FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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India’s Prime Minister Modi’s visit to US President Obama and the US Congress on June 6-7, 2016, marks a turning-point in the development of global inter-imperialist rivalry. It should impel us to step up the fight for communism.
Modi is a fascist. For ten years he was denied visas to the US and other countries due to his role in orchestrating the massacre of thousands of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. Modi’s BJP is a Hindu nationalist party with open ambitions to turn India into a militarist Hindu power. The BJP has based its regime on racist attacks on the working class and privileges to the largest capitalists and multinational corporations.
So why is Obama treating fascist Modi like his new best friend? The reasons are very clear.
“A rising India offers one of the most substantial opportunities to advance American national interests over the next two decades,” declared a November 2015 report sponsored by the US Council on Foreign Relations.
US war industries are selling dangerous nuclear reactor designs and other expensive weapons to Modi’s government. While they reap the profits, US imperialism is strengthening a potential ally against a historic mutual opponent, China.
China has strengthened ties with its long-standing ally Pakistan with a recent $46 billion infrastructure and energy deal. Instead of competing with China for influence in Pakistan, the US imperialists have decided to strengthen ties with India.
India needs $1 trillion to improve its infrastructure. The Indian rulers got less than they hoped for from Modi’s visit. They are now hoping for huge investments from China, which offered to finance 30% of Indian infrastructure spending through loans.
For over 100 years, capitalism’s interior logic of constant growth has forced capitalists to compete with other capitalists. Their frenzy for profit creates more cars, food, houses and other products than they can sell while leaving those who created them hungry and homeless.
As imperialists from the US, China, Europe, Japan and Russia and emerging imperialists like India and Brazil fight for profitable markets, they relentlessly attack the working class. They try to mislead workers angry at capitalism by building racism and patriotism. In the world’s 500 largest cities, the industrial working class is choked with toxic air, stalled in traffic, and forced into unbearable housing riddled with violent crime, drugs, sexism and racism.
The flirtation between US imperialism and fascist Modi is no coincidence. It is driven by global capitalism’s search for new markets, cheap exploited labor and perennially indebted consumers. It reflects the rulers’ deadly plans for World War III.
At the same time, India is being courted by Japan, Russia and even China, because they want India on their side in this coming war. The Shanghai Cooperation Association, led by Russia and China, is planning to induct India and Pakistan as full members at its Sept. 23rd meeting. We don’t know what the final line-up will be, but imperialist world war is inevitable.
The only solution is to mobilize the masses everywhere for communism.