Editorials

Mobilise Masses for Militant Struggle Against Neo-Liberal Policies

According to all available indications and the repeated statements of the finance minister, the central budget going to be presented within a week shall be yet another onslaught on the vast maees of people who are already suffering from ever-intensifying miserable conditions due to unprecedented price rise, unemployment and under-employment and commercialisation of all welfare and service sectors. The prime minister, who is an IMF nominee, and the Congress-led UPA government under his are acting with a vengence to paupersie the masses and to devastate the country in order to fatten the elite classesa dn the imperialist masters. So they shall be ploting to use the central budget, pursuing neo-liberal policies at faster pace, in present condition of intensifying crisis within the imperialist system, for aggravating miserable living condition of the masses.
The economic agenda of US imperialism like its military agenda is very clear. By printing three trillion dollars worth currency notes, using it to bail out the very same banks and monopolies who caused the present imperialist crisis and utilising the hegemony of dollar in the market, it is working hard to transfer the consequences of its crisis to India and other countries under neo-colonisation. Besides it has taken decisive steps to stop outsourcing to India. Meanwhile, the military tie ups under ‘strategic relationship’ with India are utilised to involve it more deeply in the Af-Pak imbroglio. At Copenhagen we have seen how the Manmohan Singh government was utilised to save the US from the difficult situation it was facing. Thus while the vast masses are subjected to pauperisation, along with this the neo-colonial slavery leading to acceleration of US influence in various fields is also intensifying under the UAP government.
That the US administration and the MNCs are working according to a well drafted plan at global level to create a food crisis and inflation by reducing the food production in India like countries and bringing the agrarian sector under their control is known to the UPA government. Wide-spread discussions are takeing place about it everywhere. Even then the MNCs are allowed to every aspect of agricultural production from seed production. Even after the pernicious effects of Bt Cotton cultivation including increasing peasants suicides, Bt Brinjal and other genetically modified seeds are finding advocates among central and state leaders. Contract, Corporate, MNC farming is being spread to more areas. Millions of acres of agricultural land is taken away in the name of real estate and various developmental projects. Thus the UPA government is collaborating witht he imperialists and MNCs to devastate the agricultural sector, further intensifying the price rise.
These treasonable policies of the UPA government are known to the ruling class parties in the opposition and the social democrats leading governments in Kerala, W. Bengal and Tripura. But non of them are coming forward to demand the reversal of these policies. Even when they stage token protests against price rise, they limit these to mishandling by the UPA government. This is because all of them are collaborating with the imperialists, MNCs, Corporate houses and other reactionary forces who are creating price rise and inflation. All of them are, thus, conspiring against the masses, hoodwinking them in various forms. Though the budget session may witness walk-outs and cancellation of sessions due to the dramas going to be staged by all those in opposition and even by some parties like DMK and Trinamul, which are part of the UPA governement, they will not dare to bring down the governement voting unitedly against it.
Any change in this situation can happen only if the people are aroused and mobilised to come to the streets to challenge the reactionary policies of the central and state governments. The masses should be inspired to wage struggles like storming the godowns, storages of Corporates and MNCs, etc. and distributing the food grains to the people. Only by doing so the government can be compelled to change its policies. Let the revolutionary left forces concentrate their efforts for developing these militant struggles.