Without an organized people
there is no revolution
The organized people are the
protagonists who make history and
who carry forward the tasks of the
national liberation revolution and
the struggle for Socialism when
they are led by the Party of the
working class. We cannot expect a
spontaneous reaction of generalized
indignation from them, as preached
by the petty bourgeoisie and
anarchism; nor can we pretend to
replace them in their historical
tasks. We must prepare them so
that their indignation and opposition
have the support of a revolutionary
program, Socialism. We must learn
from them but fundamentally we
must educate them based on their
own experience of struggle, we must
constantly act among them knowing
their state of mind and carrying out
revolutionary pedagogy, clarifying
the political scene. We must provide
them with all the organizational
instruments so that they can fulfill
their mission as the historical
protagonists, provide them with a
skilled leadership and a union-
association structure, councilor or
popular front so that they function
better. We must strive to organize
the majority of the popular sectors
from the artists, progressive
intellectuals, street vendors and
small merchants, students, peasants,
workers and the whole social sector
from which we can stimulate
resistance and channel the
indignation and popular orientation
towards socialist causes faced
with the crises that we are going
through.
Conclusion
and
general
orientation
There are no communists
outside the Communist Party, there
are no communist members without
organization in a cell, without
organization in cells there is no
organized Communist Party that
can lead the struggle of the working
class and the working people to
change the social structures rotted
away by capitalist exploitation and
corruption.
It is time for us accelerate the
pace and apply in a more dynamic
manner the Resolutions and
Conclusions of the VII National
Conference and the Party Program
and provide a skilled leadership to
the social struggle in Peru.
With the Party and the
organized People, everything!
Without the Party and the
organized People nothing!
Let
us
develop
the
subjective conditions that
ensure the popular solution!
Let us advance in the
organizaional strengthening of
the Communist Party!
Let us continue with greater
effort the task of organizing the
working people and popular
sectors!
CC of the PCP (M-L)
March 2018
Dushkal he aasmani nasoon, sultani aahe – Marathi saying
(Drought does not happen due to lack of rains, but due to poor governance)
Several districts across the
country have already affected by
drought. Country recieves thre-fourths
of rainfall during the south-west
mansoon. The Indian Meteorological
department (IMD) data shows that
there was 9 per cent deficit in rainfall
during the season. When seen state
wise, deficit in rainfall was more than
90 per cent in Rajasthan, Uttar
Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh and 50
per cent in maharashtra, Telangana,
Andhra pradesh by the middle of
December.
About 68 per cent of cropped ares
in India is ulnerable to droughts. Of
this, 33 per cent of the area recieves
less than 750 mm of mean annual
rainfall and classified as chronically
drought prone area. Another 35 per
cent of ares recieves mean annual
rainfall betweeen 750 and 1125 mm and
is classified as drought prone.
January - 2019
Recently IMD removed the word
drought from its vocabulary “to do
away with or redefine them that are not
scientifically precise”. Instead of using
drought year and severe drought year,
the IMD adopted deficit year and large
deficit year.
The NDA government released
the manual for drought management
in 2016 ammending that of 2009. In
the 2016 manual, the parameters for
declaring an ares as drought hit were
made so stringent that the state
governments find it more difficult to
declare drought hit areas. The five
parameters listed in the new manual
are: rainfall, sown area, soil moisture.
Ground and suface water and remote
sensing of crop health. Any four of
these five criteria should be fulfilled to
declare drought.
This does not take into account
of different types of droughts and
different situation across six
meteorological division of the country
– the meteorological (deficit rainfall),
Hydrological (surface and sub surface
water) and agricultural (inadequate soil
moisture).
If these criteria are followed many
droughtsa go unreported. The revenue
minister of Karnataka noted that due
to changes in the benchmark defining
drought situation by the central
government, it is not possible to
declare nothern Karnataka region as
drought hit even as there was deficit
rainfall in 13 districts of this region. The
Chief Minister of Maharashtra said that
the declaration of districts of
Marathwada region as drought hit was
delayed as a result of stringent
parameters.
With the new manual the central
government washed off its hands put
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