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On 21 September 2014, CPI(Maoist) is completingten years of its formation. On this occasion, we arepresenting the current volume of Maoist InformationBulletin as the 10th Anniversary of the formation ofCPI(Maoist) Special Issue. Here we reproduce the jointdeclaration of 14 October 2004 announcing the historicmerger of CPI(ML)[PW] and MCCI and the formationof united CPI(Maoist) party given the significance of thedocument. This issue also carries the Call of the CentralCommittee of CPI(Maoist) on the occasion of the Partytenth anniversary. The Call gives an overview of theachievements of the Party, Army and the United Front– the three magic weapons of revolution – in the lastten years, while also outlining the major challenges beforethe movement at present. Included in this issue is aninterview conducted by MIB with comrade Ganapathy,General Secretary of CPI(Maoist), where he reflects onthe last ten years of united revolutionary movement,throws light on the party’s ongoing efforts to advancethe movement by surmounting the prevailing difficultsituation and responds to various questions related tocontemporary domestic and international developments.In addition, a list of some selected events related to theIndian revolutionary movement during the last ten yearsis presented in the Chronology of Important Events. Thislist, though not complete or comprehensive, may providean overview of the ups and downs, achievements andlosses, positive and negative experiences of the movementin these years. The regular sections of MIB followthereafter as usual.

Looking back at the last ten years, the historicsignificance of 21 September 2004 for the Indianrevolutionary movement cannot be overstated. Itbrought together two foremost revolutionary streams inIndia which independently advanced the protractedpeople’s war in the country for nearly four decades since

their decisive break with the revisionism of CPI andCPI(M) in the 1960s. Both CPI(ML)[People’s War] andMCCI which merged to form CPI(Maoist) consolidatedvarious genuine revolutionary parties and organisationsprior to their unity. CPI(ML)Party Unity had united withCPI(ML)(People’s War) while RCCI (M), RCC (M), CPI(ML) Second CC and RCCI (MLM) had united with MCC.The formation of CPI(Maoist), which followed thesemergers, established a single guiding centre of the Indianrevolution, enriched its ideological-political-military lineand gave it a countrywide presence. It brought about aqualitative leap in the development of the party and thearmy and laid the basis for building people’s democraticpower on a wider scale by forging a strong revolutionaryunited front. This historic unity brought to fruition theefforts of the great founding leaders of the party comradesCM and KC and fulfilled the long-cherished dreams ofthe revolutionaries and the toiling masses to unite thevarious revolutionary streams in the country into onemighty torrent. It was a watershed in the history of thecountry’s revolutionary movement.

The significance of this unity was not lost to thereactionary ruling classes either. Within months of themerger, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh voiced thealarm of the imperialists and their domestic props bydeclaring the Maoist movement as the “single biggestinternal security threat” to their rule. This was notsurprising, as the newly installed UPA government at thecentre in 2005 was entrusted with the task of pushingahead the neo-liberal reforms initiated by the rulingclasses in the early 1990s more vigorously than theprevious NDA regime. This was not only the urgent needof the big landlords and comprador big capitalists of thecountry but was also demanded by international financecapital.

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The capitalist world economy entered yet anothercrisis at the dawn of the new millennium, themanifestations of which became starkly visible by mid-2000. Production was brought down, jobs were cutdrastically, real wages declined and unemploymentreached unprecedented levels in capitalist countries aswell as in oppressed countries that were closely integratedwith the imperialist economy. As the gap between theincome of a handful of moneybags and the vast majorityof the working people widened to unprecedented levelsin the capitalist countries, the growing discontent amongthe latter took militant forms of struggle. This wasexacerbated by the ‘austerity measures’ adopted by thegovernments of the Western countries to come out ofthe crisis, the adverse affects of which were born by theworkers, middle classes, immigrants, Blacks, the poorand other oppressed social sections. Once again, theworking people were made to pay for the cyclical crisesthat inevitably plague the capitalist system.

US imperialism accompanied by its alliesembarked on a renewed spate of aggressive wars forextending its world hegemony and with the immediateaim of boosting up its sagging economy by making the9/11 attacks as a pretext. ‘War on Terror’ was the tag givento this fresh imperialist scramble for the world’s resourcesand markets. Afghanistan and then Iraq were invadedand transformed into neo-colonies, where lakhs of peoplewere slaughtered and their countries were reduced torubble. All genuine anti-imperialist and democratic forcesof the world that stood on the way of continued economicexploitation and political oppression by imperialism andits domestic props were termed as ‘terrorists’ and subjectedto further attacks. Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraibbecame symbols of the brutalities perpetrated byimperialism, particularly against the Muslim masses,drawing protests from across the world. Resistance forcesof Afghanistan and Iraq heroically fought the combinedmilitary might of imperialist powers and drew theiradversaries into a prolonged war, thereby shattering theirdreams of quick victory. National liberation movementsstrengthened and expanded in their struggle againstdictatorial domestic rulers supported by imperialism. ThePalestinian people too continued their longstandingliberation war by fighting against the Zionist Israel aswell as opportunists in Fatah.

In such a tumultous international context, theadvancement of the protracted people’s wars led byMaoist forces in the Indian subcontinent not only causedalarm among the country’s ruling classes but also worried

the US – the self-appointed gendarme of the world. Thisworry took a concrete form in the US government’sdecision to put CPI(ML)[PW] and MCCI in its list of‘terrorist organisations’ a few months before the unity ofthe two parties. This made the Maoists too a target of theglobal ‘War on Terror’ launched by the US. Since theformation of the CPI(Maoist), the imperialist powers havebeen guiding the Indian government more closely in itsfascist repression on the revolutionary movement.

The country’s rulers unleashed a new wave ofintensified state repression on the unified Maoistmovement since late 2004. By using deception andcunning characteristic of the reactionary ruling classes,the government withdrew from the process of talks inAndhra Pradesh and resumed cold-blooded murder ofrevolutionary activists and supporters. At about the sametime, the fascist Salwa Judum campaign was started tocrush the movement in Dandakaranya. Similarly,persecution was scaled up in Bihar-Jharkhand and othermovement areas, leading to the killings and arrests ofleadership comrades at all levels including severalPolitburo and Central Committee members, damagingthe movement considerably. Nevertheless, the UnityCongress-9th Congress of the Party was successfully heldeven amid such fascist repression, filling the revolutionarycamp with new energy and enthusiasm. The Congressreviewed the past and on its basis set new tasks beforethe movement. With united efforts and renewed strength,the masses led by the Party and the PLGA heroicallyfought back Salwa Judum, Sendra, Nasus, ShantiCommittee, TPC, JPC, JLT and such other state-sponsoredvigilante gangs and private armies as well as governmentparamilitary-police forces. The daring Nayagarh MultipleRaid, attacks in Ranibodili, Madhuban, etc., shook theruling classes to the core. In leading the protractedpeople’s war by fighting the enemy offensive, the Partyconsolidated and expanded to newer areas, the PLGAexpanded and developed to higher-level formations andincreased its fighting capabilities, unprecedentedachievements were gained in developing embryonicforms of people’s democratic power in several guerillazones by setting up Revolutionary People’s Committees(RPCs). Masses in their tens of thousands were mobilisedinto peasant, women, cultural and other revolutionarymass organisations led by the Party in different parts ofthe country.

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at the centre and various state governments with foreignand domestic big business to displace them from theirland and forests. Kalinganagar, Kashipur, Singur,Nandigram, Niyamgiri, Jagatsinghpur, Sompeta, etc.,inspired the people of the country with their militantresistance. Land struggles in places like Narayanapatna,Vishakha Agency Area, Chengara put the governmentson the defensive. The historic Lalgarh mass upsurgeshook the bastion of revisionist CPI(M). In many of thesemovements, CPI(Maoist) was either actively leading themasses or was playing a supportive role.

It was also a period when the workers across thecountry, be it in Haryana or Tamil Nadu, carried outmilitant strikes and protests in factories of foreign andcomprador big capitalists. Various sections of thepeasantry agitated on a range of demands - for land,subsidised water, electricity, agricultural inputs andcredit, better support price for their produce, etc. Dalitswere protesting against upper-caste violence in Khairlanji,Gohana and other places. Religious minorities,particulalrly the Muslims who faced increasingperesecution by the Indian state and Hindu-fascistorganisations, continued their struggle for justice anddemocratic rights. Women participated in large numbersin all democratic movements, including struggles againstgender discrimination and sexual violence. Separatestatehood movement of Telangana intensified andinspired other such movements of Bodoland,Kamatapur, Gorkhaland, etc. National liberationmovements in Kashmir and the Northeast too continuedin spite of their temporary weakening. In all places wheremass movements took a militant form, the ruling classestried to crush them with iron hand.

While the masses of the country were up in armsagainst the UPA-1 government opposing its disastrous,anti-people and country-selling policies, the governmentled by the Manmohan-Sonia-Chidambaram-Montekclique was busy in implementing these very policies evenmore aggressively to placate the imperialists and theirdomestic props. Opening up various sectors of theeconomy for Foreign Direct Investment, disinvestmentof public sector units, relaxation of labour laws and otherstatutory norms in the name of ending ‘license/permitraj’ and financial rationalisation, massive tax concessionsand subsidies to big business, passing of anti-peoplelegislations such as the SEZ Act, forcible acquisition ofland, etc. continued unabated. Agrarian policies of thegovernments were continued to be framed with a viewto maintain the grip of big landlords and other parasites

in the countryside. These policies further consolidatedtheir landholdings and political power and ensured theircontinued dominance over the rural toiling classes reelingunder a deepening agrarian crisis. On the other hand,government expenditure on social security measures wascut down and several welfare schemes were dismantled,adversely affecting crores of people. On foreign policy,India moved further closer to the US and Israel,enthusiastically supported the US-sponsored ‘War onTerror’, signed the Indo-US Nuclear Deal (123Agreement), voted against Iran in the UN, establishedcloser commercial and military ties with US and Israel,and more aggressively pursued its expansionist policytowards its neighbouring countries.

Towards the end of UPA-1 rule, the imperialisteconomy plunged into yet another worldwide crisistriggered by the housing bubble in the US in the secondhalf of 2008. The slowdown of the global economy had adirect impact on the India which was now more closelyintegrated with the imperialist economy than it was twodecades before. The UPA government which came topower in mid-2009 for the second term was tasked withoverturning the declining growth rate and facilitate theeconomic ‘recovery’. For this, the ruling classes moreblatantly put up the country for sale to enrich the parasiticclasses by pushing the toiling masses into the clutches ofmore excruciating exploitation and hardship.

It was in such a context that the UPA governmentwithin three months of coming to power launched thefirst ever countrywide armed offensive against the Maoistmovement in September 2009. It came close on heels ofthe Sri Lankan government’s genocidal war to crush theTamil liberation movement led by LTTE. With a similaraim of destroying the revolutionary movement to openup the resources of vast mineral-rich forest areas ofcentral and eastern India, the multi-pronged counter-revolutionary ‘war on people’ began under the banner ofOperation Green Hunt. The Party, PLGA and therevolutionary masses braced up to fight back yet anotherwave of repression politically and militarily.

Beginning with the Palachelma counter-offensivein Dandakaranya where state forces led by Cobracommandos were chased away by the PLGA with thestaunch support of the people, several counter-offensiveswere launched against the mercenary government forces,culminating in the historic Mukaram ambush of 6 April2010, delivering a severe blow to the enemy forces. Massagitations in the form of protests, bandhs, public


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meetings, campaigns etc. were carried out in the guerillazones, in the urban areas and internationally to opposeOperation Green Hunt. Faced with sharp publicopposition and stiff military resistance to its reactionary‘war on people’, the central government enacted thedrama of talks while putting all efforts to eliminate theleadership through deceit and damage the movement.

Simultaneously, government made preparations tointroduce the Indian army and air force into OGH by themiddle of 2011, while intensifying its fake reformprogrammes under the overall LIC strategy. Thus beganthe second phase of OGH with the Indian army’s entryinto Dandakaranya in the name of training inNarayanpur district of Chhattisgarh. Several operationswithin the overall purview of OGH in different movementareas such as Operation Anaconda, Operation Saranda,Operation Haka, Operation Vijay, etc. were carried out.Unified commands were established at state level forbetter coordination among various armed forces of theenemy. Carpet security was tightened with the setting upof new camps. Infrastructure, communication andintelligence network was strengthened on war footing inmovement areas. New surrender policies and enhancedbounty on leadership were declared. Combing andmopping up operations were intensified, filling up thecountry’s prisons with revolutionary activists and masses.Extra-judicial killings, massacres, arrest and assault,illegal detainment, custodial torture, rape, arson,destruction of property continued unabated as a part ofthe enemy's LIC policy. Colonial measures such as seizingthe property of the families of revolutionaries wasreintroduced. Complimenting measures that combinedrepression with 'reforms', a vicious psychological war toowas carried out targeting the movement.

Internationally, a new wave of mass agitationsswept through the Arab world demanding the ouster ofdictatorships propped up and supported by Westernpowers. These mass struggles complimented the ongoingnational liberation wars against imperialist invasion,turning Asia into a boiling cauldron of militant resistance.From Tunisia to Egypt, people’s movements forced therulers of several countries out of power, but the peoplewere denied any fundamental change or real politicalpower as the structures of the old state remained intactwith only a change of the face of the rulers. Moreover,imperialist powers tried to divert the widespread massanger against autocratic rule and to use it to topple thegovernments of Libya, Syria etc. For this, it armedmercenaries and deployed devastating air strikes. In the

process, it left these countries ravaged and in chaos. Notstopping at that, the imperialists continued to target Iran,North Korea with economic sanctions and even with thethreat of wars.

These were signs of the intensifying fundamentalcontradictions in the world. Particularly since the globaleconomic crisis that set in from 2008, contradictionbetween imperialism and the oppressed countries andpeople, contention between capital and labour in thecapitalist countries and the inter-imperialistcontradictions have intensified further. The ongoingconflicts in Syria and Ukraine as well as imposition ofsanctions on Russia by the NATO countries reflected thegrowing contradiction among different imperialistpowers. The US found itself isolated or staunchly opposedby other imperialist powers on many occasions in theinternational arena, particularly on questions of freshdirect military intervention in Syria, Iraq etc.

In such a scenario, people’s movements – be it inthe form of worker’s and peasant’s agitations, nationalliberation struggles, Islamic resistance movements,democratic mass movements or communist movementsled by the Maoist forces, etc. – consolidated andexpanded in the last one decade. Overcoming serioussetbacks faced by some revolutionary and democraticforces during this period such as the Nepal revolutiondue to the betrayal of the Prachanda-Baburam neo-revisionist clique or the LTTE in Tamil Eelam, new forcescame to the fore to fight back imperialism and allreaction. The protracted people’s war in the Philippinesadvanced by resisting the government’s fascist repressionthrough Oplan Bayanihan. New Maoist parties wereformed in a few countries while existing Maoist forcesconsolidated in some others.

The countrywide revolutionary movement in Indialed by the Maoist party entered a difficult phase followingthis aggressive multi-pronged enemy offensive. It sufferedserious losses in some movement areas due to themartyrdom and arrest of comrades. Confronted by thisdifficult situation, some people within the revolutionarycamp became politically weak and deserted to the enemycamp. Reviewing the situation, the Party initiated aBolshevisation campaign in September 2013 coincidingwith the beginning of the tenth anniversary celebrationof the formation of united Maoist party. This campaignis aimed at strengthening the Party, PLGA and therevolutionary united front so that it can advance themovement by overcoming the challenges and obstacles


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the movement faces at present. The Party was furtherbolstered by the unity of CPI(Maoist) andCPI(ML)NAXALBARI in May 2014.

The BJP-led new NDA government replaced UPA-2 in May 2014 by promising to bring ‘Good Days’ through‘development’. Domestic and foreign big capitalists andbig landlord classes backed BJP led by Modi who provedhis pro-corporate pro-landlord credential during hisdecade-long rule in Gujarat. After winning a clearmajority in the Lok Sabha and emerging as the singlelargest party, Narendra Modi-Rajnath Singh-ArunJaitley-Venkaiah Naidu-Sushma Swaraj-Amit Shahfascist gang has not only speeded up all the anti-peopleand country-selling policies of the UPA government, buthave also introduced new reactionary measures targetingvarious sections in the society. ‘Development’, ‘GoodGovernance’, ‘Make in India’, ‘Shrameva Jayate’, ‘SwatcchBharat’, ‘Ease of Business’, etc., became the neo-liberalmantras coined by these lickspittles of the ruling classeswith the aim of serving the imperialists and their Indiancompradors.

These steps are being hastily implemented ondifferent fronts by the NDA to serve the interests of foreignand domestic big capitalists as well as big landlords morethoroughly than was done by UPA-2 government. Thesemeasures have already started to adversely affect thecountry’s vast working masses. NDA is desperatelymaking efforts to clear the way for mega projects suchas SEZs, mining, industrial corridors, roads, dams, ports,airports, metro rails, real estate projects, etc., from whichthe UPA was forced to pull back to some extent due tomassive people’s resistance and the contradictionsprevailing within the ruling classes. At the same time,various Sangh Parivar outfits are given a freer hand totarget Muslims and other religious minorities, Dalits andAdivasis, women, democratic sections of the middleclasses, oppressed nationalities and other subjugatedpeople.

As a part of this renewed aggression against thepeople of the country to serve the ruling-class interests,the new NDA government started preparations forlaunching the third phase of OGH. Home MinisterRajnath Singh reiterated the previous government’sapproach towards the Maoist movement by declaringthat it still represents “the biggest threat to internalsecurity”. Several steps have already been initiated tointensify this reactionary ‘war on people’ under the aegisof the new government at the centre. Like earlier, this

attack will not only be against the Maoist movement alonebut will target all democratic, patriotic, progressive andsecular sections of the society that stand against the rulingclasses.

As a result of taking the country towards greaterfascicization and subjecting its people to more rigorouseconomic exploitation combined with political and socialoppression through its aggressive pro-imperialist andBrahmanical Hindutva agenda, the NDA governmentwill face growing anger and resistance from the masses.It will provide grounds for a broad unity of revolutionary,democratic, progressive, secular and patriotic forces tolaunch fresh anti-fascist democratic struggles to fightback the government and the Sangh Parivar. CPI(Maoist)has called for a broad-based unity to brace for a militantstruggle against these obscurantist, reactionary forces.The history of the revolutionary movement teaches usthat to be effective, such a unity has to be based on acommitment to serve the interests of the broad masses,particularly the working people, peasantry, Dalits,Adivasis, religious minorities, oppressed nationalities andother oppressed social sections. It will have to clearlydemarcate between friends and enemies, traitors andpatriots, and forge a broad unity for struggle. Such aunited struggle will need to have a clear understandingabout the various forms of struggle and various forms oforganisation this resistance will have to adopt as pervaried circumstances. Such a united fight is the urgentneed of the hour, not only to give a fitting response to thecounter-revolutionary OGH-Third Phase, but also to beatback the anti-people anti-country moves of the rulingclasses pushed through the Brahmanical Hindu fascistBJP at the centre and various reactionary parties rulingthe states. In all likelihood, such a people's struggle willsoon emerge to push back the latest reactionaryonslaught. The Maoists will certainly take their place atthe frontline of this struggle.

In the last six years of its publication, MIB has madeefforts to fulfil the task it had set out in the very first issueitself in March 2008, i.e., “mainly to present the factsconcerning the ongoing people’s war in India led by theCPI(Maoist)”. The importance of revolutionarypropaganda through magazines, newspapers and otherforms of literature is growing along with the sharpeningof the class struggle and the intensification of the people’swar in the country. On the occasion of the tenthanniversary of CPI(Maoist), MIB renews its pledge to carryforward this important task and play its part in theongoing people’s war.


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Homage to Martyrs

On 21 September 2004, the two foremoststreams of Indian revolution – CPI(M-L)[PW]and MCCI – merged to form a single guidingcentre for Indian revolution, the CPI(Maoist).It materialised the aspirations of the country’stoiling masses and the efforts of communistrevolutionaries including the great foundingleaders of the Party comrades CharuMazumdar and Kanhai Chatterji to form asingle proletarian vanguard to lead the NewDemocratic Revolution of India to victory andthen to march towards achieving Socialism andCommunism. This unity was built on thefoundations laid by over ten thousand martyrswho have sacrificed their lives while carryingforward the banner of Protracted People’sWar in India.

In September this year, CPI(Maoist)completes ten years of its formation. In thisdecade, the revolutionary movement in Indialed by the party won newer and greaterpolitical and military victories in the classstruggle by traversing a zigzag path. The party,army and united front achievedunprecedented quantitative and qualitativedevelopment, making it one of the mostsignif icant decades in the entire history ofIndia’s communist movement that spans overnine decades.

Great victories are achieved with greatsacrifices. None of the achievements of therevolutionary movement are conceivablewithout the supreme sacrif ice of 2332comrades in the last decade. They include over400 women martyrs. The movement lost ten

Central Committee (CC) members in theperiod – Politburo members comradesShamsher Singh Sheri, Cherukuri Rajkumar,Koteswarlu and Sushil Roy, as well as CCcomrades Chandramouli, AnuradhaGhandy, Parimal Sen, Sande Rajamouli,Patel Sudhakar and former Secretary ofCPI(ML)NAXALBARI and veteran leader ofour movement comrade Rawoof. 34 Statelevel, 9 Regional level, 132 District level and246 Sub-Zone & Area level Party committeemembers were martyred in these years.Hundreds of primary members of the Party,PLGA and the UF lost their lives. In addition,hundreds of revolutionary masses havebeen martyred during the period. In the lastone year alone, over 120 comrades weremartyred.

Many of the martyrs have died in thebattle-f ield confronting the enemy, incarrying out assaults on enemy forces andin defending the movement from enemyattacks. A majority of the comrades weremurdered in cold-blood by the enemy aftercatching them alive, most of whom weresubjected to brutal torture before beingkilled. Some comrades breathed their lastin attacks and massacres by landlordarmies and counter-revolutionary gangspropped up by the reactionary rulingclasses in our struggle areas. Some weremartyred due to fatal illness and accidents.A few comrades have also lost their lives inthe enemy prisons due to lack of adequateand timely medical care. Many veteran


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comrades died of old age after lifelong serviceto the revolution.

The martyred comrades came to therevolutionary movement from all oppressedsocial classes and sections. They were fromthe working class, peasantry, pettybourgeoisie and national bourgeoisie, Dalits,Adivasis, religious minorities, women, andothers. No matter what background theycame from, the martyrs imbibed the much-cherished proletarian values, be it unflinchingcommitment to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,unshakable conviction in the victory of theoppressed, death-defying courage anddetermination in the face of extremeadversities, self-sacrificing nature, untiringeagerness to serve the people, exemplaryrevolutionary practice, and so on. Theythereby personif ied the highest humanqualities and thus have become the ideals toemulate.

Several comrades have laid down theirlives in the three months since the publicationof the last issue of MIB. We mention here afew of them about whom we could procureany information. On 16 June, comrade Sinojalias Rajan of Keralam was martyred in anaccident in the Western Ghats. On 30 June,Madvi Budhu alias Sukku was martyred in anencounter with the police in Bijapur district,while another PLGA comrade was martyredin Giridih district of Jharkhand in police firing.On July 4, a PLGA comrade was martyred inLakharia forest of Jamui district, Bihar in abattle with the police, in which the second-in-command of CRPF’s Jamui base was alsokilled. On 28 July, the government armedforces attacked Ramaram village of PidimelRPC in south Bastar region. They caughtcomrade Madkam Hidma, DAKMS presidentof Pidimel and comrade Vetti Hidme, KAMSpresident of Ramaram. Both of them were

tortured and killed in front of the villagers.On the same day, two of the revolutionarymasses were martyred in indiscriminate firingin a weekly market in Birbanki in Khuntidistrict of Jharkhand by counter-revolutionary gang PLFI.

On 12 August, comrades Krishna Thakuralias Raju and Sonu Katenge alias Dasrathwere martyred in Khobramenda forest ofKurkheda block in Gadchiroli district,Maharashtra. The enemy forces had carriedout a major operation in Bhairamgarh andGangalur areas between 7 to 11 August andagain from 14 to 17 August. In their firing inDumri Paralnar village, Jan Militia membercomrade Karram Aitu was martyred. On 22August, enemy forces attacked a PLGA unitin Jagavaram, Birbhatti. PLGA fought backheroically, during which Comrade PodiyamiVijjal, Section Deputy Commander ofPlatoon-8 was martyred. Comrade Dodi Somawas martyred in an exchange of fire with thepolice on 29 August in Gaganpalli andMurkumpar forests of Bijapur district.

On 12 September, comrades DineshPandit, Jeeblal Murmu and Sahadev Rai weremartyred in an encounter with the police atNayanpur in Giridih district of Jharkhand.Another comrade was martyred inPujuariguda forest of Malkangiri district inAndhra-Odisha Border on 17 September.CRPF and Chhattisgarh police personnel shotdead a village mass organisation memberRamdhan on 19 September at Harrakodervillage of Lohandiguda, Bastar district andclaimed that a 'Naxalite' was killed in anencounter. An unidentified Muslim personwho was brought by the government forcesalong with them was also brutally murderedby the police to make the claim that they shotdead a Kashmiri militant who was associatedwith the Maoists. In September, the police

"Thousands upon thousands of martyrs have heroically laid down theirlives for the people; let us hold their banner high and march ahead alongthe path crimson with their blood!"

- Mao, 'On Coalition Government'Mao, 'On Coalition Government'Mao, 'On Coalition Government'Mao, 'On Coalition Government'Mao, 'On Coalition Government'


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We pay red homage to ComradeDevender, a popular revolutionary workerand a leading activist of Disha SanskritikManch (Haryana), on his f irst deathanniversary. Devender was suffering from illhealth for the last few years and was martyredon 24 July 2013 at an age of 41. With his death,the revolutionary cultural movement of Indialost a tireless fighter, who has left a lastingimpact with his abundant creativity,infectious liveliness and staunch commitmentto serve the people.

Comrade Devender was associated withDisha which had played a pioneering role inintroducing new democratic culture inHaryana. He led Disha in many successfulcultural programmes and campaigns,performing among the oppressed masses ofHaryana and in various cities of the country.Devender displayed his creativity in writingand performing songs, street plays and othercultural forms, all of which reflected a clearrevolutionary standpoint. He was adept atinfusing revolutionary content to traditionalforms of song and poetry popular among the

masses. In his leadership, Disha performedprogrammes against Dankel Proposal, WTOand the LPG policies of the Indiangovernment in the mid 1990s. He was also apart of All India League of RevolutionaryCulture (AILRC) representing Disha as oneof its constituents. Comrade Devender wasactive in countrywide anti-imperialistplatforms like All India People’s ResistanceForum (AIPRF) and Forum AgainstImperialist Globalisation (FAIG) which wereactive till 2004. Devender was at theforefront of the cultural protests againstthe US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Hewas one of the main organisers of a numberof workshops and conferences onrevolutionary culture on behalf of Disha andits popular magazine ‘Abhiyan’. He playedan important role in training up a largenumber of youth in Haryana in cultural work.

Not surprisingly, comrades associatedwith the revolutionary movement inHaryana faced the antagonism of the feudalforces and other elements of the rulingclasses. Devender with his comradescontinued their work amidst growing staterepression, until physical disabilities due toserious illness brought his work to a halt.Comrade Devender’s untimely demise at arelatively young age is a loss to therevolutionary cultural movement ofHaryana and the country. His life and workwill continue to live on among his comradesand the people and will continue to inspirecultural workers to dedicate themselves forrevolutionary change.

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fired upon militia member comrade Jalku inAluveda village of Kuanar area in East Bastarwhen he was crossing Korram River in a smallcountry boat. Jalku was drowned and died asa result.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversaryof the united revolutionary movement, wepay our humble red homage to the martyrs ofIndia’s new democratic revolution, the

martyrs of World Socialist Revolution, themartyrs of Maoist parties of the Philippines,Turkey, Bangladesh, Peru, Nepal and othercountries, the martyrs of national liberationwars as well as democratic and anti-imperialist struggles across the world. Onthis occasion, we take pledge to advance onthe path of struggle made crimson by themartyrs to realise their lofty aims for whichthey sacrificed their precious lives.


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Joint Declaration Announcingthe Formation of CPI(Maoist)

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On Sept. 21, 2004, amidst the thick forests insome part of India, the formation of the CommunistParty of India (Maoist) was declared at a publicmeeting before an assembly of peoples’ guerrillafighters, party activists and activists of massorganisations. The two parties, the Maoist CommunistCentre of India and the Communist Party of India(Marxist-Leninist)[People’s War] were merged to formthe new unified Party, the CPI(Maoist). However, thismerger declaration has been withheld from the mediafor security reasons and is now being released to theentire people of our country and the world. Theformation of this new Party has fulfilled the desiresand aspirations of the oppressed masses of the countryfor a genuine proletarian party that can lead them torevolutionary change for the establishment of a newdemocratic society, advancing towards socialism andcommunism.

This unified party has been formed afterthoroughgoing discussions held between the high leveldelegations of the two parties initially and then finalizedby the Joint Central Committee meeting of both theparties. Through these thorough-going and constructivediscussions, held on an equal footing, five documentshave been drafted and finalized. These documents are:Hold High the Bright Red Banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the Party Programme, Strategyand Tactics of the Indian Revolution, the PoliticalResolution on the International and DomesticSituation and the Party Constitution.

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In addition to these documents it has also been decided that our beloved leaders andteachers of the respective parties, the late Com. Charu Mazumdar and Com. Kanhai Chatterji,will be recognized and highlighted as the founding leaders of the unified party. It was also decidedthat both these parties, stemming from the turbulent period of the decade of the 60’s, particularlyfrom the great Naxalbari uprising, livingly inherited all that was revolutionary in the long historyof the Indian communist movement. The peculiarity of the situation is that both these partiescontinued to flow as two separate streams of the revolutionary communist movement, wedded tothe same cause of carrying forward the Indian revolution over the past 35 years. All these stepstaken together clearly disclosed a unified understanding on almost all ideological and politicalquestions of line. The line established provided a principled basis for the unity achieved by boththe parties.

Basing on this unity the Joint Central Committee meeting finally resolved to unite the twoparties into a single unified party, which will henceforth be called as the Communist party ofIndia (Maoist). Com. Ganapatthy was unanimously elected as the general secretary of the newparty.

The formation of the unified Communist Party of India (Maoist) will certainly prove to bea new milestone in the history of the communist movement of India. A unified Maoist party basedon MLM continued to be a long and highly cherished need of the revolutionary minded andoppressed people of the country including all our ranks, and also all Maoist forces of South Asiaand internationally. Today this long-cherished desire and dream has been transformed into areality.

The new Communist Party of India (Maoist) will continue to act as a consolidated politicalvanguard of the Indian proletariat. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism will be the ideological basis guidingits thinking in all the spheres of its activities. It will continue its struggle against right and leftdeviations, particularly against revisionism, by taking this as the main danger for the communistmovement as a whole. It will still seek to unite all genuine Maoist groups that remain outside thisunified Party.

The immediate aim and programme of the Maoist party is to carry on and complete thealready ongoing and advancing New Democratic Revolution in India as a part of the worldproletarian revolution by overthrowing the semi-colonial, semi-feudal system under the neo-colonial form of indirect rule, exploitation and control. This revolution will remain directedagainst imperialism, feudalism and comprador bureaucratic capitalism. This revolution will becarried out and completed through armed agrarian revolutionary war, i.e. protracted people’swar with the armed seizure of power remaining as its central and principal task, encircling thecities from the countryside and thereby finally capturing them. Hence the countryside as well asthe PPW (Protracted People’s War) will remain as the “center of gravity” of the party’s work,while urban work will be complimentary to it.

Since armed struggle will remain as the highest and main form of struggle and the army asthe main form of organization of this revolution, hence it will continue to play a decisive role,whereas the UF will be built in the course of armed struggle and for the seizure of power througharmed struggle. Mass organizations and mass struggles are necessary and indispensable but theirpurpose is to serve the war.

We also hereby declare that the two guerilla armies of the CPI(ML)[PW] and MCCI—thePGA and the PLGA—have been merged into the unified PLGA (Peoples’ Liberation GuerrillaArmy). Hereafter, the most urgent task i.e. principal task of the party is to develop the unifiedPLGA into a full-fledged People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and transforming the existing GuerrillaZones into Base Areas, thereby advancing wave upon wave towards completing the NewDemocratic Revolution. The formation day of the PLGA is to be December 2, the day when apeople’s army was formed for the first time ever in our country in 2000, on the first anniversary ofthe martyrdom of the three CCMs, com. Shyam, Mahesh and Murali.


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Apart from this the unified party will continue to pay added attention to building a newwave of revolutionary mass movements on various political and other issues of the people. It willinvolve all the vast sections of the masses in these struggle directed against imperialism, feudalismand the comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie. The vicious imperialist offensive on our countryhas resulted in mass destitution of an already impoverished people, particularly in the countryside,which has even witnessed thousands of suicides. The CPI(Maoist) will mobilize vast sections ofthe masses against the growing onslaught of the imperialists on the country, against state repressiontogether with mobilizing support for all the movements directed against imperialism and feudalism.

The new party will also continue to support the struggle of the nationalities for self-determination including their right to secession and condemn the brutal state repression on thesemovements. It will pay special attention in mobilizing and organizing the women masses as amighty force of the revolution, and will fight against all other forms of social oppression, particularlyuntouchability and casteism. It will continue to expose, isolate and defeat the more dangerousHindu fascist forces, while exposing all other fundamentalist forces. It will continue to do sowhile keeping the edge of the people’s struggles directed against the new Congress rulers inDelhi along with the CPI/CPM and their imperialist chieftains.

It will continue to expose and resist the expansionist designs of the Indian ruling classesalong with their imperialist chieftains, particularly the US imperialists. It will more activelystand by the side of the Nepali people led by the CPN(Maoist), and vehemently oppose the Indianexpansionists and US imperialists from intervening in Nepal with their military might. It will alsocontinue to support the people’s war led by the Maoist parties in Peru, the Philippines, Turkeyand elsewhere. It will continue to support all people’s struggles directed against imperialism andreaction. It will also support the working class movement and other people’s movements theworld over. It will continue to stand by the side of the Iraqi and Afghan people in their mightystruggle against the US imperialist-led aggression and occupation.

The Unified Party will continue to hold high the banner of proletarian internationalismand will continue to contribute more forcefully in uniting the genuine Maoist forces at theinternational level. Besides, it will also establish unity with the oppressed people and nations ofthe whole world and continue to fight shoulder to shoulder with them in advancing the worldproletarian revolution against imperialism and their lackeys, thereby paving the way towardsrealizing socialism and then Communism on a world scale.

Thousands of our martyrs have laid down their valuable lives for these lofty aims. TheCentral Committee (Provisional) of the unified Party-CPI (Maoist) — pledges that it will continueto advance along the path illuminated by them and thereby mobilize all its existing and latentenergies in transforming the dreams of the martyrs into a reality.

With revolutionary greetings,

General Secretary General Secretary Central Committee Central Committee Maoist Communist Centre of India CPI (M-L)[People’s War]

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Our party, the CPI(Maoist), a vanguarddetachment of the international proletariat,celebrates ten years of its formation this year.The great Marxist teacher Lenin has taughtus that there is no revolution without arevolutionary party. For us, this entire decadeis a testimony to how this principle has beenapplied, tested, enriched and once againproven in our practice. The past decade is achronicle of the progress achieved andlessons learnt by the party as the warrior thatwields the two weapons of Army and theUnited Front (UF) and how to apply thisMaoist dictum in practice.

On this joyous occasion, the CentralCommittee (CC) conveys its warmestrevolutionary greetings to the entire partyranks, to People’s Liberation Guerilla Army(PLGA) commanders and f ighters, tocomrades of Revolutionary People’s

Committees (RPC) and mass organisations, tothe thousands of comrades and revolutionarymasses who have opened another battle-front in the prisons, to lakhs of revolutionarymasses in our struggle areas and all over thecountry – to all of you who have made theseyears a decade of great struggles andachievements. It heartily greets the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organisations

Call of the CC on the Occasionof the 10th Anniversary of

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Face up to the Challenge! Seize theOpportunities! Firmly AdvanceAlong the Path of ProtractedPeople’s War!

[This Call of the Central Committee ofCPI(Maoist) on the occasion of the Party's tenthanniversary gives an overview of theachievements of the Party, Army and the UnitedFront – the three magic weapons of revolution– in the last ten years, while outlining the majorchallenges before the movement. This Call hasbeen widely disseminated across the rank andfile of the party and compliments the CC's 'Callto the People of India' released simultaneously- MIB]


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throughout the world that have comeforward in solidarity with the Indianrevolution. It expresses deep respect for thecourageous stand taken by all the democratsand progressives who have stood up, in Indiaand abroad, against the heinous ‘war onpeople’ waged by the Indian state under thebanner of Operation Green Hunt (OGH).

In the 10 years since the formation ofour united party 2332 comrades, including 10members of the CC, have laid down theirprecious lives for the cause of the revolution.They include Politburo (PB) memberscomrades Shamsher Singh Sheri (KaramSingh-KS), Rajkumar (Azad), Koteswarlu(Kishenji) and Sushil Roy (Ashok, Barun); CCcomrades Chandramouli (Navin), AnuradhaGhandy, Parimal Sen (Ajay), Rajamouli(Murali), Patel Sudhakar (Vikas) and formerSecretary of CPI(ML)NAXALBARI andveteran personality of our party comradeRawoof, 34 State level, 9 Regional level, 132District level, 246 Sub-Zone & Area level partycommittee members and hundreds ofprimary party members and many more of thePLGA and the UF. In the last one year aloneover 120 leadership and other comrades, fromthe Party, PLGA and UF and revolutionarymasses have become martyrs. Each one ofthese losses, in particular the losses of oureminent leaders, washeavy a loss we grievedover. Yet each one ofthem steeled us evenmore to serve the people,marching on along thepath crimsoned with theirblood, to fulf il theircommunist dreams. TheCC bows its head inhomage to the gloriousmartyrs whose blood hasnurtured our party, PLGA and UF and the NewDemocratic Revolution (NDR) it leads. Theycome in a long line of martyrs, including ourfounder leaders comrades Charu Majumdarand Kanhai Chatterjee. They continue aglorious communist tradition of sacrifice andservice to the people. The CC also salutes the

revolutionary masses who have willinglysuffered loss of life, savage repression andhardship while standing one with the partyand the revolution and takes inspiration fromtheir sacrifices and creative role in the makingof a new power and society.

On this occasion, the CC pays humblered homage to all the martyrs of the worldsocialist revolution (WSR), the martyrs ofMaoist parties in the Philippines, Nepal,Turkey, Bangladesh, Peru and othercountries, the martyrs of national liberationwars and those who sacrificed their lives inthe anti-imperialist movements the worldover.

Comrades,

10 years ago on the occasion of theformation of our party through theunification of the two major revolutionarystreams in the country, we had declared ouraims and tasks before the people:

“The new Communist Party of India(Maoist) will continue to act as a consolidatedpolitical vanguard of the Indian proletariat.Marxism-Leninism-Maoism will be theideological basis guiding its thinking in all thespheres of its activities. It will continue itsstruggle against right and left deviations,particularly against revisionism, by taking this

as the maindanger for thec o m m u n i s tmovement as awhole. It will stillseek to unite allgenuine Maoistgroups thatremain outsidethis unif iedParty. Theimmediate aim

and programme of the Maoist party is to carryon and complete the already ongoing andadvancing New Democratic Revolution inIndia as a part of the world proletarianrevolution by overthrowing the semi-colonial,semi-feudal system under the neo-colonialform of indirect rule, exploitation and

In the 10 years since theformation of our united party2332 comrades, including 10members of the CC, have laiddown their precious lives forthe cause of the revolution


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control. This revolution will remain directedagainst imperialism, feudalism andcomprador bureaucratic capitalism. Thisrevolution will be carried out and completedthrough armed agrarian revolutionary war,i.e. protracted people’s war with the seizureof power through armed struggle remainingas its central and principal task, encircling thecities from the countryside and therebyf inally capturing them. Hence thecountryside as well as the protractedpeople’s war (PPW) will remain as the “centreof gravity” of the party’s work, while urbanwork will be complimentary to it. Since thearmed struggle will remain as the highest andmain form of struggle and the army as themain form of organisation of this revolution,the armed struggle will continue to play adecisive role, whereas the united front will bebuilt in the course of armed struggle and forthe seizure of power through armed struggle.Mass organisations and mass struggles arenecessary and indispensable but theirpurpose is to serve the war. We also declarethat the PGA and PLGA have been mergedinto the unified PLGA (Peoples’ LiberationGuerilla Army). Hereafter, the most urgenttask, i.e. principal task, of the party is todevelop the unified PLGA into a full-fledgedPeople’s Liberation Army (PLA) andtransform the existing Guerilla Zones intoBase Areas, thereby advancing wave uponwave towards completing the NewDemocratic Revolution. The formation day ofthe PLGA is to be December 2, the day whena people’s army was formed for the first timeever in our country in 2000, on the f irstanniversary of the martyrdom of the threeCCMs, comrades Shyam, Mahesh and Murali.

“Apart from this the unified party willcontinue to pay added attention to buildinga new wave of revolutionary massmovements on various political and otherissues of the people. It will involve all the vastsections of the masses in these strugglesdirected against imperialism, feudalism andthe comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie. Thevicious imperialist offensive on our countryhas resulted in mass destitution of an already

impoverished people, particularly in thecountryside, which has even witnessedthousands of suicides. The CPI (Maoist) willmobilise vast sections of the masses againstthe growing onslaught of the imperialists onthe country, against state repressiontogether with mobilising support for all themovements directed against imperialism andfeudalism. The new party will also continueto support the struggle of the nationalities forself-determination including their right tosecession and condemn the brutal staterepression on these movements. It will payspecial attention in mobilising and organisingthe women masses as a mighty force of therevolution, and will fight against all otherforms of social oppression, particularlyuntouchability and casteism. It will continueto expose, isolate and defeat the moredangerous Hindu fascist forces, whileexposing all other fundamentalist forces. Itwill continue to do so while keeping the edgeof the people’s struggles directed against thenew Congress rulers in Delhi along with theCPI/CPM and their imperialist chieftains.

“It will continue to expose and resist theexpansionist designs of the Indian rulingclasses along with their imperialist chieftains,particularly the US imperialists. It will moreactively stand by the side of the Nepali peopleled by the CPN (Maoist), and vehementlyoppose the Indian expansionists and USimperialists from intervening in Nepal withtheir military might. It will also continue tosupport the people’s war led by the Maoistparties in Peru, the Philippines, Turkey andelsewhere. It will continue to support allpeople’s struggles directed againstimperialism and reaction. It will also supportthe working class movement and otherpeople’s movements the world over. It willcontinue to stand by the side of the Iraqi andAfghan people in their mighty struggleagainst the US imperialist-led aggression andoccupation.

“The unified party will continue to holdhigh the banner of proletarianinternationalism and will continue tocontribute more forcefully in uniting the


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genuine Maoist forces at the internationallevel. Besides, it will also establish unity withthe oppressed people and nations of thewhole world and continue to fight shoulderto shoulder with them in advancing the worldproletarian revolution against imperialismand their lackeys, thereby paving the waytowards realising socialism and thencommunism on a world scale.”

We have made steady and significantadvances in fulf illing the tasks we setourselves 10 years ago by bitterly resisting thecountrywide savage repression, sufferingheavy losses and tackling great challenges.We can look at the advances, losses andchallenges we faced in this decade in threephases. 1) From the merger of the party to theUnity Congress, 2) From the Unity Congressto 2012, and 3) From 2013 till present.

While the announcement of the unifiedparty enthused the people immensely, theresponse of the ruling classes was summedup in the statement of the Prime Minister thatMaoists constituted “an even greater threatto India than militancy in Jammu and Kashmirand the Northeast.” The enemy specificallydirected its attack against our leadership,inflicting severe losses. Despite this and in theface of heavy odds the PLGA deliveredpowerful blows to the enemy. Militant massstruggles mobilised tens of thousands andunited diverse sections and put up stiffresistance against the depredatory policies ofthe rulers.

The historic Jehanabad jail break cummultiple raid (Bihar) where the PLGAsupported by the people’s militia seizedcontrol of the town, liberated 341 prisonersincluding two RCMs and some lower levelcadre and a vast number of revolutionarylocal activists from the jail, captured andexecuted hated leaders of the feudal uppercaste private army Ranvir Sena and seizedweapons is an outstanding example. Giridih(Jharkhand-JH) raid on home guard armoury,blasting of a mine-proof vehicle in an ambushand wiping out 24 CRPF personnel in Padeda(Bastar-Dandakaranya), elimination of 11

Naga Force personnel and 11 policemen inMurkinaar (Bastar) are some other majorbattles. The guerilla war that we were wagingfor the past 25 years in Dandakaranya (DK)and Bihar-Jharkhand (BJ) advanced. Withplatoons and companies acting as themobilising centres we could centralise ourforces and conduct big tactical offensives.The decentralised combat units continued tocarry out small and medium-level armedactions.

Most importantly, through the plannedwork taken up after the formation of theunited party, we could expand some guerillabases as a transitory step towards theestablishment of liberated areas. Wesucceeded in consolidating RPCs in severalvillages in these bases. In DK our guerillabases were further consolidated byincreasing party units at the village level,forming village party committees, increasingour military formations, strengthening themand taking them to company-levelformations, bringing a greater number ofpeople into the militia, mobilising people inpolitical, military, organisational and culturalcampaigns and expanding peasant, womenand cultural mass organisations on a widescale and at the level of Division and SpecialZone, establishing, consolidating andexpanding people’s authority in the form ofRPCs at Divisional level also. The guerillabases enabled us to carry out strategic tasksto further consolidate and expand them toadvance the revolutionary war.

On the mass front too, forces led by ourparty carried out political calls such as the call

We have made steady andsignificant advances in fulfillingthe tasks we set ourselves 10years ago by bitterly resisting thecountrywide savage repression,suf fering heavy losses andtackling great challenges


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for the unconditional release of politicalprisoners, campaign against Salwa Judum(SJ), against state repression, state-sponsored attacks on the revolutionarymovement in Andhra Pradesh (AP), andobserved revolutionary days, like PartyFormation, PLGA Formation, May Day,International Women’s Day and Martyrs Day.They mobilised and participated in jointactivities with allied organisations and forcesagainst imperialist globalisation and the neo-liberal policies pursued by the Central andState governments, imperialist occupation ofIraq and the war-mongering acts of the USimperialists and its allies, displacement ofAdivasis and the peasantry from forest andagricultural lands by huge mining, multi-purpose, infrastructural and other projects,atrocities and attacks on Dalits and religiousminorities (Muslims and Christians) and otherissues.

The exploiting governments formedcounter-revolutionary vigilante gangs likeNagarik Suraksha Samiti, Sendra, ShantiCommittee, Harmad Bahini, TPC/PLFI/JPC andSpecial Police Off icer (SPO) system andcarried out campaigns like Salwa Judum (SJ),as part of Low Intensity Conflict (LIC)/counterinsurgency strategy and tactics fordecimating the revolutionary movement. ThePLGA led by the party fought back thesereactionary gangs by firmly implementingclass line and mass line and by mobilising themasses and raising their consciousness.People and particularly the women stood inthe forefront and resisted the SJ goons. Aseries of brave attacks put an end to themurderous SJ campaign.

One of the greatest achievements ofIndian revolution which was materialised inthis period was the successful convening ofthe historic Unity Congress-9th Congress ofthe party, overcoming all the efforts of theenemy to foil it. Through its deliberations,drawing lessons from four decades ofprotracted people’s war (PPW), the synthesisof the two revolutionary streams was takento a new height. All these were synthesisedin the backdrop of significant political and

economic changes in India and in the world.The ideological, political and military positionsof the party were further ref ined andconsolidated through deep and extensivedebates. Debate on some differences ofopinions, including some left positions, tookplace and were resolved through democraticcentralism. An exhaustive review was madeof the achievements and drawbacks,successes and failures, of the two and halfyears since the merger. Along with centraland principal task, other important tasks wereset. The leadership was further strengthened.Thus, our party emerged from the Congress,more sharp in its ideological-politicalpositions, more consolidated in its unity, moresteeled in its determination and f ightingspirit, to fulfil its tasks as the vanguard of theNDR of India.

The years that followed gave ampledemonstration of this. Responding to the callof Congress and led by the party at all levels,the f irst raid which symbolised mobilewarfare was conducted by the PLGA in 2007at Ranibodili, wiping out the enemy forcesand seizing weapons and ammunition in largequantities. In 2008, in another blazing attack,the PLGA deployed its forces over longdistances from the Central and EasternRegional Commands and seized the Districtarmoury in Nayagarh of Odisha after takingcontrol of the town. In the Khas Mahal,Rajpur-Bagheila, Jhajha raids in Bihar thePLGA forces overcame the enemy and seizedlarge quantities of weapons and ammunitionafter controlling and annihilating the enemy

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forces. In Silda, Paschim Banga, the PLGAcame in vehicles and motorcycles in broaddaylight and seized and destroyed theEastern Frontier Rifles camp in an openmarket, after annihilating 24 enemy troops.The successes in almost all these valiantactions were possible only through thesupreme sacrifices of several commandersand fighters of PLGA.

In 2007, 299 prisoners out of 377escaped from the most wretched conditionsof Dantewada Jail, DK. They seized somearms and ammunition from the jail. ComradeNavin, who was recently martyred in theBethkathi false encounter (DK) escaped froma juvenile jail in2007. In 2009, thePLGA conducteda surprise attackon the LakhisaraiDistrict court,Bihar withm e t i c u l o u splanning andfreed comradeMisir Besra, PBM.On January 17,2011, leadership(one SC level andtwo RC level)c o m r a d e sconducted adaring jail breakfrom inside of Chaibasa Jail, JH and rejoinedthe revolutionary movement. On June 21,seven children from the Bal Sangathan(childrens’ organisation) escaped from thejuvenile home at Panpos near Rourkela,Odisha and rejoined their organisation. In2012, a police escort vehicle was heroicallyattacked by the people’s guerillas in thevicinity of Giridih town and eight comradesincluding 1 SACM and 2 RCMs were rescued.

The enemy launched a countrywide all-out war called Operation Green Hunt in mid-2009 with much fanfare. A grand plan wasprepared to wipe us out. Huge forces wereconcentrated. Thousands of crores of rupeeswere spent. Massive propaganda, targeting

us as a bunch of terrorists, was carried out.Intense combing operations, surprise attackson our forces, attacks on our mass base in thewar zones, large-scale arrests, destruction ofour urban networks, destruction of theinfrastructure built up through the collectivelabour of the masses were combined withreform activities meant to sidetrack thepeople. In the face of this onslaught we didsuffer serious losses. Led by the CC, the wholeparty, PLGA, people’s militia andrevolutionary masses led by the RPCs andmass organisations (MOs), stood firm, learntfrom our mistakes, redoubled efforts and hitback. Simultaneously we waged a political

battle. Westruck backexposing thee n e m y ’ sp r o p a g a n d a .This paved theway for af a v o u r a b l ep o l i t i c a lp o l a r i s a t i o nwithin thecountry andinternationally.P r o g r e s s i v e sand democraticforces cameforward alongw i t h

revolutionaries to denounce the OGH as a‘war on people’. This reaffirmed the capacityof our ideology to counter the enemy’spsychological war and gave us rich lessons.

In the midst of this, on April 6, 2010, thehistoric ambush at Mukaram (South Bastar)completely decimated a company of theenemy forces. 75 CRPF jawans and a districtpolice constable died and seven were injured.This ambush was conducted with exemplarycourage and sacrifice of the comrades bykeeping the guerilla battalion at the core. Theleadership of local comrades for the guerillabattalion, the grip this leadership had overthe terrain as a result, the strong bonds withthe local people and the strong mass base

During this period the PLGAgained rich experiences in battlingand breaking the enemy’s ‘cordonand search’ campaigns. Whenseven thousand enemy forcesattacked our camp in Mamayil, BJ,with the designs of eliminating ourleadership comrades the PLGAvaliantly fought back the enemy for30 hours, defeated that attack andsuccessfully broke out.


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complemented each other and helped thesuccess of this ambush. This courageousoperation which was conducted in responseto the brutal OGH as an integral part ofestablishing base areas was a greatinspiration to the PLGA forces andrevolutionary masses all over the country.

During this period the PLGA also gainedrich experiences in battling and breaking theenemy’s ‘cordon and search’ campaigns.When seven thousand enemy forces (twothousands at the spot and five thousands inthe outer circle) attacked our camp inMamayil, BJ, with the designs of eliminatingour leadership comrades the PLGA valiantlyfought back the enemy for 30 hours,defeated that attack and successfully brokeout. In Operation Saranda too of BJ, wherethe enemy had mobilised a force of 10,000 inthe inner and outer circles, PLGA forces withthe full support of the people and withexemplary initiative, bravely fought theenemy for 72 hours and broke out. PLGAforces also fought back the tactics of theenemy of deploying the police andparamilitary forces through helicopters byfiring on the helicopter at Pidiya in WestBastar. An Air Force officer was killed andthree others were injured. PLGA forces firedon a helicopter in Porahat area of JH anddamaged it, foiling the enemy’s plans.

This period also gave important lessonsin revolutionary mass struggles and co-ordination between armed and mass

struggles, through the Nandigram, Lalgarh,Narayanapatna struggles, the movement forseparate statehood for Telangana and anti-displacement struggles in several States.These struggles took the form of massupsurges. New forms of struggle andorganisation emerged. Conducive groundwas laid for the consolidation of MOs and ananti-feudal, anti-imperialist front. In manyother parts of the country big struggles brokeout where the masses came forward todefend their land. They fought against plansto displace them for the sake of opening bigmines, dams and other pro-imperialist, pro-ruling class projects. We supported thesestruggles and led some of them. This gave usrich experiences in leading mass strugglesand uniting a wide variety of forces. Thesestruggles brought out the vanguard role ofthe party and the PW it leads. They were ofimmense help in extending the war zones andexpanding the party and the PLGA throughwinning over new forces.

In this period, the party has furtherdeveloped its capacities in different fields. Ithas actively engaged in ideological struggleagainst various deviations within thecommunist movement in the country and atthe international level. It played a key role inthe functioning of the Co-ordination Centreof Maoist Parties and Organisations in SouthAsia (CCOMPOSA).

The party has paid attention to raise itsideological level through systematic studyclasses. Study material and magazines arepublished in various languages. Special effortwas taken to develop study/propagandamaterial in Adivasi languages. Syllabi andtexts prepared for basic education werefurther enriched. These are used in theschools run by the RPCs and for the educationof PLGA combatants and members of themass organisations.

The party committees, Commissions andCommands have conducted recruitmentcampaigns many times by giving calls toyoung women and men belonging to alloppressed classes and sections to join PLGA

In this period, the partyhas further developed its

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in large numbers to expand the PW. In someguerilla zones the revolutionary MOs,people’s militia and the RPCs play a crucialrole in recruiting young women and men intoPLGA through village mass meetings. As partof this, since the Unity Congress-9thCongress, hundreds of peasant and Adivasiyoung women and men joined the PLGA inmany guerilla zones. Thousands of people gotconsolidated into people’s militia.

By fulf illing various tasks likeconducting continuous revolutionarypolitical propaganda, mobilising the peopleinto various structures (party-people’s militia-MOs, RPCs), arming the people, trainingthem, mobilising the people into variouspeople’s struggles, participating inagricultural production, education, healthand other welfare activities to raise thestandard of living of the people and givingmedical treatment to people, the party andthe PLGA won a place in the hearts of peoplein various guerilla bases, guerilla zones, redresistance areas and other areas.

The party and the PLGA strove hard inbuilding a strong mass base for therevolutionary movement. Lakhs of peoplehave been mobilised in revolutionarypeasant, women’s, youth, cultural andchildren’s organisations. They functionedunder the guidance of the Centraldepartments of the party charged withguiding mass work. They play a prominentrole as mass base for PW. Under theguidance of the RPCs the people’s militia,activists of peasant and women’sorganisations and revolutionary artistesparticipate in resistance against the enemyforces. They carry supplies for PLGA, conveyinformation about the enemy to the party,PLGA and people’s defence departmentsfrom time to time and function as sentries inthe villages.

An exceptional contribution of theparty is that of arousing the women who holdup half the sky and developing theircapacities in political, organisational, military,cultural and other spheres so that they can

lay claim to their share in struggle. Todayaround 40 percent of the fighting force ofthe PLGA consists of women, though thepercentage varies in various guerilla zones.Women are commanders at the platoon leveland members of company level partycommittees.

The party has paid a lot of attention todevelop revolutionary cultural activities.Mass cultural organisations exist in manyStates from village to State level. Theseorganisations spread the message ofrevolution and promote democratic andscientific values through multifarious culturalforms that learn from and develop national,ethnic, cultural traditions and styles. Theymotivate the people to struggle for radicalchange. Their cultural messages also play therole of an instrument of rectification thatattacks the reactionary values of the oldsociety gripping the minds of the masses.These organisations are powerful weaponslinking the party with the broad masses.Apart from these MOs, armed cultural groups

By fulfilling various tasks likeconducting continuousrevolutionary politicalpropaganda, mobilising thepeople into various structures(party-people’s militia-MOs,RPCs), arming the people,training them, mobilising thepeople into various people’sstruggles, participating inagricultural production,education, health and otherwelfare activities to raise thestandard of living of the peopleand giving medical treatmentto people, the party and thePLGA won a place in the heartsof people in various guerillabases, guerilla zones, redresistance areas and other areas


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are formed within the PLGA too, at thecompany and battalion levels.

More people’s political power organs inthe form of RPCs emerged in DK Special Zone,BJ Special Area, and Andhra Pradesh-OdishaBorder (AOB) areas. In Telangana and AP,several RPCs had been formed in the past andthough there had been a setback in ourmovement in these States, the people whohad enjoyed political power are fighting toovercome the situation with that inspiration.In DK, several Area level RPCs were formed.A few Division (District) level people’sgovernments have also started functioning.This is a new experience in the history of therevolutionary movement in our country.These people’s governments are striving toincrease the agricultural production of thepeople through their cooperative andcollective labour while working very hard tomarch forward to achieve self-sufficiency forthe economic development of the peopleand support to the party and the PLGA. Thiseffort is an inseparable part of advancing thePPW and building base areas.

Another area of struggle is graduallyexpanding inside the prisons. Severalthousands are in jail. Several Central andDistrict and sub-jails in about 20 statesreverberated with hunger strikes, at timesindef inite, on the demands of politicalprisoners. Through their activities ourcomrades in jail have succeeded in mobilisingordinary prisoners to fight for their rights.Democratic organisations and forces are alsoplaying a key role in this even amidcountrywide severe repression. Funds werecollected from the people by the party andseveral MOs and used for court expenses torelease imprisoned comrades and to supporttheir families. Support activities and strugglesdemanding release of all political prisonershave spread out across the country.

Attack on our leadership is a specific andkey component of the enemy’s counter-revolutionary plans. For this they madespecial teams with notorious police personnelas part of ‘Special Investigation Bureau’ (SIB)

and formed or strengthened special forceslike AP Greyhounds in most of the States andin the Central government’s ‘NationalInvestigation Agency’ (NIA) to track downand eliminate our leaders. They succeeded ininflicting a number of heavy losses to ourparty and revolutionary movement,particularly through the capture and murderof comrade Patel Sudhakar, CCM (PoliticalIntelligence-in Charge) and comrade Azad,Politburo member (PBM). Anotheroutstanding leader of the Indian revolution,PBM comrade Kishenji was also captured inan encounter in a village of Lalgarh, brutallytortured and murdered. Yet we withstoodthis. Even while we suffered some disruptionsin our work overall, till 2010, we could makeadvances. Since then, the enemy has furtherintensified his attacks using bigger forces.Coupled with our own weaknesses, this hascreated a very difficult situation where wehave suffered losses or weakened and beenforced to withdraw from some areas. We haveweakened considerably on the urban fronttoo.

In the wake of the severe beating theysuffered at the hands of the PLGA in theMukaram, Saranda, Lohardagga and severalother tactical offensives, the enemy startedtaking up operations with even larger forces.The enemy who was successful in damagingthe leadership and cadre in the urban andplain areas is now targeting the leadership inforest areas. They are strengthening theirintelligence network. They target party/PLGAcamps when they are in meetings/politicaland military training and camps of the variousdepartments with large contingents ofCentral and State forces, numbering several

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thousands. They also carry out sabotageoperations by employing killer gangs. Theyare trying to hinder our political,organisational, military, production andpropaganda activities and are trying to dentthe morale of the people and therevolutionary mass base. Enemy forces aredeployed in hundreds/thousands and areadominations and road patrolling are beingconducted. The number of Road OpeningParties (ROP) and the number of persons inthe parties were increased. There are nearly

150-200 persons in each batch. If they havespecific information or if they know about thepresence of leadership, nearly 800 to 4000or even more troops are being deployed. Thecarpet security used in struggle areas likeKashmir is being extended day by day.Several dozens of police camps were newlyestablished in Chhattisgarh (CG),Maharashtra, Bihar, JH, Telangana, AP, AOB,Bengal and Odisha apart from the borders ofthese States. They are establishing severalpolice camps in Malnad area and the tri-junction area of three south-west States tonip in the bud the newly extendingmovement. The AP government decided totake up more security measures in the policestations on the borders. In camps and policestations two to three company-level forcesare being present. Along with deployingparamilitary battalions, thousands of police,home guards and SPOs/State Auxiliary Policeforces are being recruited in recent years. Tocoordinate these forces and operations,dozens of IPS officers are being deployed in

the movement areas. They are building 400fortif ied police stations and camps instrengthening carpet security in nine states.They are speeding up their preparations fordrone (UAV) attacks. The Centralgovernment decided to build 2200communication towers mainly in the campsof enemy forces in areas of our influence innine States. With the aim of keepingsurveillance on the movements of theguerillas in thick forests they launched Resat-1 satellite in 2012.

The Indian government has stepped uppreparations to deploy the Army in BastarRange, particularly in Maad at first and nextin strategic areas of the PW in the Central andEastern India with a long range strategy. TheArmy is wary of directly entering the ‘war onpeople’ since it fears getting bogged downand over-extended. The plan is to build up aspecial force on the lines of the RashtriyaRifles in Kashmir. Once it is trained up anddeployed it will engage in encirclements ofwide tracts of forest areas to impart heavyloses to the revolutionary forces andeliminate the entire local leadership. Alreadynearly one-third of Maad is handed over toarmy camps by the State government. Withthe additional security perimeter the areaunder direct Army control will be 50%. Oncethe Army is formally deployed the draconianprovisions of the AFSPA, already in forceundeclared, will be imposed on the people.The Air Force is fully involved in supply anddropping troops in a big way. A wide networkwith a big number of helipads and several airbases are being built in CG, Vidarbha, AP,Telangana, Bihar, JH, Bengal and Odisha tosupport Central paramilitary and Statesforces, future Army offensives and also forconducting Air Force attacks.

The Central government is engaged intraining thousands of special State andCentral forces on AP Greyhounds model (aspecial commando force trained incounterinsurgency warfare). It formedUnified Commands with Chief Ministers astheir Commanders-in-Chief in the States ofour movement. These consist of a retired

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army brigadier and the top officials of Centraland State forces. These Unified Commandsfunction in coordination with the centre. Theyhad also formed Joint OperationalCommands in the borders of the States andare carrying on offensives by particularlyconcentrating on tri-junctions of the strongmovement areas. Intelligence wings at theCentral and State levels were revamped andthe entire administrative mechanism hasbeen restructured at the behest of theimperialists, particularly the US, to carry on amulti-faceted, centralised, coordinated,synchronised ‘war on people’ and implementthe corporate agenda. In all of these counter-revolutionary moves they are guided andsupported by the US and other imperialistpowers.

Attacks on people, murders, sexualatrocities on women, razing down houses,loot, destruction of harvests and granaries,slaughter and looting of poultry and livestockby counter-revolutionary gangs and enemyforces to smash our mass base have increasedfurther since the formation of the new party.The attack in Chintalnar area where theyrazed down four villages, killed and raped isa hideous example. Democratic organisationshave exposed the destruction wreaked by theenemy. It is another matter that PLGA forcessuccessfully conducted a tactical counter-attack on this murderous gang in which fourfascist Koya Commandos died and eightwere injured.

On the other hand, as part of LIC theyare intensifying reforms under innumerablenames according to the conditions with theaim of splitting the revolutionary camp,isolating the party and the PLGA from thepeople and widening the social base of theexploiting classes by strategically mobilising,concentrating and coordinating the entirereactionary legislative, executive, judiciaryand media and also tactically actingaccordingly by putting armed forces at itscore. In the name of ‘civic actionprogrammes’ several reform schemes of theCentral and State governments are beingcanalised through the enemy’s troops. Apart

from this, huge amounts are given to theseforces for such activities. Household utensils,clothes, radios and cycles etc are now beingshowered on remote villages, where theIndian state never bothered to provide basicamenities for decades together. The Indianstate is now all enthusiastic to provide freeboarding and tuition to a section of deprivedAdivasi children who enjoyed the benefits ofeducation for the f irst time in their livesthrough our party and the PLGA. By trying tocome closer to the people through suchmeans they are trying to form their ownintelligence network. They are economicallybenefiting a section of the people amongstpolitical leaders, officials, contractors, tribalelders/bad gentry, rich and middle peasantsand even among the poor peasants andagricultural labourers and are utilising themas their social base. Enemy intelligencenetwork increased in many places. As part ofsurrender policy, they are implementingrehabilitation programmes and forcefullyturning most of them into traitors and areseriously trying to bring pressure on thevillage level leadership to turn them againstthe people. Serious efforts are going on toturn some weaker elements working in thePLGA and the party into coverts.

Enemy is carrying on foul propagandaon our movement and leadership at all levelsas part of psychological warfare. Revisionistparties like CPI (M) and CPI and some of theright opportunist leadership of some MLgroups are attacking our party line andsupporting the ruling classes. They put up adeceptive propaganda campaign thatsquabbles have started between theleadership comrades in CPI (Maoist) on the

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lines of the erstwhile parties (MCCI, PW).They are carrying on psychologicaloperations portraying us as anti-development, anti-democratic and violentwithout respite through all sorts of mediaand through their class forces by utilising theirsocio-cultural hegemony in a thousand ways.They propagate on one hand that socialismand communism are outdated and that wecan never emerge victorious and so the partyshould join the electoral politics. On the otherhand they urge those inside the revolutionarycamp to join the police or act as informers bydeserting the revolutionary movement asthey would be wiping it out within 5-10 yearsand as we could never win. They areencouraging diehard opportunists likeSavyasachi Panda and trying to fizzle out themovement.

On the whole, during the past few yearswe have been facing a very difficult situation.While three to three and a half lakh police,paramilitary and State and Centralcommando forces were deployed by mid-2010, this has increased to around five lakhsat present. A measure of the importance

attached by the reactionary Indian state toits ‘war on people’ can be seen in the fact thata number of Central battalions have beenredeployed from the North East and Kashmirto our war zones during the past one decade.Paramilitary forces like the BSF, ITBP andCRPF are already heavily weaponised and theCRPF is being augmented with drones andother hi-tech equipment. Its combingoperations already incorporate real-timeinputs from area surveillance done throughdrones.

While the tightening blockades,combing and attacks brought out the steelin the vast majority of our ranks, it has alsoexposed the rotten elements that hadremained hidden among us. Liquidationistswho pretend that PPW is not suited to ourconditions, cowards who flee under differentpretexts hopelessly trying to cover up theirdefeatism, traitors who sell-out the peoplefor the pittance thrown at them by the enemy– these trying times have uncovered them,one after the other. Among the masses, somehave “surrendered” under enemy’s bruteforce. Repeated and heavy attacks havecaused great harm to the party structures inthe villages and consequently to the RPCsand mass organisations too. A section of themasses have become passive.

In the face of all this, the morale of somecomrades has dipped, even while they stickon to their revolutionary tasks. But unlesstheir viewpoint is sharpened with MLM andtransformed into clear-sighted resoluteness,the opportunities contained in the adversesituation we face will not be grasped orrealised. Let us not forget that everyrevolution advances in a wave-like manner.That is a law of history. We should heightenour ideological level, keep politics incommand, take the message of revolutiondeeper and wider among the masses,creatively apply the line of PPW and developour tactics, be ‘red and expert’ in our political,military, organisational, propaganda,training, cultural, production, technical andother tasks. Only thus we will emerge fromthis situation more united, more disciplined,

Let us not forget that everyrevolution advances in awave-like manner. That is alaw of history. We shouldheighten our ideological level,keep politics in command, takethe message of revolutiondeeper and wider among themasses, creatively apply theline of PPW and develop ourtactics, be ‘red and expert’ inour political, military,organisational, propaganda,training, cultural, production,technical and other tasks


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stronger, more consolidated and moredynamic. At each turn of the revolutionarywar the need to reforge our ties with themasses on a deeper and higher level comesup. At each crucial juncture the task ofdeepening the politicisation of not onlyourselves but simultaneously thepoliticisation of the masses also poses itselfafresh. We must boldly take up this task tounleash the revolutionary energy andinitiative of the masses in an even morepowerful manner.

In the beginning of 2013, assessing thesituation we face, the CC assessed that ourcountrywide movement is facing a verydifficult situation and also formulated thebasic tactics to overcome it. The reasons forthis difficult situation to arise are two: one,the Indian ruling classes with the completesupport and guidance of the imperialistslaunched an unprecedented multi-prongedcountrywide strategic offensive to suppressour developing movement; the other reasonfor this is our subjective weaknesses. The CChad also noted that the weaknesses in oursubjective condition were uneven. Theweaknesses in our subjective condition are asfollows :

Weaknesses and shortcomingscontinuing at varying scales and differentlevels in carrying on class struggle basing onagrarian revolutionary program in all themovement areas, in formulating appropriatetactics keeping in view the changing domesticand international social, economic andpolitical conditions, in mobilising the partyand the people to implement the tacticsformulated and in putting determined effortsto fulfill our aim, in correcting the long termnon-proletarian trends in our party, PLGA andrevolutionary movement, in vastly rallyingPLGA and the people in an effective mannerinto armed resistance and counter-attacks, inimplementing secret functioning and guerillawar principles, in the legal-illegal linkmechanism, in training the party, PLGA, RPCsand mass organisations ideologically,politically, organisationally and militarily inaccordance with the situation, in

consolidating and developing the urbanmovements, in rallying the non-peasant vastmasses inside the movement areas andoutside; limitations in rallying the vast massesinto the revolutionary movement by carryingon political and organisational work inaccordance with our line and policies at alllevels; decrease in mass base, recruitmentand fighting ability - due to these problemsin the subjective condition, though therevolutionary objective condition isdeveloping excellently inside the country andin the world, we are facing limitations in wellutilising it.

While we have weakened in someStates and suffered setbacks in some warzones, in others we could sustain. We couldalso achieve advanced experiences in someparts and extend into some new strategicareas. Facing heavy odds and losses, we areopening up a new war front in the WesternGhats border region of Karnataka-Keralam-Tamilnadu. It shows us the great strengths ofthe strategy and tactics of PPW. It shows ushow this war can be sustained and advancedto victory so long as we remain ideologicallyand strategically firm, be flexible in tacticsand follow our politico-military line, bedetermined in boldly fighting the enemy, takerevolutionary politics to the masses and fullyrely on them.

The basis has been laid for revival of themovement in some of the areas from wherewe had to retreat. In areas where we haveweakened, the party is trying to cope up with

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the situation with Bolshevik spirit.Moreover, the objective condition is morefavourable. In fact, during the period up till2011 we had succeeded in mobilising themasses and spreading guerilla war and thusupset the enemy’s plans. Therefore it is quitepossible to overcome the present difficultsituation of the movement, no matter howchallenging it is, by basing ourselves on thefavourable factors and by taking up correcttactics according to the changing concreteconditions and firmly implementing them.

As we put conscious efforts, in the pastone and half year we could preserve ourmovement and leadership amid intensifiedenemy offensive. In DK, BJ, AOB and Odishathe PLGA forces led by the party with thesupport of the people successfullyconducted tactical counter-offensivecampaigns (TCOCs) and several armedactions, annihilated enemy forces and seizedarms and ammunitions. Thousands of peopleand people’s militia led by the PLGAdestroyed road building equipment, vehicles,guest houses, and camp off ices of thegovernment and the big construction andmining companies. Thousands of people heldrallies and vented their ire demanding thewithdrawal of the Central and State forces.They protested fake encounters, massacres,illegal arrests and atrocities on women,attacks on villages, loot and destruction ofpeople’s properties and demanded therelease of political prisoners.

Our party’s efforts to rally the vastmasses in both secret and open forms againstthe pro-imperialist policies that served theinterests of the ruling classes implemented bythe Central and State governmentscontinued. Various economic and politicalmass struggles were taken up against

displacement and pollution due to hugedams, mines and industries and also on dailyand seasonal issues of the people (such astendu leaf picking, bamboo cutting andtransporting, fair prices for forest andagricultural products etc.) and against thelandlords and bad gentry. Revolutionary landreforms and people’s welfare programmeswere conducted.

The PLGA forces valiantly resisted theenemy in all our movement areas with the aimof defeating OGH. They strove to advancethe PPW by identifying the weaknesses of theenemy as far as possible and dealingsubstantial blows to the enemy forces inseveral medium and small actions as well assome big actions, and by obstructing thefulfilment of the goals of the enemy. Weinflicted casualties on the aggressive BSFforces at Rallgadda in AOB using demolitiontactics and on the Greyhounds police inKurnapalli in Telangana after a long gap.

Responding to the call of the party thepeople in DK successfully boycotted the CGassembly elections. The capture andexecution of the hated Mahendra Karma, themain person responsible for the brutal SJatrocities was a major achievement. In DK, BJ,AOB and Odisha where our movement isstrong and in areas such as Niyamgiri, Mali-Deomali, and Visakha where movements ofAdivasis against mining and displacement aregoing on, majority of the people boycottedthe Loksabha polls and expressed theirprotest against these destructive projects. Aspart of the election boycott campaign thePLGA forces successfully conducted tacticalcounter-offensive actions on the enemyforces that came to force the people to vote.

During the Loksabha election boycottcampaign the PLGA forces gave blows to theenemy forces that swooped down on thepeople like vultures to make them vote,through actions in BJ, DK (Maharashtra andCG), AOB, Odisha. Some of these actions tookplace in areas which the enemy had claimedto have ‘cleared’ and taken control of. Withinthe first five months of 2014, spanning theelection period, 63 enemy personnel were

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annihilated and 122 injured in 31 actions. OnePLGA combatant was martyred. We couldseize 36 weapons and 3366 rounds. It isnoteworthy that these actions came in the

wake of and during two massive country-wide special ‘cordon and search campaigns’conducted by the enemy. The first lasted forone week from December 26, 2013 to January1, 2014 in nine States with 40,000 additionalparamilitary forces and State police forces.The second one was conducted from March19 to 27, 2014 with about one lakhparamilitary forces, six thousand commandoforces, four Israel Aeron surveillance planesand several mine-proof vehicles fitted withradars under the leadership of 70 Inspector-Generals of Police in six States where theMaoist movement is active. Due to guerillaactions conducted constantly by the PLGA invarious guerilla zones, the enemy forces hadto disperse their forces over a vast area andso were forced into a situation where theycould not deploy their forces as they wishedin our crucial areas. Due to lack of additionalforces the enemy couldn’t carry out thesecampaigns more intensively in all areas atonce except in Bijapur and some other parts.Therefore it plans to increase its forces.Important aims of these campaigns weregaining experience in command and controlof different forces from the Central and Statelevels and familiarisation of terrain.

In DK Special Zone, the people, militia,main force and secondary forces in theirhundreds with the support of the entiremasses of that area surrounded the newly

established Minpa paramilitary and policecamp and put up armed harassment of thethousand odd forces stationed there, closeddown all supply lines of the enemy for aboutone week and forced the shut down of thecamp. This is a new experience. In HarraKoder (DK) the masses of all theneighbouring villages of the area came outin huge numbers and persisted in peacefulagitation for six days forcing the withdrawalof a newly established CRPF camp that camefor the purpose of facilitating the building ofa dam. The role of women in this struggle wasexemplary. We have also seen instanceswhere the masses either rejected the freegoods distributed by the enemy mercenariesas part of Civic Action Programs or made abonfire of them.

The important achievement of this yearis the merger into one party of CPI (Maoist)and CPI(M-L)NAXALBARI as another turningpoint in the effort to achieve unity of genuinerevolutionaries in our country. As pointed outin the merger declaration, this gives a boostto the capacity of our party to better fulfil itsrole as the vanguard of the Indian revolution.The unity of Maoists in the face of intenseenemy attack has greatly encouraged therevolutionary masses. It has beenenthusiastically welcomed at theinternational level.

Comrades,

Here we are putting in a nutshell themain positive achievements of our party inthe past decade in the backdrop of theinternational and domestic developments ofthe past decade which we are brieflymentioning here. It was these positiveachievements that have helped ourmovement to advance to an unprecedentedhigher level.

On the occasion of the tenthanniversary of the party, on the one hand, letus first grasp the essence of these positiveachievements and then propagate themwidely inside the party and the people. On theother hand, let us overcome the negativeaspects, strengthen the party and develop

The important achievementof this year is the merger intoone party of CPI (Maoist) and

CPI(M-L)NAXALBARI asanother turning point inthe effort to achieve unityof genuine revolutionaries

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the PLGA and the UF to the level of fightingback and defeating the enemy onslaught,overcome the present diff icult conditionusing the basic tactics formulated by the CCand further advance the NDR. In thebackdrop of the difficult conditions our partyand the movement are facing since 2013, itbecomes even more necessary to grasp andpropagate our positive achievements as theybecome our stepping stones to overcome thissituation, as they help us avoid our pastmistakes and also to build up confidenceamong the party rank and file and the people.

Ten years back itself a favourable turnwas seen at the international level when USimperialism’s aggressive ‘War on Terror’faced stiff resistance. This upset its plans,forcing it to change tactics in order to avoidgetting bogged down. Bush was replacedwith Obama’s so-called human face! Utilisingits difficult situation Russian imperialism madegains. Organisations like the ShanghaiCooperation Organisation and the BRICSstrengthened. This relative weakening of USimperialism led to more contention amongimperialist powers on the one hand and thestrengthening of people’s struggles on theother. But the international communistmovement could not utilise this to the fullestextent, due to treachery of various hues ofneo-revisionism, most notably the betrayal ofthe Nepali revolution by the CPN (Maoist)leadership. In India, the UPA blatantlypushed the LPG policies and surrendered tothe US diktats in the nuclear deal issue.

Since then, the domestic andinternational objective conditions havebecome even more favourable to therevolution as never before. After theimperialist economy got bogged down in aworldwide crisis in 2008, changes areoccurring at a fast pace in world politics.Especially the fundamental contradictions inthe world are sharpening. The contradictionbetween the imperialists and the oppressednations & oppressed peoples of the world isintensifying with each passing day. In neo-colonies and semi-colonial – semi-feudalcountries movements are developing against

the imperialists and their comprador/lackeyruling classes. The proletariat in the capitalistcountries is taking up agitations on a hugescale against the capitalists in their countries.While the national resistance strugglesagainst NATO forces led by the US and theirlackey government forces in Afghanistan andPakistan intensified, in Iraq the resistanceforces are gaining strength against thepuppet government servile to the US and areincreasing their grip in the northern part ofthe country. Resistance forces arereinvigorating in Libya. Civil war conditionsare prevailing in Egypt. The national liberationmovement of Palestine continues to resist thefascist offensives of Israel. Syria and Ukrainehave become centres of intensifying inter-imperialist contradictions. Contradictionsbetween the Japanese and US imperialistsand China are further intensifying in the Asia-Pacific Region.

The worldwide economic crises shookour economy. In the past few years budgetdeficit increased, growth rate fell, currentaccount deficit increased, inflation increased.

On the occasion of the tenthanniversary of the party, on theone hand, let us first grasp theessence of these positiveachievements and thenpropagate them widely insidethe party and the people. On theother hand, let us overcome thenegative aspects, strengthen theparty and develop the PLGA andthe UF to the level of fightingback and defeating the enemyonslaught, overcome the presentdifficult condition using thebasic tactics formulated by theCC and further advance theNDR


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The living conditions of the people of ourcountry are deteriorating even further. Thefundamental contradictions in our countryare intensifying. Dog fights among the rulingclasses are intensifying. All oppressed classes’and sections’ of people are continuouslygetting rallied into struggles on variousissues. National liberation aspirations of theKashmir and North East people arecontinuing to get expressed in variousstruggle forms. The formation of theTelangana State positively impacted thevarious movements for separate States.Though the BJP newly came to power withthe slogan of ‘Vikas’, it exposed its realagenda within a few days. This indicates theBrahminical Hindu fascist offensive that isbound to increase. All oppressed classes,sections, religious minorities and nationalitieswould definitely become its victims. The needfor all of them to fight in a united manneragainst this has increased more than everbefore. All of them must get ready for that.Our party must strive to fulfil its role in thisforemost task.

On the other hand, the proletarianrevolutionary, national liberation anddemocratic forces are graduallystrengthening and expanding all over theworld. Particularly, the internationalmovement in support of the Indian PW isexpanding further. Our party participated inpolemical debates at the international leveland released an Open Letter to the CPN (M)when it began turning revisionist. Itparticipated actively in all the internationalforums formed with the initiation of variousMaoist parties and organisations and won thepolitical confidence of these parties andorganisations through its political stands andits practice. It built up solidarity for therevolutions of other countries, particularly tothe NDR in the Philippines. We are alsoparticipating in anti-imperialist movements inthe world. Thus a strong aspiration is gettingexpressed that the development of the PWin India would serve as a mighty support tothe WSR. We have the great responsibility tomake this a reality.

Comrades,

Through its multi-faceted, all-encompassing ideological, political effort invarious spheres, guerilla warfare, Army andUF (RPCs and tactical UF) activities, the partyhas withstood the onslaught of the enemy inthe past decade, particularly the multi-pronged countrywide offensive that waslaunched in mid-2009 despite severe lossesto leadership at various levels, particularly atCentral and State levels and loss of someareas and losses in some crucial departments.The party’s practice in the past decade hassucceeded in establishing it as a ray of hopeto the oppressed masses of our country andthe world. This decade has once again proventhe Leninist principle that ‘There is norevolution without a revolutionary party’through mainly positive and some negativeexperiences. The past decade has been anenriching experience for us in party-buildingand in wielding the two weapons of thePeople’s Army and the UF.

In the course of advancing in thedirection of fulfilling the central task we hadset for ourselves after the merger and afterthe Unity Congress, we had formulated newtactics whenever new conditions arose. Wesummarised our experiences from time totime. We gained rich experiences in forms ofstruggles and organisation in the course ofour PW. Our understanding about guerillawarfare, people’s army, revolutionarypolitical power of the people, guerilla zones,guerilla bases and base areas got enhanced

In this decade ourparty strove to fulfill itsresponsibility in the WSRby unflinchingly upholding,defending and propagatingMLM


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in these ten years of rigorous revolutionarypractice.

In this decade our party strove to fulfillits responsibility in the WSR by unflinchinglyupholding, defending and propagating MLM- through its creative application to theconditions of our country, by fighting backrevisionism, right and left opportunism andnon-proletarian trends both in India and theworld, by keeping the red flag of WSR aloftin this part of the world through immensesacrifices of the leaders and cadres of theparty in the path of the WSR martyrs, bylearning from our own experiences and fromother revolutions in the world, by buildingsolidarity with the other fighting people ofthe world and by initiating as well asbecoming part of the international activitiestaken up as an integral part of WSR.

Our party members, right from the topleadership to the village level party membershave continued the legacy of the greatmartyrs of the world and Indian revolution,particularly since Naxalbari and once againestablished the great revolutionary traditionsof sacrifice. They never bent their kneesbefore the enemy, whether in the battlefieldor in enemy custody.

We had succeeded in developing ourparty as a single centre of guidance for theNDR in our country defeating the conspiraciesof the ruling classes and the revisionists toprevent it. As part of fulfilling the remainingtask of uniting genuine revolutionaries inIndia we successfully completed the mergerwith CPI (ML)NAXALBARI.

The party successfully defeated thevarious right, left opportunist trends thatarose in the party such as the diehard rightopportunist liquidationist clique in Karnatakaand Panda in Odisha and isolated them.Handful of central and state leaders left theparty, surrendered to the enemy andunleashed vicious propaganda on our party,our line and our movement by joining handswith the ruling classes. Our party successfullyfought back all such reactionary attacksconsigning them to the dustbin of history.

After the formation of the new party,our party expanded to some new areas. Newforces had joined the party and they wereeducated and trained ideologically,politically, militarily and organisationally.Apart from rectif ication campaigns andcampaigns like Bolshevisation, the party triedto increase the ideological, political, culturaland educational levels of the party cadresthrough regular education and buildingseparate structures and schools at variouslevels of the party for imparting both primaryeducation and political education. It carriedon wide-ranging political propaganda andagitation through party, PLGA, RPCs andvarious mass organisations and raised theeducational and political levels of the cadresand the revolutionary masses throughmagazines, publications, schools,propaganda campaigns, celebration ofrevolutionary occasions, party statements,preparation of notes on political subjects andtopics, meetings, seminars etc.

The party inside the prisons all over thecountry stood steadfast in the face of enemysuppression and successfully kept the redflag aloft inside the dungeons too in the faceof inhuman conditions, tortures andpsychological pressures to abandon themovement. The party placed models ofimmense courage and resoluteness beforethe people of our country throughuncompromising struggles and sacrif icesinside the prisons. The most outstanding ofthese examples is of Comrade Sushil Roy whowas martyred recently on June 18 2014. The

The party successfullydefeated the various right,

left opportunist trends thatarose in the party such as the

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party in the prisons is politicising the jailedcomrades and the common prisoners alongwith politically influencing the jail staff whobut belong to the oppressed classes. Theparty outside the prisons has also succeededto some extent in building solidarity with thepolitical prisoners’ struggles and issues. Thecondition of women comrades inside the jailsis worse but they have provided excellentexamples of resoluteness in face of adversitynot only to the people of our country but tothe f ighting people of the world. Severalcomrades and common people have diedinside the prisons or after release as a resultof the neglect of the authorities but neverbent before the enemy. Some comrades ledby the jail party leadership broke jails frominside while the party outside led the PLGA insome brave actions to free our jailedcomrades. The party set an example of howto break the enemy dragnet and join thepeople in the struggle even in face ofdraconian laws, strict prison conditions andsevere repression. Thus the party had turnedthe prisons into centres of struggle, politicaleducation, military actions and organisationand have inspired several comrades and thepeople to rejoin the movement once they gotreleased.

As the fascist offensive of the enemyintensified, the psychological warfare alsoexpanded as a part of it. In the past decadewe fought back the enemy’s psychologicalwarfare by carrying on revolutionary politicalpropaganda creatively in various forms. Wetried continuously and tirelessly to upholdand propagate MLM, our political and militaryline, successes achieved by the people, newdemocratic culture and tried to fight backand defeat the enemy foul propaganda. Wetried to develop the understanding amongthe entire party and the people that PPW is atotal war on all fronts against the counter-revolutionary LIC strategy and tactics. Wealso strove to develop the collectiveparticipation of the people in the sphere ofpolitical propaganda.

The party successfully carried on theagrarian revolutionary programme that is the

axis of the NDR, put the land issue on top ofour agenda in the form of seizure of lands andstruggle for Jal, Jungle and Zameen. Throughthis practice and also ideologically andpolitically it fought back the arguments thattried to underplay the semi-colonial, semi-feudal nature of our society. In the past onedecade it once again firmly upheld the pathof NDR for the liberation of our country fromthe clutches of feudalism, compradorbureaucratic bourgeoisie and imperialism. Itcalled upon the people to boycott shamelections and build their own political powerunder the leadership of the party advancingin the path of PPW.

The death blow given to the social-fascist CPM in Paschim Banga starting withNandigram and culminating in the massuprising in Lalgarh will go down as one of thebiggest achievements of the party in the pastten years. More than three decades of thesocial-fascist rule of the CPM crumbled and arevolutionary alternative (of NDR) wasbrought to the fore once again mostpowerfully after Naxalbari period during theLalgarh uprising. Lalgarh continues to remaina model to be emulated in every part of thecountry. It once again established firmly thePPW line by successfully implementing it inpractice. Another successful model putbefore the people by the party in this periodis the land struggles in Narayanapatna inOdisha. The struggles for Jal, Jungle, Zameen

The party successfully carried on theagrarian revolutionary programmethat is the axis of the NDR, put theland issue on top of our agenda inthe form of seizure of lands andstruggle for Jal, Jungle and Zameen.Through this practice and alsoideologically and politically it foughtback the arguments that tried tounderplay the semi-colonial, semi-feudal nature of our society


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is being carried on in various States. All theseonce again firmly established the politics ofagrarian revolution among the people.

We follow the principle – the partycommands the army. The PLGA is led by theparty at all its levels and in all its activities.Under its leadership, the PLGA is developing,consolidating and expanding guerillawarfare in the vast swathes of rural India,particularly in Central and Eastern India. Aspart of advancing in the direction of fulfillingthe central task of the Unity Congress thePLGA took its first steps towards developingguerilla warfare to mobile warfare. The PLGAgained vast experiences in centralising anddecentralising forces and conducting variousmanoeuvres at all levels. The party formedand led the various levels of Commissions andCommands, and guided the building of higherlevel formations of Platoons, Companies andBattalions thus gaining experience in runningthem and in attacking the enemy with thesehigher level formations. The PLGA conductedseveral successful tactical counter-offensivesand TCOCs, thus arming itself and therevolutionary masses.

The PLGA built various departmentsnecessary for an army and gained valuableexperiences in running them. The partypropagated and established new culturethrough the PLGA. The PLGA participated inagricultural production and politicalpropaganda activities integrating with themasses. Along with supporting the people inbuilding people’s power by destroying theenemy power it served as an armed supportto carry on strategic tasks in the guerillabases. The PLGA defended the political powerof the people and the revolutionary MOs andthe people from enemy attacks. It recruitedyouth participating in class struggle andtrained them.

The party developed its ideological andpolitical understanding regarding politicaland military intelligence and in its lightconducted study and education about the LICstrategy and tactics of the enemy.

The PLGA built various people’s militiasin the guerialla zones and other struggleareas and succeeded in establishing it as theprimary form of self-defence for the peopleand as the base force in the PLGA. One of thebiggest achievements of the PLGA was thehuge mobilisation of the poor peasants(majority of whom are Adivasis) and womeninto the militia in this decade. The creativityof the masses was unleashed as never beforein these militias and several military leadersof the masses emerged from them.

The party strove to develop people’sresistance – armed and unarmed – to theenemy repression and this past decade hasgiven the party and people immenseexperience on this front too. DK, BJ, Lalgarh,Narayanapatna and Telangana have given usdiverse as well as countless exemplarymodels in armed and unarmed people’sresistance.

The party led the PLGA and the UFskilfully in defeating several repressivecampaigns of the enemy in the past ten years.Through continuous attacks by PLGA, the SJ,Sendra, Nagarik Suraksha Samiti, SantiCommittee, Harmad Bahini etc, weredefeated in Bengal-JH and Bihar-JH-Odishaand AOB areas. The party led the PLGA andthe UF in fighting back the above notoriouscounter-revolutionary campaigns that wereunleashed as a part of the onslaught of theruling classes against the revolutionary party.In BJ the private armies of the landlords werebrought under control and in the past decade

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too the PLGA continued to defend the poorpeasants and prevented such armies fromraising their heads again. The most prominentamong these successes was the defeat of SJin DK which was started with the purpose offorcefully dividing the people by applyingruthless repression and herding the peopleinto SJ sibirs. It suffered death blows at thehands of the PLGA and the entire battleagainst it was conducted with the hugemobilisation and active participation of thepeople of DK. People and particularly thewomen stood in the forefront and resistedthe SJ goons. The DK people put a modelbefore the people of the entire country onhow to defeat one of the most savageonslaughts of the ruling classes in the garbof SJ. Not only the party in DK, but the entireparty mechanism throughout the countrywas mobilised in various forms in defeatingit. Every party member in the country had arole in exposing and defeating it, in mobilisingthe people’s opinion against it, in rallying thesupport of the democratic sections in thesociety, in sending relief and other help to thefighting people of DK and also in rallyinginternational support. Thus the party had putan excellent example before the people ofour country on how to conduct a coordinatedcampaign against an enemy repressivecampaign by keeping guerilla warfare carriedon by basing on the masses at the centre andby involving vast masses inside and outsidethe guerilla zones against it.

Over the past one decade the PLGA (allits forces included) by fully relying on the vastmasses conducted all together 990 small,medium and big actions, periodicallyconducted TCOCs and had also resisted,annihilated and injured the enemy forceswhen they attacked our forces. A total of2064 enemy police and paramilitarypersonnel were annihilated and 1993 wereinjured. Apart from this, 169 landlords, badgentry, 369 counter-revolutionary gangmembers and several informants were alsoeliminated. Through these actions, the PLGAseized 2109 weapons including high-powerrifles, mortars, 92,061 rounds of ammunition

and military equipment like bullet-proofjackets, communication sets, helmets etc. Inthese actions we lost 165 brave commandersand fighters including some militia comrades.

These actions have clearly proved thatguerilla forces can take on a mighty enemyforce and inflict severe losses and seize hugeamounts of arms and ammunitions byapplying guerilla warfare principles correctlyand creatively. Thus the party arms thepeople and increases the armed strength ofthe people’s army. We can advance towardsvictory by carrying on PPW in this manner.

The party ideologically, politically andorganisationally led the formation andrunning of RPCs in DK, BJ, North Telanganaand AOB in the past ten years and helped theparty and the people gain self-experience inrunning them. Through this the partysuccessfully placed an alternative model ofdevelopment before the people of ourcountry as against the lopsided, pro-landlord,pro-CBB, pro-imperialist development modelof the ruling classes. It had brought to thefore the agrarian revolutionary programmeand the need for a NDR in our country byplacing this alternative model ofdevelopment before the people. The newpolitical power, new society, new path ofdevelopment, being built by the oppressedmasses in Central and Eastern India under theparty’s leadership with the armed support ofthe PLGA, after destroying the Indian statepiece by piece, stands out as a shiningalternative that is increasingly attractingwider sections in our country.

The party successfully placed analternative model of developmentbefore the people of our country asagainst the lopsided, pro-landlord,pro-CBB, pro-imperialist development model of the ruling classes.


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The party in the past ten years hadsuccessfully led the vast masses in variousstruggles and formed innumerableorganisations and united fronts to lead themasses on their issues. Thus the party and thepeople gained immense self-experience inbuilding and running tactical UF.Revolutionary politics were propagatedwidely through the tactical UF activities. Theparty’s efforts in the tactical UF had resultedin building huge support to the fightingpeople inside our country and also gainedinternational support. It fought back thedraconian laws and inhuman and variouslybiased judicial system in our country throughbuilding civil rights movements and byfighting for the rights of political and otherprisoners in our country. It exposed theimperialist (particularly the US) grip overevery sphere of our country and played a rolein building anti-imperialist movements inIndia and abroad. In this decade our partystrongly reiterated its support to thestruggles of the nationalities in India,particularly to the people of Kashmir and theNorth-East.

The party successfully mobilised themost oppressed classes and sections of thesociety into the NDR – poor and landless

peasants, the overwhelming majority of thosewho joined the Army being from theseclasses; the most marginalised sections of thesociety – Adivasis, women and Dalits weremobilised hugely into the party, Army and theUF. The huge presence of women andAdivasis inside the party has had a positiveimpact on the people.

These successes were mainly gained till2012. From 2013 our movement is facing a verydiff icult situation. Deeply analysing thevarious factors hampering our work the partyissued a call in 2013 to Bolshevise the party.Whatever may be the situation, we have amighty weapon to tackle it. This is ourideology, MLM. Grasp it deeply and take upthis weapon ever more firmly; this is the cruxof Bolshevising the party. The aim of thisBolshevisation campaign is to strengthen theparty and the PLGA and develop PW andthrough this equip both of them with thecapacity to overcome the present difficultsituation our movement is facing. To lead therevolution to victory the party must moulditself through consistent effort continuously.This campaign is a part of that long process.For that the following should be done -

* Understanding deeply and adheringfirmly to MLM and the general politicalline of our party; creatively applyingMLM to our concrete practice andfirmly implementing our line; beingunwavering regarding our ideologicaland political line, establishing itscorrectness and enriching it further byf ighting against various bourgeoisideologies and opportunist trendsinside and outside the party;

* Developing our party into a strongorganisation that is well equipped withthe correct ideological, political,organisational and military line, that isfirm in strategy and flexible in tactics,that has well-knitted structures, thathas correct style of work, that correctlypractices democratic centralism &steely discipline, that functions with

Whatever may be the situation,we have a mighty weapon totackle it. This is our ideology,MLM. Grasp it deeply and takeup this weapon ever more firmly;this is the crux of Bolshevisingthe party. The aim of thisBolshevisation campaign is tostrengthen the party and thePLGA and develop PW andthrough this equip both of themwith the capacity to overcomethe present difficult situationour movement is facing


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utmost dedication, steelydetermination, sacrifice and fights withcourage, that has mass character, thatdefends its leadership and forces fromall kinds of enemy conspiracies, attacksand left and right dangers bysuccessfully defeating them, that steelsitself in the face of enormousdiff iculties, twists and turns in thecourse of PPW;

* Further building all three forces of thePLGA as the main form of organization;boosting its f ighting skills andcapacities; rousing and raising its firepower mainly by seizing the enemy’sweapons; training it even better;developing its command, control, co-ordination and intelligence and thusmaking it an even more powerful andstrong people’s army to carry forwardthe PPW successfully;

* The party leadership rallying the vastmasses into PPW by correctlyimplementing the political and militaryline and formulating and implementingcorrect tactics according to thechanging conditions and thus makingthe people accept its vanguard role andrally under it;

* Increasing the strength of our mass baseunder the leadership of the proletariatby rallying our f irm allies - theagricultural labourers and poorpeasants, reliable allies - the pettybourgeoisie and also the vacillatingallies - rich peasants and nationalbourgeoisie by winning over,neutralising and isolating differentsections among them and defeating theenemies one by one and concentratingon the main enemy by using thecontradictions among them– isnecessary. We can achieve this only bydeveloping the ability to rally all theseclasses by implementing class line andmass line and realising in practice theMarxist principle ‘People are themakers of history’ by closely integratingwith them and leading them and

* Honestly accepting its mistakes,shortcomings and weaknesses,correcting and avoiding those bylearning from practice

We must carry on the present campaignin a planned manner for two years to achieveconcrete targets to overcome the presentdiff icult situation and advance therevolution. We should implement a concreteprogram at all levels according to the groundrealities. We should discuss this in thecommittee meetings and take the necessarydecisions to carry on this campaign seriously.Completing this campaign successfullymeans –

* Enhancing the ideological study of MLMto improve the proletarian worldoutlook inside the party, particularlyamong the new forces;

* The entire party, every unit in the party,gaining the most clear-cutunderstanding about the goal of NDRand the concrete targets to be reachedat the present juncture;

* Understanding deeply the three pointwork style taught by Mao andimproving our work style;

* The party strengthening its mass baseby firmly integrating with the peopleand mobilising the people into variouseconomic, political and other strugglesapart from giving priority to rallying thepeasants into the agrarianrevolutionary war and putting specialefforts among the vast non-peasantmasses and the urban population;

* Enhancing the study of the changingsocio-economic, political and culturalconditions and changing the tacticsaccordingly, thus developing themovement successfully;

* Along with enhancing ourunderstanding about secret partybuilding and functioning, quicklyrectifying the defects that are occuring


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in this work and in implementingguerilla war’s operational principles;

* Giving appropriate training to enhancethe ideological, political, organisationaland military levels of the party, Armyand MOs-UF and improving theirquality;

* Along with rectifying the non-proletariantrends continuing in the party,enhancing the consciousness andalertness of the party to fight againstthese, enhancing and strengtheningunity of thought and action anddiscipline through this;

* Being able to display the consciousnessto face the diff icult situations anddangers that come up in the course ofthe revolution;

* Heightening preparedness to valiantlyfight the enemy, and

* Being able to defend our subjectiveforces, particularly the higher levelleadership and the movement from thecruelest offensives of the enemy.

Only by achieving this through thepresent Bolshevisation campaign can weovercome the diff icult condition we arefacing and also lay down the basis for newvictories.

Comrades,

With the principal contradiction in theworld between imperialism and theoppressed nations and peoples and the othertwo fundamental contradictions sharpeningwith each passing day, the objectivecondition in our country and the world isincreasingly turning favourable to therevolution. All kinds of social contradictionsare sharpening and people are coming closerto the revolutionary path world over to solvethem. It is the need of the hour that we graspthe excellent objective situation and mobilisepeople actively and extensively in PW andadvance the revolution by intensifying and

expanding guerrilla warfare. We must putefforts to completely utilise the favourableobjective and subjective conditionsconducive to the development of PW.Though we have suffered losses andweakened, let us not forget that in a vast

stretch of area covering lakhs of squarekilometres, i.e., starting from AP, Telanganaborders to Lalgarh and South of the GangaRiver with crores of population, ourorganisation has been continuing from along time, people have gained vast self-experience in class struggle and at least insome areas they had tasted their ownpolitical power. This is our strength. We mustrely on it and unleash its potential in order todefend our movement and develop it.Another new front has been opened in theWestern Ghats which has strategicsignificance and great potential to developPPW in a vast area. Thus we can overcomethe unfavourable situation that we havefaced in the recent period and advance in thedirection of fulfilling the tasks given by ourUnity Congress-9th Congress.

To overcome the situation we are facingtoday, we must protect our subjective forces,consolidate them, strengthen our mass baseand thus advance the PPW more powerfully.The new situation emerging after the comingof the Modi regime must be utilised in thisdirection. The present situation no doubtbrings up serious challenges, but it also brings

The present situation no doubtbrings up serious challenges,but it also brings even moreopportunities. We must boldlygo more deeply and broadlyamong the different oppressedclasses and sections of thepeople, mobilise thempolitically and unite them instruggle


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even more opportunities. We must boldly gomore deeply and broadly among the differentoppressed classes and sections of the people,mobilise them politically and unite them instruggle. We must respond to each and everyanti-people, anti-country policy and measureof the Modi government, persistently exposethem, mobilise all the people in strugglesagainst it, and strive to link them up with theongoing PPW. Let us creatively apply theoperational principles of guerrilla warfare.Let us deeply integrate with the masses andwidely mobilise them in the PPW. Let us getrid of our shortcomings and weaknesses andstrengthen ourselves through the successfulcompletion of our Bolshevisation campaign.Let us go all out and seize theseopportunities.

It is a lesson of history that dyingreactionary rulers will become even moreferocious when they near their end. Theimperialist system is still in the grip of theworldwide economic crisis. This is severelyimpacting the Indian economy. This crisissituation makes the enemies of the people,the imperialist multinational companies andIndian compradors ever more desperate toplunder the resources of our country andexploit the labouring classes to the hilt. Butthe ill effects of this country-selling path arebecoming more and more evident.

There is also another lesson of history.A small force can defeat a big one. A weak

force can destroy a stronger one. This hasbeen repeatedly proven in numerousrevolutionary wars all over the world.

Comrades,

The CC calls upon all party units andcomrades to grandly celebrate the tenthanniversary of our party. We should fullyutilise this occasion to place before the party,PLGA, MOs, RPCs and the masses thesuccesses and the positive and negativeexperiences gained by the new party invarious spheres, the tasks before us toadvance the revolution and educate them.Our CC calls upon you to work withdetermination to complete the tasks we setfor ourselves to fulfill the dreams of ourbeloved martyrs. Celebrate the 10thanniversary of our party with revolutionaryenthusiasm in all our areas where our partyunits are present by mobilising huge numbersof the masses and successfully implementingall the programs and propaganda activitiesplanned by us. Utilise this occasion to fill thecadres and the people with the determinationto participate with spirit in the Bolshevisationcampaign, in increasing our mass base, infirmly resisting the enemy through guerillawarfare and in defending our subjectiveforces. Let us imbibe the ideals of our greatmartyrs to overcome the difficult situation weare facing and advance.

Let us learn from both the manypositive and the few negative experiences ofthe past decade and put efforts to build astrong proletarian party to lead ourrevolution to victory and fulfill our share inthe WSR to march towards socialism andultimately towards communism. Let us applythe call of the Great Proletarian CulturalRevolution, “Fight self, defeat revisionism”to make ourselves more capable of fulfillingthe role as the vanguard of the Indianrevolution.

Armed with MLM, steeled in ourdetermination to destroy this hated human-devouring system, deeply and firmly linkedwith the masses, we are invincible. Mao

Let us learn from both themany positive and the fewnegative experiences of thepast decade and put efforts tobuild a strong proletarianparty to lead our revolutionto victory and fulfill our sharein the WSR to march towardssocialism and ultimatelytowards communism


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Tsetung has taught us that miracles can becreated by the masses led by the party. Thiswe have seen in our own practice. Therevolutionary creativity and energy of themasses is boundless. This we see reaffirmedin the ingenuous methods of resistance theyput up, unfazed by the armed might of theenemy, and how they force him to back off.Let us take lessons from their creativity andresoluteness. Let us take guidance from ourgreat teachers. Let us be inspired by ourglorious martyrs.

Heighten your ideological-political-military, organisational and cultural level. Godeeper among the masses. Raise the qualityof your fighting capacity aiming at ‘greater,better, faster and more economical’ results.Victory is ours because we serve the people.Victory is ours, because our cause, ourrevolutionary war, is just.

With Revolutionary Greetings,

Central CommitteeCPI(Maoist)

10-9-2014

"Our Party organizations must be extended all over the country and we must purposefullytrain tens of thousands of cadres and hundreds of first rate leaders. They must be cadres andleaders versed in Marxism-Leninism, politically far-sighted, competent in work, full of thespirit of self-sacrifice, capable of tackling problems on their own, steadfast in the midst ofdifficulties and loyal and devoted in serving the nation, the class and the Party. It is on thesecadres and leaders that the Party relies for its links with the membership and the masses, andit is by relying on their firm leadership of the masses that the Party can succeed in defeatingthe enemy. Such cadres and leaders must be free from selfishness, from individualistic heroism,ostentation, sloth, passivity, and sectarian arrogance, and they must be selfless national andclass heroes; such are the qualities and the style of work demanded of the members, cadresand leaders of our Party."

- - Mao, “Win the Masses in Their Millions forthe anti-Japanese National United Front”


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[Maoist Information Bulletin (MIB) speaks with CPI(Maoist) GeneralSecretary Comrade Ganapathy on the Occasion of the Tenth AnniversaryCelebrations of the Formation of the United Party]

MIB: Revolutionary greetings to you and all our comrades from all of us at MIBon the occasion of the Party’s Tenth Anniversary.

Comrade Ganapathy (GP): Thank you. Revolutionary greetings to all our comradesat MIB on behalf of our Central Committee.

MIB: What do you think are the party’s significant achievements in the pastten years?

GP: Since the formation of the Communist Party of India in 1925, the history of therevolutionary movement in our country has witnessed some momentous periods. Ofall these, the period covering the past decade is not only unique and marked by someof the most significant developments in our Protracted People’s War (PPW) wagedfor the victory of New Democratic Revolution (NDR) since Naxalbari, but is alsowitness to something new and unprecedented in the entire history of class struggle inour country.

Building on the new, unique andunprecedented achievements of thelast decade, Indian revolution willcertainly overcome the difficultsituation to win newer, largerand more glorious victories

MIB Interview withComrade Ganapathy


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The significance of this decade lies in –Ushering in a single guiding centre for the

NDR of India;The Party, Army and United Front (UF), i.e.,

the three magic weapons of the revolutionbecoming stronger than before;

Enrichment of the political line, militaryline, UF policy and several policies in the formof united party documents - Unity Congressdocuments, policy papers, importantresolutions, summing-ups, articles, etc.;

Further development of the military line andsignificant advances in waging guerilla warfare,the participation of the vast masses, as neverbefore, in the PPW giving it a true mass natureand rich and new experiences in defeating someof the most brutal counter-revolutionarysuppression campaigns of the enemy;

Rich and new experiences in building massmovements against imperialism, feudalism andbureaucratic capitalism by mobilising broadmasses of the people, particularly the peasantry,around issues of Jal, Jungle, Zameen, Izzat andAdhikar;

Rich and new experiences in buildingstrategic UF in the form of RevolutionaryPeople’s Committees (RPCs) at a primary leveland better and new experiences in tactical UFs,recognition of RPCs as an alternative model ofdevelopment that could be applied successfullyin contrast to the anti-people, country-sellingdevelopment model of the ruling classes;

In spite of being in a very difficult situationat present, Indian Revolution withstanding abrutal unprecedented countrywide repressioncampaign waged by the fascist Indian regimewith the support of the imperialists, particularlyUS imperialists, keeping alive the hope forrevolution among the people of India and theworld;

Considerable support for the fightingrevolutionary masses from the most diversesections of the Indian society, both against OGHand in support of the People’s War (PW);

The merger into one party of CPI(Maoist)and CPI(M-L)NAXALBARI as another turningpoint in the effort to achieve unity of genuinerevolutionaries in our country;

PW in India serving as one of the importantfocal points around which international unityof Maoist forces and an international solidarityand support movement could be built.

These new and significant developments ofthe past decade were achieved on the basis ofthe new ideology, new politics, new line, newparty, new army and new people’s front usheredin by the glorious Naxalbari armed peasantrebellion and formulated under the leadershipof the great founding leaders of our partycomrades Charu Mazumdar and KanhaiChatterji. All the developments of the pastdecade were achieved amidst and by fightingback relentless brutal enemy suppressioncampaigns on the one hand, and through bitterinner party struggles against right and ‘left’opportunism that raised their head inside theparty at various crucial junctures of themovement, on the other.

One of the most significant features of theIndian revolutionary movement is the glorioussacrifices made both by the communists andthe masses for the liberation of our country,without which none of the above significant andnew successes of the past decade could havebeen achieved. Through these sacrifices, theparty has put forward an alternative mode ofthinking and culture representing the highesthuman values as opposed to the rotten, decadentand self-centered mode of thinking and cultureinstilled by the ruling classes among themasses. In this way, these sacrifices haveinspired the oppressed classes and sections ofthe society to fight for revolutionary change.

All the developments of the pastdecade were achieved amidst and byfighting back relentless brutal enemysuppression campaigns on the onehand, and through bitter inner partystruggles against right and ‘left’opportunism that raised their headinside the party at various crucialjunctures of the movement, on theother


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MIB: What are the main challenges faced bythe party now? What opportunities do yousee to overcome them?

GP: The following are the main challenges ourmovement is facing at present. First, preservingour subjective forces, particularly the strategicleadership of the party. Since the formation ofthe new party, we have lost a considerablenumber of party leaders at all levels startingfrom the central committee to the village levelparty committees. Therefore, we have identifiedthe preservation of existing subjective forcesfrom enemy attacks as one of the foremost tasksbefore the party. Understanding the importanceof preserving the subjective forces andprotecting them, we must adopt secret andappropriate methods of functioning, rectify ourmistakes in it and firmly implement the lessonslearnt from our practice, prepare new leadershipand raise the consciousness of the entire partyabout the need of a strong party with continuationof leadership as a condition for the success ofthe revolution.

Second, the revolutionary movement hasweakened in the rural plains and urban areas.This is one of the factors leading to the difficultsituation the party is facing today. It is achallenge before us to revive and expand themovement in areas where our party have beenpresent for long but weakened over time.Similarly, we also need to expand the movementto newer areas and open new battlefronts inorder to broaden the arena of the people’s war.In light of the rich experience of our movement,we should utilise the conditions that arebecoming increasingly favourable for advancingthe revolution without repeating the past errors.In this way, we can definitely overcome thedifficult situation and take the movementforward.

Third, some people are trying to spreadconfusion in the revolutionary camp by claimingthat changes in socio-economic conditions havetransformed India into a capitalist country. Theyalso put forward the incorrect view that the lineof PPW has become irrelevant. But the path ofPPW have been proven in practice to be theonly correct revolutionary path for the success

of the NDR in a semi-colonial semi-feudalcountry like India. Therefore, we must guardagainst such erroneous views and expose them.At the same time, we must deeply study theeconomic, political, social and cultural changesand bring appropriate changes to our tactics.

Fourth, the Brahmanical Hindu fascistforces have come to power at the centre, whichreflects a further consolidation of the ideology,politics and culture of the feudal and reactionaryforces. International finance and the compradorbureaucratic bourgeoisie backed Modi-led BJPin its ascendance to power, which wascomplimented by communal polarisation insome places engineered by the Sangh Parivar.After coming to power, BJP is implementingpro-imperialist, country-selling policies at abreakneck pace catering to the needs of foreignand Indian big capitalists and big landlords,while at the same time advancing the Hindu-fascist agenda in various forms. This willprovide new avenues for uniting all thedemocratic, progressive, secular and patrioticforces in struggle. Newer and more numerousclasses, social sections, forces and people ofthe society would be brought into the arena of

After coming to power, BJP isimplementing pro-imperialist,country-selling policies at abreakneck pace catering to the needsof foreign and Indian big capitalistsand big landlords, while at the sametime advancing the Hindu-fascistagenda in various forms. This willprovide new avenues for uniting allthe democratic, progressive, secularand patriotic forces in struggle.Newer and more numerous classes,social sections, forces and people ofthe society would be brought into thearena of struggle, and newopportunities for advancing thePPW will open up


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struggle, and new opportunities for advancingthe PPW will open up.

Fifth, the objective world situation isbecoming increasingly more favourable forrevolution. The imperialist world economy isstill reeling under a serious crisis and all thefundamental contradictions in the world aresharpening. Consequently, the revolutionary,democratic and national liberation forces allover the world are gaining strength againstimperialism and its domestic props. Maoistforces too are consolidating. But at the sametime, socialist bases no longer exist and thesubjective forces in the international communistmovement (ICM) too are weak at present. Thistoo presents a considerable challenge beforeus.

MIB: After the merger of the party and thePLGA, we have seen that a qualitativechange has occurred in the development ofthe PLGA and intensification and expansionof the guerilla warfare. But now there seemsto be deceleration in this. How does the partyplan to accelerate it again and advance?

GP: Your observation is correct. That is whysome spectacular successes were won in thepast decade. And the observation that there hasbeen a deceleration in it is also correct as wecan observe this since 2011. The CC summedup the situation in 2013 and assessed that our

movement is facing a very difficult situation.But this is at different levels in our differentGuerilla Zones (GZ). In the past ten years, therehas been unevenness in the development andalso in the subsequent weakening of our differentGZs. Just as there is unevenness in theeconomic, social and political conditions in ourcountry, similarly not only among the differentGZs but also in the entire countrywiderevolutionary movement there is unevenness.This is a law of the PPW. Undoubtedly, it is oursubjective efforts that advances the guerilla war,a matter which is not to be disputed. However,guerilla war has advanced in the different zoneson the basis of different economic, social,political, historical and geographicalconditions. Likewise, these conditions also forma basis for the ups and downs in guerillawarfare. We should not ignore this fact.

From 2011, we have gained some significantachievements in some states/GZs in the militaryfront, in building mass struggles and inexpanding the movement. The movement wasdeveloped in some GZs in this period bykeeping the RPCs as the focal point andconsolidating the party. Yet we have faced adeceleration. The party identified the reasonsfor this deceleration and geared the entire party,PLGA and mass organisations for overcomingthis situation and this should be seen as apositive aspect. The OGH second phase beganin 2011 and the OGH third phase has startedafter Modi-led NDA government came topower. So we should keep in mind that all thesewere done amidst severe offensives and byfighting them back. The party also acknowledgesand wholeheartedly appreciates the positive roleplayed by the democratic and patriotic sectionsof the society in lending their voice and supportto the struggles of the people for Jal, Jungle,Zameen, Izzat, Adhikar and also their vehementopposition to the OGH. This also had its sharein sustaining the people’s fighting spirit.

In fighting back this counter-revolutionarywar since mid-2009, the difference in thestrength of the revolutionary forces and that ofthe counter-revolutionary forces was very wide.Guerilla forces were deployed at a companylevel to annihilate platoon level forces of the

The objective world situationis becoming increasingly morefavourable for revolution. Theimperialist world economy isstill reeling under a seriouscrisis and all the fundamentalcontradictions in the world aresharpening. Consequently, therevolutionary, democratic andnational liberation forces allover the world are gainingstrength against imperialismand its domestic props


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enemy. Guerilla forces at battalion level beganto wipe out company level enemy forces. Inthese conditions, the enemy deployed tens ofthousands to one lakh forces in every GZ. Sodue to the gap between the strengths of theopposing forces, new unfavorable conditionsarose for waging our guerilla war. The hugedeployment of the enemy forces was not only tocrush our armed resistance but also to suppressthe upsurge of mass movements witnessed inthis decade such as the historic Nandigram,Lalgarh, Narayanpatna and several significantmovements in almost all GZs. Thus, the Maoistmovement emerged as an alternative to thisdecadent system.

The deceleration that occurred need not beseen only as the result of enemy repression, butis also a fallout of our subjective weaknesses.To come out of this situation, we have identifiedour mistakes and weaknesses and taken up theBolshevisation of the party, the PLGA and massorganisations. At the same time, we should alsolook at the objective conditions that led to it.We had taken up certain tactics to fight back theenemy offensives when it was at the previouslevel and won some successes. This leads theenemy to take up some counter-tactics. So a newsituation arises. So we will have to take uptactics that would again give us the advantageto counter the superior forces of the enemythrough guerilla warfare and mobilise thepeople. A crucial factor in building up anddeveloping the guerilla war would be thedeepening of our mass base.

The ebb and flow of the movement wouldalways give rise to new situations. Inunderstanding this and preparing the party,PLGA and the people for this, there have beensome serious mistakes from the party. Lossesincreased due to shortcomings in the party toface the new challenges. While fighting back astrong enemy in the course of PPW, losses andsetbacks do occur. That is why Mao said thatthe PPW would advance through the process ofvictory-defeat-victory-defeat and ultimatevictory. The PPW line would always passthrough a complex process. Along with severalsmaller and partial successes and some bigsuccesses and leaps in the course of PPW, there

would also be several smaller and partiallosses, defeats and some big losses and retreats.It is a law of PPW that it advances in a zigzagmanner. So we should look at the decelerationin guerilla war with this perspective.

Taking necessary tactics means this. Keepingin view the uneven development of themovement in various parts of our country, weshould take up either self-defence tactics oroffensive tactics according to the changes in theconcrete conditions in our areas of work. Thisshould be as an inseparable part of the overallchanges in the revolutionary war in the presentdifficult situation with the aim of surmountingit. Not just in the different parts but also insidea single GZ too, we will have to take offensiveor self-defence tactics according to thatparticular Division/Zone’s specific conditions.Even if the conditions may be better in someareas, here also it should be subordinate to theoverall difficult situation we are facing and theaim should be to overcome it. And we all knowthat self-defence would always includeoffensive and there can be no self-defencewithout being offensive. But in all the tacticswe take up, preservation of the subjective forces,particularly leadership at all levels is veryimportant.

The two deviations that may occur in ourparty while preparing ourselves according tothe new situation are – 1. Looking only at the

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apparent strengths and the severity of the enemyoffensive and not identifying the underlyingweaknesses; not looking at our strengths andadvantages and the epochal role of the peoplein the revolutionary war; not strategicallyunderstanding the enemy and only looking atthem tactically. This would lead to comradeslosing initiative and becoming passive in thename of self-defence and finally losing thefighting spirit. This is a right deviation; 2. Notunderstanding the change that occurred in thecontending sides in the guerilla warfare andtrying to take up offensive tactics without takinginto consideration the relative or to a large extentweakening of our subjective strength, passivityin the people and without giving importance toself-defence, i.e., preservation of subjectiveforces. They do not see the enemy tactically andassess them only strategically. This is a leftdeviation.

So studying the new changes that occurredin the revolutionary war and strengths andweaknesses of both the enemy’s and ours alongwith study of the overall social, economic,political and cultural changes that occurred inthe country is very crucial to bring aboutacceleration in our guerilla warfare. This is oneof the main aspects that we are seeking toachieve through our Bolshevisation. Increasingthe mass base, putting efforts to mobilise themasses and increasing their active role in theguerilla warfare and in all PW activities areall very important to regain the upper hand. TheCC, the CMC and all leading committees are atpresent tackling the situation with thisunderstanding.

MIB: Even the well-wishers of the party areconcerned by the fact that the major activityof the party is confined to Adivasi areas. Somepeople are arguing the PPW line is relevantonly to such areas and not to India as a whole.What is your reply? How will you spread thePW all over the country?

GP: India is a vast semi-colonial semi feudalcountry with uneven economic, political andsocial development. This unevenness rules outthe line of a simultaneous revolution throughoutthe country, or armed insurrection. We must base

ourselves on the backward and strategic areasof the countryside. This means that therevolutionary war has to be carried on for along period in the relatively more backwardareas where the social contradictions are sharp.Therefore the revolutionary movement can onlyadvance along the path of PPW. Moreover, theruling classes have a strong repressivemachinery in their hands in the form of apowerful centralised state with a well-trainedand well-equipped modern army. So we haveto wage our revolutionary war in the weakestlink of enemy rule, i.e., the countryside. Ourown experience and the history of revolutionsin China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc. provethe correctness of the PPW line in semi-colonialsemi-feudal countries beyond doubt.

The arguments that it is not possible to buildliberated areas, to build the red army and tocarry out protracted people’s war in the countryis not a new one. The ruling classes and theintellectuals serving them, revisionistparliamentary ‘left’ and the pseudo-ML parties– all of them have been making such argumentssince long. Such views are put forward by themto create confusion among the revolutionary,democratic and patriotic forces that areincreasingly drawn into the people’s war.Moreover, left forces which have rejected PPWhave not been able to achieve anything intransforming the society in their long practice.In fact, they are always against such

Studying the new changes thatoccurred in the revolutionary warand strengths and weaknesses ofboth the enemy’s and ours alongwith study of the overall social,economic, political and culturalchanges that occurred in thecountry is very crucial to bringabout acceleration in our guerillawarfare. This is one of the mainaspects that we are seeking toachieve through our Bolshevisation


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transformation and are neck-deep in theparliamentary morass. One variant of thiserroneous argument against PPW is the claimthat PPW is applicable only in Adivasi areasand not in the rest of the country. This view toohas no substance.

Such views coming from the enemy,however, have to be distinguished from theviews of the well-wishers of Indian revolutionwho are concerned about the confinement of themajor activities of the movement in Adivasisareas. It is true that our movement is todayrelatively stronger in the vast forest areas ofcentral and eastern India, which are traditionalhome of Adivasi people. The movement hasmade advancements in the last one decade bykeeping Dandakaranya and Bihar-Jharkhandguerrilla zones at the core. It has a clearperspective of how to develop the movementin various types of plain areas and the tacticalguidelines are outlined in our document ‘Strategyand Tactics of Indian Revolution’. We also havea policy paper on urban work. Yet ourmovement in rural plains as well as in urbanareas has weakened. One of the main reasonsfor this is our shortcomings in preparing theparty cadre according to these guidelines. There

are also some limitations in grasping thestrategic importance of these two areas andundertaking social investigation to analyze thechanges in social conditions. As a result, wehave lost considerable subjective forces thatbecame soft targets of the enemy and themovement faced severe losses in these areas.

An important factor behind our weakpresence in the country’s vast agrarian plainsis that we have not been able to rally the peasantmasses, particularly the agricultural labourersand the poor peasantry, into the guerrilla war inlarge numbers. Similarly, our shortcomings inmobilising the non-peasant classes in theforested Adivasi areas, including the newlyemerging middle classes, into the revolutionarymovement have also led to the weakening themovement. It had a negative impact on ourefforts to fulfill the central task.

But we must not lose sight of the positiveaspect while analyzing the weaknesses andshortcomings of our movement in the ruralplains and the urban areas. We must not forgetthat the revolutionary movement has acquiredvast experience in working in such areas. Thenew experiences gained in the last decade afterthe merger will also help us to draw appropriatelessons and rebuild the movement where weare in setback, strengthen where we haveweakened and expand to areas where we areabsent. We must learn from the mass upsurgesof Kalinganagar, Singur, Nandigram, Lalgarh,Narayanapatna, and Telangana separatestatehood movement, etc., all of which have hada positive impact on the toiling masses of ruraland urban areas. The majority of the people whoare under the yoke of imperialist, feudal andcomprador bureaucratic capitalist exploitationand oppression reside in the vast rural areasand in the cities lying outside the Adivasi areas.They have no other option for resolving theirproblems than to struggle. They are beinginfluenced by the ongoing people’s war. So theconditions in these areas are favourable for thespread of revolutionary war. We need to actcreatively keeping in mind the concreteconditions and the demands of the variousclasses and sections of the people. By firmly

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Majority of the peoplewho are under the yoke ofimperialist, feudal andcomprador bureaucraticcapitalist exploitation andoppression reside in the vastrural areas and in the citieslying outside the Adivasi areas.They have no other option forresolving their problems thanto struggle. They are beinginfluenced by the ongoingpeople’s war. So the conditionsin these areas are favourablefor the spread of revolutionarywar.


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adhering to our political-military line, creativelyworking in a planned manner in the light of ourvast experiences, implementing correct style ofwork, rectifying our past mistakes, employingcorrect tactics to suit the changing conditionsand enemy tactics, we will be able to utilisethe excellent objective conditions to build classstruggle by mobilising the masses in these areasand advance the guerilla war. In this way, bybuilding on the new, unique and unprecedentedachievements of the last decade, Indianrevolution will certainly overcome the difficultsituation to win newer, larger and more gloriousvictories.

MIB: The government is claiming that moreMaoists are responding to their improvedsurrender policies and are surrendering.What is the truth?

GP: What do they mean by improved surrenderpolicy? They ostensibly mean more money andmore rehabilitation packages. This is for publicconsumption. Surrenders haven’t increased dueto the offer of more money or betterrehabilitation. There are two reasons for this.The Indian State is one of the most ruthlessregimes in the world when it comes to crushingthe Adivasis and poor people who fight for theirrights. And if they chose to fight under theleadership of CPI(Maoist) the amount ofatrocities heaped on them just can’t be describedin words. To crush resistance to their pro-imperialist policies the State is resorting toseveral suppression methods of which thissurrender policy is also a part. The governmentforces are pouncing like bloodhounds on thepeople in the movement areas, who may or maynot be part of the revolutionary activities.However, it is targeting with particular attentionthose who are active in the resistance andsubjecting them to all kinds of pressures suchas severe torture, rape, destruction of property,psychological warfare, threats (including tomaim or kill them or by actually doing it toothers) etc., and making them surrender in largenumbers. This accounts for the mass surrendersthat the police triumphantly and arrogantlyparade before the media. More than three-fourths of the surrenders come under thiscategory.

The other part of the surrenders is made ofsome individuals from the party, PLGA andmass organisations who are kneeling before theenemy. Yes, there is some increase in suchnumbers recently and a few persons ofleadership rank (State Committee, DistrictCommittee and Area Committee level) havealso surrendered.

The need to make newer sacrifices ariseswhenever a new round of offensives is launchedby the enemy and ruthless suppression reachesunprecedented levels. There will always besome weak elements who would leave themovement or surrender before the enemy duringsuch periods. It is happening now too. Theremay be some impact of the so-called improvedsurrender policy of the governments. But that is

very minor and can never be the reason. Thefirst reason for this kind of surrender is also theruthless enemy offensives. Not just that, afterthe surrenders too the State is dealing differentlywith different persons according to their classand other backgrounds. But there is no differencein trying to turn them all into traitors of thepeople. The State is putting all kinds ofpressures to extract information from them,utilise them as mercenaries, and make themparticipate in the intensified offensive at various

The government forces arepouncing like bloodhounds on thepeople in the movement areas, whomay or may not be part of therevolutionary activities. However, itis targeting with particularattention those who are active in theresistance and subjecting them toall kinds of pressures... Thisaccounts for the mass surrendersthat the police triumphantly andarrogantly parade before themedia. More than three-fourths ofthe surrenders come under thiscategory


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levels. So whoever naively thinks that the Stateis taking up surrender policies to make thempart of the ‘mainstream’, to give them a ‘goodlife’ etc., should understand that surrenders arenothing but a part of the ‘War on the people.’ Itsaim is to intensify this war by weakening themovement and turning them into traitors.

The second reason for surrenders is thatsome persons are not being able to understandthe nature of enemy repression and sometemporary losses in the movement and aretherefore getting confused. The personalweaknesses of some are another reason. Thesolution for these problems is in raising thepolitical consciousness and commitment of thecadres at all levels, putting up more formidablefight against the psy-war of the enemy andmaking them understand how surrender turns usagainst our own people and is therefore not asolution. The present Bolshevisation campaignin the party is dealing with this aspect too.

One more thing I want to stress is that thisvery period of OGH first and second phaseshas witnessed some of the most unparalleledsacrifices of the revolutionary cadres and thepeople. Revolutions advance with sacrificesbecause firstly the people realise theirinevitability and secondly because they preparethemselves for this with a higher consciousness.The enemy as part of its psychological warfarewould of course highlight only the surrendersand try to suppress the aspect of sacrifice. Weshould effectively focus on this aspect in ourrevolutionary propaganda war.

As long as revolutionary wars continue,repression of the State too continues. Therefore,till the brutal system is overthrown, there maybe some surrenders and their numbers may berelatively more or less in some periods.Sacrifices at all levels, including supremesacrifice, are a result of voluntary dedicationto the cause of revolution in the entire party andin all our movement areas and they areabsolutely indispensible for any revolution.

MIB: Why did the party feel the need for aBolshevisation campaign? What results areyou expecting from it?

GP: Our party issued a call in 2013 toBolshevise the party and it is being carried outin the party, PLGA and mass organisations now.It would take some more time to complete itand only then we can assess how successful ithad been in remoulding our party into aBolshevised party.

It was the CPSU(B), popularly known asthe Russian Bolshevik party, that overthrew thebourgeois class and established proletariandictatorship for the first time in the world. Whenno communist party was in power in the world,this was the party that brought the working classand the toiling masses to power. It was theBolshevik party that ushered in Socialism forthe first time in the history of humanity. So weare taking this party as our model, and strivingto turn our party into such a proletarian partyby learning lessons from it and imbibing thequalities that made all this possible. That is whywe named it as Bolshevisation Campaign. Onthe other hand the Chinese Communist Partymodel is also very important for us becauseChina and India have several similarities andso knowing and imbibing the qualities of CPCthat made it possible for it to make a successfulrevolution and build socialism in a semi-colonial, semi-feudal backward country wherepeasantry is the majority by developing the PPWline and building a people’s army, a successfulunited front and through the process ofestablishing liberated areas. CPC, since its

formation, put continuous efforts to strengthenitself by taking CPSU(B) as a model. So wedecided to carry on this campaign keeping in

Bolshevisation campaign wouldremould the party withproletarian world outlook andenhance it inside the party,particularly among the newforces. This would be done byenhancing the ideological study ofMLM and training up the entireparty in it


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view the experiences of this party, particularlyfrom the Great Debate and in the light of thelessons imparted by the GPCR. We would keepthese two parties as the models and try toBolshevise the party but it would be in the lightof the experiences gained in the longrevolutionary history of our party.

The reasons for taking up this campaign are: (1) There is a change in enemy’s countrywideoffensive. It has intensified; (2) There weresevere losses to the party and the movement isnow facing a very difficult situation; (3)Comrades from peasant and middle classbackground form a majority in the party and sothere is a need for enhancing proletarian outlookin the party; (4) our shortcomings in studyingand formulating appropriate tactics accordingto the significant economic and political changesthat have occurred in the society and inrevolutionary war; and (5) There are someserious non-proletarian trends within the party.Keeping these in view, we took up theBolshevisation campaign for raising theideological and political level of the party totackle these challenges and to strengthen theparty organizationally so that it can lead therevolution efficiently. Only by doing so the partycan in turn mould the PLGA into a powerfulweapon and strengthen the movement’s massbase. And only through this we can surmountthe present difficult situation and advance.

We decided to conduct this campaign in aplanned manner to achieve some concretetargets. By achieving these targets we areexpecting the following results.

This campaign would remould the partywith proletarian world outlook and enhance itinside the party, particularly among the newforces. This would be done by enhancing theideological study of MLM and training up theentire party in it. It would make the entire party,every unit in the party, gain the most clear-cutunderstanding about the goal of NDR and makethem clearly understand the concrete targets tobe achieved at the present juncture. It wouldhelp in understanding deeply the three pointwork style taught by Mao and thus improve ourwork style. It would enhance our understandingabout secret party building and functioning, help

in quickly rectifying the defects that areoccurring in this and in implementing guerillawar’s operational principles. It would rectifythe non-proletarian trends continuing in the partyand enhance the consciousness and alertness ofthe party to fight against them. It would alsoenhance and strengthen unity of thought andaction and discipline. This would result in theparty strengthening its mass base by firmlyintegrating with the people and mobilising theminto various economic, political and otherstruggles. It would also lead to giving priorityto rallying the peasants into the agrarianrevolutionary war and putting special effortsamong the vast non-peasant masses and theurban population. This would lead to the studyof the changing socio-economic, political andcultural conditions and changing the tacticsaccordingly, thus developing the movementsuccessfully.

We are expecting this campaign to steel thecomrades so that they can display theconsciousness to face the most difficultsituations, hardships and risks that may comeup in the course of the revolution and heightentheir preparedness to gallantly fight the enemy.Last but not least, we expect that it would enableus to defend our subjective forces, particularlythe higher level leadership and the movementfrom the cruelest offensives of the enemy. Allthe above results would be achieved by graspingMLM deeply and keeping it at the core of thiscampaign.

MIB: The enemy is propagating that the PPWline is outdated. Some people are advocatingChavez’s 21st Century Socialism. The UCPN(Maoist) led by Prachanda-Bhattarai cliquehas chosen the parliamentary path andabandoned the PPW line. Several questionsare being raised about the relevance of PPWline in India and elsewhere in the presentglobalised world. What is the party’s answerto all these arguments?

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after the working class emerged as arevolutionary force in the struggle againstfeudalism and capitalism, particularly inproletarian revolutions since Paris Commune.After Russia and China turned revisionist – theystarted propagating that Marxism itself isoutdated. The reason is obvious. Revolutionsand Marxism would bring their end.

How can the line of PPW be outdated? AfterMao’s death, all the revolutions that took placein the world, whether NDRs or nationalliberation wars, were protracted. Even if someof them faced betrayal or were abandoned, it isa fact that all of these were protracted. As longas semi-feudal structure does not changebasically and imperialism keeps countries likeours in its clutches and does not allow theirindependent development, there is no other paththan the PPW for the liberation of such countries.Some of the feudal forms may change butfeudalism would be left intact as it serves theinterests of the imperialists and serves as abasis for furthering the interests of the CBB.That is why the people are waging the PPWunder the leadership of the party for the victoryof an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal revolution, theNDR. And the specific characteristics of ourcountry decide that it would be protracted andit would be a war waged by the people led byour party. Hence the PPW. I have alreadyexplained why we consider the line of PPW tobe indispensable for carrying out a successfulrevolution in a country like India.

Now about Chavez and his model of the so-called 21st century socialism. Till now two pathshave been established for revolutions in theworld – insurrection and the PPW. These twoare basically to be applied according to theconcrete, specific conditions in the respectivecountries. There might be modifications to thesetwo paths in the new historical context. That iswhat Marxism says, not to do revolutionsmechanically or dogmatically but creatively. Butwhatever may be the modifications they wouldalways have to lie within the purview ofrevolutions. That is why revolution is a must.However, it has to be carried out in the specificcharacteristics of a particular country. Tryingto reform the decadent system without any

perspective of traversing towards a classlesssociety is purposeless. Chavez’s model is notof revolution but of mere reform. It is socialismneither in form nor content.

Several changes have occurred in the worldafter the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Bothin the capitalist countries and the third worldthe petty bourgeois sections have increasedconsiderably. A section of them possess liberalbourgeois ideas, another section possessutopian socialist ideas. In countries wherebourgeois democratic revolutions or newdemocratic revolutions did not take place, whererevolutionary movements could not bring theminto its fold to a large extent, most among thesepetty bourgeois sections want some change orreforms in the framework of bourgeoisparliamentary system. Chavez took some stepsin the interests of the working class and thepeasantry in Venezuela. Their main product isoil. Though oil and some other industries werenationalized, of course with several limitations,feudalism and comprador bureaucraticcapitalism were not done away with. They arenot separated from the world capitalist systemtoo and so there was no basic change in thesystem. They are not completely independentfrom imperialist domination. A major sectionof the feudal and comprador capitalist forcesin Venezuela are so anti-poor that they areopposing even these reforms vehemently whichis turning into a boon in disguise as it is gettingwide propaganda for Chavez’s model fromdiverse sections. He never mobilised the massesin class struggle. Chavez invokes Bolivar andChe Guevera but his model is minus Bolivarismand minus Che Gueveraism. It is mainlyreformism and that is why even the bankruptCPI and CPI(M) in our country are highlighting

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his legacy. When they were in a united partythey hailed ‘Nehruvian Socialism’ and betrayedrevolution.

In Nepal the parliamentary system existsbased on semi-feudalism and under theimperialist yoke; it is under the domination ofIndian expansionism on one side and under theinfluence of China on the other. Anybody whojoins it has to abandon revolution. In spite ofgood successes in the NDR, the Prachanda-Bhattarai modern revisionist clique in theUCPN(Maoist) chose this path. It is nothing buta betrayal. They just betrayed the millions ofmasses and thousands of their martyrs. Like allthe revisionists before them, they did this fortheir selfish interests, for sharing power withthe ruling classes.

We also accept that several changes in theeconomic, political and cultural spheres haveoccurred due to globalization. But for whomdid these changes occur? These changes werebrought to fulfill the interests of monopolycapitalism. The world capitalist system broughtthese changes over the past 23 years. This gavethe opportunity for a section of ruling classesamong the capitalist, imperialist and thirdworld countries for super-exploitation of labor,labouring masses and indiscriminate loot ofnatural and other resources of colonies andsemi-colonies. This led to enormous increaseof gap between the incomes of the rich and thepoor and concentration and centralisation ofcapital to gigantic levels. This is the same periodthat witnessed increased intervention of USimperialism in West Asia and later inAfghanistan. Almost all imperialist, capitalistStates, particularly the US, and their lackeyregimes turned neo-fascist. The ruling classestried to portray the neo-liberal policies as theultimate solution that would lead to GDPgrowth, boost the economy, employment,prosperity, and what not. All these claims camecrashing down like a pack of cards with theworldwide economic crisis of 2008. So weshould look at the havoc played by imperialismin the lives of people with these neo-liberalpolicies not only due to its economic crisis butalso due to the wars of occupation andincreasing neo-colonial intervention, bullying

and control of other third world countries. With‘globalization’ the imperialists have resortedto the only solutions they can adopt in theirdesperation to come out of their crisis. Wars,more exploitation, oppression and repressionof the world people, particularly the third worldpeople. So without fighting imperialism andtheir domestic lackeys the third world peoplecannot breathe free.

Therefore, we have to enrich our strategyand make changes in the tactics keeping in viewthese changes and mobilise the peopleaccordingly in the revolutionary war. We haveto bring changes in slogans, political tactics,military tactics and work methods and only thenwe can advance. The solution is not to abandonthe political line and the PPW path but to adhereto it more firmly. Whatever tactics we takeshould serve this and advance this.

I reiterate that correct ideology, a correctpolitical line, a correct military line, a strongvanguard party, a strong people’s army andstrong united front are the only solution to makesuccess the NDR for smashing the present semi-colonial, semi-feudal system for the liberationof our country and our people.

MIB: What is the position of theInternational Communist Movement (ICM)at present especially since the party’sassessment is that the objective worldsituation is turning further favorable to therevolution? What do you think would be theimpact of Avakianism and betrayal of NepalRevolution by Prachanda-Bhattarai cliquefor the ICM?

Correct ideology, a correct politicalline, a correct military line, astrong vanguard party, a strongpeople’s army and strong unitedfront are the only solution to makesuccess the NDR for smashing thepresent semi-colonial, semi-feudalsystem for the liberation of ourcountry and our people.


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GP: The objective world situation is turningexcellent for the advancement of revolution. Asnoted before, the imperialist system continuesto go through its most serious crisis since theGreat Depression, leading to massive lay offsand shrinking of job opportunities,unemployment and impoverishment on the onehand and intensified exploitation of workingmasses and neo-colonial plunder of oppressedcountries and people on the other. Wars ofoccupation have shown no signs of abating, withUS imperialism getting bogged down in Iraq,Afghanistan and several other warfronts.

Revolutionary, democratic and nationalliberation forces against imperialism and itsdomestic props are strengthening in differentparts of the world. Workers, peasants, themiddle classes, Blacks, immigrants, Muslimsand other persecuted communities, women,students, youth and various oppressed classesand sections are coming out onto the streets.Several EU countries have been rocked bymassive worker’s demonstrations and strikesagainst job cuts, unemployment andunderemployment, reduction in real wages,withdrawal of social security spending and other‘austerity’ measures of the governments. As thegap between the rich and the poor is wideningand class antagonism is sharpening, more andmore people are joining struggles in thecapitalist countries. The Black people,Muslims, immigrants and other oppressedpeople are protesting in Europe and North

America for their democratic rights. In thebackward countries too, the disparity of wealth,impoverishment and destitution of the workingpeople, political oppression are all leading tomass upheavals. Several Asian and Africancountries are going through turmoil and civilwar. The armed national liberation struggles ofthe Iraqi, Afghan, Palestinian, Kurd and otherpeoples are advancing even in the face ofbloodbaths and massacres. National aspirationsof the Scot, Catalonian and other nations ofEurope are sustaining. In South America, peoplehave organised massive protests against the anti-people neo-liberal policies adopted by thegovernments of countries like Brazil.

However the subjective forces in the ICMare seriously lagging behind this favourableobjective situation in the world today. There isa contradiction between the potential of theobjective situation and the subjective capacityof the Maoist forces to utilise it for theadvancement of World Socialist Revolution. Weknow from the lessons of history that thissubjective weakness can be overcomeprincipally by waging revolution according tothe concrete conditions of each country. As therevisionist and reformist forces are provingincapable of addressing the people’s issues, thepossibility of their rallying with the Maoistforces is increasing. Maoist parties andorganisations in many countries are gainingstrength and some new parties are in the processof formation. The unity among Maoist parties,organisations and forces is also growing. Thepotential for a powerful new wave ofrevolutions is increasing. Facing several odds,PPWs in the Philippines and India arecontinuing. Maoist parties are carrying outstruggles in several other countries as well.Solidarity activities among international Maoistforces around support to the people’s war inIndia, international mobilisation againstcounter-revolutionary OGH and OplanBayanihan, struggles for the rights of politicalprisoners, etc. are being carried out. So it ispossible that the ICM and the Maoist forceswill be in a position to play a significant rolein people’s struggles and thereby usher in arevolutionary wave in the future.

The subjective forces in the ICMare seriously lagging behindthis favourable objectivesituation in the world today.There is a contradictionbetween the potential of theobjective situation and thesubjective capacity of theMaoist forces to utilise it for theadvancement of World SocialistRevolution


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Of course, the revisionism of Prachanda-Bhattarai clique and their betrayal of the causeof Nepali people and WSR caused seriousdamage to the ICM. These traitors havedestroyed the glorious people’s war from insideand helped the enemy to retain their strangleholdover the oppressed Nepali people. This is areversal not only for the Nepali people but alsofor the entire ICM. However, the bitter strugglewaged by genuine Maoist forces againstPrachanda-Bhattarai clique, their shamelesssurrender before the imperialists and theiragents, and most importantly, Nepali people’sown struggle against these traitors has haveexposed the clique’s reactionary character andits betrayal of MLM in the name of developingand enriching it. These modern revisionistshave become the most trusted lackeys ofimperialism, domestic feudal and compradorbureaucratic capitalist forces and Indianexpansionism. Nepali masses and the ICM havecompletely rejected their classcollaborationism and will definitely advanceon the path of revolution by throwing theseturncoats into the dustbin of history.

Similarly, the so-called new synthesis ofAvakianism too has seriously damaged someMaoist parties. This is because Avakianism isnothing but disguised revisionism andliquidationism. Though it may have somenegative impact in the ICM temporarily, it willcertainly be defeated. As a detachment of theworld proletariat, our party will continue tostruggle against Avakianism and all forms ofrevisionism in the communist movementinternationally and in the country.

MIB: Modi-led NDA government is rapidlyimplementing the imperialist agenda and theRSS is speedily spreading its Hindutvatentacles. Home Minister Rajnath Singh hasstressed that the Indian State still considersthe Maoists as the biggest internal securitythreat. That the fascist offensive has beenstepped up on all fronts is obvious. How doesthe party plan to fight this back?

GP: In the five months that the NDAgovernment has been in power, it has intensifiedthe policies of Liberalisation-Privatisation-

Globalisation (LPG) that have been pursued bysuccessive governments since 1990s. In fact,Modi and BJP has been installed at the helm ofgovernment by imperialists, comprador bigcapitalists and big landlords precisely forcarrying out these policies faster and moreaggressively than the previous UPA government.Therefore a ‘weak’ Manmohan Singh wasreplaced by a ‘strong’ Narendra Modi. Thecombination of imperialist-driven policies withruthless exploitation of the toiling classes andHindu-fascist oppression of Muslims, Dalitsand Adivasis was carried out in Gujarat underModi. This ‘Gujarat model’ is now beingextended all over the country.

The aggressive neo-liberal policies of theModi government will intensify the hardshipsfaced by the workers, peasants, governmentemployees and various sections like women,students and the youth. Attacks on Muslims bythe state and the Hindu-fascists will increase.

Atrocities on Dalits is on the rise due to thestrengthening of the feudal reactionary forces.Oppressed nationalities is facing furtherpersecution. The drumming-up of big-nationchauvinism in support of NDA’s aggressiveexpansionist policies would generateopposition from the peoples of South Asia. We

Assessing the post-electionsituation, our CC noted thatthe formation of RSS- dominatedNDA government at the centrehas brought the urgent task offighting back the BrahmanicalHindu fascist forces across thecountry. This can be doneeffectively by building broad-based and powerful massmovements through uniting therevolutionary, democratic,secular and patrioticorganisations, forces, individuals and the vast masses


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need to intervene in such issues and organisethe people in struggles.

Neo-colonial stranglehold will tighten overthe country as a result of the aggressiveimplementation of the LPG agenda. To deflectthe consequent anger of the masses, SanghParivar will resort to fanning up jingoism andfalse talk of nationalism. Such tricks must bechallenged by presenting the true picture of thewholesale sell-out of the country by Modi’sgovernment. We must carry out widepropaganda exposing the pro-imperialist, pro-feudal nature of Modi’s agenda.

The aggressive promotion of Modi’s‘development’ agenda will result indisplacement on an unprecedented scale.Adivasis will find their existence threatened.This will bring forward mass struggles. Weshould actively intervene in these, either directlyby adopting suitable forms or by playing asupportive role.

These attacks on the people will beaccompanied by more draconian laws. Old lawsare being modified and new laws introduced tosuit imperialists, big landlords and compradorbureaucratic capitalists, to take away the jal-jangal-zameen and livelihood of the people.Blatant violation of even formal justice, andmore brutal persecution of political prisonersand suppression of activists who take up suchissues. We must energetically intervene in suchissues. There is good potential for building andstrengthening civil rights movements in a broadmanner.

Assessing the post-election situation, ourCC noted that the formation of RSS-dominatedNDA government at the centre has brought theurgent task of fighting back the BrahmanicalHindu fascist forces across the country. Thiscan be done effectively by building broad-basedand powerful mass movements through unitingthe revolutionary, democratic, secular andpatriotic organisations, forces, individuals andthe vast masses. Wide and concrete propagandamust be carried out to expose the real pro-imperialist, pro-feudal nature of Modi’s agenda.

All these activities must be carried out withthe aim of uniting them with the ongoingactivities to fight back the third phase of OGH.

The fascist home minister Rajnath Singh hasparroted the approach of the UPA governmentby declaring that Maoists are the ‘still thebiggest internal security threat’ and thatcountering the Maoist movement is the toppriority of his government. We will fight backthis fresh counter-revolutionary offensive byBolshevising the party, intensifying the people’swar and mobilising vast masses into therevolutionary war.

MIB. The OGH third phase has begun. Howis the party preparing to face this?

GP: One of the early measures taken up by theCongress-led UPA-2 government after it cameto power for the second term in mid-2009 wasto launch OGH – the war on people. It was acountrywide multi-pronged counter-revolutionary war on the struggling masses ofour country. The NDA government led by Modiis continuing the same approach of itspredecessor more aggressively and ruthlesslyby launching the third phase of OGH, which ismore extensive and more intensive comparedto the earlier two phases.

While in the Opposition, BJP criticised theprevious UPA governments for not preparing anintegrated centralised policy to suppress the

The Adivasi people of centraland eastern India have playeda historic role in advancing theprotracted people’s war. Theyhave joined the movement inlarge numbers, defended it withtheir blood and sweat, andprepared grounds for itsexpansion. Due to this, parts ofcentral and eastern India haveemerged as strongholds of therevolution. With the third phaseof OGH, the enemy isconcentrating its efforts todecimate these strongholds


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Maoist movement. After coming to power, BJP-led NDA is now implementing such acomprehensive policy in the form of OGH thirdphase under the overall LIC framework.Declaring large bounties on the heads of theleadership, announcing new surrender policies,increasing the amount of compensation forcounter-revolutionary elements punished by thepeople, fake reform and civic actionprogrammes, etc., are being intensified. Someof the new aspects introduced in the third phaseare the use of air force for transport of forcesfor combat operations and closer collaborationwith the US and Israel in the use of advanceddrone/UAV technology. These measures arecomplimented by the raising of new units ofcentral and state commando forces andincreasing the number of existing ones,modernisation of armed forces to raise theircombat capabilities, improving communicationand intelligence network particularly in ourmovement areas, intensification of atrocities onthe people including fake encounters, beatingup, loot of people’s property, arrests, custodialtorture, rape and other forms cruel repression.But a completely opposite picture is beingdepicted through the media as a part of thepsychological war.

Our response needs to be tempered with anunderstanding of the particularity of OGH thirdphase. The Adivasi people of central and easternIndia have played a historic role in advancingthe protracted people’s war. They have joinedthe movement in large numbers, defended it withtheir blood and sweat, and prepared groundsfor its expansion. Due to this, parts of centraland eastern India have emerged as strongholdsof the revolution. With the third phase of OGH,the enemy is concentrating its efforts to decimatethese strongholds. By bringing quantitative andqualitative changes to its offensive, the enemyseeks to destroy the party, the army and theemerging organs of new democratic power soas to reinstate the old state and the decadentpolitical system in their place.

Though these old and new forms ofrepression are aimed at the Maoist movement,they will not target the Maoists alone. This waron people will certainly extend to all theoppressed sections. All the exploited classesand social sections like the workers, peasants,Dalits, Adivasis, religious minorities,oppressed nationalities, women, etc. will comeunder attack politically, economically, socially,culturally, judicially and militarily. So the arenaof war will expand. We have to politically andmilitarily counter this new phase of enemyoffensive which comes in combination with theBrahmanical Hindu fascist ideology andcountry-selling policies of the Modigovernment.

Whether it is Modi, Rajnath Singh, Jaitley,Venkaiah Naidu, Gadkari, or any otherrepresentative of the NDA government, they aresaying one thing to befool the people and doingits complete opposite. The anti-people natureof this fascist Modi government is getting moreand more exposed as the ruling classes are usingall extra-constitutional and extra-judicial meansto carry out their all-out offensive against thepeople. We will have to resolutely confront anddefeat this attack by uniting with all the sectionsthat will be adversely affected. For this, ourpolicies and tactics should be such that alldemocratic, progressive, secular and patrioticforces rally together in favour of the people andoppose and fight back Modi’s reactionarypolicies and particularly the third phase ofOGH. The parliamentary ‘left’ too will beforced to come forward to take up people’sissues and oppose this enemy offensive in theirown way in order to retain its relevance. Itshould come forward to join this fight. We callupon all the forces to fight in all fronts againstthis multi-pronged enemy offensive. Unite, uniteand unite against the enemy offensive! Fightback, fight back and fight back against thecommon enemy!


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In the last ten years since its formation, CPI(Maoist) has madenew and unprecedented advancements in the course of strugglewithstanding several setbacks and losses. Under the leadership ofthe party, PLGA underwent important developments and achievedsignificant military successes. Organs of people’s political powerin their embryonic form went through further development in severalguerilla zones. Revolutionary mass organisations got strengthenedand mobilised lakhs of people in militant mass struggles in differentparts of the country on issues of Jal-Jangal-Zameen-Izzat-Adhikar. Inthe process, the protracted people’s war led by the party deepenedits roots among the country’s oppressed masses, consolidated itsstrength and expanded to newer areas. This advance was madepossible by the blood shed by over two thousand martyrs on thepath of liberation.

The following pages chronicle some of the important events inthe course of this history in the last decade. This compilation,however, is neither comprehensive nor exhaustive, and is onlymeant to give a glimpse of some events in the political and militaryspheres related to the last ten years of Indian revolutionarymovement, presented in a chronological order. Important eventssuch as CC plenums, Regional Bureau meetings, Zonal/State leveland Sub-zonal/DC level conferences, AC conferences, Area levelextended meetings, State and District plenums in major states, partymembership drives, PLGA recruitment campaigns, Area to State-level conferences of mass organisations, conferences and electionsto different levels of Revolutionary People’s Committees (RPCs),etc. are being left out. Similarly, some significant military actionshave been excluded (refer to the publications brought out by CMCand various SMCs for a fuller list of military actions). Only a fewof our comrades who have been martyred in the last ten years havebeen mentioned, though each of their deaths are significant in theirown ways (fuller details of the martyrs can be found in the party'spast and forthcoming publications). Likewise, only a small selectionof the mass movements and people’s struggles that erupted in theseten years have been mentioned in the list.

Chronology ofImportant Events

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21-09-2004 Historic merger of CPI(ML) [People’s War] and MCCI and the formation ofCPI(Maoist)

14-10-2004 Announcement of the formation of CPI(Maoist) in a press conference inHyderabad by Comrade Ramakrishna, CC member and AOBSZC Secretary,who was leading the Party in talks with the Andhra Pradesh government.The first public meeting celebrating the formation of the new party issuccessfully held on 16 November in Hyderabad, drawing lakhs of people.Public meetings and rallies celebrating the unity are held in all the movementareas and in several cities. Programmes are disrupted by the police in Bihar,Jharkhand, Delhi and other places by detaining thousands of revolutionaryactivists and masses to stop them from commemorating the merger

24-11-2004 PLGA conducted Heenathghat (Chandauli) ambush near Chandraprabhadam in Chandauli district of southern Uttar Pradesh after luring the enemyforces into a trap. One of the vehicles in a convoy carrying the police wasblasted. 13 PAC jawans and four policemen died, including the in-charge ofChandraprabha police station. Nine modern weapons were seized. This wasa fitting response to the massacre of 16 members of Krantikari KisanCommittee by the police on 9 March 2001 in Bhavanipur village in theneighbouring Mirzapur district

16-12-2004 The ceasefire between AP government on the one hand and CPI(Maoist)and CPI(ML)-Janashakti on the other lapsed. It was not extended by thegovernment, resulting in an end to the ceasefire

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05-01-2005 Bhimbandh deliberate ambush, in which Surendra Prabhu, Superintendentof Police (SP) of Mungher district, Bihar was annihilated at Bhimbandhalong with six policemen by the PLGA

06-01-2005 Congress-TRS government led by YS Rajashekhar Reddy breaks the ceasefirewith CPI(Maoist) and CPI(ML) Janashakti by killing Janashakti squadmember comrade Rajireddy in a fake encounter in Mugulu forests of Warangaldistrict, thereby starting the notorious ‘encounter-raj’ – the latest round ofextra-judicial killing of revolutionaries. From 6 to 16 January, a total of elevenpersons — ten revolutionaries belonging to the CPI(Maoist) and CPI(ML)-Janashakti, and a state executive member of the women’s organization CMSwere killed in fake encounters in the state

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06-02-2005 Comrade Saketh Rajan (Prem), KNSC Secretary, martyred along withComrade Shivalingu (Arun) after an encounter with the police nearMenasinahadya village of Koppa taluq in Karnataka

10-02-2005 PLGA conducted a raid on Karnataka Armed Police at Venkatammahalli inresponse to the murder of comrades Saketh Rajan and Shivalingu. Eightpolicemen died and five were injured in this successful raid

22-02-2005 Dodraj ambush. PLGA conducts an IED blast near Dodraj village inBhamragarh Tehsil of Gadchiroli division, in which eight policemenincluding a TI died and eleven were injured

07-03-2005 Ten comrades martyred in Manala covert operation, Nizamabad district,Andhra Pradesh carried out by the fascist AP Police

19-03-2005 Four comrades including NTSZCM Comrade Yadanna martyred inAndugulamedi covert operation, Warangal district, AP

28-03-2005 Protest against the proposed Gangavaram Port to be made by a privatecompany in Vishakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. People clasheswith the police with stones. One protestor dies in police firing

27-04-2005 PLGA attacked a police outpost at Batgaon in Sarguja district. Two policemenwere annihilated and many modern weapons were seized. This was the firstsuccessful raid by the red guerrillas in North Chhattisgarh

17-05-2005 PLGA’s Daula Raid, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh. DKSZCM ComradeMangtu (Linganna) martyred along with three more comrades

21-05-2005 Comrade Sushil Roy, Politburo member and Comrade Patitpawan Haldar,Central Committee member and WBSCS, arrested in Kolkata

05-06-2005 The fascist Salwa Judum (SJ) counter-revolutionary offensive launched fromMatwada village of Dantewada district, under the leadership of MahendraKarma, Congress MLA and Leader of Opposition in Chhattisgarh Assembly.It is backed by the newly elected UPA government at the centre and BJPgovernment of Chhattisgarh. Government sponsored SJ terror campaign ispartly financed by Indian comprador bureaucratic capitalists like the Tatasand Essar

18-06-2005 Bhumkal Abhiyan or the armed mass resistance of the people against SalwaJudum begins. A 3,000 strong people’s militia of Kotrapal successfullyrepulsed the attack on Kotrapal village by hundreds of SJ goons and chasesthem away. Two goons die at the hands of the people and twelve are arrested.A people’s court finds one of them guilty of heinous crimes against the massesand is annihilated after the court pronounces death sentence on him

23-06-2005 Madhuban surprise raid (‘Operation Dhamaka’) – also known as MadhubanDhamaka – in which PLGA forces carry out simultaneous attacks on severalenemy targets including the police station, Block office, State Bank, CentralBank and the house of the local MP in Madhuban town of East Champarandistrict, north Bihar. A policeman and a bank guard dies in the attack, whileone PLGA comrade is seriously injured and later martyred. The retreatingPLGA forces are vastly outnumbered and encircled by a large enemy force,but PLGA guerrillas break the cordon successfully and escape after bravelyfighting for more than four hours and killing two policemen. Five PLGA


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comrades are martyred in the battle. The next day, two more policemen diein another encounter with the retreating PLGA guerillas

25-08-2005 Comrade Kanaka Chari, a founding member of Andhra Pradesh Teacher’sForum, leader of Telangana Jana Sabha and associated with PatrioticDemocratic Movement as a state Executive Members was kidnapped andbrutally assassinated by the so-called Narsa Cobras propped up by APSIBnear Makthal in Mahaboobnagar district, AP

03-09-2005 Padeda deliberate ambush. PLGA for the first time successfully exploded a‘Mine-Proof Vehicle’ (MPV) used by the enemy in anti-Maoist operations.A CRPF MPV travelling from Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district headquartersto Gangalur village was blasted near Padeda. 24 CRPF men died and threeseriously wounded

10-09-2005 Comrade Mannem Devi Prasad, district president of Kula Nirmulana PorataSamithi (KNPS) was attacked with sickles in his office and killed bymercenaries sent by the police in Prakasham district, AP

11-09-2005 15 members of the ‘Sendra’ counter-revolutionary gang are annihilated byPLGA in Belvaghati village, Giridih district, Jharkhand. ‘Sendra’, whichmeans hunting of wild animals in Santhali, and was launched from Sarandaforest in March 2004 to hunt down and destroy the revolutionary movementin Jharkhand, was delivered a severe blow

30-10-2005 Comrade Shamsher Singh Sheri (Karam Singh), Politburo member, martyredat the age of 65 due to the combined attack of cerebral malaria and jaundice

11-11-2005 Surprise raid on Giridih Home Guard armoury by PLGA. Conducted by abattalion-strength PLGA force with lightening speed and completed within14 minutes, the raid resulted in a big haul of 192 rifles and more than twothousand rounds of ammunition. A total of six policemen defending thearmoury were wiped out while six were seriously injured. PLGA suffered nocasualty

13-11-2005 Jehanabad raid (Operation Jailbreak) at Jehanabad district headquarters,Bihar. In a daring daylight raid, two companies of PLGA attacked Jehanabaddistrict jail and took it under control. 388 inmates were freed. Two comradeswere martyred in the action. Two policemen, one leader and a member ofthe landlord private army Ranveer Sena locked up in the jail were wiped out

28-12-2005 Martyrdom of Comrade Maimuddin (Ravi), UP-Uttar Bihar-UttarakhandSpecial Area Committee (3U-SAC) secretary. He was injured in a policeencounter in Betona village, East Champaran district, Bihar. As he was unableto escape, he was captured, taken to the police station, brutally tortured andmurdered

28-12-2005 Comrade Narayan Sanyal (Bijoy), abducted by the APSIB from Raipur andkept in illegal custody for the next six days. He was produced by the policeon 3 January in Kothagudem court of Khammam district, AP after protestsby civil rights organisations


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200602-01-2006 12 Adivasi peasants opposing forced displacement are martyred in police

firing in Kalinganagar, Jajpur district of Odisha, while forty others are injured.The dead included a 13-year old boy and three women. Many of them werecaught, tortured and later killed by the police as was evident from theirmutilated bodies. The Adivasis were protesting the construction of a boundarywall at the site of a proposed Tata steel factory

06-02-2006 Kotha Cheruvu Ambush, in Konta area of the undivided Dantewada district(presently in Sukma district) of Chhattisgarh. Nine personnel of Naga PoliceBattalion annihilated and nine severely injured when PLGA attacked theirvehicle on patrol

09-02-2006 PLGA conducts ‘Operation Akash’ – a surprise raid on the explosives depotof National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) located in KailashNagar near Eerralu village, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh. PLGAannihilated eight CRPF jawans and seized 19 tonnes of explosives and 15weapons. For the first time in its history, PLGA could seize such a largeamount of explosives from the enemy while hundreds of militia memberscarried it off to safety

25-02-2006 An Anti-Mining Struggle Committee is formed by the people from 35 villagesof Vishakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh in a meeting attended bythousands of Adivasi people. They opposed the proposal to open bauxitemining by Jindal company in the area and a resolution is passed to fight it tothe end. They demanded the implementation of 1/70 Act that recognisesthe Adivasi people’s right over their land and forests

28-02-2006 In an ambush between Errabore and Darbhagudem villages of Dantewada,Chhattisgarh, PLGA attacked a truck travelling in a convoy carrying notoriousSalwa Judum goons to a meeting at Dornapal town organised by MahendraKarma and the district administration. 28 SJ mercenaries were annihilated,41 were injured while 60 more were arrested and later let off by PLGA with awarning. A massive blow is dealt to SJ

24-03-2006 PLGA’s R Udayagiri Multiple Raid. An Orissa Special Armed Police (OSAP)camp, police station, treasury, sub-jail and communication tower in the tehsilheadquarter of R Udayagiri town, Ganjam district, Odisha were attacked.34 modern weapons and large quantities of ammunition were seized. 17revolutionary activists and militia members were freed from the sub-jail. Threepolicemen died in the raid

16-04-2006 Murkinar Raid (‘Operation Maapana Diyya’ or ‘Wiping Out Day’ in Koya).PLGA fighters took by surprise the 30 CAF personnel and 30 SPOs inMurkinar camp, Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh by seizing a bus and alightingon it in broad daylight and starting a daring frontal assault. 4 CAF personneland 7 SPOs died while the rest ran away. 45 modern weapons were seized

25-05-2006 Singur struggle begins against the takeover of nearly one thousand acres ofagricultural land by the government for a Tata car factory in Hoogly districtof West Bengal. On this day, the masses prevent Tata officials from carryingout a survey of the land. Using the draconian Land Acquisition Act of 1894,a colonial vintage, the government threatened to displace over eleven thousandpeasant landowners and several thousand sharecroppers and agricultural


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labourers dependant on the land. Rajkumar Bhul, Tapasi Malik and a fewothers are martyred in the struggle. The resilient resistance of the Singurpeasants under the banner of Krishi Jami Bachao Committee subsequentlyforced the ‘Marxist’ WB government of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya to backtrackand the Tatas to shift the project to fascist Narendra Modi’s Gujarat

01-06-2006 Kiriburu Ambush. PLGA exploded a mini bus carrying CRPF personnelnear Kiriburu village of Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. 11 CRPF personnelalong with three members of its bomb detection squad and a state policeconstable died

16-06-2006 Martyrdom of Comrade Matta Ravi Kumar (Sridhar), APSC member, alongwith three other comrades in Nallamala forest of Prakasham district in APin an operation carried out by AP Grey Hounds

16-07-2006 A combined force of about a thousand PLGA and Jan Militia membersattacked the Errabore Salwa-Judum camp, Errabore village, Dantewadadistrict, Chhattisgarh, where hundreds of villagers were forcibly confined bythe government armed forces, Salwa Judum goons and ‘Special Police Officers’(SPOs). In all, 31 SJ goons and SPOs were annihilated while 20 were injured.It was another massive blow to the fascist Salwa Judum campaign

23-07-2006 APSC Secretary Comrade Burra Chinnayya (Madhav) martyred along withfive comrades in Daraboinapenta encounter, Nallamala forest, Prakashamdistrict, AP

17-09-2006 DKSZCM and Gadchiroli Division Secretary Comrade Vikas (Shivanna)martyred in a fake encounter in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh

06-10-2006 APSCM and Nallamala DVCS Comrade Sudarshan martyred in a fakeencounter at Gonpalli, AP

07-10-2006 Comrade Budhini Munda (Sheila), Central Committee member, arrested atRourkela in Odisha by the Jharkhand and Odisha police in a joint operation

10-11-2006 APSCM Comrade Raghavulu and seven other comrades martyred in Badwelcovert operation, Badwel forest, Cuddapah district, AP

24-11-2006 Comrade Goutham, AOBSZCM and CTCM, martyred in a fake encounterat Ramavaram, East Godavari district, AP

02-12-2006 Bokaro Two-Person Ambush. On the day of the sixth anniversary of PLGA’sformation, a two-member PLGA team blasted a CRPF vehicle with IEDnear Bokaro Thermal Plant, Bokaro district, Jharkhand. 15 of the 16policemen travelling in the vehicle annihilated

08-12-2006 Vidharbha Bandh called by the Party to protest against the heinous murderof four members of a Dalit family in Khairlanji village of Mohadi Taluka inBhandara district of Maharashtra on 29 September 2006 and against thecontinuing farmer’s suicides in the districts of Vidharbha

27-12-2006 Comrade Vadkapur Chandramouli (BK), CCM and CMCM, martyred in afake encounter along with his life partner Comrade Vijaya Lakshmi (Karuna)after being abducted by AP police while they were on their way to the UnityCongress-9th Congress


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200704-01-2007 Nandigram movement against the forcible takeover of over 14,000 acres land

by the government for a number of proposed industrial projects including a‘mega chemical hub’ by Salem group of companies of Indonesia begins inWest Bengal. Two days after the formal notification was issued on 2 January,the people of the area rose up in a militant armed resistance under the bannerof Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) against the attempts of thegovernment and private goons to take possession of the land. They chasedout the civil administration, the police and CPI(M) goons from large partsof Nandigram and Khejuri blocks. On 14 March, at least 17 protestors aremurdered by the police in indiscriminate firing to break the resistance. Laterin the year, on 11 November more than 5000 armed goons of CPI(M) attackNandigram supported by police-paramilitary forces in a bid to ‘recapture’the area which the people were controlling since the beginning of themovement. Widespread killing, rape, arson and brutalities are committed.Three days later, lakhs of people participated in a massive protest rally inKolkata against CPI(M)-led government, demanding a stop to the carnagein Nandigram. The West Bengal government was finally forced to withdrawthe project bowing to the people’s resistance

19-02-2007 Declaration of the successful completion of the historic Unity Congress-9th

Congress of CPI(Maoist). This was the culmination of a year-long processof ideological-political-organisational campaign by conducting conferencesfrom Area to State level of the entire party

04-03-2007 Baghadia Action. PLGA annihilated Member of Parliament (MP) fromTatanagar Sunil Mahato, his two bodyguards and a local leader of JMM atBaghadia village in Ghatsila, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. The MPwas leading the counter-revolutionary ‘Sendra’ campaign from the front. Hewas directly responsible for the murder of 13 comrades at Lango village inSeptember 2003 and many other revolutionaries

15-03-2007 Ranibodili short surprise attack. PLGA conducted an ambush on a schoolbuilding that was converted into a fortified police camp in Ranibodili villageof Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh. Of the 76 CAF personnel and SPOs stationedthere, 55 were wiped out and 12 were wounded. 33 weapons and other warmaterial were seized. None of the students residing in the school complexwere harmed. Six comrades including West Bastar Division C-in-C ComradeMohan (Chapa Gujja) and two Section Commanders of Company-2 weremartyred. This attack became a significant milestone in the eventual defeatof SJ. It also brought new lessons in successfully breaking through enemy’scarpet security

01-05-2007 Anti-Revisionist Declaration, called the ‘Declaration to Reaffirm theSignificance and Relevance of the Anti-Revisionist struggle and the GPCR’,issued by several communist parties and organizations of the world includingCPI(Maoist)


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22-06-2007 Comrade Sande Rajamouli (Prasad), CCM and KNSC Secretary, martyredin a fake encounter near Dharmavaram, Ananthapur district, AP

26-06-2007 Two-day All India economic blockade called by CPI(Maoist) to protest againstdisplacement, SEZ and pro-imperialist policies of the government

30-06-2007 PLGA conducted short surprise twin raids on police outposts at Rajpur andBaghela in Rohtas district, Bihar. A total of seven policemen died in a seriesof encounters that ensued. One PLGA comrade was martyred

01-07-2007 NTSZCM Comrade Somanna (Papayya) martyred in fake encounter nearTadwai, Warangal district, AP

09-07-2007 Urpalmetta Ambush, a landmark in PLGA history. Policemen from Erraborecamp in Konta, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh attacked Maraiguda village.Houses were razed down and the property of the villagers looted. PLGA’sCompany-3 located one and half an hour away from the village received thenews and pursued the enemy forces. 24 policemen were wiped out after fierceclose-quarter combat, while one member of PLGA’s Platoon-4 was martyred.22 weapons were seized.

15-08-2007 CCM Comrade Parimal Sen (Ajayda) martyred due to cerebral malaria whichinfected him while in a guerrilla zone

20-08-2007 Greyhound commandos of AP Police attacked Vakapalli village inVishakhapatnam district of AP and raped 11 Adivasi women as a part of itswhite teror campaign

29-08-2007 Tadimetla ambush by PLGA. 12 CRPF jawans of a road opening party werewiped out near Tadimetla village under Chintaguppa PS, Dantewda district,Chhattisgarh. Nine weapons were seized. Some PLGA comrades sustainedinjuries

16-12-2007 Dantewada Jailbreak. Of the nearly 350 to 400 inmates locked-up inDantewada district jail, Chhattisgarh, 299 led by Maoist inmates broke free.Many of them were mass organisation members and common people framedin Maoist-related cases. The Maoist prisoners seized six weapons from theprison guards, escaped in broad daylight from the headquarter town andrejoined their comrades in the forests

17-12-2007 Comrade Malla Raji Reddy (Sattenna), arrested along with comrade Sugunaat Ernakulam of Keralam by APSIB in cohorts with Kerala Police

2008

13-02-2008 to15-02-2008 Martyrdom of Comrade Sukanta, SCM, and seven othercomrades at Ranijharna near Bhitar Amda village under Dumaria policestation, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. They were caught in a covertoperation, severely tortured and murdered by a joint team of the counter-


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revolutionary killer gang Nagarik Suraksha Samiti (Nasus) and CRPF. A 24-hour Jharkhand Bandh was successfully observed against this brutal killing

16-02-2008 Nayagarh Raid (‘Operation Ropeway’), another striking accomplishment ofthe Indian people’s war. PLGA’s main force, secondary force and base forceconducted this daring daylight raid on the district headquarter town ofNayagarh, located less than a hundred kilometres from the state capitalBhubaneswar. Six enemy establishments including the district armoury, policetraining school and its armoury, three police stations including Nayagarhtown PS and a police outpost were attacked with lightening speed. PLGAheld the town for two hours and eliminated 14 policemen who retaliated.PLGA suffered no casualties. It retreated with a haul of 1200 weapons and1.75 lakh rounds of ammunition. Some of it had to be destroyed duringretreat. Two PLGA fighters were martyred the next day in an encounter withthe police, which resulted in the death of three policemen including one IPSofficer. The political and military objectives of the movement – to expand toa new area in order to connect two guerrilla zones and to apply the elementsof mobile warfare within guerrilla warfare – were given a boost by the raid

11-03-2008 Comrade Jagabandhu (Komma), AOBSZC member, martyred in a fakeencounter

18-03-2008 Kanchala encounter. 18 comrades of DK and NT died in an enemy operationin Kanchala forest near Darelli village in Pamedu tehsil, Bijapur district ofChhattisgarh – the largest number of Maoists killed by the state in a singleincident. A Bandh of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh states was called onby DKSZC and NTSZC 26 March to protest against the killings

01-04-2008 Garwah fake encounter. Eight Maoists including one sub-zonal committeemember and two ACMs are martyred in near Bandu village in Makhhatuforest of Garwah, Jharkhand when CRPF and state police forces surroundedthe comrades in their sleep and fired indiscriminately. Jharkhand Bandhcalled by BJSAC on 16 April against the Garwah killing and recent fakeencounters in East Singhbhum and Hazaribagh districts of the state

12-04-2008 Comrade Anuradha Ghandy, CCM, martyred due to falciperum malaria

13-04-2008 Jhajha Raid. PLGA conducted a surprise attack on Jhajha town policestation, Jamui district, Bihar. The 60 odd policemen could offer little resistanceand before the several RPF, SAF, CRPF and BMP camps in the town couldreact, 42 weapons and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition wereseized. Four policemen died in the action

14-05-2008 Six Maoist guerrillas were martyred near Lambani Maddhai village underSirdhala police station in Nawada district of Bihar in a surprise attack bythe police on a guerrilla camp. A policeman was injured in retaliatory fire

15-05-2008 BJSAC calls Bandh of Bihar and Jharkhand protesting against the arrest ofPolitburo member comrade Pramod Mishra on 9 May and demanding hisunconditional release

28-05-2008 Comrade Ranadev, AOBSZC member and Regional Company-1 commander,martyred during an ambush on the AP Greyhound forces

16-06-2008 Tellarayi ambush. PLGA carried out a massive IED blast at Tellarayi on theroad from Balimela to Motu in Malkangiri district of Oddisha. The MPV in


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which SOG commandos of Odisha police were travelling, was completelydestroyed and 17 policemen were killed. Six AK-47 rifles with ammunitionswere seized

26-06-2008 'All India Anti-Repression Week' called by CPI(Maoist) begins. On this daythe countrywide Emergency was imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975. Theprogramme culminated in a Bharat Bandh on July 2, which was also calledto protest against the counter-revolutionary suppression-and-eliminationcampaign of the India government against the Maoist movement

29-06-2008 Balimela ambush. Red guerrillas conducted a surprise attack on theGreyhound commandos of AP police who were returning on a motorboatafter carrying out an anti-Maoist combing operation in Malkangiri districtinside Odisha. PLGA fired on the policemen travelling in a motorboat as itwas crossing the Balimela reservoir on the Sileru river. The sudden firingand the consequent commotion led to its capsize. In all, 42 policemen diedwhile 24 were injured. 38 of the dead were Greyhound commandos. PLGAhanded down the single biggest loss in the history of this brutal mercenaryGreyhound force

22-07-2008 Bandh called by CPI(Maoist) in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengaland Odisha against Indo-US Nuclear Deal and horse-trading of MPs

23-08-2008 PLGA carries out an attack on the Ashram of the Hindu-fascist leaderLaxmananand Saraswati at Jalestapet on the borders of Kandhamal andKalahandi districts, Odisha. He was the lynchpin of the forcible conversionof adivasis into Hinduism and heinous persecution of Christians inKandhamal, spreading fascist terror with killings and razing down of nearly400 churches. Laxmananand and four other members of his gang wereannihilated by a Special Action Team of the PLGA

29-08-2008 Burudi Ambush. A police jeep was blasted with IED by PLGA near Burudidam, a tourist place about 7 km from Ghatsila in Jharkhand. Eleven policemendied in the attack

29-08-2008 Tadimetla ambush. More than one hundred comrades of PLGA’s main forceand a large number of base force attacked a road opening party of CAF, DFand SPOs. 12 policemen died and 4 were seriously injured

19-09-2008 More than two hundred Adivasis led by Maoists hoisted red flags and seized264 hectares of land of the Kumkumpudi Coffee Estate in Vishakha AgencyArea, AOB

27-10-2008 Comrade Venkat Rao (Mastan Rao), APSCS, martyred in a fake encounterwith comrade Prasanna in Vijayanagaram district, AP while comrade ThotaGangadhar (Ramchandar) APSCM, was martyred along with comrade Saritain Vellatur fake encounter, Prakasham district, AP

02-11-2008 PLGA exploded a landmine at Kalaichandi near Salboni in PaschimMedinipur district targeting the convoy of the West Bengal Chief MinisterBuddhadeb Bhattacharya, union minister for Steel, Fertilizers and ChemicalsRamvilas Paswan and industrialist Sajjan Jindal. The CM was returningafter laying the foundation stone for a 35,000 crore rupee mega steel plant tobe built on 4,500 acres of land by the Jindals (JSW Bengal Steel Limited).The CM escaped narrowly while six policemen sustained minor injuries in


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the blast. In the name of apprehending the Maoists responsible for the blast,the police and paramilitary forces pounced on the villagers of Lalgargh inthe next few days with their usual ferociousness – beating, abusing, molestingand arresting them brutally. But they did not expect the eruption of a militantopposition from the outraged masses against their repression and CPI(M)’ssocial-fascist rule. Led by the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities(PCAPA), this movement turned into an unprecedented mass upsurge againstthe Indian ruling classes and their lickspittle CPI(M). The people ofJangalmahal kept up the struggle against the Joint Forces of the central andstate governments and the Harmads of CPI(M) for more than three years,inspiring the entire country with their revolutionary fighting spirit, courageand sacrifice

14-11-2008 PLGA fired upon a Russia-made MI-8 Air Force helicopter. It was takingoff after dropping election officials from the helipad of a temporary CRPFcamp at Pidiya village of Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh during the first phaseof the 2008-09 assembly elections. A flight engineer died and three policemenwere wounded, while the chopper sustained some damage. This was thefirst time in the history of the country’s PPW that a personnel of the enemy'sarmed forces died in a PLGA attack on its helicopters

2009

08-01-2009 Singaram massacre, South Bastar Division, DK. 18 adivasi villagers killedby the police in cold blood. Six women among them are raped before beingmurdered

26-01-2009 CPI(Maoist) calls a Black Day and Bharat Bandh on the so-called RepublicDay to protest against the massacre of 18 Adivasis in Sinagaram of SouthBastar, Chhattisgarh

26-01-2009 In a surprise daylight raid on the Jamui district court in Jamui town, Bihar,PLGA freed ten prisoners from the clutches of the enemy, two of whomwere party activists

01-02-2009 Markanar ambush. PLGA attacked a police patrol in Markanar village underMurungaon PS in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra. The enemy forces keptan old villager and a boy hostage to save themselves, but both were rescuedby PLGA without harm. 15 policemen were wiped out and 16 modernweapons were seized

09-02-2009 Mahuliatand Attack (‘Operation Dhamaka’). 10 SAP and BMP personneldied and three were injured in an attack by PLGA’s action team on a groupof policemen visiting a village carnival near Mahuliatand village, Navadadistrict of Bihar on the Bihar-Jharkhand border. Fifteen weapons were seizedfrom the enemy

28-02-2009 A Bandh of four states Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha called byCPI(Maoist) to protest against the arrest of comrade Ashutosh, CCM andCMC member on 25 February by Jharkhand police


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10-04-2009 Minpa opportunity ambush. A police team attacked Minpa village inJegurugonda area of Dantewada district with the aim of terrorising the peopleand to compel them to vote. PLGA conducted an attack with battalion-strength force and wiped out eleven policemen including a CRPF deputycommandant. A large number of enemy reinforcement was also successfullyrepulsed. Six weapons and other war material seized. PLGA Company-3’sDeputy Commander Comrade Chandu and three other comrades martyredwhile heroically taking on the enemy

12-04-2009 Damanjodi (Nalco) raid. PLGA conducts a midnight raid on the CRPF campestablished for the protection of explosives of Nalco’s Damanjodi bauxitemines in Koraput district of Odisha. In ten hours of battle, ten CRPFpersonnel die while six are injured. 11 semi-automatic rifles and a largeamount of gelatine are seized. Four PLGA comrades are martyred duringthe raid

22-04-2009 Bihar-Jharkhand Bandh called by CPI(Maoist) to protest against the gruesomekilling of five villagers by paramilitary personnel in a killing spree afterPLGA guerillas wiped out two CRPF men in a landmine blast on 15 April inBarhania forests of Latehar district, Jharkhand. CRPF men went to theBarhania village, took custody of five tribal villagers at random and shotthem dead, later claiming that five Naxals were shot dead in a ‘fierceencounter’

10-05-2009 Mandagiri opportunity ambush. This ambush was conducted by the PLGAwith a battalion-level force between Mandagiri and Sanbahar villages in theMainpur forests of Dhamtari district, Chhattisgarh, which falls in the outercircle of DK Special Zone. 13 STF policemen travelling in a vehicle diedwhile eight were injured. 8 weapons, 7 grenades and 386 bullets were seized.The attack helped in the expansion of the revolutionary movement and inopening a new battlefront in DK, forcing the enemy to decentralise and scatterits troops

21-05-2009 Tavvetola ambush. PLGA conducts a daring ambush on a patrol party of C-60 commandos on the Nagpur-Rajnandgaon inter-state highway nearTavvetola village in Dhanora taluq, Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. 16policemen including a TI and a SI are wiped out. 16 modern weapons areseized

24-05-2009 Comrade Patel Sudhakar (Vikas), CC member and People’s Security Service(PSS) Director, martyred in Tadavi fake encounter, Warangal district, APalong with comrade Venkatayya, DC member working in PSS department

12-06-2009 The Party calls a 24-hour Bharat Bandh against the cold-blooded murder ofcomrades Patel Sudhakar and Venkatayya by AP SIB, demanding thepunishment of the perpetrators

12-06-2009 Phusro-Kodvadih coordinated ambush. Eight PLGA assault teams attackeda police patrol party in Phusro town of Bokaro district, Jharkhand. Fourweapons and ammunition were seized from them. 24 policemen fromNavadih PS drove towards Phusro in an MPV as reinforcement. Jan Militiamembers exploded an IED and destroyed the vehicle. Nine policemen diedand six severely injured, of whom one died later. The action put the


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government forces on the back foot, who were conducting massive combingoperations and committing atrocities on the masses in the area

12-06-2008 Beginning of the Narayanpatna mass uprising. Thousands of adivasi peasantsfrom 159 villages of seven panchayats in Narayanpatna Block, Koraputdistrict, Odisha, took out rallies and planted red flags on lands that wereseized from them by non-adivasi landlords. In total around 3200 acres ofoccupied land was distributed among landless and poor peasants. Themilitant struggle of the adivasis threw out the landlords, bad gentry, liquorcontractors and other oppressors who opposed the struggle from the villages.The seizure of land marked a militant turn to the anti-feudal struggle led byChasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha (CMAS)

16-06-2009 Palur ambush. PLGA targeted a police vehicle near Palur in Narayanapatnablock of Koraput district, Odisha. People’s Militia forces fell trees andblockaded a road to lure the policemen into the ambush. A road openingparty of OSSF came in vehicle to clear the road and stepped into the ambush.Ten policemen died, while eight Insas rifles with ammunition were seized.This successful assault greatly enthused the masses and gave a boost to theNarayanapatna movement

20-06-2009 Kokavada ambush. PLGA’s secondary forces conducted an IED blast nearKokavada on Puspal road under Tongpal PS, Bastar district of Chhattisgarh.Eleven CRPF jawans travelling in a truck died while eight were injured. Thiswas the biggest attack conducted on the borders of Chhattisgarh and Odishain Bastar district. It helped in expanding the guerilla warfare to this new area

20-06-2009 After the Kokaveda ambush, police forces in their desperation firedindiscriminately upon villagers returning from a weekly market onChhattisgarh-Odisha border in Bastar district. Seven residents of Saatnarand Kindarvada villages belonging to the Durva tribe are shot dead, leadingto large protests demanding the punishment of the culprits

23-06-2009 PLGA carries out a daring daylight attack in the district court premises ofLakhisarai town, Bihar and releases Comrade Misir Besra, member of thePolitburo, Central Military Commission and C-in-C of Eastern RegionalCommand. Planned and guided by the CMC, this attack was executed by aPLGA action team when comrade Besra was brought to the court forproduction. After overpowering the police escort and seizing their weapons,the team retreated safely on motorcycles. It was a significant military actionin that it was carried out deep inside the enemy territory and far away fromguerrilla zones, successfully freeing a leadership comrade from the courtpremises for the first time in the united party’s history

24-06-2009 Bandh called by the Party in five states against the abduction of ComradeAmitabh Bagchi, Politburo member, along with Comrade Tauhid Mulla.The party demanded their immediate production in the court in apprehensionof their elimination by the police in fake encounter. The two-day bandh wasextended to an indefinite general strike from 26 June, forcing the governmentto desist from the extra-judicial murder of the two Maoist leaders and toproduce them in court

---- 06-2009 2000 acres of government plantation land was seized by thousands of peoplein Ramagiri village of Kotagiri area on Malkangiri-Koraput border, Odisha


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---- 07-2009 Operation Green Hunt (OGH), the first countrywide multipronged offensiveagainst the united party with centralised coordination is launched by theUPA government in mid-2009 after returning to power for a second term

12-07-2009 Madanveda deliberate area ambush (‘Operation Vikas’). PLGA conductedtwo ambushes at the same site within a span of four hours in the forest nearKarkotti village in Manpur block of Rajnandgaon district, Chhattisgarh onGadchiroli-Durg state highway. 30 enemy troops were annihilated and 25weapons along with a large quantity of war material was seized by the PLGAwithout suffering any casualty. It was named ‘Operation Vikas’ since it wasaimed at expanding the movement in the area and as a response to the cold-blooded murder of comrades Patel Sudhakar (Vikas) and Vikas, members ofthe CC and DKSZC respectively, who were killed by the police in fakeencounters. Notorious IPS officer and Rajnandgaon SP Vivek Chaubey, whowas directly involved in the murder of comrade Vikas, was killed in theambush along with two SIs. The ambush gave a serious jolt to the enemy’splans to damage ther nascent revolutionary movement in Manpur Division

17-09-2009 Gacchampalli massacre. The newly raised Cobra Battalion of CRPF, whichwas tasked with countering the Maoist movement, conducted a coordinatedattack under OGH in Kistaram area under Chintaguppa police station,Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh. One batch walked secretly at night fromChintaguppa PS for about 16 kilometres and attacked a weaponsmanufacturing camp of PLGA under South Bastar Division. They caughtone villager and shot him dead. The second batch walked from the AndhraPradesh side and attacked Palachelma, Gattapad and Burlanka villages. Theycaught six people and massacred them. The third batch walked for tenkilometres from Bhejji PS and attacked Gachampalli, Etrajpad and Endapadvillages. Five more villagers were killed. Houses were razed down, hens andpigs were looted, creating mayhem. People’s property worth lakhs of wasseverely damaged

17-09-2009 Palchelma attack. In its first major counter-offensive against OGH, PLGAdelivers a major blow to the Cobra Battalion of CRPF near Palachelma villageunder Chintaguppa PS in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. Thesemercenaries were returning after massacring 12 villagers and razing downvillages in and around Gacchampalli. The PLGA Battalion stationed nearbypursued the enemy forces for hours and covering many kilometres. Six ofthem were shot dead and three were seriously injured. Four weapons alongwith ammunition were seized. Villagers in enemy captivity were freed

01-10-2009 Gampad maasacre, South Bastar Division, DK. 13 villagers are killed by thepolice

03-10-2009 24-hour Bharat Bandh against the abduction and arrest of Politburo membercomrade Kobad Ghandy, PCAPA leader Chatradhar Mahato and the murderof Adivasis in Palachalma in Dantewada is observed in the movement areas

08-10-2009 Mallampodur ambush. PLGA conducted a daring ambush just 800 metresaway from Laheri police station in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra. 17 C-60 commandos died after four hours of fighting, including the station in-charge. A large amount of arms and ammunition was seized. Gadchirolidivision commander-in-chief of PLGA Comrade Mangesh was martyred


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09-01-2010 A Bandh was successfully observed in Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and AndhraPradesh called by DKSZC and the Central Regional Bureau (CRB) ofCPI(Maoist). The bandh was in protest against Operation Green Hunt andOperation Trishool

20-10-2009 Sankrail raid. More than 40 PLGA and Sidhu-Kanu Jan Militia fighters camein motorcycles and attacked the Sankrail PS in West Medinipur district ofWest Bengal. Even before the policemen could react, two ASIs were shotdead and the police station brought under control. 15 weapons were seized.The Station In-charge and a constable were taken into custody by PLGA.The SI was released after 21 Adivasi women and an Adivasi man framedunder false cases were released from jail

10-11-2009 Massacre in South Bastar Division, DK. Nine villagers are murdered by thepolice

20-11-2009 Police fired upon a group of 200 unarmed protestors including over a hundredwomen members of Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha (CMAS), which wasleading the Narayanpatna people's movement in Koraput district of Odisha.They were protesting at the police station against the harassment of tribalwomen by the police during combing operations the previous day. ComradeWadeka Singanna, President of CMAS and Comrade Andru, member ofCMAS, were martyred when the police opened fire targeting the protestors.Several persons were left injured

11-12-2009 Gumiyapal massacre, Kuakonda, Darbha, Dandakaranya. Six villagers arekilled by the police

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25-01-2010 A 72-hour central India bandh called by CRB of CPI(Maoist) began. Thebandh was in protest against the brutal campaign of suppression unleashedby the Indian government against the Maoist movement under OGH

31-01-2010 Martyrdom of eight comrades at Phulwaria Kodasi in an attack by the counter-revolutionary gangs with assistance from the police

02-02-2010 Comrade Swapan Dasgupta, Editor of Bangla People’s March, martyred inKolkata prison due to the deliberate denial of medical care by the 'Left Front'government. He becomes the first Maoist prisoner to be martyred while beingheld under the draconian UAPA

06-02-2010 Comrade Balraj, Politburo member and Comrade Chintanji, CentralCommittee member, arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police along with some StateCommittee members and other comrades

10-02-2010 Centenary of the great Bhumkal Rebellion celebrated by the revolutionarymasses across Dandakaranya. They commemorated the armed uprising bythe adivasis of Bastar against the colonial government and its local props inin 1910 under the leadership of Gundadhur


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15-02-2010 Silda Raid. Red fighters of PLGA accompanied by people’s militia memberscarry out a historic raid on the camp of Eastern Frontier Rifles at Silda inPaschim Medinipur district, West Bengal. The entire camp is run over inthis daring daylight attack, catching the EFR jawans unawares. 24 of themare annihilated while several are left injured. 12 AK-47 rifles, 17 Insas rifles,16 SLRs, two pistols and a huge cache of ammunition are seized. Five PLGAmembers valiantly laid down their lives in carrying out the raid. This biggestmilitary strike by PLGA in the revolutionary history of Bengal shakes theCPI(M)-led Bengal government and the UPA government at the centre, givinga major jolt to their joint operations in Jangalmahal against the Lalgarhmass uprising

22-02-2010 Comrade Lalmohan Tudu, President of People’s Committee Against PoliceAtrocities (PCAPA) martyred in a fake encounter by the Joint Forces at Narcha,Lalgarh, West Bengal

12-03-2010 Comrade Sakhamuri Apparao (Ravi), SCM and Central Director of MilitaryIntelligence, martyred in a fake encounter in Nallamala forest, Prakashamdistrict, AP

04-04-2010 PLGA’s Mantriyamba ambush. A Special Action Team of PLGA conductedan ambush near Mantriyamba village in Govindapalli Ghat on the statehighway between Koraput and Malkangiri district headquarters. PLGAblasted an IED targeting a vehicle carrying Odisha’s SOG personnel, resultingin the death of eleven commandos. This ambush helped in expanding theguerilla warfare to new areas of AOB

06-04-2010 The historic Mukaram-Tadimetla ambush. A battalion-level force of PLGAaccompanied by the militia ambushed a police team consisting of a companyof the 62nd Battalion of CRPF and District Force of Chhattisgarh Police.This attack was carried out just four kilometres away from Chintalnar policestation between Mukaram and Tadimetla CRPF camps of Dantewadadistrict, Chhattisgarh. After three hours of fierce battle, 75 of the 83 CRPFpersonnel of the company and one District Police personnel were killed.Among the dead were the Deputy Commandant and an AssistantCommandant of CRPF’s 62nd Battalion. 79 weapons and a large amount ofammunition were seized. In this historic ambush, eight PLGA comrades,including two Section Commanders and two Dy. Section Commanders aremartyred. This is the most telling blow delivered by the revolutionarymovement against the enemy’s counter-revolutionary ‘war on people’ –Operation Green Hunt

08-05-2010 An MPV was destroyed in an IED blasted by PLGA near Peda Kodepalvillage on NH-18 between Bijapur and Bhopalpatnam, Chhattisgarh. TheMPV, on its way from Avapalli to Bijapur, was destroyed and all the eightCRPF personnel in it were killed

09-05-2010 Comrade Suryam (Jeevan), AOBSZCM and Central Regional Company-2commander, martyred in an enemy ambush in Samana village, Odisha, AOBalong with Comrade Jagdeesh, PLGA member

18-05-2010 Chingavaram ambush. PLGA blasted an IED near Chingavaram village inDantewada district targeting a bus carrying SPOs. 15 SPOs and one SSB


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jawan were killed. 15 civilians too died in the blast as the bus was carryingcivilians as well, a fact unknown to the PLGA ambush team. The partyissued an apology to the people for the death of the civilians

18-05-2010 Comrade Gobinda Rai (Nirmal), WBSCM, martyred due to illness

19-05-2010 PLGA seizes a huge quantity of high-grade ammonium nitrate from a trucktransporting it near Bhanupur on the National Highway 43 in Kanker districtof Chhattisgarh, 50 km away from Jagdalpur. Over 16 tonnes of explosiveswere similarly seized in Gadchiroli district two months earlier

12-06-2010 Mamayil Resistance. PLGA valiantly fought back an enemy attack on a campconducted by PLGA in Mamayil village, Chaibasa district, Jharkhand. PLGAfoiled this attack carried out by five-six thousand troops after 30 hours ofcontinuous battle. Five Cobra jawans were annihilated and eleven injured.Zonal Committee member comrade David martyred while protecting theparty leadership

16-06-2010 Dhuli encounter. Eight PLGA comrades massacred by the Joint Forces ofthe central and state governments near Dhuli in Salboni, Lalgarh, West Bengal

29-06-2010 Kongera opportunity ambush. A road opening party of 63 CRPF personnelwere encircled by PLGA near Kongera village in Jharaghati area under Daudaipolice station, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh. An entire platoon consistingof 28 personnel, including an assistant commandant, are wiped out andalrge quantities of arms and ammunition seized after four hours of intensegun battle. Three PLGA combatants, including two Platoon Commandersand a Section Commander, are martyred

02-07-2010 Comrade Cherukuri Rajkumar (Azad), Politburo member and Spokesperson,CC, CPI(Maoist), martyred in a fake encounter at Jogapur village of Adilabaddistrict, Telangana along with Comrade Hemchandra Pandey, journalist

07-07-2010 Two day Bandh called by CPI(Maoist) in the states of Chhattisgarh, Bihar,Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha, and West Bengal followed by five days ofprotest programmes against the cold-blooded murder of comrades Azad alongwith journalist Hemchandra Pandey by the APSIB

14-07-2010 Under the banner of Paryavarana Parirakshna Sangam, people militantlyresist the foundation-stone laying ceremony of a proposed thermal powerplant on 1,100 acres of wetland at Sompeta of Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulamdistrict which threatened tens of thousands of people in 30 villages, includingpeasants and fishermen. Two protestors die in police firing, while five areinjured. The agitation successfully stalls the project

26-07-2010 Comrade Sidhu Soren, Commander-in-chief of Sidhu-Kanu People’s Militiaand five other PLGA members martyred at Metala when Joint Forces attackedthem in their camp at night

20-08-2010 Kajra-Lakhisarai Deliberate Ambush. PLGA conducted a massive ambushnear Rampalgaon in Sitalkodachi forests under Kajra PS limits in Lakhisaraidistrict in Bihar in which seven Bihar police personnel died and nine wereinjured. Four policemen were taken prisoners and 38 weapons were seized

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forests of Jharkhand. Four to five policemen died and more than ten injuredin three ambushes conducted at Digha, Barwadih and Tirilposi villages byPLGA. Frustrated by their failure, the mercenary troops killed three personsincluding a Jan Militia comrade in cold blood and termed them as Naxals

30-09-2010 One Day Bandh called by CPI(Maoist) in protest against the massacre ofKashmiris by the government armed forces and in support of the justmovement of the Kashmiri people for Azadi - national independence

08-10-2010 Six persons including students are killed by the government armed forces inindiscriminate firing after PLGA blasted a police vehicle in Manpur division,Rajnandgaon district, Chhattisgarh

09-10-2010 Eight comrades martyred in an enemy ambush at Padkipali village underSankara PS, Mahasamund district, Chhattisgarh. The movement entered thearea newly and the village was a part of the expansion work

22-10-2010 PLGA conducted a night ambush near Jhatkana village under the limits ofSyampur Bhatta police station in Bihar in which six policemen died includinga SI

23-11-2010 Nine Jan Militia members on sentry duty were surrounded and brutally killedby the CRPF in a village in Jagargunda area of Dantewada district,Chhattisgarh. The militia was protecting the villagers working on their fields

28-11-2010 Ten comrades martyred in a covert operation on the banks of the Ganga inthe border region of Khagaria and Munger districts, Bihar after they werepoisoned by counter-revolutionary gangs and shot

02-12-2010 Historic tenth anniversary of the PLGA celebrated with revolutionaryenthusiasm in all movement areas of the country and in several cities

06-12-2010 CPI(Maoist) gives a call to observe Black Day on 6 December against thedemolition of Babri Masjid by the RSS Hindu-fascist gangs in cahoots withthe Congress government at the Centre and demanding its rebuilding at thesame site. The Party also demanded severe punishment of the Saffron terroristsresponsible for the blasts in Malegaon, Mecca Masjid, Ajmer Sherif andSamjhauta Express that killed a large number of people

2011

07-01-2011 Netai Massacre. Nine protesting villagers shot dead by CPI(M)'s HarmadBahini goons in Netai village, Lalgarh, West Bengal

09-01-2011 Nine comrades martyred in Badangmali encounter with the police inKashipur Block of Rayagada district, Odisha

17-01-2011 Comrade Uttam, State Committee member and Comrades Sandeep andSanjay, Regional Committee members, successfully break free from theenemy’s clutches by escaping from Chaibasa jail, Paschim Singhbhum district,Jharkhand

28-01-2011 Nine comrades martyred in Luhur forest, Latehar district, Jharkhand in anencounter with the police


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04-02-2011 Two days of protest on 4 and 5 February followed by a one day BharatBandh on 7 February called by the party in six states against price-rise, scamsand state terror

26-02-2011 Six comrades martyred in a battle with the police in Majhdih village,Jharkhand

28-02-2011 Police firing on the people protesting against a thermal power plant inKakarapalli village of Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh. 2 protestors arekilled and 34 injured. 34 huts and 14 acres of paddy burnt by the police.People protest police brutalities by calling a district Bandh on 1 March

10-03-2011 Comrade Sashadhar Mahato (Kiran), WBSMCM, martyred in a fakeencounter orchestrated by the police in Chandsora village, Kushoboni forest,West Bengal

14-03-2011 Six comrades martyred in an enemy encirclement attack in Dharmaha, EastChamparan district of Bihar

21-03-2011 A large public meeting held against Indalco’s bauxite mining project onDeomali hill in Potangi Block of Koraput district, Odisha for which the stategovernment had approved a 15-year lease to the company in 2005. The projectthreatened to affect ten thousand people in 22 villages on and around the hill

03-05-2011 PLGA conducted an ambush near Urumuri village of Dhardharia inLohardagga district, Jharkhand. More than a company force consisting ofCRPF and JharkhandArmed Police joint forces were returning from Urumuriwhen they were trapped in the ambush. A series of mines at a distance of tenfeet was planted along a 500 metre radius. Fourteen policemen died andaround 65 were injured. This was the largest nunmber of injuries sustainedby the enemy forces in a single ambush. It brought a new battle experience tothe PLGA guerillas

16-05-2011 The Adivasi people of Manyam area stage a massive rally against china claymining in Kandrum Panchayat of Dumbriguda mandal in Vishakhapatnamdistrict, Andhra Pradesh. They demanded the cancellation of the lease givento a private company for mining china clay

21-05-2011 Two-day Bharat Bandh against the arrest of Central Committee memberscomrades Pulendu Shekhar Mukherji, Varanasi Subrahmanyam and VijayKumar Arya along with a few other comrades in Bihar and against theongoing Operation Green Hunt – ‘war on people’ and the brutal repressionof peasants in Uttar Pradesh

23-05-2011 Sanbayil ambush. PLGA carried out an attack on a police party in Sanbayilof Komna block on the borders of Gariaband and Nuapara districts alongChhattisgarh-Odisha border. Nine policemen including a notorious ASP ofChhattisgarh Police died. Nine weapons and ten grenades were seized bythe guerillas

09-06-2011 PLGA conducted a night ambush on a MPV near Gattam village inKattekalyan of Dantewada district. Nine policemen died on the spot, whileanother succumbed to injuries later. Seven of them were SPOs and ferom thedistrict police. Three more police were severely injured. 6 modern weaponswere seized


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23-06-2011 Bharat Bandh called by CPI(Maoist) against the arrest of Politburo memberComrade Jagdish Master in Gaya of Bihar and to oppose the ongoing fasciststate repression on revolutionary movement

19-08-2011 Metlacheruvu ambush. PLGA main and secondary forces conducted asurprise attack on a police team travelling in a tractor near Metlacheruvuvillage on the Bhopalpatnam-Bhadrakali road in Bijapur district ofChhattisgarh. Twelve CAF policemen and a SPO died in the attack, whiletwo others were injured. Six weapons were seized

20-08-2011 Makadchuvva encounter. Comrade Ranita, President of Chadgaon Area RPCin Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra is martyred after a heroic battle. Shetook on more than six hundred Cobra and C-60 commandos single-handedlyfor a whole day, annihilating three of them and injuring four before she wasfelled by enemy bullets.

11-10-2011 CPI(Maoist) calls Bharat Bandh in support of the ‘Sakala Janula Samme’(Entire People`s Strike) demanding the immediate formation of separateTelangana state

24-11-2011 Comrade Mallojhala Koteswaralu (Kishenji), Politburo member, martyredin a fake encounter in Burisole forest, West Medinipur, West Bengal

29-11-2011 Countrywide Protest Week from 29 November to 5 December and 48-hour‘Bharat Bandh’ on 4-5 December against the brutal murder of ComradeKishenji by government forces

03-12-2011 Chipadohar deliberate ambush. The enemy forces launched ‘OperationPrahar’ on 7 November 2011 in Jharkhand. To counter Operation Praharand to avenge the brutal murder of Comrade Kishenji, PLGA carried out anambush in Chipadohar near Satnadiya on Garu Road during PLGA Week.PLGA fighters blasted a mine targeting a bulletproof vehicle escorting formerSpeaker of Jharkhand Assembly Inder Singh Namdhari’s cavalcade. Elevenpolicemen died and ten weapons were seized

2012

15-01-2012 Poor peasants and landless labourers from 15 villages seized 400 acres ofland from the landlords in Mariput village under Potangi Police Station ofKoraput district, Odisha

21-01-2012 In an ambush PLGA targeted a MPV near Bargarh village with a powerfulmine under Bandaria PS limits of Garhwa district, Jharkhand. 13 policemenincluding an SI and an ASI died and two policemen were severely injured.All their weapons were seized

24-01-2012 Police attacked Ralegadda village of Malkangiri district in Odisha at midnightand fired smoke bombs. This village was at the forefront of the struggle forseizing land of government coffee plantations. The police came to the villageto arrest the leadership of the movement. The people resisted with traditionalweapons. Eight villagers and four policemen were injured in the ensuing


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clash. Next day the people surrounded Annavaram police station to protestagainst the policemen

27-02-2012 One-day Jharkhand Bandh called by CPI(Maoist) against the proposedamendments to the Chotanagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act and demanding strictimplementation of the Act protecting the rights of the state’s tribal people

27-03-2012 In an ambush, PLGA blasted an IED targeting a bus carrying CRPF’s Cobraforces near Pusutola village of Kasansur, Dhanora taluq, Gadchiroli district,Maharashtra. They were going to Gatta village to carry out Civic ActionProgram. 13 jawans died and 27 were injured.

05-04-2012 PLGA attacked a helicopter in Latehar district of Jharkhand in which apoliceman died and another was seriously injured

09-05-2012 Four comrades including Siddhartha Buragohain, member of the UpperAssam Leading Team of CPI(Maoist) are martyred in a fake encounter inDeopani village of Sadiya, Tinsukia district, Asom

13-05-2012 PLGA conducted a night ambush on a CISF vehicle near Kirandul,Chhattisgarh. Six CISF jawans died. The guerillas seized six weapons

16-05-2012 Bharat Bandh called by the Party against the fascist National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) set up by the central government to crush people’smovements and to intensify the ‘War on Terror’ in the country

27-06-2012 24-hour Bandh called by Eastern Regional Bureau (ERB) of CPI(Maoist)covering the eastern states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha andAsom against the ongoing Operation Green Hunt - the ‘war on people’

28-06-2012 Sarkenguda Massacre. 19 villagers martyred when CRPF firedindiscriminately upon an assembly of unarmed villagers from Sarkenguda,Kottaguda and Rajupenta who gathered to discuss about the upcoming BijaPandum (sowing festival) in Sarkenguda village, Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh

11-07-2012 Rally in the Bastar district headquarter Jagdalpur by thousands of Adivasisdemanding punishment for the culprist of Sarkenguda massacre. In Bijapurdistrict headquarters too, rally was organised against the massacre wherethousands of people participated

18-10-2012 Barha ambush. PLGA guerillas blasted a MPV in which CRPF jawans weretraveling in Sakarbandha forests near Barha village of Gaya district, Bihar.Six jawans belonging to the CRPF's 159th Battalion died and eight includinga deputy commandant were injured

09-11-2012 PLGA carried out a daring daylight attack in Giridih town of Jharkhandand freed eight party comrades including three SAC members and oneRegional Committee member from the clutches of the enemy. An ASI, aconstable, the driver and a prisoner died in the attack, while six policemenand three prisoners were injured. PLGA guerillas and the freed comradesretreated to safety after seizing ten weapons from the enemy

24-11-2012 International Conference successfully conducted in Germany’s Hamburg insupport of the Indian revolutionary movement by International Committeeto Support the People’s War in India (ICSPWI). Over 300 delegatesrepresenting 28 parties and organisations from different countries participated


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07-01-2013 PLGA forces laid an area ambush near Amvadiha village in Katila area inLatehar district of Jharkhand and attacked the approaching enemy forcesfrom hilltops. A total of 17 jawans died and the guerillas seized all of theirweapons. In this way, a major operation launched by the enemy against theCPI (Maoist) suffered a big blow at the hands of the PLGA

19-01-2013 Six comrades martyred in an ambush by the C-60 commandos ofMaharashtra Police in Govindgaon village, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra

22-02-2013 Majhauli ambush. PLGA conducts an IED blast near Majhauli village underRoshangunj PS located in Serghati sub-division, Gaya district of Bihartargeting a police vehicle. One ASI, five policemen, a SPO and a villagesarpanch died. All the weapons were damaged

28-03-2013 10 comrades martyred in Lakarbandha village, Kunda PS in Chatra districtof Jharkhand when state-sponsored TPC counter-revolutionary gangmembers with the support of the CRPF and the police attacked a group ofparty members and PLGA cadres resting in the village. A few comrades gotmartyred valiantly resisting the attack, while the others were caught and killedafter brutal torture

04-04-2013 PLGA conducted a surprise attack on a police patrol jeep near Chaipur busstand in Gumla district of Jharkhand and wiped out five policemen. Theguerillas seized five weapons as well

12-04-2013 Sindesur encounter. Seven comrades martyred in a fierce encounter with theenemy forces in Sindesur village, Dhanora tehsil, Gadchiroli district,Maharashtra. One C-60 commando killed in the exchange of fire

16-04-2013 Puvvar encounter. Nine comrades including Comrade Marri Ravi (Sudhakar),NTSZCM and KKW Secretary, martyred in an encounter in Puvvar villageof Sukma district, Chhattisgarh

22-04-2013 Beginning of solidarity week with the Philippines revolution and to opposethe counter-revolutionary Oplan Bayanihan operation launched by Filipinogovernment against CPP. Thousands of people participate in programmesconducted in movement areas and several cities

29-04-2013 Seven comrades martyred in Katiya forest, Latehar district, Jharkhand in anencounter with the police

17-05-2013 Edesmetta massacre. Eight comrades including three minors (two of themmembers of the village children’s organisation) martyred in indiscriminatepolice firing in Edesmetta village of Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh

25-05-2013 PLGA ambushed Congress party’s pre-election Parivartana Yatra at JeeramGhati in Darbha division of Bastar district, Chhattisgarh. The notoriousSalwa Judum founder and Congress leader Mahendra Karma was annihilated.Ten police personnel providing security were wiped out and 23 weaponswere seized. Chhattisgarh state Congress president Nand Kumar Patel andformer MLA Uday Mudaliar were also killed. V C Sukla, senior Congress


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leader and former union minister succumbed to his injuries a few days later.15 Congress activists, a driver and a cleaner also died in the ambush forwhich the party tendered an apology. The end of Mahendra Karma, themost notorious leader of fascist counter-revolutionary campaigns in DKincluding Salwa Judum, was celebrated by the people of Dandakaranya. Itwas a response to the fascist Salwa Judum, Operation Green Hunt and therecent Sarkeguda and Edesmetta massacres carried out by the governmentforces

27-05-2013 The masses of Chintagupha area in Sukma district in Chhattisgarh forcedthe CRPF to withdraw their newly established camp at Minpa village aftereleven days of militant armed resistance where hundreds of people’s guerillasand thousands of people participated. Five CRPF men died and five wereinjured in a series of attacks during these eleven days

02-07-2013 Pakud ambush. PLGA fighters attacked a police convoy in Katikund forestarea, Bihar-Jharkhand. Pakud district SP Amarjit Balihar and five policemendied on the spot while two policemen were injured

04-07-2013 Comrade Ganti Prasadam, senior activist and mass organisation leader,martyred after being seriously wounded when the plain-clothed SIB murderersand mercenaries attacked him in Nellore town, Andhra Pradesh

27-08-2013 PLGA guerillas attacked a convoy of BSF vehicles with IED on the NH-26in Ralegadda village of Koraput district in Odisha. One vehicle carrying 16jawans was targeted. Four of them died on the spot. Among the dead werean ASI, two head constables and a constable

14-09-2013 13 comrades of the Jan Militia martyred in Silakota village under Padia PSof Malkangiri district, AOB, when the police surrounded their camp andshot them dead in a premeditated bloodbath

21-09-2013 Ninth anniversary of the formation of CPI(Maoist). Initiation of the party’sBolshevisation programme in the run up to the party’s tenth anniversary

05-10-2013 Bharat Bandh in protest against the brutal massacre of 13 People’s Militiamembers including a woman comrade in Silakota forests on 14 Septemberby the Naveen Patnaik government’s SOG policemen

17-10-2013 PLGA attacked a vehicle in which Ranvir Sena goons were travelling nearPathara village of Aurangabad district, Bihar. Seven Ranvir Sena goonsincluding a commander and a Zila Parishad member died in the ambush

30-11-2013 Dekunpani opportunity ambush. A small team of PLGA guerillas conducteda daring opportunity ambush on a cavalcade of motorcycle-borne CRPFand District Voluntary Force jawans near Dekunpani village under Sunabedapanchayat, Nuapada district, Odisha. Two jawans died and the guerillasseized an AK-47, an Insas rifle, a revolver and some ammunition. The actionwas significant as it was carried out in the expansion area of the movementsoon after the enemy forces opened a new camp in Sunabeda and beganatrocities on the people of the area

30-11-2013 PLGA guerillas in civilian attires conducted a surprise attack on Bihar MilitaryPolice jawans travelling in Sultanpur-Danapur Intercity Express train. Threepolicemen died and three were injured. The guerillas seized five weapons


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03-12-2013 Chandgarh ambush. PLGA exploded a police patrol vehicle near Chandgarhunder Tandwa Block of Aurangabad district, Bihar. Tandwa police inspectorand seven policemen died in this attack

25-12-2013 Comrade Akula Bhumaiah, President of Telangana Praja Front (TPF) andsenior revolutionary mass leader, martyred in Hyderabad in a murderorchestrated by the police which was given the appearance of a ‘road accident’

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02-01-2014 One-day Telangana Bandh called by CRB is observed in protest against themurder of TPF President Comrade Akula Bhoomaiah by AP police

07-02-2014 CPI(Maoist) called a 24-hour Jharkhand Bandh to press for the release ofMaoist prisoners who have completed their prison terms but are still heldbehind bars

09-02-2014 Comrade Rawoof, veteran leader of Indian revolution and founder secretaryof CPI(M-L)NAXALBARI is martyred after prolonged illness

19-02-2014 Seven comrades martyred in a fake encounter in Betkathi village, Korchitaluk, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra

28-02-2014 Sangdi-Kuttepal ambush. PLGA guerillas conducted an ambush on a roadopening party in Syamgiri forests near Kuvvakonda in Dantewada district,Chhattisgarh. A12-member police patrolling party was engaged in road-opening to provide protection to road construction works going on betweenNakulnar and Palnar. Five policemen including a TI died in the attack, whilethree were seriously injured. The guerrillas also seized six weapons and 400rounds of ammunition

11-03-2014 Tahkawada ambush. PLGA guerillas conducted an ambush on a CRPF road-opening party on the Jagdalpur-Sukma NH-221 at Tahkawada, near Tongpal,Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, prior to the parliamentary elections. A totalof 44 jawans from the CRPF's 80th Battalion and District Police forces wereon their way to visit a site where PLGA burnt down some road constructionvehicles. The exchange of fire went on for two hours leading to the death of11 CRPF and 4 district police personnel, while ten were injured. A total of20 weapons were seized

12-04-2014 Kamanar ambush. PLGA blasted an ambulance in which a Road OpeningParty of ten CRPF personnel were returning to their Kamanar camp in Sukmadistrict of Chhattisgarh. The jawans stopped the ambulance on its way tobring a patient and forced the driver to take them to their camp. Six CRPFjawans died, including an SI, an ASI and a head constable. The driver of thevehicle and a medical technician also died, for which the party tenderedapology

24-04-2014 PLGA guerillas blasted mines targeting a bus carrying police forces nearFarsagaon under Sikaripada PS limits of Dumka district of Jharkhand afterthey were returning from polling duty during parliamentary elections. Five


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[Mukaram Ambush (1, 2); Silda Attack (3); Jehanabad Jailbreak (4);Murkinar Ambush (5); NMDC Raid (6); Nayagarh Raid (7,10,11,12);

Ranibodili Attack(8); Balimela Ambush (9)]

policemen were wiped out. Five rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunitionwere seized. Three employees on election duty were also killed in the attack,for which the party expressed its regret

01-05-2014 CPI(M-L)NAXALBARI unites with CPI(Maoist) on the May Day, markinganother milestone in the unification of genuine revolutionaries in India

11-05-2014 Murmuri ambush. PLGA guerillas exploded an IED targeting a vehiclecarrying C-60 commandos at Murmuri village, Chamurshi taluq, Gadchirolidistrict of Maharashtra one day before the final phase of polling for theLoksabha elections. Seven C-60 commandos died on the spot while fourwere seriously injured

18-06-2014 Comrade Sushil Roy (Barunda), Politburo member of CPI(Maoist) andveteran leader of Indian revolution, martyred due to serious illness causedby the inhuman treatment meted out to him by the Indian state during nearlyeight years of incarceration in the prisons of Paschim Banga and Jharkhand

21-09-2014 CPI(Maoist) completes ten years of its formation

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Message of the CC, CPI(Maoist)to the Milan International Meeting inSolidarity with the People’s War in India

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To all the delegates who have gathered in this Conference,

To all the parties, organisations and individuals who have worked to organise it,

To the International Committee to Support the People’s War in India that is leadingthis Conference,

Warmest revolutionary greetings and heartfelt Lal Salam from the CPI (Maoist)and the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), Revolutionary People’sCommittees (RPCs), Revolutionary Mass Organisations and revolutionary people ofIndia, it leads.

We greet you especially with the joy of celebrating the momentous 10th anniversaryof the foundation of our party and with deep appreciation of your organising thisConference in conjunction with these celebrations exactly in the condition of greatturmoil in the world. The formation of the CPI (Maoist) which united the two majorrevolutionary streams in India realised a dream long cherished by the revolutionariesand masses. In its 10 years of its existence 2332 comrades, including members of thePolitbureau, Central Committee, State, Region, District, Sub-zone, Area and Villagelevel party committees, primary party members and many more of the PLGA and theUnited Front, have made the supreme sacrifice to fulfil the revolutionary tasks it hadset itself. We pay homage to these martyrs, to the revolutionary masses who havewillingly suffered loss of lives and unimaginable repression to participate and supportthe people’s war, and to all those who laid down their lives for the great cause ofcommunism throughout the world.


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For us the celebration of the 10th

anniversary of our party is an opportunity totake stock of our achievements andshortcomings. The PLGA, People’s Militia andrevolutionary masses led by it have wagedheroic political and military battles against aheavily armed and trained enemy, guided andbacked by imperialism, particularly USimperialism. Our comrades in jail have writtensplendid tales of resistance. We celebrate theseachievements, aware of our shortcomings, inorder to forge ahead along the path of protractedpeople’s war.

Comrades,

Allow us to first place an account ofthe past ten years.

During this period our party, the PLGA,RPCs and all the revolutionary massorganisations led by it have striven hard torealise the tasks we shouldered at the time ofits formation. In 2007, defeating the persistentattempts made by the enemy to thwart us, wesuccessfully convened our long cherished UnityCongress, the 9th Congress. This enabled us tofurther deepen and enrich our ideological,political unity. An exhaustive review was madeof the achievements and drawbacks, successesand failures, of the two and half years since themerger. Along with central and principal taskother important tasks were set. The leadershipwas further strengthened. Thus, our partyemerged from the Congress, more sharp in itsideological-political positions, moreconsolidated in its unity, more steeled in itsdetermination and fighting spirit, to fulfil itstasks as the vanguard of the new democraticrevolution of India, as a contingent of theinternational proletariat.

Since 2004, and more so after theCongress, the PLGA took major strides througharduous efforts and carried out heroic raids andambushes. It advanced from company levelformations, is taking initial steps in formingbattalions, and improved its capacity ofcommand and coordination of its primary,secondary and base forces. This has allowed itto attack and completely annihilate the Indianstate’s mercenary para-military forces, ingeneral at the platoon level, and in particular

at the company level in the Mukaram battle. Ithas built up a broad People’s Militia, numberingin the thousands. This has been instrumental indefeating counter-revolutionary vigilantegroups such as the Salwa Judum and Sendra,etc. where the enemy tries to ‘turn the peopleagainst the people’. The People’s Militia andthe revolutionary masses have also been of greatimportance in the PLGA’s successes in majorbattles.

This period also gave important lessonsin revolutionary mass struggles and co-ordination between armed and mass struggles.We must particularly note that this was doneunder conditions where almost all open massorganisations linked to our party, or evensuspected to have relations to it, are banned andits members hunted, murdered or imprisoned.In the midst of this persecution, fully aware thatthe ‘masses are the real creators of history andwe communists are mere children’, we havepersisted in building mass organisations suitedto the conditions and mobilising the masses inthe hundreds of thousands. We led some majormass struggles that took the form of massupsurges. New forms of struggle andorganisation emerged, such as those in Lalgarhand Narayanpatna. Conducive ground was laidfor the consolidation of an anti-feudal, anti-imperialist front. In many other parts of the

New forms of struggle andorganisation emerged, such as thosein Lalgarh and Narayanpatna.Conducive ground was laid for theconsolidation of an anti-feudal,anti-imperialist front. In manyother parts of the country bigstruggles broke out where the massescame forward to defend their land.They fought against plans todisplace them for the sake ofopening big mines, dams and otherpro-imperialist, pro-ruling classprojects


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country big struggles broke out where themasses came forward to defend their land. Theyfought against plans to displace them for the sakeof opening big mines, dams and other pro-imperialist, pro-ruling class projects. Wesupported these struggles and led some of them.This gave us rich experiences in leading massstruggles, uniting a wide variety of forces. Thesestruggles brought out the leading role of theparty and the people’s war it leads. They wereof immense help in extending the war zones andexpanding the party and the PLGA throughwinning over new forces.

Another important arena of struggle isgradually expanding inside the prisons. Severalthousands are in jail. Several Central andDistrict and sub-jails in about 20 States havereverberated with the hunger strikes, at timesindefinite, on the demands of political prisoners.Through their activities our comrades in jailhave succeeded in mobilising ordinaryprisoners to fight for their rights. Democraticorganisations and forces are also playing a keyrole in this even amid severe countrywiderepression. Support activities and strugglesdemanding release of all political prisonershave spread out across the country andinternationally. The solidarity activities youhave taken up in support of political prisonersin India were specially important and wecherish them as a glowing example ofinternationalism.

Over these ten years the party has furtherdeveloped its capacities in different fields. Ithas actively engaged in ideological struggleagainst various deviations within the countryand at the international level. It played a key

role in the formation and functioning of the Co-ordination Centre of Maoist Parties andOrganisations in South Asia (CCOMPOSA).

The party has paid attention to raise itsideological level through systematic studyclasses and rectification campaigns. Studymaterial and magazines are published in variouslanguages. Special effort was taken to developstudy/propaganda material in adivasi languages.Syllabus and texts prepared for basic educationwere further enriched. These are used in theschools run by the RPCs and for the educationof PLGA combatants and members of the massorganisations.

An exceptional contribution of the party isthat of arousing the women who are half the skyand developing their capacities in political,organisational, military, cultural and otherspheres so that they can lay claim to their sharein struggle. Today around 40 percent of thefighting force of the PLGA consists of women,though the percentage varies in various guerrillazones. Women are commanders at the platoonlevel and members of company level partycommittees.

The party has paid a lot of attention todevelop revolutionary cultural activities. Masscultural organisations exist in many States fromvillage to State level. They spread the messageof revolution and promote democratic andscientific values through multifarious culturalforms that learn from and develop national,ethnic cultural traditions and styles. Theymotivate the people to struggle for radicalchange. Their cultural messages also play therole of an instrument of rectification that attacksthe reactionary values of the old societygripping the minds of the masses. Theseorganisations are powerful weapons linking theparty with the broad masses. Apart from thesemass organisations, armed cultural groups areformed within the PLGA too, at the companyand battalion levels.

Most importantly, through the plannedwork taken up after the formation of the unitedparty, we could expand some guerrilla bases asa transitory step towards the establishment ofliberated areas. We succeeded in consolidatingRevolutionary People’s Committees (RPC) in

Another important arena of struggleis gradually expanding inside theprisons. Several thousands are injail. Several Central and Districtand sub-jails in about 20 States havereverberated with the hunger strikes,at times indefinite, on the demandsof political prisoners


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several villages in these bases. The guerrillabases enabled us to carry out strategic tasks tofurther consolidate and expand them to advancethe revolutionary war. More people’s politicalpower organs emerged in the period after theCongress. In Telengana and Andhra Pradeshseveral RPCs had been formed in the past.Though there had been a setback in these States,the people who had enjoyed political powerare fighting to overcome the situation with thatinspiration. In Dandakaranya (Chhattisgarh),several Area level revolutionary people’sgovernments were formed earlier. A fewDivision (District) level people’ governmentshave also started functioning. This is a newexperience in the history of the revolutionarymovement in our country. They are placing analternative political, economic and culturalmodel in front of the Indian people by rejectingthe fake democratic system and the pseudoreforms of the exploiting governments. Thesepeople’s governments are striving to increasethe agricultural production of the people throughtheir cooperative and collective labour whileworking very hard to march forward to achieveself-sufficiency for the economic developmentof the people and to support the party and thePLGA. Thus we march forward to realise thecentral task of our revolution, the seizure ofpolitical power through armed struggle.

Following the formation of the united partyin 2004, the enemy has redoubled its efforts todestroy the revolution by expanding the USimperialism guided ‘Low Intensity Conflict’strategy to the entire country. It nowacknowledges us as the ‘greatest threat’ to itssecurity.

Through this strategy the enemy has paidspecial effort to attack and destroy ourleadership. As you know it has succeeded inthis to a significant extent, causing heavy losses.In 2009 it launched its even more ruthless,intensive and extensive suppression strategy, the‘Operation Green Hunt’, the notorious ‘War onthe People’. A grand plan was prepared to wipeus out, employing fascist methods. Huge forces,including special forces, were trained andconcentrated. Thousands of crores of rupeeswere spent. Massive propaganda targeting usas anti-development and a bunch of terrorists

was carried out. Intense combing operations,surprise attacks on our forces, attacks on ourmass base in the war zones were conducted bymobilising a huge number of forces in everyoperation. Large scale arrests of activists of allpeople’s organisations in rural and urban areasand militia in all guerrilla zones, burning and

destruction of houses, properties and crops,mass murder of people and mass raping ofwomenfolk and killing and taking away a largenumber of livestock had become a routine one,fake encounter killings continued, destructionof our urban networks, destruction of theinfrastructure built up through the collectivelabour of the masses were combined withreform activities meant to sidetrack the people.In the face of this fascist onslaught we did sufferserious losses. Led by the Central Committee,the whole party, PLGA, People’s Militia andrevolutionary masses led by the RPCs and massorganisations, stood firm, learnt from ourmistakes, redoubled efforts and hit back.Simultaneously we waged a political battle. Westruck back exposing the enemy’s propaganda.This paved the way for a favourable politicalpolarisation within the country. Progressivesand democratic forces came forward along withrevolutionaries to denounce the enemy’sOperation Green Hunt as a ‘War on the People’.Internationally too a broad movement came upto build world public opinion against this assaultof the Indian state. This reaffirms the capacity

Through the planned work taken upafter the formation of the unitedparty, we could expand someguerrilla bases as a transitory steptowards the establishment ofliberated areas. We succeeded inconsolidating RevolutionaryPeople’s Committees (RPC) inseveral villages in these bases. Theguerrilla bases enabled us to carryout strategic tasks to furtherconsolidate and expand them toadvance the revolutionary war


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of our ideology to counter the enemy’spsychological war and gives us rich lessons.

In the wake of the severe mauling theysuffered at the hands of the PLGA in a fewtactical offensives where they were wiped outin large numbers, the enemy started taking upoperations with even larger forces. The enemywho was successful in damaging the leadershipand cadre in the urban and plain areas is nowtargeting the leadership in forest areas. Theenemy has already engaged its 500,000 Centraland State troops in these war zones and isplanning to increase it by several thousands.Drones are employed. The Air Force is involvedin a supportive role and the Army is beingreadied.

Facing these attacks the PLGA has gainedrich experiences in battling and breaking theenemy’s ‘cordon and search’ campaigns,deploying at times a force of 10,000. ThePLGA, with the full support of the people andwith exemplary initiative, bravely fought hourlong battles, even for three days, to break theenemy’s cordon and successfully defeated itsplans to capture leadership comrades. PLGAforces and people’s militia also fought back thetactics of the enemy of deploying the police andparamilitary forces through helicopters by firingon and damaging them with ordinary rifles.

While the tightening blockades, combingand attacks brought out the steel in the vastmajority of our ranks, it has also exposed therotten elements that had remained hidden amongus. Liquidationists who pretend that protractedpeople’s war is not suited to our conditions,cowards who flee under different pretextshopelessly trying to cover up their defeatism,traitors who sell out the people for the pittancethrown to them by the enemy – these trying timeshave uncovered them, one after the other. Amongthe masses some have “surrendered” underenemy brute force. Repeated and heavy attackshave caused great harm to the party structuresin the villages and consequently to the RPCsand mass organisations too. A section of themasses have become passive.

In the first quarter of 2013, assessing thesituation we face, the Central Committee hadnoted that the weaknesses in our subjectivecondition were uneven. It assessed that ourcountrywide movement is facing a very difficultcondition. The reasons for this situation to ariseare both objective and subjective. The Indianruling classes, with the complete support andguidance of the imperialists, have launched anunprecedented multi-pronged countrywidestrategic offensive to suppress our developingmovement. We suffered some losses, lost someground temporarily while withdrawing in theface of superior forces. The other reason forthis is subjective, the mistakes we made in risingup to the demands of changing conditions of therevolutionary war and leading the PLGA andpeople, continuing remnants of non-proletariantendencies in ourselves and failure in avoidingserious loses. The Central Committee hasformulated the basic tactics to overcome thissituation. It issued a call to Bolshevise the partyaimed at becoming capable of overcoming thepresent difficult condition and achieving it byeducating the entire party in MLM, political andmilitary line and basic policies, tactics, styleof work of the party and fighting style of thePLGA, lessons learnt from practice, rectifyingits mistakes and shortcomings and thusstrengthening the party, PLGA and mass baseand paving the way to advance the movement.Whatever may be the situation, we have a mightyweapon to tackle it. This is our ideology, MLM.

Central Committee has issued acall to Bolshevise the party aimedat becoming capable of overcomingthe present difficult condition andachieving it by educating the entireparty in MLM, political andmilitary line and basic policies,tactics, style of work of the partyand fighting style of the PLGA,lessons learnt from practice,rectifying its mistakes andshortcomings and thusstrengthening the party, PLGAand mass base and paving theway to advance the movement


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Grasping it deeply and taking up this weaponever more firmly; this is the crux ofBolshevising the party. This campaign is goingon and the party and all the forces led by it arestriving to develop their capacities to defeat theenemy’s onslaught.

During the past 15 months we put effortsto preserve our movement and leadership amidintensified enemy offensive. In the recent periodthe PLGA, with the support of the people,conducted tactical counter-offensive campaignsand several armed actions, annihilated enemyforces and seized arms and ammunitions.Thousands of people and people’s militia ledby the PLGA destroyed road building equipment,vehicles, guest houses, and camp offices of thegovernment and the big construction and miningcompanies. Along with starting Bolshevisationcampaign in the entire party, PLGA massorganisation and United Front organisations, wecould achieve some positive experiences insome parts and extend into some new strategicareas. We are striving hard for revival of themovement in some of the areas from where wehad to retreat. In areas where we have weakenedthe party is trying to face the situation withBolshevik spirit. Facing heavy odds and losses,we are opening up a new war front in theSahyadri (Western Ghats) border region ofKarnataka-Keralam-Tamilnadu.

Our party’s efforts to rally the vast massesin both secret and open forms against the pro-imperialist policies that served the interests ofthe ruling classes implemented by the Centraland State governments continued. Thousands ofpeople held rallies and vented their iredemanding the withdrawal of the Central andState forces. They protested fake encounters,massacres, illegal arrests and atrocities onwomen, attacks on villages, loot and destructionof people’s properties and demanded the releaseof political prisoners. Revolutionary landreforms and people’s welfare programmes wereconducted by RPCs by mobilising the massesand PLGA also participated in these programs.The capture and execution of the hatedMahendra Karma, the main person responsiblefor the brutal Salwa Judum atrocities was amajor achievement. Responding to the call ofthe party the people in rural Dandakaranya (DK)

boycotted the Chhattisgarh assembly andparliament elections and some rural areas ofBihar, Jharkand, Odisha and Andhra-OdishaBorder (AOB) people successfully boycottedparliamentary elections by resiting thousandsof additional state forces and their brutalsuppression. In areas where movements ofadivasi peoples against mining and displacementare going on, majority of the people boycottedthe Loksabha polls and expressed their protestagainst the these destructive projects.

As part of the election boycott campaignthe PLGA forces successfully conducted tacticalcounter-offensive actions on the enemy forcesthat came to force people to vote in most of thewar zones of Central and Eastern India. Someof these actions took place in areas which theenemy had claimed to have ‘cleared’ and takencontrol of. Within the first five months of 2014,spanning the election period, 63 enemy forceswere annihilated and 122 injured in 31 actions.One PLGA combatant was martyred in theseoffensives. We could seize 36 weapons and3366 rounds. It is noteworthy that these actionscame in the wake of and during two massivecountry-wide special ‘cordon and searchcampaigns’ conducted by the enemy. Throughguerrilla actions conducted constantly by thePLGA in the various guerrilla zones the enemyforces had to disperse their forces in a vast areaand so were forced into a situation where theycould not deploy their forces as they wish inour crucial areas. Due to lack of additionalforces the enemy couldn’t carry out thesecampaigns more intensively in all areas at onceexcept in Bijapur (DK) and some other parts ofthe country.

Through guerrilla actionsconducted constantly by thePLGA in the various guerrillazones the enemy forces had todisperse their forces in a vastarea and so were forced intoa situation where they couldnot deploy their forces as theywish in our crucial areas


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New forms of struggle are beingdeveloped to counter the enemy’s ‘carpet-security’ strategic network where heavilyfortified camps with hundreds of troops are putup at short distances of 2 to 6 km from eachother, steadily encircling our guerrilla bases andother war zones. In two instances, the masses,along with the PLGA or on their own with itssupport, have engaged in armed harassment orbesieged such camps for days together andforced their shut down. The role of women inthese struggles was exemplary. We have alsoseen instances where the masses either rejectedthe free goods distributed by the enemymercenaries as part of Civic Action Programsor made a bonfire of them.

In this period an important achievement inlast 15 months was the merger into one party ofCPI (Maoist) and CPI (M-L) NAXALBARI.This was another turning point in the effort toachieve unity of genuine revolutionaries in ourcountry. As pointed out in the mergerdeclaration, this gives a boost to the capacityof our party to better fulfil its role as thevanguard of the Indian revolution. The unity ofMaoists in the face of intense enemy attack hasgreatly encouraged our entire party, PLGA andthe revolutionary masses. It has beenenthusiastically welcomed at the internationallevel too.

Overall the situation we face is still verydifficult. But we are firmly holding on, boldlyfacing up to it, and pushing forward to overcomeit. Needless to say, the solidarity you extendimmensely helps us in this task. We are glad tosee that you agree with us on the need tovigorously take forward the campaign to endOperation Green Hunt. This campaign and thesolidarity movement in support of people’s warin India complement each other. Defeating thiscounterrevolutionary multi-prongedcountrywide offensive of the enemy is animmediate task before us.

Every revolution advances in a wave-likemanner. That is a law of history. In times ofdifficulties we should heighten our ideologicallevel, keep politics in command, take themessage of revolution deeper and wider amongthe masses, creatively apply the line of

protracted people’s war and develop our tactics,be ‘red and expert’ in our political, military,organisational, propaganda, training, cultural,production, technical and other tasks, be moredetermined, dedicated and ready for sacrifice.Only thus can we emerge from this situationmore united, more disciplined, courageous,stronger, more consolidated and more dynamic.This is the lesson we learn from the greatrevolutions of our class, summed up in theteachings of our great teachers. They have alsotaught us the need to reforge our ties with themasses on a deeper and higher level at eachturn of the revolutionary war. At each crucialjuncture the task of deepening the politicisationof not only ourselves but simultaneously thepoliticisation of the masses also poses itselfafresh. We resolutely take up this task to unleashthe revolutionary energy and initiative of themasses in an even more powerful manner.

Such is the brief account of our successesand failures, of the people’s war in India, overthe past ten years. Such is the main way wehave been contributing to the advance of theworld socialist revolution.

Comrades,

During the past decade a number ofimportant developments have taken place at theinternational level. We wish to draw yourattention to some salient features.

In times of difficulties we shouldheighten our ideological level,keep politics in command, take

the message of revolution deeperand wider among the masses,

creatively apply the line ofprotracted people’s war and

develop our tactics, be ‘red andexpert’ in our political, military,

organisational, propaganda,training, cultural, production,technical and other tasks, be

more determined, dedicatedand ready for sacrifice


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The initial years of the last decade sawhuge outpourings of the masses againstglobalisation policies that destroyed their livesand a strengthening of people’s wars and armedliberation struggles. The ideology of theproletariat was more sharply posed through theestablishment of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.Its wider adoption strengthened the grounds forcloser unity among Maoist forces,internationally and in different countries.Stirrings of a new wave of revolution could beseen in the world. Mainly in response to this,imperialism, particularly US imperialisminitiated and launched a massive, worldwidecounter-revolutionary offensive, directedagainst the people. This was the main contentof the so-called ‘War on Terrorism’ which allimperialists and reactionaries joined orsupported. Wars of aggression againstAfghanistan and Iraq, curtailment of democraticrights, attacks on people’s struggles, growingfascicisation throughout the world, step up ofsuppressive campaigns against armed struggles,people’s wars and Maoist parties — such wereits main features. But the arrogance of USimperialism, the sole superpower soon gotsoundly rebuffed. The challenge was met. Aworldwide struggle emerged against the war onIraq and continued after the launch of the war.Powerful resistance in Iraq and Afghanistanbogged down the aggressors and upset theirplans. Masses throughout the world refused tobe cowed down and continued their strugglesagainst the ravages of globalisation,liberalisation and privatisation. People’s warscontinued to advance. As a result of all thesefactors, US imperialism was forced to changetactics within a few years. Bush was replacedwith Obama. Talk of ‘decades of war’ wasreplaced with hurried plans for disengagementand withdrawal of troops. This is a starkindicator of the favourable situation that hasemerged in the world. This period also saw agrowth in the contention between imperialistpowers as Russian imperialism began to assertitself in the context of the US getting boggeddown.

As we all know, the global crisis of theimperialist system that broke out in 2008 hasfurther exacerbated the situation world over. Inboth imperialist and oppressed countries,millions took to the streets and fought pitchedbattles with reactionary state forces, workers

seized factories, masses occupied squares andshut down governments. Students, youth,women, workers, immigrants, pensioners — allhave come out in struggle. The heady days ofthe Arab Spring are still live in our memories.Several hated dictatorships were brought downby the persistent struggles of the people. Thisblooming of the masses didn’t arrive at realisingtheir aspirations for a genuine democracy,exploitation free system and people’s rule. Butit has stirred up these societies in a deep way.It gave hope to the world peoples. The resultswill surely appear.

This is the world today. It shows a situationof great potential for a powerful new wave ofrevolution. But there is another side to this, abitter side, one of betrayal. Once again in thehistory of the international communist movementrevisionism has blocked it from gaining the mostof a favourable situation. The betrayal of thepeople’s war in Nepal by the CPN (Maoist)leadership, particularly the Prachanda-Bhattaraiclique, was the most damaging of its acts. Thepossibility of forcing the enemies of the peopleto drop their guise as saviours of democracyfighting obscurantist fanatics and bringing theminto direct confrontation with a revolutionarypeople, of raising the banners of a people’s warled by Maoists as a rallying centre againstimperialism and reaction, of winning overbroad sections of the people to the cause ofcommunism, was destroyed. From another endwe see a liquidationist attack on our ideologythat seeks to pull down the banners of a MLMand replace it with the hollow claims of

Our party believes that it is theneed of the hour for thecommunist forces to strive tomobilise the broadest possibleanti-imperialist, democraticand revolutionary forces tostrengthen the campaign to endOGH and with a view to build abroad worldwide anti-imperialist front that is inprocess. And the furtherstrengthening of the unity ofcommunist forces world overwould lead to stronger supportfor the Indian Revolution


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Avakianism. This has already destroyed someMaoist parties, who once had an honourableplace in the ranks of the ICM. Both of thesedeviations have been confronted by the Maoistsand the struggle continues. Efforts are on toconsolidate Maoist parties and build new ones.But the loss is evident. There is a considerabledrop in the subjective forces of worldproletarian revolution, caused not by enemysuppression, but by the enemies emerging fromwithin it.

Thus we see the contradiction, the glaringgap between the potential of the objectivesituation and the subjective capacities of theMaoist forces. This is what we must confront.All our activities must be directed to overcomeit. This is the deepest need of the oppressedand exploited throughout the world, the demandof these times. As Mao would say, “We mustseize the hour, seize the time”. Our partybelieves that it is the need of the hour for thecommunist forces to strive to mobilise thebroadest possible anti-imperialist, democraticand revolutionary forces to strengthen thecampaign to end OGH and with a view to builda broad worldwide anti-imperialist front thatis in process. And the further strengthening ofthe unity of communist forces world over wouldlead to stronger support for the IndianRevolution too.

In the present situation, the objectivepotential of the world situation is faroutstripping the subjective capacities of theindividual parties. Yet much can be done to winover a large section to the cause of communismthrough their united effort. The recent years haveseen collective activities in the form of jointMay Day statements, seminars on importantdevelopments, conferences of Maoist parties forsumming up experiences of internationalorganisation and strengthening the struggleagainst neo-revisionism, joint forums such asthe International Support Committee organisingthis Conference and the solidarity activities ithas initiated. We have welcomed these effortsand continue to support them. We must nowexplore the possibilities of making the closerties born out of these activities and growingunity of thinking on ideological, political issuesthe basis for further advance.

Just as the Indian revolution serves theworld proletarian revolution so too is its futurevitally linked to how best the Maoists throughout

the world can make the most of the worldsituation and advance world revolution. We takeconfidence from the burning desire forrevolution expressed in the proceedings of theHamburg Conference, seen in its motto thatadvancing the revolution in our respectivecountries is the best way of expressingsolidarity to similar revolutions in othercountries.

Our party which carries forward the legacyof Naxalbari had always considered the newdemocratic revolution that we are waging inIndia as an integral part of the world socialistrevolution, the party a vanguard contingent ofthe world proletariat. The invaluable andincredible sacrifices that are being done by thepeople and comrades in our revolution are alsoan integral part of the great sacrifices done byinnumerable beloved martyrs of world socialistrevolution in each and every country.

Finally, before we conclude, we wish tospeak about the great efforts you are doing insupport of the people’s war in India. The newsof your campaigns, its vivid images, are beingtaken to our ranks, PLGA combatants andrevolutionary masses as widely as possiblethrough our open and secret magazines andseveral other means. When they know that theirsisters and brothers in far off lands stand up inmilitant solidarity with them, when they seeimages of protests before Indian embassies, ofwall writings taking the message of theirrevolution to masses in those countries, theirhearts swell with pride — we are not alone,our people are there, we are everywhere. Youracts have inspired us; they have made us moredetermined. We will strive our utmost to fulfilthe confidence you have reposed in us. Ourfuture, the future of the world revolution, thefuture of the world proletariat, oppressednations and oppressed people is certainly brightbut the path is a thorny, arduous and full ofzigzags. The future of our enemies, theimperialists and their lackeys the world over,is dark and their doom is inevitable.

With revolutionary greetings,

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The International Meeting in support to people’s war in India on the occasionof the 10th anniversary of the formation of the CPI(Maoist) has been successfullyheld. It was attended by delegates and representatives of political parties andorganizations from Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Galicia, France, Austria, Italy,Netherlands. Messages were sent from Canada, Spain, Afghanistan (Party andorganization), Sri Lanka, France (another organization), Greece.

A report about the action of Maoists in Tunisia in support to the PW in Indiahas been presented. The joining the International Committee by the Network ofCommunist Blogs and another celebrating initiative in Ireland have beenannounced. The meeting realized a large unity in support to the people’s war inIndia and resounded a strong Lal Salaam! To the Communist Party of India(Maoist), the Indian masses, the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army, the leadersand cadres of the CPI(Maoist). It expressed a strong appreciation for the initativetaken by the International Committee, important in the world, in conjunctionwith the celebrations in India, in the fire of people’s war against the suppressioncampaigns by the Indian regime and imperialism.

Success for the InternationalMeeting Organised by ICSPWIon the Occasion of the 10thAnniversary of CPI(Maoist)

[An International Meeting to commemorate the 10th anniversaryof the formation of CPI(Maoist) was held on 27-28 September2014. Organised by the International Committee of Support tothe People’s War in India (ICSPWI), participants from Germany,Brazil, Turkey, France, Galicia, Austria, Italy, Tunisia andNetherlands attended it, while messages from fraternal parties andorganisations of Afghanistan, Greece, Wales, Ireland, Spain,Canada and Sri Lanka were sent. The following is a report of theInternational Meeting released by ICSPWI after its successfulconclusion - MIB]


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The meeting took place over two days. It was first opened with a salute to the martyrs ofthe Indian revolution and the Communist Party of India (Maoist). After a brief introduction ofthe Committee and the singing of International, there was the reading of the great messageaddressed to the meeting by the CPI(Maoist), welcomed with applause and excitement. Thenthe International Committee, in its report, explained how the support to the people’s war isbroadening and deepening the popular support for the war, from its birth to the InternationalDays, to the successful International Conference in Hamburg, organised with the LeagueAgainst Imperialist Aggression (BGIA) and participation and support of political parties,organizations, solidarity committees; how this initiative continued and how it contributes tooppose the Operation Green Hunt, to the solidarity with political prisoners, to the support ofthe people’s war, by understanding hoe important the PW in India is in the struggle betweenimperialism and proletarians and peoples and how it affects the balance of power in the world,how much it contributes and shows the way for the anti-imperialist and liberation strugglesof the peoples and how it helps the unity of the Maoist communists, anti-imperialist,democratic and progressive forces; and, finally, how it is delimiting expression of proletarianinternationalism.

For this reason, the action of the Committee and the international support for the PW, aretoday under attack by the Indian government and imperialism and considered an important“external enemy” along with the “main internal enemy” represented by the people’s war ledby the CPI(Maoist). This meeting was necessary for us supporters of the People’s War, on theoccasion of the 10th anniversary of the formation of the Party leading it.

At the same time, the Committee has strongly condemned the state repression in India,that, now with Modi regime aims to wipe out any form of political opposition and expressedsolidarity with Varavara Rao and all the participants at the Forum for an Alternative Politics,who were prevented to participate a meeting for the 10th anniversary of the Party. Then allthe attending committees, parties and organizations present made their speech, expressingtheir support to the Meeting and the People’s War and the salute to all fighters in India, theIndian masses and the CPI(Maoist). In the speeches, this support has been connected withthe burning issues of the international situation, from Ukraine to Kurdistan, from Brazil toEurope.

A strong solidarity has been expressed to the political prisoners locked up in the jails ofimperialism in India and around the world. The detention of Abimael Guzman, the chairmanGonzalo of PCP, whose “speech from the cage” occurs in these days the 22nd anniversary,has also been remembered. In the speeches there were information and assessment aboutthe stage and problems of the support campaigns in the different countries of the world.

Particularly significant were the messages from the comrades in very far parts of the world,from Canada and Afghanistan, who although did not succeed, despite their efforts, to attendthe Meeting, reaffirmed their support and especially their commitment to make theircontribution, to provide suggestions and proposals, to strengthen their international impactof the support to the people’s war and the role of the International Committee of being acentre of initiative and the vehicle for promoting and coordinating the campaign with otherforces which, although are not part of the Committee, are engaged in the forefront insupporting the people’s war, the CPI(Maoist) and the Indian revolution.

The International Meeting – said the Committee – does not close, but indeed opens theinitiatives on the occasion of the 10th anniversary and from this podium ICSWPI has expressedtogether with all the attending forces greeting and support to all initiatives, messages,meetings that are held or will take place in these weeks. The first day ended with the excitingand deep speech by the comrades of the Proletarian Revolutionary Feminist Movement, who


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saluted and appreciated the role of women in the People’s War, the revolution, thedevelopment of the movement, the construction of genuine revolutionary parties, suggestingthat women’s organizations around the world take a front-line role against imperialism andthe Indian regime, the regime of feudal-capitalist oppression and mass rapes against women.

The second day has seen a free debate between the participants in which they addressedissues to deepen the development of people’s war, the meaning of the unity of the Maoistsin the CPI(Maoist), the problems of the best political and organizational forms to developthe support to the PW. Then the discussion turned on the current state of preparations andthe function of the International Delegation that is going to challenge the regime in his homeand the need that it helps at the best to expose the regime of social oppression and repressionand to isolate and stop the Operation Green Hunt, the repression that now hits even prominentdemocratic personalities of Indian and the Forum for an Alternative Politics.

That which is going to India is a Delegation of solidarity activists of different nature, withinan international campaign that will make strongly feel its representativeness among themasses in solidarity around the world. The majority of the participants committed to intensifytheir efforts to realize such a Delegation. In an atmosphere of unity and enthusiasm “withrevolutionary spirit and fervor” meeting has gone to the conclusion, hearing again the wordsof the CPI(Maoist) and the final part of its “call to the people of India”, which makes veryclear the nature and the stage of the great battle going on in India.

Finally, to the words of CPI(Maoist): “...we wish to speak about the great efforts you aredoing in support of the people’s war in India. The news of your campaigns, its vivid images,are being taken to our ranks, PLGA combatants and revolutionary masses as widely as possiblethrough our open and secret magazines and several other means. When they know that theirsisters and brothers in far off lands stand up in militant solidarity with them, when they seeimages of protests before Indian embassies, of wall writings taking the message of theirevolution to masses in those countries, their hearts swell with pride – we are not alone, ourpeople are there, we are everywhere

Your acts have inspired us; they have made us more determined. We will strive our utmostto fulfil the confidence you have reposed in us. Our future, the future of the world revolution,the future of the world proletariat, oppressed nations and oppressed people is certainly brightbut the path is thorny, ardous and full of zigzags. The future of our rnmies, the imperialistsand their lackeys the world over, is dark and their doom is inevitable.”

The International Meeting replied: You are not alone! We are ready to fulfill all our dutiesin every field ...

Lastly, a strong Lal Salaam, the singing of International and the slogans:

Long live the CPI(Maoist)!Long live the People’s War in India!Long live proletarian internationalism!have closed the Meeting and cemented the success of this two days.

Participating parties and organizations (in order of speaking):International Committee to Support People’s War in IndiaLeague Against Imperialist Aggression (BGIA, Hamburg, Germany)Revolutionary Front to Defend People’s Right (Brazil)Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML)Bloc Rouge (Unifications des Maoistes) (France)


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Committee of Construction of Maoist Communist Party of GaliciaRevolutionary Construction, Austria RevolutionaryProletarian Feminist Movement (MFPR, Italy)Maoists from TunisiaMaoist Communist Party – Italy (PCm-Italia)Mass Line (Netherlands)

Parties and Organizations which sent messages (in alphabetical order):Communist (Maoist) Party of AfghanistanCommunist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist)Democracy and Class Struggle, WalesIrish Republican Socialist PartyLong March Towards Communism (Madrid, Spain)Network of Communist Blogs (Spanish language)Organization of Workers of Afghanistan (M-L-M, principally Maoist)Revolutionary Communist Party, CanadaVoice Proletarienne (Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization – Proletarian Way, France)Yr Aflonyddwch Mawr (Wales)

The following decisions were taken in the International Meeting:The International Committee of Support to the People’s War in India has taken three tasks:– Publication of all the speeches and messages to the Meeting, as soon as possible– A new International Day in support of the people’s war in the coming months– Intensify the preparation for the International Delegation

Other decisions:– To connect the campaign for political prisoners in India to all campaigns for political

prisoners ongoing in the world– To develop specific initiatives in the factories of Indian multinational companies,

particularly in Europe, to create an internationalist tie between workers in the imperialistcountries and Indian workers

– To accept the proposal to support a call for women a bridge between the women’smovement and the struggle of women in the People’s War.

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Communist Blogs Network (RBC) sends fraternal greetings to the International Committeefor the Support of People’s War in India (CIAGPI) and congratulations on the success of theInternational Conference on the 10th Anniversary of the Communist Party of Indian (PCI m).We are pleased by the attendance of many militant and revolutionary organizations, andexpressions of solidarity of many revolutionary groups who, like us, were unable to attend.

RBC must recall the importance of the ten-year struggle of the Communist Party of India(PCI-m) and their struggle to defeat capitalism’s savage government of New Delhi, at theservice of foreign multinationals and the local oligarchy and to build for the good of theworking class, the peasantry and the oppressed masses of India – a socialist society, througha People’s War and towards a New Democratic Revolution.

We believe that the PCI-m and the Naxalite movement is today, and example for theinternational working class, and therefore stand as an indispensible support. We mustdisseminate and explain it, make it known to the exploited of all people and the workingclass of the world. India is a country with rich natural resources, sold by the propagandamedia as the “largest democracy in the world”, as an alternative to neoliberal capitalism, asif the criminal regime of the bourgeoisie could be at odds with their criminal and exploitativenature of people and the working class. However, in reality it is a country that applies a crueland merciless dictatorship of capital at the expense of misery, slavery and domination ofworkers and peasants.

In fact, the enormous and immeasurable riches of India are still in the hands of a parasiticminority and available to large investors in foreign corporations, leaving the people of Indiaexcluded from its enjoyment, benefit and, above all, of any capacity decision on its use. Inshort, we thank PCI-m for their struggle for emancipation of the workers and peasants in thevillages of India, and indeed of all workers, peasants and people of the world, which has ledthe way for release, the seizure of power and the start of construction of a socialist society,steadily without ever abandoning the class struggle against the capitalist class, with the goalthat marked Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto: a world without exploiters andexploited, a communist society. Along the way you want to go together ICP-m, explaining,supporting and spreading the struggle and its vanguard role, Communist Blogs Network,which reiterates its firm support and solidarity to the people of India led by the CommunistParty of India (Maoist), in their ongoing struggle for national and social liberation.

Red Greetings to Communist Party of India-Maoist!

Long live the Naxalite Revolution!

Glory to the people of India in their struggle against imperialism and capitalism!

Long live the World Proletarian Revolution!

Communist Blogs Network (RBC)

Greetings and Congratulations to

ICSPWI and CPI(Maoist) from the

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‘Day of Action’ forpolitical prisoners

in India held inEurope

Protest demonstrations andother programmes wereconducted in severalEuropean countries to observethe ‘Day of Action’ in supportof the political prisoners inIndia and demanding theirrelease. Programmes wereorganised in many cities ofFrance, Belgium, Germany,Switzerland, Netherlands,Spain and Denmark, includingdemonstrations in front ofIndian embassies. The ‘Day ofAction’ was initiated by‘Secours Rouge’, anorganisation working for therelease of political prisonersinternationally, in coordinationwith fraternal organisations indifferent European countries.Along with demonstrations,meetings and propagandacampaign too were carriedout.

Internationalcampaign for

the release of G NSaibaba continues

Galicia Committee ofSupport to People’s War inIndia and the Committee toconstruct Maoist CP of Galiciacarried out propaganda inseveral cities demanding therelease of Delhi Universityprofessor and RDF JointSecretary GN Saibaba, who iskept behind the bars by theIndian government since May.Other international activitiesraising the demand of his

release also continue. It is tobe noted that Saibaba has beendenied bail by the Nagpurbench of Bombay High Court,while the Aheri sessions courtrejected the bail plea of his co-accused Hem Mishra on flimsygrounds by upholding the liesand fabrications presented byGadchiroli police in the nameof ‘evidence’.

Struggle againststate repressionand arrest of

activists in Brazil

The dictatorial Braziliangovernment intensified itspersecution of democraticmovements by arresting 23political activists associatedwith various people'smovements. False cases basedon trumped-up charges havebeen registered and legalproceedings have beeninitiated against them with anaim to suppress, threaten andintimidate social activists andpolitical workers who standwith the people and theirstruggles. The basicdemocratic rights of theprisoners, such as freedom ofspeech and expression, arebeing curtailed. Thegovernment has even targetedpeople’s lawyers who aredefending the protestors andactivists. The intimidation andsurveillance of Julio Moreira,president of InternationalAssociation of People’sLawyers (IAPL) and his partnerlawyer Clarissa, is a case inpoint. Revolutionary anddemocratic forces of Brazil areraising their voice against the

government’s persecution ofpolitical opposition andcurtailment of people’s basicrights.

Struggle forthe release of

elderly and ailingpolitical prisonersin the Philippines

The demand for theunconditional release of theaged political prisoners in thePhilippines intensified afterthe recent death of a senioractivist Benny Barid on 18September at the New BilibidPrison in Muntinlupa City, thePhilippines. The detainee diedin the prison hospital in thethird year of his imprisonment.He was suffering from severehealth problems includingchronic asthmatic bronchitisand did not get adequatemedical treatment in theprison. Keeping himimprisoned even in seriousillness, the Benigno Aquino IIIgovernment wilfully deprivedhim of proper healthcare. It istherefore directly responsiblefor the premature death ofBarid.

This is not the firstincident of the death ofpolitical prisoners under theAcquino III fascist regimewhich is returning a counter-revolutionary militarycampaign against themovement led by the CPP, andis putting revolutionaryactivists behind bars. Ailingpolitical prisoner AlisonAlcanta who was incarceratedin the same prison died lastyear without timely medical


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attention. Democraticorganisations of the country aredemanding the release of 53elderly and ailing activists outof a total of over 500 politicaldetainees in the Philippines.We express our solidarity withtheir struggle and demand therelease of all politicaldetainees, particularly thosewho are old and suffering fromserious illness.

In India too, the livesof several political prisonerswere cut short in the dungeonsof the Indian state in the lastfew years as they weredeprived of proper treatment.Comrade Sushil Roy’sprolonged incarceration anddeath this year due to severeillness in state’s custody is aglaring example of this.Comrade Swapan Dasgupta,editor of Bangla People’sMarch, too was martyred inprison as he was deprived ofmedical treatment. A number ofrevolutionary masses have losttheir lives in prison for thesame reason. At present, manysenior revolutionary leadersand political activists aregoing through serious healthproblems and age-relatedillness in prison. We mustintensify our efforts for theimmediate and unconditionalrelease of India’s seniorpolitical prisoners on healthground so that they can availproper medical care.

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ABVP has also singled out some students’ and culturalorganisations, accusing them of promoting Maoism amongthe students. These Hindu fascists consider the growinginfluence of the Maoist movement on the students and youthof the country as a major threat to their designs. Therefore,such a canard is being spread by ABVP in order to facilitatemore arrests, bans and other forms of state repression on thecountry’s student movement. Wherever these reactionaryfascist forces bear their fangs, they must be given a fittingrebuff by the united action of all democratic, progressive andsecular forces within and outside campuses.

Successful propaganda actionconducted in Wayanad ofKeralam

PLGA guerillas burnt down a motorcyclebelonging to a 'civil police officer' posted atMananthavady police station at Mattilayamunder Veellamunda police station limits inWayanad district of Keralam on 24 April. Itwas meant to be a warning against his actsof spying against the movement and guidingpolice teams in combing operations in thearea. In the posters put up by the squad,the Maoist party appealed to the masses toisolate those who are helping the police asinformers or in other ways, thereby workingas accomplices in the subjugation andrepression of the tribal people of the area.The incident was a significant propagandaaction as a part of the renewed efforts tobuild the revolutionary movement in theWestern Ghats.

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Anup Roy’s fast unto death forpolitical prisoner’s status

Maoist political prisoner Anup Roy’s fast unto death earlierthis year highlighted the denial of political prisoner’s status bythe country’s governments even in the states where there are legalprovisions and a history of recognising it. Paschim Banga is theonly state in the country which have had the statutory provision ofgranting legal recognition to political prisoners as per the WestBengal Correctional Services Act, which was a result of people’smovements and prisoner’s struggles. Though this legal provisionexisted, the erstwhile ‘Left Front’ government led by CPI(M) wasagainst granting political prisoner’s status to the hundreds ofdetainees associated with people’s movements, including therevolutionary movement. Only after prolonged political and legalstruggles could a few of them win the status of political prisonerand the rights that come with it. At a time when the demand forextending a similar status and rights throughout the country waspicking up strength, Mamata Banerjee's government in Bengalamended the act to make it ineffective. The Bengal governmenthas also challenged the Calcutta High Court judgment grantingpolitical prisoner’s status to some of the detainees. In this waythe TMC government is continuing the policy of its predecessorin suppressing the democratic rights of various sections of thepeople.

Paranoid Kerala Police arrestsSwiss national Jonathan Baud

A senior member of CPI(Maoist) Comrade Sinoj alias Rajanwas martyred in the forests of Wayanad district in Keralam on 16June 2014. This is a loss to the revolutionary movement andparticularly of the Western Ghats.

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The martyrdom of comrade Sinoj hassaddened the revolutionary and democraticsections of Keralam. To commemorate hisuntimely death, democrats and intellectualsformed a Sinoj Memorial Committee andorganised a memorial meeting at Thriprayar inThrissur district in July this year. Severalspeakers addressed the gathering andremembered the revolutionary life of comradeSinoj.

It is natural that martyrs like comrade Sinojwould inspire the people who aspire for a newsociety – the cause for which thousands ofrevolutionaries have shed their blood. But thegovernment is keen on suppressing anymemorial programme by the masses to keepalive the memory of revolutionaries. As a partof this, the Kerala government has been usingits police, intelligence and its other organs toterrorise the revolutionary and democraticforces of the state in the name of counteringMaoism. The central and state governments arealso concerned about any expression ofsolidarity and support for the ongoingrevolutionary movement, be it within thecountry or outside. The central home ministry’scommunication to the governments of differentcountries requesting them to stop their citizensfrom expressing solidarity to the people of Indiaand their revolutionary movement is a case inpoint.

Swiss national Jonathan Baud’s arrest bythe Keralam police for his participation in thememorial meeting in Thriprayar as a student ofpolitics is symptomatic of Indian government’sfear for any international solidarity to the juststruggles of the Indian masses. Using theviolation of the Foreigner’s Act as a pretext,Kerala government wrongfully kept Baudbehind bars for more than ten days as the lowercourt refused him bail. Kearla High Court hadto finally grant him bail after finding nosubstance in the police’s allegations.Previously, the Indian government had bannedrenowned Swedish writer Jan Myrdal fromvisiting India and forced US citizen David Pughto cut short his tour of the country for similarreasons.

Through Jonathan Baud’s arrest, the Indianrulers seek to send a warning to any foreignnational against expressing solidarity with thejust struggles of the people of India, particularlyif they chose to do so while in India. However,Baud’s arrest and incarceration had the oppositeeffect in India and abroad. It has once againexposed the Indian government’s autocraticmeasures internationally and generated widecondemnation of it. It is the same Indian statewhich protects billionaire industrialists likeWarren Anderson and his associates responsiblefor the death of thousands of Indian people. Astrue compradors, Indian rulers guard theeconomic interests of their foreign masters atthe expense of the vast working masses. Theyenthusiastically welcome foreign big capitaliststo come and loot India, while those foreignnationals who side with the exploited massesand stand with their struggles are deprived oftheir basic democratic rights. Undoubtedly, suchauthoritarian acts are ineffective in stopping thefriends of the Indian people from expressingtheir solidarity in the true internationalist spirit.

Illegal re-arrest ofcomrade Gopanna

Comrade Madkam Gopanna, a seniormember of the Dandakaranya Special ZonalCommittee (DKSZC), was released from jailafter he was acquitted of the last of the pendingcharges by Dantewada Sessions Court. He spentnearly eight years in incarceration during theprolonged trials of the fabricated charges foistedon him by the police of Andhra Pradesh andChhattisgarh. The conspiratorial role of thepolice in framing him under false criminalcharges became apparent during the trial. Noneof the allegations made by the police withstoodjudicial scrutiny even in the courts of theexploiters which are heavily tilted againstrevolutionaries, democrats and the oppressedpeople. When the prosecution failed tosubstantiate their charges and it became apparentthat Gopanna could no longer be keptimprisoned under the present charges, the policebrought up new cases which were in the coldstorage for decades. The police executed seven


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arrest warrants against Gopanna on severalcases in Bijapur district, including a charge ofmurder and arson dating back to 1991.

So he was rearrested soon after he wasreleased from Jagdalpur central prison andproduced in the court. While sending Gopannato judicial custody, the sessions judgeadmonished the police for not executing thewarrants for so many years. Gopanna’s advocatesaid that all the cases of the accused must runsimultaneously and it is patently illegal andunconstitutional to rearrest a person based onold warrants who has been acquitted of allcharges. Such deceitful acts by the police tokeep revolutionaries imprisoned permanentlymust be strongly protested.

Acquitted in 120 cases,but still no end in sight

out of enemy prisonIt is a record of sorts that the Chhattisgarh

police has implicated a Maoist leader in 149criminal cases registered in different districtsof Dandakaranya. Comrade Nirmala has alreadyspent more than seven years behind bars inJagdalpur prison, during which the courts haverejected prosecution’s charges in 120 cases andacquitted her. Though the police failed to proveeven a single charge of over a hundred that werebrought against her, she still continues to remainimprisoned since the hearings of 29 more casesare still to be concluded. This exposes thereprehensible method of foisting a barrage offalse charges on Maoist activists by the policeto keep them imprisoned for long periods. Evenwhen these preposterous charges have no realbasis, the prolonged process of trial becomes ahandy tool for the police. The judges religiouslyfollow the unwritten rule of not granting bail toMaoist prisoners, particularly in states likeChhattisgarh and Jharkhand. This results in theirlong incarceration while fighting a plethora oflegal battles. It is also a common practice tofoist fresh cases on the accused when oldercases fall through at the trial. Rearrest ofMaoists after their acquittal too is a commonpractice. Comrade Nirmala’s is a glaring

example of this, but almost all Maoist prisonersface a similar situation where the police resortto such blatant illegalities and violation of theirown much-vaunted statue books to keeprevolutionaries in their dungeons.

Maoists observe‘Political Prisoner’s Week’

in MalkangiriObserving solidarity week for the political

prisoners from 13 to 19 September, Maoistsconducted public meetings in various places ofMalkagiri district in Odisha. In one largemeeting held in Raleguda village in Chitrakondaarea, more than a thousand adivasi peasantsgathered from 25 to 30 nearby villages.Speakers from different people’s organisations,the Maoist party and the PLGA talked aboutadivasi prisoners of Koraput, Malkangiri,Gajapati, Rayagada and other AOB districts whohave been behind bars for years after beingframed by the police on the allegation of aidingthe Maoists. According to an estimate, 63adivasis are presently in prison in Malkangiridistrict, with hundreds more locked up in thejails of Koraput, Ganjam and Vishakhapatnam.Speakers castigated the Naveen Patnaikgovernment for violating the agreement madeduring negotiations for the release of MalkangiriCollector Vineel Krishna, according to whichthe government promised to release allwrongfully incarcerated adivasi prisoners in thestate. The meeting also demanded a stop to theatrocities committed by government forcesagainst the people during their frequent combingand mopping-up operations.

As part of the political prisoner’s week,PLGA distributed grain and other food items,agricultural implements and other relief materialto the families whose relatives are in jail.Cultural troops of CNM performed songs anddance highlighting prison conditions and thestruggles behind the bars. Journalists wereinvited to the meeting and horses were arrangedfor those journalists who were unable to makethe arduous journey through the forested hillson foot.


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I was in class VI when my familywanted to stop my schooling as therewas pressure of work at home andsince my brother too was in school. Ihad no other way but to give up mystudies, though I wanted to studyfurther. It was at that time that I camein touch with the party. Comradesused to visit our village from beforeas well, but I was not acquainted withthem. Then a woman party leadercalled me for a talk. She told me aboutthe problems faced by women in oursociety. In 2007, I joined the villagemilitia.

I come from a non-adivasi peasantfamily. We speak Halbi at home. Mycommunity was opposed to the ideaof my joining the party because it wasseen as a party of the Koya Adivasisand there was some casteist prejudiceagainst the Koyas. A meeting wascalled in the village to oppose youngwomen joining the militia, becausetwo or three women from my

community in the village had alreadyjoined the regular militia. I ran awayfrom that meeting, but I was caught andkept locked up at home for two days tostop me from joining the party. Istopped eating in protest. After that theyhad to release me. I rejoined the militiaand worked for another seven months.On 8 March 2008, on the day ofInternational Women’s Day, I becamea party member.

Things have changed for the bettersince then. Many people from mycommunity – around fifteen to twentyin the whole panchayat – have joinedthe party by now and have even reachedthe rank of commander. Now there isno prejudice towards the Koyas or theparty in the village. Now our villagehas party organisation, Janatana Sarkarand a militia. Even marriage relationsbetween adivasis and non-adivasis aretaking place if boys and girls chose eachother as life partners. These changesare because of the influence of therevolutionary movement.

Surviving the enemy dungeons:Comrade Janu’s prison struggle

[Comrade Janu, a party activist working in EastBastar Division of Dandakaranya (DK), narratedher jail experience to MIB in May 2014, a fewmonths after her acquittal and release. We presenthere an abridged version of her account in her ownwords - MIB]


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In 2010 the party sent mefor medical training. Aftercompleting training, I took theresponsibility as a doctorunder an Area Committee ofEast Bastar Division of DK inAugust 2011. I was very happyto be asked to serve the peopleas a doctor, to take care of themand be amongst them.

After I had worked forabout eight months in the area,I had to take a sick comradenamed Vinod outside theguerrilla zone for advancedtreatment. We were in a villageand was about to move outwhen the enemy came to knowabout our whereabouts throughan informer. Around eighthundred policemen from fournearby police stationssurrounded us. We escapedfrom our shelter and hid in anadjoining house, but we wereencircled and overpowered.Police seized our mobilephone and money. This was inSeptember 2011. After thearrest, the police bound myhands and interrogated me.They asked me to reveal myname and village. I did not tellthem my real name andaddress. I thought that even ifthey kill me or send me to jail,I would not reveal any partysecret. To save myself I saidthat the sick comrade was myhusband. I asked them why theyhave caught us even though wedid not commit any crime. I didnot get an answer but the SHOtold me that we would be takento the police station. On theway I was slapped twice.They also threatened me to killme in a staged encounter thereand then if I did not cooperate.In the police station they beat

me severely. I was very scaredthat I would be raped, becauseI heard that the enemy uses rapeas a means to to humiliatecaptured women comrades andbreak their resolve. Theyasked me to tell the truth andto admit that I was a Naxalite.The SP threatened that hewould ask his men to strip menaked and take photos. Ivehemently protested. I saidthat I would tell the court ifanything of that sort is done tome and would also tell thename of the officer who wouldorder such inhuman andhumiliating treatment to awoman detainee. After this,they did not proceed. They keptus in the police station,interrogated and beat us up tillthe next morning.

From there we were takento a CRPF camp and from thereto Lohandiguda police station.There we were kept for sevendays. For the first four days Iwas beaten with belt and twicegiven electric shock. Vinodwas also beaten up andinterrogated separately.Though he was very sick,Vinod was tied to a mango treeinside the police station andbeaten mercilessly. He was hiton his knees. They pierced hisneck with an arrowhead. Hewas bleeding profusely. Seeinghim in that condition, I criedvery much and wanted to helphim, but the police did notallow me to. Rather, they tookme to another room and beatme too. The police did not careto give him any medical helpalthough he was suffering verymuch. In spite of this none ofus divulged anything to theenemy.

In Lohandiguda policestation we were keptseparately. I was handcuffedand even my feet were boundwith chains, although I was inlock-up and two womenguards were always on duty.The first two days they did notgive me any food. Theyinterrogated me repeatedly,asking me which guerilla squadI belonged to, the names of thecommanders and leaders Iworked with, etc. I told themthat I was never in a squad andthat I did not know them. Theybrought some villagers frommy village to identify me. Somedid not even know me, but dueto police pressure and threats,they were forced to give it inwriting that they knew me andthat I was a Naxalite.

In Lohandiguda, sixpolicewomen were brought tosearch and interrogate me. Theywere told that I was notcooperating, and were orderedto beat me. But none of themreally beat me – only the malepolice beat me. Police officersand other investigating officerscame from different places tointerrogate me. To all of themI answered the same thing –that I was innocent. They toldme to accept that I was aNaxalite. They asked me tosurrender and said that myfamily would be brought to thetown and rehabilitated. On theother hand, they said, notadmitting my guilt would leadto imprisonment and even‘encounter’ death. They oncebrought a pair of olive dressand told me that this was mylast day – that I would be madeto wear the dress and shot andthrown into the Indravati River.


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On the sixth day of custody, apolice officer thrust the barrelof his 9mm pistol in my mouthand said that if I did not relenthe was going to pull the trigger.I did not respond. The policewanted me to admit that I wasinvolved in the Chitrakoot mineattack of 2010 (A new policestation was being built atChitrakoot. The masses of thearea demanded that it bedemolished since the policewould wreck havoc and harassthe people. PLGA carried outthe demand and blasted a mine)and Kakkanar attack of 2011(inwhich a postman working as apolice informer and a badgentry were annihilated by thePLGA). This was what theinformer told them. He alsotold that Vinod was injuredduring Kakkanar attack and thatwe were going outto treat him.The police officer whothreatened me with his pistolwas injured in that incident andheld a grudge against theMaoists. But as I denied anyinvolvement in the incident, hetortured me. He forced me tokeep my fingers on the tableand then hit them with his pistolbutt. I told him that I would notconfess even if they kill me ina fake encounter branding mea Naxalite as they had donewith some many innocentvillagers. The police too didnot tell me whether we wouldbe produced in court or killed.

On 5 December I wasbeaten the most, and the nextday both of us were producedin a court in Jagdalpur. Beforetaking us to the courtroom, Iwas presented to a group ofreporters. The policedisplayed some weapons

which they claimed they hadrecovered from us, though theyfound no weapon on us at thetime of our capture. The policewarned me beforehand to tellthe journalists that I hadsurrendered and wouldcooperate with them. But I toldnothing that they tutored me.The police were very angrywith me for defying them.

The police booked me infour false cases, accusing meof looting and carryingexplosives. The judge sent meto jail and I was taken to theJagdalpur central prison.Previously, only Jagdalpur jailhad a women’s ward, but latera women’s jail wasconstructed at Kanker.Prisoners from nearby regionare kept there, whereas womenprisoners from Bastar,Narayanpur, Bijapur andDantewada are kept inJagdalpur.

Till that time I had onlyheard about prison but now Iwas experiencing it myself. Imet many comrades aboutwhom I had heard much.Comrade Nirmala and othersin jail were very helpful. Theytold me about jail life, courtprocedure etc. and helped meto familiarise myself to the newsituation. Apart from ourcomrades, women implicatedin different kinds of cases werealso there. At least twelveinmates had kids with them. Imade many acquaintances.Some prisoners were lodgedfor five to seven years. Ithought that I too would haveto serve a long term. GraduallyI learnt about the rights of theprisoners and how to fight forthem.

There are about 112women lodged in the women’sward of Jagdalpur prison.Almost all of them areAdivasis. 55 of them areimplicated in Naxal-relatedcases. Others had cases ofmurder, liquor and narcotics(ganja) sale, theft, etc. 20 ofthe prisoners are serving lifeterm. One of them is Rajmati,who along with three othervillagers were given lifesentence in February 2013after the police framed them ina murder case. All of themwere in the village militia. Sheis from Dantewada and quiteyoung – of my age. Now shehas to spend 23 years in jail.

All the women prisonersare lodged in three rooms.Each room has a capacity of20 inmates but 40 to 45prisoners are kept in each ofthem. A separate room forentertainment and a smallkitchen is provided. The foodis horrible. There was noadequate provision for treatingthe sick and no doctor on nightshift. Discrimination againstNaxal prisoners is evident. Iasked older inmates whetherthey ever protested againstthese conditions. They said thatany protest is responded withbeatings. Moreover, afterDantewada jail break in 2007,prisoners were kept locked upinside their cells for almosttwenty-four hours. Even whenallowed to come out, they werekept under the shimmering sun.Meeting one another and usingKoya to talk to one anotherwere prohibited. Naxalprisoners were kept separatefrom other prisoners. At thattime Salwa Judum was also


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going on and intimidation bythe jail authorities increasedwhich made protest moredifficult. Even cattle are treatedbetter.

In 2009, Naxal inmates gotunited and decided to protestagainst the prevailing jailconditions and to fight forprison reforms as well asagainst deliberate delays intrials. In December 2009 allthe inmates refused food inprotest against the prisontimings, because all day theywere kept in the cell without achance to spend time in theopen. Even morning ablutionswere to be done in the cellitself. The inmates presentedtheir own timetable. With thisone act of protest led by thewomen Naxal inmates, prisonauthorities decided to open thecells at 5 am and to keep allthe inmates in the opencourtyard till 12 am, and thenfrom 3 pm to 6 pm. Yet, everyday there was struggle toimplement the timetable. Theyclosed the inmates exactly ontime but for opening, theinmates had to shout, makenoise and draw attention of theprison guards.

The jail manual was notfollowed. Soap and oil was notgiven as per the quantitymentioned in the manual. Evenonly half a piece of bathingsoap was given for a month.They were not given properclothes to wear or coverthemselves in cold. But someimprovements brought after thestruggle.

Government high officialsand people from differentorganisations used to visit thejail. But they never listened to

the complaints made by theprisoners. Every Monday, theprisoners had to attend aparade in which they wereforced to sit either inside oroutside under the sun thewhole day, even if no dignitarywas visiting – this was doneby the jail staff to harass theinmates. This stopped after thestruggle in 2011.

Bail is denied to womenaccused of even minor offensessuch as theft or selling of illicitliquor. It takes six to eighteenmonths for charges to beframed. It takes even a longertime for court appearance, andthe jail authorities are reluctantto take prisoners for courtappearance. The lowerofficers do not allow anycomplaint to be made to thejailor or other higher officers.Written complaints are also notforwarded.

All the inmates in thewomen’s wing decided that noamount of pleading andpetitioning would work, and anagitation was launched. 26Naxal prisoners started anindefinite hunger strike on 18February 2013. ComradesNirmala and Padma led thestruggle and Soni Sori, whowas lodged in Jagdalpur jailat that time, also participated.Other non-Naxal prisonersalso supported it and wantedto join, but did not do so dueto the pressure from jailauthorities. The followingwere the main demands: (a)Regular court appearance, (b)A separate kitchen for thewomen’s ward and grocerysupplied instead of providingcooked food from men’s ward,

(c) Immediate medical help forthe sick.

Till three days no jailofficial visited us. There wasgreat pressure from some jailinmates, jail authorities, prisonguards etc. to withdraw theagitation. Some prisoners werescared and told us that due tothe agitation all would bevictimised by not taking forcourt appearance, etc. Evenbefore starting the agitation wetalked about the possibility thatthe enemy would try its utmostto break the agitation bytransfer of prisoners, puttingpressure, intimidating andisolating us. So we decided tobe together, not to inform thejail authorities beforehandabout our course of action, totalk to the authorities only in acollective and not individually.

After three days, the Jailorand then the JailSuperintendent came to meetus. They asked us to withdrawour hunger strike andthreatened that we would becharged with attemptedsuicide. We replied that wewould demand the removal ofthe jail officials and the doctorwho would never talk withouthurling expletives and nevertreated inmates in a dignifiedmanner.

A woman police officertried to influence two inmatesand to dissuade them fromassociating with the struggle.The two returned and informedus. We called the officer, andtold her that what she did waswrong. She had to admit hermistake and apologised forspreading canards against theagitators. The judgmentpronouncing life term to


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Rajmati was also deliveredwhen the agitation was goingon. To scare us the jail staffused to tell us that she wasgiven such a harsh punishmentbecause of our agitation.Government legal aid peoplealso visited us and told us towithdraw our strike, which werefused.

The jailor maintained thatour demands could not befulfilled. We asked him to givethis in writing and say that hewas not responsible forproviding what we had beendemanding. As we refused tobudge, the authorities acceptedall the three demands on 26February. But the same rottenand insect-ridden food wasprovided the next month. Fiveinmates took the food to thejailor and asked him to taste ithimself. He admitted that thefood was bad and arranged akitchen for the women’s ward.On 5 April the kitchen wasinaugurated. The Naxalprisoners cooked that day. Wedistributed kitchen dutyamongst ourselves. Wedemanded green vegetablesand special food duringfestivals which was accepted.

The inmates were forced todo all the cleaning of thepremises themselves. In May,we refused to do this work. Wealso demanded two moreteachers (there were alreadytwo teachers) and a longer timefor study (which was half anhour). We also demanded achange of teachers as they werenot teaching well.

On one of those days, a sickprisoner’s hand and feet wereshackled while taking her tocourt. She was anaemic and

very weak. We protested suchtreatment. Jail authoritiespromised not to do so in thefuture. But next time too, shewas shacked. We decided tofile a complaint for violatingthe Supreme Court orderagainst putting handcuffs. Wewrote to the SP and the DC. SPreplied that she was shackledbecause she tried to escape.We wrote to the court sayingthat the SP was lying and thatshe never tried to escape. Thecourt ordered that it waswrong to handcuff an accusedwhile transferring them forappearance. While taking usfor court appearances, the jailstaff used to threaten andintimidate us, calling usNaxals. We protested and saidthat we would complain to thecourt. After our successfulagitation this also stopped.

Previously, we were notallowed to watch news andnewspapers were censored.But after our struggle suchpractices were stopped.

The other inmates did notcooperate on the question ofseparate kitchen initially, butlater they joined the kitchen.They also admitted thatconditions have improved afterthe agitation. There was noadequate provision for thechildren such as vegetables,fruits, biscuits, etc. Now thisis supplied. After the agitation,now even a single prisoner canmeet the jailor and express hergrievances. Previously onlyclose relatives were allowedfor mulaqat, but after theagitation others too wereallowed.

We had to fight at every stepin the prison, even for such

things as the dead body of amartyred comrade. ComradeRamlal was martyred inJagdalpur jail due to thenegligence of the jailauthorities in giving himproper healthcare. We had tostruggle for two days so thathis dead body was handedover to his family. For twodays all the Naxal womeninmates were on hunger strike,without which the body wouldhave been disposed off by thepolice. The authorities wereforced to bring his body to theprison premise where weselected a few of our comradesto pay him last respect and redsalutes on our behalf as perparty tradition. They did thiseven as the police looked on.

After spending two yearsand three months in prison, on26 December 2013 I walkedfree as I was aquitted of allcharges. Vinod, the otherarrested comrade, also gotreleased at the same time. Afterrelease, I immediately rejoinedthe party. I lost my father whenI was in jail. So when I wenthome to see my family, theywanted me to leave the partyand return home. I said that Iwent to jail for the party andthe masses and not for myfamily, and I was releasedbecause of their efforts. I toldthem that I would continue inthe party. Thereafter I resumedorganisational responsibilities.The experience of prison hassteeled me further andstrengthened my conviction inour movement for a newsociety which will have noneed for police and prisons.


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[While we were listening to comrade Janu, another PLGA combatant comrade Ramejoined us. She too had been imprisoned for over four years and was lodged in Jagdalpurcentral prison along with comrade Janu. The following is a summary of what comradeRame shared with MIB]

‘‘I want to avenge myhumiliation and tortureby rooting out the rotten system’’

I am from Dornapal areaof Sukma district. I joined theparty in 2002. I was workingas a member of Company-1which was formed in 2004 inMaad, the first company ofthe party. I was sufferingfrom nerve-related illness,for the treatment of which Iwent to Dhamtari inFebruary 2009. On 5February I was coming out ofa hospital with medicineswhen I was picked up by thepolice. My brother whojoined as an SPO and was atDhamtari identif ied me.Another patient from thearea and a villager were withme. Both of them weredetained and later released.

I was taken to Dhamtaripolice station and beaten up.Next day I was taken toKanker police station andbeaten there as well. Fromthere I was taken to Bandepolice station and thence toBhanupratappur policestation. I was then taken toNarayanpur police stationwhere SPOs of Maad beat me

mercelessly. Three of thempreviously worked with me inthe squad. I becameunconscious because of thebeating. I refused food andwater in protest. One womanSPO tried to stop them frombeating but other male SPOstold her to back off andthreatened her withsuspension. Then I was onceagain taken back toBhanupratappur police stationand locked up in a toilet. Istarted to cry. A woman policeofficer then kept me with her.

Subsequently I wasproduced in the court. Eightcases were foisted on me,including attempt to murder,carrying explosives, etc, threeof which were in Kanker andfive in Kondagaon districts.The police instructed me to tellthe judge that I was carrying anautomatic rifle when capturedbut I refused. I was then sentto Jagdalpur jail where I metsome acquaintances fromDantewada. My prisonexperience too was similar tocomrade Janu’s. I participated

in the hunger strike and theother jail struggles whichcomrade Janu has alreadydescribed.

On 5 December 2013 Iwas released. After releaseI came back to the party andjoined the PLGA. I last wenthome to meet my family in2003. In 2006 too I wenthome but did not meet myfamily because they were allconfined in Dornapal SalwaJudum camp. My twobrothers were forciblyadmitted as SPOs and theywere told that they wouldbe released only if I wascaught. Now they havecome back to the village.None could come to meetme in jail as all were in thecamp. My wish is to avengethe torture and humiliationI went through in the handof the police byoverthrowing the existingrotten system whichproduce and protect thesekhaki goons.


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Bihar–Jharkhand (B-J)

On 4 July, the second-in-commandof Jamui CRPF base was killed in anambush by PLGA near Lakharia villageof Jamui District, Bihar. A PLGA fighterwas also martyred in the encounter.

On 4 August, a police chowkidarMahesh Karmali near Gomia railwaycrossing at Ravidas Tola under Gomiapolice station limits in Bokaro district ofJharkhand was annihilated.

On 9 August, 14 cadres of thecounter-revolutionary gang TritiyaPrastuti Committee (TPC) were wipedout by PLGA at Choti Kauriya villageunder Vishrampur police station limits inPalamu district, Jharkhand. It is worthnoting that TPC has been murderingrevolutionaries and the masses in cohortswith the police, including the massacreof 13 Maoist cadres in Chatra last year.

On 7 September, PLGA mounted anattack on Bareysarn police station inLatehar district of Jharkhand. This actionwas carried out to harass the enemy andto resist the attacks on the people of thearea

BJSAC of CPI(Maoist) called a 24-hour Bihar–Jharkhand Bandh on 18September protesting against the killing

of three Maoists in Giridih district onJharkhand-Bihar border. On 12September, three members of theCPI(Maoist) comrades Dinesh Pandit,Jeeblal Murmu and Shahdev Rai weremartyred in a three hour long fight withthe government forces. The Bandh wassuccessful in many parts of the guerillazone.

On 17 September, one CoBRAcommando was killed and a DeputyCommandant injured in an encounterwith PLGA at Chiklam village inGhatshila sub-division of East Singhbhumdistrict, Jharkhand. Government forceshad launched a joint operation to cordonoff the village and trap PLGA cadres, butfailed due to the resistance of the redfighters.

A daylong Santhal Pargana bandhwas called by CPI(Maoist) on 11 Octoberagainst the arrest of Maoist leadercomrade Pravil Da from Harwadangalvillage in Ramgarh Block in Dumkadistrict of Jharkhand on 27 September.

Dandakaranya (DK)

On 6 July, two CoBRA personnelwere injured in an encounter with PLGAcadres near Karikunda forests of Bhejjiregion in Sukma district.

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News from the BattlefieldJuly - September 2014


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On 28 July, the government armedforces attacked Ramaram village ofPidimel RPC in south Bastar region. Theycaught Madkam Hidma, DAKMSpresident of Pidimel and Vetti Hidme,KMS president of Ramaram. Both of themwere tortured and killed in front of thevillagers. This was a part of targettedattack on the leadership of therevolutionary mass organisations, aimedat terrorising the villagers and destroyingthe organisational structures of thepeople. The police managed to take awaythe dead body of Hidma but the villagewomen fought with the policemen anddid not allow the body of the KAMSleader Hidme to be taken away. Receivingthe news, units of a PLGA battalionpursued the police forces and attackedthem, in which three policemen wereinjured. Some ammunition too wereseized from the enemy.

On 25 July, militia members attackedtwo policemen and injured them inBasaguda weekly market in Bijapurdistrict of Chhattisgarh. An AK-47 and anInsas rifle were seized.

On 9 August, one CRPF personnelwas killed in an exchange of fire withPLGA at Murdanda village underAwapalli police station in Bijapur district.On the same day, a CoBRA jawan wasinjured in an encounter with PLGA nearReddy village in Mirtur area underGangalur police station in Bijapur districtwhen the forces were on a searchoperation.

On 10 August, PLGA attacked thepolice forces in Pawurgudem village nearAwapalli in Bijapur district, in which sixpolicemen died. However, the enemysuppressed this news. Some papers wrotethat two policemen died in the attack.

On 15 August, PLGA exploded alandmine and fired upon the convoy ofthe CRPF IG, travelling to Tadimetlaunder Chintalnar police outpost limits inSukma district to hoist the tricolour flag

on August 15 - ‘independence day’. TwoCRPF personnel suffered critical injuries.

On 18 August, a Chhattisgarhgovernment helicopter was attacked byPLGA while it was flying between Pamedand Bhadrakali in Bijapur district. Itsustained minor damage. The news of theincident was suppressed by thegovernment “for security reasons”.

On 19 August, three CoBRA jawanswere injured in an encounter with PLGAin the forests of Kodanar under Aranpurpolice station in Dantewada district. Onthe same day, four CoBRA commandoswere injured when three of their fellowpersonnel accidentally put their feet on apressure bomb in forests of Kodanarunder Aranpur police station limits inDantewada district. Two paramilitarypersonnel were attacked with sharpweapons and injured near the Tongpalpolice station in Sukma district.

On 20 August, a police constable waskilled in an encounter with PLGA cadresin Hekli forests under Mardapal policestation limits in Kondagaon district. Thegovernment forces were ambushed whenthey were returning after a searchoperation in the evening.

One policeman died in a PLGAattack on in Lingapuram village on 24August.

On 9 September, one policeman diedand one was injured in a PLGA attack onthe enemy forces in Elimedi weeklymarket. Two SLRs and ammunition wereseized

On 10 September, a police HeadConstable was killed and anotherconstable was seriously injured whenmilitia members attacked a team ofparamilitary forces in Ilmidi village nearAwapalli in Bijapur district. The two wereattacked by plain-clothed militiamembers with sharp weapons and twoSLRs, two hand grenades and 80 bulletswere seized from the enemy.


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On 12 September, PLGA triggeredtwo landmine blasts in Kanker district,injuring a BSF personnel, when a BSF unitwas taking election officials to Antagarh.One blast took place near Nagaldandvillage around noon, injuring the BSFman, while the other took place at Belodivillage in the district.

On 15 September, three CRPFpersonnel including an assistantcommandant, an inspector and a constableof the 168th CRPF Battalion were injuredwhen an IED planted by PLGA went offwhile they were trying to defuse it nearTimmapur village of Bijapur district.

On 27 September, two CRPFpersonnel were injured when a pressurebomb planted on the roadside went offnear Murdunda village on Basaguda roadin Bijapur district. The policemen on dutyto provide security cover for an ongoingroad construction work.

Enemy attacks West Bastarand Maad to disrupt 10thanniversary celebrations

With the aim of disrupting the tenthanniversary celebrations of CPI(Maoist) inWest Bastar and Maad divisions ofDandakaranya, government forcesconsisting of CRPF, Cobra and districtforces conducted joint operationstargeting Pidia, Kutul, Pusnar andGattekal villages. C-60 teams fromGadchiroli too approached West Bastarand Maad in coordination with theChhattisgarh forces. Altogether, threethousand forces combed the area. Theydamaged a school run by the JanatanaSarkar, looted people's money and seizedsome guns. One policeman was injuredin PLGA retaliation, while one PLGAcomrade was injured. They once againconducted search operations in Maadbetween 8 and 10 October.

Anti-Maoist operationsin Odisha continues

Even before Tenth Anniversarycelebrations of our party on 21 September,the State started a repression campaign inBargarh, Bolangir and Nuapada in Odishaand Gariaband, Dhamtari and andMahasamund districts of Chhattisgarhfalling under Odisha State Committee. Theenemy concentrated the forces in theseareas for two to five days. In an exchangeof fire with the enemy near Mohanpali inBargarh district, an ASI was injured.

The Odisha and Chhattisgarh forceshave been conducting regular combingoperations targeting the Udanti area onChhattisgarh-Odisha border. TheChhattisgarh and Odisha governments aretrying to close the old Mainpur-Deobhogroad and pave a new road for facilitatingbetter troop movement. They are alsoplanning to include Amamora panchayat inthe Sonabeda Sanctuary so that it would becontiguous with the Udanti Sanctuary. Thisthreatens to displace the inhabitants of thisvast forest tract.

OdishaOn 15 August, an SPO, identified as

N Munda, was annihilated by PLGA atBandhagaon near Rourkela in Sundergarhdistrict of Odisha.

On 10 September, a police officerwas injured during an exchange of firebetween the police and PLGA near theBarimunda area bordering Ganjam,Gajapati and Kandhamal districts ofOdisha. The police was conducting a jointcombing operation in which governmentforces from the three districts

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The two newly formed governments of Telangana and AndhraPradesh led by TRS and TDP that have been at constant loggerheadsbefore the bifurcation, showed uncanny unity and commonality of purposeto stop a series of public events organised in Hyderabad on 21September. ‘Pratyamnaya Rajakeeya Vedika’ (Forum for PoliticalAlternative), which has many well-known intellectuals, social activists,lawyers, journalists and prominent persons engaged in public life as itsmembers, had organised a series of events on that day in the Twin City.The occasion was the completion of ten years of united revolutionarymovement, through which the oppressed masses of the country arebuilding a new society as an alternative to the existing one. A seminar,a rally and a public meeting was organised to commemorate it.

The ruling classes are increasingly becoming more wary of thisemerging alternative. The proof of this is visible in its desperate attemptsto crush the organs of revolutionary political power sprouting in variousguerrilla zones of rural India and in its eagerness to browbeat anymeaningful discussion among the masses or any expression of solidaritytowards it. The ruling-class lackeys Chandrababu Naidu and KChandrashekhar Rao became so alarmed by the prospect of anenthusiastic response from the people to the events that they madeelaborate police bandobast to forcibly stop these events.

The authoritarian measures that were adopted for it by the two stategovernments and the centre reminded many of the dark days ofEmergency. Speakers and participants were picked up by the police inHyderabad. Many were arrested even before they could start theirjourney from their hometowns to Hyderabad. Twenty passenger trainsrunning to the city was cancelled to prevent the masses from reaching

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the venue. Some of the participants who stillmanaged to enter the city were detained at therailway station. Roads leading to the venue werebarricaded and more than thirty organisers werearrested while on their way to the venue.Participants from other states were also takeninto police custody. In all, around 300 personswere detained for the whole day across the twostates to thwart the gathering.

The denial of permission by the police forthe event with the claim that the Forum is afrontal organisation of the Maoists and the HighCourt’s condoning of this spurious claim goesto show the extent of basic democratic rightsthat are ‘permitted’ by the ruling classes of thecountry to the citizens. In the vast countrysideand in the struggle areas in particular, such rightsare almost nonexistent. In contrast, the facadeof democracy is maintained to some extent inthe urban areas, only to be conveniently set asidewhenever any genuine opposition to the existingsystem is put forward. Any revolutionary anddemocratic voice demanding social change isconsidered by the Indian state as a threat to itsexistence. The undivided Andhra Pradesh has anotorious legacy of bans and censorship, fakeencounters and imprisonment, etc. to trample onthe revolutionary movement. The two newlyformed states emerging from it are carrying onthis legacy, showing that no basic change hascome about with the bifurcation and creation ofseparate Telangana that was achieved through aprolonged mass movement.

The fight therefore is to establish genuinedemocracy in the country in place of the fakeparliamentary democracy. It is this alternativethat the rulers want the masses to opt for. Thatis why such a vicious attack on an event tohighlight this alternative. But precisely for the

same reason, the need is to discuss, propagate,support and participate in the building of thisalternative by resolutely withstanding andfighting against all forms of white terrorunleashed by the oppressive state.

Villagers protest the arrest of twopersons on the allegation of

Maoist activities

The police arrested two village youth SujeshKumar Nagesh and Ramshingh Yadav fromvillage Turparas adjacent to the districtheadquarters of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. Theywere accused by the police of destroyingrailway property. The villagers called a meetingin their village and protested against the policefor falsely implicating the two in trumped upcases and arresting them. Sujesh’s sister Sunitasaid that early in the morning, the police arrivedin their house when everyone was asleep. Thepolice asked Sujesh to come with them to thepolice station. When his mother protested, thepolice said that he is being taken for inquiryand would be released after it was over. Butlater they came to know that the two have beenarrested for removing railway tracks.Ramsingh’s daughter similarly said that herfather was a mason and he was being framed bythe police. The meeting demanded theirimmediate release.

Protests in Bacheli againstarrest of youth

On the night of 14 August 2014, the policearrested a youth Sukhram Karma from his homein Bacheli’s Patelpara. The police alleged thathe was involved in Maoist activities, and wasarrested on the basis of inputs provided by apolice informer. The police claimed to havefound some incriminating material duringsearch. Hundreds of villagers came out in protestagainst Sukhram’s arrest, saying that the policehas falsely implicated him and that he has noconnection with the Maoists. The protestors alsoblocked roads. Under pressure from theunrelenting protestors, the police had to releaseSukhram within twenty hours of his arrest for“lack of evidence”.


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resistance

Contractors are not coming forward tobuild or repair 23 roads covering 1039kilometres in Bastar range, for which RamanSingh government has sanctioned Rs. 1500crores. These include five roads in Sukmadistrict, three in Bijapur, two in Narayanpurand one in Dantewada. Government’spublic works department has issued tenders4-5 times in the past but not many havecome forward to take up the works. 11 roadsin the ‘Highly Naxal-affected’ areas havebeen divided into 236 smaller segments toencourage contractors, but without anytakers. Some contractors came forward tobuild parts of the rest of the 12 roads, butthey built only 162 kilometres in the lastone year due to the opposition of theMaoists. In fact, the government is keen onthese road projects to facilitate themovement of troops in these forested areasinhabited by the Adivasi people. Thedeployment of troops in the interiors is theprecursor to the plunder of Bastar’s naturalresources, particularly its minerals bydomestic and foreign corporations.

Protest against the pollutionof rivers by NMDC

The people affected by Bailadila mines ofthe NMDC organised a protest demonstrationunder the banner of Bailadila KhadanPrabhavit Sangharsh Samiti (StruggleCommittee of the Bailadila Mine AffectedPeople) and gheraoed the NMDC’sadministrative building at Kirandul. Thousandsof people from more than 50 villagesparticipated. They complained that the earlierpromises given by the management to the 55villages affected by the effluents of the mineswhich are released into the rivers polluting thembadly, have not been fulfilled.

They reminded that a few months backaround five thousand villagers protested at thesame place with a 33-point charter of demandswhich included the demands of adequatecompensation for the people affected bypolluted water, education for children, jobs inNMDC for the unemployed of the affectedvillages, better healthcare for the affected, etc.No agreement could be reached betweenNMDC management and the protestors. RameshTamo, the Secretary of the Committee said thatthe administration and management tried todeceive the people with their false promisesmade during the last two protests, which werenever fulfilled. He vowed to intensify thestruggle if the demands are not met.

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Days after coming to power in May this year, Modi government hasintensified the ongoing OGH – the countrywide, multipronged, counter-revolutionary war on people. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singhdeclared on 9 June that around ten thousand additional armed forcespersonnel will be sent to bolster the “counter-Left Wing Extremism-grid” in Bastar of Chhattisgarh . The environment and forest ministry isasked to ‘tweak’ prevailing environmental norms which restrictinfrastructural projects in forested regions such as Dandakaranya, sothat government may build roads, etc. to help force movement. Sinceprivate contractors and construction companies are not coming forwardto take up infrastructural work commissioned by the government instrongholds of Maoist movement, Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh hasrequested two technical battalions of the central paramilitary forcescomprising of engineers and technicians to carry out such work on awar footing.

In addition, discussions are on for the more extensive use ofhelicopters for rapid troop movement in the battle zones, particularlyto drop and airlift commando forces engaged in anti-Maoist operations.Plans are being made to introduce improved technology for IEDdetection, augmented UAV deployment, enhanced air mobility fortroops in operations and secure encrypted communication. The AirForce is shifting its UAV operational base from Hyderabad to Durg sothat it can do quick surveillance, send intelligence inputs to the forcesand attack the Maoists immediately. New airstrips are being preparedin several places.


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In a high level meeting conducted byRajnath Singh on June 27 with Air Force,police and top off icials of Chhattisgarh,Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand, the HomeMinister appreciated the role of the fascistGrey Hounds force of AP Police in counteringthe Maoist movement and urged the Stategovernments to train and restructure theirSpecial Forces (STF in Chhattisgarh, SOG inOdisha, C-60 in Maharashtra, JharkhandJaguars in Jharkhand, Thunderbolts inKeralam, etc.) on a similar model. The GreyHounds model means that they takeintelligence inputs from police headquartersand directly go for offensives, at timesending in the brutal murder of revolutionaryactivists and masses in cold-blooded extra-judicial killings. Plans are being drawn toaugment the numbers and widen theintelligence wings of the special forces. AfterModi government was sworn in, it hasdecided to send 27 additional battalions ofparamilitary forces to join the 120 battalionsalready deployed in the nine ‘LWE-affected’states.

As a part of the efforts to intensify OGH,Rs. 150 crores have been released forbuilding 75 attack-proof police stations in‘naxal-affected’ districts of Chhattisgarh.Additional funds were released for SpecialInfrastructure Scheme (for building bunkers,toilet bunkers and morcha points for thegovernment forces). Following the Andhramodel, an SP level OSD has now beenappointed in all districts and the OSD wasgiven all powers to conduct attacks onMaoists. Moreover, Bastar Range ofChhattisgarh will be divided into four partsas part of the ‘counter-LWE grid system’ withone camp established for every f ivekilometers. As part of this grid, ‘crucial areas’(strong areas of Maoist activity) would beidentified to form network, conduct attacksand wipe out the Maoists. This would be donealong Chhattisgarh’s borders withneighbouring states. This type ofconcentration would be also done in othertri-junction and quadric-junction areas ofvarious states in the country. Hundreds of

retired military personnel of infantry arebeing deployed in Chhattisgarh since the lasttwo years. This came to light when two ofthem were annihilated in March in Sukma ina counter-offensive of the PLGA forces.Raman Singh is demanding that they begiven permission to appoint retired militarypersonnel up to Brigadier rank.

In another decision taken with the aim ofcrushing the Maoist movement, the UnionCabinet on 20 August 2014 approved theextension of mobile telephonic services to2,199 locations in the States of AndhraPradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha,Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and PaschimBanga.

Prices on the heads of the Maoistleadership right from the CentralCommittee/Politburo to the village levelleaders have been increased almost fivetimes to the tune of several crores of rupeesby the central and various stategovernments. Killing leaders and activists orputting them in jail was announced as thetwo-pronged policy to crush therevolutionary forces, make the movementheadless and to restrict or weaken themovement areas. At the same time,compensation to be paid for the counter-revolutionaries and informers/covert enemyagents who are punished by the people hasbeen increased almost four to five timesalong with all kinds of rehabilitationpackages for their families. Rewards forsurrender have been enhanced with the aimof turning Maoist cadres into counter-revolutionaries and traitors who could inflictdamages to the movement. Drama of‘surrenders’ are being enacted on a regularbasis by the police-administration as a partof psychological war. By launching the thirdphase of OGH with these and several othercounter-revolutionary measures, the newNDA government under fascist Modi ispreparing to take forward the ‘war onpeople’ from where the previous UPAregime had left off.


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Development for bigDevelopment for bigDevelopment for bigDevelopment for bigDevelopment for bigcorporates, destructioncorporates, destructioncorporates, destructioncorporates, destructioncorporates, destructionfor the massesfor the massesfor the massesfor the massesfor the masses

The so-called development projectscarried out by the ruling classes are for theplunder of natural resources to enrich theinternational and domestic robber barons.But this is often done in the name of bringing‘development’ to the people. When Adivasiareas such as Bastar of Chhattisgarh andKoraput of Odisha were connected to thecountry’s railway network, it was done in thename of developing transport facilities forthe people and with the claim that it wouldaccelerate development. These lines,however, were laid for the transport of richminerals and not for addressing thetransportation needs of the people.Hundreds of goods trains run on the lines toand from Dandakaranya every day, withonly a few passenger trains. Indian Railwayshas already stopped the Vishakhapatnam-Kirandul Express and Durg-JagdalpurExpress, both running from Jagdalpur.Subsequently in October this year, it hasstopped Koraput-Vishakhapatnam andKoraput-Sambalpur Intercity Expressesrunning from Koraput of Odisha. The reasonfor docking the passenger trains is to clearthe lines for the uninhibited running ofgoods trains laden with minerals. The hoaxof government-sponsored ‘development’ isonce again made apparant by these steps.

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The second phase of the Jagdalpur-DalliRajhara-Raoghat railway project may beginsoon. Acting on the instructions of theRailway Board, South East Central Railwayhas sent its budget proposal to the Board.

The District Collectors of Narayanpur andBastar districts have been asked to start theprocess of land acquisition. The Railwayshave decided to complete the first phase ofthe 235 km line early next year. According torailway off icials, trains will start plyingbetween Dalli-Rajhara and Dondi covering 17km by February 2015. The plan is to extend itto 71 kms by 2017. Considering that the areais outside the Maoist stronghold,construction will be started from both endsto put it on fast track. This shows thedesperation of the government to connectthe Raoghat mines with the railway networkso that the mines can start at the earliest

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Chhattisgarh is foremost among thestates of the country when it comes toattracting foreign and domestic bigcapitalists in setting up natural resource-based industrial projects. This can be gaugedfrom the Industrial Entrepreneur’sMemorandum (IEM) list maintained by thecentral government. It is worth noting thatinvestments of more than 5 crore rupees isput in the IEM list. According to the list,Chhattisgarh has received the maximumnumber of proposals for setting up industriesin the entire country. It says that 24 biginvestors have submitted proposals to thecentral government to establish industries inthe state with a total investments of 61,836crore rupees. In fact, of the total suchmemoranda received by the centralgovernment, 45% of them are forChhattisgarh alone. The 24 investors whohave made such proposals include DB Power,Adani Mining, Real Ispat and Power, Vedanta,Ecorex, Buildtech, etc. These proposals aremainly in the mining, steel, electricity/energyand fertilizer sectors.


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The central steel secretary G Mohanhas stated that four ‘ultra mega’ steel plantswill be set up in Chhattisgarh, two of whichwill be in Bastar and Dantewada districts ofDandakaranya. The other two will be inRajnandgaon and Bilaspur. He said that thework of selecting the sites has beencompleted. Bastar’s Dilmili and Dantewada’sGeedam have been earmarked for theprojects. The usual claims of providing ‘themost modern’ resettlement andrehabilitation facilities is promised to thepeople to be displaced by the steel plants.Claims of bringing ‘development’ to theregion and providing ‘employment’ to theaffected people are also being made. RamanSingh said that the plants should be used fordeveloping the infrastructure of the state.However, the people know from theirexperience that such mega projects onlybring destruction and not development forthe masses displaced or adversely affected inother ways by these projects.

Farcical ‘public hearing’Farcical ‘public hearing’Farcical ‘public hearing’Farcical ‘public hearing’Farcical ‘public hearing’in Niyamgiri indicates thein Niyamgiri indicates thein Niyamgiri indicates thein Niyamgiri indicates thein Niyamgiri indicates theapproaching bigger battleapproaching bigger battleapproaching bigger battleapproaching bigger battleapproaching bigger battle

In July last year, the Dongria Kondhadivasis of Niyamgiri in Odisha, who havebeen resolutely fighting for years under thebanner of ‘Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti’ againstthe plans of Vedanta Aluminium to take overtheir land for bauxite mining, hadoverwhelmingly rejected the proposed plantin public hearings conducted in a series ofGram Sabhas. As the government’s efforts topush through the project by conductingfarcical public hearings were defeated by themasses, the government once againconducted a public hearing this year toprocure the mandatory ‘approval’ of thelocal people for the expansion of the

Lanjigarh facility of Vedanta, nowrechristened as Sesa Sterlite, in Kalahandidistrict of Odisha.

The Odisha State Pollution ControlBoard which held the public hearing on 30July 2014 for the proposed expansion of theplant’s capacity from one million to six milliontonnes per annum, did not inform the localpeople beforehand as is the norm. The localpeople were thus kept out of the hearing in aplanned manner, while activists of the rulingBJD, which is a known stooge of Vedanata,along with some Self Help Groups weretrained and mobilised from all over thedistrict by the local MLAs, the administrationand the company to speak in favour of theproject at the hearing.

Getting to know of the public hearing atthe last minute, more than 1500 adivasisconverged on the site of the meeting tooppose the project. The company goons andgovernment off icials abused andmanhandled the protestors. They wereinitially not allowed to speak or to registertheir opinion, but they forced the organisersto allow them to address the public hearing,where they spoke strongly against theVedanta ref inery. But no voting wasconducted to ascertain the opinion of thepeople gathered, the district collector simplydeclaring that the people have consented tothe project. It is abundantly clear thatcorporate agents like Narendra Modis andNaveen Patnaiks are not the ones to respectthe people’s verdict against displacementand destruction. Their governments and thecompany were only waiting for theparliamentary elections to be over to pounceon the people’s resources.

Apart from resorting to such outrightfraud and manipulation, the central-stategovernments are continually subjecting theDongria Kondhs to daily persecution andharassment. CRPF and other paramilitaryforces comb the area almost on a daily basisin the name of anti-Maoist operations,creating terror among the people opposingthe BJD-administration-Vedanta gang. Theywere particularly irked by the boycott of the


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last general elections by the Niyamgiri peopleas a mark of protest. Several persons fromLanjigarh area have been picked up andthrown into prison on allegations of helpingthe Maoists – a convenient way of targetingthe people’s movement. Now that thegovernment and the company will try to goahead with the project after the farce of‘public hearing’ is complete, the struggle forNiyamgiri is likely to intensify in the daysahead.

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Bihar government has decided to recruittribal policewomen and deploy them in theMaoist guerrilla zones as part of a two-pronged strategy to 'provide employment' totribal women and 'check the Maoist menace'.A proposal to this effect has been forwardedby the Police Headquarters to the State’sHome Department wherein it was suggestedthat since tribal women were hard-workingand well-versed with the topography of thediff icult terrain, it would be advisable tocreate a separate battalion of tribalpolicewomen. The Cabinet meeting, chairedby Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi,recently approved the proposal followingwhich around 1,000 tribal policewomanwould be recruited, trained and initiallyposted for maintaining 'law and order'. Afterthey successfully complete their initialassignment, they would be placed inChamparan and Jamui districts in anti-Maoistoperations.

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Jharkhand Police has started the processof recruiting ‘reformed’ CPI(Maoist) cadresfrom Ranchi, Khunti, Gumla and Lohardagadistricts in its force by screening documents

of 30-odd of them. They were asked toassemble at Ranchi Police line for verification.The ‘reformed’ Maoists, once recruited, willbe trained at Jharkhand Police Academy.

Andhra Pradesh government has sentproposals to the Home Ministry seeking 12billion rupees for establishing a full-fledgedtraining centre for the Greyhounds similar tothe one at Premavathipet near Hyderabad.

Odisha government has prepared a planto set up six new BSF camps in Malkangiri,Koraput and Rayagada districts in order tocontain the spread of Maoist activities on theinter-state border and in remote areas ofthese districts.

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Jharkhand government has asked theunion Home Ministry to deploy sevenadditional CRPF battalions for the districtswhere the Maoist movement is active. Over24,000 CRPF personnel (23 battalions) arealready deployed in the state and areengaged in anti-Maoist operations. ButJharkhand police claim that several districtsdo not have enough central paramilitaryforce to fight the Maoists. The demand hasalready been forwarded to Home MinisterRajnath Singh, who had recently visited aCRPF camp in West Singhbhum district.

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More forces for BastarMore forces for BastarMore forces for BastarMore forces for BastarMore forces for BastarWith the aim of strengthening its carpet

security, 20 more battalions are being

deployed in DK, adding to the 24,000 CPMF

already deployed. These new battalions

include CRPF, SSB, etc.

According to the police, Maad of

Narayanpur, Sukma’s Tulsi Dongar on the

Chhattisgarh-Odisha border, tri-junctions of

Chhattisgarh-Odisha-AP and Chhattisgarh-

Maharashtra-Telangana, Jagargunda and

Bhadrakali are areas where operations have

been carried out without much success. So

the government hopes that these forces will

augment future operations here. Six MI-16

choppers of the air force are also being

deployed to support the ground forces.

Chhattisgarh government declared in

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hospitals in Bastar range. The establishment

of these hospitals are being carried out as a

part of the intensification of Operation Green

Hunt. It is aimed at providing medical

treatment to the troops injured in anti-Maoist

operations while also acting as centres for

carrying out its civic action programme in the

area by providing namesake healthcare to

the nearby villagers. Chintagupha, Chintalnar

and Bhejji areas, which are strong areas of the

Maoist movement in Dandakaranya’s South

Bastar region, have been selected as the sites

for these three hospitals. Construction work

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The central government has sanctionedfour battalions of Nagaland armed police fordeployment in Dandakaranya. Chhattisgarhgovernment had placed such a requestbefore UPA-2 government, which has nowbeen given a go ahead by Modi government.Naga battalion was deployed in Chhattisgarhfor the first time in 2005, but was withdrawnafter two years, during which it sufferedheavy casualties at the hands of the PLGA.Strong protests opposing the atrocities of theNaga forces were made by the people ofDandakaranya. Naga people’s organisationstoo demanded a withdrawal of these troopsat that time.

Because of this experience, the Nagaforces and the Nagaland government areopposing the Indian government’s decision.The Home Secretary of Nagaland has said thathis government was not consulted by thecentre in making the decision to send Nagatroops to Chhattisgarh and that no suchdecision has been taken by Nagalandgovernment. Chief Minister T M Jeliang raisedhis government’s opposition in a meetingwith Rajnath Singh. Nagaland governmenthad earlier decided against sending its forcesto Chhattisgarh in future after they sufferedserious casualties in its two years of anti-Maoist deployment.

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The central government headed by theNarendra Modi-Rajnath Singh-Arun Jaitley-Nitin Gadkari Hindutva fascist gang hasapproved the setting up of mobile towers at2,199 locations in the Maoist movement areas(‘Left Wing Extremism affected areas’ inruling-class language) spread over tens


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states. These states are Andhra Pradesh,Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha,Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.The aim is to strengthen the communicationand surveillance network as a part of theongoing OGH, which would enable centralintelligence agencies like the NIA to directlymonitor these areas. The towers wouldmostly be installed in police stations andparamilitary camps. The project was initiatedby the previous UPA government in 2013 afterthe Jheeram Ghati ambush in May 2013 (manyCongress leaders including Mahendra Karmadied in this ambush), for which over 3,000crore rupees was approved. Public sectortelephone company BSNL was entrustedwith the work and was instructed tocomplete it before the parliamentaryelections, i.e., within a year. But the work didnot progress as per the government’sexpectations last year due to the armedresistance of the PLGA and the masses (as thegovernment itself admits, PLGA carried out245 attacks on mobile towers between 2008and 2013). Last year, the which mobile towerscould be installed only in 363 locations. Soonafter coming to power, NDA governmenthave approved additional funds forcompleting it within a short time. PrimeMinister’s office said that it wants this projectto be completed without delay for its“national importance with securityconsiderations”.

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Intensification of OGH is carried out byModi government not only in the militarysphere but also in the sphere of intelligencegathering. Strengthening of intelligencenetwork including human intelligence andelectronic surveillance are part of this. UAVsare being used more extensively and mobilenetwork is expanded in movement areas. Thepolice and paramilitary forces are trying tobuild up and expand its informer network in

the guerilla zones by using the allurement ofmoney, jobs etc., to recruit some people. It iscarrying out propaganda and dangling thebait of money and rehabilitation toencourage surrenders. As a part of its designsto damage the movement by targeting themovement’s leadership, the central andstates governments have enhanced thebounty on the leaders of various committeesfrom the village level to the central level. Inthis way, the enemy is working on a heinousplan to turn a few among the masses againsttheir own movement and their own people.

With the recent hikes announced bycentral government’s intelligence agenciesas well as various state governments, thebounties on the central committee membersof CPI(Maoist) add up to more than 21 crorerupees. This is the highest bounty offered forany single organisation proscribed by theIndian government. After the recent increasein bounties by the Maharashtra andChhattisgarh governments, a reward of 2.67crores has been put on the party’s generalsecretary. Likewise, each central committeemember carries a bounty of over one crorerupees. Moreover, the central government isalso considering a similar hike in the bountyoffered by its agencies like the NIA. This is apart of the new government’s “policyoverhauling” to tackle the Maoist movement– the third phase of OGH by trying to bribeand corrupt a section of the people on theone hand – just as the colonial rulers did inthe past – and stepping up repression on thefighting masses and their organisations onthe other.

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barracks are being constructed in Dantewadajail to make room for more prisoners. At thesame time, preparations are being made toreopen the jails of Sukma and Narayanpurwhich were closed after Dantewada jailbreak.Significantly, Adivasis constitute 90 percentof the prisoners in the Maoist movementareas of Chhattisgarh.

The security in the jails have also beenenhanced with the appointment of jail guardsin November. All the jails are presentlyoverstaffed, and those in Dandakaranya areeven more so. While Jagdalpur central prisonhas a capacity of 579 prionsers, 1507 prisonersare put there. Similarly, Kanker jail has 401inmates whereas the capacity is merely of 65.Dantewada has 529 prisoners in space madefor 150. In Ambikapur, Surajpur andRajnandgaon there are 1927, 321 and 349inmates respectively, whereas the provisionsare only for 835, 90 and 116 inmates.

17 Jawans suspended17 Jawans suspended17 Jawans suspended17 Jawans suspended17 Jawans suspendedafter PLGA’s Tahkawadaafter PLGA’s Tahkawadaafter PLGA’s Tahkawadaafter PLGA’s Tahkawadaafter PLGA’s Tahkawadaambushambushambushambushambush

The CRPF carried out a major disciplinaryaction on its personnel after PLGA’sTahkawada attack where 14 CRPF jawanswere killed. 17 jawans who survived theattack were suspended on the allegation thatinstead of trying to save the colleaguestrapped in the ambush by giving coveringfire, they fled from the scene to save theirown lives.

All the suspended jawans belong toCRPF’s 80th Battalion which is deployed inthe Darbha area of Bastar. After receivingintelligence reports of the presence of Maoistcadres in the area, a joint team of 46 CRPFand district police personnel went out on acombing operation. CRPF's internal enquiryreport claimed that 20 of them stepped intoan ambush leading to the death of 14, while17 ran for their lives without giving cover fireto their colleagues. The enquiry held these 17jawans responsible and suspended them.

While the politicians and high-rank policeofficers display ‘courage’ by issuing ordersfrom their high-security enclaves, the lowrank soldiers on the battlefield are severelypunished for the ‘cowardice’ of refusing tofight the ‘war on people’. Many of them areaware that it is nothing but a war of the rulingclasses in which the common soldiers have nostakes, and that they are being thrust ascannon fodder in it as dispensablemercenaries. They know, too, that they arefighting an unjust war. As the class struggleintensifies, the unwillingness of the rank andf ile of the government’s police andparamilitary forces to fight will increase,leading to more incidents of desertion anddisobedience which cannot be stoppedthrough any amount of threat or disciplinaryaction.

Sangh Parivar bares itsSangh Parivar bares itsSangh Parivar bares itsSangh Parivar bares itsSangh Parivar bares itsfangs against revolutionaryfangs against revolutionaryfangs against revolutionaryfangs against revolutionaryfangs against revolutionaryand democratic forcesand democratic forcesand democratic forcesand democratic forcesand democratic forces

Encouraged by the electoral victory of BJP,

various Sangh Parivar outfits have scaled up

their attacks on Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis,

women and other oppressed sections of the

society. They are also targeting the

revolutionary and democratic forces who stand

by the exploited and oppressed people of the

country in defiance of the ruling classes. One

such Sangh Parivar outfit ABVP, the student

wing of RSS which has a notorious history of

unleashing violence on the country’s

revolutionary students’ movement and

murdering university teachers like Prof.

Sabbharwal, has declared its decision to carry

out a campaign for 'Naxal-free campuses'.

ABVP’s National Executive Council meeting

held at Mangalore made the arrest of

university teachers and students in Delhi for

alleged Maoist links as a pretext to drum up

a spectre of growing Maoism in the country’s

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COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)CENTRAL COMMITTEE

30 July 2014

Condemn the Invasion of Gaza and Massacre of Palestiniansby Zionist Israel! Hail the Heroic National Liberation

Struggle for Independent Palestine!

The CC, CPI(Maoist) condemns Israel’s military aggression against Gaza that has alreadyled to the death of 1200 Palestinians, mostly women and children. It demands that Israel immediatelycease its invasion and end the inhuman economic blockade of Gaza. It hails the heroic Palestinianarmed resistance that is being carried forward with supreme sacrifice.

This latest Israeli onslaught is aimed at undermining the recent understanding reached byHamas and Al-Fatah to form a national government encompassing all the Palestinian territories.Moreover, it wants to take advantage of the fissures in the Arab world that have sharpened in thewake of Shia-Sunni sectarian strife particularly in Syria and Iraq. Being the main prop of USimperialism in West Asia, Israel has the support of the US and European imperialist powers.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj shamelessly declared in the parliament that the governmentwill continue to support the Palestinian cause while strengthening its ties with Israel at the sametime. This is tantamount to an open support of Israel’s aggressive war and a betrayal of the peopleof Palestine. Indian ruling classes in general, and its Brahmanical Hindu-fascist faction representedby BJP in particular, find close ideological affinity with the expansionist, chauvinist and anti-Muslim policy of its Israeli counterpart. India has developed close ties with Israel, becoming thelargest importer of Israeli military equipment. Joint military exercises, training of the Indian armyand police, sharing of intelligence and expertise in combating ‘Islamic terrorism’ and the Maoist-led revolution is being regularly carried out by the two countries. Though the Congress is cryinghoarse about NDA government’s unwillingness to condemn Israel’s actions, it was during Congressrule that regular diplomatic and economic relations were established with Israel.

All the revolutionary and democratic organisations, oppressed nationalities, organisationsof Muslims and other religious minorities, freedom and peace-loving people belonging to allpolitical parties and the people of our country must stand in solidarity with Palestinian peopleand strongly protest against the Indian government’s conciliatory policy towards Israeli rulers.Our party calls upon the Maoist forces, anti-imperialist organisations, national liberationorganisations and freedom and peace-loving people of all countries to unitedly oppose Israel’saggressive war and support the fighting people of Palestine.

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28 August 2014

Immediately Stop Harassment of Veteran Maoist LeaderComrade Kobad Ghandy! Unconditionally Release All

Senior Citizen Maoist Political Prisoners!

Veteran comrade Kobad Ghandy was abducted from a public place in Delhi by the AndhraPradesh, Delhi Intelligence and Delhi police on September 17, 2009, kept under illegal detentionfor three days and subjected to severe mental torture in the name of interrogation. It was only aftervehement protests and agitations from various civil rights and democratic organisations that hewas produced in the court on September 21. The then Home Minister, Chidambaram liedshamelessly that he was arrested on September 20th night and was produced ‘within 24 hours’.After the arrest, he was treated inhumanely by depriving medicine and medical treatment for hislife-threatening health problems for several days.

It has been five years since this illegal arrest and detention but the State is stopping hisrelease by denying bails and is keeping him in prison under flimsy and foisted charges. ComradeKobad Ghandy (69) is a heart patient, with acute Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), cervical andlower lumbar spondylitis, blood pressure and a protracted case of prostrate problem. In spite ofhis age and serious ailments the central, state intelligence officials, prison authorities and thejudiciary are acting completely deaf and blind to his plight, ignoring his pleas for minimumfacilities which he is entitled to even according to law. All this is being done with a conspiracy todeteriorate his health. He had to fight even to get the health supplements provided by his sister, achair and a table to sit and write, a bed block and also access to books and writing pad but onlyafter careful scrutiny by the jail authorities.

After the secret execution of Afzal Guru in February 2013, which in itself is a blot on Indianjudicial system, all the prisoners were shifted from the High Risk Ward of Jail No 3 of Tihar Jail(Delhi). Despite severe protests from comrade Kobad, he was also shifted forcefully to JailNo.1. On top of it, the jail authorities callously made the ailing old man carry all his belongingswithout extending any help. Due to this he became bed-ridden for several weeks. Though he is notable to go through his daily chores and finds it extremely difficult to carry water in buckets andwash clothes by bending, he was not given any assistance.

Every time he is shifted from one jail to another, the whole process of requesting for minimumfacilities starts and sometimes he gets some of these and sometimes he is not being provided any.They had rejected his request to be shifted to the senior citizen ward in Tihar Jail and insteadstarted shifting him again to Jail No.2 in 2014 July. This they did in spite of his clearly stating thatthe shifting would take its toll on him. Left with no choice he started a hunger strike. But he wasforcefully shifted to Jail No.2 on a stretcher on July 16.

In view of the way CPI (Maoist) Politburo member comrade Sushil Roy (Barunda), arrestedin May 2005, was driven to death on June 18, 2014 due to the callous way the State handled hishealth problems there is every reason to be alarmed about comrade Kobad’s situation. The Stateis behaving in the most inhuman, cruel manner with senior Maoist party leaders (in their 50s, 60and 70s) and is conspiring to make them quickly breathe their last in the dungeons. Bails aredenied and even when are granted, they are foisting new cases, arresting them in front of the jailgates and pushing them into the dungeons again. Comrades Narayan Sanyal, Bhupeshda, Pareshda,


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Sahebda, Chintanda, Sheela didi, Amit Bagchi, Pramod Mishra, Bachha Prasad Singh, ChandraSekhar Reddy, LSN Murthy, Patit Pavan Haldar, Varanasi Subrahmanyam and several other seniorparty leaders are being harassed without an iota of empathy for their old age or ailments. Tramplingevery law under their iron heels, an intellectual like G N Saibaba with 90 percent disability isalso being harassed by denying him any kind of facility. When this is the case, the plight ofcommon adivasis, dalits and women who are incarcerated in the dozens of prisons all over thecountry can only be imagined. They are spending endless years in jails without any facilities andhelp, being subjected to the atrocities of the police-jail officials and becoming victims of theunjust judiciary. Some are dying in captivity unable to bear those harsh conditions.

Modi led NDA government is now directing the judiciary to give clean chits to blood-thirsty murderers like Amit Shah and providing them with Z plus security. Thus it is trying tolegitimise all their gory deeds. On the other hand, even small cases of political prisoners andcommon prisoners are extended for eternity on flimsy excuses such as not having enough escortpolice. The prisoners are being denied any facilities they are legally entitled to and the State isacting with vengeance towards them.

The CC, CPI (Maoist) is appealing to all the revolutionary, democratic, civil rightsorganisations and forces and the lawyer community to put up a united and determined fightdemanding a stop to all kinds of harassments by jail officials heaped on comrade Kobad Ghandyby specially targeting him and his immediate and unconditional release. It is appealing to all thepeople to carry on mass agitations and build up immense pressure on the governments and thejudiciary to get all the senior party leaders mentioned above, incarcerated for years together,released and also for their right to be recognised as political prisoners.

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29 August 2014

Red Homage to Veteran Communist andPeople’s Leader Comrade M T Khan

Comrade M T Khan, who was one of the pioneering leaders of the civil rights’ andrevolutionary writers’ movements of Andhra Pradesh (including the present day Telangana)breathed his last on August 20, 2014. With his death, the CPI (Maoist) and the New DemocraticRevolution led by it have lost one of their long-standing and staunch fellow travelers and theoppressed masses have lost one of their most vocal well-wishers who stood by them till the end.Our CC, CPI(Maoist) is paying humble red homage on behalf of all its ranks to veteran comradeM T Khan and is sending its deepest condolences to his family, friends and all the democratic andrevolutionary organisations that he was part of and to all his comrades-in-arms who grieve hisdeath.

Mohammed Tajuddin, fondly called as Khan Saheb by all, was born in 1935 near PuranaPul darwaza in Hyderabad. He studied in City College till High School and completed hisintermediate course in Vivekvardhani College. Though he joined the Osmania University for hisBA course he could not complete it due to financial reasons. He was influenced by the communist,peasant and student movements raging in Telangana in that period and turned towards communismat a very young age. He joined the CPI and even worked as a courier to the legendary communistleader of Hyderabad and revolutionary poet comrade Makhdum Mohiuddin during the gloriousTelangana Armed Peasant Struggle. Makhdum was a great influence on him that he cherished tillthe end. He joined the Progressive Writers’ Association and contributed in the literary field too.

When there was a split in the CPI in 1964, he joined the CPM hoping that this wouldcompletely sever itself from revisionism and lead the revolution in India. His hopes were dashedwhen CPM leadership continued in the revisionist path. With the dawn of Naxalbari in 1967 anderuption of Srikakulam Armed Peasant Struggle in 1968 he left the CPM and unequivocally chosethe Naxalbari path. Once he chose the correct path he neither wavered nor looked back andcontinued staunchly in that path till he breathed his last.

After the martyrdom of comrade Charu Mazumdar in 1972 and setback in the movement,there were attempts to reunite the party at an all India level and to revive the movement in AP bythe party leadership. Khan Saheb was one of the handful of persons who stood steadfast by theparty leadership and helped in these efforts. The Andhra Pradesh Provincial Committee decidedto publish in 1972, a magazine named ‘Pilupu’ (The Call). Khan Saheb took up the responsibilityas its printer and publisher taking great risks to his life and livelihood. The role of ‘Pilupu’ inrallying the genuine revolutionaries around the protracted people’s war path by fighting back anddefeating the right opportunists who were trying to malign comrade Charu Mazumdar personallyand the great Naxalbari and Srikakulam revolutionary movements and proposing the liquidationistline was very crucial in that period. When we remember the number of persons who left themovement in the face of repression or hardship, the number of persons who attacked the party/movement with right opportunism and their disruptive activities, we can correctly appreciate therole of persons like Khan Saheb in that period.

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revolutionary spirit inside himself and his fellow prisoners. At that period prisons were centersof various kinds of ideological and political struggles, hot discussions and sharp demarcations ondiffering positions in the party/various splits that came up after the setback of the movement.Taking the correct line during those tumultuous years was not an easy task but he succeeded inthat. He emerged steeled out of this experience.

He was a member of the Revolutionary Writers Association (Virasam) since its formation inJuly 1970 and was in the forefront in conducting its first conference in Hyderabad in 1971.Virasam played a crucial role in propagating MLM and upholding the Naxalbari and SrikakulamStruggles in that period and M T Khan played his role in this. Khan Saheb was also a foundermember of the APCLC in 1974 and contributed to the civil rights movement in AP in particularand at an all India level in general. When severe repression was unleashed by the Vengal Raogovernment and fake encounters became the norm not to mention the countless brutalities heapedon the poor adivasis of Srikakulam and other movement areas, the formation and role of APCLCin fighting for the rights of the people is very important. M T Khan made his contributions to this.He also served as its President from 1992 to 1998.

Initially during the days of Naxalbari, mass organisations were not formed as they werebogged down in reformist practice under the revisionist CPI and CPM. Later this stand wasreviewed and initiative was taken to form them in AP. So when the revolutionary writers anddemocrats of AP supporting the Naxalbari and Srikakulam movements decided to organisethemselves into Virasam and APCLC, it was done by basing on committed activists, capablecomrades who could lead them and were steeled in practice without becoming victims to reformismlike the mass organisations of CPI, CPM and several other right opportunists. The role of thesetwo organisations in raising the revolutionary and democratic consciousness of the Telugu peoplein all these decades needs no elaboration and the contribution of Khan Saheb as part of theseshould not be forgotten.

He also served in Indo-China Friendship Association for a few years till China remained asocialist country and disassociated himself after it turned revisionist. He was the leader of theforums that were formed against religious riots in Hyderabad and was in the forefront of theforums formed and the movements built against encounters, release of political prisoners, State’sattacks on activists, in the movement for separate statehood for Telangana and several otheragitations that were waged for people’s democratic rights.

His contributions and interests ranged from civil rights and literature to arts and theatre. Hewrote several poems and articles and translated several pieces into Urdu. He drafted and translatedseveral pamphlets into Urdu to propagate revolutionary politics among the Muslim population,particularly in Hyderabad. He wrote to Urdu magazines like Siasat and English magazines likeNews Time expounding new democratic politics and analysing various issues with a historicalmaterialist viewpoint.

For more than six decades he was active in public life, served in positions fulfilling theresponsibilities the movements bestowed upon him during various crucial periods, all for realisingthe dream of communism. Till the end he stood as pillar of support not only to Virasam andAPCLC but also to all the revolutionary and democratic organisations and movements in AP andTelangana and the younger generations in these organisations looked up to him as one of theirmentors. Given the fact that some of his earlier companions and some of those who joined thework in the later periods could not withstand the various pressures (ranging from enemy repressionto family constraints) or lost confidence on the ideology of MLM/the revolutionary movement oreven became downright selfish and left the movement, his continuation till the end stands tall.After the setback of the movement in AP/Telangana after a series of encounters of top leadership,the past decade demanded a great amount of resilience and perseverance from the mass organisationleaders and cadres. Khan Saheb was one of those veterans who helped keep the red flag aloft


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under such adverse conditions in the manners he was capable of. This should always be rememberedas an ideal about such veteran comrades.

Even today the revolutionary movement has not made many advances in taking therevolutionary politics into the religious minorities, particularly into the Muslims, in spite of clearlyarticulating the need in theory. Khan Saheb had played a crucial role in fulfilling this responsibilityto the extent he could. One of the ways to pay real homage to him would be to put earnest efforts tofulfill this unfinished task. His adherence to Naxalbari politics should be placed as an idealbefore the religious minorities to emulate. This becomes even more necessary in a context whenthe State is increasingly becoming Hindu biased and fascistic and targeting them.

He led a simple life and was very humane in his approach. In an ambience of consumerismit is a high ideal to lead a simple life and not forget one’s roots. He faced several financialproblems throughout his life but he never let them dampen his revolutionary enthusiasm or diverthim from his goals.

The CC, CPI(Maoist) once again vows to fulfill the dreams of martyrs like comrade M TKhan and the thousands of martyrs of the New Democratic Revolution in our country by smashingthis exploitative system and establishing genuine democracy and freedom for our people. Usheringin a new democratic society where people enjoy civil rights and where people’s literature andculture develop in full bloom would be a fitting homage to him as he held these causes close to hisheart. His entire life and work have several important aspects that every young activist shouldknow, grasp and emulate. We are appealing to all to propagate and keep alive the memories andideals of our beloved Khan Saheb.

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25 September 2014

Unite, Fight Back and Defeat “OGH – Third Phase”of the Fascist Modi Government

The Sangh Parivar sponsored, Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) governmentthat came to power by criticising several of UPA’s policies is not only aggressively pursuing allthe pro-imperialist and pro-corporate policies of UPA-1 and 2, but is also surpassing them, vyingfor the post of ‘best comprador ever’ from the imperialists. It is taking up aggressive moves tosell-out the country shamelessly in the name of developing it by bringing in as much FDI aspossible (the goal being 100%) into several key sectors including defence, railways, insurance,banking, media and into those sectors that are still untouched directly due to resistance of thepeople and contradictions within the ruling classes. Pro-capitalist (or anti-worker) amendmentsto labour laws, hike in passenger and freight fares in railways, price hikes of daily commodities,petrol, diesel hikes and electricity cuts, transferring seven Telangana mandals to Andhra Pradeshagainst the will of the people, speeding up construction of the destructive Polavaram project as anational project, naked projection of Hindu chauvinism, saffronisation of education, attacks ondalits and targeting of Muslims in the name of ‘communal riots’ are just a few of its anti-peoplemeasures. These fascists amended several laws concerning economic, political, social, culturaland environmental fields that preserved the rights of the people and the country at least to someextent and threw several laws into the dust bin. They passed several anti-people and treacherousbills during the first session of the parliament. They did all this with their so-called brute majorityand declared that they would do whatever they wish. Some people have euphemistically termedthis government UPA-3; the continuity of the anti-people measures was too obvious to miss.

But Modi and Co. do make a difference. Otherwise the imperialists and the Indian rulingclasses would not have spent thousands of crores of rupees to bring them into power at thisjuncture. The agenda hasn’t changed. But the pace has reached an unprecedented haste. Theimperialists need to overcome their economic crisis and the comprador ruling classes need tocollaborate more with them. For that they need to loot the natural wealth, markets and labourpower of countries like India, for that they need to exploit the working masses more, for that theyneed to establish more control and for that they need to crush the resistance of the people to theirso-called development projects. For that they need to wipe out the Maoists who are ‘the biggestthreat’ to their loot of this country, who are in the and leading the fight against them and building anew political power of the people and an alternative model of development with the aim ofbuilding our beloved country as a genuine independent, sovereign, self-reliant and federaldemocratic republic. The difference that No.1 traitors and fascists Modi and Co. could makewould be in the scale of aggressiveness in pursuing these policies, the intensification of brutalitythat would be perpetrated on those who oppose them in any manner, in the overt acceleration ofthe saffron agenda and the speeding up of the sell-out of the country – all in the name of buildinga ‘powerful India’ and maintaining internal security and peace.

And this is all the more true in case of Operation Green Hunt (OGH), which is nothing but awar waged by the Indian ruling classes and its state on its own people. This brutal multi-prongedcountrywide offensive on people’s various resistances, particularly targeting the Maoist movement,has been raging unabated, since its launch in mid-2009 by the UPA-2 government till date. Thepreparations for this OGH (War on People)-Third Phase are going on at a rapid pace led by the


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fascist Modi-Rajnath Singh-Arun Jaitley-Venkaiah Naidu-Sushma Swaraj-Amit Shah combine,with all the Chief Ministers, DGPs of the ‘Maoist-affected’ States, top officials of Army, AirForce, paramilitary and police playing a hyper-active role. Evidence of this is galore and glaringfrom the very first day of the NDA government.

All the Chief Ministers (CMs) of the States where Maoist movement is present made abeeline to the Prime Minister (PM) not only for funds for their States from the Centre, but also forreiterating their demands for more powers, funds, weapons, forces, vehicles and otherparaphernalia for their forces and the entire executive in the name of suppressing Maoist movement.The Centre willingly obliged and promised more in a series of meetings conducted to deal withall kinds of ‘terrorism’, mainly Maoism. New governments formed after the recent assemblyelections (2013 and 2014) in Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Madhya Pradeshand West Bengal have all announced plans to modernise their police forces which mean equippingthem with more lethal weapons and gadgets that would more ‘efficiently’ wage war on peopleand terrorise and kill them. The ‘promises’ to Chhattisgarh are representative. ChandrababuNaidu, the CM of AP went a step ahead and started his rule by killing three Maoists in a fakeencounter on the very first day.

The bloodthirsty home minister Rajnath Singh announced that an integrated and comprehensivestrategy to root out the Maoist movement in the country would be soon finalised. On June 11,2014 after a detailed review of the ‘Left-wing extremism (LWE)’ situation in Chhattisgarh withState Chief Minister Raman Singh, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh promised around 10,000additional paramilitary troops (10 battalions) within 3, 4 months, even while 37 battalions ofCRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB are already present. He also promised to send 2 technical battalionswith nearly 2000 multi-skilled, engineering and technical personnel. Two more choppers wouldbe inducted into the counter-‘LWE’ grid in Chhattisgarh. The helicopters are for ‘troop deploymentor sending reinforcements when State forces plan to attack Maoists or ‘an encounter is on’. Thespecial focus of the meeting was on Bastar region. The CM also sought improved technology forIED detection, augmented UAV deployment, air mobility for operations and secure and encryptedcommunication.

The meeting was attended by Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, Union home secretaryAnil Goswami, paramilitary chiefs, and senior officials of the Planning Commission, Ministry ofEnvironment and Forests and Department of Telecom. If anybody is wondering what these bodieswere doing at a meeting on LWE, the answer is here. Complaining that ‘abysmal 25% telecomcoverage in Bastar was affecting intelligence collection and timely response by the Central forces’,the Chhattisgarh government sought to increase tele-connectivity and density. They Centralauthorities even promised to ‘do what is best possible’ ‘to tweak forest clearance norms toexempt government projects’ as requested by the State government. The nearly 2,000 multi-skilledpersonnel with technical knowledge (technical battalions) are ‘for carrying out developmentwork in Maoist-hit areas’ as the CM lamented about ‘shortage of contractors.’ Collectors and SPswould now monitor this work using these battalions. Paramilitary battalions have already beendeployed on a huge scale for the Raoghat and several other mines, building dams, roads, bridgesand Raoghat railway line that not only aims to transfer the iron ore to the big comprador companiesand MNCs but is also ecologically highly destructive. All these forces would serve ‘multi-purposes’- to suppress the masses, attack the Maoists, to reinforce the camps of government force, toprovide protection to so-called development which actually means building infrastructure totransfer the mining riches, and constructing several steel and other plants in the heartland ofBastar.

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more coordination between Central and State governments, between State governments, betweenCentral and State forces, intelligence agencies and police force and between police and executive.

In a high level meeting conducted by Rajnath Singh with Air Force, police and top officialsof Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand on June 27, the Home Minister praised to the skiesthe Grey Hounds of AP and urged the State governments to train and restructure their SpecialForces (like STF in Chhattisgarh, SOG in Odisha, C-60 in Maharashtra, Counter-Insurgency Forcein Jharkhand, Thunderbolts in Keralam) and build infrastructure for these forces. The efforts areon. Their numbers would be augmented and their intelligence wings would also be expanded.

Taking a leaf from erstwhile AP, a SP level OSD has now been appointed in all districts andthe OSD was given all powers to conduct attacks on Maoists. The Grey Hounds model means thatthey take intelligence inputs from police headquarters and directly go for offensives. Rs. 150crores were released for building 75 attack-proof police stations in ‘naxal-affected’ districts ofChhattisgarh. Additional funds were released for Special Infrastructure Scheme (for buildingbunkers, toilet bunkers and morcha points for the government forces).

On August 20, 2014, the Union Cabinet approved the extension of mobile telephonic servicesto 2,199 locations affected by ‘LWE’ in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Paschim Banga. The BSNLhas already installed towers at 363 of these locations. The project implementation cost isapproximately Rs. 35.68 billion.

According to the intensification of the ‘war on people’, Bastar Range would be divided intofour parts as part of the ‘counter-LWE grid system’ with one camp established for every five kms.As part of this grid, ‘crucial areas’ (strong areas of Maoist activity) would be identified to formnetwork, conduct attacks and wipe out the Maoists. This would be done along Chhattisgarh’sborders with neighbouring states. This type of concentration would be done in all tri and quadricjunctions of various States in the country. Already there are 120 battalions of paramilitary forcesstationed in nine States. After Rajnath Singh was sworn in, he planned to send 27 battalions to beadditionally deployed in nine States.

Prices for the heads of the Maoist leadership right from the Central Committee/Politburo tothe village level leaders was increased, almost five times, to several crores of rupees, by theCentral and various State governments. This is nothing but a counter- revolutionary measure thatfurther fascises the State, encourages false encounters and mercenary killings and creates heinousselfish and criminal values in the society. Killing leaders and activists or putting them in jail wasannounced as the two-pronged policy to decimate revolutionary forces, make the movement headlessand to restrict or weaken the movement areas.

On the other hand, the compensation for the counter-revolutionaries who are punished by thepeople and for being diehard informers or coverts has been increased hugely (almost four-fivetimes) along with all kinds of rehabilitation packages. Terrorising activists of mass organisationsand drives to make them and Maoist cadre surrender reached high-pitch with promises of freedomfrom cases and high rewards. The undercover agenda is to turn them into counter-revolutionariesand traitors who could inflict damages to the movement.

A six months campaign by joint Central and State forces was announced for all Maoistareas, starting with Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. Both these States witnessed maximum resistanceof People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) and the people to the corporate ventures. Theyannounced that the focus of their offensive would be Chhattisgarh as it is one of the main strongareas of Maoist movement and at the centre of almost all the movement areas (AP, Telangana,Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra and UP) and as BJP is in power both at the Centre and the State.The main focus in the third phase of OGH would be on the Maad areas in Bastar. Another featureof this phase would be engagement of huge numbers of forces during operations in all the mainareas.


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The state is on the one hand destroying the Revolutionary People’s Committees (RPC) thatare enabling the people execute their new democratic power and striving to make them self-reliant. On the other hand it is flooding the people of movement areas with Civic Action Programs(CAPs) increasingly led by paramilitary and state forces, so-called reforms and countless schemesthat make the people dependent on the government forever. Neither their basic needs are solvedthrough this nor do they become self-reliant. They would be further ruined and thrown awaywhile the fascist corporate and MNCs raj will reign.

100 ‘commandogs’ (commando dogs!) are being trained to be deployed along with eachparamilitary battalion in Chhattisgarh – one dog at present and four later to each. Hundreds ofretired military personnel of infantry are being deployed in Chhattisgarh since 2 years. This cameto light when two of them were annihilated in March in Sukma in a counter-offensive of the PLGAforces. Raman Singh is demanding that they be given permission to appoint retired militarypersonnel up to Brigadier rank. The Air Force is shifting its UAV operational base from Hyderabadto Durg so that it can do quick surveillance, send intelligence inputs to the forces and attack theMaoists immediately. Air strips are being prepared in several new places. Several trees arebeing cut off and forests cleared for building camps and other infrastructure for the more than onelakh forces deployed in Bastar Range causing enormous damage to ecology too. The alreadyinsufficient school and health care facilities supposedly set up for the people are being used bythese forces in spite of Supreme Court judgment to vacate them, thus depriving the people of eventhose meagre facilities.

The ‘usual’ encounters and fake encounters (of both revolutionaries and common people)are on with not a single day passing in the movement areas without cordon and search & combingoperations, areas dominations, loot, destruction, mayhem, tortures and atrocities on people by thegovernment forces. Attacks, political and physical, on any kind of opposition, trampling of civilrights, ban on CPI (Maoist) and revolutionary workers’, peasants’, students’ and women’s andchildren’s organisations, threats and attacks on revolutionary and democratic organisations andsevere repression in various forms on political prisoners incarcerated in prisons all over thecountry are continuing unabated. A large number of Nazi type (modern) jails are under construction.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh is openly baying for the blood of Maoists like bloodhounds;issuing threats of ‘zero tolerance to violence’ (read more fake encounters, arrests and tortures)while saying that he is ‘ready to talk with the Maoists if they give up violence’. He is saying thisafter he declared like a feudal medieval lord that he would as happy as conducting a marriage ifthe security forces penetrate into the forests and kill the ‘terrorists’! Here ‘terrorists’ mean Maoistsas he is planning to change the name of ‘Left-Wing Extremism’ to ‘Left-Wing Terrorism’. Thehuge number of troops, weapons, vehicles, military equipment and gadgets (not to mention theUAVs and the helicopters) of government forces deployed in the ‘Maoist areas’ are perpetratingendless violence on the people there. The violence of these forces can never be compared withthe counter-violence put up by the CPI (Maoist) and the PLGA and the people led by it either involume or quality. But the psychological warfare of the ruling classes is day in and day outdrumming into the people’s mind that ‘Maoists are violent and anti-development’ while the‘government seeks peace’. The psy-war targeting the CPI (Maoist) reached unimaginableproportions with corporate media leading it and the active participation of all the civil, policeand military officials and all departments of the executive and judiciary in this foul exercise. Thedegenerated surrendered persons are also pushed to the frontlines to carry on this vicious warwith all kinds of lies and fabrications.

The specific feature of OGH under Modi regime is that all the Hindu communal fascistSangh Parivar constituents would participate in it at various levels and in various spheres. TheNational Executive Council of ABVP giving a call to its rank and file to ensure that ‘there arenaxal free campuses’ during its meet in Mangaluru in May is an indicator.


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Beloved people of our country!

Whatever we have mentioned above is just the tip of the iceberg of one of the most treacherous,anti-people, heinous, criminal and brutal offensives launched in political, economic, social,cultural, judicial, environmental and all spheres of our life and the country in the name ofmaintaining internal security for crushing dissent and wiping out the Maoists. We reiterate thatMaoists and all other fighting forces are none other than the vanguard and organisations of themost oppressed people of our country and are comprised of none other than workers, peasants,students, youth, employees, intellectuals, middle class, dalits, adivasis, minorities and womenwho build the wealth of this country with their sweat and blood. They have chosen the path ofstruggle as they have been deprived of their Jal, Jungle, Zameen, Izzat and Adhikar and as theircountry is being enmeshed more and more in neo-colonial ties by the Indian ruling classes withthe prodding of the imperialists. The ‘War on People’ is aimed at ending all types of this resistance

We are calling upon all the revolutionary masses in our movement areas to unite moredeterminedly under the PLGA to resist this round of fascist offensive launched as part of OGH-third phase.

The CPI (Maoist) and the PLGA, RPCs, the revolutionary mass organisations and therevolutionary massed led by it vow to defeat this round of fascist offensive of the Modi led NDAgovernment too as they had defeated several previous counter-revolutionary campaigns. Thiscould be done only by waging war of self-defense utilising every single opportunity and mobilisingand uniting all the fighting forces (revolutionary, democratic, patriotic) and the people vastly inthis just people’s war, now directed against this fascist and treacherous Modi government.

In the past dictators like Mussolinis and Hitlers had similarly waged unjust wars, andheaped countless atrocities and brutalities on people and countries. But ultimately their mightyarmies were defeated, their empires crumbled and they fell when people rose in fury. People hadalways fought against such fascists in the world and our country and they would do so now too.The more the people realise the real face of these fascists, the more unitedly they come together tofight them, the quicker would be their fall. The day when these paper tigers would be shred intopieces is not as far as they would like to think.

We appeal to all the organisations, forces, individuals and people who suffer from andoppose the Brahminical Hindu fascist, anti-people and anti-country regressive Modi governmentto unite and come forward to resist and defeat it. We appeal to one and all to build up solidaritywith the fighting people both in our country and abroad.

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Fight Back the Anti-Working Class Amendmentsto Labour Laws by the NDA Government!

Vikas Model of Modi is Vinash for the People of Indiaand Vistar for the Imperialists and Compradors!

The Modi led NDA government has once again bared its anti-working class stance with therecent amendments to the labor laws. In the first week of September, 2014 it brought amendmentsto The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947; The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970;The Factories Act, 1948; The Apprentices Act, 1961, and Trade Unions Act. Narendra SinghTomar, the Central labor minister announced these without batting an eyelid as if he is a ministerresponsible for the welfare of the factory owners and not the laborers. These amendments weredone with the single purpose of super-exploitation of the workers, to increase the super profits ofthe imperialist and Indian corporations that are pouncing like vultures for the blood and flesh ofour working people.

These amendments now make existing rights for overtime extra wages redundant and wouldallow the factory owners to make the workers work for 12 hours instead of the eight-hour workday.They make night shifts for women legal. They now allow those factory owners employing up to300 workers to retrench workers or shut down the factory without going through any procedures,according to their will. The Industrial Disputes Act would now favor the factory owners more inall labor related disputes. Now the Contract Labour Act would apply to firms employing morethan 50 persons instead of 20 which means that units employing less than 50 contract workerswould not get even the meagre protective provisions in the Act. Till now the principal employerwas responsible for any violation of the law in case of contract workers though they are employedthrough a contractor. The amendments are letting off the hook now.

Now workers would be able to form a trade union only if they have 30% of the workerswith them whereas previously seven workers could move an application for registering a unionand could form one even if 15% of them came together. This is being done in the name of reducingthe burden of dealing with multiple unions but it is nothing but a blatant attempt to prevent theworkers from organising for their rights and allowing the capitalists to exploit, oppress andsuppress them as they please. What kind of a democracy is this if the workers cannot even properlyexercise their right to form a union? Given the fact that revisionist, bourgeois trade unions that aremostly hand in glove with the managements and work against the interests of the workers, haveentrenched themselves dominantly among the working class, it would now become extremelydifficult for the working class to free themselves from their shackles and form their own independentunions.

To be precise, these amendments have with a stroke of pen turned several illegalitiesregarding working conditions in factories legal, making a mockery of all the hard won rights ofthe workers of centuries old struggles, which are in a sense also a legacy to the struggles datingback to the slave rebellions against complete exploitation of human labor. The eight-hour workday,not making women work in night shifts and regulation of overtime and compensation for overtimework were all won through decades of class struggle between the capitalists and the workers. Theabove amendments would seriously affect the physical and mental health of the workers, would


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lead to industrial accidents and have serious social impact too. In a context where women workingin BPOs are being targeted for sexual attacks when they commute to their work places at night andseveral researches have established that the health of women is seriously and irreparably affecteddue to night shifts, this kind of legality to making women work in the night shifts would not onlyaffect their physical and mental health, create gynecological problems but also put them at muchrisk at the workplace and on their way to work. On the whole this kind of work pressure wouldlead to workers ageing early and the capitalists would then mercilessly throw them out andemploy new workers who would go through the same cycle of exploitation and get thrown outeventually.

Much blood has been shed to win these rights, in workers’ struggles world over and inrevolutions that aimed to end labor exploitation and oppression of all the toiling masses includingthe proletariat. These rights were won as a cumulative effect of both of these kinds of struggles asthe whole. And now the NDA government is bent on turning the clock of history back by bringingin these amendments. In fact, it is following the path treaded by all the previous governments inpower since the New Economic Policies were introduced in 1991 and LPG policies gainedmomentum, in bringing in these anti-working class measures with the prodding of the imperialists.In fact, Indira Gandhi tried to bring such changes in labour laws in 1982 itself but had to withdrawdue to severe opposition to these. The UPA government has several such anti-working classmeasures in its account including some equally atrocious amendments to labor laws. All thosemeasures not been possible for the coalition governments would now be made possible throughthe ‘majority’ government that claims to have the ‘mandate’ of the people. Did the people givethem the ‘mandate’ to deny them their very fundamental rights?

In its 100 day rule the Modi led NDA government would go down in history for its record ofbringing forth one or more anti-people measures during each day of its rule, this slew of anti-labor amendments being the latest. Modi & Co is playing the archetypal comprador by openinghitherto unopened sectors and partially opened sectors to full entry of FDI. Already SEZs arefunctioning like countries within a country with their own set of anti-worker measures and notbound by the Indian Constitution. Not just the Centre, almost every State government has a dubiousrecord of brutally crushing the struggles of workers and employees when they resorted to strikesor agitations for their just demands. The crushing of striking State government employees inTamilnadu and the repression on workers in Gurgaon of Haryana are just stark examples. In fact,it was the BJP government in Rajasthan that cleared a Cabinet proposal to amend three key labourlaws on 5th July itself. In face of severe opposition it retracted saying they were ‘mere proposals.’The judiciary is doing its part in pushing the globalisation agenda by passing anti-labor judgmentsincluding the infamous judgment banning strikes. The corporate media is providing deceptivearguments to support such anti-worker policies saying they would ‘provide employment’, ‘createjobs’ ‘increase share of manufacturing in GDP’ etc.

With unemployment and under-employment reaching higher proportions in the context of theworldwide economic crisis and inflation soaring, the real wages of the workers are increasinglygetting depressed. The people are increasingly finding themselves in the classic capitalist quagmirewhere the ones who manage to get work are made to work for extremely long hours under horribleworking conditions and outside the factory gates the starving workers mill around without gettingeven one hour of work to feed themselves or their families. This huge reserve army of theunemployed is further pushing down the wages of the workers due to cut-throat competition forwork. Coupled with the latest anti-labor amendments, the situation would become grimmer forthe working people in our country.

Though the ruling classes juggle with figures of growth rate citing increasing investment ofspeculative capital in the stock market and try to pass it off as an indication for the developmentof the country, they very well know that real wealth comes from the labour of the workers. Theyknow very well that only by exploiting the labourers to their last drop of blood, can they fill their

coffers to the brim and wallow in luxuries. Now the need of the hour is for the working class torealise this fact more clearly and organise and wage a bitter class struggle against their exploitersand the comprador politicians who lick their boots.

There has been a spurt in working class struggles all over the world particularly in thecontext of the worldwide economic crisis. Even the US and Europe have witnessed movementslike Occupy Wall Street, not to mention the huge demonstrations and agitations all over Europeagainst layoffs, cutting down of welfare and the loss of savings due to bank crashes. The workingclass in India is also erupting in struggles for better working conditions and workers’ rights likethe right to form unions or even to hold meetings or dharnas. The workers and employees havenot taken such amendments to labour laws lying down. There have been vehement militant andpeaceful protests including a Bharat bandh by all the trade unions against such a previous attemptby the UPA government. Mainstream trade unions have also criticised the above amendments tolabour laws. The need of the hour is for all the trade unions and employees associations to cometogether to fight back this ruling class offensive on the entire working people.

CC, CPI (Maoist) calls upon the workers of our country to unitedly rise against the latestanti-working class amendments brought forth by the Modi led NDA government and bring it to itsknees through their militant struggles and protests. It appeals to all democratic and progressiveorganisations and individuals to stand by the workers in their struggles and lend their voiceagainst the super-exploitation of workers by the comprador rulers of our country to feed theimperialist beast.

Unmask the Vikas model of Modi government which is country selling, treacherous andanti-people. It is nothing but a model of the imperialists aiming at exploiting, oppressing andrepressing the toiling masses of our country. Let us unite and fight back this treacherous andpseudo Vikas model and build independent, self-reliant, people oriented development model.

(Abhay)Spokesperson


"In its struggle for power the proletariat has no other weapon but

organisation. Disunited by the rule of anarchic competition in the

bourgeois world, ground down by forced labour for capital,

constantly thrust back to the "lower depths" of utter destitution,

savagery, and degeneration, the proletariat can, and inevitably will,

become an invincible force only through its ideological unification

on the principles of Marxism being reinforced by the material unity

of organisation, which welds millions of toilers into an army of the

working class"

- Lenin, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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