Support, Strengthen and vote for Communist Revolutionary Organizations

Intensify struggle on people’s issues, develop agrarian revolutionary movement

No support and vote to the ruling class and revisionist parties and their alliances- UPA, NDA and Third Front

For the election of a new central government 15th Lok sabha election is going to be held. After 1947 many governments have come and go in India but basic situation of the people has not changed. People in semi- colonial and semi-feudal India are still groaning under the exploitation of Imperialism, Feudalism and comprador bureaucrat capitalism. Gap between rich and poor is widening. While a small section of rich is becoming wealthier the condition of common people is precarious. Govts. rather than addressing the problems of the people are serving the interest of Imperialists, MNCs, big bourgeoisie and feudals while suppressing the people by force. They are particularly targeting revolutionary movements.  Side by side they are trying to weaken the people’s movements through deception and false promises.

       Elections to Lok Sabha are being held at a time when world is passing through a global economic crisis and imperialism is trying to shift the burden of the crisis on the backward countries while continuing with their policy of hegemony, domination etc.  In our country the impact of deepening economic crisis is adding to the hardships of the people, brought about by the implementation of the anti-people pro-imperialist new economic policies by the ruling classes of the country. Spectre of job losses in the industrial sector, decline in industrial production, stagnation in the agrarian economy, suicides by the peasants and starvation deaths of the rural poor are continuing. The ruling classes are shelving the land reforms and taking away the land of the peasantry and other masses for the aggrandizement of foreign companies and Indian big business houses in the name of SEZ, Industrialization, Urbanization and Development etc. Unemployment among the youths and indebtedness of the peasant masses are increasing. Basic health and educational facilities are increasingly going out of the reach of the poor and middle classes. Prices of essential commodities are rising even as the inflation is coming down. Attacks on the oppressed sections of the people-minorities, tribals, dalits and women are increasing. All these characterize the present situation of India. Conditions of the overwhelming majority of the people are worsening due to the policies being pursued by the ruling classes and their political parties.

      In this scenario various ruling class parties are vying for power without offering any solution to the problems of the people. Different combinations of the ruling class parties are not even touching the basic issues of the people what to talk of offering any solution for them. Backed by the power of Money, Muscle and Media, they are trying to drown the people’s problems and anger in the din of their bogus electoral alternatives. Parties are moving in and out of these ‘alternatives’ like worn out clothes with the sole objective of enjoying power disregarding people’s concerns.

The demand for separate state of Telengana has been around even prior to the incorporation of this region in the State of Andhra Pradesh in 1956. This demand has been gaining support among the people of Telengana though the movement for the separate state has been going through ebbs and tides. It has also been gaining acceptance from the different political forces- both revolutionary organizations and ruling class parties, though the reasons for both are different.

The base of the demand is in the discrimination and backwardness faced by this region in the united state. Our Policy Resolution (5-18) states that “…These demands have their base in the neglect of these regions and the feeling among the people that their regions are being neglected as they are part of provinces dominated by people of other regions.” Our Party has been recognizing the discrimination against and neglect of these regions which serve as the base for the demand for separate province.

However, our party has not been supporting the demand for separate statehood for Telengana. We have been holding, “We have been supporting the demand for separate province only when it pertains to the people with distinct identity and not as a solution to the problem of uneven development.” On the above premise we supported demands for separate provinces of Jharkhand, Gorkhaland, Uttarakhand and Chhatisgarh but not those pertaining to Telengana and Vidarbha. Our Policy Resolution (5-18) states, “formation of separate province is not the solution of the problems of uneven development. …. Hence, on the questions of Telengana and Vidarbha, our approach is to wage struggle against backwardness and neglect by the rulers of the state on the issues of development and discrimination towards people of the region. We do not support the formation of separate state as it diverts form the real issues facing the people and will not solve even the problems on which it is based.”

Over four hundred Palestinians have been killed in the incessant air attacks against blockaded and cut off Gaza strip bordering Israel and Egypt. Ultra-modern weaponry supplied by US imperialism has been on display against the Palestinians of Gaza. Israeli planes targeted hospitals, schools, mosques and civilian houses not to mention Parliament building, police headquarters etc. Old and young, women and children took the brunt of killings by Zionist criminal rulers of Israel.  For the maximum toll of civilians bombed at the prayer time. A mother pulling her young daughter from the debris, a father pulling his young son from rubble are common sights. People are being slaughtered while all aid and relief is denied through blockade of land, air and sea routes. Hospitals are without medicine, operations are being done without anaesthetics. Moreover, people are without food and basic things necessary to sustain life. 1.5 million people are being caged and imprisoned to face the deadly onslaught of state of art bombers and their explosive payload. A massacre is being perpetrated in “laboratory conditions” prepared by Zionist criminals and their US patrons. Zionist rulers are denying any humanitarian crisis as they do not consider the Arabs living in Palestine as human beings.

Often the identity of the actors behind some events remains obscure but the effects of these events are evident to all. There is debate and doubt even now about the real perpetrators and the planners of the attacks on New York on 11th September 2001 and it will probably remain so for long. This is because those responsible for the investigation are neither themselves ‘neutral’ nor are considered to be so. But the world is conversant with the ‘war against terror’ launched by the American administration after these attacks. In its course, America and its allies militarily occupied first Afghanistan and later Iraq.

It seems as though the armed attack in Mumbai on 26th November is going to run a similar course. On 26th November ten armed people attacked Mumbai and shook not only the local police and administration but the entire Govt of India. This was discussed not only in India but in the whole world and the discussion is continuing. The Govts. of India and those of  America and Britain and their media used these attacks for building war hysteria against Pakistan. Through this war hysteria pressure was built and it is still being built on Pakistan to intensify its drive against ‘terror’. Using the fear of an attack by India, rulers of America and Britain want to blunt the opposition in Pakistan to their acts of aggression and want to solve their increasing military difficulties in Afghanistan with the help of the Pakistan Army.