Resolutions
(Resolutions Passed Polit Bureau Meeting of CPI (ML) Red Star held from 1st to 3rd March 2023 at Kolla Venkaiya Vignana Kendra, Guntur, AP)
PB Resolution Dharavi
Resist and Defeat Adani’s Dharavi Slum Redevelopment Project
During the last quarter of 2022, when Adani was India’s biggest crony capitalist who was closely identified with Modi govt, he won the bid for redeveloping Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum that is home to more than a million people. The Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), one of world’s biggest “slum redevelopment plan” that comes under the notorious PPP model is a testimony to the extreme decay and parasitism of crony capital where even slum renewal and redevelopment has become an avenue of loot and plunder by corporate capital.
Today, following the Hindenburg Report on the brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme pursued by Adani, the latter has fallen from the rank of 3 in world billionaires’ list to 33. However, now DRP is going to be a source of fabulous wealth appropriation by Adani. Since he is bound to use only 149 acres for rehabilitation out of around 700 acres including 47.5 acres of Railway land in Dadar, the remaining land will form part of the “sale component” of the deed which Adani can freely use for realty business including building up of residential flats on commercial basis. The lakhs of crores that Adani can earn from this so called rehabilitation may be guessed in view of the present market price of Rs.70000 per sq ft of land in Mumbai’s Badra-Kurla, one of the most prominent business complexes in Asia that is adjacent to Dharavi.
On the one hand, as per Adani’s agreement with government, only half of the one million slum dwellers of Dharavi who settled there before 2000 will be eligible for rehabilitation in 300/350 sq ft house. On the other, along with this ‘ghettoisation’ of Dharavi, half of the residents whose ancestors were living there for generations since colonial days being ‘ineligible’ will be evicted and thrown out by Adani with the backing of state power.
Thus, as Adani now becomes the ‘developer’ of Dharavi, dark days are ahead of its one million residents. The superimposed DRP which is in tune with corporate greed in total disregard of the concerns and requirements of the dwellers of Dharavi is part of the corporate-fascist offensive unleashed on the toiling and oppressed by the RSS/BJP regime throughout the country. Therefore, it is high time on the part of of residents Dharavi to rise up against this slum renewal project, the worst of its kind in the world.
In this context, CPI (ML) Red Star appeals to the Dharavi residents to resolutely rise up joining with all progressive-democratic forces to defeat Adani’s superimposed DRP which is destined to bring one of the biggest-ever, displacement, destitution and deprivation.
PB Resolution on Ukraine
Condemn the Inter-imperialist War in Ukraine by Using the Latter as Proxy
Russian attack against Ukraine that began on February 24, 2023 and US-led NATO’s retaliation using Ukraine a proxy are continuing without any let-up. As is obvious, the immediate cause for imperialist Russia’s war was US’ machinations instigating Ukraine against Russia together with its efforts to reinforce the 30-member NATO. No doubt, the Russian invasion enabled US to galvanise the transatlantic alliance between US and EU and reinvigorate NATO at a critical juncture when NATO was losing its cohesion and EU was even planning for a pan-European military alliance independent of US-led NATO. Both politically and economically, US has been the biggest gainer from the war in Ukraine, which has now become Europe’s biggest land conflict since World War II. And with intensified war efforts on both sides and Ukraine itself transforming as world’s third largest arms-importer within an year, especially from US, a settlement seems to be remote now. And the growing conflict between Russian imperialism on the one side, and US imperialist-led NATO on the other has its repercussions the world over in the form of rising fuel prices and mounting burden on the shoulders of working and oppressed people. The biggest-gainer from the ongoing war in Ukraine is imperialist war-industry as manifested through the sudden hike in military budgets in all countries with US imperialism in the lead.
During the past one year, the Biden administration was facing many setbacks including the debacle in Afghan and loosening hold over West Asia following Saudi-Iran deal brokered by China together with latter’s carving out of neocolonial spheres of influence formerly held by US in Afro-Asian-Latin American countries. At one time, France even declared the North-Atlantic alliance as ‘brain dead’ and even withdrew its ambassador from US in protest in the context of the formation of AUKUS which is part of the US move towards an ‘Asian NATO’ targeting China. However, the Ukraine war facilitated US to orchestrate a unified Western response to Russia keeping NATO united, coordinating US-EU economic sanctions, supporting the deployment of troops and weapons in Ukraine against Russia, helping US imperialism to rally round the Western imperialist block against growing China-Russian alliance and in ensuring the backing of its close allies in the sharpening inter-imperialist contradictions with China in particular.
According to reports, within Russia public opinion is not in favour of continuing the war with Ukraine and demonstrations and speeches calling for peace with Ukraine are there. The working class and oppressed sections of Russia who are bearing the burden of war are against the policies of the financial oligarchy which Putin represents. In the same vein, even though land in Ukraine is among the most fertile in Europe and though Ukraine is rich in natural resources, Ukrainian society is one of the poorest in Europe and obviously, even much before the Russian attack, the Zelensky regime had been faithfully pursuing policies that suit the imperialist interests of US and EU and, in the interests of mining oligarchy, was regularly repressing striking miners. His main support-base is the neo-Nazi sections seeking integration with EU and NATO.
In this context, as communists who uphold proletarian internationalism, we have to stand in solidarity with the working class and oppressed in both Ukraine and Russia. The roots of the war in Ukraine where the latter is a proxy lay deep in the political, economic and military needs of imperialism. As of now, report of a Russian warplane colliding with a US surveillance drone over Black Sea and striking it down is also coming in, pointing to direct confrontation between Russia and US. The US surveillance over the region is part of NATO’s intensified offensive against Russia by arming Ukraine with more weapons. Therefore, it is high time on the part of world people to rise up against the ongoing war in Ukraine and compel those involved to to stop it with immediate effect through appropriate settlement process at the earliest.
Down with Imperialism !
Down with NATO !!
Fight for World Peace and Revolution!!!
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World Unite !!!!
PB Resolution on Palestine
CPI (ML) Red Star Condemns the Intensifying Zionist Offensive on Palestine People
Observe Land Day on March 30 as International Palestine Solidarity Day
We condemn the intensified aggression on Palestinian people by the Zionist state of Israel under the far-right neo-fascist Netanyahu regime with the connivance of US imperialism. For last many years, the Zionist forces have been indulging in a series of massacres during and adjacent months of Ramadan. It was in relation to that the Zionist forces committed one of the most horrific massacres at Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza strip neighborhood in May 2021, killing over 150 Palestinians. The series of this mounting aggression is still continuing, the latest being the Nablus massacre in the West Bank towards the end of February 2023, killing 11 Palestinians.
The recent accord between Saudi and Iran with the avowed aim of establishing bilateral relationship between the two, unlike analysed by corporate media, is not leading to a peaceful situation in West Asia. Rather, it is going to a further sharpening of the inter-imperialist contradictions with their multi-dimensional impact in relation to imperialism’s geopolitical interests in West Asia. And under the camouflage of the accord, the Zionists backed by US imperialism, in fact, are carrying on unprecedented attacks on the Palestinians.
It is also reported that to divert Israelis’ anger against the far-right neoliberal and fascistic policies of Netanyahu, the latter may try for a severe attack on Palestine people in the month of May with more casualties than that in 2021. Revealingly, the opposition leaders who are leading the protests against the fascistic policies of Netanyahu were totally silent on Israel military’s unleashing of mass arrests and targeted killings of Palestinians and confining of them in a ghetto during the Jewish festival of Purim last week – pointing to the sad situation in Israel in which the ruling factions while quarrel each other for power have reached a consensus on the Zionist approach to Palestine.
In this context, CPI (ML) Red Star appeals to all progressive- democratic forces and oppressed masses of the world to extend solidarity to the national liberation struggle of Palestine people and resolutely condemn the Zionist attack in collusion with imperialism, especially US led imperialist camp and various neo-fascist regimes including the RSS Neo-fascists led Modi government. We also appeal to join the call of ICOR to observe the Land Day on March 30 as International Palestine Solidarity Day!
