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Political Resolution International and National Situation and Our Tasks adopted by the All India Conference of CPI (ML) For the successful completion of Indian revolution, it is needed to assess and review the international and national situation so that development of class struggle inside the country and struggles of the oppressed nations and people against imperialism in the concrete situation they are facing can be viewed in the correct perspective and directed towards the intended goal. International Situation For the successful completion of Indian revolution, the review of the international situation under which the revolution is to be carried out should be made time to time. To base our review let us first look at the basic contradictions in the international arena as formulated in our basic document, the programme and how they are active today. The basic contradictions are: 1. The contradiction between the imperialism and the oppressed nations and people of the world 2. The contradictions among the imperialist countries among the monopoly groups; 3. The contradiction betw een capital and labour 4. The contradiction betw een imperialism and socialism. Here, we must note the fourth contradiction was earlier expressed as imperialism versus socialist cam p, meaning the f orces of socialism led by the great socialist countries the USSR and China. But both the USSR and China as well as the East European countries have taken the capitalist path. In this situation socialist camp as such does not exist as before. But people all over the world are fighting against imperialism holding 4 high the banner of socialism and communalism, so the contradiction between imperialism and socialism exist as a basic contradiction. The main objective of the review is to look at the develop ments around the world and find how the above contradictions are active. Objectively it is a time when imperialist forces are not only divided, but also are facing one crisis after another. Through globalisation they wanted to avert contentions amongst themselves at the expense of the oppressed nations and countries. At the same time the US imperialism intended to establish its global hegemony through this process. But thing did not work as they expected. Though they are trying to make the world believe that they have come out of the crisis in 2008, they could never recover fully. W hile the crisis continued, with the grave situation that developed in Europe and devaluation of Yuan in China the ripples took the shape of high waves crisis globally. Rather this can be called as a concomitant of globalisation. As a result, the contradiction amongst the imperialist countries as well as between the imperialist countries and the oppressed nation and people’s of the world are intensifying. Earlier the US involv ed, mobilised and led the NATO forces behind it to plunder the Middle East oil. It carried on wars on Iraq and Afghanistan (gateway of both eastern and Middle Eastern Asia and strategically placed at the border of China). W hen the US trampled upon the UN Resolution on Iraq and started aggressing Iraq, even Russia and China could not play any active role to desist the US from such action. The US with the NATO powers carried on “regime changes” through covert and overt intervention in Libya, Egypt, Somalia, Yemen etc. But things changed after the 2008 crisis. Moreover, because of the continued resistance in those places where they hoped to have established a puppet rule as in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places, contradictions developed between the West European powers and the US over the share of booties. At the same time Russia and China allied themselves with certain central Asian countries. Srilanka etc. So, when the US wanted to destabilise Iran or Syria, there were resistance from the imperialist forces. The European Union led by Germany is also gaining strength both economically and geopolitically. Euro has turned out to be a contender of dollar in international trade. Moreover, the alliance between Russia, still a military super power, and China to rope in other forces to fit with their geo-political interest, have also built up a two p ronged economic alliance-The SCO and the BRICS. SCO (Shang hai Co-operation Organization) is a body of countries to carry on trade. Both India and Pakistan have recently become full member of it. So along with Iran, Sri Lanka and a number of central Asian countries SCO has become a strong economic and trading organization to contend with the US. At the same time, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) consists of those countries who have recently Class Struggle