CorCom calls for unification of workers, peasants
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 30 2023:
The CorCom, while exten-ding best wishes to all the working class people of the world on the occasion of the May Day, has called for unification of all the workers and peasants of Manipur for liberation of the State.
Giving a brief genesis of the May Day, a statement issued by the CorCom Publicity Committee remarked that the May Day signifies a historic victory of the working class people against the exploitative capitalist class.
It said that the working class people can never live a life of dignity and comfort as long as the system where a handful of people amass all the profit and wealth by subjugating and exploiting a vast number of workers and peasants exists.
Workers and peasants can never lead a life of ease until and unless an egalitarian society is established after overhauling the existing system characterised by multiple social strata, it said.
Struggle for egalitarian society cannot be restricted to hike in daily wages and/or provision for nominal aid in times of illness.
The ultimate goal for any egalitarian struggle should be equal status between the working class and the capitalist class, the CorCom asserted.
In Manipur (Kangleipak), equal status remains a far cry.
There are many landless people and they are living at the mercy of a handful of people, it said.
At the same time, Manipur being an occupied territory of a foreign power, all the political and economic decisions are taken by the foreign power but the people of Manipur have been blaming each other for the resulting economic woes, it said.
"We are confronting each other over the demand of one group to downgrade their social status just to get jobs.
It only implies that we are unable to determine our own political or territorial structure", the CorCom continued.
It has become a habit for the people to let the foreign power arbitrate and make the call instead of sitting together and take a common decision, it said.
With the number of people who have been rendered landless and transformed into agricultural labourers and daily wage earners rising every year, the dividing line between the poor and the rich has been growing sharper and sharper, it remarked.
Instead of pondering over the growth of labourers in the hill areas and their inability to survive with their products/earning, the State has been scheming to take political advantage by attacking the poor hill people in the name of the war on drugs, it alleged.
At the same time, the CorCom alleged that the State has been supporting those rich and wealthy people who have been investing in drug businesses.
The alien rule has exposed its mindset through its decision to legalise liquor, it said.
As the war on drugs and the decision to legalise liquor cannot go together, the State has been employing different sets of propaganda, it continued.
The CorCom asserted that workers and peasants can shape their destiny only through struggles and overcoming challenges.
Workers and peasants of occupied territories must face two layers of challenges.
The first challenge is the alien rule and the second one is the exploitative capitalism, it said.
The woes and suffering of peasants and workers can never be removed until and unless they overcome the two layers of challenges, it said.
Creation of an independent country is the first step towards establishment of an egalitarian society, the CorCom asserted.
It then called upon all the people including workers and peasants to prepare for a revolution in order to bring an independent Manipur by challenging the alien rule as well as the capitalist class.