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Appeal for March 8 by the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist)=20
WOMEN ! AWAKE, ARISE AND STRUGGLE
=97 A Bright Future Beckons You
(Received through the Internet)
This is the call of the revolutionary Maoist forces in India on the occasio=
n of March 8, 2005 to all the toiling and oppressed women of India. The day=
signifying women=92s united struggle against inequality and exploitation, =
brought to the center stage of the world by the socialist women=92s movemen=
t in the early part of the 20th century even today stands for women=92s str=
uggle for justice despite all the attempts of the imperialist bourgeoisie t=
o convert it into a consumerist women=92s day. For the toiling women of the=
world it is the day when resolves have to be built again and plans charted=
to get their due place in all aspects of social life and live with dignity=
. For women in India this year is especially significant.
The merger of the two powerful revolutionary parties, the CPI-ML (PW) and M=
CCI marks a leap in the development of the revolutionary movement within In=
dia. The revolutionary movement is a movement committed as much to the eman=
cipation of women from the bonds of centuries old patriarchal oppression as=
it is to freeing India from the shackles of imperialism, feudalism and the=
ir agents the comprador big capitalists. The merger of these parties has me=
ant a unified revolutionary movement spread in many parts of the country. I=
t has also meant the emergence of a unified revolutionary women=92s movemen=
t in rural India. Hundreds of units of the revolutionary women=92s organiza=
tions Nari Mukti Sangh (NMS), Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sangh (KAMS), Vimuk=
ti Mahila Samiti (VMS), Nari Mukti Sangharsh samiti (NMSS) that function in=
the villages of Telengana and eastern Ghats, in the forests of Bastar and =
Gadhchiroli, Sarguja, Giridih, Dhanbad and other districts of Jharkhand, in=
the plains and forests of
North Bihar and Uttaranchal are already experiencing changes in the social=
environment since the growth and spread of the revolutionary movement in t=
heir regions. They have experienced the liberationist potential in the Peop=
le=92s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) and are joining it in large numbers=
. This is a call to spread the women=92s movement with a revolutionary pers=
pective to ever-newer areas.
The pro-imperialist policies of the successive Central Governments includin=
g the present UPA Government, its open support for globalization has led to=
the ever deteriorating condition of women in India =96 50 % of agricultura=
l laborers are women and most of them are surviving below the poverty line.=
Even if we consider only the number of recorded crimes against women, reco=
rds show that 80 cases of crimes against women are reported every day. The =
increasing destitution of women, especially in rural areas, and the increas=
ing violence against women have revealed the hollowness of the Government=
=92s claim to have improved their conditions and "empowering" them. The str=
anglehold of big landlords over cultivable land, the neglect of agriculture=
by the Governments and the devastation of the natural environment has mean=
t that the bulk of rural women are bearing the brunt of inflation, unemploy=
ment and drought. They are propertyless and powerless. The insecurity in th=
eir lives has intensified.
The daily newspapers are full of stories of the kidnapping and sale of poo=
r girls and women to pimps and procurers parading as employment agents. Thi=
s is the cruel reality facing Dalit and Adivasi women. Gang rapes and publi=
c humiliation of women of lower castes by powerful landed interests and pow=
erbrokers is the order of the day. On an average 3 Dalit women are raped ev=
eryday and 2 are killed daily. Their independent existence is not acknowled=
ged and not acceptable, their right to marry a man of their choice denied b=
y powerful caste panchayats. The number of couples desperately trying to ch=
allenge this authority in Haryana and Western UP are a powerful indictment =
of this feudal authoritarianism still strong in rural India. A culture is p=
erpetuated such that women=92s physical existence is under attack. The decl=
ining sex ratio is but a stark statistical manifestation of this. Whether T=
amilnadu or Punjab, traditional methods and modern technology have come tog=
ether to deny the girl
child the right to live. Breaking the economic, political and social hold =
of the powerful landed and commercial interests is the ONLY way out, the es=
sential pre-condition to achieve substantial steps for the emancipation of =
the vast majority of toiling women, and this is what the revolutionary move=
ment is doing.
The onslaught of globalisation and the invasion of the latest in electronic=
technology like digital cameras and mobile phone cameras have only meant f=
urther exploitation and entrapment of women in even more vulgar and siniste=
r ways. Sex scandals have erupted in so many towns and cities that they are=
being considered almost routine. Prostitution rings for upper class custom=
ers when busted reveal only the tip of the iceberg. Girls from Delhi and Ch=
andigarh sent to Surat and Mumbai and girls from Mumbai for customers in Go=
a and Delhi. Poor women from Orissa and Jharkhand, Karnataka and Andhra Pra=
desh ensnared in increasing numbers into life-long bondage in the sex cages=
of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. This sex slavery is but a part of the sex to=
urism being vigorously promoted by the imperialists under liberalization. T=
he imperialists have ruthlessly pushed pornography on the internet and else=
where, promoted decadent loose sexual norms through the media and sex touri=
sm leading to the
spread of AIDS and HIV positive cases. Lakhs of ordinary women in India to=
o, as in Africa and elsewhere, are afflicted with this deadly disease, and =
fall victims of this imperialist policy. The imperialists then piously fund=
programs for AIDS while at the same time making essential drugs exorbitant=
ly expensive and thus out of the reach of ordinary people through their WTO=
patent regime. The garment factories in Bangalore, Tiruppur, Delhi in Indi=
a, in Thailand and China have become centers for the super-exploitation of =
women=92s labour by major MNCs and the big compradors. Lakhs of women, driv=
en by hard economic conditions are suffering physical and sexual harassment=
to stay employed in these sweatshops. Imperialism, the worldwide exploiter=
of women=92s labor and degrader of her dignity has to be smashed to end th=
is slavery. This is the task the revolutionary movement in India has set it=
self.=20
The Indian State and its wings =96 the judiciary and the police and para-mi=
litary, military forces is maintaining and upholding this violence against =
women and the discrimination against them. The successive ruling parties ha=
ve all, in one way or another continued to support the patriarchal State. T=
he role of the State in the condition of women in a country is crucial, and=
this is what even a liberal organization like the Amnesty International ha=
s pointed out in recent reports. The State, hand in glove with conservative=
patriarchal ruling classes, has subverted every attempt of women to obtain=
justice. That in all the 18 sati mahima cases in Rajasthan courts the accu=
sed are acquitted and the State Government chooses not to appeal is enough =
for women to understand that justice cannot be obtained through these court=
s. While Bilkis Bano, victim of gang rape and witness to the murder of 17 p=
eople by the Hindu fascist hordes during the pogroms in Gujarat in 2002, is=
still valiantly
struggling, three years later to get justice through the courts, scores of=
other Muslim women in Gujarat who suffered rape or torture in the same rio=
ts have been denied justice completely. The Gujarat State is fully responsi=
ble for this. If the State cannot subvert, it suppresses, as it tried to do=
in Manorama=92s rape and murder case in Manipur last year. It was the bold=
and collective struggle of Manipuri women and other sections that put the =
UPA Govt and the Army on the defensive. The police and the Armed forces are=
themselves perpetrators of atrocities on women. A DSP and his cronies rape=
a minor girl in Madhya Pradesh, police constables rape an arrested woman i=
n custody, a minor girl in Kollam district in Kerala is gang raped in a mil=
itary camp, are some incidents that reached the media. The cases of suppres=
sion of women in the political movement carries on. Manorama was raped and =
killed by armymen after she was picked up on the suspicion that she was lin=
ked to the underground
movement in the State. Latha a woman activist from Kurnool dist. AP was ki=
lled in a so called encounter. Unspeakable atrocities continue to be commit=
ted on ordinary women in Kashmir. The present authoritarian, patriarchal St=
ate, itself the perpetrator of crimes against women, must be changed, which=
the revolutionary movement seeks to do.=20
The development of the revolutionary movement in the country marks a great =
hope for women all over the country. Women too must move forward collective=
ly, unitedly to demand what it theirs by right, to oppose the continuing at=
rocities and discrimination, to participate in the struggle for a new democ=
ratic society. If the women=92s movement moves forward hand in hand with th=
e revolutionary movement for new democratic revolution only then the root c=
auses of women=92s oppression can be smashed and concrete steps forward for=
the emancipation of women taken. Women=92s liberation can be achieved as p=
art of the transformation of the entire socio-economic set-up. We learn thi=
s from the example of China. The mass of women gained substantially during =
the revolutionary war and after its victory during the period of socialism.=
They have faced setback and increased discrimination again due to the rees=
tablishment of the rule of the reactionary bourgeoisie. Without women=92s o=
wn struggle all this is not
possible. Struggles by women are breaking out. Most notable was the recent=
struggle of Manipuri women which shook the whole of India. Let the coming =
March 8 be celebrated with the resolve to build up women=92s mass struggles=
against injustice and this unjust order.=20
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