Q. No. 8. How do you see the
recent visit of the leaders of
the CPI and CPI (M) to Pakistan
and its impact on the commu-
nist movement in Pakistan and
the Pakistan state?
Ans: The present government of
Pakistan, as a political require-
ment, claims to have good relations
with India. Besides this, the
government is also showing
coordination with the communist
parties of India, which are
supporting the present Indian
government, so as to also gain the
support of the so-called
communists, and the NGO oriented
leftist organisations in Pakistan.
For this reason the communist
parties from India are invited here
for meetings with government
officials. At the same time the
bourgeois opposition parties also
invite them for talks. It gives the
impression that there is no problem
now. Pakistan and India are both
correct and everything is OK. The
so-called communists of both the
countries are also friendly, while
both the Pakistan and Indian
governments are getting enslaved
under the US economy, military and
nuclear pacts – as though there is
nothing to bother about.
If you look into the details of
the joint meetings held here with
the communists from India,
Bangladesh and the so-called
communists and NGO oriented
leftist organisations in Pakistan,
nothing was said about the policies
of their respective governments,
the exploiting classes or about the
exploited masses of these
countries, and how the working
classes were exploited by the
policies and designs of their
governments. The outcome was
that they only stressed Pak-India
friendship and unity among working
classes of the region.
As
for
the
Pakistan
government, they are satisfied with
the situation because whatever is
happening is according to their
wishes and policies. They can now
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pose themselves as being liberals
and get the support of the so-
called liberal progressives.
Q. No. 9. What message would
you like to convey to the Indian
communist movement?
Ans: We can only say, in this
regard, that the Indian communist
movement should play its pivotal
role in the region. Hindustan is a
big country and Pakistan and
Bangladesh are also two countries
in the same region. As long as the
communist movement in India does
not adopt a scientific line, there can
be no revolutionary movement in
the region.
At present the communist
movement in India has been split
up into different fractions. The CPI
and CPI (M) adopted the
parliamentary line to support the
present Congress government
which is a class enemy of the
working people of India. This
support has been granted without
any principled stand or condition.
The present Indian government has
adopted a pro-American policy by
entering into military and nuclear
pacts. The communists who are
supporting the governments have
taken the plea that if they do not
support the Congress, then India
will be in the grip of fascism but we do not understand that there is any
difference between the Congress
and the BJP from the class point of
view.
We think that the class enemy
should be exposed to the masses
so that the progressive forces can
adopt a scientific line to overthrow
the reactionary forces and to
establish true democracy through
struggle and by revolutionary
methods.
This unscientific and un-
Marxist thinking has remained
prevalent and this is why Hindustan
has been divided into three
reactionary states Bharat, Pakistan
and Bangladesh. At present when
the different countries in the region
are adopting a conciliatory
position, it is the duty of the progre-
ssive parties to adopt a correct
scientific line, by discussing with
each other, so that a broad based
unity is created among the working
class and the toiling masses for a
joint struggle to overthrow the
reactionary governments of these
countries.
It is the prime duty of the Indian
communist groups and progre-
ssives to contact the progressive
forces of other countries, so that
the revolutionary movement is
taken ahead.
contd from page 13 general.” 67 The wider human
struggle must build on the
continuing revolutionary resistance
of the workers and peoples in the
global South, aimed first and
foremost at overthrowing imperia-
lism, as the global manifestation of
capitalism. Labor in core nations
cannot be free until labor in
periphery nations is free and
imperialism is abolished. What
Marx called socialism, a society of
sustainable human development,
can only be constructed on a
universal basis. All narrow,
invidious, exploitative relations must
go, and humanity must at last
confront with sober senses its
relations with its kind and its unity
with the earth.
and violence. Generally the
mechanism of this alternation
involves both economic and military
forms of struggle, with the strongest
power emerging victorious and
enforcing acquiescence on the
losers. But uneven development
soon takes over, and a period of
renewed struggle for hegemony
emerges.
Late imperialism, however,
represents a historical end point for
the capitalist world order, presaging
either planetary catastrophe or a
new revolutionary beginning.
Today’s Earth System emergency
gives new urgency to the age-old
collective struggle for “freedom in
Class Struggle