After days of suspicious double talk the essentials of the US-Indo trade agreement have finally been revealed. Apparently, key agricultural and diary sectors in India will remain protected; for the time being. ‘Apparently’, because the draft agreement where this is claimed to be written down is nowhere to be seen. ‘For the time being’, because the publicly available Joint Statement explicitly states that tariff reduction or elimination for American agricultural products will be applicable for “additional products” too. That is, in addition to those specified in the statement. What will get included in that remains to be seen.
This agreement with the US and the earlier one with the European Union (EU), are being presented by the Modi regime and it’s Godi media as extremely beneficial to India. Some others criticise the one with the US, while applauding that with the EU. Leave aside the disastrous impact they will have on various sectors of India’s economy. Will trade treaties with advanced economies ever be good for India? No. The economies of the US and EU countries are ‘advanced’ precisely because countries like India are kept ‘backward’. They constitute the vast majority in Asia, Africa and Latin America. This comes from the division of the world into imperialist countries and oppressed countries. As a result, trade between these two type of countries will always be unequal. This is not a matter of this or that sector, but of the economy as a whole.
It is claimed that a lot of fresh investments and modern technology will flow in because of these treaties. It will, if it’s profitable for imperialist finance capital. But that will only make India more dependent. The only way it can start the journey to self-reliance is by cutting itself off from the global imperialist system and unleashing the huge potential of its crores of people. That calls for revolution, not trade treaties.
Speech by Ajith at the 30th Conference of Virasam
Virasam (Revolutionary Writers’ Association) celebrated its 30th Conference on the 24th and 25th of January of this year in Hyderabad. Ajith attended the meeting and held a speech in which he analyzed the current developments of the People’s War in India and stressed the necessity to continue following the path of Naxalbari and the People’s War. - this speech is nod disponible in english
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