Dear comrades and friends,
We are living in a turbulent period. During the post Second
World War period, the US-led imperialist system and its compradors and lackeys
launched a mighty neo-colonial offensive across the world and succeeded in
inflicting severe setbacks on the once powerful international communist
movement and socialist countries which had seemed capable of overthrowing the
imperialist system during the 1950s. Especially after the 1970s, neo-liberal
policies were imposed to overcome stagflation
which was intensifying the crisis confronted by the imperialist system, and
all the achievements of the working class and other toiling and oppressed
masses gained through more than two centuries of bitter class struggle were
lost. All welfare policies introduced as a by-product of class struggle were
taken away, the contract system replaced permanent jobs and speculative finance
capital and market forces ruled supreme. Imperialist cultural values and
consumerism went on bulldozing all socialist consciousness with a vengeance. Religion,
casteism, racism and parochialism were increasingly utilised as effective tools
to bind people to decadent values, to divide them and to make them impotent.
What we are witnessing in our country is not in any way
different from the international scenario. Under crony capitalism and mafia raj imposed under neo-colonial
plunder, price rise, corruption, unemployment, under employment and
commercialization of all fields are devastating people’s life and ecology.
While the UPA government stands condemned for numerous mega-scams, the BJP is
stalling Parliament session in sham protest, having proved itself equally
corrupt during its NDA rule and now in states ruled by it. While BJP, Shiv
Sena, Muslim League-like parties flourish parading naked communal politics,
Congress and others talk about secularism but pursue appeasement of all
religious, casteist and sectarian forces. All use money and muscle power,
religion, caste, parochialism etc. as part of vote-bank politics. Even the long
years of CPI(M)-led Left Front rule in Bengal, Kerala and Tripura have proved
that the CPI(M) and its Front partners are not basically different from the
ruling class parties when in power. All these parties presently represented are
sharing the very same neo-liberal policies and all have polarized against the
interests of people. As a result, though governments change, there is no change
in their policies. The very same ruling system continues, becoming more
anti-people and barbarous day by day. Though the Maoists claim to be working
for overthrowing the ruling system, in effect they have degenerated to the
extent of pursuing mercenary and terrorist activities. Their anarchist actions
have become an alibi for the ruling system to snatch away whatever democratic
rights still exist, and to fascicise the system. In the same way the isolated
terrorist actions of militants influenced by religious fundamentalism and the
insurgents in Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast are utilized to impose virtual
military rule in vast areas, to retain AFSPA like black laws and to terrorize
the minorities and the oppressed masses.
Thus the neo-colonial plunder and the so-called development
policy which devastate people’s life and nature are being fanatically pursued
by the central and state governments. The ruling system has become fascistic,
anti-people and absolutely corrupt. Whichever party or alliance comes to power,
this situation does not change; rather it becomes more reactionary. What is
required is a people’s alternative which will democratize the system, establish
people’s power at all levels, ensure all basic rights like food, housing,
healthcare, education and employment to all, and pursue a people-oriented,
sustainable development policy. The past and present performances of the
parties ranging from Congress and BJP to the CPI(M)-led Left Front have proved
that none of them can or will do the above, but will rather do just the
opposite. In spite of some cosmetic differences, the Congress-led UPA, the BJP-
led NDA and the proposed amorphous third alternative by CPI(M) and other
opportunist parties are nothing but different variations of ruling class
alternatives.
But contrary to the early 1990s when the Soviet Union had
just disintegrated and the imperialists and their lackeys were declaring ‘end
of history’ and ‘end of socialism’, the global situation has undergone
significant positive changes. From the beginning of this century, while the
global imperialist finance system is facing ever-intensifying and repeated
crises, the toiling masses and oppressed people are on the move, waging
upsurges in Latin America, persistent strike actions in the imperialist
countries, Arab Uprising-like gigantic movements in North Africa and West Asia,
and numerous revolutionary advances as in Nepal, Greece and elsewhere including
India. Though the imperialists, especially US imperialists and their lackeys of
all hues, are challenged everywhere, they are succeeding in diverting the
movements from the revolutionary path and suppressing them in the absence of
revolutionary vanguard forces to lead them forward. That is, while the
objective situation is becoming favorable for yet another upswing of
revolution, the subjective forces are still weak and unable to utilize the
excellent revolutionary fervour at the global level.
The situation in our country is also the same. It is at this
critical juncture that the Party Programme and Path of People’s Democratic
Revolution adopted by the Ninth Congress of the CPI(ML) at Bhubaneswar in
November, 2011, have shown the revolutionary way forward to the working class
and the oppressed masses and peoples. Only by strengthening the Party’s
activities at all levels can the dreams of our valiant martyrs be realized and
the country advance to People’s Democracy and Socialism.
Struggling against all obstacles, including the right
opportunist and anarchist deviations still haunting the movement, and
uncompromisingly fighting against the neo-liberal policies, the CPI(ML) has
succeeded in building party organization in almost all states and in leading
many all-India campaigns against the central and state governments over the
last decade. Along with strengthening class and mass organizations in all
fields, it is consistently struggling against the neo-liberal policies and
their consequences. While organizing land struggles with the slogan “land to
the tiller”, it is fighting against displacement in the name of development,
the new counter-revolutionary offensive in the agrarian sector leading to
suicides and pauperization of millions of the peasantry and for rights of the
slum dwellers and all homeless people. It has taken the initiative in launching
a caste annihilation movement and is active in the anti-nuclear plant movement,
in the struggles against ecological destruction, in the struggles against militarization
and AFSPA and all other black laws. It is waging a consistent struggle against
neo-colonization, against the hegemony of IMF-World Bank-WTO and MNCs, and
commercialization of all fields etc. The massive rally planned under the banner
of Democratic People’s Forum (DPF) on November 7th in Ahmedabad is
part of its consistent struggle against communalization and for secular values.
It is working hard to build and strengthen DPF at all-India level and such
forums at state levels as People’s Alternative to the ruling system. Extending
these activities at all-India level to the international level, upholding the
spirit of proletarian internationalism, the CPI (ML) could play a leading role
in building the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties (ICOR)
which has already taken a number of international initiatives. Through a number
of publications it is consistently propagating its views among the masses.
All these activities require huge funds for which the Party
entirely relies on the toiling masses and friends. The Party and class/mass organizations
develop all-round activities by regularly collecting district level and state
level funds every year, besides collections for day to day functioning, from
the masses. Besides, every year, a central fund is collected for the central
functioning of the Party, which is developing day by day. This year also our
Party comrades will approach you for fund collection both within the country
and also everywhere else the comrades and friends from the country are working,
like the Gulf region. The Central Committee of the CPI (ML) appeals to all of
you to generously contribute to the Party Central Fund collected from 1st
October to 30th November. Please hand over your contributions to the
activists of the Party who approach you with this appeal. If no such comrades
are near the area where you are working, please send your contribution directly
to the Party centre (account no. 2007
1010 16469 of K.N.Ramachandran, Uttam Nagar Branch, New Delhi, of Canara Bank
(IFSC Code CNRB 0002379). Please visit our website: www:cpiml.in and facebook
of the undersigned as well as of CPI(ML).
It is a critical period when we have to intensify our
activities in all fields challenging the imperialists and their lackeys ruling
the country. Please contribute generously and strengthen the CPI (ML) to carry
forward the revolutionary tasks.
K.N.Ramachandran,
General Secretary, CPI (ML), Dated 30th September, 2012.
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