Red Flags writes: The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has released their first substantial information bulletin since the end of the ceasefire and the resulting civil-military nation-wide offensive. The following article On Imperialism and Proletarian Revolution is the lead article The entirety of Maoist Information Bulletin No. 11 is available online. The translation is a little choppy in places, but this is the official translation -- so that's what's going up.
[In other news, the photograph below is taken from El Universal, a Venezuelan daily, and their coverage of the World Social Forum currently being held for the Americas in Caracas. According to the original caption, there was a Revolutionary Internationalist Movement presence.]
On Imperialism & Proletarian Revolution
- Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
- Maoist Information Bulletin #11
Despite the capitalist class essence remains the same; the imperialism in its course of development has been acquiring new forms and shapes. To exploit and oppress economically, politically, culturally and militarily the broad masses of people of the earth in the form of a single globalize state has become the main specificity of today’s imperialism. The world that had been influenced, on the one hand, by the wave of national liberation, democratic and socialist movement around the Second World War and the inter-imperialist rivalry during the cold war, on the other, has now been entrapped in the sole hegemony of the US imperialism.
Owing to the main factors like, the defeat of new democratic and socialist states that were developed in the course of the first wave of World Proletarian Revolution in the power struggle against the state-owned bureaucrat capitalism, the establishment of unparalleled economic and mainly military superiority of the US imperialism over other main imperialist countries, the control of multinational finance capital upon the national capital and economy of the third world countries and the intensification of worldwide cultural intervention by means of the monopoly in information technology etc. the aforesaid hegemony has been maintained....
As a consequence of this form of globalize state of the US imperialism, the international values and norms, methods and rules and structures that were developed after the Second World War have been weakening. Following 9/11, the US imperialism, by raising a stern question of either ‘you are with or against us’ before every nation or group based on ideology, declared war openly. In spite of worldwide protest, the fascist intervention carried upon Afghanistan and Iraq and the all-round threat against a country or political movement that is in line with their own national interest or fundamental ideological conviction have been undoubtedly justifying the aforesaid facts.
This fascist form of the US imperialism, in its essence, has been erected upon the foundation of a serious ideological crisis. Being divorced from a number of bourgeois values they had until 70s, and encouraging sheer religious blindness, the imperialist ringleaders with its support are attempting to rule now. The obligation that it has to sustain with medieval blind ideology in the context when the science has acquired al-round development in the 21st century and the declaration of so-called crusade against so-called terrorism by George Bush clarify the depth of ideological crisis of imperialism. From this, the historical reason by which the imperialism has come up viciously against the progressive and scientific aspiration of today’s human being becomes clear.
To whatever degree the publicity of this new form of globalize imperialism is made as a new era of human being’s progress, the innumerable living facts, experience and practice have proved it to be nothing other than a new, naked and contemptible form of colonization. Having been intensified the process of a handful of capitalists becoming trillionire and billions of poor being trapped in poverty after 90s, the statistics of the World Bank too has clarified that the gap between rich and poor has become appalling. Today, the living standard of 1.6 billion of people has declined qualitatively than at of 90s. Children, who could be saved from preliminary treatment, are dying 30 thousands a day. More than 800 million people are suffering from malnutrition and two-third of this number cannot survive beyond 40. Forget about education, 250 million children from the third world are forced to work as child-slaves to manage eating twice a day. Tens of thousands of young ladies are being pushed into prostitution daily. Hundreds of millions of unemployed youths are wandering as modern laves in the globalize labour market for their livelihood. In this way, the imperialist new world order of privatisation, liberalization and globalisation justifies the only fact that it has been intensifying the process of frying huge majority of the masses in the world in a single earthen pot.
Another important aspect that needs to pay attention to is that the US imperialist’s globalize state, hich has been developed by establishing its military bases in 140 countries, has naturally made the worldwide resistance and rebellion necessary and possible qualitatively. Today, any national liberation, democratic or socialist movement is not possible to succeed in any country of the world unless it does not advance as an inseparable part of the world people’s resistance. No time in the history had been the objective situation so broadly prepared as of now for the practical application of the great proletarian principle of internationalism. From the people of United States of America to those of all the continents in the world are being victimized of the same kind of globalize imperialist exploitation, oppression and aggression. From the resistance developing in Iraq, as a new Vietnam, and Afghanistan to the revolutionary movements in Nepal, India, Peru, Turkey and Philippines; to the chain of people’s protest and discontent rising from the masses of the people in America to those in Europe, the US imperialism and their agents, the domestic rulers, have been the only common enemy of the people everywhere.
In South Asia, revolutionary democratic and national liberation movements against the expansionist Indian ruling class, which has been kneeling down before the US imperialism, are intensifying. In this context, the formation of C.P.I. (Maoist) through the unification of two important parties leading people’s war since long deserves special mention. Also the contradiction is deepening, since some time before, between the Nepalese autocratic feudal monarchy and the Indian ruling class is liable to take into account. Chinese revisionist capitalist rulers that have been achieving economic growth by submitting their market’s key to the US imperialism are involved in a tricky process of expanding their influence in South Asia.
The aforesaid objective situation clarifies the maturity of material environment in which people’s new socialist world order can be established by destroying the imperialist world order completely. But, however critical situation it may be in objectively, the imperialism will not collapse spontaneously or by its own. For that, along with scientific ideological leadership, conscious push and use of force is imperative. Historically proved scientific fact is that that kind of leadership is not possible from any other class, community or ideology except international proletarian class and its revolutionary ideology. But, in the present transitional situation, when the first wave of World Proletarian Revolution has been over in the 20th century itself and a new wave is in the horizon, the proletarian movement too is facing the challenge of developing ideology. The problem of leadership in the world proletarian movement is inseparably linked with this challenge.
The attention of the internationalist revolutionaries of the 21st century must be focused seriously on the fact that the analysis Lenin and Mao had made on imperialism and a number of concepts they had developed on its basis regarding proletarian strategy have lagged behind. Following the Second World War, the inter-imperialist rivalry and Lenin’s analysis on the nature of war that continues among them to divide and re-divide a certain part of the world and the proletarian strategy built up as well on its basis; and following the cold war, the analysis of the situation that Mao made on Three World, even though in a tactical sense, do not basically exist now. The situation of the US imperialism, which is advancing as a globalize state, has caused Lenin’s and Mao’s analysis to lag behind on the same manner how the development of imperialism in Lenin’s time had made Marx’s the then analysis and strategy, based on his analysis of capitalism, that revolution will take place firstly and simultaneously in the developed European countries, to lag behind. This is the principal issue for developing MLM in the 21st century and determining new proletarian strategy. Without focusing attention to this question, no challenges of the world revolution now can be confronted.
However, it should not be meant that the contradiction among different imperialist powers and reactionary cliques has been over. Definitely, this contradiction also exists and will exist and the proletariat must be paying attention to it. Nevertheless, today’s world is being decided by not this but the US imperialism, on the one side, and the world-struggle against it, on the other. The necessity of developing the concept of South Asian Soviet Federation in the 21st century to the concept of World Federation and waging every country’s national liberation, democratic and socialist movement under it is the burning necessity of today.
Following comrade Mao’s death and restoration of capitalism in China, the international communist movement, on the one hand, mainly fell prey to different forms of right revisionism and, on the other, to mechanical dogmatism, which, by eulogizing old things and experiences, prattle them only. Even now, struggling against these trends in the international communist movement, overall development of MLM is necessary. It is clear that development is possible only by applying the scientific weapon of dialectical materialism. It is necessary to grasp the fact that the dialectical materialism is a means to constantly develop proletarian ideology against bourgeois pluralism and dogma to-revisionism.
Certainly, the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), which has come forward with a resolve of defending, applying and developing the basic principles of MLM, has played important role ideologically. But, extensive study, debate and struggle is necessary to make it reach at the role of a real leadership to the world revolution by developing it to the level of New Communist International capable to face challenges of the 21st century.
Grasping firmly the reality that the necessity, possibility and importance of international movement has increased in the particularity of present world imperialism, our glorious party, the CPN (Maoist), as a party successfully leading People’s War since the past ten years, has a big responsibility in its shoulder to develop ideology and international communist movement. Accepting the reality that our party’s international role had been week in the past compared to necessity, it is necessary now to heighten our initiative towards that direction. Grasping the reality that the future of Nepalese revolution is inseparable with the development of the international movement party must develop a concrete working plan.
Proposed Road Map of SAU
(Process of South Asian Union (SAU) Implementation)
. Marching a step ahead to form South Asian Union (SAU) is good sign for the people of the region. We may be deferent cultures, religions, languages etc. but we are all human and descendent or genealogy of first man on earth-- Prophet Adam (pbuh).
We all have to come closer and make ourselves ambitious to lay down the foundation of the Union. Proposed 44 countries are mentioned below:
Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, , Brunei, China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Philippine.
1. Formation of union by involving 44 countries as mentioned above.
2. The Nations of the region can form South Asian Parliament. by approving the appointment of Presidents, Kings, Prime ministers, Foreign ministers, Home ministers, Defense ministers & minister for trade & commerce for member of the SAU parliament.
3. This organization or union will be one of the strongest unions. If we can establish a powerful single currency like EURO for example SACU (South Asian Currency) or dollar or any other selected by the forum. And valuation can be fixed by averaging the currency values of the nations concerned.
4. Abolish visa system in order to promote traveling facility freely and adopt free trade among the regional counties.
5. Form a joint military council to establish security of state, countries of the union & for common people.
6. Pave ways for the people of the Union to seek job as per their caliber.
7. Make good use of cultural and sports organizations as they can create identity to understand each other.
8. Funding should be made by member countries to establish Research Center for Medicine, and other incurable diseases, Science & Technology for the benefit of general people.
9. Bank such as Union Bank of South Asia to be establish to educate mass population, provide fund for natural disaster. Also make ways to absorb homeless and astray people in work through cottage industries to make their livelihood better, so as to stop them from becoming smugglers, miscreants, or terrorists.
10. Regarding child labor concrete steps should be taken by providing free education established by the Union in the form of NGO. Orphans to be included in this establishment.
11. Each state should be responsible to stop smuggler from drug/ arms trafficking. Also find ways to stop women & children trafficking.
12. State to State disputes should be resolve for the best interest of the people, if necessary Union should be involved with other member countries on the table.
Or the leaders can propose more easy and fruitful proposals to find out the best ways to contribute the Nations of the region.
Yours,
Saulat Kamran
E-Mail Address: saulat@dhaka.net
Website: http://www.southasianunion.net
House No -28, Road No-4, Dhanmandi R/A.
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Posted by: SAULAT KAMRAN | February 05, 2006 at 08:06 PM
Subject: A proposal to build a South Asian Union (SAU) like European Union by expanding SAARC states.
His Excellencies,
Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings, Head of Governments & States, Political & Religious Leaders, Intellectuals, Educationists, Economists, Welfare Organizations, Mass People of South Asian region.
Peace be upon all of you, history is repeating from the creation of human life till now and will be repeated until the last final judgment of Creator. Actually, Creator created us as his best creation of life but we divided it into different nations, religions, cultures, languages, ideologies, etc in several thousands of years since the appearance of 1st human Adam (PBUH). We don’t know when the human life on earth will be finished for ever on dooms day, but some think that human life never stop repeating it’s wrongs. Now we have seen that the days of the human being are becoming more critical, insecure, divided among our selves in different ideas, increasing of poverty, and destruction of economy of some nations in comparison with the economy of some rich countries of the west. So the time for South Asian nations to unite as a strong body which is most caring for the inhabitants of this region has come, and in this way, we can develop ourselves. I have no right to waste your valuable time, but my heart is pressing me to place this proposal or advice to the holy hearts of our great rulers of the people of SAARC countries.
Proposal for future South Asian Union (SAU)
1. The mass people of this region want to abolish visa system for them selves in order to enjoy traveling facility freely and free trade among the regional countries like EU states. We can include Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan & Philippine. The Afghan president his Excellency Mr. Hamid Karzai and his Government also shows interest for entering into SAARC.
2. If we can include thirty seven more countries (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan & Philippine) with the seven countries of SAARC (Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives), then this organization or union will be one of the strongest unions. Then we can establish a powerful single currency like EURO as, for example SACU (South Asian Currency), dollar, or any other selected by the forum. And currency value can be fixed by averaging the currency values of the nations concerned.
3. All states will keep there own national flags as state flag and one common union flag, like that of EU.
4. We can establish joint military command council for the defense of the whole region like EU. That means we can unite in a union to ensure human life security along with a strong economy like European Union.
I do not know when the people of this region of South Asia will start to feel love and affection for each other, and will be united. But we should try to establish a golden future for ourselves. If successful, then generation after generation of this region will remember you for your kindness. God bless us with eternal & external peace.
Yours,
Saulat Kamran
E-Mail Address: saulat@dhaka.net
Website: http://www.southasianunion.net
House No -28, Road No-4, Dhanmandi R/A.
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Posted by: SAULAT KAMRAN | February 05, 2006 at 08:08 PM