The stalwart and steward of the Communist Party of india (MArxist) and one of the greatest Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary practitioner of the indian Communist Movement Comrade P. Sundarayya resigned from the General Secretary-ship of the Party due to the severe differences of opinion with the Collective Central Leadership of the Party on immediate tactical line. 1. Since the beginning of the 1970s Comrade PS promulgated the opinion that the Party shall have to tackle and deal with the semi-fascist terror of the monopoly-bourgeoisie class blatantly and most heinously organized at a massive scale in West Bengal and elsewhere by also conducting the underground armed units of the Party for retaliations against the representative of the monopoly bourgeoisie, the congress party, and the naxalites who had till then converted themselves into the potential covert agents of the imperialist-reactions. 2. In the 9th Congress of the CPI(Marxist) held at Madurai the lack of unity amongst the top-leadership was quite evident regarding the immediate tactical line of the Party to counter and retaliate the ferocious monopoly-bourgeoisie onslaughts waged against the Working Class and the entire democratic strata of the toiling masses. Although the 9th Congress gave a clarion call to the Party to make an all-out effort to assemble and rally behind the entire laboring,toiling, democratic masses of the population in an unflinching struggle to “save democracy” movement against the nefariously naked bourgeoisie dictatorship, by utilizing every fissures and cracks of the bourgeoisie parties and allies. 3. As the emergency had been imposed upon the entire nation in 1975, Comrade PS called upon the entire Party to move underground. The Central leadership of the Party resolutely rejected the proposal. Comrade PS had to resign from the General Secretary position of the Party as he was unable to lead,direct,mobilise the Party according to the Para 111 as prescribed in the Party Programme. During those turbulent times Comrade Jyoti Basu had to deliver and discharge the responsibility of General Secretary for some months. It was in 1976 that Comrade EMS had been elected as the General Secretary of the Party. The CPI(Marxist) Programme clearly and most correctly identifies and provides the guidelines as – 7.11 The non-big bourgeoisie which is non-monopolistic faces unequal competition from the big bourgeoisie and the foreign multinationals in a number of ways. With the crisis of capitalism and unhindered entry of MNCs, the contradiction between them and foreign capital will intensify. The big bourgeoisie using its economic power and leading position in the State, attempts to solve its crisis at the expense of its weaker class brethren; these strata of bourgeoisie will be compelled to come into opposition with the State power and can find a place in the peoples democratic front. But it should be borne in mind that they are still sharing power alongwith the big bourgeoisie and entertain high hopes of advancing further under the same regime. Notwithstanding its objectively progressive role, by virtue of its weaker class position vis-à-vis the Indian big bourgeoisie and imperialism, it is unstable and exhibits vacillations between the big bourgeoisie and foreign capital on the one hand and the peoples democratic front on the other. Owing to its dual nature, its participation in the revolution even as an unstable ally depends on a number of concrete conditions, on changes in the correlation of class forces, on the sharpness of the contradiction between imperialism, landlordism and the people on the depth of the contradictions between the big bourgeois-led State and the remaining sections of the bourgeoisie. 7.12 Every effort must be made to win them to the democratic front by a diligent and concrete study of their problems. No opportunity should be lost by the working class to render them support in all their struggles against both the Indian monopolists and foreign imperialist competitors. 7.13 The working class and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), while not for a moment losing sight of their basic aim of building the peoples democratic front to achieve peoples democratic revolution and the fact that they have to inevitably come into clash with the present Indian State led by the big bourgeoisie, do take cognisance of the contradictions and conflicts that exist between the Indian bourgeoisie including the big bourgeoisie and imperialism. Opening up the Indian economy to the unbridled and free entry of MNCs and foreign finance capital will intensify this contradiction. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), while carefully studying this phenomenon, shall strive to utilise every such difference, fissure, conflict and contradiction to isolate the imperialists and strengthen the peoples struggle for democratic advance. The working class will not hesitate to lend its unstinted support to the government on all issues of world peace and anti-imperialism which are in the genuine interests of the nation, on all economic and political issues of conflict with imperialism, and on all issues which involve questions of strengthening our sovereignty and independent foreign policy. 7.14 Reactionary and counter-revolutionary trends have existed even after independence. They make use of the backwardness of the people based on the immense influence of feudal ideology. In recent decades, making use of the growing discontent against the Congress leading to its steady decline, they are making serious efforts to fill the void left by the Congress Party. The Bharatiya Janata Party is a reactionary party with a divisive and communal platform, the reactionary content of which is based on hatred against other religions, intolerance and ultra-nationalist chauvinism. The BJP is no ordinary bourgeois party as the fascistic Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh guides and dominates it. When the BJP is in power, the RSS gets access to the instruments of State power and the State machinery. The Hindutva ideology promotes revivalism and rejects the composite culture of India with the objective of establishing a Hindu rashtra. The spread of such a communal outlook leads to the growth of minority fundamentalism. This has serious consequences for the secular basis of the polity and poses a serious danger to the Left and democratic movement. Besides, a substantial section of big business and landlords, imperialism headed by the USA, is lending all-out support to the BJP. 7.15 Basing itself on all these factors, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) keeps before itself the task of uniting with all the patriotic forces of the nation, i.e., those who are interested in sweeping away all the remnants of pre-capitalist society; in carrying out the agrarian revolution in a thorough manner and in the interests of the peasantry; in opposing unfettered entry of foreign capital; and in removing all obstacles in the path of a radical reconstruction of Indias economy, social life and culture. 7.16 The struggle to realise the aims of the peoples democratic revolution through the revolutionary unity of all patriotic and democratic forces with the worker-peasant alliance as its core, is a complicated and protracted one. It is to be waged in varying conditions in varying phases. Different classes, different strata within the same class, are bound to take different positions in these distinct phases of the development of the revolutionary movement. Only a strong Communist Party which develops the mass movements and utilises appropriate united front tactics to achieve the strategic objective can make use of these shifts and draw into its ranks these sections. Only such a party bringing within its fold the most sincere and self-sacrificing revolutionaries would be able to lead the mass of the people through the various twists and turns that are bound to take place in the course of the revolutionary movement. The 10th Congress of the CPI(Marxist) held at Jullundhur sternly rebuked the Party for not being able to work sincerely,devoutly and consistently in building the Tactical Alliance in the form of Left-Democratic Front which would have paved the way for the Programmatic Alliance of People’s Democratic Front, according to the guidelines as directed according to the Para 111 of the earlier Party Programme and reiterated vehemently in the updated Party Programme under the Section - VII. Building the Peoples Democratic Front. The 11th Congress of the CPI(Marxist) had been held at Vijaywada in 1982, in which the “July crisis” that occurred in 1979 with the fall of the janata party’s government under morarji desai, had been dealt with deftly with all ideological acumen,integrity and conviction. Thence when the West Bengal unit of the CPI(Marxist) had been staunchly firm in lodging their counter-points and views in the Party Congress, Comrade PS being the State Secretary of the CPI(Marxist) of the united province of Andhra Pradesh tried to persuade,convince and calm down the Bengal Comrades in following the concretely and correctly taken Party stand on the issue at that particular juncture. [ SOURCE :- PROMODE DASGUTOR SONGE SEI DIN-GULI – WRITTEN BY COMRADE SUDHANGSHU DASGUPTO – THE LEADING MARXIST-LENINIST THEORETICIAN OF THE CPI(MARXIST)’s EDUCATION CELL AND SECRETARIAT MEMBER OF THE WEST BENGAL UNIT OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF india (MARXIST).]
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