SOREPA greets on May Day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 27 2023:
The Socialist Revolutionary Party (SOREPA), Kangleipak has greeted all the workers of Kangleipak/Manipur as well as the world apart from paying tributes to all the workers who were martyred in the workers' revolutionary movements.
A statement issued by the outfit's Publicity and Organisation Secretary MC Yaiphabi gave the genesis of the May Day and said that it was a movement aimed at emancipating all the workers across the planet who were then exploited like slaves.
It asserted that observation of May Day in countries where the Governments or the ruling dispositions do not believe in egalitarianism has very little meaning.
It said that the number of farmers who have been compelled to transform themselves as casual or unorganised workers/labourers has been rising every single day.
The poor labourers/workers are often not given their daily wages adequately and they are deprived of nutritious food, it said.
Moreover, a large number of workers/labourers could not send their children to even Government schools, the outfit said.
Asking all concerned to pay reasonable wages to all workers/labourers in time including casual, contract and muster roll workers engaged in Government offices, the SOREPA warned that befitting action would be taken up against those who intentionally exploit and subjugate workers.
It then called upon all the workers and farmers to show that the country cannot stand even for one day without them.
If the farmers and workers do not protect the Nation, no one would come forward to shoulder this National responsibility.
It is a country's products and produces which enable it to live independently, and it is farmers and workers who are producing all kinds of products and produces, the SOREPA said.
If the motherland should be freed from the alien, all the workers and farmers need to unite and fight collectively, it said.
SOREPA respects all the workers and peasants across the world and supports all the movements aimed at securing rights of exploited workers/peasants.
SOREPA respects the revolutionary movement of the Maoists but the outfit does not support influx of non-local labourers into WESEA and Kangleipak/Manipur, it said.
The outfit said that the non-local labourers have been confiscating the rights and opportunities of local labourers.
Moreover, the non-local labourers have been posing a direct challenge to the identity of the indigenous people.
It said that the non-local labourers should go back from Kangleipak/Manipur and fight for their rights in their respective States.
They must stop confiscating the rights and opportunities of local labourers, it said.
It then called upon all the people to take up necessary measures to check the influx of non-local people if Manipur and the identity of its indigenous people should be protected.
"We should do all kinds of work and we must not be choosy when it comes to jobs.
We should not entrust any job to non-local labourers", the SOREPA said.
This is not about forfeiting the rights of non-local people rather it is paving way for the non-local people to go back and fight for their rights in their respective homelands, it asserted.
"If the non-local people take over or confiscate all our jobs and works, it would not be long before they marry or take control of our women and grab our lands and this will lead to extinction of all the indigenous people", it continued.
Reminding that the Kuomintang Nationalists and the Communist Party fought together against the invading Japanese forces in China, SOREPA said that the revolutionary groups of Kangleipak can wage the liberation movement collectively even if there are ideological differences.
It said that it's not time for peace talk or ceasefire or political dialogue.
All the people and workers of WESEA and Kangleipak/Manipur should not lose hope for the ongoing revolutionary movement is on the path of victory, it added.