New Dawn

Vote out all those who enslave the country to neo-liberal policies.

Vote for Revolutionary alternative, Vote for CPI(ML).

The Elections to UP and four other state assemblies are taking place at a very critical time. Out of these the ruling class parties are treating the seven phase elections to UP assembly as a dress rehersal for the next Lok Sabha elections  and had started campaign for the same months before, spending fabulous sums, making the code conduct of Election Commission meaningless. During the last two decades all the parties whether Congress, BJP, SP, BSP or others who were or are in power at center or in the states are competing with each other the neo-liberal policies which have pauperized the masses and devastated the nature unprecedentedly.  These policies have led to price rise, corruption, unemployment and commercialization of education, healthcare and all other essential services.  To transfer agricultural land at throw away prices to MNCs and corporate houses, peasants are displaced in ever larger numbers and all resistances are brutally suppressed. During the last years after coming to power using the dalit card the BSP government has not implemented land reforms, or any other policies which benefitted the downtrodden. On the contrary it has created new records of corruption and atrocities against the poor. It has voted for all anti-people policies of the UPA government at center. While Congress is in a hurry to enslave the country to neo-colonial policies inviting even FDI in retail sector, signing a number of unequal treaties with US, the record of BJP governments in Karnataka or Gujarat or elsewhere is not different. All these anti-people, anti-national parties are one in making the rich fabulously richer, while making the poor poorer, with 80% earning less than Rs.20 per day. While they turn the parliament and state assemblies in to real pig-dens, their collusion became clear as the 42 year old exercise to enact a Lokpal Bill was once again scuttled.

These issues are not even discussed in the elections.  All parties are engaged in mutual mudslinging and using caste - communal vote banks, along with money-liquor- goonda power to win.  None of them are prepared to oppose the imperialist dictated policies. Elections are turned in to musical chair game. The CPI-CPI(M) like forces are not better, as their Left Front was also implementing the same ruling class policies in Bengal and Kerala. It is in this context CPI(ML) is contesting the elections in few seats, calling for a revolutionary alternative to the ruling system.

The six decades of rule by Congress and other parties after 1947 has only enslaved the country to neo-colonial plunder. A revolutionary alternative ensuring  food, housing, healthcare, education and employment with need based wages to all can be achieved and the real independence, as the martyrs of the independence struggle dreamed, can be achieved  only by overthrowing the ruling system and advancing to people’s democracy and socialism. The CPI(ML) has fielded a few candidates and supports few others to take this politics of revolutionary change and people’s democracy to the people.  It calls for throwing out IMF-World Bank- WTO- MNCs and the neo-liberal policies implemented under their orders which are responsible for price rise, corruption, unemployment and increasing  ineqalities. It calls for an anti-caste movement aimed at annihilation of the caste, for fighting the caste-communal based vote banks,  for land reforms based on “ land to the tiller”, end to displacement for MNCS and corporates, and transferring all power to the people. It appeals to all progressive, democratic forces, the toiling masses to vote for the candidates of CPI (ML) and those supported by it to advance the struggle for a caste-less, secular and democratic society which ensures social justice and equality.

K.N.Ramachandran,

General Secretary, CPI(ML).

Dated  5^th January, 2012.