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At a time when the moribund global imperialist economic system is caught in deep
crisis and is facing severe political turmoil, the birth of the CPI (Maoist) and
the formation of the PLGA through the merger of the two erstwhile Maoist Parties
and Peoples’ Guerrilla Armies on 21 September 2004 was indeed a historic event.
The third formation day of the Party is approaching. Just in these two years,
the Party has gained an important place of its own in a fast-changing
international and national situation.
Today, the gang leader of imperialism — American imperialism — the other
imperialist forces, their various comprador political parties and the
bureaucracy, the feudal forces perceive the CPI(Maoist) as the greatest threat
to their interests in the country. Is it anything surprising? No! Not at all.
The fascist American imperialism that attacks any country arrogantly just on the
pretext of threat to its country, included the Party in its "terrorist" list. In
India; the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-led Central Government declared
that the CPI (Maoist) is the greatest problem to the security of the country
overtaking the insurgency in Jammu & Kashmir. American imperialism has been
extending all kinds of political and military support to the Indian government
to crush the newly formed Party. Various kinds of joint military exercises,
imparting specialized counter-insurgency training to the Indian police and
military forces to combat revolutionary guerrilla war, opening of FBI (American
intelligence machinery) office in Delhi, signing of the Indo-US nuclear deal and
various other pacts – all these have become established facts today.
The Central and various state governments have established a joint task force
under the Joint Operational Command (JOC) to suppress the people’s war and have
fully engaged their repressive machinery against the Party. Feeling helpless in
spite of these measures, the central and various state governments have drawn up
plans to increase the battalions of the police forces and the CRPF in a big way.
These forces are being equipped with sophisticated weaponry, explosives,
launchers, mine-proof vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles etc. The enemy
intelligence network is being expanded from the countryside to the cities, from
the state capitals to Delhi, as well as in Washington to deal with the Maoist
"threat". The informer network is being expanded in a planned manner and covert
agents are being sent within the Party and the movement in order to eliminate
the leadership and to sabotage the movement.
In the past two years two PB members of the Party—comrades Barunda and Vijayda—were
arrested, a CC member and secretary of Wes Bengal state committee, comrade Tapas,
was arrested along with some state committee members, members of various Party
committees, organizers, Party members and sympathizers. A few months back, a
fast track court had given a verdict sentencing comrade Barun to five years
imprisonment and comrades Tapas and Pratul to life imprisonment. In less than
two years, over 500 comrades of the Party, (over 300 in the past ten months)
became martyrs. Among the heroic martyrs are veteran Party leaders such as PB
member comrade Shamsher Singh Sheri, comrade Saketh Rajan, secretary of the
Karnataka state committee, comrade Naemuddin (Ravi), secretary of Uttar
Bihar-Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand Special Area Committee, comrade Madhav,
secretary of AP state committee, comrade Ravi Kumar alias Sridhar, AP state
secretariat member, comrade Yadanna, a member of NTSZC, comrade Mangthu, a
member of the DKSZC and SMC member, several members of regional,
Zonal/divisional/district, sub-zone and area Party committees, members of Party
cells, brave commanders and fighters of the companies and platoons, LGS and LOS,
people’s militia units of the PLGA, leaders and activists of revolutionary mass
organizations, and members of the revolutionary masses had laid down their lives
fighting heroically with the state’s forces and the reactionary forces.
Since the past one year the UPA-led central government and the BJP’s Chattisgarh
government had unleashed a massive armed counter-revolutionary campaign against
the Party in Dandakaranya in the name of Salwa Judum or peace campaign. Directly
led by the comprador-feudal Mahendra Karma of the Congress, the campaign is
carried out by the Naga Force, CRPF, the Chhathisgarh special police force,
Greyhounds of AP by mobilizing and arming the lumpen and reactionary elements
among the adivasis. At least 125 villages have been burnt and totally destroyed
by these Salwa Judum goondas. 150 people belonging to the revolutionary mass
organizations, organs of political power, and people sympathetic to the
revolutionary movement had been murdered. Over 500 villagers were forcibly
vacated and 50,000 adivasis were uprooted from their homes and placed in special
camps under police control. Censorship has been imposed on the media.
The exploiting ruling classes, while unleashing this campaign of murder, loot
and terror, have tried to cover this up under a democratic mask by portraying
salwa judum as an independent uprising of adivasis against the Maoists and that
the state has no role in it. But they had failed to achieve their objective and
to fool the people. The Party succeeded in exposing it politically and
countering it militarily. At least 60 policemen and CRPF personnel were
annihilated in DK in the past one year. Almost 200 goondas and leaders of salwa
Judum including many Special Police Officers (SPOs) were consumed by the
people’s fury.
During this period, the ruling classes stepped up their suppression campaign in
AP, particularly in the Nallamala forest region by deploying huge
specially-trained police forces like the Greyhounds and central forces. They
specially targeted the Party leadership and succeeded in causing heavy losses to
the Party mainly through their extensive informer network. By using their
vigilante gangs like Cobras and Tigers, they also attacked the activists and
leaders of revolutionary mass organisations and democratic intellectuals.
The successful politico-military campaign by the forces had not only pushed back
the offensive by the state in the name of Salwa Judum but also created schisms
within and between the various ruling class political parties. The retaliatory
military actions and tactical counter-offensive operations had inspired the
Party cadre, PLGA fighters and the entire masses of not only of Dandakaranya but
also throughout the country. The Party also succeeded in recruiting people into
the three wings of PLGA and in further advancing the people’s war.
The tactical counteroffensive campaign and retaliatory military operations by
the PLGA and the armed masses under the leadership of the Party in other parts
of the country too had advanced considerably during this period creating good
political impact. The daring Madhuban multiple raid in north Bihar; the historic
‘Operation Jail Break’ of Jehanabad; the massive raid and seizure of 200 arms
from the Homeguard training camp in Giridih in Jharkhand; the multiple raid and
jail break in R Udayagiri in Orissa; the attack on the special police camp in
Murkinaar, killing 11 policemen and seizing nearly 50 arms, killing of 24 CRPF
troops by blasting the mine-proof vehicle in Padeda, annihilation of 10 Naga
Battalion jawans, raids and ambushes on the police and CRPF at several places in
DK (Chattisgarh); attack on the CRPF camp in Jhumra in Jharkhand—all these show
the onward march of the people’s war and the superiority of the guerilla tactics
of counteroffensive undertaken by the forces in spite of the massive suppression
campaign by the state. Overall, about 200 personnel of the state police and the
central para-military forces have been killed and arms, ammunition and
explosives have been seized from the enemy on a considerable scale.
The Indian revolution has great significance in the world revolution due to the
size of the country. The success of the revolution in India will have an
earth-shaking impact not only on the new democratic revolutions in
semi-colonial, semi-feudal countries but also on the proletarian socialist
revolutions in the imperialist and capitalist countries. That is why the
imperialists and the reactionaries all the world over led by the US imperialists
have seriously taken up the task of suppressing the Party which is leading the
Indian revolution. As the vanguard of the Indian proletariat, which is an
important detachment of the world proletariat, the Party too has to relentlessly
fight ideologically, politically and practically against all forms of bourgeois
and revisionist ideas, political lines, conspiracies and offensives, be vigilant
against the emergence of non-proletarian trends and ideology and rectify them
continuously until final victory.
CPI(Maoist) is heir to those Maoist Parties that had taken up armed agrarian
revolution and protracted people’s war from the very beginning and adhered to it
consistently as the only means to smash the semi-colonial, semi-feudal system in
the country in order to establish socialism and communism after passing through
the stage of new democracy. They had engaged in anti-feudal, anti-imperialist
armed agrarian guerilla war and building the revolutionary mass movement from
the very beginning and won the confidence of the masses. The Party has been
striving to fight against the oppression, injustice, and all forms of atrocities
let loose on the exploited toiling classes, nationalities, dalits and other
backward castes, adivasis, oppressed women and religious minorities, middle
classes, and other sections of people and to secure the social and political
rights snatched away from them. This task has to be given greater emphasis by
stepping up the efforts to organize all the above-mentioned sections of the
people. We must step up the efforts to organize the unemployed youth and people
deprived of the basic needs of livelihood.
Today, due to the imperialist offensive in the form of globalization-privatisation-liberalisation,
the toiling people of the entire world, particularly the people of semi-colonial
countries, are adversely effected. And, due to its semi-colonial semi-feudal
character, all spheres of economy, society, polity and culture of the country
are effected. Vast sections of the people are groaning under the oppressive
burden of these pro-imperialist policies. Lakhs of workers in the industrial and
service sectors are being retrenched. Wages of the working class are being
frozen. No new jobs are created resulting in massive unemployment of the youth.
Thousands of peasants are becoming pauperized and committing suicide. The
Onslaught of imperialist culture has made women into commodities for sex and has
made life highly insecure for the vast majority of women. Due to the massive
cuts in expenditure for healthcare, hitherto unknown or rarely-occurring
diseases have now become common and are spreading like epidemic. Education has
become the prerogative of the rich and the privileged as funds for education
have been reduced drastically. The offensive of the MNCs has ruined domestic and
household industry, and the handloom sector, pushing the workers to suicides and
into the reserve army of unemployed. The informal sector has burgeoned as
imperialist and comprador capital finds it more profitable to subcontract much
of their work. Lakhs of adivasis and other sections of the peasantry are being
displaced to make way for so-called big development projects. In the urban
areas, slum demoli-tion is in full swing to cater to the needs of technology and
amusement parks, special economic zones, five star hotels, multiplex complexes,
shopping malls and big corporations. All this has created more favourable
conditions for organizing the masses militantly on their life and death issues
and to bring them to the side of revolution.
In such a situation, the exploiting ruling classes have no other alternative but
to step up their armed offensive on the people and it is only the CPI (Maoist)
that is equipped to lead them. And the people too have no other alternative than
to take to the path of militant revolutionary struggle. That is why the
formation of the CPI(Maoist) and the unification of the two guerilla armies had
enthused the toiling masses who look towards the newly-unified Party to provide
them leadership.
The Party shoulders the responsibility of leading the vast masses on their
day-to-day demands, intensifying and expanding the anti-feudal, anti-imperialist
struggles throughout the country, and advancing the people’s war to the next
higher stage by defeating the all-round offensive of the enemy. The Party
shoulders the responsibility of recruiting thousands upon thousands of working
class and peasant youth into the guerilla army to transform it into a PLA, of
transforming the guerilla zones into Base Areas, Red resistance zones into
guerilla zones, create many more new zones of armed struggle, transform the
urban areas into strong bastions of revolutionary activity with strictly
underground Party structures and thus expand the people’s war throughout the
country.
The great leaders and teachers, comrades CM and KC, had fought uncompromisingly
against the revisionism of all hues, established the path of protracted people’s
war and area-wise seizure of power, and conducted struggles, internal and
external, in the most difficult period of history. The Party has seen many ups
and downs in the long history of 37 years, built the armed agrarian
revolutionary struggle from scratch in a few small pockets and has now expanded
the struggle to several states. Thousands of comrades have sacrificed their
lives in the course of advancing the people’s war. By firmly relying on the
ideology of MLM and applying the dialectical materialist method to solve the
problems confronting the revolutionary movement, adhering to the revolutionary
mass line and the path of PPW, and deriving inspiration from comrades CM and KC,
and thousands of the heroic selfless martyrs and avoiding the mistakes committed
in the past, the Party can certainly fulfill the diverse tasks of the Indian
revolution.
On the occasion of the completion of two years of the formation of the Party let
the masses and democratic and revolutionary forces throughout the country
commemorate this historic week by taking the ideals of the Party and its
programme and tactics deep amongst the masses of the Country. Take up extensive
propaganda campaigns regarding the political and ideological line and policies
of the Party and the achievements of the New Democratic Revolution of India; the
cherished aims and goals of the martyrs, their invaluable sacrifices, and their
exemplary lives and high communist values which they upheld. Propagate the
ideology of MLM and its historical development with special emphasis on the
struggle against revisionism. Let this commemoration become a festival of the
people propagating its goals through song, dance, skits, plays, posters,
exhibitions, handbills, and new and creative methods of propaganda and
agitation.
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