O presente texto en ingles recolle tres resolucions do comité executivo a Fronte Demócratica Revolucionaria da India en apoio á loita dos traballadores da empresa automobilisitica
Maruti-Suzuki.
All India Executive
Committee of Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) -- Three Resolutions (approved
at meeting in Delhi, 1-2 August 2012) (after the First Conference in Hyderabad
on 22-23 April 2012).
1. On Maruti Suzuki Worker's
Struggle
RDF hails the militant movement of the workers of Maruti Suzuki
factory at Gurgaon, and strongly condemns the management of the company as well
as the government who have undertaken a severe repressive campaign against the
workers. The company has declared a lock-out which leading to the loss of jobs
of thousands of workers. More than a hundred workers including the
office-bearers of the Maruti Suzuki Workers' Union have been arrested and
charged with murder, while most of the other workers have been forced to go
underground to avoid arrests. RDF resolves to extend solidarity and all possible
support to the struggling workers of Maruti Suzuki. RDF demands that the plant
be immediately reopened, the arrested workers be released, the cases against
them withdrawn unconditionally, they be restored to their previous jobs, and all
the demands of the workers' Union be resolved forthwith. We call upon the
workers to continue and step up the struggle till these demands are
achieved.
2. On communal clashes in Asom
There have been
widespread clashes between peasants belonging to the Bodo tribal community and
Bengali Muslim peasants. The violence has spread to four western districts of
Asom - Kojkrajhar, Dhubri, Chirang and Gossaigaon - leading to the death of over
a hundred people and rendering lakhs of people homeless who are living in
government-run refugee camps. Even though on both side of the divide are mostly
small peasants and landless people, and is a contradiction among the people, the
devious role of the ruling classes have transformed it into an inimical
contradiction. The attacks on the Muslim peasants in particular strengthens the
Hindu communal forces. And it is not the first time that the rulers have
instigated such communal violence between these two communities in this region.
On many occasions in the past a large number of people from both sides have lost
their lives and hundreds of thousands lost their property. The unresolved land
question has been made use of by the ruling classes to instil suspicion, hatred
and violence between these two sections of the people, who are both oppressed by
the exploitative social relations. All so-called communal clashes are always
state-sponsored. In the absence of a progressive or revolutionary force among
the people, such incidents are going to be enacted repeatedly by the rulers to
consolidate their own rule and to divert the attention of the masses from the
real issues. RDF stands by the affected Bodo and Bengali peasants of western
Asom.
3. On caste atrocities that are taking place across
India
Several incidents of caste atrocities on Dalits have been committed
by the dominant caste forces in different parts of the country - spanning from
Bolangir of Odisha to Lakshimpeta of Andhra Pradesh and recently in Bhagana in
Haryana, in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and in other places. While the massacre of five
Dalit peasants in a gruesome manner in Lakshimpeta village by dominant caste
landowners and rich peasants have shaken the country, other incidents of
casteist attacks like the burning of houses and assault on 60 dalit families in
Bolangir or the social boycott and banishing of 128 Dalit families in Bhagana
have not attracted much attention from the progressive and democratic sections
of the country. In Lakhsimpeta, the landed section of the Backward Caste Kapus
have adopted the brahmanical ideology as a result of their acquisition of
private property - most importantly, land, and became perpetrators of caste
violence on the 'untouchable' Mala people. Lakshimpeta massacre also involves
the questions of dam and displacement, since the people of the village are
evictees of a dam constructed by the government. While other evictees got
compensation and land from the government, Dalits could get nothing and lost
everything due to this forced displacement.
Caste atrocities in UP and Bihar
too are being perpetrated on a daily basis, including the murder and rape of
Dalits, without any visible protest or resistance. Land is the central question
in most of these incidents of atrocity in rural India which takes the form of
caste violence. Moreover, the dominant castes resort to brutal caste violence
whenever the Dalits assert their independence and freedom, challenging the
dominant castes. Class struggle and class violence often takes the form of
casteist violence and repression in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country
like India which has the specific attribute of brahmanical caste system. This
shows the entrenched nature of feudalism in Indian society and the need to
intensify the anti-feudal struggle as an immediate and urgent task before a
revolutionary organisations like RDF and its constituent mass organisations. The
complicity of the ruling classes in instigating and perpetrating caste violence
is apparent in each and every incident of attack on Dalits, whereby the
administration and the police invariably side with the dominant castes and
further oppresses the Dalits. The Supreme Court's acquittal of the culprits
involved in the Baithani Tola massacre in Bihar and of similar bloodbaths of
Dalits show that Dalits cannot expect any justice and fairness from the existing
system, nor will the attacks on Dalits will stop unless there is organised
resistance and retaliation on the part of the Dalits and other oppressed
people.
It should be also understood that the spiralling world economic
crisis has been showing its ugly manifestations in the form of fascist attacks
by the dominant ruling classes/castes and their state on Dalits, Adivasis,
Muslims - the most vulnerable sections of the oppressed people.
The attacks
on Dalits and their conscious assertion however is not confined only to the
rural areas. Even in urban areas Dalits face the ire of the dominant castes as
well as the Indian state. For instance, the workers of Maruti Suzuki factory in
Gurgaon started their recent agitation when a Dalit worker was humiliated and
targeted by the management on caste lines. We have also witnessed the state's
persecution of Kabir Kala Manch- an Ambedkarite cultural organisation which
espouses the ideals of New Democratic Revolution working in urban Maharashtra.
To counter the incidents of caste violence - whether perpetrated by the dominant
castes, the ruling classes or the state - retaliation is the only answer. RDF
calls upon the Dalits to fight back all occurrences of caste violence. RDF calls
upon all its constituent organisations to participate and lead retaliations
against the violence of the dominant castes in their areas of work. RDF will
launch a militant and aggressive campaign against incidents of caste violence
