Paper
Presented By The Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Forum Nepal At The International Communist Seminar Organised By
Workers Party Of Belgium (PTB) On 2-4 May 2004.
Dear Comrades,
We would like to
extend our heartfelt greeting on behalf of the revolutionary masses of Nepal
while we are gather here in a seminar in a very important, very timely and very
burning issue of the present day.
The Nepalese
revolutionary masses have been confronting the US
imperialism since very initiation of the People’s War. In the present days,
while the US occupation and people’s resistance has been going on in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and while its aggression has been going on against the people of
Philippines, Peru, Haiti, Korean Peninsula and other parts of the world, its
political intervention and military concentration over Nepal has been
intensified. Despite the US has been facing a political offensive before the
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the vanguard of the international
Proletariat, and military offensive by its lackey – feudal Gyanendra
Shah, the US has been preparing to increase its military offensive against
People’s War, aiming at to establish strategic military bases, encircling China
and watching over India.
While dozens of
best son and daughters fighting for destruction of the feudalism and
imperialism have been killed and dozens of Maoist leaders and cadres including
comrade Kiran, comrade Gauravm
Comrade Matrika and comrade Suresh (the Standing
Committee and Central committee members) are arrested by India and some are in
prison and many extradited to Nepal, this International Communist Seminar on
very burning issue on the topics of Strategy and Tactics against Global US War
has been organised here. We would like to extend our heartfelt greeting to the
organiser, the PTB and a lot thanking for giving us opportunity to express our
views on this issue. We will concentrate our views on this very subject.
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Strategy
and tactics in the struggle against global US imperialist war
“There is one, and only one, kind of
real internationalism, and that is -- working whole-heartedly for the
development of the revolutionary movement and the revolutionary struggle in
one's own country, and supporting (by propaganda, sympathy, and material aid) this
struggle, this, and only this, line, in every country without exception”.
–Lenin
In
the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution, basing on the analysis of
the economic, political and military strategy of the imperialism, Maoist
revolutionaries have characterised four basic contradictions in the present
world. Contradiction between bourgeoisie and proletariat as a contradiction
between labour and capital, inter-imperialist contradiction, contradiction
between imperialism and oppressed class, nations and people and the
contradiction between capitalist and socialist system are the basic or the
fundamental contradictions in the present world. Among these four basic
contradictions, contradiction between capitalist and socialist system does not
exist now, but this is important to keep in mind that such contradiction
existed before, and will exist tomorrow at the birth of socialist state in
future. And, out of these four basic contradictions, in the international
level, imperialism versus oppressed class, nation and people is the principal
contradiction.
The
imperialist system has developed to a more monopolist, more parasitic and more
decedent then a century ago, when great philosopher Lenin defined and exposed
imperialism, developed strategy and tactics of Great October Revolution and
guided the world proletariat for world revolution. In China, in the course of fighting
feudalism and imperialism and coming through Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution (GPCR) having liberated the Chinese people from feudalism and
bureaucrat capitalism, Chairman Mao Tsetung developed
Marxism-Leninism to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. After the fall of Soviet Social
Imperialism, the US imperialism today has developed to
a single superpower of the world. Controlling over science and technology by
handful fanatic elements of the monopoly capitalists of the imperialist
countries, specially the United States of America, it has unleashed a war
juggernaut, unjust, parasitic predatory in character, in the name of “human
right” “democracy” and “liberation” of the poor countries. The US imperialism has been using a
strategy and tactics of so called democracy and human right as a political
offensive, economic blockade and control through International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and World Bank, and through military actions against the oppressed masses
of the world. This process has created a huge gap between production and
distribution in the world scale. Even imperialist’s data say, "Rich
countries that have 15% of the world population own 80% of the world’s
resources, whereas, 85% of the population own only 20 % of them. Consequently,
"Two and a half a billion people have been victims of abject poverty. One
billion people are under absolute poverty line. It has given rise to
unemployment, poverty, anger and anarchy and rebellion simultaneously. The
imperialist war on Yugoslavia, on Afghanistan and on Iraq is for the further
expansion of the imperialist predatory, parasitic and plundering mission in the
central and South Asia, aiming at to engulf rich natural resources, huge number
of cheap labour of China, as well as perspective rival force in the future,
after tightening control over African and Latin American countries.
Furthermore, the American policy of “pre-emptive action”, the theory of
“Project for New American Century”, concept of “Global Leadership” and Bush and
Company’s theory of “either with us or with enemy”, makes the US monopoly capitalists and
imperialists more fascist ever before. These objective realities of the present
world provide a great objective conditions prepared
for the world revolution.
Lenin’s
explanation on the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution and Chairman
Mao’s proposition that revolution is the main trend in the world, which he
concluded from the correct identification of contradiction between imperialism
and oppressed nations, is also equally scientific, and
valid in the today’s world. Imperialism that has developed to a global system
through economic, political and military hegemony and domination in the global
level as well as through ties with the brutal and fascists regimes in the Third
World Countries it has been imposing war juggernaut against the oppressed
people in the world over. Despite the fact that the superpower has been
imposing war in order to maintain its imperialist system and economy, the US
has been forced more and more to adhere with imperialist terrorism by
developing newer and newer generation of weapons. This situation of the
imperialism looks stronger on form but in essence, represents frustrated,
feared and terrified from the political consciousness of the masses of the 21st
century. Because of this objective reality of the present world, despite their
“military supremacy”, the demise of the imperialist lackeys and fascistic
regime of the third worlds as well as of the US imperialism itself has come
under the ring of fire. For instance, the Maoist revolutionaries can see and
analyse objective conditions developed along with the US aggression on Iraq that along with the sharp
confrontation and forceful resistance of the Iraqi people, the US imperialism in Iraq is surrounded by millions of
oppressed Iranian, Jordanian, Turkish, and Arabian proletariats. The Communist
in those countries must be able to hoist a red flag of People’s War and mobilise
the revolutionary people against the regimes of their countries as well as
against imperialism. Mao Tsetung’s scientific
synthesis that either Maoist revolutionaries have to make revolution and the
war will be prevented or war will lead to break out revolution will come to
true if the Maoist revolutionaries consciously uphold, defend and apply
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, that means begin people’s war.
The
imperialist monopolies on market, material resources and military firepower
have also intensified inter-imperialist contradictions. French and German
opposition against Iraq war, however marks nothing benevolence for the Iraqi
people and make no respect to the millions of the people who opposed war, but
maintains contradiction against American hegemony and domination in the
oppressed eastern European countries, as well as in the Middle East. Any
confusion that French, German, Russian imperialists opposed war and Spain’s preparation “to withdraw” its troops from Iraq make something positive in fighting
against US imperialism will be suicidal for the oppressed people in the world.
Furthermore, the quest of favourable UN resolution either to prevent war or to
handover Iraqi sovereignty to the Iraqi people are simply a bargaining cheeps
of the European imperialists. The US monopoly in military power,
economic domination and hegemony over European imperialist bourgeoisies and its
market has further intensified the contradictions among themselves. These
contradictions will not be solved unless the Maoist revolutionaries make
socialist revolution in these countries. Again, inter-imperialist contradiction
and contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat has been
forcefully leading imperialist and capitalist countries to socialist
revolution. In a nutshell, the expansion of the European Union to the Eastern Europe is the out come of
inter-imperialist rivalry, the competition between the US and the EU to dominate over cheap
labour, rich resources and market for their stockpile product. But, contrary to
their wishes of exploiting cheap labour and natural resources of this region,
the expansion of the European Union to the eastern European countries has
simply invited more and more gravediggers of the European Imperialists
bourgeoisies.
Despite
a powerful expression of public opposition against imperialist war, it is time
and again proved that imperialism do not stop war unless it is overthrown from
power. The Marxist-Leninist-Maoist principal has further proved Lenin’s
scientific synthesis that imperialism means war, because as long as there is
imperialism there will be war(s). Hence, the imperialism cannot be overthrown
without a violent overthrow by using revolutionary power, and after revolution,
such revolutionary power cannot be maintained without challenging imperialist
internationalism by proletarian internationalism.
A
revolutionary crisis has been seen in the United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Iran during the US war against Iraq. It is a law of dialectics that a
big action generates a big counteraction and such counter actions are clearer
and palpable at weak links. Along with the US aggression against Iraq such weak links were interlinked
with war and still persisting to be weak link in the region as well as in the United States of America. All revolutionary crises do not
necessary lead to immediate victory, but every revolutionary crisis could and
should be turn to bring greater and more decisive revolutionary crisis.
Furthermore, any revolutionary crisis automatically cannot lead to revolution
unless there is conscious vanguard Party of the proletariat to lead these
crises to revolution. Contrary to the imperialist assertion that imposing
unjust war against oppressed countries brings a “new world order”, such war
always drag them to a spiral mode of crisis, more fragile, uncertainty and more
complexities. Here just as Mao has said, “the proletariat should attempt to
prevent the world war as far as possible, but if unsuccessful, they should work
out the policy to turn the world war into world revolution” the Maoist
revolutionaries should make all out efforts in making revolution. But in the
absence of Maoist vanguard Party guided by a revolutionary line, having a
People’s Liberation Army under the leadership of such Party and exercising a revolutionary
United Front to lead revolution or advanced revolutionary subjective
conditions, revolution in any country is not possible. Here, it is very
important to keep in mind that, just as having drawn lesions of the historical
experiences of the fall of Paris Commune Marx had pointed out that the old
state machinery cannot help for the new and revolutionary state machinery; it
is in the same way that there is not any possibility of revolution without
concentrating on these three strategic instrument of revolution.
In
the context of Nepal, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
has scientifically upheld, defended and applied Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in the
concrete objective reality of Nepalese society. In the course of People’s War,
Party has synthesised its experiences as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Prachanda Path. Prachanda Path is
a set of ideas developed in the course of Nepalese revolution, on which, as in
every revolution, the basic theory becomes yet developed ideology and guiding
principle becomes the developing ideology, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is the basic
theory and Prachanda Path is guiding ideas. In the
Nepalese context, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism becomes basic principal, theory and
philosophy for the revolution and Prachanda Path
serves and guiding ideas or principal. It is just as happened in the Russian
Revolution that Marxism was the basic theory and Lenin’s ideas were guiding
principal and Marxism-Leninism was the basic theory and ideas of Mao Tsetung were the guiding principal in the context of Great
Chinese Revolution. As per dialectical relation between general and particular,
the ideas developed in the particularity of Chinese Revolution serve as the
general ideas in the context of People’s War in Nepal and Peru. Similarly, the ideas developed in
the particularities in the Nepalese revolution may certainly serve as general
ideas in the course of making world proletarian revolution. Here, it would be
important to note that the particularity of the ideas of Chairman Prachanda deserves generality in the context of world
revolution. Chairman Prachanda has laid a general
foundation to pave a way for the New Democratic and Socialist Revolution in the
21st century and thus to advance to Communism synthesizing the five
years practise of People’s War in the second historic Conference of the Party,
held on 2001, he documented, “21st century shall be the century of people's
wars, and the triumph of the world socialist system. Apart from this, it also
shows that there has been a significant change in the prevailing concept of
model of revolution after 1980. Today the fusion of the strategies of armed
insurrection and protracted people's war into one another has been essential.
Without doing so, a genuine revolution seems almost impossible in any country.”
In the particularity of Nepalese revolution, Prachanda
Path has developed the principal of fusion of two military strategies – the
strategy of insurrection and the strategy of protracted people’s war. This
principal developed in the particularities of Nepalese revolution could be
applied as general principal in the particularities of other countries and even
in the imperialist countries. The understanding of the comrades of the Maoist
Parties of Italy, and Canada, also indicates that without leading People’s War
in the imperialist countries by making fusion of two military strategies,
revolution in those countries are not possible.
While
we are discussing about mapping out the strategy and tactics in the struggle
against global US imperialist war, no real strategy
and real tactics could be forged divorced from the revolutionary war within the
imperialist citadel. And whether revolution is possible or not depends up on
zeal and enthusiasm of the revolutionaries in fighting at all fronts of
revisionism and opportunism, eclecticism and reformism as well as at the war
front of the enemy. In the context of Europe, Maoist revolutionaries must investigate
revolutionary potentialities and navigate revolutionary activities on the
concrete realities of the present conditions of Europe, and not on the conditions existed
before 1950s. The present condition that the western Europe has developed as
one country - like without boarder, that it has been using single currency,
that it has integrated economy and culture, that the people of every country
have been suffering American military presence since second world war, that the
European Union has been marching towards developing single European Parliament
and its single Army of the Union, that the European bourgeoisie have let loose
European nationals to earn, marriage and settle any of the European countries
have brought a new realities in Europe and such conditions demand a new kind of
organisational set-up of the Communist Revolutionaries to meet the needs of the
European revolution. Furthermore, the need of market for the European
bourgeoisie and a quest for way out against US imperialist domination however,
brought a unity of the European states to a step progressive, yet because of
their imperialist economic military and political nature, predatory mission and
repressive character they have tightened military domination in many of the
African countries, promoted a national chauvinism in Europe and maintained
imperialist alliances with the US imperialism. Hence, under the given situation,
unless the revolutionaries of Europe get unified under a single policy programme
and plans and fight against both European and American imperialist
bourgeoisies, making revolution over one country or its expansion will be very
difficult. Furthermore, in order to meet the challenges posed by revisionism,
reformism and liquidationism before the Maoist
revolutionaries, the world revolution demands a New Types of Communist
International of the Maoist Communist Parties and Organisations in the world over
by now has the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) been developing as
an embryonic centre of such New Communist International.
Hence,
by this, and only by this process, as Lenin said “working whole-heartedly for
the development of the revolutionary movement and the revolutionary struggle in
one's own country, and supporting (by propaganda, sympathy, and material aid)
this struggle, this, and only this, line, in every country without exception”
will the Communist Revolutionaries be able to map out real strategy and tactics
in the struggle against global US imperialist war.
Thank you,
Presented
at
13th International Communist Seminar
Brussels, 2-4
May 2004
By
Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Forum Nepal