Message to 7th Congress of Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist - from Central Organisation Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) NAXALBARI
Lal
Salam!
We greet you on this historic occasion and apologise for not being able
to participate directly. Please accept this message instead.
Mao Tsetung has taught us the decisive importance of a correct
ideological, political line. The history of your party itself stands testimony
to this. With a correct line, it could rebel against the Teng Siao Ping
revisionists who seized power through a coup in 1976, destroyed the historic
advances made through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and restored
capitalism in socialist China. Thus, persisting on the path laid down by Mao
Tsetung, your party played an important role in the international struggle to
uphold the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in the wake of this setback, the
struggle that led to the formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement (RIM). Further on, by deepening the struggle to uphold and apply
Maoism, your party ruptured from dogmato-revisionist views that blocked
revolution. It forged a correct line and boldly initiated the people’s war. The
great gains of this glorious war, “creation of People's Liberation Army,
establishment of base areas and people's government, role played by workers,
peasants, women, indigenous nationalities and Dalits, and the awareness
developed in this whole process”, were principally the gains of the correct line
followed by your party. Today most of them are lost. This is the outcome of the
subversion of the Maoist line and the imposition of a revisionist line by the
Prachanda-Bhattarai clique. In both its advances and setbacks, the history of
the international communist movement and its national contingents confirms the
truth ‘The correctness or incorrectness of the line decides
everything’.
You have revolted against the Prachanda-Bhattarai revisionist line. This
Congress is the child of that revolt. It has the task of deepening the struggle
against Prachanda-Bhattarai revisionism, consolidating the gains, forging a
correct line and chalking out concrete plans for retaking the revolutionary road
in the midst of the complex political situation in your country. The successful
accomplishement of this task is mainly a matter of summing up the lessons of
your own struggles, both the people’s war and the line struggle within the
party. But it obviously will not be restricted to that alone. As a contingent of
the international communist movement you will also draw on its wider experiences
and lessons. Here we would like to share an important lesson synthesised by the
founder leader of our party, comrade Charu Mazumdar. Critically analysing the
numerous revolts against the rightist leadership, he pointed out how centrist
elements repeatedly blunted and betrayed them. He warned that “Centrism is the
stepping stone to revisionism” and called on the rank and file to root it out.
Centrism can appear in many forms. But its essence is always the same - it fails
to take ideological struggle to its revolutionary conclusion. It blocks the
communists from making a complete rupture from the wrong line, methods and
practice. Ultimately, it smuggles back the rotten old stuff dressed up in new
garb. Therefore, the struggle against revisionism must be extended to exposing
and rupturing from centrism by digging out its concrete manifestations. This is
the lesson we have learnt from the history of the communist movement in our
country. We hope it will be of use to you during your deliberations in this
Congress.
When it was following a correct line, your party had complete faith in
the masses of Nepal and throughout the world. This was the bedrock strength of
the people’s war it led. Fully relying on the masses and internationalist ties
with other Maoist parties, this revolutionary war succesfully inflicted
significant defeats on internal reaction and foiled the machinations of
imperialism and Indian expansionism. The Prachanda-Bhattarai clique tried their
best to cut off these sources of strength. Reliance on proletarian
internationalist ties with Maoist parties in South Asia and elsewhere was
increasingly undermined and replaced by diplomatic manoueveres to cosy up with
Indian expansionism and imperialism. At one time, reliance on the boundless
revolutionary will and patriotism of the Nepali people was sought to be replaced
by the Prachanda faction with reliance on the Chinese state as a counter to
Indian expansionist/US imperialist threats. This deviation was inevitable.
Revisionism can never dare to rely on the masses. It can never draw strength
from proletarian internationalism. Conversely, tactics or policies that rely on
diplomatic relations with reactionary states instead of placing faith on the
masses, tactics that give more importance to cosying up with revisionist and
reactionary parties than proletarian internationalist ties with fraternal Maoist
parties, inevitably reflect some grave ideological defect. The matter is not in
the gloss, the sweet talk justifying this in the name of ‘tactical moves’ or
something else, but in its ultimately liquidationist essence. This is an
important lesson we have learnt from the bitter setback suffered by the Nepalese
and international Maoist movement through the treachery of the
Prachanda-Bhattarai clique. We put this before you in the belief that your
Congress will be able to deal with this issue thoroughly, since you have
experienced it directly.
Your Congress is being held at a time when the world situation is
bearing out the words of the 2012 Special Meeting of RIM Parties and
Organisations which noted that “The devastations of imperialist
globalisation, wars of aggression and the devastating economic crisis of the
imperialist system and its impact on proletarians and the broad masses have
awakened worldwide a wave of struggles and revolts. In this context a potential
new wave of the world proletarian revolution develops and emerges, with the
people's wars led by Maoist parties as its reference points and strategic
anchor.” The
global financial crisis has thrown the imperialist economies into recession.
Third world powers like China and India, who earlier had seemed capable of
holding out, are also caught in its grip. Reactionary rulers throughout the
world throw the whole weight of the crisis on the backs of the people. And the
peoples of the world are out on the streets, in one country or the other, to
resist and beat back this attack. But their heroic struggles, including the Arab
revolts that brought down decades old dictatorships, are being subverted. They
fail to achieve radical, revolutionary, change. Revisonism and dogmatism pick on
these failures to justify their own pessimist conclusions. But Maoists see the
great potential for revolution indicated by this turmoil. They understand the
huge responsibility they have in unleahing this potential by hoisting the banner
of MLM in words and deeds.
What is true of the world is true of South Asia also. In this region
Indian expansionism is the central pillar of reaction. Since it is now openly
backed by US imperialism, it has become even more arrogant and aggressive. Its
aggravated intervention in Nepal’s political affairs and other crimes it has
committed, and is committing, against your country are well known. Indian
expansionism dominates over the nations and peoples of South Asia politically,
economically and culturally. Its attempt to armtwist the Maldivian government to
protect Indian bureacrat capitalist interests is a recent example. The
intensified exploitation and oppression carried out by the Indian ruling classes
inside India is the other side of their reactionary face. Within this, the
massive ‘war on the people’ it has launched to destroy the people’s war led by
the CPI(Maoist) stands out as a focal point. This is so because this
revolutionary war stands up as the biggest obstacle to the plans of the Indian
ruling classes who want to further open up the country to intensified
imperialist, bureaucrat capitalist penetration in accordance to the needs of
globalisation. The exploitation and oppression of the Indian ruling classes
within India and in neighbouring countries has always drawn forth fierce
resistance from the people. This continues to be so. Along with the deep anger
of the masses against the ruling classes of their own countries, this goes to
intensify contradictions and promotes the grounds for revolution.
Today, while assessing the situation in South Asia we must also take
note of a new factor - the growing contention between Indian expansionism
(backed by US imperialism) and Chinese expansionism. This is not limited to
South Asia. It extends to South East Asia. It must be analysed in relation to
the US imperialism’s strategic plans to retain and bolster its domination in
these regions and the Pacific against any threat that could arise from China. So
far as South Asia is concerned, this contention has created opportunities for
the comprador rulers of smaller countries to either stand up to Indian
expansionist pressures or drive better bargains. This causes problems for the
Indian state and upsets some of its plans. To that extent it can be of indirect
use to the nations and peoples of South Asia in their struggles against Indian
expansionism. But, being disciples of Mao Tsetung, we must never forget his
words: “beware
of the wolf entering from the backdoor, while driving away the tiger from the
frontdoor.” The
Chinese ruling classes are as reactionary as any other comprador state. Their
history is as bloody as that of any other exploiter. Following the coup in 1976,
they imprisoned and murdered thousands of Maoists, including the valiant
fighters comrades Chiang Ching and Chang Chun Chiao. While they amass billions,
the vast majority of the Chinese masses rot in poverty. Their revolts against
such inhuman conditions are suppressed by brute force. The Chinese workers are
forced to slave for imperialist transnational corporations in the most
oppressive labour relations enforced and protected by the Chinese state.
Obviously, this ‘wolf’ ever be a genuine friend of the revolutionary people in
any country? Today, it is very important that the Maoists have clarity on this
and educate the people. In the 1970s and ‘80s, the erstwhile Soviet social
imperialists infiltrated and subverted various revolutionary movements by
offering diplomatic and material support. Those bitter experiences teach us that
Mao’s warning must be taken up as a guideline by all of us while chalking out
our strategy and tactics in today’s South Asia, within the context of the
expansionist contention developing here.
The potential for revolution is bright. But the subject weakness of the
Maoists stands out. Their internationalist organisations, the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movemement (RIM) and the Co-ordinating Committee of Maoist
Parties and Organisatons of South Asia (CCOMPOSA), have become defunct. The
revisionism of the Prachanda-Bhattarai clique was joined by the revisionism of
Bob Avakian in destroying the RIM. The former is extremely exposed because of
its open surrender to reaction. But many are confused by Avakian’s post-MLM
revisionism because it is camouflaged in a lot of Marxist verbiage. Yet the fact
is that it is no less dangerous. It insists on imposing Avakianism as the
guiding ideology of the international communist movement thus liquidating its
MLM base. So the genuine Maoists are faced with the task of fighting against
both these varities of neo-revisionism and reorganising their international
organisations.
In the past, your party contributed immensely to the strengthening of
internationalist ties and the formation of the RIM and CCOMPOSA. These
internationalist Maoist organisations became a reality through ‘unity of the
like-minded’. They could purposefully promote MLM and aid revolution, instead of
becoming empty resolution-shops, precisely because of their common ideological
foundations. We can never forget this valuable lesson. Today, the world is
witness to numerous progressive, democratic forces and trends who are opposed to
imperialist globalisation and particularly to US imperialism. This affords
grounds for various levels or forms of broad unity. But that cannot replace the
international organisation of Maoists. In fact, such broader unity of
anti-imperialist forces calls for the vanguard role of a Maoist international
organisation. We take this opportunity to once again place before you the call
made by the 2012 Special Meeting of the RIM Parties and Organisations –
“Today, facing the crisis and the collapse of the RIM, we must
rebuild the international organization of MLM parties and organizations on the
basis of the positive and negative experiences of the RIM. The current situation
presents the need to unite in this new organization all the MLM parties and
organizations, inside and outside the RIM, for a political and organizational
leap. This is necessary to put the communist movement at the height of the class
struggle in the new century.” Addressing the need for broader unity,
it has also noted that “The international organization of MLM communists is and should be
the core of a front, of an international anti-imperialist alliance of the
proletarians and oppressed peoples.”
Dear
comrades,
We hope we haven’t taken up too much of your time.
The communists and
revolutionary masses in Nepal and throughout the world look up to you with great
expectations. Let this be a decisive moment in the history of your party and of
the international Maoist movement. We end this message, wishing you all success
in accomplishing the tasks you have taken up,.
with communist
greetings,
Central Organisation Committee,
Communist Party of India
(Marxist-Leninist) NAXALBARI
January
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