A new joint declaration for Palestine has launched and continues to have signatures and support in the world from Europe Asie Latin America Usa Australia China etc-
We call all parties and organisations for supporting and signature
This JD calls for an international week of action for 7th october (7-13 october)
Intensifyactionsand make the militant, massmovement in support to Palestinian struggle advance in an increasingly powerful way!
More than 11 months have passed since the beginning of the criminal offensive by the terrorist state of Israel against the Palestinian people. More 40,000 Palestinians have been murdered, including women and children, and more100,000 have been injured.
The Zionists have forced more than a million Palestinians to move towards the south of Gaza during their bombings, massacres and invasions. Without a doubt the Zionist genocides are carrying out an operation to occupy the south of the Gaza Strip. The Zionists want to annihilate the Palestinian people, take over their territory and resources, trying to push the Palestinians into the Sinai desert in Egypt, an old plan of forced displacement that leaves the path clear for the ultimate occupation of the entire territory of Palestine.
Rafah, south of Gaza, became a refuge for Palestinians, concentrating nearly one and a half million people in a small area, where they live under bombings while Israeli forces prevent humanitarian aid from arriving.
This exacerbates the humanitarian crisis as the Palestinian population in Rafah is suffering from infectious diseases caused by the lack of drinking water, lack of hygiene facilities, food insecurity, lack of hospitals and shelters in good condition as results of the continuous offensive of the Zionists. Many children who die not only under the bombs but because the lack of care and food. According to reports from a UN health agency itself, approximately 80% of Palestinian children under the age of 5 are unable to eat every day.
This combines with the Zionists' attempt to also morally attack the Palestinian people with violent acts beyond the massacre of civilians. The premeditated destruction of temples, houses, schools, universities, hospitals, combined with the deprivation of water and energy, fiercely hits the lives of Palestinians, destroys hopes, exposes them to slow death.
Hospital sieges violate the fundamental rules of war, causing severe effects by destroying infrastructure to care for the sick and wounded, murdering medical personnel and besieging nearby areas. The Palestinian people have to suffer soldiers of the Zionist forces who mock and scorn their sorrow, dance on the ruins of their homes and grab despicable scenes to glorify their actions, added to grotesque TV spots. Their videos on social media are full of anti-Palestinian speeches, combined with racist statements by the Israeli rulers and violent education of children, teaching them to hate Palestinians from childhood.
The genocide against the Palestinian people is not just the work of Israeli Zionism. The imperialist states that provide support are responsible, especially the United States, Great Britain with other European imperialist governments, Germany, France, Italy, etc. as accomplices.
The US imperialists unconditionally support their watchdog in the Middle East. They use their veto power in the UN Security Council to block any measure for peace initiative, they send weapons and money to the Zionists to strengthen their military power, and recently, with a move that many consider historic, the US Congress has approved a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court for having ordered the arrest of Zionist political leaders.
Facing of all this, the Palestinian people and the organizations of their Resistance provide a heroic resistance in the given conditions, continuing to deal blows to the troops of occupation and genocidal invasion. We express our maximum support for this Resistance.
The genocide against the Palestinian people sparked international solidarity which has never stopped since October. The proletarians and peoples of the world have kept the cause of the liberation of Palestine high, condemning the ferocious Zionist offensive.
Withstanding the repression by the reactionary states, the masses held meetings and large demonstrations, demanding a stop to the aggression, developing a boycott of Israeli companies and those that support the Zionists, demanding the breaking of relations and treaties with Israel; up to the extraordinary development in recent months of the student movement which has set fire to the universities, the streets, from the US to Europe and throughout the world, recalling the movement of solidarity with the cause of the Vietnamese people of the 60s and 70s.
Under pressure from the masses, some governments have broken their relationships with Israel and some international bodies have been forced to take legal action. The International Court of Justice has accepted the request presented by South Africa and supported by other states ordering the Zionists to immediately cease military operations against the Gaza Strip. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest orders against Minister Netanyahu and his Defense Minister, Gallant. But, at the same time, they ordered the detention of Hamas leaders. The latter shows the bourgeois character of the ICC in equating the violence of the oppressors and that of the oppressed.
Faced with this situation, it is now more necessary than ever to intensify actions and make the mass militant movement in support of the Palestinian cause advance in an increasingly powerful way. Popular pressure must rise to solidarity strikes, to increasingly harsh actions against governments that support Israel and Israeli Embassies in every corner of the world.
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communist parties and organizations must play an increasingly front-line role in this movement, around shared mass demands: demand that Israeli troops abandon the Gaza Strip and the West Bank; demand that the imperialist troops abandon the region and cease their military actions in the Middle East in support of the state of Israel and against the forces in solidarity with the Palestinian people, in the Red Sea, in Lebanon, etc.; demand the severing of diplomatic, commercial and military relations with Israel; demand that Zionist rulers be tried for war crimes and genocide.
At the same time, in the demonstrations of solidarity with the people of Palestine and condemning the Zionist genocide, we call that there should also be a denunciation of the action carried out in India by the fascist Hindutva state of Modi, great supporter of Netanyahu's government, backed by US imperialism, against the indigenous, tribal peoples in that country. A genocidal campaign, called 'Operation Kagaar', in the midst of which massacres and forced deportations are perpetrated, civilians and leaders of tribal peoples, social activists and revolutionary leaders are murdered; just as journalists and human rights defenders who oppose are persecuted. An operation that aims to suffocate the liberation struggle of the Indian masses, the anti-imperialist people's war of the masses.
The workers and peoples of the world must support the resistance and the war of national liberation of the Palestinian people, within the struggle for the definitive liberation of the peoples from capitalist, imperialist exploitation and oppression, which will be possible with the triumph of the revolutions in every country and the advance of the world proletarian revolution, to unroot every form of oppression and exploitation from the face of the earth.
Proletarians and peoples of the world, let's unite against imperialism!
Long live the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people!
Free Palestine!
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST STATE REPRESSION STRONGLY CONDEMNS NIA ARREST HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND ADVOCATE AJAY KUMAR IN FALSE CONSPIRACY CASE REGISTERD IN LUCKNOW
STOP WITCH HUNTING DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ACTIVIST !!
WE DEMAND QUASHING OF BOGUS FIR NO. RC-01/2023/NIA/LUCKNOW THAT LEADS TO WITCH HUNTING OF ACTIVIST ACROSS NORTHERN STATE SAME LIKE BHIMA KOREGAON CASE !!
The Campaign against State Repression (CASR) unequivocally condemns the arrest of human rights activist and Advocate Ajay Kumar by National Investigation Agency Today early morning 3 AM from Chandigarh. He has been sent on police remand for upcoming 3 days. For the last more than 1 Year the Indian state has undertaken a concentrated campaign to intimidate Ajay Kumar with members of the NIA, Central Intelligence Bureau and intelligence agency of the state of Haryana repeatedly harassing his relatives, friends and former neighbours regarding his whereabouts, warning them against any interaction with him and even supposedly letting slip that a raid of his residence is likely.
An activist, writer, lawyer and intellectual, Ajay Kumar has dedicated near three decades to the struggles of toiling masses for liberation from oppression and exploitation. Since his days as a student in Kurukshetra university, he has been active in various mass and democratic struggles be they the struggle against the illegal termination of canteen workers in Kurukshetra University or the struggle against the demolition of working-class neighbourhood of Gandhi Nagar, Kurukshetra. He participated in the peasant movement in Kandela, Haryana, was active in opposing the arrest of peasant leader Ghashi Ram and took lead in fact-finding missions on atrocities against Dalits in Haryana. In Chandigarh, he was active in the movement against evictions of slum dwellers as well as the movements against the amendments to Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act and Chhota Nagpur Tenancy Act in 2016. He was active in the organizing of various programs, among others, the Mumbai Resistance programme in 2004 to oppose imperialist penetration into people’s movements via the World Social Forum. Apart from this, Ajay has aided in the capacity-building of activists from the anti-displacement movements against Electro Steel Company in Santhal Pargana (Jharkhand), Grabanda Bera electricity project in Gumla (Jharkhand) and South Korean giant POSCO in Jagatsinghpur (Odisha).
It is possibly Ajay Kumar’s role as an anti-displacement activist and an opponent to the Indian state’s undeclared war on the Adivasi peasant people of central India to further corporate loot of land and resources that has brought him the ire of the State. Ajay was actively involved in the Forum against the War on People to oppose the attack by state forces and corporate-sponsored militia, Salwa Judum, on the Adivasi peasants of central India under Operation Green Hunt. He was also founding member of Vistapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan (VVJVA), a conglomeration of more than 50 organisations from across the country seeking to challenge the forcible displacement of peasants particularly Adivasis, for the furtherance of corporate loot and land grab. VVJVA works against the forceful displacement of peasantry, particularly Adivasis for building big dams, industrial projects, mines, Special Economic Zones, highways, National Parks, Smart City projects etc. Ajay Kumar worked alongside the likes of Dr. B.D. Sharma (retired IAS officer), K.N. Pandit (trade union leader), Dr. B.P. Kesari, Father Stan Swamy, Sudha Bhardwaj, Dr. G.N. Saibaba and J. Madhuri in the formation of this forum in 2007. From 2007 to 2016, Ajay was the All-India Convenor of VVJVA and later a member of its All India Steering Committee. He was also a member of the All-India Committee of the Forum Against Imperialist Globalisation.
He was already targeted with the Israeli-made Pegasus surveillance software, which was confirmed in October 2019 by John Scott Railton, a senior researcher at the Canadian organization Citizens Lab. The next month, WhatsApp too confirmed that this surveillance software was installed on his phone illegally in May 2018. His close association with other incarcerated activists as mentioned above already made him a person of interest in the false case against Prof. G.N. Saibaba, with his name mentioned in the lower courts. Those arrested in the fabricated Bhima Koregaon-Elgaar Parishad case were also interrogated about Ajay Kumar.
As a lawyer and activist, Ajay was active in the campaign against the death penalty awarded to cultural activist Jiten Marandi and opposition to capital punishment in general. As a member of the Indian Association of Peoples Lawyers (IAPL), he struggled for the release of political prisoners including those incarcerated in the Bhima Koregaon case. He helped organise a program against the use of pellet guns in Kashmir and participated in a fact-finding mission in Kashmir in May 2018 alongside Surendra Gadling, Arun Ferreira, and others. When article 370 was revoked, he aided in organizing protests in several prominent universities and was active in protesting against the draconian CAA-NRC-NPR. He was involved in the famous Kisan Andolan and in organising the movement against the caste atrocities committed in Panchkula in the state of Haryana.
Besides all the above, Ajay has written widely on issues concerning the toiling masses. Seminal articles on agrarian production relations in Haryana and socio-historical overview of Khap Panchayats were presented in the University of Hyderabad and Indian Institute for Advanced Studies in Shimla respectively, as well as various books, including titled Vistapan aur Janandolan. He also co-edited 8 volumes of the news bulletin Lalkar and was a regular contributor to the Jan Pratirodh magazine writing on a host of issues including the political economy of the Jat reservation demand, socio-economic impact of technological development, militarization of central India, the Lalgarh movement, state violence, Haryana’s new education policy and social boycotts among others.
CASR strongly condemns the arrest of activist Ajay Kumar for unflinching activism and commitment to the cause of the oppressed and exploited!
CASR demands an immediate Release of Human Rights Activist and Advocate Ajay Kumar and all such political activists working on people’s issues!
CASR demands an immediate end to the witch-hunt being carried out by NIA across the country in the name of Urban Naxals/OGWs.
CASR: Comunicado contra el arresto de NIA del activista de derechos humanos y abogado Ajay Kumar
CAMPAÑA CONTRA LA REPRESIÓN ESTATAL CONDENA ENÉRGICAMENTE EL ARRESTO DEL ACTIVISTA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS Y ABOGADO AJAY KUMAR POR PARTE DE NIA EN UN CASO CONSPIRATIVO FALSO REGISTRADO EN LUCKNOW
¡DETENER LA CAZA DE BRUJAS DE LOS ACTIVISTAS POR LOS DERECHOS DEMOCRÁTICOS!
La Campaña Contra la Represión Estatal (CASR) inequívocamente condena el arresto del activista de derechos humanos y abogado Ajay Kumar por parte de la Agencia de Investigación Nacional hoy a las 3 de la madrugada en Chandigarh. Ha quedado bajo custodia policial durante los próximos tres días. Durante el pasado año, el Estado indio ha llevado a cabo una campaña centrada en intimidar a Ajay Kumar usando los miembros de NIA, el Buró de Inteligencia Central y la agencia de inteligencia del estado de Haryanaa repetidamente acosó a sus familiares, amigos y ex-vecinos sobre su paradero, avisándoles de que cualquier interacción con él incluso inintencional,les dejaron caer que posiblemente se hará un asalto.
Activista, escritor, abogado e intelectual, Ajay Kumar ha dedicado cerca de tres décadas a las luchas de las masas obreras para la liberación de la opresión y explotación. Dese sus días como estudiante en la universidad de Kurukshetra, ha sido activo en varias luchas de masas y democráticas, ya sea en la lucha contra la demolición del vecindario de clase obrera de Gandhi Nagar, Kurukshetra. Participó en el movimiento campesino en Kandela, Haryana, era activo en la oposición al arresto del líder campesino Ghashi Ram y tomó iniciativa en las misiones de búsqueda de pruebas de las atrocidades contra los dalits en Haryana. En Chandigarh fue activo en el movimiento contra los desalojos de quienes viven en tugurios así como de los movimientos contra las enmiendas a la Ley de Arrendamiento de Santhal Parganas y Ley de Arrendamiento de Chota Nagpur en 2016. Fue activo en organizar varios programas, entre otros, el programa de Resistencia de Mumbai en 2004 para oponer la penetración imperialista en los movimientos populares a través del Foro Social Mundial. A parte de esto, Ajay ha ayudado en la capacidad para construir activistas de los movimientos contra los desplazamientos contra Electro Steel Company en Santhal Pargana (Jharkhand), el proyecto eléctrico de Grabanda Bera en Gumla (Jharkhand) y el gigante surcoreano POSCO en Jagatsinghpur (Odisha).
Es posible que el papel de Ajay Kumar como activista anti-desplazamientos y opuesto a la guerra no declarada del Estado indio contra el pueblo campesino adivasi de India central para un mayor saqueo corporativo de la tierra y los recursos le haya traído la ira del Estado. Ajay estuvo activamente envuelto en el Foro contra la Guerra contra el Pueblo para oponer el ataque de las fuerzas estatales y la milicia financiada por las corporaciones, Salwa Judum, sobre los campesinos adivasi en el centro de India bajo la Operación Green Hunt. También fue miembro fundador de Vistapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan (VVJVA), una conglomeración de más de 50 organizaciones de todo el país que buscaban desafiar los desplazamientos forzados de los campesinos, particularmente de los adivasi, para aumentar el saqueo corporativo y el robo de tierra. VVJVA trabaja contra los desplazamientos forzosos del campesinado, particularmente de adivasis, para la construcción de presas, proyectos industriales, minas, Zonas Económicas Especiales, autovías, Parques Nacionales, proyectos de Smart City, etc. Ajay Kumar trabajó con algunos semejantes, como el Dr. B.D. Sharma (oficial de IAS retirado), K.N. Pandit (líder del sindicato), Dr. B.P. Kesari, Father Stan Swamy, Sudha Bhardwaj, Dr. G.N. Saibaba y J. Madhurri en la formación de su foro en 2007. Del 2007 al 2016, Ajay fue el Coordinador de All-India de VVJVA y posteriormente miembro del Comité de dirección del Comité All-India para el Foro Contra la Globalización Imperialista.
Ya fue el objetivo del software de vigilancia israelí Pegasus, lo cuál se confirmó en octubre de 2019 por John Scott Railton, un investigador senior de la organización canadiense Citizens Lab. Al mes siguiente, WhatsApp también confirmó que este software de vigilancia fue instalado en el teléfono ilegalmente en mayo de 2018. Su asociación cercana con otros activistas encarcelados, como los mencionados anteriormente, le hizo una persona de interés en el caso falso contra el Prof. G.N. Saibaba, siendo su nombre mencionado en juicios de bajo nivel. Aquellos arrestados en el caso fabricado de Bhima Koregaon-Elgaar Parishad también fueron interrogados acerca de Ajay Kumar.
Como abogado y activistas, Ajay fue activo en la campaña contra la pena de muerte que se puso contra el activista cultural Jiten Marandi y contra la pena capital en general. Como miembro de la Asociación India de Abogados del Pueblo (IAPL), luchó por la liberación de prisioneros políticos, incluyendo aquellos encarcelados en el caso de Bhima Koregaon. Él ayudó a organizar un programa contra el uso de pistolas de perdigones en Cachemira y participó en la misión de búsqueda de pruebas en Cachemira en mayo de 2018 junto a Suredra Gadling, Arun Ferreira y otros. Cuando el artículo 370 fue revocado, ayudó en la organización de protestas en varias universidades prominentes y fue activo en las protestas contra la draconiana CAA-NRC-NPR. Estuvo envuelto en el famoso caso de Kissan Andolan y en organizar el movimiento contra las atrocidades por el sistemas de castas cometidas en Panchkula en el estado de Haryana.
Además de todo lo mencionado, Ajay ha escrito ampliamente sobre problemas que conciernen a las masas obreras. Artículos seminales sobre las relaciones de producción agraria en Haryana y en la perspectiva socio-histórica de Khap Panchayats se presentaron en la Universidad de Hyderab y en el Instituto Indio para Estudios Avanzados en Shimla respectivamente, así como varios libros, incluyendo el titulado Vistapan aur Janandolan. También co-editó 8 volúmenes de los boletines de noticias de Lalkar y fue contribuidor regular de la revista Jan Pratirodh, escribiendo sobre varios tópicos, incluyendo la economía política de la demanda de la reserva Jat, el impacto socioeconómico del desarrollo tecnológico, la militarización de India central, el movimiento Lalgarh, la violencia estatal, la nueva política de educación de Haryana y los boicots sociales, entre otros.
¡CASR condena enérgicamente el arresto del activista Ajay Kumar a causa del activismo inquebrantable y compromiso con la causa de los oprimidos y explotados!
¡CASR exige la liberación inmediata del activista de derechos humanos y abogado, Ajay Kumar, y todos los activistas políticos por las cuestiones del pueblo obrero!
¡CASR exige el fin inmediato de la caza de brujas llevada a cabo por NIA por todo el país bajo el pretexto de Naxalitas Urbanos/OGWs.
En México se realizó un acto de solidaridad en el zócalo de Oaxaca, a donde decenas de activistas de diversos organismos generados acudieron para instalar una mesa de información, dando lectura al llamamiento de la FFPS y el pronunciamiento de CP-Sol Rojo con motivo de este día; se distribuyeron cientos de suplementos de Periódico Mural y se colocó un dazibao de 3mts en el zócalo de la ciudad.
En dicho evento las compañeras del Movimiento Femenino Popular tomaron la palabra destacando el papel de las mujeres en la lucha de liberación nacional del pueblo filipino… “miles de mujeres en ese país han tomado una gran decisión que ha cambiado su vida y que cambia también la vida de su pueblo, estas mujeres han tomado las armas sirviendo como combatientes y mandos en la guerrilla maoísta del Nuevo Ejército del Pueblo… ¡sin mujeres no hay revolución!”
También los compañeros del Movimiento de Artesanos Independientes destacaron que… “el pueblo pobre en Filipinas tiene razón para luchar en armas contra un gobierno tirano; allí también hay artesanos que como nosotros son perseguidos y criminalizados por ser pobres y por ser indígenas”.
Los compañeros del Centro Cultural y de Estudios de la Ciencia para la Revolución Proletaria han dicho que… “así como en Palestina el pueblo entero se levanta en ejemplar lucha de liberación nacional contra la entidad sionista y su ejército de ocupación; así como en la India los pueblos adivasis se levantan bajo la dirección del proletariado desarrollando la guerra popular, desafiando y derrotando la “Operación Kaggar”; así también en Filipinas las masas más profundas del campo y la ciudad sostienen una gran lucha revolucionaria contra los gobiernos títeres impuestos por el imperialismo yanqui... La guerra popular en Filipinas ha cumplido ya 55 años y su único destino posible es vencer”.
Muchas personas recibieron con gusto la propaganda revolucionaria, haciendo preguntas sobre la revolución filipina y mostrando gran interés por la guerra popular en curso. Esto tiene que ver con el hecho de que Filipinas y México en el pasado formamos parte del maldito “Virreinato de la Nueva España” y existen lazos culturales y sentimientos de liberación que nos unen. Los pueblos de México anhelamos con sinceridad el triunfo de la lucha de liberación nacional del hermano pueblo filipino.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) gives its highest tribute to Maria Concepcion Araneta-Bocala (Ka Concha), Vicente Hinojales (Ka Hadjie/Ka Emil) and the August Heroes and Martyrs of Panay. They are Party cadres and Red fighters of the New People's Army who died resisting the Marcos fascist regime, defending the rights of the oppressed masses of workers and peasants, and fighting alongside the Filipino people to attain their centuries-long aspirations for genuine freedom and democracy.
Ka Hadjie, Ka Concha, along with Aurelio B. Bosque (Ka Zarco/Baijan/Rio), Jose Jerry Tacaisan (Ka Miller/Bronze), Bemjamin Cortel (Ka Amor/Ruby/Mamang), Romulo Iturriaga Gangoso (Ka Reagan/Biboy/Pedik), Jielmor Gauranoc (Ka Doc/Tango/Baron), Juvylene Silverio (Ka Kaykay/Purang), Armando Savariz (Ka Nene/Kulot), Rewilmar Torrato (Ka Minerva/Mara/Moray) and John Paul Capio (Ka Ronron) were killed in a series of armed encounters with the bloodthirsty fascist troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) from August 5 to 15 in Calinog and Lambunao towns, Iloilo province, and last August 24 in Valderrama, Antique.
They are martyrs of the broad masses of the Filipino people, and heroes of the Philippine revolution. They devoted their lives to the interests of workers, peasants and all democratic classes, in their struggle against all forms of oppression and exploitation in the country, and to attain national and social liberation.
The Party honors the August Heroes and Martyrs of Panay with the highest distinction. Their deaths are a great loss to the masses of Panay and the Filipino people and weigh heavily on our hearts. We express our deepest sympathies to their families, the revolutionary forces and the oppressed and exploited people of Panay, and share with them profound grief. At the same time, we express our indignation at the Marcos fascist terrorist regime that continues to wage a brutal war of suppression against the Filipino people.
We give our highest honors to Ka Hadjie, member of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Panay Regional Party Committee. He was among the younger cadres of the Party who have assumed important roles in leading the revolution in the past years. He assumed leadership of the Panay region in 2016, after having played an important part in the comprehensive growth of the revolutionary struggles in Northeast Mindanao from 2006 to 2016. Over the past years, Ka Hadjie and cadres of the Panay Regional Committee have led the revolutionary forces in the region in resisting the relentless and brutal campaign of the Marcos fascist regime. He was 55.
We also pay special tribute to Ka Concha, who dedicated her long life to the revolutionary cause. She started to work full-time as a cadre organizer in 1972. Other than serving as a key official of the Party's Regional Committee in Panay, she was also assigned as consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in peace negotiations. Ka Concha abandoned all the comforts and privilege of the landlord class, and joined the oppressed peasant masses and Tumandok people in their struggle for land and justice. She would have turned 74 this August 26.
The names of the August Heroes and Martyrs of Panay will forever be etched in the collective memory of the Filipino people. Their contributions to the people's democratic revolution will never be forgotten. Their lives of revolutionary service will always serve as inspiration to the people.
We call on all revolutionary forces of Panay and the entire Filipino people to remember the August Heroes and Martyrs of Panay. Let us conduct memorial meetings to pay tribute and honor their revolutionary deeds. Let us draw courage and determination from their examples and pledge to commit ourselves to continue the people's struggle and armed resistance to achieve the people's aspiration for genuine freedom and democracy.
While some Party cadres and revolutionary leaders in Panay have fallen, other leaders of the Party in the region are now picking up the mantle of leadership. Amid the worsening crisis of the semicolonial and semifeudal system, aggravated by the anti-people and anti-national policies of the Marcos regime, more and more young workers and people, from both cities and rural areas, are heeding calls to join the Party and the New People's Army. They are driven by the urgency of fighting back against the fascist and oppressive regime.
The broad masses of Filipino people have no option but to fight back against the abuses and ruthless war of the Marcos regime directed against them. Marcos uses the AFP to serve the interests of multinational corporations, their local big bourgeois comprador business partners, big landlords and bureaucrat capitalists. Peasants and minority people in their millions are being dispossessed of their land and driven away by Marcos and the AFP to make way for mining operations, plantations, dams, tourism and crony infrastructure projects.
Marcos and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are fooling only themselves when they claim that they can crush the armed revolution this year or next. Despite having experienced setbacks, the New People's Army, under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party of the Philippines, is resolute in its determination to wage armed resistance relentlessly.
Inspired by the rectification movement, and driven by the desire to fight for the interests of the broad masses, Red fighters and commanders of the NPA are giving their earnest to surmount all obstacles, face all difficulties, overcome past errors, wage guerrilla warfare and launch tactical offensives, carry out mass work, help advance the peasant struggle for genuine land reform and build the organized strength of the masses. With the boundless support of the masses, it is only a matter of time that the NPA will recover from losses and regain strength.
No amount of state terrorism will stop the broad masses of the Filipino people from advancing their national and democratic cause. They are unwavering in their resolve to defend their rights and resist the Marcos puppet and fascist regime, the current most concentrated expression of the oppressive and exploitative ruling system.
Imbued with the spirit of selflessness and courage of the August Heroes and Martyrs of Panay, they will wage all forms of struggle against the US-Marcos fascist regime, advance the people's war, and carry forward the struggle for national and social liberation until victory.
Let the memory of the August Heroes and Martys of Panay live forever! Inspired by their sacrifices, persevere in the national democratic revolution!
Long live the New People's Army!
Long live the National Democratic Front of the Philippines!
News has come to light that on 13th August 2024 at around 6 am, the house of Murali Kannampilly (Comrade Ajith) at Thevaikkal, Kerala was raided by the NIA in connection with KPHB Colony, Hyderabad case of September, 2023. In this case, Sanjoy Deepak Roy was arrested on the allegation of being a Central Committee member of the banned CPI (Maoist), along with “Saraswati”, his wife- accused of being instrumental in organizing for the so called proscribed organization.
Right from 2019 to September 2023, multiple number of Journalists, Writers, Students, Teachers, Lawyers and Democratic Rights Activists were implicated in false cases by the State under IPC, UAPA, Telangana Public Security Act and the Arms Act. The police divided their list of individuals under three categories, particularly people who they deem “top Maoist leaders” such as Namballa Kesava Rao, Muppala Lakshman Rao, Mallojula Venugopal Rao, Tippiri Tirupati, Kadari Satyanarayan Reddy, K.R. Reddy, M.R. Reddy, Paka Hanumanta, Gajarla Ravi, Modem Balakrishna and Konnath Muralidharan. The second category includes “other leaders” and the third category includes various activists and journalists such. Murali was also accused of being a” top Maoist leader” by the Indian state and was arrested for the same, but was released under pressure from the grassroots level, at both a local and international level in 2019.
At around 6 am, NIA arrived at Comrade Murali’s house. Despite not being given permission to enter, a group of eight officials broke open the door and entered the house in Thevaikkal. Murali had merely requested that his lawyer be present during the raid. In response, the NIA team broke opened the door and have been conducting investigations. Some months ago, as well, the home of Murali was raided and he was called in for questioning. Unable to build a sound legal case against Murali, the state has instead resorted to harassing and intimating the activist.
Murali is a 62-year-old heart patient who lives alone. Previously, he was lodged in Pune’s Yerwada jail for 4 years between 2015-2019 and was an accused in a 1976 case in Kayanna. This shows that the targeting of Murali was a very deliberate attempt by the Fascist state in order to curb the voices of dissent. Murali has been a political activist for the past few decades. By his contributions to international revolutionary theory, Murali is threatening the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist state in speaking for the rights of exploited and oppressed people.
This speaks the very nature of NIA itself. Though it calls itself a national “investigation agency”, the agenda of NIA is clear that it serves as the guard-dog of Brahmanical Hindutva Fascism, unleashed to suppress voices of dissent by labeling of all democratic, pro-people activities as the activity of “Maoists”. Once these activists are tagged and arrested under labels like “Maoists” “Urban naxals” , the State is able to utilize draconian “anti-terror” laws which suspend the fundamental rights of accused people.
Through associating all forms of dissent as Maoist-associated, the State attempts to carry out a chilling effect which discourages criticism and dissent. The space to dissent, organize and protest is a basic feature of a democratic society which is being corroded. These scare tactics, fake charges and arrests are all targeting dissent itself.
Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) vehemently condemns these tactics of the State intended to curb democratic resistance.
Demands:
Immediate withdrawal of cases against Murali and all Democratic Rights Defenders.
Political Prisoners in India: On the State’s Conspiratorial Lawsuits and Agencies
On 5 March 2024, the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted Professor GN Saibaba, Hem Mishra, Prashant Rahi, Vijay Tirkey and Mahesh Tirkey of all charges against them. Pandu Narote, who was only 33 years old, died while in jail. In fact, this is a custodial murder, for which the concerned officials should…
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On 5 March 2024, the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted Professor GN Saibaba, Hem Mishra, Prashant Rahi, Vijay Tirkey and Mahesh Tirkey of all charges against them. Pandu Narote, who was only 33 years old, died while in jail. In fact, this is a custodial murder, for which the concerned officials should be prosecuted and punished. The extent of cruelty was such that the jail administration did not even get him treated when he was sick. Before he died, he was bleeding from his eyes and urine in the last days of his life.
Acquitting the other five accused, the High Court in its judgement remarked that “merely downloading communist or Naxalite literature from the Internet or having sympathy for communist philosophy is not a crime under UAPA.” In today’s era when any kind of disagreement with the government is criminalised, such a comment by the High Court holds great importance.
JNU student, political and cultural activist Hem Mishra, who was imprisoned in the Anda Cell along with Professor GN Saibaba in the same case, had already said in an interview given to a media portal named ‘Catch News’ when he came out on bail in 2015 before being acquitted that “believing in any ideology, even Maoism, is not a crime”. It took 10 years for the Bombay High Court to understand this.
It is noteworthy that the Bombay Court has acquitted all the people in this case for the second time. This is a wonderous case in the judicial history of India. Last year on 14 October 2022, the Mumbai High Court acquitted all the accused on the basis of technical irregularities committed by the police during the trial, which were also illegal. But the ghost of Maoism haunts the government so much that the Maharashtra government immediately appealed against this decision in the Supreme Court, after which the Supreme Court stayed the High Court’s decision in a special hearing and said that “as far as terrorist or Maoist activities are concerned, the brain is more dangerous and direct involvement is not necessary.” The Supreme Court, agreeing with the Maharashtra government, ordered that the trial be heard again not on the basis of technical flaws (even if they are illegal). On March 5, all the accused in this case were acquitted again on this basis. This proves that this entire case was not only fake, but it was also fabricated and run illegally. But unfortunately, no case will be filed against the police administration or the people responsible for it. This is the failure and limitation of this justice system.
Professor GN Saibaba, who along with Hem Mishra, Mahesh Tirkey, Vijay Tirkey, Narayan Sanglikar, Prashant Rahi and Pandu Narote (deceased) were acquitted by the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court in the fabricated “Maoist links” case.
The intention of the state and the police system engaged in its protection, the justice system behind running this case, has been exposed not once but many times during the entire trial. Hence, this case is an example. In 2017, the judge of the Gadchiroli Sessions Court, while sentencing all the accused including GN Saibaba to life imprisonment, said- “In my opinion, life imprisonment is not enough for the accused, (they should be hanged) but due to sections 18 and 20 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the hands of the court are tied. In my opinion, this is a suitable case for punishment.” The judge further explained the reason for his hatred in this decision. Declaring GN Saibaba and others as an obstacle in the development of Gadchiroli district, he said- “Gadchiroli is still the same as it was in the year 1982. All the accused are responsible for this, they are members of the banned organization CPI Maoist’s frontal organization Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), who did not allow foreign investment here, due to which it remained underdeveloped.”
This judgement clearly reveals the judge’s bias more than his knowledge of law, he did not refrain from ruling on this bias either, which is legally wrong. The development model in favor of which the judge was writing the judgment is such an anti-human model in which the plunder of natural resources, the genocide of tribals is considered right. While Professor GN Saibaba, Hem Mishra, Prashant Rahi, Vijay Tirkey, who exposed this model to the whole world, were given life imprisonment, according to the judge, this punishment was not enough for them because the hands of the judiciary were tied by the law, otherwise the professor and others with him could have been given death sentence. In fact, Professor GN Saibaba, Hem Mishra and other such people are not obstacles to development, rather they are the biggest obstacle in the plunder of resources being done by the domestic and foreign imperialist companies, protected and nurtured by the state. Till the time they were out of jail, they were continuously exposing the plunder of the tribal lands and all the precious resources found under it and the genocide of the tribals, which was being carried out through the state-sponsored “Operation Green Hunt”, in front of the whole country and the world. To continue this model of development based on plunder without any hindrance, many people like GN Saibaba have been put in jail so that the voice of protest can be silenced. Rupesh Kumar Singh, an independent journalist from Jharkhand, who was exposing this model of development through his reports, is also lodged in Bhagalpur jail today on charges of having links with the Maoists. In fact, this has become the story of not just one place but the whole country. The state police agencies – NIA, ATS etc. have all been put to the task of pursuing those who oppose this model of development, so that there is no hindrance to imperialist loot. The conspiracy of the Bhima Koregaon case is a perfect example of this, under which those who speak, write and speak against this model of development are in jail, and those who are outside have been threatened with the same fate. The Bhima Koregaon government conspiracy has become an example of state repression all over the world, on which books are being written, articles are being written and appeals are being issued, but the government is not paying any heed.
Preparations Underway to Fabricate another Bhima Koregaon Case in Uttar Pradesh
After the Maoist connection case of GN Saibaba and the conspiracy of the Bhima Koregaon case, NIA and ATS are making the Bhima Koregaon case a model in many places across the country and harassing those who disagree with the government by filing cases against them and raiding their homes. A day before the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, political activist Prabha alias Anita Azad in Uttar Pradesh had a miscarriage in jail. It would be more appropriate to say that her health condition was deliberately ignored leading to the traumatic and cruel incident. These are some of the most brutal methods of suppressing dissent, which continue even after being sent to jail. Their sole purpose is to torture those who disagree with the government, physically and mentally, in such a way that new voices stop rising. The amount of anger and resentment that should have been seen in civil society over the murder of Anita’s child did not emerge. It is an important fact that despite Anita stating her medical condition, the ATS brought her from her mother’s house in Raipur to Lucknow. During her appearance in the Lucknow Special Court, she also stated her medical condition. 10 days before the miscarriage, the Lucknow Special Court rejected Anita’s bail plea filed on medical grounds, while it was also mentioned that she had already had a miscarriage a few months ago. This is her second miscarriage in a year. Anita and Brijesh, who are farmers and political activists, were accused on 18 October 2023 in a case registered in 2019 by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). They were called for questioning in this case in 2019, then they were released. The ATS says that they have been arrested on the basis of the forensic investigation report of the electronic devices that were seized during the raid at their house 4 years ago in 2019. ATS says that both of them were working for the Maoist party by forming organizations like ‘Mazdoor Kisan Ekta Manch’ and ‘Savitribai Phule Sangharsh Samiti’. It said that the couple was propagating Maoist and anti-national ideology by forming these two organizations. It is evident from the very name of the organizations that talking about unity of workers and farmers and spreading the ideas of Savitribai Phule is not an anti-national activity in any way.
The Uttar Pradesh ATS did not stop here. On March 5, the day Professor GN Saibaba was acquitted of the charges, the advocate Kripa Shankar, who fought the couple’s case, and his wife Binda, a typist in the High Court, were arrested by the ATS in the same case, calling them Maoists. This clearly shows the State’s intention that the narrative of ‘urban Naxal’ or ‘over ground worker’ of the Maoists should continue to spread in the society. In fact, Kripa Shankar is a human rights lawyer from Uttar Pradesh, who was practicing law in the Allahabad High Court of Uttar Pradesh and is fighting in court against the state repression on the people. The important thing about Kripa Shankar is that he was preparing himself by studying specifically on repressive laws like UAPA to understand them. He was developing as a UAPA specialist lawyer, but he himself has been implicated under this law and sent to jail. The condition of both Kripa Shankar and Surendra Gadling, who is in jail in the Bhima Koregaon case, is exactly the same today. Both are paying the price of their legal battle by going to jail. This is what happened with Surendra Gadling 6 years ago, who paid the price of fighting legal battles for GN Saibaba and many others by going to jail. Today, Kripa Shankar is paying the same price for protecting democratic rights.
For the last one year, preparations are going on in full swing to make another Bhima Koregaon case in Uttar Pradesh. NIA is continuously raiding the houses of students, political activists, human rights activists, lawyers and a false story is being fabricated like ‘Elgar Parishad’. This time the story is not about a conspiracy to assassinate the Prime Minister, but that Maoists are spreading their feet in North India. These people are ‘over ground workers’ of the Maoist party. ‘Over ground workers’ is part of the new terminology of the Indian Brahminist Hindutva fascist state which is an extension of ‘urban Naxal’. NIA says that efforts are being made to revive the work of the Maoist party in the Hindi belt of North India. Based on this story, the NIA is conducting raids at various places so that democratic voices can be crushed in the name of Maoism. A clear picture of this can be seen in the press statement issued by the NIA recently, in which they said that the NIA has been moving aggressively in recent months to thwart the nefarious plans of the Maoist organization. Many Hindi newspapers have played an important role in spreading this propaganda. Such newspapers are one step ahead of an agency like the NIA in spreading this state-sponsored propaganda without any facts and references at different times for the last several years.
Use of UAPA as an Everyday Criminal Law
Telangana has a brutal history of state repression in dealing with democratic rights movements. In the past, the police in connivance with intelligence agencies have openly killed many democratic rights activists in fake encounters. In the last one year, Telangana has seen a surprising number of FIRs implicating more than 140 civil society and mass organization leaders in UAPA cases. Many people have even been booked under three to four UAPA cases. The truth of these FIRs is revealed by the fact that it also contains the names of many people who have died many years ago.
Like the Bhima Koregaon case, where the NIA used some suspicious letters allegedly plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister of India to fabricate fake cases against well-known activists and intellectuals across the country. On the same lines, a new story was fabricated in Telangana. Through the Godi media, a narrative was created that a diary was found with the arrested Maoist leader, which contains many important information as well as the names of these activists.
Based on this, raids were conducted on the houses of various lawyers, students, journalists, professors and democratic rights activists and the same story was repeated. The NIA uses many such fake diaries as a toolkit across India to implicate various activists in false cases.
Minorities under Target
The ideology of Maoism attacks the very system on which relations in current society are based, so we can still understand why it is under the target of the current system, but the scope of repression has gone far beyond this. In this system, those who advocate democratic reforms are also under attack. When the Citizenship Act was implemented in 2019, the ‘Delhi Riot Conspiracy’ case was fabricated, targeting not just leaders, but even those who were vocal in opposition to it and only supported the movement. What is even more saddening is that students / youth were arrested and put in jail, most of whom have not been able to come out even after 4 years. The government could not even tolerate the ‘Pinjra Tod’ movement fighting with the demand of increasing the timing of girls’ hostel. Taking revenge on everyone, the ‘Delhi Riot’ case was fabricated and many students, activists, and ordinary Muslims were sent to jail. Whereas those who instigated the Delhi riots, those who gave the statement of ‘Goli Maaro Saalon Ko’ have been awarded the post of minister in the government. The Delhi riots case is fabricated specifically against minorities and women, and even here the government is making every effort to deny bail. The ‘Delhi riots’ case is a representative case of the cases filed against minorities today, and there are many such cases across the country that are fabricated on a large scale to label them as ‘terrorists’ and ‘anti-nationals’.
In colonial times, the state fabricated cases like the Meerut Conspiracy and the Lahore Conspiracy to suppress the movement of people fighting against colonial exploitation and oppression, so that people of the revolutionary stream could be crushed. In the present times, we are seeing that the Brahminical Hindutva fascist BJP-RSS government, taking a cue from its colonial masters, is using the same tactics to suppress those who raise their voices against exploitation and oppression of the people as well as the plunder of the country’s resources by foreign and domestic corporations.
NIA aka National ‘Implicating’ Agency
At the forefront of suppressing democratic rights
NIA is at the forefront of suppression of democratic rights today. Since its formation, it has implicated many socio-political activists as well as common people from different parts of the country in terrorism related cases, who were later acquitted. Most of the charges against them were proved false. There is no better agency than NIA in fabricating false stories today. A common story has been fabricated in cases related to Maoist links, which is seen in every press release of theirs. They say that they have arrested a ‘dreaded Naxalite’ who is a politburo member or a member of the central committee of the Maoist party. In the last two years, NIA has arrested so many people on the basis of this story, that there are probably more people than would constitute the central committee members of any political party, let alone a Maoist party.
After that, raids start at the residences of various activists in that state or the border states around it, and nowadays, going beyond that, across the country. Raids are conducted on the basis that a list of names of the above mentioned people has been found with the ‘dreaded Naxal’ who has been caught. Today, ‘dreaded Naxal’ and the voice of protest both come in the same category. If today, a person near you is arrested on the charge of being a Maoist, then understand that preparations have been made to suppress the civil society or any kind of voice of protest in that area. Today, instead of being a National Investigation Agency, NIA has become an agency that traps people in false charges, which is arresting people in the name of being a ‘terrorist’, ‘Maoist’ or the most popular ‘overground worker’ these days, to suppress the voice of dissent and creating an atmosphere of terror among the public.
From a Small Jail to a Big Jail
Speaking at a press conference in Delhi after coming out of jail, Hem Mishra said that circumstances have changed a lot after staying in jail for so many years and then coming out now. Importantly at the conference, he said that he has come back from a small jail to a “big jail” whose scope is nationwide, where the terror of repression is widespread and the punishment for dissent is jail.
This can be understood even better in the most important Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case till date. In this case, 16 famous political-social activists were implicated in a fake case and sent to jail under UAPA. The trial of this case, arrests under which started in 2018, has not started yet. So far only seven people have got bail in this fake case. In this case, the basic principle of justice ‘bail is the rule, jail is the exception’ has been reversed and ‘jail is the rule, bail is the exception’ has been applied. If we read the bail conditions of those who have been granted bail, we find that they have been taken out of a small jail and stuffed in a big jail. In these conditions, the fundamental right to privacy is being violated by the judiciary itself. Shoma Sen, who was the head of the English department in Nagpur University, has recently been granted bail. She was in jail for the last 6 years. Her bail conditions are as follows-
1) Shoma will surrender her passport and will not go anywhere outside Maharashtra.
2) She will inform the NIA about her residence.
3) She will tell her phone number to the NIA, will keep it active and the GPS of the mobile should always be active. Her mobile should always be connected to the NIA officer so that her location can be traced.
All these conditions are there when the judge has said on the basis of granting bail that there is no prima facie evidence against her.
Writer and human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, who is an accused in this case, has been put under house arrest in Mumbai since November 2022 due to ill health after being imprisoned for four years. To top it all, the NIA recently demanded Rs 1.64 crore from him for the expenses incurred in his security during house arrest. These two examples make it clear that the scope of freedom has become so narrow that there is not much difference between the world inside the jail and the world outside the jail. In this era of undeclared emergency and fascism, the Indian state is suppressing the intellectuals as well as the general public with the help of draconian laws. To understand and expose the narratives created by the NIA and other agencies about Maoism and terrorism, it is important to know and expose the facts related to these cases, of course this is also a crime in their eyes.
by Deepak Kumar, member of Campaign Against State Repression
