KARACHI: Stiff resistance against globalisation pledged
KARACHI, April 23: Speakers at the anti-globalization conference held here on Sunday described globalization as an agenda of imperialism to capture the natural resources of under-developed states, and its repercussion would emerge in a threat to such states’ geographical freedom and national identity.
The conference was organized by Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) at the PMA House and presided over by Comrade Khalid Thahim, General Secretary of the party.
Mr Thahim told the participants that globalization was actually a programme prepared by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to help multinational companies increase their profits by freeing the economies of different countries from the state control, forced implementation of privatization under the policy of liberalism, reduction in wages, forced retirements and downsizing, etc. He said this programme was bound to deprive people of their basic human rights and social securities.
He observed that privatization in Pakistan was a fraction of the globalization programme. “Rulers of Pakistan can be stopped from following this agenda only the entire working class in the country gets together in the fight against the monopoly of capitalism.”
He was of the view that the US-India nuclear deal was a hint towards a new imperialist war in the region. He said Washington was suffering a deficit of $9 trillion, and as a remedial measure, it was seeking another war, because imperialism means battle.
“It is not only Iraq that is facing a US military action, but the whole world is under the US guns. The issues of fundamentalism and nationalism are being used as pretext to impose a war.”
Similarly, he added, with a view to take over the oil and gas reserves in Balochistan, a hidden war had been resorted to.
Syed Zubair Rehman, organizer of Pakistan Socialist Movement, Karachi, said that the world was never under such a big attack from capitalism like it was in this age. The per capita income in approximately two-third of the world’s population is less than two dollars, while 40.5 million people in the US alone lived under the poverty line. He said that the war of exploitation had been extended to each and every corner of world by the capitalism.
Badshah Gul of the Pakistan Awami Party said that imperialism had posed a challenge to the followers of Communism. “We ought to be very clear about what we believe in. Under the patronage of imperialist rulers, feudal lords have been running their private jails for poor farmers.”
He urged all leftist parties to chalk out a new line of action against capitalism and imperialism.
Comrade Babar Latif stressed that communist leaders should restart visiting shantytowns and slums to create awareness in working class and poor peasants.
Chief guest of the conference Kawish Rizvi urged all labour and other workers to get united and join in the struggle to get rid of globalization.
Rauf Korai of the Sindh Committee said that the fight against globalization could be won only by eliminating fundamentalism and feudalism from the country.
Bacha Gul of the PAP, Sindh, Nadeem Subtain, Aslam Bungalzai, Comrade Anwar Khan and Ghulam Nabi Sheikh also addressed the conference.—PPI
