CPI (MAOIST) URBAN PERSPECTIVE
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 17:16:41
"bring home the bacon in the urban areas has a special importance in our revolutionary bring home the bacon. …. in our revolution which follows the line of protracted people's war the liberation of urban areas ordain be possible only in the measure stage of the revolution. However this does not mean that there is no need to concentrate on the building of urban revolutionary movement from the beginning. From the beginning we will undergo to concentrate on the organisation of the working class which being the leadership of our revolution has to directly participate and bring about the agrarian revolution and the people's war and on building a revolutionary workers movement. Moreover on the basis of revolutionary workers movement we ordain be able to collect millions of urban oppressed masses and build struggles against imperialism and feudalism struggles in support of the agrarian revolution and struggles for democratic rights. We will be able to create the subjective forces and conditions required for building a countrywide broad anti-imperialist anti-feudal united front during this course only. The urban movement is one of the main sources which provides cadres and leadership having various types of capabilities essential for the people's war and for the establishment of liberated areas… We should not forget the dialectical relationship between the development of the urban movement and the development of the people's war. In the absence of a strong revolutionary urban movement the populate's war ordain face difficulties.
urban areas are the strong centers of the enemy. Building up of a strong urban revolutionary movement means that our Party should build a struggle network capable of waging struggle consistently by sustaining itself until the protracted people's war reaches the stage of strategic offensive. With this desire term perspective we should develop a secret party an united lie and populate's armed elements; increase the categorise struggle in the urban areas and mobilize the give of millions of urban masses for the people's war." [Pages 69-70. S&T].
However there have been serious shortcomings and mistakes in our understanding and practice over the last thirty years. The Political and Organisational analyse of the Ninth Congress thus reviewed as follows. "The importance of urban work in the ongoing populate's war in the country
is well-recognised by our Party and is elaborated in our Strategy-Tactics document. However we have been extremely deficient in perspective policy and methods of work. We have only made piecemeal changes from time to time to the policy contained in the document "Our Work in Urban Areas" brought out by APSC in 1973. We have yet to develop a comprehensive and long-term approach which takes into account the changing developing trends in urbanization as come up as the policies of the enemy to isolate and crush us in the urban areas. This has led to back up ups and downs in our urban bring home the bacon in most areas and serious loss of cadres in the areas of repression." [Page 141. POR]
Thus the Congress decided on "A time-bound programme for preparing policy and guidelines for urban bring home the bacon particularly working class bring home the bacon. This should include a analyse of our understanding and practice with believe to revolutionary trade unions mini-guerilla squads selfdefence squads workers' magazine among other things. This should be
The show document is move of the act to implement the above Congress decision. Part 2 gives a apprise conceive of of urban India presenting the trends in urbanisation and the changes in class composition particularly since the policies of liberalisation. Part 3 is the main section which lays out the policy and guidelines for work - our strategic come and objectives forms of organisation and forms of struggle the party united front and military tasks propaganda tech mechanism and planning. move 4 reviews the main shortcomings in our understanding and practice of the past 30 years. Part 5 identifies some immediate tasks.
According to the census of 2001. 27.8% of India's population now lives in the towns and cities. The be urban population is 28.5 crores which is larger than the total population of the world's third most populated country - USA. Most of this urban population is situated in large cities. Almost two thirds stay in cities with a population of over one lakh and 10.8 crores (i e. 38%) are in 35 metropolitan centres with a population of over 10 lakhs. Three of the world's twenty mega-cities with a population of over one crore each are from India.
The centre of the economy has also moved away from the rural areas. In 1950-51 56% of production came from agriculture but today less than 25% comes from agriculture. Today most of the country's production is from the industries and services sectors which are mainly based in the towns and cities. The urban share in the bring in Domestic Product (GDP) is thus now over 60%.
India's urban population size proportion and economic weight today is much higher than what was there in China at the time of the revolution. China then had only about 10% of its production coming from industry and only 11% of the people staying in the urban areas. This would mean that India's urban areas would have to play a relatively more important role in the revolution than the cities played during the Chinese revolution.
Since 1947 four major metropolitan cities which served as regional capitals under the British have dominated the process of urbanisation in the country. These were Kolkata. Mumbai. Delhi and Chennai who respectively served as the central hubs of the east west north and south of the country. Since the sixties they have continued to experience growth though at different paces. Further newer metropolitan centres like Bangalore. Hyderabad and Pune are emerging as new hubs of urban growth. The policies of liberalisation are bringing further changes and new patterns of urbanisation have been emerging which are changing the positions and importance of even the old metropolitan centres.
Delhi continues to keep its all-India importance mainly as administrative capital and also due the rapid industrialisation in its surrounding areas. Mumbai as financial capital has been continuing to grow rapidly and is now among the five largest cities in the world. Kolkataand Chennai continue to keep their regional importance but Kolkata has lost its all-India importance as a displace of industry and commerce.
The ups and downs of these main centres is however only a reflection of the country's sharply unequal copy of urbanisation. Kolkata is falling back because of its placement in the poorest and least urbanised eastern part of the country whereas all the new stars are emerging in the most urbanised south and the west. The old hierarchy of four megacities located in different regions of the country is thus giving way to urban corridors and clusters of new investment located mostly in the southern and western parts of the country.
With the exception of the Delhi region and adjacent areas in Haryana. Punjab. Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh much of the north the east and the centre of the country have been bypassed. This vast area covering the eastern half of UP and stretching across Bihar. West Bengal the North-Eastern states. Orissa. Madhya Pradesh and the eastern part of Maharashtra is remaining as an area of urban backwardness with old industrial bases and high unemployment. These areas are thus the main sources of cheap migrant.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://maoistresistance.blogspot.com/2007/10/cpi-maoist-urban-perspective.html
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