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Budget 2025: Patting on Middle Class Dreams in Gross Disregard of the “Absolute Poor”!

As expected, the 2025 Budget speech of Indian Finance Minister reveals Modi regime’s resolve to accelerate far-right neoliberal policies along with pampering or patting on the dreams of India’s growing middle class in gross disregard of the country’s most downtrodden working and oppressed people, which according to global studies, comprises more than 50% of world’s 70 crore “absolute poor”. Comprising around 35 crore, in a population of 145 crore, these most deprived and oppressed people engaging in menial, unskilled manual work are being registered under MGNREGA, the much trumpeted Employment Guarantee Scheme, that had earlier promised minimum 100 days employment per year for them across States.

As estimated by experts last year, at least a minimum of ₹ 2.70 lakh crore – around 1.5% of India’s GDP in 2024 – should have been allocated in the budget for MGNREGA to provide 100 days employment to the “absolute” or extreme poor in India. However, under Modi regime, that is engaged in achieving “Viksit Bharat” by 2047, the budgetary allocation to Employment Guarantee Scheme has been steadily going down over the years. As per budget estimates, in 2021, it’s allocation was 0.56% of GDP, which declined to 0.41% in 2022, 0.33% in 2023 and 0.25% in 2024. Revealingly, in its over-enthusiasm to placate the middle classes, characterizing the budget as a “testament to country’s middle class”, and to ensure their vote-bank, and making “Viksit Bharat” as consumption-driven, while Modi govt has foregone around ₹1 lakh crore in 2025 budget by way of income tax reductions and various exemptions, it has not even made a mention on MGNREGA this time, thereby totally condemning the “absolute poor” to a life of horrific poverty, agony and misery. While World Bank defines “absolute poor” as those having less than $1.90 per day, for India the criterion is $1.15 a day!

Meanwhile, India is having world’s lowest corporate tax regime and Indian billionaires wealth has been surging 42% in the last financial year. However, the entire burden of taxation has been on India’s common people through world’s most regressive GST. It is in this context that 2025 budget has envisaged to liberalise the tax regime further, coupled with a series of “ease of doing” and “investor-friendly” measures including pro-corporate prodding in the form of further liberalisation, deregulation and globalisation in policy-making and execution. All infrastructure projects and development programs mentioned in the budget, and for research and devlopment, urban development and even for nuclear energy projects, crony-capitalist involvement is ensured through so called PPP scheme. The ₹20000 R&D Initiative for Small Modular Reactors envisaged with private participation and the proposed amendments to Atomic Energy Act, and Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act will expose India not only to nuclear catastrophe but also transform it as a dumping ground for costly and unsafe nuclear plants and nuclear waste from imperialist powers. And to facilitate all these corporate offensives, the 2025 Budget, for the first time, has proposed an Investment Friendliness Index for accelerating neoliberal corporatisation in States with the involvement of MNCs and their Indian junior partners.

An ingenious move in this direction, probably to appease far-right neofascist Trump, is the unprecedented opening up of Indian Insurance sector for 100% FDI. It will pave the way for the free entry, loot, and exit by the notorious and blacklisted US insurance companies. The abrupt elimination of seven tariff rates in the foreign trade sector along with the plan to simplify and streamline the custom tariff structure altogether in the budget is another impact of the Trumpian threat. Obviously, the budget also has rhetoric on such frontier technologies as AI for which India has no other option other than to abjectly depend on tech tycoons from either US or China. In this regard, a proposal for an investment of ₹500 crore for a Centre for Artificial Intelligence is also there. In brief, following the various pro-corporate announcements in the Budget, the stock market indices, both Sensex and Nifty, shedding their initial volatility, also began surging as the Finance Minister concluded her speech.

However, the concrete Indian realities are far-away removed from the illusions spread by Modi regime and pliable corporate media. The IMF, the neocolonial arm of US with latter’s veto power in it, has already made its forecast that Indian GDP growth rate will not exceed 6.5%. As concerned people know, the parameters of India’s budget including its fiscal deficit target in the neoliberal period is ultimately decided by the FRBM Act (Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act) passed by Vajpayee government in 2003 as per IMF diktats. As such, in spite of its motto of an 8% GDP growth for accomplishing Viksit Bharat in 2047, and such other claims as fastest growing economy, etc., the Economic Survey, in line with the projections of IMF, had to confine the GDP growth rate to 6.4% in the year ahead.

At the same time, as already noted, with more than half of world’s absolute poor, India is often called a “citadel of global poverty”, and inequality under Modi rule has become horrific with 1 percent of superrich holding more than 40 percent of country’s wealth. More than 90% of those who are employed are in the informal/unorganised sectors with no job guarantee, social security and having no provision for minimum wages. Still, with world’s largest share of jobless people, India is like a wasteland of unemployment. The more than ₹10 lakh core Capex – Capital Expenditure – mentioned in 2025 budget (in the last budget, it was ₹11.11 lakh crore) under PPP and other routes will be primarily diverted to money-spinning and quick profit-yielding speculative spheres by crony capitalists rather than for developing employment-oriented productive spheres. The budget also makes a mockery of Indian federalism by extending apparent bonanza for Bihar like States under ‘fascist double engine’. To be precise, therefore, the budget and its provisions that work within the logic of neoliberal corporatisation cannot break the vicious circle in which the country and its people are placed. And the so called “Amrit Kaal” that is repeatedly echoed by the ruling regime cannot whitewash the harsh realities confronted by the common people of India. It is upto the working class and oppressed people together with all progressive-democratic forces to expose the true essence of the budget, with the people’s perspective for a political alternative.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
01.02.2025

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CPI (ML) Red Star Resolutely Condemns Trumpian Plan for Most Heinous Gaza Cleansing !

Evaluating the 15 January Gaza truce superimposed on Palestinians on the eve of the ascendance of “neofascist, far-right and reactionary Trump”, and as dictated by latter’s political expediency and geopolitical strategies, the 17 January Statement of CPI (ML) Red Star had opined: “… since fascist neo-Zionism is the antithesis of a liberated Palestine, the Palestinians and all their Resistance Forces should have a cautious approach to the present truce and they have to take care not to fall into a plausible trap set by imperialist-Zionist axis” (See the Link below).

Now the international community has come to know about this Trumpian trap from the horse’s mouth when Trump himself has put forward his most heinous plan to “clean out Gaza” by resettling the Palestinians from there in other Arab countries like Jordan and Egypt. It should be noted that the idea of a forcible relocation of the Gazans to neighbouring Arab countries is not a new one but one that has long been cherished by neo-Zionists and far-right elements of Netanyahu government, who have already opposed even the 15 January Ceasefire. For instance, Ben-Gvir Itamar, former national security minister representing Jewish Power party has welcomed Trump “for the initiative to transfer residents from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt”. Some Zionists are of the opinion that Palestinians should emigrate to neighbouring countries to allow Jewish settlements to be re-established in Gaza.

Of course, the Palestinians and all concerned Arab nations have strongly denounced and outrightly rejected this proposal including its implicit agenda of undermining the unity of the Palestinian land, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. It is heartwarming also that the entire people of Palestine, their leaderships and the Palestine resistance forces have correctly identified this criminal, treacherous and fascist US-Zionist agenda such that if not resisted and defeated, this neo-Zionist plan will lead to a “repetition of the catastrophes (Nakba) of 1948 and 1967.”

Meanwhile, the much trumpeted, eulogised and celebrated truce is used for camouflaging the ongoing crimes against Palestinians and diverting world people’s attention from Zionist violations of Ceasefire. Reports on ingenious moves for the coming of hardline Zionist sections to Gaza are there, even as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees are bound to stay in neighbouring countries. And many of them who were forced to flee to other countries during the latest horrific genocide in Gaza were not even granted the status of refugees. And Trump’s “Gaza cleansing” plan comes as displaced people were delayed from returning to their homes in Gaza after Netanyahu regime accused Hamas of breaching the terms of ceasefire deal.

Therefore, to be precise, as Trump, under the cover of truce, is pushing through his heinous threat of driving out the most devasted more than 2 million Palestinians of Gaza strip, liberation of the Palestine people is increasingly becoming well-nigh impossible in a system of Zionism and under the vicious Yankee-Zionist Axis. As is obvious, as long as US imperialist- Zionist axis has the final say in West Asia, liberation of Palestine people and establishment of a secular- democratic Palestine will remain as wishful thinking.

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International Department
CPI (ML) Red Star
27/01/25

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Revolutionary Tribute to Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad (Major General Daoud Maragha)

CPI (ML) Red Star

We, CPI (ML) Red Star, put on record our deep condolence to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the entire masses of Palestine on the departure of its leader and former Deputy Secretary General of PFLP, Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad (Major General Daoud Maragha) on 17th January 2024.

Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad shall be remembered among the revolutionaries and the oppressed masses around the world for his immense revolutionary contributions to the Palestine resistance movement and for his lifelong struggle for the cause. His path of relentless struggle shall also guide the ongoing resisting masses in Palestine for their goal of the complete liberation of Palestine and the destruction of the Zionist state from the Palestine land.

CPI (ML) Red Star extends our condolences and revolutionary greetings to PFLP, all other Palestine resistance forces and the entire masses of Palestine.

Victory to the Palestine Liberation!

International Department

CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi

19.01.2025

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Red Salute to Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad (Major General Daoud Maragha) – PFLP

The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Polit Bureau of PFLP mourned its comrade, the great national leader of Palestine, Major General Daoud Maragha “Abu Ahmed Fouad,” the former deputy secretary-general of the Popular Front and one of the most prominent military leaders of the Palestinian revolution, who passed away on Friday (18th January 2025), after a struggle with illness.

The party said in an obituary statement: “Despite his suffering from illness in recent months, Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad remained present in his heart and mind, following the developments of the Palestinian struggle, preoccupied with following the destructive Zionist war on the Gaza Strip. He believed in the inevitability of the victory of the resistance and saw in the determination of Gaza, its people and fighters, and the bravery of its resistance, evidence of the ability of the new Palestinian generation to create new equations that put the occupation in an existential predicament.”

The Party pledged to the masses of the heroic Palestine people, the free people of our nation and the world, our late comrade, and the blood of our martyrs and heroes across the battlefields to remain loyal to those who paved the path of freedom with their blood.

In the presence of leaders and representatives of the Palestinian resistance factions, Dr. Samir Al-Rifai, the Palestinian Ambassador to Syria, the leadership, cadres, members and and a large crowd of people from the Palestinian camps, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine buried Major General Abu Ahmed Fouad in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

After the body was buried, Comrade Omar Murad, member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front and head of the Political Department addressed to the people on behalf of the Party:

Today we bid farewell to a great figure of the revolution and armed struggle, a historic leader who was witnessed by all the battlefields in the heart of Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon… a genuine political, national, nationalist, and international leader. Today we bid farewell to our comrade, former Deputy General Secretary Major General Abu Ahmed Fouad. In the line-up of Comrades Al-Hakim (Dr. George Habash), Abu Ali Mustafa, Abu Ammar, Abu Jihad, Al-Yassin, Al-Shaqaqi, Haniyeh, Al-Sinwar, and all the martyrs for the course of Palestine National Liberation, Comrade Abu Ahmed Fouad also fully engaged in the revolutionary struggle, relentlessly performed all duties, and fulfilled the trust. He confronted the enemies who pursued him until his last moments.

We, all the remaining
comrades and all the masses in the resistance have sworn to continue the path of the revolution and struggle until achieving the goals and liberating Palestine. We all bid farewell to our leader at a time when our people are celebrating the victory of Gaza and the people of Gaza, and the guns of the revolutionaries are drawn, declaring the defeat of the fascist Zionist enemy that accepted the complete withdrawal from Gaza and the liberation of the prisoners, the eagles of freedom, despite the war of extermination, ethnic cleansing and mass destruction.

We also salute to the heroes of Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa and all the fighters and to all the resistance forces and to all the countries that stood with our people and our people in Gaza, supporting our struggle.

Abu Ahmed, revolutionary leader, we bid you farewell today with more determination and resolve to work to achieve Palestinian national unity within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization based on the program of resistance and liberation.

Glory to the martyrs, freedom to the prisoners, victory to our great people!

(Compiled from the statements of PFLP Military Wing Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades and Polit Bureau of PBLP, Issued by PFLP International Media Office in Beirut, Lebanon)

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