61.2 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা সংগ্রামের সঙ্গে ফোর্থ ইন্টারন্যাশনাল-এর ১৮ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ সংহতি প্রকাশ : ফোর্থ ইন্টারন্যাশনাল’- বিজ্ঞপ্তি এর ঘোষণাপত্র DECLARATION OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ON THE STRUGGLE IN BENGAL As the Pakistani armies continue their effort to crush the independence movement of the people of Eastern Bengal, it becomes clear that the Yahya military clique failed to secure the quick victory it sought. Despite the brutalities and the mass killings, it has been unable to terrorise the Bengali people into submission. Incensed by the wholesale slaughter of unarmed people, the Bengali masses are certain to continue their resistance against the colonial regime ruling their country. But the whole question of revolutionary leadership and revolutionary strategy is posed with the utmost sharpness. The Bengali people are united as never in the past, However their current leadership is completely inadequate. Far from preparing the workers and peasants for the decisive prolonged struggle for independence. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman did all in his power to arrive at a compromise with Yahya Khan. The Awami League opposed independence and set its sights instead on autonomy. Mujibur engaged in discussions with Yahya Khan while the dictator placed his military forces in position. The Mujibur leadership now flounders and hopes for help from the United Nation and the international bourgeoisie, starting with the Indian capitalists. Its real line was clearly expressed in Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's declaration to the Agence France Press: "Is the West Pakistan government not aware that I am the only one able to save East Pakistan from communism? If they take the decision to fight I shall be pushed out of power and the Naxalites will intervene in my name. If I make too many concessions, I shall lose my authority I am in a very difficult position." (Le Monde, March 31, 1971) The Fourth International, while declaring its complete, solidarity with the struggle of the Bengali masses against national oppression reaffirms its view that the development of a revolutionary leadership is essential to win the struggle. This victory will only be achieved by the Bengali workers, peasants and students organized and led by a revolutionary proletarian leadership. This party will have the task of continuing the revolutionary struggle by all means necessary and thus begin the task of smashing the old structures of the Bengali countryside and cities and laying the basis to establish a workers and peasants government, which will start building a socialist society. This task can only be impeded by any intervention of the India bourgeoisie; which is interested only in preserving the status quo and preventing the struggle in Bangladesh from overflowing into West Bengal. The Fourth International is opposed to intervention by the Indian bourgeoisie which would be designed to hinder the development of the Bengali struggle rather than to help it. Once more the counter revolutionary nature of Indira Gandhi's
