succumbed to the pressure of the TROIKA led by Germany, even after calling upon the people for a‘ NO’ vote. But the people took to the streets and a number of ministers of Tsipras cabinet resigned and formed popular unity party with the call of“ smash the Eurozone dictatorship”. The struggle in Greece is on.
So it may be clearly said that the contradiction between the imperialism and the oppressed nations and people of the world is not only growing, but continues to be the principal contradiction. It is the principal contradiction because its existence and development affects the existence and development of other contradiction including the contradiction amongst the imperialist powers.
It is clear that the world wide crisis has created a situation where the contradiction between capital and labour is also developing. The most significant example of this is the movement to“ Occupy the Wall Street”, where thousands of people from all parts of the USA and even from other countries gathered for days to protest against the globalisation p rocess and its consequences. Railway workers, miners in Europe are on the streets and carried on pitched battles and so on.
Those who are interested in sports know very well that during the last Euro Cup football in France, the workers were on strike. Specially because of the continued strike of the railway and airways workers the organisers of Euro Cup had to face immense difficulty in logistical arrangements.
The struggles of the people of the world had also brought to the light that the capitalist world’ s call for“ end of civilisation” is not only a hoax, but a blatant lie. The future is not capitalism, future lies in socialism, in communism.
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In this situation the communists have to play a leading role to mobilise the people against imperialism. But after the Soviet Union had taken the capitalist path and finally collapsed, people had hope in Socialist China. But China too had taken to capitalist road. China is now busy to turn into an Asian power and vying with other imperialist powers to establish its spheres of influence. This has created a twofold problem. One, there is no socialist camp as opp osed to imp erialists. The communist parties have to fight themselves without any hope of help from a socialist country. The second one, and more important at that, the communist parties all over the world are in a divided state both internally and externallymeaning ideological-political unity amongst themselves is lacking. People of the world are also confused about how both the USSR and China could turn to capitalist road. Communists will have to come out with clear answers to such question. We should take up the task of studying the conditions of communist movements in the different countries.
So, the communists are facing a challenging task. On the one had to lead the struggle of the people and on the other to equip themselves and the people ideologically and politically towards socialism. Failing which the peoples struggle will go astray. It is already being found that at the face of attacks of the US imperialists and the Islamophobia generated by the US imperialists, youths and patriots of Islamic origin are taking to terrorism in the name Jehad. No matter they might have some reasons to take such path but that will undoubtedly lead the struggles to a wrong path, a blind alley and finally lead them to defeat.
It must be understood that only the struggle of the people based on Marxism Leninism can become victorious against imperialism. Communists should go full steam ahead to shoulder the responsibility. No phrase mongering will help; we will have to develop ourselves with all aspectsideologically, politically and culturally-to combat imperialism with Marxism-Leninism as our guide to action.
It is worth mentioning here the phenomenon of ISIS which has now become IS. Originally the ISIS( Islamic State of Independent Syria) was organised with the direct assistance of the US and NATO powers to bring a“ regime change” in Syria. They did not only keep the ISIS with logistical and financial support but also by large scale supply of arms and ammunitions. At the beginning the ISIS was to build independent areas of authority in Syria to dislodge finally Assad from power. In that aim they concentrated their forces around Alleppe in the northern part of Syria. But attacked by Syrian Govt forces they extended towards the bordering areas of Iraq around Mossul, which area could never be brought under the total control of the US forces. This angered the US and its allies. They first withdrew support, then started attacking the ISIS along with Russia. In this situation two changes took place in the ISIS- first started large scale recruitments from Muslims all over the world who had been nourishing an aspiration to teach the Western World a lesson; and the second was to flank out of the borders of Syria and Iraq. The nomenclature of ISIS changed to IS, meaning Islamic states. But one m ore important change took place in its activities. It started terrorist attacks on different p arts of Europe especially. Thus IS turned out to be a Frankenstein created by the US and its allies. But the problem is that
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