Monday, December 10, 2012

International Conference on 24 November in Hamburg: Speech by Revolutionary Construction - Austria



Austrian report of the campaign to support people's war in India:

As organization, the Revolutionary Construction (RA), we start the campaign in the beginning of September on a traditional political rather left festival in Vienna. Together with RKJV (Revolutionary-Communist Youth League) and AIL (Anti-imperialist league), which are part of the RA, we handed out flyers and collected signatures for release of all political prisoners in India, stop of the “Operation Green Hunt” and against the ban on the Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF). Collecting these signatures was part of our action during the whole campaign, in demonstration, meetings, when we handed out flyers and in each personal surroundings and at work. We collected these signatures because of a mobilization as wide as possible, for agitation and to get donations. That worked, we had a lot of discussions, got donations and up to jet we got about 1000 signatures.
 The committee for supporting people's war in India was formed at the second meeting in the end of September. There we had presentations, discussions, worked together in small groups, planed our actions for the next time and concluded a program to work for the committee. There we also formed working groups to the topics women's struggle, the culture movement, newspaper and the workers movement. It was a beginning with a lot of action from each person, full of revolutionary energy and zest for action!
 On the 29.9., an international day for solidarity, we made an enunciation in solidarity with the Anti-AKW activists in India and Antony Samy, who got murders by the police. Altogether we had 7 meeting with presentation, videos and discussions to the following topics: the economic situation in India, the “Operation Green Hunt”, the people's war and it's growth, the political prisoners, the RDF, about the workers struggle in the automobilindustries as well as women's struggle and cultures struggles on examples of mass organization of the CPI(Maoist). We also did a meeting in an other city in Austria. The working group newspaper published two newspapers during the campaign and did a lot of translations. In cooperation with literature sales department “Partisan” they published “The Documents and Resolutions of the 9. Congress/Congress of unity of the CPI(Maoist)” as the first publication in German. The working group women's struggle created some posters for a small exposition and the group workers movement informed us regularly about workers struggles in India. The group culture struggle organized a solidarity party. We make a demonstration in front of the Indian embassy, which should be repeated soon as finishing the campaign. Also there was shown a Bollywood movie about the people’s war in India by the AIL. During the campaign we handed out 5000 flyers, sent out about 15 e-mail newsletter and create a homepage for the committee to support people’s war in India.
 The work of RA members was especially in the beginning very important for the campaign to run, but after some time comrades of the AIL, comrades of the YDG (New Democratic Youth) and single persons get more and more involved in the work. Much support was given from the members of the RKJV.
 During the campaign it was very interesting to see the reaction from the people on the street. Hardly anyone knows about people’s war in India and the terror by the Indian State. This depends on the interests of the Austrian ruling class on the terror against peoples in India. They don’t report about this official media and they tell the Austrian peoples that they have nothing to do with Indian peoples. Sadly there was hardly any support from the “left scene” to the campaign. That is an expression for the ruling chauvinism and “Eurocentrism”. Because of that it is an important task to do propaganda to support people’s war and to give information about the terror of the Indian State and Imperialism. And also it is very important to show the position of proletarian internationalism to the peoples and also to the “left”. Our fight for liberation  is international, it is tight connected to the struggles in depended countries. Without liberation of the depended countries, there will be no progress with revolution in the imperialistic centers. 
 We could also do some success. For example, the participation of people was getting more compared to the campaigns over the last years. With the campaign we managed to bring new people in our political environment, some get activated and we get closer connected to our comrades of the YDG.
 With the signatures activities, the flyers and information stands we managed to get one step forward to a wide composed front to support people’s war in India. Many people were interested and showed solidarity with there signatures and donations. That was a small step, but there is still a lot of work to do. For the next campaign it is very important to activate and organize more people. We did a mistake this year in planning too much for the campaign. Because there were less peoples to work on there own and to organize. Most of the people who does it, are members of organizations and have a lot to do for political activities. Especially in the workers movement we had a lot of activities in Austria these months. Because of that mistake we sometime get into chaos and were not always in time, so we are sorry that our presentations does not arrived in time.
 We have to analyze of our work in the time, but we can already say something we learned: We have to build up new people who can do political work and also we have to support the initiative of the people more than we did it. That is necessary to build up a wide front of solidarity with the people’s war in India and to spread a revolutionary perspective to the peoples to mobilize them for struggles also in Austria.

Fight Imperialism! Long live the victory of people’s war!

RA (Austria) and the committee to support people’s war in India
November 2012

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