Indian workers and students speak out against imperialist war drive
By
our correspondents
26 August 2017
Indian supporters of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), campaigning for their public meeting in Chennai on August 27 spoke to workers in the Sriperambudur Special Economic Zone (SEZ), 40 kilometres from the city, and students from Madras University.
The meeting will discuss US imperialism’s war drive against China and the need to build a united anti-war movement of working class around the world based on international socialism as the only way to prevent war.
Under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has been transformed into a front-line state in the US military-strategic offensive against China. India’s increasing involvement in the US-led military build-up against China is carried out behind the backs of the working class and poor.
The so-called “left” in India, including the Stalinist Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM, is covering up the war danger posed by Washington’s reckless drive for global hegemony.
The military stand-off between India and China on the Doklam Plateau, a disputed territory between Bhutan and China, enters its 11th week. The confrontation threatens a war involving nuclear-armed rivals with potentially deadly consequences for billions of working people in Asia.
Madan, an apprentice worker from the Hyundai plant in the Sriperambudur SEZ, told the WSWS: “I can see a war is coming and that war may become a world war. Yes, as you say, America has been waging a war globally for the past 25 years. This has created a large number of refugees. I was terrified to see in the media that a dead child was found on the sea shore. America has been waging war under Obama and now under Trump…