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Founder Editor KANU SANYAL

Editor-in-Chief

VISWAM

Editorial Board Arvind Sinha Shambhu Mahato Nand Kishore Singh

Vol . 14 Issue : 01 Jan 2022 e-mail : clastrugle @ yahoo . co . in Web site : www . classstruggle . in

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Class Struggle 32-13-26 / 1 , M . R . Puram , Vijayawada , pin-520 010 .

Aggression and Expansion More territory ! New spheres of world influence ! This is the real warcry of Fascism . The future of Italy , proclaims Mussolini , lies in Asia and Africa . Italy must extend its rule over the Near East and Northern Africa .

Germany , cry the Nazis , must win back its lost colonies , and must also win new subject territory in Eastern Europe . “ Today Germany ” complains Hitler in his “ Mein Kampf ”, “ is not a World Power . From a purely territorial point of view the area of the German Reich is insignificant compared with those of the so-called World Powers ” - i . e . the British Empire , French Empire , American Empire , etc . “ The National Socialist Movement must attempt to remove the disproportion between our population and our area ”.

The Japanese Militarist-Fascist dictatorship of Araki and his colleagues , who proclaim their admiration of German National Socialism as their model , combines terrorists methods at home with unlimited aggression and expansion policies through the Far East .

British Fascism , voiced by the Rothermeres and Mosleys , and , in another form , by the Churchills ; Lloyds and Beaverbrooks , calls for the “ strong hand ” to maintain colonial domination . Away with the “ weakness ” of Baldwin and MacDonald ! Away with “ concessions ” and constitutional pretences . Ruthless repression is their watchword .

The colonial rule of the finance-capitalist oligarchies , centred in Europe , the United States and Japan , is tottering . The colonial peoples are rising in ever renewed and stronger waves of assault to win their freedom . Therefore the policy of imperialism turns to ever more repressive measure . Absolutism

In the first stage after the war the attempt was made to meet the rising revolt of the colonial peoples , not only with bloody repression but at the same time with a “ liberal ” show of “ concessions ”, with lying promises of “ selfgovernment ” in the vague future , with “ democratic ” talk and caricatures of “ constitutions ”. All this humbug , however , failed to stem the revolt , failed to win more than a section of the national bourgeoisie in each country . The oppressed and hungering masses , who could not live on a diet of formulas and White Papers , went forward with their struggle against the unchanged dictatorship .

To-day all this “ liberal ” talk is more and more thrown on one side . The previous promises are denied or interpreted away . The policy moves steadily to the right . The latest “ Constitutional Reforms ” under discussion for India drop the last shreds of “ democratic ” pretences , proclaim openly the absolutism of the Viceroy and the Governors in every sphere , and seek to draw in the most reactionary feudal forces , the ruling princes , to buttress the whole structure .

The British Empire in its present stage of extreme decay affords the most instructive study of the increasing tendency towards Fascism as the final policy of the ruling White bourgeoisie .

The Ottawa Conference represented the attempt of the British bourgeoisie and of the subordinate semi-independent bourgeoisies in the Dominions to overcome the growing disintegration and draw closer the bonds by a series of economic measures .

Has only meant that Britain has paid blackmail to keep some hold on the disintegrating Dominions , but has reached no solution of the economic problem or problem of disintegration .

Stronger measures require to be adopted if the weakening British hold is to be maintained . And here again Fascism comes to the front , not only within Britain , but in the attempt to stimulate subordinate Fascist movements in the Dominions .

( From Article ‘ Fascism and Empire ’) j

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