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Three decades back,
on the birth centenary of the great Lenin, April 22, 1969, the Communist Party
of India (Marxist-Leninist) was born. After forty years of revsionist
domination of the Indian communist movement this historic break changed the
entire course of India’s political development. Never again has Indian polity
been the same. It brought the path of armed struggle on to the agenda,
extracting Indian politics from the stagnant, putrefied filth of the Indian
parliament, and giving it a nascent freshness. It injected a new life into a
dispirited, disillusioned country, dispelling the pessimism of two decades of
fake independence. It inspired an entire generation of youth to a new world,
built on justice, equality, truth and freedom. The party, built on the
foundations of the great Naxalbari uprising and cemented together with the
ideological struggle against revisionism, chartered a new path for India’s
future.
Naxalbari and party
formation are two sides of the same coin. Naxalbari, without party formation,
would be like a shot in the dark.... an isolated event. On the one hand,
without consolidation of all anti-revisionist forces throughout the country
through the process of party formation, the fruits of the uprising would have
been frittered away. On the other hand, party formation was inconceivable
without Naxalbari, which helped dispel four decades of entrenched revisionism
through a living example of the new path of armed struggle. The ‘Spring
Thunder over India’ was the clarion call to all genuine revolutionaries of the
country; party formation was its consolidation.
The severe setback in
1972, caused by a combination of brutal fascist attacks and incorrect tactics,
has slowly been reversed... the movement has recouped and established itself on
a sound footing, having learnt from the errors of the pest. What is more, the
fragmentation of the CPI (ML) in post-1972 period, has also been reversed, with
the unification of the major two CPI (ML) formations on August 11, ’98. The
formation of a Provisional Central Committee of the CPI (ML)[People’s War] has
finally re-established the centre of the original CPI (ML) after quarter of a
century. The CPI (ML)[People’s War] now advances forward along the basic line
set by the CPI (ML) and in its revolutionary tradition "People’s March"
commemorates the 30th Anniversary of party formation, vowing to carry forward
the historical legacy given to the people of India by the CPI (ML) and its
thousands of martyrs who died fighting for the creation of a New Democratic
India, free from exploitation and oppression.
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