The Aligunj - Lukhnow Way Vs. The Mittiya Buruj - Calcutta Way: Anti Imperialist Fight Whither
The recent visit of the one of the most infamous and loathed persons of the world, the US president Bush, along with his team of brutal Bushmen, in India and Pakistan has logically given rise to wrath and anger among all anti imperialist people of these countries, and naturally people came out in the streets and filled up the air with their angry protests. But 'anti imperialism' is a very broad and loose category, including, in these days, many shades . And these shades are very very important, because each such shade has different reason(s) and different aim(s) in its anti imperialism. You cannot treat all of them as being same, you cannot club them all together and you should never try to organise people of all available trends as much as you can, if you really are a revolutionary working towards the liberation of humanity from all kinds of oppressions.
On the world plane there are two kinds or trends of anti imperialism, and three trends — if you bother to count a germinating seed along with two giant trees . ? The Lula — WSF trend is, we know, of reformers; they want to reform imperialism by humanising globalisation, the maximum possible dream there is of going back to capitalism with 'perfect competition', or 'good old' days when capitalism was not, or less, violent. They can easily separate Capital from Imperialism (!), and welcomes one while 'opposes' the other!! The capitalist-imperialist 'gentlemen and ladies' can, and are keen to, accommodate this trend, smoothen its remaining sharp-&-rustic edges, etc. ? On the other hand, the Pan Islamic trend represents a forceful, vigorous fight, using armed squads as Swords and people at large as Shields. Their maximum aim is to destroy the present Anglo-US hegemony, and the Kafir Imperialism of the West. What will remain then, after their 'destruction' of imperialism? They are less voice full about that, but there is an obvious answer, isn't it! The rich Arabic states with their theological chiefs and mouthpieces will remain and, of course, the Kings and big-business Emirs, the oil-wealthy multi-billionaire Sheikhs, one of which was the great Laden himself (and whom the US promoted, and he gladly agreed and complied, to fight Soviet occupation and 'democracy/revolution export ' in Afghanistan). This path of anti imperialism or trend has certainly a 'lead' or ' advantage ': quickly it can be organised in the present state of affairs; but obviously has a great disadvantage: it wrecks the unity of the toilers; divide them along religious communal lines. ? If the first said trend attracts media eyes with "glamour" and the second one with violent attacks, this third trend is not at all that 'trendy' as to have media attraction. This third trend is very weak and feeble yet, particularly after the humiliating defeat of the international communist movement after more than a century of advanced march, and its resulting disarrayed-ness, confusions, etc. This is the voice of the revolutionary and socialist proletariat who is again trying to rise, to reawaken the international communist movement. Its 'forces' are numbered, and it has to take step consciously and cautiously. It can be heard, mainly , in the newly organising yet-tiny contingents of working class in India , Pakistan and abroad. Some component or fraction of its voice is also heard through those two tiny countries Cuba and Venezuela who dare to vote against any US imperialist motion including that on Iran in the UN, through Castro and Ch?vez, and through some millions of fighting workers and other toilers there.
All these trends showed up in the recent protests against the visit of Bush. The protests led by the CPIM and its allies represent here the reformist trend. The Samajwadi Party is very closer to this, but due to its election and vote arithmetic, it pampers the second trend to some extent. As for example — an UP minister declared a Fatwa in the recent distasteful, defamatory and disastrous Danish cartoon event. Actually speaking, the Samajwadi Party is more bourgeois than many of this reformist trends. Their economic policies are in favour of capitalism-imperialism and of course, the rural rich folk — the capitalist farmers and rich peasants. They have shown their true face when they were in the short-lived Devegowda govt at the centre; they too conceded totally the globalisation at the dictates of imperialism and their native cronies. They may try newer facades now, newer Naqabs, but they cannot fool the conscious workers and true revolutionaries of UP and India . The imperialist bosses also know all these; they do not feel that their U.P, their Noida — the 'mini-Bangalore of the North' is in unsafe hands, and so newer investments are always coming in.
Pan Islamic trend is not organised in a single political party, its 'supporters' are there everywhere. The pseudo-secular governments and parties have practised enough along their 'soft'-Hindu line and doomed the Muslims to a, de facto, second class citizens in this country with the largest Muslim population; all these fuelled the rise of this trend of protest against this present ruling cum oppressing structure. Add with those cited reasons: The disappointing defeat of the prospect of revolutionary change in this country + The degeneration of the CPI, CPIM, etc parties to that extreme that many oppressed toilers now have disbelief towards the red flag, for whose prestige their forefathers once didn't hesitate to shed their blood + The collapse of the Hope, i.e., the defeat of the international communist movement, and the ugly actions of the pseudo communists world over before and after that great fall that gave rise to many confusions, questions... and moreover, an ideological vacuum . So think twice before you blame someone stepped in the puddle or quagmire in absence of any light. And that happened in Aligunj, Kaiserabad, etc places in Lukhnow more vociferously than in any other Indian towns/cities. The UP police could not get cleansed and soft or mulayam even in this Mulayam era, (and nobody can cleanse these paramilitary/police/military forces till their abolition and creation of peoples' militia through a revolution) their bullets took, officially, four lives including that of a school-kid. Fires, Curfew, Bandhs of mutually opposing forces, all were there. A Militant Protest That Was — But To What End? How? Is it worthy to shake hands with those hands, which once were warm allies of that imperialism ? Is it worthy to destroy imperialism to make the world safe for and subjugated to Arab billionaires and theocracy?? What about destroying that 'ownership' of 'Nature' and 'Means of Production' which oppress the workers and all toilers of the world? And what about the toilers, who are oppressed by imperialism and deshi ruling classes, who should fight united against it, but were divided and re-divided by the actions of Pan Islamism, as well as, or, more so, by the Hindu fundamentalists?? Pan Islamism has no definite and true answer to these burning questions. Because fundamentally, they have blurred, obliterated a noble saying of one Prophet: It is easier for a camel to pass the eye of a needle than it is for the rich to pass the gates of heaven! And everybody knows why the rich are rich, and how they become richer. All wealth in the world is made of two simple things, said Marx, Nature and Human Labour. By the sheer ownership of Nature and the means by which labour acts (tools, machineries, etc) the 'owner' feudal lords, capitalists suck up the wealth created. The fundraisers and main donors belong to this camp of 'owners', a camp with which any imaandar toiler will hate to unite.
And here comes the third trend. It has the definite aim to end all kinds of exploitations, all oppressions by few men on human beings. But it is not a strong trend yet; it has not even a percent of a percent people of India or the world behind it. But it is present. We named only Mittiya Buruj of Calcutta , but they are spread over many cities/town and villages, even in some industrial area of U.P. In Mittiya Buruj several hundreds of workers, not even a thousand perhaps , of the Garden Reach Ship Builders & Engineers, Hindustan Lever, etc factories took out this different kind of protests of workers, and of course some thousands of workers supported those protests — a ' modest ' protest now, but with the eye of building up a resistance , and then, in future, towards a war against imperialism-capitalism and its native cronies, against the landlords, capitalist farmers, and deshi sahibs, against this oppressing state machinery ... and towards forming a new society based on equality, liberty, sisterhood of nations . This way Mittiya Buruj throws an alternative, or rather, the only way of real fight against imperialism.
Which side are you on? Which way you need to take? Mittiya Buruj or Aligunj?
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