Monday, December 10, 2012

International Conference on 24 November in Hamburg: Speech by Red Action - Croatia


World we live in is an ever changing and dynamic World full of contradictions. It is our opinion that the left in generally is failing to provide a valid explanation for the processes in which we are entangled today and a successful program for overcoming the contradictions in which we are forced to live. It is also true however, that nothing about todays' World can be explained without understanding imperialism.
Imperialism is undoubtedly the source of main contradictions. Its race to save their profit margin forces imperialist Capital not just create all the conflicts and wars with even greater regularity in the last few years of the crisis, but also to be in constant war against the working class and the peoples of the World. This constant war can be seen in the attacks on the working-class wages and standard of living in the imperialist countries, racist attacks of the system against migrants and youth, it can be seen in the destruction of industrial working class and aggressive privatization process in dependent countries of Eastern Europe and other countries of European "periphery". It is of out most importance again today to remind ourselves of what we should have learned a century ago - that imperialism is not a policy of one country interfering in the affairs of another. It is a stage of capitalism in which monopoly Capitals can not exist without producing regular wars between themselves but also waging continuous war against the peoples of the World.
This wars are not the choice of either the Capital because it can not exist without this war, or the proletariat because the war against it is already here. The existence of an opened armed struggle does not depend on how "democratic" a State is, it depends on how strong is the resistance of the peoples against the Capital. Only a strong peoples resistance forces States to use fascism in the sense we used to understand it - as an open dictatorship of the most reactionary forces of financial Capital as opposed to the hidden dictatorship we know as parlimentarism. So, opened armed attacks against the peoples is an unavoidable part of the attempts of the dictatorship of the Capital to maintain its rule when confronted with a peoples' revolutionary movement.
India is our strongest front of struggle against the dictatorship of the Capital. It is not so only because of this or that historical specific development in India, but first and foremost because of the revolutionary movement capable of understanding the contradictions in which it is forced to work in. The genocidal campaign of the dictatorship of the Capital against the peoples of India is the result of the capability of revolutionary movement to open a front of resistance to this dictatorship. In that sense, the Peoples' War in India is an immensely important contemporary lesson for the left which, sadly, it is incapable of understanding.
This resistance to imperialist genocidal war against the peoples of India is no less important than the Peoples Liberation War in Vietnam in the last century. However, the level of support for this legitimate struggle of the Indian revolutionary movement on the part of the left is nowhere near the support that was provided to the Vietnamese revolutionary movement in the sixties and seventies. Large section of the left, especially in the imperialist countries, is either ignoring the war altogether or is involved in the ridiculous sectarian and dogmatic denunciations of the huge Indian revolutionary movement and refuses to analyze its importance outside its already determined categories. The relative lack of support for the Peoples' War in India is one of the clearest signs of the weakness of the World revolutionary movement today.
The importance of Peoples' War in India is not only in its huge proportions and the corresponding level of genocidal atrocities committed by imperialism against the peoples of India, but it is also in its potential. Contradictions in todays' India, which is a the same time a dependent country but also a relevant exporter of Capital, which has one of the greatest economic growths in the World but a huge section of its people live in premodern conditions, which is a nuclear power but can not control its own territory, make todays' India into a potential "weakest link of imperialism". The victory of revolutionary forces there would irreversibly change the World completely.
Because of this, the support for the People's War in India is not adventuorism of the romantic western left which looks to other countries because it is incapable to struggle in its own country, it is not just a formal expression of international solidarity, it is an obligation for everybody able to understand the contradictions of the World we live in, and everybody willing to really challenge imperialist dictatorship of the Capital.

Red salute to our troops in India.


Red Action, Croatia  

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