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Except that read this: --- ============== The Fight to Save India! People's Democratic Front of India founded to fight imperialism and globalization

India today is experiencing a great economic, political, and cultural onslaught by the world's imperialist powers and leading to the degradation of human relationships... (Amaninder Pal Sharma)

2006-08-04 09:50 KST RSS The Fight to Save India! People's Democratic Front of India founded to fight imperialism and globalization Amaninder Pal Sharma (amaninder) Email Article Print Article Published 2006-08-03 13:32 (KST) The big hall of Shah Auditorium in New Delhi was alive with shouted slogans.

"Let Us Build a Resistance Movement against Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization!"

"Down with Imperialism!"

"Resist oppression of nationalities and minorities!"

It was July 30, 2006, and the eve of the 66th anniversary of the martyrdom of Shaheed Udham Singh.

The people gathered in the Shah Auditorium were there to witness the first conference of the People's Democratic Front of India (PDFI), a day-old amalgamation of 165 organizations and more than 100 Indian democratic leaders.

The PDFI encompbuttes organizations and individuals from all walks of Indian society. It includes, among others, Maoists, Gandhians, Dalits, peasant and laborer organizations, a large number of students, professors, teachers, civil liberties activists, filmmakers, writers, singers, sculptors, legal experts, doctors, environmentalists, and journalists.

Some important members worthy of mention are Medha Patekar, a major spokesperson for the Save Narmada Movement, human rights activist and Supreme Court lawyer Nandita Haksar, activist and professor of Arabic S.A.R. Geelani, B.D. Sharma, President of Bharat Jan Andolan, the Indian People's Movement, Thomas Mathew, a former United Nations official from India, and P. Varavara Rao, an eminent revolutionary poet of Andhra Pradesh.

The PDFI's slogan is: "Build a Self-reliant People's Democratic India." It encompbuttes a number of popular struggles. Its program and consbreastution specify that:

"it is an open-ended process for all those people's organizations and individuals who join this platform to enrich it with their struggles and ideas for the fresh construction of a new egalitarian social order." According to Darshan Pal, one of the conveners of the 51-member executive committee:

"the PDFI will wage a struggle to create a genuinely democratic space in our suffocating caste-clbutt society. Real democratic social relations are yet to be established in our country." He further explained that: "Unless an anti-imperialist and patriotic movement addresses itself closely to the questions of patriarchy, caste, nationality, and ethnic-tribal and religious minorities in our society, it cannot hold out the promise of affording equal rights and opportunities to all sections of the people."

Medha Patekar of the NBA said: "India today is experiencing a great economic, political, and cultural onslaught by the world's imperialist powers and leading to the degradation of human relationships and even our basic infrastructure. Social values and social relations are on the verge of collapsing."

Adding his concern to this, Amarnath Bhai, national president of Gandhian organization, "Sarva Sewa Sangh," said:

"In every struggle for our rights police beat us up as if we were foreigners. Instead of conflicting interests we can see the brotherhood of different governments of the whole world, but the brotherhood of people is missing both at the national and world level." Designating globalization as sugar-coated contagion, he added, "there is nothing for the common people but to change India as it is."

The PDFI vows to fight imperialism, privatization, foreign debt accumulation, contract labor and child labor.

It is also against communalism in the garb of Hindutva, caste domination, untouchability, chauvinism, religious inequality, gender oppression, and the saffronization of education.

It opposes a distorted presentation of history, damage to ecology and ruthless military operations in Kashmir and the states of the North-East.

The PDFI has also declared itself against U.S. imperialist-Zionist-led aggression against the Arab world in particular and the rest of the world generally. The PDFI supports the promotion of autonomous regions, even within states, for different cultural groups.

Many in India are concerned that such a large amalgamation of organizations, containing so many different personalities, and representing so many different streams of ideas and political ideologies cannot long sustain a struggle against imperialism and globalization.

In the last ten years two large fronts of the same nature have been formed to fight imperialism, namely, the Joint Action Forum of Indian People (JAFIP) and the Forum Against Imperialism and Globalization (FAIG), but both have failed.

When we talked with Arjun Prasad Singh, a member of the executive committee of the PDFI, he said:

"Both JAFIP and FAIG included organizations and individuals representing only Marxist-Leninist ideology. We need to make a broad front which can include all the democratic forces of India to lead to the formation of a PDFI but not a clash of ideas." As in Peru, Venezuela, and Bolivia, and in South Asian countries like the Philippines and Nepal, the fight against imperialism can only be fought through a broad front like the PDFI.

Moreover, the formation of the PDFI takes place when the imperialist onslaught is at its peak.

Time will tell whether the intensity and spirit with which democratic organizations and individuals in India fight imperialism will lead to the formation of a sovereign, self-reliant, and genuinely democratic India. ---

See, here is where Indo-neoNazism is forming. Kamal sees this as some kind of new religious crusade that includes two proclamations: i) Indians, not anyone else, are the master race, and ii) "beating americans on their own turf" (from what evidence do we get that? because US guys are not going into engineering any more? or corporations give the jobs to the cheaper guys?), and iii) its not because the exchange rate hands the jobs to them, its because they see themselves as superior people! "We can beat the americans..in india"? Wipro-Infosys-Tata against MS-Sun-IBM-Intel? It will be interesting. All because of one little thing: the exchange rates.

And, please note in his last sentence above how Kamal denies that we have anything else besides capital.

And, when new labor is made in India at the expense of existing labor in the USA, the destroyed labor in the USA also means destroyed consumers in the USA. This is why Samuelson said this: ------ They quoted Paul Samuelson (MIT) as saying "Comparative advantage cannot be counted on to create...net gains greater than the net losses from trade" ------- And, I've pointed that out to you many many times.

I'd get out of the water and up on the beach, ASAP.

I'm reading more about this subject than ever before. Even the people who are in the cushy chairs can't control what is going on. The last round of WTO talks failed completely. No one knows. I read Gilpins book, you did not. I know that for a fact.

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I don't have a particular intent. I see many possiblities taking place. All out of my control, but if India is going to be a bunch of job-stealers, and our CEOs are just going to hire only Indians, then it will be up to people in the USA to avoid even more the school programs where even if you do good, you won't get a job in your home country.

And, it makes no sense at all to imagine a world in the future where, in the end, everyone born in one country will have to move to a different country to work. Its not going to happen.

You have about 5% unemployment in your country--plus a lot of serious problems that you have mostly ignored while spending too much time on our problems (your "bash the USA" hobby) and ignoring-denying the good things that came out of the USA --and we have about 5% unemployment in my country. This may be the "standard" for capitalist-type economies and people who can't find work will just starve or live under the bridge. The other 95% will not help them. The story is not over in India regarding your armed revolt (Naxalites), your communists, etc. And, I can easily find reports about India that you either don't know about or don't care.