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Volume 40 No. 5 Organ of the SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA October 15, 2006 Founder Editor-in-Chief : COMRADE SHIBDAS GHOSH Price : Rs. 2.00 14th NAM Summit in Cuba How far this attempt to revive the Movement can meet with success From 11th to 15th September last, the 14th alia, opposed hegemonism of the US imperialists, country to produce and use nuclear energy for Summit of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) ‘terrorism’ of any kind by any country alluding peaceful purpose and extended full support to was held at Havana, Cuba in a climate of obviously to the most diabolic ‘terrorism’ that the Iran’s nuclear energy plans and condemned US ominous threats from the U.S. imperialist US-led imperialists export with alacrity to the backed Zionist Israeli military assault on colossus—particularly against the Movement’s countries which are not pliant to their dictums, Lebanon. It demanded the UN to be more member states of Cuba, Iran, Sudan and denounced the US practice of branding any representative of the smaller member nations. Venezuela. At a preparatory meeting held in Cairo country opposed to its dictatorial fiat as three months earlier, the criteria for membership constituent of an “axis of evils”, urged coordina- History of NAM were adopted. The main points were for a tion among the NAM members against unipolar Before we proceed to examine the scope, principle of independent policy and non- hegemonistic intervention impliedly by the US prospect or limitation of this revived NAM in so alignment; support for movements of national imperialists, stood by the right of any developing Contd on page 2 independence; and non-membership in any military alliance. In this 14th meet, 118 states comprising 53 SUCI supports North Korea’s nuke test in self-defence African countries, 38 Asian, 24 Latin American and denounces heinous US imperialist conspiracy and the Caribbean, and one from Europe, which is Belarus, participated indicating they to exterminate her socialist system represented nearly two-thirds of the UN members and comprised 55% of the world population. as well as Indian government’s appeasing role According to NAM rules, the host nation is also Extending full support to the nuclear test economic sanction on North Korea spurning the chair of the NAM for the next three years. conducted by North Korea on October 9, 2006 by the plea that by pulling off this nuke test, Accordingly, Fidel Castro, President of socialist giving due prior indication and ensuring no North Korea has violated the process of Cuba and a front ranking leader of anti- radioactive fall-out, Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, implementing the Non-proliferation treaty (NPT) imperialist movement, as well as valiant fighter General Secretary, SUCI, in course of a and hence deserves to be meted out such punitive for socialism in the backyard of US imperialism, statement issued on October 11, 2006 said that treatment. The fact is, pointed out Comrade was elected as next Chairman of the Movement. the socialist government there had no other Mukherjee, that they themselves have been option but to carry out this test in order to flouting with impunity this already-shattered Declaration released after the meet confront the sustained as well as escalated threat shop-worn treaty and cunningly suppressing the In the summit’s opening, Cuban Vice of the US imperialists and their allies to subvert all important question of global public opinion in President Carlos Lage summed up Cuba’s socialist system in that country either by favour of total disarmament including complete expectations for this summit: “Our movement is engineering counter-revolution from within or elimination of nuclear armament. He also urged essential to the quest for a new system of mounting external aggression in the form of upon all democratic-minded, peace and freedom- international relations. We do not align ourselves armed intervention and creating economic loving people of the world to come out and stand to wars, to terrorism, to injustice, to inequality, to blockade. US imperialists who persistently by the legitimate inalienable right of the brave double standards. We align ourselves to peace and refused to sign non-aggression pact with North people of North Korea to defend their socialist to justice. We must fight for a world in which Korea and thereby guarantee her sovereignty and system and sovereignty against incessant aggression and occupation by any country in territorial integrity and instead encircled her with intimidation and provocation of the imperialist search of material or geopolitical gains is naval armada of guided missiles, destroyers, war-mongers and vendors of international unthinkable, in which acts of aggression of the bombers and fighter squadrons, nuclear weapons gangsterism. kind the Lebanese people endure today or the and 30,000 troops stationed in South Korea, are, Comrade Mukherjee also strongly denounced atrocities committed by Israel in Palestine are not emphatically stated Comrade Mukherjee, solely the most shameful stand of the Congress-led permitted.” The 91-page Declaration that was and squarely responsible for pushing North Korea CPI(M), CPI-backed Indian Government of being released after several rounds of discussions to resort to this otherwise avoidable course of in cahoots with US imperialists and their among the foreign ministers of these countries action in self-defence. accomplices on this issue in utter disregard to the followed by a two-day final deliberations of the Comrade Mukherjee also severely glorious anti-imperialist tradition of the Indian heads of the states in the summit broadly condemned the attempted move on the part of the people solely to appease the US imperialist contained the same tone. The Declaration, inter US imperialists and their surrogates to impose brigands and death merchants. PAGE TWO OCTOBER 15, 2006 PROLETARIAN ERA Contradiction of resurgent bourgeois states with imperialism gave rise to NAM Contd. from page 1 fascist Germany and responding to power of their countrymen sole object of developing their far as fostering anti-imperialism, it the appeal of Marxism-Leninism, subjugated under ruthless respective capitalist economies as is necessary to trace back the origin one third of the world, embraced imperialist exploitation for fast as possible in the given and growth of NAM in the post- socialism. This substantially centuries, sole dependence on home international situation. For example, Second World War scenario and its truncated the traditional market of markets would not serve their the Indian bourgeoisie after significance in the international the imperialist plunderers. purpose of fastest development of successfully setting up its first state situation obtaining at that time. The Moreover, most of the imperialist economic muscle. So they were sector mega steel plant in Bhilai , term “Non-Alignment” itself was colonies broke out the chain of haunted by the need to capture Madhya Pradesh (now Chattisgarh) coined by Indian Prime Minister colonial rule to gain national external market which was then securing Soviet help, managed to Jawaharlal Nehru during his speech independence. These resurgent exclusive preserve of the big bargain requisite assistance from in 1954 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In sovereign national bourgeois states, imperialist powers. But, to meet that West Germany in establishing this speech, Nehru described the though belonging to the capitalist need, it was imperative for them to another plant at Rourkela in Orissa five pillars to be used as a guide for world system and having the same develop strong competitive power (now Jharkhand). Examining the Sino-Indian relations, which were socio-political structure, were within shortest possible time. That is complexities and diverse first put forth by Zhou Enlai, Prime confronted with the twin task of why, they, on one hand, potentialities of this new Minister of socialist China. Called protecting and preserving on the one concentrated on coalescence of contradiction appearing with the Panchsheel (five restraints), these hand, their sovereignty from neo- private capital with state capital to emergence of the resurgent national principles were slated to serve later colonial attacks and domination by give birth to state monopoly capital bourgeois states, Comrade Shibdas as the basis of NAM. The origin of the powerful imperialist countries and minimize as far as possible the Ghosh, in the process of NAM can be traced to a conference and, on the other, fulfilling their mutual competition among the concretizing Marxism-Leninism in hosted in Bandung, Indonesia in indomitable urge to have unhindered domestic private capitalists. On the the post-Second World War situation 1955. The world’s “non-aligned” development of their capitalist other hand, they tried to forge some emphasized that in order to correctly nations declared their desire not to economy and fast emerge as kind of unity among themselves to grasp the developments in the become involved in the East-West powerful competitors in the world increase their bargaining power. contemporary world, this two-fold ideological confrontation of the capitalist market. In comparison to NAM was developed from that contradiction of the nascent Cold War. Bandung marked a the advanced imperialist-capitalist class-necessity of theirs so that they bourgeois states with both the significant milestone for the countries, these new capitalist could enhance their bargaining imperialist and socialist camps had development of NAM as a political countries were extremely backward capacity in eliciting concessions and to be understood as the fifth major movement. The founding fathers of in the field of industrialization. leniencies in certain matters from contradiction along with the existing the NAM were five prominent Hence, in order to be self-reliant, the imperialist powerhouse. Tilt four major contradictions as world leaders: Nehru of India, Tito they needed to develop certain basic towards the socialist camp, apart summed up and explained by of Yugoslavia, Sukarno of and core industries on their from meeting economic and Lenin.
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