Defeat the program of liberalisation and privatisation!

Fight for the democratic renewal of India!

These elections are being organized at a time when the toiling masses have been suffering from exorbitant rise in food and fuel prices.  In addition, we are facing loss of jobs and livelihood, and loss of hard earned savings, as a result of the worldwide crisis of capitalism. 

Rights of workers and their families to secure housing and livelihood are under attack, as a result of the big capitalists’ agenda of so-called urban renewal.  Peasants are facing extreme insecurity of livelihood and eviction from their land.  Lakhs of people are victims of state organised communal and sectarian violence on the basis of religion, region or caste, being deliberately incited and organized by the major parties of the bourgeois class.

Neither the Congress Party and its allies of the UPA, nor the BJP and its allies in the NDA, has any solution to the burning problems of the workers, peasants and toiling majority of people.   On the contrary, these parties are committed to the agenda of enriching the bourgeoisie and fulfilling its ambition of becoming an imperialist global power as rapidly as possible.  Their concern is to boost the profits of the big corporations, in the conditions of the crisis.

This means stepped up impoverishment and ruination of the working people through various means.  It means further terror to divert them and drown their struggle in blood.

The Communist Ghadar Party of India believes that the time is ripe for the workers, peasants, women and youth to wage a united struggle to defeat the agenda of the bourgeoisie.  We can and must immediately halt and reverse the liberalisation and privatisation program. 

We must push forward the alternative program for the renewal (navnirman) of India. Renewal of India means to reorient the economy to fulfill the needs of the toiling majority, not the greed of the exploiting minority. 

It means to reconstitute the state system and redefine the political process, so that political power is held by the people and not by parties of big moneyed interests.  It means to break out of the alliance with the US and other imperialist powers, and to build South Asian unity for peace in the region.

The human and material wealth of India belongs to us, the toiling masses. It does not belong to the Tatas, Reliance and other big capitalists to plunder as they please, so as to become global giants.

To reorient the economy means to fight for measures that would ensure the right to food, housing and other basic needs.  Such measures include immediate halt to unproductive government spending, such as interest payments and military purchases. They include whatever expenditure may be necessary to fulfill basic needs, such as the right to full employment for all, and a universal public distribution system that covers not only food items but all essential consumption goods at affordable prices.

The existing state system is based on colonial foundations.   The political process is dominated by parties financed by the capitalists.  Renewal of democracy means to break the stranglehold of the criminalized parties of the bourgeoisie.  It means to ensure that we, the working people, are able to select and elect candidates from among our midst, recall those elected at any time, and also initiate legislation in our interests.  It means to reconstitute India as a voluntary union of nations, nationalities and peoples, where state terrorism is ended and the rights of all are guaranteed.

Every occasion of elections is used by the bourgeois class and its parties to divide us on the basis of religion, caste, and region. The urgent need is to build our unity as workers, as peasants, as women and as youth.  We must foil the dastardly divisive game of the bourgeoisie by forging our unity in struggle against the bourgeoisie and its agenda.

The Communist Ghadar Party of India calls on all its members and all its organisations to redouble efforts to forge the fighting unity of the workers, peasants, women and youth, around the agenda of the working class and in opposition to the agenda of the bourgeoisie. The work to build peoples committees in every mohalla and every village must be stepped up. These committees will be organs of resistance to the agenda of the bourgeoisie and organs of struggle for people’s power. The immediate need is to organise mass meetings, to engage the people in political discussion, to rally them around the program for the Navnirman of India.  This has to be done wherever elections have been called, as well as in regions where elections are not taking place at this time.  In the states that are going to the polls – we must enable the people to select candidates from among their midst, to contest the anti-people agenda of the bourgeoisie.

The Communist Ghadar Party of India calls on all communists, and all those striving for a workers’ and peasants’ democracy, to put their combined weight behind candidates who are committed to defeat the agenda of the bourgeoisie.  Let us convert the electoral arena into a trial of strength between the working people and those who seek to exploit us to become global giants.