2016: Threats, Challenges, Tasks & Prospects

By Surendra Ajit Rupasinghe –January 1, 2016

Surendra Ajit Rupasinghe

The year 2016 would undoubtedly bear formidable threats, bold new challenges and present new tasks of great historical and national importance. The need for this article is to try to penetrate the outer veil of appearance and illusion and the inner veils of self-delusion that blind us, so that we may grasp reality head-on, in the light of the momentous times we live in, and prepare to act on it. This is so we may grasp both the glorious prospects for human emancipation that lie on the horizon, but to be accomplished by overcoming the truly mortal dangers and challenges we confront. This is in the context of the very real existential threat being posed to the future of Planet Earth and all Humankind, including the Land and the People of Lanka. I shall elaborate as we go on.

The whole world order is shaking under the impact of a generalized, systemic economic crisis and wracked by volcanic political explosions. These include the wholesale bankruptcy and collapse of national economies, catastrophic destruction, mass human dislocation and unthinkable humanitarian disasters creating pitiless, unending suffering, degradation and misery for tens of millions, and the escalating spread of protracted wars of aggression, occupation and genocide that spell the doom and disaster of all civilized human existence. The Land and the People of Lanka are being inexorably dragged into this vortex. Into the vortex of inter-imperialist rivalry, focused on gaining strategic superiority and advantage in the Asia-Pacific/ Indian Ocean Region. This momentum is vital to the survival of each contending power, particularly the US, China and India. The political effects shall be so consequential and fateful that we need to understand the underlying dynamics that would account for these momentous conjunctures. We should discuss and debate about their causes and effects We should analyze the major political forces at play in respect of their compelling necessities and their interests and agendas, so we get to know the game and learn how to play, in our own way. Then only that we can identify the mounting threats and historic challenges that confront the people. Only then can we define and prioritize our historic tasks.

The historic task before us is to advance the cause of liberating the Land and the People of Lanka from this tightening stranglehold of world imperialism, to be played as pawns in the ensuing struggle for world domination. We would have to work out a sound, all-round strategy, program and plan that would raise the political consciousness of the people as to the real stakes being played. We would have to unite, mobilize and organize the advanced conscious social forces desirous of achieving genuine national unity, independence, democracy and freedom. This would have to be in conjunction with uniting and mobilizing all those who suffer unending poverty, misery, violation and degradation under the system. The exploited, subjugated, and oppressed classes, masses and nationalities must be brought together in a powerful and advancing movement of mass struggle, resistance, rebellion and conscious revolution, if we are finally smash the chains of imperialist domination and neo-colonial subjugation and win our true independence, democracy and freedom.

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