RPF chief greets on Independence Demand Day
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, February 26 2017: All colonial rules are economically destructive.

Self-reliant economy of Manipur was destroyed and the people today are bearing the burden of underdevelopment.

A glaring syndrome of colonial economy is widespread economic degeneration and income disparity.

Increasing dependence on external commodity is a fact today.

Some parasitic elements could take advantage of the situation to amass personal wealth through corrupt means.

But the society as a whole suffers from poverty.

There is no chance of economic recovery under the colonial system.

Sectarianism and communal politics, however attractive they may try to depict about their ideology, cannot liberate the people from economic underdevelopment, continued the RPF president.

The colonial system, corruption and corrupt elements are interplaying.

The corrupt elements in the society rely on both corruption and the colonial system for political and economic gain.

Colonial system institutionalises corruption and subsequently corruption becomes socially rooted.

Once it becomes socially rooted, corruption becomes a form of normality or a necessary evil.

It becomes tangible in objectified forms of commodity relations with market value attached to it.

The colonial system continues to persist in the contemporary era despite the fact that the world has advanced in many aspects.

National democratic movement, social emancipatory movement, struggle against discrimination, aspirations for development and identity will continue to have relevance in the contemporary era.

There is no doubt that changes brought about by capitalist globalization in its various forms may have seemingly distracted the course of national democratic revolutionary movement of many nations and societies.

However, capitalist globalization cannot wipe out the questions of liberation of the colonial and semi-colonial nations and societies.

The questions of liberation will continue to exist on earth as long as these goals have not been achieved.

Actual realization of sovereignty and social justice can only resolve these struggles.

Every nation or society is naturally entitled to be the rights to be politically sovereign and economically self-reliant, to play a dignified role as a free nation in the global comity of nations towards global progress.

To enjoy these rights, many nations that are being subjugated by colonial rule continue to voluntarily bear the onus of waging national democratic revolutionary movement.

National democratic revolutionary movement is progressing in Manipur, claimed the rebel leader.

The national democratic revolutionary movement is costly.

Many courageous revolutionary workers continue to be fully committed towards carrying the movement forward.

The national democratic revolutionary movement of Manipur is rooted in concrete historical, political and socio-cultural basis.

This is a movement in response to the historical subjugation of political sovereignty, destruction of economic self-reliance, and hindrances to social and cultural fabrics by the alleged colonial occupation. The national democratic movement is the product of the alleged Indian colonial rule.

The movement is an utmost historical responsibility of the forward-looking citizens of the nation, it asserted.

The alleged Indian colonial rule system does not permit national democratic revolutionary movement.

In the current historical juncture, revolutionary movement cannot be carried out openly in the form of mass democratic assertion.

As a result, armed resistance remains an important strategy to defend the nation from the aggressive onslaughts of the alleged colonial system.

In the course of the struggle, the murder of precious lives and involuntarily forced disappearances engineered by the alleged colonial troops and agents have been rampant.

"These are the syndrome of colonial brutality.

The overthrow of colonial rule is the only option to defeat and overcome the prevailing malaises and unrests infesting our nation", Chaoren concluded.

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