BUILD A PROTRACTED COUNTER OFFENSIVE TO THE PROTO-FASCISM EXISTING IN INDIA

By Harsh Thakor

BUILD A PROTRACTED COUNTER OFFENSIVE TO THE PROTO-FASCISM EXISTING IN INDIA OF THE HINDUTVA VARIETY.SALUTE THE INITAITIVE OF DELHI CONVENTION TO SOW THE SEEDS OF A MOVEMENT TO ATTACK FASCISM AT ITS VERY BASE.

Today the menace of Hindutva or Saffron fascism sponsored by the ruling BJP government has reached a crescendo never attained before Arguably its is a stage of undeclared emergency more fatal than the emergency declared in 1975 by Indira Gandhi led Congress.

Thousands of democratic activists are languishing behind bars from all walks of life. Genuine movements of workers and peasants ,youth or students are brutally supressed in the pretext of curbing terrorism.Hundreds of revolutionary intellectual like Professor Saibaba, Vara Vara Rao,Sudha Bhardwaj, Sudhir Dhawale and Anand Teleumbde have been incarcerated. University campuses too have been victims of saffron terror. It is a virtual resurrection of the British colonial days where political activists faced the harshest consequences. Tremors are felt of similar effect to the days of Hitler and Mussolini on the minorities and other revolutionary sections. Even in the jails the barbaric colonial era practices are prevalent.

Of great importance is to recognize the Communist Party India (Maoist) as a revolutionary democratic force by challenging its ban and on organizations representing liberation of nationalities.
Hindu saffron fascism has penetrated all walks of life. The poison of saffron fascism has to be cut at it's very roots by building revolutionary democratic secular movements and standing by the oppressed minorities be it the Muslims or Dalits.Of great importance is the preparation of an anti-caste movement integrating with revolutionary class movements and building a revolutionary front to combat casteist oppression. Fascism will not emerge in the form of Hitler’s Germany or Mussolini’s Italy but will have a characteristic Indian form, akin to that of a semi-feudal, semi-colonial society. Today India could be termed semi-fascist but we have to study the experiences of emergence of fascist regimes in Chile, Indonesia or Philippines. We have to careful not to make opportunistic alliances with the Congress, other opposition parties or even the revisionist left parties. Morally the Congress is very similar to the ruling BJP party and has actively sponsored or blessed Hindutva. Opportunist alliance with ruling class parties is virtually tailism. At certain junctures only extra-parliamentary forms of struggle can be deployed .
Fascism cannot be defeated through liberalism but only by a sustained revolutionary democratic secular movement.

This initiative in Delhi on February 21-222 is the breeding ground for building up such an organization or movements which is like a sword in the flesh of the communal fascists.