27October, 2022 Red Salutes to Comrade Andreas Vogiatzoglou! We were deeply grieved to know about the martyrdom of Comrade Andreas Vogiatzoglou, the General Secretary of theCentral Committee of CPG(m-l). The CC of the CPI (Maoist) expresses its deep-felt condolencesto the CC and the cadres of the party, to his companion of life Comrade Rena and daughter Dimitra. Comrade Andreas left us at a momentwhenthe world capitalist system is in doldrums indicatinga spate in world proletarianmovement.Working class strugglesaresimmeringin many parts of the worldand Communist partiesarecomingtogetherin the direction of forming an International organisation. Comrade Andreaswith his wide knowledge of the theory of MLM and experience in practice,must have played a vital role in the process if he was alive. We came to know about his life through the statementof the CPG(m-l). He is an ideal revolutionary to all the cadres of theongoingworld revolutionary movement. His militancy, courageand understanding shall continue to illumine the path of revolutionand inspire the cadres all over. As the statement of the CC of the Party stated, it is true that his great revolutionary effortcannot be explained in a single statement. We eagerly wait to know his life in detail. •Hail theSolidarity of International Proletariat! •Let us work to strengthentheWorld ProletarianMovement! Abhay
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) CentralCommittee
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR/OAS) will hold a closed hearing on the "Impacts of State Violence on Afro-descendant Families in Brazil. The hearing will take place on October 26, at 3pm. On this occasion, mothers representing movements of family members of victims from all over the country will address the structural and institutional racism in Brazil, the daily violations of the police forces in favelas and urban peripheries, the delays and racism of the institutions of the justice system, the sickness and threats they suffer after reporting the cases.
Finally, the mothers and family members will ask that the Centers for Assistance to Family Members of victims of state violence be implemented, in addition to other forms of material and symbolic reparation.
Collectives of mothers and family members from Brazil requested the hearing: Mothers of Manguinhos (RJ), Independent Movement Mothers of May (SP) Mothers/family members of victims (RJ), Mothers of Jacarezinho (RJ), Mothers of Maré (RJ) Network of Mothers and Families of the Baixada Fluminense (RJ), Mothers of May of the Northeast (BA), Moleque Movement (RJ), Mothers of the Periphery victims of police violence (CE), Mothers in Mourning of the East Zone (SP), Mothers of May of the East Zone (SP), Mothers of Osasco and Barueri (SP), Mothers of May of Minas Gerais (MG).
Organizations that supported the request: Conectas Human Rights, Marielle Franco Institute, NAPAVE/ISER, Association of Judges for Democracy/AJD, Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA), Torture Never Again -RJ, CEBRASPO, LAPSUS/UFPB.
El Comité Central del Partido Comunista de la India (Maoísta) reafirma su fortaleza múltiple, imperturbable y de primera línea en la dirección de la revolución india en medio de muchos flujos y reflujos, pérdidas, traiciones y campañas represivas del Estado indio fascista hindú brahmánico. Condena los comentarios del DGP de Telangana.
Aprovechando la ocasión de la rendición de un activista por motivos de salud, el DGP dice que el partido está acabado en cuanto a ideología, liderazgo y cuadros, que se derrumbará por sí mismo y que no hay que hacer nada para eliminarlo. El CC quiere cuestionar al oficial de policía que si este es el caso, por qué es que el gobierno central y los gobiernos estatales están gastando crores y crores de rupias para militarizar y eliminar el partido y por qué es que aquellos están anunciando repetidamente fechas para la eliminación del movimiento. El jefe de la policía no tuvo una respuesta adecuada cuando un periodista le preguntó que el movimiento había estado mostrando su presencia con fuerza en varios momentos. La gente entiende claramente por qué no respondió a la pregunta.
El partido está llevando a cabo el legado de la Revolución Armada de Naxalbari durante las últimas cinco décadas y media. Sí. Los camaradas de la dirección central que entraron en el movimiento revolucionario desde el periodo de Naxalbari están ahora envejeciendo. Tienen problemas de salud. Pero un revolucionario nunca envejece, de lo cual hay numerosos ejemplos en la historia de todo el movimiento comunista mundial. El partido está desarrollando un liderazgo secundario. El proceso de la revolución prolongada es muy exigente y todos y cada uno de los activistas no pueden continuar hasta el final. Algunos de los MCP, los miembros de los comités estatales y todos los rangos de cuadros abandonaron el partido. Algunos traicionan al partido y se unen al Estado explotador. Esta es la limitación del individuo y no del partido.
El partido está tratando de resolver los problemas de coordinación de dos áreas geográficas en el país, pero no hay ninguna brecha entre los dos partidos anteriores que se fusionaron en el partido maoísta. Esto es una mera creación del Estado.
La política del partido surgió de las luchas de clase contra la opresión y es ridículo decir que los cuadros que provienen en su mayoría de las clases oprimidas no pueden entender la política del partido. Es un hecho evidente que los cuadros de estas clases se están desarrollando teórica y políticamente y están ocupando responsabilidades de dirección.
El sistema capitalista mundial no puede salir del fango de la crisis económica y financiera y, además, se hunde más en ella. Las instituciones imperialistas Banco Mundial y FMI así lo constatan. La India también forma parte de la situación. Mientras exista la explotación, existen la revolución y el partido revolucionario. Los pueblos y nacionalidades oprimidos de todo el mundo se lanzan cada vez más a la lucha para resolver sus problemas en la vida cotidiana. La situación es cada vez más favorable para la revolución.
El CC afirma enérgicamente que la ideología, la política y la práctica del partido son absolutamente correctas y esto fue y está siendo demostrado en la historia.
Rechazamos
la mayor intervención del imperialismo yanqui a nuestro país en
respaldo del gobierno reaccionario encabezado por el rondero oportunista
contrarrevolucionario Pedro Castillo Terrones. A su pedido, la OEA el
principal instrumento de la intervención política y diplomática en los
asuntos internos de nuestros países, acordó intervenir en la disputa
que se da entre las dos facciones de la gran burguesía, la burocrática
encabezada por Castillo y la compradora representada por la mayoría en
el congreso peruano o corral de chanchos de la Plaza Bolivar. Nosotros
rechazamos esta nueva intervención del imperialismo yanqui mediante su
"ministerio de colonias" como fue bautizada en la reunión de Montevideo
por la expulsión de Cuba de la OEA en 1962 por imposición de los EE.UU.
Los
meritos hechos por el lacayo del imperialismo yanqui, Pedro Castillo
Terrones, como haber oficiado de verdugo del Presidente Gonzalo, el más
grande marxista-leninista-maoísta de la presente época y haber puesto su
política interna y externa al servicio de su amo yanqui. El haberse
declarado internacionalmente partidario de la Doctrina Monroe de
"América para los americanos", esto es para los imperialistas
norteamericanos. Todo lo anterior y mucho más, le hace acreedor de la
protección yanqui mediante la intervención de la OEA para tratar de
escapar de la prisión por escandalosos casos de corrupción de que
aprovechan sus rivales de la compradora para obtener mas conseciones en
su colusión y pugna, que finalmente terminará por romperse en su contra
y, si no media la tabla de salvación del amo, Castillo daría con sus
huesos en prisión. Esta situación representa un grave peligro para
nuestra nación en formación y nuestro pueblo, porque este nuevo Somoza,
en tal situación, firmará todos los planes que le ponga el amo, con lo
que pasaría prácticamente de su situación de lacayo a la situación
practicamente de títere del imperialismo yanqui. Así, este reaccionario
aupado por las ratas de la LOD revisionista y capitulacionista primero
al Comité de Lucha de la HNI de 2017 y después a la presidencia del
viejo Estado terrateniente-burocrático al servicio del imperialismo
principalmente yanqui muestra su verdadera catadura fascista, genocida y
vendepatria.
El resumen noticioso que consignamos es muy claro respecto a lo dicho anteriormente:
Espaldarazo de la OEA a
Pedro Castillo; enviará misión a Perú
El mandatario acusa a la
fiscalía general de buscar su destitución // Continuamos monitoreando de
cerca la situación política del país andino, señala Washington
Lima. La Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA)
aprobó ayer respaldar al gobierno del presidente peruano, Pedro Castillo, y
enviar una misión para realizar un análisis objetivo frente a
la situación de crisis política del país sudamericano, en medio de presiones de
la oposición para destituirlo.
El
respaldo fue aprobado por aclamación de una resolución que hace un llamado a
todos los actores políticos de Perú para que sus acciones se enmarquen
en el respeto al estado de derecho, en reconocimiento de la Carta
Democrática solicitada por el mandatario Castillo, quien antier reiteró que la
fiscalía general de su país impulsa un golpe de Estado en su contra, y advirtió
que concluirá su mandato.
El
gobierno de Estados Unidos señaló que la rendición de cuentas es vital para
cualquier democracia. Continuamos monitoreando de cerca la situación
política en Perú, inmerso en una grave crisis, afirmó el vocero del
Departamento de Estado, Ned Price, en rueda de prensa, en la que expuso que la OEA puede
servir potencialmente como un socio en este proceso.
Suprema Corte suspende decisão que absolvia GN Saibaba. Foto: Reprodução
Um mês após grande campanha internacional por parte de movimentos, organizações e personalidades democrática e populares da Índia e de todo o mundo, GN Saibaba, professor da Universidade de Delhi, presidente da Frente Democrática Revolucionária (FDR) e um dos mais importantes presos políticos indianos foi absolvido pelo Tribunal Superior de Bombaim, no dia 14 de outubro. Contudo, o Supremo Tribunal indiano decidiu suspender a decisão por considerar Saibaba o “cérebro” e uma “grave ameaça à segurança nacional”. Saibaba foi condenado à prisão perpétua em março de 2017 na farsa processual que, sem provas, o acusa de ter vínculos com o Partido Comunista da Índia (Maoista), organização considerada ilegal pelo velho Estado indiano.
O julgamento realizado no dia 14 de outubro no Tribunal Superior de Bombaim absolveu Saibaba e outros cinco (Mahesh Tirki, Pandu Pora Narote, Hem Keshwdatta Mishra, Prashant Rahi, Vijay Nan Tirki) condenados no mesmo processo de 2017 que tratava de uma suposta "ligação com maoistas". Um dos condenados, Pandu Norote, morreu em 26 de agosto aos 33 anos na Cadeia Central de Nagpur devido a uma gripe suína contraída desde a prisão, localizada na maior e mais importante cidade da Índia, e não tratada efetivamente.
ABSOLVIÇÃO É CONCEDIDA E SUPREMA CORTE A REVOGA
A absolvição foi decretada por uma divisão de juízes do Tribunal Superior de Bombai composta por Rohit Deo e Anil Pansare e garantiria a soltura de Saibaba da Cadeia Central de Nagpur. Ela ocorre cinco anos após sua condenação de prisão perpétua por supostas "ligações com maoistas", condenação dada em primeira instância. Em sua decisão, os juízes afirmam que a acusação de Saibaba na Lei de Prevenção a Atividades Ilegais (UAPA, na sigla original) é “vazia e inválida”. O Comitê de Defesa da liberdade de GN Saibaba denuncia a UAPA como “arbitrária”.
Imediatamente após decretada a absolvição pelo Tribunal Superior de Bombaim, o governo de Maharashtra, através da Agência Nacional de Investigação (ANI) da Índia, moveu um pedido pedindo para a Suprema Corte do país pedindo a suspensão da absolvição. O procurador-geral Tushar Meta foi quem proferiu o pedido diretamente para o Chefe da Justiça da Índia. Meta afirmou que a acusação contra Saibaba era "uma ofensa muito, muito grave contra a nação" e que "a mera irregularidade na concessão da condenação [dada em 2017] não justifica a absolvição", além de indicar que Saibaba realizava "reuniões com comandantes naxalistas [como os maoistas são chamados pela reação indiana]" e que "planejava eliminar a forma parlamentar de democracia". O pedido foi negado pelo Chefe de Justiça. A real apreensão do procurador-geral, reconhecido pelo próprio juiz Chandrachud, era de que havia grande probabilidade de GN Saibaba e os outros condenados serem libertados da prisão. Ainda assim, por uma brecha dada pela própria Justiça indiana permitiu que a ANI movesse um pedido que listava como urgente a solicitação para suspender a absolvição. Uma sessão especial foi organizada para ouvir o recurso contra a absolição nas primeiras horas de 15 de outubro.
Em 15 de outubro, a Suprema Corte decidiu suspender a sentença que absolvia GN Saibaba. Segundo o tribunal, as acusações contra Saibaba são muito graves e representam perigo aos interesses da sociedade, da soberania e da integridade da Índia.
As ilegalidades da decisão da Suprema Corte foram reconhecidas pelo próprio monopólio de imprensa indiano: no editorial Urgência questionável, de 17 de outubro, o 3º maior jornal da Índia, o The Indu, afirma que a suspensão da absolvição “é bastante incomum e levanta questões críticas” e que “a Corte demonstrou zelo extraordinário em cumprir o desejo do governo de Maharashtra de ter uma audiência imediata”. No mesmo modo, outro jornal do monopólio de imprensa, o Indian express, questiona o motivo da Suprema Corte ter tratado a absolvição com grande gravidade, “como se os céus caíssem”. Tudo isto evidencia o desespero das classes dominantes indianas, que buscam conduzir o processo contra o preso político evitando a todo custo evidenciar seu nítido caráter político.
EM FARSA PROCESSUAL, SUPREMA CORTE DISPENSA PROVAS PARA MANTER DEMOCRATA INDIANO PRESO
Segundo o monopólio de imprensa Indian Express, um dos argumentos utilizados pela bancada que pedia a anulação da absolvição de Saibaba era de que os demais acusados “são soldados de infantaria”, enquanto “o acusado 6 (Saibaba) é o cérebro”, defendendo que o tratamento da Corte ao democrata deveria ser diferenciado. Acatando o argumento, o ministro Shah da Suprema Corte afirmou que "no que diz respeito às atividades terroristas ou maoistas, o cérebro é mais perigoso", e afirmou que, assim sendo, não é necessária nenhuma prova de ligação de Saibaba com maoistas para a decisão da Corte. Além disso, o ministro da Suprema Corte concedeu uma licença (recesso) para o caso, no objetivo de ouvir os demais acusados. Mesmo após o advogado de Saibaba, R. Basant, ter defendido que não havia a necessidade de suspender a decisão e revogar a absolvição, a decisão da Suprema Corte em suspendê-la se manteve. Com isto, Saibaba e os demais processados no processo farsante seguriam presos.
A corte também recusou um pedido de R. Basant para que Saibaba continue a pagar sua pena em prisão domiciliar, o que seria compreensível uma vez que GN Saibaba tem 90% do corpo paralisado, é cadeirante, e sofre de outras graves doenças, além de não ter antecedentes criminais. Basant disse que Saibaba estava longe de sua família (que mora em Delhi) e que suas condições físicas e de saúde exigiam cuidados médicos constantes e especializados, o que a estrutura da Cadeia Central de Nagpur não poderia fornecer. Nesta mesma cadeia, Pandu Norote morreu em 26 de agosto aos 33 anos na Cadeia Central de Nagpur devido a uma gripe suína contraída desde a prisão e não tratada efetivamente.
Uma outra audiência está marcada para ocorrere em 8 de dezembro.
Horas após a decisão da Suprema Corte, a Associação de Estudantes de Toda a Índia denunciou que a polícia deteve cinco estudantes que se manifestavam na Faculdade de Artes da Universidade de Nova Delhi após atacar um protesto em defesa da liberdade imediata para GN Saibaba. O grupo de estudantes foi levado para a delegacia de Burari, próximo à Nova Delhi.
QUEM É GN SAIBABA
GN Saibaba tem 52 anos, contraiu poliomelite aos cinco anos de idade e atualmente tem 90% de seu corpo paralisado e se locomove com a ajuda de cadeira de rodas. Concluiu seu mestrado em Artes e em 1991 ingressou no curso de pós-graduação no Instituto Central de Inglês e Línguas Estrangeiras. Em 2014, ano de sua primeira prisão, estava lecionando como Professor Assistente no Departamento de Inglês da Universidade de Delhi e teve seu contrato encerrado em 2021. De acordo com sua esposa Vasantha, Saibaba sofre de várias doenças com risco de vida: cardiomiopatia hipertrófica com disfunção ventricular esquerda, hipertensão, cálculos renais, um cisto no cérebro, problemas pancreáticos, atenuação dos músculos do ombro e do braço, e nervos resultando em paralisia parcial de seus membros superiores.
O velho Estado indiano confinou Saibaba em um tipo de cela reservada a presos de “máximo perigo” (“segurança máxima”) com tamanho reduzido e formato que favorece a vigilância, realizada por câmeras. A tortura sistemática conduzida contra o professor G.N. Saibaba é ainda reforçada pelo fato de ser verão na Índia, com dias em que a temperatura ultrapassa os 45 graus.
Durante todo o período em que está preso, Saibaba tem enfrentado o velho Estado desde a prisão, denunciando os diversos direitos básicos que lhe são negados. Através de greves de fome e cartas direcionadas aos democratas de todo o mundo, que têm incansavelmente promovido campanhas em apoio ao professor e de denúncia ao velho Estado indiano, a luta de Saibaba tem sido exitosa em desmascarar as condições em que são submetidos Saibaba e os mais de 10 mil presos políticos da Índia, muitos dos quais não foram condenados formalmente. Ao longo dos últimos 20 anos, quase 2 mil deles foram assassinados nas prisões indianas por meio de torturas, negação de tratamento médico ou condições insalubres.
Chile: Policías dispersan con camiones de bomberos y gas lacrimógeno a Mapuches del sur de chile, quienes al son de tambores y bocinas, vestidos con coloridos trajes típicos y portando banderas de sus respectivos pueblos, avanzaban por la Alameda, la principal avenida de la capital chilena, donde fueron dispersados y diez personas fueron detenidas y entregadas a la fiscalía. La marcha que coincidió con el “día del encuentro de los mundos”, como se denomina en chile al Día de la Raza, denuncio la militarización de las sureñas regiones de Biobío y La Araucanía.
India: En mayo del 2014 el profesor de inglés, fue arrestado por la policía de Maharashtra por sus supuestos vínculos con lideres del proscrito y clandestino Partido Comunista de la India (Maoísta), en 2017 el tribunal de distrito de Gadchiroli condeno a G. N. Saibaba y a otras cinco personas (Mahesh Tirki, Prashant Rahi, Hem Mishra y Pandu Narote, quien murió en la Cárcel Central de Nagpur hace unos meses) a cadena perpetua en virtud de varias secciones de la Ley de Prevención de Actividades Ilícitas, asi como por conspiración criminal. El viernes, el Tribunal Superior de Bombay se pronunció sobre una apelación del profesor Saibaba, que impugnó la condena de 2017 en el juicio. El tribunal también validó la apelación de los otros cinco condenados en este caso y los absolvió. Al dictar su sentencia, el tribunal superior también ordenó la liberación inmediata de prisión del profesor Saibaba y sus coacusados que sobrevivieron a la detención.
Bruselas: Pablo Hasel rapero catalán encarcelado y condenado previamente a 9 meses de prisión desde febrero de 2021 por haber criticado abiertamente a la realeza, al estado, la policía y el ejército. Ahora se encuentra acusado de múltiples sentencias que extienden su detención por 2 años y 6 meses. Liberado oficialmente en marzo de 2023, Pablo podría ver su sentencia de prisión extendida hasta 2030. Desde principios de 2022 se han multiplicado los juicios en España contra los simpatizantes que habían exigido su liberación. En el espíritu de solidaridad internacional con Pablo, nació una compilación musical que reúne a 36 artistas y grupos internacionales, a raíz de una iniciativa francesa de "Cédric Perez AKA Ced' (La Ligue des MC Révolutionnaire)" que a su vez creará un colectivo internacional. En Bélgica, los CD y K7 son impresos por los residentes de Lieja de “Prolétaire prod” y “FSAR”. En varios países se organizan fechas de conciertos de apoyo y se realizará una velada de difusión del recopilatorio musical en el Sacco-Vanzetti, con información sobre la actualidad y los próximos eventos en apoyo a Pablo Hasél en presencia de integrantes del grupo Atomes d'Intifada que participó en la comp.
México: El pasado 13 de octubre se realizó el 2do Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres Buscadoras en Aguascalientes con apoyo de Fondo Semilla, donde mujeres de diferentes estados del país como: Guerrero, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Morelos, Nayarit, CDMX, Estado de México, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas y Zacatecas fueron participes en charlas de prácticas, experiencias y estrategias de búsqueda colectiva, en donde se tuvo presencia por la desaparición forzada del Dr. Ernesto Sernas García.
The Global Week of Action on 13/19 September for the release of
India’s political prisoners and to stop the Indian state’s aircraft and
drone strikes against rural populations has been successful. It has
created even better conditions for the development of the solidarity
movement and for support for the people’s war in India.
It was a blow to the Modi regime and its fascist, murderous and genocidal action.
At the same time it was an action of the international proletariat
against imperialism and against all the imperialist governments,
primarily the USA, marching towards a third world war.
The call of the International Committee of Support for the People’s
War in India (ICSPWI), launched together and in connection with the
Communist Party of India (Maoist), touched several countries where the
Organized Committee exists, contributed to the birth of new Committees,
pushed other anti-imperialist forces to join the campaign and to accept
the invitation of the Indian comrades to make the week a success.
There have been numerous parties, organizations, revolutionary and
internationalist forces, proletarian organisms of struggle, associations
that have contributed to the campaign in the countries where it has
developed.
Although within the framework of the differences in the way and form
in which to develop the campaign, the unity of the solidarity and
support movement advances.
It is difficult due to the different conditions and difficulties of
information to represent and document all the initiatives and actions
carried out in this important week.
This report provides a fairly complete picture and in any case
invites all the forces that participated in the campaign to send further
news and reports, in full autonomy, which will be spread
internationally.
The information on the campaign, with the spreading of the materials
of the Committee and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) – CPI
(Maoist) – and the actions of the week reached countries of the 4
continents.
In Europe: Italy, Galicia, Spain, Germany, Austria, France, Holland,
Great Britain, Ireland, Finland, Denmark; in Africa, Tunisia, which is
the reference point of a Support Committee that touches seven other
countries.
Turkish comrades from various organizations and associations in
solidarity with political prisoners, reaching as far as Kobane/North
Kurdistan have been well engaged in the campaign.
In Latin America, Brazil, Colombia, and other countries, up to Uruguay.
In Asia the campaign came to the Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran.
Great is the debate about the form of support for the battle for the
release of political prisoners and the people’s war in India in Nepal,
among all mlm parties and organizations.
We point out, for the breadth and ability to reach the broad masses,
the development of the actions carried out in Italy, Germany and Brazil.
We attach a part of reports, photos and images received from these
countries.
In this week the understanding of the worldwide importance of support
for the people’s war in India and the CPI (Maoist) as a determining
part of support for the people’s wars and anti-imperialist struggles
taking place in the world has advanced. And it has grown also the
understanding of the indispensable unity of the development of true
internationalism, which means linking support for the people’s war in
India to the struggle against its own imperialist governments and states
and the governments and states of the oppressed countries linked to
imperialism.
The Indian fascist regime develops, like so many other governments in
countries oppressed by imperialism, a war against the proletarians and
peoples, creating death and destruction, filling prisons, hitting
proletarians, popular masses, intellectuals and artists, attacking
democratic freedoms and human rights.
The week served to advance the struggle of the need to oppose the war
against the peoples in India and around the world, strengthening
internationalist unity, working for an anti-imperialist front and for
the strategic battle for liberation from imperialism which is as always
misery, war and oppression, with an attack on the self-determination of
oppressed nations and peoples.
In this campaign we salute the commitment and the strong position
taken by the Communist Party of the Philippines and the mass
organizations linked to it, for the fraternal support given to the
people’s war in India and to the CPI (Maoist) and to the campaign and
organization of the International Committee (ICSPWI)
The internationalist unity of the MLM communist parties that lead the
people’s wars is today a solid anchor and reference point of the
campaigns for the release of political prisoners in India and in the
world.
In this campaign the mobilization against the Indian embassies has
grown in some countries, in particular on this occasion, in Italy, where
prohibitions imposed have not been able to prevent this initiative,
just as it is important the descent into the field of the Indian
proletarians of the different nationalities of India present in the
imperialist countries, who participated in the initiative bringing in it
the denunciation of how the Modi regime affects Muslims, Kashmir, etc.
This campaign must now be continued and extended, merging it with the
proletarian and popular struggles and demonstrations against
imperialism and war and, as the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
indicates,
“There is a need to build militantly and on a global scale a movement
that demands for political prisoners in all countries, such as the
Philippines, Turkey, Peru, Galicia, Afghanistan, and in all countries,
including India, to be unconditionally released. All those who are
arrested for political and social struggles and who are in prison must
have the status of political prisoners, and especially for prisoners and
women prisoners must end the atrocities and killings of them, and their
conditions in prisons must be defended. The efforts of the
International Committee go in this direction and – declares the
CPI(Maoist) – efforts will be made in India in this regard and firmly
believes that the movement will gradually develop more and more”.
The International Committee in the meeting of July 1st
appealed to establish Committees in each country and declares today to
work on a great international Forum, public and mass, to be realized in
the coming year, with the hope that all the forces of support and
solidarity will unite to build together this Forum.
Se
cumplen 530 años del inicio de la invasión europea sobre el territorio rebelde
de Abya Yala, al cual los colonizadores impusieron el nombre de “América” en
alusión al genocida Américo Vespucio. El 12 de octubre de 1492 comenzaba con
sangre y fuego la peor campaña de genocidio, barbarie, opresión, despojo,
evangelización y sometimiento en contra de nuestros antepasados, los pobladores
originarios de estas tierras.
Con
el arribo de los invasores se registra una ruptura violenta en las formas de
vida y convivencia social para imponer el feudalismo, reduciendo a toda la
población aborigen al esclavismo y la servidumbre. En nuestro continente las
sociedades establecidas para entonces se encontraban en diferentes estadios
sociales, algunas aún vivían en el comunismo primitivo, algunas más en
regímenes comunalistas harto semejantes al modo de producción asiático, y la
mayoría transitaba por diferentes etapas del esclavismo con características
evidentemente propias de cada cultura o nacionalidad en cuestión. Todo ello se
terminó con la formación de las nuevas colonias de España, Portugal, Francia e
Inglaterra.
El
territorio del Anáhuac (“bautizado” por los colonizadores como “Nueva España” y
ahora conocido como México) fue especialmente saqueado, asentándose un bastión
importante de la odiosa corona española. A la colonización, los pueblos del
Anáhuac resistimos de distintas formas, en distintos periodos y desde distintas
perspectivas. En sierras, llanos y selvas las columnas indígenas llamaron a la
rebelión armada una y otra vez. Junto a Jacinto Canek nos alzamos en armas; del
hombro de Yanga reclamamos libertad para los esclavos; más tarde con Morelos y
Guerrero enarbolamos la emancipación y el espíritu republicano; con Zapata y
Villa volvimos a cabalgar defendiendo los ideales revolucionarios.
Como
resultado de esta resistencia aún hoy existimos 68 pueblos originarios
distribuidos a lo largo y ancho del territorio del Anáhuac que continuamos
defendiendo nuestras formas de organización social, nuestros derechos,
costumbres y culturas; junto a nosotros, el pueblo afrodescendiente también ha
resistido y defendido su derecho a ser, a estar y a pertenecer.
Desde
hace 530 años las banderas de la resistencia indígena han sido sostenidas con
dignidad y firmeza en el Anáhuac y toda Abya Yala (que es también Nuestra
América) y como muestra de ello hemos rechazado históricamente el 12 de octubre
y el falso “encuentro de dos mundos”, “el día de la raza” y tantas tonterías
que han querido imponer los colonizadores. El 12 de octubre no hay nada que
celebrar y por eso salimos a las calles.
De
forma conjunta con las organizaciones hermanas, este 12 de octubre la Corriente
del Pueblo Sol Rojo realiza acciones de protesta en contra de la
semicolonialidad que vivimos, reflejada en la imposición de megaproyectos imperialistas
de despojo y muerte, militarización y guerra contra el pueblo.
La
lucha contra la semifeudalidad, la semicolonialidad y el capitalismo
burocrático es la lucha del programa de la Revolución de Nueva Democracia,
agraria y antiimperialista ininterrumpida hacia al Socialismo.
En esta nota compartimos el pronunciamiento del FORO
al cual pertenece nuestra Corriente del Pueblo Sol Rojo, ante el marco del 530
aniversario de la invasión española a nuestras tierras.
¡No nos conquistaron…
resistimos!
¡Algo a la militarización, la
guerra contra el pueblo y el terrorismo de estado!
¡Ante los megaproyectos
imperialistas de despojo y muerte…combatir y resistir!
Francia: El activista libanés
George Ibrahim Abdallah anuncio que iniciaría una huelga de hambre de un día en
solidaridad con 30 presos palestinos encarcelados sin cargos ni juicio bajo “detención
arbitraria” que han iniciado una huelga de hambre desde el pasado 25 de septiembre
para exigir el fin de esta política, que actualmente encarcela a más de 740
presos palestinos bajo “secreto de pruebas”. En carta dirigida al director del
Centro Penitenciario de Lannemezan, declara: "En
solidaridad con los combatientes de la Resistencia palestina encarcelados en
cárceles sionistas que están en huelga de hambre para denunciar su detención
arbitraria y exigir la derogación de la ley que permite la 'detención
administrativa', estoy en huelga de hambre hoy 1 de octubre".
Brasil: Batallón de Rondas
Especiales y Control de multitudes (Remco) de la Policía Militar (PM), rociaron
con gas pimienta y golpearon a Profesionales de la salud, enfermeros, técnicos y
auxiliares, quienes exigen su piso salarial, que esta suspendido por el ministro
del Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), Roberto Barroso, desde el 4 de septiembre,
por 60 días. El salario mínimo para los 2,5 millones profesionales de la salud
fue negado supuestamente por “Falta de fondos”, pero fue pedido por hospitales
privados y monopolios de seguros de salud. Esta
mentira es rechazada por todos los trabajadores de enfermería, quienes
actualmente trabajan entre tres empleos para mantener a sus familias, en más de
60 horas a la semana.
Irán:
Las protestas por la muerte de Mahsa Amini, una kurda iraní de 22 años que
murió poco después de su arresto por parte de la policía, son la mayor
expresión de rechazo de las autoridades religiosas iraníes desde 2019. La universidad
de Sharif esta rodeada por decenas de sucios policías antidisturbios. Videos
que circulan en las redes sociales muestran a las fuerzas de seguridad disparando
gases lacrimógenos para perseguir estudiantes fuera del campus, en el video se
puede escuchar el sonido de lo que parecían ser disparos desde la distancia. En
otro video muestra a las fuerzas de seguridad persiguiendo a decenas de estudiantes
atrapados en el estacionamiento subterráneo de la universidad. El domingo, los
estudiantes se manifestaron en muchas universidades y se realizaron
manifestaciones en varias ciudades como Teherán, Yazd.
Oaxaca de Juárez/México: El
Frente de Organizaciones Oaxaqueñas -FORO- dan inicio a jornada de lucha en
exigencia al gobierno estatal, para que se dé pronta solución a las demandas de
los pueblos que se encuentran en el olvido. Este gobierno se a comprometido a
dar solución a las comunidades en los temas de justicia, salud, educación,
entre otras; pero solo se ha tenido respuesta de la omisión, oídos sordos a las
exigencias y una campaña de odio hacia las comunidades. El gobierno de Alejandro
Murat quien ya tiene un pie fuera del estado, se va dejando a Oaxaca con altos números
en rojo en temas de delincuencias y crimen organizado, feminicidios, homicidios,
persecución política a defensores y defensoras de derechos humanos y activistas
sociales.
A
sexta-feira 14 de outubro acolhemos a primeira das duas datas na Galiza
da projeçom do documentário "El barro de la revolución" e a posterior
palestra sobre a revoluçom nas Filipinas a cargo da diretora do
documentário @paloma_polo_
Viva a luita do povo filipino! Viva a revoluçom nas Filipinas!
The
following is an interview that I have been honoured to conduct and
publish, with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India
(Maoist), one of the strongest, most successful, most dynamic, most
popular and most feared by the ruling classes communist parties on the
planet. Indeed, the people’s war in India, being led by the CPI
(Maoist), is of equal importance in the current era, as the Great
October Socialist Revolution in Russia, led by Comrade Lenin and the
Bolsheviks, was to the decades of the 1910s and 20s. Both myself and the
interviewee have sought to do our best to ask and answer major
questions that you and others in the International Communist Movement
may have about the Indian Revolution.
Meeting of revolutionary fighters and revolutionary masses in Southern Chhattisgarh, featuring a portrait of Chairman Mao.
Q — Which mode of production does your party judge India to be in; semi-feudal and semi-colonial, or industrial capitalist?
A
— Revolutionary Communists in the leadership of Comrade CM [Charu
Mazumdar] and Comrade KC [Kanhai Chatterjee] concretely analysed the
class contradictions in existence after a study of the economic,
political, social, cultural and geographical conditions of India in the
light of MLM. They affirmed that India is a semi-colonial, semi-feudal
society and that the path of revolution shall be Protracted People’s
War, that it shall first accomplish the stage of New Democratic
Revolution and later advance to the stage of Socialism. Our united CPI
(Maoist) is implementing this political-military line.
In
the background of large scale discussions and debate among Marxists,
revisionists, neo-revisionists, bourgeois intellectuals and NGOs as to
whether our country is a capitalist society or semi-colonial,
semi-feudal society, our party analysed and synthesized the reports of
the studies of Relations of production that our party took up in various
states since 2011, and the CC released a detailed document on ‘Changes
in Relations of Production-Our Political Program’ in its Sixth (contd.)
meeting in December 2020. The document asserted that our country is yet a
semi-colonial, semi-feudal society. However, it also said that there
are considerable distorted capitalist changes favourable to the
imperialists and comprador bureaucratic capitalists and landlords. We
adopted our political program so as to adopt corresponding tactics. You
must have seen the document.
Earlier
to British aggression, our country was a feudal society. After the
British occupied India it changed into a colonial country. In fact by
the time the British seized India, capitalism had been developing from
the womb of feudal society in some areas of the country. During this
time the Parsis of Mumbai, Banias of Gujarat and Marwaris of Rajasthan
worked as agents to occupy India. The Indian big bourgeois class did not
fight against British imperialism as per its character but extended
total support during the days of war and other times. The British
collaborated with the feudal Kings, Zamindars, money-lenders and
merchants of India and came in the way of the independent development of
capitalist developing in the country, basing on the feudal social base
in the country. They introduced a culture that serves British
imperialism. They introduced distorted capitalist relations in their
interests. Many old independent big traders and bankers of the country
became bankrupt. Similarly the British made several changes in feudalism
as per their colonial rule. They rejuvenated the weakening feudal
relations. They destroyed the self-sufficient rural economic order in
India. This made the peasantry and the artisans bankrupt. Forces of
production were destroyed in a big way. The domestic market further
declined. They introduced permanent tax collection method, ryotwari,
mahal Wari and zamindari methods and turned land into a commodity. Thus
the farmers lost their traditional right to land. India became a centre
of production of raw goods and industrial goods necessary for industrial
production of the British. They developed few industries, commercial
crops, plantations, transport and communications only for the needs of
the British. Comprador big bourgeois class emerged from the feudal
Kings, Zamindars, Divans, comprador traders and money lending classes
that helped the British. This class played an important role in allowing
the British to loot the natural resources of our country. New
Zamindar-feudal class developed in the place of old zamindars. Indian
economy became an inseparable part of the world capitalist system in a
colonial and dependent level. On one hand the Indian comprador
bourgeoisie depended on imperialism for its existence and development
and on the other became an instrument for colonial exploitation and
suppression. Thus Indian feudal society became colonial, semi-feudal
society. The British changed the country into a colony for two centuries
and continued their exploitation.
Contrary
to the myths propagated by apologists for the genocidal British Empire,
colonialism brought a grand total of zero benefits or advancements to
the people of India, only misery.
The
imperialists faced a difficult situation with the big defeat of the
fascist forces by the Red Army of Soviet Union and the people of the
world in the leadership of great Marxist teacher Stalin during the
Second World War; due to the considerable weakening of imperialism after
war; the establishment of people’s democratic states in East
European countries; the reach of the great success of China Revolution
in the leadership of Mao to the edge; the emergence of world socialist
system in one-third of the world; the development of
independent/national liberation movements all over the world. Thus they
changed their earlier direct colonial rule and form of exploitation and
took up new form of exploitation — the neo-colonial form basing on the
compradors trained by them and comprising indirect rule, exploitation
and hegemony in a new style.
There
was a unique revolutionary condition in the Indian sub-continent also
during this time. There was a powerful movement to release ‘Azad Hindu
Phouz’ prisoners all over the country; the effective anti-imperialist
demonstrations of the students; apart from powerful anti-feudal
movements in princely states, the Tebhaga and Bakast movements, the
strike of postal and telegraph employees ; the great rebellion of the
Royal Indian Navy in Bombay and the rebellious trends in Army and
Airforce; the rebellion of Bihar police; struggles in solidarity to
proletariat, the beginning of the historic peasant armed struggle in
Telangana — all these brought the imperialist rule in India almost to an
end. In such condition, the Indian comprador big bourgeois class
collaborated with the feudal class and betrayed the Indian democratic
revolution. The British imperialists made conspiracies depending on
Congress and Muslim League leaders who happen to be reliable agents to
them, instigated them to religious massacres and divided the country on
the basis of religion.
In
this background an agreement was made on 15th August 1947 to transfer
power. This happened only after agreements such as the Bombay plan of
the imperialist monopoly capitalists and Indian comprador bourgeoisie.
In a word, the British imperialists handed over power to their reliable
agents, the Congress party and Muslim League that represented the
comprador big capitalist and big landlord classes and went back stage.
That is the reason the comprador ruling classes did not disrupt the
semi-feudal relations in the country. After 1947, our country initially
went into the economic and political control of Britain, America and
subsequently to Soviet imperialism and again into the hands of America.
As a result of the hegemony of various imperialist countries in terms of
economy and politics on our country, Indian society transformed into
semi-colonial, semi-feudal order in the indirect rule, exploitation and
hegemony of several imperialist forces. Therefore we say that India did
not achieve genuine independence on 15thAugust 1947, that it is nominal
and in essence is fake. Colonial exploitation and oppression changed its
form but essence retained. The objective of national democratic
revolution and national liberation was not achieved due to the betrayal
of the Congress party and Muslim League. CPI not only tailed the
Congress party but withdrew the great Telangana armed struggle and
betrayed revolution.
After
1947, the Indian comprador big bourgeois and landlord classes utilised
the state power and minted utmost profits through extreme exploitation
and oppression on the people. the comprador big bourgeois class thus
transformed into comprador bureaucratic big bourgeois class.
The
1944 Bombay plan and the mixed economy adopted after the transfer of
power in fact are in the interests of the imperialists, comprador
bureaucratic bourgeois and landlord classes. Public and private sectors
were given place in the plan. But in fact the actual intention of the
public sector industries is to utilise people’s money in a large scale,
build heavy iron and steel industries, thermal electric projects, coal,
iron mining and heavy dams, to provide opportunities to the
imperialists, comprador bourgeois and landlord classes so as to develop
basing on those, depend on the imperialist capital and technology to
build them and to provide an opportunity for their exploitation.
For
the past 75 years since 1947, several agrarian, industrial, service
sector policies, fake reforms, Five Year Plans, green revolution and
other such things have been implemented according to the interests of
the imperialists and exploitive ruling classes. Later the LPG policies
came into implementation. Disinvestment, deindustrialisation and
deregulation came to be implemented. In the name of disinvestment public
sector enterprises are being handed over to the imperialists and
comprador capitalists at dead cheap rates. Thus unorganised sector and
private sector became the main trend. Labour exploitation intensified
further. The rights that they achieved through struggle are being
trampled. Casual contract methods have become the main form for the
workers. The ongoing semi-colonial relations are the reason for these
difficulties and misery.
During
the period of the First Five Year Plan in 1951–56, although land
ceiling laws were made in various states, the comprador governments did
not implement them properly. The landlords could retain land on benami
names. On the other hand land under Coffee, Tea, rubber, fruit
plantations, cattle rearing, sugar factories, in lands cultivated
through modern methods and lands under temples, churches and masjids
were exempted and so land reforms became a farce. They either removed
tenant farmers or changed them and saw that legal tenant rights are not
implemented. Since land ceiling was imposed on the basis of individual
instead of family, landlord families could retain thousands of acres of
land. While in 1955, nearly 6.2 crore acres of surplus land was
available for distribution, by the end of 1970s, the surplus land
declared was 24 lakh acres only. Only half of it was distributed. Thus
it is clear that the land reforms have not been implemented towards the
direction of structural changes in land ownership.
Although
there was a little industrialisation in the name of Five-Year Plans, it
took place only on semi-feudal base and in the interests of the
imperialists and comprador ruling classes. So all this development was
distorted and topsy-turvy.
The
strategy of green revolution that came to be implemented in the second
half of the 1960s was in fact the program of Multi-National Companies of
the US. Green revolution was implemented in Punjab, Haryana and other
areas of Western Uttar Pradesh and later in one-third of the country in
the name of overcoming deficiency of food, with the objective of making
it an alternative to the armed peasant rebellions that spread to
Naxalbari, Srikakulam, Mushahari, Lakhimpur-Kheri,
Debra-Gopivallabhapur, Bheerbhum, Kanksa, Budbud and several areas of 10
states in a spate in the rural areas and to create a captive market for
the products such as agricultural machinery, chemical fertilisers,
pesticides and HYV seeds of Multi-National Companies.
The
comprador governments mainly provided heavy subsidies, cheap loans and
irrigation through dams to the landlords and rich farmers without
transforming the land relations fundamentally, distorted capitalist
relations developed in the semi-feudal rural economy. The ‘Green
Revolution’ only benefitted imperialist Multi-National Companies,
comprador capitalists, landlords and a section of the rich peasantry. It
devastated the poor and middle class farmers and land. Farmers left
land in a big way. Growth in productivity, decrease of crop rates, more
inequalities between the rich and the poor, rise in unemployment,
increase of inequalities between areas, rise in environmental pollution,
reduction of land fertility, vulnerability of crops to severe diseases
where pesticides also do not help are some of the negative results of
‘green revolution’. Finally these pesticides helped for the suicides of
the farmers.
“The
‘Green Revolution’ only benefitted imperialist Multi-National
Companies, comprador capitalists, landlords and a section of the rich
peasantry. It devastated the poor and middle class farmers and land.”
Before
the implementation of LPG policies, Soviet Social imperialism unleashed
hegemony on the public sector economy of India since the end of 1960s
in the name of aid. This gradually declined since 1980s. With the growth
of public sector in 1970s, the comprador bureaucratic bourgeois class
also grew utilising it.
In
order to fulfil the interests of the imperialists and the interests of
Indian comprador ruling classes as a part of it, Liberalisation,
Privatisation and Globalisation policies were implemented in the first
phase from 1985 to 1991. The second phase is going on since 1991.
The
Soviet Union fell into an intense economic crisis since 1985 and the
dependency of India started to decline and so US sponsored New Economic
Policies were brought to be implemented in India. In the first phase of
LPG, the private corporate sector gained several tax subsidies in the
first phase. The properties of comprador big bourgeoisie rose
multi-fold.
With
the commercialisation of agriculture globalisation started through
contract agriculture in the first phase as per the schemes of
imperialists and spread to several areas. Corporate companies gained
total control on agriculture in contract lands.
Now let us see the second phase of globalisation of semi-colonial, semi-feudal system.
In
this phase imperialism created 7 intense crises that devastates the
oppressed nationalities and people living on planet earth. They are
–economic crisis, employment crisis, environmental-ecological crisis,
forcible migration crisis, fuel crisis, socio-cultural crisis,
politico-military crisis. Imperialism took shelter in fascism since it
cannot solve these crises. Racism grew all over the world. Fascist
parties strengthened. Those came to power in several countries. The
Hindutva Fascist forces came to power in the leadership of Modi in India
as a part of it. As a result of the pro-imperialist, pro-comprador
policies of the ruling classes of Modi government dependence and
neo-colonial exploitation intensified in our country. Apart from the
working class, peasantry and other toiling classes exploitation
intensified on small and medium kind capitalists and traders, in order
to fulfil the interests of imperialist comprador bureaucratic
capitalist, feudal interests. Especially due to the economic,
industrial, mining, agricultural, service sector policies taken up as a
part of implementation of LPG policies at various times, mainly the
total foreign partnership in domestic industries, allowing the control
of imperialist MNCs and dependency on foreign technology made the
country further dependent. Domestic and foreign corporate enterprises
are looting the labour power, products, services and mainly raw
materials in export-import dependent industries, especially the
outsourcing industries and agribusiness companies. Public-Private
Partnership is spread and implemented.
During
this time, the slavery of comprador governments to imperialism reached
its zenith. They are giving total opportunities to loot the land,
labour, raw material and other natural resources of the country. They
are handing over the economic, political, military and cultural sectors
to imperialism. Micro, Small and Medium kind — MSME sector is shrinking
day by day. Comprador governments are destroying the independent market
of this sector. There is a drastic reduction in the growth rate of this
sector. Demonetisation and GST led to the closure of 4,86,291 Micro,
Small and Medium kind industries all over the country. Lakhs of workers
are becoming unemployed.
Due
to LPG policies our country is further getting into the clutches of
foreign loans. The bankrupt rule of Modi led the foreign loans in the
past eight years to Rs. 135 lakh crores. India is in the 5th place among
the most loan receiving countries. The share of agriculture and
industrial sectors that provide employment to 70 percent of the economy
in GDP is going down and that of the service sector that provides
employment to a mere 30 percent is rising. The fact that 100 prominent
US companies acquired half of the economy of our country is enough to
understand the joint onslaught of International monopoly enterprises and
domestic comprador bureaucratic bourgeois corporate enterprises. During
this period prominent comprador bureaucratic monopoly capitalists such
as Mukesh Ambani, Adani, Mittal, Birla, TATA, Ruyiaya, Jindal, Vedanta,
Infosys, ESSAR, Anil Ambani, TVS Iyyengar, Thapar, RPG, Bajaj, Mahindra
and Pathanjali Ramdev rose heavily.
A
new rich class and new forms of exploitation came forth in the country.
Vital sectors such as mining, heavy industries and tourism and the
utmost profitable telecom, power and finance sectors are in the public
sector. Therefore plans are aggressively and speedily being implemented
to eliminate those and hand over to foreign corporate enterprises.
Special incentives and facilities are being provided to privatise each
and every sector with a special policy. Public sector enterprises are
pushed into losses in a planned manner and are put in the hands of
corporate enterprises at dead cheap prices. Rise in high tech machinery,
utilisation of technology and outsourcing deprived lakhs of workers and
employees of livelihood. Organised sector declined and unorganised
sector became the main one. The domestic and foreign corporate companies
achieved Rs. 17.5 lakh crores during 2014–18. Imperialists are taking
away nearly Rs.47.09 lakh crores from the country every year. It is not
possible for a country put to such intensive exploitation to develop.
Due
to considerable changes that took place in semi-feudalism during this
period, a wide collective form of collaboration of government and
nongovernment ‘party-cooperative association-panchayat-police’ systems
came forth newly in the place of earlier forms of feudal hegemony.
Cooperative bank is an important structural form of collaboration of
bureaucratic capitalism and semi-feudalism. The cooperative capital of
these cooperative banks is the amalgamation of the surplus of
investments of imperialists, comprador bureaucratic capitalists and
local semi-feudal elements. A new system of local hegemony and
exploitation came forth on the base of government properties/funds
through these.
According
to the statistics of NABARD of 2017, the number of landlords in the
rural areas is 5.76 percent. Although the number of landlords came down
and also that of extent of big land ownership, feudal hegemony is going
on in the economic, social and political sectors. This is a change in
form and not in essence. One more important development in the period of
globalisation is the acquisition of lakhs of acres of cultivable,
forest lands of farmers and tribal people. MNCs, comprador bureaucratic
big bourgeoisie, NGOs, religious organisations, stock market brokers and
several kinds of mafias are seizing the government lands and the
cultivable lands of the farmers. The lands of farmers and forest lands
are being allotted to non-agriculture projects. Nearly four crore acres
of land had been acquired forcibly by the exploitive comprador
governments displacing six and a half crorespeople in 1951–2010.
Compensation and rehabilitation are nominal. The problem of displaced
became a main factor in land problem.
On
the other hand, Indian market was widely opened for agricultural
imports. Investment in agriculture sector reached a worse level. Food
security policy had been liquidated. Public distribution system had been
weakened. Public sector acquiring policy had been privatised. Minimum
Support Price is not at least two times the expenditure on production of
crops. Agricultural goods produced heavily and cheaply with heavy
subsidies in imperialist countries are poured into the domestic market.
Due to all these and other factors the agrarian sector fell in severe
crisis. In one word, due to globalisation, the inequalities between the
rich and the poor rose to the highest level.
When
compared with capitalist/imperialist countries, crop productivity is
very less in our country. There is a constant rise in small land
ownership. Production of ordinary crops continues to be the main trend
even now. This is an important criterion to semi-feudal relations and
backward semi-feudal mode of production. Although there is a rise in
wage labour in agriculture and affiliated sectors of agriculture and in
the number of agricultural labour and semi-proletariat working on wages,
there is a large discrepancy between their wages and those of the
modern proletariat in the industries. This change did not lessen the
semi-feudal exploitation to the least extent.
Most
of the surplus created in agriculture is in the bureaucratic hegemony
of banks/cooperative associations, money-lenders, shahukars and various
finance enterprises. This is coming in the way of capital accumulation.
The condition of capitalist reproduction is seen nowhere. Semi-feudal
relations are an obstacle to the development of capitalism from the top
to the bottom. Money lending and commercial capital seizes the
agricultural products/goods of the farmers but not the process of
production. This process is binding the farmers in semi-feudal
relations. It controls their labour power and do not transform them into
workers. It neither lets them transform into capitalists.
The
labour contract between a hegemonic caste landlord and a Dalit landless
labourer is semi-feudal in nature. This is at the same time a base for
economic and non-economic exploitation and oppression. Brahmanic caste
based feudalism and caste-class oppression is yet lively and prevalent
in the rural areas. Caste hierarchic system is integral to semi-feudal
relations. Most of the people are bound to backward relations of
production and this is acting as a chain to the development of forces of
production. This is keeping the majority of the people in utter poverty
and miserable condition. It is shrinking their purchasing power thus it
is limiting the development of domestic market. Suppression,
oppression, discrimination, untouchability, social boycott, direct
violence, massacres, live burning, sexual atrocities on women, burning
of houses, exploitation of properties, destruction on the oppressed
Dalit castes and tribal people are yet an ordinary feature.
As
a result of the policies the comprador rulers are implementing since
transfer of power in 1947 and the globalisation policies implemented
since 1991, as a result of the anti-feudal class struggles that took
place in the leadership of our party for the past five decades and the
anti-imperialist, antigovernment movements, there are considerable
changes in the various states/areas where revolutionary movement is
going on under the leadership of our Party. Distorted capitalist
relations are spreading in production. The earlier landlords shifted
their properties and investments to the town areas. Revolutionary
peasant committees/Ryot Coolie Sangams, Revolutionary People’s
Committees (RPC) are built and consolidated and class struggle is
spreading. This led to considerable changes in class composition of the
villages. Non-agricultural rural hierarchs were established and land was
mainly concentrated in their hands. New methods of exploitation came
forth. Due to all these, semi-feudal relations relatively became weak.
In the tribal areas where revolutionary movement took place strongly,
forest lands and the surplus lands of non-tribal landlords and the bad
gentry were seized. There is a stop to the exploitation and oppression
of government, forest and revenue departments, money lenders and market
traders. Wage labourer system reduced to a large extent. Struggles
against imperialists, public-private investment, state and its
compradors are rising.
As
per the changes in the past seven decades, it is undoubted that Indian
economy is not at all capitalist or in the path of transforming
capitalist, that there is no such democratic trend in the country and
more so, on the contrary semi-feudal relations are relatively weak. Land
problem is the main problem and land reforms on the basis of land to
the tiller yet bears importance and relevance in the broad rural areas.
Semi-feudalism
means although capitalist relations developed at various levels in the
womb of feudal system, those did not yet develop into fundamentally
independent capitalist relations in a comprehensive level and so this is
a system where semi-feudal relations continue. These capitalist
relations that developed at various levels are considerable but those
are quantitative only. There is no qualitative change in the relations
of production. There is no fundamental change in the nature of Indian
revolution or in the friendly and enemy classes of revolution. However
much capitalist changes took place in Indian semi-colonial, semi-feudal
economy bound in imperialist economy, all are in the interest of the
imperialists, comprador big bourgeois and feudal classes. There are no
chances of a change into an independent capitalist country.
When
we observe these changes, it makes it clear that these changes cannot
fundamentally affect our ordinary political line and the path of
Protracted People’s War followed to make success this political line,
that our party adopted, basing on the changes in the era of imperialism,
especially all over the world in neo-colonial period and the social
changes that took place until the great revolutionary spate of Naxalbari
in our country, the document that was enriched in the Unity
Congress-Ninth Congress and, moreover those would further complicate the
implementation of our path. It, therefore makes it clear that we need
to creatively implement our political-military line according to the
social changes that took place in the country,, learning lessons from
the experiences of social revolution and to adopt our strategic plans so
as to fulfil the tasks of our political-military tactics according to
these changes. It is possible to defeat the enemy classes by uniting the
entire friendly classes and isolating the enemy classes against the
common enemies according to these changes.
For
this purpose we must destroy the three hills such as the exploitation,
oppression and suppression of imperialism, comprador bureaucratic
bourgeois and feudal classes that are depressing the Indian people by
bringing down the outdated semi-colonial, semi-feudal system in the
country to establish New Democratic society with the objective to
establish Socialism-Communism by accomplishing the yet incomplete tasks
of National democratic revolution in India. The only path for this is
New Democratic Revolution with the axle of Agrarian Revolution on the
basis of land to the tiller. India can attain liberation from the
exploitation of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic comprador big
capital only through this revolution.
Depending
upon the distinct characteristic features of Revolutionary war in
India, military strategy will be Protracted People’s War. It means, as
Comrade Mao said, establishing revolutionary base areas in the rural
area where the enemy is relatively weak and gradually encircle the
cities that are forts for enemy forces and then seize them.
We
can fulfil national liberation and democratic revolutionary tasks such
as seizing land without any compensation to the landlords on the basis
of ‘land to the tiller’ and distribute the lands of the landlords to
agricultural labour, poor farmers and lower middle class farmers; to
occupy the agricultural estates and plantations of imperialist MNCs,
capitalist landlords, comprador bureaucratic capitalists and government
institutions; to nationalise revolutionary people’s governments; to
industrialise the country basing on serial policies on the principle of
‘basing on agriculture and keeping the industries in the lead’, ‘walking
on two legs’; encourage and develop cooperative agricultural movement
and agricultural cooperative associations; nationalise imperialist
enterprises, companies, comprador bureaucratic bourgeois companies and
government lands; seize their properties and banks, annul domestic and
foreign loans and the unequal agreements; and eradicate unemployment
only through New Democratic Revolution.
Q
— Many of the areas in which your Party and the PLGA are active in are
very rich in biodiversity and in rare and important plant and wildlife.
What is the Party’s stance towards conservation in these areas, and on
the capitalist-imperialist destruction of the environment more broadly?
A
— The areas of the revolutionary movement under the leadership of our
party are rich of bio-diversity. There are countless trees, green
forests and ever flowing rivers, medicinal herbs, forest animals,
various kinds of birds, mammals, insects, rivers, water animals,
amphibians, hundreds of fish, dozens of small forest produce available
from the forests, various kinds of roots, fruits, bushes and trees that
give fruits, thousands of kinds of paddy grains protected in traditional
methods, pulses, oil seeds are abundant. There is enormous danger to
the valuable, magnificent, unique, balance natural biodiversity from
imperialists, comprador bureaucratic capitalists for a long time. Due to
the anti-people, imperialist sponsored policies of the exploitive
ruling classes, this bio-diversity and environment are facing
destruction. Nature must not be let fall for profits of a few domestic,
foreign big exploiters. natural balance must be preserved, environment
must be protected and natural wealth and resources must be utilised in a
balanced manner to improve human living conditions. Environmental
protection and natural balance and improving human living conditions are
mutually dependent. We must constantly fight against the destruction of
resources by capitalist imperialism. New Democratic Revolution shall
form the fundamental basis for permanent solution to this problem.
Kanha Tiger Reserve, under PLGA control since 2022.
These
are a few examples to show how the imperialist MNCs are destroying the
bio-diversity of our country. Dr. Richaria collected more than 22,000
paddy grains and above 1800 leafy vegetables from thousands of farmers
from hundreds of villages in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh and
preserved its germplasm in the Indira Gandhi National Agricultural
University in Raipur, the capital of the present Chhattisgarh in 1950s
and 60s. Out of these, there are those that grow with less water, that
give less grass, more grass, spread good smell, that are long, short,
that grow in any season and so on. But the germplasm of these paddy
grains was stolen by the MNCs of the US and other such countries in
collaboration of comprador rulers of our country. The MNCs claim to have
developed those grains in the International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI) in Manila and sell them with names such as IR36, IR-72 to India
and other countries. They force the farmers to depend on MNCs for seeds
every year.
The
actual story behind the preservation of the development of so many
thousands of kinds of seeds that hands over a great historic experience
is very interesting. The world must know. The peasantry of Chhattisgarh
make a festival called Akti. On that day, all the youth play Kolatam and
ask paddy from every house. They sow the crop collected from the whole
village in a common land. Naturally new kind of seeds are generated in
the process of growth of crop. They collected those crops separately and
sowed it. Thus every year seeds with new characteristics emerged in
every village. Thus every village developed into an agricultural
laboratory and every farmer into an agricultural scientist and so many
thousands of paddy seeds developed. Paddy seeds developed in the country
and that possess such diversity have been stolen by the MNCs with the
support of comprador governments and are owning those. Hundreds of kinds
of local paddy seeds, pulses, roots, leafy vegetables, vegetables,
fruit seeds and other such are yet available in the interior tribal
areas. There is a strong need to protect and preserve them from not
going into the hands of corporate companies.
In
1990 also a MNC Syngenta tried to steal the germplasm of various kinds
of seeds in collaboration with the management, when a patriot Professor
took the initiative to expose the matter. Democrats, Mass Organisations
and Trade Unions took up struggles and the attempts were stopped.
With
the indiscriminate exploitation of resources by the imperialists and
their agents, the comprador bureaucratic capitalists for their profits,
lakhs of acres of forests, forest lands and riverine areas are being
devastated with the heavy mining projects, mega industrial projects and
big dams. Trees, organisms and animals are becoming extinct. Sound,
underground, surface water and air pollutions are intensifying.
Environmental destruction is going on in a big way. Rich bio-diversity
is becoming extinct.
Due
to mining in the country, many small rivers and canals apart from the
big rivers are being polluted. The waters of these rivers and canals are
not feasible for cultivation. The water is polluted to the extent that
it cannot be used even for washing, leave alone for drinking. Almost all
the rivers flowing from near the mines are being polluted. Water
organisms and bird species are becoming extinct. People are suffering
from severe ill health apart from various kinds of skin diseases.
Drilling,
explosion, goods trains, lorries (trucks) and machines used for the
transport of mineral resources in heavy mining and the heavy sounds of
the machines cause intense sound pollution. According to an estimate,
one tonne of explosive material needs to be used for 5 thousand tonnes
of iron. In a few places the sound of mine explosion is heard up to a
distance of 150 kms. This is causing cracks in the walls of the houses
of the people of the towns and villages near coal mines, iron ore mines,
bauxite mines. The firing and shelling from the field firing range of
various government forces are causing harm to the ears of the people.
sound pollution and explosions are leading to heart diseases, blood
pressure, deafness and premature deliveries.
Field
firing ranges are arranged near the residential areas. People are being
injured due to firing and shelling from this range. Their properties
are destroyed. In Jharkhand, people fought and stopped few field firings
ranges. Movements are going on against field firing ranges in many
states.
The
gases that emanate out of the explosions in mining, the poisonous gases
from the heavy industries and the pollution from blast furnaces all
together are intensifying air pollution day by day.
Capitalist
imperialism only squeezes more and more profits from its industries but
does not make proper arrangements to see that no accidents occur.
Scores and thousands of people lost their lives in the several
industrial accidents and in underground coal mines due to sheer
negligence. Lakhs of people suffer from severe physical and mental ill
health. The example of the accident in Union Carbide, a MNC of the US in
Bhopal in 1984 reveals the situation. More than two and a half thousand
people lost their lives due to leakage of Methyl Iso Cyanide. Thousands
more became ill. Warren Anderson, the MD of the factory who was
responsible for such a grave accident was sent in a respectful manner
and with heavy security by the government officers to the US by flight.
This is the model of slavery of the ruling classes to imperialism.
In
1984, the practices of US MNC Union Carbide caused the Bhopal Gas
Tragedy, pictured here, which lead to the deaths of over 3000 people and
the injury of hundreds of thousands.
In
May 2020, 12 people died of a gas leak in LG Polymers, a MNC of South
Korea in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Hundreds were ill. Thousands
of birds became extinct. There are many such examples.
The
Indian exploitive governments who saw with their own eyes the fierce
accidents that occurred in nuclear projects in Russia and Japan are
purchasing the outdated ones from imperialists leading the people to
death.
No
one can forget the tragic story of the villages that were drowned due
to dam on River Narmada. The construction of Polavaram dam on River
Godavari drowns 250 villages and lakhs of acres of forest and
agricultural lands of four states. This is the case with each and every
heavy dam. Ecology, bio-diversity, natural wealth, resources, land and
water resources, environment and the livelihood of the people are
destructed due to heavy mining, the construction of dams and industries.
Rain water is stored in the layers of mineral resources, especially
bauxite mines and flows into streams and rivers slowly all through the
year. These streams and rivers are the life line for the tribal and
non-tribal people living in the forest areas. The exploration of these
minerals leads to a drastic reduction of water level in these rivers and
underground. The polluted water from the mines and industries and the
water from the bathrooms and latrines of these areas into the rivers is
polluting the whole river water.
According
to an estimate, the production of one ton of iron needs 44 tons of
water and one ton of Aluminium needs 1378 tons. We can easily understand
how much water is spent on mining and production of minerals and the
extent of pollution.
Normally
hills-hillocks, forests, especially the high and broad mountain ranges
and broad dense forests are an important factor in monsoon. For example
the Raoghat hills of Bastar are very much favourable for monsoon rains.
Due to mining in this area, the monsoon is negatively affected and the
environmentalists say that this shall cause a reduction of rains in not
only Bastar but also in South Chhattisgarh and that these hills are very
important in environmental balance in the country. Moreover TATA, Adani
and the like are very eager to explore these mines. The central and the
state governments are preparing the ground in all ways to facilitate
the same.
Rise
in global warming is causing extreme heat for a long time, famines and
untimely rains and other such natural calamities. It is estimated that
the sea water levels are going to rise by 27 cms due to global warming.
Electronic
goods are more and more produced that are emanating radiation to an
extent more than approved. This is leading to unimaginable diseases.
People’s health is severely disturbed. The MNCs are utilising this
situation also to mint profits. They are spreading the health sector and
are exploiting the people through super-specialty hospitals. They are
looting people’s money in the name of various people’s health schemes
with the support of the exploitive governments.
On
the other hand the governments are establishing tourist centres in the
interior forest areas. These are the centres of luxury for the rich
classes. The culture, traditions, song and dance of the local tribal
people is made a commodity in these places. Bad culture is being
introduced from other places. The people’s democratic culture is
affected. Body trade is being encourages. Diseases such as AIDS might
spread to interior areas and to all those visiting these tourist
centres. So our party is severely opposing the establishment of such
tourist centres. Capitalist imperialism is suffocating workers,
employees and people to the core. It is putting constant pressure on
them and is unleashing intense labour exploitation. It turned human life
utmost narrow and is forcing people to visit certain places by week end
or month end once in a year. The total situation needs to be changed.
Political
leaders, big contractors, timber mafia, mining mafia, forest and police
officers collaborate and are smuggling timber in a big way from
National Parks, Reserve Parks. The Hasdeo forest and other such ever
green forests are being indiscriminately cut for industrial purposes.
Forest animals are being hunted in a big way with the help of forest and
police officers.
On
the other hand the central and the state governments are chasing the
tribal and farmer people in the name of parks, tiger reserves, reserve
forests and centers of protection of wild animals. They are trampling
the right to life of the tribal people. The anti-development governments
and imperialist sponsored NGOs are making ill propaganda that tribal
people are a danger for the protection of forest and wild animals. This
is absolutely not a fact. In fact, the tribal people living in the
forests for generations are the protectors and conservators of the
forests, the bio-diversity and environment. Tribal people are the
children of forests. They are entangled with the forest. Their life and
livelihood are entwined with forest. The forests and forest animals
survive due to them and their struggles. But now when they are being
displaced, one must thing how to protect the forests, environment and
bio-diversity. This is not the problem of tribal people alone. It
concerns the existence of the whole human race. Therefore the people of
the country and foreign countries need to fight against all the schemes
such as the pro-imperialist, pro-comprador bureaucratic capitalists and
pro-feudal classes development models, heavy mining, industries and
construction of dams that displace tribal people. Anyone who causes
damage to environment must be chased away from the forest. One must be
prepared to retaliate together with the people and armed retaliation
with the available weapons. We must develop the same. We call upon the
youth to recruit in a big way into PLGA in the areas of revolutionary
movement under the leadership of our party and take part in
intensify-expand people’s war/guerrilla war to all corners of the
country and to come forward to join hands with the people.
Imperialists,
comprador bureaucratic capitalists and landlords cause severe harm to
environment for their profits. They indulge in sound, water an air
pollution. The bureaucratic Modi government at the centre recently
amended the Acts that provide action on such persons against the
interests of the workers, peasants, middle class and tribal people and
the country and in the interests of the comprador bureaucratic
capitalists and imperialist MNCs. All the amendments to the Environment
(Preservation) Act 1986, Water (Pollution prevention and control) Act
1974, Air (pollution prevention, air control) Act 1981 are meant to
protect the imperialists, comprador capitalists and landlords in
violation of these Acts. These amendments leave capitalists who indulge
in environmental, water and air pollution without punishment. There is
only a nominal fine. However no capitalist was sent to jail even before
the amendments. These Acts provided a basis for people’s struggles and
the present amendments give indiscriminate powers to the capitalists.
They shall indulge in environmental destruction. Environment shall fall
into further crisis. Our party calls upon the people and people’s
organisations of the country to fight against the pro-capitalist
amendments in these Acts.
Our
party is committed to preservation of bio-diversity and environment
comprised of forests and all kinds of plant species. PLGA, Mass
Organisations and RPCs are working together with the people under the
leadership of our party for this. They are raising the consciousness of
the people. The Forest Protection Department of our people’s governments
is specially concentrating on this aspect. We come in the way of any
public or private scheme that displaces the people and causes harm to
environment and bio-diversity. We call upon the environmentalists,
biologists, scientists, democrats, civil rights organisations, social
organisations and tribal social organisations to come and work with us
in this regard. We opine that we need to build strong movements all over
the country for protection of environment and bio-diversity and take up
struggles in the direction of achieving various demands. On the other
hand we wish to say that New Democratic India that would be established
by accomplishing New Democratic Revolution in the path of Protracted
People’s War shall guarantee the protection of forest, environment and
bio-diversity.
Q
— Similarly, many of the areas in which your Party and the PLGA are
active are rich in natural resources, such as coal and bauxite. These
resources are sought-after by large multinational capitalist
corporations, who are invited by the fascist old Indian state to steal
the resources for themselves, and many people are forced from their
homes to give these corporations access to the resources. Can you go
into more detail about the practices of imperialism in India, and how
the CPI (Maoist) and PLGA resists this imperialism?
A
— Our country is not a poor one but it is a country of poor people.
there are green forests in our country. There are ever flowing rivers,
fertile cultivable lands, invaluable, abundant mineral resources. This
apart, there are crores of toiling workers and farmers. Crores of
government and private employees, lakhs of educated and intellectual
toilers and crores of youth are there in the country. 700 kinds of
indigenous, tribal people constitute 8.5 percent of the population. But,
majority of the people of the country are suffering from hunger,
illiteracy, superstitions, ill health, unemployment, poverty and other
such problems. They are fighting in various forms to solve the
fundamental livelihood problems and for democratic rights. The natural
wealth, resources, the abundant labour power and local technology is not
being used in the interests of the people of the country the initiative
and efficiency of the broad masses is not explored but their democratic
rights are supressed in the interests of a few comprador bureaucratic
capitalists, landlords and imperialist MNCs.
To
be more specific, there are abundant natural wealth and mineral
resources not only in the forests and semi-forest areas of the
indigenous, tribal and non-tribal people of the country but in the areas
of revolutionary movement, i.e., the areas where the Party, PLGA, Mass
Organisations and in some areas the RPCs are working such as the states
of West Bung, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
(Western Ghats). India produces 90 kinds of minerals such as iron, coal,
bauxite, mica, manganese, silver, gold, lime stone, granite, Aluminium,
copper and cement. Procurement of diamonds is going on as a big trade.
India happens to be one of the 5 big producers of important minerals. 25
percent of mineral resources of India are in Jharkhand. 70 percent of
the bauxite resources and 28 percent of iron ore resources re in Odisha.
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have coal and bauxite mines. Iron, mica,
gold, diamonds, coal, Uranium, bauxite, Corundum, dolomite and
cassiterite are abundant in Bastar and Sarguja of Chhattisgarh. There 9
crores of tons of iron ore in Surjagarh hills of Maharashtra. There are
several mineral resources in both the forest and plain areas of almost
all the states.
The
exploitation of these resources started and spread right from the time
of British occupation of India. The British declared their authority on
the forests, minerals, land and water resources through various Acts
(such as the India Forest Act 1867, Forest Act 1878, Land Acquisition
Act 1894, India Forest Act 1927). The loot of natural resources was
intense in the phase of industrial capital and finance capital when
there was intense exploitation and oppression and cruel political
authority. Political suppression too intensified during this time
including exploitation of forcible cheap labour. Agricultural policy of
the country was changed according to the needs of the market for
colonialists and their world market. Large forests were cut for laying
Railway lines. British imperialists allowed TATA, Birla and other such
comprador big capitalists of the country to establish industries for
their war needs during World War I and thus they too joined the loot.
They started large scale iron ore and coal mining for iron and steel
industries.
India
became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country after transfer of power
in 1947 and since then, it had been under the indiscriminate
exploitation and oppression of several imperialist countries. The Indian
feudal, comprador capitalist classes that seized state power in
collaboration with the imperialists have been serving them and are
unleashing indiscriminate exploitation and oppression. With the change
of political power, the Indian comprador capitalist, feudal class
changed into comprador bureaucratic capitalist class. Whichever
parliamentary parties those belong to, the central and the state
governments that represent the exploitive ruling classes of our country
are implementing the policies of economy, industry, minerals,
agriculture, education and health in favour of imperialist, comprador
bureaucratic capitalist and feudal classes. Those are creating
infrastructure facilities in favour of them and are following domestic
and foreign internal policies. Those are implementing LPG policies in
all sectors since 1991.
See
these examples! Indian government established National Mineral
Development Corporation (NMDC) in 1958 to look after survey of mineral
resources, mining, production, sale, exports, establishment of steel
industries and other such things. This made an agreement with Japan
Steel Mill in 1961 and vacated 22 tribal villages to start iron mines in
Bailadilla in Dantewada district of Bastar division in Chhattisgarh
state, the present Dandakaranya struggle area. No one was provided
rehabilitation. Since production started in 1968, the iron ore from
Bailadilla is being looted at a dead cheap rate of Rs. 50 to Rs.400 per
ton by Japan, China and Korea imperialists. ESSAR and other comprador
bureaucratic capitalist companies are also looting it. You must have
been aware that iron ore costs Rs.5600 to Rs.10000 per ton in the world
market. Iron ore needed for mini Steel Plants and sponge iron industries
is not given at least at the export price to the small and medium kind
capitalists of Chhattisgarh. This led to the closure of nearly 150
industries and ten thousand workers are on the streets. The mines are
being spread further. There are a lot of such examples.
More
than two dozen of goods trains move on the Kirandul-Visakhapatnam
Railway line built in the name of ‘development’ and to provide facility
to the people and there is only a single passenger train. What for is
the Railway line claimed to be a big engineering feat? The rise in water
and air pollution is leading to the danger of ill health and
destruction of the people, cattle, forest animals and fish. Presently
Dalli-Raoghat-Jagadalpur Railway line is being laid in the same name of
development. In fact the railway line is meant for shifting of mineral
sources from the proposed mines in Rajnandgaon and Bastar divisions of
Chhattisgarh and armed forces.
The
government allowed the laying of ESSAR pipeline of a comprador
capitalist company by reducing Rs.550 per ton to supply iron ore through
rail costing only Rs.80 per ton. Iron ore powder is being shifted
through pipelines from Bailadilla to Visakhapatnam. Water resources of
Bastar are going waste into the Bay of Bengal for this shift. This is
causing water shortage in Bastar. ESSAR company used land in a stretch
of 20 meters for laying the pipeline at a lengthof 267 kms but did not
pay a single paise for the displaced. It also cut thousands of hectares
of forests.
Here
is one more example. The government is not supplying the necessary coal
produced in Chhattisgarh to the industries of the small and medium kind
capitalists of the state. Moreover the Modi government stopped supply
of coal since August in the name of coal crisis for the past 6 months.
The Chief Minister (of Congress party that is in opposition at the
centre) himself appealed in vain. Hundreds of small and medium kind
industries are in the danger of closure. Meanwhile in the name of
solving coal crisis big comprador capitalists are being supplied with
large amounts of coal and on the other is importing coal at high prices
from other countries. This is a traitorous, anti-people policy of the
government.
There
is yet another surprising instance. Government sold a stretch of 23 kms
of Sivnadh river that flows through Durg district of Chhattisgarh to
Radias Water Limited in 1988. The conditions of the agreement mention
the responsibility to purchase water from the company. The company laid
fencing on both sides of the river to the extent it took on lease. The
people of the scores of villages on both sides of the river are not
utilising the river waters and have been deceived. Who gave the
authority to the government to sell the natural river and river waters
to private companies? It is interesting to know that the farmer people
destroyed the fencing declaring their authority on the river.
In
Raigarh district of the same state comprador bureaucratic capitalist
Jindal built his empire of Steel and electric industries. He displaced
ten thousand farmer families from 1990 to 2010 for this purpose. These
farmers and the agricultural labourers became migrant labour. Jindal
acquired the lands of these villages with the support of the revenue
administration of the government. He also seized the pool that the
villagers have been using for generations.
The
central and the state governments are handing over the public sector
industries in the name of disinvestment as a part of the LPG policies at
dead cheap prices to the comprador capitalists and MNCs. Bharat
Aluminium Company (BALCO) one of the vital public sector industries said
to be Indian Navaratnas costing Rs.5000 crores had been handed over to
Sterlite company with 50 percent partnership by the then BJP government
in the centre in 2003. In addition to it, the mine pot bauxite mines in
Ambikapur also were given to Anil Agarwal of Sterlite company. There are
lot of such examples from each and every state all over the country.
The
exploitation of these resources that began during the rule of Congress
party intensified further during the BJP rule. Since 1991 when LPG
policies came to be implemented in a full fledged manner, the central
and the state governments are making hundreds and thousands of MoUs with
comprador bureaucratic capitalists and imperialist MNCs for the export
of minerals, for the construction of heavy industries, for mining of
various kinds of minerals and construction of big dams. The central and
the various state governments are holding summits with imperialist,
comprador capitalist corporate companies and are opening the doors wide
for exploitation of resources. Forums are held in various imperialist
countries to make such agreements. Since Modi came to power he is
further speeding and intensifying the exploitation of these resources in
the name of ‘Make in India’, ‘Make in Maharashtra’ and ‘Make in
Gujarat’ and such others. These ‘Make in’ festivals are being held
frequently in all the states. Let us see some instances to understand
how this game takes place.
According
to an estimate, since the transfer of power the central and the state
governments displaced 5 crore people in the name of ‘development’
schemes. In Jharkhand 15 lakh tribal people have been displaced in the
past three decades for the construction of industries, mines, dams,
roads and railway lines. While 40 percent of them are tribal people, 25
percent are Dalit people. 75 percent of the displaced are not
rehabilitated. The rest of the 25 percent have been provided nominal
rehabilitation. Similarly, 40 percent of the land acquired from the
displaced is of the tribal people. since 2005, we see that Arcelor
Mittal, POSCO, Vedanta, Sterlite industries (Vedanta resources), Phelps
Dodge, ACC Riotento, CRA, De Beers, Anglo-American exploration, BHP
Minerals, Proem Alcon, Norse Hydro, Aston mining, Lloyd company and
other such imperialist Steel and Mining corporate companies have been
given permission in a big way to take up survey of minerals such as
iron, coal, gold, diamonds, bauxite, mica and silver in Jharkhand,
Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and
Maharashtra. In addition to these, Indian comprador bureaucratic
capitalists and mining corporates such as TATA, Jindal, Birla, ESSAR,
Adani, Nouka and other such companies also issued permissions for
mining.
This
alone gives us the understanding as to how and how much the corporate
companies gain super profits. Utkal Alumina Company is going tomint
Rs.2,80,000 crores in the coming 25 years at a cost of Rs.4500 crores
through mining in 8000 acres.
The
governments gave permission to 760 Special Economic Zones (SEZ) all
over the country by 30th November 2007. The number must have increased
by now. Para-military, police forces, goonda gangs and brokers have been
deployed to forcibly seize 2 lakh hectares of land from the farmers and
tribal people of 20 states for this. Mukesh Ambani displaced 2 lakh 50
thousand people of 35 villages in Navi Mumbai for Reliance SEZ and
seized 35 thousand acres of land.
Agricultural
lands and forest lands of the farmers and the tribal people of various
states of the country are being utmost bureaucratically seized for the
sake of industrial corridors, coastal corridors, export zones, ports and
other such things and Express highways, Super highways, Airports,
Sagarmala, bullet trains-speed trains and entertainment parks necessary
for those are being laid as a part of infrastructure.
Modi
government gave permission to comprador capitalist Gautam Adani to
construct ports, Airports, 900 cold storages and 900 multiplex cinema
halls. It gave heavy subsidies to take up mining. The central and the
state governments leased two deposits spread over lakhs of acres in
Hasdeo Aranda coal mines in Hasdeo forest in Korba, Sarguja and Surajpur
districts. People are making intense struggles against the cutting of
forest by Adani under the banner of ‘Hasdeo Jungle Bachao’ committee.
Valuable teak and other trees, animals and floral species are on the
verge of extinction.
The
indigenous masses of Hasdeo Forest, under Party guidance, resist
attempts by the company of comprador capitalist Gautam Adani, the
world’s second-richest man at time of writing, to destroy their home.
In
Odisha, the central and the state governments together issued 97
thousand hectares of lands on 600 mining leases. But the fact that 46
percent of families in Odisha are living below the poverty line tells us
that the profits out of mining are going to corporate companies,
political leaders and higher officials and no one else.
The
farmers of Jagatsingpur have been putting down the attempts of the
government to displace 22 thousand farmers to acquire 4 thousand acres
of land for the Steel Plant of a MNC POSCO of South Korea. Vedanta
Sterlite Company is making severe attempts to explore bauxite from
Niyamgiri hills costing the identity of the Kuvvi tribal people. for the
purpose it deployed Para-military forces in the area and expanded
carpet security. The tribal peasantry is daringly facing this. Bauxite
mining and industries of domestic and foreign corporate companies such
as Vedanta Resources, Vedanta Aluminium, Sterlite India, Odisha Mining
Corporation, South-West Odisha Mining Corporation, Hindalco, Birla
group, Utkal Aluminimum Industry Limited (UAIL), ALCAN of Canada and
NALCO in Koraput, Bolangir, Kalahandi and Raigarh districts. Thousands
of tribal people of primitive tribes of Kasipur, Gopalpur, Gandamardhan,
Jajpur, Kalinganagar, Jagatsingpur, Keonjhar and Serengdaga were
displaced. The process is still going on.
In
the name of nuclear electric industries, thermal electric industries,
bauxite mining, industrial, coastal and oil corridors that are utmost
dangerous to the survival of the people, natural wealth and the wealth
on sea coast is being handed over to the MNCs and comprador capitalists
like Adani. Several projects such as Polavaram and Kavvala Tiger zone,
Singareni Open cast coal mines and other such several projects are laid
in Telangana displacing the tribal people.
Attempts
are going on to seize Lakhs of acres of crop lands and forest lands of
the tribal people by the Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra governments with
the support of the armed forces to implement the agreements with MNCs
and comprador capitalists. There are iron ore, quartz, quarries, Silica
cell, China clay, Limestone, White clay and Uranium are abundant in the
forests and hills on the border of Rajnandgaon, Kanker and Balod
districts. Although the people have been firmly facing these mining
activities under the leadership of the party, ITBP, BSF camps have been
set up in scores of numbers and few of these projects are being run
under constant attacks on the people. with the weakening of the people’s
movements, mining is going on in Ahladi, Barbaspur, Ari Dongri,
Mahamaya, Pallemadi, Chargaon and other mines.
While
the various mines in Chhattisgarh have been given to TATA, Jindal,
ESSAR, Adani and NECCO Companies on lease the mines in Gadchiroli
district of Maharashtra have been given for lease to TATA, ESSAR,
Arcelor Mittal, Jindal Steel, Vedanta, Lloyd, Riotento, De Beers, BHP
Bili tin and other corporate companies.
As
we see the exploitive governments are handing over the natural wealth
and mineral resources of the country to imperialist MNCs and domestic
comprador bureaucratic capitalist companies. Thus lakhs of hectares of
crop lands and forest lands are going into the hands of the domestic and
foreign corporate companies. Tribal communities such as the Mariah,
Koya, Halba, Dhurva, Batra, Koyatur, Koyagal, Korga, Rajgond, Gond,
Lohar, Kotadval, Koyyal, Kolam, Pradha, Thoti, Nayakpod, Kondareddy,
Kondadora, Bhagatu, Savara, Jatabu, Kuvvi, Kotwal, Koliya, Koyamali,
Chenchu, Korval, Korna, Kolha, Kol, Dharu, Kondi, Kondh, Dongaria,
Sabara, Komundal, Keriya, Hora, Hokya, Koltal, Kotia, Bil, Bilal,
Juvang, Santhal, Munda, Uraov and Ho and non-tribal communities such as
Gando, Gasiya, Harara, Marr, Panara, Panka, Pradha, Yadav living in the
forests traditionally are going to lose their survival, identity and
self-respect. Their language, culture and life style are going to become
extinct.
One
important aspect needs to be brought to your notice. On one hand
agreements are being made to hand over the wealth and natural resources
of the country to the imperialists and comprador capitalists and on the
other several draconian new Acts have been being made to suppress the
movements that arose and are going on against the implementation of
these agreements. ‘UAPA’ and NIA have been provided with more powers and
the old draconian Acts have been amended. The Chhattisgarh state
government brought forth the Chhattisgarh Special People’s Security Act
in 2005 itself. Since then thousands were arrested under the Act.
People,
especially tribal people of all the states and these areas of the
revolutionary movement are fighting relentlessly against the
exploitation of these resources. Tribal people are fighting daringly for
their right to ‘jal-jungle-zameen’ (water-forest-land) for their right
to live, for their existence, identity and self-respect. Party, PLGA and
RPCs are standing in support of the struggling people. party is
directly and indirectly leading these people’s struggles. It is guiding
those struggles. In some places, people themselves are getting down to
struggles inspired by the party, PLGA and RPCs and under the influence
of the class struggle and people’s war under the leadership of those.
Lakhs of people of the country are participating in these people’s
struggles. Earlier Salva Judum, Sendra and other repressive campaigns
and later Operation Green Hunt in order to eliminate the leadership of
these struggles and suppress them, thus facilitate the way for the
exploitation of resources and labour, market control and political
hegemony. Moreover the campaigns are also intended to total elimination
of the RPCs that are the organs of people’s state power that emerged as
the ray of hope for the Party, PLGA and the oppressed people of India
and the revolutionary movement on the whole. Presently ‘SAMADHAN’
strategic multipronged offensive is going on in the utmost intensive
level. As a part of it carpet security is strengthened and expanded.
Corporatisation-Militarisation is going on in an intense and speedy
manner in Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra (Dandakaranya), Bihar-Jharkhand,
Odisha, Telangana, AOB, Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC),
Western Ghats. The exploitive ruling classes are laying roads, bridges,
pipelines, railway lines on war footing to facilitate the movement of
armed forces and to exploit the resources at dead cheap rates, in the
name of infrastructure.
People
understood that these police camps, roads, bridges and railway lines
are only to displace them from their water-forest-land, to eliminate
their survival, to loot their resources and to eliminate the RPCs that
they fought for a long time and established and are fighting with dare
and determination against those. The struggle of the Silinger tribal
people of Bastar that is going on militantly for the past 15 months
stands in the forefront as an icon of these struggles. Tribal people
have been holding indefinite dharna against the new police camps being
set up in Parasnadh hill area of Jharkhand, in cut off area of Andhra
Odisha border area, in Vechaghat, Gompad, Singaram, Burji, Pusnar,
Vechapal, Poosuguppa, Gondod, Gornam and other places of Dandakaranya.
State is making brutal attacks on them. Lathi-charge, tear gas, illegal
arrests, firing, sabotage and mortar shelling have become an ordinary
feature. People are continuing their struggles denying government
repression and encountering the government Para-military and police
forces. They are obstructing mining. PLGA retaliation is adding to these
struggles. The support of the students-youth, tribal and non-tribal
people, intellectuals, prominent democrats at various levels is
instilling self-confidence and firm determination in these struggles.
Thus these people’s struggles, people’s retaliation and people’s war are
taken up in coordination and to stop the implementation of the
agreements of the governments with corporate companies.
Party
and the people stopped the mining in Raoghat that was initiated in the
1990s. TATA had to withdraw its plan to set up a Steel Plant in ten
thousand acres of tribal land in Lohandiguda due to the 10 year long
people’s resistance. ESSAR Steel plant planned in 4 thousand acres of
land of Dhurli, Bhansi and Kamalur villages also had to be withdrawn due
to people’s resistance. The construction of Bodhghat mega dam planned
on River Indravati is yet pending. People and PLGA under the leadership
of the party are coming in the way of many such mining projects.
Heroic
people of Singur of West Bung fought back the plan to construct a Nano
car industry by TATA through their struggle. The people of Nandigram of
the same state chased away a MNC Salem group of Indonesia through their
struggle. People of Salbani of West Bung stopped the expansion of Jindal
industries through the historic Lalgarh struggle.
Kuvvi
tribal people chased Anil Agarwal the owner of Sterlite Vedanta
industries from Niyamgiri of Odisha. Comprador rulers indulged in police
firing on 2nd January 2006 on the militant demonstration of 15 thousand
people of 15 villages against the construction of TATA Steel plant of
Kalinganagar and helped for its construction. However the Odiya people
are against POSCO in Jagatsingpur. People, intellectuals and artists of
Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are together fighting against
bauxite mining in Visakha, Mali and Devamali hills and Uranium mining in
Nallamala mountains.
13
people were murdered and above 100 were injured in brutal firing to
suppress the people’s struggle going on in a militant manner against the
proposed Sterlite Company in Toothukudi of Tamilnadu. People of Western
Ghats are against mining of iron ore mining. The people of Gadchiroli
are fighting against mining in Surjagarh, Damkodivahi and Korchi in
Maharashtra.
Tribal people of Amdai, Tulad, Taralmetta, Pittodmetta/Nandaraj hill of Bastar are making a relentless struggle against mining.
The
central government decided to establish a military base in the name of
training centre of the Military in Maad area that happens to be the
residence of Mariah tribe one of the ancient tribe in a place called
‘Abuzmaarh’ of Narayanpur district in Bastar division. The earlier BJP
government of Chhattisgarh made an agreement to hand over one-fourth of
Marh to Indian Army. There are several mineral resources in Marh. This
is one of the big strategic areas of the country. The Indian government
deployed thousands of Indian Army forces from 2011 to 2013 in Marh and
trained them in jungle warfare. The Indian government temporarily
stopped the deployment of the Army with the severe protest movement of
the people of Dandakaranya, democratic intellectuals, human rights and
social organisations of the country.
Large
amount of forest land of the states of revolutionary movement is
transferred for National Parks, centres for conservation of wild
animals, tigers, leopards, reserves of bison, tourist centers and field
firing ranges for which hundreds of villages are turned into a
graveyard. Thousands of families and lakhs of people are being
displaced. People are opposing all these attempts.
Tribal
people achieved certain rights in the form of Acts through struggles
going on for decades. Few rights have been given to the tribal people in
the Indian Constitution. In fact these Acts, rights are never totally
implemented. But they have been a base to formulate demands for
struggle. Few of the Acts possessing such pro-people aspects are the
Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, the 1996 PESA, the rights of Gram
Sabhas, Forest Lands Identity Act 2006, Forest Conservation Act 2013.
Various state governments formulated various Acts in the respective
times banning the purchase or seizure of tribal lands in areas of Fifth
Schedule. PESA, Forest Lands Identity Act 2006, Forest Conservation Act
2013 clearly mentioned that the lands of tribal people must not be
seized by the central and the state governments for the sake of any kind
of development plan, industries, mines and dams without the permission
of Gram Sabhas.
India
signed the paper of statement of rights of tribal people issued by the
UNO General Assembly on 13th September 2007. Section 30 of the paper
clearly said that no military actions should be taken up on the lands of
the tribal people without their consent and permission.
However,
until date, none of the lands allotted and leased to the comprador
capitalists and imperialist MNCs and also the lands allotted for the
central and state government projects had been given the permission of
the Gram Sabhas. All those have been issued by the governments in the
name of permission of fake Gram Sabhas without the knowledge of the
concerned people. permission of Gram Sabhas was not asked for the camps
of the police, Para-military and Army forces set up in our struggle
areas. People are fighting to implement these rights, to lift all the
camps established without the permission of the Gram Sabhas and to not
construct any projects without the permission of the Gram Sabhas. The
‘Pathalgarhi’ struggle that started in Jharkhand and North Chhattisgarh
with the slogan ‘our village our government’ spread to Madhya Pradesh,
Odisha and South Chhattisgarh on the borders.
Now
the fascist Modi government trampled the rights of the tribal people
through issuing Forest Conservation Ordinance on 24th June 2022. This is
a gross violation of tribal people’s rights, the Constitution and
tramples the same. Through the ordinance the central government can
allot the lands of tribal farmers and the forest lands to the domestic
and foreign corporate companies and for public-private projects without
the permission of the Gram Sabhas and the land owners. The party has the
important task to expand, unite, consolidate these people’s struggles
against the anti-people, anti-tribal fascist policies and Acts of the
government and take them forward towards the direction of forming an
anti-imperialist, anti-comprador bureaucratic capitalist, anti-feudal
people’s struggle front all over the country and to mould them in the
direction of intensifying and expanding people’s war.
In
fact, the struggles against displacement, the Para-military and Special
police camps are entwined with the problem of land and existence. All
these are anti-imperialist, anti-comprador bureaucratic, anti-feudal
struggles. These struggles have to be linked with People’s War-Guerrilla
War and intensified and expanded.
All
what the exploitive ruling classes are doing in the name of development
is nothing but their intense exploitation and not the development of
the people. It is nothing but an anti-development and traitorous model
to indiscriminately loot the resources of the people that devastates
them, destructs the environment and puts the country in debt. It is the
model that utilises the natural wealth and resources not for the entire
people and the country but for the imperialists and comprador exploitive
ruling classes. We need to oppose and fight back this model of
development. The genuine model of development shall be to conserve the
resources, develop them, protect environment, utilise them in a
discriminate manner for the needs of all the people and the country and
for the future generations. The New Democratic state power that is built
by destroying the state power of imperialism and comprador exploitive
ruling classes through Protracted People’s War in the leadership of the
proletarian party alone shall implement the genuine model of
development. Only then we can achieve genuine all round development of
the people. Only thus we can control the indiscriminate exploitation of
the resources and preserve them. These attempts began and are continuing
in the leadership of the organs of people’s state power under the
leadership of the party in the areas of struggle in a primary level.
Q
— One major problem facing the International Communist Movement is the
problem of revisionism. Revisionism comes in many forms: Trotskyism,
Khrushchevism, Electoralism and Dengism are just a few. How large of a
problem is revisionism in India, which parties would you judge to be
revisionist in nature, and how does the CPI (Maoist) combat revisionism
in India?
A
— Yes. As you said revisionism is one big problem that the
International Communist Movement is facing. Since Marxism came into
being as the theoretical weapon of the proletariat, it came forth in
various forms in the name of Marxism itself. It is still coming forth
and shall do so in future also. The danger of revisionism shall arise
until the success of the World Socialist Revolution and also until
Communism is established. Whichever form it arises, its theoretical
origins lie in bourgeois/petty bourgeois ideology. The interests of the
revisionists harm the interests of the proletariat and the toilers and
help those of the bourgeoisie. Thus revisionist practice does not help
to destroy the capitalist-anti-development classes and to prepare for
armed revolution or lead it but to the existence and status quo of the
present society. As long as these exist between the proletariat and the
bourgeoisie during revolution and after it, it is manifests in various
forms in the proletarian party also as a conflict. We must enlighten the
Party ranks politically and develop the political consciousness of the
people that as long as communists are needed for the society the danger
of revisionism exists in various forms. We have to unite and strengthen
the party fighting against revisionism. We need to take up several
cultural revolutions to transform Socialist democracy into a great force
under the proletarian dictatorship in the country/countries where
political power is seized, with appropriate line and policies.
Marx-Engels
formulated the proletarian revolutionary theory of Marxism. Since then
while on one hand the bourgeois theories attack Marxism, on the other
hand, there are many in history who claimed themselves to be Marxists
and distorted it in various forms and opposed its essence.
By
the end of the last decade of the 19th century, Marxism defeated all
the bourgeois, petty bourgeois opportunist trends in the International
Communist Movement and achieved a stable place as the scientific theory
of the international proletariat. Marx-Engels made a fierce struggle
against these trends for nearly half a century and defeated them.
After
capitalism transformed into monopoly capitalism-imperialism, in the
process of creative application of the fundamental principles of Marxism
to the concrete practice of Russian revolution and world proletarian
revolution, in the process of making a theoretical, political struggle
against the various kinds of revisionists such as Bernstein, Narodniks,
Economists, Mensheviks, legal Marxists, liquidators, Kautsky, Trotsky
and dogmatic Marxists such as Plekhanov, Lenin preserved the proletarian
science of Marxism, enriched it and enriched it to a new and higher
stage. Thus it developed into Marxism-Leninism. Lenin considered
revisionists as the agents of imperialism hidden in the ranks of
proletarian movement. He criticised and fought against them.
Comrade
Stalin preserved and developed Marxism-Leninism through the struggle
against the Trotskyites, Zinovinists, Bukharinists, bourgeois agents and
various kinds of opportunism hidden in the Soviet Communist party.
The
Communist Party of China under the leadership of Comrade Mao made ten
internal struggles against left, right and opportunist trends in the
process of Chinese Revolution and defeated them. It accomplished New
Democratic Revolution and built Socialism. Thus it showed a path for a
change in the semi-colonial, semi-feudal systems in Asia, Africa and
Latin America and to the New Democratic Revolutions and Socialist
Revolutions in those countries. It developed the path of Protracted
People’s War. In the process, as a part of the struggle in the
international plane against international revisionism, it fought against
imperialist agent Tito and revisionists such as Togliatti and Thorez
and preserved Marxism-Leninism and developed it.
It
led the international theoretical struggle against Khrushchev’s modern
revisionism through the Great Debate in the leadership of Comrade Mao.
Great Debate helped the genuine proletarian revolutionary forces
fighting against revisionism to form new Marxist-Leninist parties on the
basis of Marxist-Leninist principles all over the world and facilitated
the path to advance. During this period, Comrade Mao led a two line
struggle against the main centre of the modern revisionists of the
capitalist roaders in the leadership of the diehard revisionist Li
Shao-chi. Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was taken up in the
leadership of Comrade Mao in the CPC against modern revisionism. GPCR
helped as a catalyst to sensitise the theoretical, political struggle
against revisionism in various Communist Parties in the international
plane. Lin Piao who stood in the forefront together with Mao in GPCR
spoke leftist jargon in the veil of Mao Thought and brought forth the
revisionist line in no time and tried to seize power in a traitorous
manner. He proved to be a conspirator. After the demise of Comrade Mao,
the Hua-Deng modern revisionist clique led a counter revolutionary
conspiracy, seized power and restored Chinese capitalism in the place of
Socialism and bureaucratic capitalism in the place of Socialist state.
After Russia, revisionism gained hegemony in China in the condition of
which the Communist Parties of several countries of the world
degenerated into right opportunist parties and revisionist parties.
Revolutionary movements of few countries also came to an end.
The
modern revisionist line of Deng caused extreme harm to the
revolutionary communist movement in our country also. Especially the CPI
(ML) Liberation in the leadership of Vinod Misra turned Dengist
anddegenerated into a revisionist party. The DV group (one of the groups
in the earlier UCCRI ML) is a Dengist revisionist splinter group. Our
party and several Maoist parties and forces of the world took up the
historic lessons of GPCR, and condemned the modern revisionism of Deng
with the utmost powerful weapon of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. These
parties are also fighting back the various forms of revision that came
forth due to the influence of Deng including the revisionism in the veil
of Maoism and all shades of revisionism. CPI (ML) People’s War, one of
the two revolutionary streams of the united CPI (Maoist) commented
wrongly about the second world in regard to the three world theory for
some time. Anyhow it soon rectified its mistake.
Later
the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) brought forth ‘Prachanda path’ in
the leadership of Prachanda-Bhattarai traitorous clique. The
Revolutionary Communist Party USA in the leadership of Bob Avakian
brought forth another modern revisionist theory, Avakianism. Several
Maoist parties and forces including our party opposed and theoretically
exposed these two trends.
We
need to specially expose the China Social-imperialism that is the China
revisionism and fake Socialism that came forth with the fake slogan of
‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’. Modern revisionist parties in
power in the name of Communist parties in Vietnam, Cuba and North Korea
and the modern revisionist parties that do not hold high the proletarian
international flag in their country and internationally, that do not
implement Socialism, that do not strive for the success of World
Socialist Revolution shall not be genuine Communist parties. They help
to continue the capitalist systems as opportunist parties. We must
expose the opportunism of these parties. Thus we must develop the
revolutionary consciousness and alertness of the people of the world.
Our party program declared the correct Marxist position about
proletarian internationalism and the relations between the countries.
Coming
to our country, our party was formed from amidst the theoretical,
political struggle against revisionism and neo-revisionism. Later it
countered right-opportunist, left adventurist and many kinds of
opportunism and revisionism that arise inside and outside the party,
fought against those trends inside and outside the party and reached the
present state.
After
the success of Great October Revolution in Russia in the leadership of
the great Marxist teacher Lenin in 1917, Marxist-Leninist theory became
popular in our country. Communist Party of India (CPI) was formed in
1925 under the influence of the theory-revolution and as a result of the
heroic militant class struggles of the proletariat against British
imperialism. Although there were numerous opportunities, due to the
wrong line followed by the party leadership at the time, it could not
play the leading role in the national liberation-democratic movement.
Communist party always denied to recognise the actual class nature of
the Gandhian, bourgeois, feudal leadership. Therefore it failed in
adopting the genuine path of revolution, in bearing revolutionary
initiative and in fighting with the leadership. Therefore it wrongly
understood the comprador bourgeois class as national bourgeois class,
tailed Gandhian leadership and were unwilling to adopt genuine
strategy-tactics to combine the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism to
the concrete practice of Indian Revolution. The leadership made grave
mistakes in analysing the classes in Indian society. It failed severely
in identifying with the heroic broad masses, especially the peasantry.
It rejected to learn from the successfully advancing China Revolution in
the leadership of Comrade Mao Tse-tung and the CPC and to creatively
apply the path of PPW that it adopted and its great experiences to the
concrete conditions of our country.It did not take up the path of armed
struggle for seizure of political power in national liberation movement.
By the time the objective revolutionary situation in India is very
favourable. But the right opportunist leadership of the Communist Party
was always unwilling to take up the correct path of PPW for armed
national liberation and democracy. In fact the leadership of the
Communist Party helped the bourgeois class to divert the
anti-imperialist militant movement of the people. It entered into an
opportunist alliance with the Congress, was not independent in the
United Front, felt that everything is possible through unity and took
the revolutionary people as a tail to the Gandhian leadership. Moreover,
the Communist party leadership betrayed the great Telangana peasant
armed struggle and fell neck deep into the mire of parliamentarism and
revisionism in the deceptive name of utilising parliament. In fact the
objective condition was unprecedentedly favourable to advance Agrarian
Revolution and it had the path of great PPW and the success of China
revolution showed by Comrade Mao. But they acted otherwise. However,
heroic ranks of the communist party joined hands with the struggling
people and led several revolutionary struggles. Thousands of comrades
laid down their valuable lives to achieve the great cause of
accomplishing New Democratic Revolution in India as a part of the World
Socialist Revolution.
Genuine
revolutionary forces representing the revolutionary ranks in India
fought against the wrong right opportunist, revisionist lines of the
leadership that was leading CPI, against its backstabs and later on with
the modern revisionist CPI (M). this struggle attained total new
dimensions in the end of 1950s and in the 60s. The Great Debate taken up
under the leadership of the CPC in the leadership of Comrade Mao
Tse-tung against the Soviet modern revisionism of the leadership of
Khrushchev stood as the symbol of this new beginning. Just like how the
Great Debate intensified and led to the GPCR that shook the earth, the
struggle against the modern revisionist CPI (M) leadership further
intensified and reached the state of divorcing the party. The beginning
of GPCR stood as a milestone for this process. In the direct influence
of this process, the forces that represented the struggle against
initially the CPI revisionism and later the modern revisionism of CPI
(M) leadership supported Marxism-Leninism-Mao Thought (now Maoism)
theoretically and more importantly in their revolutionary practice and
internalised it. Thus Comrade CM, Comrade KC and the great leaders of
the first rank and Maoist forces came on to the stage in a large number
to condemn the program of the 7th Congress of CPI (M) as revisionism.
The great Naxalbari rebellion that took place in 1967 May under the
leadership of Comrade Charu Mazumdar became the opening for ‘Spring
Thunder in India’. Since then, the history of Communist movement in our
country took a new qualitative turn. It not only greatly exposed
revisionism and permanently divorced from it but, for the first time,
stood as the symbol for conscious application of the bright path of
seizure of political power through PPW, the path of MLM and that Comrade
Mao already put forth.
Thus
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism stood as a line of theoretical political
demarcation between the revisionists and genuine revolutionaries of
India. Naxalbari inspired armed peasant struggles at various levels in
nearly ten states of the country. In the process genuine revolutionaries
organised as two main revolutionary streams in 1969 — the CPI (ML) and
the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC). The 8th Congress of CPI (ML) was held
in 1970. However, due to the left tactics that the party followed at
that time, the right and left alien trends internally and due to the
brutal offensive of the enemy all over the country, the movement
temporarily setback. Within a short while after the the Congress
revolutionary disrupter Satyanarayana Singh attacked Comrade Charu
Mazumdar with his right opportunist line in 1971 and split the party.
West Bengal police arrested Comrade CM on 28th July 1972 and murdered
him in police custody. Most of the leadership in the Central Committee
and the various State Committees of the CPI (ML) and ranks of the party
either became martyrs, were arrested or scattered. With lack of a centre
of the party it became organisationally very weak. There was
theoretical confusion. CPI (ML) split several times. Many parties/groups
were formed. The central level leaders and the respective state
leadership left without being arrested worked with the theory and
politics as per their understanding. During this time several strong
trends of right and left adventurism came forth. In the later period on
one hand there were attempts of unity of genuine communist
revolutionaries and on the other once again splits and formation of new
groups.
Although
the movement temporarily setback, the revolutionary movement gradually
gained strength and advanced amidst several ups and downs, learning
lessons from earlier experiences and daringly facing enemy repression
making enormous sacrifices in the leadership of the CPI (ML) and MCC.
Both theseMaoist revolutionary streams made determined fight against the
various kinds of opportunism inside and outside the revolutionary all
over the country, based on the correct path of revolution and continued
the legacy of all the revolutionary aspects of the Indian Communist
movement.
On
the other hand the two main revolutionary streams united the genuine
revolutionaries working as separate parties/groups, sections and as
individuals and ultimately merged into the CPI (Maoist) on 21st
September 2004 as a single centre of Indian proletarian vanguard. This
attained utmost importance in the history of Indian Revolution. With the
merger of CPI (ML) Naxalbari with the CPI (Maoist) on 1st of May 2014,
the unity of various revolutionaries of India as revolutionary parties
and groups is complete.
Now let me tell you the stand of our Party towards the various left parties in India in the present conditions.
The
main theoretical task of the party today is to theoretically face and
defeat the post-modern trends, especially the revisionist trends. If our
party does not fight against revisionism theoretically and politically,
it would be impossible to accomplish NDR in the country. Various
revisionists are trying to divert the advanced sections from the path of
revolution. They are trying to divert the revolutionary people into
parliamentary, legal and peaceful paths, with their post-modernist
revisionist ideologies.
When
the “left alliance” of the CPI and the CPI (M) has been in power in
Kerala and West Bengal, the ruling class parties in the centre and the
states that formed the government with their support followed
imperialist dictated, pro-comprador ruling class policies. Especially
when the CPI (M) was in power in West Bengal, TATA, Birla, Ambani,
Jindal and other comprador bureaucratic capitalists of the country and
MNCs like Salem were given the lands of the farmers at dead cheap prices
by forcibly acquiring them. These social fascists deployed police and
Para-military forces on the people’s struggles and unleashed severe
repression. They indulged in fake encounters and massacres. Murders,
atrocities, loot, house burning, arrests, tortures and corruption were
normal. In Kerala where it is presently in power also, the government is
implementing pro-imperialist policies and handing over the natural
resources at dead cheap price. It is suppressing our party, people and
workers opposing their policies under iron heel. They prove through
their anti-people suppressive policies that they are nothing less than
the BJP and Congress in serving imperialism.
Members
of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), a mass
organization under the CPI (Maoist)’s leadership, burn a regional
headquarters of the so-called “Communist Party of India (Marxist)”, the
erstwhile ruling party in West Bengal and the incumbent ruling party in
Kerala, in both states it has nakedly displayed its revisionist,
social-fascist character by brutally suppressing both the revolutionary
movement and other people’s movements.
Presently
CPI and CPM and the ruling class (including the regional ruling class)
parties have a considerable influence on large sections of the Indian
organised working class. Especially the majority of workers and employee
organisations of public sector industries, banks, insurance companies,
coal and iron mines and other such sectors are under the leadership or
influence of these parties. They are in the way of building a militant
working class movement in India. The Trade Unions of these two parties
are confined to give call for General strike one or two times a year. In
the present conditions where the onslaught of international Finance
Capital is intensifying day by day and the central and the state
governments are trampling the rights that the workers achieved through
struggle for decades, conditions are favourable to build a strong
workers’ movement. But the two parties are a hurdle for the same. At
times they murmur about privatisation of public sector enterprises,
Foreign Direct Investment in the retail sector, retrenchment of workers
and casual-contract labour system, in practice they act as agents
supporting these polices. Our party exposes their class collaborationist
politics. Our weakness in urban-working class sectors is confining the
development of People’s War. Our Party needs to advance in the direction
of building a strong revolutionary Trade Union movement.
The
Central Committee of our party called upon all the left parties and
forces for united struggles against the state repression unleashed by
the exploitive rulers on the oppressed people, the attacks of the
Brahmanic Hindutva Fascist forces, against displacement and other such
people’s problems. In some states our Mass Organisations are taking part
together with the Mass Organisations of CPI.
Now I wish to tell you about the various opportunist parties in the veil of MLM.
CPI
(ML) Liberation and CPI (ML) Red Star follow right opportunist path in
the veil of MLM. These parties left armed struggle, uphold
parliamentarism and help the bourgeois parties and revisionist parties
such as the CPI, CPM and SUCI. CPI (ML) Liberation took up the
revisionist path of Deng in early 1980s and left armed revolution. These
parties make heinous, cruel ill propaganda that our party is violent.
We need to expose the real character of these two parties much more
among the people.
Some
Trotskyites working in the working class make ill propaganda that India
turned to be a capitalist country, that PPW is outdated and that CPI
(Maoist) is a terrorist organisation. They are not at all concerned with
rural India and are not even taking up the working class struggles in a
militant manner. They allege the PPW and the CPI (Maoist) that is
leading it and join the ruling classes in propaganda.
Apart
from these there are few more ML parties that follow right opportunist
line. All these parties propagate MLM theoretically and politically.
They mobilise the people in their areas of work on economic problems and
political problems in legal methods. Their people’s struggles are never
militant. These parties are open organisations. They show reasons like
revolutionary conditions is yet not matured, that the people are not yet
ready for armed struggle, that there is no spate of revolution in the
country or that they are making preparations for revolution and confine
themselves to legal, partial struggles and postpone People’s war
indefinitely. CP Reddy, Satyanarayana Singh led two or three groups (New
Democracy, Janashakti and others) have armed squads in undivided Andhra
Pradesh. Anyway, they utilised the squads only to collect funds from
the contractors, for votes andto maintain the hegemony of their groups
but not to make armed struggle. As per their understanding taking up
military formations to make people’s war is left adventurism. Almost all
these parties got into the mire of elections in the name of tactics.
Forces of the erstwhile UCCRI-ML factions are seen here and there in the
country but they are not building class struggle anywhere in the
country. They do not exist anywhere except in Punjab.
Our
party had been making a severe theoretical, political struggle with
CPI, CPM, and also Liberation, Red Star, New Democracy, Janashakti, Lin
Piao group and other ML groups. At times we even had physical conflicts
with New Democracy, Janashakti and Liberation groups. Subsequently we
overcame this physical confrontation through mutual discussion and at
times through unilateral ceasefire from our side. We are making
political, theoretical struggle against the right opportunist line of
these parties and making efforts to form broad United Forums together
with their Mass Organisations and other organisations on the economic
and political problems of the broad oppressed people, especially of the
farmers, workers, middle classes, against the Brahmanic Hindutva Fascist
forces, against the repression of the exploitive governments, against
displacement and for civil rights. We are working together in such
forms. We are ready to work together in future. We need to make more
initiative to work together with all the forces that are ready to fight
against the Indian exploitive ruling classes, against theiranti-people,
traitorous fascist policies and in the interests of National Democratic
Revolution and for building United forums.
We
are aware that there are activists in the lower level in the various
right ML parties who work with an aspiration for revolution and
dedicated to the people. Depending on the development of People’s War in
the countrythey might think of the genuine path of revolution. We hope
they would break the chains of revisionist, post-modernist, right
opportunist and left adventurist ideologies and unite with genuine
revolutionary communists. We also wish they would travel in this
direction.
On
the whole, we can advance the revolutionary movement towards success
only by making a theoretical fight against revisionism in various forms,
exposing the real nature of the bankrupt leadership and defeating it.
Our party developed only by exposing and defeating the right and left
opportunism through theoretical, political struggle inside and outside
the party since the Naxalbari Spring Thunder until date. Our party could
sustain amidst the ebb and flows and develop only through making
efforts to the best of its strength with a proper Marxist stand in the
theoretical struggle in the International Communist camp. Therefore the
Program and Constitution and the Political Resolution of our party wrote
clearly about the importance of the struggle against revisionism.
Although we faced betrayal, blows and temporary defeats from the
revisionists in the veil of the Communist Party who represented the
bourgeois class even in the theoretical sector not only in practice but
until establishing Communism through the process of Socialism by
destroying world capitalist system, ultimately we shall defeat them in
the theoretical sector and all the sectors and definitely achieve
success. This is what we tell always not only in our party but also in
the revolutionary camp and to the people. This is what we tell even at
the international plane.
Q
— There are some, including some who view themselves as “communists”,
who hold a defeatist attitude towards the people’s war in India, and
some proclaim it has no hope of victory. Could you explain to our
readers why we should be hopeful and optimistic in our view of the
people’s war in India, and, despite setbacks, what advances and gains
the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and PLGA have made in recent
times?
A
— Yes. You are correct. Some individuals including those who claim
themselves to be ‘Communists’ have a defeatist attitude towards People
War in India. Some else lack confidence in its victory. They lack the
primary Marxist understanding that imperialism and the semi-colonial,
semi-feudal system of India that slaves it is in decline and the
People’s War going on in India as a part of Socialism and World
Socialist Revolution is the sprouts. It is because they lack dialectical
historical materialist perspective towards the rules of social
development. They did not understand the rules of social development.
They analyse and understand the conditions in metaphysical manner. They
see only the problems, difficult conditions and losses of the
revolutionary movement in the present conditions. They thing that the
present situation of balance of forces between the enemies and the
people as permanent and unchangeable. They do not consider the
opportunities to strengthen leaning valuable lessons from the objective
revolutionary condition, the weaknesses of the enemy, the contradictions
between the enemy classes and the practice of revolutionary forces.
They lack confidence in the nature of the present
imperialist-revolutionary era and the revolutionary nature of people.
They do not understand or deny to understand the ongoing and future
changes in the balance of forces with the enemy through conscious
revolutionary efforts of the revolutionary forces and revolutionary
party, through taking up tactics in a planned manner according to
conditions and by overcoming the blows and setbacks. They do not confide
in the people the genuine makers of history, on the utmost progressive,
scientific theory of MLM (the present Marxism) and even on themselves.
They thing the enemies of the broad masses and their strength
invincible. Such persons bring forth defeatism. You clearly know that
defeatist attitudes are seen not only in our country and party but in
several countries and parties of the world.
We
are totally confident in the success of People’s War in India. MLM is
our guiding theory. It is the utmost progressive, revolutionary, dynamic
and scientific theory among all the theories existing until date. It is
the theory of the utmost advanced class, the proletariat. It is the
utmost magnificent theoretical weapon in the hands of the oppressed
people of the society. People’s War shall definitely achieve success
through organising the oppressed classes, sections and nationalities in
the light of this theory, through leading them and continuing class
struggle-people war. We absolutely believe that people are the makers of
history and they shall attain the final victory. We are making class
struggle-people’s war with total confidence on our theory, people and
future. We thoroughly know our friends and foes. We see the enemy
strategically as a paper tiger and tactically as a real tiger and are
making PPW.
Marxism
says that the contradiction between the forces of production and
relations of production is the origin of social change. Indian
socio-economic system is presently semi-colonial, semi-feudal. The
comprador bureaucratic capitalist class and feudal class collaborated
with the imperialists and are continuing as the exploitive ruling
classes. The imperialist has indirect rule, exploitation and control on
our country. The Indian state that represents the exploitive ruling
classes is unleashing exploitation, oppression and repression on the
workers, farmers, petty bourgeois, national bourgeois classes, special
social sections such as Dalits, tribal people, religious minorities,
women, LGBT, the oppressed nationalities of Kashmir and the North East
and others. All the policies of these governments in political,
economic, industrial, agricultural, service, defence cultural and
environment sectors are anti-people and traitorous. Those are in the
interests of a few comprador bureaucratic capitalists, landlords and
imperialists. therefore the broad oppressed masses shall definitely
fight and are fighting against these exploitive ruling classes. This is
the basis, the source and also the guarantee of the success of People’s
War.
Ours
is a broad country where there is economic, social and cultural unequal
development. We are relatively weak. Our enemy is strong. The
revolutionary movement is at present in the stage of strategic
self-defence. It is also going on with unequal development. It is yet to
spread to all the areas and sectors. Enemy is trying his best to
eliminate us before we strengthen. Our enemy is not only the old Indian
state. The world capitalist imperialism in support to it too. We face
the challenges that the Russian revolution faced at the time when there
was no Socialist camp anywhere in the world. However, there are Maoist
parties and forces fighting for the success of revolutions in several
countries all over the world. We have their support. When we fight with a
strong enemy we have ups and downs and advance and retreat. We take up
the challenges, spread to all the areas and sectors of the country,
enhance the mass base and shall fight courageously and with dare. We
shall achieve success. People are invincible. They are the decisive
factor. If we organise the oppressed people the majority people shall
definitely bring down the few exploiters. We are absolutely confident in
the historic truth that there is defeat-success-defeat and ultimately
success. Capitalist imperialism is not permanent on this earth. In the
process of development of human society, ultimately a society without
exploitation and oppression, Communism shall be established.
The
present international and domestic conditions are very favourable to
advance the revolutionary movement. The three fundamental contradictions
are sharpening day by day. The four fundamental contradiction in the
country are also intensifying. These are creating favourable objective
conditions for revolutions. In the recent times and especially since the
Hindutva Fascist forces in the leadership of Modi came to power at the
centre and in the majority states, they have been implementing LPG
policies that fulfil the interests of imperialists and Indian comprador
ruling classes very aggressively. The farmers of the country made a
prolonged, historic, militant struggle for one year in Delhi against the
anti-farmer, traitorous three agrarian acts that forced Modi to
withdraw those Acts temporarily. These Acts were brought forth in the
name of ‘Atmanirbhar’ as a part of the conspiracy to transform the
country dependent on imperialists for food material. Apart from the
Shaheenbagh struggle of Delhi against CAA, the ongoing people’s
struggles against police camps, roads, displacement, construction of
devastating mega projects and state fascist repression in Chhattisgarh,
Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jharkhand, Bihar, Kerala, Punjab and
Maharashtra, workers, teachers, employees, students, unemployed,
oppressed social sections and others are making struggles all over the
country. These reveal favourable conditions for revolution in the
country.
The
central and the state governments are trying to suppress the movements
in fascist methods. Especially as a part of building Brahmanic Hindutva
Fascist neo-colonial India in the name of New India the Modi government
is making constant attacks on religious minorities, especially the
Muslims, Dalits, tribal people and democrats. It is making many kinds of
attacks on their religious customs and food habits and are trying to
make draconian Acts to justify their acts. It lifted Article 370 and
Section 35A and dissolved autonomy to Kashmir. It made an Act annulling
triple talaq, building Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, suppressing the
questioning voices, foisting conspiracy cases and putting in jails and
unleashing the ‘SAMADHAN’ multipronged offensive to suppress the
revolutionary movement in the utmost fascist methods are all part of it.
But the vast oppressed people and democrats understand the conspiracies
of the RSS and the BJP at the centre and are raising their voices and
are organising against it.
Now,
let us briefly see the condition of the ongoing People’s War in the
leadership of our Party, the Party, PLGA and Revolutionary people’s
organs.
After
Naxalbari our movement setback in a short time. There was despair and
disappointment. But we reviewed the movement, learnt lessons from the
mistakes and weaknesses, overcame and gradually stepped forward. Since
the end of 1970s, two revolutionary streams, the CPI (ML) and MCC
started work in small areas of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and other states,
gradually learnt and developed. In the process we faced left, right and
various kinds of revisionism inside and outside the party. We
strengthened and expanded into all sectors. We formed PLGA, organs of
state power and various forums of United Front under the leadership of
the Party. The process of unity of genuine revolutionaries took place
during this time. The two main revolutionary streams of India, the CPI
(ML)(People’s War) and the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI)
merged on 21st September 2004 and the CPI (Maoist) emerged. Thus we
developed into a detachment of international proletariat and as a
vanguard from a single centre that leads New Democratic Revolution in
India. Subsequently we successfully held the Unity Congress Ninth
Congress of the party in 2007 January. The Congress adopted the enriched
basic documents and few policy papers. We formulated the central, main
tasks and other important tasks. We consolidated the leadership through
election.
After
the Congress our practice continued in the direction of achieving other
tasks including the central main task of seizure of state power through
armed struggle. In 2005, various state governments unleashed Salwa
Judum, Sendra and other such repressive campaigns with the support and
in the guidance of the centre in a bid to suppress our movement. We
defeated Salwa Judum and other campaigns by the end of 2008 through the
heroic political and military struggles of the three forces of PLGA
namely the main, secondary and base forces, Revolutionary people’s
organs, revolutionary people, progressive and democratic intellectuals
and social activists in the leadership of our party. Later the central
and the state governments together started the countrywide strategic
multipronged offensive Operation Green Hunt since 2009. We faced this
offensive making enormous sacrifices until 2017. We did not allow the
objective of Operation Green Hunt to be fulfilled. Then the enemy is
unleashing another multipronged strategic ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive since
2017 May. PLGA, Revolutionary Mass Organisations and revolutionary
people are making heroic guerrilla war against the Special Police, the
Para-military, Commando forces possessing the support of power, economic
wealth, modern weapons and heavy training and the Indian Army forces
being secretly deployed in the veil of these forces. On the whole, to
put it briefly, the revolutionary movement that went on in the
leadership of our party in India from the end of 1970s to 2011 was in
the stage of advancement. Thousands of martyrs shed their blood for this
advancement. During this time the party stepped forward to a little
extent in the direction of achieving the other tasks including the
central task. It gained several utmost valuable and new experiences in
political, military, United Front and Cultural sectors.
Our
party had been making efforts to enlighten the people with the politics
of New Democratic Revolution as the alternative to the fake
parliamentary system and the state of the exploitive classes, organising
them, taking up class struggles, developing its subjective strength and
build People’s Army. By taking up People’s War-Guerilla War in a
planned manner, it destroyed the state power of the comprador exploitive
ruling classes and built, developed and expanded the guerrilla bases.
These guerrilla bases contributed to further consolidate and expand the
movement and to advance the People’s War. We built these guerrilla bases
in Dandakaranya (DK), BiharJharkhand (BJ), Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB),
Telangana, West Bengal and some parts of Odisha state. We established
RPC as the organ of state power at the village, area and division levels
depending on the balance of forces of the movement. These are holding
the New Democratic state power. These people’s governments are exploring
the abundant initiative hidden in the people and are making efforts to
develop agricultural production through collective labour; to advance
toward achieving economic development and self-sufficiency; to develop
New Democratic culture; and to support the Party, PLGA, Revolutionary
people’s organs, people’s struggles and People’s War.
However,
certain severe shortcomings, weaknesses and limitations came up in the
process of development of the Party, People’s Army and United Forums
that are the three magnificent weapons that guarantee the success of
revolution since 2012. Due to the shortcomings and limitations in
adopting and implementing tactics according to the changes in the
relations of production owing to imperialist globalisation policies and
in the conditions of war, due to the lack of enough bolshevisation of
the party, PLGA and people’s organs and due to the constant
counter-revolutionary offensive on the party and the revolutionary
movement, of the Indian comprador ruling classes in the dictates of the
imperialists, there were big losses in this period. Various bureaus,
sub-committees and departments were affected. Scores of central and
state leaders were arrested since 2005 and the party faced a severe
loss. 21 members of the CC were arrested after the Congress. Seven
became martyrs in fake encounters, encounter and 13 CCMs out of ill
health. The losses were mainly in the urban and plain areas. In this
condition the party is not able to utilise the favourable atmosphere all
over the country. We have to view the difficult conditions, problems
and challenges of the party in this background. However, when compared
with the time of Naxalbari, although there is improvement in the party
and revolutionary movement in all the sectors, we could not protect the
revolutionary leadership and the subjective forces in the severe enemy
offensive and thus this situation arose. The 6th (contd.) meeting of the
CC adopted tactics, direction of general practice and strategic plan.
It made the necessary changes in the immediate, main and central tasks
basing on the facts in the light of MLM. The party needs to make efforts
with a firm determination accordingly.
In
the recent times, we have been achieving certain successes in
theoretical, political, organisational, military and cultural sectors.
Let us look into them in brief.
The
CC took up certain concrete and important tasks in theoretical and
political sectors in its 6th and the 6th (contd.) meetings. It adopted a
document ‘Changes in Relations of Production in India-Our Political
Program’. It ‘answered’ the unreal, immature discussion that the
relations of production in India turned to be capitalist and affirmed
that the Indian social, economic system is yet semi-colonial,
semi-feudal. However, it also said, that as a result of the policies of
the imperialists, comprador bureaucratic capitalists and feudal classes
there are considerable distorted capitalist changes and formulated the
Political program and tactics.
It
formulated and released a document ‘Nationality Question in IndiaOur
Party’s stand’. It made the necessary changes and additions in the
documents on Caste Question in India-our perspective and China-a new
social-imperialist country and re-released those. It prepared and
released the Central Political and Organisational Review from the
Unity-Ninth Congress of the party held in 2007 until 2020. In the
changed conditions and the present background of the movement it changed
the central task thus — ‘Let us work with the objective to develop
Dandakaranya and Bihar-Jharkhand, East Bihar-North East Jharkhand into
base areas. Let us intensify anti-imperialist, anticomprador
bureaucratic capitalist, anti-feudal class struggles in all the areas of
the movement in the country’. It made the necessary changes in the
immediate tasks in the political, organisational, military, United Front
and urban sectors in accordance to the main central task.
The
CC released a document on the understanding of the party on the
formation of an International organisation in its meeting in 2017. It
released circulars and letters on the political conditions and enemy
offensive on various occasions. It could thus take the perspective and
understanding on various aspects up to the cadres. It became easy to
adopt the necessary tactics to take up people’s struggles on people’s
problems in the light of these documents.
As
a part of consolidation campaign of the party we held plenums of
various Special Areas/Special Zones/States. We adopted Political and
Organisational Reviews of the movements in the respective places. We
assessed the conditions of the movement and adopted tasks. We elected
new members into the leadership committees and consolidated them. We
also successfully took up a campaign of party membership in some states
and developed the primary membership of the party. We consolidated party
cells and GPC.
We
held four revolutionary days of international prominence in 2017- 18
such as the — Anniversaries of the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Naxalbari Armed Peasant
struggle, the Centenary of Russian October Revolution and the 200th
Birth Anniversary of the great Marxist teacher Karl Marx, all with
revolutionary enthusiasm. In certain areas, basing on the syllabus
released by the CC for political education of the party cadres in 2019,
subjects for study were selected in view of the concrete conditions in
the respective areas and political training imparted at all level. Apart
from study we also took up bolshevisation and field training in certain
areas. In some other areas we took up struggle against non-proletarian
trends in the party and PLGA.
In
the military sector, depending on the mass base in the various
guerrilla zones and red resistance areas, PLGA forces took up Tactical
Counter Offensive Campaigns and retaliation programs in the leadership
of the party and countered the ‘SAMADHAN’-Prahar offensive. In the
Eastern region, resistance was taken up under the name ‘GHAMASAN’. The
TCOC and retaliation campaigns were successful in a few places and
partially successful in some others. In some places they failed.
In
2020, PLGA made 99 guerrilla actions on the whole. The ambush in Vimpa
was a big one. PLGA eliminated four soldiers of the Indian Army secretly
deployed in the cover of Police, Para-military and Commando forces
apart from a few of these forces in this ambush. This is a new and
higher experience. PLGA made 350 guerrilla actions all over the country
from 2020 December to 2021 September. It wiped out 66 personnel and
injured 85 of the police, Para-military and Commando forces. It seized
15 modern weapons, thousands of ammunition and other war equipment from
the enemy forces. The ambush in Jeeragudem and Kadiyanar are the big
actions and the rest were of small and medium kind. The PLGA forces
retaliated the police, Paramilitary and Commando forces in more than 65
encounters in this period.
We
need to make a special mention of the political and military importance
of Jeeragudem ambush. PLGA divided the enemy forces that were in
Battalion number (above 750 in number) and eliminated a platoon number
(28) forces, eliminated them and injured another 31 in another platoon.
The ambush gave a stiff resistance to the Prahar decisive attack that
went on from 2020 October to 2021 June. It could temporarily stop the
enemy plan. It instilled confidence among the revolutionary people,
party and PLGA that we could defeat the ‘SAMADHAN’-Prahar offensive. If
such Maoist style of struggle is implemented in all the guerrilla bases
and red resistance areas, we can defeat ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive.
PLGA
forces implemented defence tactics and escaped safely from the heavy
drone attacks made by the police, Para-military, Commando and Army and
Airforce on the camps of PLGA in the area of struggle in Dandakaranya in
the midnight of 14th and 15th of April 2022. There was large-scale
protest to the drone attacks in the country and the world.
In
2022, PLGA forces eliminated four Jharkhand Jaguar policemen in TCOC
and retaliatory actions in Bihar-Jharkhand, East Bihar-North East
Jharkhand Special Areas and injured some more in retaliation to the
‘SAMADHAN’-Prahar offensive of the enemy.
In Andhra-Odisha Border area PLGA injured four policemen amidst persistent combing and attacks by the enemy.
In
the past one year PLGA forces eliminated 14 Para-military, Commando and
Special police in guerrilla actions of the PLGA forces in various
guerrilla areas. It injured 54 Para-military, Commando and Special
police, seized 7 AK-47 Rifles and ammunition from them.
In some areas of struggle people’s militia took up guerrilla actions independently and seized weapons from the enemy.
PLGA
forces made deliberate ambushes, opportunity ambushes, sniper actions,
booby traps, remote actions, sabotage actions, seizure of enemy
supplies, elimination of informers, elimination of counter
revolutionaries, elimination of people’s enemies, attacked the police
camps with shelling/grenades and other tactics in TCOC and retaliatory
actions in order to defeat the counter-revolutionary ‘SAMADHAN’-Prahar
offensive. The guerrilla war of PLGA played an important role in
protecting the guerrilla bases and RPCs.
We imparted political and military training to the PLGA forces. We celebrated the 20th Anniversary of PLGA year-long from 2nd December 2020 to 2nd December 2021.
By
taking up people’s struggles and people’s wars with coordination we
could [and were able to] temporarily stop mining, industrial projects,
mega dams and tourist centers.
In
some areas of struggle we recruited youth into PLGA in the recruitment
campaign. We have been taking up these campaigns every year. Coming to
United Front, as a part of consolidation of Mass Organisations and RPCs
representative election meetings and Conferences of Revolutionary mass
organisations were held at various levels. New leadership committees
were elected. People celebrate revolutionary days and protest days every
year in the leadership of the Party, PLGA and the Mass Organisations on
26th January, 15th August, the great Bhoomkal struggle day on 10th
February, International Working women’s day on 8th March,
Anti-Imperialist Day on 23rd March, May Day, martyrs’ week from 28th
July to 3rd August, foundation day anniversary week from 21st September
to 27th, Russian October Revolution Day on 7th November, PLGA foundation
day from 2nd to 8th December and other such. On this 23rd March, the
anti-imperialistday we held meetings and programs upholding the
martyrdom of Comrades Bhagatsingh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, opposing the
aggression of Russia on Ukraine and the war frenzy US, EU and NATO and
greeting New People’s Army of Philippines on its 53rd Anniversary. We
are opposing the Brahmanic Hindutva Fascist forces penetrating into the
struggle areas through people’s struggles, retaliation and guerrilla
actions. We are taking up propaganda and retaliatory programs against
the attacks and massacres of Dalit and tribal people. several
anti-Brahmanic Hindutva Fascist struggles are going on in various forms
all over the country from the local to the central level.
Anti-imperialist,
anti-comprador bureaucratic capitalist, anti-feudal class struggles are
expanding and intensifying all over the areas of the movement. People
are making militant fight against new police camps in Bijapur,
Dantewada, Sukma, Narayanpur and Kanker districts of Dandakaranya for
the past years. Especially the struggle against the Silinger police camp
in Bijapur district going on for the past 15 months is attracting the
people, especially the indigenous people of the country and the world.
In Andhra-Odisha Border Special Zonal Area, people are occupying coffee
plantations and subsequently cultivating them in the leadership of the
village committees. In Telangana people are fighting against the
‘Haritaharam’ scheme of the government that displaces the tribal people
from Telangana, against the anti-people policies that chase away the
tribal people from the podu lands and against Government Order (GO)
Number-3 that reduces the importance to tribal people in jobs in the
tribal areas. PLGA forces mobilised the people widely and destroyed the
properties of comprador bureaucratic capitalists and the government
worth crores of rupees as a part of coming in the way of mining and
infrastructure projects necessary for mining in Surjagarh and Amdai and
other hills.
Recent
successes: after a period of successive setbacks, the Maoist movement
is solidly on the up once again. Countless mining projects have been
stopped in their tracks by the Maoists in the past few years, the PLGA
successfully resisted Operation Green Hunt, as well as illegal drone
strikes and is moving into new areas, as well as reclaiming lost ones.
Thousands
of people held militant movements carrying their traditional weapons
such as axes, knifes, sickles and bow and arrows against the proposed
police camps in Tesaphooli, Parvatpur, Dholkatta, Banpura, Pandedih in
the Tarayi area of Parasnath mountain range in Jharkhand. They destroyed
the police vehicles. They burnt them. Tribal peasant struggles are
going on in Dandakaranya, Jharkhand, AOB and Odisha against the camps of
police, Para-military and Commando forces, against roads and culverts,
police atrocities, fake encounter, massacres, atrocities on women and
displacement. Lakhs of people are participating in these struggles. We
called for a campaign to preserve peoples’ health against Corona
pandemic and combined it with anti-imperialist, anti-comprador
bureaucratic capitalist, anti-feudal class struggle. Our doctor teams
served the people with treatment. We took up people’s struggles with
demands such as free vaccination, treatment, free rations to those who
lost livelihood and to provide job facilities.
On
the occasion we convey revolutionary greetings and revolutionary thanks
to the ICSPWI and various revolutionary parties who have been taking up
solidarity movements in support to the People’s War in India at the
international plane for the past one and a half decades. You are aware
that the International Action Day against the counter-revolutionary,
strategic ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive and Prahar offensive as per the call of
ICSPWI. The propaganda and agitation activities that took place in a
wide level regarding 10th February, 23rd March and 13th September were
because of the initiative in the International Communist Movement.
One
of the successes the Party achieved was to enlighten women, half of the
sky, developing their efficiencies in political, organisational,
military, cultural and other sectors. Presently there are nearly 50
percent women in PLGA in almost all the areas.
The
Party paid much attention to develop the revolutionary, democratic
cultural sector. This sector helped to develop revolutionary, democratic
values among the oppressed classes, oppressed social sections and
oppressed nationalities.
One
more important issue is the struggles of political prisoners in jails
and the development of struggles of ordinary prisoners with their
support.
On
the whole, we see that efforts are going on to expand-intensify class
struggle-guerrilla war (People’s War) all over the country. efforts are
going on to organise the Party, PLGA and United Front. We are gaining
new experiences politically, organisationally, militarily and
technically. The combination of positive experiences in this effort
shall undoubtedly help to defeat the counter-revolutionary
‘SAMADHAN’-Prahar offensive and to advance the Indian Revolutionary
movement.
However,
we have the unfavourable factors and challenges created by the enemy.
Protecting successes is one important factor. We are aware that there
shall be more difficulties, tests and losses in future. However, we will
learn from mistakes, develop our subjective strength and efficiency,
win most of the people, friendly forces and organisations on to our
side, adopt tactics to educate the party and the people, develop the
understanding and culture not to be depressed with losses and feel great
of successes, utilise these experiences on the basis of successes and
victories achieved until now, utilise the present revolutionary
conditions and shall definitely advance from the present state of the
movement. Therefore optimistic perspective and confidence are necessary
towards the success of Indian People’s War.
Q
— One group of people who have been persecuted by the old Indian state
are the queer community, such as lesbians, gays, bisexuals and
transgenders. What is the stance of the CPI (Maoist) on the movement for
LGBT rights in India, and on the persecution of LGBT people by the
Indian fascist state?
A
— Our Party understands and analyses the LGBT issue also with Marxist
(MLM) understanding. True liberation of the LGBT community from gender
oppression and discrimination is obtained only through eradicating class
oppression and constant theoretical, political, social, economic,
cultural and medical efforts to bring about a change in the perspective
of the people, only then they can have a condition to live equal to
others and gain respect.
Our
Party recognises the special problems and rights of the LGBT just as it
does of the human, civil rights and all the rights of the oppressed
classes, special social sections and all the oppressed nationalities,
like it supports their struggles for rights and like it supports the
struggles of those being exploited and oppressed by the old
(reactionary) Indian state. They are born with certain physical
characteristics and physically and mentally special (genetic)
characteristics. But they ae part of the humankind. We oppose the
oppression and discrimination of the Indian state that represents the
capitalists and landlords and acts as comprador to the imperialists. it
respects their right to life as Indian citizens, their primary rights
equal to all the citizens and the right to have all rights including
particular/special rights concerning concrete problem.
The
party provides them partnership in education, medicine, residence,
employment, administration and political sectors in the future Indian
New Democratic state. It will provide economic and social security, anda
healthy social and cultural atmosphere. It guarantees free medicine and
introduces pro-people medical system that can provide good health. Thus
they can live with the recognition they need or wish, confirm their
gender and have the opportunity to have physical and mental treatments,
free medicine and a healthy, respectful, scientific life. It also trains
the society so that they have an equal and respectful attitude towards
them.
It
supports the movements going on for their rights in the presentstage.
It opposes the sexual violence, exploitation, oppression, discrimination
and sexual opportunism towards the LGBT community. The LGBT community
must not lose any opportunities. They must be provided all the
opportunities so as they can utilise all their strength and efficiencies
for the society.
The
Indian LGBTQ+ community protest for their existence and liberation, and
against anti-LGBTQ+ laws dating back to the era of British colonialism.
In
the present stage, the movement going on for the rights of LGBT in
India segregated from the social reality of class struggle and is under
the influence of individual centered, bourgeois, post-modernist
ideology. The movement must overcome it. This movement must become part
of all the movements that are working to destroy the Indian state that
represents the semi-colonial, semi-feudal socio-economic system and is
unleashing fascist repression and cruel exploitation on all the
oppressed classes of the country, apart from the LGBT community. The
LGBT community also must unite with all the oppressed classes against
the three enemy classes namely imperialists, Indian comprador
bureaucratic capitalist and feudal classes that are unleashing
exploitation, oppression, suppression and discrimination.
Imperialism,
ruling classes and their Indian state are indiscriminately utilising
the LGBT community to make the society inactive. They are encouraging
the porn industry as a part of cashing on the discrimination towards the
LGBT community, their poverty and unemployment. It is encouraging
sexual anarchy among the people, especially the youth. Our party opposes
it severely. The Indian New Democratic state will ban the porn
industry.
In
one aspect regarding LGBT — the Party opposes and discourages the
attitude if a person living a normal life with the recognition of a
woman or a man or anything else (third gender) and on the other
continues an unnatural relation and enters into physical relations with
many persons in an anarchic manner.
When
the concerned individuals lack scientific understanding towards the
genetic related extremities by nature and the causative physical
particularities related to gender, the attitude towards such issues and
individuals will become unnatural doubtful, disrespectful and shameful.
In such conditions the concerned persons face discrimination not only
from the society but also from the families and relatives. Then they
will be pushed to the situation of living as a separate community.
Socialist state provides scientific understanding to all the people of
the society. It develops an ordinary understanding so as to accept it as
a natural thing.
One
section is being attracted towards unnatural physical relations under
the influence of distorted culture, sexual anarchy, porn literature and
cinema and other such things that imperialism is supporting. The
Socialist state works to establish healthy, mutual respectful human
relations in the society through destroying capitalist imperialism,
outdated rotten culture and through spreading democratic, socialist
culture.
Q
— Lastly, I would like to ask you about the situation of revolutionary
political prisoners in India. Can you tell our readers more about this
situation?
A
— The methods and ways that the state adopts to suppress the people’s
movements, the ongoing revolutionary movement, antidisplacement
movements, workers’ and farmers’ movement, those of the students and
youth, government employees, oppressed social sections, fisherfolk,
unemployed, tribal and religious minority peoples, struggles for human
rights, women, handicapped, pensioners and prisoners are multipronged.
Two of them are important. One is to eliminate the people’s leadership
and activists fighting in brutal and fascist methods utilising armed
forces. The second is to illegally arrest and imprison them. Armed
forces, courts, jails and the Constitution that provides the base for
these are the important and vital ones in stabilising and protecting
the authority of outdated exploitive ruling classes, unleashing
persistent exploitation, oppression and anti-people policies. It is an
ordinary feature of class societyin class society to eliminate those who
counter the state through armed forces, arrest and imprison them,
punish them through courts, isolate them from people’s life and destroy
their strength and efficiency.
The
condition of revolutionary political prisoners in India is becoming
miserable day by day. The Indian state had been very inhuman and brutal
since a long time, especially since the beginning of the rule of
Brahmanic Hindutva Fascist BJP towards all the democratic movements,
struggling organisations and also towards the revolutionary political
prisoners. Apart from them it is antagonistic towards the religious
minorities, activists of Dalit movements, human rights activists,
revolutionary, progressive, democratic, secular student-youth, teachers,
patriots, intellectuals, poets, artists, writers, lawyers, journalists,
scientists, various social activists, activists of worker and farmer’s
organisations, activists of anti-displacement movements and the
activists of movements of nationalities such as Kashmir, Naga, Manipur,
Asom and Bodo. State follows several illegal methods to suppress anyone
who question the anti-people, anti-country, traitorous policies of the
governments that represent the reactionary exploitive ruling classes and
when not possible to do so, put them behind the bars. It is grossly
violating, fascising and saffronizing its own Constitution.it is
foisting cases, conspiracy cases indiscriminately and is making arrests.
Maoist prisoners in West Bengal and Kerala prisons fought for the right
to be recognised as political prisoners and achieved it. But, the
Indian comprador ruling class did not recognise the political prisoners
languishing in jail all over the country. It is because of its
repressive policies.
It
is nothing new for the old Indian state to imprison the questioning
voices and those who oppose behind bars. It inherited this legacy from
the British. Indian state is not only discriminate socially,
economically and politically but also constitutionally also towards
caste, class and gender. This is continuing in the central and all the
state governments. It is implemented towards the political prisoners
also.
The
world is aware that the Modi government in the centre stuffed the
leaders and activists of political parties of the main stream and the
local parties in Kashmir in jail and then annulled the special autonomy
to Kashmir. Modi had been unleashing fascism and emergency for the past 9
years more than that during the rule of Indira Gandhi. Thousands of
Muslims and Dalit people are behind the bars.
It
had become a normal feature to make constant check-ups utilising cruel
intelligence agencies such as the NIA with fascist UAPA in its hands;
placing illegal equipment in the houses and creating fake documents that
they seized them; inducing convenient software such as Pegasus into
computers from outside to foist conspiracy cases; and amending UAPA with
further cruel regulations. You are aware that a team of IT experts of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) revealed this in the
foisted case of Bhima-Koregaon.
This
is the state that pushed 85 year old Father Stan Swamy, a tribal rights
activist in the Bhima-Koregaon case by denying him a straw in a
condition where he cannot drink water and disallowing the minimum
medical facilities. Except for revolutionary poet Varvara Rao who is
severely ill and in old age and social activist Sudha Bharadwaj given
conditional bail or almost house arrest kind of stringent conditions,
the rest are languishing in the prison for more than four years. 90
percent disabled Comrade Saibaba who was a lecturer in English in the
Ramlal Anand College of Delhi University is denied minimum facilities
such as a wheelchair.
61
year old Comrade Narmada, member of the Secretariat of the Dandakaranya
Special Zonal Committee of our Party and leader of Dandakaranya women’s
movement was arrested in 2019 when she was undergoing treatment for
higher stages of cancer. She was put in Bombay prison and denied
treatment. Finally she had to wait for her death in a hospice. Her
partner Comrade Kiran was also in prison in the city but was not allowed
to meet her in her last minutes. Although the court permitted, the jail
authorities deliberately let him see only after her death.
Comrade
Narmada, leader of the Dandakaranya Women’s Movement and Dandakaranya
Party Secretariat Member, martyred by the cruel fascist state on 9th
April 2022.
Senior
members of the CC Comrade Barun, Comrade Tapas, Comrade Vijay, Comrade
Chintan became martyrs within a short time of their release since they
were denied of proper conveniences during their prolonged imprisonment.
Comrades Sumit (Amitab Bagchi) and Asutosh, members of CC are in the
jail for the past more than a decade. Polit Bureau member, 76 year old
Comrade Kishanda of Naxalbari generation is suffering from 5 kinds of
chronic diseases. He is being denied proper treatment and they want to
murder him inside the jail. Comrade Sheela arrested along with him as
she was going for treatment for four kinds of chronic diseases was also
foisted with wrong cases and imprisoned. Comrade Vijay (BG
Krishnamurty), the Secretary of Western Ghats Special Zonal Committee,
senior citizen, CCM Comrade Kanchan (Arun Kumar Bhattacharya), CCM
Comrade Jaspal (Vijay Kumar Arya) are facing imprisonments and tortures.
71 year old Comrade Kanchanda is suffering from several chronic
diseases but denied of treatment. All the comrades are holding aloft the
Red Flag in prisons.
Thousands
of party leaders, cadres and comrades of local organisations of various
levels are in jail under trial for a long time. Fake evidences were
created on them are they are imposed prolonged punishments, life and
hanging. 10 comrades were imposed hanging and three with life
imprisonment by the Jehanabad district court in Sinari case in Bihar.
Mercy petition in hanging for four comrades in the Bara case is pending
in the President’s office for the past 2 years. Finally the President
issued orders that they have to stay in jail as long as they live.
Munger district court imposed death sentence to five tribal farmer
activists. In Jharkhand, a member of the East Bihar-North East Jharkhand
Special Area Committee Comrade Praveer was imposed death sentence by
the Dumka district court. All this is the continuation of the illegal
and conspiratorial hanging of revolutionary peasant guerrilla activists
Bhoomayya and Kishtagoud during the criminal period of emergency imposed
by Indira Gandhi. This is the continuation of hanging warriors like
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev by the British colonialists a few
decades after this.
The
police are indiscriminately arresting children, old people, women,
pregnants and patients of our areas of struggle and show to have
surrendered. Those who do not surrender are being murdered in fake
encounters. Many are foisted with false cases and imprisoned. They are
in jail for years together without trial and are living in a pathetic
condition. They are deprived of any kind of medical help in jails. The
conditions are inhuman. The inhuman conditions create trauma. All these
are leading to the death of a few. Such incidents are not being informed
to their families. The courts are forced to release many persons
because they could not obtain fake evidences after investigation of
years together. The families of those languishing in jail for a long
time are suffering from economic problems. Family members are mentally
depressed and some are suffering from mental ill health. Children’s
lives are disturbed. Some families are scattered.
This
is a fresh example. Police and Para-military forces went on combing to
Burkapal village of South Bastar division of Dandakaranya when PLGA
ambushed them. 25 CRPF personnel lost their lives and 31 were injured.
PLGA seized 24 automatic weapons from them. Later police and
Para-military forces made attacks on the villages surrounding Burkapal
and arrested 122 tribal farmers. They were foisted with false cases and
sent to jail. One of them fell severely ill and breathed his last in
prison. After 5 years and 3 months 121 people including a woman were
recently found not guilty and released by the local court. The extent of
foisting wrong cases indiscriminately is clear from the fact that even
wrong evidences were not available. TV channels showed the pathetic
condition of the 122 families. The Central and the state governments
arrested hundreds of farmers during the year long historic peasant
struggle. Although the governments agreed to release them with the
agreement with Samyukta Kisan Morcha, many of them are still in jail.
The
condition of Indian jails is very pathetic. Prisoners and under trial
prisoners are suffering from many difficulties. The jail manual is very
old. This is a duplicate of the jail manual prepared by the British in
1894. The Hindutva fascist Modi government is involved in transforming
it much bureaucratically in legal forms. Meanwhile the prisoners and
under trail prisoners are not provided the facilities even as per the
jail manual. The jails are stuffed with prisoners more in numbers than
during the British period. For example, while the capacity of
Chhattisgarh jails is 6070, there are more than 16,000. They are given
low quality of rice, oil, pulses and vegetables and that too not as per
the quota. The eatables are normally rotten. Soaps, pastes, clothes and
under clothes are inadequate. Many prisoners do not have a chance to
obtain them from their families. The lives of poor prisoners are much
more miserable. They are made to work hard with nominal daily wages. The
women prisoners are in a much more miserable condition. There is
patriarchal suppression. CC TV cameras have become a normal feature in
all the jails in the name of protection. Women prisoners lack privacy.
Since the rule of BJP and Sangh Parivar, non-vegetarian food, eggs and
other nutritious food is not being given. Jail authorities indulge in
limitless corruption and atrocities. Coupon system is going on in the
jails in Bihar, Jharkhand and others. In tribal areas, prisoners are
given soup without tea of breakfast. Body trade is also going on in jail
with the help of the officers. The rich, political leaders and mafias
obtain all kinds of facilities and luxury in jails.
Trials
are prolonged for years and at times even for decades without taking
them to courts in the name of lack of escort. The police machinery
arrests people, activists of the movement, leaders and activists of
people’s movement and leaders and activists of our party and foist
scores of fake cases. The trial is prolonged. Although there are few
cases on a few persons, those who are released not guilty are
re-arrested near the jail gate, foisted with some more new cases and
imprisoned. Comrade Madkam Gopanna, a member of the Dandakaranya Special
Zonal Committee had been in jail for the past 15 years. He was arrested
two times near the jail gate and sent to jail once again. Bails are
normally not granted in the courts of many states such as Chhattisgarh,
Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, West Bung and Asom. They need to complete the
trial and be released not guilty. There is no other way. When there are
many cases under many sections, all the punishments are not carried at a
time (in concurrency). The punishments are taken up one by one. This
situation is beyond that of the British colonialists. A strong movement
is needed so as to achieve the right to register all the cases on the
accused within four months of arrest and to implement concurrence.
At
present the judiciary is being fascised day by day under the rule of
Brahmanic Hindutva BJP government. Supreme Court gave a clean chit to
Modi and Amit Shah passing judgment on the Zakia Jafri petition related
to the massacre of Muslims by Hindutva forces in Gujarat. Social
activists Teesta Seetalvad was arrested the same day. Gandhian social
activist Himanshu Kumar petitioned for justice to the family members of
16 tribal people massacred in Gompad-Singaram by the armed police forces
in 2009 in Dandakaranya. He was found fault for wasting the time of the
court and was imposed Rs.5 lakhs or rigorous punishment for two years.
The whole world was shocked and raised voice against this attitude. The
supreme court indirectly told not to approach the courts and that if
approached they will be sued.
Deputy
jailor of Central Jail in Raipur (the capital of Chhattisgarh) Varsha
Dongre was suspended from duty for a facebook post exposing the inhuman
behaviour of the police toward tribal prisoners. Sukma district
additional magistrate Prabhakar Gwal was suspended in 2016 and later
removed from job when he did not agree to send hundreds of tribal people
to jail. He said that it is not possible unless identity papers such as
Aadhar card are presented.
One
important thing needs to be brought to your notice in this regard. Jail
comrades have been constantly making struggles against the inhuman
conditions and for their just demands. They are obtaining better results
to an extent temporarily. Leaders and activists of our party are
organising the ordinary prisoners in the prison and taking up struggles
for their rights. They are observing revolutionary days and protest days
in the prison. They are moulding prisons into centers of class
struggle, study and education. They are facing intense repression,
tortures, atrocities firmly and with dare and continuing their political
efforts.
Women
political prisoners are in the forefront in the struggles of the jail
comrades. We bring a small example to your notice. The struggle of women
prisoners in the leadership of women activists of our party in
Jagadalpur Central jail in Chhattisgarh in 2013 gained magnificent
victory. The struggle achieved rights such as taking the undertrials to
each and every adjournment to the court, providing immediate medical
treatment to the ill, joining them in hospital, issuing separate
independent kitchen to women prisoners and giving daily wage to women
prisoners on kitchen duty.
On
the other hand, it is organising different democratic forces in support
of the struggles of jail comrades, so that they take up solidarity
struggles outside the jail and arranging legal aid (judicial help) for
their release. They are working to the best of their strength for this
purpose. Anyway, we need to organise advocates, democrats and rights
activists in the necessary extent to work in this direction.
Party
is mobilising revolutionary people in support to the struggles of the
jail comrades on 13th September on the occasion of martyrdom of Comrade
Jatin Das, the revolutionary hero who made indefinite hunger strike for
64 days for the rights of prisoners against British imperialism.
Intellectuals and democrats are observing the day. They are organising
interviews in large numbers, to meet families of jail comrades,
extending support to the possible extent and holding rallies, meetings
and seminars. They are making efforts to provide legal aid through
advocates. They are forming committees for the release of political
prisoners, organisations and legal aid committees and to extend them.
On
the other hand jail comrades are making attempts to the best of their
strength to break from jail. The Jehanabad jail break, Dantewada jail
break, guerrilla action on Lakhisarai court, Chaibasa jail break-1, 2,
the escape of 6 revolutionary children from the Rourkela juvenile home,
guerrilla action on the escort vehicle of Giridih prisoners, the escape
of 9 members of revolutionary children’s organisation from Dantewada
juvenile home are few examples. Jehanabad jail break and attack on
Giridih escort vehicle stand as examples to incidents that took place
with the support of the party from outside. Another example is to get a
PBM released from the escort police when he was brought to the
Lakhisarai court. However, the various kinds of attempts going on for
the release of the comrades and their rights are going on to a little
extent due to the intense enemy offensive, the limitations and
weaknesses of urban movement and democratic movements. Our party, the
movement and the people have the heroic revolutionary tradition of
escaping from jail. There were jail breaks during Naxalbari in the
process of which comrades were martyred. When the secretary of AP SC
Kondapalli was brought to hospital when in Visakha jail, he and another
SCM were released from the police. Four comrades including the AP SC
secretary Shyam broke from Adilabad jail in 1987 along with three
Rifles. However, in the present condition of severe repression and
bureaucratic rule in the country and jails, we need to intensify
attempts from the inside and also outside.
This
year due to the initiative and special effort of ICSPWI, action week is
going to be observed for the release of Indian political prisoners from
13th to 19th September 2022, in support of them and to stop the heavy
drone attacks made jointly by the BJP government in the leadership of
Modi and the Bhupesh Baghel led Congress government in Chhattisgarh on
our areas of movement. The CC of our party appreciated the call of the
ICSPWI and appealed to make it a success.
There
is a strong need to build, strengthen worldwide militant, organised
solidarity movement for the political prisoners with the demands
Political prisoners of all the countries such as Philippines, Turkey,
Peru, Galicia, Afghanistan and all the countries of revolutionary
movement including India must be unconditionally released; all those
arrested as a part of social, political struggles and are in jail must
be provided the status of political prisoners; there must be a stop to
the violating of rights of prisoners, especially political prisoners and
women prisoners and the atrocities and suppression on them; jail
manuals must be reformed; conditions in jail must be improved according
to them. Our Party hopes that the efforts of ICSPWI goes in this
direction. It declares that it would make the efforts in India in this
regard and firmly believes that the movement shall gradually develop.
Revolutionary
graffiti against counter-revolutionary operations and in solidarity
with the Indian Revolution, Essen, Germany, 2021.
