RPF advocates united vision and collective struggle - II
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 26 2016:
Grant-in-aid economy has dismantled the economic calibre of the Manipuris by making them a sterile collective in terms of labour and self-sustenance.
One of the ways to come out of such a situation of sterility is to inculcate a work culture.
A collective work culture can be enhanced only when there is working class including peasant organisations at grassroots.
The working class movement shall also be a democratic answer to the sectarian and ethnic politics while at the same time there will be movement towards increased production and economic self-reliance.
This is an answer and means to stop neo-liberal colonisation of Manipur.
Neo-liberalism is a capitalist proposition that aims at nonegalitarian social systems in the name of competitive market and development.
Neo-liberalism encourages domination by a rich few where progress and development of the poor are impossible.
The sustenance of inequality and domination come with a logical method for neo-liberal subjugation and deprivation of people.
The neo-liberal economic policies, implantation of secret agencies, encouragement of the influx of foreign population, supplanting of local products by goods from outside and exploitation of natural resources with disastrous economic deprivation and environmental problems are all symptoms of being a colonized society.
Such conspiring policy of India has produced puppet ruling class who are nothing more than a temporal element.
However, the oppressed people of Manipur must understand to come out of such a reality bestowed upon them colonially.
In the absence of a free and self-regulative Manipuri society, the influence of the coloniser has grown ever more only to essentialise colonial diplomacy and geo-political scramble.
The danger of colonial geopolitics is such that the much hyped Look East Policy has been used as an occasion to induce India's geo-political game plan to counter the rise and presence of China in Asia.
Militarisation, AFSPA and counter-insurgency diplomacy are the hallmarks of India's alleged colonial diplomacy in the region, asserted the rebel leader.
The northeast, which is actually a part of the South East Asian World, has become a site of India's military installation platform and a security bastion.
Reflective of its geo-political strategy, India has ventured into weakening China by an overt appeasing of Tibetan movement and militaristic policy such as the formation of Special Frontier Force.
However, the same respect for the liberation of WESEA region or Kashmir has not come forth.
The alleged colonial double standard of India is glaringly evident in its self-conflicting sloganeering for human rights issues in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Baluchistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Sri Lanka.
India is equally involved in unleashing human rights violations in WESEA region and Kashmir.
Nonetheless with the growing solidarity and support of international community, the struggling oppressed people of Manipur must make a historical move to liberate themselves from the alleged colonial yoke of India.
A united and collective struggle of the oppressed people in the state of Manipur in particular and WESEA in general can bring about a complete revolution, Chaoren concluded.
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