Contribution Of Nepal Communist Party(Unity Centre-Mashal). Present International Situation and Our Tasks INTETRNATIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES 1. After the World War I, a socialist revolution took place in Russia and after the World War II, the socialist system was established in a great part of the world. But in the decade of the 50s, particularly after the counter-revolution in Russia, gradually the socialist systems came into an end one after another in the former socialist countries. The fall of socialist system in the Soviet Union and other socialist countries was a great loss for the exploited, oppressed and working peoples as well as for the world revolutionary movement. The capitalist system has established its worldwide domination. As a result, there is a great setback to the socialist, new democratic or national liberation movement in the world. However, the objective ground of the revolution has not yet terminated and cannot be terminated by any power and but is the material conditions which determines the development to the history and that is the capitalist system itself buy... productive for us socialist character the globalization is accelerating the process as a result of it the contradiction between social character of productive forces and private ownership of means of production is being more and more in tensified. This contradiction prepares the objective ground for the socialist revolution and makes the victory of socialism inevitable. Therefore, the fall of the world socialist system or the present weak position of socialist movement is only a temporary phenomenon. 2. The contradictions between oppressed nations and imperialism, labor and capital as well as imperialistic forces are the fundamental contradictions of the present day world. Among them the first one, i. e., the contradiction between the oppressed nations and imperialism is the main contradiction of the present day world. At present, Asia, Africa and Latin America are the main centers of the revolution. Although the fall of socialism in the former socialist countries has negative effect on the world liberation movement temporarily, the worldwide growing revolutionary struggle has been preparing grounds for the bright future in the world. Besides, in the developed capitalist countries themselves, the contradiction between labor and capital is growing in the past years. In these countries, the class struggle of workers against capitalism is growing. In addition to the increasingly grwoing economic crisis within capitalism, the oppression and exploitation of workers have increased more. On the contrary, workers' real wages and their facilities are reducing. Theproduction is deteriorating and unemployment is increasing. As a result of all these factors, the life of the workers has become more difficult and for them there is a need to speed up their class struggle. Besides, the struggle of the workers in the developed capitalist countries against the exploitation, oppression, interference and war of imperialist countries against other countries has also grown. In the past, the trend towards this direction appeared in a massive way in the developed capitalist countries. It is sure that the solidarity which is established in the revolutionary movement of the oppressed nations and developed capitalist countries will give a birth to a revolutionary tide in a worldwide scale against all reactionaries. 3. The American imperialism has been extending its interference and its domination in a worldwide scale. The US has been following a policy to pressurise, interfere or invade in Iraq, Cuba, Palestine, China, North Korea, Libya, India is Asia and many other countries of Africa, and Latin America. In this way, the US has been following the policy of hooligan and it is becoming danger for the liberty and sovereignty of all countries of the world. The attack of the US against Afghanistan has made it much clear. On the one hand, the US interference in the Third World countries is increasing, and on the other hand, the surrender of the rulers of the Third World countries to the US imperialism and their alliances with it has also increased. Particularly, the trend of alliance has increased more in the context of the worldwide campaign of the US against terrorism. India can be taken as a shinning example of it. India wants to suppress the movement of Kashmir and wants to consolidate its domination in its neighboring countries on the basis of its alliance with the US. At present, the US imperialism has been following the policy to establish its worldwide economic domination particularly in backward and less developed countries of the third world through the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Multinational Companies (MNCs) and various other financial institutions. Also the US imperialism has been following the policy that gives a strong pressure to the countries of the third world to close public sector industries and to follow the policy of privatization, liberalization and market economy and thereby to bring the whole economy of those countries under the control of multinational capital. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US has become the only super power of the world and it has followed a policy to maintain its domination all over the world. But the defeat of the imperialism and victory of the world revolution is inevitable due to a rising revolutionary tide in Asia, Africa, and Latin America on the one hand, and the rising movement in the capitalist countries against imperialism, the contradiction within imperialism, the new competitive situation developed as a result the unequal development of capitalism in the imperialist countries and the objective ground prepared for socialism, in the main, by worldwide socialization/collectivization of the productive forces on the other. 4. At present, globalization is the biggest threat to each country for its sovereignty, nationality and independent economic system. After the World War II, there was a great setback to the imperialism due to establishment of socialist system in a large party of the world and the end of direct rule of colonialism. In that background, the imperialism made its efforts to strengthen its position through globalization. By means of globalization, the imperialism is not only controlling the trade, capital and production, but it is also holding its domination on economy, agriculture, politics, information technology, education, culture and so on. The imperialists have told us that the objective of the globalization is to secure welfare of all human beings and economic prosperities. But in reality, it is a capitalist exploitation and means of oppression throughout the world. In other words, it is a globalization of imperialist mechanism. Eventually, the globalization will not strengthen imperialism at any cost. Rather it will prepare more grounds for the destruction of imperialism. The history tells us that as the production system takes more developed social form widely, so as it prepares grounds for revolution. According to this law, globalization will prepare solid base for the world revolution so that the decisive defeat of capitalism or the victory of socialism is inevitable. 5. The imperialists have used WB, IMF, Structural Adjustment Program (SAP), WTO and MNCs as the major tools to guarantee the colonial and neo-colonial exploitation process. 6. In the decade of 1980s, the World Bank and IMF introduced SAP to guarantee the return of loan from the Third World countries. The SAP has three main organs - privatization, liberalization and deregulation. The main objective of privatization is to privatize all public sector industries, economic institutions, agriculture and corporations related to the social service and under certain situation, institutions that make administrative policies. The meaning of liberalization is an entrance of foreign production, the capital or money in any country without any control, relaxation of custom duties, the removal of difficulties for an import and export of foreign production, capital or money, and the abdication of the national policies or strategies adopted for the protection of national industries. The meaning of deregulation is an end of government control over industries and businesses of national importance and subsidies provided to nationally important industries and businesses. 7. Today, only handful of countries (USA, England, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan) called as G-7 has taken the whole world under their control. In fact, G-7, the World Bank, IMF, WTO and multinational companies have established their domination in the world. Now Russia has also been included in the group of G-7. When there was socialist system in many countries of the world, Russia was a strong base to the struggle against imperialism. But after the fall of socialist system in all for there socialist countries, the socialist movement has become weak. This has provided the imperialist forces with more power to increase their worldwide domination. Yet, the socialist or revolutionary movement in the world has not completely finished though it has become weak at present. The socialist or revolutionary movement has its strong objective ground and it has its bright future. Therefore, whatever advantages the imperialist countries are getting from the fall of socialist system in the former socialist countries is only for time-being. 8. Today's globalization system is a result of the planned conspiracy of imperialist forces to maintain their domination. The conference held in 1944 at Bretton Woods of USA decided to establish three forums. In the beginning, the objective of an establishment of the World Bank was to renovate and develop those countries which were destroyed by the World War II. But soon it became clear that the real objective of an establishment of the World Bank was to renovate the imperialism that was destroyed by the World War II. In addition, its objerctive was to safeguard the interests of imperialism in a new way in changing circumstances of the world. From the very beginning of its establishment, the World Bank has been working continuously towards this direction. 9. Globalization means internationalization of all lands, technology, communication, distribution and trade etc. According to the nature of globalization, the imperialist forces do not have their direct rule over any country as they used to have during colonial period. Instead, imperialist forces do have their control over the economic and political aspects of the country concerned. Particularly, the revolution brought in the field of technology has prepared ground for globalization. 10. At present, the imperialist countries have put their emphasis on the privatization policy on a worldwide scale. While socialism emphasizes on the elimination of private property and collectivization of all means of production, the private property and private profit are main foundations of capitalism. After the socialist revolution of 1917 in Russia, public industries were established not only in the socialist countries, but also in many developed capitalist countries and countries of the Third world. After the formation of the socialist government in many capitalist countries of Europe, the socialist governments started nationalization of various industries even in their limited number. After the great economic crisis of 1929, the governments of many capitalist countries followed the policy of planned economy and mixed economy in their countries. They got involved in the economic transaction. Thus, in addition to capitalist economy, the governments of capitalist countries began to emphasize on the establishment of industries in public sector. The main objective of their policy was to solve the problem of great economic crisis that was present in front of capitalism. After the establishment of the socialist systems in many socialist countries around the world, various socialist countries began to help establish industries in public sector. In that context, the capitalist countries began to follow the policy to establish industries in public sector. But their policy did not last for a long time. Soon, the imperialist forces vigorously started their campaign of privatization as a worldwide strategy against public industries to crake socialism down. Under such strategy, the campaign of privatization was launched not only in the emerged capitalist countries and other Third World countries, but the campaign was also launched in the former socialist countries to eliminate the socialist systems. It became possible for imperialist forces to organize their privatization campaigns in the socialist countries due to neo-revisionists' deviation that developed in the communist parties of the socialist countries. Because of the privatization policy of the imperialist forces, it was possible for them to bring the socialist system down in the former socialist countries and to restore capitalism over there. Now it has been worldwide phenomena. 11. The process of privatization of public industries in the developed capitalist countries began first in the decade of 1980. After the most conservative people like M. Thatcher and R. Regan coming into power in the Great Britain and the US, they followed the policy of privation of public industries. For the first time in 1979, the government of the Great Britain headed by Thatcher decided to privatize a petroleum industry. Now the privatization has taken its worldwide shape. At the beginning, they privatized basic industries and banks. Then after, the privatization of all economic institutions, transports, communication, education, health, and all social service related institutions is going on worldwide. In that context, all industries, economic institutions including agriculture were privatized in former Soviet Union and former socialist countries. After the unification of the East Germany and West Germany, their12369 economic industries or economic institutions were privatized in between 1990 and 1993. Until the middle of 1993, 80,000 economic institutions in Poland, 7000 in Czechoslovakia and 11,000 in Hungary were privatized. There are continuous efforts to encourage for the privatization of public industries and liberalization or introduction of market economy and foreign capital in China. The process of privatization and liberalization has been massively growing in the countries of the Third World. The imperialist powers and their financial companies have put much of their efforts on privatization in Inda, Shrilanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal of South Asia. By threatening to stop the economic aid and other types of loan, the imperialist powers have made the Third World countries compelled to follow the policy of privatization. 12. The history of privatization is about for two decades. So far as the question of an establishment of industries under private ownership is concerned, it has been in practice since But in general, privatization means the transformation of public industries into the private sector. This type of privatization process has been the global fenomena within the last two decades. The process of privatization has been successful to break the public industries, economic institutions and other institutions related to the social services in the former socialist countries, developing countries of the Third World and even in developed capitalist countries. The main objective of privatization of the capitalism is to break the foundation of socialist economy and thereby to do maximum exploitation of the peoples and to centralize or concentrate properties. In order to achieve their goal, they emphasize to increase the rate of price soon after the privatization of public industries and economic institutions. Its main objective is to make profit. It is true not only in the backward or developing countries of the Third World, but it is also true even in the developed capitalist countries. The price hike of electricity and water soon after their privatization in the Great Britain exemplifies this fact. In the Third World countries including in Nepal, there is a trend to give emphasis to hike the price. Under this policy, the capitalists make efforts to exploit consumers and make profits by increasing price after the privatization of public industries, economic institutions and social services. 13. Liberalization policy lays emphasis to remove national obstacles and make custom duties relaxed for an introduction of foreign capital in any country. In this way, it helps establish domination of multinational companies in the Third World countries. Deregulation prepares necessary grounds for the termination of government control and government aids in basic industries or agricultures. 14. The objective of the globalization or privatization, liberalization and deregulation is not only to increase exploitation of consumers, its objective is also to weaken the foundation of national industries of developing countries on the one hand, and make these national industries unable to compete with multinational companies so that they make as much profit as they can for the imperialist countries and their economic institutions. The main strategy of the imperialist countries is guided first by the maximum exploitation of the working class of the developed capitalist countries and second by the efforts to strengthen their domination in the less developed countries. In order to fulfill this strategy, they make coalition with the reactionary forces of the Third World. The rulers of the Third World countries, for their reactionary or petty interests, adopt the policy to serve the interests of the imperialism by betraying the national interests. 15. The establishment of WTO took place in 1995. Before that it was working in the form of General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT). GATT was established in 1948. After the negotiation or compromise of many stages, GATT as a permanent organization was transformed into a WTO. Until now about 150 countries have already become its members. Recently, Nepal has also become its member. Before Nepal used to take part in the conference of WTO as an observer. Today WTO controls 90% of the world trade. It is now establshing its domination on agriculture, industries, communication, transport, professional or social services, education, health etc of all countries of the Third World. WTO in collaboration with the World Bank, IMF and multinational companies is working either in favor of the imperialist interests or it is working to strengthen globalization. 16. The main objective of WTO is to work to fulfill the objective of GATT. It intends to establish the worldwide policy of free trade by deregulating all kinds of custom duties or national control. After that the members of any country have no control over the trade or industries of that country. Thus the country becomes subjugation to the international imperialists economic institutions of. According to the law of WTO, all member countries should follow liberal or free market policy towards an import of products of other countries. For that they need to give-up custom duties by its gradual decrease. They should give open concession to the foreign capital. They should privatize national industries, bank and various social services. But it is to note that on the one hand the imperialist countries talk about the liberalization and free market in a worldwide scale, and on the other hand, they adopt various methods to control an import of foreign goods into their countries. Thus, the main objective of imperialist countries is to establish their monopoly in the less developed countries of the Third World no matter whatever the imperialist talk about free trade. 17. According to the working style of the WTO, the production of goods, the exchange for import trade and end of government help and subsidies have special meaning and importance. According to it, they should stop providing subside mainly on agriculture, agriculture fertilizer, foods or the production and import of primary types of raw materials. As a result, there is a negative impact on production due to their big investment on the one hand, and the price increases on the other. Consequently, it is not only difficult for agro-based production to compete with foreign production within the country and in the international market, it is also equally difficult to maintain the production. This in turn leads to the deterioration of national production or national industries in the Third World countries, which again provide space to foreign goods in these countries. 18. Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is a very important organ of WTO. It provides an additional support to expand and consolidate multinational companies around the world. This agreement keeps all technological and scientific developments under intellectual properties. All types of copyrights, trademark, industrial design, patent rights, computer program, mathematical formula etc come under the intellectual properties. This agreement provides rights to various trees, plants, seeds and foods. According to a statistics, about 3500,000 patent rights were registered till 1993 and among them almost all were from the developed capitalist countries. The share from the Third World countries was minimal. Even the big country like India had only one percent share in the patent rights registration. Such types of agreement establishes not only absolute monopoly of the developed capitalist countries in technological and industrial innovation and production or natural resources, it also makes them very expensive which in turn increases poverty of the people in the Third World countries. Moreover, it controls the development and use of technology in the Third World countries. Thus TRIPS has become a new powerful weapon of imperialist countries of the world for their domination. 19. The facts presented by economists and the conclusions made by them after their analysis of globalization system and its associated financial corporations, their policies and programs are of serious nature. The statistics clearly shows that within a period of a decade, the condition of the peoples of the Third World countries is more deteriorating than before. Compared to the per-capita income of two decades ago, the present day per-capita income in many of the Third World countries is decreasing. The income of 20% peoples who live under absolute line of poverty is decreasing more than the income of 4 decades ago. The Third World countries supply mainly crude raw materials, but their prices are decreasing. The crimes related to smuggling, various types of social crimes, drugs, archaeological materials, and trafficking of women and young girls are increasingly growing. The cultural encroachment of imperialist countries in the Third World countries is also incredibly increasing. 20. The main strategy of the financial corporations of the imperialist countries is to destroy the national industries of the developing countries. The loan provided by these financial corporations to the developing countries are mainly unproductive. Particularly, they give priority to import consumers' goods and foods targeting mainly either to destroy the national industries and agriculture or to weaken their capacities to compete with the production of the developed capitalist countries. As a result, instead of improving the conditions of the industries and agriculture of the Third World countries, they further become worse than before. Some examples will make it clear. After the privatization, jute industry of Bangladesh is almost closed down. Jute industry in Bangladesh is the main source of national income. The destruction of this industry has greatly damaged the national economy of Bangladesh. The imperialist powers forced the government of Algeria to devaluate its economy time and again. The devaluation greatly damaged the national economy of Algeria. The privatization of water systems of Manila in Philippines caused 5000 workers to remain as unemployed. In this context, an example from Somalia of Africa is particularly noteworthy. The policy of developed capitalist countries is also to make the Third World countries as their dumping site of their low quality products. They use their good quality products by themselves, but they send all of their low quality products to the Third World countries. 21. These days, the genetics engineering is developing fast in the world. This technology is used mainly in the field of agriculture. It is told that the main objective of this technology is to provide food security and solve the problem of hunger. In fact, its main objective is to establish absolute monopoly of multinational capital in the agriculture of the world and to make maximum profit for the monopoly capital. Instead of traditional or local seeds, genetics engineering gives priority to the new and improved variety of seeds. The new and improved variety of seeds are produced after the cultivation of local seeds, but the genetically modified new variety of seeds are prepared according to the new methods to use for each cultivation. This restricts the farmers from the use of their own seeds which they prepare by themselves in their own fields. In this way, the ownership of farmers over their seeds is removed forever and the big capitalists establish their absolute monopoly over it. This becomes a great source of their profit. The Genetically modified new variety of seeds has greatly damaged the agriculture and farmers of the developing countries. It has completely destroyed the traditional agriculture farming systems in the developing countries. The danger is that there is a possibility of monopoly of multinational capital in the field of agriculture of the developing countries. 22. In order to serve and safeguard their imperialist interests, the imperialist countries put pressure to change the national governments, intend to interfere in the national sovereignty and national security, adopt new economic policies in favor of the of imperialist countries, pressurize and compel the governments of various countries. If the governments do not agree with the policies of imperialist powers, the imperialist powers threaten and warn developing countries and stop economic cooperation and other support programs. If their interests are not served, the imperialist countries do not even hesitate to create disturbance and to organize anti-government movement. The reality is that the imperialist powers have formed their own political organizations in many countries to work for them. By buying the political leaders of various political parties or helping them to install in the political power, the imperialist powers ask the political leaders to work for their imperialist interests. In this way, globalization has made a total damage not only to the economic aspect, but it has also made total damage to all aspects of their life. Therefore, the struggle against the globalization in all countries at the national as well as international level has become the historical necessity of the day. 23. At present, the capitalists have considered globalization as the big historical achievement for the development of capitalism. Furthermore, they have begun to think that globalization can achieve victory over all kinds of irrationaities that has appeared in capitalism, economic crisis, over production or various kinds of perversion and contradiction. Globalization will give permanent solution to the victory over all kinds of perversion. By putting forward such ideas, the bourgeoisie thinkers or right revisionists had imagined stability, peace or permanency in imperialism in the past. But the growing contradiction within imperialism, workers' movement, and the growing national liberation movement in the Third World countries themselves have proved concepts of stability, peace or permanency in imperialism to be wrong. In this context, they have also put forward the concept of uni-polar world. But the development of the world is going not towards uni-polar, but it is going towards multi-polar direction. While Japan, European Union and Russia are competing with America as other super powers, China is also developing as another super power. All these facts prove the concept of uni-polar world as a wrong concept. 24. The imperialist powers have been utilizing electronic equipment, fast means of communication and transport and powerful weapons not only to maintain their economic, political and cultural domination, they have also been using these instruments to capitalization of mode of thinking of all people to weaken the socialist, leftist and revolutionary thinking. But they have not been able to foresee the possibility that the same instruments could be used against imperialism and in favor of socialist revolution. This is always happening in the history. In different stages and different periods of the history, the reactionary forces have used various instruments to strengthen their position, but the same instruments have been used against them. The same is true in the case of the globalization. 25. According to imperialist forces, the objective of globalization is to solve the problem of national boundary and to end international conflict. In fact, globalization is a kind of internationalization of capitalism, but due to contradiction among imperialist forces, internationalization of capitalism is not practically possible. There are mainly three major centers of the world imperialism- America, European Union and Japan. There is a continuous conflict among them to control the world market. The competition based on the profit of capitalism and anarchical nature of production in the context of globalization, it is not possible for imperialist forces even to win over their national contradictions, and it is not possible for them to do so due to the present nature of capitalism. Besides, each nation has its own separate firms, industries, banks and corporations and there is a perennial type of competition among themselves, which further give birth to various types of contradiction. Therefore, it is not possible for the imperialist forces or their industries and financial institutions to control the contradiction that appear at the national level. Yet the imperialist forces put pressure or compel to the developing countries to give up their nationality, sovereignty and national interests for the sake of imperialist forces. In principle, the imperialist countries put emphasis on the policy of free market or open custom duties for the Third World countries. But in practice, it is found that the imperialist countries have followed the policy to protect markets of their own and markets in the area of their influence while they put much of their efforts to encroach into the markets of other's protected areas. Because of these reasons, various conflicts took place between America on the one hand and European Union or Japan on the other in the past. 26. At present, only a handful of capitalists are hoarding properties in the capitalist countries. In order to raise big profit, they have been continuously cutting down the wages and other facilities of the workers. The basic salary of the workers is continuously decreasing in the developed capitalist countries resulting in the negative effect on the livelihood of the workers. The over production, economic blockade or economic crisis have not stopped in capitalist economy. Such type of trend is going on and it is continuously on the increase world widely at present as well. In the western capitalist countries, the economic depression is increasing in recent years. This is the beginning of another economic depression after 1929. America, European Union and Japan have been greatly affected by such economic depression. The reduction of the size of the workers in a large number and the problem of unemployment indicate the economic depression of the capitalist countries. The US alone has removed 3000,000 workers from their jobs after 1980 and the trend is going on after the decades of 1980s. The same situation prevails in other capitalist countries. As a result, large number of factories were closed in the US, European Union and Japan resulting in unemployment problems. This is a problem not only for the US, European Union and Japan, but it is a general problem of all capitalist countries. This has contributed to the development of class struggle of the workers in a new way in these capitalist countries. In this context, the economic crisis of Philippines, Indonesia and South Korea are remarkable. This clearly shows that it is practically not possible for the capitalism to suppress the struggles that emerge within oppressed nations or developed countries against contradictions and irrationalities developed within capitalism during the course of globalization of imperialism. 27. The Western imperialist countries spent an immense amount of money to produce arms and ammunition. This requires them cut down the great amount of budget for health, education, residence, foods, and employment. The reduction of budget for social services greatly affects the daily life of the peoples. The sale of war materials is one of the major sources of income for imperialist countries. America has the major place in the sale of war materials. America has 70% shares in the sale of war materials and among the sale 67% is exported to the Third World countries. In the past decades, they made a lot of money by selling war materials during the Korean, Vietnam and Afghan wars. For a long period of time, the US produced war materials in the name of the danger from the Soviet Union or communism and sold those productions to earn large profits. In that context, the imperialist forces encouraged war business by forming NATO, CEATO and Baghdad Pact. Even today, the imperialist forces have been trying to promote their war business by waging wars in different parts of the world under various pretexes. At present, the imperialists have exploited 75% of the total resources. 28. At present, in many countries of the world, the chauvanistic activites are growing. The main objective of such activities is to create division and conflict among exploited, oppressed and working peoples in the name of religion, race and nations. By following Hitlerite policy, neo-fascist ideas and activities are countinuosly growing in Germany. Similar types of ideas and activities are growing in many parts of Europe. Such activities have been appearing in different forms in Yugoslavia, Indonesia, America, Africa and many other countries of the world and due to this, many innocent people have lost their lives. Five hundred thousand peoples lost their live in Uganda due to communal riots. While such activities cause great harm to the class struggle or revolutionary movements, imperialist forces take great advantages of them. Therefore, imperialism and the reactionary forces of various countries make planned conspiracy to block the revolutionary movements based on true revolutionary principles and political lines by making efforts to deviate such ideas and activities. In this context, the naked Muslim fundamentalism followed by the Taliban rulers and the suppression of human rights of women and other communities in Afghanistan is especially remarkable in this context. In Iran, the Muslim fundamentalists are continuously making their efforts to suppress reformative attitudes. They are making enormous efforts worldwide to promote religious extremism even in the twenty first century. This will negatively affect the peoples' consciousness and revolutionary movement. The collective suicide of 400 people in Uganda is a serious example of such type of religious extremism that has appeared worldwide. The imperialist forces follow the policy to encourage those communities who are involved in such religious sentiment or activities. The real objective behind their policy is to divide or weaken anti-reactionary forces revolutionary movement based on correct principle and political line. There still exists a discrimination against the black peoples in America. The discrimination, oppression and male domination against women still exists even in today's twenty first century. The UN has adopted various conventions to eliminate discrimination against women. Yet the position of women equals to the position of the Second class citizen even in the developed countries of the world. 29. The revolutionary movement of the world has become very weak in the last decades. As a result, the attack and oppression of imperialist and reactionary countries against the working people and oppressed nations and their movement is increasing. The imperialist countries have intensified their interference in various countries by themselves through the UN. The UN has merely been an instrument to serve the interests of imperialist forces. The continues attack against Iraq and economic blockade in it are particularly noteworthy in this context. This has not only affected the economy of Iraq, it has also made great harm to the health of Iraqi peoples, their education, their living standards, and their children's lives. Iraq is a burning example that justifies how inhuman and cruel are the imperialists and their character. We have Palestine in front of us as another example. It has already been a long time that an agreement reached between Palestine and Israel under the mediation of America. Yet, there is no possibility that Palestine would get freedom in the near future. Still hundreds of people are killed and thousands of them get wounded as a result of Israel's attack. Thousands of Palestine political prisoners are still in the jails of Israel. Israel is continuously bombing in the settlement areas of Palestine killing large number of peoples. This type of act is against the policy of the UN. But the Security Council of the UN has not yet been able to pass any resolution condemning such inhuman and cruel activities of Israel. Now Israel has started a declared attack against Palestine by breaking all forms of relations with it. The military rulers have put Ang-Shang Suchi, the elected Prime-Minister of Myanmar under home arrest for a long time. The military rule has been established in Pakistan by dissolving its parliamentary system. There is a dictatorial rule in Turkey for a long period of time. The royalists in Turkey have been under going for hunger strike to death against the dictatorial rule. Thirty people have already sacrificed their lives as a result of hunger strike. More than 1000 political prisoners are in the queue to take part in the hunger strike. The Fascist rule does still exist in many countries of the world. Wherever there is democratic or parliamentary system in a visible form, there exists a Fascist rule in its hidden form. So long as the state remains as a mechanism of oppression and so long as it remains at the hands of exploiting class, the real democratic system cannot be established in any country. 30. Despite such difficult and unfavorable circumstances of the world, the struggles against imperialist and reactionary forces have been continuously progressing in one way or the other for the last decades. After the fall of socialist system in the former socialist countries, imperialism has felt that the great roadblock for an expansion and consolidation of their domination in the world has now been removed. But it does not mean that their path has been absolutely clear. The struggle against globalization or imperialism and their policies is rising not only in the Third World countries, but it is also rising even in the developed capitalist countries. In the past years, there were worldwide movement among them, the struggle for the salary of the workers in the capitalist countries, movement for family allowances, the struggle against budget cut in a planned way in various welfare programs, the struggle against the budget cut in education in Belgium, the workers' struggle in Germany, the struggle against the price increase on petroleum in France, the struggle against the elimination of subsides for the farmers in various countries of Europe, the protest rally of farmers in the Headquarters of WTO in Switzerland, the workers' struggle in America against the monopoly capital, atomic struggle, struggle against energy, the struggle to protect environment or the struggle against pollution, the massive movement in various countries of Europe and America against the invasion in Afghanistan are particularly remarkable. In the Third World countries, the struggle against the intellectual property rights in India, the struggle against privatization of banks and other social services and World Bank's anti-subsidies policies in Shrilanka, the struggle against an import of cheap rice from America in South Korea and the workers' struggle, the struggle against America's free trade agreement in Mexico, the struggle against the public education system and privatization of government properties in Bolivia, the growing public dissatisfaction and peoples' movement in South Africa, the recent protest rally in Duwarsi and the struggle against the foreign multinational projects in Nepal are equally remarkable. Besides these movements and struggles, there are many other struggles against the financial institutions of America. In this context, the mass rally in Seattle during the annual meeting of the World Bank is incredibly remarkable. The mass protest rallies organized in India, Bangladesh and other parts of Europe during the visit of the former president of the US also indicates the worldwide growing dissatisfaction and peoples' anger against globalization or the US imperialism. 31. At present, the national liberation movements are going on in many countries of the world. But due to lack of correct ideology and political leadership, many of the peoples' national liberation movements have been converted into terrorist like activities. In many countries, the unconstitutional killings of innocent citizens, children and poor people from the working class in the name of struggle for freedom exemplify the terrorist like activities. 32. Today, there is a massive corruption within ruling clases or in the parliamentary system on the one hand. But the movements against such corruption of the reactionary forces are also going on side by side in many countries of the world and many countries have been able to remove the corrupt rulers from the power on the other. In this context, anti-corruption movements against Israel's President Ezer Wain Man, Indian Prime Minister P. V. Nara Singh Rao, Philippines' President Joseph Strada, Bangladesh's former Military Ruler General Ershad etc. are particularly noteworthy. Due to strong public opinion or peoples' strong movements, public actions against the rulers of many countries for their oppression have become successful. Due to this, the rulers were forced to resign from their posts. In this regard, it is noteworthy to note that while the former President of Chile Mr. Augusta Tilocho was put into custody inside his own residence, the former President of Peru, Mr. Fujimoro was forced to resign and the former Prime Minister of Congo Mr. Bernnard was given death sentence. Several important and successful movements against corruption and corrupted rulers come from South Korea and Japan. 33. Today, the bourgeois and petty bourgeois thinkers tell us that the theory of Lenin's imperialism and proletarian revolution is a matter of the past and it has no rationale. They also tell us that the idea of Lenin's class struggle and armed-struggle or dictatorship of proletariat class is irrelevant in today's world. But if we do the total evaluation of today's imperialism, globalization and the world circumstances, Lenin's analysis on the characteristics of imperialism, there is no doubt that his ideas are equally correct even today. It is not possible to understand correctly the characteristics of imperialism or proletarian revolution and take correct policy about it if we ignore Leninist principle. 34. In the context of analyzing the present international circumstances, the attacks in Pentagon and the World Trade Center has special importance. In fact, the attack is an _expression of the worldwide dissatisfaction and contempt against the world imperialism, particularly the US imperialism or its policy of globalization. Pentagon is the military headquarters of America and the World Trade Center is the headquarters of the WTO. Therefore, the attack in these two headquarters represents the public opinion of the world against imperialism. The successful attack has also proved that the US or its military power is internally very weak. Yet, it is not possible to destroy the imperialist exploitation through the terrorist and conspiratorial action. It is possible only through the worldwide national liberation movements and socialist movement. We cannot support the bomb attack in the US and we cannot consider it just attack, because it killed many innocent people. Eventually, this type of attack does not contribute to anti-imperialism struggle, rather it will weaken the role of the people and thereby the role of the movement against the imperialism. At present, the US imperialism has declared war against terrorism at the international level. In fact, the main source of terrorism is the US itself. We need to pay serious attention to the question associated with the declaration of war against terrorism. On the basis of the war against terrorism, the US imperialism is following the policy to violate all kinds of international conventions, laws and agreements. In the name of terrorism, the US is trying to establish its monopoly in the world to eliminate revolutionary movements against imperialism and expansionism. It is pushing all innocent peoples of the world to participate in the war and it is threatening and interfering in the sovereignty of the independent nations. The US persuades all countries to take its side. If some countries remain neutral, the US threatens to the extent that these countries as being supporters of terrorism. Thus, by violating the principle of neutrality recognized by the world, the US has demonstrated its war mongering attitude. This has revealed the reactionary and fascist character of the US imperialism. It has also been clear that the main objective of US invasion in Afghanistan is not only to finish Taliban and Bin Laden, but its main objective is also to establish the US domination in Afghanistan by forming its puppet government. By establishing its domination in Afghanistan, the US intends to expand and strengthen its strategic position in the peripheral countries of Afghanistan. It is also clear that the US invasion will not be confined into Afghanistan alone. After the Afghanistan, the US will follow the policy to invade other countries as well and has been clear by its attack upon Iraq of occupation there. 35. Under such global circumstances, it is the main duty of all Marxists-Leninists of all countries of the world including Nepal to struggle against all kinds of imperialism and expansionism and to provide support to the struggle against them. This type of struggle, first of all, should be grounded on the high level revolutionary principle. Only the struggle based on revolutionary principle can successfully move forward the struggle against imperialism. There is a serious danger to all human civilization and human beings themeseves from capitalism. The capitalism uses all means of knowledge and sciences, innovation of weapons, wars and Great Wars for its maximum profits. In order to serve its interests, it is a minor thing for the capitalism to make damage or destroy to human wellbeing, human civilization and human communities. Given the capitalism-led growing dangerous circumstances for human beings, the security is possible only after the complete fall of the capitalist system that is based on private profits and exploitation and the establishment of socialist system. Therefore, today's fundamental international duty is to wage a revolutionary war against capitalism and imperialism to establish socialism. In this war, the role of proletarian class has a great importance. Besides, it is necessary to base such struggle or movement on the policy of a broad united front. Furthermore, it is essential to advance anti-imperialism and anti-expansionism struggle by grounding it on the revolutionary principle and a broader united front at both national and international level.