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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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Our people continue to stand firm and resist in the face of Zionist plans aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause – Com Maher Al-Taher

During an interview on Al Jazeera Mubasher and Al Mayadeen, Dr. Maher Al-Taher, the Polit Bureau Member and the official in charge of international relations at the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), said: “The prisoner exchange deal, in its first phase, includes the release of a number of our comrades in the occupation prisons, including our women PB comrade Khalida Jarrar and the fighter Abla Saadat, the life partner of our Party General Secretary comrade Ahmed Saadat. The list also includes a number of male and female prisoners of the Popular Front.”

He said: “We congratulate our steadfast prisoners in the occupation prisons from all factions who have written the most wonderful types of steadfastness and defiance of the Zionist enemy.”

He added that reaching the signing of the exchange deal and the ceasefire would not have been possible without the legendary steadfastness recorded by our people in the Gaza Strip for 15 continuous months, in the face of a war of extermination in full view of the entire world. Al-Taher stressed that the main challenge we face today is the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, treating the wounded, bringing in aid, and addressing all the effects and consequences of the barbaric aggression on our beloved Strip and on our Palestinian land.

Al-Taher also stressed that our people will continue to stand firm and resist in the face of the Zionist plans aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause, stressing that our people will continue the struggle until they regain their full national rights.

The great national leader, Daoud Maragha, also mourned “Abu Ahmed Fouad,” saying: “With hearts filled with sadness and pain, we bid farewell to the great Palestinian leader Abu Ahmed Fouad, former Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who spent six consecutive decades, until the last moment of his life, serving the cause of his people and nation, believing in the option of resistance as a strategic option in confronting the Zionist enemy. This leader remained committed on his principles like someone holding onto hot coals, neither compromising nor giving in, believing in continuing the struggle until every inch of Palestinian soil is liberated.

(Comrade Dr Maher Al-Taher is Polit Bureau member and spokesperson of the International Bureau of PFLP)

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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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As Biden and Trump Fight each other Claiming Credit for Ceasefire, It is upto the Palestinians not to fall into the Trap set by Fascist Yankee-Zionist Axis ! https://redstaronline.in/2025/01/18/as-biden-and-trump-fight-each-other-claiming-credit-for-ceasefire-it-is-upto-the-palestinians-not-to-fall-into-the-trap-set-by-fascist-yankee-zionist-axis/ https://redstaronline.in/2025/01/18/as-biden-and-trump-fight-each-other-claiming-credit-for-ceasefire-it-is-upto-the-palestinians-not-to-fall-into-the-trap-set-by-fascist-yankee-zionist-axis/#respond Sat, 18 Jan 2025 07:05:25 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3161 As Biden and Trump Fight each other Claiming Credit for Ceasefire, It is upto…

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As Biden and Trump Fight each other Claiming Credit for Ceasefire, It is upto the Palestinians not to fall into the Trap set by Fascist Yankee-Zionist Axis !

The extremely fragile nature of the truce – comprising both ceasefire and hostage release – between Israel and Hamas announced by mediator Qatar on 15 January 2025 has already exposed as US-backed Netanyahu regime continued its genocidal airstrikes killing at least 75 Palestinians and injuring around 230 in Gaza on 15 January night itself. Meanwhile, far-right and terrorist sections of the Zionist regime are reportedly opposing the ceasefire deal leading to a delay in Israeli cabinet’s approval of it.

After all, Biden, as outgoing president, has already lost his control over the US military machine. And the world clearly knows that Israel is primarily a ‘military outpost’ of the US and that the reins of the Netanyahu regime including the massive supply of weapons to Israel and horrific war-crimes committed on Palestinians by it, are all based on the diktats of US. For, it was the US that on 20 November 2024 vetoed and blocked a UN Security Council Resolution through which all members of UNSC (except the Yankees) demanded a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and the release of all Israeli hostages. At that time, the US representative Robert Wood’s sole justification for vetoing the resolution was: “… the proposed language would have sent the wrong message to Hamas.”

Now the facts are obvious. Neofascist, far-right and reactionary Trump, who is to ascend the US throne on 20 January with his motto of “America First”, and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA), has his own imperialist priorities including the approach to ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the Israeli war. It was Trump’s Middle East Envoy who played the decisive role in the present truce. And, as already noted, even ministers of Netanyahu regime are aware of the fact that the present truce is superimposed by Trump on them with its repercussions on Netanyahu’s own political future itself. At the same time, well-meaning people are aware that regarding US imperialist foreign policies and geopolitical strategies, there is no fundamental difference between Republicans and Democrats, and the present Trumpian move on Gaza is only transitory and necessitated by short-term political expediency.

Of course, for the most persecuted and oppressed Palestinians, who are in a “living hell”, even a temporary halt of incessant bombings and massacres will be of great relief. As the first phase of truce will take effect from 19 January, international community can take initiative for channeling the much-needed humanitarian assistane to Palestinians. At the same time, it is upto the Palestinians and Palestinian Liberation forces to move forward, with the firm solidarity and warm support of all anti-imperialist democratic forces the world over, towards the ultimate objective of establishing a secular, democratic Palestine fully liberated from the clutches of imperialism and Zionism. Viewed in this perspective, and 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.

In Solidarity with Palestinian People!

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
17 – 01 – 2025

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Plunge of Indian Rupee: Neocolonial Drain of Wealth being more Ruthless than under Colonialism – P J James https://redstaronline.in/2025/01/16/plunge-of-indian-rupee-neocolonial-drain-of-wealth-being-more-ruthless-than-under-colonialism-p-j-james/ https://redstaronline.in/2025/01/16/plunge-of-indian-rupee-neocolonial-drain-of-wealth-being-more-ruthless-than-under-colonialism-p-j-james/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:44:51 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3157 As Modi regime is continuing with its no holds barred rhetoric on “Amrit Kaal”…

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As Modi regime is continuing with its no holds barred rhetoric on “Amrit Kaal” and “Viksit Bharat”, IMF, the postwar neocolonial economic arm of US, and global corporate agencies like Bloomberg have already come out with their predictions on a sharp drop in India’s GDP in the days ahead. And, specifically related to this negative trend, that is comparable to the pandemic days, is the ongoing unprecedented rupee depreciation, which as of now, has crossed 86 per dollar. According to Hong Kong-based Gavekal Research, the Indian rupee is likely to fall past 90 per dollar in the coming months, and it has even predicted a bigger depreciation taking the Indian rupee to 95 per dollar in 2025, an eventuality that Gavekal identifies as “not out of question”!

The Indian rupee reached ₹86.63 on 15 January 2025. While official think-tanks and policy-experts justify the rupee’s plunge as an unavoidable correction of overvalued rupee and indispensable for boosting Indian exports and for facilitating export-oriented development, the same was not Modi’s approach when rupee was falling under Manmohan regime. Modi, who was the then Gujarat chief minister, sarcastically interpreted it as a competition between Congress and rupee as, “who will fall lower, that is the competition.” He also said: “It is our country’s misfortune that the rulers in Delhi are neither worried about the country’s defence nor about the falling value of the rupee.” When the rupee depreciated further and reached ₹ 64 against a dollar during August 2013, lambasting the “incompetence” of the Centre for not taking any steps to strengthen the currency against the USD (US dollar), Modi noted: “The rupee has fallen rapidly in the past three months. But the government has not taken any steps in the last three months to strengthen the rupee against the US dollar. If the rupee keeps falling like this, other countries will start taking advantage of India.”

However, when Modi took office as prime minister in 2014, the rupee-dollar exchange rate was ₹58.58 to a dollar, as unlike today, the Manmohan government still had some leverage by which the RBI could intervene in the foreign exchange market to reverse the trend towards depreciation. However, as the rupee continues its plunge reaching 86.63 today, and Modinomics and the entire fascist regime is being exposed as more “incompetent” and several-fold far-right neoliberal than Manmohanomics, the corporate-saffron media is camouflaging the whole issue under its Hindurashtra campaign on the one hand, even as government spokespersons are repeating so called gains associated with rupee depreciation in an “export-led” development scenario.  In this context, some clarifications on the exchange rate policy under Modi regime that leads to the historic plunge of the rupee would be in order.

Even after demolishing the Nehruvian state-led development paradigm including its concomitant controls over exchange rate, India under Manmohanomics was still following a “crawling peg system” that combined aspects of both fixed and flexible exchange rate systems allowing the RBI to set a predetermined range of rates within which the rupee can fluctuate. This also created a situation where the government could gradually adjust the currency value over time. It also combined methods of currency appreciation or depreciation, though different from devaluation under the fixed exchange rate system that prevailed under the Nehruvian model.  Thus, it was the ‘crawling peg’ system that gave some manoeuvrability to Manmohan government for apparently reversing the trend towards depreciation in 2013, which also enabled it again to bring back the exchange to ₹58.58 = $1 in 2014, on the eve of Modi’s ascendance to power.  However, this option is not available to Modi regime now on account of total surrendering of its grip over Indian rupee coupled with its extreme reliance on USD.

With the ascendance of far-right neofascist Modi government in 2014, as manifested in such moves as dissolution of the six-and-a-half decade old Planning Commission and as part of liberalising and deregulating the economy together with State’s merger with corporate capital, it unleashed a regime of fully flexible or floating exchange rate system in which the RBI became a mere spectator amid volatile or fluctuating exchange rate.  This allowed US-based currency speculators and manipulators (including their Indian junior partners like Adani and Ambani) to have a field day while India became totally exposed to international financial and trade shocks. It aggravated pressures on rupee value thereby intensifying crises in the foreign market-oriented productive sectors with unpredictable repercussions. In brief, the present plunge of the rupee in relation to dollar and its after-effects should be seen in the context of Modi government’s altogether abandoning of crawling peg system which, in spite of its limitations, had given Manmohan government some manoeuvrability to periodically adjust the exchange rate avoiding its large and sudden decline contrary to the current situation under Modi regime.

In this context, it is very pertinent on the part of all working and oppressed peoples of the world to have a grasp on how US-led postwar neocolonialism is maintained by pegging the currencies of dependent neocolonial Afro-Asian-Latin American countries to the USD which is kept as the international reserve currency. While imperialist powers from EU, China and Russia have already broken this shackle, India and other neocolonial countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America are still manacled by the dollar tyranny superimposed on them when Second World War was coming to a close. And, though groupings like BRICS have already started earnest discussions for a de-dollarisation – that entails significant reduction in the use of USD in global trade and finance, an example of which is oil trade where non-USD currencies are increasingly used now – and creation of an alternative global monetary system to circumvent the dollar hegemony, quite often, the Modi regime is acting as a blackleg within.

As long as neocolonial countries are relying on USD as a reserve currency, medium of exchange for international transactions and a unit of account, as proved since the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement when USD ascended to the position of primary reserve currency of the world, US Department of Treasury has been capable to use it as a mighty economic weapon against dependent countries in manifold ways. Among them, forced devaluation/depreciation of the currencies of dependent countries like India against USD has been the most effective weapon frequently used by US imperialism to carry forward its ruthless plunder and exploitation of neocolonial countries. The immediate impact of superimposing devaluation/depreciation on a country is a huge neocolonial drain of the wealth of the country which is subjected to it.

For instance, even during the quarter century of international Keynesianism that yielded a so called ‘golden age for capitalism’ led by State intervention and dominance of public sector at a global level and when fixed exchange rate system was the norm, US imperialism was successful in superimposing even huge one-shot devaluations upon dependent neocolonial countries by pressurising the regimes there. A horrific instance was the 57.5 percent devaluation of the Indian rupee in 1966 that resulted in an on-the-spot appreciation of the value of USD from ₹ 4.75 to ₹ 7.50. The decision was taken based on the 1965 Report of the Bell Mission appointed by World Bank as per US diktat. It was done for facilitating unfettered penetration of US capital into India by pushing down the prices of India’s resources and labour power (that is, when the exchange of value of Indian rupee goes down, less amount of USD is required for getting more goods and resources from India). When Ashok Mehta, the then Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission claimed that “devaluation will open Indian economy so that the womb of mother India will be impregnated by the dynamic foreign capital”, the then parliamentary opposition characterised it as “rape of India”.

The next important one-shot devaluation of the rupee took place in 1991 in the context of Rao-Manmohan government’s embrace of neoliberal globalisation and complete abandonment of Nehruvian state-led development paradigm. This time too, the pressure for devaluation came from Fund-Bank Combine (IMF and World Bank) and US neoliberal centres that advocated a 22 percent devaluation of the rupee along with a whole set of macro and micro-economic structural and sectoral adjustment programs. This sky-rocketed the profits of currency speculators by facilitating cross-border hot-money flows, further intensifying the economic drain out of India, by pushing down the prices of India’s labour and resources. Of course, as part of liberalisation and globalisation of India’s external sector, the fixed exchange rate system also gave way to a ‘crawling peg’ system, giving only minimum scope for RBI intervention, as already noted.

However, under the far-right neofascist Modi regime today, a qualitative transformation has taken place. Now, India has become a flourishing example of close integration between corporate capital and neoliberal State where policy decisions are taken in corporate board-rooms, while parliament is increasingly becoming a spectator. The role of the State is like that of a corporate-facilitator, and major component of the economy is speculation than production. Currency sector is no exception to this general rule. Compared to the previous governments at the Centre when the Central Bank had at least namesake intervention in the case of rupee under the ‘crawling peg system’, since 2014, and more specifically under Modi.3, the RBI has completely lost its grip over Indian rupee, as today, India is having a full-fledged flexible or floating exchange rate system where the exchange rate is determined by global corporate-speculative forces.

As a result, compared to the occasional government-led devaluations under previous regulated system, today, instead of any announced devaluation, market-driven depreciation has become an unhindered and continuous process. Its manifestation has been the steep fall in rupee-dollar exchange rate from ₹58.58 to a dollar in 2014 to ₹86.63 per USD as of now. At a time when even international research institutions are predicting about the extreme vulnerability of Indian rupee which is still tied to the apron strings of USD, the far-right government led by Modi, who as Gujarat chief minister had equated the value of the rupee to the honour of the nation, is now diverting the issue by putting baseless claims on India becoming third largest economy under Modi.3. In fact, compared to one-shot devaluations of yesteryears, though the undeclared depreciation under Modi regime leads to a systematic and deep-rooted drain of wealth from India by continuous outflow of real wealth and increasing its all-round external payments burden – in the form of increased debt repayments, more exports of goods and services for a given volume of imports, intensified profit repatriation by MNCs, etc – it is less noticed too. And this neoliberal-neocolonial drain is more complex and multifaceted and hence more horrific than the colonial plunder elucidated by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1867 in his well-known “Drain Theory”.

Today, while the ruling regime and saffron media are boasting about Indian ‘growth miracle’, on account of a host of factors such as US stock market manipulation, Federal Reserve’s monetary policies, speculative-capital flight from India, India’s growing debt burden, increasing trade deficit, etc., Indian rupee is in a downward spiral. However, the irony is that the USD itself is becoming weaker compared to other currencies like Euro and Yen. According to reports, share of USD in world money reserves has fallen by more than 10 percent during the past one decade, more specifically since 2016, and many countries are planning to find alternative means including that of digital currency in the days ahead.  At this critical juncture, as Indian rupee is systematically depreciating against USD, it is high time to take urgent and appropriate steps to terminate the pegging of Indian rupee to the depreciating USD and free it from its clutches altogether.

 

Courtesy: Countercurrents. org

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Agriculture Minister’s Escapist Approach to Farmer Leader’s Indefinite Hunger Strike is Condemnable! https://redstaronline.in/2025/01/02/agriculture-ministers-escapist-approach-to-farmer-leaders-indefinite-hunger-strike-is-condemnable/ https://redstaronline.in/2025/01/02/agriculture-ministers-escapist-approach-to-farmer-leaders-indefinite-hunger-strike-is-condemnable/#respond Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:58:58 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3149 As farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s indefinite hunger strike at Khanauri border in Sangrur…

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As farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s indefinite hunger strike at Khanauri border in Sangrur district of Punjab enters the 37th day, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s statement that the government will abide by the Supreme Court’s directions on farmers’ demands is condemnable. The farmers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) and Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), are spearheading the struggle putting forward, among others, two important demands, i.e., a legal guarantee for purchasing their crops at a minimum support price (MSP) and a farm loan waiver.

A goverment having any concern for the farmers should have accepted these minimum demands through ensuring legal guarantee for them. The apex court’s task is to examine the Constitutional validity of such laws. Hence this move on the part of the fascist regime, which has no qualms to go to any extent in serving corporate agribusiness companies, as was proved in the case of draconian Farm Laws, is a cunning move shirking its duties.

Therefore, while resolutely condemning Modi government’s anti-farmer approach, CPI (ML) Red Star stands in solidarity with both the farmers organisations and agricultural workers unions who are camping on the inter-State boundary of Punjab and Haryana since February 13, 2024. We also call upon all progressive-democratic forces to rise up in solidarity with the farmers and the indefinite strike of farmer leader Dallewal.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
02.01.2025

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Shah’s Rajya Sabha Speech Reveals the Standard Hindutva Hatred towards Ambedkar! https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/30/shahs-rajya-sabha-speech-reveals-the-standard-hindutva-hatred-towards-ambedkar/ https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/30/shahs-rajya-sabha-speech-reveals-the-standard-hindutva-hatred-towards-ambedkar/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:45:44 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3140 (Editorial- Red Star Monthly, January 2025 issue) Shah’s Rajya Sabha Speech Reveals the Standard…

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(Editorial- Red Star Monthly, January 2025 issue)
Shah’s Rajya Sabha Speech Reveals the Standard Hindutva Hatred towards Ambedkar!
On 17 December 2024, while speaking in Rajya Sabha on the 75th anniversary of the Indian Constitution, Home Minister Amit Shah said: “It has become a fashion to say Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar. If they had taken god’s name so many times, they would have had a place in heaven for seven births.” However, according to the tenets of Hinduism, it would be impractical on the part of Dalits and untouchables to worship the Hindu gods created by the upper-caste Brahmins. For, as per Rig Veda’s “Purusha Sukta” and “Manusmriti”, it was the god who created the caste system according to which the Dalits and Untouchables are condemned to live as subhumans. From this logic, god is inimical to the oppressed Dalits. At the same time, Ambedkar, who was the deadly enemy of casteism and caste-based Hinduism, is the ‘real God’ of the Dalits and oppressed caste people. Therefore, Shah’s speech reveals the usual Hindutva hatred towards Ambedkar and an insult to the Dalits for whom Ambedkar is the saviour.
In the neofascist context today, Shah’s statement on Ambedkar cannot be considered a casual or isolated one since Ambedkar’s unravelling of the inhuman caste system remains as one of the most powerful ideological weapons in the fight against RSS. The RSS, the world’s longest-running and biggest fascist organisation and its political tool, BJP, are well aware of the strategic relevance of Dr Ambedkar in the Indian anti-fascist political discourse today. In this context, both RSS and BJP are pursuing a two-pronged tactic, i.e., on the one hand, opportunistically appropriating Ambedkar, thereby hoodwinking the Dalits and Untouchables, and on the other, stigmatising, denigrating and defaming Ambedkar whenever an opportune situation arises. Amit Shah’s Rajya Sabha statement on Ambedkar quoted above belongs to the latter category.
As is obvious, throughout his political career, Ambedkar had been vehemently attacking the caste system and its guidebook Manusmriti, the ideological basis of RSS fascism. Ambedkar’s burning of Manusmriti in 1927 became historical from this perspective. Ambedkar’s publishing of “Annihilation of Caste” in 1936, in which he characterised caste-ridden Hindu society or Hinduism as a “veritable chamber of horrors”, is the antithesis of what RSS and Hindutva ideologues propagate about Hinduism. However, Golwalkar, the prominent and most influential Sarsanghchalak of RSS who also put forward the essential postulates of a majoritarian, theocratic Hindurashtra, had unequivocally identified Hinduism with casteism. The antagonism between Ambedkar and RSS became too striking in the late 1940s when leaders of both RSS and Hindu Mahasabha went on abusing Ambedkar when he piloted the Hindu Code Bill. At that time, Swami Karpatriji Maharaj, one of the leaders leading the agitation against the Hindu Code Bill, declared that an “Untouchable had no business meddling in matters normally the preserve of the Brahmin.” Led by Hindutva leaders, on 12 December 1949, Ambedkar’s effigy, together with that of Nehru, was burnt at Delhi’s Ram Leela ground.
Again, when the Constituent Assembly adopted the final Draft for the Indian Constitution on November 1949, prepared under the leadership of Dr. Ambedkar, on 30 November 1949, i.e. within four days, the RSS, in its mouthpiece Organiser, demanded Manusmriti as India’s Constitution. Subsequent Issues of Organiser reiterated that position. Not only RSS it’s fraternal organisation Hindu Mahasabha was also openly upholding this stance. Even 75 years after the adoption of the Constitution, whose main architect was Ambedkar, there is no dearth of proponents of Manusmriti that treats Dalits and women as subhuman. Even many judges in Indian courts are hardcore Manuvadis, having no qualms in quoting Manusmriti during trials. Revealingly, the Supreme Court in February 2023 had even dismissed a public interest litigation petition to remove the mythological Manu statue holding Manusmriti in front of the Rajasthan High Court in Jaipur.
To be precise, all well-meaning people have to bear in mind that the tirade against Ambedkar and the heinous move to alter the very character of the Constitution on the one hand, and growing adulation towards Manu and Manusmriti on the other by RSS/BJP are taking place in the specific neofascist context today. Having full hold over the Indian regime since 2014, and with both state power and street power under its control, RSS is engaged in its maddening pace towards the establishment of a theocratic Hindurashtra in which the Dalits and all oppressed including religious minorities, will not have even basic human rights. Therefore, the spitting of venom on Ambedkar by Shah, a Hindutva stalwart, should be seen as part of the broader agenda of hardening RSS fascism in India.

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“Dr. B R Ambedkar: A Revolutionary Communist Perspective” https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/26/dr-b-r-ambedkar-a-revolutionary-communist-perspective/ https://redstaronline.in/2024/12/26/dr-b-r-ambedkar-a-revolutionary-communist-perspective/#respond Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:39:25 +0000 https://redstaronline.in/?p=3130 “Dr. B R Ambedkar: A Revolutionary Communist Perspective” is being published by CPI (ML)…

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“Dr. B R Ambedkar: A Revolutionary Communist Perspective” is being published by CPI (ML) Red Star, at a time when RSS, as part of its Hindutva fascist agenda, is publicly engaged in appropriating Ambedkar on the one hand, and covertly continuing it’s ‘Manuist’ tirade against him on the other. As is obvious, Ambedkar stands head and shoulders above others, in challenging RSS beginning with burning of Manusmriti in 1927. Later, when India adopted the Constitution drafted under the leadership of Dr. Ambedkar, rejecting it, RSS proposed Manusmriti as Constitution and RSS even burnt  Amebkar’s effigy on 12 December 1949.
At the same time, on account of mechanical and reductionist approach to class analysis in India, and due to the failure to understand the integral and inseparable link between caste and class, the Indian communist movement failed to have the badly needed strategic unity with Ambedkar and he was even branded as “anti-communist”.  It is high time to rectify this grave error, and to have an objective evaluation of Dr. Ambedkar, and establish the fighting unity of the working class and oppressed against RSS fascism. It is with perspective that Red Star Publications, constituted by Party is publishing this brief study.
Dr. B R Ambedkar: A Revolutionary Communist Perspective
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