Main stream politics Vs Alternative Politics

Semi-colonial, semi-feudal path of Development Vs People Oriented, Eco-friendly, sustainable, New Democratic, socialist path of Development

We the political Prisoners of the Central Prison, Visakhapatnam, would like to extend our revolutionary greetings to this forum which has been formed to uphold and propagate alternative politics and to celebrate the unified revolutionary movement on the occasion of the ten years of the formation of CPI (Maoist). 21^st Sep, 2014 is a red letter day in the annals of the revolutionary movement in India.  It was on this day, ten years ago that two parallel streams of revolution led by the erstwhile MCCI and CPI (ML) PW merged and the CPI (Maoist) was formed.  With the formation of CPI (Maoist) a new glorious chapter has begun.  The dream of revolutionaries and the revolutionary camp has at last come true now.  The unification has put an end to the inglorious history of three decades of splits in the revolutionary movement and parties and groups.  This development also enthused the Marxist Revolutionary forces throughout the world.

Let’s look at the victories achieved and failures faced by the revolutionary movement in the past ten years.

The successes in brief are –   

• A single and the biggest revolutionary party has been formed which can further act as the nucleus around which all the other revolutionary elements and groups that have not become a part of it so far can be rallied.  This revolutionary party is born by standing the test of the time by not only withstanding the brutal campaign of repression, but raising the level of people’s war to the level of guerilla warfare.
• A strong people’s liberation guerilla Army (PLGA) has emerged, which is one of the three main weapons of revolution.  This PLGA is instrumental in valiantly fighting back the biggest offensive so far on the revolutionary movement in the form of Salwa Judum and Green Hunt in Dandakaranya. Similarly, it has withstood the combined offensive of various vigilante groups and gangs like Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), JLF, JPC, SPM, Shantisena, Nagarik Surakhsa Samithi (NSS) in Jharkhand and Private armies like Ranvir Sena in Bihar, and the Green Hunt.  The PLGA under the leadership of the party has successfully defeated Salwa Judum and the strategy of “strategic hamlets” by mobilizing vast masses and forming people’s militia and defeated the designs of Chidambaram to finish off the Maoist movement within three years by launching Green Hunt.
• Alternative People’s power has been established in the form of Janatana Sarkar (in the vast areas of Dandakaranya) and RPCs in Jharkhand and some areas of Jharkhand and Odisha.  This embryonic alternative People’s Power has enthused the revolutionary camp throughout the country.  Its People centric developmental model could emerge as the rallying point for all the pro-people forces of the country depending on its further establishment, which is in turn dependent on the intensification and expansion of the people’s war and establishment of regular people’s liberation Army and stable base areas.  It also depends on the economic crisis unfolding at home and internationally, which would compel many vast sections of people into struggle.
• In these ten years, the revolutionary movement has successfully developed guerilla warfare in new areas and especially in Odisha and West Bengal in spite of every effort of the central and state governments to arrest the spread of the movement to newer areas. In West Bengal, however there is a setback. Despite severe leadership losses and in spite of being encircled by vast number of state forces, the revolutionary guerilla forces are able to sustain in the tri junction of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and have been striving to further spread the movement.
• The party has led many a mass upsurges, the most significant among them being in Lalgarh, Nandigram, and Narayanapatna and in some areas like Dumka in Jharkhand, even if on a lesser scale.  The militant mass mobilization has given very rich experiences in combining mass upsurges with militant armed mass struggle. People led by the party evolved newer militant forms of struggles on a mass scale.  They were also fine examples of forming united fronts with various political forces.

While the Nandigram movement and to an extent the Lalgarh movement led by the party apart from Singur, Kalinganagar and other struggles led basically by other forces infused new energies to the movement against displacement led not only by the Maoist forces but by various other democratic forces in the country, these struggles have also established the Maoist Party to be the foremost leading party in all such struggles.

Though the Lalgarh upsurge and the revolutionary movement in Bengal in general has received a severe jolt by the martyrdom of Com. Kishenji, it is again trying to re-emerge.

The militant resistance of the Maoist Party from Lalgarh to Surajgarh has stopped the comprador big bourgeoisie and MNC s in their tracks in uprooting the Adivasis from the forests and plundering the mineral and forest wealth.

It will also be apt to remember here that as soon as the Maoist guerilla forces were compelled to withdraw from the Saranda forest area under unprecedented concentration of Paramilitary forces, various private mining companies have moved in and have been doing an irreparable damage to the forest there with utter disregard to the lives and livelihood of the “Ho” tribal people there.

These struggles and the heroic resistance to the Green Hunt offensive, has catapulted the Maoist movement to the national level of politics from the state and regional levels.  It has fired up the imagination of people far beyond the areas of the movement.  In fact, it is one of the few Maoist movements in the world, which is holding a beacon of hope for the socialist transformation of the world.    

 It has to be said, however that the needs far outweigh the successes.

 Let us also look at the major shortcomings, losses and weaknesses of the revolutionary movement and the party.

• In the past ten years, the single most striking shortcoming has been the prevention of loss of leadership especially of the central and state level leaderships.  A total of twenty one CCMs have been arrested. Five among them have been killed in fake encounters.  One succumbed to cancer due to lack of treatment during prolonged incarceration.  Only three among them could break free of the enemy’s confinement.  Three more senior most CC Comrades succumbed to cerebral malaria, contracted in the forests. Many state level leaders have also been arrested and some killed.  Many senior leading women comrades steeled in class struggle are also behind bars.

This huge loss of leadership has severely limited many plans of the party to expand the party to newer areas, to intensify the people’s war and to open up newer fronts of class struggle, especially in the urban areas, the working class and the vast plain areas.

• The Maoist movement has been forced by the unprecedented military offensive and the very serious losses incurred to temporarily withdraw to the strategic areas of the forest. The ruling class apologists and the media are trying to utilize this enforced situation to picturize the movement to be at the most a tribal movement fighting against displacement etc., obscuring the fact that the movement is essentially a revolutionary movement aiming to transform the very base of the Indian society from a semi-colonial and semi-feudal exploitative system to a sovereign new democratic system and eventually to a socialist system.  It also tries to obscure the fact that the revolutionary movement basically built a very strong anti-feudal movement mobilizing  tens of lakhs of agricultural workers and peasants, overwhelming number of whom are from the oppressed backward and Dalit Castes, in the vast plain areas and also strong urban movement by building workers struggles in Singareni, Hyderabad and the coal belt areas in Jharkhand, Vidarbha etc., apart from mobilizing other urban sections like students, employees, youth etc., in many cities throughout the country.
• Though the party has been striving hard, it has so far not been successful in resurrecting the peasant movement in the plain areas, in building the workers movement in urban areas and forming a powerful united front with various struggling forces. 

The movement has to overcome these weaknesses and various mass organizations and all the well wishers of revolution have to strive to work in these areas with a long term perspective and initiative, which will in turn facilitate the party to seize initiative in overcoming the above said shortcomings.

The Maoist movement in India is offering alternative politics and an alternative vision of the society, while the capitalists and their apologist intellectuals are shouting from the rooftops that “There Is No Alternative” (TINA), to Capitalism.

 “There Is No Alternative” to Socialism and Communism:

The Socialist states and societies have been defeated from within when the Capitalist roaders inside the Communist Party captured power in the Soviet Union and later in China.  After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Capitalists of the world got an ideological boost to repeatedly assert that Socialism is history and the history has come to an end.

If we look at what the capitalism in its highest stage of imperialism, through its MNCs, TNCs., and multi lateral institutions like WB, IMF, WTO, UN has done to the people of the globe in the past nearly thirty years since it has proudly announced TINA, we can see that the inequality between the poor and the rich has multiplied several times; that while the richest one percent are amassing humongous amounts of wealth, billions of people are compelled to eke out below subsistence levels with tens of millions of children suffering malnutrition, preventable communicable diseases etc., with tens of millions without jobs even in the developed countries.  While the world has been witnessing huge increases in the productive capacities in every conceivable field, the capitalist production relations are thwarting the realization of its potential.  The production capacities are put to wastage and under-utilized, while billions of people suffer for want of their basic needs.  This is one side of the picture.  On the other side, there is this rapacious greed of the profit mongers in promoting consumerism and wastage to such an extent that they are pushing the globe to the brink of catastrophe.  Even though there are very clear warnings about the impending ecological disasters, rising global warming etc., the greed of the imperialists is compelling them to ignore all these warnings and go about their business as usual with destruction of forest covers of the globe to plunder the mineral wealth and the forest wealth.  To ever lay their hands on newer and newer mineral and oil resources, they do not mind destroying whole civilizations by waging wars from the skies.  With the greed to lay their hands on all the golden eggs in the goose at once, they are plundering land, air and water; bringing about changes in organisms by abusing the scientific and technological developments without bothering about consequences, causing extinction of many species and irreversible loss of biodiversity etc., Capitalistic agriculture has robbed the soil of its fertility, depleted its ground water, increased the incidence of pests and  diseases of crops and has been slow poisoning the humans and animals through the food cycle.

The economic depression that has befallen the imperialist world in the past few years, reminding all about the great depression of the 1930s, has proven beyond all doubt that capitalism has no answers to solve the contradiction of social production and private ownership. While the wealth of the billionaires and the MNCs is ever increasing, the burden of the crisis is being pushed on to the back of working masses.

 So, what if “There Is No Alternative to Capitalism” and what does it mean?   

Capitalism means war – war on nationalities, war on countries, war on nature, war on working masses and war on women and children.

Capitalism means exploitation and expropriation of the labour of the working class.

Capitalism means commodification of everything – women, intellect, the air we breathe, the  water we drink, the nurturing earth,  religious beliefs etc.,

Capitalism means overconsumption, colossal wastage and pilferage.  It means the agglomeration of wealth in the hands of the one percent and destitution for most of the rest.  Can there be a better example for this than the US, the richest ever nation on earth, where hundreds of thousands are homeless, jobless and are forced to feed themselves and take shelter in crammed community shelters?

Capitalism means degradation of human values – the values of compassion, love and everything positive the humankind has developed in the course of millennia of its civilized life – and replace it with greed and the animal instinct of  “ survival of the fittest” and “the greediest, of course”.

Capitalists are glad when you are thirsty for water, hungry for food, sick from diseases for that is when they can make most of their profits and fill their coffers. 

This is what the end of history means.  This is what happens if “There Is No Alternative” to capitalism.  But there is.  And that is socialism and communism. 

It is, however, important for us to remember at this juncture about what was achieved by the first socialist states in the Soviet Union and China.

When we look at the current economic depression of the world, we are reminded of the great depression of the 1930s in the Western world, and of the Soviet economy of that time where there was no economic crisis at all.  While the imperialist countries were reeling under huge unemployment and under employment, Soviet Union had provided jobs to all because of the planned economy of Socialism.  It was the Soviet Union and the Chinese revolutionary movements which were instrumental in the defeat of Fascism of Germany and Japan respectively through colossal sacrifices, valor and correct tactics of a united front.  It is the Socialist economy that lifted crores of people- the peasants and workers – out of poverty and built self- sufficient economies.  The principle of the right of nations to self-determination has gone a long way in the universal recognition of that right.  Women were provided equal rights and opportunities hitherto unseen in any patriarchal capitalist society. 

These and many more achievements were made amidst consistent imperialist threats, embargoes and interferences etc., which makes them more commendable.

It is true that the first Socialist states also committed many mistakes.  Especially in the Soviet Union, there were mistakes in implementing mass line in collectivization of land, and in dealing with unrest in certain nationalities; in one-sided emphasis on heavy and basic industry  vis-a-vis small  and consumer  goods industry; emphasis on  industry vis-à-vis agriculture; in not giving enough thought to the impact of big dams and huge industries etc., on the environment; in not always following the principle of democratic centralism in its true-spirit and  mechanical  and one sided implementation of the proletarian dictatorship, while forgetting that the proletarian dictatorship should also ensure the fullest implementation of proletarian democracy too.

A glorious attempt was made to correct some of the mistakes in China during and before Cultural Revolution.   New initiatives were initiated on a mass scale to empower the workers, the women etc., economically, socially, culturally.  They collectively became masters of their own fate, albeit for a brief period.

It is true that those attempts and initiatives have proven inadequate, but a great beginning had been made. There was no prior experience in building socialism, to learn from and therefore it is quite possible to make mistakes.  But, the capitalists and their ideological apologists are only magnifying these mistakes and failures and totally ignoring and brushing aside the colossal victories.  By this, they want to hide their own colossal failure.

Yes, we have to defeat this conspiracy of the capitalists.  We have to learn from the Socialist experience and take it forward.  We have to draw proper lessons from the flawed implementation of the proletarian dictatorship and the inadequate implementation of mass line and reassert the primacy of Proletarian democracy or socialist democracy by ensuring mass line, proper organizational structures, forums and methods to ensure its full implementation etc. We have to learn from some of the experiments done under the leadership of Chavez and in fact from all such movements and also from some of the hitherto neglected Marxist theoreticians like Rosa Luxemburg, Gramsci et al. We should also draw lessons from Mao’s critique of the Soviet economy and further take it forward by a critical appraisal of the Chinese experience under Mao.  The inadequacy of the assessment of environmental impact by a somewhat one sided emphasis on the development of productive forces has to be corrected.

Yes, all these things have to be done.  The corrections have to be made both theoretically as well as practically.

But let us reassert that the Socialist path i.e. the Socialization of means of production is the only alternative path before the mankind for the pre-history to end, for the real history of civilization to begin, to put an end to hunger, disease, alienation, war and ecological catastrophe.  Let us reassert that there can be no Utopian Socialism but only the Socialism founded firmly on the scientific Marxist principles.

Let us resurrect the dream of Socialism which had inspired the workers, the women, the downtrodden and the progressives all over the world for over the past two centuries.

Socialism is neither a luxurious nor a Utopian dream.  It is a necessity if we want to breathe clean air, drink pure water and eat healthy food.

The CPI (Maoist) is one of the main parties in today’s world which is standing for and fighting for this alternative to capitalism that is socialism.

If we look at today’s India, what is it that is on offer in the so called mainstream politics in India?

The so called “Main stream Politics” and Alternative Politics in India

In India, democracy is reduced at the political level merely to “election and voting”. This is the only facet of the democracy that has been firmly entrenched.  Other facets of any real democracy like rule of law and real democratic values like the right to speak, right to association, right to strike etc., are only limited to paper and they are “allowed” only to certain vocal sections in some urban pockets and that too only in a limited way, at the mercy of the rulers and not as a right per se. 

Even the “parliamentarism” is only a sham. Nowadays it takes crores of rupees to win an election.  Most of those who win are only those who can “invest” such money.  Naturally this investment seeks proper returns of profit, to be extracted multifold in the five-year period.  The investors expecting quid pro quo are the mining mafia, coal mafia, spectrum mafia, real estate mafia etc., who masquerade as capitalists. The biggest ones among them also decide which persons should get which portfolio in the ministry.

The buying and selling of the MPs and MLAs to form or topple the government needs no elaboration. The less said about the debates and policy making in the legislative bodies, the better.  All the policy matters which concern the MNCs and or the CBB (Comprador Big Bourgeoisie) are decided before hand and are passed without even a façade of debate or discussion.  There are multiple scams some of which get to see the light of day owing to the inter-ruling class group clashes.

Occasionally when the ruling dispensation is forced to make a relatively progressive law or to make some progressive provisions in a law, say for e.g., the provision to compulsorily obtain the permission of Gram Sabhas in the PESA areas for any project, they make a mockery of it in its implementation.

Though the overwhelming majority of Telangana people demanded Telangana state, the ruling UPA Government only relented when it calculated that it would get electoral dividends from it and not when more than 500 students and youth sacrificed their life for it.  So much for the “rule by the people”! One has to only compare this to what is happening in Scotland or earlier in Quebec in Canada to understand the hollowness of democracy in India.

The recent elections which propelled the BJP and Modi to power have clearly shown, how the corporate world was hell bent on making Modi the Prime Minister. Adanis and Ambanis splurged money into his campaign like never before expecting their pound of flesh after the elections.  Modi didn’t disappoint them.  FDI in defense and railways, 133 environmental clearances at one stroke for various projects, permission to conduct field trials of Bt. Brinjal are only the beginning.

NDA partner Chandra Babu Naidu who had opposed Bauxite Mining in the agency areas of A.P. is shamelessly reengaging on it.

The so called “main stream” politics has infused a new life into the caste system.  This system has failed to provide education and jobs to all.  Even after more than six and half decades, universal compulsory education is a mirage.  Because of the lack of proper education and job opportunities to all, the importance of reservation has grown for the oppressed castes.  This has reinforced the caste system. In the scramble for reservations, the divisions among even the oppressed castes are deepening day by day.  All the parliamentary parties shamelessly exploit caste and religion for electoral gains and they even provoke caste attacks on Dalits.  Thus in many ways, they are perpetuating the obnoxious caste system.

Indian “Democracy” has no qualms about the majoritarian Hindu rule.  The whole corporate world and their media are utterly silent about the increasing saffronization and the communal riots provoked wantonly by the Sangh Parivar.  This state goes after the so called Muslim terrorists, hiding in other countries as well, but does not dare to arrest the Shiv Sena and BJP leaders who are behind Mumbai and Gujarat Pogroms. Religious minorities and especially Muslims and Christians are forced to live the lives of second class citizens.  Religious bigotry of Hindutva forces is and will be on the rise, with the architects of Gujarat pogroms at the helm of affairs.

This is what is on offer in the mainstream politics!

In their scheme of things, the votaries of this democracy have no place for the toiling masses, except as voters to be wooed once every five years and as beneficiaries of alms and dole outs. In their grand economic theories and policies, the toilers can only get what “trickles down”. Sometimes economists like Manmohan Singh are worried that not enough is “trickling down”. They shamelessly advocate that the policies should have a “human face” – akin to wolf in sheep’s skin.

The “mainstream democratic policies” of this country in the past two and half decades of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization have been successful in creating ultra-rich individuals; and for corporations to get named among the world’s richest lists. These numbers are increasing year after year by the plunder of nation’s resources and crony capitalism.  At the same time they have left the country with more than half of world’s poorest people,  an ill nation with such chronic and preventable diseases like diarrhea, malaria TB, etc., chronic malnutrition among the children, deaths at child births etc.

The policies pursued by the political representatives and servants of the landlords, the comprador big bourgeoisie and the imperialists have left the country neither sovereign nor self-sufficient in the past six and a half decades.

The continuous extraction of the surplus from the agriculture by the bureaucratic big bourgeoisie and the MNCs, through high costs of inputs, low prices for the produce and by huge promotion of consumerism has left the agriculture in perennial crisis. Eking out even a subsistence living from agriculture is becoming very difficult for the vast majority of agricultural workers, poor peasants and middle peasants and though attempts are being made to migrate to urban areas throughout the country, they are unable to do so, as there is little industrialization as compared to the needs of the surplus agricultural population. What the spectacular growth story is offering is only jobless growth.

The imperialism and its crisis of over production do not permit any large scale labour intensive industrialization in India because of semi-colonial relations.  This is borne out by the decreasing contribution of manufacturing sector to the economy vis-à-vis the mostly unproductive service sector.

Semi-colonial exploitation is on the one hand draining the surplus from agriculture preventing capital formation there and intensifying agrarian crisis and on the other hand impeding and distorting the necessary industrialization.  The multinational agri-business Corporations and their Indian partners are going to further exacerbate this situation by promoting agri-business, corporate agriculture etc.

Thus, the imperialist yoke is the biggest dead weight that is weighing down the Indian economy.  The imperialist yoke includes the comprador big bourgeoisie, it being the former’s vehicle of operation in India along with the feudal forces.

Therefore, the “alternative” politics of the CPI (Maoist) envisages the destruction of the semi feudal and semi colonial economy and build in its place new democratic economy as a step towards socialism.

How is the New State envisaged and how would be the ‘alternative development path’ in the new society?

New Democracy: 

The revolutionary movement seeks to establish real grass roots democracy in contrast to the current ‘first past the post system’ of the so called majority parliamentary system which is only a hollow democracy.  The rule of the real majority shall be ensured by putting up candidates from four class alliance by implementing universal suffrage to all those who are above 18 years (except a miniscule of the most reactionary elements) and the recall system.  Constant vigilance shall be ensured by constituting various types of people’s committees.  The new democratic state shall ensure the right to speak, right to assemble, right to association and right to strike etc., and make them inviolable.

A truly Independent Sovereign Federal Republic:

We shall establish a truly Federal Republic by ensuring the right of the nationalities to autonomy including the right to secede.  The new federal structure shall be built on the voluntary union of nationalities.  Provision for referendum/Plebiscite shall be provided for the option of secession or autonomy etc.

 There shall be no regional imbalances in the country and within states  by ensuring the equal development of all the states and regions.  The inter-state water disputes etc. will be settled with a principled stand and not with the favoritism etc. displayed currently.

The country shall be made truly Independent and Sovereign by annulling all the unequal treaties, agreements etc. imposed by the imperialist countries at present.  The country shall be transformed from the present semi-colonial one into a sovereign state by confiscating and nationalizing all the banks, financial institutions, industries, companies and all the properties of the imperialist agencies including MNCs and of the comprador big bourgeoisie. Loans owed to the Multi-lateral agencies of the imperialists will be abrogated.    

A People oriented Eco-friendly all round Development Path:

The paradigm of development will be re-oriented from the current capitalist model to a people oriented, eco-friendly development path, towards which the following steps will be taken up.

• The land belonging to landlords, religious institutes and absentee owners shall be seized and distributed among the landless agricultural workers and poor peasants while ensuring equal right of women to land.

Public investments shall be made to provide irrigation facilities, mechanization etc., in a scientific manner.  In the place of green revolution technology, more scientific agricultural practices like minimum tillage, organic farming, integrated nutrient, pest and water management, diverse cropping etc. will be followed that take care of ground water availability, restore soil fertility and ensure sustainable agriculture. A holistic approach will be taken about large scale farming, and small scale farming.

One-sided drainage of surplus from agriculture shall be stopped by ensuring the availability of inputs at low-cost, remunerative prices for crops, loans to farmers by co-operative institutions etc.

• Private small scale and medium scale industries shall be protected and encouraged, but their scale and scope will be controlled.                           

Industries and agro industries based on people’s needs shall be set up on a large scale in a decentralized manner so that agriculture and industry can progress together.  In setting up industries, there will be no one sided emphasis on the development of mega-cities served by vast areas of hinter land, which is a bane in terms  of colossal wastage of transport, travel time, metabolic rift etc. We shall ensure that “the antithesis between town and country” is abolished.

• There shall be a guarantee of six-hour work day. Child labour and piece rate shall be abolished.
• Mining and industrial policy will be formulated keeping in view the short-term as well as long – term interests of people, while taking into account the ecological impact on our vulnerable planet. In the energy sector, nuclear power will be abolished, thermal sector will be phased out. There won’t be any huge hydro-electric projects. Alternate renewable energy sources will be innovated and utilized. Efforts will be made to revive and clean rivers and marine ecology etc. 

Steps towards caste annihilation:

The new democratic state shall take up the following steps to destroy the economic base that sustains caste system, apart from the ideological struggle against the Brahminical ideology of Caste, so that the obnoxious system of caste is rooted out.

• The distribution of land to the landless and the poor peasants shall benefit mostly the Dalit and other oppressed castes, as 90% of those classes belong to these castes.
• It shall be ensured that the Revolutionary people’s committees and councils are led by the landless and poor peasants, as far as possible, which will ensure in the main that leadership starting at the village level shall be in the hands of the Dalits and the other oppressed castes.

     Thus the economic and political power shall provide a firm basis for social equality, which will be further accelerated by education.

• Universal compulsory education shall be provided with timely targets. Children who need special drive and teaching due to their social background shall be provided so, to ensure that they get equal opportunities.
• Till such time that equality – political, social and economic – is attained by the oppressed castes , there shall be provision for reservations and/or positive discrimination in education, jobs in the executive, legislature, judiciary etc.
• It shall be ensured that the present system of unwritten reservation of menial jobs to Dalits is actively abolished. Whatever jobs of hygiene are necessary for society, it shall be the duty of all castes to perform, in turns.
• The practice of caste discrimination, untouchability, caste attacks shall be severely punished.

Women:

Steps shall be taken to end all forms of gender discrimination and patriarchy. All necessary steps shall be taken to liberate women from household drudgery and make them equal participants in social production and activities, by providing community  kitchens, creches, parental leave to both men and women etc., Cultural campaigns to uphold the dignity of household work and for equal participation of men in such work shall be taken up. Positive discrimination and/or reservations and all such special policies needed to bring women on par with men at the shortest possible time shall be adopted.

Adivasis:

Adivasis shall be provided autonomy for their local self-rule and they will also be provided all amenities and opportunities to avail the fruits of modern development, if they should choose so. It shall not take up the path of “white man’s burden to integrate them forcibly into the rest of the world.

Others:

• The state shall be truly secular and shall not take up any religious activity. Religion shall be a personal activity.  It shall ensure the right of the individual to follow religion of their choice and observe religious activities and shall ensure social harmony.
• It shall ensure that there shall not be any discrimination against religious minorities.  It shall take up suitable measures for their social and economic development.  It shall not allow any religious fundamentalism to crop up and grow.
• It shall ensure scientific education, new democratic culture etc., in place of the present system.
• It shall ensure the rights of the children, the physically challenged, the old people, people with different sexual orientation etc.,
• It shall shun all kinds of expansionism and jingoism and strive to develop peaceful relationship with all the neighbouring countries etc.  

Dear friends,

In the light of the above discussions on the present day “main stream politics” and the alternative politics of the revolutionary movement we shall appeal to build a solidarity struggle for the alternative politics and political power taking shape in the form of revolutionary people’s committees and Janatana Sarkars.

The solidarity has to be in two forms. One is to directly propagate about it and ensure all kinds of help to it and the other is to build struggles and movements on various issues of the people – the peasants, the workers, the slum dwellers, the students, the unemployed, the employees etc. with a long term perspective.

In the plain areas, where the movement was strong once, revolutionary elements have to strive to build movements in a creative way. New tactics have to be developed, newer forms are to be invented, and new platforms have to be built in the broadest possible terms, getting rid of any sectarian approach so that gradually over a period of time the tide can be turned from the current state of white terror.

We appeal to the Dalit organizations, Ambedkarites and all those forces who are fighting for the rights of the downtrodden castes to join hands with the revolutionary movement in the struggle against Brahminism and for caste annihilation. It is the present state, the big bourgeoisie and the imperialists that are hand in glove with the Brahminical forces in perpetrating caste. Caste annihilation is possible only when the economic base and the state standing in guard of it are transformed in a revolutionary way, along with the struggle against Brahminical ideology and the struggle in the social and cultural fronts. So join us.

We also appeal to the environmentalists/ecologists to realize that the capitalist system itself, which considers everything only as an exchange value and not as a use value, is the enemy to the ecology. It is not enough to fight for the protection of a forest here and a hill there. It is necessary for us to join together for a comprehensive alternative path of development that we elaborated above.

The Janatana Sarkars and RPCs are moving with such an alternative vision. Stand in support of them.

We also appeal to the women’s organizations and feminists to stand in support of the women’s organizations actively functioning among the most backward adivasi women in the forests and plains of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Jharkhand. They are among the biggest organizations actively participating and leading the class struggle, armed struggle and the struggle against patriarchy, even amidst facing brutal state violence. Stand in support of them and join us in the united struggle against this patriarchal semi-feudal, semi-colonial system for a system based on gender equality.

We appeal to all the students and the youth to join in the revolutionary transformation of India, which will ensure education and jobs to all. Capitalism thrives on unemployment for it needs a reserve army of workers. Only socialist path can ensure jobs for all.

As we see, the imperialism is beset with irredeemable crisis and therefore it is pushing the burden on to the people and backward nations etc., and is suppressing nations and countries. Pushed to the wall, people  in the imperialist countries as well as in the developing countries are resisting the system in various forms. Sometimes this resistance is taking the form of obscurantism and terrorism as can be seen in the Middle East, Afghanistan etc. But the crisis has also renewed interest on the ideology of Marxism and its scientific analysis and espousal.

            It is the call of the times to once again uphold the path of socialism and fight for its realization.