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VOICE OF ELECTRICITY WORKERS
Fight against Communalism -
EEFI
The fight against Communalism is a fight for protecting the unity of the working
class against disruption. Most advanced, most conscious and most organized
class, the working class has a special role and responsibility in fighting
communalism for protecting the unity of the working class.
Gujarat holocaust is a sharp pointer to the inadequacy of the role of the
working class and secular forces in fighting this aggressive communalism.
Imperialism has been consistently encouraging communal and religious
fundamentalist forces world wide, in its bid to protect its dominance and
prevent united opposition to its hegemonic policies.
BJP led NDA Govt. at the centre is now pursuing in full measure the project of
monopoly capital which in turn is providing full fledged support to them.
Recognition of this fact leads us to the conclusion, that struggle against
communalism, the struggle against the anti-people economic policies pursued in
the interest of monopoly capital and imperialism, and the struggle for
democratic rights are part of one and the same struggles to be fought on
different fronts with their own specificities.
The serious unemployment situation particularly in the post globalization period
has been causing frustration among youth, who fall easy victims to the communal
propaganda and became their reserve army.
Women both of the majority and minorities communities constitute the most
vulnerable targets of the communal forces. Their religiousness is being used by
them to spread the communal ideology among them.
Communalism of both the majority and minority verities feed each other for
spreading hatred and to divide the people on religious lines and disrupt class
unity.
The political wing of RSS, the BJP has managed to come to power at the centre by
spreading communal hatred is skillfully trying to whip up communal passions and
to penetrate into all the institutions of the country, bureaucracy, police,
military, judiciary etc, the dangerous portents of which were demonstrated in
the state-sponsored communal violence in Gujarat.
Alongwith religious sentiments, the majority communalism take the advantage of
camouflaging communalism as nationalism and present distorted versions of
historical facts and prop up false "national heroes". It is a familiar tactics
for communal forces to falsify history school textbooks and through many other
ways to develop narrow communal consciousness and make it a weapon for acquiring
power and for sustaining it. This has a close resemblance to fascism.
Therefore this conference of the electricity Employees Federation of India calls
upon all its members to take up the responsibility to expose this heinous
attempt to divide the people and the working class on communal lines and divide
the nation.
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