POLITICAL RESOLUTION (Draft)
9th All India Conference 2018
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Introduction
1.1 The global economic crisis has become a phenomenon of 3rd depression of great depth. It has spread wider now and looks to be bewildering the Bretton Woods Institutions and economists; as their usual parameters have failed to give a clear analytical picture of it. Though the IMF now measures that the cyclic recovery is picking up, dip in bank profitability, especially in Europe, and decrease in product wages have eclipsed it. This has been pointed at to be serious risk factors. Actually dip in bank profitability is because of incessant increase in Nonperforming Assets. At the same time, product wages are decreasing due to government policies.
1.2 This shows that in the place of the old issue of bubble-burst a new problem of return-drain has caught the system as a chronic disease. At the same time the shadow of bubble-burst never has retracted. This has resulted in a bewildering mirage of pale recovery. It has aggravated unemployment and social unrest and the social crisis has got expanded and sharpened in European countries. Actually, world over a chain reaction due to this economic and social crises is happening. This chain reaction is resulting political crises from country to country. All together, this development of economic, social and political crises has sharpened the four main contradictions at international level.
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On Developments at International Arena
2.1 The global developments between 2013 and 2017 have emphatically proven the correctness of the analysis that we had in the ‘Resolution On International Developments’ adopted in our 8th All India Conference. The present scenario witnesses the sharpening of all the Four Main Contradictions at global level.
The contradiction between Imperialism and Socialism:
(1) It still remains to be the central contradiction. The imperialist camp mainly led by US imperialism tries to defeat socialist perception and praxis. It tries to do it by corrupting socialist forces in theory and practice. It does this both where the socialist forces (SFs) are wielding political power and at places where SFs continue the fight for political power. This attempt is made mainly by way of imposing or inducing the idea and practice that market economy and political system that concurs with it are the necessary, stable and sustaining universal system forever. To materialize this, the imperialist camp tries to manifest systemic integration of the remaining socialist countries with the imperialist system. This is being done by way of the tentacles and institutions of finance capital, military alignments, war threats and diplomatic pressures. For this, the imperialist camp utilizes its advantageous position in the balance of forces that it attained after the fall of Soviet Union and the East European socialist countries.
(2) The socialist countries mainly China and Cuba go on resisting this strangulating systemic integration. It is notable that China has come up to the topmost position in a number of sectors including industrial production at global level such as electricity (more than 1/4th of global production), steel (more than 1/2 of global production), no 1 in the production of minerals, coal and gold; highest in electrified railway, sea ports, rice production etc.
(3) The said advancement in production, especially being in state sector/ State Owned Enterprises (SOE), has put China far ahead of all other global foreces in production. This advancement is functioning as the chief source of its strength to resist the said imperialist method of systemic integration.
(4) Cuba has reformed its economy to meet the challenges that it faced after the temporary socialist setback. When comrade Raul Castro came to the leadership, global capitalists and the right wing media had propagated that the reforms will derail Cuba from the socialist path. Now we see that the negative prophecy has went wrong. Cuban socialism did not degenerate. Cuban socialist economy did not fall prey to US imperialist bullying and the imperialist embargo. Instead, socialist Cuba continued the fight against all the odds. It goes on enthusing other Latin American nations. The Communist Party of Cuba and the Cuban state have so far successfully maneuvered the difficulties and have sustained in socialist path. They have made measured retreat as comrade Lenin had called it during NEP in 1920s in the USSR. Class struggle continues to bring about newer challenges and opportunities. These newer challenges and opportunities necessitate measured tactics. Such measured tactics in concrete terms have to be employed to safe guard and keep on the voyage to the classless society. Communist forces must know to advance and retreat in battles to win the strategic war. The socialist countries at present do face such a situation.
(5) The Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) faces belligerent US bullying and war threats with an accompaniment of sinister embargo and a very vicious campaign against it. The global media never remembers that the war in Korea is not over. The US and its 16 allies are still at war with DPRK and only a ceasefire is declared. Global capitalist media never says the fact that the US has always reserved first--nuclear-strike-option against DPRK where a DPRK has reiterated that it would only act in defense. The US forces have positioned several missiles aiming at DPRK from the US military bases in the nearby islands. This had been the situation from the very day it signed the ceasefire agreement with DPRK. The capitalist media i silent about the truth while propagating all the fabricated lies about DPRK. So, the contradiction that sharpens due to the threat that the imperialist camp raises tenaciously against DPRK is clearly part of the contradiction between socialism and imperialism.
(6) Now, the US had unilaterally stopped peace talks and stepped up military exercises near DPRK borders. This prompted DPRK to go forth in its defensive military enhancements that have attracted sanctions. Thus, DPRK is facing iron curtaining from without in the form of ever intensifying embargo. Still, with its experience of withstanding acute food crisis that happened due to Gorbachev’s betrayal, its experience in overcoming of the weaknesses occurred in the strategic plan of defense due to the fall of USSR and various other developments afterwards, DPRK continued and still continues its willful resistance against imperialist threats and the embargo. Even in the face of such immense pressures, it has not retracted to market-economy-reforms. Though it cannot be appraised to be the scientific socialist model, it has to be reckoned that it sustains in socialist path. It is one of the few nations that provide cent per cent free and compulsory education up to higher secondary school. So, it is part of international socialist duty to defend DPRK against imperialist aggression. In our 8th Conference Resolution we had observed the amassing of war clouds there. The present situation has proven that evaluation was correct.
(ii) Contradiction between Proletariat and Bourgeoisie in advanced capitalist countries:
(1) The class contradiction has sharpened in a number of European nation starting from Greece and Spain. In Greece the contradiction erupted into popular uprising and the electoral victory of ‘Syriza’. In Spain the ‘indignados’ movement gave birth to ‘Podemos’, in March 2014, which has united with the United Left and has become ‘Unidos Podemos’. Unlike in Greece, it is not an outcome of acute crisis stricken chaos. It is rather a positive effect of rallying and unification of left sections and left parties to face such chaotic situation. Spain being bigger a nation, the galvanizing of left forces in conscious unity may help to go forth for alternative. In UK all the negative prophecies miserably failed. Though the rear ranks of the proletariat voted for Brexit in desperate situation, they did not consolidate behind the right wing. Instead, they rallied to manifest the much awaited Labour resurgence in the elections. This has cut the conservatives 10 votes shorter to absolute majority in the parliament. Jeremy Corbin revitalized the Labour with a clear alternative manifesto. It heralded reversion of privatization of education and railway, the protection of health care. It stood for retarding of NATO weapon programme. Corbin’s programmatic policies did really revitalize the trade unions and other natural quarters of Labour support such as student, youth and women.
(2) Whole of Europe experiences an articulated left gathering of political forces. In US, Bernie Sanders bagging initial gains over Hilary Clinton in the presidential primaries was a significant development of the awakening of left conscience that evolved from the Wall Street Movement.
(3) In the counter movement to the said left advances, the fascistic forces also are coming to the fore ground. The golden dawn in Greece and the neo-Nazis and right wing political forces in Germany are gaining strength.
(iii) Contradiction between imperialist camp and oppressed nations and oppressed people:
(1) The 'war on terror' that the US championed after 9/11 has now arrived at a paradoxical turning point. This has become evident in Syria and Iraq as US supplies of arms and equipments went into the hands of ISIS. Thus, it escalated terror. The 'war on terror' got transformed into perpetuation of 'terror war'. This malignant development of US policy intensified armed conflict in the whole region of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Kurdistan and Turkey. Then it spread to Africa too. The war in Arabia created a huge refugee-exodus to Europe.
(2) Zionist Israel attacked Gaza causing inhuman bloodbath. Its bombers targeted hospitals, schools, and universities. The people of Palestine and Palestine Authority have put up valiant effort to defend against this marauding outrage. It has brought about international solidarity in defense of Palestine. Cause of Palestinian freedom is gaining ground against the apartheid practiced there by Zionist state.
(3) When Donald Trump became president, the Asian, African and Latin American people began to be discriminated in the US. The US protectionism continues to intensify. Progressive and democratic force are rallying against it.
(iv) The inter-imperialist contradiction:
(1) The inter-imperialist contradiction that is, the contradiction among imperialist countries and between international monopolies has intensified in the last four years. This was evident in theatres of hostilities such as, in Syria and Ukraine. The Russian military intervention that crippled ISIS and helped Assad to consolidate was really against US plans in the Middle East and central Asia. Similar is the case of Crimea and the ongoing hostilities within Ukraine. Now the whole of Eastern Europe I heating up because of the strife between NATO forces and Russia. The US presidential Elections had been scandalized because of alleged Russian intervention. The latest of the kind is the Russian clarification that it shall take it serious in case of DPRK being attacked from outside.
(2) The EU countries have categorically said that they could not accept US position of retracting from carbon emission controlling responsibilities. They now consider that China could be depended for leadership in environmental protection. The old North-North alliance between US, UK even is not that well. Germany is not at all ready to follow US line anymore. The Ukraine crisis and resulted diplomatic and military tussles proved it. Turkey did a dramatic shift from the US camp to Russian friendly embrace suspecting US hand in the attempted coup. The unshakable NATO unity is not that compact now.
(3) So, the post USSR theory that even some left thinkers used to nurse that 'the inter-imperialist contradiction has got muted' is not at all being substantiated by the global developments. Instead, the inter-imperialist contradiction is seen to be sharpening. It is true that it is not sharpening in the same intensity as the other main contradictions do. That really ratifies the law of contradictions as was evident in the imperialist era all along.
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On Socialist Countries
3.1 By the disintegration of USSR, the fall of Eastern European Socialist countries and the course of systemic integration of those countries with imperialist system, a deterministic idea has come up that China and Cuba and other socialist countries shall also essentially be on the road to total integration with the capitalist system. Such deterministic critics never thought about Cuba surviving the collateral impact created by the fall of USSR. For them, disintegration was the fatal route for other socialist countries too. The main proponents of this deterministic line were generally from the followers of Cultural Revolution and the followers of the ‘Theory of Three Worlds’ within the Marxist Leninist camp. Both the above said sections' deterministic expectations shared common character. Still, it is history that this determinism could not be proven in the course of time regarding Socialist Cuba and Peoples China.
3.2 The source of the idea of deterministic criticism against existing socialist countries is the idealist perception regarding socialist transformation. This idealist perception disregards the material basis that is necessary for socialist transformation. Even though the theory of production forces is grossly erroneous, in the name of fighting the theory of production forces the above said idealist trend puts forth the idea of changing production relations with sheer revolutionary political will. Thus, in the name of attacking mechanical materialism, this idea and its practice inaugurated the trend of idealist perception.
3.3 Basically, said flaw is rooted in the perspective that the real models of revolutionary alternative to capitalist path in production to be of Dazhai (Tachai) in agriculture and Daqing (Taching) in industry. These were projected as models during Cultural Revolution in China. Now, in the midst of imperialist globalization, to fight it putting forth an alternative path in concrete terms becomes the real challenge. The difficulty in conceiving this challenge in concreteness creates a compulsion to revert to the perception of Dazhai (Tachai) and Daqing (Taching) models.
3.4 With a view to overcome the said crisis of paradigmatic perception regarding socialism, concrete grasp of materialistic aspects of political economical, strategic and ideological positions and policies practiced by a system has to be objectively examined based on factual in puts.
3.5 Concrete perusal of global capitalist crisis shows that there is a shift in the role of production. Now, PRC has a great share of global production. Realization of needs, especially of the people in the Asian African Latin American countries, largely depends upon PRC production. Lack of such role had been pointed at the USSR to be one of its fatal deficiencies at the time of its fall.
3.6 The solid presence of PRC in Asia has a great role in keeping peace. PRC has played timely role without any ambiguity in clarifying its position regarding the Korean issue. It has stated that it will react defensively in case DPRK is attacked. Even when US forces goes belligerent in its deeds to trigger hostilities in South China Sea with false claims over Chinese sovereign land, PRC has stood ground but not helped the US provocations by any means. Strategic presence of PRC definitely helps to thwart imperialist aggression in Asia especially in South East Asia.
3.7 At the same time, in 19th Congress, the CPC has declared its goal to be becoming modern socialist country by 2035. In its report, CPC has stated that it was continuing in the primary stage of socialism. It understands that it has to continue for a while in the primary stage of socialism and by conscious effort between 2020 and 2035 PRC could be changed into a modern socialist country. At the same time CPC Report recognizes that social inequality, inadequacy of poverty alleviation, corruption, complexity in ideological struggle, disparity between cities and villages and between regions etc is still to be fought out. Even when these introspections are measured with appreciation certain matters still has to be viewed critically. Irrespective of what CPC assays, the historic experience of international proletariat and the necessity of the era of imperialism and proletarian revolutions count CPC's omissions of dutifulness in spreading of Marxism Leninism in its basic literature and articulations. CPC is not dutiful enough in aligning with fraternal toiling people and the global proletariat in the face of war and atrocious oppressions and in rendering active help to people falling in miseries of uniquely social systems and calamities. CPC has flaws in its discharge of the cardinal duty of always holding red banner over narrow national interests while drawing foreign policies in general and in particular cases.
3.8 Socialist Cuba plays an inspiring role by rendering active helping hand to the nations and people at peril and under oppression, especially in Latin America. Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua etc. continuously get positively charged by Cuban support. As a result of this approach by Socialist Cuba, the recent US attempt to isolate and even attack Venezuela had been defeated among Latin American nations. The role of Socialist Cuba in enhancing fraternal relations among the people of various countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia by extending helping hand like dispatching medical teams and humanitarian aids is excellent.
3.9 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea/DPRK is struggling against odds. The war waged by imperialist forces against it in 1950s is still clinging on a hair-thin-ceasefire truce; not a peace treaty. Heavy US army contingent is stationed still along the cease fire line. In such a situation, even when DPRK and ROK came together to a great extent for peace talks, US had always sabotaged those attempts. Presently the Trump administration is consciously whipping up war jingoism and has declared that US has targeted DPRK with intent to deliver preemptive nuclear strike. DPRK is of the position that it has every right to defend its sovereign borders. It definitely is true. Even then, it is notable that DPRK is not succeeding enough in winning the confidence of the global community for the cause of its defense.
3.10 The fraternal unity in action expressed by the socialist block earlier in history is not effectively present today among the socialist countries. This is evident in the context of US war threats against DPRK.
3.11 Political economical questions regarding the reforms being followed within the socialist countries and the strategic relations including foreign policies that they follow are of great concern to socialist forces all over the world. Regarding economic reforms and political ramifications of those economic reforms are to be examined. In the case of Cuba, it has gone through privatizing certain sectors especially after comrade Raul Castro ascended to presidency. Many analysts branded this to be subjugation to the imperialist globalization and its project of political economical integration of free nations with it. None of such analysts have such argument in the case of DPRK; but, this does not help DPRK to get the recognition as model socialist system. Rather everybody agrees about the inadequacy of material production in DPRK. The case of Cuban privatization is quite different from the usual meaning of privatization in the present practice of it as part and parcel of neoclassical prescriptions for reforms. In Cuba petit businesses of services like barber shops and bicycle stands were earlier stood nationalized. Now, these are allowed to be run as private business. Like that the businesses related to tourism also are privatized. The outcome of such reforms has to be perused and assessed in every inch in its course.
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On developments at national arena
4.1 Imperialist Globalization inaugurated in 1991could be stepped up by its proponents only by subverting democracy, secularism, federalism and self reliance of the nation. So, the ruling classes that chiefly rely on the integration with finance capital presently find the BJP to be the most suited and the chief instrument to do this nefarious job. Sangh Parivar obtaining hegemony even when they lack majority vote share in the elections is not accidental. 'Fail in elections and form governments through horse-trading' has become its pet motto. The reason for the dismemberment of bourgeois opposition also is the said one. In essence, at this juncture, the International Finance Capital and domestic monopoly capital houses find communal fascism to be their chief instrument to run the system of exploitation and oppression without any hindrances.
4.2 This is because of the reason that the ruling classes want to break the unity of the working class and to alienate the peasantry from the working class on the one hand and to undo the federal democratic structure of the republic on the other. Only thus the ruling classes can further the reforms of Imperialist Globalization in our country.
4.3 Along with this, states lose power as unitary centralization of power at the centre gathers momentum. GST stands as one of its example. Another important factor is the Authority-Raj method that is used to bypass the legislative bodies and the executive. This is the outcome of various commission reports and reforms recommendations made by such commissions. The decision making process has been shifted away from the democratic forums of peoples’ representation. This attack upon democratic institutions has got accelerated under the rule of Hindutw a Communal Fascists.
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On the development of programmatic premise
5.1 The communist praxis that had conceived Indian Revolution to be Democratic Revolution, of which the axis is the Agrarian Revolution, today faces programmatic obstacles of various kinds. The basic reasons of such obstacles mainly arise from the adverse concrete developments due to the advancement of Imperialist Globalization.
5.2 Along with the above said, the temporary setback of socialism and the resulted change in the balance of strategic forces created a negative shift in the political economy all over the world. This gave impetus to the forces of Finance Capital in the drive to integrate economies in all continents. This destructive tide has hit our country too.
5.3 In India this got manifested in the form of LPG policies. These policies that were inaugurated in 1991 resulted in the penetration of Finance Capital in all sectors. This has qualitatively stepped up the market integration. The same has created huge market pressure in all spheres of production and economic activity. The producers found this to be fatally swaying realization back and forth. Ultimately the market became mercilessly unpredictable. The integration of domestic capital interest with that of the finance capital forces has generated an extremely negative motion in industry and farming.
5.4 This phenomenal change has necessarily increased the role of working class and the organized movements of the working class in all spheres of class struggle. In essence, socialist content of the democratic revolution has evidently increased. This again has given room for dimensionally developed manifestation of worker peasant alliance that still constitutes the core class force of Peoples Democratic Revolution (PDR).
5.5 The said course of Imperialist Globalization process has made the working class and the peasantry to have a common enemy in the main. The combine of global finance capital and Indian capital houses is that enemy.
5.6 Industry and working class: At the same time, when the role of working class in struggles got increased and the socialist content of democratic revolution also got increased, it is empirical truth that the number of organized industrial workers is being steadily cut down by the continuous implementation of neo-liberal policies and structural re-adjustments. This is done by way of PSU disinvestment, contractualization, out-sourcing, and overlooking of labour laws. Besides, robotization and instilling of artificial intelligence have accelerated the rate of unemployment. In essence, de-industrialization and demoralization of the working class is the chief weapons wielded by the class enemy to incapacitate the proletariat in its historic duty of leading the class struggle in increased volume and vigor.
5.7 Increase in the volume and reach of Proletarianization:
(i) Even when the bourgeoisie goes on cutting down the number of organized contingent of industrial workers, of permanency of work and union rights, it is not able to cut down the increase of the whole volume of the working class. SEZ workers, MNREGA workers, Accredited social health activists -ASHAs / community health workers, Anganwadi workers, miners, other kinds of migrating construction workers and adivasi forest workers etc have grown swelling in numbers and in their representation in struggles. This has resulted in a growing trend of proletarianization of rural population and thus, a growing extension of working class into the villages of this vast nation. The poorer sections of peasantry are being subjected to this proletarianization.
(ii) The said change is often negatively understood by even those with in the left camp. Simply counting on the disinvestment, contractualization, outsourcing and curtailment of labour laws, the TINA followers within the left camp go on pursuing a kind of defeatist policy. This defeatist policy concludes that, as the forces of socialism that is, the advanced proletariat, is weakened by imperialist globalization policies, the struggles in individual sectors or factory-wise struggles have no chance. So, this section took to the path of surrendering the rights of workers without any fight. This defeatist tendency is always trying to pull down the vigor of working class in everyday action.
5.8 Agrarian production system and the peasantry
(i) The agrarian sector faced severe issues by the advancement of Imperialist Globalization. Mainly, due to international agreements like the WTO agreement, the market pressure methodically exerted by the forces of finance capital cuts the prices of crops down.
(ii) Whenever crop failures occur the merciless government policy refuses to make up with waivers. Instead, the government cuts subsidies down in a steady process. As both of these happen in recurrence, peasants commit suicide in hundreds of thousands. Now, this dark phenomenon has reached three and half lakhs even inflicting its toll in the segment of sugarcane farmers.
(iii) Banks have learned to brush aside the farmers' applications and pleas. The poor landless peasantry is alarmingly being metamorphosed into swarms of migrant workers as they flee the villages in search of bread. This has become almost like the exodus in the US during the hard times in 1929-30s.
5.9 Financial Sector
Financial sector is being liberalized. The new law: the ‘Financial Solution and Deposit Insurance Act’ has been passed to regulate banks, insurances and cooperative banks. The central government, Reserve bank and insurance authority of India are to lose control over the financial institutions. This has severely affected the sovereign status of economy.
5.10 Social and Cultural Institutions: The above said changes have begun to have impact along with the decadent social institutions such as Khap Panchayats and caste / communal fencings in the villages and suburbs even. The remnants of feudal forces and the reactionary section of the rich peasant class utilize the said decadent social institutions to establish hegemony. It has become a venomous mixture of capitalist interest of expropriation of labour and archaic whip of caste hierarchy serving each other. The political superstructure of the ruling class goes in concurrence with the said admixture of exploitative and oppressive interests. So, to organize the rural working class it comes essential to fight caste/communal segregation and, to fight caste / communal forces it is essential to organize the oppressed in proletarian class formation. This dialectical relation cannot be separated and dealt with obliterating any of the two cardinal duties.
5.11 Dalits’ and Tribal issue: Discrimination of Dalits and Tribal people has become all the more severe by the implementation of imperialist globalization policies. As the disinvestment spree grew unbounded reservation rights went on drying up. The government does not heed to the demand for implementation of reservation in private sector. The MNC predators eat up the tribal habitats and their means of existence. Central India has become gruesome spectacle of it. So, tribal question has to be handled with dual task approach. On the one hand, their habitats and existence have to be defended against marauding encroachment and genocidal attacks; even employing armed forces and mercenaries. At the same time, healthcare food security, education, producing cooperatives, self rule and advancement in production should be made attainable in sustained practice. Their forest rights must be fully enforced. The already proletarianized sections of tribal people should be organized to vanguard this process. The separatist and obscurantist elements should be deftly fought out. Great number of NGOs is working in this field. Their ideas and activities are substantially against comprehensive social change of revolutionary character. Ultimately, it should be understood that the tribal question could be resolved as part and parcel of the Agrarian Revolution.
5.12 Women's emancipation and gender equality: The question of women's emancipation and gender equality has got new dimensional aspects as the imperialist globalization policies were implemented for decades and a large work force of women evolved out of it. SEZs, software industries, malls, hospitals, hospitality industries and many new services mushroomed and an army of women workers came up in that process. Besides, the rural women folk began to be proletarianized in MNREGA, ASHA etc. The attainment of their union rights and their gender specific rights are denied by the bourgeoisie. Besides, this large contingent of women workers are still facing gender discrimination and gender oppression at their work places, at home and at all levels of social life. Their comprehensive fight against this heinous repression and dual exploitation is the mast in the general fight for women's emancipation. It has to be noted that the increase in the number of all sorts of working women had played important role in the Nirbhaya like struggles too. At the same time, the backwardness of rural life has made India a case of acute malnutrition among women even excelling sub-Saharan Africa. The condition of majority of children is the same. Increase in child labour goes unabated. Migration of workers due to agrarian distress and de-industrialization is the main social cause of it. Laxity in implementing labour laws and women-protection-laws has aggravated the issue. Still prevailing feudal social institution of patriarchal family and male chauvinism are putting up repressive reaction to the necessary drive of women's emancipation being pushed ahead by the increase in the proletarianization of women. The goal of 33% representation in parliament and all legislative bodies is still being kept a mirage. Women’s representation in armed forces, judiciary and branches of executive are still very low. An all inclusive conscious move in women's front spearheaded by working women is needed greater than ever. Only emancipated woman can mother an emancipated generation that can surge the revolutionary advance.
5.13 Transgender and sexual minorities: The question of Transgender and sexual minorities and their right of democratic inclusiveness in all walks of life are organic part of social revolution. So, the conservative notion that only two genders exist has to be changed through persistent conscientization because, this is the advanced consciousness that has to be championed by the revolutionary vanguard of the proletariat. This has to be dutifully done expurgating reactionary conservatism from the ranks of the working class and the whole society. Accomplishment of employment opportunities and fight for freedom from institutionalized moral taboos are vital programmatic issues to be addressed. Stopping them being social outcasts is essential for the creation of New Democratic Society.
5.14 Education and student community:
(i) Educational system is malignantly affected by the imperialist globalization policies and resulted drive for rampant privatization and commodification of education. This has alienated education from its necessary placing as inherent component of healthy social development determined by the social needs. The spiralling market integration and the deformities that it has brought in regarding the paradigmatic concept of education have adversely affected the envisaging of socialist secular democratic republic and planned social development. Re establishment of secular, democratic, scientific, free and compulsory education is the lifeline of the fight for New Democratic Society. Supply of governmental funds, expertise and all inputs must be proportionally increased in this sector with enhancement of local governmental bodies' capabilities to helm it along with governmental machinery. Introduction of informal education in place of formal education, foreign university sponsored programmes, creation of centres of excellence by capitalist interest and funds are reactionary steps promoted by imperialist globalization process. Any attempt to accommodate this in the name of viable tactic is a sure path of capitulation. Instead, governmental investment and expansion of infrastructure for advanced education that are free from the profiteering spider web of the market is to be unwaveringly fought for. Privatization of education must be fought against and beaten back.
(ii) The student community is being attacked upon by all systemic institutions including courts. Communal fascists unleashing attack upon the prestigious universities like JNU, HCU etc and attempting to stamp the student community to be anti-national is part of a vicious design. This is to depoliticize campuses and to curtail the activities of students' union and students' organizations. Courts have gone to the extent of blatantly passing orders banning organizational activities of students. At the same time communal fascists and caste forces work overtime to create caste and communal divisions with a view to establish communal and caste hegemony among students. Such inhuman discrimination had led to the institutional murders like that of Rohit Vemula. This is the inherent trend of fascistic motive. Nationwide protest did erupt from among students and progressive forces against such atrocities. To fight this negative tide and consciously organize a national and democratic students' organization based on progressive secular values and socialist aspirations is must for the programmatic advance of NDR.
5.15 Unemployment and the issues of youth:
(i) The question of irradiation of unemployment was discarded to be a necessary part of governmental duty by the proponents of imperialist globalization. Instead, unemployment was begun to be cited by them as a measure of advanced society. At present, the combined impact of de-industrialization and agrarian distress has accelerated unemployment; placing rural unemployment in the lead.
(ii) Actual rural unemployment has already hit two digits when included of disguised unemployment in the agrarian sector. A comprehensive policy regarding agrarian revolution and introduction of socialized forms of production relations in agrarian production and related rural industrialization can champion the cause of irradiation of unemployment. This will substantially reduce the exodus to cities and interstate migration of workers. Again, this will reduce the army of unemployed in general and shall better the bargaining power of the working class and enhance the employment opportunities in cities.
(iii) Disinvestment and de-industrialization has to be leashed and fought back. Responsibility of the governments to create employment opportunities has to be re-established. Massive conscientization and organizational work has to be done among youth to rally them in all India youth movement. It should be remembered that among the Democratic issues that the youth faces unemployment is the chief one. Communal fascists are accelerating the draconian policies of the economic reforms that the congress had inaugurated. Thus they resort to policies that eat up employment. Along with that, they divide the youngsters according to caste and communal lines. Such divisive and negative tide has to be overcome through incessant struggle.
5.16 Fight against distortion of Science:
(i) Communal fascist forces are time and again challenging the very foundation of the scientific consciousness of secular democratic republic. Even scientists are rallied by communal fascists with such ulterior motive. Obscurantism is being placed to be novel discoveries at arenas of science at national level. It has become a matter of urgency to collect scientific logical quest and logical findings and put up effective fight against this reactionary attack upon the scientific conscience.
(ii) The rapacious exploitation of natural resources by finance capital and monopolies has gone escalating. Resistance against such development paradigm and its execution has come up. This plural resistance has many different conceptual positions within it. Some of these have idealist perceptions even rejecting comprehensiveness of scientific truth. Working class has to fight both these erroneous trends and guide the objective quest of science with the strength and correctness of dialectical materialism.
(iii) The vanguard of working class is duty bound to take concrete steps to materialize the said duty; including the forming and development of Science Forum.
5.17 Ecological destructions and necessary resistance:
The finance capital penetration and the thirst of primitive accumulation have become highly hazardous to ecology. At global level US imperialists have openly flouted all the agreements and joint decisions to reduce emissions of green house gases and to reduce carbon foot print. In India also the rabid drive for reaping natural riches and dumping toxic residue has crossed all limits. Environmental destruction has breached all limits in the fetishist rush for profit. At international level imperialist camp thrust the responsibility of environmental protection upon the oppressed nations and oppressed people. So, in the fight to guard the environment, toiling masses should be consciously rallied by the working class and a broad movement should be built up for this. Environmental destruction by capitalist forces is no matter of non class character. Instead, it has to be seen as part and parcel of class struggle at international level and at domestic level.
5.18 work on cultural front:
As imperialist globalization intensified and resulted money laundering, speculative businesses, corruption, nepotism and mafia these evils have together created degeneration of the four estates of the system. Cultural decay began to loom large in total society. This anarchy, along with growing unemployment, has provided space for communal and caste wise polarization too. Khap Panchayat, vigilante attacks, crime against women etc have become systemic evil. This has to be fought with tenacity and patience. Only by gathering positive elements of the society and consciously developing a progressive, secular and democratic cultural movement this negative trend could be abated. Organizational initiative and united activities are necessary to achieve this goal.
Conclusion
The concrete situation does unravel that the laws of objective motion necessarily work advantageous to the proletariat; not the bourgeoisie. Both the crises at international and national situations are showing clear signs of this. By the wielding of correct tactic in every breath of struggles the advanced proletariat and its vanguard can progress in the fight for Left Alternative. For, this, unity of Left forces based on concrete minimum programme has become its life line. So, it has become the duty of revolutionary vanguard to meticulously follow it.