Struggle India
April 23, 2012
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