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We are seeing history being made.
Farmers have surrounded the national capital from different directions, at Tikri, Singhu, Ghazipur and Shahjahanpur borders, to repeal three Farm Laws that the Narendra Modi-led government is hell-bent on imposing. These laws are a part of the blueprint from International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization, two of the international financial institutions through which the US-backed imperialist world order is kept in check. They advocate that developing countries like India should stop subsidizing agriculture for our own food security and hand over control of what we grow,
where and how to corporations. This imperialist design has, rightly, been identified in the RSS-BJP’s actions by the protesting farmers as ‘anti-people’, that is, representing the interests and of the imperialists and their desi collaborators like Ambani-Adani.
As a revolutionary student organisation, we are happy to bring out this booklet which revisits the anti-imperialist legacy of peasant struggles. Many of these revolutionary movements opposed British imperialism and played a pivotal part in our freedom struggle. Even after we achieved independence from the British on August 15, 1947, our collective destiny still remained in the hands of the foreign and domestic capitalists. But as Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh presciently wrote, in his last petition before martyrdom, ‘Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural resources are being exploited by a handful of parasites.’ The struggle for achieving independence,
in its fullest sense, and creating an India of our own continues even after Independence.
This Kisan Andolan is another example of a movement which reflects those dreams which people of India once dreamt, of achieving complete independence in every sphere of our lives. The revolutionary peasants and farm workers have shown tremendous tenacity in this uncompromising struggle, declaring that no resolution will be possible till these anti-people laws are withdrawn. Despite the ruling regime’s barricades, tear gas shells, fake news and false criminal charges, the struggling peasants have reached Delhi and are placing their rightful demand. This struggle has shown us once again that the war against neoliberal fascism remains incomplete without a mass movement by those who build this country, its peasants and the workers. Thus, we hold the present Kisan Andolan in continuity of the revolutionary tendency described in the following pages.
We hope our effort can contribute positively to this movement and make it successful towards building an India of our shared dreams.
Inquilab Zindabad!
COLLECTIVE
New Delhi, January 2021
Read the full booklet here: English | Hindi | Punjabi
