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July - December 2017

Maoist Information Bulletin - 36

CENTENARY OF THE GREAT OCTOBERSOCIALIST REVOLUTION SPECIAL ISSUE

CENTENARY OF THE GREAT OCTOBERSOCIALIST REVOLUTION SPECIAL ISSUE

Editorial ..... 2On the Centenary of October Revolution ..... 5Homage to Martyrs ..... 32CC Message on the 13th Party Formation Day ..... 36CMC Message on the 17th Anniversary of the PLGA ..... 48News from the Battlefield ..... 58Voices against War on People ..... 65People’s Struggles ..... 79News from Behind the Bars ..... 90News from the Counter-revolutionary Camp ..... 98Pages from International Communist Movement ..... 103Statements of CPI(Maoist) ..... 108

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Editorial

100Years ofOctober

Revolution

This year the international proletariat is celebrating the centenaryof the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 – a world-historicevent led by Lenin and Stalin which ushered in a new epoch andchanged the course of world history forever. This is an occasion ofgreat joy for the class-conscious working masses of the world whowant to put an end to the epoch of wage-slavery and all forms ofoppression engendered by class society. For the oppressors of the worldwho want to prolong the class society, on the other hand, thecommemoration of October Revolution by the revolutionarycommunists is bound to strike as a bad omen, reminding them oftheir grave-diggers and the day of their inevitable doom. After all, itwas through this Revolution that the toiling workers and peasants ofTsarist Russia overthrew the reactionary rule of the capitalist classfor the first time in history and established proletarian dictatorshipover it, ensuring proletarian democracy for the vast working massesof towns and the country. It liberated the oppressed nationalities thatwere imprisoned within the Tsarist Russian state, thereby establishingrelations among nationalities based on equality and internationalism.

October Revolution for the first time successfully breached theworld imperialist system and liberated a hundred million people andone-sixth of the world’s landmass from the yoke of the capitalistsand landlords. It established the first base for the world socialistrevolution and opened the path of liberation for not only the capitalistcountries of the West but also of the colonial, semi-colonial andoppressed countries of the East. The proletariat, thereby, announcedfor the first time its arrival on the scene of history as a victoriouspower, inaugurating a new era in world history – the era ofimperialism and proletarian revolutions. By ideologically, politically

Hold high the invincible red banner ofthe Great October Socialist Revolution!

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and militarily defeating the ruling classes ofnot only Tsarist Russia but the alliance offourteen imperialist powers, the victoriousOctober Revolution demonstrated that that thearmed proletariat led by the Communist Partyand in alliance with the democratic classes cannot only destroy the old state the reactionaryclasses and defend the Soviet state but can alsobuild a new society by using this new statepower. The name of October Revolution willremain etched in history forever as the firstvictorious proletarian revolution, the startingpoint for building socialism and a worldsocialist system.

October Revolution laid bare thebankruptcy of the Second International andsounded its death-knell while laying down thefoundations for the establishment of the ThirdInternational (the Communist International orComintern) and its worldwide influence. It laidbare the Social-Democratic parties as agentsof the bourgeoisie in the working-classmovement and prepared the ground for theformation of Communist Parties based onLeninist principles in a large number ofcountries throughout the world. These newParties began spearheading communistmovements in their respective countries under

the guidance of the Comintern and ledvictorious revolutions of their own in countrieslike China, thereby giving rise to a worldwidesocialist camp confronting the worldwideimperialist camp. A world socialist systemstarted to take shape under the leadership ofthe Soviet Union in contrast to the worldcapitalist system led by the imperialist powers.

October Revolution established thesupremacy of Marxism over all other formsof socialist ideology fighting for hegemony inthe working class movement. It proved inpractice that Marxism is no utopian socialismbut is the only scientific socialism capable ofguiding the proletariat to victory over thebourgeoisie in the revolutionary class struggle.It demonstrated the transient nature ofcapitalism and showed that it must inevitablygive way to communism, which was no fonddream of idle revolutionaries but the future ofthe human race. It marked the developmentof the proletarian ideology of Marxism to anew and higher stage of Marxism-Leninism,which came to be accepted by all genuinecommunists as the Marxism of the present eraof imperialism and proletarian revolutions. Itshowed the superiority of Marxism-Leninism

Centenary of the Great October Revolution celebrations in a guerrilla zone in Bihar-Jharkhand


over all sorts of revisionism, reformism andother bourgeois ideologies peddled by theSocial-Democratic Parties and pseudo-Marxists of the world to hoodwink theproletariat. It was ideological foundation onwhich the proletarian ideology developed tothe present stage of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism which is the guiding light for theCommunist Parties of the world that areleading genuine proletarian revolutionarymovements in the various countries of theworld today.

October Revolution fired the cannon-shotsthat brought communism to colonial andsemi-colonial countries like China and India.Communist Party of India (CPI) was formedin the backdrop of October Revolution andinspired by Soviet power. It is another matterthat CPI followed an incorrect ideological-political line from its very inception and couldnot make use of the correct guidance providedby the Comintern due to its entrenchedrevisionism and servile tailing of theCommunist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).Unlike the Communist Party of China underMao’s leadership, CPI could never establishleadership in the country’s anti-colonial andnational-democratic movement and allowedthe pro-imperialist feudal-comprador classesto lead this movement by playing the secondfiddle. It is this revisionist line – which wastotally against the spirit of Marxism-Leninismand the October Revolution – that led CPI tothe parliamentary quagmire after the transferof power in 1947, when the country gottransformed from a colonial and semi-feudalcountry to a semi-colonial and semi-feudalcountry. It was left to the genuine communistrevolutionaries led by Comrades CharuMajumdar and Kanhai Chatterjee to break thespell of revisionism in the Indian communistmovement and to uphold the teachings ofOctober Revolution and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism for the first time in the country, whichprepared the ground for the outbreak ofhistoric Naxalbari and the formation of aLeninist Party which reflected the true spiritof Bolshevism.

In the last half a century since Naxalbariarmed agrarian revolutionary uprising,communist revolutionaries of India have keptthe invincible banner of the Great OctoberSocialist Revolution flying in the country bycarrying on the protracted people’s war tocomplete the democratic revolution and pavethe way for the transition to socialism andcommunism. It has achieved great successesin this tortuous course, one of the mostimportant being the formation of CPI(Maoist)as the single centre of the countrywiderevolutionary movement. This Party – agenuine detachment of the internationalproletariat – is resolutely advancing on therevolutionary road as the inheritor andstandard-bearer of the great OctoberRevolution, thereby becoming the beacon-lightfor the 1.3 billion people of this vast country.

In a sense, the present conditions of theworld are just like on the eve of the OctoberRevolution, when there is no socialist base orcamp to rely on in order to make a breach inthe world imperialist front. The proletariat ofwhich country will make this fresh breach asonce did by the October Revolution, andwhether this role will befall on the proletariatof India, the future alone can tell. But whateverinternational role history assigns it, there is nodoubt that led by CPI(Maoist), the country’sproletariat will fight soldier to soldier on thefrontline with the proletariat of all countriesand nations in a true internationalist spiritagainst imperialism and the reactionaryclasses, thereby advancing the banner of theOctober Revolution and Marxism-Leninismto complete the revolution in India and toestablish socialism and communism on a worldscale. Taking lessons from all proletarianrevolutions of the past including the OctoberRevolution and from the revolutionarymovement of our own country, it will certainlyovercome all hurdles on its path and emergevictorious through traversing a zigzag path.A pledge to immerse ourselves in this greatstruggle will be the true commemoration of thecentenary of the Great October SocialistRevolution.


It is well-known that 7 November 1917was the day of victory of the Great OctoberSocialist Revolution. This day has emerged assuch a day for the workers, peasants and thetoiling masses of Russia and the world inwhich they celebrate it as another step forwardon the path of liberation from classexploitation and class oppression and takepledge. If we say this even more clearly, it canbe said that they see the Russian Revolutionas a victory which is like a milestone in thepath of liberation from the limitlessexploitation and extreme oppression ofcapitalism. Truly, when classes emerged insociety and class struggle ensued, it is well-known that there was slave revolt against theslaveholders in slave society and bourgeoisrevolution against the feudal society andlandlords. However, be it slave revolt or peasantrevolt or bourgeois revolution – through themcertainly there were changes in social systems,but merely one kind of exploitative system

Uphold forever the universal truth inherent in theOctober Revolution on the occasion of the centenary ofthe Great October Socialist Revolution and apply it inpractice according to the specificities of our country!

took the place of another kind of exploitativesystem. No matter how much revolutionarychange came in their form, all of them inessence were exploitative systems. Therefore,it can be said that October Socialist Revolutionis the first revolution in which the politicalpower of the old exploitative ruling classes wasoverthrown and the rule of the proletariat andthat of the workers-peasants-toiling masseswas established. That is why, it has beendescribed as a milestone or a hallmark or aspecial event with tremendous qualitativeparticularity in the history of class struggle, etc.Comrade Mao had said, “The OctoberSocialist Revolution ushered in a new epochin world history as well as in Russian history”(Mao, ‘On Contradiction’). In a speech givenon the occasion of the fortieth anniversary ofthe Great October Socialist Revolution(November 1957), Comrade Mao said, “As ourrevolutionary teacher Lenin pointed out timeand again, the great revolution carried out by

We are presenting here an article written by the Central Committee of the CPI(Maoist) on theoccasion of the centenary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in 1917, an earth-shakingevent that inaugurated a new era in human history and changed its course forever. The articlewas first published in No.13 of the Central Committee’s theoretical organ People’s War - MIB

Special Article by the Central Committee, CPI(Maoist)

100Years ofOctober

Revolution


the Soviet people forty years ago initiated anew epoch in world history. Historically therehave been revolutions of many kinds, but noneto compare with the October SocialistRevolution. For thousands of years theworking people of the world and allprogressive humanity have dreamed ofbuilding a society in which there would be noexploitation of man by man, this dream wasrealized on one-sixth of the earth’s land surfacefor the first time in history by the OctoberRevolution.”

Marx and Engels for the first time talkedabout the destruction of capitalism and theestablishment of socialism through TheCommunist Manifesto

The common people including theworkers-peasants-toiling masses of the worldare aware that it was Marx who for the firsttime brought forward the theory that it isinevitable for socialism to get established bydestroying capitalism. As we find in theManifesto of the Communist Party, “What thebourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, areits own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victoryof the proletariat are equally inevitable”[Marx-Engels, The Manifesto of the CommunistParty].

This historical theory was brought beforethe world by Marx and Engels. However, tobe able to apply this theory in practice, i.e., tomake proletarian power victorious byoverthrowing the authority of bourgeoispower, one had to wait till 1917. However, theproletariat fought heroically in the ParisCommune of 1871. However, it had to sufferdefeat due to the armed repression of thecapitalist class.

In fact, the historic theory of Marx-Engelscan be called practically as proletarian theory.Proletarian revolution is the greatest revolutionin human history and it establishes collectiveproperty in the place of private property, andeliminates all exploitative systems and allexploitative classes. This is very natural thatthis kind of an earth-shaking revolution hasto go through serious and intense class strugglewhich inevitably has to complete a path withtwist and turns and it has to face failures inplaces.

Comrade Lenin too had said once, “If weget down to brass tacks, however, has it everhappened in history that a new mode ofproduction has taken root immediately,without a long succession of setbacks, blundersand relapses?” (Lenin, ‘A Great Beginning’)

The history of the Russian Revolutionwent through three revolutions with twists andturns and ups and downs

It is well known that the SocialistRevolution was successful on 7 Novemberunder the leadership of the Communist Partyof Soviet Union (Bolshevik) that was directlyconducted under the great Lenin and Stalin(October according to the Russian calendar).However, this socialist revolution could notsucceed in one blow or attempt. In fact, theSocialist Revolution was successful only bygoing through three revolutions in 1917. Thesethree revolutions were: the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1905, the bourgeois-democratic revolution of February 1917 andthe socialist revolution of October (nowNovember) 1917.

However, the first Russian revolution of1905 ended in defeat. It is very important tounderstand the reasons for which this defeatwas suffered. Because we too are facing upsand downs, setbacks, etc. in the present phaseof the Indian revolution. Be it as it may, thereasons which were brought forward by theCommunist Party of Soviet Union (Bolshevik)after reviewing the main reasons for the defeatof the first Russian Revolution are briefly:

1. The concrete help of all the workers andpeasants were not yet received for therevolution against the Tsarist autocracy.

2. Quite a big section of the peasantry was notwilling to assist the workers to end the Tsaristautocracy. Its impact also fell on the practiceof the army. Most in the army were sons ofpeasants in uniform. Disaffection and revolterupted in many squads of the army, but evennow most of the soldiers assisted the Tsar insuppressing the strikes and revolts.

3. The actions of the workers too were notorganised enough. They started to take part


more actively in 1906, but by that time thevanguard of the working class had becomequite weak.

4. The working class was the first and the mainforce of revolution. But there was lack ofsufficient unity and determination in the ranksof the party of the proletariat. The party ofthe proletariat – the Russian Social DemocraticLabour Party (RSDLP) – was divided into twogroups – Bolshevik and Menshevik. TheBolsheviks used to tread the path of organisedrevolutionary line. They called upon theworkers to end the Tsarist autocracy. TheMensheviks put hurdles in the revolutionthrough their compromising tactics, theycreated confusion among a large number ofworkers and put hurdles for the working class.That is why, the workers did not always workin a united manner. Because there was no unityin their own ranks, the proletariat could notbecome the true leaders of the revolution.

5. The Tsarist autocracy got the help ofimperialists of Western Europe to suppress therevolution in 1905.

6. The Tsar got much help after the agreementwith Japan in September 1905. The Tsar’s feetbecame strengthened due to the agreement.

Now let us have a look at the secondrevolution. The second revolution took placein February 1917. The Tsarist autocracy cameto an end through this and Soviets of Workers’and Soldiers’ Deputies and also provisionalgovernments were formed along with this andduel power came into existence. In this waythe bourgeois-democratic revolution ofFebruary was victorious. The CommunistParty of Soviet Union (Bolshevik) showed that“The revolution was victorious because theproletariat was its vanguard. The proletariatled the movement of lakhs of peasants inuniform demanding “Peace, bread andfreedom”. The firm leadership of theproletariat ensured the victory of therevolution.”

Comrade Lenin wrote in the early daysof the revolution, “The workers conducted therevolution. The workers showed heroism; they

carried the toiling and poor masses along withthem.”

The first revolution of 1905 paved the wayfor the immediate success of the secondrevolution of February 1917.

Comrade Lenin wrote, “The Soviets wereformed in the three years of 1905-1907. Thevictorious revolution received the basis ofsupport of the Soviets of Workers’ andSoldiers’ Deputies. The workers and soldiersthat revolted formed Soviets of Workers’ andSoldiers’ Deputies. The revolution of 1905showed that Soviets were the instruments ofarmed rebellion, and at the same time the seedsof new revolutionary power. The talk ofSoviets remained alive among the commonworking masses, while Soviets of Workers’and Soldiers’ Deputies in February 1917 underthe initiative of the Bolsheviks.”

However, Socialist-Revolutionary andMenshevik leaders of the executive committeeof the Soviets handed over power to thecapitalists. Nevertheless, when the workers’and peasants’ deputies came to know of it,then the majority of them, in spite of theopposition of the Bolsheviks, they passed theworks of the Socialist-Revolutionaries.

In this way, a new political power emergedin Russia, in which, in Lenin’s words,“capitalists and landlords who becamecapitalists” participated.

However, along with capitalist rule,another power was in existence: the Soviet ofthe Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. Most ofthe soldiers’ deputies in the Soviets werepeasants, who were recruited for war. Sovietsof Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies wereorganisations against Tsarist autocracy and atthe same time the organs of the dictatorshipof the workers and peasants.

The result was that two powers, twodictatorships were intertwined in a surprisingway: the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, therepresentative of which was the provisionalgovernment and the dictatorship of theworkers and peasants, the representative ofwhich was the Soviets of Workers’ andSoldiers’ Deputies.

The result of it was dual power.


Now let us take a look at the third or theOctober Socialist Revolution. First we shouldremember that the First World War continuedfrom 1914 to 1918 and the October SocialistRevolution was victorious in October (nowNovember) 1917.

The process through which OctoberSocialist Revolution was successful, it can besaid that Lenin delivered a speech in the nightof 3 April 1917 in which he called upon thecommon masses to fight for the victory of thesocialist revolution. Lenin finished this speechof his with the words, “Long live the socialistrevolution”. In this period itself Leninpresented a report on the subject of war andrevolution in a meeting of the Bolsheviks andthereafter repeated the theoretical premises ofhis thesis. This was the famous April Thesisof Lenin, which gave a clear revolutionarypolicy to the Party and the proletariat toadvance from the bourgeois revolutiontowards the socialist revolution.

From October 1917 to February 1918 theSoviet revolution spread so fast in the vastprovinces of the country that Comrade Lenincalled it the victory march of Soviet power.

The great October Socialist Revolutionemerged victorious

There were many reasons for the relativelyeasy victory of the socialist revolution inRussia. The following reasons given below areworth paying attention to:

1. The enemy of the October Revolution – theRussian bourgeoisie – was relatively very weak,unorganised and politically inexperienced.Russian capitalists were economically weakand were completely dependent on governmentcontracts. It did not have such political self-reliance and initiative that it can find a wayout from the situation. For example, they didnot have experience like the French bourgeoisiein political groupism and political deceptionnor did they have the training like the Britishcapitalists to conduct clever compromises thatwere broadly well thought out. The FebruaryRevolution had overthrown the rule of the

Tsar and power came into the hands of thebourgeoisie on its own but it had no otheroption other than to fundamentally follow thehated policy of the Tsar. Just like the Tsar, hesupported “war to the finish”, even though itwas beyond the capacity of the country tocontinue the war and the masses as well as thearmy – both were badly crushed by the war.Like the Tsar in totality it was also in favourof retaining the big landed estates, even thoughthe peasants were dying due to lack of landand the burden of the landlords. As far as theirpolicy towards the workers was concerned,they even surpassed the Tsar in hating theworking class. They tried to maintain andstrengthen the dominance of the factory-owners; in fact they made the lives of theworkers unbearable by conducting lock-outs ona large scale.

It is no surprise that the masses did not see anyfundamental difference between the policies ofthe Tsar and the capitalists, and the samehatred that it had for the Tsar that became forthe provisional government as well.

As long as there was some influence of theSocialist-Revolutionaries and Menshevikparties, the capitalists could use this as a screenand maintain their political power. But whenthe Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries made it clear that they are theagents of the imperialist bourgeoisie and in thisway they lost their influence on the masses, thenthere was no one to help their provisionalgovernment.

2. The October Revolution was led by arevolutionary class like the proletariat. It wassuch a class which was steeled in the furnaceof struggle, which passed through tworevolutions in a short period and wasconsidered to be the heroes of the masses inthe struggle for peace, land, freedom andsocialism. If the vanguard of the revolutionwas not like the working class of Russia, aleader which earned the trust of the masses,then there would have been no alliance betweenworkers and peasants and the victory of therevolution would have been impossiblewithout such an alliance.


3. The working class of Russia got a firm allyin the revolution like the poor peasants, whichwas the vast majority of the peasant masses.The alliance of the proletariat and thepeasantry got strengthened. When this allianceof the working class and the poor peasants gotestablished, the role of the middle peasantsbecame clear. These middle peasants werevacillating for a long time and they came overcompletely to the side of the revolution onlybefore the beginning of the Octoberinsurrection and they established relations withthe poor peasants. It need not be said that theOctober Revolution would not have beensuccessful without this alliance.

4. The proletariat was led by a party like theBolshevik Party which was tempered and testedin political struggles. The Bolshevik Party wassuch a courageous party that it could giveleadership to the masses in the decisive attack.General democratic movement for peace, thedemocratic movement of the peasants to seizethe estate lands, the struggle of oppressednationalities for national independence andnational equality, the socialist movement of theproletariat for the overthrow of the power ofthe bourgeoisie and the establishment ofproletarian dictatorship – all of these can bebrought together in one revolutionary streamby this kind of a party alone. There is no doubtthat the fate of capitalism in Russia was sealedwith the various streams of movementsuniting in one general powerful revolutionarystream.

5. October Revolution started at such a timewhen the imperialist war was intense, when themain capitalist countries were divided into twoopposition camps and when due to gettingbusy in mutual war and busy in cutting theroots of one another, they could not powerfullyintervene in the ‘Russian affairs’ and could notactively oppose the October Revolution.

October Socialist Revolution achievedproletarian dictatorship and the work of thevast country was handed over to the workingclass. In this way it was made the ruling class.

In this way, the October socialistrevolution began a new era in the history ofhumanity – the era of proletarian revolutions.

The historical lessons of the Russianrevolution

These are two-three things related to thehistoric lessons of Russian revolution:

(1) The victory of proletarian revolution andthe proletarian dictatorship is impossiblewithout a proletarian revolutionary party.Only a new type of Party – a Marxist-Leninistparty (now Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party),the party of social revolution, the one whichcan prepare the proletariat for the decisivebattle against the capitalists and the one whichcan organise the victory of the proletarianrevolution can be such a party.

(2) The working class cannot fulfil the role ofthe class leader till the time it cannot becomeexpert in the advanced theory of the workingclass movement (the present Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory).

Marxist-Leninist theory is the science of thedevelopment of society, the science of themovement of workers-peasants and the toilingmasses. Marxist-Leninist theory is notdogmatism, but guide to action.

(3) The Party cannot fulfil the vanguard roleof the working class if it becomes arrogant withsuccess, it does not see any faults in its work, isafraid to accept its mistakes and correctingthem honestly in time. The Party becomesinvincible if it is not afraid of undertakingcriticism and self-criticism, if it educates itsactivists by taking lessons from the mistakesin its work. If it does not know how to correctits mistakes in time, till the time when the partyof the proletariat does not relentlessly carry onsharp struggle against the opportunists thatcrop up in its own ranks, till the time it fightsagainst those who wish to surrender that comeup in its ranks, till that time it cannot maintainunity and discipline within its ranks. In reality,the history of the development of the internallife of the Party is the history of struggleagainst the economists, Mensheviks,Trotskyites and Bukharinists.

(4) (a) Before Russian revolution the ParisCommune of 1871 was a model in front ofComrade Lenin which became victorious by


seizing the cities. Taking lesson from thatexperience Comrade Lenin adopted the pathof insurrection as the path of RussianRevolution.

(b) So it can be said that the Russian Revolutionsucceeded through insurrection. It means firstcapturing the enemy headquarters in the citiesand then capturing the villages (rural areas).

But after the demise of the great leadersof Russian Revolution – first Comrade Leninand then Comrade Stalin Russian revolutiontoo could not last which is a very sad event forthe international proletariat. The reasons areas follows:

It is known that great Lenin was martyredon 21 January 1924. After his demise theresponsibility of advancing socialism inRussia came down to the shoulders ofComrade Stalin which the able leadership ofComrade Stalin fulfilled appropriately, eventhough there was no experience of socialistconstruction before Comrade Stalin. They notonly advanced the work of socialistconstruction in Russia, but it led the worldsocialist and communist movement. In theleadership of Comrade Stalin the Russian RedArmy’s unprecedented heroic counter-attackbadly defeated Hitler in the Second World Warwho was the ringleader of the extreme fascistforces and all the fascist forces were smashed.But the die-hard revisionist and traitorKhruschev clique which was hidden within theParty seized the party and political power on1 March 1953 after the death of ComradeStalin and first restored capitalism and latertransformed Russian socialism to social-imperialism. In this way, a new experience waspresented to the world proletariat, oppressednationalities and the masses. Great Mao tooklesson from this and advanced socialism inChina. By taking lessons from the mistakes andlimitations that were there in socialistconstruction in Russia and by continuing theGreat Proletarian Cultural Revolution, theproletarian dictatorship was made strongerwhile the traitorous revisionist and capitalistroaders were thrown out of the Party. But inthe leadership of Deng clique – the traitor tosocialism – captured power and the Party afterthe death of Comrade Mao on 9 September

1976 and China was first transformed intocapitalism and now into imperialism. In thisway, the fall of socialist China after the fall ofRussia emerged as another negative examplebefore the world proletariat and the oppressedmasses. Now there is no existence of socialistsystem in any country of the world and thetask of advancing and consolidating thesocialist revolutions by taking lessons fromthese two negative examples is on the shouldersof the true communists. To correctly carry outthis important task the communists of theworld will have to prepare themselves and thatis why they will have to deeply study andimplement the policies formulated by greatMao to consolidate socialism in China.Everything will have to be prepared to takeforward the victory of socialism in the correctdirection.

Internalise the universal significance of theOctober socialist revolution

Very briefly, the following are thesignificance of the October SocialistRevolution:

(a) It is well known that after the emergence ofclass society, the entire history of socialdevelopment in the whole world has been thehistory of class struggles. Great OctoberSocialist Revolution is an epoch-making eventwithin this history. Why is it an epoch-makingevent? Because through the October socialistrevolution a clear demarcation line was madewith all the previous rebellions and revolutions.For instance, all the rebellions and revolutionsthat have taken place before the Russianrevolution in human history, according to greatMao, were all part of the old bourgeoisdemocratic revolution, the main purpose ofwhich were to establish bourgeois or capitalistsociety under the leadership of the bourgeoisie,and in their own class interest to establishbourgeois or capitalist society by smashing thefeudal system through bourgeois revolution inan armed way. But it saw that the workers andpeasants did not remain silent after theestablishment of capitalist society. Instead, itoverthrew the bourgeois or capitalist class in1917 through socialist revolution andestablished working class rule. Terrorised by


this, the bourgeois class never unfurled the flagof bourgeois revolution after 1917. This meansthat the bourgeoisie no longer undertook theresponsibility of bourgeois revolution. Now,or after 1917, the responsibility of puttingfeudalism into the grave came to the shouldersof the working class. Comrade Mao definedit as national and democratic revolution or newdemocratic revolution; and all the revolutionsthat have taken place or are taking place afterthe great Russian revolution, all of them havebecome part of world socialist revolutionunder the leadership of the proletariat. Thereare two streams of world proletarianrevolution, first is the socialist revolution andsecond is the new democratic revolution. Themain aim of socialist revolution is the socialistsociety under the dictatorship of the proletariatand the main aim of new democraticrevolution is to establish a new democraticsociety under the democratic dictatorship of90 percent people led by the proletariat; andlater to establish socialist society under theleadership of the proletariat by advancing thenew democratic revolution.

(b) The main thing in revolution is to capturestate power which is very important. Weshould never forget this.

The Chinese revolution took place as anintegral part of the continuation of Russianrevolution and the Indian revolution iscontinuing as a continuation of the Russianand Chinese revolutions

We know that in the age of imperialismby taking the essence of the socialist revolutionsMao talked about the specificities of Chine andrevolutionary wars, “seizing political powerthrough armed force, to resolve the issuethrough war, is the central task and the highestform of revolution. This Marxist-Leninistprinciple of revolution is applicableeverywhere; it is applicable to China and allother countries.

But even if there is only one principle,when the proletarian party applies it, then itadopts different forms of manifestation indifferent situations. Capitalist countries, whenthey are not fascist or when they are notinvolved in war then they implement bourgeois

democracy in the country; in their foreignrelations they do not fall prey to the oppressionof other nations but they themselves oppressother nations. Because of these specificities, itis becomes the responsibility of the party ofthe proletariat that they educate the workersthrough long-term legal struggle and save itsenergy and prepare for completelyoverthrowing the rule of capitalism. The issuein those countries is that legal struggle isconducted for a long time, parliament is usedas a forum, economic and political strikes areconducted, trade unions are organised andworkers are educated. The form oforganisation in those countries is legal and theform of struggle without bloodshed(unarmed). About the issue of war, thecommunist parties of the capitalist countriesoppose the imperialist wars waged by theirown countries, if this kind of a war is initiatedthen the policy of these communist parties issuch that are helpful in defeating thereactionary governments in their countries.The wars that they want to wage are civil warsfor which they are preparing. But this war andinsurrection should not be abandoned till thetime the capitalist class does not actuallybecome helpless, till the time the majority ofthe proletariat is not ready to revolt and wagewar, and till the time the peasant masses donot voluntarily help the proletariat. And whenthe time for such a revolt and war comes, thenthe first step will be such that the cities areseized first and then moved towards the ruralareas, not to do the reverse. The communistparties of the capitalist countries have done thesame, and the October Revolution of Russiatoo has proved this to be correct.

“But China is a different kind of country.The peculiarity of China is that it is not anindependent democratic country but is a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country; internallythere is a lack of democracy in China and ithas been a prey of feudal oppression, and inits foreign relations there is a lack of nationalunity and it is a victim of imperialistoppression. In this way, there is neither aparliament to be used here, nor is there anylegal right to organise the workers in strikes.Fundamentally, here it is neither the workbefore the communist party that before starting


insurrection or war it has to go through aprolonged period of legal struggles, nor is itthat first the cities be seized and then thecountryside is captured. The task that is beforeit is completely opposite.” (Quotations fromMao’s article named ‘Problems of War andStrategy’). In this way, only through protractedpeople’s war could Chinese revolution besuccessful under the leadership of great Mao.

Experience showed that the great OctoberSocialist Revolution was the inevitable resultof the people’s struggles of the people’srevolutionary struggles and the great Chineserevolution was in continuation of this process.Now our Indian revolution too is an integralpart of the international proletariat and therevolutionary struggles of the people.Therefore, the central task of Indian revolutiontoo is capture political power through armedforce. It is extremely important for the partyof the proletariat or the communist party tooto study the experiences of the world socialistrevolution, particularly the experiences of thetwo great revolutions of Russia and China.

Since India is a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country, therefore the method that willhave to be adopted here for revolution is “Ifany country is either directly or indirectly ruledby any imperialist country or countries and issuch a semi-feudal state where the masses haveno freedom or democratic rights, there theparty of the proletariat arouses and mobilisesthe masses from the very beginning. Thepeasantry remains the main force ofrevolution, the revolution makes the backwardareas the centre of their main work, buildspeople’s army and people’s militia, establishesdependable, strong and self-reliant liberatedareas in the vast countryside, expands themcontinually during the stage of the protractedpeople’s war and by delivering devastatingblow on the political power of the counter-revolutionaries they surround the cities andcaptures them finally and establishes politicalpower and state system in the whole of thecountry.”

In the background of the various kinds ofrevisionist lines and programmes continuingin India for a long time, it is very importantfor us to have a correct perspective and aprogramme according to it on the

parliamentary elections. We should deeplyinternalise the essence of the part of theStrategy and Tactics document and prepare theslogans and programmes according to it. Weshould remember that the question ofparticipating or boycotting elections certainlyrelates to tactics. But after the emergence ofKhruschev revisionism, when theparliamentary path and participation inelections became the strategy of modernrevisionism, then by keeping this in mind wecannot simply ignore it as a tactical issue. Alongwith this, “The party has got confined to a smallarea of hills and forests”, “In many places andstates the capitalist production system hasbecome predominant,” “there is illusionsamong the masses about the parliamentarysystem” – arguments like these are baseless andthese have nothing to do with the concreteground realities.”

In our country “the historic experience sofar proved only this that those who have takenpart in elections most of them have eitherbecome revisionists or they diverted therevolutionary armed struggle into legal andpeaceful paths. Therefore, we can say as theconclusion that whereas the question of theboycott of elections is a tactical question, butin the concrete conditions of India it acquiresthe importance of strategy because theparticipation in elections do not at all matchwith the strategy of protracted people’s war.

Thus, to call it very briefly, we will certainlyhave to be firm on the path of armed agrarianrevolution and protracted people’s war to makesuccessful the new democratic revolution inIndia.

Take pledge on the centenary of the Russianrevolution to make successful the Indian newdemocratic revolution, be firm on ourimmediate, main and central task

There are two ways to commemorate thecentenary of Russian revolution – one is thepetty-bourgeois revisionist method and theother is the revolutionary method. Themeaning of the revisionist method is to singpienes to Comrades Lenin and Stalin just as ashow, to make long speeches but notimplementing in practice. And the meaning of


the revolutionary method is not just a show,but to take pledge to advance it through thesignificance of the Russian revolution or thetask of seizing power through revolution. Thatis why we should certainly strongly opposerevisionist methods and will have to celebratethe centenary of Russian revolution accordingto revolutionary traditions.

On the occasion of the centenarycelebrations of the Russian revolution weshould take pledge that the present challengesof the Indian revolution to build a newdemocratic India by courageously facing everyfascist policy and activity of the Modigovernment and to make all effort to establishsocialism-communism.

It is obvious that three years have gone byof Narendra Modi’s fascist BrahmanicalHindutva RSS-BJP occupying power at thecentre. What has been counted as theachievements of the Modi government oneafter the other through government andcorporate-controlled propaganda media likeradio, TV, magazines-newspapers, etc. havebeen widely propagated. They are not tiringin saying that there is no poverty in India now,there is no dearth of jobs, equality has comewith the removal of all want. Through themanipulation of statistics, they are showinggreat increase in Gross Domestic Product; theyare talking about the emergence of India as thefastest growing economy in the world. Theyare saying that there is no corruption now, blackmoney has been controlled throughdemonetisation, good days (‘acche din’) toohas come through the development of all. Theyare pretending that harassment, rape, sexualexploitation etc. have become very less. Theyare uttering white lies like decline in casteism,discrimination and the extending of all rightsto the religious minorities. They are makingfalse claims that India is developing, comingof Digital India, cash-free economy, throughslogans like ‘Make in India’, ‘manufacturinghub’, ‘Start-up India’ etc. are coming on a fastpace. India’s status has grown in theinternational level, closeness and cooperationwith the US is growing in all matters; they aretrying to develop the false understanding thatIndia too is second to none. Now only

Maoism or the Maoists are left as the biggestthreat to India’s internal security.

Nevertheless, the real picture of India istotally opposite to it. For instance, the poor isbecoming poorer, the rich is becoming richerwhile the gap between rich and poor hasbecome very large. Particularly, after Modicame to power in 2014, the property of onepercent has grown by 49 percent and became58.4 by 2016. In 2016 the richest ten percenthad a share of 80.7 percent of the country’stotal wealth. That is, the rest of the 90 percenthad only 19.3 percent wealth (Source: CreditSuisse Global Wealth Database). Modi’sannouncement that black money deposited inforeign countries will be brought back withinhundred days have not moved forward by asingle step even after 1050 days have passed,which means that its announcement has failed.

The avenues of employment havecompletely ended in the country. The rate ofinflation has also grown and price rise isgrowing every day. Modi’s slogan of ‘Make inIndia’ and ‘Manufacturing Hub’ is actually toencourage foreign direct investment and theslogan of ‘Digital India’ too is actually tocompletely digitalise the entire administrativesystem, so that their control can be maintainedand strengthened on the entire administrativesystem. Modi government has brought manyanti-worker and anti-peasant legislations, as aresult of which lakhs of workers have come tobe unemployed and peasant suicides havegrown.

Goods and Services Tax has been broughtforward by modifying the policy of indirecttax to mould the entire country as a unifiedmarket in the interest of the imperialist andcomprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie. Alongwith the false propaganda of endingcorruption, all the money available with thepeople has been deposited in the banks byending the big notes. With this, peasants, smallbusinessmen and small capitalists have been hit.Agriculture, industry and service sector hasbeen hit. The possibility is there in the comingdays of the growing attacks on all sectionsincluding the middle classes by internationalfinance capital and comprador bureaucraticcapital to benefit the imperialists and


comprador capitalists through attempts atestablishing digitalisation and cashlesseconomy.

In spite of Modi government’s tall claimsabout the development of the countryeconomically, due to the emergence of acondition of slump in the industrial andmanufacturing sectors in the country,unemployment, price rise of daily necessitiesand agrarian crisis is growing and is exposingthe hollowness of ‘development’.

To crush the social movements emergingdue to the contradictions growing in thecountry day by day, Modi government isbringing forward a large number of fascist laws.In the same way, by giving different names theHindu fascist gangs too have been formed andit is possible that unlawful and fascists attackson the masses will intensify.

The Kashmiri masses in the country havebeen deprived of all the rights and have beenforced to live the life of an imprisoned life andto live under the shadow of the guns. The formof repression is so terrifying that the mostheinous acts of tying a Kashmiri youth in frontof a jeep by the army. Cruel oppressivecampaigns are being conducted on the people’smovements of all the nationalities of northeastIndia for self-determination and thesemovements are being crushed under the ironheels. Not even the people of the media arebeing spared. Many kinds of threats andlawsuits are being imposed to crush the protestsand voices of dissent raised by them.

Moreover, incidents of mob-lynching ofMuslims under the pretext of cow protectionon the accusation of storing or consumingbeef, of injuring them are continuing unabatedand after the installation of the die-hard anti-Muslim Yogi Adityanath government of UttarPradesh, all kinds of atrocities and pressure isbeing committed against the religious minorityMuslim masses and various kinds ofprohibitions have been placed on the sale ofbeef and all kinds meat, all kinds of butcherieshave been prohibited and cruel legislations havebeen placed to control the buying and sellingof animals. Prohibitions have been placed onthe culinary habits and the dressing of thepeople. Various kinds of pressures and

prohibitions have been put on other religiousminorities as well. As a result of this theemployment of a section of the poor has beenclosed down. There has been manifold increasein the attacks on the Dalits. The attack onDalits in Saharanpur is the latest example ofthis.

After Modi government came to power,the expansionist role of India has beenincreased even widely. More bitterness hascome in the mutual relations with theneighbouring countries. In the interest ofadvancing the policy of encircling China byUS imperialism, Modi government isimplementing various kinds of policies andprogrammes. Presently, the purpose of theinauguration of a nine kilometre bridge overthe Brahmaputra in Assam is to establish fastcontact with Arunachal Pradesh so that the USpolicy of encircling China can be takenforward. In fact, India’s political-economic-cultural-military-foreign policy – in all spheresthe fascist policies and methods have beenadopted. If truth be told, the rule of the policeand gun is going on in the entire country.

Our tasks

Comrades, we will have to understand thisthat the plan of the Modi government tocompletely crush the Maoist movement hassurely been revealed as a main work of theModi government. However, it is neither awhimsical decision of only one Party of anygovernment and nor it can be so. This isbecause the ruling parties of India are agentsof feudalism and imperialism. That is why,whatever may be the party or the colour of thegovernment, they are implementing variousaspects of the LIC policy under the guidanceof imperialism – particularly US imperialism.In comparison to the UPA period, in thepresent NDA period too these policies arebeing implemented aggressively. That is why,it is not that it has become the main task ofthe Modi government only after it has occupiedthe throne. If we take an overview of theperiods of UPA-1 and UPA-2, we find thatUPA-1 and UPA-2 – both has conducted themain task of wiping out our Party andmovement by terming the Maoist Party and


the Maoist movement as “the greatest threatto internal security”. The first and secondstages of ‘Operation Green Hunt’ have beenconducted during these governmentsthemselves. But what was the result? Historytestifies that they have failed considerably inthe objective that they had set. Rather, the rootsof the Maoist Party and the movement hasgone deep into the masses and in spite ofsuffering tremendous sacrifices due to themartyrdom of thousands of comrades theParty has strengthened by taking manyexperiences and lessons.

The third phase of ‘Operation GreenHunt’ is being presently conducted by theBrahmanical Hindutva-fascist Modigovernment by taking help from USimperialism and all other imperialists andreactionaries to crush the revolutionarymovement completely. Whether be it ‘encircleand suppress’ campaigns or any other kind ofrepressive operation, be it surrender policy orthe policy of foul propaganda as per thepsychological battle, be it different kinds of so-called reform programmes or the programmeof beating the so-called drum of development– in all this sweeping changes have been madeby the Modi government. Just after assumingpower, Modi government declared its aim ofuprooting the Maoists. Paramilitary forces ineven larger numbers are being deployed inMaoist areas. Then as a part of the extremelyreactionary policy of “hollowing out one’s eyeswith one’s own fingers”, they are very faithfullyimplementing the LIC policy of “gettingAdivasis to fight the Adivasis”.

As the second hated method, the surrenderpolicy adopted by the UPA government hasbeen implemented “in a more attractivemanner” by it and much more enticement ofmoney is being given than before. Pressure isbeing applied on the families of comrades andactivists to surrender and if it is not done, it isissuing threats like that they will have to sufferrepression and will have to rot in jail; it isconducting seizing and lock-out of propertyin a severe manner.

To oppose all the above-mentioned anti-revolutionary policies our first and main workis to protect the leadership from the CC to theAC and the mass organisations, to Bolshevise

the Party and to prepare the entire Party ranksand the fighting masses by educating andtraining them to fight back the all-round enemyoffensive through an all-round counter-offensive, enhance military training so thatthere can be better resistance actions and totransform them into the people’s war in its truesense. We will certainly have to advance thepolitical-organisational and militarypreparations as a campaign, counter-offensivemilitary actions, counter-propaganda againstvile propaganda and building mass movementson the people’s burning problems etc. Alongwith this, we will have to continue our effortsto build a movement against BrahmanicalHindu-fascism with all the progressive-democratic forces. At the all-India level as soonas possible a united front or a vast forum willhave to be formed and placed before the massesof the country.

Comrades, the next stage of thedevelopment of the Indian revolution can beadvanced only by successfully confronting thechallenging situation. That is why to confrontall kinds of challenges we will have to completeall preparations. This means that, it is ourimmediate and important task to fulfil all thetasks that have been mentioned here.

By only doing this we can continuouslyconsolidate the three magic weapons ofrevolution – the structures of the Party,people’s army and the united front. We haveto remember that without truly Bolshevisingthe Party we cannot advance a single step.Come, let us take pledge to overcome all kindsof limitations and weaknesses not in speechbut in practice and by protecting the internalunity of the Party like the apple of the eye,make it even stronger and follow the correctline, policy and workstyle of the Party bydefeating all kinds of revisionism – be it ‘Left’or right revisionism.

No doubt, the path is tortuous, difficultand complex, but if we remain steadfast onMLM and the Party line we can overcome allthe obstacles to advance the new democraticrevolution of India by building base areas wecan rapidly advance the important andimmediate task of ‘transforming the guerrilla

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from the pages of history

On the Fourth Anniversaryof the October Revolution

- V I Lenin

[First published in Russian in Pravda, No. 234, 18 October 1921, Lenin Collected Works,2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 33, pages 51-59]

100Years ofOctober

Revolution

The fourth anniversary of October 25(November 7) is approaching.

The farther that great day recedes fromus, the more clearly we see the significance ofthe proletarian revolution in Russia, and themore deeply we reflect upon the practicalexperience of our work as a whole.

Very briefly and, of course, in veryincomplete and rough outline, this significanceand experience may be summed up as follows.

The direct and immediate object of therevolution in Russia was a bourgeois-democratic one, namely, to destroy thesurvivals of medievalism and sweep themaway completely, to purge Russia of thisbarbarism, of this shame, and to remove thisimmense obstacle to all culture and progressin our country.

And we can justifiably pride ourselves onhaving carried out that purge with greaterdetermination and much more rapidly, boldlyand successfully, and, from the point of viewof its effect on the masses, much more widelyand deeply, than the great French Revolutionover one hundred and twenty-five years ago.

Both the anarchists and the petty-bourgeois democrats (i.e., the Mensheviks andthe Socialist-Revolutionaries, who are theRussian counterparts of that internationalsocial type) have talked and are still talking anincredible lot of nonsense about the relationbetween the bourgeois-democratic revolutionand the socialist (that is, proletarian)revolution. The last four years have proved tothe hilt that our interpretation of Marxism onthis point, and our estimate of the experience

In this section we are presenting a few historic speeches by Comrades Lenin, Stalin andMao on the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 which were later published in theform of articles. They help us understand the history, significance, lessons and therelevance of this great event in human history - MIB


of former revolutions were correct. We haveconsummated the bourgeois-democraticrevolution as nobody had done before. We areadvancing towards the socialist revolutionconsciously, firmly and unswervingly, knowingthat it is not separated from the bourgeois-democratic revolution by a Chinese Wall, andknowing too that (in the last analysis) strugglealone will determine how far we shall advance,what part of this immense and lofty task weshall accomplish, and to what extent we shallsucceed in consolidating our victories. Timewill show. But we see even now that atremendous amount—tremendous for thisruined, exhausted and backward country—hasalready been done towards the socialisttransformation of society.

Let us, however, finish what we have tosay about the bourgeois-democratic content ofour revolution. Marxists must understandwhat that means. To explain, let us take a fewstriking examples.

The bourgeois-democratic content of therevolution means that the social relations(system, institutions) of the country are purgedof medievalism, serfdom, feudalism.

What were the chief manifestations,survivals, remnants of serfdom in Russia upto 1917? The monarchy, the system of socialestates, landed proprietorship and land tenure,the status of women, religion, and nationaloppression. Take any one of these Augeanstables, which, incidentally, were left largelyuncleansed by all the more advanced stateswhen they accomplished their bourgeois-democratic revolutions one hundred andtwenty-five, two hundred and fifty and moreyears ago (1649 in England); take any of theseAugean stables, and you will see that we havecleansed them thoroughly. In a matter of tenweeks, from October 25 (November 7), 1917to January 5, 1918, when the ConstituentAssembly was dissolved, we accomplished athousand times more in this respect than wasaccomplished by the bourgeois democrats andliberals (the Cadets) and by the petty-bourgeoisdemocrats (the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries) during the eight months theywere in power.

Those poltroons, gas-bags, vaingloriousNarcissuses and petty Hamlets brandishedtheir wooden swords—but did not evendestroy the monarchy! We cleansed out all thatmonarchist muck as nobody had ever donebefore. We left not a stone, not a brick of thatancient edifice, the social-estate system even themost advanced countries, such as Britain,France and Germany, have not completelyeliminated the survivals of that system to thisday!, standing. We tore out the deep-seatedroots of the social-estate system, namely, theremnants of feudalism and serfdom in thesystem of landownership, to the last. “Onemay argue” (there are plenty of quill-drivers,Cadets, Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries abroad to indulge in sucharguments) as to what “in the long run” willbe the outcome of the agrarian reform effectedby the Great October Revolution. We have nodesire at the moment to waste time on suchcontroversies, for we are deciding this, as wellas the mass of accompanying controversies,by struggle. But the fact cannot be denied thatthe petty-bourgeois democrats “compromised”with the landowners, the custodians of thetraditions of serfdom, for eight months, whilewe completely swept the landowners and alltheir traditions from Russian soil in a fewweeks.

Take religion, or the denial of rights towomen, or the oppression and inequality ofthe non-Russian nationalities. These are allproblems of the bourgeois-democraticrevolution. The vulgar petty-bourgeoisdemocrats talked about them for eight months.In not a single one of the most advancedcountries in the world have these questionsbeen completely settled on bourgeois-democratic lines. In our country they havebeen settled completely by the legislation of theOctober Revolution. We have fought and arefighting religion in earnest. We have grantedall the non-Russian nationalities their ownrepublics or autonomous regions. We inRussia no longer have the base, mean andinfamous denial of rights to women orinequality of the sexes, that disgusting survivalof feudalism and medievalism, which is beingrenovated by the avaricious bourgeoisie andthe dull-witted and frightened petty bourgeoisie


in every other country in the world withoutexception.

All this goes to make up the content ofthe bourgeois-democratic revolution. Ahundred and fifty and two hundred and fiftyyears ago the progressive leaders of thatrevolution (or of those revolutions, if weconsider each national variety of the onegeneral type) promised to rid mankind ofmedieval privileges, of sex inequality, of stateprivileges for one religion or another (or“religious ideas”, “the church” in general), andof national inequality. They promised, but didnot keep their promises. They could not keepthem, for they were hindered by their“respect”— for the “sacred right of privateproperty”. Our proletarian revolution was notafflicted with this accursed “respect” for thisthrice-accursed medievalism and for the“sacred right of private property”.

But in order to consolidate theachievements of the bourgeois-democraticrevolution for the peoples of Russia, we wereobliged to go farther; and we did go farther.We solved the problems of the bourgeois-democratic revolution in passing, as a “by-product” of our main and genuinelyproletarian -revolutionary, socialist activities.We have always said that reforms are a by-product of the revolutionary class struggle. Wesaid—and proved it by deeds—that bourgeois-democratic reforms are a by-product of theproletarian, i.e., of the socialist revolution.Incidentally, the Kautskys, Hilferdings,Martovs, Chernovs, Hillquits, Longuets,MacDonalds, Turatis and other heroes of“Two and-a-Half ” Marxism were incapable ofunderstanding this relation between thebourgeois-democratic and the proletarian-socialist revolutions. The first develops into thesecond. The second, in passing, solves theproblems of the first. The second consolidatesthe work of the first. Struggle, and strugglealone, decides how far the second succeeds inoutgrowing the first.

The Soviet system is one of the most vividproofs, or manifestations, of how the onerevolution develops into the other. The Sovietsystem provides the maximum of democracyfor the workers and peasants; at the same time,

it marks a break with bourgeois democracy andthe rise of a new, epoch-making type ofdemocracy, namely, proletarian democracy, orthe dictatorship of the proletariat.

Let the curs and swine of the moribundbourgeoisie and of the petty-bourgeoisdemocrats who trail behind them heapimprecations, abuse and derision upon ourheads for our reverses and mistakes in the workof building up our Soviet system. We do notforget for a moment that we have committedand are committing numerous mistakes andare suffering numerous reverses. How canreverses and mistakes be avoided in a matterso new in the history of the world as thebuilding of an unprecedented type of stateedifice! We shall work steadfastly to set ourreverses and mistakes right and to improve ourpractical application of Soviet principles,which is still very, very far from being perfect.But we have a right to be and are proud that tous has fallen the good fortune to begin thebuilding of a Soviet state, and thereby to usherin a new era in world history, the era of therule of a new class, a class which is oppressedin every capitalist country, but whicheverywhere is marching forward towards a newlife, towards victory over the bourgeoisie,towards the dictatorship of the proletariat,towards the emancipation of mankind fromthe yoke of capital and from imperialist wars.

The question of imperialist wars, of theinternational policy of finance capital whichnow dominates the whole world, a policy thatmust inevitably engender new imperialist wars,that must inevitably cause an extremeintensification of national oppression, pillage,brigandry and the strangulation of weak,backward and small nationalities by a handfulof “advanced” powers—that question has beenthe keystone of all policy in all the countriesof the globe since 1914. It is a question of lifeand death for millions upon millions of people.It is a question of whether 20,000,000 people(as compared with the 10,000,000 who werekilled in the war of 1914-18 and in thesupplementary “minor” wars that are stillgoing on) are to be slaughtered in the nextimperialist war, which the bourgeoisie arepreparing, and which is growing out ofcapitalism before our very eyes. It is a question


of whether in that future war, which isinevitable (if capitalism continues to exist),60,000,000 people are to be maimed(compared with the 30,000,000 maimed in1914-18). In this question, too, our OctoberRevolution marked the beginning of a new erain world history. The lackeys of the bourgeoisieand its yes-men—the Socialist-Revolutionariesand the Mensheviks, and the petty-bourgeois,allegedly “socialist”, democrats all over theworld—derided our slogan “convert theimperialist war into a civil war”. But thatslogan proved to be the truth—it was the onlytruth, unpleasant, blunt, naked and brutal, butnevertheless the truth, as against the host ofmost refined jingoist and pacifist lies. Thoselies are being dispelled. The Brest peace hasbeen exposed. And with every passing day thesignificance and consequences of a peace thatis even worse than the Brest peace—the peaceof Versailles—are being more relentlesslyexposed. And the millions who are thinkingabout the causes of the recent war and of theapproaching future war are more and moreclearly realising the grim and inexorable truththat it is impossible to escape imperialist war,and imperialist peace (if the old orthographywere still in use, I would have written the wordmir in two ways, to give it both itsmeanings)[In Russian, the word mir has twomeanings (world and peace) and had twodifferent spellings in the old orthography.—Translator] which inevitably engendersimperialist war, that it is impossible to escapethat inferno, except by a Bolshevik struggle anda Bolshevik revolution.

Let the bourgeoisie and the pacifists, thegenerals and the petty bourgeoisie, thecapitalists and the philistines, the piousChristians and the knights of the Second andthe Two-and-a-Half Internationals vent theirfury against that revolution. No torrents ofabuse, calumnies and lies can enable them toconceal the historic fact that for the first timein hundreds and thousands of years the slaveshave replied to a war between slave-owners byopenly proclaiming the slogan: “Convert thiswar between slave-owners for the division oftheir loot into a war of the slaves of all nationsagainst the slave-owners of all nations.”

For the first time in hundreds andthousands of years that slogan has grown froma vague and helpless waiting into a clear anddefinite political programme, into an effectivestruggle waged by millions of oppressed peopleunder the leadership of the proletariat; it hasgrown into the first victory of the proletariat,the first victory in the struggle to abolish warand to unite the workers of all countries againstthe united bourgeoisie of different nations,against the bourgeoisie that makes peace andwar at the expense of the slaves of capital, thewage-workers, the peasants, the workingpeople.

This first victory is not yet the final victory,and it was achieved by our October Revolutionat the price of incredible difficulties andhardships, at the price of unprecedentedsuffering, accompanied by a series of seriousreverses and mistakes on our part. How coulda single backward people be expected tofrustrate the imperialist wars of the mostpowerful and most developed countries of theworld without sustaining reverses and withoutcommitting mistakes! We are not afraid toadmit our mistakes and shall examine themdispassionately in order to learn how to correctthem. But the fact remains that for the first timein hundreds and thousands of years thepromise “to reply” to war between the slave-owners by a revolution of the slaves directedagainst all the slave-owners has beencompletely fulfilled—and is being fulfilleddespite all difficulties.

We have made the start. When, at whatdate and time, and the proletarians of whichnation will complete this process is notimportant. The important thing is that the icehas been broken; the road is open, the way hasbeen shown.

Gentlemen, capitalists of all countries,keep up your hypocritical pretence of“defending the fatherland”—the Japanesefatherland against the American, the Americanagainst the Japanese, the French against theBritish, and so forth! Gentlemen, knights ofthe Second and Two-and a-HalfInternationals, pacifist petty bourgeoisie andphilistines of the entire world, go on “evading”the question of how to combat imperialist wars


by issuing new “Basle Manifestos” (on themodel of the Basle Manifesto of 1912). Thefirst Bolshevik revolution has wrested the firsthundred million people of this earth from theclutches of imperialist war and the imperialistworld. Subsequent revolutions will deliver therest of mankind from such wars and from sucha world.

Our last, but most important and mostdifficult task, the one we have done least about,is economic development, the laying ofeconomic foundations for the new, socialistedifice on the site of the demolished feudaledifice and the semi-demolished capitalistedifice. It is in this most important and mostdifficult task that we have sustained the greatestnumber of reverses and have made mostmistakes. How could anyone expect that a taskso new to the world could be begun withoutreverses and without mistakes! But we havebegun it. We shall continue it. At this verymoment we are, by our New Economic Policy,correcting a number of our mistakes. We arelearning how to continue erecting the socialistedifice in a small-peasant country withoutcommitting such mistakes.

The difficulties are immense. But we areaccustomed to grappling with immensedifficulties. Not for nothing do our enemiescall us “stone-hard” and exponents of a “firmline policy”. But we have also learned, at leastto some extent, another art that is essential inrevolution, namely, flexibility, the ability toeffect swift and sudden changes of tactics ifchanges in objective conditions demand them,and to choose another path for the achievementof our goal if the former path proves to beinexpedient or impossible at the givenmoment.

Borne along on the crest of the wave ofenthusiasm, rousing first the politicalenthusiasm and then the military enthusiasmof the people, we expected to accomplisheconomic tasks just as great as the political andmilitary tasks we had accomplished by relyingdirectly on this enthusiasm. We expected—orperhaps it would be truer to say that wepresumed without having given it adequateconsideration—to be able to organise the stateproduction and the state distribution of

products on communist lines in a small-peasant country directly as ordered by theproletarian state. Experience has proved thatwe were wrong. It appears that a number oftransitional stages were necessary—statecapitalism and socialism—in order toprepare—to prepare by many years of effort—for the transition to communism. Not directlyrelying on enthusiasm, but aided by theenthusiasm engendered by the great revolution,and on the basis of personal interest, personalincentive and business principles, we must firstset to work in this small peasant country tobuild solid gangways to socialism by way ofstate capitalism. Otherwise we shall never getto communism, we shall never bring scores ofmillions of people to communism. That iswhat experience, the objective course of thedevelopment of the revolution, has taught us.

And we, who during these three or fouryears have learned a little to make abruptchanges of front (when abrupt changes offront are needed), have begun zealously,attentively and sedulously (although still notzealously, attentively and sedulously enough)to learn to make a new change of front,namely, the New Economic Policy. Theproletarian state must become a cautious,assiduous and shrewd “businessman”, apunctilious wholesale merchant—otherwise itwill never succeed in putting this small-peasantcountry economically on its feet. Underexisting conditions, living as we are side by sidewith the capitalist (for the time being capitalist)West, there is no other way of progressing tocommunism. A wholesale merchant seems tobe an economic type as remote fromcommunism as heaven from earth. But that isone of the contradictions which, in actual life,lead from a small-peasant economy via statecapitalism to socialism. Personal incentive willstep up production; we must increaseproduction first and foremost and at all costs.Wholesale trade economically unites millionsof small peasants: it gives them a personalincentive, links them up and leads them to thenext step, namely, to various forms ofassociation and alliance in the process ofproduction itself. We have already started thenecessary changes in our economic policy and

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The International Characterof the October Revolution

- J V Stalin

100Years ofOctober

Revolution

The October Revolution cannot beregarded merely as a revolution “withinnational bounds.” It is, primarily, a revolutionof an international, world order, for it signifiesa radical turn in the world history of mankind,a turn from the old, capitalist world to the new,socialist world.

Revolutions in the past usually ended byone group of exploiters at the helm ofgovernment being replaced by another groupof exploiters. The exploiters changed,exploitation remained. Such was the caseduring the liberation movements of the slaves.Such was the case during the period of theuprisings of the serfs. Such was the case duringthe period of the well-known “great”revolutions in England, France and Germany.I am not speaking of the Paris Commune,which was the first glorious, heroic, yetunsuccessful attempt on the part of theproletariat to turn history against capitalism.

The October Revolution differs from theserevolutions in principle. Its aim is not to replaceone form of exploitation by another form ofexploitation, one group of exploiters by

another group of exploiters, but to abolish allexploitation of man by man, to abolish allgroups of exploiters, to establish thedictatorship of the proletariat, to establish thepower of the most revolutionary class of allthe oppressed classes that have ever existed, toorganise a new, classless, socialist society.

It is precisely for this reason that thevictory of the October Revolution signifies aradical change in the history of mankind, aradical change in the historical destiny ofworld capitalism, a radical change in theliberation movement of the world proletariat,a radical change in the methods of struggle andthe forms of organisation, in the manner oflife and traditions, in the culture and ideologyof the exploited masses throughout the world.

That is the basic reason why the OctoberRevolution is a revolution of an international,world order.

That also is the source of the profoundsympathy which the oppressed classes in allcountries entertain for the October Revolution,which they regard as a pledge of their ownemancipation.

[First published in Pravda, No. 255, 6-7 November 1927on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution]


A number of fundamental issues could benoted on which the October Revolutioninfluences the development of the revolutionarymovement throughout the world.

1. The October Revolution is noteworthyprimarily for having breached the front ofworld imperialism, for having overthrown theimperialist bourgeoisie in one of the biggestcapitalist countries and put the socialistproletariat in power.

The class of wage-workers, the class of thepersecuted, the class of the oppressed andexploited has for the first time in the history ofmankind risen to the position of the rulingclass, setting a contagious example to theproletarians of all countries.

This means that the October Revolutionhas ushered in a new era, the era of proletarianrevolutions in the countries of imperialism.

It took the instruments and means ofproduction from the landlords and capitalistsand converted them into public property, thuscounterposing socialist property to bourgeoisproperty. It thereby exposed the lie of thecapitalists that bourgeois property is inviolable,sacred, eternal.

It wrested power from the bourgeoisie,deprived the bourgeoisie of political rights,destroyed the bourgeois state apparatus andtransferred power to the Soviets, thus counter-posing the socialist rule of the Soviets, asproletarian democracy, to bourgeoisparliamentarism, as capitalist democracy.Lafargue was right when he said, as far backas 1887, that on the morrow of the revolution“all former capitalists will be disfranchised.”

The October Revolution thereby exposedthe lie of the Social-Democrats that at thepresent time a peaceful transition to socialismis possible through bourgeoisparliamentarism.

But the October Revolution did not andcould not stop there. Having destroyed the old,bourgeois order, it began to build the new,socialist order. The 10 years of the OctoberRevolution have been 10 years of building theParty, trade unions, Soviets, co-operatives,

cultural organisations, transport, industry, theRed Army. The indubitable successes ofsocialism in the U.S.S.R. on the front ofconstruction have clearly shown that theproletariat can successfully govern the countrywithout the bourgeoisie and against thebourgeoisie, that it can successfully buildindustry without the bourgeoisie and against thebourgeoisie, that it can successfully direct thewhole of the national economy without thebourgeoisie and against the bourgeoisie, that itcan successfully build socialism in spite of thecapitalist encirclement.

Menenius Agrippa, the famous Romansenator of ancient times, was not the only oneto uphold the old “theory” that the exploitedcannot do without the exploiters any morethan the head and other parts of the body cando without the stomach. This “theory” is nowthe corner-stone of the political “philosophy”of Social-Democracy in general, and of theSocial-Democratic policy of coalition with theimperialist bourgeoisie in particular. This“theory,” which has acquired the character ofa prejudice, is now one of the most seriousobstacles in the path towards therevolutionisation of the proletariat in thecapitalist countries. One of the mostimportant results of the October Revolutionis that it dealt this false “theory” a mortal blow.

Is there any further need to prove that theseand similar results of the October Revolutioncould not and cannot fail to exert an importantinfluence on the revolutionary movement ofthe working class in the capitalist countries?Such generally known facts as the progressivegrowth of communism in the capitalistcountries, the growing sympathy of theproletarians of all countries for the workingclass of the U.S.S.R. and, finally, the manyworkers’ delegations that come to the Land ofSoviets, prove beyond doubt that the seedssown by the October Revolution are alreadybeginning to bear fruit.

2. The October Revolution has shakenimperialism not only in the centres of itsdomination, not only in the “metropolises.”It has also struck at the rear of imperialism,its periphery, having undermined the rule ofimperialism in the colonial and dependentcountries.


Having overthrown the landlords and thecapitalists, the October Revolution broke thechains of national and colonial oppression andfreed from it, without exception, all theoppressed peoples of a vast state. Theproletariat cannot emancipate itself unless itemancipates the oppressed peoples. It is acharacteristic feature of the OctoberRevolution that it accomplished thesenational-colonial revolutions in the U.S.S.R.not under the flag of national enmity andconflicts among nations, but under the flag ofmutual confidence and fraternalrapprochement of the workers and peasantsof the various peoples in the U.S.S.R., not inthe name of nationalism, but in the name ofinternationalism.

It is precisely because the national-colonialrevolutions took place in our country underthe leadership of the proletariat and under thebanner of internationalism that pariah peoples,slave peoples, have for the first time in the historyof mankind risen to the position of peoplesthat are really free and really equal, therebysetting a contagious example to the oppressednations of the whole world.

This means that the October Revolutionhas ushered in new era, the era of colonialrevolutions which are being carried out in theoppressed countries of the world in alliance withthe proletariat and under the leadership of theproletariat.

It was formerly the “accepted” idea thatthe world has been divided from timeimmemorial into inferior and superior races,into blacks and whites, of whom the formerare unfit for civilisation and are doomed to beobjects of exploitation, while the latter are theonly bearers of civilisation, whose mission itis to exploit the former.

That legend must now be regarded asshattered and discarded. One of the mostimportant results of the October Revolutionis that it dealt that legend a mortal blow, bydemonstrating in practice that the liberatednon-European peoples, drawn into the channelof Soviet development, are not one whit lesscapable of promoting a really progressiveculture and a really progressive civilisation thanare the European peoples.

It was formerly the “accepted” idea thatthe only method of liberating the oppressedpeoples is the method of bourgeois nationalism,the method of nations drawing apart from oneanother, the method of disuniting nations, themethod of intensifying national enmity amongthe labouring masses of the various nations.

That legend must now be regarded asrefuted. One of the most important results ofthe October Revolution is that it dealt thatlegend a mortal blow, by demonstrating inpractice the possibility and expediency of theproletarian, internationalist method of liberatingthe oppressed peoples, as the only correctmethod; by demonstrating in practice thepossibility and expediency of a fraternal unionof the workers and peasants of the mostdiverse nations based on the principles ofvoluntariness and internationalism. The existenceof the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,which is the prototype of the future integrationof the working people of all countries into asingle world economic system, cannot butserve as direct proof of this.

It need hardly be said that these andsimilar results of the October Revolution couldnot and cannot fail to exert an importantinfluence on the revolutionary movement inthe colonial and dependent countries. Suchfacts as the growth of the revolutionarymovement of the oppressed peoples in China,Indonesia, India, etc., and the growingsympathy of these peoples for the U.S.S.R.,unquestionably bear this out.

The era of tranquil exploitation andoppression of the colonies and dependentcountries has passed away.

The era of liberating revolutions in thecolonies and dependent countries, the era ofthe awakening of the proletariat in thosecountries, the era of its hegemony in therevolution, has begun.

3. Having sown the seeds of revolutionboth in the centres of imperialism and in itsrear, having weakened the might ofimperialism in the “metropolises” and havingshaken its domination in the colonies, theOctober Revolution has thereby put injeopardy the very existence of world capitalismas a whole.


While the spontaneous development ofcapitalism in the conditions of imperialism haspassed—owing to its unevenness, owing to theinevitability of conflicts and armed collisions,owing, finally, to the unprecedented imperialistslaughter—into the process of the decay andthe dying of capitalism, the OctoberRevolution and the resultant dropping out ofa vast country from the world system ofcapitalism could not but accelerate this process,undermining, bit by bit, the very foundationsof world imperialism.

More than that. While shakingimperialism, the October Revolution has at thesame time created—in the shape of the firstproletarian dictatorship—a powerful and openbase for the world revolutionary movement, abase such as the latter never possessed before andon which it now can rely for support. It hascreated a powerful and open centre of the worldrevolutionary movement, such as the latternever possessed before and around which it cannow rally, organising a united revolutionary frontof the proletarians and of the oppressed peoples ofall countries against imperialism.

This means, firstly, that the OctoberRevolution inflicted a mortal wound on worldcapitalism from which the latter will neverrecover. For that very reason capitalism willnever recover the “equilibrium” and “stability”that it possessed before October.

Capitalism may become partly stabilised,it may rationalise its production, turn over theadministration of the country to fascism,temporarily hold down the working class; butit will never recover the “tranquillity,” the“assurance,” the “equilibrium” and the“stability” that it flaunted before; for the crisisof world capitalism has reached the stage ofdevelopment when the flames of revolutionmust inevitably break out, now in the centresof imperialism, now in the periphery,reducing to naught the capitalist patch-workand daily bringing nearer the fall of capitalism.Exactly as in the well-known fable, “when itpulled its tail out of the mud, its beak got stuck;when it pulled its beak out, its tail got stuck.”

This means, secondly, that the OctoberRevolution has raised to such a height thestrength and importance, the courage and the

fighting preparedness of the oppressed classesof the whole world as to compel the rulingclasses to reckon with them as a new, importantfactor. Now the labouring masses of the worldcan no longer be regarded as a “blind mob,”groping in the dark and devoid of prospects;for the October Revolution has created abeacon which illumines their path and opensup prospects for them. Whereas formerly therewas no world-wide open forum from which theaspirations and strivings of the oppressedclasses could be expounded and formulated,now such a forum exists in the shape of thefirst proletarian dictatorship.

There is hardly room for doubt that thedestruction of this forum would for a longtime cast the gloom of unbridled, blackreaction over the social and political life of the“advanced countries.” It cannot be denied thatthe very existence of a “Bolshevik state” puts acurb upon the dark forces of reaction, thushelping the oppressed classes in their strugglefor liberation. It is this that explains the savagehatred which the exploiters of all countriesentertain for the Bolsheviks.

History repeats itself, though on a newbasis. Just as formerly, during the period ofthe downfall of feudalism, the word “Jacobin”evoked dread and abhorrence among thearistocrats of all countries, so now, in theperiod of the down fall of capitalism, the word“Bolshevik” evokes dread and abhorrenceamong the bourgeois in all countries. Andconversely, just as formerly Paris was the refugeand school for the revolutionary representativesof the rising bourgeoisie, so now Moscow is therefuge and school for the revolutionaryrepresentatives of the rising proletariat. Hatredof the Jacobins did not save feudalism fromcollapse. Can there be any doubt that hatredof the Bolsheviks will not save capitalism fromits inevitable downfall?

The era of the “stability” of capitalism haspassed away, carrying away with it the legendof the indestructibility of the bourgeois order.

The era of the collapse of capitalism hasbegun.

4. The October Revolution cannot beregarded merely as a revolution in the sphereof economic and socialpolitical relations. It is


at the same time a revolution in the minds, arevolution in the ideology, of the workingclass. The October Revolution was born andgained strength under the banner of Marxism,under the banner of the idea of the dictatorshipof the proletariat, under the banner ofLeninism, which is Marxism of the era ofimperialism and proletarian revolutions.Hence it marks the victory of Marxism overreformism, the victory of Leninism overSocial-Democratism, the victory of the ThirdInternational over the Second International.

The October Revolution has brought intobeing an impassable chasm between Marxismand Social-Democratism, between the policyof Leninism and the policy of Social-Democratism.

Formerly, before the victory of the dictatorshipof the proletariat, Social-Democracy, whilerefraining from openly repudiating the idea ofthe dictatorship of the proletariat but doingnothing, absolutely nothing, to bring nearer therealisation of this idea, could flaunt the bannerof Marxism, and it is obvious that thisbehaviour of Social-Democracy created nodanger whatever for capitalism. Then, in thatperiod, Social-Democracy was formallyidentified, or almost completely identified,with Marxism.

Now, after the victory of the dictatorship ofthe proletariat, when everybody has seen forhimself to what Marxism leads and what itsvictory may signify, Social-Democracy is nolonger able to flaunt the banner of Marxism,can no longer coquet with the idea of thedictatorship of the proletariat without creatinga certain danger for capitalism. Having longago broken with the spirit of Marxism, it hasfound itself compelled to discard also thebanner of Marxism; it has openly andunambiguously taken a stand against theoffspring of Marxism, against the OctoberRevolution, against the first dictatorship of theproletariat in the world.

Now it has had to dissociate itself fromMarxism, and has actually done so; for underpresent conditions one cannot call oneself aMarxist unless one openly and devotedlysupports the first proletarian dictatorship inthe world, unless one wages a revolutionary

struggle against one’s own bourgeoisie, unlessone creates the conditions for the victory ofthe dictatorship of the proletariat in one’s owncountry.

A chasm has opened between Social-Democracy and Marxism. Henceforth, the onlybearer and bulwark of Marxism is Leninism,communism.

But matters did not end there. The OctoberRevolution went further than drawing ademarcation line between Social Democracyand Marxism; it relegated Social-Democracyto the camp of the direct defenders ofcapitalism against the first proletariandictatorship in the world. When Messieurs theAdlers and Bauers, the Welses and Levis, theLonguets and Blums abuse the “Soviet regime”and extol parliamentary “democracy,” thesegentlemen mean that they are fighting and willcontinue to fight for the restoration of thecapitalist order in the U.S.S.R., for thepreservation of capitalist slavery in the“civilised” states.

Present-day Social-Democratism is anideological support of capitalism. Lenin was athousand times right when he said that thepresent-day Social-Democratic politicians are“real agents of the bourgeoisie in the working-classmovement, the labour lieutenants of thecapitalist class,” that in the “civil war betweenthe proletariat and the bourgeoisie” they wouldinevitably range themselves “on the side of the‘Versaillese’ against the ‘Communards.’”

It is impossible to put an end to capitalismwithout putting an end to Social-Democratism inthe labour movement. That is why the era ofdying capitalism is also the era of dying Social-Democratism in the labour movement.

The great significance of the OctoberRevolution consists, among other things, in thefact that it marks the inevitable victory ofLeninism over Social-Democratism in theworld labour movement.

The era of the domination of the SecondInternational and of Social-Democratism inthe labour movement has ended.

The era of the domination of Leninismand of the Third International has begun.


100Years ofOctober

Revolution

Speech at Moscow in a meeting to celebrate thefortieth anniversary of the Great October Revolution

- Mao Tse-tung

[Mao delivered this speech at a joint meeting of the two Soviets of the Supreme Soviet of theUSSR (namely the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities) in celebration of the 40thanniversary of the Great October Revolution on 6 November 1957. Extracted from the magazinePeople's China, Beijing, 1 December 1957]

Dear Comrades,

On the occasion of the fortiethanniversary of the Great October SocialistRevolution, I myself and the other membersof the Chinese delegation, representing theNational People’s Congress and the StateCouncil of the People’s Republic of China, theCentral Committee of the ChineseCommunist Party, and all the People andCommunist Party members of China, have thehonour to offer warm fraternal congratulationsto the people, government and CommunistParty of the great Soviet Union, and to all thecomrades and friends present here.

As our revolutionary teacher Leninpointed out time and again, the greatrevolution carried out by the Soviet peopleforty years ago initiated a new epoch in worldhistory.

Historically there have been revolutions ofmany kinds, but none to compare with theOctober Socialist Revolution.

For thousands of years the working peopleof the world and all progressive humanity havedreamed of building a society in which therewould be no exploitation of man by man. Thisdream was realized on one-sixth of the earth’sland surface for the first time in history by theOctober Revolution. This revolution provesthat, without the landlords and thebourgeoisie, the people are completely capableof building a free and happy new life in aplanned way. It also proves that differentnations of the world are completely capableof living together amicably once there is noimperialist oppression.

In the past forty years the Soviet peoplehave travelled a hard road. The imperialiststried by every means to destroy the world’s firstsocialist republic. The enemies of the SovietUnion appeared for a time to be stronger thanthe Soviet Union and twice launched armedattacks against it. But the courageous Sovietpeople, led by their glorious Communist Party,


thoroughly smashed the attacks of theaggressors.

The Soviet Union has been invinciblebecause it is a country in which the socialistsystem has replaced the capitalist system andthe dictatorship of the proletariat has replacedthe dictatorship of the exploiting classes – acountry which develops its social productiveforces at a speed of which the capitalistcountries are incapable – and a country whichtruly practices proletarian internationalism,genuinely opposes national oppression andhelps oppressed nations to emancipatethemselves. Such a country enjoys theenthusiastic support of all its own people andthe peoples of all the countries in the world.The Soviet Union enjoys these two kinds ofsupport to a degree without parallel in thehistory of nations.

The face of the Soviet Union has changedcompletely in the past forty years. Before therevolution Russia was relatively backwardeconomically and technically. Now the SovietUnion has become one of the world’s first-classindustrial powers. The living standards of theSoviet people have been steadily rising. Thescale of development of educational, scientificand cultural establishments in the SovietUnion far surpasses that of the capitalistcountries. The Soviet Union set up the world’sfirst atomic power station, made the world’sfirst batch of passenger jet planes andintercontinental ballistic rockets and launchedthe world’s first and second man-made earthsatellites. The whole world acknowledges thatthe success of the Soviet Union in launchingthe man-made earth satellites on two occasionshas opened up a new era in the conquest ofnature by man. Not only the Soviet people, butalso the world proletariat and all mankind cantake pride in all this. Only a few reactionariesare unhappy about it.

The creative application of Marxism-Leninism by the Communist Party of theSoviet Union in tackling practical tasks hasensured unbroken success in the Soviet people’sconstruction work. The fighting programmefor communist construction in the SovietUnion put forward by the Twentieth Congressof the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

is a good example. The wise measures takenby the Central Committee of the CommunistParty of the Soviet Union on the questions ofovercoming the cult of the individual,developing agriculture, reorganizing theadministration of industry and construction,extending the power of the union republicsand local organizations, opposing the anti-party group, consolidating unity within theParty and improving the Party and politicalwork in the Soviet army and navy, willundoubtedly promote still further theconsolidation and development of allundertakings in the Soviet Union.

Throughout the world the people havebegun to see their own future ever more clearlyin the successes gained by the Soviet people.Essentially, the path of the Soviet Union, thepath of the October Revolution, is the brightcommon way for the progress of all mankind.The masses of the people throughout the worldcelebrate the fortieth anniversary of theOctober Revolution warmly, because thehistory of the past forty years has convincedthem that the proletariat is certain to defeatthe bourgeoisie, socialism is certain to defeatcapitalism, and the oppressed nations arecertain to defeat the imperialists. Of course,difficulties, twists and turns still face the people.But it was well said by Lenin thirty-six yearsago: “The important thing is that the ice hasbeen broken, the road is open and the path hasbeen blazed.”

The people’s revolution led by the ChineseCommunist Party has always been a part ofthe world socialist revolution of the proletariatinitiated by the October Revolution. TheChinese revolution has its own nationalcharacteristics and it is entirely necessary totake these into consideration. But in our ownrevolution and socialist construction we havemade full use of the rich experience of theCommunist Party and the people of the SovietUnion. The Chinese people are fortunate inhaving the experience of the OctoberRevolution and of the socialist constructionin the Soviet Union, which enables them tomake fewer mistakes, to avoid many other andto pursue their cause fairly smoothly, althoughthey still face many difficulties.


It is clear that, after the OctoberRevolution, if a proletarian revolutionary ofany country should overlook or not seriouslystudy the experience of the RussianRevolution, of the proletarian dictatorship andof socialist construction of the Soviet Union,and should fail to use these experiencesanalytically and in a creative way in the lightof the specific conditions in his own country,he would not be able to master Leninism,which represents new stage in the developmentof Marxism, and he would not be able to solvethe problems of revolution and constructionin his own country correctly. He would eithercommit doctrinaire or revisionist mistakes. Wemust oppose both these deviationssimultaneously, but at present, to opposerevisionist deviation is a particularly urgenttask.

It is equally clear that, since the OctoberRevolution, any government that refuses to beon friendly terms with the Soviet Union onlyharms the real interests of its own people.

In the world today a series of Europeanand Asian countries with an aggregatepopulation of over nine hundred millionpeople have victoriously taken the path of theOctober Revolution and form a powerfulworld system of socialism. Capitalism has forsome time foist its superiority, and socialismhas become invincible.

In the end the socialist system will replacethe capitalist system. This is an objective lawindependent of human will. No matter howhard the reactionaries try to prevent theadvance of the wheel of history, revolution willtake place sooner or later and will surelytriumph. “To lift a rock, merely to crush one’sown foot” is a Chinese saying to describe theaction of fools. The reactionaries of everycountry are just such fools, their persecutionof the revolutionary people will only end inrousing the people to broader and fiercerrevolution. Did not persecution by the Russiantsar and Chiang Kai-shek of the revolutionarypeople serve precisely to stimulate the greatRussian and Chinese revolutions?

As well as staking their fate on theoppression of the peoples at home and in thecolonial and semi-colonial countries, the

imperialists put their hope in war. But whatcan they expect out of war? In the past halfcentury, we have experienced two world wars.After the First World War, the Great OctoberSocialist Revolution took place in Russia. Andafter the Second World War, more revolutionstook place in East Europe and in the East. Ifthe imperialist warriors are determined to starta third world war, they will bring about no otherresult than the end of the world capitalistsystem.

The governments and peoples of thesocialist countries are the builders of a newpeaceful life. We absolutely do not want war,and are firmly opposed to a new world war.The Soviet Union, China and the othersocialist countries have been consistentlyworking for the relaxation of internationaltension. The proposals made again and againby the Soviet Union for disarmament and theprohibition of the manufacture, use and testingof weapons of mass destruction, represent thecommon stand of the socialist countries, andaccord at the same time with the interests ofall peoples. We firmly stand for peacefulcompetition between the socialist and thecapitalist countries, and for the settlement ofthe internal affairs of each country by its ownpeople in accordance with their own desires.We firmly maintain that all nations shouldpractice the well-known Five Principles ofmutual respect for sovereignty and territorialintegrity, non-aggression, non-interference ineach other’s internal affairs, equality andmutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence.

The U.S. imperialists obstinately try tointerfere in the internal affairs of othercountries, including those of the socialistcountries. For example, they are interferingwith the liberation of Taiwan by China andthey engineered the counter-revolutionary riotsin Hungary. They are particularly rabid ininterfering in the internal affairs of thosecountries situated in the area between the U.S.and the socialist camp, The U.S. is stillplanning to invade independent Syria throughTurkey or Israel, it is still conspiring to subvertthe anti-colonialist Egyptian Government.This maniac aggressive policy of the U.S. hasnot only precipitated a crisis in the Middle East,but has also created the danger of a new world


war. All people in the world who love peaceand freedom stand by Syria and oppose theU.S. and Turkish aggressors, just as they stoodby Egypt and opposed the British, French andIsraeli aggressors in October last year. TheSoviet Government has served warning on theU.S. and Turkey to give up their aggressive planimmediately. The Chinese Government andpeople resolutely support Syria in its struggleto defend itself and firmly endorse the justposition of the Soviet Union.

The imperialist wolves should rememberthat the days when they could manipulate thefate of humanity and carve up the Asian andAfrican countries as they liked have gone forever.

The U. S. imperialists have tried and arestill trying hard to undermine the liberation ofthe Chinese people. But in the end they couldnot prevent the six hundred million Chinesepeople from bravely taking the path ofsocialism. In the short period of eight years,China has already achieved such results invarious fields of construction as it was not ableto achieve in the past hundred years. In China,a handful of bourgeois rightists try to opposetaking the path of socialism and oppose theleading position of the Communist Party innational life, and the close alliance betweenChina and the Soviet Union and the othersocialist countries. Their vain efforts have beenutterly defeated by the counter-attack of thepeople throughout our country.

The Chinese people, under the leadershipof the Communist Party, are carrying out avigorous rectification campaign in order todevelop socialism in China rapidly and on afirmer basis. It is a campaign to resolvecorrectly the contradictions which actually existamong the people and which have to beresolved immediately, by means of a nation-wide debate which is both guided and free,carried out in the urban and rural areas on suchquestions as the socialist road and the capitalistroad, the basic systems and major policies ofthe state, the working style of the CommunistParty and government functionaries, and thewelfare of the people - a debate conducted bybringing out the facts and by argument. Thisis a socialist campaign of self-education and

self-remoulding by the people and greatsuccesses have already been recorded in it. Thesocialist consciousness of the people has beenrapidly raised, false ideas clarified,shortcomings in work overcome, unity withinthe ranks of the people strengthened, andlabour discipline and productivity increased,wherever the campaign has been carried out.We are now carrying forward this people’s self-education campaign among our six hundredmillion people stage by stage and section bysection and it is probable that in another fewmonths nation-wide success will have beenachieved. In future we intend to conduct arectification campaign every year or everyother year - the time it takes can be greatlyshortened - as one of the main methods ofresolving various social contradictions in ourcountry during the whole period of transition.The basic starting point in practicing thismethod is the firm confidence that the majorityof the masses are after all on our side and thatthey will listen to reason. This point has beenproved by all our experience in the campaign.

In many years of revolutionary practicewe have developed the method of therectification campaign in accordance with theLeninist principles of keeping in close contactwith the masses, recognizing the initiative ofthe masses, and practicing criticism and self-criticism. The correctness of this method hasonce again been proved by the present socialistself-education movement.

China has received brotherly assistancetowards its socialist construction in manyfields from the Soviet Union. In celebrating thefortieth anniversary of the October SocialistRevolution, please allow us to express ourheartfelt gratitude to the Communist Party, thegovernment and the people of the SovietUnion, for giving China such friendly help.

Soon after it was founded, the People’sRepublic of China concluded a Treaty ofFriendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistancewith the Soviet Union. This is a great allianceof two great socialist countries. We share thesame destiny and the same life-spring with theSoviet Union and the entire socialist camp. Weregard it as the sacred international obligationof all socialist countries to strengthen the


solidarity of the socialist countries headed bythe Soviet Union.

All possible means of sowing discord areused by the imperialist powers headed by theU.S. in their efforts to disrupt the friendshipand solidarity of the socialist countries headedby the Soviet Union. But reality is sure todisappoint the imperialists. The socialistcountries headed by the Soviet Union are moreclosely united than ever. Since the dawn ofhistory, it was not possible for relations betweennations to be based on such identity ofinterests, such mutual respect and confidence,and such mutual assistance and inspiration asbetween the socialist countries. This is becausethe socialist countries are of an entirely newtype in which the exploiting classes areoverthrown and the working people are inpower. The principal integratinginternationalism with patriotism has beenpracticed in the relations between thesecountries. We are closely bound by commoninterest and ideals. Marx said in his inauguraladdress to the Workingmen’s InternationalAssociation: “Past experience has shown howdisregard of that bond of brotherhood whichought to exist between the workmen ofdifferent countries, and incite them to stand

firmly by each other in all their struggles foremancipation, will be chastised by the commondiscomfiture of their incoherent efforts.” Thisteaching of Marx more than ninety years agowill never be out-of-date for us.

Dear comrades, the fact thatrepresentatives of the working class and massesof the people of various countries of the worldare here today to attend this grand meeting ofthe Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, heldto celebrate the fortieth anniversary of theOctober Revolution demonstrates in itself thegreat solidarity of the people’s forces of theworld and symbolizes the flourishingcondition of the international socialistmovement. Let us continue our efforts tostrengthen the solidarity of the socialistcountries, and of the working people andoppressed nations of the world, in order toattain new and greater victories.

Long live the Great October SocialistRevolution! Long live the solidarity andfriendship of the socialist countries headed bythe Soviet Union! Long live the great bannerof Marxist-Leninist internationalism! Theproletariat and peace-loving people of thewhole world, unite!

parliamentarism, post-modernism and other such bourgeois ideologies and theories! Declarethat Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is the only theory that buries imperialism and liberates theoppressed classes, nations and people of the world!

Mobilise the people and democratic forces against the government mercenary police,commando, paramilitary forces and state-sponsored counter-revolutionary organisations andgangs violating human rights in the areas of the revolutionary movement and take up struggle!Build a strong movement of people’s resistance!

Mobilise the people in a big way in support of the Kashmir, Nagalim, Asom, Manipur andother national liberation movements fighting for their right to self-determination and secessionas well as movements like Bodoland and Gorkhaland!

Unite the people in support of the anti-imperialist movements across the world! Mobilisetheir support for the Indian Revolution!

With Revolutionary Greetings,

Central Committee,

Communist Party of India (Maoist)

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We have made the start. When, at what date and time, and the proletarians of whichnation will complete this process is not important. The important thing is that the icehas been broken; the road is open, the way has been shown.

- Lenin, ‘On the Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution’, October 1921

The great world-wide significance of the October Revolution chiefly consists in the factthat:

1) It has widened the scope of the national question and converted it from the particularquestion of combating national oppression in Europe into the general question ofemancipating the oppressed peoples, colonies and semi-colonies from imperialism;

2) It has opened up wide possibilities for their emancipation and the right paths towardsit, has thereby greatly facilitated the cause of the emancipation of the oppressed peoplesof the West and the East, and has drawn them into the common current of the victoriousstruggle against imperialism;

3) It has thereby erected a bridge between the socialist West and the enslaved East, havingcreated a new front of revolutions against world imperialism, extending from theproletarians of the West, through the Russian Revolution, to the oppressed peoples ofthe East.

- Stalin, ‘The October Revolution and the National Question’

The October Socialist Revolution ushered in a new epoch in world history as well as inRussian history. It exerted influence on internal changes in the other countries in theworld and, similarly and in a particularly profound way, on internal changes in China.

- Mao, ‘On Contradiction’, August 1937

In Russia, there was a fundamental difference between the contradiction resolved by theFebruary Revolution and the contradiction resolved by the October Revolution, as wellas between the methods used to resolve them. The principle of using different methodsto resolve different contradictions is one which Marxist-Leninists must strictlyobserve.

- Mao, ‘On Contradiction’, August 1937

...the first imperialist world war and the first victorious socialist revolution, the OctoberRevolution, have changed the whole course of world history and ushered in a new era.

- Mao, ‘On New Democracy’, January 1940

For a hundred years, the finest sons and daughters of the disaster-ridden Chinese nationfought and sacrificed their lives, one stepping into the breach as another fell, in quest ofthe truth that would save the country and the people. This moves us to song and tears.But it was only after World War I and the October Revolution in Russia that we foundMarxism-Leninism, the best of truths, the best of weapons for liberating our nation.

- Mao, 'Reform our Study', May 1941

The banner of the October Revolution is invincible, and all the forces of fascism aredoomed to extinction.

- Mao,’ In Celebration of the 20th Anniversaryof the October Revolution’, November 1942.


Homage

Homage to the Martyrs(July-December 2018)

Death is inevitable for everyone whois born, but some deaths are lighter thanfeathers and some are heavier thanmountains. Those who voluntarily stand upto fight for the cause of the oppressed peopleand die fighting their oppressors attainmartyrdom. Their death is heavier thanmountains, while the death of those whofight and die for the oppressors are lighterthan feathers. Tens of thousands of sonsand daughters of the exploited andoppressed masses of the country have laiddown their lives in the course of the NewDemocratic Revolution since the dawn ofthe revolutionary movement in India inNaxalbari fifty years back. This glorioustradition of heroic sacrifice has been carriedforward by generations of communistrevolutionaries and the masses led by themtill today. In the past six months betweenJuly and December, over 67 comrades andpeople have made the sacrifice of theirvaluable lives towards building a new societyfree of exploitation and oppression. Among

them are 21 women comrades representingthe oppressed half of the country’spopulation who are fighting not only feudal,comprador and imperialist oppression butalso the burden of patriarchy.

The martyrs include state-levelleadership comrades like Meghnad SinghKhairwar (Singhji) (member of BiharRegional Committee in charge of theTechnical Department), District/DivisionCommittee member Comrade Latha (Anu)(DVCM in-charge of Bhavani Squad,Western Ghats), Area Committee/PlatoonParty Committee-level comrades AituPendam (Ashok) (Aheri AC Secretary,South Gadchiroli), Chandu Vadde (AheriACM, South Gadchiroli), Madkam Raje(Soni) (Tipragarh, North Gadchiroli),Oyami Raju (Mahesh) (RKB Division,DK), Durva Malu (Rakesh) (RKB Division,DK), Sodi Seeta (PPCM and PL Dy.Commander, Battalion-1, South Bastar),Manni Attami (ACM, BBM Division,


Call of the Central Committee on Martyrs’ Memorial Week 2017

Odisha), Johtri Netam (Vanilla) (ACM,KKBN Division Press Staff, Odisha) andBandu (Karan) (ACM, Protection SquadCommander, DK), ProfessionalRevolutionaries (PRs) like Comrades ShantoMadavi (Lalita) (Company-4 member),Ramayya Porteti (Mangdu) (Aheri, SouthGadchiroli), Madvi Sukka (CRC PL member)and Ramsai Vadde (Maad Supply Squadmember), Village Party Committee memberssuch as Comrade Madkam Hidma andMadkam Dula (South Bastar Division), PLGA

Members like Mangli (Chatgaon LOSmember, North Gadchiroli), Sodi Deepak(Sukma), Muchaki Pojjal (Sukma), SukhlalNaroti (Ranjit) (RKB Division, DK), MahariAtram, Sheila Kovasi and Kamala Vadde (PL-14 members, South Gadchiroli), People’sMilitia members like Comrades Sodi Somal(Militia commander), Punem Raju (MilitiaCompany member, Bijapur), Vanjam Hungaland Tati Guddu (Bijapur), RPC members likeComrades Podiyam Bheemal (RPC President),Mangtu Kuhrami (RPC President, North

Com. Latha (Anu)(DVCM, SWRB)

Com. Aitu Pendam(ACS, Aheri, SG, DK)

Com. Kranti(DK ITeam Member)

Com. Madkam Raje(ACM, NG, DK)

Com. Vaneela(ACM, Press Staff, OS)

Com. Lalita(PM, Cy-4, NG, DK)

Com. Chandu Vadde(ACM, Aheri, SG, DK)

Com. Bandu (Karan)(ACM, OS)

Com. Ramsai Vadde(PM, Maad, DK)

Com. Durva Malu(PM, RKB, DK)

Com. Raju Hoyami(PM, RKB, DK)

Com. Sukhlal Naroti(PM, RKB, DK)


Bastar), Sodi Jogal (RPC President, Konta,Sukma) Podiyam Sannal (Area JanatanaSarkar Krishi Shakha President) and Sodi Dula(Bijapur), Revolutionary Mass Organisationmembers like Parsa Paiku (Bijapur), Ragaal(DAKMS EC member, Raoghat Area, NorthBastar), Rukmini Gawde and Durva Laxmi(CNM members, North Bastar) and villagerslike Bari Pidika (Leader of NiyamgiriSuraksha Samiti, Odisha), Madkam Dhurba(Bijapur), Mannu Narote (Kanker) andKumma Vanjaram (Bijapur).

The comrades were martyred in differentcircumstances. Many comrades were martyredin enemy attacks that were carried out on thebasis of intelligence provided by informers likethe Irpanar attack in Narayanpur district wherewe lost five comrades, in Kalleda ambush ofSouth Gadchiroli where seven comrades weremartyred and the martyrdom of four comradeson Bihar-Jharkhand borer. Some comrades likeMadvi Sukka and Ramayya Porteti were killedin battles with the enemy, while a large numberof comrades like Shanto Madvi, Kumma

Com. Mita(PM, OS)

Com. Karan(PM, Aheri, SG, DK)

Com. Akhila(PM, Aheri, SG, DK)

Com. Vimla(PM, Aheri, SG, DK)

Com. Mangdu(Aheri, SG, DK)

Com. Kamala Vadde(PM, Aheri, SG, DK)

Com. Budri (Anita)(Maad Division, DK)

Com. Seeta(PM, Aheri, SG, DK)

Com. Padam Kope(PM, East Bastar, DK)

Com. Rukni (Jyoti)(PM, East Bastar, DK)

Com. Sundari Kunjam(PM, East Bastar, DK)

Com. Mangtu (Fagnu)(PM, East Bastar, DK)


Vanjaram, Sodi Deepak, Muchaki Pojjal,Podiyam Bheemal, Parsa Paiku and Karanwere killed in fake encounters after the enemycaught them in injured state; Podiyam Sannaland Vanjam Hungal were caught and brutallyshot dead after tying them to a tree; ComradeMeghnad Singh was martyred in a booby-trapaccident and Madkam Raju in a car accident;Comrade Samra committed suicide after beingbeaten and humiliated by the police; ComradeBadi Pidika died in jail; Comrade Latha waskilled by a wild elephant; Comrades MadkamHidma, Kalmu Hungi and Sodi Somal werekilled due to snake bite while ComradesRamsai, Sodi Jogal and Ragaal died of illness.

Apart from our Party, PLGA, massorganisation members and the people whowere martyred in the course of the country’srevolutionary movement in the last six months,several democrats like artist Mohan passedaway due to illness while some like journalistGauri Lankesh were killed by the state’s armedforces or state-sponsored fascist gangs. Manywere killed in the course of democratic

movements of the peasants, workers, Dalitsand Adivasis. A large number of youths weremartyred in national liberation movements ofKashmir and the Northeast. Similarly,hundreds have been killed in various anti-imperialist, anti-feudal and anti-state strugglesthroughout the world, particularly in the Asianand African countries. Many have beenmartyred in the ongoing Maoist movementsof the Philippines and Turkey. All of them arepart of the revolutionary and democraticmovements of the people for nationaldemocracy and socialism.

MIB pays its humble red homage to all themartyrs of Ind©ia’s revolutionary anddemocratic movements as well as those of theinternational communist and democraticmovements who laid down their valuable livesbetween July and December 2017 on the pathof struggle. Let us take pledge to continue thesestruggle by following their footsteps on the pathof selfless sacrifice to fulfil their lofty aspirationsfor the liberation of all the oppressed classes,nations and peoples of the world.

Com. Korsa Sonu(PM, DK)

Com. Modiyam Manku(PM, DK)

Com. Tati Guddu(PM, DK)

Com. Sodi Lakhma(BN-1, SBT, DK)

Com. Vanjam Hungal(Militia Member, SBT, DK)

Com. Karam Nandal(PM, DK)

Com. Madkam Hidmal(GPC Member, SBT, DK)

Com. Sodi Seeta(BN-1, SBT, DK)


Message of the Central Committee on the13th Anniversary of the Formation of CPI(Maoist)

Let us develop the mass base, intensify and expand theguerilla war and firmly resist and defeat the counter-

revolutionary offensive ‘Mission-2017’!Celebrate with revolutionary enthusiasm and spirit the 13th

Anniversary of the Party from September 21st to 27th!

(Call of the Central Committee, Communist Party of India (Maoist) to the PartyCommittees and members, Commanders and fighters of the People’s Liberation GuerillaArmy, Party sympathisers, the leadership and members of the Revolutionary People’s

Committees, Revolutionary Mass Organisations and the Revolutionary Masses)

11 August 2017

COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)CENTRAL COMMITTEE

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To start with, the Central Committee (CC)of our Party conveys hearty revolutionarygreetings to all the cadres of the Partycommittees and members, commanders andfighters of the People’s Liberation GuerillaArmy (PLGA), Party sympathisers, theleadership and members of the RevolutionaryPeople’s Committee (RPC), the RevolutionaryMass Organisations and the revolutionarymasses on the occasion of the ThirteenthAnniversary of our Party. The CC also conveysrevolutionary greetings on this occasion to the

Maoist parties and organisations that aregarnering support all over the world for theongoing People’s War in the country under theleadership of our Party.

Dear Comrades!

21 September is a very important day forour Party and the revolutionary masses. Twomain revolutionary streams merged to form ourParty – Communist Party of India (Maoist) –on 21 September in 2004. The CC calls upon allthe Party Committees and members, the


commanders and fighters of the People’sLiberation Guerilla Army (PLGA), Partysympathisers, the leadership and members ofthe Revolutionary People’s Committees (RPC),Revolutionary Mass Organisations andrevolutionary masses to celebrate the ThirtiethAnniversary of the Party from 21 to 27September all over the country in our movementareas, in the towns and the cities withrevolutionary enthusiasm and spirit with theaim of firmly resisting and defeating thecounter-revolutionary offensive ‘Mission-2017’by intensifying and expanding the guerilla war.

In the countrywide counter-revolutionaryoffensive that the enemy is unleashing with theaim of entirely eliminating the revolutionarymovement led by our Party, nearly 180 of ourbeloved comrades and people have laid downtheir valuable lives in fake encounters likeNeelambur, encounters with the enemy forcesin Ramguda (AOB) and Budhanadi (BJ),covert operations, ambushes of the enemy onthe PLGA forces, in the attacks of murderouscounter-revolutionary gangs like the TPC,JJMP of Bihar-Jharkhand, in the courageousattacks of our PLGA forces on the police,commando and paramilitary forces, due to oldage, ill health, snake-bite and other suchreasons. Of them, fifty were women activistsand village women.

In the past one year, the martyrdom oftwo leaders of Indian revolution, members ofthe Central Committee, Politburo members ofour Party Comrade Narayan Sanyal(Bijayda)(80), member of the CC ComradeKuppu Devaraj (Ramesh, Yogesh)(62) is anirreparable loss to our revolutionarymovement. Comrades Devaraj and Ajithawere killed in the Neelambur forest area on 24November as a part of ‘OperationBrahmagiri’. Comrade Narayan Sanyal passedaway on 16 April in Kolkata due to cancer.Members of the State Committee – seniorcomrade Raghunath Mahato of Bihar-Jharkhand (BJ), Comrades Prasad and Dayaof Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) andComrade Ajitha (Kaveri) of the Western Ghatswere martyred. Regional Committee memberComrade Sangram Murmu (BJ), DistrictCommittee members comrades Prabhakar andKiran of AOB, comrades Yatin (Koel-Sankh),

Sailesh and Ajit Yadav of BJ, comrades Jagath(West Bastar), Pali (Darbha), Kailash (EastBastar) of Dandakaranya (DK), Sub-ZonalCommittee member Comrade NagendraYadav (BJ), Area Committee SecretaryComrade Shameela (RKB of DK), 38 AreaCommittee/Platoon Party Committeemembers (many were Squad, Section orPlatoon Commanders or DeputyCommanders), three leaders of Village PartyCommittee, RPC, five commanders of thePeople’s Militia, three leaders of theRevolutionary Mass Organisations and scoresof Party activists, PLGA and People’s Militiafighters, revolutionary sympathisers andpeople became martyrs in the People’s War.

Among the women cadres, comradesMamatha and Latha (Bharathi), senior partyactivists like Kanta Nana (Didi), comradesBudri, Manjula (Ungi) and Tubri (Koraput)of AOB, Comrades Hemla Anju (SouthBastar), Rammo (RKB), Comrades Sukki,Jogi of Darbha, Comrade Jagbati Yadav(Soni) of EBT, comrades Mali and Karuna ofMaad, Comrade Anupriya (Koel-Sankh) of BJand others were martyred fighting heroicallywith the enemy forces in various encounters.A few women comrades were caught in aninjured state in the encounters or caught intheir homes, gang-raped and murdered. Thereare a few village women too.

Let us pay humble revolutionary homageto our great leaders, teachers and founders ofthe Party comrades Charu Mazumdar andKanhai Chatterjee, thousands of heroic fighterswho have been martyred till now starting fromthe Naxalbari armed agrarian revolutionarymovement and each and every one of the heroicfighters who were with us together and laiddown their lives in the past one year fightingheroically with the enemy in the ongoingPeople’s War. Our CC conveys deep condolencesto the relatives and friends of the martyrs andassures that the Party is with them.

On this occasion, the CC paysrevolutionary homage to the heroic fighterswho have laid down their lives in themovements going on in the leadership ofMaoist parties, organisations and groups invarious countries with the aim of making theWorld Socialist Revolution successful.


The people fought against the pro-feudal,pro-imperialist and anti-people social,economic, political, military, cultural andenvironmental policies of the central and thestate governments. The sacrifices of the Partycadres, PLGA fighters, Revolutionary People’sCommittees, revolutionary-democraticorganisations and the people of the country,especially the fighters who have laid down theirlives in the war of resistance of the people ofthe movement areas, in the leadership of ourParty against Operation Green Hunt going onin a most cruel manner with the support ofthe imperialists, are very valuable andexemplary. They laid down their lives for a new,just society where there will be no place forinequality, discrimination and exploitation ofone by another. On the occasion of theThirteenth Anniversary of our Party, let uspledge with raised fists to fight with firm will,sacrifice and courage for accomplishing theirideals for achieving a new world and toadvance on the path of the martyrs. Let usnow have a look at the successes we haveachieved in facing the repressive campaigns ofthe enemy as a result of the sacrifices of themartyrs in the past one year and the weaknesseswe have to overcome in facing the enemy’srepressive campaigns. Let us place them beforethe Party cadres, PLGA forces and the vastmasses and take pledge to enhance their activeand militant role in the People’s War.

Our successes in the past one year

1. Sustaining the people’s war: People’s Warhas been sustained by retaliating the counter-revolutionary offensive of the exploitativeruling classes. It has been three years since theNDA government in the leadership of Modi-led BJP came to power at the centre and BJP/NDA governments were formed in manystates, with which Brahmanical Hindu-fascistoffensive has intensified all over the country.As a part of it, white terror campaigns withthe names of ‘Mission-2016’ and ‘Mission-2017’ as per the LIC strategy have beenintensified in all the areas of the revolutionarymovement in the past one year to eliminateour Party and the revolutionary movementunder its leadership that is resolutely fighting

against imperialist and feudal exploitation.Fascist mercenary police, commando andparamilitary forces intensified attacks on thePLGA forces and committed massacres ofrevolutionaries and people in fake encounters.In 2017 alone, 78 revolutionaries and peoplewere murdered till now. They launched large-scale attacks on the villages and destroyed theproperties and crops of the people. They burnthouses. In Bihar and Jharkhand, they areseizing the properties of our Party activists.Atrocities on women are being usedindiscriminately as a weapon to suppress themovement. Bourgeois reforms areimplemented in a big way and are trying tobring splits in the revolutionary masses. Fascistoffensive has been perpetrated againstjournalists that bring to light incidents of stateterrorism in the movement areas.Democrats,social activists, human rights activists andwomen’s activists, professors, students and eventhe leaders and activists of the oppositionparties and higher bureaucrats showing dissentare not exempted from this fascist offensive.They are foisted with fabricated cases underfascist laws like the UAPA in the name of‘Maoists’ and ‘sedition’ and put in jails. Thecourts are sentencing revolutionaries and therevolutionary masses, intellectuals, democratsand traders supporting them with long-termrigorous imprisonment and capitalpunishment. A reign of white terror ismaintained in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra,Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal,Asom, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala,Tamil Nadu and other states where ourrevolutionary movement is going on.

The PLGA forces including the people’smilitia have retaliated the white terror of theenemy in the leadership of our Party in thepast one year. The people are resisting in legaland illegal forms in a timely manner themassacre of the people, fake encounters, massatrocities and murder of women anddestruction of people’s property. PLGAconducted Tactical Counter OffensiveCampaigns (TCOC) and actions with thesupport of the revolutionary people. Theenemy forces were hit in incidents likeMungaru Gummi-Sunki ambush (Koraput,Odisha), Bhave ambush-1, Bhave ambush-2


(Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh), Cherli ambush(Bijapur, Chhattisgarh), Tumdiwaal ambush(Kondagaon, CG), Hariyal ambush (Bijapur,CG), Kothacheruvu–Bhejji ambush (Sukma,CG), Burgum Pahad counterattack(Dantewada, CG), Burkapal ambush (Sukma,CG), attack on Mine-Proof Vehicle atKarampalli (Gadchiroli, Maharashtra),Pokheri ambush (Kandhamal, Odisha),Tondamarka counterattack (Sukma, CG) andChinna Bodkel ambush (Sukma, CG). In asituation where the enemy closed supply routesand made war equipment inaccessible, PLGAconducted guerilla war and carried out nearly170 guerilla attacks with local and limitedresources in various Guerilla Zones and RedResistance Areas of Chhattisgarh,Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand, AOB,Odisha, Telangana, West Bengal, WesternGhats and other such states in a period of tenmonths. While 85 policemen died in theseguerilla attacks, nearly 140 were injured. Nearly80 enemies of the people, anti-people politicalleaders, counter-revolutionaries, informers, andcoverts were wiped out. These Tactical CounterOffensive Actions, especially Burkapal ambush,baffled the exploitive ruling classes.

2. People’s movements and united activities:United activities increased in all the movementareas. Tribal and non-tribal peasants, students,intellectuals, workers, women and artists are instruggle in the united activities taken up by ourParty on the problem of displacement, againststate violence, against Operation Green Hunt(OGH) and Brahmanical Hindu-fascism. Theoppressed people mobilized on a large scale inthe leadership of many mass organisations inKerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in protestagainst the false encounter of Comrade KuppuDevraj and Comrade Ajitha. Many rallies,meetings and struggles were conducted acrossthe country against state violence and OGH.There were armed actions, bandhs and ProtestDays in the movement areas. People all over thecountry are struggling against the intensifyingBrahmanical Hindu-fascism in the name ofGoraksha (cow protection). Our Party issupporting these struggles. The Party isconsolidating the people against the fascistmeasures of the Sangh Parivar in the areas of

the movement. It is building United Front (UN)forums and is taking up struggles. Vast masses,especially the young generation, are influencedby our politics through these struggles and arecoming into contact with us. All these strugglesbrought new experiences to our Party.

3. Struggles against displacement:Imperialists and Comprador BureaucraticCapitalists are establishing mining, big dams,National Parks, mega steel plants, thermalpower plants, open cast mining, railway linesand many such heavy projects and industriesfor the exploitation of resources. They aredisplacing the people from their Jal-Jangal-Zameen. People and PLGA are standingunited in the leadership of our Party againstthis. People’s War has continued in variousforms like people’s struggles, people’s counter-offensive actions and guerilla war. Struggleswere conducted against Kuvvemari mines,Dilmili project and National Parks inChhattisgarh, against the amendments by thestate government to Chotanagpur Tenancy Act(CNT) and Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act(SPT) and several mining projects inJharkhand, against Surjagarh and other minesin Maharashtra, open cast mines in Telangana,against Polavaram project, against proposedbauxite mining in Visakha in Andhra Pradesh,against various mines and National Parks inOdisha and various National Parks in TamilNadu. Crores of rupees worth of property ofthe multinational companies and theirComprador Bureaucratic Bourgeoiscompanies were destroyed in the retaliatoryactions of the people. Party gave indirectsupport to the anti-displacement struggles inplaces outside our movement areas. It helpedto consolidate various forums of people’sresistance. As a result, there were countrywideanti-displacement struggles against theimperialist multinational companies and theircompradors. This brought the mines andproject works of the Tatas in Lohandiguda andof Essar in Dhurli of Chhattisgarh, POSCOproject in Odisha, bauxite mining in Visakhain Andhra Pradesh to a standstill. Theexploitative ruling classes and theirgovernment’s mercenary police andparamilitary forces are forcibly opening some


projects and are using brute force to see to itthat they start operating. Thus, the anti-displacement struggles in the leadership of ourParty are showing the path to the anti-displacement struggles all over the country.They are providing us good experiences intaking up struggles against imperialism and theComprador Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie.

4. Bolshevization campaign yields goodresults: The Bolshevization campaign that ourParty took up is yielding good results to an extentin the expected direction. Along with fieldtraining, Leadership Training Programme(LTP) and Military Leadership TrainingProgramme (MLTP) taken up at various levelstoo are helping the movement to overcome thedifficult situation. The entire Party and thepeople were imparted education and trainingabout the experiences of the Great ProletarianCultural Revolution (GPCR) and the GreatNaxalbari uprising on the occasion of theirfiftieth anniversaries. Political-military trainingcamps were taken up in various Guerilla Zonesto strengthen the Party leadership in the PLGA.While this campaign was completed in someStates/Special Zones, it is going on in someStates/Special Areas. Constant practice isneeded to Bolshevise the Party with theexperience of this campaign. The Party ranksfrom top to bottom are taking up practice withfirm will in view of this. They prepared anaction plans and are firmly implementing thedecisions and tactics formulated in the plenumsin the State/Special Zone/Special Area up tothe Area level last year.

5. Social investigation and class analysis: Theleadership ranks of the Party took up socialinvestigation and class analysis last year withthe objective of developing the tactics ofPeople’s War according to the changing socialconditions. The Party committees in the restof the State/Special Zone/Special Areas tookthis up this year. They are formulating newtactics according to the strategy and tactics ofthe Party and the specific conditions. They areplanning and implementing a campaign andeducation campaign in a specific way toconsolidate the Party, PLGA, various levels of

Revolutionary People’s Committees andRevolutionary Mass Organisations.

6. Revolutionary armed agrarian reformprogrammes: People took up land seizurestruggles in various states as a part of the anti-feudal struggles in the leadership of the Party.The lands seized from the landlords weredistributed among the landless poor peasants.In the places where the power of theexploitative classes was brought down, Village,Area, Division-level RPCs were formed anddeveloped and revolutionary agrarian reformswere implemented. The revolutionary peopleare implementing them amidst severe enemyattacks by retaliating them. They aredeveloping an alternative New DemocraticEconomic system. They are sustaining theGuerilla Bases. However, a few of the GuerillaBases have weakened due to the severe offensiveof the enemy.

Let us overcome our shortcomings,weaknesses and limitations

We must reduce losses: The exploitativeruling classes are conspiring to suppress therevolution by eliminating the various levels ofleadership of our Party. We must defeat this.It is necessary to sacrifice lives for therevolutionary movement, but the revolutionaryforces need to reduce losses to the extentpossible which are unnecessary and avoidable,thereby protecting their strength and givingblows to the enemy forces to the extent possible.Thus, they can develop from a weak positionto become a strong force. Only thus can wemake the revolution successful.

We must rectify mistakes inunderstanding the counter-guerilla tactics ofthe enemy: The enemy is constantly trainingtheir forces with LIC strategy and tactics. Attimes they are also bringing rapid changes intheir tactics. Since our Party Committees arenot studying these rapidly-changing tactics ina deep manner, they are unable to understandthe strength and weaknesses of the enemy. Sothey have to study the enemy tactics in timeand formulate tactics to fight them back. Wemust train up our Party ranks and PLGA forces


according to them and continue our work in asuccessful manner.

We must enhance our skill in identifyingcoverts and counter-revolutionaries: We mustbe always alert towards such kinds of persons.Since we are not paying proper attention weare facing severe losses. So we must strive toovercome this weakness immediately.

We must bring down the number ofsurrenders – We must take up consciousrevolutionary political work among the Partyranks and instill class hatred and classconsciousness in them. We must conductregular meetings to Bolshevise them andreview the movement and our work. Byreducing the problems and mistakes andproviding proper guidance with anunderstanding towards the ongoing changes,we must reduce the number of surrenders.

We must eradicate shortcomings intaking up political work among the people –The work of making the people politicallyconscious must be the nucleus of all ourpractice. We have to unrelentingly strive toremove the various kinds of illusions amongthe people towards the reforms that theexploitative ruling classes and NGOs arebringing forward in a big way and towards theparliamentary elections. We can thus developclass hatred and consciousness among thepeople and strengthen the mass base.

We must overcome the shortcomings indealing with the revolutionary agrarianreforms together with guerilla war andrevolutionary political power. It means that wehave to coordinate political mobilization,armed actions and revolutionary agrarianreforms.

We must overcome the shortcomings inconsolidation. The process of consolidatingthe people that come up in various agitationsin the mass organisations and developing theParty, PLGA and United Front from themmust be taken up constantly along withrecruitment drives.

Dear Comrades!

In this background, we need tounderstand the international and domesticsituation and take up the necessary tasks.

International situation

The world capitalist economic system isstill in the mire of crisis. All the economic,financial and political policies that theimperialists took up to solve this crisis havefailed. On the other hand, speaking ofSocialism-Communism, China has come upas a new Social-Imperialist country with whichthe world economic crisis intensified. Chinais severely exploiting the natural resources andlabour power of the workers of African, Asianand Latin American countries. It is interferingin the internal affairs of countries like Chad(Africa) that does not follow its diktats. In anattempt to expand its sphere of dominationin the world, China is deploying military forcein the waters of South and East China Seabelonging to Vietnam and the Philippines, incountries like Pakistan and Djibouti and isbecoming a danger to the sovereignty of thesecountries. Chinese Social-imperialism hasbecome the enemy of not only the Chinesepeople but also of the oppressed nations andpeople of the world.

Instigating racist chauvinism to transformthe US into a ‘great country’, Trump came topower and immediately imposed sanctions onseven Muslim countries. He made the rules ofmigration stringent by amending the H1-BVisa Act. He openly took up anti-environmentpolicies. In addition to intensifying the threatof war with the pretext that they are preparingnuclear weapons, he imposed stringenteconomic sanctions to pressurize Iran andNorth Korea. He is threatening to make waron North Korea. He is taking up political andeconomic attack on Mexico, Cuba and othercountries. He is interfering in the internalaffairs of Venezuela and is makingpreparations for a military attack.

In fact, due to the crisis of US imperialismthat began in 2008, its economic system basedon war has become much more burdensomefor the society and its sources are deteriorating.It has thus politically, economically andstrategically got weakened. Due to itseconomic crisis, the US is increasingly incompetition with the EU and therefore it isnot able to allot maximum funds to the NATOalliance like before. In this situation, it is unable


to keep the alliance united and in its favourlike before. So it is trying desperately toconsolidate its position.

In this situation, imperialist Russia isattempting to sustain its sphere of influence.Since Donald Trump came to power, thereappeared friendship between the US andRussia, due to which Trump had to face seriousopposition from the US ruling classes. In viewof strategic issues like Syria, Ukraine and Iran,the US imposed new sanctions on Russia. Inprotest against this, Russia has decided to expelUS diplomats on a large scale.

On the other hand, China has developedas an imperialist power and emerged as a strongadversary to the US in re-dividing the world inthe economic sphere. It is developing its holdon Asia. With the One Belt One Road (OBOR)it is speeding up world domination at present.

The US formulated Asia-Pivot policy in2011 itself to give a blow to China that wasincreasingly developing as an imperialistcountry competing with the US in theeconomic, political and military fields. Trumptoo is following the same policy and enhancinganti-China aggressiveness. In the pretext of thejudgment of the International Court at theHague supporting the arguments of thePhilippines for its rights over a part of theSouth China Sea, the US is deploying warshipson behalf of its allied countries and isintensifying conflicts with China. Theincreasing competition between China and theUS for domination over the oil and naturalgas reserves and the waterways in the SouthChina and East China Seas, it is intensifyingtension in the Asia Pacific region. This regionis becoming an important area of intensifyingcontradictions between the imperialists in theinternational sphere.

Chinese Social-imperialism is exploitingnatural resources and markets in manybackward countries, especially in more than 20Arab countries, and is increasingly competingwith the US and various imperialists.Competition is increasing between Germany,France and Britain for domination overEurope. In this situation, there is a change inthe geo-political balance of forces in the world.

Imperialists and their compradors in therespective countries are implementing fascismto suppress the revolutionary, democratic andnational liberation struggles of the oppressednations and people of the world against theimperialist wars of occupation and againstexploitation and oppression. They are tryingto divert the people from the path of struggleby instigating communalism, racistchauvinism, national chauvinism andwarmongering. The worldwide corporatemedia is constantly battering the minds of thepeople with these ideas. On the other hand,imperialist-sponsored NGOs are activelyworking in the backward countries to weakenthe consciousness of militant struggle amongthe people. Post-modernism is launchingtheoretical attacks against the class-based unityof the oppressed masses. In addition to theneo-revisionism of Prachanda-Avakian, manykinds of revisionism, parliamentarism andGandhism too are trying to divert the peopleof our country from the path of struggle.

Rightist, conservative and fascist Partiesare gradually gaining strength, encouragingfascist ideology on the basis of racistchauvinism, and are coming to power. InGermany, Angela Markel’s party faced defeatin the provincial elections last October-November and parties with fascist trendsbecame victorious. None of the economic,political, military and foreign policies of Obamahelped solve the economic crisis of the US andended in utter failure. In this situation, the USruling classes led by the new President DonaldTrump are instigating racist chauvinism. Racistattacks on the Blacks, Muslims and the migrantpeople are on the rise.

On the whole, the fundamentalcontradictions of the world – contradictionbetween imperialism and the oppressednations and people; contradiction between thebourgeoisie and the proletariat in imperialist/capitalist countries and contradiction amongthe imperialists are daily intensifying.Worldwide conditions are turning morefavorable for revolution. Revolutionarymovements, democratic struggles and nationalliberation struggles are intensifying all over theworld by utilizing the favorable conditions forrevolution. Struggles of the proletariat and the


middle class people against racism andreligious chauvinism are on the rise in thecapitalist-imperialist countries. People of Asia,Africa and Latin America are agitating againstthe imperialist policies of exploitation,intervention and wars of occupation. Nationalliberation struggles have been going on inPalestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kurdistan,Yemen and other backward countries for manyyears. Worldwide movements againstimperialist policies of total destruction ofenvironment are going on. Revolutionarymovements in the leadership of Maoist Partiesin the Philippines, India, Turkey, Peru andother countries have stood as a challenge to theimperialists and the feudal and compradorbureaucratic bourgeois classes.

The domestic situation

Under the diktats of the imperialists, BJP-led NDA government of Modi and variousstate governments have been implementingimperialist-sponsored Globalization policiesin a more aggressive manner. Everything thatthe Modi government is doing in the name of‘Sab ke Sath Sab ka Vikas’, ‘Make in India’,‘Startup India’ are only to loot the country forthe sake of the imperialists and the Indianruling classes. The lives of workers, peasantsand the middle classes are getting suffocatedwith the indiscriminate loot of the country bythe imperialist multinational corporations andIndian comprador corporations to open up allthe sectors for FDI to provide super-profits forthem and to turn the country’s market into adumping ground for the products from theimperialist countries. But due to the worldeconomic crisis, the investments of theimperialists into the country are not in theexpected manner and so even after three yearsof its rule there is no progress in Modigovernment’s ‘Make in India’. The industrialsector of the country is declining. The pricesof daily necessities and the agrarian crisis havegrown and are exposing the shallowness of theclaims of ‘development’ made by Modi. Thevarious schemes of the government in thename of eradication of poverty have failed.With the increase of agrarian crisis due to theanti-farmer policies of the Modi government,

twelve thousand farmers are committingsuicide every year. The central government iscovering this up and is introducing fakeschemes like the Prime Minister CropInsurance Scheme with the promise that it willdouble the income of the farmers in thecoming four years. But this is only to createillusions among the peasantry and open theway to super-profits for the public and privateinsurance companies.

The negative results of the pro-imperialist,anti-farmer policies led to the intensificationof the agrarian crisis and agriculture-based‘higher’ castes like the Jats, Patidars, Marathasand Kapus are pushed into an inevitableposition of struggle. These castes, which earlieropposed reservations for the Dalits and OBCs,are now demanding reservations forthemselves in education and jobs.

In the name of ‘One Country, OneMarket, One Tax’, Modi government hasamended the indirect tax system by greatlycurtailing the powers of the states andintroduced the Goods and Services Tax (GST),putting a heavy burden of taxation on thepeople including small and medium traders inthe interest of the imperialists and theComprador Bureaucratic Capitalists. It isconducting the deceptive propaganda that thiswill reduce the prices of all commodities andhelp the poor. Since the introduction of theGST, the government has stopped thepublication of the retail price index. There isconfusion in the country due to GST. There isno change in the growth of prices of the goodsof daily necessity. In fact, GST was imposedon the people of the country as a part of theHindu-fascist offensive in the economic sectorto fulfill the interests of the multinationalorganisations and their compradors.

The Narendra Modi-Amit Shah-MohanBhagwat clique is provoking BrahmanicalHindu-fascist ideology, nationalist frenzy andfake patriotism against Pakistan and China byusing Kashmir and the border disputerespectively to divert the discontent among theoppressed masses against the government andto liquidate the people’s movements. In fact, thisclique has declared that ‘development’ was itsagenda and that the establishment of a ‘Hindu


Rashtra’, construction of Ram temple inAyodhya, abolition of Article 370 that providesautonomy to Kashmir and the implementationof Uniform Civil Code were not in its agenda.In this way, it came to power by deceiving thepeople. But after coming to power, it is workingin a planned manner to achieve the aim ofestablishing a Hindu Rashtra. As a part of it,many Brahmanical Hindu-fascist organisationsof the Sangh Parivar are working actively allover the country. New ones are coming up withvarious names. These organisations areseriously trying to implement their above-mentioned actual agenda with the aim ofestablishing a Hindu Rashtra. In the name ofcow protection, they are supporting mob-lynching of people belonging to the religiousminorities and the Dalits, the number of whichis growing and creating an atmosphere of terror.These organisations are killing Adivasis,students, professors, women and people fromother such sections and are indulging inindiscriminate atrocities. They are saffronisingthe names of the villages and railway stations.For example, the name of Sherpura waschanged to Sivapuri and Mughal Sarai RailwayStation to Deendayal Upadhyay RailwayStation. At present, ban on cow slaughter allover the country and the building of Ramtemple in Ayodhya are a part of the Modigovernment’s undeclared agenda. The SupremeCourt too gave an outrageous suggestion ofcompromise between the two sides and with thisthe Sangh Parivar that had until now said thatit would follow the decision of the SupremeCourt took the initiative in its hands, and istrying to create a split between the Shia andSunni Muslims on the Babri Masjid issue in aconspiratorial manner and is preparing itsagents among them. It is seriously trying tosaffronise the judicial system and providelegality to its fascist acts.

Due to these conditions prevailing in thecountry, the pro-imperialist BrahmanicalHindu-fascism with outright traitorous policiesand decadent regressive policies became acommon enemy of the oppressed classes,nations and people. People’s resistance invarious forms is on the rise. This is a newdevelopment in the politics of our country inthe last three years.

Recently, this Hindu-fascist ruling cliqueled by Modi declared that terrorism, religiousfundamentalism and casteism must beeradicated by 2022, ‘New India’ must be builtfor the development of the country and thatpoverty, malnutrition and corruption must beeradicated from the country. He gave the slogan‘Karenge, Karke Rahenge’. It has started apropaganda campaign ‘Sankalp se Siddhi’ ina big way. In the name of rooting outcorruption, it demonetized big notes,centralized the money of the people andaccumulated it in the banks and fulfilled theinterests of the multinational companies andthe big bureaucratic bourgeois class. Thisclique follows pro-imperialist Globalizationpolicies and is making the lives of the poorand middle classes, the peasantry, small andmedium traders and capitalists miserable. It istrying to hoodwink the people with the mostdeceptive slogans and schemes once again. Infact, the main objective of the campaign ofthis clique is to establish a Hindu-fascist state,to wipe out the Maoist movement and thenational liberation struggles of Kashmir andthe Northeast; to subjugate the Muslims,Christians and other religious minorities; tosuppress the forces resisting BrahmanicalHindu-fascism and all the fightingorganisations, the revolutionary anddemocratic forces, oppressed castes, Adivasisand other oppressed sections and to keep theopposition political parties under leash.

Apart from the centre, the NDA in theleadership of BJP came to power in many statesand the Sangh Parivar became more aggressive.Initially, Modi said that he would make India‘Congress-free’, but presently he is concentratingon suppressing all parliamentary oppositionparties in the country. He is bringing downgovernments led by the opposition parties invarious states, putting pressure on the leadersof these parties using every means, buying themout, making secret opportunist agreements,employing the intelligence agencies against thosewho do not buckle under pressure, launchingattacks by deploying police forces and framingthem in false cases.

Revolutionary, democratic, secular andpatriotic forces are coming together in manyunited forums to fight back the growing


Brahmanical Hindu-fascist offensive againstthe people of the country. In the backgroundof these attacks starting from Dadri in UttarPradesh to Saharanpur, Una in Gujarat andAlwar in Rajasthan the Dalits, Muslims, theforces of Adivasi and other oppressed castescame together in Una and formulated an actionplan to fight back Hindu communalism.Workers, peasants, students, youth, women,intellectuals, professors, employees, teachers,doctors, health workers and the unemployedare in struggle. The united agitation of thestudents and professors of the universities andcolleges of 14 states against the attacks of theSangh Parivar on progressive students inRamjas College of Delhi is an example of this.

More than 15 crore workers went on acountrywide strike last September in theleadership of the Left trade unions against theanti-worker policies of the Modi government.On 28 February, ten lakh public sector bankemployees went on a countrywide generalstrike in protest against the anti-people policiesof Modi government like amendments tolabour laws and outsourcing. The ruling classesare trying to weaken the leadership of themilitant trade union movement. A few monthsback the trade union leadership of MarutiSuzuki Company was given life imprisonment.The working class must fight it back in a unitedmanner.

The peasants all over the country arefighting against the anti-farmer policies of thecentral and the state governments. They arecarrying out militant struggles in Punjab,Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh,Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,Telangana and other states demanding waiverof bank loans, remunerative prices for theirproduce and subsidies. The governments areunleashing cruel repression on them using thearmed forces. They are foisting cases onorganisations and intellectuals that oppose theanti-people bureaucratic policies with fascistlaws like the UAPA and putting them in jails.Each and every struggling oppressed class,section or nation is under severe repression.

The people of Kashmir, Nagalim,Manipur and Asom are fighting for the rightto self-determination and secession. The Bodo

and Gorkha people are fighting for separatestates. Since last July when the Indian Armykilled Burhan Wani of Hijb-ul-Mujahideen, thenational liberation movement of Kashmir hasintensified and its momentum continues to thisday. The central and the state governments areperplexed by the fight of the people ofKashmir against the Indian Army and theparamilitary forces with ‘stones’. For the pastone year, the students of Kashmir too havebecome very militant in this struggle. Theorganisations of national liberation struggle inthe Northeast have consolidated again, formedinto a United Front and are fighting againstthe Indian expansionists. The Modigovernment is perpetrating large-scalemassacre of national liberation activists,especially in Kashmir, and is unleashing severerepression to suppress these struggles. Recently,it is also trying to abolish ‘Article 35 A’ that issaid to be the last support for the autonomy ofKashmir. There is great anger among theKashmiri people against this. The politicalparties here too are opposing this. Indefinitebandh is going on for the past 57 days forseparate Gorkhaland. Though the stategovernment deployed police forces and thearmy on a large-scale and in spite ofprohibitory orders, arrests, tear gas and killingof people in police firings, the heroic Gorkhapeople are fighting militantly.

Atrocities on women are increasing dailyin the country. According to the availablestatistics, violence is committed against awoman is in every three minutes in the country.Eight thousand women are killed for dowryevery year. Over fifty thousand incidents ofatrocity on women and forty thousand casesof kidnapping of women are recorded everyyear. Acid attacks, child marriage, forcedprostitution, female feticide, killing of girl childand other crimes against women are the resultof the growing influence of feudal andimperialist culture. Women’s and democraticmovements are coming up against these allover the country.

Dear Comrades!

Our people’s guerillas carried out twoambushes in March-April this year in Sukma


district of Chhattisgarh, in which 37 CRPFjawans were wiped out and another ten wereinjured. In the background of this, the CentralHome Minister Rajnath Singh held a high-level meeting on 8 May in New Delhi withChief Ministers, top police officials andDistrict Collectors of ten states in which theMaoist movement is active. In this meeting,he preached that “we must be aggressive inevery issue and if we are defensive it willultimately weaken the efficiency of ourcounter-attack”. This aggressiveness is notlimited to the military field. This is mainlyrelated to ideology. The saffron gang hasintensified its attack with the total support ofits state. As a part of it the ‘white-clothed’Naxalites, i.e., the civil rights activists, socialactivists and democrats were declared to be inthe target. It is clear that this attack is not onlyagainst Maoism. It is going on against allprogressive ideas and even against liberaldemocratic thought. Their aggressivenessreveals that the namesake parliamentary‘democracy’ too will no longer exist if theymanage to have their way.

Since the People’s War in the country isadvancing under the leadership of our Partyovercoming many ebbs and flows, ups anddowns, difficulties and losses, twists and turns,an alternative revolutionary path is emergingbefore the people of the country. Theexploitative Indian ruling classes feel this to bepotently dangerous. They formulated a schemeto entirely wipe out the revolutionarymovement with imperialist-sponsored counter-revolutionary LIC strategy. As a part of it, theyprepared schemes for wiping out themovement in the guidance of military officersin the 8 May meeting, while on the one handruling out the possibility of deploying theIndian Army in the movement areas. Theydecided to shift the CRPF (LWE) Central ZoneCommand from Kolkata to Raipur; to formUnified Commands up to the district level andstrengthen the tactical-operational levelcommands; to form a Committee for bettercoordination of the state and the central forces;to shift the office of the DG (NaxalOperations) from Raipur to Jagadalpur(Bastar); to expand and strengthen theintelligence system, especially to strengthen

human and electronic intelligence; to moreeffectively utilize electronic systems (UAVs,satellites, GPS, thermal imaging, Infraredtechnology, CC TV cameras, radars andothers) for real-time intelligence gatheringduring operations; to use the Indian air forceduring operations (to deploy commandoforces by helicopters, and strafing from them);to train the forces in a new way; to formcounter-insurgency schools in Sukma andBijapur; to improve coordination between thecentral and the state forces; to utilize moderntechnology and complete the roads in themovement areas as soon as possible in theprotection of the paramilitary forces; and tobuild more communication towers. It wasannounced that the National Security AdviserAjit Dobhal and the Internal Security AdvisorK. Vijay Kumar shall guide the exterminationcampaign against the Maoists. The mostimportant decision taken was to carry out‘surgical strikes’. All these reveal the aim ofeliminating the revolutionary leadership andsubjective forces of our Party in a plannedmanner and thus defeat the Indianrevolutionary movement before the parliamentelections in 2019. ‘Mission-2017’ started veryaggressively with murderous attacks bearingthis aim. The next two years shall be a seriouschallenge for the Indian revolutionaryMovement.

History has repeatedly proved that nomatter how much cruel repression the exploitiveruling classes unleash to suppress the people’sstruggles, it is ultimately bound to fail. With thisexperience, we must take up the immediate taskof defeating ‘Mission-2017’, protect the Partyleadership from top to bottom and advance themovement. We have to develop mass base andtake up people’s war-guerilla war by basing onclass-line and mass-line. In order to be successfulin this, we must protect our forces to themaximum extent possible. We must utilize theweaknesses of the enemy and as soon as we getthe opportunity we must centralize the PLGAforces, attack separate units of the enemy forcesafter dividing them up and seize their weapons.For this purpose, let us implement with initiativethe rules and principles of guerilla war – secrecy,speed, firm will, change of place and other suchtactics of offensive self-defense to intensify and


expand the guerilla war. Let us fight withsacrifice for achieving the immediate objectivesof securing self-defense, developing the massbase, developing and consolidating thesubjective forces, expanding the movement, etc.and advance the People’s War one more step.Let us endeavor to fulfill the tasks given below.

Tasks

Defeat ‘Mission-2017’! Advance with theaim of achieving many more victories in thePeople’s War as a part of implementing thecentral task assigned by the Unity Congress-Ninth Congress of the Party to overcome theresent difficult situation of the revolutionarymovement! We must understand the People’sWar that has continued under the leadershipof our Party against ‘Mission-2016’ and‘Mission-2017’ unleashed by the Indian rulingclasses in the last one year. We must synthesisethese experiences and learn the positive andnegative lessons from them. We mustformulate appropriate tactics and tasks basedon class-line and mass-line to advance withmany more victories. We have to build UnitedFronts by bringing together the democraticforces and the democrats from the local levelto the central level against the war of theexploitive ruling classes on the people in theareas of the revolutionary movement as a partof ‘Mission-2017’. We have to activate thealready existing UF forums so that theyfunction energetically.

Constantly Bolshevise the Party by basingon the experiences of the Bolshevizationcampaign! The Bolshevization campaign takenup by our Party is bringing good results in theexpected direction to an extent. We have tocontinue relentless practice to Bolshevise theParty with the experience of this campaign.In view of this, the Party cadres from top tobottom have to continue their practice withfirm determination. In places where thiscampaign has not been completed, plansshould be made to successfully complete it withproletarian spirit.

Take up social investigation and classinvestigation in all the States/Special Areas/

Special Zones with the aim of developing thetactics of People’s War according to thechanging social conditions! Formulateappropriate tactics, creatively apply them tothe specific conditions and advance thePeople’s War!

Celebrate from 7 to 13 November 2017 thecentenary of the Bolshevik Revolution thatshook the world and the bicentenary of thebirth of Karl Marx from 5 to 11 May 2018!

Concentrate on revolutionary land reformwhich is the main essence of the NewDemocratic Revolution! It liberates the vastmajority of the peasantry economically,socially, politically and culturally. This is theonly way to successfully complete the people’sdemocratic revolution through ProtractedPeople’s War by gaining firm and strongsupport of the peasant masses. Therevolutionary land reform we take up will createmore favorable conditions for the revolution.

Mobilise and build large-scale agitation ofthe oppressed masses including the peasantryseething with discontent due to the agrariancrisis, against the neo-liberal policies ofimperialism, on the problem of displacementand other social, political, economic andenvironmental problems and combine themwith the People’s War! Mobilise therevolutionary and democratic organisations,forces, individuals and the broad masses andbuild a strong and broad-based people’smovement!

Build a strong and militant movementuniting the revolutionary forces, democrats,progressive and secular forces andorganisations as well as the religious minoritiesagainst Brahmanical Hindu-fascism!

Concentrate on the problems of theAdivasis, Dalits, women and religiousminorities, organize the people on commonplatforms and build a broad-based massmovement!

Expose the neo-revisionism of Prachanda-Avakian and all other kinds of revisionism,Gandhism, legalism, reformism, economism,

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Message of the Central Military Commission onthe 17th Anniversary of the Formation of PLGA

COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSION

Intensify and expand the guerrilla war - people’s warall over the Country!

Defeat the enemy’s new counter-revolutionarystrategic offensive ‘Samadhan’ (2017-2022) to

wipe out the Indian Revolution!

Message of the Central Military Commission (CMC), CPI(Maoist), toall the Party committees and members, PLGA’s red commanders andfighters, people’s military forces, representatives of the revolutionary

people’s governments and the leaders and activists of the revolutionarymass organisations and the toiling masses to enthusiastically celebrate

the 17th anniversary of the formation of the PLGA from 2 to 8 December!

Dear comrades and people!

2 December is an important day in thehistory of the Indian revolution. The peopleof the country remember this day as the daywhen People’s Liberation Guerilla Army(PLGA) was formed under the leadership ofCPI(Maoist) in 2000 to liberate the oppressedpeople of the country from the exploitation andoppression of imperialism, compradorbureaucratic capitalism and feudalism. PLGA

was formed as per the guidance given by thefounders of Indian Revolution and martyrsComrades Charu Mazumdar and KanhaiChatterjee, with the inspiration of our belovedleaders and martyred comrades Shyam,Mahesh and Murali and with the spirit ofthousands of martyrs, realizing the long feltdreams of the oppressed people of India andthe world. Our brave PLGA will complete 17years on the upcoming 2 December. On thisoccasion, the Central Military Commission

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(CMC) of theCPI (Maoist) conveys red-redsalutes to all the Party committees, commands,Party members, brave commanders andfighters of PLGA, the leaders and activists ofthe revolutionary people’s committees andrevolutionary mass organisations, the membersof people’s militia and the revolutionarypeople. CMC conveys revolutionary greetingsto all the comrades in the country who tookpart in the efforts of multipronged (political,military and organizational) resistance todefeat the counter-revolutionary OperationGreen Hunt. It pays humble homage to themartyred heroic guerillas and all the martyrswho laid down their lives in various encounters,fake encounters, betrayals, covert operations ofthe enemy, accidents, in jails, due to snake bite,ill-health and other such reasons. Let us learnfrom them communist values, unwaveringcourage and dedication towards the peopleand take inspiration. Let us take pledge torealize their dreams and ideals. On thisoccasion, CMC hopes that the comradesinjured in guerilla actions will recover soonand jump into the arena of war with warenthusiasm.

On this occasion, CMC calls upon all theParty ranks, PLGA units, revolutionarypeople’s committees, mass organisations andthe people to celebrate the 17th anniversary ofPLGA from 2 to 8 December in the rural andurban areas of our movement and all over thecountry with revolutionary enthusiasm andspirit. It calls upon our forces to take uprecruitment campaign all through the monthof December across the country to contributeto the consolidation of PLGA with theobjective of defeating the enemy’s newcounter-revolutionary strategic offensive‘Samadhan’ (2017-2022).

Nearly 140 comrades laid down their livesin the past one year to make the Indian NewDemocratic Revolution successful, to achievethe tasks of the Unity Congress-NinthCongress and to defeat Operation Green Huntby relentlessly making efforts. More than 30of them are women comrades.

Out of the martyrs, two have beenmembers of our Central Committee. OF them,98 are from DK, 19 from BJ, 2 from Telangana,7 from AOB, 2 from Odisha, 1 from West

Bengal, 2 from MMC and 1 from the WesternGhats. 3 of the martyrs are of the rank of StateCommittee, 7 of ZC/DVC, 3 of the Sub-ZC,22 are of AC/PPC, more than 50 have beenmembers of the Party and PLGA, nearly 40people militia activists and 15 belonging to therevolutionary people.

The martyrs are – two leaders of Indianrevolution and members of our CentralCommittee comrades Narayan Sanyal(Bijoyda, Politburo member), Comrade KuppuDevraj (Ramesh, Yogesh), State Committeerank comrades Raghunath Mahato (formermember of BJSAC), Himadri Roy (memberof West Bengal SC), Ajitha (Kaveri, memberof Western Ghats SZC).

On the occasion of the 17th anniversaryof PLGA, let us remember all the martyrs whohave laid down their lives in the past one yearand pay humble revolutionary homage tothem. Let us take pledge to fight till the endfor achieving their ideals.

Our countrywide political, military andorganizational effort to defeat ‘Mission-2017’and its results

The Central and State governments startedthe third phase of Operation Green Huntoffensive since the beginning of 2014 toeliminate the countrywide revolutionarymovement. Since the National DemocraticAlliance (NDA) came to power at the centreunder the leadership of Narendra Modi, theseattacks have become more fascist in characterand their severity and extent has been on therise. PLGA including the people’s militia,revolutionary people’s committees,revolutionary mass organisations and thepeople under the leadership of our Partyfought back ‘Mission-2016’ with multiprongedcounter-offensive tactics and defeated it. So theenemy has formulated ‘Mission-2017’. Weintensified political, military andorganizational effort all over the countrydepending on the strength of the movementand could contain ‘Mission-2017’ to an extent.The vital thing in this is the people’s war -guerilla war that continued resisting counter-revolutionary war of the exploitative rulingclasses. Along with this, we also took up mass


movements on the problems of daily life andfundamental problems of the people, unitedactivities increased and anti-displacementstruggles intensified and expanded. These andother such things contributed a lot in fightingback the enemy offensive. Leadership TrainingProgramme (LTP) to train up the leadershipin the Party and guerrilla army at all levels,social Investigation to formulate new tactics,taking up agrarian revolutionary programme– revolutionary reform helped us achieve betterresults.

Let us see the actions of the people’s war –guerilla war of the PLGA and therevolutionary people led by the Party todefeat ‘Mission-2017’

In the past one year, 72 police,paramilitary and commando jawans wereeliminated and 96 were injured in PLGA’scounter-offensive actions. 35 modern weaponsincluding 21 AK and nearly 3500 rounds ofammunition were seized. Forty policeinformers, two enemies of the people and sixenemy agents were eliminated. Roads,culverts, mobile towers, railway lines, vehiclesand timber were burnt or destroyed to stop theprojects of various kinds of compradorcorporations that threatened to displace thepeople.

Among the retaliatory actions carried outby the PLGA during its Tactical CounterOffensive Campaigns (TCOCs) inDandakaranya (DK), there were four bigactions – Kottacheruvu, Burkapal, Karampalliand Tondamarka. Small and medium type ofactions took place on a much larger scale. Theseactions, especially the Burkapal ambushinstilled new enthusiasm and confidence in therevolutionary camp not only in the country butalso across the world. It gave a severe blow tothe morale of the enemy forces.

TCOC and the retaliatory actions in DKput up a strong resistance to ‘Mission-2017’.Along with these actions, many more guerillaactions were carried out as well. The enemytook into consideration these actions, the extentof the Party’s mass base that led to the successof these actions, the domestic andinternational situation and changed their

strategy in ‘Mission-2017’. They had toformulate a new counter revolutionary schemeand strategy-tactics with the name of‘Samadhan’ to wipe out the Indian revolutionin the coming five years (2017-2022).

The TCOC and retaliatory actions in DKhelped in the protection of the Guerilla Bases.Big actions like Burkapal were vital for theprotection of these Guerilla Bases. The TCOCthis year gave a new experience in theproduction of improvised artillery andexpanded its field of utilization. There werewidespread sniper actions. The Central and theState governments stopped all kinds ofresources for the revolutionary movement andattempted to lessen the extent and severity ofwar actions. Guerilla actions in DK areattaining new experience while countering thisevil scheme and are instilling confidence in therevolutionary camp. The new experiences inthe DK Guerilla Zone in the recent times arethe Burkapal kind of operations byconcentrating PLGA forces, building primary-level artillery by depending on local resources,training snipers and the intensification andextent of mine warfare through improvisedexplosive devices. These experiences havehelped in the development of the PLGA forcesin various Guerilla Zones and Red ResistanceAreas all over the country.

15 policemen died and 21 were injured inthe TCOC in AOB during 2016-2017. Out ofthese retaliatory actions Mungaru Gummi-Sunki Ghati ambush is a big type of action inwhich 9 jawans of Odisha State Armed Police(OSAP) were wiped out and four were injured.

In Telangana, four policemen died andthree were injured in the guerilla actions in2016-2017. Successful guerrilla actionsresulting in the annihilation of policemen is apositive development in Telangana after manyyears.

In Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC) Zone, four policemenwere wiped out and three were injured in theguerilla actions in 2016-2017.

One policeman died and seven wereinjured in PLGA actions in the area under theOdisha State Committee of our Party.


On the whole, 96 policemen were wipedout and 134 were injured in the CentralRegion’s DK, AOB, Telangana, Odisha andMMC in the past one and a half years.

In the Eastern Region, in the more than40 counter-offensive actions in Bihar-Jharkhand, East Bihar-North East Jharkhandand West Bengal states, twelve policemen werewiped out and seven injured in the past tenmonths. An anti-people political leader andten counter-revolutionary elements wereeliminated. Crores of rupees of properties ofthe government, exploitative classes andcompanies of the comprador bureaucraticcapitalists were destroyed.

In the past ten months, PLGA took upmore than 200 guerilla attacks in the GuerillaZones of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar,Jharkhand, AOB, Odisha, Telangana, MMC,West Bengal and Western Ghats. More than110 police personnel were wiped out in theseattacks and nearly 135 were injured. Seventy-five people’s enemies, anti-people politicalleaders, counter-revolutionaries, informers andcoverts were eliminated. Thousands of peoplewere mobilized in the areas of ourrevolutionary movement in anti-feudal, anti-imperialist, anti-displacement people’sstruggles and against state violence, in whichespecially women’s participation was in a bignumber.

Thus, depending on the experiences of theareas of revolutionary movement, applyingthese experiences to the specific conditions inthe newly expanding areas in the guerilla zonesand red resistance areas in DK and BJ,intensifying and expanding the guerilla wargoing on in the respective areas, mobilizing thepeople in a large way across the country andintensifying anti-feudal, anti-imperialist classstruggles, we can undoubtedly declare that wecan defeat the 2017-2022 new counter-revolutionary scheme of the Centralgovernment.

When compared to 2016, there is a rise inthe intensity and extent of guerilla actions allover the country in the past ten months.However we lost subjective forces of our Party,PLGA and mass organisations in intensifiedenemy attacks. The enemy also got hold of a

considerable number of our arms andammunition. As Comrade Lenin said, theadvancement of People’s War-Guerilla War bydefeating the counter-revolution is as much afact as revolution fights back counter-revolution. It will advance invincibly only byformulating counter-tactics to the enemyschemes, concentrating the whole forces for theimplementation of the same, making PLGAfirm in the leadership of the Party against thevarious non-proletarian trends and mobilizingand arming the people and intensifying thePeople’s War.

‘Samadhan’ strategy is the new counter-revolutionary scheme of the enemy afterBurkapal ambush

The countrywide guerilla actions of ourPLGA in the TCOCs and counter-offensiveactions gave a stiff resistance to the enemy’s‘Mission-2017’. Especially after the Burkapalambush, the Indian exploitative ruling classes,the central and the state governments weredeeply worried. They held a high-level meetingon 8 May in New Delhi chaired by the centralHome Minister and formulated a new counter-revolutionary scheme-strategy and tactics forthe elimination of Indian Maoist movement.As per this counter-revolutionary scheme, theydecided its aim to wipe out the Maoistmovement in the country in the coming fiveyears (2017-2022). The main points in thestrategy and tactics of this counter-revolutionary scheme are like this:

They decided that the police, paramilitaryand commando forces engaged in anti-Maoistoperations must abandon self-defensivemethods and take up offensive attacks,penetrate into the stronghold areas of theMaoist movement and carry out attacks. Itmeans that they will concentrate on attackingour Guerilla Bases and strategic areas.

They decided to make aerial attacks usingIndian Air Force and airborne forces of thevarious paramilitary forces (forces that carryout attacks with combat planes andhelicopters).

They are arranging a mechanism toprovide 24 hours air support in various areas


of Bastar range to make aerial attacks and toevacuate the policemen injured in Maoistattacks. In the coming days they will developthe mechanism providing air support to makesuch attacks if necessary in the areas of ourmovement and in strategic areas. Dependingon all these, they will also intensify attacks onPLGA forces at night.

They will expand and strengthen theintelligence system. Along with humanintelligence they would especially expandtechnical, electronic intelligence and strengthenit. UAVs/drones, satellites, GPS, thermalImaging, Infrared technology, CCTV camerasand radars shall be used to collect intelligence.

The enemy will seriously try to convert asinformers and coverts the persons who areproviding us help in civil and military suppliesand in other works. There shall be constantvigilance on the movements of PLGA throughvarious kinds of technical and electronicintelligence.

The centre of the strategic command ofCRPF was shifted from Kolkata to Raipur toefficiently run these counter-revolutionaryattacks. In addition to the Unified Commandsalready functioning at the state-level inChhattisgarh, they have decided to formOperational and Tactical Unified Commandsat the district level as well. Officers of civiladministration, police, paramilitary and airforce of the respective districts will be part ofthis Unified Operational Commands to planoperations in the district level. Tactical UnifiedCommands will be formed with the high levelofficers of the central and the state forces thatgo to implement these operations in the field.

They decided to have better coordinationby rectifying the shortcomings in thecoordination between the central and statepolice forces. According to this, they decidedthat the state forces must constitute one-thirdof the forces going for combat operations, forthe protection of road construction, ROP andother such work and the local forces must bein the forefront.

They decided to take up large-scale falsepropaganda campaign describing us as ‘anti-development’ when we oppose theinfrastructural work like laying of roads and

bridges, communication network, fiber opticsnetwork, railway and electricity lines – the‘development’ necessary for the imperialist andcomprador bureaucratic bourgeois classes tointensify their exploitation. Similar falsepropaganda is carried out when we eliminatepolice and paramilitary forces deployed for theprotection of such works.

They decided to obtain support fromIsrael in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorist operations. They are impartingtraining to the Indian paramilitary and airforce from Israel to attack the Maoist forces.They are importing ultra-modern biologicalweapons and technology for this.

They formulated special plans to carry outattacks in Sukma district of Dandakaranya byidentifying it as one of our core areas. Theydecided to deploy two battalions of COBRAfor this purpose.

They decided to give a blow to theeconomic resources of Maoists to control theiractivities.

The central Home Ministry announcedtheir present strategy of ‘Samadhan’ with theeight letters as eight kinds of practice of theirstrategy and tactics – ‘S’ stands for SmartLeadership, ‘A’ for Aggressive strategy, ‘M’ forMotivation and training, ‘A’ for Actionableintelligence, ‘D’ for Dashboard-basedindicators, ‘H’ for Harnessing technology, ‘A’for Action plan for each threat, ‘N’ for Noaccess to financing. This is their strategy.

On the occasion of 15 August, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi announced theagenda of developing India as a ‘New India’by the 75th anniversary (2022) of the Quit Indiamovement. Modi issued a call to eliminate dirtand promote cleanliness, to eliminate povertyand to build an India free from corruption,terrorism, casteism and fundamentalism. Thisis only to deceive the ordinary people. Theactual objective hidden in this agenda is to buildan India without any hurdles to the classinterests of the imperialists, compradorbureaucratic bourgeoisie and big landlords andto stabilize the power of the imperialist,comprador bureaucratic bourgeois and biglandlord classes. The actual aims of ‘NavaBharat Nirman’ (building of New India) are:


India should be a reliable servant to USimperialism in South Asia and fight China;The oppressed castes, especially the Dalits mustbe suppressed to stabilize the hegemony of thehigher castes in the country (this is caste-freeIndia in their language); Brahmanical Hindufascism must be strengthened by suppressingthe religious minorities (in their language thisis communalism-free India); the Maoistscarrying out class struggle and armed struggleagainst the imperialists, comprador bigbourgeois and big landlord classes must besuppressed and the national liberation strugglesof Kashmir and the North East must becrushed (in their language this is terrorism-freeIndia) to establish ‘Hindu Raj’. So the aim ofthe Indian exploitive ruling classes is to totallywipe out the Indian revolutionary movementfor the building of ‘Nava Bharat’. We canunderstand the fascist character of‘Samadhan’ only when we understand thesetwo together.

The main focus of this new counter-revolutionary scheme and strategy-tactics willbe Dandakaranya and Bihar-Jharkhand, butits aim is to wipe out the revolutionarymovement in the entire country. The wholerevolutionary camp must be prepared to takeup active efforts to enlighten and consolidatethe people on a large scale to fight back thisscheme.

Let us utilize the domestic and internationalsituation that is turning favorable for therevolution and defeat the enemy offensive

Since the central and the stategovernments are implementing globalizationpolicies and anti-worker, anti-farmer policiesas a part of it for the past 26 years since 1991,the lives of the worker and peasant masses havebecome more miserable. The manufacturingand service sectors are going into the hands ofthe multinational corporations and thenamesake rights of the workers too are beingviolated. This brought lakhs of workers of theorganized and unorganized sectors on theroads and they are on the path of struggle.There is severe repression on the workers’movements and their leadership. Many leadersof the movement are foisted with false cases

and are facing life imprisonment. But theworkers’ movements are going on in a militantmanner. On the other hand, the agriculturalsector is in crisis. Farmers are adverselyaffected by the burden of loans due to lack ofremunerative prices for their produce. Thecentral and state governments areimplementing the dictates of the World Bankfor the past two and a half decades, due towhich the Indian agricultural sector wasaffected. Two and a half lakh farmerscommitted suicide in the three years of Modirule. The farmers of Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab, Telangana,Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu took up militantagitations for remunerative prices in recenttimes. Peasant struggles will become moremilitant and get consolidated in the comingdays.

In the name of war on black money,corruption and terrorism the Modigovernment suddenly demonetized the bigcurrency notes. This did not contain blackmoney and moreover severely affectedagriculture, small industries, the unorganizedsector and retail trade. In addition todemonetization, the pro imperialist policies ofthe Modi government led to the slowdown ofindustrial growth. Due to this, the ‘growth rate’of Indian economy was severely affected.Inflation is on the rise. Small capitalists, tradersand all sections of the society are facing severeproblems.

There are eighteen crore educatedunemployed in the country. The electoralpromise by Modi that his government willprovide jobs and employment to two croreyouths per year has proved to be false in thepast three years. In the last three years, Modigovernment provided only 2.5 lakh jobs. Whileone crore and thirty lakh people are cominginto the job market each year with degrees intheir hands, the central and the stategovernments are unable to provide jobs forthem and have proved themselves to be anti-people. Conditions for this army of theunemployed to take up militant struggles in thecoming years are maturing.


Presently, the US president DonaldTrump is following his ‘America First’ policy,giving first preference to the Americans in jobs(first employing the Americans and payingthem better) and made changes in the H1B visarules. Thus, the opportunities for employmentto those who wish to go to the US for jobs havereduced. Britain, Australia, Singapore andother imperialist and capitalist countries toohave imposed many sanctions onimmigration. With this nearly five to six lakhpeople are facing the vulnerable prospect oflosing their jobs in the Indian IT industry. Onthe other hand, the economic crisis continuesat the international level. The employees ofIndian origin in the foreign countries areremoved and there are no new jobopportunities. There are increasing racistattacks and discrimination against the Indiansin many countries including the US. Thus, theemployees and students of the IT industry andother fields are taking to the path of struggle.

GST came into force since 1 July in thename of “One Country, One Tax” that affectedlakhs of small producers and small traders allover the country and gave way to a situationof the domination of the giant multinationalcorporations, their comprador products andservices. So the coming days will witness thestruggles of small producers and small traderstoo.

The offensive of Brahmanical Hindu-fascism on the Dalits, Adivasis, religiousMinorities, women, oppressed nationalitiesand progressive intellectuals is taking moresevere form day by day. These sections aretaking up struggle against this in various forms.Of late, such attacks have become relentless.In Karnataka, renowned editor andprogressive writer Gauri Lankesh wasmurdered. In Gujarat, the Dalits were attackedin Una. After their resistance, there are non-stop attacks on the Dalits in Saharanpur ofUttar Pradesh and other places. The militaryand paramilitary forces have unleashed severerepression on the Kashmir national liberationstruggle and the militant struggle forGorkhaland. There are increasing attacks onthe students of universities. Especially, they areimposing Manu Dharma with patriarchalsanctions against women students. In this

background, conditions are maturing towardsthe direction of united and militant strugglesagainst Brahmanical Hindu-fascism startingfrom the local level to the centre. The Hindu-fascist offensive is intensifying thefundamental contradictions in the Indiansociety. These are preparing more favorableconditions for the formation of United Frontagainst Brahmanical Hindu-fascism.

The financial crisis that started in the USin 2008 and expanded to the whole world isnot yet solved. All the attempts of theimperialist countries to solve this crisis arefailing. Due to this, the imperialist countrieshave chosen protectionist policieseconomically, fascism politically and wars asa way out of this crisis. Thus, all thefundamental contradictions are intensifying.

The Middle East, South China Sea andthe Korean peninsula have become centers ofconflict among the imperialist US, Russia andChina. The US deployed more than five lakhUS and South Korean forces in the Asia-Pacific region against China and North Korea.Imperialist China is making preparations toserve its exploitative interests from itsinception. Imperialist Russia, on one hand, isstrengthening friendly relations with Chinaand is countering the US to sustain its positionin the Middle East.

China’s Belt and Road Forum (BRF)organized a two-day meeting in Beijing in themonth of May this year to discuss the One BeltOne Road (OBOR) project. Leaders of 29countries and representatives from more thanone hundred countries participated in thismeeting. This US is worried that the One BeltOne Road plan will become a major challengeto its hegemony in the world economic order.

The policies of US President DonaldTrump to revive the hegemony of USimperialism are turning to be a major dangerto world peace. Immediately after DonaldTrump came to power, he enhanced the USforces in Syria and Afghanistan and intensifiedattacks there. He made evil schemes to positSaudi Arabia against Iran and saw to it thatthe tensions between the two countries do notcool down in order to permanently find a place


in the Middle East and exploit the oil depositsand the market there. He signed agreements tosell weapons worth 35,000 crore dollars toSaudi Arabia during the last one decade. Headded Sunni-Shia conflicts to the conflictbetween Saudi Arabia and Iran and ignited theconditions for a permanent division of all theMiddle East countries as two opposing parts.He is posing Japan, South Korea, Australiaand India against China. All thesedevelopments create major danger to worldpeace.

As a result, conditions are turningfavorable for revolution and the worldproletariat. Revolutionaries and therevolutionary parties must utilize them. As apart of this, it is necessary to intensify People’sWar against imperialism and its domesticprops.

The economic and political policies of theimperialist countries are creating opportunitiesfor the growth of right-wing fascist parties ofthe exploitative classes in those countries andalso creating favorable conditions for the birthof proletarian Communist Parties and for thegrowth of small parties into big parties capableof taking up militant struggles.

Due to the intensity of the imperialist,comprador bureaucratic bourgeois and feudalexploitation and oppression in our country,Adivasis are losing their right over the forests,workers and employees are losing their jobs,students have no certainty of finding jobs, theDalits, Muslims, Adivasis and the oppressednationalities are facing the BrahmanicalHindu-fascists and are mobilising in anunprecedentedly extensive and militantmanner. The trend is on the rise. Thesemovements growing extensively and militantlyare the biggest source and basis for theadvancement of the revolutionary movementand for defeating the enemy offensive. Let usformulate necessary tasks and tactics accordingto the favorable conditions growinginternationally and domestically and defeat theenemy offensive. Let us advance the IndianNew Democratic Revolution.

Tasks

The Circular titled ‘Present Situation - OurTasks’ released by the CC in February 2017gave directives on the tasks to be fulfilled andthe tactics to be taken up in the coming twoyears. In view of this, we have to work to fulfillthe following tasks.

1. Concentrate on defeating the counter-revolutionary ‘Samadhan’ offensive of thecentral and the state governments in a bid towipe out the Indian revolutionary movement!

The new counter-revolutionary‘Samadhan’ offensive of the central and stategovernments is a multipronged offensive. Thisoffensive formulated under the guidance of theLIC strategy will be implemented in all thepolitical, economic, military and culturalsectors using the most fascist methods withtactics to deceive the revolutionary masses,Party cadres and PLGA fighters together witha large-scale psychological war. It will go onas perception management to mould the ideasof the people in their favor. We can understandthis offensive in a comprehensive manner onlywhen we understand it together with thestrategic scheme of the Indian exploitativeruling classes for ‘Nava Bharat Nirman’(building of New India). So the cadres of theParty and PLGA fighters must politicallyunderstand the conspiracy of ‘Nava BharatNirman’ and the fascist character of‘Samadhan’ offensive and explain to therevolutionary masses.

In the context of the new counter-revolutionary scheme of the central and thestate governments to wipe out the Indianrevolutionary movement in the name of‘Samadhan’, we have to properly analyse itsstrength and weakness as well as our ownstrength and weakness in facing them. Basedon this understanding, we have to formulatetactics of offensive self-defense to face thiscounter-revolutionary offensive. We have toprovide this understanding to our Party,PLGA cadres, to the local organisations andthe revolutionary masses. It is important thatwe prepare all of them politically to face theenemy offensive.


2. Take up countrywide political propagandamovement to expose the devious plan of theIndian exploitative ruling classes in the nameof ‘Nava Bharat’ to consolidate their power!

We must explain to the people about the‘Nava Bharat Nirman’ and tell them not to fallfor the deception of the ruling classes. Theyhave been deceiving the people of the countrywith fake development activities for the past70 years. Poverty will not be ended only bygiving a few houses to the rural and the urbanpoor in the name of ‘eradication of poverty’.This is only to see to it that the social unrestrising among the oppressed masses of thecountry due to the pro-imperialist, anti-people,treacherous policies of the exploitative rulingclasses does not become a catalyst forrevolution. The main problem of the rural andurban poor is the question of land; it is thequestion of ownership over the instruments ofproduction and the seizure of state power.Unless this problem is resolved, any amountof reform by the exploitative ruling classes willnot eradicate poverty.

3. Expose the war mongering and pseudo-nationalist frenzy of the exploitative Indianruling classes!

The Indian exploitative ruling classes havebeen instigating war frenzy and national-chauvinist frenzy to divert the people from thesocio-economic problems like poverty,illiteracy, ill health, starvation death andfarmer’s suicides. We have to politicallyenlighten the people and see that they do notfall for such things. If the oppressed classes andthe proletariat fall for such deception, therevolution will fail.

4. Mould the PLGA and the United Front asstrong instruments in the hands of the Partyagainst growing fascism!

Rising fascism further intensifies thecontradictions in the society. As a result, therevolutionary conditions may lead to arevolutionary crisis. Then the politically-enlightened forces will have a favourablecondition for development. They inspire thepeople, mobilise lakhs of them and play the

role of creating mass upsurges. They can bringa change in the balance of forces. So the PLGAand the United Front must be moulded asstrong instruments in the hands of the Partyand groomed to play such a role. For this, theymust understand the political changes anddevelop themselves accordingly. They musthave the initiative in their hands and be flexible.

Build a broad United Front and a strongmilitant movement against BrahmanicalHindu-fascism with the revolutionary,democratic, progressive and secular forces,organisations and individuals, religiousminorities, Dalits, Adivasis and Women!

5. Intensify the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal,anti-state class struggles all over the areas ofthe movement!

We must mobilise the landless, poor andthe middle peasants of the vast countryside intoclass struggle against the exploitation andoppression of landlords and usurers. Peoplemust be organized into political agitations ina large scale against imperialist globalizationand on political, economic and socialproblems like displacement. These must belinked with the People’s War. Revolutionary,democratic organisations, forces, individualsand the vast masses must be mobilised and astrong people’s movement must be built on abroad basis.

Take up social investigation and classanalysis in all the States/Special Areas/SpecialZones with the objective of developing thetactics of People’s War according to thechanging social conditions! Formulate propertactics on this basis, apply it creatively in theconcrete conditions and advance the people’swar!

Take up programs to enhance theideological level of the Party, the militaryleadership ranks and activists!

6. Consolidate the PLGA politically, militarilyand organisationally!

We must pay attention to increaserecruitment into PLGA from all the movementareas of the country. We have to intensify the


class struggle to develop our mass base, identifythe active and militant forces that emerge inthis struggle, pay attention to them and increaserecruitment. We will have to recruit in a limitednumber where the movement is weak and inscores and hundreds where the movement isrelatively strong.

Call of the Central Military Commission

It is seventy years since the transfer ofpower on 15 August 1947. In the past 70 years,different kinds and colors of political partieshave been in power either at the centre or inthe states. But these parties and theparliamentary system have utterly failed to solveany of the problems faced by the people in theirday-to-day life or their basic problems. In futuretoo, these political parties and theparliamentary system in which they thrivecannot solve the problems of the people. The‘Nava Bharat Nirman’ that Narendra Modi isnow preaching too cannot solve the people’sproblems. It will only consolidate theexploitative classes further but will noteliminate poverty, casteism andcommunalism. To believe in the agenda ofNarendra Modi is nothing but to get deceivedonce again. So the people of the country shouldnot be deceived once more and have to advanceon the path of protracted people’s war for thesuccess of the New Democratic Revolution.

None of the oppressed classes andcommunities was spared from their attacks bythe Brahmanical Hindu-fascists in the pastthree years of Modi rule. Neither theopposition parties nor the NGOs have thestrength to stop these attacks. In order to fightback these attacks, the oppressed masses andcommunities must get organised in theCommunist Party of India (Maoist), PLGAand revolutionary mass organisations, get

armed and resist the Hindutva onslaught. Sothe CMC calls upon the people of theoppressed classes, communities, religiousminorities and oppressed nationalities to jointhe CPI(Maoist), PLGA and revolutionarymass organisations in large numbers.Propagate in a big way the courageous TCOCsand the counter-offensive actions of the PLGAin the last one year to defeat Operation GreenHunt all over the country. Conduct recruitmentcampaign for the PLGA throughout themonth of December.

Defeat the new counter-revolutionary‘Samadhan’ offensive! Annihilate the enemyforces and seize arms!

Surrendering before the enemy is akin toslavery! Fight back the enemy’s surrender policyunder LIC by promoting greed!

Consolidate the Party, PLGA and UnitedFront!

Recruit youths into PLGA in large numbers!

Intensify the anti-feudal, anti-imperialist classstruggle!

Build strong and militant movement againstBrahmanical Hindu-fascism!

Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!

Long live CPI(Maoist)!

Long live PLGA!

With revolutionary greetings,

Central Military Commission

CPI(Maoist)

14-10-2017


News from the BattlefieldJuly - December 2017

AOB - Telangana -Andhra Pradesh

In an encounter between the PLGA andthe enemy forces in the Cut-off area ofMalkangiri district on 10 September, twopolicemen were injured. One PLGA comradewas also martyred in the incident.

PLGA razed to the ground a BSNLmobile tower in Darakonda under GK Veedhimandal in Visakhapatnam district of AOB on12 October.

PLGA seized a vehicle that was carryingprovisions for an Indian Reserve Battalion(IRB) camp in Chitrakonda Area ofMalkangiri district on 16 October.

On 17 October, PLGA seized two boatsfull of provisions that were being supplied toa BSF camp located at Kuntarpadar village inMalkangiri district. The policemen on theboats were taken into custody by the PLGAand later released.

On 22 October, material meant forsupplying to a BSF camp in Malkangiri districtwas seized by the PLGA.

On 13 November, one BSF jawan wasseriously injured in a blast in Chitrakonda areaof Malkangiri district, AOB.

A part of the private mining companyEssar’s pipeline carrying iron-ore slurry fromBailadila to Visakhapatnam was destroyed inMalkangiri district on 14 November.

On 5 December, PLGA blasted a mineand exchanged fire near Jakkam village in Injaripanchayat of Pedabayulu mandal ofVisakhapatnam district under AOB targetinga District Police team. There was no casualtyon either side.

Eight vehicles engaged in roadconstruction work on Mundaghati Roadunder Koelput police station in Malkangiridistrict was destroyed by PLGA on 18December.

Bihar - JharkhandMaoist posters appealing to the people to

observe Martyrs’ Week from 28 July to 3August were on display in various places ofAurangabad town of Bihar including at thedistrict police headquarters. The posterscommemorated the comrades recentlymartyred such as Comrades Albert, Jitendra,


Dhananjay, Danish, Karu, Yogendra,Mathura, Doctor, Krishn Singh, SudamaBhuyan, Nepali, Toofani, Sadhuh Bhuyan,Avadesh Bhuyan and all other martyrs ofIndian revolution since Naxalbari.

The West Singhbhum district’s SP, DSP,Chakradharpur Police Station in-charge andthe commandant of CRPF’s Battalion-60along with several police jawans had a closeescape when PLGA blasted a mine on the roadbetween Banjhikusum and Jharjhara. Theenemy forces had come on Long Range Patrol(LRP) in the area after Maoist posters appearedcalling on the people to observe Martyrs’ Weekfrom 28 July to 3 August.

As a part of the Martyrs’ Week, redguerrillas took into their control a passengertrain in Lakhisarai district of Bihar on 3August, leading to suspension of rail traffic onthe line for some time.

On 6 August, Maoist guerrillas triggeredblasts in a community hall and an underconstruction police building near Dhangaivillage under Barachatti Police Station area inBihar’s Gaya district, destroying the twostructures. Both the buildings were underrenovation to open a new police picket. Thepolice were planning to set up a picket therefor CRPF and SSB jawans to carry out stateterror in the area in the garb of anti-Maoistoperations.

Maoists hoisted black flags in many placesof BJ to oppose the fake Independence Dayon 15 August, including schools, governmentoffices, market places etc. calling upon themasses to boycott this Day celebrated by theruling classes to hoodwink the people.

Eight paramilitary jawans were injured ina PLGA counter-offensive action in BurhaPahad area falling in the borders of Balrampur-Ramanujganj districts of northernChhattisgarh which is a part of the operationalarea of Bihar-Jharkhand Special AreaCommittee (BJSAC). The PLGA blastedmines and fired upon an enemy detachmentreturning to their base camp after carrying outa joint search-and-destroy operation. The jointoperation was conducted by hundreds ofcentral paramilitary forces, Chhattisgarh Policeand Jharkhand Police since 29 Octobercovering several bordering districts.

At midnight of 19 December, people’sguerrillas attacked Masudan railway station inMunger district of Bihar and burnt down itssignalling panel, leading to the stoppage of railtraffic between Bhagalpur –Keul sector forsome time. The action was carried out a fewhours before the beginning of the daylongBihar-Jharkhand bandh called by CPI(Maoist)against police repression on the people under‘Mission-2017’.

A police jawan looking at one of the posters in front of the police headquarters; Posters were also pasted duringMartyrs’ Week in Giridih district of Jharkhand opposing Brahmanical Hindu-fascism


During the daylong Bihar-Jharkhandbandh on 20 December, PLGA destroyed amobile tower of a private telecom companyin Mirzadih village of Giridih district inJharkhand.

On the call of BJSAC of CPI(Maoist), twodays of protest on 18-19 December and adaylong Bihar-Jharkhand Bandh on 20December was observed against ‘Mission-2017’, ‘Smadhan’ and other forms of staterepression under the ongoing war on peoplein the name of anti-Maoist operation.

DandakaranyaOn 11 July, PLGA with the help of the

people burnt down 18 vehicles used by themining company to extract iron-ore from inthe Barbaspur mine Kuvvemari Area in NorthBastar Division. This region comes under theoperational area of Chargaon LOS (LocalOrganising Squad). The people have beenfighting against the opening and operation ofthis mine for long given the problems it wouldcreate for them – displacement, closing off orshrinking of the area for foraging and usingthe forest produce, grazing area, ecologicaldegradation, loss of water sources, all formsof pollution, etc. This action was a part of thispeople’s resistance.

On 13 July, three policemen were injuredin an attack by the PLGA in Mardapal Areaof Kondagaon district, one of whom wasseriously injured. The same day, PLGA blewup in an IED in Vedma village of Kudur Areain Kondagaon district targeting the DRG(District Reserve Group) goons ofChhattisgarh Police who have been terrorisingthe people of the area through their fascist actsduring counter-revolutionary operations. Fourpolicemen were injured, of whom Ione gotkilled during treatment.

One policeman was injured in a bombblasted by the PLGA near Gattam village inKatekalyan Area of Dantewada district on 23July.

On 27 July, PLGA blasted an IEDtargeting the DRG policemen near Kahachnarvillage in Narayanpur district in which one

policeman was injured. The police batch wascoming to disrupt the Martyrs’ Weekprogramme in memory of East Bastar DVCMComrade Aitu Korram (Kailash) in Becchavillage. After this attack, the policemenreturned to their base abruptly calling off theiroperation, allowing the hundreds of people toconduct the program without any disturbance.

On 3 August 2017, PLGA and the peoplerazed down machines and implements used forroad construction in Konta Area of Sukmadistrict.

On 15 August, one CRPF jawan wasinjured in a pressure-bomb blast conducted bythe PLGA near Teklepal village in KatekalyanArea of Dantewada district.

On 17 August, one CoBRA jawan wasseriously injured in a booby-trap explosionnear Polampalli in Konta Area of South BastarDivision, Sukma district.

Police and paramilitary forces deployed inChhattisgarh and Maharashtra conducted a

Militia plays an activerole in the people’s warAs a part of the people’s war, the

people’s militia and the people preparedover 50,000 spike-holes between Augustand December 2017 in various parts ofSouth Sub-zone area that include SouthBastar, West Bastar and DarbhaDivisions of DK Special Zone. Onepoliceman was killed and 87 were injuredafter falling into these spike-holed pits inwhich either iron rods or bamboo spikesare used. Similarly, eight policemen werekilled 13 were injured in booby trapexplosions in the Sub-zone while three‘Gopaniya Sainik’ (secret policemen)were eliminated. 31 police informers wereannihilated and several other counter-revolutionary elements were punished indifferent forms as per the verdict ofpeople’s courts. Nearly 70 vehiclesengaged by the enemy too were burntdown in the South Sub-zone during thisperiod.


joint operation in the National Park Area ofBijapur district from 1 to 6 September coveringmostly Adivasi-inhabited 42 villages. On 3August, these mercenary forces caught a youthof Mukaveli village Kumma Vanjaram andkilled him in a fake encounter.

On 3 September, two policemen wereinjured in two separate encounters betweenPLGA and police forces in Bijapur district –one near Kandalnar village of BhairamgarhArea and the other near Mukaveli village ofFarsagarh.

On 4 September, PLGA and people burntdown two earthmovers of the private NecoJaiswal which mining company was forciblymining in Amdai Hills in Chote Dongar areaof Narayanpur district with the help of statemachinery in spite of the villagers’ strongopposition. Raman Singh government hadissued permission to the company to work themines in 2005. But the people rose up againstthis and did not allow the work to start. Butthe BJP government – working as the agentsof the Neco company – used all coercivemethods to open the mines, including theestablishment of a new police camp on thefoothills of the Amdai Hills on 22 October

2015. But the stiff resistance of the people,people’s organisations and our Party stoppedthe mines till August 2017. Intensifying stateterror, the government and Neco forciblystarted road-building work to the mines since1 September. The company also resumed thebuilding of a road to the mines in this period.In doing so, the company had lied to the peoplethat it had secured the permission of the Partyfor working the mines. The two earthmoversthat have been burnt down were engaged inthis road construction work. O n epolice jawan was wiped out in Cherpal weeklymarket in Bijapur district on 4 September.

Two policemen on two-wheelers wereinjured in PLGA’s firing on the road betweenBhatgaon and Kosmi No.2 under Kotgul campin North Gadchiroli Division on 8 September.

On 10 September, PLGA blasted an IEDtargeting the joint forces of CRPF and DRGthat were patrolling in the Aranpur Area ofDantewada district. One CRPF and a DRGjawan were seriously injured.

On 20 September, PLGA blasted an IEDtargeting the police forces near Orcha weeklymarket in Narayanpur in which two policemenwere injured.

Villager takes on the enemy forces using guerrilla methodsRecently in South Bastar Division of Dandakaranya, a villager who had gone to the

forest nearby saw the paramilitary-police forces passing through on an anti-Maoist searchand destroy operation. The villager was carrying bow and arrows – the traditional weaponof the Adivasis in Dandakaranya. The villager took position behind the cover of a treeand shot an arrow aimed at one of the enemy jawans. The arrow hit the kitbag of thesoldier and got stuck. Noticing the arrow but unable to locate where it came from, theenemy troops went into panic, immediately lied down on the ground and openedindiscriminate fire in every direction. For two hours they stayed put in that place withoutadvancing and continued firing blindly. All this while, the villager was observing theiractivities from atop a tree nearby where he had hidden himself. After two hours of futilefiring and as it was getting dark, the troops called off their operation and retreated totheir camp. The people from nearby villages, who had been alerted by the sound of firing,soon arrived at the spot to hear the story from the villager who had by now reappearedfrom his hiding place. They thoroughly searched the places where the enemy troopers hadtaken cover and were pleasantly surprised when they discovered a magazine of AK-47rifle with 30 live bullets in it. Presumably, the enemy forces had accidentally left it behindin their haste to retreat from what must have appeared to them a Maoist ambush! Thepeople handed over the magazine and the bullets to the PLGA. Everyone appreciated thecourage and acumen of the lone archer who took on the enemy troops single-handedly.


On 27 September, PLGA attacked onebatch of policemen who were returning to theircamps after conducting ‘search-and-destroy’operations covering several villages on theborders of Sukma-Dantewada districts. OneDRG jawan was injured who later died duringtreatment.

On 2 October, one CRPF jawan wasseriously injured in a pressure bomb blast nearChikpal village of Dantewada district.

On 10 October, one SPO was injured in abooby-trap explosion and six others wereinjured in spike-hole traps set up by the PLGAin Gundagudem village of Gangalur Area inBijapur district. The next day a police Sub-Inspector (SI) and another jawan were injuredin a IED explosion in Palanr village in the sameArea when the enemy forces were conductingcombing operations. Seven more were injuredafter falling in spike-holes.

On 20 October, PLGA burnt down ninevehicles and an earthmover engaged in thedoubling the railway line near KamalurRailway Station in Dantewada district.

On 23 October, in retaliatory fire of thePLGA when the enemy forces attacked aPLGA camp in South Gadchiroli’sBhamragarh Area of DK, one policeman waskilled.

One policeman was seriously injured in apressure bomb explosion in Katekalyan areaof Dantewada district on 30 October whenthey were returning after conducting a combingoperation.

One DRG jawan and a former Maoist-turned-renegade were killed in a PLGAambush near Binagunda village under ChoteBetia Police Station in Kanker district on 3November.

A daylong DK-Telangana bandh (strike)called on 5 November by CPI(Maoist) wassuccessfully observed in all the areas of the twostates where the Maoist movement is active.

One CRPF jawan was killed in anexplosion conducted by the people’s militiaforce in Jegurgonda Area of Sukma district on6 November. They also seized a motorcyclefrom the police.

On 7 November, one CRPF jawan waskilled in a PLGA attack in Bhopalpatnam areaof Bijapur district.

One STF jawan was killed near Depalvillage of Madded Area, Bijapur district on 8November.

One jawan of Railway Protection Force(RPF) was killed and another was injured inan attack by PLGA cadres in Danetwadadistrict on 8 November.

Two policemen were seriously injured ina PLGA action near Regargatta village ofSukma district on 8 November. The same daya DRG jawan was injured near Sapenparavillage under Amabeda Police Station ofKanker district of Chhattisgarh.

During the day-long Dandakaranya-Telangana bandh called by CPI(Maoist) on 10November against the proposed amendmentsto the Chhattisgarh Land Revenue Act, onevehicle and a road-construction machine wasburnt down by PLGA’s forces including thepeople’s militia in Kirandul area of Bijapurdistrict. Many implements were seized by thePLGA. The same day, two bundles (1000metres) of telephone wire were destroyed inBedarguda road of the district. Several otherdemolition actions targeting enemy propertywere conducted. 319 men and 87 womencarrying traditional weapons like bows andarrows, spears, knives, etc. participated in theseactions. The bandh was successfully observedby the people of the movement areas in thetwo districts.

One policeman was killed in a blast carriedout by a militia platoon near Burkapal villageof Sukma district on 12 November.

Four Chhattisgarh Armed Police (CAP)jawans were injured when PLGA conducted abooby-trap explosion in Ranibodili ofNational Park Area in Bijapur district inNovember.

Three DRG jawans were injured in aPLGA action near Gonge village of KerlapalArea, Sukma district on 14 November.

On 19 November, one CRPF jawan waskilled in a pressure-bomb blast betweenChintalnar and Narsapuram villages. The


jawan was a part of a ‘Road Opening Party’(ROP) going from Chintalnar to Temelwadain Sukma district.

One policeman was killed and another wasinjured in a mine explosion carried out by thepeople’s militia near Narsapuram police campin Sukma district on 21 November.

On 24 November, PLGA blasted an IEDjust three hundred metres away from Kodgulpolice station between Sonpur and Athwadavillages in Korchi tehsil of North Gadchirolidistrict, in which one C-60 jawan ofMaharashtra Police was killed and two wereinjured. Two of our comrades were martyredin the action.

Five vehicles engaged in Raoghat railwayproject were burnt down just five hundredmetres away from SSB camp in Kosronda ofTadoki area of Kanker district on 25November. The same day a policeman waskilled in a PLGA action in Gariaband district.

One CRPF jawan was killed and two morewere injured in a PLGA attack inPadiyalmetta forest of Kurkhera in Gadchiroliarea on 26 November.

On 29 November, one policeman wasinjured in a pressure-bomb explosion inKistaram Area of Sukma district.

On the run-up to PLGA’s 17th anniversary,people’s militia attacked BSF’s Udanpur BaseCamp under Koelibera police station inKanker district with home-made guns and fire-crackers on 29 November and put up banners,posters around the camp calling upon themasses to celebrate the anniversary.

One CRPF jawan was killed in a booby-trap explosion near Jaggalervu village, Sukmadistrict on 30 November.

The Thana In-charge (TI) of GangalurPolice Station and a police constable wereinjured near Jarmagunda village of GangalurArea in after falling in spike-holes set up bythe PLGA on 30 November.

On 12 December, Maoist guerrillas burntdown eight machines including mixermachine, JCB, tippers and tractors engaged inroad building between Iragaon and Churagaonin Keshkal Area of Kanker district.

In the two months of November andDecember this year, over 20 policemen wereinjured in West Bastar Division after fallinginto spike-holes made by the militia.

One policeman was killed in a booby-trapexplosion in Kondaguda road of JegurgondaArea, Sukma district on 6 December. The sameday a constable was seriously injured in aPLGA attack between Hirni and Hedli villagesunder Mardapal Police Station of Kondagaondistrict.

On the day of the Bharat Bandh called bythe CPI(Maoist) against Brahmanical Hindu-fascism on 12 December, PLGA burnt downeight vehicles and machines engaged in roadconstruction near Hirnar village of KiskodoArea of Farsagarh block, Kondagaon district.A pump-house in Deposit-5 of NMDC’sBacheli plant located in Akash Nagar wasraged down at midnight, destroying electronicequipment of the mine which led tosuspension of production. Similarly, one truckwas set afire by PLGA in Bhairamgarh Areaof Bijapur district on the day of Bharat Bandh.

People’s armed resistance continues in South Sub-zone of DKIn PLGA’s counter-offensive guerrilla action carried out in South Sub-zone in the period

between July and October 2017, 12 policemen were killed and over a hundred policemenwere injured, mostly after falling into spike-holes set up by the people’s militia and thepeople (over 50,000 spike-holes were made by them in this Sub-zone during this period). 31police informers were eliminated as per the verdict of the people’s courts. Over 70 vehiclesengaged in carrying enemy jawans, road building, supplying material to the enemy, NMDCvehicles, etc. were destroyed.


PLGA burnt down twenty vehicles inSukma district’s Kistaram Area on 21December.

Many vehicles on road construction workwere burnt down on 29 December nearToylanka of Darbha Division.

On 31 December, seven vehicle includingone JCB and an earthmover were burnt downby the PLGA in Katekalyan Area ofDantewada district.

Maharashtra - MadhyaPradesh - Chhattisgarh

On 6 August, one police SI and aconstable of Chhattisgarh Police’s district forceand ‘E-30’ – an anti-Naxal force of districtpolice – were killed in a counter-offensive attackby the PLGA near Bhave village underGatapara Police Station on Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border.

OdishaOn 5 November, one jawan of District

Voluntary Force (DVF) – a special anti-Maoistunit of Odisha Police – was seriously injuredin a PLGA attack in Mahakhand forest ofBalangir district in Odisha. He was later shiftedto Visakhapatnam for treatment.

An SOG jawan was seriously injuredduring an encounter between the PLGA forcesand the Special Operations Group (SOG) ofOdisha Police in Balangir district of Odishaon 6 November.

Comrades, let us honour the memory of the October fighters by swearing before their memorialthat we shall follow in their footsteps and emulate their courage and heroism. Let their mottobe our motto, the motto of the rebelling workers of the world “Victory or Death!” And with thismotto the fighters for the proletarian world socialist revolution will be invincible.

- Lenin, ‘Speech at the Unveiling of A Memorial Plaque to thosewho Fell in the October Revolution’, 7 November 1918

Enemy’s strategicroad constructionhalted by peopleWhile the enemy is daily

propagating that the Maoistmovement is on the backfoot and thedecisive battle with the Maoists inBastar have begun, the reality gives adifferent picture. Far from being onthe verge of extinction, the movementwith the active participation of therevolutionary masses is not onlysustaining but also advancing. Onemarker of this is that the governmenthas not been able to complete as manyas 24 roads in this region as a part ofits counter-revolutionary strategicoffensive.

The work on these roads had beenstarted from 2001-02 to 2008-09, butcould not be complete due to theongoing revolutionary movement. 18of these incomplete roads are in theDarbha block, while three are inBastanar block, two in Jagdalpurblock and one in Lohandiguda block.The main reason for this is that theprivate contractors have been chasedaway by the people, who have refusedto take up the work even amidst thedeployment of hundreds of policeand paramilitary forces for thispurpose.


Voices against War on People

Voices raised against APgovernment’s objections

to martyrs’ memorialComrade Akkiraju Pruthvi (Munna) was

martyred fighting the enemy heroically in theRamaguda encounter on 24 October 2016. Hismother Sirisha and other family members andthe villagers of Pruthvi’s ancestral home inAlakurapadu in Prakasham district of AndhraPradesh has been planning to raise a memorialcolumn in the private land of the family inhonour of Munna and some other martyrs ofthe Indian revolution. But the AP governmentof K Chandrababu Naidu and the police havebeen resorting to various underhand means toprevent it.

As a part of it, the police have registeredFIRs against Comrade Munna’s motherSirisha and uncle Kalyan Rao – the renownedrevolutionary writer – allegedly for raisingfunds for the martyrs’ column. The

government has also been trying to take backthe land on which the column is to be erectedby claiming that it was government landallotted as per a scheme to give land to Dalitfamilies. Addressing a press conference againstthese malicious attempts by TDP government,Sirisha, Kalyan Rao, democrats and civil rightsorganisations have condemned this as an anti-Dalit and anti-democratic move to crush anysign of respect or support to the Maoistmovement, even towards its heroic martyrs.They pointed out that while memorials ofruling-class leaders have been raised in theirhundreds by encroaching on public land, theoppressed masses are denied the right tohonour their sons and daughters who havegiven up their lives for the cause of theoppressed. They condemned in one voice theTDP government’s nefarious design anddemanded that they be allowed to go aheadwith the memorial column without creatingfurther hurdles in the exercise of theirdemocratic rights.


Bihar-Jharkhand bandhobserved against growing

state repression on the peopleSouth Zonal Committee of CPI(Maoist)’s

Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee(BJSAC) called a bandh of Ranchi, Khunti andKolhan district Bandh in September againstthe attacks on the villagers by the government’sarmed forces during anti-Maoist operations.Villagers like Shankar Bodra and BudhuaBodra of Soymari village, Mangra Munda ofKedavir Sonua, Gomia Hansda of KotagaraTebo, Manga Purti of Rogod were beaten upmercilessly by the CRPF for their allegedinvolvement in Maoist activities, whereas thetruth is that they are villagers in no way relatedto the Maoist Party or any of its organisations.It bandh was also in protest against theharassment and repression by the policeincluding mixing paddy with husked rice,throwing away rice on the floor, destructionof crops and houses, etc. The police also raidedthe house of a resident of Soymari Dogeberavillage Sugna Bankira, destroyed his houseand looted twenty thousand rupees from there.As such atrocities and state repression are facedby a majority of the people of thee threedistricts, they responded to the bandh callvoluntarily, resulting in a paralysis of the dailyactivities. Except in the towns, the people inall areas kept buses and private vehicles,transport, markets, offices, schools, mines,factories, etc. closed as a mark of support tothe bandh.

Adivasi masses voiceopposition to arrest of villager

More than one hundred and fifty villagewomen blockaded Karaikela Police Stationafter Shankar Bodra – a resident of Soymarivillage in West Singhbhum district ofJharkhand – was arrested as an alleged Maoistand an associate of CPI(Maoist) AreaCommander Jeevan Kandulana. They saidthat Bodra was entirely innocent hand and hadbeen framed and beaten up by the police beforearrest. They demanded that he be immediatelyreleased and that the police stop persecutingthe villagers of the area in the name of anti-

Maoist operations. The villagers accused thepolice of physical assault at the slightest pretextand entering their homes and places of prayerand desecrating them. The police officers whoarrived on the spot of the demonstrationconceded that the policemen were guilty ofviolating the sanctity of the Adivasi homes andplaces of worship and assured them that nosuch mischief would be committed by thepolice in the future. Meanwhile, the SouthZonal Committee of CPI(Maoist) too haveclarified that Shankar Bodra was in no wayconnected to the Party or the revolutionarymovement. The police, however, refused torelease the villager from their custody and wassent to jail after producing him in the court.

Villagers fight back againstpolice highhandedness

The residents of tens of villages of DumriBlock who were holding a meeting in Vanpuravillage of Madhuban area in Giridih districtagainst the irregularities of the local fair-priceshop owner in a public school ground wereattacked by the police who claimed it to be aMaoist meeting. After physically attacking thevillagers, the police tried to forcibly take awaysome of them by tying their hands. Thisunprovoked action by the police on baselesscharges angered the people present there andthey started militantly resisting the police.Overpowered and cornered by the people, thepolicemen ran away from the spot leaving thedetained persons behind. This has set upanother glowing example of the united struggleof the masses foiling the evil designs of thepolice.

Students and teachersprotest against arrests

their colleaguesA teacher of the Kudaburu middle school

Jagadish Munda and a fifth class student ofthe school Sukhram Soy were detained inPorahat area of West Singhbhum district,Jharkhand. They were on the way to a bank towithdraw ten thousand rupees sent by


Sukhram’s brother from Mumbai to theaccount of the teacher for the treatment oftheir mother. But the police falsely accusedthem of working for the Maoists. When thepolice did not release them even after two days,a large number of students, teachers andvillagers carried out a gherao of Tebo PoliceStation for several hours demanding the releaseof their two colleagues. When police officialspromised that the student would be releasedthe next day, the agitators left for the nearbyschool to spend the night but came back thenext day to continue their blockade of thepolice station, insisting that both the detainedpersons be released together. They said thatuntil the two detained persons were releasedthey would not withdraw their agitation.

Democratic forces opposeJharkhand government’s banon Mazdoor Sangharsh Samiti

Mazdoor Sangharsh Samiti (MSS) – awell-known working-class organisation activein the state of Jharkhand for nearly threedecades – has been proscribed by the state’sgovernor on the recommendation of theRaghubar Das-led BJP government on 20December 2017. On the false allegation that

MSS is a front organisation of CPI(Maoist),the ban has been imposed as per the provisionsof Section 16 of the draconian Criminal LawAmendment Act 1908 – a provision originallyintroduced by the British Indian governmentin 1908 to crush the patriotic organisationsfighting against colonial rule. All activitiesunder the banner of this organisation havebeen prohibited. Its offices have been sealed andbank accounts blocked. In an all-out fascistattack against the organisation, three office-bearers of the its unit in Madhuban have beenarrested and sent to jail by accusing them ofcollecting levies. FIRs have been lodged againstmany more leaders of MSS under severalcriminal charges as a precursor to theirpersecution and probable arrest.

The utter frivolousness of this fascist stepcan be witnessed in the press release from thegovernment announcing this draconian step.The participation of revolutionary poetVaravara Rao has been cited as one of the‘crimes’ committed by the organisation, alongwith the other ridiculous charge that it ismobilising the “simple-minded Adivasis andvillagers” against the existing democraticsystem. Even before the official notification,the notorious Jharkhand DGP D K Pandeysaid on 20 December that MSS could becomea threat to the state’s “internal security” and

Students and teachers protest in Porahat against arrest of their colleague


hence should be banned. The government hasalso falsely accused the office-bearers of MSSto be associated with the ‘Maoist activities’.

MSS is an established organisation oflabourers in the formal and informal sectorsprimarily in Jharkhand covering a wide rangeof works such as in coalmines, thermal powerplants, factories, agricultural fields, etc. MSShas been organising and mobilising the workerson their economic and political demands andagainst the factory owners and managers indefence of their class interest and rights. Basedon the contribution of the workers, it isproviding social services to the workers andthe poor by opening hospitals at places likeMadhuban and Giridih where the patients aretreated free of cost. The organisation alsointervenes in internal disputes among theworkers and resolves them to the satisfactionof the disputant parties without referring thematter to the police or the class enemy. It hasbeen taking up programmes for politicallyeducate the working masses by propagatingMarxism-Leninism and holding meetings onimportant revolutionary occasions like fiftyyears of Naxalbari uprising andcommemorating the centenary of OctoberRevolution. All these activities on behalf ofthe workers had made MSS an eyesore for thecomprador capitalist and landlord classes withclose ties with the BJP government. Thedecision of banning MSS has been taken byRaghubar Das government at their behest.

The immediate cause of the ban, however,is the powerful people’s movement led by MSSagainst the fake encounter of daily wageworker and MSS member Motilal Baskey ofDholkatta village near Madhuban town ofGiridih by the anti-Maoist forces on 9 Junethis year, who was later branded as a ‘hardcoreNaxal’. The organisation was at the forefrontin exposing this killing and demandingpunishment for the police and paramilitaryforces responsible for it. Led by MSS, a series

of programmes were carried out in Giridih andother parts of the state to seek justice for thedeceased. The movement garnered widespreadsupport from the masses, people’sorganisations as well as several oppositionparliamentary parties. Thus, the organisationbacked by the united force of the workers hadbecome a threat not only to the mill ownersand the police-paramilitary forces but also forthe Hindu-fascist BJP-led governments in thestate and at the centre. Using the pretext ofcracking down on the Maoist frontorganisation, it has proscribed MSS in apatently illegal and unjust manner. Thistyrannical crushing of democratic dissent andthe violation of workers’ right to organise isin fact a part of the war on people carried outby the Brahmanical Hindu-fascist BJPgovernment. This act has been opposed by awide range of trade unions, workers’organisations, democratic forces and thetoiling masses of Jharkhand. Joining its voicein the struggle against the ban, Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee (BJSAC)of CPI(Maoist) too has strongly opposed thismalicious assault and demanded that thegovernment immediately withdraw this banand release the arrested leaders of MSS.

Banning of mass organisations upholdingrevolutionary and democratic ideology isnothing new in the country, and particularlyin Jharkhand. The Jharkhand government hadcontinuing prohibition of four suchorganisations from 2008 itself includingKrantikari Kisan Committee (KKC), NariMukti Sangh (NMS), Jharkhand Aven andKrantikari Sanskritik Manch. Similarly, thesame Jharkhand government has recentlybanned a work of fiction The Adivasi will notDance by Sowendu Shekhar Hansda andremoved from his job. All democratic andprogressive organisations and individuals ofthe country need to raise their voice againstthis fascist method of proscribing politicaldissent.


Killing of Maoist activists, people’sguerrillas, mass organisation members and therevolutionary masses has continued unabatedin the last six months under the new counter-revolutionary offensive ‘Samadhan’throughout the Maoist movement areas in thecountry. We are presenting below only a fewinstances of such extra-judicial murders by themercenary armed forces of Modi governmentin Dandakaranya.

From 1 to 6 August, mercenary forces ofthe government including commandos ofChhattisgarh and Maharashtra Policeconducted a joint operation for a week in theIndravati National Park Area of Bijapur district.They entered 42 Adivasi villages and carried outrepression. On the third day of the operation,they caught a youth of Mukaveli village namedKumma Vanjaram and killed him in a fakeencounter. Nearly 150 villagers blockadedBijapur Police Station against the cold-bloodedmurder of the youth and demanded punishmentfor the guilty policemen. They continued theirprotest for two days, recovered the dead bodyof Kumma, brought it to his village andconducted the last rites.

On 13 August, two peasants of Ittanparavillage in Kistaram Area of South BastarDivision Poiyam Sannu and Vanjam Hungalwere killed in a heinous manner. The policesurrounded the village and trashed manypeople. Thereafter, they took away Sannu andHunga to the nearby forest, cut into pieces theirlimbs and tortured them to death. Followingthis they made the usual claim of killing twoNaxals in an encounter.

On 15 September, the enemy forces killedManni Nureti (24), a resident of Achekotvillage under Konge Gram Panchayat inNarayanpur district, in a fake encounter. Hewas abducted on 24 August from Betia marketand kept in illegal custody for nearly threeweeks. The people of the area protested againstthe cold-blooded killing.

Two Adivasi villagers were killed in a fakeencounter by the police on 18 September nearRachatong village, Gollapalli Police Station,Sukma district.

In the night of 20 September, thegovernment forces attacked Palemaduguvillage under Polampalli Police Station ofSukma district. They caught hold of a villagerPodiyam Bheema while he was sleeping in hishome. He was brutally tortured and killed in afake encounter. His family members as well asthe villagers have protested this killing anddemanded punishment for the guiltypolicemen. Bheema’s sister Barse Kanni hasalso moved the Bilaspur High court seeking afair enquiry into the killing. In her petition shehas accused that policemen forcibly took awaythe father of four children and peasant Bheemafrom home and killed him as a ‘hardcoreMaoist’. Moreover, during the same operationthe policemen attacked Chitram village,detained some villagers and took them forciblyto Bande Police Station. Women from thevillage got together and reached the policestation, where they fought for the release ofthe detained villagers. The police were finallyforced to release the detained villagers.

One People’s Militia comrade was killedin a fake encounter near Pidimel village ofPolampalli Police Station in Sukma district on21 September 2017.

Comrade Karan, Area Committeemember and commander of CCM protectionsquad, was injured and was unable to retreatwhen enemy forces attacked a camp on 23October. He was caught alive, tortured andkilled in cold blood. The other comradesfought back and retreated safely, during whichone policeman was wiped out.

Militia member Comrade Dula ofBirabatti village of Bastar was shot and injuredby policemen in one-sided firing on 14November when he was coming from his fieldto his home. He was caught alive, tortured andkilled brutally.

Two members of PLGA’s Battalion-1Comrades Sodi Sita and Sodi Lakhma werecaught from a house in Kanaipad village ofSukma district on 16 November in an unarmedstate. They were tortured the whole day toextract secret information, failing which theywere shot dead near Sunnamguda village in afake encounter.

Fake encounters continue in Dandakaranya under ‘Samadhan’


Anti-Maoist joint forces caught hold of apeople’s militia member Soyam Chenchal fromGompad village of Konta Area of Sukmadistrict in South Bastar Division. He was tiedto a tree and tortured in an extremely barbaricmanner to make him surrender or revealinformation about the revolutionarymovement and organisations. But failing tomake him utter any such information,Chenchal was killed in a brutal manner. Laterthe same policemen fired upon village womenwho were catching fish, in which one SoyamRame was injured. She could not immediatelybe taken to a hospital and treated due to thefear of arrest by the police. Later, she was takento Telangana’s Bhadrachalam town fortreatment, but getting to know about it,Chhattisgarh Police arrested her immediatelyafter discharge, falsely alleging that she was anactive member of Krantikari Adivasi MahilaSangh (KAMS). On the other hand, a largenumber of village women to Erraobre campto claim the dead body of Chenchal.

On 22 December, the anti-Maoist forcesshot and injured a people’s militia comradePunem Raju in West Bastar Division. After hewas hit in his thigh and was unable to walk,Raju was caught, subjected to inhuman tortureand later shot dead in a fake encounter. Laterthey mercilessly beat up the youth of the village.When the women of the village intervened, theywere fired upon and thrashed too, in which over30 women were injured. But displaying greatcourage, the women did not lose their spirit andnext day nearly 1,500 women of the areareached the district headquarter of Bijapur andblockaded the DC’s office demanding the bodyof Raju and punishment for the policemenguilty of his murder. They also raised sloganslike ‘Stop fake encounters’, ‘Stop policeatrocities against villagers and women’, ‘Punishthe guilty policemen’, etc.

From 22 to 25 December, Chhattisgarhand Maharashtra police conducted a jointoperation near Sendra village on the IndravatiRiver. On 24 December, they caught a villagerMajji Toka when he was fishing in the river.He was beaten up and water-boarded, torturedcruelly after tying him with a tree and finallyshot him dead. They took the body to

Damarancha Police Station in Gadchirolidistrict of Maharashtra and branded him as aMaoist. Over two hundred villagers went toDamarancha to protest against this fakeencounter and to claim the body. Theyfearlessly talked to the enemy, exposing the liesand fascist methods used by the police. Thevillagers eventually recovered the body fromthe police and conducted the last rites as perrevolutionary tradition.

People’s struggle againstsetting up of new police camp

A new police camp to station DRG andSTF jawans was set up in Hadeli village ofArendwal panchayat in Kondagaon district,Chhattisgarh, on 3 December 2017. The peopleof the Panchayat have been protesting againstthe plan for setting up the camp in their areafor the last one year and thrice petitioned theDistrict Collector to this effect. They foughtagainst the surveyors who had come tomeasure the land for the proposed campwithout taking prior permission of the GramSabha as is mandatory under the FifthSchedule and the PESA Act. The people raisedthe slogan that they do not need a police campbut want the resolution of their dire problemslike poverty, unemployment, lack of properhealthcare and education, etc.

However, the government set up the campby completely ignoring the objections of themasses. Just two days after, on 5 December, adrunk policeman harassed a married villagewoman in front of her husband. The villagersgot together and beat up the guilty policeman.The thrashed policeman’s colleagues camerunning to the spot, apologised to the villagersand took him to the cap. The next day thepeople in larger numbers got mobilised the nextday and decided not to cooperate with thepolicemen of the camp or give him any kindof help in protest. They defied the directionof the policemen to clean up the site or similarwork. The PLGA forces too launched an attackon the camp in the morning of 6 Decemberwith assistance of the masses, in which oneSTF jawan were injured. The policemen in thecamp kept firing hundreds of rounds in panic


for nearly an hour but the PLGA retreatedsafely. The people are of the opinion that thepolicemen in the camp must be chased usingall means – be it through peaceful protests orarmed actions by the people’s guerrillas.

Protest against the gang-rapeand murder of Podiyam Jogi

A new police camp was set up inGajulagatta village under Kistaram PoliceStation of Sukma district in South BastarDivision. The anti-Maoist forces are setting upcamp as per the ‘Carpet Security’ plan inDandakaranya by cutting down large swathesof forest surrounding these camps. They aredestroying these forests using machines andaffecting the livelihood of the masses whodepend on these forests for the use of firewood,fodder, timber, etc. In a single month they haveestablished camps in Bomgudem andMeenagatta, Kottaguda, Gundam, Bhattumand Kondapalli. These forces are creating areign of white terror in the periphery of theircamps, subjecting the villagers to untold staterepression. As a part of it, thousands ofmercenary armed forces of the Indiangovernment fired indiscriminately on theresidents of Jarpalli village under Pamed PoliceStation of Sukma district on 15 December.They caught Podiyam Jogi – a peasant womanof the village – gang-raped her and then killedher, following which they spread the news thatthey have shot dead an armed Maoist. Thepeople of the area have been protesting againstthis heinous state violence, demandingpunishment for the guilty.

Village women blockadeBijapur police headquarters

against police repressionOn 21 December, hundreds f women from

Korcholi, Sawnar and Todka villages came tothe district headquarter Bijapur to lodge theircomplaint to the District Collector against thegovernment forces who they said beat them upand molested them. They blockaded thecollector’s office for several hours and handedover their written complaint to the collector andthe magistrate in which they said that DRGpolicemen – some of whom were formerlynotorious SPOs – attacked their villages on 19December during an anti-Maoist operation. Inthe pretext of searching for Maoists, theyphysically assaulted tens of women, beatingthem up mercilessly and sexually harassingthem. Elderly women and young girls too werenot spared by the khaki goons, four of whomwere in an inebriated state. When they tried toresist this police brutality, the policementhrashed them even more. Many of the womenwere seriously injured. A six year old girl wasbeaten so mercilessly that she was left bleedingprofusely. They even tried to rape a girl whichwas foiled by the villagers. They displayed thebamboo sticks with which the policemen hadbeaten them indiscriminately. The protestingwomen said that they were ready to identify theculprits and demanded that criminal cases beregistered against them and be punishedaccording to law. The enraged women declaredthat they would not lift their blockade unlesslegal proceedings were initiated against theguilty. The courageous and resolute daylongprotest was ended after the government officialsassured action against the policemen.

Village women protest in front of police headquarters at Bijapur against police atrocities


It has become an usual practice for the forthe anti-Maoist forces to illegally detain orarrest villagers during combing operation onsuspicion of helping the Maoist guerrillas inDandakaranya and other revolutionarymovement areas. But on many occasions, theorganised masses resist the enemy forces andget their detained comrades released throughheroic struggle. The following are some suchinstances.

On 28 September, the police attackedGandar village of Kerlapal Area in Bastar anddetained six villagers including a woman. Thevillagers, mostly women fought against thepolicemen who were taking the detainedpersons to their camp. The police beat themup, in which nine women and four men wereinjured. In spite of this, nearly 50 villagewomen pursued the police and got the detainedpersons released mid-way.

Starting on 3 October, police forcesstationed at Narayanpur town attacked villageslike Khadder, Berahweda, Oradi, Maspur,Mettanar, Garpa and Orchapara in the MaadDivision. They not only assaulted the villagersbut took into custody 21 villagers from differentvillages and took them to Narayanpur. Over ahundred people, mostly women, reached thepolice camps in Narayanpur and militantlyprotested the unlawful detention of thevillagers. Under pressure from the masses, thepolice had to release twelve persons while sevenothers were arrested and sent to jail.

At around 9 in the evening of 5 October,several jawans of District Reserve Group(DRG) came in motorcycles and reached Ehravillage of Kondagaon district of East BastarDivision. Adiram Vatti, an Adivasi peasant,was caught from his house by them and triedto take him with them. But the alert familymembers and villagers gathered immediatelyand put up a strong resistance. They heckledthe policemen, attacked them and took awaythe weapons of a few. After more than one

hour of struggle the policemen realised that thepeople were getting the better of them andleaving behind Adiram they ran for their lives.

On 19 November in the Indravati Areaunder Maad Division of DK Special Zone, abig anti-Maoist operation was conducted bythe police and paramilitary forces. They spreadterror among the villagers of the area andmercilessly beat up several of them. Theylooted the poultry and other domestic animals,killed and ate them. They caught hold of 11villagers including a woman and a minor girlfrom different villages and took them forciblyto Orccha Police Station, Narayanpur district.They took away several Bharmars (muzzle-loading guns) from the villagers as well. Peoplefrom over ten villages followed the policemenup to Orccha demanding the release of all thedetainees. When the police refused, thevillagers camped outside the police station forfive days and continued their protest, ignoringthe biting cold and making arrangements forcooking there itself. They even forcedthemselves into the police station and managedto bring out four of the detainees from custody.Noticing the militant protest of the villagers,the police took six of the detainees to the courtwhich sent them to jail, while displaying falseconcern, the police admitted the minor girl ina school. The village women played a key rolein this protest by being at the forefront ofstruggle.

On 27 November, the police attackedGattapad village of Kistaram Area in SouthBastar Division and took away eight villagerswith them to Ittaguppa police station. Morethan 30 villagers including 21 women ofGattapad pursued the policemen all the wayto Ittaguppa and fought for five days with thepolice demanding release of all the detainees.They succeeded in freeing five of them whilethree were taken to Sukma. The villagers wentto Sukma as well and managed to release thethree remaining detainees through theirresolute struggle.

Masses of Dandakaranya fight the enemyforces to get their comrades released


COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)SOUTH BASTAR DIVISIONAL COMMITTEE

December 2017

Clarification to the Press from South Bastar Divisional Committee

We have got the message on behalf of the journalist association addressed to our Party. Wewant to make clear to you all that our Party CPI(Maoist) or any of its units including SouthBastar Divisional Committee has nothing to do with the leaflet and banner issued in the nameof so-called Maoist organisation on 13 November where the journalists have been threatenedand there is an attempt to gag their voice. Neither have we issued this leaflet nor have our Partyhave any policy of threatening and intimidating journalists.

The Hindu-fascist governments of the centre and state, their police forces and counter-revolutionary organisations like ‘AGNI’ (‘Action Group for National Integration’) have issuedthese leaflets and banner as per a pre-planned conspiracy to malign our Party and to suppress thevoice of the conscientious journalists. This evil design is a part of the fascist campaign to crush therevolutionary movement and people’s struggles going on under the leadership of our Party and isalso a heinous attack on the freedom of the press. Particularly after a CRPF commandant whohad issued a fascist instruction just a few days back to shoot and kill honest journalists working inthe areas of Maoist movement in Dandakaranya was exposed and widely condemned, the enemyhas carried out this dastardly act in desperation and as a measure of saving their face. Our Partystrongly condemns the issue of fake leaflets and banners in our name.

Our Party has always been an advocate of the freedom of the press and the right to expressionof the journalists. Our Party has strongly opposed the recent assassination of journalist GauriLankesh in Karnataka by the Hindu-fascists and the arrest of senior journalist Vindo Verma by theChhattisgarh Police. Similarly, we have opposed the death threats issued by administrative andpolice officers of the government and their incarceration under fabricated cases.

Hindutva-fascist BJP government-Sangh Parivar is carrying on fascist repression andviolence against revolutionaries, democrats, civil rights activists, social activists, journalists,intellectuals, lawyers and others who take the side of truth, democratic rights and the oppressedmasses. It is adopting autocratic measures. The fake leaflets and banners released in our Party’sname is a part of this. We request and humbly appeal to all the journalists that instead of gettinginfluenced or hoodwinked by this kind of false propaganda they should first investigate by goingto the root of the matter, contact us if any clarification is required and believe in them or publishnews reports only after taking the views of all sides. Beware of and expose the government’santi-democratic and anti-journalist conspiracies and Goebbelsian false propaganda.

CPI(Maoist) retorts foul propaganda campaign of the police Recently, the enemy and its police had issued leaflets and banners in the name of CPI(Maoist)

in South Bastar this November where the journalists of Bastar who refused to toe the line of thegovernment and its armed forces have been threatened with dire consequences. After this threatbecame public, journalists of Bastar were very concerned and they took out a motorcycle rally toappeal to our Party to withdraw this threat. At the same time, they also sent the Party a messageasking for clarification whether our Party had indeed issued such a threat. Though the journalistssuspected the genuineness of these leaflets and banners, they nevertheless requested the Party toclarify the matter. The South Bastar Division of the Party issued the following clarification inHindi in December 2017, which we present in English translation.


‘Prahar-2’ as a part of fascist‘Samadhan’ plan opposedAs a part of the ongoing ‘Samadhan’

counter-revolutionary plan, the enemy forceshave been conducting a series of anti-Maoistoperations in all Maoist movement areas ofthe country. On 6 November, they launched‘Prahar-2’ in Dandakaranya involvingthousands of jawans aided by the Indian AirForce as a follow-up of ‘Prahar-1’ conducteda few months back. These forces killed sixMaoist activists in Narayanpur district as apart of this operation. From 11 to 13November, a police batch of nearly 400personnel attacked the villages of Pusnar,Mankeli, Peddakorma, Kakekorma andPaddeda in Bijapur district, during which theykilled three people’s militia comradesModiyam Manku (23), Korsa Sonu (32) andTati Guddu (25) in unprovoked firing andbranded them as Maoists. Apart from killings,all other forms of state terror are beingperpetrated by the government forces targetingnot only Maoist activists but also the villagerswho form the mass base of the revolutionarymovement. The people are valiantly resisting‘Prahar-2’ and other operations such as‘Operation Shaurya’, ‘Operation Monsoon’,etc. with arms and through unarmed protests.

Police brutality on the peopleof Tondamarka in Sukma

The brutal attacks committed by thearmed forces of the reactionary Indian rulingclasses on the revolutionary masses of thecountry often go unreported in the corporateand state-controlled media except on such rareoccasions when honest journalists or socialactivists take the risk of reporting the truthfrom the warzone. Following is a listpainstakingly compiled by the people’sgovernment (Jantana Sarkar) after one of suchattack on the Adivasi masses of Tondamarkavillage in Sukma district on 24 June this year.It presents a vivid picture of the crimescommitted by the police-paramilitary andcommando forces on a daily basis:

Muchaki Hidma who was ill was beatenup ruthlessly; Madvi Raja (65) – an old man –was beaten twice with a stick; Madvi Raje (63)was thrashed for long time; Kavasi Hidma (62)was beaten till she fainted; Vetti Deva (40) wasbeaten until he fell unconscious; Karram Madatoo was beaten mercilessly; Karram Budhra’shand was fractured due to police brutality; SodiHidme, an old woman with impaired hearingtoo was beaten; the four year old child ofKavasi Joga was beaten till he fell unconscious;Muchaki Bheema – a 10 year old youngster –was thrice beaten with a stick; Sodi Sukki washit with rifle butt; Sodi Deva too was assaultedwith the butt of a rifle; elderly woman SodiPaike was beaten with a stick; Kovasi Bheemeand her two year old child were both beatenup; Kovasi Budhri was twice thrashed with abaton; Sodi Paike was kicked and punched;Madvi Rame was hit on her legs and hands;Sodi Hungi was trashed five times; Dirdo Sonisurvived attempted rape and cutting of herneck with an arrow; Hemla Sukki (namechanged) was raped; Dirdo Paike was hit withthe rifle butt; ten year old Madvi Kosi was twicehit with a stick; Madvi Muye was thrashedblack and blue; Madvi Ide was thrice beatenwith a stick; Kovasi Aite was beaten with stickand rifle butt; teenager Kovasi Hidme faintedwhen subjected to beating; Podiyami Sukri toobecame unconscious due to thrashing; oldwoman Podiyami Raje too was hit twice witha stick; pregnant Madvi Nande was beaten upmercilessly; five year old Kovasi Deve wasbeaten; Madvi Hidma who was married onlya week back was beaten and taken intocustody; Madvi Muya, married just a fortnightback was assaulted and taken away by thepolice; Madvi Deva too was thrashed andforcibly detained.

Likewise, following are particulars ofproperty stolen or looted by the enemy forces:Sodi Ganga’s five towels and 2 mugs werelooted; Kovasi Kosa’ 1,500 rupees cash wasstolen; Madvi Nanda lost a pair of horns, 3arrows, 2 sarees, 2 lungis and a pair of sandals;Podiyam Budhra’s 2,400 rupees and a radiowere looted; Madvi Joga lost 9,500 rupees;Madkam Sukda’s utensil was destroyed; 5bottles of liquor and 1 kilo fish belonging toSodi Soma was looted; Sodi Paike’s knife was


looted; Madvi Kosa’s bharmar (country-mademuzzle-loading gun) was looted and SodiSoma’s bharmar was looted.

The villagers’ property was also destroyedby the enemy forces: Sodi Ganga’s bicycle andclothes kept at home were destroyed; MadviJoga’s bicycle was destroyed; MuchakiHidma’s bicycle was destroyed; KarramHadma’s bicycle was destroyed; the door toKovasi Kosa’s house was broken; KarramBudhra’s hut was burnt and a utensil wasdestroyed and Vetti Deva’s hut too was setaflame by the white government’s fascist armedforces.

CPI(Maoist) protests againstwhite terror under thefascist ‘Mission-2017’

After failing in its objective to wipe outthe countrywide Maoist movement throughthe counter-revolutionary Operation GreenHunt (OGH) and ‘Mission-2016’, this year thegovernment had launched ‘Mission-2017’followed by the ‘Samadhan’ plan. Under thisoffensive, the Indian ruling classes and itspolitical representative Modi government hasbeen stepping up its fascist war on people. InJharkhand too, the white government’s armedforces launched a series of attacks under theseplans. For instance, artillery units of theseforces have bombarded in Burha Pahad regionand its surrounding districts Latehar, Palamu,Garhwa and Gumla between 23 and 26November. The Indian Army’s armoured units

have been used in the last two-three monthsalong with the use of combat helicopters andplanes in coordination with the police-paramilitary forces carrying out anti-Maoistoperations on the ground. Between 8 and 10October, Air Force fighter planes flew overKiriburu, Chotanagara, Gua, Nowamundi,etc. several times for about five-six hours toterrorise the masses. In 2011 itself, one ofIndian Navy’s speedboats were used to patrolfor a whole day the Gandak river flowingthrough Vaishali and Chapra districts of Biharand the naval troops even fired upon severalplaces thinking that they were Maoist hideouts,which is another evidence that not just centraland state police are involved in the counter-revolutionary war on people but also the threewings of the Indian Army in some way or theother. The use of their helicopters, drones andwar facilities like jungle warfare schools, bases,etc. for the same purpose too has becomecommon knowledge. It is against this ruthlesswar on people that BJSAC of CPI(Maoist)issued a call for two days of protest on 18 and19 December and 24-hour Bihar-Jharkhandbandh on 20 December.

People of Dilmili opposeplanned police station

An Ultra mega steel plant has beenproposed in Dilmili village of Darbha blockin Bastar district under the aegis of thecomprador capitalists, for the security ofwhich a police station there has already beensanctioned by the Indian government. But the

Masses protest against proposed police station in Dilmili village


people of Dilmili and surrounding 25 villageswhich will come under the purview of thepolice station have been vociferously protestingagainst it. The people held a big demonstrationon the occasion of ‘Constitution Day’ andvoiced their opposition, declaring that sincethe area comes under the Fifth Schedule of theConstitution, no police station can be set upwithout the prior permission of the GramSabha and the people.

But since no such permission was soughtor given, the plan for the police station waspatently illegal and violates the basic rights ofthe predominantly Adivasi residents of the area.As the masses of the area are opposing theDilmili steel plant, they suspect that if the policestation is allowed to come up, the police willstart coercive action against the people’smovement against the plant and its participants.The people are demanding that the plan for thepolice station should be shelved by thegovernment and instead it should pay attentionto fulfilling the basic necessities of the masses.The Gram Sabha of Dilmili has conducted avillage assembly and passed a resolutionopposing the proposed police station. Theyvowed not to allow the forcible construction ofthe police station using all their might.

Villagers of Mettapal accusepolice of killing 13 year old

in a fake encounterA 13 year old village boy Potam Somaru

was caught by the anti-Maoist forcescomprising of CRPF and District Police whenhe was returning from his family’s field aftertending to the crops in Mettapal village ofGangalur Area, Bijapur district in Bastar. Hisfather Potam Kumma said that the story floatedby the police after this cold-blooded killing ofhis son that they have shot down a uniformedMaoist totally false. The dead body wasbrought to the district headquarters and laterhanded over to his family. But more than ahundred villagers including a large number ofwomen brought the dead body to Gangalurand placed it at the village square as a mark ofprotest. They demanded that FIRs be lodgedagainst the policemen, a fair enquiryconducted and the culprits be brought to bookat the earliest.

Villagers protest with the dead body of 13-year old Potam Somaru in Mettapal village


Assistant Jail Superintendentsuspended for speaking up

against persecution of Adivasis The protests against the unjust suspension

of deputy superintendent of Raipur prisonVarsha Dongre for speaking up against themanhandling of Adivasi women by anti-Maoist forces have not yet died down whenChhattisgarh government has come out witha similar malicious step against another jailofficial. This time it has decided to gagthrough bureaucratic means Dinesh Dhruv –Assistant Jail Superintendent of BalodabazarSub-Jail. The only ‘crime’ Dhruv committedwas to comment in his Facebook account withthe title “not all Adivasis are Maoists”. Thishe wrote in the context of the continued staterepression unleashed on the largely Adivasimasses of Dandakaranya on the commonaccusation that they are in league with theMaoists, as if any form of atrocity could becarried out with impunity after someone wastagged as a ‘Maoist’.

After Dhruv questioned the BJPgovernment’s anti-Naxal policy through hissocial-media post, his superiors accused himof a ‘Naxal sympathiser’ and slapped him ashow-cause notice, following which he wassuspended from service. The officialdom hasalso accused him of commenting on the non-adherence to the jail manual, due to which theprison inmates are not getting the facilitieswhich are rightfully theirs. Another ‘mistake’Dhruv is found to have committed is that hehad ‘Liked’ Varsha Dongre when she spoke outpublicly last year.

All this has made Dinesh Dhruv a softtarget of the fascist BJP governments at thecentre and in Chhattisgarh who are highlyintolerant of any questioning or criticism,particularly from their own employees. Thisblatant crushing of democratic voices ofdissent has been condemned by several civilrights and people’s organisations of the stateand demanded the withdrawal ofdepartmental actions against Dinesh Dhruvand his immediate reinstatement.

Harassment of girl students byCRPF jawans condemnedThe CRPF, which has the largest number

of personnel among the paramilitary forces inanti-Maoist operations has been conducting‘Rakhsa Bandhan’ for many years involving thelocal girls’ schools as a part of their ‘civic action’programme. The occasion is supposed to bolsterthe relation of the cruel forces with the locals bymaking use of the traditional Hindu festivalwhere brothers assure their sisters of ‘protecting’them in return of the ‘Rakhi’ tied by the sisteron the wrists of their brothers. Inpredominantly tribal society of Bastar, it is oneway of introducing or consolidating thedominance of Brahmanical Hindu culture.

The personnel of CRPF camp at Palnarvillage of Dantewada district has conductingthis mass contact programme for the lastseveral years where five hundred girl studentsof the government-run Palnar Adivasi girls’residential school – most of whom are Adivasis– is made to tie Rakhi to hundred of jawans.This year on 31 July when this programme wasgoing on, some police jawans sexually harassedand molested the girl students in the name offrisking. But instead of keeping mum due tothe pressure of the CRPF, the girlscourageously stood up against the guilty jawansand complained to the school authorities, whoin turn lodged complaints in the KuakondaPolice Station. The CRPF and police topofficials had to lodge an FIR, order an enquiryinto the incident and initiate proceedingsagainst the guilty policemen.

Voices of protest raisedagainst police action on

student activists in TelanganaOn 18 October, two student activists

Nukala Mahesh (President, TelanganaVidyarthi Vedika or TVV) and Kranthi Ranadev(TVV member) were abducted and detained byTelangana Police fom Hyderabad on accusationof their so-called Maoist links. They were takento a local police station where Mahesh wassubjected to physical and mental torture.


While Ranadev was released the next day,Mahesh was presented by the police in a pressconference as a ‘prize catch’, making severalbaseless charges against him. The police,however, was forced to release Mahesh tooafter the democratic organisations of the stateand particularly the student organisationsstrongly protested against the TRS governmentand its running dogs in the police for framingpolitical activists as “Maoists’ who are criticalof the ruling classes and the existing system.

Arrest of senior journalistVinod Verma a part of the

ongoing war on peopleLast year a team of Editors’ Guild of India

– an apex body of the journalists working inthe country’ print and electronic media visitedBastar region to investigate into the growingtrend of persecution of journalists by the stateand its various wings like the police on allegedMaoist cases. The team members includedestablished senior journalists Prakash Dube,Seema Chisti and Vinod Verma. The fact-finding team conducted a thoroughgoingenuiry, met a wide range of people includingthe scribes in Bastar as well as governmentofficials. In its report, the team exposed the

reign of state terror in which the journalists haveto work in this part of the country, brining tolight the truth about the regions of the civil warbetween the white government and therevolutionary masses led by CPI(Maoist). Thisbold report became a cause of majorembarrassment for not only Raman Singhgovernment but also Modi government at thecentre.

It is in this context that the arrest of seniorjournalist and Editor’s Guild member VinodVerma on 27 October under fabricated chargesneeds to be understood. Because of theoutspokenness of Verma and other members ofthe fact-finding team as well as Editors’ Guildagainst the curbing of right to expression andfreedom of the press that he had been framedand arrested in a vindictive manner. Verma andeven the journalists covering his arrest have beenphysically assaulted and manhandled by thepolice and state-sponsored goons even in courtpremises. All these are attempts to prevent thereality of state terror from Maoist movementareas from reaching the outside world.Journalists and their organisations, civil rightsactivists and democrats have raised their voiceagainst the persecution of Vinod Verma and thescribes of Bastar by BJP governments at thecentre and in Chhattisgarh.

women prisoners. Many complaints have beenregistered by the prisoners against the JailSuperintendent and other jail officials but noaction have been taken against them as theyact as the puppets of the government. This hascompelled the Maoist political prisoners ofWest Bengal to take up a coordinated hungerstrike in different jails of the state against theinjustice perpetrated against Kalpana Maitiand others and particularly the womenpolitical prisoners.

It is to be noted that Calcutta High Courthad ordered four years back that the Maoistprisoners are recognised as political prisoners,but TMC government has stalled theimplementation of this order by challenging itin the courts, thus displaying the opportunism,hypocrisy and double-standard of MamataBanerjee. It was she who had promised to releasethe political prisoners involved in various

people’s movements persecuted by the previousLeft Front government, but has made a u-turnon this promise after coming to power.Although Justice Malay Sengupta Committeeappointed by the government hadrecommended the release of all politicalprisoners, only 51 of them have been releasedunder Mamata’s fascist regime. These 51prisoners had already spent 15 years or more inprison and are entitled to be released in any case.But when it comes to other political prisoners,Mamata government has done nothing for theirrelease, but in fact have used all possible meansto keep them behind bars and is filling the jailswith more political opponents. Democratic andvivil rights organisations need to intensify theirefforts to compel Mamata government of herpre-poll promise of releasing all the politicalprisoners associated with various people’smovements.

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People’s Struggles

‘Action Week’ observed from 6 to 12 Decemberin all Maoist movement areas of the country

The Central Committee of CPI(Maoist)called an ‘Action Week’ against BrahmanicalHindu-fascism from 6 to 12 December andBharat Bandh on 12 December on the occasionof 25 years of the demolition of Babri Masjidin Ayodhya. It was also to be a week of protestagainst the BJP-led NDA government whichis aiming at realising the Hindutva agenda oftransforming the country into a ‘HinduRashtra’ (Hindu nation) by using state power.The toiling masses and all oppressed sectionsof the society are suffering the economic,political and cultural attacks of the Hindu-fascists in all spheres of social life. Particularlythe Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis, women,revolutionary and democratic organisations,all types of people’s movements are underintense assault from these rabidly reactionaryforces at the service of the Indian ruling classesand the imperialists. That is why it has becomean urgent necessity for the oppressed classesand social sections, revolutionary, democratic,secular and patriotic organisations and all

opponents of Hindu-fascism to come togetherin a common struggle against its onslaught.

Towards this, the Action Week and BharatBandh called by CPI(Maoist) was observed inall Maoist movement areas. The Party, PLGA,various revolutionary mass organisations andpeople’s governments took up propagandacampaign against Brahmanical Hindu-fascismprior to the Week and organised massmeetings, rallies, protest marches, etc. to makethe call a success. Not only in the GuerrillaZones and Red Resistance Areas but also insome urban areas where the Party is present,programmes were taken up under the ActionWeek. The Bharat Bandh of 12 December tooevoked good response in areas and states wherethe revolutionary movement has a stronginfluence. The weeklong protest sent a strongsignal that the struggling masses led byCPI(Maoist) will not take the assaults of theHindutva gang lying down and are ready tofight back the saffron swarms using all meansat their disposal including armed retaliation.


Modi government’s anti-worker and anti-peasant measures arefor the sole benefit of the foreign and domestic ruling classes

The following is the translation of a press statement issued by the Eastern Regional Bureau(ERB) of the CPI(Maoist) in the context of the measures taken by the Modi government – themost loyal political representative of the Indian ruling classes and imperialists – which are givingrise to growing pauperisation of the toiling masses of the country and their militant struggles.

COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)EASTERN REGIONAL BUREAU

15.7.2017

Modi government is working in the interest of the domestic andforeign corporate houses and against the toiling masses of the country

On the occasion of the completion of threeyears of Modi government at the centre, BJPhas celebrated throughout the country with greatfanfare and recounted its ‘achievements’particularly in the BJP-ruled states. The BJPleaders claimed that Modi has done in threeyears the kind of development that did not takeplace in the last seventy years. But the promiseswith which Modi-led BJP came to power –‘Acche Din’, ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’, brining‘black money’ back to the country, providingemployment to two lakh youths every year –there is no discussion by them on any of theseissues. In reality, good days have come for thecorporate houses, big traders and share marketduring this government’s rule. The governmenthas the resources to waive corporate loans worthlakhs of crores, but they don’t have funds tospend for the welfare of the peasants andworkers. There is no avenue for employmentfor the youth, peasants are forced to commitsuicide and provisions of social security forworkers have been done away with.

In 2014, it was promised that two lakhyouths would be given employment every year,but instead of providing employment theproblem of employment has become even moreacute today. In reality, at the centre of today’seconomic policies of the government is theinterest of the big corporations and not thecommon masses. The policies of thegovernment are centred only on attractinginvestment. We will have to understand thatemployment opportunities do not increase with

an increase in investment. Moreover, thegovernment has taken the decision ofdemonetisation. This has resulted in such a lossto the small businesses that they have becomeparalysed permanently. Small-scale industrieshave the biggest contribution in generatingemployment in the country. At the same time,employment to various governmentdepartments has been freezed in the name ofcost-cutting, due to which employmentopportunists have further gone down. Thegovernment is only taking economic growth asthe measure of development. But employmentopportunities have shrunk due to the adoptionof neo-liberal policies.

On the one hand the government is sayingthat the peasants’ income will be doubled by2022. But instead of increasing peasants’income preparations are being made to privatisethe agricultural sector. The nine-pointprogramme of the Niti Ayog on agriculturalmarket reforms is pointing in this direction.Peasants are in a pathetic condition today andtheir suicides are increasing continuously as aresult. The banks are not interested in extendingloans to them, but big businessmen are allowedto get away with loan defaults. Demonetisationwas done in the name of Black Money, but thepoorer sections of the society were mostseriously affected by it. The government is notready to tell how much Black Money it hasrecovered through demonetisation. Corruptioncould not be brought under control in thecountry. The PM Modi himself has been


implicated by the Sahara-Birla diaries inreceiving kickbacks, while serious allegations ofbenefitting Lalit Modi, ration card scam inChhattisgarh and Vyapam in Madhya Pradeshhave come up. But instead of responding tothese allegations, the government is intent oninterfering in educational institutions andfanning pseudo-nationalism. In the presentconditions, the rights of the poor, minorities,Dalits, Adivasis have been marginalised. Thefollowing facts are proving the aboveconclusions:

Between January and March the GDP grewby only 6.1 percent, growth of manufacturingwas reduced from 12.7 percent to 5.3 percent.More than three lakh peasants have committedsuicide in the last two decades under the burdenof indebtedness, while with 1585 farmers’suicides in the last four years and 955 in the lastone year Chhattisgarh has left behind AndhraPradeshm Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh andTamil Nadu.

The problem of unemployment hasbecome beyond control. According to thesurvey of the labour bureau, the rate ofunemployment has presently reached thehighest level in the last five years. The results ofthe research of a voluntary organisation haveindicated that if things were not revered in timethe situation can become very serious, since thecountry is facing the twin blow on theemployment front. On the one hand,employment opportunities are not growing inadequate speed and quantity, on the other thereis a decline in the existing opportunities ofemployment. The conclusion of this researchis that 550 jobs on average are reducing everyday and if this trend continues 70 lakh jobs willbe lost by 2050. According to the recent analysisof the World Bank, due to the increasingmechanisation of production and distributionthere is a danger of the loss of 69 percent jobsin the country. According to the statistics of thelabour bureau the unemployment rate of theworkforce of fifteen years or above has reachedfive percent and one-third of the workforce (35percent) receives employment only for a fewmonths in the year. According to the populationcensus, there are 45 crore people in the countryof fifteen years of age or above. This means that2.3 crore people looking for jobs are deprivedof any means of employment and 16 crorepeople do not have year-long employment. It is

to be noted that 47 percent of the workforce aredependent on self-employment where there isno guarantee of regular income. 68 percent ofall families in the country have an income ofless than ten thousand rupees per month fromall sources. 77 per cent of the rural families arenot being able to earn even ten thousand rupeesa month.

In the IT sector too, loss of jobs has becomerampant. Wipro has ordered the retrenchmentof 600 of its employees. According to the searchengine ‘Headhunters India’, 1.75 lakhs to 2 lakhjobs can be reduced annually in the IT sector inthe next three years.

According to the ninth report of themigrants’ council of the United Nations, Indiais placed third among the countries mostaffected by displacement, where 28 lakh peoplewere displaced in 2016.

The UN has estimated that the number ofchildren below five years to die of malnutritionevery year in India is more than ten lakh. Indiahas 17.5 percent of the world populationwhereas it has 24.5 percent of the world’smalnourished population. 55.3 percent womenin India are malnourished.

Out of every four children of school-goingage one is out of school in the country. Overten crore children who ought to be in school aredeprived of school education. Only 32 out of100 children are able to complete schooleducation. There are only two percent schoolsin the country which are in a position to impartcomplete education from class 1 to 12. India’sstatus on the question of children’s health is themost pathetic. 54 percent of the children in thecountry are malnourished.

These figures have been presented to showthe reality of the Modi government’s work.

Growing fascisation and militarisation of statepower:

Whether it is the BJP-led Modigovernment at the centre or the BJP-ruled stategovernments, they are using the entire statemachinery to maintain the exploitation andloot of the big capitalists and corporate houses.After Modi came to power to facilitate the lootof foreign corporations, amendments have beenbrought to the land acquisition act and the


labour laws. In the same way, Raghubar Dasgovernment of Jharkhand is hell bent onamending the CNT-SPT acts in spite of the stiffopposition of all the opposition parties. In thesame way, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjeeis intent on crushing the Gorkhaland movementunder the police jackboots. Indian armycontinues to be deployed in the Northeast tosuppress the national liberation movements.Kashmiris fighting for national liberation atebeing treated as foreign enemies and the regionhas been transformed into a battlefield. Due tothe use of bullets and pallet guns, more than ahundred people lost their lives and more than athousand people have lost their eyesight. In thisway, whether it is on the question of forcibleland acquisition, amendments to the CNT-SPTact, suppression of national liberationmovements or the voices against the problemof displacement stemming from SpecialEconomic Zones and Economic Corridors –all are being crushed under the iron heels. Theincidents of Ramgarh and Badkagaon inJharkhand, Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh,killing of the agitators of Gorkha nationalityin police firing and the brutal military actionon the Kashmiri people are its glaring examples.All administrative work is being done today onthe basis of the police and military. The ruralareas where the revolutionary movement led byCPI(Maoist) is active to win the political andeconomic rights of the people and their rightsover jal-jangal-zameen have been transformedinto police cantonments. There is no work inthese areas which are not done through thepolice and paramilitary forces.

At the same time, the saffron brigade hasbecome active in order to implement the agendaof the VHP and RSS and their terror has grownmanifolds. Muslim minorities and Dalits havebeen attacked in the name of cow protection.Similarly, as per a pre-planned conspiracy,members of the minority and Dalits are beingkilled in acts of mob-lynching. Incidents ofHaryana’s Ballabhgarh, Uttar Pradesh’s Dadriand Saharanpur, Una of Gujarat, Rajasthan,Delhi, Maharashtra and East Singhbhum,Saraikela-Kharsawan, Ramgarh, Giridih andHazaribagh Jharkhand are some of its glaringexamples. In this way, the people who havetaken pledge to protect the Constitution areshredding it (secularism) to bits. Attempts arebeing made to disturb communal harmony

throughout the country and intolerance isgrowing in the society as a result.

On the one hand, open attack has beenlaunched on the existence of the Adivasisthrough amendments in the CNT and SPT Actsas well as the new domicile policy, while on theother BJP in government has given its motherorganisation and all its affiliates to attackreligious minorities. Examples of this is thelynching of a Muslim cattle trader in Latehar,beating of Usman Ansari and his family andburning down of his home in Dewri of Giridihdistrict on false allegations of cow slaughter,killing of Alimuddin Ansari by a mob inRamgarh on the allegation of trading in beefon 29 June, etc. Many people have been lynchedafter spreading the rumour of child thieves inJamshedpur, Saraikela-Kharsawan and Bokarodistricts. It has been clear from the involvementof RSS and its affiliate organisations that thegovernment is behind these killings and themurderers enjoy state protection. That is why,religious fanaticism and jingoism has to beexposed. The difference between genuinepatriotism and jingoist/pseudo-nationalist‘patriotism’ will have to be propagated. Post-modernism and NGO ideology will have to beexposed. Parliamentarism, revisionism, neo-revisionism and Gandhism too will have to becontinually exposed. Dalits, Adivasis, religiousminorities and democratic forces will have toget mobilised and form united fronts at differentlevels and in different forms againstBrahmanical Hindu fascism.

In this context we call upon all the workers,peasants, toiling masses, intellectuals, students-youths, women and other patriotic, progressiveand democratic individuals/forces to contributetheir share in the building of New DemocraticIndia, participate in the just struggle against theunjust war of the ruling classes like OperationGreen Hunt and strongly oppose therepresentative bodies of the existingexploitative, pro-imperialist state power to builda new democratic state. At the same time, makeall efforts to unite the ninety percent of thepeople to build a people’s democratic power.

With revolutionary greetings,

SanketSpokesperson

Eastern Regional BureauCPI(Maoist)


Modi inaugurates Narmada dam onthe graveyard of people’s aspirations

Displaying the kind of megalomania thatis characteristic of all fascist rulers, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi inaugurated 138metre high Sardar Sarovar Dam on NarmadaRiver in Gujarat on his birthday on 17September. Although promised benefits likeirrigation and electricity for the peasants fromthe dam are yet to be delivered and are unlikelyever to materialise, the loss to the tens ofthousands of people – mostly to the Adivasipoor peasants of Gujarat, Maharashtra andMadhya Pradesh in the form of forceddisplacement, loss of livelihood, ancestral landand social life – has been given the final touchby Modi. No doubt it was a part of Modi andBJP’s propaganda gimmick before theupcoming Gujarat assembly elections, but itbrought to culmination the same agenda of‘nation building’ at the cost of the people thatwas set out by former PM Jawaharlal Nehruin laying the foundation stones of NarmadaDam in 1961. It is not surprising that theCongress and BJP leaders share the sameoutlook when it comes to building the ‘templesof modern India’ on the graveyards of thepoor and oppressed people of the country. Thiswas reflected by Modi’s hypocritical ‘thanks’during his inaugural speech to the Adivasis for

their ‘sacrifice’ in building ‘New India’, over2.5 lakh of whom are being flushed out byfilling the reservoir. The number of peopleindirectly affected by the dam is much largerthan this.

The building of the dam was accompaniedby a stoic long-drawn battle by the peoplethreatened with displacement under the bannerof ‘Narmada Bachao Andolan’ (NBA). In spiteof the people’s consistent struggle for severaldecades and many partial successes, themovement failed in its main objective ofstopping the building of the dam or forceddisplacement of lakhs of people caused by it.While the dam provides an example of themodel of development followed by the Indianruling classes since the transfer of power in 1947that makes the people a scapegoat for theinterests of the comprador big capitalists andbig landlords, the NBA provides an form ofstruggle that in the final analysis fails to defendthe interests of the people by refusing to stepbeyond the confines of a purely legal methodof struggle. The inauguration of the Narmadadam and the failure of the NBA provide animportant lesson to the people and theirmovements in the country.

Countrywide protest against the assassination of Gauri Lankesh

After the murder of Govind Pansare,Narendra Dabholkar and M M Kalburgi, itwas the turn of well-known journalist,publisher and editor of Kannada-languagemagazine Gauri Lankesh Patrike to be felled bythe bullets of the fascist assassins on the prowlunder Modi’s Brahmanical Hindu fascist rule.Gauri was assassinated in front of her housein Bengaluru in the evening of 5 Septemberwhen she was returning from work. As ademocrat and progressive intellectual of rarecourage, she was an outspoken critic of theSangh Parivar and all other regressive socialforces. She used her magazine, her editorials

and opinion pieces, public speeches and socialactivism as instruments for sharp critique ofthe establishment, advocating for social change.

Her political convictions naturally broughtGauri Lankesh close to all democratic strugglesand social movements including the Maoistmovement. In fact, she was a friend ofmartyred Karnataka State CommitteeSecretary of CPI(Maoist) Comrade SakethRajan and was bold enough to publish an in-depth interview of this outlawed leader in hermagazine. She was a staunch advocate of therecognition of Lingayat as an independentreligion separate from Hinduism.


All this has made her a prime target ofthe Hindutva-fascist organisations flourishingunder Modi-Shah-Bhagwat ruling clique.Unable to counter her sharp criticism, theydecided to gag her voice forever and at the sametime send out a message of dire consequenceto all other likeminded democrats andprogressives of the country who expressedthemselves openly against the saffronterrorists. Though they managed to kill GauriLankesh, they failed miserably to throttle thevoices against Hindutva fascism, whichresounded more loudly following herassassination. Vehement condemnation and

Massive protest rally in Bangaluru against the assasination of Gauri Lankesh by RSS-BJP sponsored Hindutva goons

protest erupted throughout the country againstthis political killing, demanding crackdown onthe RSS-led and inspired underground fascistorganisations that are targeting outstandingpublic intellectuals of the country one afteranother. Far from weakening the tide ofpeople’s struggles against Hinducommunalism, her killing has only fuelled thepent up fury of the revolutionary, democraticand secular forces and the masses of the countrythat are determined to seek justice for themurderers of Gauri Lankesh and otheroutspoken critics of fascism.

Patthalgadi asserts the democratic rights of the Adivasi people

The Adivasi people of several districts ofJharkhand, Chhattisgarh and MadhyaPradesh have begun a movement assertingtheir democratic right to conduct their ownaffairs according to the decision of their villageassemblies – a right guaranteed by theconstitution of the Indian ruling classes butnever implemented in practice. The movementhas come to be known as the ‘Patthalgadimovement’ as the people have set up obelisksor signboards with the relevant sections of the

constitution to declare the enforcement of therule of the Gram Sabha (village assembly) inthe jurisdiction of their village. The people havetaken the question of self-rule into their ownhands to assert their rights under constitutionalprovisions like the Fifth Schedule or the PESAAct which have been promulgated underpressure from people’s militant struggles in thepast.

But the BJP governments in these statesin collusion with their counterpart at the centre


have resorted to brutal repression on thismovement which has operated within theconfines of the Constitution by alleging thatMaoists, Christian missionaries, etc. areinstigating it from behind. It is ironical thatwhen the people themselves have risen up toimplement the legal provisions which havebeen kept as a dead letter by the ruling classesso far, they are being showered with policebullets and batons or are being sent to jail underfabricated charges of being Naxals.Nevertheless, the eruption of ‘patthalgarhi’ isanother sign that the oppressed people of thecountry – particularly the Adivasis – who havefacing an all-out economic, political andcultural assault from the ruling classes aregetting prepared to fight back using the meansavailable to them including the avenue of legalstruggle provided by the ruling-classConstitution. Even if the movement fails todefend its right of the people to self-rule and ademocratic government – concepts that arefundamentally at variance with the existingexploitative political and economic system –this struggle is giving voice to the democraticaspirations of the masses and preparing thegrounds for more militant people’s movementsof the future.

Masses oppose revivalof North Koel Reservoir

(Kutku dam) projectThe North Koel Reservoir or Kutku big

dam project (at a proposed height of 367metres later reduced to 341 metres) in Palamudistrict of present Jharkhand was planned bythe central government in the 1970s, but it couldnot take off in the next two decades due to themilitant resistance of the Adivasis of 15 villageswho came in the submergence area and weredirectly threatened by forced displacement.Moreover, the dam and its reservoir comeunder the Palamu Tiger Reserve, the core areaof which will be submerged if the dam comesinto being, thereby putting the environment ofthe region in grave danger. The people werealso opposed to the project as while they wereabout to lose land and everything else but thebenefit of irrigation accruing from it was to

be reaped mainly by the comprador capitalists,big landlords and the rich peasants ofAurangabad district of Bihar.

By the 1990s, the government was forcedto shelve the project bowing to the people’smovement, in which the Maoist Party tooplayed a crucial role. Particularly after theproject engineer Baijnath Mishra waseliminated by Maoist guerrillas in August 1997as per the decision of the masses. This killingcame in the wake of the great flood caused bythe project work in which 19 persons lost theirlives and crops and cattle were lost extensivelyin the low-lying areas on the Koel River. Thiswas an unmistakable portent for the future ofthe region, making the project-affected peopleall the more determined to stall the project atany cost and using all means. They have beensuccessful in their objective in the nearly lastfive decades.

However, a new danger is looming largein front of the people of this area once againafter the BJP-led NDA government underHindutva-fascist Prime Minister NarendraModi decided in a cabinet meeting on 16August 2017 to revive the Kutku dam projectcovering parts of Bihar and Jharkhand andsanctioned an additional outlay of 1622.27crore rupees for the same. The decision hasbeen taken by the anti-people Modigovernment in collusion with the RaghubarDas-led BJP government in Jharkhand andNitish Kumar government of Bihar in keepingwith the interests of the multinationalcompanies, comprador big capitalists and biglandlords with whom hundreds of MoUsworth tens of thousands of crores have beenconcluded by these governments.

In so doing, they have no qualms aboutsacrificing the interests of the masses –dispossessing them of their land, deprivingthem of their means of livelihood anddisplacing them from their ancestral homes.Therefore, to revive the project the governmenthas to first face the organised resistance of themasses who have the glorious history ofsuccessfully stalling it for nearly five decadeswith their militant resistance. After thedecision of the Modi government, the peopleof the region have once again braced up for


another stage of their struggle – this timeagainst the Brahmanical Hindu fascists andtheir government. There is no doubt that theunited people’s struggle will once again preventthis anti-people project from taking off, nomatter the amount of state repression thefascist governments unleash against it.

Adityanath government’sconspiracy to crush Dalit

assertion decriedAfter the formation of Brahmanical

Hindu-fascist Adityanath government in UttarPradesh, the most reactionary faction of theruling classes including the feudal forces havebeen unleashing a new wave of brutal offensiveagainst the oppressed social sections. Muslimsand Dalits in particular have been at thereceiving end of their daily attacks. It is againstthis growing Hindutva assaults carried out bydominant caste feudal forces that the neworganisation Bhim Army have been carryingout its militant resistance. It has also beenconducting community services for the poorand deprived Dalits like providing educationto the children. The organisation came toprominence after their counter-offensiveagainst the feudal Rajput forces attacked theirvillage in Saharanpur district in May this yearin collusion with the police andadministration, burning nearly thirty huts anddestroying other property. But rather thanpunishing the culprits, the BJP governmentused its police to impose fabricated chargesagainst as many as 110 Dalits and round upthe leadership of the Bhim Army including itsfounding member and PresidentChandrashekhar Azad Ravan under severalstringent charges invoking draconian laws andkept them imprisoned.

This has led to a sustained political andlegal struggle for their release, at the end ofwhich Allahabad High Court granted bail on2 November to Chandrashekhar and threeother leaders. But within hours, thegovernment in a malicious manner slappedadditional charges against him under thedraconian National Security Act (NSA)alleging that he and his organisation is a

“threat to national security” and re-arrestedhim. This is nothing but a ploy to keep theleadership of the organisation behind bars foras long as possible in order to weaken andcrush the growing militancy among the Dalitsof Uttar Pradesh against Hindutva-fascismand the reactionary forces it represents.Democratic organisations of not only UttarPradesh but from various parts of the countryhave condemned Adityanath government forthe continued persecution of Bhim Army andits leaders.

Militant students’ protestagainst sexual harassment andadministrative inaction in BHU

A girl student of Benaras HinduUniversity (BHU) was groped at by three bike-borne assailants in a public place within theuniversity premises on the evening of 21September. When the girl cried out for help,she was asked to remain silent and threatenedwith rape. The incident took place just a fewpaces away from a sentry post but the securityguards did not come to the aid of the girl. Thegirl approached the Proctor with a complaint,but he faulted her for being in a public placeinstead of her hostel at 6 in the evening, andrefused to entertain her complaint. The girlthen went to the warden of her hostel tocomplain but was again turned back with theanswer that nothing serious had happed to her.

Such incidents of sexual harassmentinside the BHU campus had become almost adaily occurrence where men subjected the girlstudents to sexual harassment in different wayswhile the university administration remainedmute spectators as is evidenced by thisparticular case. But the difference was that thistime the enraged girl students refused to takethis daily humiliation anymore and decidedto take on the administration demandingaction. The boarders of Triveni Girls’ Hostelwhere the said girl was a boarder launched anagitation at their hostel at the same eveningdemanding action against the culprits. Butsince the protest failed to evoke any positivereaction, early next morning they sat on aprotest at the main gate of the university and


were joined by hundreds of other students. Thestudents were demanding that theadministration take responsibility forproviding a safe campus for women students,punish the culprits involved in sexualharassment and allow freedom for women byremoving all prohibitory orders curtailing theirfree movement.

But the administration including the ViceChancellor backed by Yogi-led BJPgovernment of Uttar Pradesh refused to evenmeet the agitating students, let alone heedingto their demands. Instead, it tried to break upthe agitation by calling in the police, who lathi-charged the students on 23 September andusing rubber bullets. Nearly 1,500 policemenincluding the notorious Provincial ArmedConstabulary (PAC) were deployed in andaround the university, transforming it into apolice camp. In an unprecedented move, BHUas well as all colleges of the district were closedfor ten days and students were ordered tovacate their hostels so that the movement maynot widen and gather strength. But this couldnot force the students to submission, insteadit provoked their pent up anger to burst forthwho clashed with the arms-wielding policewith stones, burnt down police pickets andvehicles and put up a militant resistance,drawing the attention of the entire country. Infact, the problems raised by the women studentsof BHU are not their problems alone but arefaced daily by them all over the country. In thisway, the BHU students became the mouthpiecefor the country’s student community, andparticularly the women students.

Thus, neither police brutalities nor theadministration’s inaction could subdue theprotesting students of BHU – particularly thegirl students – who displayed exemplarycourage in fighting the administration for theirrights and set up a model of students’ struggle.Indeed, the movement achieved manysuccesses within a short time. It forced the VCto go on leave, the Chief Proctor was removedand a lady Chief Proctor was appointed whichwas the first time ever in the university’scentury-old history, street lights and CCTVcameras were set up around girls’ hostels, andso on. This is all the more praiseworthy as theadministration has not allowed student union

elections in an attempt to keep the student bodydepoliticised, as a result of which there is noforum in BHU to represent the students’grievances and lead them in struggle. Yet thethree days of historic protest by the studentsof BHU has sent a clear message to thereactionary forces that they would not toleratetheir assaults all the time and would fight backto win their democratic rights through struggle.Though the main demands of this movementare yet to be fulfilled, it has already proved tobe an important step forward in the history ofcontemporary students’ movement of thecountry.

The democratic movementfor separate Gorkhaland

state marches aheadThe movement for separate Gorkhaland

has been shimmering for the last three decadestraversing a tortuous path. It has seen manyups and downs, many glorious sacrifices of theGorkha masses and not a few treacherousbetrayals by some of the leaders. Thoughsometimes adopting the form of open rebellionand a sleeping volcano at others, the movementhas never ceased even in the face of brutal staterepression spearheaded by Bengali chauvinistWest Bengal governments in cohorts with thegovernments of the centre. No matter whichparty remained in power in Kolkata – be it thesocial-fascist CPI(M) who had ruled the statefor the better part of the last half a century orthe Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government inthe last few years, they have all historicallyadopted the identical policy of nationalsubjugation and humiliation when it comes totreating the Gorkha nationality and its nationalliberation movement.

Taking this national oppression a stepfurther, Mamata government recently imposedBengali as a compulsory subject for the studentsin all schools including private English-medium schools throughout Darjeelingdistrict. Already suffering economic, politicaland cultural oppression of the Bengalichauvinist regional ruling classes of Bengal aswell as the imposition of Hindi by the feudal-comprador Indian ruling classes for decades,


it was the proverbial last straw that sparked awidespread national outrage of the Gorkhapeople. Almost immediately after thedeclaration of this new policy, tens ofthousands of Nepali-speaking Gorkha peoplethroughout Dar jeeling (except Bengali-dominated Siliguri subdivision) came out indefence of their language and culture.

An indefinite bandh was announced since15 June by Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM)– the mass organisation leading the presentagitation – and evoked complete support in thethree hill subdivisions of the district –Darjeeling Sadar, Kalimpong and Kurseong.In the clashes with the police that wereprovoked by indiscriminate violence on thepeaceful protestors, three protestors were shotdead on 17 June and tens of others wereseriously injured. This has only provoked morehatred for the Gorkha masses towards thefascist rulers sitting in Kolkata and New Delhiand stoked the movement for a separateGorkhaland by rejecting the GorkhalandTerritorial Administration (GTA) that cameinto force in 2011. Under pressure from themasses, 43 elected members resigned en-masseon 23 June, marking GTA’s complete loss oflegitimacy in the eyes of the Gorkha people.

Though TMC government was forced towithdraw its new language policy forDarjeeling in the face of mounting publicanger in the hills, it hardly assuaged the furyof the agitating Gorkha masses who continuedthe shut-down of the hills for over anunprecedented forty days. They made it clearthrough their militant struggle that neitherfascist state terror nor linking their movementto the ‘instigation’ of banned nationalliberation organisations of the Northeast or theMaoists can stop them from fighting for theirlegitimate demand, that nothing short of a full-fledged state of Gorkhaland carved out of WestBengal will satisfy their aspiration for a landof their own free from national and culturaloppression. All revolutionary, democratic andpeople’s organisations as well as the oppressednationalities and people of the country – andparticularly the oppressed Bengali masses –need to wholeheartedly support the just anddemocratic demand of their Gorkha brothersand sisters for a separate Gorkhaland andoppose the national-chauvinist polices of theWest Bengal and central governments.

CPI(Maoist) on its part extends completesolidarity with the Gorkha nationality in theirliberation struggle, while at the same time


pointing out the fact that merely a separate statewithin the present political set up will not bringthe Gorkhaland of their aspirations as therecent examples of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarhand Telangana amply demonstrate. Only acomplete overthrow of the imperialists andnational-chauvinist Indian ruling classesthrough a protracted people’s war by theGorkha people in unity with other oppressednationalities and peoples to establish a people’sdemocratic republic in the subcontinent canliberate them from all forms of exploitationand oppression. This is the path shown byhistoric Naxalbari which incidentally eruptedin their own Darjeeling district, and this is thepath the Gorkha masses must ultimately takeso that they can win their much-desirednational liberation.

Indian government’s fascist‘Operation All-Out’ continues

the genocide of KashmirisWhile hypocritically holding the olive

branch of peace through centre-appointedinterlocutors for Kashmir, the Indiangovernment has been carrying on a fascistextermination campaign this year against thenational liberation movement of the Kashmiripeople in the name of ‘Operation All Out’. Asthe name itself suggests, this operation – whichhas military repression as its main component– is aimed at completely wiping out the juststruggle of the Kashmiri nation against thedecades-old occupation by the Indian ruling

classes. Particularly after the movementreached a new height since mid-2016 which hasinvolved the Kashmiri masses in their freedomstruggle as never before, the reactionary rulersof India have unleashed a new wave of stateterror on the people, killing hundreds of armedliberation fighters and unarmed agitators, notsparing even children and the elderly.Thousands of people have been maimed forlife by the Indian armed forces includingthrough the use of the inhuman pellet guns,taking away the eyesight of hundreds ofprotestors. Cases under draconian laws havebeen slapped on tens of thousands, whilethousands have been arrested and put behindbars.

Under ‘Operation All Out’, Indian rulershave killed more than 200 Kashmiri guerrillasbelonging to various organisations jointlywaging their liberation war under the bannerof ‘United Jihad Council’. They have declaredthat this fascist operation will continue till‘peace’ is brought to the Valley. They have alsoclaimed that the year 2018 will be lesschallenging for the Indian government due tothe success of the operation this year.Obviously, this will prove to be a pipedreamof the Indian rulers as the Kashmiri masseshave refused to bow down to all forms of staterepression and they will defeat ‘Operation AllOut’ too through their heroic resistance. Allthe oppressed classes, nationalities and peopleof India should extend their unwaveringsolidarity to the fighting Kashmiri masses intheir fight against ‘Operation All Out’ andother forms of fascist national subjugation.

already have some successes to our credit; true, they are small and partial, but nonetheless theyare successes. In this new field of “tuition” we are already finishing our preparatory class. Bypersistent and assiduous study, by making practical experience the test of every step we take, bynot fearing to alter over and over again what we have already begun, by correcting our mistakesand most carefully analysing their significance, we shall pass to the higher classes. We shall gothrough the whole “course”, although the present state of world economics and world politicshas made that course much longer and much more difficult than we would have liked. Nomatter at what cost, no matter how severe the hardships of the transition period may be—despite disaster, famine and ruin—we shall not flinch; we shall triumphantly carry our cause toits goal.

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News from Behind the Bars

Comrade Kobad Ghandywalks out of prison

Comrade Kobad Ghandy, senior Maoistideologue who was arrested by the police fromNew Delhi in 2009 has been released on bailrecently from Visakhapatnam central prison.The 66 year old veteran Maoist leader has beenmade to spend a prolonged jail term in differentjails undergoing trial, mostly in the high-security ward of the notorious Tihar jail inNew Delhi. Fabricated cases were foisted onhim in several states including New Delhi,West Bengal, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. Asan aged inmate suffering from several seriousailments, he suffered severe ill treatment fromthe jail authorities at the behest of the Indiangovernment which was hell bent on punishinghim for his political convictions. He wasdeprived of the necessary medical treatmentand the minimum rights due to a politicalprisoner. Most of all, he was deliberatelyharassed in many ways including bytransferring him several times from one wardto another. Comrade Kobad Ghandy carriedout prison struggle several times against thisinjustice even under conditions of severeailment which threatened his life. The

government also ensured under the pretext ofsecurity concerns that the cases pendingagainst him in different states are not runconcurrently, thereby prolonging hisincarceration. But facing all these trials andtribulations he has succeed in getting acquittalor bail in all cases with the help and solidarityof conscientious advocates, civil rightsorganisations and democrats who stood by hisprison struggle which has finally resulted in hisrelease.

Comrade Pramod Mishraacquitted of all charges

Chapra court of Bihar has acquittedsenior Maoist leader and Politburo Memberof CPI(Maoist) Comrade Pramod Mishra(Janardanji) of all charges in August and wasreleased from prison. He was arrested fromDhanbad town of Jharkhand in April 2008.He had already spent nearly nine years in jailas an under-trial on 22 different charged puton him by the police in Chapra, Aurangabad,Gaya and Dhanbad districts of Bihar. As isthe case with nearly all Maoist leaders andactivists arrested by the police, a plethora offalse charges were foisted, false ‘evidence’ and


‘witnesses’ were produced before the court andthe trials prolonged to keep the accusedimprisoned by hook or by crook. ComradeJanardanji had to face the difficult jailconditions but even so he remained firm in hiscommitment to the Party and the people.Ultimately the government had to concededefeat in its conspiracy and forced to releasehim from its dungeons.

Comrade RaguriChandrashekhar Reddy

released from jailFollowing Comrade Raguri

Chandrashekhar Rao’s (Jaipal) acquittal by thecourts on all 35 cases slapped on him by thepolice, he was released from Jagdalpur prisonrecently this December. After he and his lifepartner Comrade Nirmalakka were arrestedfrom Raipur over a decade back, both were putbehind bars under a large number of Maoist-related cases. The couple had been activelyworking among the oppressed Adivasi massesof Bastar for decades as dedicated Maoistrevolutionaries which made them the thronein the flesh of the ruling classes. That is whythey were arrested, painted as ‘dreadedMaoists’ and put behind bars. While ComradeChandrashekhar Reddy was implicated in 35serious charges, over a hundred such cases werefoisted against Comrade Nirmalakka – all ofwhich were entirely baseless and fabricated bythe police. This was thoroughly proved in thecourse of the trials that went on for all theseyears, during which the police failed tosubstantiate any of their charges with evidence.The lies of the police got exposed in the ruling-class courts themselves and they had no choiceother than acquitting the accused and order hisrelease.

Comrade Padma’s acquittalexposes police fabrications

once againComrade Padma, a Maoist political

prisoner incarcerated in Jagdalpur jail inChhattisgarh for over a decade, has recentlybeen acquitted and released after all charges

brought against her by the police fell throughin the court during trial. She was arrested fromBhilai in on 3 August 2007 and over ten casesrelated to the Maoist movement were foistedon her. Padma was acquitted by a Durg courtin 2009 but was re-arrested on additionalcharges from the jail gate itself and again putbehind bars. She was re-arrested again afteracquittal subsequently too, displaying theintent of the white government to keep herimprisoned for a prolonged period on framed-up charges. It has been a common practice forthe government and the police to first put anumber of forged cases on the arrested Maoistactivists and when these cases are thrown outin court and released, they are re-arrested onfresh cases from the jail gate. Padma hassuffered this routine several times during herincarceration and has undertaken hungerstrikes and other such forms of struggle in jailalong with other inmates against this patentlyillegal and unjust method of persecution.Pcomrade Padma’s acquittal and release is atriumph of her determination and politicalwill to withstand the class enemy’s travailswithout losing hope of final victory.

Maoist prisoners protestviolation of jail manual by

prison authoritiesSenior Maoist leader Vijay Kumar Arya

is presently incarcerated in High-risk Prisonof Gaya jail in Bihar. Arrested from Katiharin May 2011, he is facing cases in Bihar,Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and some otherstates. In a recent written complaint to the IG(Prisons), Arya has accused the jailadministration of wilfully violating jailmanual, physically torturing the inmates,providing them poor diets and siphoning offthe funds for prisoners. He stated in his letterthat Bihar government spent Rs232 per day oneach prisoner but instead of procuring genuinedairy products, the jail officials buy uncertifiedand adulterated dairy items from questionablesources and offer the same to the inmatesleading to serious health issues. Likewise, whensome prisoners protested against the death ofundertrial Krishna Yadav on 12 October 2016due to lack of proper treatment, they were


implicated in a false case of jailbreak. There isalso the usual problem of overstaffing as 1,766inmates are being kept in Gaya jail against thesanctioned strength of 1,468.

To address these problems, Arya hassubmitted an 18-point charter of demands thatinclude timely production of inmates in courtsoutside the district and the state, no torture ofprisoners, ‘bandi panchayat’ elections,availability of steel utensils, shifting of inmatesfrom punishment cell to general ward,maintenance of a diet chart, permission to usemosquito nets, clean toilets and provision forX-ray machine, pathological lab andultrasound facility in the jail hospital and atelephone booth inside the prison, etc. The jailauthorities, however, has not shown anyinterest in taking these demands made onbehalf of the jail inmates seriously, leadingthem to contemplate higher forms of strugglelike hunger strike.

Members of parliamentarypanel demand urgent medical

care for Dr G N SaibabaD Raja and some other Members of

Parliament presented a letter from VasanthaKumari – the life partner of Dr G N Saibaba,Assistant Professor of Delhi University, servinglife sentence in Nagpur jail – to theParliamentary Standing Committee onPersonnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justiceon 6 December. The letter complained denialof basic medical treatment and amenities,seriously jeopardising and putting to risk thelife of her husband. Accusing the Nagpur jailauthorities of systemic negligence, she wrotein the complaint that 90% disabled wheelchair-bound Saibaba locked in ‘Anda’ cell “has beendenied his regular life-saving medicines whichthe family is sending him. He is a cardiacpatient with hypertension and needs to takemedicines every day. At times, he is not giventhese medicines for 10 days in a row.”

The letter noted that the jail authorities ona previous occasion too had indulged insimilar criminal negligence, which had resultedin muscle atrophy of his right hand. It alsopointed out that the jail doctor too has refused

to visit him and that he had deliberately notbeen given any warm clothes. Adding voice tothe complaints made by Vasantha Kumari, DRaja said that even prisoners had the right tolife and could not be denied basic medical help,and demanded that Saibaba be providedurgent medical attention and care so that hislife be saved. It is high time that all thedemocratic and progressive forces of thecountry intensify their efforts to foil theconspiracy of the Indian government towilfully throw Saibaba into the jaws of deathby denying him medical treatment andkeeping him incarcerated under inhumanconditions.

Hunger strike of politicalprisoners against

maltreatment80 political prisoners from four districts

of West Bengal carried out a day-long hungerstrike on 10 June. This protest was against themaltreatment of Kalpana Maiti – a womanpolitical prisoner lodged under Maoist chargesin Alipur jail – by the jail authorities. Politicalprisoners from Presidency jail, Dumdum jail,Jalpaiguri jail and Alipur jail took part in thehunger strike. They were protesting against thepractice of forcing them to clean the cells andtoilets, whereas no other undertrial prisoner ismade to do such work. In fact, it is patentlyillegal to force undertrial prisoners to do suchwork. Kalpana Maiti is a patient of arthritisand diabetes. In spite of this, she is not givenproper food, medicines and even sanitarynapkins which every woman prisoner isentitled to. Not only is she being forced intoforced labour but is also prevented from takingthe fellow prisoner’s help in any work or evento interact with them. Other prisoners havebeen instructed to maintain distance from herand not to talk to her. She had recounted herexperience in a letter to the democraticorganisations, which has exposed the extent towhich the politically-motivated jail authoritiestreat the class enemies in particular to breaktheir resolve. The same Alipur jail is notoriousfor such maltreatment as naked frisking of

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Jail Experience of A Woman Guerrilla– Raje

The revolutionary movement has a strongpresence in our village. Both my parents are inrevolutionary mass organisations. Two of mysiblings are full-time workers of the Party – mybrother as a guerrilla doctor and my sister as amember of Chetana Natya Manch (CNM).Comrade Chandru (Prabhakar), a brother ofmine who had joined the Party in August 2006was martyred in East Bastar in 2011. Two ofmy relatives have been in jail on Maoist-relatedcases but were released subsequently.

I too was a member of the revolutionarypeasant organisation – Dandakaranya AdivasiKisan Mazdoor Sangh (DAKMS) – while athome. While being in the organisation, I usedto feel happy listening to the work of theMaoist Party, the life histories of the martyrsin the form of songs and on different subjectsabout which Party comrades used to speak.This inspired me to join the Party. Moreover,my brother had already joined the Party andworked as the secretary of the Village PartyCommittee.

While at home, I did not want to getmarried but my family forced me. Even whenI protested saying that the marriage would notwork, I was forced into it against my will. InAugust 2005 I joined the Party. From then Iwas in Pamed Area LOS (Local OrganisingSquad). After that I was in Puvvar LOS forsome time in 2007 and worked as the DeputyCommander of the squad. In May 2007, I wastransferred to Usur LOS. There I worked asthe commander till June 2010. Thereafter I wastransferred to the responsibility of the AreaJanatana Sarkar (people’s government). From2010 to June 2013, I was in the Area JanatanaSarkar as its president.

One of the responsibilities of the JanatanaSarkars is to provide all possible help andassistance to jailed comrades and their families.Our Party has been observing Bhagat Singh’smartyrdom day on 23 March as politicalprisoners’ day. As a part of the preparationsfor this day, I as the president of the AreaJanatana Sarkar called a meeting of the familymembers of the political prisoners belongingto our Area on 22 March 2013 to urge them tovisit their kin in jail. The meeting was held atRaigudem village of Timmapuram panchayatin Sukma district, Chhattisgarh. The familiesof 19 political prisoners attended the meeting.We started talking to them and gave some ofthem money to be used for meeting the needsof the jailed comrades.

We had conducted patrolling around thevillage before holding the meeting, but therewas nothing to be alarmed. We were just fiveminutes into the meeting when the policesuddenly encircled the village. We were ninecomrades at that time. All of them except meescaped realising that the police was close by.But as I was busy talking, I did not notice thepolice nor my retreating comrades. Withoutknowing from which direction the police werecoming, I ran in one direction and found thepolice standing in front of me. They caughtme and gathered the people of the village atone place. The police started asking who I was,where I was from, etc. But none of the villagerssaid anything. At last they bound me up. I wasin plain clothes and without weapon. The bagI was carrying our comrades took away – sothe police did not recover any evidence thatcould implicate me.

The police took me from that village andwe crossed Pusnar village. There the structure

Comrade Raje (name changed), A Maoist activist and guerrilla fighter from Bastar, spent overtwo years in Jagdalpur Central Prison in Chhattisgarh facing various charges related to therevolutionary movement. She recounted her experience of her arrest, interrogation and jail liferecently to MIB which we present here it in her own words - MIB


of a school still remained which we had blastedas the police were planning to convert it intotheir camp. The policemen included three-fourkinds of forces including CRPF, STF andSPOs. When we arrived near the school, theSTF men proposed that I should be killed inthe school itself, but the CRPF officer presentthere did not allow it and said that I should betaken to the police station. When we reachedthe Basaguda-Bijapur road, the policemenmade mobile phones and they broughtmotorcycles and took me in the motorcycle totheir camp.

At the camp they interrogated me askingwho I was and what my responsibility was inthe Party, etc., as they could not yet identifyme. I said that I was an ordinary village womanfrom Rayagudem surviving on agriculture andhad nothing to do with the Maoists. They beatme up to force me to reveal my identity andother information. The policemen thenbrought a military dress that they recoveredfrom us and asked me to wear it. When Irefused they forcefully made me wear it but Ithrew it away. They did not believe that I wasan ordinary peasant woman. They kept askingme how come I had so much physical strength,how come I was answering each and everyenquiry, how was it that I was resisting themso fiercely, etc. They said that I must be ahardened Naxalite, and a Naxal commanderat that. Even as I denied, two STF jawans beatme up mercilessly. But I maintained my stand.They offered me tea which I threw away,following which they again beat me. After thisthey took me to Bijapur police station. From3 pm to 7-8 pm they interrogated, tortured andbeat me up at Bijapur police station. Then theytook me to the CRPF camp nearby. There tooI was beaten and interrogated.

As the custodial torture I was subjectedwas going beyond my endurance, I made up astory and told them that I had joined thePamed squad of the Maoists in 2010 but lessthan a month later I fell ill was left by them inthe village. I said that I could not rememberany of the comrades I was with at that time.Nor have I met anyone from the Partythereafter or maintained any relation with it.But they kept on telling me to speak the truthand threatened that otherwise I would be killed.

But I maintained that I had been an ordinarypeasant woman after leaving the squad severalyears back. The police even got ready to giveme electric shock but for some reason they didnot use it on me.

The police had recovered a lot of materialfrom the site of our meeting including our kits,dresses, notebooks, list of material, radio, twobullets, etc. They repeatedly asked me aboutthe material but I did not respond. Then theyslapped me and beat me more. But my standwas that no matter whatever they did with me,I had nothing more to add than what I hadalready said. As their beating did not work,they tried to entice me with the prospect ofrelease if I were to give them all theinformation they were looking for. They wereinterrogating me in Koya while when theofficers were present they used to translate myanswers into Hindi. From what they weretalking among themselves, I could make outthat they were at least not going to kill me nowas so many people have seen me alive and inany case, if they had to kill me they would havedone it on the way itself. This gave meconfidence that if I stuck to my story, theywould eventually have to take me to a courtand send me to jail. So I remained firm andmaintained my story without any variation,which did not allow them the scope tointerrogate me more thoroughly.

Then they asked me to identify themembers of the Village Party Committee. Itold the names of the members who were inthe committee before the launching of SalwaJudum. When they asked where these memberswere now, I said that all of them have fled toAndhra Pradesh after Salwa Judum began. Butthey kept on insisting that in the village whereI was arrested the Party Committee was veryactive and were conducting all work regularly.But I maintained that I did not know and couldnot say anything more even if they would beatme or kill me. I fainted several times duringthe interrogation and torture and thought thatI would die, but every time regainedconsciousness and felt better.

At five o’clock they dumped me into afour wheeler and brought me from the CRPFcamp to Bijapur police station. Kosal, Arjun,


and Rahul – these three renegades of the Partywho had surrendered to the enemy and werenow working as SPOs – were present tointerrogate me. There were women policeconstables, but they were not stationed thereall the time and use to leave after their time ofduty was over. But when I was there thesewomen police constables constantly remainedwith me. They used to be with me day andnight, and fight with their male colleagueswhen they tried to enter my cell at night. Theyused to assure me that nothing untowardwould happen to me as they were there withme. They also told me that it seems unlikelythat I would be killed.

After I was detained on 22 March, I waskept in Timmapuram camp for one day andfor 18 days in Bijapur. There I was pressurisedto surrender and take up the job of an SPO.The three renegades interrogated me. Later theSP and other higher police officers came tointerrogate me. When I once again refused tobuckle under their pressure to surrender andaccept the job of an SPO, the SP utteredexpletives and left. Later the policemen gaveme money (Rs.200) to buy things like toiletries,which was nothing but an attempt to buy meout. In this way, they tried all means to breakmy resolve and give up my recalcitrance –beating, torture, threats, money, promise ofmarriage, etc. – but I did not give in, tellingmyself that no matter how much they try toscare or entice me, I will remain firm till thelast. While in the illegal custody of the policefor several days, I was not given proper food,they did not allow me to take a bath or changemy clothes. When I told about these problems,one of the women police constables guardingme helped me by giving me a cloth to change,soaps, toothpaste and brush, etc.

But failing in all their attempts to makeme surrender or cooperate with them, on 7April they produced me before a magistrate inBijapur court after 15 days of illegal custody.The magistrate did not ask any questions tothe police or me but after completing theformalities, sent me to Jagdalpur jail. In jail,some of the inmates asked me why and wheredid I come from, what was my crime, etc. ButI merely repeated what I had already told thepolice. Just after they captured me, the police

placed a kit, muzzle-loading gun and othermaterial near me and took photographs toclaim that these materials were recovered frommy possession. But they only captured a smallsack in which there was nothing except a pieceof cloth.

At the time of admitting to the jail, thejail officials carried out a thorough body check.After that they locked me up in the women’sbarrack. There I met many women detaineesand prisoners including a number of womenMaoist leaders and activists. When they askedme how I landed up in jail, I gave them theentire report as to how I was captured, beatenup, tortured, interrogated, kept in illegalcustody, etc. Later they gave me new clothesto wear and other necessities including soap,tooth brush and paste, comb, etc. I also startedto take food regularly – while I was in illegalpolice custody I was not in a position to eat ordrink. After getting acquainted with thepolitical prisoners, I felt much relieved andstarted to get integrated with them.

On 10 February – the day of the Bhumkalrebellion of Bastar led by Gundadhur – theprisoners of Jagdalpur jail carried out a day-long hunger strike. There were three basicdemands: immediate treatment for theprisoners who falls ill, the prisoners should beallowed to have their own kitchen to cook theirfood; the grocery supplied should be clean andof good quality and not rotten or dirty. Apartfrom these, the demand of regular productionin court was also raised, because the prisonerswho had even three or four minor cases had toundergo prolonged incarceration due to thenon-production before the court during thetrial. Compelled by the strike, the jailauthorities accepted the demands and theagitators withdrew their strike.

Though the jail authorities accepted thedemand of separate kitchen for the womenprisoners of Jagdalpur jail, they did notimplement it. They did not allow cooking offood or making tea etc. in the barracks. Theyallowed only the cooking of one vegetable butrefused to allow a permanent kitchen. So weagain carried out a hunger strike for three daysin January 2014 with the demand of separatekitchen. When questioned why they wereviolating their promise for a separate kitchen,


they said that there was the problem of lack ofutensils! We refused to accept this excuse andcontinued the strike, when the authoritiesassured that they will provide the necessaryutensils. Then we withdrew our hunger strike.On 1 February, they provided us the permissionfor setting up the kitchen as well as the materialslike utensils necessary for it. This was my firstexperience of prison struggles and it endedsuccessfully. In another strike, three of uspolitical prisoners were involved. Similarly, wecarried out a hunger strike for three days in2015 demanding that the political prisoners beproduced on court dates regularly so that trialprocess could be ended at the earliest. Apartfrom hunger strike, we also adopted otherforms of protest like returning to the jailor theuneatable grocery and vegetables the jailauthorities provided, questioning them duringparades and inspection, etc.

Another problem in jail is that of ‘mulaqat’(meeting the relatives or friends of theprisoners). Some prisoners had nobody to visitthem. Others had occasional or regularvisitors. They used to bring vegetables or othereatables with them for their imprisoned kin.We cooked them in our kitchen and distributedamong all the women prisoners. But sometimesthe jail authorities did not allow it or cut downthe amount of things brought by the relatives.They did not allow even this when relatives andfriends of the prisoners came to meet them inthe court on trial dates and brought things withthem. Moreover, the relatives and friendscoming for ‘mulaqat’ were compelled to standoutside in the sun; there was no provision forthem like waiting room, etc. The place ofmulaqat had two layers of nets because ofwhich it was difficult even to see the faces ofone another while talking. During the mulaqatperiod (which was mere 15 minutes), the jailemployees used to make a lot of noise, makingit difficult to talk. These problems were facedby all prisoners including the women politicalprisoners like us.

There are other problems in jail as well.For instance, many under-trial prisoners hadno lawyer to defend them in the court andmost of them who came from poor familiesdid not have the adequate money to hirelawyers. There is daily quarrel for using the

toilet in the morning since there were very fewtoilets for the prisoners. The problem was moreserious before but after struggle it got reduced.Particularly after the number of Maoistpolitical prisoners grew in comparison to theother prisoners, the latter started giving morerespect to us. Previously the jail authoritiesused to beat up Maoist political prisoners,isolate them, discriminate against them andridicule them by saying that women in Maoistsquads had a life like animals, there was nodiscipline, etc. But after our numbers grew andwe conducted several strikes, the attitude of thejail officials as well as the other prisonerstowards us changed for the better.

During 2014, the jail authorities used tobe highly irregular in producing the jailinmates in court, making the trial processunduly protracted. This was a tactic used bythe police and jail administration to prolongthe time of incarceration of prisoners,particularly the Maoist political prisoners. Wefought against this too. For five days we carriedout hunger strike in 2015 demanding thatguards be provided without fail to take us tothe courts on trial dates. Because of this, thesituation improved somewhat and otherprisoners too started to integrate with us moreclosely thereafter. In the same year, we foughtagainst the plan to put CCTVs in the women’sbarracks, after which these were removed.However, CCTVs still continue in the malewards. Likewise, we fought against the practiceof handcuffing the ailing prisoners whiletaking them out to the hospital for treatment.When a woman prisoner got seriously ill andshe was admitted to the Maharani Hospital ofJagdalpur, the police kept her in handcuff evenwhen she was in sick bed. We protested againstthis inhuman practice, arguing that there wasno way a seriously ill woman prisoner couldrun away. After our protest, they did not repeatthis cruel method even though they continueto handcuff some male inmates while takingto the court or for treatment.

My family members came to visit me afterthree months of my imprisonment. They wererelieved to see me alive, as they could not findany trace of me for several days after my illegaldetention by the police forces. They searchedfor me far and wide and were even worried


that I might have broken down andsurrendered before the police. But a few daysafter they put me in jail, I wrote a letter to myfamily members. Then they knew where I wasand came to see me. In the two years I spent injail, I had six ‘mulaqats’ with my familymembers. I also wrote two letters from jail.

The police made me an accused in twocases under various sections of the draconianlaws. These include the case of explosion of abomb on the Timmapuram and Bayigudemvillages, in which there were no casualties. Inspite of this, the police slapped a case of murderimplicating me. The trial started after nearlythree months of my production before themagistrate on 8 April. After 90 days, the trialwas started and I used to be produced in thecourt on the dates of hearing. There used tobe two hearings every month. Lawyersarranged by my family argued my case duringthe entire period of my incarceration. One casewas tried in Bijapur and the other inDantewada.

The police produced many false witnessesincluding policemen and SPOs. My brotheralso came to give testimony on my behalf buthe was slapped twice by the police tointimidate him. During the trial, the policefailed to produce any concrete evidence againstme and it was clear that they had put fabricatedcases against me. I also opposed these witnessessaying that how could they be witness to my‘crimes’ when I was actually at home

cultivating. Thus, the police case fell throughand I was acquitted in both cases. Finally I wasreleased on 25 June 2015 after spending twoyears, three months and two days in the enemydungeon. But as it was evening by theformalities in the court were finished, I spentthe night in jail itself and got released at 10 inthe morning next day.

I reached my village by evening the sameday. I met Party comrades the next day andtold them about my experience during illegaldetention and in jail. I remained at home forfour months after release. From December2015 I resumed my Party work ignoring theobjections raised by my extended family to notto rejoin the Party. They told me that my fathertried to commit suicide by consuming poisonthinking that I might have surrendered to theenemy during the days of my illegal detention,but the villagers treated him time and savedhim. But I was able to convince them that itwas my duty to rejoin the Party and continuein the revolutionary movement. Thereafterthey did not raise any hurdles and bade mefarewell. In July 2016, I was given theresponsibility of leading the Area-levelrevolutionary mass organisations including theDAKMS. I am continuing with this work tillnow. Rather than weakening me, the time Ispent in jail made my resolve even firmer thanbefore to dedicate myself fully for the Party andthe revolutionary movement.

war into mobile war’ and of ‘transforming thePLGA into PLA’.

Come, let us daringly jump into the arenaof class struggle in order to complete theunfinished works and the dreams of the greatmartyrs.

History is witness to the fact that the finalvictory will be to the people. After the darknessof the night there will certainly be the light ofdawn. The Indian revolution will certainly bevictorious, which means that first the new

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democratic revolution and immediately afterthis the socialist revolution will be victorious.

The centenary of the Russian revolutioncan be truly celebrated only by intensifying thenew democratic revolution of India and bymaking its victorious and by taking it to thenext step of establishing socialist revolution.This is the call of the Party.

21 September 2017


News from the Counter-revolutionary Camp

Government to encouragerecruitment from Maoist

areas into the ArmyAs a part of its policy to divide the

people and use them against their ownbrethren, the Indian government is going tohelp youth from the Maoist movement areasof Jharkhand to join the mercenary army ofthe Indian ruling classes. To make them‘eligible’ for recruitment into the Indian Army,these youths will be trained in various policetraining centres and NCC centres. Thegovernment is going to emphasise on therecruitment of the interior and far-flung areasby “boosting their self-confidence” so that theycan participate in the Army’s recruitmentdrives. Of these areas, first priority is going tobe given to the 13 ‘LWE Focussed Areas’ ofJharkhand identified by the Union HomeMinistry. The government is making theseplans so that more youths from these areas canbe recruited to the 650 posts to be filled by theArmy at Ranchi in October 2017. Propagandais being carried out in these areas for thepurpose.

The government has already relaxed thecriterion for recruitment of youths from the

areas of revolutionary struggle into its armedforces so that they can be used not only againsttheir own communities but to suppress otherstruggling people and their movements. Theexploitative ruling classes are using the direpoverty and widespread unemploymentamong the youths including the Adivasis toreplenish its own forces on the one hand andto divert them from the path of struggle onthe other. The politically conscious people inthe areas of intense class struggle understandthis reactionary conspiracy and are refusing tojoin the mercenary white armed forces in spiteof their economic hardship. Nevertheless,more revolutionary propaganda needs to beconducted among the masses to expose thisheinous ruling-class design and to recruit thesons and daughters of the oppressed people inlarge numbers into the revolutionary guerrillaforces led by the CPI(Maoist).

Central government asks BillGates to ‘adopt’ 1,000 villages

in Maoist movement areasThe relation between the Indian

government’s war on people and imperialismhas once again become apparent with the union


government asking US billionaire Bill Gatesto ‘adopt’ 1,000 villages coming under theMaoist movement area in Odisha, Bihar andJharkhand and make them “model villages”by focussing on sanitation. This request wasconveyed to Gates – co-chair and trustee of theBill and Melinda Gates Foundation – by UnionHome Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhiwhen the former called on the minister. TheFoundation plays an important role insuggesting policy measures to the governmentsof various oppressed countries including Indiaon a range of fields like informationtechnology, healthcare, education, etc. in theinterest of US imperialism.

Both the Indian ruling classes representedby the ruling BJP and US imperialismrepresented by Bill Gates have a convergenceof interest in wiping out or weakening theMaoist movement by using military force aswell as a number of fake reforms for themasses. It is as a part of this counter-revolutionary approach that Rajnath Singhhas asked Gates to jointly attack the mass baseof the revolutionary movement with sweetbullets like ‘cleanliness’ or some other pretext.Such intervention by imperialist-fundedagencies in the country must be opposed notonly in the Maoist movement areas but outsidethem as well.

Rajnath Singh’s claim ofdecline in Naxalism proves

hollowIt has become very common for top

government leaders and officials to declare thatNaxalism is on the ebb in the country. Thesedeclarations are proved wrong by thegovernment’s own data and are exposed in themainstream media itself, such as the recentdeclaration by Union Home Minister andHindu-fascist Rajnath Singh in the Rajya Sabhaon 9 August 2017 that Naxalism has been onthe decline in the last three years. This he claimedon the basis of the countrywide figures of‘Naxal violence’ that the white governmentmaintains, in which there has been anapproximate 40 percent decline in this periodaccording to him. Even presuming the

dubiousness of these figures and the method ofassessing the growth or decline of therevolutionary movement through body-countsor the number of incidents, the fact that Singhhas been lying has been caught by the corporatemedia itself. The media has pointed out thatMaoist-related incidents have come down from1,091 in 2014 to 1,048 in 2016, registering thedecline of a mere 4 percent, contrary to theclaim of 40 percent made by the Home Ministerof the country in the ruling-class Parliament!

Routine pronouncements of‘End of Naxalism’ byreactionaries lose all

seriousnessNo matter how many times they have been

proven wrong in the past and had to eat theirown words, the ruling-class functionaries nevertire of reiterating their fond dream of ‘end ofNaxalism’ in the country. Thesepronouncements have been proved wrong soregularly that no one in their right senses takethem seriously any more, including those whomake them. They naturally lack any convictionas the truth is completely opposite to theirclaims. This was once again on display in ayear-end press conference held in Raipur,where top officials of the central governmentand Chhattisgarh Police claimed that theMaoist movement will be wiped out fromBastar by the year 2022 just like it had beeneliminated from Sarguja Division of NorthChhattisgarh. They claimed that already 60 to65 percent of the Maoists in Bastar havealready been finished off while the rest too willbe over in the next four years. Going a stepfurther, Jharkhand Police claimed in a meetingheld in Ranchi this August in the presence ofthe Internal Security Advisor R Vijay Kumarand other top administrative, police andparamilitary officials that it has prepared aplan to make the state ‘Naxal-free’ within fivemonths by the end of 2017. That such tallclaims had been proven wrong umpteen timesin the past does not deter the ruling-classlackeys from shamelessly trying to delude anddemoralise the struggling masses withdoomsday predictions for the Maoists.


Home Ministry admits offaking Maoist surrendersAs per the Union Home Ministry’s data,

a total of 1,442 Maoists from 10 ‘Left-WingExtremism-affected’ states had ‘surrendered’in the year 2016. Of them 1,167 were fromChhattisgarh alone, which this number wasmere 323 in 2015. This unprecedented spikehad raised serious questions about the veracityof these so-called surrenders, democraticorganisations and the media showing that veryfew of these were genuine surrenders, the restbeing enacted by the government armed forcesto claim success in their anti-Maoist operationsand to embezzle the funds meant for surrenderpolicy.

Recently, a Home Ministry-appointedscreening committee found that as many asover 90% of the people who had ‘surrendered’in 2016 in Chhattisgarh did not conform tothe definition of “Maoist cadre”. This meansthat the people presented as Maoists were infact not Maoists at all – many of whom werevillagers forced to appear as surrenderedMaoists. It is worth noting that these fakesurrenders have taken place under the guidanceof the notorious Bastar IG SRP Kalluri whois a past master of such fudging up. This hasonce again exposed the truth that thegovernment forces regularly resort to makingup the number of killed, arrested orsurrendered Maoists in all revolutionarymovement area, which is nothing but a partof the psychological warfare conducted as apart of the government’s war on people.

Central government approves‘special assistance’ for Maoist

movement areasNDA government’s Cabinet Committee

on Security presided over by PM NarendraModi has earmarked25,060 crore rupees oftaxpayers’ money for the ‘modernisation’ ofpolice forces in the next three years. Of this,10,132 crores are meant for Jammu andKashmir and the North Eastern states, while asubstantial amount is meant for the stateswhere the Maoist movement is active. The

same meeting also approved a ‘special centralassistance’ of 3,000 crore rupees for 35 ‘MostLWE-affected districts’ of the country, whichis said to be meant for ‘security’ and‘development’ work. The Modi governmentand the state governments, which never tire ofciting lack of funds for public health,education, drinking water and other basicamenities for the country’s masses, is allottingthousands of crores in this way on the policeto strengthen the reactionary regime of theruling classes by crushing the just struggles ofthe people.

Suicides among the policejawans three times the all-India rate in Maoist areasBy the end of November 2017, as many

as 36 jawans of the police and paramilitaryforces deployed in anti-Maoist operations havecommitted suicide in the Maoist areas ofChhattisgarh alone. This is the highest figurein the last one decade. The number of suicideamong the jawans is growing in the state, with6 suicides in 2016 and 12 in 2017. Accordingto a report, 115 jawans posted in the 11 ‘Naxal-affected’ districts of the state have committedsuicide since 2007, and there is a 31 percentspike in it this year. The usual reasons foundto be behind these suicides are ill treatment bysenior officers, lack of leave to visit home,depression due to the stress of high-riskposting, etc.

But the reality is that most of these jawanscome from the families of toiling masses whohave no interest in oppressing the fightingAdivasi masses of Bastar but are compelled todo so due to their commitment to their job,which is more than anything else is a meansof livelihood for them. Unable to find anymeaning or purpose for their war on thepeople, many of them seek transfer frommovement areas or desert the forces, and evencommit suicide in the intolerable situation theyfind themselves in. The lack of basic amenitieslike drinking water, good shelter, food, etc. andthe indifference or hostility of higher officialsmakes their alienation from their job complete,prompting them to either straffing or suicide.


This shows the low morale of the mercenaryforces engaged in anti-Maoist operations forthe sale of the exploiters in contrast to the highspirit of the red fighters of the PLGA whovoluntarily and willingly fight for the masses,being very clear about the aims and objectivesof their just revolutionary war.

The police continue the sealingof property of alleged Maoists

Continuing its vindictive action,Jharkhand Police has been sealing the housesof political activists and villagers alleging theirinvolvement in the Maoist movement. This isan attempt to prevent the masses fromparticipating in just struggles including therevolutionary class struggle by terrorising themwith the prospect of seizure of property. Forinstance, it seized the under-constructionhouse of Dhaniram Mahato of Kumbhiabedavillage in Kanjkiro panchayat of Bokarodistrict in the state under the UAPA, allegingthat a Maoist leader is the actual owner of thehouse which the police valued at 11 lakhrupees. Dhaniram, who is a petty shop-ownerrunning a small tyre-repairing shop anddoubles up as a seasonal labourer, has deniedthis false allegation and said that the house hasbeen built with his own hard labour andcontributions from relatives. But the policehave arbitrarily gone ahead with its action bylocking the house after throwing out all thehousehold material. Such acts of police terror,which have been carried out in the past againstthe families of political activists and the massesin Telangana and other states as well, have beendecried by civil rights organisations and thedemocratic forces.

UAVs of anti-Maoist forcesstart operations from

JagdalpurUnmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to be

used against the Maoist movement inDandakaranya are now being operated by theNational Technical Research Organisation(NTRO) – a central government agency – fromits base in Jagdalpur airport. Presently three

Israel-made ‘Heron’ drones are being operatedfrom here, the number of which will beincreased to ten according to governmentplans. UAVs had earlier been operated fromthe NTRO’s Nandini centre at Bhilai – nearly300 kilometres from Bastar’s mainadministrative centre Jagdalpur. Before settingup the centre at Bhilai in 2012, drones wereoperated from the Begumpet airfield ofHyderabad in neighbouring (undivided)Andhra Pradesh. The government and its anti-Maoist forces are using these drones and otherimperialist-made high-tech technology ingathering intelligence and during operationsagainst the Maoist guerrillas. These have nowbeing brought closer to the warzones as the newNTRO centre at Jagdalpur testifies to be moreeffective during combat operations of thegovernment armed forces.

12 SPOs resign from their jobafter Maoist warning

After the notorious Special Police Officer(SPO) Prabhudayal Pandey working forJharkhand Police and posted in HariharpurPolice Station of Gomoh district, 12 SPOsresigned from their jobs in June 2017. Pandeywas killed by the PLGA at his residence on 30May on the demand of the people as he usedto terrorise them alleging their involvement inthe Maoist movement. The red guerrillas alsoleft behind pamphlets at the scene warningother SPOs to voluntarily give up their policejobs or face consequences for their crimes.Following this, 12 SPOs working in HariharpurPolice Station have so far resigned from theirjobs. SPOs are mainly utilised for passing oninformation about Maoist activities to thepolice and also in anti-Maoist operations. Thesurrendered SPOs have complained thatthough they are expected to put their lives atstake in doing their job of police spies, thegovernment is not concerned about their safety.It is obvious that as the class struggle led by theCPI(Maoist) intensifies in various parts of thecountry, more jawans of the reactionary armedforces will voluntarily leave their hated jobs andsome of them will even join the revolutionaryranks.


District-level unified commandformed to coordinate anti-

Maoist activitiesA meeting of the state-level Unified

Command in Jharkhand chaired by CMRaghubar Das has decided in July this year toform unified commands in all districts tocoordinate the government’s fake reformprogrammes with armed operations againstthe Maoist revolutionaries and the masses. Topcivil and police-paramilitary officers of thedistrict will be part of the commands that willjointly guide all the counter-revolutionarymeasures in their area. Another counter-revolutionary decision that was taken in thesame meeting was to set up Joint InterrogationCells where alleged Maoists could beinterrogated jointly by the central and stateintelligence agencies, police and paramilitaryforces.

Six new police stations ofGRP coming up in BastarThe government has decided to open six

new police stations of Government RailwayPolice (GRP) in Bastar to facilitate theuninterrupted loot of mineral and other naturalresources by rail. Nearly a hundred armedpolicemen will be posted in them ostensibly tothwart possible Maoist attacks on the line, butin reality to crush the ongoing people’smovement against the Raoghat project. Theyare proposed on the upcoming railway linefrom Dalli-Rajhara to Jagdalpur to exploit theiron ore of Raoghat Hills located in Narayanpudistrict. As per the proposal, GRP stations willcome up at Dalli-Rajhara, Bhanupratappur,Gudum, Kevanti and Raoghat railwaystations. If implemented, it will double thenumber of GRP stations in Chhattisgarhwhere so far five such stations are functioningat Raipur, Raigarh, Bilaspur, Bhilai andDongargarh. Already trains are being operatedfrom Dalli-Rajhara to Gudum on this line, andwork on the next phases is continuing amidstheavy presence of armed forces. But the massesled by CPI(Maoist) and the PLGA are puttingup a stiff and protracted resistances, due towhich the pace of the work has been reducedconsiderably. The masses of the area aredetermined in their opposition to the Raoghatiron ore project and the railway line that willprimarily serve this anti-people project.


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Condemn the genocide ofRohingyas by the fascistMyanmar government

Rohingya Muslims, who mostly inhabitthe Rakhine province of north-westernMyanmar (Burma), have been facing national,racial and religious persecution at the handsof the national-chauvinist ruling classes of thecountry for centuries. In fact, this persecutionstarted from 1785 itself when the independentRakhine state was annexed to the Burmesekingdom through war. The number ofRohingyas in the country exceeds one millionat present, but this large community – whichis also an oppressed nationality facingBuddhist national chauvinism – are not evenrecognised as Burmese citizens and are termedas “Stateless Bengalis”. That is why in 1962itself the demand for a separate Rakhinecountry was raised by Rohingya nationaliststo be carved out of Myanmar. When themilitary junta overthrew the civil governmentand took power in 1982, it removed Rohingyasfrom the 135 officially recognised “ethnicgroups” in the country, effectively deprivingthem from citizenship rights overnight. Sincethen, the military junta had been pursuing apolicy of national persecution against theRohingyas in a brutal manner, which has

resulted in an armed national liberationstruggle of the Rohingyas presently under theleadership of Arracan Rohingya SalvationArmy (ANSA). The emergence of ANSA is adirect and logical outcome of years of nationaloppression and state terror.

Some people were under the illusion thatafter Aung San Suu Kyi’s party NLD came topower in the general elections of 2015 (whereRohingyas were barred from participating), anew and just policy would be adopted by theBurmese rulers towards the Rohingyas. Butthese hopes have turned into nightmare as SuuKyi extended her support to the Burmesemilitary in their genocide of Rohingyas byremaining silent throughout the worst days ofkillings, rapes and destruction. According toan investigation by Medecins Sans Frontieres,at least 6,700 Rohingyas including 730 childrenbelow the age of five were killed within a monthbetween 25 August and 24 September. Manywere burnt alive in their homes and manyothers were cruelly beaten to death. By the endof the year, nearly 6.26 lakh or more than halfthe Rohingya population were forciblydisplaced and had to seek refuge inneighbouring Bangladesh.

Most of the violence and displacementtook place in the last week of August, duringwhich the Burmese Army aided by Buddhist


militias attacked Rohingya settlements on thepretext of an attack by ANSA on a militarypost on 25 August, in which 17 ANSAguerrillas and a Burmese military officer werekilled. The scale of the violence and repressionhas prompted many to rightly term the attackas genocide and ethnic cleansing. The evictedRohingyas are filling the extremely unhygienicmakeshift refugee camps near Coxbazar townof Bangladesh on the international border. TheRohingya refugees are mostly poor peasantsand fish-workers who had reached Bangladeshby making harrowing trips staking their livesover land and sea. Such acts of violence againstthe people is unprecedented even in thecontemporary history of South Asia which haswitnessed the genocide of Tamil people in SriLanka, Gujarat pogrom and other acts of stateterror in the recent past. For the Rohingyas,securing national independence throughsecession from the existing Myanmar state hasto be the only solution for their historicoppression as a minority nationality by theBurmese ruling classes. All revolutionary anddemocratic forces of the world and particularlythat of South Asia should resolutely supporttheir armed liberation struggle as well protestagainst their relentless oppression.

Nearly 40,000 Rohingyas have been livingin different cities of India as refugees for thepast few years fleeing extreme persecution intheir home country. Most of them reside insub-human conditions and eke out a meagrelive working as day labourers or petty traderswhile facing continuous discrimination. BJP-RSS and other Hindu-chauvinist organisationshave been demanding their forced deportationand Modi government has also started thisprocess complying with their diktats.Moreover, by flouting all international andhumanitarian obligations, the government hasdecided to not allow any more distressedRohingyas to take shelter in India. Thus,Hindu-fascist government’s policy towardsRohingyas is no different from that of theBuddhist-chauvinist Myanmar government.The democratic forces of the country mustoppose the forcible deportation of Rohingyasfrom India and fight for the extension of allrights to the Rohingyas that are entitled tointernational refugees facing politicalpersecution.

Decision to shift US’sIsraeli embassy to Jerusalemprovokes widespread protest

Carrying out his pre-election promise, USPresident Donald Trump on 6 Decemberdeclared the decision of his government to shiftthe US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv toJerusalem – the holy city of Muslims,Christians and Jews – which is under Israelioccupation. This has provoked widespreadoutrage, condemnation and protests not onlyin Palestine but also in West Asia and otherparts of the world. The Palestinians have comeout vehemently opposing this move whichamounts to a mark of recognition to the unjustand illegal Israeli occupation of the holy cityas well as the occupied territories. ThePalestinians consider East Jerusalem to be apart of their territory and the capital city ofPalestine. Several Palestinians have died when


Israeli troops fired upon unarmed protestors.In the Muslim world and in many countriesacross the world, the people have carried outhuge protest demonstrations against the USimperialist government and the Zionist Israelirulers, asking Trump to rescind his decision.Organisations of the Islamic countries like ArabLeague and Organisation of IslamicCooperation (OIC) have made the samedemand, while the governments of manyEuropean and Asian countries including theallies of the US too have called for anannulment of the decision.

However, Modi government – as the mostloyal lackey of US imperialism in South Asiaand a close friend of Zionist Israel – has refusedtake a concrete position on the issue, tocondemn Trump’s decision or to call upon theUS government to reconsider it. Modigovernment has established closer relationswith the Israeli ruling class, and it is no surprisethat BJP-RSS has no spine to stand up againstthe US or Israeli rulers, even if it amounts toshamelessly betraying the Palestinian cause.Though the Hindutva government of BJP maybe complicit with their US and Israeli bosses,the people of India are with the Palestinianmasses and are protesting on the streets againstthe US decision. All democratic, progressiveand justice-loving forces of the country mustunambiguously stand with the Palestiniannation in their fight against the usurpation ofJerusalem and for a genuinely free andindependent Palestine.

Catalonians intensify theirnational movement for

independence from SpainThe provincial legislature of Catalonia

passed a historic resolution on 27 October thisyear through which they declared Catalonia’sindependence from Spain, set up the countryof Catalonia and sought internationalrecognition for their new republic. This wasdone as the culmination of an intensifiedpeaceful national liberation movementthroughout Catalonia for the last few monthsdefying the repression of the Spanishgovernment and its brutal police forces, leading

to a referendum where 90 percent of theelectorate voted for independence. However,the democratic aspiration so clearly andunambiguously expressed by the Catalonianpeople has been set aside by Spain’s ruling classthrough a resolution in the Spanishparliament, taking over all the powers of theCatalonian parliament in its hands andimposing the rule of Madrid through bruteforce. It has dissolved the elected Cataloniangovernment and deposed the pro-independence President Carles Puigdemont,the Vice-president, all its ministers and eventhe police chief, forcing them to take refuge inother countries.

With this, whatever namesake autonomyCatalonia has won through their prolongedstruggle has also been taken away, therebyremoving the veneer of ‘democracy’ from theSpanish rulers. It has become absolutely clearthat no matter how the Spanish governmentrepresenting the interests of the Spanishbourgeoisie take pains to show itself asdemocratic, its autocratic nature is in plaindisplay in their attitude towards Catalonianindependence. The imperialist Spanishbourgeoisie are not ready to give up its controlover the resource-rich and economicallyimportant Catalonia which they hadsubjugated in the past through military force.The other imperialist governments of Europetoo and the NATO allies of Spain – which havethemselves kept many nationalities undersubjugation – have refused to recognise the newCatalonian republic and stood by the Spanishgovernment when it unleashed large-scale staterepression on the agitating Catalonian people.It has proved that the so-called democracy ofthe capitalist countries is only a smokescreenand whoever dares to cross the ‘permissiblelimits’ using bourgeois democratic means likereferendum or resolutions will be crushedmilitarily without mercy.

On the other hand, this confrontationbetween the Spanish rulers and the Catalonianpeople has also shown that the age of nationalliberation movements emerging victoriousthrough peaceful struggle is well nigh over notonly in the oppressed countries but also in themost advanced capitalist countries with themost mature democratic institutions. It has


revealed the weakness and irresoluteness of theCatalonian bourgeoisie which is givingleadership to the Catalonian independencemovement, proving that it is unable to lead themasses in a decisive battle. The bourgeoisleaders of the various oppressed nationalitiesin the capitalist countries like Spain are afraidof leading masses in an armed uprising andare prone to compromise with their oppressors,lest the working classes refuse to stop at abourgeois republic and take the fight ahead fora socialist republic. It is true that the proletariatof these countries are disorganised or underrevisionist organisations who work as the tailof the bourgeoisie. But it is inevitable thatgenuine communist parties will emerge incapitalist countries including among theoppressed nationalities which alone will be ableto ensure national liberation and the equalityamong nations by leading the proletariat andother working masses in a resolute and decisivestruggle against the bourgeoisie.

Opposition to the killing oftwo members of fact-finding

mission in the PhilippinesGovernment armed forces and state-

sponsored killer gangs attacked a fact-findingteam in the province of Negros Oriental in thePhilippines on 28 November, in which a youthactivist was also injured. Elisa Badayos of theorganisation Karapatan belonging to theCentral Visayas and Elioterio Moises of thelocal peasant organisation Mantapi EbwanFarmers’ Association were among the killed.The team was investigating acts of staterepression by the government soldiers inBayawan and Sta. Catalina cities. The localgovernment of the Negros Oriental had issuedan ordinance in 2008 prohibiting all fact-finding missions in the province without priorpermission. The fact-finding team had soughtpermission from the local administration a daybefore the incident, but it did not respond totheir request, following which the team wentahead with their scheduled programme.Worried that the fact-finding team wouldcollect evidence of state violence and place itbefore the people, the team was stopped,harassed and detained by armed men

sponsored by the police and later released.Following this, three members of the teamwere going to lodge a complaint in the policestation when armed men opened fire at themkilling two and injuring the other. Variousdemocratic organisations including whosemembers were killed have strongly condemnedthe killing.

The killings reflect the prevailing politicalsituation in the Filipino countryside underPresident Rodrigo Dutarte’s fascist rule. Nodemocratic right is recognised in practice andno people’s organisations or their activities aretolerated by the government. Dutarte has along record of using the state forces as well asvigilante gangs against his political opponentsas the Governor of Mindanao province, apractice which he has carried on andintensified during his presidency. Hisgovernment has launched fascist assaults likeOplan Tokhang and Oplan Double Barreltargeting the revolutionary camp. But bravingthis severe state repression, the fighting peopleof the Philippines are advancing therevolutionary struggle led by the CommunistParty, the New People’s Army and differentmass organisations against the ruling classes.

Anti-Hindutva protestin London on the fake

Independence DayMembers of Indian diaspora in London

including workers, intellectuals, etc. markedIndia’s so-called Independence Day on 15August by taking out a march against theincreasing incidents of mob lynching ofMuslims, Christians and Dalits in India by theHindutva forces backed by Modi government.

The march included more than 200 peoplebelonging to various civil rights groups, Dalitand Christian organisations and democraticindividuals. The march began at TavistockSquare at Mahatma Gandhi’s statue and endedin front of the Indian High Commission.Marchers carried torches and candles, largeportraits of Junaid, Akhlaq and other victimsof mob lynching and placards condemning thegrowing Hindu-fascist attacks. Slogans wereraised before the Indian High Commission and


the atmosphere reverberated with “Modi,Yogi, blood on your hands!”, “Modi, Modi,you can’t hide, you committed genocide!”,“Modi, Yogi shame, shame! No more killingsin our names”, etc.

Several speakers addressed the gatheringat the end of the march in front of Indian HighCommission. The organisers have also sent aletter to Indian President demanding an endto the violence against Muslims, Christiansand Dalits and the immediate release of Dalitleader Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan and hiscolleagues of the Bhim Army. In this way, themarchers challenged the Brahmanical Hindu-fascist forces in power in India from overseas,making clear that these regressive forces willmeet the opposition of the people from allcorners of the world.

Protests against Adanicoal plant in Australia

Thousands of Australians are protestingagainst the proposed Carmichael coal mineproject to be undertaken by the Indiancomprador corporate house of the Adanis as

it threatens to seriously damage the fragileecology of the region. To be constructed at acost of 16.5 billion dollars, this is going to bethe largest coal mine in the southernhemisphere. The protestors included peoplefrom Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, NorthernQueensland, Port Douglas and provinces. Theyare not only running a worldwide social mediacampaign #stopadani, but have also come outon to the streets of cities like Sydney,Melbourne and Perth in their thousands toexpress their rejection of the project. Theproject has been stopped from taking off sofar due to the stiff popular opposition whobelieve that if the project comes up it will makethe surrounding region dangerous forhabitation due to water, air and soil pollution.It is unlikely that it will be easy for theAustralian government, which is hand ingloves with the Adanis, to forcefully open themines in the face of such a strong resistance.This successful agitation is also an inspirationfor the people’s movements across the globefighting against environmental destruction anddisplacement due to corporate mining andother big capitalist projects.


Statements of CPI(Maoist)


Press Release1 July 2017

Expose the reality of OGH and Brahmanical Hindu-fascist terror!Fight back the counter-revolutionary propaganda war

against the revolutionary movement!

In the wake of PLGA’s daring Bhejji andBurkapal ambushes on the mercenary forcesof the ruling classes with the activeinvolvement and cooperation of therevolutionary masses in Sukma district ofChhattisgarh this year, the ruling classes havestepped up their countrywide counter-revolutionary attack on the Maoist movement.This all-out attack encompasses all spheresincluding the ideological, political, military,cultural and propaganda fronts. As a part ofthis all-out enemy offensive, a team ofintellectuals from Delhi visited Bastar regionof Chhattisgarh last month under the pretextof learning about the ground situation of thewar zone. The team reportedly included a fewprofessors and —-students of Delhi Universityand Jawaharlal Nehru University and a fewsocial activists and journalists. They interactedwith officials of the anti-Maoist police-paramilitary forces and some other personsarranged by them. After returning to the statecapital Raipur, they met the Governor and top

officials of the state government to share theirexperience and impressions of the visit.Talking to the media, the team memberspraised the central and state armed forcesengaged in anti-Maoist operations in Bastarand declared that these forces were doing agood job in combating the Maoist movement.

Not surprisingly, these intellectualsdeemed it sufficient to meet government’sfunctionaries, its armed forces and a few ruling-class hangers-on alone without visiting any ofthe villages or speaking to the people bearingthe brunt of fascist state violence. Clearly, theobjective of their visit was not to bring out thereality of Bastar but to hide it; to whitewashand justify the heinous crimes of thereactionary Indian ruling classes and theirtroops perpetrated on a daily basis inDandakaranya. This has clearly revealed thereactionary character of these intellectuals whoproved that they have sold their intellect andtheir conscience to the country’s rulers and their


imperialist masters. In contrast to the historictradition of the vast majority of the country’srevolutionary and democratic intellectuals whohave always stood up to the powers that be inthe interest of the masses, these treacherousintellectuals belonging to the tiny minority ofthe country’s reactionary intelligentsia havedemonstrated their betrayal of the vast massesand the country in order to serve the rulers andfulfil their own narrow self-interests.

These reactionary intellectuals, however,are not alone in displaying their servility to theruling classes presently represented by theBrahmanical Hindu-fascist Modi-Shah-Bhagwat clique in power. A handful ofBollywood actors and sportspersons too havecome forward to serve the ruling-class designsof uprooting the country’s revolutionarymovement under the garb of supporting thefamilies of the paramilitary jawans wiped outby the PLGA, particularly after Bhejji andBurkapal counteroffensive attacks. A smallsection of film-stars like Askhay Kumar andVivek Oberoi and sportspersons like GautamGambhir and Saina Nehwal are showering thefamilies of the killed jawans with money,houses, promises of free education for theirchildren, and what not. Parroting thepropaganda of the government and SanghParivar, they have termed the Maoistrevolutionaries and the revolutionary massesas ‘anti-nationals’ and ‘terrorists’, whilepresenting the government forces as the‘nationalists’ and ‘patriots’. They are using thepopularity they enjoy among the masses tocreate public opinion against the revolutionarymovement led by the Maoist Party. They aredrumming up ‘nationalist’ jingoism tofacilitate the continued suppression of thepeople in the Maoist movement areas by thegovernment armed forces without attractingthe indignation of the masses of the other partsof the country. In so doing, these actors andsportspersons have proved to be equal to thereactionary intellectuals.

An important role in this propagandawar, called ‘perception management’ by Modigovernment, is being played by a section ofthe country’s mainstream media under thecontrol of domestic and foreign big capitalists.These media houses churn out poisonous foul

propaganda against the revolutionarymovement day and night, particularly afterevery major military action by the PLGA.Taking up cudgels on behalf of the country’sHindutva-fascist rulers, these yellow journalistscry themselves hoarse in calling for revengeafter the elimination of the paramilitary-policejawans or anti-people politicians engaged insuppressing the people. TV channels like ZeeTV and Times Now in particular havedistinguished themselves in castigating therevolutionary movement and glorifying thehorrific crimes of the government forces inBastar and in all other movement areas in thecountry. They have proved equally notoriousin profiling Muslims, Dalits, Kashmiris,democrats and other persecuted sections ofsociety as ‘terrorists’, ‘anti-nationals’,‘traitors’, and other venomous appellations.These journalists gang up with the reactionaryintellectuals, film personalities andsportspersons etc. to wage the Goebbelsianpropaganda war against the revolutionaries,democrats and the people.

By legitimising, justifying and supportingthe Modi government’s Operation Green Hunt(OGH), the war on people, and advancing thefascist agenda of the Sangh Parivar, theseintellectuals, actors, sportspersons andjournalists are becoming the willing tools ofthe reactionary ruling classes. Confined to theirivory towers and in complete isolation fromthe masses, they have become a cog in thecounter-revolutionary campaign of thegovernment and the Brahmanical Hindu-fascist gangs against all democratic andprogressive forces of the country. In theireagerness to serve the ruling classes and theimperialists in exchange of a few crumbsthrown at them, these handful of people areshamelessly covering up the most heinouscrimes against humanity, the vast majority ofthe people and the country perpetrated by theneo-Nazi government and its fascist armedforces and vigilante gangs. These crimesinclude the arrest of Adivasi and other poorvillagers in their thousands, torturing thembrutally and throwing them in jails in absolutelyfalse cases, gang-raping large number ofAdivasi women, parading women naked in thevillages and even on roads, razing Adivasi


villages to the ground, looting and destroyingeverything belonging to the people and killingbarbarously hundreds of people every year.These ‘public figures’ do not see the hundredsof children orphaned by the government forcesand the Brahmanical Hindu-fascist gangs orthe tens of thousands of Adivasi people madeto flee their homes by the fascist war imposedby the ruling classes in a large part of thecountry. They maintain a studied silence aboutthe brutal atrocities of ‘valiant’ Indian armedforces – the Indian Air Force, CRPF, CoBRA,BSF, ITBP, SSB, CISF, Naga Battalions, AssamRifles, IRB Battalions, state police forces (likethe notorious DRG and CAF), theircommandoes and the counter-revolutionaryvigilante gangs in the Maoist movement areas.Their hypocrisy, double standard and lies needto be thoroughly exposed and condemned.

On the one hand, BJP-led central and stategovernments are bankrolling a number ofruling-class intellectuals, cine actors, writers,sportspersons, journalists, etc. to carry on theirreactionary venomous propaganda againstrevolutionary and democratic movements andputting all kinds of mass media at theirdisposal. On the other hand, they aresuppressing revolutionary and democraticintellectuals, writers, social activists, actors,artists, journalists, advocates and others whoare raising their voice of opposition againstthe government in any part of the country. Notonly the Maoist movement, but each and everypeople’s movement is today facing Modigovernment’s bullets, batons and jails. Be it therecent peasant’s agitation in several states,militant protests of Dalits in Gujarat, TamilNadu and UP including the persecution ofBheem Sena and its leaders includingChandrashekhar Azad Ravan, protestingvoices of Muslims and Christians, oppositionto mass lynching of Muslims and Dalits,protests by Adivasis in Jharkhand, pro-reservation movements of Jats and Patidars,separate Gorkhaland movement, Kashmir’snational liberation movement, students’ andteachers’ struggles in educational institutes, etc.– are all under attack from government andRSS mercenaries.

Among the people’s movements, thepolitical, military, cultural and propaganda

assault against the Maoist movement isparticularly severe as it is increasingly gainingrecognition of the people as a standard bearerof the country’s anti-feudal, anti-imperialistand anti-fascist democratic movement. Theuse of revolutionary violence of the oppressedmasses in a war of self-defence ofDandakaranya, Bihar-Jharkhand and other redareas in different parts of the country isincreasingly winning the sympathy, support,and approval of the country’s vast rural andurban masses as a just and legitimate struggle,as a correct path of struggle. The worriedruling classes and their governments in thecentre and the states are therefore desperate tocontain the ideological, political andorganisational spread of this movement.

This explains the persistent and all-roundcounter-revolutionary attack on any andeveryone who stand for revolution anddemocracy, including intellectuals, socialactivists, actors, writers, journalists, advocatesand the like. Pronouncement of severesentences like life term to Dr. G N Saibaba ofDelhi University and five of his co-accused inMarch and death penalty to five persons inMunger district of Bihar in May this year onfabricated Maoist-related charges,‘demonstrations’ orchestrated by state-sponsored and Sangh-affiliated counter-revolutionary organisations demanding thehanging of Dr. Saibaba and five others, tenyears of imprisonment to five peasants smalltraders in alleged Maoist ‘urban-network’ casein Kanker district, detention and manhandlingof a six-member fact-finding team from AP-Telangana by members of a vigilante gang inSukma district and handing over to the policeleading to the arrest and jail of the teammembers in December last year, death sentenceto ten and life term to three Dalits in Novemberlast year related to Sinari case in Bihar,suspension or termination of conscientiousgovernment servants like Prabhakar Gwal andVarsha Dongre from their job, terrorising andjailing social activists, intellectuals, journalistsand advocates working in Bastar and othermovement areas, life term to Maoist leaderComrade Praval da in Dumka district ofJharkhand in August last year and the killingof around 65 Maoist activists and


revolutionary masses (18 of whom werewomen) in different parts of the country in thefirst half of this year – these are just a few ofthis attack. These are attempts to “teach alesson” to those who dare to raise a voice ofopposition against the country’s rulers. Bycontinuing its fascist repression with impunity,the government is mocking at the appeals ofthe democratic and progressive voices and eventhe Supreme Court’s suggestion to hold talksin order to establish peace in war-zones likeDandakaranya and Bihar-Jharkhand. Suchblatant attack on the people and theirdemocratic rights is in complete contrast to the‘freedom’ given to the reactionary ruling-classintellectuals, artists, journalists, etc. to spreadtheir counter-revolutionary false propagandaaimed at hoodwinking the country’s masses.The truth, however, is on the side of the people.

The Central Committee of our Party callsupon all the revolutionary, democratic,progressive, secular and patriotic organisationsand individuals of the country, all the exploitedand oppressed classes, nationalities and socialsections to get organised and unite against theall-out war imposed by the BrahmanicalHindu-fascist rulers on the people. This is the

time to overcome all kinds of narrow interestsand sectarian attitude in the larger interest toachieve a firm unity of the country’srevolutionary and democratic forces. This isnecessary for building a broad-basedmovement to effectively retaliate the multi-pronged counter-revolutionary war on thepeople by the fascist rulers in ideological,political, cultural, military, and propagandafronts which can pave way for a permanentsolution to the problems besetting the peopleand the country. Only a solid unity among thepeople which is capable of exposing, fightingback and defeating the treacherous divide-and-rule tactics of the enemy will be able to ensurethe victory of the country’s democraticmovement and the defeat of its reactionaryenemies.

(Abhay)

Spokesperson

Central Committee

CPI(Maoist)

the US and are strengthening its friendly tieswith Israel, of which the recent visit of PrimeMinister Modi is one example. All theagreements that the PM of India has madewith Israel including in the fields of defenseand security are nothing but acts of mortgagingthe sovereignty of the country. Immediatelyafter the US declared Jerusalem as the capitalof Israel, India did not condemn it like theother countries. This only shows the anti-Islamic nature of the Indian ruling classes. OurParty appeals to the people of India tocondemn the same and to stand in support of

the Palestinian and Arab people. We mustexpose and oppose the decision of Trump thathas ignited another crusade as well as theattitude of the saffron terrorists that are insupport to him.

(Abhay)

Spokesperson

Central Committee

CPI(Maoist)

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Press Release9 September 2017

Strongly condemn and protest against the assassination ofjournalist Gauri Lankesh by Hindutva-terrorist Sangh Parivar goons!

Intensify the countrywide united people’s movementagainst Brahmanical Hindu-fascism!

Well-known journalist, social activist,political commentator and translator GauriLankesh was shot dead by motorcycle-borneassailants at around 8.30pm on 5 Septembernear her home in Bangaluru when she wasreturning from work. Three bullets hit her chestand head and she died instantaneously. TheCentral Committee, Communist Party ofIndia (Maoist), condemns this heinous murderin strongest possible terms and conveys itscondolences to her relatives and friends. OurParty holds Brahmanical Hindu-fascist goonsof Sangh Parivar led by Mohan Bhagwat &co. to be directly responsible for thisassassination. This is not only a blatant attackon free speech and freedom of the press but anassault on all revolutionary, democratic,progressive, secular and rational dissentingvoices of the country.

In this context, we emphatically reject andstrongly condemn the patently false insinuationmade by some leaders of RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and BJPsuggesting that our Party might be behind thismurder. This is nothing but a futile attempt todivert the growing mass anger against theSangh Parivar. The CC of our Party calls uponthe oppressed classes and the people of thecountry, the religious and national minorities,Dalits, Adivasis, women, students and youth,intellectuals, artists, advocates and otherdemocratic sections – particularly thejournalists working in the print and electronicmedia – to strongly protest against the murderof Gauri Lankesh, to demand prompt and

stringent punishment of the perpetrators andto intensify the united countrywide people’smovement against Brahmanical Hindu-fascism.

Gauri Lankesh was the editor andpublisher of the progressive Kannadanewsmagazine Lankesh which was establishedby her father P Lankesh in the 1980s. After hisdeath, her daughter took up the responsibilityof continuing the magazine’s publicationwithout diluting or abandoning its progressiveand democratic character which opposed theregressive and decadent social forces. Themagazine and Gauri Lankesh’s writingscourageously challenged the most reactionaryand right-wing faction of India’s ruling classesrepresented by the Brahmanical Hindu-fascistRSS and its parliamentary face, the BJP. Thelast issue of Lankesh, for instance, carried anexpose of embezzlement involving the formerKarnataka Chief Minister and BJP strongmanYediyurappa. Similarly, she had recentlytranslated and published journalist RanaAyyub’s book Gujarat Files on the Gujaratpogrom of 2002 that implicated Hindutvaleaders including Narendra Modi and AmitShah. Gauri Lankesh participated in theefforts to bring the untold history of theoppressed people to light like that of Prof. MM Kalburgi who established that the religionof the Lingayats was different fromBrahmanical Hinduism and was never a partof it. She supported the democratic aspirationsof the oppressed Kannada nationality whichhas been fighting against various forms of


national oppression including the impositionof alien language and culture.

Apart from using her pen and hermagazine as effective weapons againstHindutva-fascism, she organised andparticipated in protests against the combinedattack of the dictatorial Indian state and theHindu communal forces on the people – be itworkers, peasants, urban middle classes,religious and national minorities, Dalits,Adivasis, women, LGBT and other oppressedsections of the society. She fearlessly opposedfake encounters and other forms of state terroragainst the country’s revolutionary anddemocratic movements. She condemned moblynching and physical attacks on Muslims andDalits by self-proclaimed ‘cow protectors’ andother Hindutva gangs. She came forward tovocally protest against the murder of Prof. MM Kalburgi by the Hindu-fascist forces whowanted to silence his irrepressible voice againstBrahmanism and Hindu majoritarianism.

Through all these and in many other ways,using her writings and social activism, GauriLankesh contributed to the building up ofpublic opinion and united resistance againstthe bigoted Hindutva reactionary forces,particularly in Karnataka which has becomethe advanced post of Brahmanical Hindu-fascism in South India. These RSS-affiliatedforces felt threatened by the growingdemocratic opposition to their communal-fascist agenda, particularly at a time whenassembly elections are just round the corner andBJP is desperate to come back to power in thestate. In fact, she had been receiving deaththreats and was also subjected to abuse in thesocial media by these forces for quite sometime. But she had refused to be cowed downby these vile tactics of intimidation and bravelycarried on with her work. The RSS goonstherefore decided to eliminate her through oneof its numerous terrorist outfits as per aconspiracy. In addition to silencing one of itsmost vocal critics, the Hindutva-fascists wantto send out a clear warning through the murderof Lankesh to the country’s revolutionary,democratic, progressive and secularindividuals, organisations and movementsthat anyone who dared to put up a realopposition (and not fake, parliamentary

‘opposition’) to the fascist juggernaut of Modi-Shah-Bhagwat ruling clique will meet a similarfate.

In fact, this is not the first murderousattack on the country’s journalists by theHindutva terrorists operating under theguidance from RSS headquarters in Nagpur.As per one report, as many as nine journalistshave been killed in the country since Modi-ledBJP government came to power. Many ofthese murders have been carried out by RSS-related outfits or individuals as a means ofeliminating their critics. While a number ofthe staunchest anti-Hindutva journalists arebeing silenced in this way, others are beingpersecuted in various other ways – arrests, jailterms, physical attacks, abuse, cutting down ofgovernment financial support, etc. Quite asignificant number of journalists in thecorporate media have been co-opted or boughtinto championing RSS’s Hindutva agenda andbecoming spokespersons for the Modigovernment, while the majority are beingsuppressed, and hounded out or silenced.Thus, committed journalists have become aprime target of Hindutva terror along withother oppressed classes, sections andcommunities in the society.

Just as the violent attacks by the Hindutva-fascist gangs are becoming much more blatant,virulent and frequent with each passing day ofModi government, the people’s movementagainst Hindutva-fascism too is becomingmore and more widespread. People fromdifferent walks of life affected directly byHindutva-terror or indirectly by the anti-peoplepolicies of the Hindu-fascist BJP governmentare resisting in various forms. The SanghParivar knows that it is not so easy to perpetrateits crimes on the people and get away withoutfacing the consequences. That is why its leaderslike Modi are making public pronouncementsabout their belief in non-violence, whileinstigating their storm-troopers in differentways to carry out large-scale fascist violence.The duplicity, hypocrisy and deceptiveness ofthe Hindutva forces need to be clearly identifiedto build an effective democratic counter-offensive against them.

The fear of people’s anger and their unitedprotests have forced RSS to pronounce public


condemnations against the murder of GauriLankesh and to float the white lie that theMaoists might be behind her killing. Suchmisinformation is being spread by the SanghParivar and the BJP to divert the mountingindignation of the people from themselves onthe one hand and to mislead the ongoingprobes on the other. Such lies will of courseconvince no one and their attempt to absolvethemselves of the crime will end in utter failure.This is one more proof that these fascist forceshave feet of clay when it comes to facing theorganised resistance of the masses, no matterhow strong and invincible they may appear.

This is a time when the shadow of fascismover the country and its people is darkening.The Hindutva forces are bent on strengtheningtheir comprador-feudal fascist rule by using allmeans at their disposal. They are twisting thetruth through Goebbelsian propaganda andtrying to instil fear and terror among each andevery person who dare to think critically byunleashing violence. At a time like this, itbecomes all the more important to come outstrongly and unitedly against the fascist attackon the country’s conscientious, democraticand progressive journalists and intellectuals.This will be an important part of the broad-based united people’s movement that isbuilding up against the Brahmanical Hindu-fascist forces that are on a rampage against alloppressed classes and sections and all kinds ofpeople’s movements. There are only two

choices before us – either we get silenced bythe Hindutva-fascist forces and directly orindirectly collude with them to stand againstthe people, or stand with the people to unitedlyfight back these most regressive and degenerateforces of reaction. Incidents like the murderof Gauri Lankesh have made this choice evenmore urgent for those who are yet to take theirside.

At every crucial juncture of history,revolutionary and progressive forces challengeslike this. Only those forces which remain atthe forefront of battle to face these challengescan lead the masses in defeating thereactionaries. This is one such juncture in thehistory of our country, and this is one suchoccasion to stand firm in struggle. TheHindutva-fascists may kill some of us, jailmany of us and scare a larger number intosilence temporarily. But they certainly cannotsuppress the people forever and turn the wheelsof history backwards. They will certainly bethrown into the dustbin of history by themasses who alone are the makers of history.

(Abhay)

Spokesperson

Central Committee

CPI(Maoist)

Maimuddin, Ashish Yadav, Prasad, Daya,Prabhakar, Mangtu, Shaheeda, RK, Yadanna,Madhav, Mahendar, Mastan Rao, PuliAnjanna, Kanchan, Sashadhar Mahato,Janardhan, Bhumaiyya-Kista Gaud andthousands of other martyred comrades, toname just a few, who remained true to theircommitment to the revolution and the peopletill the very end. They are the real heroes ofthe masses who show us the way.

The desertion, betrayal and treachery ofa few renegades in the pay-role of thereactionary ruling classes can never stop therevolution! They may only create sometemporary hurdles and inflict some temporary

damage, but the revolution will sweep all suchpests into their graves and surge forwardtowards its goal. Led by the proletarianrevolutionaries and inspired by the heroicmartyrs, millions upon millions of theoppressed masses of the country will throwthem away along with their masters into thedustbin of history and achieve final victory.

(Abhay)

Spokesperson

Central Committee

CPI(Maoist)

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Raise your voice against the unjustjudgments and punishments by the judiciary!

Observe the day of rights of the political prisoners on theoccasion of the 88th martyrdom day of immortal martyr Comrade Jatin Das!

The martyrdom day of Comrade JatinDas on 13 September is a day ofcommemoration for us. Who, after all, is JatinDas? He was a nationalist revolutionary wholaid down their lives in Lahore Jail 87 yearsback after 64 days of indefinite hunger strike.He was one of the nationalist revolutionarieswho carried out armed struggle against Britishimperialists. He was one of the associates ofgreat revolutionary Comrade Bhagat Singhwho is an ideal for the young generation thatexpresses its rage against exploitation andoppression. He was a selfless and honestpatriot. As a prisoner of British colonialregime, he steadfastly faced police atrocitiesand torture behind bars by struggling for therights of the political prisoners. Even whilethirsting for a drop of water he did not allowhis iron conviction to be broken and insteadgave up his life. To remember Jatin Das is totake pledge to more resolutely advance in anti-imperialist struggles and in support of the jailedcomrades. That is why, our Party appeals tothe revolutionary masses as well as democratic-progressive lawyers to get prepared in thisdirection, particularly to raise their voice insolidarity with the rights of the Maoistactivists, anti-displacement activists, leadersand members of progressive-democratic andcivil rights movements as well as of therevolutionary masses.

From the beginning of the 21st centuryitself, the imperialists – particularly the US

imperialists – are continuously attackingagitators in the name of ‘War on Terror’.Patriots, revolutionaries and agitators who arestruggling against imperialist exploitation andoppression are being termed as terrorists andare being tortured and put in shackles in jailsand even in solitary confinement. ‘War onTerror’ still remains a main issue in the agendaof every meeting held under the direction ofthe imperialists. This is a main issue of theagenda of the meeting of the BRICS countriespresently being held in social-imperialistChina. From the former US President Bushto the present President of social-imperialistChina Shi Jin-ping, i.e., those who are the realterrorists, are having cold shivers due to the‘problem of terrorism’. It is the US which isresponsible for incarcerating the maximumnumber of people in the whole world in thename of terrorists. Among them too, thenumber of those belonging to the Black nationis the maximum. Who does not know aboutthe terrorism of the US which for the first timedropped atomic bombs over Hiroshima andNagasaki of Japan and killed and maimedlakhs of people? Are the inhuman torturecommitted in the Guantanamo Bay prison notenough to expose the real face of theimperialists? Here it will be proper to mentionthat anti-imperialist struggles are gettingsharpened throughout the country. Thedemonstration by tens of thousands of peoplein Hamburg of Germany against the meetingof G-20 countries is its latest example.


The rule of the Saffron terrorist forces iscontinuing in our country for the last threeyears. Followers of Saffron terrorism are beingintroduced from the village Sarpanch to thePresident and the Vice-President of thecountry. Without touching upon a single life-and-death problem of the country’s people,wherever Modi & co. goes, it is spending timein propping up the spectre of terrorism as theonly ‘problem’. The aim of the ‘Surgical Strike’carried out by Modi is being said to be tothrottle Pakistan-inspired terrorists. Can it bebelieved that one of the main purposes behindModi’s demonetisation is to rein in growingterrorism in the country? When terrible railaccidents are taking place in the country andtens of people are losing their lives in them andare getting injured, it is being propagatedwithout shame that behind these incidents arethe conspiracies of the terrorists. Should themasses believe this too? Now Modi & co. istalking about ‘Sankalp se Siddhi’ (From Pledgeto Fulfilment) to transform the country into a‘New India’ by 2022. In Modi rule, due to theimplementation of ‘MAN’ (Mohan Bhagwat,Amit Shah and Narendra Modi) policies, allthe hardcore Saffron criminals are beingreleased from prison while the genuine patriots,democrats, agitators and revolutionaries arebeing locked up behind bars. Those Kar Sevakswho destroyed the Babri Masjid have not hadto see the four walls of jail even after over twodecades. This event will never be forgotten bythe Muslim minorities of the country.Notorious criminals like Pragya Thakur andAseemanand involved in the SamjhautaExpress blast of 2007 and Malegaon blasts of2008 are being exonerated due to lack of‘witnesses’. All this is needed for Modi rule.Without understanding Modi’s f lagshipprogramme ‘Make in India’, ‘Skill India’ tohelp it or ‘Start-up India’ and ‘Stand-up India’to provide it the necessary services, it is difficultto understand Modi’s policies. Nor is itpossible to understand policies like ‘SwatchBharat’, ‘Smart Cities’, etc. that complimentthese policies. Whenever Modi opens hismouth there pours out boundless patriotism,love for the poor, war against corruption,commitment, the will to serve and crocodile’stears. In order to understand the truth behindit, we need not become an investigative officer.

In such times, it is enough to keep in mind thecorporate houses like Adanis, Ambanis,Jindals, Mittals, Essars, etc. who had sponsoredModi’s electoral victory. It is these forces whichare standing behind Modi & co. who aremisusing the most the media by leaving behindthe rest of their friends. It is to stop this truthfrom being exposed before the masses that theyare carrying out the so-called ‘War on Terror’.In fact, in all corners of the country, the massesare coming forward in a militant way on theirproblems. In Maharashtra, lakhs of peasantsparalysed the system of agricultural producereaching the market in many parts of thecountry by hitting the streets demandingremunerative price for their produce. Thepeasant agitations of Madhya Pradesh andRajasthan have shaken the ruling classes. Theybecame enraged to such an extent that theyopenly declared that they would not shy awayfrom taking up arms. The ruling classes thathave failed to resolve the agrarian crisis thathave resulted from the long-pending problemsof the people associated with agriculture suchas Patidars, Jats, Marathas and Kapus, arediverting them – particularly the youth – fromthe real problems by placing demands likereservation before them. The experience of thelast three years is telling us that due to theimposition of the ‘MAN’ policies, the existingemployment opportunities too are shrinking,while new opportunities for employment hasbecome a mirage. Due to the continuation of‘MAN’ policies, the number of Brahmanicalcriminals is growing in the country and theanarchy of Hindutva is growing in every partof the country in different forms and names.Cow-protectors and their ‘mob-lynching’ isspreading terror among the masses. ThoseSaffron criminals who should have been behindbars are roaming free brandishing their 56-inchchests. Real patriots, democrats and people’sforces are being made targets of violence; theyare being tortured and bumped off. This is thereal picture of the country today. There is aninseparable link between understanding thisand observing 13 September as the day ofstruggle for the unconditional release of thepolitical prisoners. Without deeply and intotality understanding the prevailing politicalscenario of the country and the capitalist-imperialist policies that are responsible for it,


it is not possible to understand the army,judiciary, jail, etc. that protect them. Nopowerful people’s movement can be builtwithout understanding them.

Anti-imperialist struggles are continuingin our country in many forms. The people ofthe country – particularly the people’smovement of the peasants and Adivasisagainst displacement – are at the forefront. Inleague with this is continuing the struggleagainst Brahmanical Hindu-fascismthroughout the country. CPI(Maoist) has beeneither leading, supporting or extendingsolidarity to all the just people’s struggles inthe past five decades. The exploitative rulingclasses are implementing repressive policiesagainst our Party by keeping concrete goalseach year. The country’s hundreds of prisonsreflect this reality.

From Tihar Jail located in the country’scapital to the district jail of Sukma districtwhich is kept in the first category of ‘Maoist-affected districts’, Maoist Party leaders,workers, activists of revolutionary massorganisations, leaders and members ofRevolutionary People’s Committees and therevolutionary masses in their hundreds areincarcerated in the country’s jails includingRaipur, Bilaspur, Jagdalpur, Durg,Rajnandgaon, Dantewada, Kanker, Nagpur,Chandrapur, Amaravati, Secundrabad,Cherlapalli, Warangal, Visakhapatnam,Koraput, Ranchi, Jehanabad, Gaya, Chaibasa,Patna, Bhopal, Kolkata and many others.Many of them have spent long jail terms. Manycomrades have even spent years in jail as under-trial detainees. Many have not seen their trialsbeginning even after years of incarceration.Many could have even got released in 2-3 yearsbut are behind bars for 5 to 7 years withouttrial due to lack of legal aid. Tens of comradeshave suffered long periods of rigorousimprisonment or life sentence. They includeboth women and men. Munger district andSessions court in Bihar has recentlypronounced death sentence to fiverevolutionaries a few days back. Recently, aDantewada court has convicted eight innocentpersons and pronounced ten years ofimprisonment for each on the basis of falsewitnesses who claimed that they had supplied

lathe machines to the Maoists, which iscondemnable. The people who have sufferedjail terms due to the unjust judgments of theunjust judicial system include Prof. G NSaibaba – a teacher in Delhi University’sRamlal Anand College and a leader ofRevolutionary Democratic Front – who issuffering from 90 percent disability, Maoistactivists Madhu and Rainu, Moolvasi youthof Murewada village in Gadchiroli districtPandu Naroti, trader of Bande village inKanker district Babulal Sharma, SukhnathNaroti of Porondi village and others. Maoistactivists Nirmala and Padma who have spentmore than the past one decade as under-trials,Malati (Shantipriya) who is undergoing 17long years of incarceration after conviction intwo cases, and Chaite Pallo of Mallampudurvillage in Bhampragarh tehsil who is aMoolvasi woman undergoing lifeimprisonment are all in jail. Chaite’s innocentgirl is behind bars with her mother for the lastfourteen years without any fault of hers whereshe has grown up. Among the leaders ofCPI(Maoist), Comrade Jaipal is in Jagdalpurjail as an under-trial while senior citizens likeComrades Kobad and Bhupesh are behind thebars in different jails of the country. Leaders likeComrades Sumit, Jaspal, Madkam Gopanna,Ashutosh, Sandanala Ramakrishna, RK,Naranna, Vijaya, Varanasi Subhramanyam, etc.are boldly holding high the Party flag in prison.They are raising the slogan of ‘Long LiveRevolution!’ They are transforming the jailsinto centres of people’s struggles and nurseriesof revolution. There is no jail in the countrywhere there has not been any struggle by theprisoners with the main demand of recognitionas political prisoners, for the properimplementation of the jail manual and againstthe violation of the basic rights guaranteed bythe constitution of the exploitative ruling classesthemselves. The incarcerated Maoist Partyactivists along with other prisoners have beenobserving the martyrdom day of Comrade JatinDas on 13 September as the day of the rights ofthe prisoners since the past seven years. Takingforward the same tradition, our Party calls uponthe entire revolutionary masses to observe thecoming 13 September as the day of struggle forthe unconditional release of all incarceratedcomrades.


Appeal to the lawyers on the side of thepeople:

Our Party first of all extends itsrevolutionary greetings and conveys itsgratitude to all the lawyers on the side of thepeople who have made all efforts for the releaseof the political prisoners incarcerated invarious jails of the country by taking up casespending in various courts. In this process, afew such lawyers had to face the government’sconspiracy to put them behind bars in Sukmadistrict of Bastar. The jailed lawyers got anopportunity to get closely acquainted with theproblems of the detainees and prisoners. Theneed for many just struggles for their release isgrowing by the day. The following are the mainproblems of the prisoners. First, fresh caseshave been lodged repeatedly against manyMaoist activist comrades and are forced to rotin jail. Hurdles are being placed against theirlegal release. Comrade Nirmala, who has beenacquitted by various courts in over 150 cases,is behind the bars for more than the last tenyears and is now facing 25 fresh cases. Perhapsshe is the first woman on whom so many caseshave been slapped and has also been acquittedin such a large number of cases. ComradePadma who has been twice re-arrested fromthe jail gates on newly registered cases afterrelease and Madkam Gopanna who has beenjailed again immediately after being releasedonce is undergoing prison terms for nearly thepast ten years. This issue in fact is a questionof depriving the prisoners of their right to life.It is necessary to struggle for court orders tothe police to run the trial of all the cases lodgedagainst an accused concurrently just after hisor her arrest. Many comrades are imprisoned

for crimes which they had never committed;they are undergoing prison terms due to falsewitnesses or even without any witness.Comrade Malati (Shantipriya) has beensentenced for 7 years on the charge of keepingweapons in her house and 10 years on thecharge of keeping Maoist CDs. She has beenforced to undergo the two sentences one afteranother, whereas both the cases are related tothe same incident. After the first police raidthe case of recovery of weapons from her housewas lodged against her. After fifteen days, whenshe was in police custody, another search wasmade in her house and a case of recovery ofCD was filed. In this way, two raids were madeand two separate cases were lodged. In bothcases the accused was convicted. It proves thatthe police can make as many raids and slap asmany cases as they want against an accused.The judges sitting in the courts raise noobjection to it. Their only job is to mete outpunishments Therefore, it is necessary to fightlegal battles for court orders that pronounceconcurrently running sentences for casesrelated to a single incident/issue. There aremany more problems like this. Our Partyappeals to all the progressive-democraticlawyers to make all efforts to assist the politicalprisoners by fighting legal battles on casesrelated to such problems and ensure theirrelease.

(Abhay)

Spokesperson

Central Committee

CPI(Maoist)




Stop military attacks on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhain Province ofMyanmar immediately and rehabilitate them safely in their resident areas!

Communist Party of India (Maoist)stands in firm solidarity with the lakhs ofpersecuted Rohingya Muslims facing genocideand hand in hand with people all over theworld in condemning the attacks of theBurmese Army and state-sponsoredmurderous gangs on the Rohingya Muslimreligious minorities. Our Party extends itsresolute support to the armed nationalliberation struggle of the Rohingya Muslimsseeking secession from the oppressiveMyanmar state.

Dear Rohingya Muslims, you are notalone. Our Party sees you as a part of thenations across the world aspiring for liberationand their inalienable right to national self-determination. It understands that this is thetime to stand in support of the just struggle ofthe Rohingya Muslim people against theoppressive policies of the reactionary Buddhistpreachers in collaboration with the Burmesestate and appeals to the people of the country,especially the Burmese activists, intellectuals,secularists, religious minorities, student andemployees to stand in support of the RohingyaMuslims seeking a separate national state oftheir own.

Arakan became part of Burma at the timeof transfer of power from the Britishcolonialists in 1948. The discussions to mergeit with East Pakistan in its border ended at thatpoint. The provision of the representation ofthe minority people of Burma in theadministrative system of the country that theruler of that time Aung San provided duringthe British time ended with his murder in 1947.As a result, nearly ten lakh Rohingya Muslim

minorities of the Western state of Arakan areliving in a miserable condition facing decadesof state persecution without even theircitizenship being recognised in the country.They are forced to live as a people without acountry. After the formation of militarygovernment of General Ne Win in 1962, thefascist Burmese Army started cruelly torturingthe Muslim minority people under theinfluence of the Buddhist religiousestablishment closely connected to state power.Massacres, torture, harassment andhumiliation in the form of racialdiscrimination towards the RohingyaMuslims have been continued as state policyterming them as non-Burmese, non-Buddhist,black Bangladeshis and foreigners. They areseen as dangerous to the sanctity of Buddhismand the security of the country. Attacks onthem have intensified since 1970.

In 1982, a new law of citizenship wasbrought in Burma. Through this, the identityof 135 ethnic groups including RohingyaMuslims who have been living in the countryfor generations was made null and void in asingle stroke. There was no identity,recognition or security to their lives. The newlaw brought forth many prohibitions on theethnic groups. They were oppressed anddiscriminated against on religious, racial andnational grounds. These groups had to seekpermission from the government for each andevery activity related to their daily lives likeleaving their village, to repair their mosques,to marry, to seek jobs and even to havechildren. If unmarried women becomepregnant, they have to leave the country or go


for an abortion under crude conditions andhad to be prepared to die. Score of women diedduring abortion due to the state’s negligence,poverty, unclean conditions and deliberatedeprivation of medical help.

In 1989, Arakan became Rakhine andBurma became Myanmar. In 1991, a brutalsecond military operation in the name of ‘PiThaya’ – ‘Operation Clean’ and ‘BeautifulNation’ – was carried out against the RohingyaMuslims living in desperate conditions inRakhine. The Rohingya Muslim people facedindescribable persecution in each of thesesweeping military attacks. They were killed en-masse in hundreds, their houses and propertywas destroyed, forcibly displaced and theirhereditary lands seized. The Burmese soldiersindulged in mass rapes of Rohingya women.They cut the tongues of the men. They burntpeople alive. Thus the Burmese fascist forcesalong with Army of the country created terrorand destruction among the people. The state-propped vigilante gangs of the areaparticipated together with the soldiers in allthese actions while mouthing the teachings ofpeace and non-violence attributed to Buddha.

According to the local law that came intoimplementation in Rakhine in 1994, the rulersconspired to control the population of theRohingya Muslim people through many suchlaws and bans like a slow poison aimed atwiping out the Rohingya nation. This and themilitary attacks and massacres made their livesintolerable. People had to flee to theneighbouring Bangladesh in thousands asrefugees. In this historical injustice andnational oppression, the Rohingyas took uparmed national liberation struggle and formedthe Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA)for this purpose. This was the only way thesurvival of the nationality, their self-respect andright to live could be ensured. Since then, theRohingyas led by the ARSA is carrying onarmed resistance against the Burmese fascistarmed forces in alliance with other oppressednationalities of the region.

In April 2016, the ruling-class NationalLeague for Democracy (NLD) came to powerand Aung San Suu Kyi, celebrated throughoutthe world as a symbol of democracy and

human rights and a winner of Nobel PeacePrize, became the ‘State Councillor’ of thecountry – its de-facto executive head. But sheis in reality a benign mask of the Burmesemilitary junta, the feudal and compradorruling classes and the imperialists that hold realpolitical power in the country under the garbof parliamentary democracy. Therefore, theattacks on Rohingya Muslims have onlyintensified since she came to power.

In a self-defensive war, ARSA attacked theborder guard posts of the Burmese armedforces on 25 August 2016 and wiped out ninesoldiers. Using this as a pretext, the Burmesearmy and Buddhist fascist gangs indulged inlarge-scale and indiscriminate coordinatedattacks in Rakhain. Thousands of Rohingyaswere massacred, raped, their houses were burntand village after village were emptied. Therewere indiscriminate mass atrocities on women.The soldiers fired on children too and took theirlives. Hundreds of massacred Rohingyas werethrown in mass graves. Lakhs of people hadto seek asylum in Bangladesh in desperationundertaking life-or-death journey merely tosave their lives. The so-called champion ofpeace and democracy Aung San Syu Ki keptan opportunistic silent on all this and evencondoned the massacres, thus exposing her trueclass character and the hollowness of the Nobelprizes.

The difficulties faced by the Rohingyarefugees in Bangladesh are beyond description.Five lakh Rohingya Muslims enteredBangladesh in phases as refugees within a fewweeks. The lives of the people in Ladi campin the port town of Cox Bazaar town inEastern Bangladesh reveal the anti-peoplepolicies of the exploitive classes of Bangladeshand the whole world. They have to travelthrough the Naïfs River and reach Cox Bazaron the border crossing steep mountains or theviolent sea. They suffer from hunger, diseases,lack of medicine and other such acuteproblems. Pregnant women face much moredifficulties. When they finally reachBangladesh, the government mete outinhuman treatment towards them. Accordingto the United Nations High Commissioner forRefugees (UNHCR), there are only twentythousand refugees in Bangladesh, thus


revealing the desperate situation of the livesof the lakhs of unrecognised Rohingyarefugees.

All the governments trample down thelaws of the United Nations of 1948 regardingpunishment of the crimes against humanityand war crimes. Under pressure from worldpublic opinion, Myanmar’s racist governmentis rehabilitating the Rohingya Muslims inareas like Thengarchar which are heavily flood-prone and unsuitable for human habitation.It is treating them like slaves and is exploitingtheir desperate condition as cheap labour inmany modern construction works. Thewomen are forced into prostitution by thearmy. We must condemn and oppose all theseinhuman actions of the Burmese ruling classes.

The government and the army inMyanmar are preventing the organisationstrying to extend help to the Rohingya Muslims.It is making the people suffer from hunger. Itis also coming in the way of help from the UN.It is not allowing fact-finding missions andjournalists to examine its fascist actions inRakhain implemented recently and forgenerations. When an UN representativevisited Myanmar in January 2017, a Boudhpreacher Asin Viratu viciously declared that a‘prostitute’ is visiting their country. Even theformer UN Secretary General Kofi Annanexpressed deep sympathy towards the peopleand severely condemned the military actionsafter visiting the country recently.

Our Party strongly condemns the hostileattitude of the Indian ruling classes towardsthe Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar and thoseliving as refugees in India. The BrahmanicalHindu fascist forces in power are pursuing apolicy of persecution against them as opposedto the policy of the earlier governments. Thisis against the international obligation towardsinternational refugees fleeing conflict andpersecution. On the other hand, Modigovernment is supporting the Myanmargovernment for its massacre of the Rohingyas.Since the Rohingya people are Muslims, theHindutva forces are branding them as terroristsand are refusing asylum to them, and areattempting to deport them against their wish.This shows their saffron terrorism. Their

Islamophobia is revealed in theirdiscrimination against the tens of thousandsof Rohingya Muslims living in the country. Areliable agent of the imperialists – particularlythe US imperialists – Modi & co. has a vulture’seye on the fuel and natural gas resources ofMyanmar, wants to sell military equipment tothat country and carry out joint militaryoperations against the national liberationorganisations of the Northeast based innorthern Myanmar. Modi governmentconsiders China as a regional adversary to itsexpansionist designs. This reveals that Modi’sblabber about universal family is nothing butto deceive the people. Its Hindu-fascist policyagainst the Muslims – and particularly thevulnerable Rohingya Muslim refugees in India– must be staunchly opposed and defeated bythe country’s democratic forces.

Dear people and democrats!

Many forces and people have comeforward throughout the world and in India insolidarity with the Rohingya Muslims. OurParty appeals to them that this should not stophere and we must support every action thatrelieves the people from their persecution andnational oppression. We should take up acountrywide campaign to provide all kinds ofhelp to them. Support the victimizedRohingya people materially and morally!Uphold the right to live and all the civil anddemocratic rights of the people of thisnationality. Ensure that all the RohingyaMuslims are recognised as equal citizens ofMyanmar and not foreigners. Support theirarmed liberation struggle for national self-determination including secession.

(Abhay)

Spokesperson

Central Committee

CPI(Maoist)



Press Release10 May 2017

Let us struggle by uniting against Brahmanical Hindu Fascism!

Let us celebrate Action Week against Hindu communalfrenzy from 6 to 12 December!

Let us make successful the Bharat Bandh of 12 December!

The rule of the fundamentalistBrahmanical Hindu fascists is continuing sincethe last three years. The threat of saffron terroris increasing in the country. There is turmoilfrom Kashmir to Kanyakumari due to theattacks of the Hindutva gangs. Attacks of theBrahmanical Hindu fascists on religiousfundamentalists, Dalits, Adivasi communities,democrats, secular forces, revolutionaries,Leftists, true patriots, journalists, women andstudents, etc. is continuing on a daily basis.Mosques, churches, the places of worship of theAdivasis are becoming the targets of the saffronterrorist gangs. In such a horrific situation, thereis no possibility of democracy or genuinesecularism in the country. That is why, this is atime that all democrats, writers, artists,journalists, intellectuals, secularists, women,students, unemployed youth, employees andthe Leftist friends unite to resolutely fight backthe atrocities and oppression of the fascist forcesand not only expose them but show them theirplace and defeat them. Come, let us unite andstruggle! Our Party calls upon all thecommunities like the religious minorities,Dalits, Adivasis, students, women along withall the secularists and intellectuals to makesuccessful by actively participating in the anti-Hindu fascist Action Week from 6 to 12December 2017 and Bharat Bandh on 12December against Hindu communal frenzy.

The day of 6 December 1992 will remainenshrined in India’s history of communalharmony as a day when great terror was spread

through riots by instigating communal hatred.Exactly 25 days before, on this day under theleadership of thousands of Hindutva fascistgangs and mobs of religious fundamentalists –who were termed as ‘Kar Sevaks’ – the horrificdestruction of Babri Masjid was completed inAyodhya through a reign of terror for aboutfive hours. Based on the myth of theconstruction of Babri Masjid by destroying aso-called Ram Temple 462 years back, the placeof worship of the Muslims was razed to theground. Keeping in mind the riots spreadthroughout the country, curfew had to beimposed on 213 places. Nearly 10 crore peoplewere affected by these riots. Carrying tridentsin their hands, the Kar Sevaks of RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh (RSS) – the motherorganisation of the Hindu fascists – and itsaffiliated organisations, particularly VishwaHindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, ledthese riots. This inferno has shown no sign ofgetting extinguished in the last two and a halfdecades. Now after the arch-Hindutva leaderYogi Adityanath took the reins of power inUttar Pradesh in his hands, the masses there,particularly the Muslim masses, are forced tolive under the shadow of terror. In this context,the process of the final judgment on theAyodhya dispute is going to start in theSupreme Court on 5 December 2017. Thecitizens who are aware of the country’s judicialsystem will easily predict the upcomingjudgment. Hardened criminals like SadhviPragya Thakur are declared innocent and


released. On the other hand, the highest courtof the country expressed its inability to sternlypunish the culprits in the case of Bilkis Banowho suffered in the Gujarat riots of 2002.Anyone who is aware of the pro-Hindu judicialsystem that was established in the period ofPrime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will notbe surprised by the coming verdict of the court.They will be able to predict that this upcomingverdict will act as the catalyst to the fire thatwill encourage religious fundamentalism in thecountry.

Unearthed historical facts are revealing thatthe seeds of religious hatred in Ayodhya weresown in December 1949 itself. The ‘credit’ forplacing an idol in the Babri Masjid in collusionwith the administrative machinery first of allgoes to Congress. In consideration of electoralpolitics, permission to worship there was givenfor the first time in 1986 under Congress regime.The destruction of Babri Masjid six years afteralso took place under Congress rule. Today’sdestructive policies of the Saffron fascist forceshave been helped from the very beginning bythe deceitful policies of the Congress to appeasethe Hindus. It has been proved by the Hindureligious teachings that were received fromGandhi by the country’s first Prime MinisterNehru that Muslim religious fundamentalismdoes not have the power to impose fascism overthe Indian society. This can only be done byHindu religious fundamentalism. In this way,the role of Congress in drawing up the presentpicture of Hindu religious fundamentalism inthe country cannot be overestimated.

The work of instigating riots to damagecommunal harmony by creating ever newproblems in the country has been taking placeeven before as well as after the destruction ofBabri Masjid. During the Partition of thecountry in 1947, the borders of the country weresmeared with the blood of lakhs of people.Thereafter, innumerable amount of life andproperty were lost in the riots that wereinstigated in places like Ahmadabad-Gujarat(1969), Bhiwandi (Maharashtra), Tellacheri(Keralam-1971), Jamshedpur (Jharkhand-1979),Bhagalpur (Bihar), Meerut (Uttar Pradesh-1980), Tamil Nadu (1982), Gujarat (2002),Kandhamal (2008), Uttar Pradesh (2013), etc.The Muslim population in the country today

are forced to live in a condition of insecurity.After the Hindu fascists came to power in 2014,from Akhlaq to Pehlu Khan (Rajasthan) andfolk singer Ahmad Khan of recent times, manyMuslim brothers have been brutally killed by theHindutva gangs. The activities of the Hindutvagangs which undermine secularism have to befought back steadfastly.

In the hated hierarchical BrahmanicalVarna system which has been rooted in ourcountry for centuries, the lives of the Dalits areextremely oppressed. They are the basic toilingmasses of the society. Manu – the father of theVarna system – had already declared thatwithout their labour there will be no existenceof the higher classes and castes. He said that ifthe Shudras and the Vaishyas (peasants of thattime) give up their professions, then the worldwill become upside down. In this exploitativesystem the Dalits are becoming victims of theSavarnas and the exploiting classes. Even afterthe transfer of power, their status asuntouchables is continuing. Even today they areoppressed and humiliated in the name of theVarna system. Murderous attacks against themhave never stopped in ‘independent’ India.From the burning alive of 11 Dalits in Bihar’sBelchi, the massacre of 45 Dalits in Kilvenmani(1968) of Tamil Nadu on a clash over land, thekillings of Bathani Tola (Bihar) and Chundur(Andhra Pradesh), etc. to Khairlanji(Maharashtra) and recently in Jeevkheda(Maharashtra), hundreds of Dalits have becomevictims of the cruelty of the Savarnas. AfterModi came to power in 2014, from Una(Gujarat) to the killing of the barber MaheshThakur (Bihar), the flow of atrocities andhumiliation is continuing. The ManuvadiPrime Minister Modi had written a book titled‘Karmabhumi’ (Modi’s memoir) way back in2010 itself justifying the Varna system. Intoday’s context, the caution given by Dr. B RAmbedkar – a partisan of the masses sufferingthe barbaric Hindu caste system – is extremelyrelevant. He said that when the forcesrepresenting Hindutva will take the reins of thecountry into their hands, then a crisis will becreated in the entire country. Whatever may thewords of Hindutva, in deeds it is a very bigthreat to democracy, equality and brotherhoodin the country. Today our country is in the grips


of these fascist forces. Reminding ourselves ofthe heritage of experience received from ourpast generations, it becomes a duty of us all –our and your – to defeat the fascist forces.

The Brahmanical gangs have becomedominant in the country’s institutions of higherlearning and the universities. Education hasgone out of reach for the poor due to the pro-imperialist economic policies adopted by theruling classes of India since 1991. After the near-hundred percent privatisation of the entireeducation system, it has become difficult evenfor the middle classes to educate their children.Competitive exams have become deadly for thestudents. In Andhra Pradesh alone, 1,400students committed suicide between 1995 and2000. In mere one month of October 2017, fiftystudents have become victims of suicide in thetwo Telugu-speaking states. Expressing hisregret on this, well-known educationist ChukkaRamayya has said that the guilt for this lies onthe corporate educational institutions. There hasbeen a quite rapid growth in thecommercialisation of education on the onehand and the attack by Brahmanical Hindutvagangs on the Dalit students and professors inthe country’s famous universities. Today all theeducational institutions of the country areundergoing the process of Saffronisation. Thecurriculum is being moulded according toBrahmanism. Incidents from IIT Chennai,FTII Pune, Hyderabad Central University,Jadavpur University, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, Benaras Hindu University, JodhpurUniversity to the persecution of students afterthey staged a play by Mahasweta Devi inMahendragarh University of Haryana, showthat it is no longer possible in any of thecountry’s educational institutions, colleges oruniversities to receive education in a peacefulatmosphere. What’s more, the suicide ofprogressive and talented student Rohith Vemulais nothing but murder by the saffron goons. The‘disappearance’ of Najeeb of JNU on 14November 2016 is the next link in the chain ofthis very religious fundamentalist politics. Thepersecution of Kanhaiya Kumar of Delhi’sJNU is becoming intolerable. In such anatmosphere, all the students and youths will haveto emerge as socially catalytic forces that cangive a befitting fight to the Brahmanical Hindufascism.

Different nationalities in the country arefighting for decades for their just and correctdemands. The exploitative ruling classes ofIndia are depicting their just aspirations andstruggles as separatist and terrorist activities andunleashing barbaric repression on them. Whilethe Kashmiri masses are continuing their warthrough the path of sacrifice, Modi & co. hasgot down to putting it down under the jackbootsof the Indian Army by presenting it as Pakistan-sponsored separatist activities. But todayKashmir Valley is standing as the explosivenerve-centre of the Kashmiri national liberationmovement. Kashmir’s opportunist andcomprador leader Farookh Abdullah too hasbeen forced to say that the flames of Kashmirimass upsurge cannot be extinguished byanybody. The main ‘credit’ for this statementwill go to the Moditva forces. The Kashmiriyouth are taking up arms to defeat the evildesigns of the Brahmanical forces that raise theslogan of ‘Akhand Bharat’. In spite of inhumanmassacres committed by the Indian Army inManipur, the stiff resistance of the PLA andManipur Maoists is continuing.

Opposing the repressive activities of theHindu fascists in the last three years in thecountry, well-known and established Indiancitizens working in different fields likeintellectuals, democrats, secular forces,historians, writers, artists and scientists havereturned their awards. Saffron terrorist gangsare murdering the progressive individuals whoare questioning the atrocities perpetrated by thecountry’s Hindutva forces. The blood of aDabholkar the day before yesterday or of aPansare yesterday could not even dry whenGauri Lankesh was assassinated on 5 September2017. “Religion is playing an important role inour country’s politics”, “Secular India shouldperceive constitutional politics by separating itfrom religion” – Gauri Lankesh wrote suchanti-Hindutva editorials in her magazine. Apartfrom Gurmeet Ram Rahim, she exposed Modiand the photo-scandal of Haryana MLAs. Shetermed the death of innocent children inGorakhpur hospital as a massacre of the BJPgovernment. In this way, she became an eyesorefor the BJP, and that is she was done away with.They propagated the lie that the Maoists werebehind her killing. Recently, Kancha Illaiah – a


social scientist of Hyderabad – had written abook terming the Banias as “Social Smugglers”,against which the Vaishya organised made a bighue and cry. BJP MP T G Venkatesh even startedissuing threats. He is being given death threatsby the religious fanatics. The Hindutva forcestrapped well-known journalist Vinod Verma ina fake CD-scandal and sent him to jail. OurParty appeals to every citizen who raises theirvoice by giving the highest importance tofreedom of speech, assembly and expression tostrongly condemn all the murderous attacks onthe anti-Hindutva intellectuals.

The meaning of resisting these fascist actsof the Brahmanical Hindu fascist forces in thecountry is to defeat their pro-imperialistfinancial and political policies. Different sectionsand communities of the society are strugglingagainst many problems. Bharatiya MazdoorSangh – which is a trade union associated withBJP – too had to finally come to the streets on17 November. Farmers’ suicides are continuingas before. Peasants of many states includingMaharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana,Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are carrying onmilitant struggles without fearing even policebullets. On 20 November, under the banner of‘Kisan Mukti Sansad’, thousands of peasantsorganised a big rally in Delhi and condemnedthe government policies. The strikes ofgovernment employees are continuing. Whilelakhs of workers are becoming unemployed dueto the model of so-called ‘Development’ on theone hand, the exploitative rulers are themselvesexposing their oppressive policies through falsepromises of providing lakhs of jobs ininfrastructural projects on the other. In such asituation, Modi is trying to mislead the massesthrough the day-dreams of building ‘NewIndia’ by 2022, ‘Shining India’, etc. On the onehand, there is upheaval throughout the countrydue to demonetisation and Goods and ServicesTax (GST) which has become an unbearableburden for the masses, while on the other handby propagating that “India is on the path ofdevelopment”, Modi’s rating is being shown inan exaggerated manner. Modi is making uselessattempts to befool the masses by showing day-dreams of the country’s progress by connectingDeendayal with Gandhi and raising Lohia tothe skies.

While on the one hand disaffection isgrowing in Ayodhya, on the other hand BJPleaders and MLAs Sangeet Som and Anil Vijare issuing baseless statements on Taj Mahal.Hindu religious leaders are makingobjectionable statements from time to time inthe last three years. The threat of theirstatements becoming a reality is haunting thecountry. In such a situation, our Party gives acall to all the progressive and anti-Brahmanicalforces to unite and struggle against theBrahmanical Hindu fascists.

Fighters of the People’s Liberation GuerrillaArmy (PLGA)

Our Party observes PLGA Week every yearfrom 2 to 8 December. Keeping in mind the callof the Central Military Commission to defeatthe new ‘Samadhan’ strategy introduced by thegovernment this year, observe “Action Weekagainst Hindu Fascism” from 6 to 12 Decemberand participate in it actively to make itsuccessful. The army of the oppressed massesof the country PLGA must get ready to protectthem from the attacks of the fascists. Only withtheir active participation can the PLGA fulfilits objective. It will be able to defeat ‘Samadhan’strategy. Only with the full support of thecountry’s progressive democrats and the well-wishers of the Adivasis could we defeat thefascist attacks of the state-sponsored Whitemilitias like Salwa Judum and Sendra or twostages of Operation Green Hunt in the past.Make successful the ‘Action Week’ to hold highthe sacrifices of the progressive, democratic andsecular individuals of the country who have losttheir lives in the attacks of the BrahmanicalHindu fascist forces.

Makes successful the ‘Action Week against Hindu-fascism’ from 6 to 12 December!

Make successful the ‘Bharat Bandh’ of 12December!

Organise rallies, conferences, mass meetings, etc.in villages, suburbs and towns by involvingdifferent sections of the masses!

Actively take forward the struggle against therepression and terror of the Hindu-fascist forces!

Long live new democratic revolution! Long live newdemocratic culture!



Press Release10 December 2017

Let us stand in firm solidarity with the struggling people of Palestine!

There has been no peace for the Arabpeople in the Far East for the past 70 years.After the Second World War, the US is theNo.1 enemy of the people that ignited unrestin this area. This is one of the strategicdestructions it carried out after the SecondWorld War. The US conducted nuclearexplosions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki andkilled lakhs of people and thus stood as theNo.1 terrorist of the world. It created Israelwith Jews in the Far East. This action has beendestroying the territorial integrity of thePalestinian Arab people for the past sevendecades, creating splits among them and isbeing used to fulfill its interests.

US imperialism has been taking upunilateral aggressive war measures for its worldhegemony and to gain profits in a constantmanner. In the beginning of the 21st century, itmade war on Afghanistan and Iraq with itsarmies and with the NATO armies that itcreated and indulged in heavy destruction. Butwar flames continue to blaze even now. Nonecan forget that the terrorist US imperialism isthe mightiest criminal in the world.

Since the second decade of this century incontinuation of Afghanistan and Iraq, itcreated war flames in the name of removingdictators in the Arab countries in West Asiaand North Africa. In the name of ‘regimechange’, it used the contradictions betweencontending groups among the ruling classesand took up war measures to establish itspuppet governments. Those countries stillsuffer from these war measures. It is clear thatUS imperialism is the reason for terroristgroups in the name of nationalism. Thedestructive war in Syria even now is thereflection of the contradictions among the

imperialist countries. The problem of refugeesthat became unprecedented is their creation.Its strategy for world hegemony is to fulfill itseconomic and political interests anywhere inthe world in the name of establishingdemocracy. All the people are resisting the sameat various levels.

Since he came to power last year, the USPresident Donald Trump has created manycontroversies. He is again and again exposinghis diehard anti-Islamic character. He rejectedUS Visa to the people of several Islamiccountries and refused permission to refugeesto enter the US. He intensified the antagonismamong the Arab people and did many suchthings in the past one year. Recently, he madea chauvinistic declaration recognizingJerusalem as the capital city of Israel. This hasonce again raised the flames in the region.Israel was trying to establish Tel Aviv as thecapital by seizing vast areas between the Arabcountries and so it was very happy with therecent announcement of the US. But the wholeworld including the United Nations hascondemned this action. The declaration ofTrump violates the aspirations of thePalestinian people to make Palestine a totallyindependent country and once again gives wayto war-mongering actions of Israel in thisarea. Our Party appeals to the people of thecountry to condemn this measure and standwith the people of the world to highlight theaspirations of the people of Palestine.

We have to outrightly condemn theattitude of India towards the statement of theUS. The Brahmanical fascist forces in powerin our country are supporting the policies of

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Press Release24 December 2017

Down with the shameful betrayal andsurrender of Jinugu Narasimha Reddy!Long live the revolutionary tradition of

uncompromising struggle and selfless sacrifice!The revolution will surge forward sweeping aside

all kinds of muck on its path!

Jinugu Narasimha Reddy (Jhampanna,Rajesh), a member of the Central Committee(CC) of our Party, has surrendered before theenemy. He had already lost confidence in theinvincibility of the proletarian ideology, theMaoist party, the Protracted People’s War, therevolutionary movement and the oppressedmasses. Unable to face the new and difficultconditions of class struggle brought by objectivechanges and the enemy’s intensifying all-roundoffensive, he chose the most selfish, heinousand cowardly path of desertion andshamelessly knelt down before the enemy. Thisis an outright betrayal of the Indianproletariat, its vanguard Party, the Indianrevolution and the heroic struggle of thecountry’s toiling masses. It is an affront on thesacrifice of thousands of revolutionarymartyrs who have selflessly laid down theirlives fighting the same class enemy whomRajesh has now so shamelessly embraced.With this, his three decades of political life inthe revolutionary movement has come to anignominious end. Our CC condemns hisbetrayal in strongest terms and appeals to therank and file of the Party, the entirerevolutionary camp, the vast struggling massesand the friends of the Indian revolution toreject outright such renegades and theirabominable path of surrender. Undeterred bythe degeneration and fall of Narasimha Reddy,

our CC firmly and unambiguously renews itspledge to resolutely carry forward the great redbanner of class struggle in pursuance of ourParty’s immediate and ultimate aims.

Narasimha Reddy had joined themovement in the early 1980s, when he wasworking in factory as a technician inHyderabad city. He later became a professionalrevolutionary and was sent by the Party towork as a guerrilla squad member inEturunagaram forest area of Warangaldistrict. Subsequently, he developed to a squadcommander, Area Committee Member,District Committee member and DistrictCommittee Secretary in the period between1986 and 1995. North Telangana Special ZonalCommittee (NTSZC) was formed in 1995 witha plan to develop the guerrilla war to a higherlevel in that zone. He was elected to the NTSZCin its first conference held that year. In 2000,he became the Secretary of NTSZC andcontinued to work in this capacity till 2007.He was elected to the CC in 2001 and workedas a CCM in North Telangana between 2001and 2007. He was co-opted to the CMC in 2007and worked in North Telangana and someother parts of the Central Region. He wastransferred to Odisha in 2011 where hecontinued to work till the end of 2016. For thelast one year he was deeply submerged inideological and political vacillation and finally


informed the concerned CCMs in November2017 about his decision to surrender.

It is true that Narasimha Reddy hadparticipated in the revolutionary movementfor a relatively long period of over threedecades and developed politically to become amember of its highest leading committee, theCC, contributing to the movement in theprocess. But at the same time, he also hadseveral serious weaknesses, limitations andnon-proletarian trends like individualism,bureaucracy and false prestige that continuedthroughout his political life. Comrades whoworked with him in the guerrilla squad andthe Party committees or the leadershipcomrades continuously struggled against thesenegative aspects of his all this time. Theconcerned committees put efforts at every stepto rectify him and he too accepted many ofthe criticisms in one way or another. But hisweaknesses, mistakes and limitations hadpersisted. Particularly in the last few years,these negative aspects got magnified and finallybecame dominant under the present difficultcondition of the Party and the movement. Theterror of the enemy had so overtaken him thathe could no longer fulfil the tasks given to himby the Party. He refused to attend importantmeetings with the excuse of probable enemyattacks even though other comrades in asimilar situation shared such unfoundedapprehension. Apart from comrades in highercommittees, his protection comrades toocriticised his panicky behaviour and defeatism.The prevailing conditions and enemy’s seriousoffensive demand that the leadership comradesof the Party at the highest level remain firmand confident in the battlefield andcourageously safeguard themselves as aninseparable part of safeguarding the Party,PLGA and the movement. This has to be donein all spheres of revolutionary work includingin the military sphere. But as a CCM,Narasimha Reddy failed to live up to thehigher level of responsibilities and tasks givenhim by the Party displaying heightenedpolitical consciousness, preparedness, courage,discipline, selfless sacrifice, self-critical attitudeand other leadership qualities.

Our CC reviewed Narasimha Reddy’s workin view of his persistent weaknesses and

limitations that had reached a serious level. TheCC concluded that he was seriously boggeddown by subjectivism, resulting in hisoverestimation of the enemy and anunderestimation of the revolutionarymovement and the people. He had lost hisbearing and sense of proportion, becameincapable of analysing the objective situationas a member of the Party’s leading committee,repeatedly followed wrong organisationalmethod and utterly failed to fulfil importantresponsibilities he was entrusted with. This wasin addition to his long-standing weakness ofimposing his subjective and individualisticthinking on Party committees. It had become ahabit for him to bring up disputes and illogicaldebates on individual problems in a sectarianand arbitrary way, violating democraticcentralism and proletarian discipline.Sometimes he created deadlock in thefunctioning of the concerned Party committeeand threatened to boycott some meetings whencriticised by other comrades. Due to his anti-organisational behaviour and functioning, hegradually lost the confidence of his comradesand became isolated. All these wrong traits werecriticised by the comrades of the concernedParty committees on several occasions with theaim of helping him rectify his mistakes andweaknesses on the basis of unity-struggle-unity.But he failed to recognise the gravity of hisnegative aspects, stubbornly refused to take a self-critical attitude, failed to remould his worldoutlook in the light of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. This not only led to his downfall butalso caused much damage to the Party.

Taking all this into consideration, our CCdecided to suspend Narasimha Reddy from theCC for two years earlier this year with the hopethat he would acknowledge his mistakes andweaknesses and seriously put efforts to rectifywith the help of his comrades. However, heneither accepted this decision positively nordid he undertake any self-criticism at all. Healso refused to take up the responsibility of aState Committee Member the CC had assignedhim. Overcome by petty-bourgeois falseprestige and selfish narrow-mindedness, herefused to submit to the Party’s decision,declined to struggle against the non-proletariantraits present in him and failed to remould


himself into a thoroughgoing communistrevolutionary. Rather than humbly serving therevolution and the people with bowed head,he deemed it better to surrender and survive asa dirty creature at the service of the enemy. Inthis way, the transformation of a revolutionaryinto an unrepentant and diehard betrayer andscoundrel was complete.

When the CC conveyed Narasimha Reddyits decision to suspend him, he raised thequestion of his “political differences” with theParty line. He claimed that India is no longer asemi-feudal and semi-colonial country but hastransformed into a capitalist country. Therefore,according to him, our Party line should bechanged as per the present conditions and adoptthe path of insurrection instead of the path ofprotracted people’s war. However, he had neverplaced these views in any Party forum beforethis but discussed only with a few individualcomrades. These comrades advised him to placehis views in the Party forum so as to settle theissue. But he was not ready for this and left theParty. It proves that his so-called politicaldifferences are nothing but an attempt to coverup his ideological and political degeneration.

All revolutions pass through twists andturns, ups and downs and difficult situations.It is only by boldly tiding over such challengesthat a proletarian party gets steeled and acquiresthe capability to lead the revolution to victory.In periods like this, it becomes all the morenecessary for all communists – particularly thosewho join the Communist Party from non-proletarian classes – to deepen their ideologicaland political understanding, to remouldthemselves by adopting the proletarian worldoutlook and to firmly stick to it. They need tomore resolutely apply the principle democraticcentralism, abide by the iron discipline of theParty, more closely integrate with the comradesand the people, learn from practice, rectify theirmistakes, fight self, serve the people selflessly andstand at the forefront of struggle so as to remaina committed revolutionary till the very end. Butthere are always those who fail in such testingtimes. History shows that it is quite commonfor a handful of individuals who do not remouldthemselves and who are not prepared forsacrifice to distance themselves from themovement at such crucial junctures, giving

foremost priority to their own survival. Theydesert the revolutionary camp and at timesbecome counter-revolutionaries serving theenemy. Narasimha Reddy presents a glaringnegative example of a revolutionary whostopped integrating with the cadres and themasses, stopped struggling against hisweaknesses and became overawed by the enemy.Panic-stricken, they pathetically prostrate beforethe class enemy and thereby end their usefulnessfor the people with their own hands. Therevolution will discard such people as wastematerial and throw them out from time to timein the process of class struggle.

It should not be surprising if suchdespicable individuals start singing in the tuneof the enemy and cast aspersions on the Party,its leadership, the revolutionary movement andthe future of the Indian revolution. Proppedup by the enemy, they may appear before thepeople in new avatars as (pseudo) ‘intellectuals’,‘journalists’, ‘social workers’, etc. with the soleaim of harming the Party and the revolution.Our comrades, friends and well-wishers of theIndian revolution should remain alert to sucheventualities and give befitting response tothem. Knowing them to be a part of theenemy’s Goebbelsian propaganda machine,the class-conscious toiling masses should throwthe claptrap of such traitors into the scrapheap.

In total contrast to the traitors andrenegades, every proletarian revolution bringsforward uncompromising communist fighterswho serve the masses till the last breath. Indianrevolution too is no exception, which inheritsa long and glorious tradition of selflesssacrifice by thousands of heroic martyrs.Among them are our beloved great leaders andcadres like comrades CM and KC, Saroj Dutta,Sushital Roy Choudhuri, Amulya Sen,Chandrashekhar Das, Krishnamurthy,Satyam, Kailasham, Appu, Varghese,Biswakarma, Balan, Dinakar, Shyam,Mahesh, Murali, Karam Singh, Parimal Sen,Sande Rajamouli, Vadkapur Chandramouli,Anuradha Ghandy, Patel Sudhakar, CherukuriRajkumar, Mallujhola Koteswarlu, Rawoof,Sushil Roy, Sridhar Srinivasan, KuppuDevaraj, Narayan Sanyal, Padma, Lalithakka,Urmila, Rajitha, Ajitha, Saketh Rajan,

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