PORTUGAL: Event Gathers Students and Workers in Defense of the Indian Revolution

This Saturday, August 2, Portuguese activists held an event in Porto dedicated to promoting and supporting the People’s War in India. The event was organized by the magazine Nova Aurora, with the support of the Anti-Imperialist Action (AAI) of Portugal and the Trama Bookstore. The activity was part of the celebrations for Martyrs’ Week, an internationalist proletarian day honoring all the revolutionaries, democrats, and masses who fell in the long march for the liberation of India from the clutches of imperialism, semi-colonialism, and semi-feudalism.

During the meeting, representatives from the present organizations discussed the historical and social roots of the current situation in India. Starting from the legacy of exploitation and devastation left by British colonialism—which shaped a deeply unequal society marked by archaic structures of domination—the speakers outlined the panorama of the resistance and social transformation struggle undertaken by organized sectors of the Indian people over the past decades.

Topics addressed included the founding of the communist movement in the country, internal divisions and re-compositions, and especially the evolution of a mass struggle process with its own characteristics, which today mobilizes broad layers of the poor peasantry, proletarian sectors, and indigenous communities against the local dominant classes and imperialist interests. Participants highlighted the strategic and prolonged nature of this struggle, now led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist), which is building a New People’s Power amid harsh conditions of repression, influenced by revolutionary sectors

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It was also emphasized that the growing repression by the old Indian State, backed by imperialism, which reacts against the advance of the Party and the masses under its direction with killings, disappearances, forced displacements, and military sieges. Nevertheless, the revolution resists and advances, based on the trust of the masses, their own strength, and the construction of new forms of organization and social life.

The event was attended by students, workers, and young people interested in gaining a deeper understanding of what is happening in India, different from what the reactionary propaganda of imperialism says. Throughout the interventions, the importance of proletarian internationalism and the need to break the imperialist media blockade that silences the most significant struggles of our time were underscored. The activity concluded with a call to spread the truth about the struggle of the Indian people and to build bridges between all those who rise against oppression and exploitation in various parts of the world.