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US imperialism too,
chose Hyderabad for Clinton’s visit as AP has long been considered to be a test
case for executing the neo-liberal policies of the World Bank-IMF-WTO regime
directed by a handful of Transnational Corporations with the American companies
playing leading role. And especially since AP is marked by a growing
revolutionary movement, which the imperialists, seek to suppress through their
lapdog Naidu.
Indian ruling
classes, by adopting the imperialist-dictated policies of liberalisation,
privatisation and globalisation, have turned the lives of the overwhelming
majority of the Indian people into a veritable hell on earth.
Subsidies and social
welfare programmes are being slashed; profit-making PSUs are being sold off at
dirt cheap prices; workers retrenched in lakhs and all recruitment to government
services have come to a halt; prices of essential commodities skyrocketed; banks
stopped granting loans to the rural poor under World Bank’s instruction; every
sector without exception—agriculture, industry, banking, insurance, stock
market, print and electronic media, entertainment, and so on—have been opened up
almost completely to imperialist capital. As a result, over the past decade the
people living below the poverty line increased from a third of the population to
over 40%; mass suicides of the peasantry increased; the condition of the poorest
sections of society— dalits and women — became unbearable.
And now the Indian
comprador ruling classes have begun to implement the second generation reforms
which are far more diabolic than the first. It is for overseeing the progress
made by the Indian comprador managers in implementing the imperialist-dictated
policies that Bill Clinton has decided to visit India. It is also intended to
draw the Indian rulers closer to US imperialism and to bring the coumtry’s
economy, polity and culture under total American domination.
The Indian comprador
rulers, are only too keen on serving the international bully, US imperialism,
and have no objection to signing the CTBT if their expansionist role in South
Asia is backed by American imperialism — as was done by the Soviet social
imperialists until the late 1980s. Eyeing greedily the bigger market of India
and the prospects of using the huge Indian armed forces to suppress the
democratic and revolutionary movements in the sub-continent, and elsewhere in
East Asia if the need arose, the American imperialists are prepared to
recogonise India as a regional power in South Asia in the changed situation in
the sub-continent following the collapse of the Soviet super power. They are
hatching sinister schemes to use the Indian armed forces to crush the rising
tide of people’s war in neighbouring Nepal.
The revolutionary and
democratic organisations and individuals, and the oppressed masses of India must
teach a lesson to this imperialist gangster and international bully whose hands
are stained with the blood of millions of people worldwide — in Korea, Vietnam,
Kampuchea, Laos, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Peru, the Philippines, Iraq,
Somalia and elsewhere. With its huge nuclear arms stock piles, and military
bases world wide it has become the greatest threat to world peace and the worst
oppressor of national liberation struggles and revolutions. A huge campaign
should be taken up opposing the visit of the leader of the pack of imperialist
wolves to our country. Meetings, dharnas, rallies, and all forms of
demonstrations should be taken up by forming broad-based anti-imperialist forums
in various parts of the country. Effigies of Clinton and US flags should be set
on fire. "Kick out the blood-sucker and imperialist big bully Clinton!", "MNCs!
Quit India!", "Clinton Go Back!", "Fight Back the policies of liberalisation,
privatisation and globalisation!", "Oppose the sell-out of our country by
comprador managers of imperialist capital—Vajpayee, Naidu and the like!", "Big
bully Clinton! Stop attacks on Iraq, and Islamic forces!" "Stop interference in
the affairs of the Third World!", and such other slogans should be popularised
among the masses.
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