1. The
socio-political situation in India, at present, is very alarming and worrisome.
The country, as a whole, stands badly engulfed by a whirlwind of deep rooted
socio-economic adversities such as wide-spread poverty, sky-rocketing prices,
ever increasing unemployment and under-employment, horrible mismanagement,
rampant corruption and various types of social and administrative oppression.
All these maladies, jointly, are inflicting mortal blows to the potentialities
we have in our country for social development. A handful of super rich do have
some ill-earned fruits to enjoy, but the vast multitude of toiling masses are
virtually living from hand to mouth or are actually starving. The gap of
disparity between the rich and the poor in our country, with 1% owning 54% of
its wealth, is the second biggest in the world. Such an alarming imbalance in
the ownership of national wealth, combined with wide spread unemployment, has
put the Indian society on the top of a social volcano which may erupt and
destroy it not long before. Politically, the democracy here stands diluted to
periodic elections only, which are often hijacked by money power or muscle
power and are no longer a free and fair expression of public opinion.
2. Freedom
from the colonial rule in 1947, ultimately, proved to be merely transfer of
state-power from the Britishers into the hands of political representatives of
Indian exploiting classes-capitalists and landlords. The toiling masses,
especially the workers and peasants who had made tremendous sacrifices during the
struggle for independence, got nothing but empty rhetoric from the new rulers.
Age old obnoxious caste system, which had taken an institutionalised form of
social oppression and in-built exploitation, remained intact as earlier. Thus
the Dalits and the other landless lower castes, who were forced to live in
dehumanised socio-econonic environment by the ruthless Brahmnical Order, got no
relief from their centuries old slavery. The independent India, no doubt, gave
them a voting right and some doles in the shape of reservations and grants etc.
But in the absence of radical land reforms, overwhelming majority of these
landless poors had to continue to work as menials, bonded labourers or casual
daily wagers in order to earn their livlihood. Even the meagre constitutional
provisions made for the upliftment of these down-trodden sections of society
were not implemented properly and the majority of them remained deprived from
all such benefits. They still don’t have any assured or dependable source of
income. Even those, who could get some benifit from reservations, had to often
bear with severe mental torture and humiliation at the hands of so-called upper
castes. With the capitalist mode of development and concentration of wealth in
the hands of corporates and big landlords, the trials and tribulations of these
deprived and despised sections of society have become more horrible and
horrendous. Another irony of the
situation is that even a big chunk of the progressive intelligensia has so far
failed to gauge and grasp the real depth of this castiest oppression and have
not evolved any effective steps to end this deep rooted cancer of Indian
society, which has been blocking the over all development of productive forces.
Similarly, even after 70 years of
independence, the women in India, who constitute nearly 50% of its population,
have still not got any reckonable relief from the bondages of suppresive
Patriarchal Order prevalent here since centuries. Several of the half-baked
programmes announced by the governments so for in the direction of women
empowerment have remained only on papers. And, the women in general,
particularly from the poor strata, are still helpless victims of various types
of discriminations, domestic violance, sexual attacks and naked exploitation as
work force.
3. The capitalist path of development, adopted
by the bourgeiose landlord ruling classes after independance, in collaboration
with the foreign finance capital, has strengthened the grip of monopolies and
land-lords on the Indian economy. They have amassed good fortunes and some of
these corporate houses are now ranking amongest the global wealth magnates,
where as the vast multitude of toilng masses have been mercilessly looted by
the governments through anti-people budgetry measures, ever increasing burden
of taxes, levies and administrative prices. The economic policy stance as well
as administrative approach of almost all the governments at the Centre and
bureaucracy, in general, have through out remained pro-corporates and pro-imperialist.
Such an anti-people and anti-national set of policies of the ruling classes
have created the present awful socio-political scenario where poverty,
alongwith widespread unemployment, price-rise and corruption have emerged as
the major issues of public concern. With the implementation of imperialist
dictated neo-libral policies since 1991, all these problems have become more
aggravated. The propaganda being made by the govt.and its agencies, with the
help of hollow statistics, regarding growth in GDP and in other macro economic
indicators is an eye wash to a great extent, and is proving to be false and
misleading. In fact the widely acclaimed export oriented growth is of little
use for the welfare of the toiling masses as well as for the upliftment of the
Indian economy, which badly needs expansion of internal market i.e. a
substantial increase in the purchasing capacity of the working people. Because
of continuous and steep erosion in real wages in the country, this vital need
is being badly ignored by the govt. Under these circumstances, the people have
fallen an easy prey to grave despondency and bewilderment. And, this over all
frustration is giving rise to hapless suicides by debt ridden farmers,
pauperised agriculture labourers and other hard ups.
4. Another dark aspect of the Indian
political situation is more and more
opening up of its economy for the rapacious plunder of imperialists. By now
almost all the major fields of Indian economy such as Banks, Insurance,
Railways, I.T., defence production etc. and even retail trade stand opened for
the infiltration, occupation and exploitation by the imperialist finance
capital i.e., FDI. With the so-called strategic alliances signed by the Indian
governments with the American imperialists, this loot has further been made
easy and institutionalised. Even the national security concerns have been
compromised to a great extent. It is an open secret now that these imperialists
are hankering after a neo-colonial world order to perpetuate their plunder and
to establish their dominance over all the natural resources on the earth. They
are sparing no crime to build a political structure suited to their needs and
are undermining all the democratic norms and forms. Certainly such an
ill-advised drive and insatiable greed of the imperialists is fraught with
unimaginable dangers for the mankind. And unfortunately, Indian ruling classes
are speedily integrating their economic and political interests with these
monsters.
5. With the installation of B.J.P. government at
the Centre, secularism, one of the main pro-people pillars of Indian
Constitution, has further been jeopardised. The political power has, by and
large, been gone in the grips of Sangh Pariwar and they have immensly
intensified their communal fascist offensive for creating a theocratic state.
So for, these reactionary forces have succeded in controlling several vital
constitutional institutions and are vehemently trying to distort the history of Indian society and to saffornise
its culture and educational system. No effort is being spared by them to
polarise the society on communal lines. Reactionary-obscrunantist forces have
been fully unleashed by the RSS and dissent is being curbed with brutal force.
As a result of such an atmosphere of fear, intolerance and communal divide,
brutal attacks on minorities, dalits, women and Adivasies have not only
increased but have become more ghastly.
6. No doubt, the progressive democratic and
revolutionary forces in the country have, throughout, been giving a stiff fight
against castiest oppression, capitalist and pre-capitalist froms of
exploitation and communal onslaughts, both politically as well as through mass
mobilisations. But this resistance could not take a country-wide, decisive and
organised political shape. The reasons for this weekness are needed to be
analysed properly. This over all situation definitely demands intensification
of class struggle in all its forms-economic, political and ideological, while
keeping the political struggle in command, and mobilising the masses for
broadbased struggles on various issues affecting their living conditions. As
India is a big and vast country, inhabited by more then three dozen
nationalities, speaking different languages and each having its own rich
culture, customs and traditions, different regions of the country, naturally,
have different types of problems, priorities, geographical conditions and
needs. Therefore the peculiarities of each area should be studied properly and
militant mass movements organised on pressing regional issues as an urgent
priority. And then these local and regional struggles should be conjoined with
the All India movement. Thus the historic necessity underlines steadily
building a strong enough mass movement, capable of advancing towards socialism.
7. Such a great and giganatic task cannot be
successfully undertaken without creative application of Marxist analytical
tools, which provide us the most potent and comprehensive scientific approach
for the revolutionary transformation of human society. Alongwith this
scientific analytical approach, the contributions made by several Indian
scholars and socio-political crusaders such as-Periyar Ramaswamy Naiker, Baba
Sahib Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Ghadrites and so many other
pro-people social reformers to dismantle inhuman Brahmnical Order and to
advance towards an equalitarian socialist society, should also be properly
grasped and followed. Half baked and faulty approaches on these counts always
act as stumbling blocks in the advancement of revolutionary movements. In the
history of revolutionary movements and struggles in India, inspite of
innumerable sacrifices of leaders and cadres, such weaknesses in theory and
approach as well as deviations from principles of Marxism-Leninism have acted
as big hinderances in the development of a decisive people’s movement, capable
of eradicating casteist oppression and capitalist exploitation. No doubt, in
1964, a good team of marxist stalwarts led by Comrade P. Sundrayya made comendable
efforts for analysing the Indian objective socio-political reality and formed a
political party which attracted thousands of militant cadres from the working
class, peasantry and other working people, towards it ranks. But on the whole,
Left Forces in this country, deviating from the scientific path have often gone
either to the right revisionist road of class collaboration or to the left
sectarian Adventurism. At present parliamentary opportunism, the latest variety
of right revisionism is causing a big harm to the revolutionary movement. The
ruling classes have succeeded in utilising these deviations and thus disrupting
and dismembering this movement to a misrable extent. The disruptions and
deviations in the international communist movement too have contributed to this
sad state of affairs of the present Indian movement.
8. Therefore the need of the hour is to develop
a real revolutionary party, functioning as the vanguard of revolutionary
working class, capable of bringing into its fold the most sincere and
self-sacrificing cadres, and capable of co-ordinating with all the progressive,
democratic and secular struggles in our country as well as in the international
arena. The ongoing lapses on these counts will have to be identified and
rectified at the earliest. Earnest efforts will have to be undertaken to
approach and unite all the left forces in the country and united struggles will
have to be launched, suitably combining parliamentary and extra-parliamentary
forms of struggles, for the real emanicipation of the people.
9. The Revolutionary Marxist Party of India
is being launched to confront all these big challanges in the socio-political
arena. It will put in all sorts of efforts required for advancing towards this
long and ardous endevour. To start with, the Party will spare no efforts for
mobilising all sections of the working people : -
- to oppose neo-libral policy frame work
- to thwart the communal-fascist offensive of
Sangh Pariwar,
- to pressurise the govt. for controling prices
of essential commodities and of public utility services
- to curve corruption and mal-administration.
- to get the employment avenues generated in a
big way.
- to oppose casteist oppression, all types of
oppression on minorities,dalits, women and Adivasies as well as all
attacks on democratic rights, norms and forms.
- to awaken and arouse the masses against the
ever increasing intervention of imperialist forces in the
affairs of our country.
- to strengthen unity and integrity of the
country and to resist dilution of federalism.
- to safeguard ecology from wanton destruction
- to strengthen proletarian-internationalism.
