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8th
International Conference |
Contribution
of
Revindo,
Indonesia
May,
2004
Dear
Comrades,
We would like to express our revolutionary
greetings to all comrades participating in the 8th International
conference.
Economic crisis in South East Asia around 1997
were followed by the economic depression in Indonesia in the following years.
The peoples’s rage against the fascist regime could not be stopped. The wave
upon wave of democratic mass actions lead to a political crisis. Soeharto was
forced to step down from the presidential chair on May 21, 1998. The
presidential change from BJ. Habibie to Megawati did not change the essence of
the ruling class regime in Indonesia. All of them are the puppet of
US-Imperialist. Moreover, the Megawati Regime apply the same policy as the
fascist regime of Soeharto in handling people’s interests and demands. The
workers demands on the improvement of working condition and raise the wage were
answered with anti-trade union law and criminalization of strike. The peasants
demands on genuine land reform were answered with repressive dispersal of mass
protests and arresting the peasant’s leaders. The semi-proletariats and urban
petty bourgeoisie’s demands for cheap and better public facilities in health,
housing, and education were answered with privatization of public interest
centers, demolition of “dirty” urban communities, and many others repressive
actions.
The economic crisis in 1997 which lead to a
political and social crisis is still going on. the IMF is playing important role
in restructuring indonesian economic by gradually suspending subsidy in health
services, education, electricity, and energy. Waves of privatization are taking
place in different sectors of Indonesian economic as bank, telecomunication, and
state interprises are being sold cheaply to foreign investors. The living
condition of our people is worsening.
In April we had general election and in July we
will have presidential election. In the absence of a communist leadership, the
most reactionary forces represented by fascist Armed Forces and bureaucrat
capitalist will be back in the power through election. They will never be able
to solve the political-economic and social crisis being suffered by our
society. The only way of solution
that must be taken by the people of Indonesia is national liberation movement
waged by the working class, peasantry, and others working people and led by the
proletariat against imperialism and its domestic lackeys. The objective of the
struggle is to seize the power from reactionary regime of dictatorship of
compradors, bureaucrat capitalists, and land lords. It will pave the road for
liberating the proletariats and oppressed people of our country.
The violence revolution is the correct way of
national liberation movement. The experiences of Indonesian people in it
struggle for socialism taught the working class and the oppressed people to
follow the road of armed revolution in national liberation movement. Besides,
brilliant examples had been set by comrades in the Philippines, Colombia, Nepal,
Turkey, India and other countries who
are waging armed struggle.
Today, the national liberation movement of
Indonesia is preparing and training the working class and others working peoples
to stand for their freedom, rights, and liberation. Many democratic mass
organizations had been built and formed in various places especially in the
center of population in urban or rural areas. The working class, peasantry,
women, youth, and student are creating their mass organizations will acquire
national character. In the struggle for their class, sector, or group interest,
these mass organizations will gain experiences in solving local, national, and
international problems.
Today the principal contradiction is between
the exploited people and oppressed nations on the one hand and imperialism
headed by US in the other hand. The US’ war of aggression on Iraq, political and
military support for Israel in Palestine, the intervention in Colombia and
Venezuela and many secret operation in other Third World countries made the US
imperialism as the biggest terrorist power. The fundamental contradiction
between labor and capital in advance industrialized countries is sharpening, as
well as the conflict among imperialism power.
The national democratic revolution
suffered a severe set back when Suharto backed by US and British Imperialism
through their secret agencies CIA and MI-6 staged the military coup d´etat in September
1965. As a result, millions of innocent people was massacred and the Communist Party of Indonesia was
almost completely destroyed and wiped out.
We are now in the process of unification and
rebuilding the Communist Party of Indonesia through a rectification movement
guided by Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung Thought.
Down with Imperialism!!!
Long Live Proletarian
Internationalism!!!
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