UNLF extends 'revolutionary greetings' on its 51st anniversary (1)
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, November 23 2015: Central Committee (CC) of the proscribed United National Liberation Front (UNLF) has extended "revolutionary greetings" to the people of Manipur on the occasion of UNLF's 51st anniversary.

In connection with the occasion, the CC has also released its "Annual Statement 2015" .

In the introduction to the statement, ULNF has affirmed its belief in the necessity of collective and interdependent existence of all the indigenous people with common origin in Western South East Asia (WESEA) and their progress as evident from the region's historical progression.

Till today, UNLF's fraternal relation with the region's revolutionary groups has been based on this belief.

The people have also acknowledged that the 60 years of liberation struggle has entered into a crucial phase, said the statement issued by the CC.

On one hand, there is the degeneration of armed movements based on ethno exclusive character and on the other hand, there is also stagnancy in the struggle based on national liberation objectives.

Both the forms of revolutionary struggle have witnessed their weaknesses over the years.

The UNLF pointed out that the weakness of ethno exclusivist struggles has been the process of forging a new identity based on mobilization of villages and tribes which eventually ends up with leadership crisis based on tribal lines.

Another character of such struggles have been the consolidation of their own tribal unity and identity based on generation of tension with neigbouring communities in an effort to acquire territorial expansion.

This has impacted on collective unity, said UNLF and added that the struggles based on such exclusivist model have ended with talks and agreement with the colonial power and their numbers have increased the recent past.

Even if all the nationalities in the region acknowledged the fact that a collective fight could liberate the region from the yoke of colonial power, the struggles based on community based identity have created a hurdle in the process of a unified collective struggle, stated UNLF.

The outfit added that instead of a unified struggle, the conflict between the India and WESEA has been treated as secondary contradiction and the conflict between the communities have been considered as the primary contradiction.

The communities in the region seem to be caught in a trap set by India, alleged the UNLF.

According to the UNLF's perspective, the contesting tension between different nationalities and people in the region can be resolved through a collective liberation struggle which is the only way towards the future.

Meanwhile, those who are fighting for the restoration of the independent status of their countries have also not been able to bring the unity of all the peasants, workers and oppressed classes under an ideology that could consolidate the ongoing revolutionary struggle.

Due to this failure, there are incidents in which some people from within the revolutionary groups leaving the struggle as they possessed the characters of middle class serving their own interests, stated UNLF.

There is the now the necessity of rectifying and strengthening the weakness of both the types of struggles apart from consolidating the pivotal relationship with the people.

This is why, now there is also the need to adopt a guiding ideology based on the forces of historical experience of liberation struggles, stated UNLF.

UNLF said that the annual statement has been released based on UNLF's perspectives on ideology, the foundation of revolutionary struggle and other related issues.

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