MUMBAI DECLARATION 2004
Against Imperialist Globalisation
& WarMumbai
Resistance 2004 We hereby declare the successful conclusion
of "Mumbai Resistance 2004 Against Imperialist Globalisation and War",
an international event held in Mumbai, India, 17-20 January 2004 participated
in by more than 300 organisations and thousands of individual from all parts of
India and from other countries all over the world. We have successfully
achieved the objectives of MR 2004 as conceived by the International League of
People's Struggles (ILPS) at the Thessaloniki Resistance in June 2003, to hold
an international event co-sponsored by the broadest range of anti-imperialist
groups, to consolidate and strengthen the anti-imperialist movement. Drawing
inspiration and strength from the unity, commitment, energy and international
co-ordination that MR 2004 has gathered, generated and heightened, we make the
following pledges and calls to action: We PLEDGE to fight imperialist globalisation
and war to the end. For this we will unite with all forces that stand in opposition
to the horrors resulting from this new anti-people offensive. We PLEDGE
to steadfastly stand by the poverty-stricken masses, who are the worst victims
of imperialist globalisation. We will unite with them in their struggles against
imperialist plunder and war throughout the world. We PLEDGE to vehemently
oppose the disastrous impact on society in the form of the dehumanising poverty,
destruction of the peoples' livelihood, the destruction of the environment, the
crass consumerism, the heightened alienation, and the increasing degeneration
of the cultural life of the people.
We PLEDGE to fight against the further
infringement and even whole assault on the sovereignty of all oppressed countries,
that has come under massive attack by the forces of imperialist globalisation
and their institutions like the TNCs, World Bank, IMF, WTO, etc. and also their
imperialist governments, specifically that of US imperialism. We PLEDGE
to fight back the growing fascist attacks of ruling classes around the world and
their whipping up of parochial hysteria, pitting one community against another.
Particularly, Racism, Zionism, etc., which act as the ideological content of fascism
in various regions of the world, will be opposed tooth and nail. We PLEDGE
to fight shoulder to shoulder together with the people of various countries that
have come under the jackboots of imperialist aggression, particularly that of
the US imperialists. We PLEDGE to fight for the abrogation of all the loans
to the third world by the imperialists and their agencies like IMF, World Bank,
etc, We resolve to put up a formidable fight alongside the Iraqi people
until all US and other occupation troops are withdrawn from Iraq. We resolve
to fight alongside the Palestinian and other Arab people shoulder to shoulder
in getting back their land and sovereignty; and that the Jewish and Palestinian
people live in peace, with equal rights. We resolve to fight for the withdrawal
of all foreign troops from Afghanistan and all other countries of the world, and
the disbandment of all US military bases around the globe. We resolve to
fight for the unconditional release of all political prisoners incarcerated by
the reactionary regimes, particularly of those fighting US imperialism and their
lackeys. We resolve to fight for the scrapping of all the multilateral institutions
like the IMF, World Bank and WTO, etc, and the removal of TNC operations in the
oppressed countries of the world. We resolve to fight for the forthwith
annulment of all unequal Treaties, Agreements and Military Pacts signed between
the imperialists and the oppressed countries of the world. We are determined
to achieve our full and total sovereignty - economical, political and military
- of all nation-states of the world, and their fundamental right to national self-determination
of all nationalities, where these have been infringed in any way.
In India,
where this Conference is being held, we resolved to fight for: " the
end of 'economic reforms', liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation of
the economy, and the unhindered entry of foreign capital into the country.
"
the end of imperialist paradigm of governance and development model. We stand
for the establishment of people - centred development and institutions of real
democracy with full employment and equitable entitlements. We resolve to fight
for right to work.
" the end of all forms of State terror, in the form
of undemocratic legislations like POTA, banning strikes and TU activities, extra-judicial
killings, torture, custodial rape, disappearances and the banning of various parties
and organisations.
" the end of state-sponsored Hindutva Fascism and defence
of all rights of the minorities, and punishment for all those responsible for
the demolition of Babri Masjid and the Gujarat genocide.
" the end of
army operations against the nationality movements and withdrawal of all Indian
forces from Bhutan being used to crush the movements based there; grant all nationalities
their right to self-determination.
" the end of State terror against all
democratic movements, including the armed revolutionary struggles of the masses,
and demand the right to organisation and free speech to all.
" the end
of the further infringement of our Sovereignty by imperialism in general and the
US/ Israel axis in particular.
" the end of attacks on the peasantry,
badly hit by: the flood of cheap imports; cut in investments; end to concessional
credit, electricity, water; cut in subsidies, de facto scrapping of PDS; and corporatisation
of agriculture.
" the end of attacks on students and youth as manifested
in the privatisation of education, the loss of jobs, opportunities, and the extensive
promotion of degenerate cultural values.
" the end of the incessant marginalisation
of tribal people and the scrapping of all big projects leading to their displacement
and their right to the forest land, wealth and self rule.
" the end of
attacks on the working class and the growing spectre of unemployment; the repeal
of the anti-labour laws, and end to VRS, a stop to the contractualisation of labour,
etc.
" the end of all forms of casteism and the despicable practice of
untouchability; and an immediate stop to the growing attacks on dalits with overt
and covert state support. We commit ourselves to the struggles of all the oppressed
caste people against Brahmanism that has regained in strength under neo-liberal
globalization.
" A large majority of Indian population constitutes artisan
castes and classes they have been adversely affected by the policies of globalisation.
Without showing any alternative their livelihood is destroyed. We resolve to fight
against this situation.
" the end the cultural onslaughts of Hindutva
forces on the Dalits, Adivasis and other oppressed castes and their intrigues
to use them as their cannon fodder for achieving their vile goal of Hindu Rashtra.
"
the end of all manifestations of patriarchy and the growing commoditification
of women in this period of globalisation; particularly the growing trafficking
of women and the intensified debasement of women through advertising, tourism,
pornography, etc.
" the end of Indian expansionism and the outright bullying
and treaties to the neighbouring countries by the Indian ruling classes in close
alliance with their US bosses. We CALL on the people to boycott the products
of TNCs/MNCs and thereby bringing massive losses on the imperialists and their
empires markets, to leave the country particularly American imperialists' and
build militant mass struggles to drive away them from our countries. We
CALL on the people to build firm resistance to the US military camps worldwide.
We resolve to take up a consistent mass protest movement, till all US and other
imperialist military camps are completely withdrawn. We CALL on the people
of all countries of the world, including India, to unite to fight back the imperialist
offensive going on under the signboard of 'globalisation' and join to defend the
rights of the working people throughout the world. We CALL on the people
to smash the imperialist aggressors, particularly the US, and ally firmly with
the resistance movements, particularly in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine until
victory. We CALL on the people to oppose State terror, and anti-democratic
laws like POTA whatever its form, and fight back their growing fascist onslaught
across the world. We CALL on the people not to be taken in by imperialist
schemes and tricks to diffuse discontent, particularly by NGOs and Social democrats,
but to build a mighty militant movement to smash imperialism and its agents throughout
the world, and work towards building a new order, based on equality and justice
for all - a world moving towards socialism. We express our deep sense of
solidarity and oneness with all people worldwide in struggles against imperialism
and all reaction and strongly seek coordination in building common battlegrounds
against our common enemy, that is, imperialism and the classes, which constitute
its composition. On this, the 18th Day of January 2004, let us all PLEDGE
to unite and march forward in the path of struggle. Let us create a new bright
future for all the toiling masses of the world. As a first step, let us OBSERVE
March 20 as Anti-imperialist War-Day; the Day US/British forces aggressed on Iraq
- a day to be observed by mass protests against the imperialists, and militant
actions against imperialist forces and their agents in India and throughout the
world. January 18, 2004
Signed by
311 Organisations
that Comprise MR-2004 - End -
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