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New Democracy, August 2018
New Democracy, August 2018
New Democracy, August 2018
Bea
Beatt Back the Attac
Back ks on
Attacks do not get corresponding prices for their produce. Even the land owning
peasantry is feeling increasingly squeezed. RSS-BJP Govt. is only trying
Democr
Democra atic Rights
to fool the peasants with misleading announcements which peasants are
seeing through. Workers are being attacked and the rights they had won
through valiant struggles are being taken away. Tribals are being
With the economy sputtering and resentment among all sections of dispossessed of their land and means of livelihood because their land is
people rising, the ruling RSS-BJP is plotting to come back to power on the rich in mineral resources. Dalits and other oppressed castes are being
strength of deepening communal polarization in the country and anchoring attacked for challenging upper caste domination and demanding their share
it around a narrative of pseudo-nationalism. The plank of 'development of in jobs and land. Women are being asked to conform to patriarchal norms
all' is only a cover to hide the elitist character of the ruling dispensation. enshrined in Manusmriti. All these classes and sections are rising in
struggle.
RSS is a fascist organization. It is anchored onto upper caste
chauvinism. It is subservient to imperialism. No wonder it is the largest RSS-BJP Govt. is facing growing opposition from the people and is
recipient of funds from abroad. Its world view articulates the interests of facing isolation for betrayal of its promises before 2014 elections. They
landlords and big capitalists who are subservient to imperialism. In this squandered the advantage of lower prices of crude oil in the international
RSS essentially shares its class nature with other ruling class parties. market to shower benefits on the chosen corporate. There is a long list of
However, its Hindu Rashtra is a brazen and unabashed pursuit of communal those who have defrauded the Govt. banks and were allowed to leave the
division and antiquated attitude towards all oppressed sections like tribals, country. Demonetization was one of the cruellest attacks on the common
Dalits and other oppressed castes, and women. It is against even the limited people including small businesses. Besides, this was the biggest fascist
democracy that exists in India, though it has used it to come to power as exercise to browbeat the people into accepting in the name of nationalism
that was the route chosen by the ruling classes earlier in the concrete a measure targeting them. Now with 99.3% of the demonetized currency
background of national and international developments in the first half of back with RBI and some more with local institutions and even neighbouring
the last century. country Nepal, the façade of black money and fake currency has been
shred to pieces.
While it is important to expose the real character of the ruling RSS-
BJP, it is even more important to understand and expose why the ruling Performance of RSS-BJP on creating employment has been abysmal.
classes of the country are backing them. With contradictions of the present They had promised to create 1.5 core jobs every year, but there have been
system dominated by big capitalists and big landlords and subservient to hardly any new jobs. Now they including Modi are trying to portray the odd
imperialist powers intensifying and people’s struggles rising, ruling classes jobs people are forced to do to feed themselves as job creation. Youth is
have opted for this fascist organization. One can see this in the large restive and wants productive employment. Unable and unwilling to provide
scale endorsement and propagation of RSS agenda on the big media them employment, RSS-BJP has been enrolling them as volunteers in
controlled by the corporate. Their need is rooted in their pursuit of communal conspiracies. A large number of youth are being employed by
augmenting their wealth and safeguarding their class rule and hence their RSS as ‘gau raskshaks’ and lynch mobs targeting Muslims and Dalits.
domination over the country. For augmenting their wealth they are attacking
Facing the rising resentment of the people, RSS-BJP are intensifying
all sections of people and to safeguard their rule they are atomizing the
their efforts at communal polarization. They are raising the issue of infiltration
people, increasing divisions and fomenting hatred amongst them.
from Bangladesh with that motive. They are, with the help of corporate
All sections of people are under attack. Peasants are facing worsening media, raising to feverish pitch their anti-people version of nationalism.
Indian Ag ricultur
Agricultur e in the
riculture remedy for this agrarian crisis and peasants’ suicides. Unfortunately these
intellectuals have failed to realize that GDP acts only as an index to measure
Central Govt.!
protects class exploitation. In Maharastra, landowners mostly belong to
the Maratha sect. Only 30% of the peasants are Maratha in this state but
in Maharastra, 75% land, 71% cooperatives, 86 among 105 sugar factories,
A major question has arisen about supply for Irrigation for which the The worst hit will be the share croppers or the bhagidari peasants. If the
Official Response
Painfully for the peasants, the official response is to absolve the Govt
and lay the blame on the people. SSNNL Chairman, SS Rathore is on
record stating that “MP govt is not bound to supply water for summer crops”.
Advisor to Gujarat govt, BN Navalawala, justified the Govt’s position stating
that “Narmada water should be seen as an add on and not the main source.
We have asked administrators of cities to revive the local sources of water.”
Recent Political
Political while despair among US working class kept on rising. In this situation,
Trump, feeding on this despair, came to power. Trump presidency marks a
Developments
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significant shift in the priorities of US imperialism and change in the strategy
of pursuit of hegemony. Trump has torn up TPP and NAFTA. Trump is
pursuing US imperialist interests outside the multilateral forums. He has
withdrawn from International Convention of Climate Change, UNESCO and
(This comment on recent political Human Rights Council. Trump is intensifying contradiction with third world
developments was released after the meeting of countries. He is pegging US military assistance even to traditional allies
the Central Committee of CPI(ML)-New Democracy on payment for the same. He is trying to strike deals with Russia on Europe
and Middle East. All this means reversal of a number of policies which
held in early August, 2018)
were pursued by earlier Admn. and this change is meeting strong resistance
from Democrats and also several Republican leaders.
We are going through a period of disorder both on the international scene
as well as domestically. The imperialist system in facing unprecedented Trump is pressurizing other countries to buy US goods and services
crisis- economically, socially and politically. There is increasing anger and is waging trade war for this purpose. He is pursuing an America First
among the people against neoliberal policies resulting in wage freeze or policy which actually means America Only. He is attacking US allies like
even wage cut, cut in social security, rising cost of education and health Canada, Britain, Germany and France for taking advantage of America in
care, growing unemployment which has given rise to increasing sense of trade and putting the burden of their defense on US. He recently walked
despair and anger among the people. To deflect this, ruling big bourgeoisie out of the G-7 meeting in Canada and refused to endorse the communiqué
are promoting xenophobia targeted against immigrants while suppressing issued after the Summit. He also criticized European powers during the
people’s protests. However, there is as yet no qualitative upswing in the NATO summit while he went and met President of Russia in Helsinki claiming
struggle for alternative system though factors for such an upswing are it to be a very fruitful meeting. Trump is unleashing trade war to galvanize
maturing. It is a situation where old is dying and new is not being born. US economy and achieve US foreign policy objectives. He is trying to
achieve hegemonic ambitions through trade war. However, this trade war
As noted previously, US led imperialist world order which emerged after is going to boomerang on US unless other countries cave in and submit to
Second World War, is unraveling. The rise of unipolar world after dissolution US dictates. Shrinkage of trade will seriously affect US economy particularly
of the then Soviet Union was linked to imperialist globalization with its sectors producing high value goods and sectors where US has a large
institutions meant to ensure continued hegemony of US imperialism. This share of world market. But Trump Admn. believes that they can outlast
was undermined by the deepening economic crisis in western imperialist their rivals.
countries and rise of other imperialist countries, particularly China as an
Abrupt changes in ruling class policies are often brought about by
economic power and revival of Russia as a military power. US attempts to
idiosyncratic personalities like Trump. His holding of talks with the leader
secure world hegemony through aggressions in the name of war on terror
of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, has dramatically eased the tensions around
met strong resistance from the people of the countries invaded, while
North Korea, though this may be only temporary and the fact is that this
explosion of world financial-economic crisis undermined its ability to wage
happened under South Korean pressure. He has recently also offered to
endless wars. This resulted in disillusionment about war on terror of Bush
talk to Iran’s President Rouhani ‘without preconditions’ but only after
period. There followed a period of seeking hegemony through other means
annulling the Agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme and imposing
in Obama period. But US hegemony could not be ensured without ever
sanctions.
increasing deployment of military forces and consequent huge expenditure.
Obama's strategy came crashing down only resulting in greater disorder On the other hand Trump is following a white supremacist anti-immigrant
PSU fights to stop charging of leadership with Additional Chief Secretary (Higher Education) at Chandigarh.
Students of Brijindra College and SBS College Kotkapura got admission
The goals of the new Since their approval to the war credits in the 1st World War, the SPD
has always proved to be a reliable supporter of the monopolies. Their
government and the role followers must soberly recognize and comprehend the betrayal of the SPD
leadership and the degeneration of the former working-class party. They