Under
the pretext of waging a “War Against International Terrorism” the
imperialist powers led by the US have unleashed a permanent war of genocidal
terror against the peoples of the world. The attacks on key targets in the US on
September 11th 2001 have been exploited by the US ruling class as a
justification for unleashing a global war of aggression and conquest. US
imperialism has declared a permanent state of war against all States, Regimes,
Nations, movements and struggles that stand in the way of defending and
expanding its empire. This is as a way of resolving a spiral of deepening
recession and intensifying crisis. The only way out of this crisis for the US is
to re-establish undisputed global hegemony in order to exercise decisive control
over the resources, labour power, and markets of the world. In essence and in
effect, the US has declared a permanent state of war against the peoples of the
world. The policy of the US imperialism is to redraw the political map and
restructure the international order where it alone can exercise unipolar global
hegemony. These developments are an explosive expression of the confrontation
between imperialism and the oppressed nations and the people of the world.
US
imperialism has announced its intention to deploy weapons of mass destruction,
including nuclear weapons, against any force it considers its enemy any time and
any where. It has already demonstrated this intention and capability against the
people of Afghanistan, and is now preparing to attack Iraq with evermore
destructive violence and terror than before. It is also supporting Israel in
waging a sustained genocidal offensive aimed at crushing the heroic national
liberation struggle of the Palestinian people. The immediate aim of US
imperialism is to crush all resistance and opposition, entrench puppet regimes
and establish military-- strategic supremacy in the Middle-East and the Caspian
region in order to gain decisive access and control over the vast oil resources
of the area and to drive out all its rivals. The rivalry and contention among
the various imperialist powers, all of whom face recession and crisis
simultaneously, is bound to intensify and propel the imperialist system towards
evermore destructive crisis and violent upheaval on a global scale. This logic
of destruction of imperialism stands in direct opposition to the very real
possibility of the people of the world rising up to claim the earth and a bright
new world without domination, exploitation, oppression and WAR.
Already,
across the world, there is mounting opposition and resistance to imperialist
globalisation and to the US-led crusade. Sustained peoples struggle against
mounting repression in Peru, Philippines, Palestine, Turkey, Nepal, India, and
elsewhere provide living testimony to a rising tide of anti imperialist
revolutionary struggle on a world scale that is bound to develop in waves.
South
Asia is a concentration of imperialist domination, exploitation, and oppression
and a focal point of revolutionary struggle and people’s resistance. This
struggle and resistance is directed against the most brutal and intensifying
imperialist domination, neo-colonial exploitation and plunder, feudal oppression
and national subjugation. The vast majority of the people of South Asia have
been thrown into desperate poverty and intolerable misery and have waged the
most sustained struggle for liberation, independence and freedom from this
system of domination, exploitation, oppression and state terrorist repression.
The People’s War in Nepal against the autocratic-feudal-monarchial regime
backed by imperialism, particularly US imperialism, which has advanced in leaps
and waves against intensifying state terrorist repression, is a concentrated
expression of this struggle and resistance and provides a beacon of hope and
inspiration to the people of the world. We shall resist with our all combined
strength against the efforts of the US and India to intervene to crush the
People’s War in Nepal. In the same manner we shall defend the people’s wars
being prepared, initiated and waged in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka,
particularly the people’s war waged in Dandakaranya, Bihar, West Bengal and
elsewhere in India.
All
the States of the region function as junior partners in this domination,
exploitation, subjugation and plunder, with India occupying a hegemonic position
and playing an expansionist role. The US is moving into a strategic partnership
with the Indian State in order to exercise joint regional hegemony in South Asia
with the aim of crushing all revolutionary struggles and resistance. The US has
penetrated the region politically, economically, culturally and militarily in
order to advance its agenda of waging a permanent global war and intensifying
exploitation and plunder in the region. US strategic penetration in Nepal, India,
Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka has endangered independence and fatally
threatened the life and livelihood of the people of South Asia.
In
the face of this grave challenge posed by the US-led crusade, anti imperialist
forces from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have united to form the World
People’s Resistance Movement – South Asia (WPRM –SA). Our aim is to unite
mobilise and lead the masses to oppose the US-led global terrorist crusade and
to support all just struggles, including revolutionary struggle and people’s
wars led by Maoist forces, as part of building and advancing the world-wide anti
imperialist resistance movement.
Only
such a world people’s resistance movement can oppose and defeat the US-led
crusade. Through this it can contribute in building the political foundations
for achieving a world without domination, exploitation, oppression and war. We
call upon all anti imperialist, democratic, progressive organisations, forces,
and individuals of South Asia who see the need to oppose the US-led global
terrorist war and to uphold all people’s struggle against imperialism to join
and build the WPRM -- SA. This way together we shall build up a tidal wave of
resistance to imperialism that will shake the system to its foundations and pave
the way for a world without domination and war.