We have just received
this report from the Pakistani Marxists who intervened massively in the
welcoming rally to receive Benazir Bhutto. Their ideas connected with many
people on the rally. Unfortunately all this was cut across by the suicide
bombings. The comrades turned their attention to helping the wounded. On Monday
we will be publishing a lengthier analysis.
The dalits, the “untouchables”, of India are not one
homogenous bloc. Within them a bourgeois layer has risen and aspires to be a
part of the bourgeois class as a whole. With this aim in mind they promote the
idea that the dalits as a caste need their own “dalit party”. To do this they
try to isolate the dalit proletariat from the rest of the Indian working class
to promote their own selfish interests. Here Rajesh Tyagi explains that what is
needed is proletarian unity across the caste barriers.
The long
post-war economic boom in Japan explained the relative political stability of
the country. But since the 1980s things have changed. Now we are seeing its
economic decline emerge as political instability, with the masses looking for
an alternative to the status quo. The latest developments confirm this.