Press Releases of

COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

(July 2010 - July 2012)

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Publisher’s Note

We are publishing here the statements issued by the CC, CPI (Maoist)from July 2010 to July 2012. This period is one of the most turbulentperiods in our country and the world and one of the toughest in terms ofintensification of the offensive of the Indian state on the revolutionarymovement in India. CPI (Maoist) responded to the various political changeshappening in the world and in our country in this period and categoricallystated its stand through these statements.

In view of the historical significance of these statements we havecompiled them and are placing the compilation before the cadres, thepeople and all Maoist, progressive and democratic organizations, partiesand intellectuals in our country and abroad who stand in solidarity withthe Maoist movement. This compilation would be useful in informing theorganizations, parties and intellectuals who support the Maoist movementabout the viewpoint and stands of the party on various issues and wouldalso educate the cadres and the people about the same. The calls givenby the party on various issues in these statements were implemented bythe party cadres and thus these statements had significance in revolutionarypractice too.

In the backdrop of the ruling classes’ foul and vicious propagandaincreasing at an unprecedented scale as part of its psychological warfarethat is itself an integral part of the Low-Intensity Conflict strategyimplemented in our country under the guidance and full support of the USimperialists, it has become utterly necessary for revolutionary propagandaalso to pose a formidable challenge to it. We hope that this compilationalso would play its role in countering the psy-war of the ruling classes onthe CPI (Maoist) and the revolutionary movement led by it. We appeal toour cadres and sympathizers and supporters of our movement to use thisas a weapon in revolutionary propaganda in the fight against the foulpropaganda of the Indian State.

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On the occasion of bringing this compilation, we humbly pay our redhomage to our beloved leaders Comrade Cherukuri Rajkumar (Politburomember) and Comrade Mallojhala Koteswarlu (Politburo member) whowere spokespersons for the Central Committee and the Eastern RegionalBureau respectively for their contribution in the field of political propagandain Protracted People’s War as spokespersons of the party. We had lostboth these great leaders of Indian Revolution in this period and thiscompilation includes statements that paid rich tributes to them.

With Revolutionary Greetings

Central Committee

July 2012 CPI (Maoist)

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Contents

Hail the Martyrdom of Comrade Azad .... 7

Hail the 6th Anniversary of Party Formation Day .... 12

Stay alert to the ruling classes’ attempt to divide uson religious lines .... 18

Bandh call protesting the massacres of Kashmiris .... 21

Defy orders to kill the people of Lalgarh .... 26

Oppose Obama’s visit to India .... 28

Stop Army recruitments in Maoist movement areas .... 32

Unified Action Plan aimed to crush the revolutionary movement .... 35

Rebuild Babri Masjid at the same site .... 38

Protest week condemning the sentences of Dr. Binayak Sen,Maoist leader Narayan Sanyal, Piyush Guha & Asit Sen Gupta .... 40

Red Homage to Comrade KG Kannabiran .... 45

Condemn fake encounters in Odisha .... 48

Protest week & Bharat bandh against price-rises, scams &state terror .... 52

Condemn war on Libya, solidarity to people of Arab countries .... 58

Boycott Assembly polls in 5 states .... 64

Intensify mass struggles to end institutionalized corruption .... 69

Condemn state repression on people of Jaitapur .... 72

Condemn brutal murder of Osama Bin Laden .... 77

Bharat bandh protesting arrest of three CC members in Bihar .... 82

Indian Army GO BACK .... 89

Bharat bandh protesting arrest of Comrade Jagdish Master, PBM.... 94

Fight back the new state offensive on Chhattisgarh & Odisha .... 98

Protest week in Central Region against Army Training Schoolin Maad .... 103

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Red Homage to Comrade Pattipati Venkateswarlu .... 105

Hail the heroic resistance of anti-POSCO agitators .... 108

Red Homage to Comrade RS Rao .... 113

Offer for talks by President a ploy to divert from thereality of OGH-II .... 116

Withdraw death sentences of Jitan Marandi & others .... 119

Observe Martyrs’ Memorial Week – July 28 to August 3, 2011 .... 123

Condemn gruesome Mumbai bomb blasts .... 134

Throw into dust bin vicious propaganda by the stateon Maoist movement .... 138

Condolence message on demise of “Ka Roger” to CPP .... 142

Bharat bandh supporting “Sakala Janula Samme” .... 144

CMC call on 11th Anniversary of PLGA .... 148

Condemn brutal murder of Comrade Mallojula Koteswara Rao .... 153

Revolutionary greetings to the friends of Indian revolution .... 158

Condemn arrests of Maoists in Kolkata and Mumbai .... 162

Scrap the proposal for the formation of fascist NCTC .... 164

Revolutionary Greetings to NPA for Butuan Raid .... 168

Chidambaram has no moral right to talk about ‘kidnaps’ by Maoists...170

Expose the sham of 60 years of Parliamentary rule in India .... 174

Condemn the proposal to ban on Com. Jan Myrdal’s visits to India....178

Punish the perpetrators of Basaguda massacre .... 181

Sabyasachi Panda Expelled from Party .... 185

Homage to Com. Goru Madhava Rao .... 194

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July 4, 2010

Hail the Martyrdom of Com. Azad, Leader ofIndian Revolution and Member of Politburo!

Condemn with one voice, the Fake Encounterthat took place as a part of the war against

people and Operation Green Hunt!

Make a success the Protest Week

from July 8th to July 14th and Bharat Bandh on 13th and 14th of July,

as a part of this Protest Week!

A bright star of the Indian revolution fallen down! Three days back,Com. Cherukuri Rajkumar (Azad), the great leader of the proletariat whoplayed a key role in the Indian revolutionary movement for nearly fourdecades; the central committee member of Communist Party of India(Maoist), the Politburo member and the official spokesperson of the CentralCommittee, and the beloved leader of the Indian toiling masses, was brutallykilled along with a freelance Journalist, Hemachandra Pandey by the watchdogs of the Imperialism, i.e. the Indian ruling classes.

Com. Azad had to come to Dandakaranya in the first week of July, toteach political economy classes to the party cadre. For that purpose, he setup an appointment with the Special Zonal Committee of Dandakaranya, onJuly 1st, in Nagpur town. He even informed the Dandakaranya Comradesabout his arrival on 30th June. The Dandakaranya Committee sent a comradeto bring him in. But that comrade returned as Com. Azad didn’t turn up atthe specified place and time. The police arrested Com. Azad along withthe journalist Hemachandra Pandey at the wee hours of 151 and 2nd Julyand brutally killed them in an ‘encounter’ in Adilabad district of AndhraPradesh. As Com. Azad informed that he had started on 30th of June and

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not reached the particular place on July 1st suggests that, the murderousand monstrous APSIB personnel might have abducted them during hisjourney to Nagpur or after reaching the Nagpur town. The murdererstortured them cruelly and shot them up on the same night in Adilabaddistrict.

We appeal to all to condemn this dastardly murder with one voice. Weappeal all the people to agitate against the cruel and suppressive acts ofthe ruling classes, which on one side are hunting and brutally killing therevolutionaries standing for the cause of the people, and chanting the mantrasof democracy, peace, law and justice with that same blood spilling mouthon the other side.

Some exploiting powers are trying very hardly to pocket our belovedcountry for their will or to mortgage it to their imperialist masters and areeven trying to sell it. As a part of that they are giving out our forests, minesand the rivers to the imperialists. The innumerable agreements includingthe nuclear deal that our ruling classes made with the imperialist countriesand multi national companies stand as naked evidences to this. Digging outthe minerals from our mines is the part of this exploitation only. The projectson our rivers that are under construction and to be constructed are meantonly for the speedy shifting of our fortunes through the ships by theimperialists; and the widening roads are to pave the way to exploitation.The proposed SEZs, corporate farmlands are for the interests of theimperialists only. The ruling classes fondly named this exploitation as‘development’! This ‘development’ is meant for the exploiting classes onlyand it is a fact that even 1% of this ‘development’ wouldn’t reach the largesections of the Indian masses. Because of this ‘development’, our lands,the land produce, our water resources and our culture have been alienatedfrom us. This unconditional surrender of the ruling classes is a great shameto us and it throws us into slavery. These exploiting powers which areselling our beloved mother land are shamelessly calling themselves aspatriots.

The oppressed people of our country endeavored to demolish thisconspiracy of these traitors in the guise of patriots, and chose the path ofrevolution. The workers, peasants, adivasis, students, intellectuals, women

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and minorities, the true inheritors of this country, are actively taking part inthis movement. The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is the inspirationto this struggle and stood in solidarity with the struggle, and proudly leadingthis movement. Because of this only, in the view of Sonia, Manmohan andChidambaram clique, the Party became a serious threat to the internalsecurity of the country. This clique and its imperialist masters clearly knowthat Maoist Party is not at all a threat to the country’s internal security butindeed a threat to their security and their interests of the exploitation. Thisclique is trying to deceit the people and is day dreaming to gain authenticityto the ruthless suppression that it is launching on the struggling people, byshowing the Party as a serious threat to the internal security. From the dayit dubbed the Party as a serious threat to the internal security of the country,it is enforcing serious repression on the Party and the people that arestruggling under the leadership of the Party. It is thinking that by makingthe people to believe that the Maoist Party as an internal threat, it cansuppress anyone, who opposes its exploitation, by dubbing them as Maoists.We all see that the government is suppressing the people’s movementsthat are not at all in any way related to the Maoist Party, by dubbing themas Maoist related movements.

To overcome the serious economic crisis that they are facing now, theimperialists have no alternative other than intensifying the exploitation. Asa part of that they are severely trying to rob the produce of our forests,especially they are keeping their eyes on the forests of Dandakaranya,Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, the richsources of minerals. But it’s becoming impossible to them to move theassets from these areas, as these areas are under the influence of MaoistParty. That is why; they tried to suppress the movement in the name ofSalwa Judum and Sendra. But the people and our Party defeated the attackby resisting heroically, and so they put forward the Operation Green Huntnow. From 10 months to till date, they brutally killed hundreds of ordinarypeople, from infants to elderly people, and killing more and more people inthe name of Green Hunt. They are resorting to mass rapes on women,putting fire to hundreds of villages and demolishing the people’s property.In Dandakaranya only, they killed 150 ordinary people, put fire to innumerablevillages and resorted to sexual violence on hundreds of women.

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While killing the general people on one side, they are targeting andhunting the Maoist Party and trying to wipe out the leadership to the people.The brutal killing of Com. Azad is a part in that. Com. Azad worked withstrong conviction for the Indian Revolution for the past four decades. Hebegan his journey as a Radical student and in a very short period spread toseveral arenas. He completed his M.Tech. in Warangal RegionalEngineering College and dedicated his life to the revolution with theinspiration of martyr Com. Surapaneni Janardan and Com. KondapalliSeetharamaiah, the then leader of the movement. He exhibited extraordinaryintelligence and capabilities right from his childhood and maintained thesame heights in the study of revolutionary ideology, its implementation andrevolutionary practice. He laid foundation to build the revolutionarymovement in Karnataka state. He was elected to the Central Committee,became the member of Politburo. He worked hardly in different arenaslike ideological, political and constructive work and also worked as an officialspokes person of the oppressed masses, targeted against the ruling classes.

The murder of Com. Azad is significantly notable. For some time, thehome minister Chidambaram, with his high-flown talk, about bringing to anend to the Naxalite violence and trying to conceal the inhuman violencethat they are executing on the people. While Chidambaram has been wagingan unlawful war against the people of the country and concealinginnumerable atrocities that he was committing against the people, resortingto bad propaganda in a big way against the resistance of revolutionaryforces; Com. Azad had been instantly and incessantly made the Party’sviewpoint and the voice of toiling masses, audible loudly to the world. Whensome democrats along with Swami Agnivesh came with peace proposalsrecently, Com. Azad put “forward the Party’s opinion. He proposed that tosolve this problem, the Operation Green Hunt should be stopped immediatelyand the ceasefire should take place from both sides at a time. Whilepretending to continue this process and prevaricating the people on oneside, the Sonia, Manmohan, Chidambaram clique determined to kill Com.Azad. That is why Chidambaram impeded Swami Agnivesh’s initiation. Itis crystal clear that Com. Azad’s murder was a part of a big conspiracyand the clique of the ruling classes has no sincerity in peace, peace talks,and solving the problems of the people.

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The main reason for the murder of the freelance journalist,Hemachandra Pandey, who is traveling with Com. Azad, is only to erasethe evidence to Azad’s killing. This is also a warning given by the rulingclasses to the journalists and democrats that are with the people. Thebrutal murder of Hemachandra Pandey is also a warning to some journalistsand intellectuals who visited Dandakaranya recently and exposed the factualsituation to the world. It is a good example to understand that how hostilethe ruling classes can be with the freedom of the press.

The ruling classes are day dreaming to eradicate the movements bymurdering the leaders of the revolutionary movement. With the murder ofCom. Azad, the toiling masses of our country lost a great revolutionaryintellectual, a great communist warrior, and a great scientist of Marxism. Itis indeed a big loss. But, the people and the revolutionary movementthemselves created and will create a great leader like Azad. Thousands ofthe country’s youth will definitely fulfill the loss of Com. Azad by followingthe path that shown by him, and will make the Indian Revolution a success.This is an indisputable historical truth.

We, the Central Committee appeal the people of this country to observea protest week from July 8th to 14th, to organize protest rallies, dharnas,and meetings for five days i.e., from 8th July to 12th July, and to make the48-hour Bandh, i.e., on 13th and 14th of July, a success. We are exemptingthe emergency services like medical services from the bandh. We alsoappeal all the masses, to demand in several forms, for the completeinvestigation of this fake encounter, for the severe punishment to the culpritsof these brutal murders, and for the immediate withdrawal of OperationGreen Hunt.

Sonu

Politburo member, CPI (Maoist)

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August 30, 2010

Hail the Historic 6th Anniversary of

the Party Formation Day!

Defeat the fascist Operation Green Hunt!!

Come together for a united struggle againstthe loot of our country!!!

Call of the Politburo of CPI (Maoist) on the occasion ofthe 6th anniversary of the party to be celebrated with

revolutionary enthusiasm and great fervor fromSeptember 21 to 27, 2010

Our beloved comrades and people!

On the 6th anniversary of our party formation day on September 21,2010, our PB extends hearty revolutionary greetings to the Party, PLGA,Revolutionary people’s committees and comrades of all mass organizationsand to the revolutionary people who are advancing the people’s war byfearlessly fighting back Operation Green Hunt, the countrywide massivecounter-revolutionary military offensive of the enemy, who is bent uponannihilating our party. On this fervent occasion our PB also congratulatesthe comrades in the jails who are bravely facing the enemy.

Our PB humbly pays homage to the more than 10,000 great martyrs,1500 of them after the unified party was formed in 2004, and 300 in oneyear, who sacrificed their invaluable lives for the success of the NewDemocratic Revolution in India and for the achievement of the greatestcause of human kind, i.e. socialism and communism. The fact that a majorityof these martyrs are common people, revolutionary mass organizations’members and militia member shows how the vast masses of India arethronging into the revolution.

Since we celebrated our party formation day last year, the war between

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revolution and counter-revolution in our country has intensified further.There have been many significant changes of strategic importance in thisperiod which would affect the Indian revolution for a long time to come. Itis necessary to look into our strengths and weaknesses, the favourable andunfavourable conditions for the revolution on this occasion and place beforethe people and the ranks of the party.

Firstly - starting from May 2009 to July 2010, eight topmost comradesincluding PBM and beloved leader Azad and ten state level comrades hadeither been caught and killed by the enemy or had been put behind bars.Many leadership comrades from district level to lower ranks were eitherarrested or killed. These losses had all affected our party and movementseriously. Particularly, losing comrade Azad who had been fulfilling keyresponsibilities in the highest committee and had been rendering multi-faceted services most efficiently in many fields is a great loss.

The formation of the new party in 2004 placed before the people ofour country enriched political, organizational, military lines, a strong party,a strong leadership, a people’s army, the PLGA and a vast mass base andstruggle areas. This created very favourable conditions for the advancementof the revolution. Fearing all these favorable conditions, the enemy soughtto crush our party and all the losses in 2005 and 2006 occurred due to thisconspiracy. Yet, the Unity Congress - 9th congress had strengthened theunity of the party and the party leadership and laid down a thorough planfor the advancement of the revolution. Though Andhra Pradesh movementand North Chhattisgarh movement suffered setback and though we sufferedheavy losses in North Odisha, the successes won filled the revolutionarycamp with self-confidence.

The successful completion of the Unity Congress and the latersuccesses worried the enemy camp to no end and so the enemy hadintensified war on people at an unprecedented level to annihilate the partyleadership. These losses which occurred since 2009 May are larger innumber and more serious in nature than before. However, serious theymay be, in the past 45 years, revolutionary movement had been giving birthto new leadership constantly and it will do so again. As long as massesneed a revolution, they give birth to its leaders too.

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Secondly - UPA-2 had launched the fascist ‘Operation Green Hunt’(OGH) as a concrete form of the multi-pronged offensive strategy. Of allthe offensive strategies formulated by the Indian ruling classes to crushthe revolutionary movement in India, the one which started from mid-2009(and continuing) is unprecedented, country-wide, most severe, deceptive,centralized and protracted one till date. The military suppression campaignis concentrated on our strong rural areas and guerilla zones, especiallyDandakaranya, Jharkhand-Bihar, Lalgarh and bordering areas of Jharkhand-Odisha, Andhra-Odisha and Telangana-Chhattisgarh. This ‘War on People’has intensified social contradictions. No other suppression campaign hadearned the wrath and resistance of people as much as the OGH in the past45 areas.

Thirdly - after UPA came to power for second time, there was aqualitative change in implementing the counter-insurgency theories whichare restructuring or influencing the state machinery, Indian constitution,judiciary, legislating bodies, administrative bodies, politics, economy, culture,media and so on. This is inspired and led by the ‘War on Terror’ waged bythe imperialists under the leadership of US imperialists. This will lead ourcountry to a disastrous situation. The more they try to wage this brutal war,the more protest and resistance they would encounter from the vast masses.Such resistance is clearly seen all over the country.

Due to the struggles waged by us in all the fields and due to the immensesacrifices of our most revered and beloved three hundred martyrs in thepast one year we have won significant successes. They are:

1. The successful attacks in Singanamadugu, Mukaram (Tadimetla)and Kongera of Chhattisgarh; Laheri in Maharashtra; Sankreland Silda in Bengal; Gumla, Vishnupur and Latehar in Jharkhand;Sono, government toll plaza (Gaya) and Tandwa bazaar in Bihar;Potakal and Baipharguda in Odisha, particularly the historicalMukram (Tadimetla) attack had broken down the initiative of theenemy and increased that of the guerilla forces. These attackshad armed the PLGA with more weapons and new experiencesin guerilla war. Tadimetla experience is of the highest level of allthese. If not for this active resistance of our forces and people,

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the enemy would have found more ground to obliterate ourmovement. These great experiences would definitely help us infighting back the enemy forces employed for a bigger attack. Itwas nothing else but the active support of the people which servedas the foundation for all these successes.

2. The struggles of Kalinganagar, Singur and Nandigram shook theruling classes and later Lalgarh and Narayanpatna struggles hadburst forth on an extensive and higher scale than these struggles.These were led by our party against revisionism or rightopportunism and were waged against the enemy classes,imperialists and the state. We had not seen a deluge of such vast,militant, long drawn mass uprisings in the past 25 years. Thelessons of these revolutionary mass uprisings for the developmentof people’s war in our country are invaluable.

3. Lalgarh armed peasant movement which had erupted, spread andconsolidated in a period when the enemy had deployed forces ona large scale and was attempting to crush the peasant uprising, isvery significant and earned a special place in the annals of Indianarmed agrarian revolutionary struggle history.

4. Vast masses under our party’s leadership have successfullythwarted the attempts of the MNCs and CBB corporations toloot the natural resources in Eastern and Central India. Our PBsends revolutionary greetings to all the people, revolutionary,democratic, progressive and patriotic organizations and individualswho stood firmly in these struggles and promises that our partywould stand in the forefront in these struggles.

5. Our party had conducted ideological and political propaganda waragainst the enemy’s psychological war, under the leadership ofComrade Azad. If our entire party had not fought along with Com.Azad at various levels, the people’s war would not have won thismuch credit. His services in this field are most significant andparamount. Let us continue the struggle in this field with Com.Azad’s inspiration.

Along with these five main successes, in some states, we had expanded

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to new areas, consolidated party, PLGA, politically and militarily,consolidated the existing Revolutionary People’s Committees/JanatanaSarkars and expanded them in newer areas. All these successes had wonus the support of many revolutionary forces, intellectuals, democrats,progressive and patriotic forces.

Comrades!

Our losses had been very severe. Unless each committee from theCC to the lower committees and the entire party strives very hard to buildup new forces in a planned manner on a wide scale and continues therectification campaign effectively we will not be able to fulfill the lossesincurred, particularly that of Com. Azad and other leadership comrades atcentral and state level.

Only when we understand the real reasons behind the losses, we canprevent them and only then we can strengthen the party as an impregnablefort to the enemy. To identify the real reasons we have to take lessonsfrom the experiences of our party and Maoist parties of other countries.

We have to expand and intensify the self-defensive war waged underthe party’s leadership by PLGA, people and by uniting with all strugglingforces of our country and other countries. If we firmly rely on the massesand make use of our PLGA properly in the war, we would definitely beable to defeat Green Hunt.

Let us prepare ourselves to wage people’s war with utmost courageand determination. Celebrate the 6th anniversary of our party formationday with brimming revolutionary enthusiasm and zeal. Let us propagatewidely the successes won even amidst severe repression in the past oneyear.

Our beloved comrades and people of India!

The CPI (Maoist) is issuing a call to all the people of our country tounify under the leadership of the party and rise against the feudal andcomprador rulers who are selling our country to the imperialists. We cannotliberate our country from the clutches of these predators without arevolutionary party. The party calls upon all the resistance struggles againstthe loot of our country to come together which would lead to a broad

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united front. The fight for land to the tiller, democratic power to the peopleand basic needs and against SEZs, displacement, corporate mining, plunderof our natural resources, price rise, corruption and all such burning problemshave to be carried out in an united manner. We can win only through ourunified strength. As our fight intensifies, the state onslaught on all thedemocratic and revolutionary struggles would also intensify. Let us prepareourselves for this. Jan Jagrans, Salwa Judums, Sendras and Green Huntscan never break a determined people or their revolutionary party. FinalVictory belongs to the people.

Let us consolidate our party as an impregnable fortress andavoid huge losses to leadership and ranks !

Hail and follow the exemplary model battle of Tadimetla to de-feat ‘Operation Green Hunt’ !

Let us unite with and bring together all resistance movementspaving the way for a countrywide strong United Front !

Let us hail and follow the exemplary model of Comrade Azad ineffectively fighting back the enemy’s psychological warfare !

Let us extend to vast areas to fulfill the multi-faceted tasks ofPeople’s War!

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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September 23, 2010

Stay alert to the heinous attempts of

the ruling classes to divide us

in the name of religion andstop killing each other in their interests !

Court judgment on the demolition of Babri Masjid was initially awaitedon September 24, 2010, which has been postponed for a week today. Evenbefore the judgment is delivered the air is reeking with apprehension andtrepidation. The uneasy memories of that fateful day (December 6, 1992)are giving fear to all democratic sections in the country and needless tosay, especially to the Muslims all over the sub-continent. Any sane personwho wants to learn history in order not to repeat it is waking up with a startfrom the nightmare of our history of communal flare ups. The unprecedenteddeployment of police and paramilitary forces in all the states and UnionTerritories on the eve of the judgment is creating doubts as to what is to beawaited from the court which is but an organ of the Hindu religion andupper caste-biased state that is the Indian government. The callous, cold-hearted, pro-imperialist, anti-Indian people, traitorous judgment in the Bhopalgas leak case is sending alarm chills down the spines of concerned citizensand is issuing warning calls. There is not much in our whole history ofcourt judgments which could reassure the people.

We, the CPI (Maoist) appeal to all the people of India to stay alert tothe possibilities of a flare up of communal tensions with the instigation ofthe ruling classes, especially by the saffron fascist brigades in the wake ofthis judgment. Whatever may be the judgment, what they would like to dois to divert the people from their problems, struggles and political andeconomic crises. Since the days of the Partition, many a time lakhs ofHindus, Muslims, Sikhs and people of other religions and minorities in thesub-continent had fallen victim to the vicious propaganda of the ruling classesand massacred each other. In the context of India, the main perpetratorshad been the Hindu chauvinist fascist gangs and the main victims had been

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Muslims and other religious minorities. The state is not an accomplice; infact it is the main actor in all these massacres. The main culprits amongthe political parties are the Congress and the BJP.

We appeal to the people that it is high time we realize theconspiracies of the ruling classes in dividing us. Let us say a bigNO to their scheming. Let us stand united against their deviousplans to massacre us, especially the Muslims. However hard theymay try to make us raise swords against each other, let us standunited and turn those swords against those who are trying to drivethis wedge of communalism between us.

CPI (Maoist) has been the most consistent among all the politicalparties of this country in unequivocally condemning the demolition of theBabri Masjid and demanding its reconstruction at the same place. It hasstood firmly in support of the minorities, especially of Muslims and Christiansand had put up a bitter struggle against the Hindu chauvinist Sangh Parivarand the pseudo secularism of the Congress. We once again firmly reiteratethat reconstruction of the ancient, historical monument at the same place isthe only solution to this issue.

We appeal to all the Hindus of the country not to believe the divideand rule policy of Congress and Hindu chauvinist fascist propaganda ofBJP and Sangh Parivar. We appeal that as the majority community in thecountry more responsibility lies in their hands as massacres are perpetratedonly through their known and unknown collaboration. It is the duty of everyconcerned citizen of our country to stand in support of the victims ofcommunal pogroms and do everything possible to stop genocide of innocentpeople, whatever may be their religion. We appeal to the people of Muslimcommunity to stay alert to the opportunistic attempts by somefundamentalists to stoke the fires instead of taking up a united resistanceof all peoples against the common enemy. Our party stands with peopleand would do everything possible to stop massacres of innocent people.

Stand united against the malicious attempts of the ruling classes todivide us in the name of religion and community !

Fight back the communal pogroms on minorities, especially Muslims

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which may be perpetrated in the wake of the judgment on demolitionof Babri Masjid !

No more killing of our own brothers and sisters, no more innocencein being at the receiving end of the false propaganda of all hues ofcommunalism, particularly Hindu communalism, Indian state andthe US imperialists !

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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September 23,2010

Condemn the brutal killings of Kashmiriswho are agitating for their freedom by the

Indian ruling classes !

Participate in huge numbers in the 24 hourbandh called on September 30, 2010

in protest of the massacre of Kashmiris by thegovernment armed forces and

in support of the just movement of theKashmiri people!

Massacres of people in Kashmir by the state is out bursting all limits.People are conducting protest marches all over the Kashmir valley againstthe innumerable atrocities, indiscriminate firings and endless curfew hours.The slogan of AZADI is reverberating all over the valley. More than ahundred Kashmiris have lost their lives since June 11 in the firings done bythe paramilitary, army and police forces to suppress the just struggle of theKashmiri people. Most of those who died are youngsters below 20 yearsof age and children. Hundreds of protestors have been injured. Theexploitative and expansionist Indian ruling classes who claim that this is thebiggest democracy in the world are shamelessly deploying the armed forcesto suppress the Kashmiris who are conducting peaceful, unarmed and justprotests. While the UPA government led by the Congress and allparliamentary parties including the so called left parties CPI, CPI(M) aresupporting directly or indirectly this massacre of the Kashmiri people, theHindu chauvinist BJP is repeatedly inciting the government to suppress theKashmiri people in cruelest manner. The Omar Abdullah government whichis working as a stooge of the Indian ruling classes is participating in thisbrutal suppression and has been completely isolated from the people.

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Kashmiri people hate these traitors. Firing, tear gas shelling and lathi chargeson each and every procession have become the order of the day. It is inthis background that the Kashmiri youth are resorting to counter offensiveby hurling stones. This resistance done in self-defence against the brutalmassacres is completely justified and democratic.

Kashmir people had never considered themselves a part of India. By1947 when a sham ‘independence’ was handed over to India and Pakistanby the British rulers, Kashmir was an independent state under the rule ofRaja Hari Singh. The Indian and Pakistani ruling classes who are stoogesof the British imperialists had integrated Kashmir into their countries fortheir own interests and against the aspirations and desires of the Kashmiris.One part was occupied by the Indian expansionists and the other half wasoccupied by Pakistan. Thus Kashmir was divided into two parts in themost atrocious manner. In order to cool down the fury of the Kashmiris,Nehru government had promised to the people of Kashmir and the UNOin writing to conduct a plebiscite and promised that it would give themindependence if people wanted to secede. Nehru had reiterated this promisemany more times. But within a short time Nehru began suppressing theKashmiris under the iron heels of his armed forces. This promise had beendeeply buried by every ruling class party which had come to power fromNehru to Sonia-Manmohan’s UPA. Indian expansionists had always usedrepression against the Kasmiris whenever they agitated for theirindependence. The Indian ruling classes had been conducting a plannedpropaganda that Kashmir is an integral part of India by hiding even therecent past and burying the promises. The desire for independence hasbeen simmering inside the hearts of the Kashmiris since then and it turnedinto a militant armed movement in the 90s. Many militant organizationsconducted armed struggle. Though there are some differences in thepolitical aims of these organizations, they got the support of the peoplebecause they expressed the national liberation aspirations of the Kashmiris.But the fascist Indian ruling classes had deployed more than 7 lakh paramilitary and military forces all over the Kashmir valley and had alreadykilled more than 80 thousand Kashmiri people. Thousands of Kashmirishad gone missing. It is no exaggeration to say that no other governmenthad carried out such a cruel repression on any nationality struggle by

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deploying armed forces in such large numbers on such a massive scale.The Indian ruling classes had resorted to all kinds of conspiracies andscheming and had ignited differences between Kashmiri Hindus andMuslims using divide and rule policy. They are still conspiring to counterpose the Kashmiri Pandits against the just movement of the Kashmiri people.Particularly, the role of the expansionist chauvinist Congress, and role playedby the saffron Hindu chauvinist Sangh Parivar in the past and present isoutrightly heinous. With the excuse that there are pro-Pakistan forces andIslamic forces in the movement of the Kashmiris, Indian rulers arepropagating that the movement of the Kashmiris is aimed at seceding fromIndia and integrating in Pakistan. This is nothing but an utter lie. The onlyaspiration of the Kashmiris right from the beginning is to win liberation fortheir nationality. That is why, though the Indian ruling classes had beenrepeatedly stating that they had put down militancy in Kashmir, in fact, ithad never been extinguished. Though this movement has been eruptingunder various circumstances as a response to different problems, the factthat the main slogan of all these agitations is AZADI is testimony to this.CPI (Maoist) firmly reiterates that Kashmiri movement for the liberationof Kashmiris, for their right to self-determination is completely just andthat neither India nor Pakistan have any rights over them.

Freedom-loving people of Kashmir,

Our party supports and stands in complete support of your strugglefor independence and right to self-determination against the expansionistIndian ruling classes. Our party is sending revolutionary greetings to youon behalf of the entire revolutionary, democratic and struggling people ofIndia and salutes the determination you are demonstrating in your agitationsbraving police firings, lathi charges, curfews, continuous searching operationsand unending insults. Though dozens of youngsters are being killed inindiscriminate firings, you are hoisting the dead on your shoulders and areparticipating in the funeral marches in thousands all the while demandingAZADI. Your determination and sacrifice will forever be etched in theannals of history. Our party expresses deep condolences to all the martyrs’families, their near and dear and to the whole Kashmiri society who hadlost their beloved sons and daughters to the bullets of the mercenary troops

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of the Indian expansionists. It is the ruling classes who are trying to isolateyou by branding you as anti-national and your movement as a secessionistmovement who are the real enemies of all the oppressed nationalities andpeoples all over the sub-continent. So let’s fight unitedly against this commonenemy of ours. Let us intensify our struggles.

Justice-loving people of India,

Our party is appealing to all of you to not to believe the chauvinist liespropagated by the Indian exploitative ruling classes, particularly by Congressand saffron terrorist brigade against the just struggle of the Kashmiris. It isappealing to all of you to verify facts and stand in firm support of this juststruggle. We are calling upon all of you to participate in huge numbers inobserving a 24 hour bandh on September 30, 2010, in support of the juststruggle of the Kashmiris and against the massacres perpetuated by thegovernment armed forces.

The concrete demands of our party in this context are as follows

1. Stop immediately the massacres of Indian armed forces inKashmir!

2. Withdraw immediately military and para military forces fromKashmir !

3. Immediately repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act(AFSPA) which authorizes the armed forces to kill thepeople indiscriminately !

4. Plebiscite should be conducted in Kashmir and Kashmirisshould be allowed to decide their future on their own !

5. Release all political prisoners unconditionally !

We are calling upon the people of six states (Bihar, Jharkhand, WestBengal, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh), people of Gadchiroli,Gondia, Chandrapur districts of Maharashtra and people of Balaghat inMadhya Pradesh to close down all rail and road traffic, banks, governmentand private offices, industries, educational institutions and business

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establishments and refuse to attend them. We are excluding essential serviceslike hospitals and other services from this bandh call.

Anand Abhay

Secretary, Central Regional Bureau Spokesperson,

Central Committee, Central Committee,

CPI (Maoist) CPI (Maoist)

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September 25, 2010

Defy the Orders to Kill Fighting People ofJangal Mahal!

Dear Friends,

You are the soldiers of the Nagaland Indian Reserve Battalion. Youhave been deployed in this mountainous terrain of Purulia district of WestBengal to fight against the Maoists and the poorest of the poor people whohave dared to struggle against extreme poverty, visible and invisible murdersevery day, every moment and against this unjust system. You the Nagasoldiers will be compelled to kill, injure and brutalize the poverty-strickenpeople in exchange for a fixed salary to look after your poor parents inNagaland. With this monthly income the government of the rich uses youas cannon fodder in this war against the class of people who are like yourparents, brothers and sisters. The government considers you as ambushexpert Nagas who can easily kill and get killed in the battle-zone of theAyodhya Hills of Purulia district in West Bengal. Your precious lives are ofno value to the government of the rich. They think you are like robots whocan be utilized like lifeless machines. And with such a hatred and disdainthe central government has sent you to risk your lives in this treacherousbattle field.

You do not know why this unequal war of the State against the exploitedpeople continues in Jangal Mahal. But you are definitely aware that thissame State has never stopped its brutal war on the Naga people in yournative land struggling for freedom and justice. This Indian State thinks youthe Naga soldiers are like beasts who are adept at ambushes. So you canbe deployed here for the most risky and brutal war against the uprising ofthe people of Jangal Mahal. And as this is a war against the Maoists andthe common people, retaliation shall inevitably kill and injure many of you.A few years back even after our earnest appeal to your colleagues inChhattisgarh not to participate in anti-people operations, they did not heedto it and many got killed. You must remember that common people inNagaland protested then against sending the Naga soldiers to Chhattisgarh

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to battle against the Maoists. You must keep it in mind that you are invitingan inglorious end to your lives and infamy to the freedom-loving Nagapeople.

Here in West Bengal we the Maoist are struggling against centuries-old exploitation and oppression. The Congress-led Central government andthe state government here controlled by the fake Marxist CPI (M) want tosell out natural resources, acquire land and destroy livelihoods of the peopleby any means in the interests of native and foreign corporates. TheOperation Green Hunt in West Bengal in collaboration with the armed CPI(M) goons is to clear the land of Maoist patriots and fighting masses. Youhave been brought here to fight their war against the people and the Maoistsdedicated to the interests of the poor people.

It is your duty as sons of the freedom-loving Naga people to resist thisconspiracy against the exploited people and their leaders. The CPI(Maoist) appeals to you: revolt against the Orders to do battle againstpeople, desist from pumping bullets into the bodies of your brothersand sisters and defy all Orders to dispatch you from one place toanother at the diktat and whims of your superiors to kill people andget killed.

KishanjiSpokesperson,

Eastran Regional Bureau, CPI (Maoist)

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October 31, 2010

Oppose Firmly Barack Obama’s visit to India,who is the Gang Leader of US Imperialism and

The No. 1 Enemy of the World People!

Raise the Slogan in One Voice

‘OBAMA! GO BACK!!’Loudly Throughout the Country!

US President Barack Obama will be coming to our country onNovember 6. The comprador rulers of India are busy laying red carpet towelcome him and trying to beautify Mumbai and Delhi. This is a greatinsult to democracy-loving, peace-loving and patriotic people of our country.US imperialism, which has been plundering the poor countries across theworld, suppressing the oppressed nationalities, pushing the notorious thugsand dictators into the power, bullying those countries who wouldn’t cooperate,going to any extent to loot oil, minerals and all other natural wealth andsources, is the no. 1 enemy of world people. Its leader Barack Obama issuch a person whom the entire humanity must hate. As his predecessorGeorge Bush had accumulated the hate across the globe, US imperialistmasters brought Barack Obama in a plan that people could be deceivedwith his skin color. Though Obama was so much rhetorical opposing thepolicies of Bush, after entering into the White House, all the policies anddecisions taken by him till this day are nothing but continuation of the Bushadministration. In fact the difference between George Bush and BarackObama lies just in their color and in the name of their representing parties.There is no difference between them in exploiting and suppressing theworld people, oppressed nationalities, countries and working class of theUS. It’s an irrefutable fact that this black color President was selected bythe most notorious white vultures of US monopolistic corporations.

The US imperialists are killing innocent people everyday in Afghanistanand western Pakistan by indiscriminate bombing and drone attacks. The

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endless massacres are still going on in Iraq. Obama has proved himself awarmonger by sending 30 thousand more US troops to Afghanistan. TheUS imperialism, which has stood upon the huge mountains of mostdestructive arms which could smash this globe at least for ten times, hasbeen instigating wars and waging wars itself so as to keep away its warindustry getting caught in crisis which constitutes the mammoth of itseconomy. On the other hand, it’s been issuing threats to Iran and NorthKorea in the pretext that they were acquiring nuclear capabilities. Now it’stargeting Yemen alleging that it had become a hub for Al Qaeda. ‘War onterror’, initiated by George Bush after 9/11 attacks, is now being continuedwithout any letting by Democratic Barack Obama with indiscriminateattacks in the name of dealing with Al Qaeda, Talibans and so-called Islamicterrorists. Obama did not try to stop or condemn the inhuman attacks ofIsraeli Zionists on Gaza, which had become a hell on the ground, and theconspired assassinations of notorious Mosad. Thus Obama holdsresponsibility for the death of hundreds of Palestine people.

A significant phenomenon that has come to the fore in Obama’s rule,is that the US intelligence agency FBI has been provoking the innocentAmerican Muslims, particularly the American youths of Pakistani origin,for attacks and then by covert operations it’s arresting them with allevidences and propagating its victory in a big way. Thus it’s has been ableto keep the insecurity feeling alive among the masses of America and todivert huge amounts of people’s money into its ‘war on terror’. By this, theObama administration is creating endless waves of hopelessness and despairamong the Muslim community in America in particular and among entiretoiling masses of the US on the whole.

Today, the US economy is caught in a quagmire of severe economiccrisis. Present crisis which was initially ignited as a sub-prime crisis, nowhas taken such a severe form that was never seen after 1930s.Unemployment rate in US is 10% now which is unprecedented. But Obamahas been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars of money collected fromtax-paying people into the huge bellies of greedy monopolistic corporatelords by pushing American people, particularly working class and middleclass people into a state of agony. He cut so many schemes meant for thewelfare of the people. Despite all these steps, as there seems no ray of

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hope of getting out of this cyclone of crisis, he’s been trying to intensify theplunder of resources from backward and poor nations so as to revitalizehis economy. Now Obama along with the host of rapacious corporatebosses is not going to come here to enjoy the beauty of Mumbai or Delhi.They’re going to visit our country only to push more capital here and tosign many more agreements which would plunder our country’s wealthfurther more. Thus, they are eager to plan to push their burden of theircrisis onto the shoulders of India even more. They are coming here only togive suggestions to suppress the Maoist movement which is the biggestobstacle in robbing away the resources of this country indiscriminately,along with all other people’s movements, with more barbarity.

During UPA-I, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ignoring stiffopposition from the people, had civilian nuclear deal with the US passedproving himself a trustworthy servant of the US imperialists. The NuclearLiability Bill which has been passed by the Parliament recently is nothingbut a continuation of this servility. Regarding the Bhopal gas leak accidentwhich led to gruesome death of thousands of people and disaster forhundreds of thousands of people in Bhopal, the wounds in the hearts andminds of the people of India continue to pain till this day. And now the UPAgovernment has in a most shameless manner dared to prepare this Billenabling many more ‘Bhopals’ to make their way and ensuring even ifsuch holocausts take place, the foreign capitalists responsible for thosewould be set free with far less ‘liability’ (just like Warren Anderson andDow Chemicals were set free). While BJP has helped UPA governmentin passing this Bill, the parliamentary Left parties who call themselvesCommunists, have once again proved their compromising nature by notopposing this traitorous Bill firmly and not initiating people’s movementagainst this. Manmohan Singh worked hard to ensure this Bill passed beforethe arrival of Obama.

Indian government is acting as a tool in the hands of the US in its geo-political strategy of encircling China which has been rising recently as anew player in the arena of international capitalism. The US is one handkeeping both India and Pakistan of this region in its firm grip and on theother hand, ensuring the enmity between these countries sustained. It’sbeen selling arms to both of these countries and plundering the markets of

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both countries. It’s been implementing its strategy of global hegemony bytightening the grip over this region on the whole. Indian ruling classes arenot at all dissenting and thus supporting the regular bombings and droneattacks of the US on Afghanistan and western Pakistan. In response tothis, US is supporting India’s policies of intervention and plunder in southAsia region. Now, the Obama’s visit and the warm welcome being offeredby these comprador rulers and other opposition parties are an integral partof this collusion.

Instead of opposing Obama’s visit firmly, the parliamentary Left partiesare so showing their eagerness and glad to listen this warmonger. They arecheating the people by saying Obama is not Bush. They are trying to hidethe fact that the difference between these two would be equivalent only tothe difference between a monster and a beast. BJP is singing the welcometunes along with Congress showing to its comprador nature as well.

Dear people of India! Democrats!! Welcoming Obama means nothingbut a betrayal to the values of sovereignty, freedom, independence, self-reliance, peace, justice and democracy. Inviting Obama to our belovedcountry means showing servility to its warmongering, invasive, exploitativeand hegemonic policies. That’s why the Central Committee of the CommunistParty of India (Maoist) is calling upon entire people, revolutionary anddemocratic organizations and all patriotic forces of India to register yourprotest in various forms and to raise the slogan ‘OBAMA! GO BACK!!’loudly in one voice. On this occasion through distributing leaflets, postersand banners and conducting meetings and seminars, we also call upon thepeople to register your protest to Obama’s visit to India and to oppose theUPA government and other bankrupt parliamentary parties who’re ridiculingthe sovereignty of our country by bowing their heads before the USimperialists.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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November 25, 2010

Army recruitment campaigns

should be immediately stopped

in areas of ‘Naxal influence’!

Our party, the CPI (Maoist) severely condemns the army recruitmentcampaigns in areas of ‘Naxal influence’. Rosaiah, the Chief Minister ofAndhra Pradesh stated that the army recruitment campaigns carried out inWarangal and Karimnagar districts should be extended to all areas of naxalinfluence in the state as these campaigns would be very useful in pullingout the youth from under naxal influence. This very clearly shows whatthe stance of the central and state governments is towards the naxal issue.

Already army headquarters and Air Force headquarters wereestablished in Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh. In states of naxal influenceunified commands have been formed and it was decided that army officersshould lead them. The paramilitary and special forces deployed in theseareas are being trained under the leadership of the army officers and thensent. All the anti-naxal operations are guided closely by the army experts.In the background of the Mukaram (Tadimetla) ambush where 76 securitypersonnel were wiped out in the valiant attack of our PLGA, the centralgovernment had come to the understanding that none of forces other thanthe army are sufficient for solving the naxal problem and has intensifiedthe preparations to deploy the army. These army recruitment campaignstaken up by the defence ministry are also a part of this.

The central defence ministry which is at present facing a shortage inforces to deploy army in areas of naxal influence, is trying to fill up thedeficit by recruiting as many as possible into the army in the next two tothree years. The defence ministry is taking up these recruitment campaignsin a scheming manner as it had come to the conclusion that in order todecimate the naxalite movement completely local youth familiar with thelocal terrain, language and culture of the people are very much necessaryand that they could not fight back the naxalite movement without increasingrecruitment from them. As part of the LIC (Low Intensity Conflict) strategy

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and tactics it is trying to continue army recruitments by luring the youthborn in areas of revolutionary movement with the ‘promise of jobs’ inorder to damage the unity among the people through bringing a divide andmaking them fight each other. The Indian ruling classes want to solve thenaxal problem thus through the army.

In 2005 as part of the counter-revolutionary ‘Salwa Judum’ taken upwith the same goal, thousands of SPOs were recruited from local adivasisby the government of Chhattisgarh and ignited the ‘civil war’ among thepeople. Now all the people of our country know how ‘Salwa Judum’ wasdefeated. The adivasi people had vehemently opposed the white terrorcreated by the Salwa Judum and had defeated it through large scale attackson the SPO system it had given birth to. The youth had strongly voicedtheir opposition to the ‘SPO job’ which creates a divide between the people.

But the central and state governments which have not taken any lessonsfrom this are following the bankrupt policies of recruiting youth into thearmy by luring with the promise of a job without solving the basic problemsof the people who are fighting for ‘Jal-Jungle-Zameen’ and for the liberationof the country. Our party is giving a call to all sections of people in ourcountry including the democrats, patriotic forces and adivasi massorganizations to oppose this recruitment campaign. The governments havesigned hundreds of MoUs to hand over for peanuts the abundant forestand mineral resources in areas where adivasi population lives in largenumbers to the MNCs and the Indian comprador big bourgeoisie. The goalof these army recruitment campaigns is to decimate the revolutionarymovement which is very strong in exactly the same adivasi areas. Theirultimate aim is to carry on unrestrained offensive on people andrevolutionaries in those areas by using the locally recruited youth as ashield and destroy the naxalite movement, chase away the adivasis fromthe forests and carry on their exploitation without any hindrance. Everycitizen should oppose the attempt to build the army from sections of theoppressed people to suppress and annihilate the adivasis and the oppressedpeople.

Our party is calling upon the youth to boycott these army recruitmentcampaigns. If they had already been selected, we appeal to them to take

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the interests of their people and their class to heart and cancel the selections.In the name of patriotism and by propagating that Maoists are the ‘biggestthreat to internal security’ the Indian ruling classes are filling the brains ofthe youth with poison and are trying to realize their interests by makingthem cannon fodder. The people of Kashmir and North-East states wouldtell you what would happen if army is deployed. People would be killed,tortured, incarcerated in sibirs, women would be raped and become victimsof innumerable atrocities, thousands would be arrested and put in jails –this is what would happen if the army is deployed and it has been proven inhistory that this had never ensured security for the people. So our party isappealing to the youth not to join the army which leads to the destruction ofproperty and dignity and lives of their parents, brothers and sisters. Pleasedo not become the enemies to your own people.

Our party is calling upon the unemployed youth, their organizations,students and student-youth organizations to resort to united action to solvethe unemployment problem. Our party is appealing to the people to fightwith the slogans ‘Provide us with jobs other than the jobs of police, home-guard and army’ and ‘Jobs to all the deserving’. They should fight againstunemployment, hunger, ill-health, illiteracy, poverty, corruption anddisplacement problems. The youth should realize the solution to severalbasic issues like right to land, water and forest is linked to the liberation ofthe country and should join the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA)in thousands.

Pratap

Spokesperson,

Central Regional Bureau, CPI (Maoist)

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November 27, 2010

Unified Action Plan

To ‘Develop’ Maoist Stronghold DistrictsIs Not Aimed To Solve Any Basic Problems

Of The People,But To Crush The Revolutionary Movement!

Punish Traitors Severely, Who Are Involved InScams Of Billions Of Rupees Of Hard Earned

People’s Money!!Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, yesterday on 26th November,

has approved Central Planning Commission’s Rs 137.42 billion ‘UnifiedAction Plan’ to ‘develop’ naxal affected areas. Two year long, Rs. 33billion package of the first phase announced by Home Minister is to spendRs 250 millions in each of the districts of the 9 naxal affected states in theyear 2010-11 and Rs. 300 millions for each of the districts in the year 2011-12. He said cabinet committee will review it after 2 years. These rulersclaim that, by providing basic amenities in these poor tribal districts, wheremore than 50% of the population live below poverty line, want to achieve‘development’ and thus aim to solve naxal ‘problem’. As per them, basic‘amenities’ include primarily roads, later panchayat buildings, electricity,school buildings, education and health. On the one hand, since one yearthese rulers, in the name of Operation Green Hunt, have deployed morethan 200 thousands of paramilitary forces and massacred hundreds of tribalpeople, now on the other hand, in these same areas want to spend millionsof rupees. Is it for the benefit of people? Or is it to further its repression onthe people? It is easy to understand. While making this announcement,Home Minister P. Chidambaram insisted to spend all the money by end ofthe March next and show ‘development’. Involving police department in

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the programme and placing district superintendents of police in thesecommittees is nothing but an effort to put a ‘developmental’ mask to theirfascist repressive measures. Is construction of roads and buildings for‘people living below poverty line’? Or is it to facilitate state’s armed forces,which are carrying out killings at will and crushing their right to live. Anyadivasi living in these areas can answer this question. Hiding the fact that,by occupying the buildings of educational institutions, armed forces havethemselves become a great hindrance to the very education, want to spendbillions of rupees to improve educational facilities is an outright deceit.These rulers never bothered, at the loss of lives of adivasis every year forminor diseases like diarrhea and fevers can not be trusted, when want toimprove medical facilities under these packages.

In fact, since the last two months not a single day passed without thenews of scams. People are witnessing, how tens of billions of people’smoney is being whacked away by corrupt political leaders, ministers, bigbureaucrats, corporate bosses and noted media barons. These rulers, whoshout on top of their voice that Maoists are the biggest internal securitythreat and their bankrupt intellectuals who beat the drums in unison are thereal big dacoits. This can be easily realised without referring history.Commonwealth Games scam (nearly one billion rupees), 2G spectrum scam(above one billion rupees), Adarsh housing society scandal, Karnataka landscams etc. are enough of evidence. Congress, BJP, DMK, Janata Dal likeexploitative ruling class parties are all, without exception, part of this outrightplunder. All these scams are more nakedly and blatantly getting exposedbefore the people. Maoist understanding that the only way out is to smashthis deep-rooted, corrupt, exploitative system completely is day by daygetting more people’s acceptance. This is what is threatening theseexploitative ruling classes.

By all these scams, which are visible to naked eye, one can easilyguess to where and in whose pockets millions of rupees of money by theseeconomic packages would end up. It’s worth noting that these rulers arenot afraid of the people that they will mock at them, when they say that‘development’ will take place by these economic packages. If we note thefact that Montek Singh Ahluwalia, vice-chairperson of the planningcommission, who, designed this economic package, Chidambaram, who

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approved it, both of them have sincerely and reliably served in imperialistfinancial institutions and imperialist corporate houses and the leader of thisruling clique, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who himself spent most ofhis life in the service of imperialist financial and monetary institutions, thenit is easy to understand who will be the end beneficiary. On the one hand,signing hundreds of billions of rupees of MOUs with corporations, facilitatingthe plunder of country’s resources in tribal areas, threatening the veryexistence of tribal populations, turning a deaf ear to the demand by thepeople and democratic forces to make all MOUs public and cancel themall, on the other hand, talking of ‘Development’ is a big joke.

We, the Central Committee of CPI (Maoist) severely oppose this anti-people ‘Unified Action Plan’. Our CC feels that this is a part of the fascistrepressive campaign by the centre and state government-sponsoredOperation Green Hunt and facilitate it further. The claim that, backwardareas will be developed is a farce, a deceit. The governments, if at allsincere, should first give all rights over Jal-Jungle-Jameen to adivasisand poor people; cancel all MOUs signed with MNCs and big corporatecompanies; stop all those projects of big dams, mines, sanctuaries, big steelplants and SEZs which would displace hundreds of thousands of people;and stop Operation Green Hunt immediately under which adivasis arebeing massacred.

On this occasion, our Central Committee demand to arrest and punishseverely all those political leaders, ministers and corporate houses’ headsinvolved in Commonwealth Games scam, Adarsh housing society scam,Karnataka land scams etc.; and all those saffron terrorist leaders involvedin Malegaon, Ajmer Sharif, Mecca Masjid etc. bomb explosions.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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December 4, 2010

Rebuild Babri Masjid At The Same Site!Isolate And Defeat Hindu Fascist Forces!!

Punish Severely Saffron TerroristsResponsible For Malegaon, Mecca Masjid,

Ajmer Sherief And Samjhouta Express

Bomb Blasts!Exactly 18 years ago, on 6th December, 1992, Hindu religious

fundamentalist goondas in connivance with the then Congress governmentat the centre, demolished Babri Masjid at Ayodhya. Firstly, these Hindufundamentalists made 500 year-old Babri Masjid a controversial site byclaiming it as the birth place of Lord Rama and on that pretext many a timeinstigated communal disturbances in the country killing thousands ofMuslims. Demolition of Babri Masjid was the biggest attack by Hindufascists in the history of our country. The likes of LK Advani, Ashok Singhal,Murali Manohar Joshi, Praveen Togadiya, Uma Bharati, Sadhvi Ritambara,who were directly involved in it were not punished by any court even tilltoday. On 30th September, giving its verdict on the ownership rights of thecontroversial site, pending for 61 years, the Lucknow bench of the AllahabadHigh Court with its Brahminical Hindu religious ideology did injustice toMuslims. Without any historical evidence and archeological proof it statedthe controversial place to be the birth place of Lord Rama. First occupyingMasjid, then demolishing, now by giving verdict to build temple, that too tohandover the very forces involved in demolition, clarifies Indian state’sHindu fascist mindset. By this verdict, once again it has been proved thatthe Houses of justice in this country favour only exploitative classes andBrahminical Hindu religious fanatics, but not peasants, workers, dalits,women and religious minorities. By court verdicts a solution to this cannotbe found, only by smashing the present system and by establishing NewDemocratic State, a solution to this can be found.

In the recent past, many evidences surfaced proving the involvementof saffron terrorist groups of the Sagh Parivar in bomb blasts at Malegaon,

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Ajmer Sherief, Hyderabad’s Mecca Masjid, Samjhouta express. Theleaders of VHP, RSS, Bajarang Dal and other organizations on the proxyname of ‘Abhinav Bharat’ conspired bomb blasts and killed many innocentpeople. It has become a norm for the police and intelligence agencies toblame Muslims as culprits, wherever and whenever bomb blasts take place,even if at Masjids. Arresting hundreds of youth without any reason andseverely torturing, killing in fake encounters, implicate false cases, accusingof having links with ISI and thus playing with the lives is part of the Hinducommunal and fascist policies of the governments. By projecting everyMuslim as a terrorist through media, governments are trying to suppressthem by all means. Those who demand to hang Ajmal Kasab who is involvedin Mumbai attacks, at the same time keeping mum or not raising their voiceloudly against Hindu fascist killers of Sangh gang is a dangerous sign.Governments are not arresting these saffron terrorists, even if they arresta few on some occasions, are setting them free declaring innocent by notconducting thorough probe. On the other hand, those intellectuals, journalists,media organizations, newspapers and activists who dare to raise their voiceagainst these Hindu fundamentalist forces are being attacked by Sanghgang at several places. On the whole, the communal fascistic trends of theIndian state are taking a severe form day by day.

Secular forces of all religions, democrats and progressive thinkersshould come forward and fight unitedly against Hindu communal fascism.All of us must condemn the attacks of Hindu fascist forces on Muslims,Christians and all other religious minorities. At the same time all otherkinds of religious fundamentalism should be opposed.

Our Party has been maintaining that the place of Babri Masjid belongedto Muslims; it should be given to Muslims and has been demanding thatBabri Masjid should be rebuilt at the same site and those fascist leaderswho had demolished it must be punished severely. Our Central Committeecalls upon all democratic, secular, progressive and revolutionary forces,organizations and parties to support this demand. Our CC also calls uponentire people to observe ‘BLACK DAY’ on December 6, by conductingmeetings and processions and wearing black badges in protest of Hinducommunalism.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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December 24, 2010

Serving people is not conspiracy!Supporting people’s struggles can never be

sedition!!

The Scamsters who amass billions of rupees are

the real conspirators!

The Gangsters who sell-out our country to imperialistsare the real traitors!!

Observe Protest Week from January 2nd to 8th, 2011 againstthe fascist Chhattisgarh government’s court judgments that

sentenced Civil Rights activist Doctor Binayak Sen,Maoist leader Narayana Sanyal, trader Piyush Guha

under sedition for life imprisonment andmagazine editor Asit Sengupta for eight years imprisonment!

On December 24, the Raipur district additional sessions court sentencedfor life civil rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen, our party Politburo memberComrade Narayan Sanyal, trader Piyush Guha under IPC, ChhattisgarhSpecial Public Security Act and UAPA implicating them in false cases.The life sentences were pronounced by B.P. Verma under IPC section124 (sedition), 120 B (conspiracy) and many other kinds of sentences werepronounced under various sections of CSPCA and UAPA. The eight yearsentence for Asit Sengupta was pronounced on the same day by O.P.Gupta. Both these judgments are the latest additions to the huge cache ofanti-people, fascist repressive measures of the Indian ruling classes.

Sentencing for life our party Politburo member Comrade NarayanSanyal, Binayak Sen, a doctor who had dedicated his life as a doctor servingthe poor people selflessly, a prominent civil rights activist and the vice-president of PUCL and Piyush Guha, a trader belonging to Kolkata is themost shameless thing for the rulers to do even while boasting that this isthe biggest democracy in the whole world. Opposing the repressive policies

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of the government, the fascist Salwa Judum, raising his voice for the repealof the black law CSPSA and standing in support of the just peoplesmovements are the ‘crimes’ committed by Dr. Binayak Sen for which hehas been punished with life sentence. When he was arrested in May 2007and kept in jail for two years, immense protests were held and severecondemnations were issued by democratic sections, medical community,Nobel laureates and many others in India and abroad. Pronouncing thissentence ignoring all this can only mean that the fascist rulers are withoutany scruples or embarrassment issuing a threat to all the democratic,progressive and patriotic sections of our country. If responding positivelytowards people’s issues in a legal, democratic manner, serving the peoplesincerely and criticizing the anti-people policies of the government is‘sedition’, then one can imagine what kind of ‘democracy’ is being practicedin this country and how dangerous it is for the people. The eight yearsentence for Asit Sengupta (editor of the Hindi version of ‘A World ToWin’ which is published in various languages all over the world) who islanguishing in jail since three years with the false accusation that he wasparticipating in Maoist activities is nothing but stifling the Freedom of Press.Recently, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, DGP Viswaranjan,Bastar IG Longkumer and Dantewada SP Kalluri gang had publishedpamphlets under the name ‘Maa Danteswari Adivasi Swabhimani Manch’and had openly declared that they would kill journalists SRK Pillai, AnilSharma and Yaswant Rai along with democrats Himanshu Kumar andArundhati Roy and had the audacity to declare that it is indeed their owndoing! So much for the ‘rule of law’ harped upon by our rulers day in andday out!

Comrade Narayan Sanyal, a 73-year old veteran communist who beganhis revolutionary life in 1968 and has dedicated more than four decades ofhis life for the liberation of the oppressed people, is ailing with varioushealth problems and has been languishing in the dark dungeons of thefascist Chhattisgarh government since five years. The Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram-Raman Singh terrorist gang is killing Maoist leaders in fakeencounters and sentencing many of them to harsh punishments under blacklaws. They are subjected to physical and mental tortures in the inhumanconditions prevailing in jails.

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On July 29, 2010, our party activist Comrade Malati @ Santi Priyaand a worker Surendra Kosaria were sentenced to ten years imprisonmentusing false witnesses under the case that Maoist propaganda CDs weresent to the MLAs. Amitabh Bagchi, a Politburo member of our party andComrade Kartik, a state committee member of West Bengal, incarceratedin Ranchi jail, were also sentenced to life imprisonment through fast trackcourt in Jharkhand. On October 29, the AP government sentenced ComradePanduranga Reddy and three others to four years imprisonment in theAlipiri case (attack on ex-CM Chandrababu) using false witnesses. Manymore revolutionary activists and ordinary people are being sentenced tovery harsh punishments including capital punishment by the reactionarycourts serving the exploiting ruling classes. Comrades Sushil Roy and KobadGandhi who are senior leaders and ailing with various health problems andold age; comrades Shobha, Patitpavan Haldar, Pramod Mishra, Vijay,Asutosh, Balraj, Chintan, Biman, Bidhan, Chandi Sarkar, Balganesh,Jharkhand Abhen’s Jeetan Marandi and thousands of other comrades aredenied bail, being implicated in false cases one after another and made tolanguish in jails for years together. In West Bengal, Comrade Swapan Dasarrested under UAPA was denied health care in Jail and became the firstmartyr of this draconian law.

The UPA government bent on selling our natural and human resourcesto imperialist MNCs like Vedanta and to comprador bourgeoisie like Tata,Essar, Jindal, Mittal etc has declared CPI (Maoist) as the biggest internalsecurity threat as it is standing in their way offering stiff resistance to thisunlimited loot. As part of this, the government is carrying on vicious foulpropaganda using its propaganda machine. Since August 2009, in the nameof Operation Green Hunt the central and state governments are resortingto brutal attacks on the revolutionary movement and particularly adivasisare being massacred by deploying millions of police and paramilitary forcesin Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengaland other states. This offensive is carried on under the guidance and fullsupport of imperialists, particularly the US imperialists. The exploiting rulersare using every means at their disposal to portray our party which is fightingwith the lofty aim of establishing people’s government of democratic classesbasing on the unity of worker-peasants by overthrowing the imperialists,

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bureaucratic comprador bourgeoisie and the feudal classes, as ‘terrorist’and ‘traitor’. Why are the ministers, political leaders, big bourgeoisie andtheir brokers, the real traitors who are amassing billions of rupees in scamsand stacking them in Swiss Banks shamelessly roaming in the corridors ofpower not booked under SEDITION? Why are all those criminals whoperpetrated and facilitated the Bhopal Gas Tragedy not calledCONSPIRATORS? How could striving for the liberation of the toilingmasses become SEDITION? How could democrats who raised their voicesand pens in support of people’s movements be called CONSPIRATORS?

These sentences are nothing but a part of the bigger conspiracy of theruling classes to eliminate all kinds of hurdles to their anti-people, unpatrioticand immoral neo-liberal economic policies. This is an alarm signal thatfascist repression would intensify further in the near future. These judgmentsare an eye opener for those who believe and get deceived innocently thatthere is still some semblance of democracy in this country. Though theovert statements of the ruling gang declare that Maoist movement is theirprime target, what is happening in reality is a fascist onslaught on progressiveand democratic forces who wish for the welfare of the people and aspireto protect the interests of our country vis-à-vis the imperialists. Our partyis appealing to the people to stand united against this offensive and defeatit through a determined fight.

The comprador governments are resorting to suppression of people’smovements and nationality liberation struggles using black laws like UAPA,CSPCA, MCOCA and AFSPA following in the footsteps of the USgovernment which promulgated black laws like the Homeland SecurityAct. The reactionary legal system which had never bothered to book orsentence the saffron terrorists who had killed many innocent people in theMecca Masjid, Malegaon and Ajmer Sharif bomb blasts or the scamstersand political gangsters involved in scams like 2G Spectrum (worth 1,76,000crores of rupees), Commonwealth games, Adarsh housing society,Karnataka lands and dozens and dozens of other scams are eagerlysentencing revolutionaries, people’s leaders, democrats and activists ofnational liberation movements in Kashmir and North-East.

The CPI (Maoist) Central Committee is appealing to all democratic,

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patriotic forces, national liberation activists and to all civil rights activists,organizations, students, intellectuals, teachers, writers, artistes, doctors,lawyers, media friends, workers and peasants to come out on the streetscondemning and opposing these judgments delivered through the reactionarylegal system by the collusion of the UPA government at the centre and theBJP government in Chhattisgarh. We appeal to all of you to build unitedand militant agitations demanding the immediate repeal of UAPA, CSPCA,MCOCA and AFSPA. We appeal to all the progressive, democratic andrevolutionary organizations, communities and individuals of various countriesto condemn in severe terms this criminal act of the Indian ruling classesand express their vigorous protest in various democratic struggle forms. Inthe past the international community stood in strong solidarity with theIndian people’s movements and had condemned the arrest of Binayak Senand demanded his immediate release. Now the time has come for it to playthis role more solidly.

Our party calls upon the people to observe protest week all over thecountry from January 2 to 8 against these judgments by creatively takingup various protest activities including press conferences, statements,dharnas, rasta rokos, meetings, protest rallies, processions, signaturecampaigns, wearing black badges, waving black flags, burning of effigiesetc., and to take up legal battles condemning severely the anti-people,traitorous and fascist policies of the ruling classes.

Our party is calling upon all our ranks, PLGA forces and revolutionarymass organizations to take up various protest forms on this occasion bymobilizing vast masses.

Our Central Committee is making it very clear that no call for bandh isbeing given as part of this protest week and is requesting the people andmedia not to believe the deliberate propaganda of the police to portray thisas a bandh call.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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January 5, 2011

Revolutionary homage to Civil Libertiesleader Comrade KG Kannabiran!

KG Kannabiran (KGK), the civil liberties leader, democrat and closefriend of Indian revolution, breathed his last on 30 December, 2010 inHyderabad. He was 82. His demise had left a void in the civil libertiesmovement of India. Kannabiran’s whole life was dedicated to the civilrights movement and he fought on behalf of the poor people in the bourgeoiscourts to protect them from the injustices of this system. He stood firmlywith the oppressed people fighting state violence on them. He always stoodin support of the revolutionary masses. KGK’s life was inseparablyintertwined with the more than four decade long revolutionary movementin our country. He did not cave in even in the face of severe repression onthe civil liberties movement in Andhra Pradesh or all over India. In thiswhole period he stood firmly with the oppressed people fighting state violenceon them. He was not only a civil rights leader but also an efficient and boldlawyer who undauntedly argued for the just things he stood for. In the post70s, he left an indelible mark as a rare personality who had carved a nichein the field of civil liberties and also as a people’s lawyer in India.

Kannabiran was influenced by communist politics in his youth andsince the wake of Naxalbari he walked in step with the revolutionarymovement in our country waged under the leadership of Maoists.Kannabiran’s activity as a civil rights leader started in the 1970s and hisservices in this field continued for four decades. After emergency he tookup responsibilities as the President of Andhra Pradesh Civil LibertiesCommittee (APCLC) in 1978 and served in that post till 1993. He waselected the national president of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)in 1994 and served in that post till last year. In this course he came closerto the revolutionary movement as the well-wisher of the oppressed people.He proved since the dark days of the emergency period of Indira raj thatthe “encounters” staged by the state are nothing but brutal murders. Evenin his last days, as an unflinching civil rights leader he strongly raised hisvoice against the brutal murders of Comrades Rajkumar (Azad), Patel

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Sudhakar, Apparao and accused the state of perpetrating these murders.

Since the days of emergency, KGK had stood in full support to all theagitations led by prisoners and political prisoners. During the historic jailagitation led by Maoist political prisoners in 1994-1995 in AP, KGKparticipated in the talks with the government. Thus he strived for the releaseof hundreds of prisoners which included several revolutionary leaders. Dueto the legal services offered by KGK, a number of prisoners could escapethe dark dungeons of the jail and gallows. Many among them had onceagain joined the revolutionary movement. In his last days, he worked asthe President of Andhra Pradesh chapter of Committee for Release ofPolitical Prisoners (CRPP).

KGK had persistently argued in courts for years together in theParvatipuram, Srikakulam, Secunderabad, Ramnagar and Bengaluru andseveral other conspiracy cases and had proved that revolution is noconspiracy and that revolutionaries are not conspirators. He offered freelegal service to poor people on whom false cases have been foisted. KGK’slegal service were not limited to AP alone, he freely offered his services tothe dalits and poor peasants who fought against age-old feudal oppressionin Bihar and other struggle areas. Due to his services, many peasantscould escape the gallows. The revolutionary masses, dalits, adivasis andnational liberation activists would always fondly remember KGK for thelegal services he rendered to their movements as well as the moral support.He gave material help to fellow civil rights activists’ families when theactivists faced state repression. The values and standards he establishedin his 50 year career as a lawyer are of a higher quality and worth emulating.

KGK propagated about the callousness of the state in the Indravellimassacre of adivasis in Adilabad, the burning of adivasi villages in Manyamof Eastern Ghats and other atrocities on them. From the 1980s till OperationGreen Hunt, the latest offensive of the state on the fighting masses, KGKhad consistently and staunchly fought against the state terror on the adivasisand was in the forefront in building a country-wide democratic movementagainst it.

KGK played a crucial role during the talks between the CPI (Maoist)and the government in AP in 2004. He criticized the government when it

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withdrew from the talks and began a grave offensive on the Maoists andexposed the sham behind its mantra of peace chanted till then. Even whenthe revolutionary movement faced a setback in AP he fought firmly againststate violence and inspired others.

KGK was a voracious reader and a prolific and creative writer. Hewrote extensively against state violence and on people’s issues. He wroteon the anti-people provisions in the constitution and the inadequacies in thelaws. Particularly during his last days his writings on revolutionary leaderswho were brutally murdered by the state eulogizing their contributions hadearned an eternal place in the hearts of the oppressed masses.

The Central Committee of CPI (Maoist) expresses its deep grief atthe demise of Comrade Kannabiran and humbly pays revolutionary homageto him on behalf of the whole revolutionary camp. It is sending its deepcondolences to his family members, colleagues in the civil liberties movementand friends. Our party sees this decades-long service of KGK for genuinedemocracy, independence and oppression-free India as an inseparable partof the broader movement for the establishment of people’s democraticsociety. The establishment of a New Democratic society would ensure inthe real sense all the democratic rights fought for by comrades like KGKto all the marginalized and deprived people of India and we once againappeal to all on this solemn occasion to vow to carry on the struggle forsuch a society. It is appealing to all democrats, intellectuals, lawyers andwriters to continue the ideals and values he established and to continue hisfight for the democratic rights of the oppressed masses of India. Thatwould be the real homage one could pay to this great democrat.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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January 12, 2011

Condemn the indiscriminate killings

and fake encounters by the police andparamilitary forces in Odisha !

People would surely defeat

the conspiracy of Naveen Patnaikto hand over the natural resources of Odisha

to the Corporations by decimating

the Maoist revolutionary movement !

As part of the massive offensive Operation Green Hunt beingconducted in coordination by the central and state governments with theavowed aim of decimating the Maoist revolutionary movement completely,the special police and paramilitary forces have resorted to indiscriminatekillings in the past two months in Odisha and have taken nearly 25 lives incold-blood in various incidents. Of these most of them were fake encounterswhile others were incidents where hundreds of police and paramilitarywere deployed with specific information about the whereabouts of theguerillas and fired indiscriminately on the guerillas and the people withthem.

Recently on January 12, 2011, in an ‘encounter’ in a forest area inKeonjhar district two Maoists had died and on January 9, 2011 in an allegedencounter in Bandhkamali mountains which fall under the Niyamgiri areaof Rayagadha district, nine comrades were martyred. Ravi, one of themartyred comrades, is an important leader who has been working amongthe oppressed people of Odisha for the past few years. He hails from EastGodavari district in Andhra Pradesh. Just one week back, on January 2,2011 in the encounter which was said to have taken place in the Rayaghatiforests under Kalinganagar area in Jajpur district, five Maoists includingthree women comrades were martyred. One among these martyrs was an

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Area Committee member of the Kalinganagar area. They were inpreparation for some mass activities on the occasion of the fifth anniversaryof the massacre of Adivasis on January 2 when this incident occurred. On29 December, 2010, in an alleged encounter in Talpada forest area ofKeonjhar district one woman comrade was martyred. Before this in thefourth week of December the police announced that three Maoists haddied in an encounter at Adaba forest area in Gajapati district. In the beginningof January, in another alleged encounter in Bargarh district two personshad died but the people had declared that they were ordinary people andthat the police had killed them in cold-blood. Some days before this therewere news items in the media that even the encounter in Gajapati districtwas also a fake one and that ordinary people had died in this. Though hugescale protests were staged by people and democrats on these fakeencounters, the Naveen government is not caring a damn and is resortingto murders of ordinary people and revolutionaries unscrupulously.

Odisha is a state abundantly rich in mineral, water and forest resourcesbut it has become the abode of dire poverty and hunger deaths. Odisha isin the first place in iron reserves and it has many other valuable mineralresources. But all this wealth is filling the coffers of the wealthy while theconditions of the poor people are deteriorating. In the past 63 years of so-called independence, the oppressed people of Odisha, particularly theadivasis are getting crushed under the feudal and imperialist exploitation.The Odisha government led by the Mining Mafia Boss Naveen Patnaikhas turned Odisha into the paradise of the mining corporations by signinginnumerable MoUs with them. More than 49 MoUs regarding steel plants,more than 20 MoUs regarding thermal power plants, some MoUs foralumina refinery projects and a harbor were signed. The MoU worth55,000 crores of rupees signed with the MNC Posco belonging to SouthKorea is the biggest foreign direct investment in India. The Odishagovernment had shamelessly violated its own laws while granting permissionsto Tata in Kalinganagar and Vedanta in Niyamgiri apart from Posco. Allthese MoUs lead to untold miseries for the Odisha people. These wouldlead to destruction of the forests, lands, water, ecology and all aspects oftheir lives. This could be one of the biggest man-made disasters in theworld. That is why the people of Odisha are fighting against this atrocity

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and exploitation.

In the recent past, Odisha people agitated and are still agitating againstthe exploitation and atrocities of the MNCs and big comprador bourgeoisiecompanies like Tata, Vedanta, Posco etc. and also against the feudalexploitation in the Narayanapatna area of Koraput district. Governmentused brutal force against these struggles and killed many people. On January2, 2006, the police fired on the adivasis who refused to hand over theircultivable lands to the Tata Steel company in Kalinganagar and killed atleast fourteen of them. In many other instances, people had become injuredor have lost their lives in police firings. People launched agitations againstbauxite mines of Vedanta company in Niyamgiri area and against VedantaAlumina refinery in Lanjigarh. Caving in before the people’s agitations, theCentral government had cancelled permission to Vedanta with the reasonthat it had violated rules and regulations. But the people are still continuingtheir agitation as they feel that as long as the Vedanta refinery exists inLanjigarh it is detrimental to their very existence and that it would adverselyaffect their lands and ecology. People of Odisha are fighting against suchissues in many places. The Maoist party is leading these agitations in manyplaces and supporting them in others. More important is the fact that peopleare welcoming the leadership of Maoists and are aspiring for it. The Odishapeople have realized that there is no political party other than the Maoistparty which could put an end to feudal and imperialist exploitation. TheMaoist movement is expanding to many new areas. The Naveen Patnaikgovernment with the full support of the UPA government at the centre isresorting to these massacres precisely because the Maoists constitute themain hurdle to their blanket loot of resources. Particularly, it is obvious toone and all that the callous murder of nine revolutionaries in Niyamgiriarea has happened with the aim of facilitating the wholesale loot of Vedantaand under its aegis. Similarly it is also very clear that the fascist massacresresorted to by the government in the Kalinganagar area (in Jajpur andKeonjhar districts) is to facilitate the exploitation of corporations like thatof Tata and others waiting in the wings to occupy this whole area. NaveenPatnaik who is gobbling billions of rupees as the stooge of the corporationsand his administrative machinery are being threatened seriously by theexistence of the Maoist movement. That is why they are resorting to fascist

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onslaught on the people and the guerilla squads spending billions of rupeeson increasing police, commando forces (SOG), SPO and informer networkon a huge scale.

History has proven many a times that it is impossible to suppress thepeople’s movements with murders, offensives and suppression campaigns.The comprador Naveen Patnaik, Vedanta ex-director and the CEO of thepresent Operation Green Hunt Chidambaram, other ruling class oligarchsand their imperialist masters are dreaming that they would be able to putaside all the hurdles in the path of exploitation of the feudal classes and thecorporations by crushing the Maoist revolutionary movement. The peopleare bound to come to the fore more militantly to intensify their struggles.Though the spate of encounters in the past few days indicate the intensityof the offensive on the Maoists this should be seen as part of the overalloffensive on all the people’s movements fighting against their loot. We canstop these massacres only by taking up arms and fighting in a united manneragainst the anti-people, pro-imperialist policies followed by the blood-thirstyNaveen government and against corporate exploitation.

The Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist) is appealing to all thepeople of our country and democrats to condemn in severe terms theseatrocious massacres and fake encounters. We are appealing to the peopleto demand independent judicial inquiry into all these incidents of firings andto demand punishment for all the police officials involved in them. We areappealing to all that they should realize that these offensives are not carriedon exclusively on the Maoist movement and that they are aimed at allthose who are raising their voice or fighting against this corporate loot. OurCentral Committee is calling upon all the democratic, progressive andpatriotic forces to unite and fight against the corporate exploitation andagainst the massacres perpetrated by the central and state governmentsand against the Operation Green Hunt carried on for the incessant loot ofour resources.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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January 15, 2011

Unite And Fight

Against Price-rise, Scams And State Terror!

Make Success Country-wide ProtestsFrom 4 to 6 February And

Bharat Bandh on February 7

The latest addition to the already long-list of sufferings of the peopleof our country is the new rise in food inflation to 18.5 percent with pricestouching the sky. On top of this petrol prices have been hiked (Rs 2.50 perlitre) from the midnight of 15 January which would again lead to moreprice-rise in all items particularly in food items. The life of ‘Aam Aadmi’would become even more miserable with the prices of onion, mirchi, atta,pulses, vegetables soaring. Though price-rises have become an integralpart of our life since decades, this kind of price-rise in the conditions wheremore than 90 percent of the workforce is employed in unorganized sectorand where 83 percent of the people live on less than 20 rupees daily income,the connotations are grave and disturbing. Add to it the continuous loss ofemployment of even white collar jobs of the middle classes due to theworld wide economic crisis and the picture which emerges is even bleaker.

It is one thing to put up with this. But how should one also put up withthe most inhuman, cruel, insensitive and callous statement of the person inthe highest post in our country, that too a person who is supposed toadminister this country efficiently so that the lives of the people turn forbetter? While the people and particularly the children of this country aredying in their lakhs each year just due to lack of food and nutrition, thisperson had the audacity to declare that the present price-rise is due to theincrease in food consumption of the poor people! This is the zenith ofshamelessness one can ever reach. It is not our fault if this sounds like anecho of what an equally if not a more barefaced person named Mr. Bush(Junior) said some days back accusing the people of countries like Chinaand India of consuming more, leading to a crisis! At least one couldunderstand the contempt a President of the imperialist country (US), the

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number one enemy of the world people, would have for the people of thirdworld countries. But Mr. Manmohan Singh! You have out stepped all thelimits of decency and humanity in expressing such contempt for the peopleof the country you are supposed to lead. The blood of every patriot boilsand the face of every citizen burns with indignity to hear this from the highoffices of this country. Surely our beloved country and its dignified peopledo not deserve this shabby treatment.

It is under the aegis of this Prime Minister that a Mukesh Ambanibuilds a Mahal worth 3,500 crores, ministers function on a daily basis fromfive-star hotels, trillions of rupees are guzzled in scams by every singleperson who is even a bit of somebody in his parliament or his administrativemechanism and army/police/forest services (the 1,76,000 crore 2G Spectrumscam is still fresh in public memory) not to mention their billions of dollarsstacked away safely in Swiss banks! All the future trading, hoarding, blackmarketing, faulty PDS which have become the trademark of the‘independent’ India have all been brazenly pushed aside as the possiblereasons for this appalling inflation rate and the poor people who are breakingtheir backs in conditions which can be compared to the medieval times(again a fallout of the LPG policies gifted to us since 1991 by this reliableservant of IMF and World Bank) and are not even able to have one squaremeal in a day have become the culprits. Wah ! Great Economics indeed,worth a Nobel Prize! This is not just a cruel joke on the poor people of ourcountry (whom he doesn’t represent at all) but also an unabashed attemptto cover up the scams and hoarding of the richie rich people of our countryand the imperialist countries (whom he represents so well) and to divertthe attention of the people from the actual causes of inflation and burningproblems at present.

What is the actual condition prevailing? On the one hand, people aretragically suffering with this price-rise while on the other hand a new scamis rising on the horizon along with the sun every day. The price-rise isclosely linked with the scam-rises of the ministers and high-rises of thecomprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie along with the rise in their bankaccounts in the Swiss banks. (Remember? India refuses to reveal thenames of those persons who have amassed billion of dollars in these banks?)The recent 2G Spectrum scam has exposed the back door deals of the big

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players of the corporate world, ministers and hi-fi media people while theseries of scams which came to light have uncovered the brash pillage byall the parliamentary parties of the resources rightfully belonging to thepeople. The BJP which had stalled the proceedings of the Parliament for awhole session with the demand of instituting a JPC on 2G Spectrum scamis desperately trying to masquerade as a ‘clean party’ hiding its own set ofscams, one of the major of these happening in Karnataka under BJP ChiefMinister Yedyurappa. The close relations which Congress and BJP, includingthe leader of opposition Ms. Sushma Swaraj have with the notorious miningmafia bosses Reddy brothers are well documented. There is another purposetoo. With Aseemanand singing in police custody and the unearthing ofother evidences, the direct involvement of the saffron terrorists in theSamjhauta Express, Malegaon and Mecca Masjid blasts stands exposedand the JPC probe demand and the uproar about price-rise are aimed atdiverting the attention of the people from the heinous criminals involved inthose blasts. The UPA government dumped A. Raja, of course after lot ofhullabaloo due to inescapable evidence implicating him, in the 2G spectrumscam in order to save the skin of the Prime Minister and Sonia who are thedirectors of this sky-scraping scam and without whose involvement such aspectacle would be impossible. The names of highest level ranking generalsin the army have also come up in scams not to mention the bureaucrats.The mother of all scams but which is not so visible is the stockpiling ofthousands of crores of rupees by the likes of Naveen Patnaik, RamanSingh, YSR (now dead), Yedyurappa, Nitish Kumar, Narendra Modi,Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ashok Chavan in the form of commissions earnedthrough the MoUs they are signing with the MNCs and imperialists. YSRhad alone earned nearly 60,000 crores of rupees in his term as CM andone can imagine how many billions of rupees of the hard earned money ofthe common people is filling the coffers of all these super gangsters.

The people of our country are not sitting quite while these scamstersand gangsters are pillaging our wealth. In every corner of our countrypeople are agitating at various levels and in different forms againstcorruption, all kinds of anti-people policies, price-rise and loot of naturalresources. Of all these resistances, the most organized and militant struggleis waged by our party the CPI (Maoist). That is why it was named the

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biggest internal security threat by the Sonia-Manmohan-Chidabaram gangand an unprecedented countrywide multi-pronged offensive was launchedon it in the name of Operation Green Hunt (OGH). The intensification ofthe anti-people, pro-imperialist policies which give rise to scams and price-rise and the repression on CPI (Maoist) are directly proportional and thisbecame particularly obvious in the past two months. The Prime Ministerand Home Minister are conducting series of meetings to crush the Maoistmovement and in the latest meeting held in January first week with higherlevel officers of police and paramilitary forces of six states, they laid emphasison synergy between intelligence agencies, paramilitary and the police. Thisinsistence on synergy is not an innocent proposal but is aimed at perpetratingmore massacres, mopping up campaigns and clearing the adivasis andMaoists from the forests. Some more billions of rupees were allotted forthis War on People.

In West Bengal, the social fascist CPM in collusion with the centralgovernment has increased the number of camps to 140 in Jangal Mahaland Lalgarh and filled them with police, paramilitary and its own counter-revolutionary Harmad Bahini goons, with an eye on the upcoming elections.That the ongoing atrocities and repression on the people of these areaswould increase is anybody’s guess and the massacre by CPM/Harmadcadres of eight people and injuring many more in Lalgarh area in the firstweek of January are an indication of the terrible things in store. OnDecember 3, 2010, the police arrested the West Bengal state secretary ofour party Com. Sudeep Chongdar, state committee members Kalpana Maiti,Barun Sur, Anil Ghosh and some other comrades while another statecommittee member Com. Dwijen Hembram was arrested earlier. Theywere cruelly tortured and false cases were foisted on them. Particularly,the insulting and inhuman treatment meted out to Com. Kalpana is denigratingthe dignity of a woman.

In Bihar and Jharkhand arrests, tortures, barbarous attacks and murdersof Maoist cadres are continuing. In Andhra Pradesh despite the claims ofthe ruling classes that they have suppressed the Maoists, fake encountersand attacks on the people haven’t stopped. On 17 December, 2010, in anencounter in Visakhapatnam district four comrades including three womenwere killed. People fighting against seizure of their lands for SEZs, thermal

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power plants and for a separate Telangana state are being fired uponindiscriminately.

In an unprecedented severe offensive on Maoist areas in Odisha inthe past two months nearly 25 Maoist cadres and ordinary people werekilled and most of these ‘encounters’ were fake. Five Maoists inKalinganagar area on January 2, nine Maoists in Niyamgiri area on January9 and two Maoists in Keonjhar area on January 12 were killed in so-calledencounters. Right in the beginning of this year two villagers were killed incold-blood in Bargarh district and the police claimed it was an encounter.

On 8 October, in Savargaon of Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra(Dandakaranya), the ITBP forces had fired mortars shells on a schoolleading to the death of 6 people including two school children and injuriesto eight more. On the next day on 9 October, in a fierce encounter inMahasamund district of Chhattisgarh (CG) six comrades were martyredand the police killed two innocent villagers mercilessly in the same incident.On 23 November, the CRPF had massacred nine villagers near Jegurugondain Dantewada district. The CG government is suppressing dissent in themost reactionary manner by arresting democratic intellectuals, putting themin jails and pronouncing harsh punishments on them. The recent convictionof CPI (Maoist) Politburo member Narayan Sanyal, Human Rights activistDr. Binayak Sen, trader Piyush Guha and editor-writer Asit Sengupta is ablatant example of this. Though this offensive is obviously directed againstthe Maoists, in reality this is directed against all those individuals andorganizations that are resisting the policies of the government.

Beloved people of India!

This is not the time to cry over the depths of despair and degradationthe ruling classes are forcing us into. The need of the hour is for all thepeople to come together and fight back the anti-people, repressive andpro-imperialist policies of the state and to direct our fight against scamsters,hoarders, black marketeers and forces of the repressive state.

Our Central Committee appeals to all the people to observe protestsfrom 4 to 5 February and one-day Bharat bandh on 7 February againstprice-rise, scams and state terror. We are making it clear that there wouldbe no bandh during the protest days and that Bharat bandh would be

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observed in six states – West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha,Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and three districts in Maharashtra –Gadchiroli, Gondia, Chandrapur and one district in Madhya Pradesh –Balaghat. Medical services and people attending examinations andinterviews will be excluded from the bandh activities.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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March 31, 2011

Condemn the war of occupation on Libya

by US-France-Britain!

Express solidarity to the people of countrieslike Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Algeria,

Morocco and Jordanwho are fighting for democracy and

independence!

Oppose the intervention of imperialists,particularly of US, Britain and France

in the internal matters of Arab countries!For the past few weeks, the people’s upsurges in Arab world are

shaking the imperialists, particularly US imperialists while at the same timegreatly influencing the people of the world. Starting from Tunisia this spreadto many Arab countries. Ben Ali, the President of Tunisia who has beensuppressing the people of Tunisia since 23 years and Hosni Mubarak, whowas ruling Egypt since 30 years had to step down and run away dreadingthese mass upsurges. The mass movements in countries like Yemen,Bahrain, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan etc are ongoing in the same vein. TheArab population is demanding with one voice that their rulers who havebeen carrying on dictatorial rules since decades colluding with the imperialistsshould step down. Lakhs of Arab people, particularly the youth are defyingban orders and are pouring into the streets. Streets and squares have becomeseas of masses for weeks together. Hundreds have laid down their livesand thousands were injured in the crackdown by the governments. Butnow with the war on Libya by NATO countries led by US, the entire Arabworld phenomena took a crucial turn.

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In the name of stopping Libya from using its armed forces to suppressthe rebels opposing Qaddafi’s rule, the Security Council made the ‘No flyzone’ resolution. The NATO countries led by US voted in favor of theresolution while Russia, China, Germany, Brazil and India abstained fromvoting. Nor did the ones with Veto power use it to stop this resolution.Obviously these countries had indirectly condoned the military action bynot opposing the resolution. The Manmohan Singh government is deceivingthe people of India and the world by shedding crocodile tears in the aftermathof the attacks without even caring to condemn the attacks formally. USwhich had never condemned the arbitrary killings of Palestinians carriedout by the Zionist Israel umpteen number of times by confining dozens ofUN resolutions to the dustbin and which had used its Veto power for Israelmost indiscriminately and other western powers have immediately startedbombing Libya as soon as the UN resolution was made. On the very firstday of this attack which is said to be part of an international campaign, 18bomber jets belonging to France had rained at least 40 bombs on severaltargets. The US and Britain navies have targeted the security systems inLibya and have launched missiles. 18 Air Force B-2 war planes of USlaunched more than a hundred missiles on Libya and bombed several targets.In this war launched in the name of preventing massacres that could beperpetuated by Qaddafi forces, hundreds of civilians have lost their lives.Nothing could be more callous than asking the world people to believe thatthe value of the lives (deaths) of the Libyans change according to whichbombs took their lives! The very media houses which have been relayingbadly twisted news items supporting this NATO war on Libya hiding thefacts on the ground had to admit that in the first attacks many children haddied. They have once again nakedly displayed their class nature in thereportage of this one-sided war.

The UN which calls itself a neutral organization has once again proveditself to be a puppet in the hands of imperialist countries like US, Britain,France etc. Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon is behaving like their poodle.In the inhuman attacks on Gaza launched by Israel in December 2008,nearly 1,417 Palestinians (most of them women and children) lost theirlives and many thousands of them were injured; Israel illegally used whitephosphorus on the Gaza people and many of them became cancer patients

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due to this; it used F-16 bombers and resorted to ‘targeted killings’ andvirtually made 15 lakhs of Gaza people live in conditions of an open jailwithout even drinking water or electricity – but all these were not enoughfor the UN to make a no-fly-zone resolution. The neo-Nazi Rajpaksegovernment launched a genocidal war on Tamils to decimate LTTE andrained tonnes of bombs on residential areas and civilian targets and hadkilled 20,000 Tamils just in the last two days of the war; the atrocitiescommitted by the Sinhala chauvinist army on the captured women tigersnot sparing even their dead bodies have horrified the world – but the UNdid nothing. In the past quarter of a century the Indian government throughits army had crushed to death more than 80,000 Kashmiris under its ironheel – but the UN could not be woken from its slumber. And now the UNwants the world people to believe that this war on Libya is indeed beingfought to protect the Libyans from Qaddafi forces. Shame on it! There isnot even one instance where it had acted for the interests of the oppressednations or the people while we can quote dozens of instances where it hadjumped to save the US, Israel or other western countries’ interests even ifthere is so much of a scratch.

The war on Libya defies the very spirit of the no-fly-zone resolutionof the UN too. In the name of implementing the UN resolution made toprevent Libyan planes from bombing the rebels US, Britain and France areindiscriminately bombing Libya. This is nothing but a war of occupation.The real motive is to oust Qaddafi and replace him with their favorableruling clique and loot the oil resources there. Nobody is so innocent as tobelieve that Obama is bombing Libya to protect Libyan rebels while he hadsent Saudi Arabian troops into Bahrain through the back door to suppressthe people’s rebellion there. This blood-thirsty ‘Nobel Peace Prize Laureate’who is killing hundreds of innocents in drone attacks in Afghanistan andwestern Pakistan has no moral right to utter even the words ‘lives ofinnocents’. The western countries which never bothered about the lives ofpeople when the armed forces of the dictators of Saudi Arabia, Yemen,Jordan etc, whom they had been supporting all these years, fired uponpeople killing them in scores are now bent upon dethroning Qaddafi – mindyou, not for any selfish interests but ‘to save the Libyans’. Unadulteratedimperialist hypocrisy!

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Ben Ali of Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Ali Abdullah Saleh ofYemen, Isa Al Khalipha of Bahrain and King Abdullah of Jordan are thedictatorial rulers who have been suppressing the people of their countriessince decades colluding with the western imperialists, particularly the USimperialists. The façade of democracy and elections in these countries canbe gauged from the fantastic statistics that Ben Ali always got 97 to 99percent of the votes?! There was no semblance of any democratic or civilrights. The police and intelligence departments were developed tomonstrous proportions and they had been controlling the lives of peoplesuppressing even an iota of dissent. Unemployment is on the rampage.Yemen alone has 40% unemployment. On the other hand the rulers areamassing immense wealth due to the rich oil resources there. Countlessbillions of dollars are stashed away in foreign banks. The world wasastonished to find that Ben Ali had actually carried one and half tonne ofgold physically with him while running away. Tip of an ‘oilberg’? The ill-effects of the worldwide financial crises on the Arab people since 2008are as severe as in any other part of the world. More than half the populationthere is living on less than two dollars a day. These dictators are spendingpeople’s money indiscriminately in the ‘War on terror’ launched by US inthe name of suppressing Al Qaeda. Yemen started a counter-terrorist trainingprogramme with 750 millions of dollars. Such misuse of people’s exchequerwhile cutting subsidies on essential services etc earned the wrath of thepeople. All these years the imperialists have stood in support of all theexploitation, oppression and repressive measures of these dictatorships onthe people of their countries and have been cashing in on the severalcontradictions between various religions, tribes, nationalities and betweensects like Shias and Sunnis. Now seeing the scale of the upsurges theimperialists have decided to trade new horses getting rid of the old ones.They made Ben Ali and Mubarak step down and had the power transferredto the military generals. In other countries the western powers are stillsupporting the dictators. The 22 nation Arab League is behaving like astooge of the western powers in this entire episode and is neither displayingany shades of Arab nationalism nor giving voice to the anti-imperialistaspirations of the Arab people.

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and unite them and oppose imperialism unequivocally can defend andpreserve the independence and sovereignty of their countries. Any ruler,whether it is Qaddafi or any other, who resorts to autocratic rule over hispeople can never fight imperialism uncompromisingly. He can never unitepeople against imperialism.

The imperialists have been resorting to many conspiracies and schemingright from the beginning to establish their authority in West Asia and NorthAfrica which are home to immense oil resources. They have stood insupport of the dictators who bent their knees and preserved imperialistinterests. If they think that he is a hindrance to their interests they are nothesitating to ‘use and throw’.

Call of CPI (Maoist) to the Arab people

The Arab people should continue their agitations against dictators andimperialists with great determination. They should firmly oppose the attemptsof imperialists, particularly US, Britain and France to hijack their movements.They should stay alert towards the military councils which came to powerin place of the dictators. We are cautioning the whole Arab population notto get deceived by believing that the military generals who had all alongsupported the dictators would now guarantee democracy. All the anti-imperialist, democratic, patriotic sections including workers, peasants andmiddle classes should unite. The only path before the Arab population is tofight uncompromisingly with imperialism under the leadership of theproletariat. The recent phenomena in the Arab world has once again provenclearly that guidance of Marxist ideology and leadership of the vanguardof the proletariat, i.e. of a revolutionary communist party are inevitable forthe true liberation of the oppressed masses. The namesake independenceswon by these countries from colonialism has given way to neo-colonialexploitation resulting in unbearable living conditions and the Arab peopleare direct victims of this since the past 40-50 years. If the Arab peoplehave to win real independence then they have to stand on their own legs,destroy neo-colonialism and fight imperialism firmly. They should fight aunited war against US, Britain and France imperialists who are waging anunjust war on Libya. CPI (Maoist) is hopeful that the struggles against thecomprador bureaucratic rulers supported by the imperialists would definitely

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grow into determined resistance struggles against imperialists, against theirintervention and against the unjust wars imposed by them. Only then couldthe Arab world be liberated from the clutches of dictators and imperialists.

Call of the CPI (Maoist) to the people of India and the world

The upsurges of the Arab people for freedom and democracy areentirely just struggles. Though there are some reactionaries like religiouschauvinists among the agitators, these movements are democratic andprogressive. Express solidarity to these movements. Condemn with onevoice the unjust war imposed on Libya by the Western imperialists and theintervention of the imperialists in the Arab world.

· Stop immediately the unjust war on Libya by NATO forces led byUS!

· The imperialists have no right to intervene in the internal mattersof Libya!

· Expose the interventionist policies of imperialists, particularly ofUS, Britain and France in the Arab world!

· Support the just people’s movements in the Arab countries!

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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April 05, 2011

Boycott the assembly polls in the five states!

Intensify the People’s War to establish the People’sDemocratic State

by uprooting the present semi-feudal and semi-colonialsystem of exploitation, oppression, corruption, violence,

atrocities and insults!

The farce of assembly polls in the five states of Assam, Tamilnadu,Kerala, Pondichery and West Bengal is on. While the people of our countryare facing corruption, price rise, poverty, hunger, unemployment, loot ofresources, displacement, destruction of ecology etc, all the parliamentaryparties are oblivious to these life and death problems of the people and areengaged in a severe violence filled contest to capture power by hook orcrook. Apart from the main exploiting classes’ parties of Congress andBJP who are in the forefront in implementing the imperialist-dictatedeconomic policies, other ruling class parties like the CPM which isimplementing fascist rule in West Bengal since 30 years, the DMK andAIDMK that are notorious for their corruption and malpractices, the AssamGana Parishad which shamelessly betrayed the national aspirations of theAssam people are mainly in the race. They are indiscriminately using moneypower, muscle power, identities like caste, religion etc and are vying witheach other for votes. All kinds of cheap tricks are being used like wooingthe voters with everything under the sun from sarees to computers. Millionsof rupees are poured down the drain just to ‘buy votes’.

For the past 30 long years, CPM has been carrying on a social fascistrule in West Bengal in support of the feudal, imperialist and compradorbureaucratic capitalist exploitation and has been completely exposed beforethe people. For the sake of comprador capitalists like Tata, Jindal etc andfor the sake of SEZs the fertile lands of peasantry were sought to beseized. The cruel repression, the inhuman massacres and the atrocities onwomen perpetrated by the state police, central paramilitary forces and thegoonda force of CPM, the ‘Harmad Bahini’ on the militant peasantry of

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Nandigram and Singur who opposed seizure of their lands and the heroicpeople of Lalgadh who rose in an upsurge against police atrocities willremain a permanent blot in the history. Parties like the CPI and ForwardBlock which are sharing power with the CPM as part of Left block aregetting exposed with each day for their bankruptcy of continuing with theCPM in all the anti-people policies it is taking up. The Trinamool Congressunder Mamta Banerji’s leadership is cashing in on the dissatisfaction andthe hatred among all sections of the people towards CPM and came to thefore as a strong contender for power. So now the CPM is facing thedanger of losing its power. Whatever Mamta Banerjee may promise today,once in power her rule is not going to be basically any different from thatof the CPM. It is very clear that her rule in alliance with Congress wouldbe a continuation of the pro-feudal, pro-corporate and anti-people policiesimplemented by all ruling class parties including the CPM till date. Alongwith Congress, BJP and CPM, Trinamool Congress is also a party whichrepresents the interests of the feudal and comprador bureaucratic capitalistclasses, bending its knees before the imperialists. So the only way beforethe people of Bengal is to boycott these sham elections and to build militantpeople’s struggles while keeping the Maoist People’s War at the core withthe inspiration of the glorious struggle spirit of the Lalgarh people. The realalternative is to expand more militantly and in a more organized mannerthe alternative people’s political power which came to the fore in anembryonic form as a result of the historic Lalgarh movement.

Using their power in the state and in the UPA alliance at the centreTamilnadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi, A. Raja and his other bandit coteriehave resorted to scams swindling billions of rupees and are now spendingmillions of rupees to come to power again. Karunanidhi granted permissionsto nearly 70 SEZs and gave away thousands of hectares of prime land toMNCs. The living conditions of the peasantry and workers are worsening.More than 25,000 workers were retrenched in the past two years in Tirupurwhich resulted in the suicides of more than a thousand garment workers.AIADMK under Jayalalitha’s leadership is trying to come to power byhook or crook utilizing the dissatisfaction among the people towards DMK.However the people of Tamilnadu are more than aware that she is also anotorious bandit who hoarded billions of rupees misusing power. DMK and

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AIADMK who do not tire of focusing themselves as the champions of theTamil cause have indirectly supported the massacres of Tamils and theunjust war waged by the Sinhala chauvinist Rajapakse government inSrilanka with the support of India, China and US with the aim of decimatingLTTE. Rejecting these two parties and other parties which are in cohortswith them and intensifying mass movements and revolutionary struggles isthe only alternative in front of the Tamilnadu people.

The ruling Left Front in Kerala is bogged down in several corruptionscams and earned the ire of the people by fulfilling the interests of thecorporate classes. Using this situation the UDF under the Congressleadership is leaving no stone unturned to come to power. The AGP whichhad a past history of waging struggles representing the national aspirationsof the Assam People has completely betrayed the cause and is now vyingfor power in the state. This party was hand in glove with Congress insuppressing the just national struggles of ULFA, Bodos etc.

Particularly, in the past few years many corruption scams have cometo light and the real face of the political system of our country is gettingexposed. It became crystal clear through the recent 2G Spectrum scamhow the ministers of all parties, leaders, corporate bosses and media baronshave colluded to amass billions of rupees. On the other hand, with the aimof suppressing the various sections of people, people’s movements andrevolutionary movements that are waging struggles on various people’sissues, repressive campaigns are launched deploying security forces. Fascistlaws are formulated and the people and revolutionaries are jailed for yearstogether without any trial. Harsh punishments are pronounced. All the rightswhich are supposed to be granted by the constitution are curbed includingthe right to live.

The central government had deployed more than 800 companies ofparamilitary forces for the ‘smooth conducting’ (read violence, atrocities,firings on people, arrests and rigging) of elections. It is worth noting thatout of these, more than 600 companies are for West Bengal alone wherethe Maoist movement is relatively stronger. Long before the elections,CPM had deployed thousands of armed goons belonging to its goondaarmy Harmad Bahini in the villages, particularly in dozens of villages in the

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Jungle Mahal area. These armed goons and Joint Forces have alreadybeen perpetrating countless unspeakable brutal atrocities and violent actson the masses. This means that all preparations have been completed toherd the people into polling booths pointing barrels of their guns at theirbacks and for unprecedented mammoth rigging. Particularly in West BengalCPM readied itself to perpetrate huge scale violence to continue in powerat any cost.

It has been proven beyond doubt in the past 64 years history of so-called independent India that any party or alliance in power or any party oralliance which wants to come to power is only fulfilling the interests of thefeudal, comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and the imperialists and notthat of the 95 percent of the population constituting workers, peasants,employees, students, women, dalit, adivasi and other oppressed classes/sections in our country. The election process is itself a big sham. It is afarce conducted to strengthen the rule of the exploiting classes. Only thecolor of the ruling alliance or the party it represents changes with theseelections but nothing changes basically in the system. None of thefundamental problems of hunger, poverty, unemployment, price rises etccan get solved through this. Money is spent for getting elected, it is themoneybags which sit in the parliament/assemblies and rule us and it is theyagain who amass wealth which is many times over what they spent to getelected. The increasing number of criminals who are accused of murders,kidnaps, rapes and such abominable crimes in all the parties contending inelections is an indication of their true nature. That is why our party makesit clear that the parliament and assemblies are nothing but ‘pigsties’. Withoutuprooting this whole rotten system the lives of people can never improve.Successfully completing the New Democratic Revolution and building aPeople’s Democratic State of all oppressed sections on the basis of worker-peasant unity is the real alternative before the people of our country. OurCentral Committee is issuing a call to the people to rally into the People’sWar waged under the leadership of our party.

Beloved People of Our Country !

Boycott the assembly polls in five states! A country which calls itselfa ‘democracy’ should honor the right not to vote along with the right to

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vote. We must fight against curbing of this right. We must raise our voicesagainst herding people into polling booths pointing guns at their heads. Rejectthe fake parliamentary democracy rotten with corruption and scams.Welcome the alternative people’s democratic political power which is beingestablished at a basic level in Dandakaranya, Bihar-Jharkhand, Odisha,Bengal and other places under our party’s leadership and come forwardto establish people’s power in all four corners of our country.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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13 April, 2011

Intensify Mass Struggles To Put An End ToInstitutionalized Corruption!

In recent times, corruption has once again come to the forefront as amain issue with the exposure of massive scams like 2G spectrum,Commonwealth games, Adarsh housing society, Karnataka land scams, S-Band spectrum scam. Workers, peasants, adivasis, dalits, women, and urbanmiddle class - all classes and sections of the society are expressing theirdeep discontent and anguish. Recently we saw great support to the hungerstrike of Anna Hazare, which is the direct consequence of the widespreaddiscontent in the people against corruption, corrupt political parties andtheir leaders. Though the demand for hunger strike is Jan Lokpal Bill, theaspiration of the people is to completely wipe out corruption.

It would be innocence, if anyone feels that by setting up a committeeto frame Lokpal bill and by selecting half of the committee members fromcivil society would itself finds a solution. In fact, lack of rules and laws isnot the cause for endless and deep-ridden corruption. Way back from jeepscam, Lockheed’s airplane deal to late Rajiv Gandhi’s Bofors deals, ourcountry has seen many a scams starting from a few million rupees totrillions of rupees. Not only main parliamentary parties like Congress andBJP, leaders and ministers of all other national and regional parliamentaryparties like RJD, BSP, SP, DMK, AIADMK, TDP and hand in glovebeaurocrats have a long history of corrupt practices. By properimplementation of the existing laws in the country and by the properfunctioning of anti-corruption wings, scams like these can be prevented toa grate extent and those responsible for these can be severely punished. Inthe last 64 years history of ‘independent’ India, we don’t find a singleincidence, where corrupt politicians, ministers, heads of corporate housesand beauraucrats have been punished. Due to pressure from people oropposition parties, even if arrested in some rare cases, by prolonginginvestigation and diluting of the charges, they get scot-free without anystringent punishment or with nominal punishment. This is because; the

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judiciary of this country is also an inseparable part of this exploitative statemachinery. None can be under the illusion to end corruption through theselaws and court rooms.

We have to first realize that corruption is not an issue confined to ahandful of bad or greedy individuals. The root cause of all these corruptionsand scams lies in the capitalist system whose sole motto is cut-throatprofiteering. In spite of preaching liberty, freedom and democratic values,in pracitce it’s based on intense labor exploitation, bribery, commissions,kickbacks etc. Hence ending of corruptions and scams is an issue which islinked with the revolutionary transformation of present system. It would beillusionary to expect a complete solution to this by bringing in few fine lawswhile keeping this semi-feudal and semi-colonial system in our countryintact.

In fact, the scams that have not surfaced are many times morecompared to the ones that have surfaced. For example late chief ministerof Andhra Pradesh, YS Rajasekhar Reddy, present chhattisgarh chiefminister Raman Singh, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, chief ministersof Jharkhand Madhu Koda, Shibu Soren and Arjun Mundas, Karnatakachief minister Yediyurappa and likes, by signing agreements with miningmafia and big companies have amassed huge commissions amounting totens of billions of rupees is being exposed even in the media. LPG policiesbeing pursued by the governments have opened the floodgates for rampantcorruption, huge scams and massive plunder of natural wealth of our country.Hence, without unequivocally opposing imperialist-dictated anti-peoplegovernment policies and without focusing mass struggles against these,just speaking and hoping to wipe out corruption is to mislead people.

Anna Hazare ended his fast with the government’s decision to form acommittee to frame Lokpal bill. But justice is not meted out to the peoplewho are aspiring to put an end to corruption. In fact, government acceptedthis demand not in fear of Anna Hazare’s fast, but to pacify people’s anguishthat came forth in support to his fast. It is noteworthy that ruling classesaccepted to this demand only because any numbers of laws like these in noway affect the present system.

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response of the people against corruption. Our Party believes that onlythrough the united, well-organized and militant mass struggles, corruptioncan be put to an end. Our Party calls upon the people of our country not toget satisfied by the namesake laws and forming new committees to framesuch laws by the government and not to end these struggles, but to continuewith firm conviction. We call upon workers, peasants, students, intellectuals,employees, pro-people Gandhians and all other patriotic forces to comeforward and to form a broad alliance to fight against corruption which hasaffected our country. Our Party appeals to raise voice against all thesethieves and dacoits who are involved in endless corruption, scams andplunder and who have stashed trillions of rupees of black money in Swissbanks, have no right to be in power even for a moment.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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28 April, 2011

Condemn police firings and arrests of peopleagitating against Jaitapur nuclear power plant!

Fight for scrapping of

all proposed nuclear power plantsin the country including Jaitapur plant!

On April 18, 2011 police fired on people agitating against the planned9,900 MW Jaitapur nuclear power plant and killed Tabrez Soyekar (32), ananti-nuclear activist belonging to Nate village and the sole breadwinner ofhis family. Eight other demonstrators were seriously injured. Protestorsattacked and damaged a hospital to prevent a government autopsy on thedead body as they believed the government would not conduct an impartialautopsy. The four year old agitation which intensified after the nucleardisaster at Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan had gained enoughfirst hand experience of the government’s callousness to believe so.

Coldly ignoring the increasing protests and not bothering to compensateor reassure the victims, the Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and theMaharashtra government (the spineless pet dogs of imperialists) restatedtheir intention to go ahead with the construction of the ‘world’s largestnuclear power complex’ with six reactors. In fact, the above protest wasagainst this very stand of the government to build the nuclear power park‘come what may’, deliberately unmindful of the Fukushima tragedy.

Nearly 100 people and eminent activists from all parts of India(Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamilnadu, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Haryana,Madhya Pradesh) who gathered to participate in the national anti nuclearyatra planned from Tarapur, the First Nuclear power plant in India to Jaitapurfrom 23rd to 25th April were detained illegally by the Police. In fact, afterFukushima there were a spate of protests – both new and as a continuationof already ongoing agitations – against nuclear power plants in all cornersof the country especially in Haryana, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, ifonly our stone-deaf rulers would care to hear.

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The nuclear plant site covers the five villages of Madban, Niveli, Karel,Mithgavane, and Sakhari Nate, in an earthquake-prone region of Jaitapurin Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra and 968 hectares of land was cleared foracquisition. A total of 2,400 families were affected by this land acquisition.The plant affects the livelihood of 40,000 people which includes about16,000 people dependent on fishing.

While many countries are rethinking about their nuclear programs afterFukushima, the government of India is hell-bent on implementing its nuclearprogram. Hiding the fact that India’s reactors are considered to be themost inefficient and dangerous in the world, some anti-people scientists ofIndia are misleading the people by utterly lying that India’s safety standardsare the better than Japan’s! Jairam Ramesh who till now masqueraded asa pro-environmentalist minister came out with his true pro-corporate faceclaiming there is no alternative to nuclear power mimicking ManmohanSingh who bent over backwards to sign the Indo-US nuclear deal, disbursingbillions of rupees given in bribes by the nuclear companies to buy votes.While the whole world is thinking about and trying out various alternativeenergy sources he has the audacity to say that there is no alternative as ifall of us Indians are dumb enough to believe this trash. Everything wouldbe possible if the basic electricity needs (domestic, industrial and agricultural)are to be fulfilled. But in a country where the monthly electricity bill ofMukesh Ambani is nearly 71 lakhs of rupees, where day and night cricketmatches are played with utter disregard to the electricity consumed whileon the other hand farmers weighed down by the agrarian crises they cannotescape, one of the reasons of which is lack of electricity, are committingsuicides and millions of people are living without even a dimly lit electricbulb in their homes, one can only imagine about whose or what energyneeds the Minister is talking about. The hundreds of MoUs signed by thecomprador central and state governments to mine the rich resources in thevast rural and forest tracts of India and to build various industrial plantsrequire enormous amounts of electricity and it is this need of the corporateMNCs that is driving the likes of Jairam and Manmohan crazy to constructpower plants in spite of immense protests from the people. The issue oflives and livelihoods of the people or the ecology of this country which theprotestors are raising mean nothing to them and the only solution they

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know is to treat them like a ‘law and order’ problem.

Moreover, we would never know (unless another Wiki ‘leak’ surfaces)how much our comprador rulers had been paid in kickbacks from notoriouscorporations like the Areva (belonging to France) from whom we areimporting reactors while even pro-nuclear countries like USA and UK toohave refused to give design clearance to them. Not a single EvolutionaryPressurized Reactor (EPR) has either been built or safe-tested till nowanywhere in the world which makes them the most unreliable and unsafeoption but our rulers with their lickspittle servility to their imperialist mastersare scurrying to purchase them without in the least bothered about thehuman or ecological costs.

Fukushima disaster affected lakhs of people and the deathly radiationwould last for tens of thousands of years. Independent European medicalexperts have estimated that more than 4 lakh people will suffer from cancerin the coming decades in the region 200 kms from the reactor and theradioactive contamination from the plant has spread all over the world.Four lakh people were evacuated after the Chernobyl accident thathappened 25 years ago while many millions continue to live in contaminatedconditions constantly living in fear that they could develop cancer anytimeand that even their great grand children may be born with severe birthdefects. Nearly ten lakh people have already died due to its delayed healtheffects and the number will continue to increase. If there is a major accidentat Jaitapur, the entire Ratnagiri district will have to be evacuated,permanently, and entire Western Maharashtra, including Pune and Mumbaiwould be radioactively contaminated for tens of thousands of years.

The Konkan people of Jaitapur who are well aware of all theseconsequences, more so after Fukushima are waging a determined struggleagainst the nuclear plant. The government unleashed a brutal repressivecampaign (lathi-charges, promulgating Section 144 and Section 37 (3)prohibiting different kinds of assembly, beatings, indiscriminate arrests,registering of false cases (including one for an attempt to murder!) againsthundreds of activists and now police firings) to crush the struggle. Leadingactivists of the area have been issued externment notices from Ratnagiridistrict with Narayan Rane even threatening that they would not return

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alive from the district if they dare to enter it! The police even informed themedia that Jaitapur agitation is being closely watched for ‘possible linkswith naxalites’, using an already-exposed intimidatory tactic. Eminentcitizens from the region who have supported the struggle have been barredfrom entering the district. But all these and more could not cow down theJaitapur agitation which is soon becoming another symbol of unflinchingstruggles raging across India on various burning livelihood issues.

The Shiv Sena which kept quiet during the four-year period that theagitation was raging on has now entered the agitation seeing an opportunityto regain the ground it has lost in Konkan after Narayan Rane defected.The politically aware people of Jaitapur must not allow these opportunistswho said Enron would be thrown into the Arabian Sea and did a volte-faceafter they came to power, to hijack their genuine struggle for their self-interests. The CPM which projected itself as the champion of nuclear dealissue is seen nowhere in the scene consolidating against the government’schoice of nuclear power as the only option. In AP opposition parties likeTDP are shedding crocodile tears when villagers protesting power plantsare killed in police firings but they would be no different once they are inpower as they had proved the previous times they were in power. While abroad based struggle uniting all kinds of forces which oppose the nuclearpower plants is to be consciously built up the people should stay alert tovarious kinds of ploys to divert the struggle from the actual issue for vestedinterests or vote-bank politics.

CPI (Maoist) demands that all proposed nuclear power plants in Indiaincluding the Jaitapur nuclear park should be scrapped. It strongly condemnsthe strong arm tactics employed by the government to suppress the juststruggle of the Konkan people to preserve their lives and ecology fromimminent dangers of a nuclear power plant. It is demanding a judicial probeinto the firings on 18th April and immediate action against the officers andofficials who ordered the firing. All false cases, illegal externment ordersand banishments of anti-nuclear activists should be withdrawn. In fact, thepeople of Ratnagiri should declare that it is the likes of Narayan Raneshell-bent on selling the resource-rich Konkan coastline to the imperialistsand destructing their livelihoods have no right to enter the area and not theanti-nuclear activists who are selflessly fighting for them.

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Let us declare that the people of this country alone have the right todecide what kind of development or energy resources they need and notthe corrupt politicians who behave like loyal servants of the imperialistMNCs. Let us stand in firm support of the anti-nuclear plant struggle ofthe militant Konkan people and build a country-wide campaign against theunsafe, harmful nuclear power option pushed by the ruling classes. As theRatnagiri people have declared – let us not allow the sacrifices of Tabrezsto go in vain.

Our country is at present witnessing a deluge of militant struggles inall four corners on various issues with Jal, Jungle and Jameen, genuinedemocracy, progress and self-reliance at the core. People are carrying onthese struggles (some of them since many years) peacefully and militantlywithout stepping back even in the face of severe repression. All thesestruggles are drawing inspiration from one another too. The need of thehour is for all these struggles to stand in firm solidarity and support to oneanother and unite on a common platform to fight the imperialists, Indian bigcorporate sharks and feudal lords which are implementing all these anti-people policies and repressing the fighting masses. A broad, united andmilitant movement of all the fighting masses of India can alone save thiscountry and people from the dark pits of destitution these enemies of thepeople are scheming to throw us into.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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4 May, 2011

War-monger, butcher and blood-thirstyObama and not Osama

is the No.1 global terrorist

threatening world peace!

US imperialism and not Al Qaeda is

the gravest global threatnot only to the entire oppressed nations and

people of the worldbut also to the US citizens!

Condemn the brutal murder of Osama Bin Laden

in a covert operation by the global gendarme CIA!

On May 2, the US imperialists murdered Osama Bin Laden, the leaderof Al Qaeda by attacking with helicopters the building where he was stayingin Abbottabad in Pakistan. US overstepped the sovereignty of Pakistan bydirectly conducting this operation without even informing the Pakistangovernment about it. They jammed the radars of Pakistan, entered its skieswith four helicopters and attacked the building and finished the operation‘with surgical precision’. One woman and two men in the building werealso killed and it is said that Osama’s wife was also injured in the attack.Their child seems to have escaped death only by chance in this forty minuteoperation. The Obama administration was callous beyond words eventowards the dead body of Osama. They did not hand over the body to hisfamily members but threw it into the Arabian Sea! This was done to rubsalt into the wounds as they very well know how insulting and outraging itwould be to the muslims all over the world.

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leader, the fascists-in-arms of US government – the heads of imperialistcountries and their minion rulers in the third world scrambled to describethis as a great victory in the global War on Terror. The comprador Indianruling classes jumped at the chance to take potshots at Pakistan for shelteringsuch a ‘dangerous man’ on its soil. Not a word of condemnation about theone-sided attack on a SAARC nation conducted without any regard to itssovereignty. Not a question about what the US war-machinery was doingon the soil of the sub-continent in the first place. The response of theIndian compradors is not really surprising given their record of overt andcovert support to most of the aggressive wars and interventions ofimperialists (particularly that of US and NATO) in the third world violatingtheir sovereignty in umpteen number of ways and given their own servilityto the US imperialists.

The arm-twisting and coercing of Pakistan government by the US ‘toget its cooperation’ in its so-called war on terror ever since the NATOattack on Afghanistan in 2001 has been increasing with each passing dayand Pakistan has become a extended backyard of US in this war. Thisoperation is just the most glaring instance of the rampage of the belligerentbully as this is but in continuation of the numerous unchallenged interventionsby it in Pakistan, especially in the past decade. The kowtowing of thePakistan’s comprador rulers is so complete that even after such an offensiveaction, the Pakistan government is not even unequivocally condemning theattack done leaving to wind all international norms. It was only afterwidespread agitations all over Pakistan pushed it to the corner did it whimperinaudibly that this attack was illegal and carried on without its knowledge.The Master says ‘So what, I won’t apologize’ and the servant shuts hismouth. Again not really surprising when we look at its record of tail-waggingtotal submission to the US imperialists. No.1 global terrorist Obama day inand day out bombs Pakistani tribal (Pashtun) areas and kills hundreds ofPakistani citizens (mostly women and children) in the countless droneattacks. Scores of trigger-happy future Raymond Davises roam impudentlyin the streets of Pakistan baying for the blood of ordinary Pakistani citizens.But the shameless, spineless Pakistani ruling classes are jostling to lay redcarpets soaked with the blood of Pakistanis for this murderous ‘NobelPeace prize winner.’

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Ever since the 9/11 attacks allegedly conducted by Al Qaeda underthe leadership of Osama Bin Laden, the US imperialists under the leadershipof the then president George W. Bush have launched a vicious anti-Muslimtirade all over the globe and launched occupation wars against Afghanistanand Iraq. Millions of ordinary people have died or were crippled in theseunjust wars not to speak of the appalling horrors faced by women andchildren. In the name of War on Terror, Muslims all over the world weretargeted and subjected to innumerable horrors. Al Qaeda was shown asthe face of this ‘terrorism’ and Osama was portrayed as the number oneenemy of the US and the world and given a larger-than-life image. AlQaeda was inflated as the monster behind every terrorist attack in anattempt to justify all kinds of atrocities on Muslims. A man-hunt was launchedfor Osama and other leaders of Al Qaeda and billions of dollars were spenton the so-called War on Terror. Puppet regimes were installed in Afghanistanand Iraq and Pakistan almost resembles a colony now. The juggernaut ofWar on Terror continues to run amok among the Muslim populations crushingmillions under its feet.

It has been proven many times in history that killing one leadercan never end an organization without eliminating the root causes,which are imperialist super exploitation, oppression, interventionand insult in this case, which gave birth to it in the first place. Thedeep anger and frustration of the Muslim people against theimperialists, particularly the US imperialists and Zionist Israel isfinding expression in many ways and Al Qaeda is one of them. Theupsurges in the Arab World are another expression of this fury -both against their despotic rulers and against imperialism. Some ofthe methods employed by organizations like Al Qaeda in their fightagainst imperialism are harming the ordinary citizens and deserveto be condemned when lives of innocents are lost. But we shouldnot take them out of context and see them as the acts of somemindless people who ‘just hate America’ as the US governmentwants its citizens to believe. If there were no imperialist interventionsand wars of occupation then there would be no Al Qaeda. If there were noslaughterers like Bushes and Obamas there would be no Osamas.

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murder of Osama Bin Laden by the US imperialists. It demands that allkinds of attacks on Muslims in the name of ‘War on Terror’ be stoppedimmediately.

CPI (Maoist) firmly reiterates that Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is theonly ideology that can end all kinds of exploitation and oppression in theworld. Only under the leadership of the proletariat and its communist partycan the oppressed nations and peoples crushed under tyrants, bourgeoisdictatorships going by the name of ‘democracies’ and imperialism achievetheir complete liberation. Any number of acts of Al Qaeda or any otherorganization like Al Qaeda cannot win them freedom or sovereignty fromthe occupation and intervention of imperialists. The upsurges in the ArabWorld including the struggle of Palestinian people and the unrelenting fightand sacrifices of their organizations would go nowhere unless they getconsolidated into People’s Wars against imperialism, feudalism andcomprador bureaucratic capitalism in their countries.

CPI (Maoist) calls upon all the oppressed nations and peoplesof the world to unitedly fight back the imperialists, particularly theUS imperialists, who unjustly launched the so-called War on Terrortargeting the Muslim populations all over the world. We appeal tothe US citizens to realize that it is the brutal imperialist policies followed bytheir rulers in third world countries that are endangering the lives of UScitizens and not so-called terrorists; that it is the capitalist economic systemwhich is leading to financial crises again and again affecting their well-being or rendering them unemployed and not immigrants. We appeal to thepeople of US to raise their voice and fight our common enemy on his hometurf. Supporting the just struggles of the people oppressed by the rulers ofyour country would also pave the path for your own liberation. We sincerelyhope that the struggles of the working class and people in imperialist countries,including US, against monopoly capital and that of the oppressed nationsand peoples of the third world would unite and turn into a mighty stormwhich would ultimately destroy our common enemy.

CPI (Maoist) particularly calls upon the people of South-Asia to raisetheir voices against the brutality of the NATO forces led by the US inAfghanistan and Pakistan and demand their withdrawal immediately.

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Support the struggles of Pakistani people against the attacks of USimperialists on their soil and their struggle for freedom from imperialistcoercion and intervention.

Let us realize that US imperialism is the No.1 enemy of the worldpeople threatening world peace, sovereignty of the third world countriesand their progress. Let us fight back the imperialists and their compradorsin our countries for a life free of exploitation and oppression, for a life to belived with dignity and raised heads.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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11 May, 2011

Release the Maoist leaders arrested in Biharunconditionally!

Make success the ‘Bharat Bandh’ on May 21 and 22against the arrests of

CPI (Maoist) Central Committee members,the ongoing unjust war on the people waged by

the ruling clique of the country and

the brutal repression of Uttar Pradesh peasants!

On April 29, the central and the state intelligence agencies of AndhraPradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh etc conducted a well-planned attack andarrested seven persons including three CC members of our party fromBarsoi village in Katihar district of Bihar. Among those arrested are CCmembers Comrade Pulendu Sekhar Mukherji alias Saheb da, VaranasiSubrahmanyam alias Vimal alias Srikanth, Vijay Kumar Arya alias Jaspalji,Comrade Abhimanyu alias Umesh Yadav – the secretary of the UttarBihar-Uttar Pradesh Regional Bureau under the Bihar-Jharkhand SpecialArea Committee, Nokhelal Choudhury, Syamji Rushi and house-ownerAnirudh Ravidas. The APSIB notorious for hunting and killingrevolutionaries has been following the movements of ComradeSubrahmanyam since some months. In end July last year, he narrowlyescaped being caught by them. When our comrades met for a meeting, theBihar STF officers arrested them on information provided by the central-state intelligence agencies.

67 year old veteran Maoist leader Comrade Pulendu Sekhar Mukherjiknown as Saheb da, Gagan da and Akash da in the party has been leadingthe revolutionary movement since 45 years. Born in Kolkata city, he lefthis higher studies and joined the revolutionary struggle with the inspirationof Naxalbari and dedicated his whole life for the advance of people’s war.In his long revolutionary career, he strove to build revolutionary movement

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in various states including Bengal and put substantial efforts for the unityof communist organizations and genuine revolutionaries. Though sufferingseverely from asthma, ulcer and other ailments he is carrying on hisresponsibilities with great spirit.

Comrade Subrahmanyam known as Vimal among the AP cadres andfamous as Srikanth among the party ranks all over the country, completedhis higher studies from Andhra University in Visakhapatnam and enteredrevolutionary activities. In the 1970s he led the Radical Students Union,Radical Youth League and Singareni Karmika Samakhya. Responding tothe call of the party he went to North India and put great efforts in buildingrevolutionary movement in many states there. He worked day and night atvarious levels and in various spheres in spite of his severe ill-health.

Comrade Jaspalji well-known among the Bihar masses as Vijay KumarArya played a crucial role in the revolutionary movement leading thepeasantry and the cultural field. For more than three decades he led therevolutionary movement in various spheres and areas and built massmovements.

Indian intelligence agencies which were trained by foreign intelligenceagencies like CIA and Mossad notorious for their infinite cruelty are huntingsenior comrades leading the revolutionary movement and catching them.In fact, it is the CIA and FBI of US which are running the intelligenceagencies in our country. In the past two years the intelligence agenciesmurdered comrades Patel Sudhakar, Sakhamuri Appa Rao and Azad amongthe top leaders who were caught. Some more central and state levelleadership comrades were arrested and put in jails. False cases were foistedon them in various states and they are left to rot in jails without grantingbail for many years. False witnesses are summoned and harsh punishmentsand life sentences are pronounced basing on such testimonies. The womenleaders and activists are particularly subjected to inhuman physical andmental torture. Comrades like Sushil Roy, Sheela didi, Narayan Sanyal,Kobad Gandhi and Amitabh Bagchi who are suffering from serious ailmentsare harassed by denying them health care.

The imperialists are intensifying the exploitation of resources inbackward countries to come out of the severe crises faced by the world

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economy. They are threatening those countries which do not cater to theirinterests. If they do not heed bombs are dropped and unjust wars arelaunched against them. The Indian feudal, comprador bourgeoisie rulingclasses even while denying that there is any effect of the crisis on thecountry’s economy are getting bogged down in it with each passing day.They are opening the doors of the economy to imperialist exploitation andare implementing neo-liberal policies with impunity. The central and stategovernments have signed MoUs worth billions of rupees with several MNCsand are selling the natural resources of our country. Lands are forcefullygrabbed from the people in the name of SEZs, nuclear and thermal powerplants, big dams, express highways, wildlife sanctuaries etc. Whiledestroying forests, water, land and ecology on the whole they are renderingthe people and particularly the adivasis homeless. Hiding behind thesepolicies the ministers, chief ministers and bureaucracy are resorting toscams on a huge scale and stashing away billions of rupees in Swiss banksand rendering the lives of workers, peasantry, employees and middle classesunbearable. While the Tatas, Birlas, Ambanis, Jindals, Mittals, Mahindras,Ruiyas, Neko Jaiswals and Sun networks are amassing wealth worth trillionsof rupees, 77 percent of the country’s population is living on less than 20rupees a day. The people of our country are caught in a whirlpool of problemslike starvation deaths, price rises, unemployment, displacement, diseasesand malnutrition. Lakhs of police and paramilitary is deployed by the rulingclasses against those who question this situation and fight against it tosuppress them under the iron heel. Black laws are enacted crushingunderneath their feet democratic and civil rights. Billions of rupees arepoured down the drain to sharpen the fangs of the repressive machine tosuppress the people.

The ruling classes which realized that the huge discontent and angererupting against the ruling classes is strengthening the Maoist movementhave launched the well-planned campaign that ‘Maoist movement is thebiggest internal security to the country’. They are portraying the Maoistmovement as violent and the Maoist party as a terrorist organization and iscarrying on a malicious propaganda campaign on a large scale. To continuetheir pro-imperialist policies and to completely decimate the Maoist partywhich they think is the biggest hurdle for the loot of resources they have

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launched the most fascist offensive in the name of ‘Operation GreenHunt’ particularly since two years. This offensive which even has theavowed aim of destroying the alternative people’s power developing atvarious levels in the Maoist movement areas has been intensified sinceJanuary 2011 and now they are calling it ‘Operation Green Hunt – 2’. Aspart of this, the police, paramilitary forces, Special Forces and the counter-revolutionary vigilante gangs launched by them have intensified fakeencounters, indiscriminate killings, burning of villages, loot, atrocities onwomen, arrests and tortures. They are making full preparations to deployarmy in Chhattisgarh and are on their way to grab 800 sq. kms of land inMaad. In Maad and on the borders of Chhattisgarh and Odisha two armytraining centres are coming up. Apart from making preparations to establishan Air-Force base they have given permission to the Air-Force to conductattacks in ‘self-defence’.

In Chintalnar area of Dandakaranya between 11 and 16 of March,350 Cobra commandos, Koya commandos and hundreds of STF forcesdescended on Morpalli, Timmapuram and Tadimetla villages, created havocand razed to the ground 300 houses. Thousands of quintals of food grainswere burnt. Every home was looted. Three villagers were shot dead, twowent missing, five women were gang raped and nearly 50 villagers wereseverely tortured. Democrats who went to inquire into this, media personswho went to report this and social activists who were taking relief materialto the victims were attacked by the Salwa Judum goons and not allowed toenter the area at the behest of fascist chief minister Raman Singh, therunning dogs of the ruling classes DGP Viswaranjan, Bastar IG Longkumerand Dantewada SSP Kalluri. In the background of the furor which rockedthe state and country on this atrocity, Raman Singh was forced to visitTadimetla village. Even while he was speaking at the meeting, the Koyacommandos went on a rampage once again and looted fifteen houses, beatsome villagers and raped a woman in the same village. This is the level offascist terror being unleashed in Chhattisgarh today. These kinds of attacksare being conducted regularly in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra too.Moreover secret killer gangs are encouraged to attack and kill massorganization activists and party activists. They are told to particularly targetwomen activists – to rape and kill them. On April 19, 14 year old boy Rajnu

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was killed in cold blood in Chinari village and a fake encounter story wascirculated. These are just recent examples of the severe repressivecampaign unleashed on a daily basis in Dandakaranya.

On March 14, six Maoists including three women were killed by thepolice in East Champaran district of Bihar. Some more were arrested. TheJharkhand government is deploying thousands of police and paramilitaryforces with the aim of annihilating Maoist leadership and is carrying onoffensives. Indiscriminate arrests are continuing. Fascist attacks areconducted on people fighting against displacement and forceful evictionsfrom land. In Odisha the comprador Naveen Patnaik government carriedon fake encounters all over the state and killed more than 25 Maoists, anti-mining activists and ordinary people within four months. The fact that thereis a 12 year old girl Janga and some more teenage girls among the deadbares the brutal face of the Patnaik regime.

With the aim of continuing their fascist rule of the past 34 years at anycost, the CPM government in West Bengal intensified its attacks on peopleand the Maoists. It is resorting to massacres and the most appalling atrocitiesusing police, paramilitary and its goonda force of Harnad Bahini. ArrestedMaoist leaders, particularly women, are being treated in the most inhumanmanner. Recently WB police severely attacked the political prisoners whowere striking against the horrible conditions in the Medinipur jail. The APgovernment which claims to have decimated the Maoist movement in thestate is going on increasing its police forces on a large scale. It intensifiedits hunt for Maoist leaders. It is suppressing the people fighting for separateTelangana. Its leaders are being attacked by state-sponsored black gangs.The Maharashtra government is continuing the campaign of repression inthe adivasi movement areas, is arresting Maoist leaders and democrats inthe urban areas and foisting false cases on them.

This fascist onslaught is not just aimed at the Maoist movement. Theoppressive ruling classes have been resorting to fascist repression againstevery democratic movement. Last month, on 18th, police had indiscriminatelyfired at the people of Jaitapur area in Maharashtra who were agitatingagainst the proposed nuclear power plant killing one protester named Tabrez.And now, the police forces are brutally suppressing the agitating peasants

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of Uttar Pradesh who are opposing to give away their lands for proposedExpress Highway to be built from Greater Noida to Agra. At least twopeasants were killed and so many people were injured when police forceresorted to beatings and firings. People of Bhatta-Parsaul and nearby villagesboldly resisted the police rampage in which two policemen were also killedand some others including few officers were injured. Next day people ofAgra and Aligarh also intensified their agitation and resisted thehighhandedness of the police. Taking this as a pretext, fascist Mayawatigovernment has resorted to severe repression on the peasants of UttarPradesh. Laying siege upon the villages, it is inflicting inhuman atrocitiesupon the villagers.

Beloved People! Democrats! Patriots!

The above fascist repressive measures and the arrests of Maoist leadersare part of the War on People waged by the ruling clique of Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram with the support of the imperialists in the nameof OGH. We must see this political repression, massacres and attack oncivil rights in the context of the repercussions of the severe crisis faced bythe world capitalism on all the spheres in our society. It is part of a conspiracyto carry on their pro-imperialist, anti-people policies unchallenged bycompletely destroying the Maoist revolutionary movement. It is a historicaltruth that repression leads to resistance. The daydreams of Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram ruling clique that they would be able to suppressmass movements and revolutionary movements through arrests, murdersand repressive campaigns are bound to end in a nightmare. The feudal andcomprador bureaucratic bourgeois ruling classes and imperialists whocontrol them are the biggest enemies to the development of our country,self-reliance, sovereignty and people’s welfare. Our Central Committee iscalling upon the people to join in huge numbers in the People’s War wagedby our party and in the New Democratic Revolution conducted with theaim of completely eliminating these people’s enemies. Our CC is appealingto all civil rights activists, intellectuals, democrats and those who wish forpeace talks to visit our movement areas and see with your own eyes theinhuman atrocities and massacres perpetrated by the state here. It isrequesting you to place before the people of this country the facts aboutthe fascist state violence unleashed on adivasis - the poorest of the poor -

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in the heart of this country which calls itself ‘the largest democracy’.

Our CC is calling upon the people and the democrats to condemnthese arrests, massacres, destruction, loot, atrocities, foul propaganda,fascization of the state, forceful land acquisitions and black laws like UAPAand to fight unitedly against all these. It is demanding that the arrestedMaoist leaders be released unconditionally and immediately. The only waybefore us is to fight back unitedly and militantly the fascist state terror andour CC is calling upon the people to come forward bravely to resist this. Itis clearly stating that only by intensifying the people’s resistance movementongoing under the leadership of our party and PLGA and by getting mobilizedinto it in thousands and lakhs can we defeat this offensive.

Our CC is appealing to the people to make success the 48 hour ‘BharatBandh’ to be observed on May 21-22 protesting the arrests of Maoistleaders and against the war on people by the ruling clique and against theongoing repression of Uttar Pradesh peasants. This bandh would be mainlyobserved in six states – Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, AndhraPradesh and Chhattisgarh; in three districts of Maharashtra – Gadchiroli,Chandrapur, Gondia; in the border districts of Uttar Pradesh adjoining Biharand in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. There will be protests in variousforms in other states. Emergency services like health care, examinationsof students and interviews are exempted from the bandh.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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4 June, 2011

Deployment Of Army

In The Name Of Training Schools

Puts The Very Existence Of The Aboriginesand Inhabitants Of Bastar In Peril!

Forest Belongs To

The Indigenous People (Mulvasis) –The Government Doesn’t Have Any Right

Over Even An Inch Of It!

Indian Army GO BACK –

Do Not Kill Your Own Citizens!While the Bastar adivasi peasants are readying themselves for the

monsoons to till their lands so that they can feed their children and familiesthroughout the year – unknown to them, silently and stealthily the centraland state governments have completed the preparations for another kindof monsoons. These ‘monsoons’ do not rain droplets of water but bulletsand shells, rockets and cannon balls and would irrigate their lands with theblood of children, women and men – young and old. These ‘monsoons’promise a lifelong peace and prosperity. Peace it would – as peaceful as agraveyard could be and lifelong as their longing for life would come to anend. Of course, prosperity it would be – for the imperialists, their runningdogs - the ruling classes of India, the corporate vultures, the MNC sharks,the great Indian extended family of the comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisiei.e., the chief ministers, ministers, MLAs, MPs, IAS, IPS, IFS, bureaucratsetc as now they could lay their greedy hands on the immense wealth buriedunder this graveyard.

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The home ministry says it wants to ‘clear, hold and build’ in the ‘Maoistareas.’ In our country words have long ago ceased to have their originalmeaning, for which they were created in the first place. Here is the newlexicon– ‘clear’ means massacres, mopping up or complete destruction ofeverything, ‘hold’ means a war of occupation and ‘build’ means absoluteloot of people’s resources. All this ultimately results in reducing the peopleto a slave like existence complete with absolute surrender to the imperialistslave-owners and this has got its own word – ‘development’. And it is notjust words, even institutions have changed their ‘supposed duties’ in ourcountry (into their ‘actual duties’ for which they were created, in fact) –the government doesn’t look after the welfare of the people – it bendsover backwards and crawls on its fours to protect the interests of thosewho exploit them; the judiciary doesn’t protect the rights of the people – itshows admirable adroitness in finding ways to deny them; the police thinkthey are the ‘law’ and that ‘ordering around’ restores it; and the IndianArmy with impeccable acumen finds ‘enemies’ in the dilapidated huts ofpoor adivasis, in the empty granaries of the bankrupt peasants or in thestench-filled bastis of workers and of course in every nook corner ofKashmir and North-East.

In the first week of June, a thousand-men strong iron heeled columnmarched its way to Bastar – physically that is. Because the Indian Armyhas been breathing down the necks of Bastar people in many more indirectways since almost a decade. It has been an integral part of all the counter-insurgency operation plans formulated against the Maoists and has beentraining the mercenaries who do that job in hundreds. In just Narayanpurthe land to be allotted for the Army (training school) amounts to 750 sq.kmswhile the talk is about three training schools and in three districts(Narayanpur, Bastar and Bilaspur). This is not counting the previousallotments to army and air-force.

‘Oh, no, don’t mistake us, all this is just for the training school, thearmy won’t enter into operations against Maoists, it is just to gain apsychological advantage over the Maoists, to tell them – ‘see a lion issitting at your door!’ says the army. And pray – may the humble citizensask His Excellency Herr Manmohan what this ‘training’ is for as it is hewho with great insight discovered that Maoists were the biggest internal

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security threat? Who are you trying to fool? Only a fool would believe thatthis lion just sits there and roars instead of pouncing on us. Don’t forget,this is a man-eater on the prowl which has tasted human blood in Kashmirand North-East. Let us be very clear – this training is nothing else butcounter-insurgency training ‘to fight the guerilla like a guerilla.’ Unable tocontain the armed resistance of the most deprived people of Central andEastern India through their police and paramilitary, the ruling classes of ourcountry have now turned to the army whom they have been ‘grooming’exactly for such purposes (read for wars on people). What is the need foranother ‘training school’ when there are already so many? And moreimportantly, why in Central India?

It is as clear as daylight – it is no doubt a training school but it doesn’tstop with training, as soon as a batch finishes training it would be readywith its boots and helmets, guns and grenades on to be sent off to itsdestination to fight the Maoists, and it doesn’t cater just to Chhattisgarhbut also to Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Western Ghats,West Bengal, Odisha and last but not least Andhra Pradesh. That explainsthe location of it.

Following the policy of ‘draining the water to catch the fish’, the centraland state governments, with the close guidance of their mentors – the USimperialists - are implementing the ‘Low Intensity Conflict’ (LIC) strategy,applying it ‘creatively’ to the concrete conditions in India. This can be insuch ‘indigenous forms’ like - in preparation for the deployment of armyand ‘draining water’ – now Maad adivasis do not get to buy rice anywherenearby their dwellings. They get them only from towns (and only in suchquantities so that the Maoists do not take some rice from them) from shopswhich are actually police camps. Even the namesake schools from thehamlets are being shifted to pucca buildings on the road-side and wouldexist in the name of that hamlet which would be at least 60 to 100 kmsaway. Next the army would step in and ‘clear’ the forest of all inhabitantsand herd them off to strategic hamlets which are a euphemism forconcentration camps. At the higher level, the recent hobnobbing exercisesof Indian and US ruling classes for ‘helping each other’ in Homeland Securitywere done in preparation for the crueler phase of this War on People – thePhase Two of the Operation Green Hunt as it is being called.

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No people in this world without a land to claim as their own couldwage battles against their enemies. The ruling classes know this truth morethan anybody else and this is exactly what they are planning to do. In thename of training schools it is occupying thousands of square kilometers ofland and in the name of strategic hamlets it is rendering the adivasis andforest dwellers homeless and everybody knows that forest IS their home.So, revolutionaries, democrats, civil rights activists and particularly the adivasiorganizations must realize the whole conspiracy behind the smokescreenof army training schools. It is the need of the hour to assert loudly that Jal,Jungle and Jameen belongs to the indigenous people (Mulvasis) of Bastar,who represent one of the most ancient inhabitants of the world and to theMulvasis of Central and Eastern India.

True, the government must be questioned about land acquisition,throwing to wind all laws and regulations it has promulgated for adivasiareas (5th schedule, PESA, Forest Rights act etc). Though posing a directquestion about its not following its own rules is necessary, one must becareful not to give it legitimacy to occupy the forest ‘if it follows its rules’.In fact, a conspiracy is under way in the name of land acquisition act tohand over the land of the peasants in a ‘legal’ manner to the corporates. Itwould not result in any peaceful transfer of land from one hand to anotherbut would remain a naked land-grabbing act which would never beimplemented without shedding the blood of the peasants and withoutdestroying their livelihoods. The first and foremost thing to be done is todeclare that forest belongs to the Mulvasis and that they do not have any‘elder brother’ named ‘government’ with whom they should share it!

As our party has been consistently saying and as even all genuinedemocrats have been expounding - all these operation green hunts andclear-hold-build policies are meant to loot the immense mineral wealth andother natural resources in Central and Eastern India. And for this they donot care if a whole community or a civilization is wiped out; it would just bea ‘collateral damage’ as taught by their ex-boss ‘Bush’ or their currentmaster ‘Obama’.

The Central Committee of CPI (Maoist) calls upon the people of Bastarand Chhattisgarh to fight back the Indian Army as they had been fightingback the police, paramilitary and vigilante gangs like Salwa Judum to protect

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their lives and livelihoods, to secure the future of their children and to savetheir mother forest and one of the most ancient cultures of this world ofwhich they are the proud inheritors.

Let the slogans – Forest belongs to the Mulvasis - Not an inch ofit to the Sonias-Manmohans-Chidambarams and Raman Singhs, notto blood-sucking land grabbers masquerading as chief ministersand ministers, not to MNCs, not to Indian corporate sharks, not tomining mafias – reverberate in every corner of Central and Eastern India.Mobilize to the very last member in the family – children and elders, youngand old, women and men with the slogan – Indian Army Go Back, donot kill your own citizens.

We have seen many offensives, but this new offensive using the armyputs the very existence of the aborigines and inhabitants of the forests inCentral and Eastern India in peril. It is a question of life and death. If welet them prevail, the consequences would be very bleak and may lead tomany decades of dark years. Sacrifices and acts of bravery are not new tous. It is a specific characteristic of our history of struggle against colonialrule that the most consistent, continuous, militant armed struggles againstthe British colonialists were waged by the adivasis of this country. Andsome of the most glorious chapters in it belong to the Santhals and Bastaradivasis during the Santhal rebellions and Mahan Bhumkal of 1910respectively. It is this struggle legacy from our fore fathers and motherswhich we have to evoke now if we have to save everything that is preciousto us, everything that is dear to our heart – everything that makes us breathefree. So let us fight the enemies of the people to the end. Let us fight backeverything which seeks to reduce us to a slave-like existence in the nameof ‘development’.

We appeal to all the revolutionary, democratic and patrioticorganizations and particularly the adivasi organizations in India and abroadto raise your voice against the deployment of army in Central and EasternIndia and do everything in your means to expose, to fight back and stop thiswar of the Indian government on its own citizens.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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June 13, 2011

Release Beloved Veteran Leader of Indian Revolution andOppressed Masses

Comrade Jagdish Master (Bhupesh ji)Unconditionally!

Observe ‘Bharat Bandh’ on June 23against the arrest of Comrade Jagdish Master and

the ongoing fascist oppression onrevolutionary movement

unleashed by the exploitative ruling classes!

Politburo member of CPI (Maoist) and one of the senior most leadersof Indian Revolution Comrade Bhupesh ji, who has been popular amongthe oppressed people of Bihar as ‘Jagdish Master’, was arrested by policeon June 11 from Gurar area of Gaya district in Bihar. 72-year old veteranComrade Bhupesh ji suffering from serious illness for ten years has beenliving among the people and inspiring them for struggles. Plainclothes goonsof Bihar’s and central intelligence wings caught him while he was trying toget medical treatment. By not producing him before any court of law evenafter 24 hours and inflicting various kinds of torture and harassment onhim, these licensed killers have bluntly violated their own constitution andlaw whom they always claim to follow.

Comrade Jagdish Master, who is very popular among Party ranks as‘Comrade Bhupesh ji’ is one of the important leaders who has strived toadvance the revolutionary movement for almost four decades. He wasattracted to revolutionary politics in the early 1970s while he was servingas a school teacher inspired by one of the Great Leaders of Indian Revolutionand Martyr Comrade Kanhai Chatterjee. He started his revolutionaryactivities as a professional revolutionary since then. In Bihar which wasnotorious for feudal exploitation and barbaric attacks on oppressed caste

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masses by private armies of upper caste landlords, he led many massstruggles as a militant people’s leader. By arresting him the neo-landlordslike Nitish kumar and the ruling clique of Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaramare trying to push Bihar peasantry once again into those dark years. ComradeBhupesh ji was instrumental in seizing thousands of acres of land from thelandlords and distributing them among the poor and landless peasants andthus enabling them to raise their heads with self-respect. The arrest ofComrade Bhupesh ji is a great shock to the people, revolutionary ranks andcadres for whom he has been an inspiration and a source of enthusiasmfor his defiance of old age and severe ill-health and the way he led hisentire life amidst the oppressed masses until his arrest.

Indian ruling classes have been viewing the Maoist movement as theirbiggest enemy and committing heinous acts of arresting and murdering itscentral and state leaders in fake encounters. Especially, as part ofcountrywide offensive named ‘Operation Green Hunt’ that has been goingon for the last two years, they are on the one hand, eliminating the crucialleadership by targeting them and on the other hand, unleashing fascistrepression in the struggle areas. This state offensive - OGH - has beencontinuing in the cruelest oppressive forms of Middle Ages and in utterfascist forms of Nazi kind such as massacring the unarmed peopleindiscriminately in the name of encounters, setting villages ablaze, rapingwomen, destroying and looting the properties, beating severely, arrestingand implicating false cases against people to make them languish in jailsfor years without trials and bails. The areas of revolutionary movement inChhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra,Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh states are crushed under the iron feet ofpolice and paramilitary forces.

Since January 2011, as part of the second phase of OGH as it is beingcalled, governments are on the one hand unleashing barbaric attacks onthe villages and the people and on the other hand, resorting to fascist attackson those writers, artists, democrats and human rights activists who dare toraise their voice against these attacks. Pronouncing life imprisonment topeople’s doctor and human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen in Chhattisgarh;attacks on Swami Agnivesh and others who were trying to directly meetthe victims of brutal state violence in Chintalnar area; issuing threats of

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imposing ban on PUCL; attacking and implicating in false cases writersand journalists; repression on people of Odisha who were agitating againstthe forceful acquisition of land by corporate companies; killings of anti-mining activists in fake encounters; police firings and killings of people inBihar; police firings and atrocities on the people of Jharkhand who wereagitating against the government’s moves to evict the people from theirresidential areas in the pretext of illegal encroachments; arrest and torturingmagazine editor and mass organization activist Harbindar Singh Jalal bypolice in Punjab; arrest of Dalit movement activist and magazine editorSudhir Dhawale in sedition case in Maharashtra; various forms of repressionon people’s movement for ‘separate Telangana state’ in Andhra Pradesh –all of these are just some of the recent glaring examples.

The Indian ruling classes who are hell-bent on giving away the country’sprecious wealth to imperialists and comprador corporate houses have nowdeployed the Indian Army in this unjust war with the aim of wiping out theMaoist movement whom they see as the biggest hurdle in their way. Atpresent, the forces of the Indian Army have arrived in Bastar region ofChhattisgarh in the name of ‘training’. The Indian Army which is supposedto be deployed in the borders of the country to fight the armies of enemycountries has now been deployed against the very people of this country inthe heart of the country. The decision of the Raman Singh government togive away as much as 750 sq km land to the Army in the name of settingup of training schools would carve out almost one fifth of the Maad regiondisplacing thousands of indigenous Mariya adivasi people. On the otherhand, corporate companies have been moving into these areas with theirprojects of acquiring thousands of acres of land. Thus the conspiracies ofdisplacing the people living in the areas of revolutionary movement byusing brute force are on the high now.

Today, the corrupt political leaders, corporate bandits and bigbureaucrats who have amassed hundreds and thousands of billions of rupeesby virtue of vast scams and scandals are facing the people’s wrath severely.Tens of millions of people are immensely suffering from serious problemssuch as price rise, starvation deaths, famine, diseases, displacement, plunderof resources etc. Unable to solve any of these basic problems, governmentshave unleashed fascist repressions and mass killings with the aim of

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suppressing the just movements of the people. They’re arresting and killingthe revolutionary leaders who have been striving hard for the peopleselflessly, dedicatedly and relentlessly. Comrade Bhupesh ji’s arrest mustbe seen in this context.

The Central Committee of CPI (Maoist) calls upon the people of ourcountry to observe 24-hour ‘Bharath Bandh’ on June 24 to protest thearrest of Comrade Bhupesh ji and the fascistic repression unleashed againstthe revolutionary movement by the ruling classes. This bandh would bemainly observed in six states – Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha,Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh; in three districts of Maharashtra –Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Gondia; in the border districts of Uttar Pradeshadjoining Bihar and in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. There will beprotests in various forms in other states. Emergency services like healthcare, examinations of students and interviews are exempted from the bandh.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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June 15, 2011

Fight back the new state offensive inChhattisgarh and Odisha

as part of Operation Green Hunt – Phase II!

Any fascist offensive aimed at looting thiscountry is bound to be defeated by the

courageous resistance of the self-respectingpeople of India!

On 14-06-2011 the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram had a highlevel meeting with the chief ministers of Chhattisgarh and Odisha andannounced a new brutal offensive in these two states to contain ‘LeftWing Extremism (LWE)’. In the guise of his oft-repeated two-prongedmantra of ‘development and police action’, the HM promised full supportof the centre for these states in their cruel offensive and egged them on togo ahead in full swing. Naveen Patnaik, the blood-thirsty CM of Odishawhose hands are already stained with the blood of hundreds of people ofOdisha offered as human sacrifices for this ‘God of development’ rightfrom Kalinga Nagar to Niyamgiri is now asking for helicopters to bomb thehapless adivasis. Raman Singh who would perhaps go down in history asthe saffron fascist who sounded the death knell for one of the most ancientinhabitants in the world in Bastar, tried to cover up his growing alarm at theincreasing heroic armed resistance of the people in his state with high-sounding rhetoric on how to go about decimating Maoists. A few daysback in the first week of June (within a week of another meeting with thechief ministers of ‘Maoist affected’ states led by the PM and HM) anannouncement had already been made by the AP and Odisha governmentsthat a three-month long big offensive is ready to be launched on Andhra-Odisha Border region (AOB) to decimate the Maoists there. Theyannounced that they would use modern technology and new methods andtactics of attacking utilizing ‘water, air and land’. They said paratroopersmay also be used. And now the whole country knows that the army had

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already been deployed in Chhattisgarh under the pretext of ‘training’.

This announcement comes within days of the announcement of SAILto privatize Raoghat mines in Bastar (Chhattisgarh). This comes withindays of the stiff resistance of the Odisha people against the land grabbingof POSCO for ‘the biggest foreign direct investment in India’ (read ‘oneof the biggest attempts in history to grab the natural resources in India’).This also comes within days of a series of attacks by our PLGA (People’sLiberation Guerilla Army) on the mercenary forces of the central and stategovernments in Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra parts which constitute DK.The ruling classes concentrating on the borders of the states where theMaoist movement is strong and expanding so that there won’t be anyboundaries to their exploitation; so that he they could expand their lootunbridled. (For example, between Odisha and Jharkhand; between WestBengal and Jharkhand; Chhattisgarh and Mahararashtra; CG-AP-MR etc.previously) The relation between the cause and effect is obvious for all tosee.

The actual reality is that this announcement comes in the backdrop offirm rejection by the people of India from North to South, from East toWest and particularly in Central India of the ‘development model’ of thecomprador ruling classes. The growing resistance to almost every country-selling and plundering ‘development’ project in throughout the country likein Bihar-Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra,West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, North-East etc is such a glaringfact that only those wearing the visionless glasses of ‘development’ wouldrefuse to recognize them. Only those wearing the sound-proof ear-plugsof ‘police action’ would refuse to hear the slogans of ‘Jal-Jungle-ZameenHamara Hai’ and ‘NO to this lopsided development’ renting the airs.

Every genuine patriotic citizen of this country would indeed be proudof these bravest resistances - violent and non-violent, militant and peaceful,armed and unarmed - offered by the poorest of the poor to save this countryfrom the vultures of MNCs and big comprador bourgeoisie and be humbledby the sacrifices they are making for a life of dignity not only for theirchildren but for every citizen of this country. But the ruling classes of Indiaare feeling the opposite. They are angered, alarmed, feeling cornered and

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filled to the brim with hatred towards these resistances because thesemovements are hindering the implementation of the ‘promises’ these minionsmade to their imperialist masters and to the members of their class tohoard all the riches of this country for peanuts. Their masters are breathingdown their necks to ‘show results’ for all the kickbacks they have beengorging till their stomachs burst for paving ‘the path of development.’ Sothey are going on launching new offensives in a desperate attempt to crushthe resistances.

The first thing to realize is that we should not be fooled by their utterlies that these offensives are launched only for crushing the Maoists. Wehave to realize that these offensives are launched to crush the peasants,adivasis and workers; the women, children, men and elderly; the democrats,the patriots and the revolutionaries of these regions or in one word all thosecitizens of this country who have the right over the resources of this country.So, we must fight back these offensives as one person and in one voice todefeat their conspiracies of selling our beloved country to the imperialists.

The questions to be asked are – who gave the right to these governmentsto implement the ‘development model’ which has been absolutely rejectedby the very people in whose name this is done? What right do thesegovernments have to spend the hard-earned money of the people of thiscountry to kill its own citizens in police actions and military offensives?What right do these governments have to offer as cannon fodder the livesof lakhs of armed forces in a war which is not fought for their interests orany betterment of their lives but for the interests of the imperialists,comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and the feudals? Most importantlywhat right do these governments have to perpetrate massacres, burning,loots, rapes, fake encounters, lock-up deaths etc on the people fighting fortheir livelihood and very existence?

To keep up the sagging morale of the armed forces who are facingone attack after another in the Maoist areas, particularly in Chhattisgarhrecently, the HM said that the forces were facing the Maoists bravely andhad gunned down as many as 78 extremists in 125 encounters this year.We want to bring to the attention of the people of this country and theworld that these figures do not convey the truth and we must realize that itis actually hundreds of unarmed people (who may be sympathizers or

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activists of the revolutionary movement or not) who have been killed incold blood in fake encounters and massacres of the central and stategovernments. ‘Maoists’ is just the alibi they are using to crush the genuinepeople’s struggles including the ones led by Maoists and not just the onesled by the Maoists.

The Andhra Pradesh government has been patted on the back in everymeeting of the gangster chief ministers and high-way robber DGPs forcrushing the Maoist movement in the state effectively. It took a blood-bathof about four decades in an unprecedented series of fascist offensivesboth on revolutionaries and the people, particularly on the Telangana peoplefor this to be ‘achieved’. And now every state government is urged tofollow this fascist model of AP. The AP greyhounds do not bother aboutstate boundaries and enter unchecked into Odisha and Chhattisgarh tocarry on attacks on the Maoists and the adivasi hamlets on the borders.And the Special Intelligence Bureau (APSIB) is present behind every majorarrest and every fake encounter of Maoist leaders in all the states in thecountry. So now the three month long offensive in AOB to be implementedwith the coordination of the AP and Odisha governments with the fullsupport of central government may go down as one of the bloodiest in thehistory of this country if we do not offer the stiffest resistance to stop it.And the new offensive on Odisha and Chhattisgarh which are alreadynotorious for Salwa Judums, Santi Senas and all kinds of atrocities by thesecurity forces deployed there would also be most cruel as these stateshave been the theatre for the bravest armed and unarmed resistancesagainst pro-imperialist policeis of the governments in this country. Thecentral government has now zeroed down on these two states and includedthe AP borders region with these two states. It wants to finish off this vastregion of resistance first and go on to other regions. This doesn’t meanthere would be respite in other areas such as a Jharkhand or a West Bengal.The war on those people would continue severely. It is just that theconcentration would be more on this region in this phase of the country-wide ‘War on People’.

The people of the world and our country have stood with the fightingpeople of India in their struggle for life and existence and their support isvery crucial in the face of these new fascist offensives planned by the

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ruling classes. So we appeal to all the genuine democratic forces in ourcountry and in the world to expose the conspiracy of the Indian rulingclasses and fight back this War on the People of India in every possiblemanner. Build movements across the country and the world to stop thedeployment of army in the movement areas and to stop the economic,political, military and psychological offensives.

The CC of CPI (Maoist) calls upon the people of Chhattisgarh-Odishaborder, AP-Odisha border and Chhattisgarh-AP border to fight back thislatest fascist offensive unitedly. The entire Party and PLGA forces mustfight back the enemy offensive in all spheres and by intensifying armedresistance involving the vast masses of this region.

Stop the new fascist offensive on CG-Odisha, Odisha-AP andCG-AP borders immediately!

Stop Operation Green Hunt immediately! Stop land grab for POSCO and Raoghat railway line and mines! Condemn the brutal state repression on people agitating against

POSCO project!

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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June 18, 2011

Make success the protest week from July 4th

to 11th in the Central Region!

The Army Training School in Narayanpurdistrict ( in Maad area)

should be immediately scrapped !

The Indian Army is establishing a counter-guerilla training school in asprawling area of 750 sq.kms in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh. Thisarea is home to an ancient Adivasi community. Since two decades thegovernment has been citing that these Adivasis are becoming an extincthuman society. At present, establishing an army centre in a vast expanseof this area means speeding up of this process. Since five years theChhattisgarh government has been propagating that top Maoist leadersare taking shelter in these mountains and that they are openly carrying outtheir activities and had turned this into a military camp. Since two years thebrutal Operation Green Hunt has been unleashed by it here. Due to theestablishment of the Army training camp the very existence of the Adivasishere will be put in severe peril. In fact, looting the valuable mineral resourcesfrom these areas is their actual goal behind all this. People are vehementlyopposing this. Now army has been deployed as part of suppressing thissevere protest. Our party is severely condemning this. Our party is callingupon the people to intensify mass struggles against this.

Our party is calling upon the people to make success the protest weekto be observed in Central Region, i.e., in Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh,Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border area from July 4th to 11th

demanding the immediate scrapping of the Army training school in Maadarea. Our party is appealing to the entire Indian masses, democrats andwell-wishers of Adivasis to make success this protest week.

Our party is appealing to the Indian Army jawans not to make war on

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Adivasi people for the interests of the exploitative ruling classes. We areappealing to them not to carry on firings on Adivasi people in the name ofMaoists.

Anand Abhay

Secretary, Central Regional Bureau Spokesperson,

Central Committee, Central Committee,

CPI (Maoist) CPI (Maoist)

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June 20, 2011

Red Homage to

Comrade Pattipati Venkateswarlu,a founder leader of the civil liberties

movement in Andhra Pradesh!On June 11, 2011 Pattipati Venkateswarlu, a people’s lawyer and

founder-secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee(APCLC) breathed his last in Hyderabad. With his death the oppressedpeople of India, particularly the people of Andhra Pradesh have lost one oftheir well-wishers, a people’s lawyer and a civil rights leaders who hadrelentlessly fought for their rights. The CC, CPI (Maoist) is paying redhomage to Pattipati and is sending its deep condolences to his family, friends,relatives and colleagues in the civil rights movement.

Pattipati was born in Tanguturu of Prakasam district in 1934. He wasone of those several mass organization leaders who came forward to workfor the rights of the oppressed masses and fighting people in our country inthe wake of Naxalbari and particularly in AP during the Srikakulam armedstruggle. With the notorious fake encounters which were intensified duringthe Vengala Rao fascist regime to suppress the Srikakulam struggle andthe innumerable atrocities, arrests etc of revolutionaries and innocent peopleperpetrated by the government mercenary police and paramilitary forces,the need for a civil rights movement was felt more than ever in the 70s.APCLC was formed in 1973 and Pattipati became its first secretary whilethe legendary poet Sri Sri was its first president. Both of them had touredthe length and breadth of AP to build up a strong civil liberties movementand their names became synonymous with this movement during this period.Pattipati was known for his fiery speeches which exposed the cruelest andfascist repressive face of the state. He strove like a one-man army to buildup the units of APCLC in all the districts to strengthen the organization.Between 1970 and 1975 it was to him that the victims of state repressionturned to, both as a lawyer and as a firebrand civil rights leader whopassionately fought for them. His home in Isamiya Bazaar was one of the

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few places in Hyderabad where the activists of mass organizations, victimsof state repression, people on whom false cases were framed, revolutionarywriters, civil rights activists etc congregated almost on a daily basis sharingthe meagre food, shelter and contemporary revolutionary thoughts withhim.

Pattipati would always be remembered for his memorable role infighting for the annulment of the death sentences of comrades Bhumaiahand Kista Goud, the revolutionary peasant movement activists (pronouncedin 1974) and for turning it into a country-wide issue. He was instrumentalin involving leaders from various political parties in this campaign whichincluded Jaya Prakash Narayan, Chandra Rajeswara Rao, Bhupesh Gupta,Vajpayee and George Fernandes. A committee was built up with thisexclusive demand and he coordinated this from Hyderabad. His efforts inbuilding solidarity for this demand internationally merit special mention.More than 300 intellectuals from all over the world (including Jean PaulSartre and Tariq Ali) demonstrated in various countries like France and USin support of this demand. He argued their case and brought a stay whenthe state tried to hang them the first time. He would always be rememberedby the movements which are being built the world over for a total ban ondeath sentences.

When emergency was declared on the midnight of June 25-26 in 1975,Pattipati was the first political activist and civil rights leader to be arrestedin AP. During the time he was in jail his family had to undergo many trialsand tribulations as he was the sole breadwinner. As Pattipati continuedmaking phone calls, writing letters and sending telegrams even from jail tocoordinate civil rights work the government brought a special G.O. banningsuch things. Between 1970 and 1977 as a lawyer he saved the lives ofmany revolutionary leaders and hundreds of activists whenever they wereillegally arrested and were in the danger of being ‘encountered’ by thestate. After the emergency Pattipati continued as a lawyer and campaignedhard for including the ‘Right to Work’ in the fundamental rights till his lastbreath. He remained a people’s lawyer till the end.

Though Pattipati was not active in the civil rights movement after thelifting of emergency, he continued to sympathize with the revolutionary

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movement and believed in Marxism. The Central Committee of CPI(Maoist) pays red homage to Pattipati for his role in building the civil rightsmovement in AP and his role as a people’s lawyer during one of the darkestperiods of repression in the state between 1970 and 1977. Our party seesthe struggle for democratic rights of the oppressed people by comradeslike Pattipati and civil rights organizations as an integral part of the overallfight against feudalism, comprador bureaucratic capitalism and imperialismfor a new democratic society where all rights of the oppressed people areguaranteed. At a time when an unprecedented country-wide multi-prongedoffensive in the name of Operation Green Hunt has been unleashed in theform of ‘War on People’ by the fascist Indian ruling classes and everysingle right won by the people and civil rights movements through years ofstruggles are being curbed, it is necessary to remember the services renderedby civil rights leaders like Pattipati who fought for these rights. At a timewhen there is a need for the civil rights movement in the country to becomeactive more than ever, it is necessary to propagate the struggles and theservices rendered by organizations and individuals as part of it which wentinto creating the present improved and greater democratic awareness aboutthe inalienable rights of the people. The CC is appealing to his family,friends, colleagues in the civil rights movement and people’s lawyers topropagate and emulate the services done by him for the oppressed massesof this country so that the younger generation is inspired to work for therights of the people as inheritors of the struggle legacy.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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June 22, 2011

Hail the heroic resistance of

the anti-POSCO agitators against a projectwhich not only grabs their land but also the

future of their children!

People of Odisha have the right to decide

what kind of projects they need,not comprador despotic rulers like Naveen Patnaik or

Sonia-Manmohan-Jairam-Chidambaram combine!

Build widespread agitations in support of

anti-POSCO agitation all over India!

It has been one week since the people of India has been witnessingone of the firmest, staunchest resistances in the history of modern Indiaagainst an imperialist MNC project in the form of anti-POSCO agitation inJagatsinghpur district of Odisha. CPI (Maoist) hails the people of Odishawho are determined to stop the much-touted 52,000 crore ‘biggest foreigndirect investment’ in India and declares its full support and solidarity forthem.

The central government hastily cleared the POSCO project on 15May 2007 and Manmohan himself had given full assurance to the SouthKorean government that he would do everything for building the project inthe backdrop of people’s rage erupting in severe opposition to it. The MOEFand the Odisha government have avoided compliance to the requirementsunder the Forest Rights Act and the MOEF guidelines issued in August2009. In fact this is the ground for the Ministry’s issuing stop work orderon 5th August 2010. The state government has been repeatedly denyingthe existence of tribals in the proposed project area whereas subsequentvisit and fact finding by the Saxena committee and the Meena Guptacommittee has proved beyond doubt that there are other traditionally forest

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dwellers in the proposed areas depending traditionally on the forests fortheir livelihood, that sufficient documentary evidence is available whichshows the existence of forest rights and that the FRA is not implementedby the state government in the area. The Central government the stategovernment of Odisha disrespected the resolution of more than 65 % ofthe villagers who participated in both the Palli Sabhas of Dhinkia andGovindpur which unequivocally rejected the proposal for diversion of land.The government authorities deliberately suppressed facts and declared inthe government’s submission to the MOEF that such resolutions were fake!There are number of such instances where the government is suppressingthe facts and figures and lying through the teeth. Based on the MeenaGupta committee’s report the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) hasrecommended withdrawal of forest clearance. But in violation of all thisand making a complete U-turn, environmental clearance was given by Mr.Jairam Ramesh on May 2, 2011 and this proved to be the last straw. Thestate government immediately deployed the police in June to grab the land.

This whole period saw severe opposition from the people to any kindof land acquisition for the 12-million-tonne-capacity steel project, againstmining lease for its Khandadhar iron ore reserve in Sundargarh district andthe company’s private port near the proposed steel plant about 12 km fromthe Paradip port. The fact is that both the central and state governmentsconspired for this and the statements by Jairam that environmental clearancedoesn’t mean that land should be acquired forcefully or Congress rushingto Govindpur supposedly to support the agitation are nothing but a big hoax.Jairam is advising the Odisha government to acquire land ‘democratically’.Going by recent evidence, his ‘democracy’ looks like it includes lying andkickbacks from MNCs to keep shut. The only forms of democracy thepeople (mostly Adivasis) opposing such projects could see are fakeencounters, tortures and incarceration for years together in jails !

Union Home Secretary GK Pillai in a recent interview asked the peopleto check the website of the Planning Commission and see the photos thereto know how rapidly ‘development’ is progressing in the form of roads,anganwadi and school buildings coming up in backward (particularly‘Maoist’) areas. He said ‘Photos speak for themselves’. One wonders ifthe Pillai and his ilk have seen the photos of rows and rows of children,

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women and elderly persons lying on their land in Govindpur area ofJagatsinghpur district under a hot sun or in pouring rains to save it frombeing grabbed by the MNC shark POSCO with the muscle power of theNaveen Patnaik’s fascist ‘licensed killers’. Do these photos speak anything?

Why are the thousands and thousands of anti-POSCO agitators fightinga life and death struggle not to allow POSCO’s entry? Why is the numberof people who agitate against the governments’ policies swelling with eachattempt by the comprador rulers to sell this country’s resources to neo-colonialists? Do the numbers speak anything?

Why is that there seems to be no end to these agitations involving asea of masses in Singur, Nandigram, Kalinganagar, Lalgarh, Narayanapatna,Bhatta Parsaul, Srikakulam, Bastar, Lohardagga and scores of other villagesand towns in almost every state in this country? Does this long list ofmilitant agitations of the recent past speak anything?

Do the sacrifices and people thronging to the funerals of mass leadersand agitators (from Tapasi Malik of Singur to Tabrez of Jaitapur, from the13 adivasis in Kalinganagar to the peasants of Sompeta and Kakarapalli)who fought and laid down their lives in such agitations speak anything?Why are thousands of more people taking the place of these fallen heroeswith silent determination waving the flag of ‘Jal, Jungle, Zameen HamaraHai?’

For those who care to listen – the message is clear. The overwhelmingmajority of this country’s population is rejecting the profit-centric pro-imperialist development model and embracing the people-centric pro-peopledevelopment model. The message from the ruling classes is also brutallyclear. Whatever may be the ‘cost’ the people of India may have to pay –the comprador ruling classes with the strong support and guidance of theimperialists would continue with their plunder and pillage. This ‘cost’ wouldinclude not only loss of land, water, air, seas, ports, naturalresources, forests, ecology, rare flora and fauna, ancient civilizations,properties, limbs and not the least lives in the ‘material’ sense butwould also include loss of self-respect, sovereignty, independence,freedom, dignity and pride which are inalienable for our existenceas human beings.

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The people of Jagatsinghpur are asking a simple question - So whyshould we lose all these things and moreover who are you decide that welose these things? They are stating an obvious truth – it is the people whohave the right to decide what they need. They are posing a straight challengeto the ruling classes – face the fury of the people, we are not the ones tosurrender. They are declaring a principled fact for the world to hear – thepeople of India refuse to be pushed into a slave-like existence.

We are afraid that sometimes even photos always do not speak forthemselves. For example, the photos of school buildings (in ‘Maoist areas’)do not show the security forces which would be occupying them as soonas they are ready for it. But agitations which are being carried on foryears together by lakhs of people putting everything at their stakeincluding their lives do speak something. They speak somethingwhich is the most important thing to be spoken or heard in thiscountry at this point of time and one which would decide its future.They are speaking the same truth which was spoken by the countlesspeasant and adivasi struggles (mainly armed but also unarmed) which werewaged against the British colonial rulers in the 19th and 20th centuries, atruth which seeks to end all kinds of colonial/neo-colonial exploitation andoppression. The British tried to close their eyes and ears to this din of truthopting instead to suppress them using brute force. The Indian ruling classesare tracing their steps and they are bound to trace their steps to their owngraveyards too if they continue in their ‘unjust, brutal wars on people’ inthe name of development just like their imperialist masters. Whether it isdirect armed suppression by deploying police and paramilitary forces inMoaist areas (and now the army too) in the name of Operation GreenHunt or by deploying police and paramilitary forces in places like a BhattaParsaul or a Govindpur all are for brutal suppression of genuine people’sstruggles. The killing of more than twenty-five many anti-mining activistsin fake encounters by Naveen Patnaik government since December 2010and the recent meeting by P. Chidambaram with Naveen Patnaik andRaman Singh for anti-Maoist operations to be carried on in Odisha andChhattisgarh in June point out how the central and state governments areplanning to suppress the people’s agitations.

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waged against land grabbing and loot of natural resources of our countryhas the potential to decide the fate of the many other foreign investmentscoming unchecked into our country. The CC, CPI (Maoist) exhorts thepeople of Odisha to go ahead firmly with stead fast determination in theirstruggle and calls upon the people of India to build solidarity struggles insupport of this brave people. While it is necessary for the people ofJagatsinghpur to take the support of every political and civil party or groupwhich is coming to them in solidarity, they should also be alert to the ploysof some of them, particularly that of parliamentary parties to divert theirstruggle into various kinds of compromises. It should not be forgotten thatalmost all the parliamentary parties have been following or supporting suchpro-imperialist projects wherever they have been in power or have beensharing power or were giving tacit support even when they were inopposition.

It is not only necessary to go to Jagatsinghpur in support of anti-POSCOagitation but also to take up various forms of supportive propaganda andagitational forms in every state in their support. CPI (Maoist) is callingupon the people of India and the world to express the widest possiblesolidarity to this courageous struggle. The need of the hour is for all suchstruggles to broaden into a coalition of anti-imperialist struggles which wouldnot only fight for scrapping of projects like POSCO but would also fight forkicking off all kinds of imperialist control and exploitation from our country.

Stop land acquisition for POSCO project immediately! Withdraw all police and paramilitary forces from Jagatsinghpur

district and stop all kinds of intimidating tactics to cow down thepeople!

Scrap all country-selling MoUs signed with MNCs for looting thenatural resources of our country which rightfully belong to thepeople and only to the people!

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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June 23, 2011

Red Homage To

Renowned Marxist Economist AndGreat Friend Of Indian Revolution

Comrade Prof. R.S. Rao!

On June 17, 2011 Prof RS Rao (74), the renowned Marxist Economistand great friend of Indian Revolution breathed his last in a hospital in NewDelhi. With his demise, the Indian people have lost one of their greatestwell-wishers and the Indian revolution has lost one of its greatest friends.His death spread a wave of grief throughout the revolutionary camp andthe CC, CPI (Maoist) humbly pays red homage to this staunch Marxistwho has stood firmly with the oppressed people and the Maoist revolutionarymovement raging in this country ever since the Naxalbari days.

RS Rao, was born in Srikakulam of Andhra Pradesh but major part ofhis life and work were spent in Sambalpur of Odisha. The fact that he haschosen to work here as this area witnessed displacement due to big damsand was an Adivasi area shows his deep concern for the most deprivedpeople of this country. This deep concern and sense of commitment for theoppressed masses, particularly for the Adivasis continued till the end.Naxalbari proved to be a turning point in his life and he deeply and firmlybelieved that only a movement which can fight back the feudal exploitationand oppression can liberate this country. In all his writings and speeches hekept pointing towards the semi-feudal relations and the need to liberate ourcountry from them. Even as debates raged in the Marxist circles if capitalistrelations have entered India he analyzed the production relations in Indiawith a Marxist viewpoint and reiterated the semi-feudal nature of thoserelations. That is why he consistently believed and wrote about the needfor new democratic revolution for this country as it would overthrow theseexploitative production relations. His book Towards Understanding SemiFeudal Semi Colonial Society: Studies in Political Economy, and his otherworks are a must read for all serious political activists working for new

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democratic revolution. His lucid style of writing and usage of simple wordsfor explaining complex economic terms have been appreciated very muchby ordinary activists and public.

RS Rao was one of the first persons who questioned the imperialist-dictated development model implemented by the Indian ruling classes andbrought forth the concept that dark shadows lie below the lamp ofdevelopment even from the days when big dams like Bhakra Nangal andHirakud displaced people. When Nehru described big dams as ‘ModernTemples’, he said that indeed they were modern temples which did notallow entry to the ones who constructed them. His seminal work on thisconcept ‘Abhivrudhi Velugu Needalu’ (The bright and dark sides ofdevelopment) in Telugu continues to influence any serious debate aboutthe development model this country should follow. He had guided manyyoung researchers and encouraged them to take up study of the social andeconomic changes occurring in the rural areas, particularly the changes inthe old Maoist movement areas. As a veteran Marxist he tried to studythings in their motion using dialectical method and tried to grasp theiressence.

Recently, he played a crucial role of as one of the three mediatorsbetween the Odisha government and the CPI (Maoist) when MalkangiriCollector Vineel Krishna and junior engineer Pabitra Majhi were abducted.He was painfully aware of the fact that they could secure the release ofthese two government servants but could not even extract informationfrom the government about the whereabouts of Comrade Seethanna leavealone the fulfillment of the promises made by the government in the wakeof this abduction.

Since Naxalbari RS Rao has been a great friend and well-wisher ofthe people and the Maoist movement in the country and stood unwaveringlywith the movement and Marxism in the face of all kinds of ideologicaldebates, particularly during the world wide reactionary and post-modernistattacks on Marxism after the collapse of Soviet super power. The Maoistmovement feels honored by the fact that a sound Marxist like RS Rao hasalways looked to the official political organs of CPI (Maoist) for hisreference. The CPI (Maoist) hails RS Rao as a model pro-people intellectual

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who should be emulated by any intellectual of this country who has people’sinterests at heart. They must use their intellect and writings to preserve theinterests of the oppressed people of our country and stand by them in spiteof all kinds of odds. This need is felt more than ever at this juncture whenthe Indian state has launched a multi-pronged country-wide war on thepeople to facilitate the indiscriminate loot of the natural resources of ourcountry. The oppressed people of India, particularly the Adivasis wouldnever forget the services rendered by Prof RS Rao and would alwaysfondly remember this gentle, soft-spoken intellectual who was alwaysscathing in his critique of the ruling class policies.

CC, CPI (Maoist) on behalf of the whole revolutionary camp sends itsdeepest condolences to Bharatigaaru, family, friends, colleagues in thevarious revolutionary and other mass organizations and appeals to them topropagate his writings and the values he upheld in his life so that they canbe emulated by the younger generations who seek to liberate our country.The support extended by intellectuals like RS Rao for the revolutionarymovement plays a crucial role in its survival and development and ourparty warmly remembers all support and solidarity extended by such writersand intellectuals. The real homage one could pay to RS Rao would be tofollow the ideals and values he had propagated and followed in his life, tocontinue the study of the production relations of our country with a soundMarxist viewpoint in order to change them and to stand firmly with themovements which aim to liberate our country from the shackles of feudalism,comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and imperialism. Our party sees theefforts of all such intellectuals as part of the whole effort for a newdemocratic India. We appeal to all the friends and colleagues of RS Rao tocontinue his efforts and ideals to fulfill his dream of genuine democracyand development for the people.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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June 24, 2011

The offer for peace talks by the President ofIndia is nothing but a ploy to divert the

people from the reality of OGH Phase -2 !

On June 24, the President Pratibha Patil who came on a visit toChhattisgarh capital Raipur proposed that Maoists should abjure violenceand come for talks and that they should join the mainstream and work forthe development of Adivasis. This proposal came exactly at a time whenthousand Indian Army soldiers had entered Bastar to participate in theOperation Green Hunt (OGH) against the poorest people of India. In thebackdrop of the signing of MoUs worth billions of rupees worth to loot thenatural resources of our mineral-rich country after many rounds of talks,the President is talking about ‘peace talks’. She is proposing these ‘talks’when already 750 sq kms of forest land where dozens of villages andthousands of Mariya Adivasi community reside have been handed overto the Army without any ‘talks’ whatsoever.

Pratibha Patil, incidentally the first woman President of India, is advisingus to abjure violence even before the wounds of women of Tadimetla,Morpalli, Pulanpadu and Timmapur villages at the southern tip ofChhattisgarh have healed after the brutal atrocities and violence of thegovernment forces perpetrated on them. She is advising us to abjureviolence when state violence is a daily occurrence in Dandakaranya, Bihar-Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra and many other areas, particularly theMaoist movement areas or Adivasi areas. In fact, state violence expressesitself in many forms. It is carried on in various methods at various times.For example, today it hiked the price of kerosene by two rupees, diesel bythree rupees and cooking gas by 50 rupees. This is one form of violencewhich makes the lives of people even more unbearable. But the Presidentdoesn’t have any issue with such kinds of ‘violence’.

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and gangster corrupt ministers, political leaders, corporate sharks, and theircomprador lackeys are facing the hatred of the people from Dilli to gully.The workers, peasants, Adivasis, Dalits, minorities and women facenothing but injustice, atrocities and insults in this so-called ‘mainstream’ ofhers.

Our party’s official spokesperson and Politburo member Comrade Azadwas killed in a fake encounter after he declared our stand to this kind of aproposal for talks by this very government and Pratibha Patil is inviting usfor talks in this backdrop. Incidentally this invitation is being extended exactlyone week before his first death anniversary. Exactly one year backChidambaram and his killer intelligence-police dogs must have been givingfinal touches to the conspiracy to kill him. The state headed by this Presidentresponded by killing him when he clearly placed before the people of thiscountry and the world our party’s stand about talks. Later too many veteranMaoist leaders were arrested and put in jails and this is a continuous process.Even Maoist leaders as old as 60 or 70 years are also put in jails andtortured apart from not providing them minimum medical treatment. Falsecases are foisted on them in dozens of states and the state is conspiring tokeep them in jails lifelong.

Our heartfelt appeal to the people of our country !

Demand the President that the ‘War on People’ by the Indian State –OGH be stopped immediately, that Army training in Bastar be stopped andthat Army and paramilitary forces be withdrawn from all the Maoistmovement areas before the government proposes for any ‘Peace Talks’.If the government is ready to implement this, then the counter-violence ofpeople done in self-defence would stop from the very next day!

Demand the President that all MoUs signed between the governmentsand the MNCs be scrapped before the government talks about‘development’, that all projects which grab the lands of the people beimmediately stopped and that the government should accept that peoplehave the right to decide what kind of a development they want before thegovernment talks of ‘development’!

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Demand the President that all the scamsters and corrupt politiciansshould be arrested and punished, that all the black money stashed away inforeign banks must be brought back to the country and that all ministersand political leaders be stripped of their posts and publicly punished beforethe government invites the Maoists to join the ‘mainstream’!

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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July 2, 2011

Immediately withdraw the death sentenceson Adivasi and dalit cultural artistes and

leaders Comrades Jeeten Marandi, Anil Ram,Manoj Rajwar and Chhatrapati Mandal !

On June 23, the Giridih district (Jharkhand) sessions court judgeIndradeo Mishra pronounced death sentences to Jeeten Marandi, Anil Ram,Manoj Rajwar and Chhatrapati Mandal in the Chilkari case where 19 peoplewere killed in 2007 and thus the state bared its fascist fangs one moretime. Jeeten Marandi and others have always worked openly and theorganizations they are working for are not banned organizations.Pronouncing death sentences in a case with which they had no connectionwhatsoever is a clear is nothing but an act of revenge on them as they arestanding firmly with the people using song and dance in all their anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggles, particularly against displacement. Aspart of Operation Green Hunt launched to suppress the Maoist movementin the country, particularly in Central and Eastern India, the central andstate governments have been resorting to the most brutal and heinousatrocities one could imagine on the poorest of the poor – the Adivasis ofthis country and these latest death sentences are one more proof of this.The cruelest face of OGH could be seen in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand andOdisha and that too in the Adivasi areas of these states where the Maoistmovement is stronger.

Jeeten Marandi is a well-known Adivasi cultural artiste and leader ofJharkhand Abhen, a cultural organization of Jharkhand. He is a leader ofthe All India League for revolutionary Culture and has toured the lengthand breadth of India propagating revolutionary songs and culture. Anil Ram,Manoj Rajwar and Chhatrapati Mandal are also Adivasi and Dalit culturalartistes. Jeeten displayed his cultural talents since he was a child andgradually developed himself into one of the finest artistes this country has

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ever produced. It was only natural that as a conscious child he could notignore the plight of the Adivasi society of which he himself was a part. Hissocial investigation of the root causes for the poverty, exploitation andoppression of Adivasis naturally led him to revolutionary politics and heand his cultural organization propagated revolutionary politics to awakenpolitical consciousness among the people.

Propagating one’s ideas openly is not a crime and nobody can bepunished for that. The ruling classes of India are not ready to tolerate anykind of dissent and have been resorting to all kinds of ploys to stifle thevoices of dissent to its pro-imperialist and anti-people policies aiming toloot the natural resources and rich mineral wealth of the people. As truepeople’s artistes they have been in the forefront in the anti-displacementmovement in Jharkhand which is giving one of the toughest resistances inthis matter. It is very clear that the state is punishing them for these politicalactivities and not for some Chilkari case which everybody knows is justone of the dozens of false cases foisted on them. In the bitter class strugglefought against feudalism in Bihar and Jharkhand massacres wereperpetrated by the land lords through their private armies on the peasantry,particularly on the dalits. The peasantry had to resort to counter-violencein self-defence and incidents like Chilkari are a part of it. The state insteadof looking into the root causes for such incidents and addressing them, istrying to use them to foist false cases on mass organization activists tostifle their voices of dissent. Firstly they slapped a case of sedition onJeeten Marandi in 2007 with the allegation that he made inflammatoryspeeches in front of Raj Bhavan in Ranchi on the issue of release of politicalprisoners and have been harassing him ever since with incarceration andfalse cases. Even before that he has been arrested many times andsometimes beaten brutally. This death sentence comes as a culmination ofall these conspiracies to stifle his voice forever. The state is so shamelessin its callousness that it has foisted some cases of Pirtand and Teesri P.S.which happened when Jeeten was in jail!

This country has a 200 year long history of colonial rule under theBritish which was consequently witness to countless Adivasi rebellions.

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British imperialism sought to suppress these rebellions by using brute forcewith the advantage of modern weapons they had and hanging of the rebelleaders was one consistent tactic it had used. The comprador Indian rulingclasses which inherited this mantle of brute suppression from them arefollowing in their footsteps. Comrades Bhumaih and Kista Goud were thefirst revolutionary peasant activists to be hanged in ‘independent India’and later death sentences were pronounced on many revolutionary activists,particularly on the revolutionary peasant activists in Bihar (which includedthe present Jharkhand) implicating them in false cases. People’s lawyersand civil rights leaders like comrades KG Kannabiran and PattipatiVenkateswarlu as part of their civil rights organizations have vehementlyfought against the death sentences pronounced on the revolutionaries bothin the courts and outside and built broad movements not only with theimmediate demands of annulling the death sentences in particular casesbut also for ending capital punishment. It is the necessary to continue thisfight on a broader scale as it is obvious that the state would resort to moresuch fascist acts apart from the massacres, false encounters and atrocitiesperpetrated on the Adivasi hamlets on a daily basis. Singanna ofNarayanapatna was killed point blank in police firings, Lalmohan Tudu ofLalgarh was killed in a ‘fake encounter’ and now comes this death sentenceon Jeeten Marandi of Jharkhand. This is all part of the conspiracy to killthe people’s leaders who emerged from the people’s movements wagedagainst feudalism, comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and imperialism.By rendering the movements leaderless they want to remove all hurdles totheir loot of natural resources in the Adivasi areas.

As Jeeten and other people present in the court sang in the courtimmediately after the death sentences were pronounced – ‘that day woulddefinitely come’ when people would put an end to all these fascist acts ofthe state with powerful mass upsurges. Neither death sentences nor falseencounters can kill the spirit of true leaders of the people and they wouldfight to the end.

CPI (Maoist) demands that the death sentences of Jeeten Marandi,Anil Ram, Manoj Rajwar and Chhatrapati Mandal be annulled immediately.

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It appeals to all democratic organizations, civil rights organizations,organizations for the rights of political prisoners and particularly to all culturaland literary organizations and Adivasi cultural associations to build a vastmovement demanding the annulment of these death sentences and theunconditional release of these people’s artistes. Let us broaden thismovement for ending capital punishment altogether.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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July 12, 2011

Hail the sacrifices of Martyrs who laid downtheir lives for the cause of people!

Intensify the People’s War in the light of

the aims of martyrs!

Defeat Operation Green Hunt!!

Make success the Martyrs Week from July 28 to August 3!

The martyrs who have laid down their precious lives for the cause ofpeople’s liberation are models for entire human society. Oppressed peopleare achieving many victories with the sacrifices of these great martyrs. Inthe struggle for the victory of New Democratic Revolution in India wagedas part of the goal of establishing socialism-communism on this globe, morethan 260 leaders-members of our party, PLGA commanders and fighters,leaders-members of various mass organizations, people’s militia fighters,revolutionary and ordinary masses have laid down their lives in the pastone year. In Dandakaranya 77 martyrs, in Bihar-Jharkhand-NorthChhattisgarh 78, in Odisha 29, In Andhra-Odisha border zone 16, in WestBengal 7, in Lalgarh movement 36, in Chhattisgarh-Odisha border area 10,in Maharashtra three and in North Telangana one martyr have laid downtheir lives during this year. Among these martyrs more than 30 were womencomrades. All these comrades have sacrificed their lives fighting enemyforces heroically with the aim of defeating the Operation Green Hunt inthe path of the protracted people’s war (PPW) paved by the great teachersof Indian revolution, founders of our party and beloved leaders ComradesCharu Mazumdar and Kanhai Chatterji. CC is giving a call to the party,PLGA, revolutionary people’s governments, revolutionary massorganizations and masses to observe Martyrs’ Memorial Week in memoryof our beloved martyrs this year too starting from July 28.

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Hunt (OGH) launched with the aim of completely decimating the Indianrevolutionary movement with the guidance of imperialists, particularly USimperialists. But within a few days the APSIB dogs hunted down ourbeloved leader and official spokesperson of the party Comrade Azad(Rajkumar) and journalist Hemchandra Pandey and killed them. Later OGHphase-2 was launched by the ruling classes by intensifying their counter-revolutionary offensive. In the process of fighting back this offensive andin the process of expanding the People’s War to newer areas, the warmblood of several comrades was spilled in the forests, plains and towns.Among these comrades, 81 in Dandakaranya (DK), 53 in Bihar-Jharkhand-North Chhattisgarh (B-J-N.CG), 25 in Odisha, 16 in Andhra-Odisha border(AOB) area, five in West Bengal, 9 in Chhattisgarh-Odisha borders, threein Maharashtra and one from North Telangana were martyred. More than25 of these martyrs are women comrades. They realized that sacrifice isan integral part of our revolutionary aim and that we cannot achieve ouraim without challenging death and have laid down their lives while bravelyfighting back the enemy forces to defeat the ‘War on People’, to defendthe people and to develop the budding new people’s power further in theprocess of advancing the People’s War. The blood spilled by them is inspiringthe vast masses of our country and the world with a spirit of struggle.

In spite of the opposition from the people of various oppressed classes,democrats, patriots, progressive social activists, environmental activists,lawyers, writers, poets, artistes and various NGO organizations against‘War on People’ (OGH), the ruling classes carried on indiscriminatemassacres with their mercenary police and counter-revolutionary gangs inOGH phase-2. Fake encounters (Bhilai, Kotrapal, Vakulvahi, Timmapur inDK, Burudhi in West Bengal, Hesia in Jharkhand etc) and massacres wereperpetrated in villages, fields and forests to damage the mass base of therevolutionary movement and to terrorize the people. Countless firings andmortar shelling were done on ordinary people (Savargaon in DK). Apartfrom these, a large number of comrades were martyred due to poisoning(on the banks of river Ganga in Munger of Bihar); ambushes on peopleand people’s militia (Mettagudapara-Silinger, Gondumetta, Burgil in DKand Cheruvuru in AOB) and encirclement offensives (East Champaran inNorth Bihar, Kashipur etc in Odisha). In Padkipalli of Mahasamund district

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on Chhattisgarh-Odisha borders six comrades were martyred in an enemyambush on a PLGA company which is working with the task of expandingthe revolutionary movement. Two villagers were also brutally killed by theenemy in the wake of this incident.

Secret killer gangs of the enemy gang raped and brutally killed comradeChaithe, the member of DK press committee in Maad division (DK).Counter-revolutionary PLFI (People’s Liberation Front of India) goonshave brutally murdered our party sympathizers and activist group membersin Kudroom, Kolebira Chowk, Ramjol Bazar Tand in Simdega district ofJharkhand and some more comrades including our platoon commanderwere killed in Ranchi distict by the goonda gangs of Dhanunjay.

Some comrades died in encounters with enemy forces (Barangbaruand Samri in Gumla district of Jharkhand, Manjari in Banka district ofBihar, the encirclement attack in Dharmaha village of East Champarandistrict of Bihar, Kullenar in DK and others). Some comrades were martyredin the courageous attacks carried out by our PLGA forces on the enemyforces. Some comrades and people have gone missing in enemy repression.Some comrades were martyred in some other incidents and accidents.

Among the martyrs are mass leader comrades Umakant Mahato,Sasadhar Mahato, RC member Arun and another comrade Khokhan Mahatoof West Bengal; six comrades including one leaderhip comrade in Manjariencounter under Katoria PS limits in Banka district of Bihar; Praful Naik,Lakshman Munda, Gagri Kadeski in Odisha; striking company commandercom. Nitant (Central Military Instructor), Basadhara Division committeemember com. Ravi martyred in the Kashipur encirclement attack in Odisha,com. Nagesh – the divisional commander-in-chief of North Bastar in DK,Gondia divisional C-in-C in Maharashtra, CCM guard and platooncommander com. Kosa (Aitu) martyred in Mahasamund district ofChhattisgarh, revolutionary people’s teacher com. Chandana who was tojoin the DK Education Development Committee and others. Along withthem, comrades Rajesh Munda, Bhuthnath, Salim Mahato of B-J-N.CGand Arup Mochi of WB; area committee secretary com. Kishore (DK),platoon commander com. Vikram Munda, section commander com. RatanYadav (Bihar), AC/PPC level comrades Chaithe, Vikram, Keshal, Mangdu

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of DK; com. Natasha in Mahasamund, two section/squad deputy comrades(DK), supply department driver com. Badal (Madhu) in Odisha, DK specialaction team member com. Prabhakar, division I-team member com. Ramesh,27 PLGA (company, platoon, section/squad) members (six comrades inDK including Prameela, Kosal, 11 comrades in BJ including com. Vijaydas,five comrades in AOB including CRC coy-3 member com. Sandeep,Bangaruraju and Jyoti, five comrades in Mahasamund including Rajbattiand Lachu, three comrades in Maharashtra including Manju and Mangu,com. Jeevan Tudu in West Bengal); com. Ramaal, the president of villageRPC (revolutionary people’s committee) of North Telangana, KKCsecretary com. Ramadhar (Bihar), sangam leaders – comrades Seethannaand Singal in AOB, com. Dharamdev in Bihar, senior leader of KAMScom. Vimala Devidas Kannake (DK), Jan militia squad commander com.Korsa Sukkal (DK), Jan militia members – eight in DK, two in Jharkhand,three activist group members (JH), 11 village defence people’s militiamembers (AOB-six, DK-five) were also martyred.

In the attacks conducted by our PLGA forces on the enemy, sectioncommander com. Ratan Yadav in Kajara ambush in Bihar, Oyam Budruand Vetti Hidamal in Usur ambush (DK), section deputy com. MuchakiGanga in Morpalli ambush, PPCM and communication person in PLGAbattalion com. Mangdu in Bejji ambush, Gondia C-in-C com. Nagesh, PLGAcomrades Manju, Mangu, another comrade in Kobramenda (Gondia)ambush, Platoon-7 commander com. Maharu and member com. Rajesh inthe courageous attack at Nargonda (Gadchiroli) where the notorious andcruel people’s enemy Chinna Venta was wiped out had laid down theirlives. One comrade was martyred in Sulungi ambush.

More than 50 ordinary and unarmed revolutionary masses weremartyred in the ‘War on People’ launched by the central and stategovernments in DK, B-J-N.CG, Lalgarh and Odisha. Among them areAdivasi people who were part of the Lalgarh mass upsurge, anti-miningand displacement activists who were in the forefront in Odisha, revolutionarysympathizers and people in DK and B-J-N.CG. Police, paramilitary forces,Harmad Bahini and Gan Pratirodh Committee goons in WB, Koyacommandos, SPOs and Salwa Judum goons in DK have murdered them inthe name of ‘Maoists’. The massacres perpetrated at Palaibani, Siyarbani-

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Kotwali, Tougveda-Bhulaveda, Bandarboni, Jhargram and Netai villagesin Lalgarh area by Harmad Bahini goons, at Kotali-Jamirdanga, Patgaja,Gojra-Barikul, Hainhadugi-Barikul villages by Gan Pratirodh Committeegoons; massacres by central and state joint forces in some more places;Kutrem, Rangaiahgooda, Kottapalli, Kolar, Madapa, Gurugutta, Gorukonda,Singannaguda, Murunga, Morpalli, Timmapur, Kesmundi, Chinari, Mankeli,Pullum, and Mechanar massacres in DK are stark witness to this. Allthese massacres happened between August 2010 and June 2011.

Comrades Kannabiran, Pattipati Venkateswarlu, RS Rao and otherrevolutionary intellectuals and civil rights movement leaders who have foughton the side of oppressed masses for people’s democratic rights since manydecades breathed their last. Their martyrdom is a great loss for thedemocratic movements.

People are waging militant struggles against the ever intensifyingproblem of displacement in our country and in the fascist police firings onthese agitations at Kalinganagar (Odisha), Sompeta, Kakarlapalli (AP),Jaitapur (Maharashatra), Bhatta-Parsaul ( UP) etc. many activists laiddown their lives. Anti-mining activists Gangul Tarangi, M. Subba Rao inKoraput area, Madhav Singh Thakur, Ramesh Sahu in Bargad (Odisha)and anti-Raoghat mining activist Sanavu Kumeti (DK) were torturedseverely and killed. 14 activists including district committee member com.Ravi who were participating actively and leading the anti-displacementmovement in Odisha laid down their lives in the police massacres in Jajpurdistrict and Kashipur of Niyamgiri area. The sacrifices of Niyamgiri andMahasamund martyrs who have taken up the strategic task of expandingPeople’s War to newer areas as part of defeating the country-wide offensivelaunched by the enemy with the aim of completely decimating therevolutionary movement, are invaluable.

In the present phase-2 of OGH it is a fact that brutality of themercenary police-paramilitary forces and counter-revolutionary gangs hasincreased further. Along with the incidents mentioned above, the murders-atrocities, burning and loot perpetrated at Chintalnar and the massacre atNetai perpetrated with the support of central and state joint forces andCPM goons in Lalgarh area are naked examples for this. The white terror

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unleashed by Cobras, Koya commandos and Salwa Judum goons inMorpalli, Tadimetla, Pulanpad and Timmapur villages in Chintalnar area(three murdered, six women gang raped, property worth crores of rupeesand grains burnt, 300 houses looted and then razed down) and the cordoningoff of the area for weeks together by police, paramilitary, Koya commandoforces stopping any kind of relief from reaching the area from outsideshow the intensity of the counter-revolutionary offensive. Democrats allover the country protested against this. Similar were the agitations ragedon a large scale in West Bengal against the massacre at Netai by socialfascist CPM goons. Apart from this, hundreds of local mass organizationand revolutionary people’s government activists and people were arrestedput in jails by booking them under black laws. Particularly, as part of damagingour party leadership, in the man-hunts launched by enemy intelligence forces,on April 29, 2011, three Central Committee members and ComradeBhupeshda in June and many other leadership comrades and activists werearrested by the enemy. Dozens of cases were foisted on them in variousstates to keep them in jails lifelong. The lives of people are in turmoil due tothe ‘War on People’ carried on by the enemy.

The traditions of sacrifices, valuable experiences, bravery, values andideals, displayed with democratic-communist consciousness by hundredsof comrades who were martyred while fighting back the enemy repressionhave brightened the path of our revolution. On the occasion of the martyrs’memorial week the Central Committee is humbly paying red homage witha heavy heart to our beloved leaders comrades CM, KC and to all theknown and unknown martyrs since Naxalbari. It is vowing that it wouldfight untiringly for the fulfillment of their aims. On this occasion it isexpressing its deep condolences to friends, colleagues and relatives of allthe martyrs and is sharing their grief. It is appealing to all their belovedcolleagues to fulfill their loss. It is saluting the great consciousness displayedby injured comrades and heart fully wishes that they would recover soonand join the movement actively. CC is sending heartfelt greetings to all thebrave comrades who displayed courage, sacrifice in spite of cruel tortureson them when they were arrested and are turning jails into an arena ofclass struggles despite inhuman conditions prevailing there. It is sharingthe grievances of the lakhs of people who are suffering due to the repressive

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OGH. It is appealing to the people to fight with increased class hatred tillfinal victory against the enemy who is the root cause for all their difficultiesand tears.

In the international arena, the Arab world is in turmoil with rebellions.Though not led by revolutionaries, lakhs of Arab people are fighting militantlyagainst tyranny, corruption, unemployment and for democracy against theirlackey ruling classes of US imperialism. In these mass rebellions thousandsof people and people’s leaders have laid down their lives. On the occasionof Martyrs’ Memorial Week, let us remember all the brave fighters whohave laid down their lives while fighting against all kinds of reactionariesand imperialists for democracy, for national liberation and liberation fromclass exploitation and oppression in various countries.

Comrades,

Guerilla warfare is intensifying in various areas of our country as partof fulfilling our central task in response to the call of our party’s UnityCongress-9th Congress. Due to the great sacrifices of our martyrs we areadvancing by achieving one success after another in People’s War. Withoutthe sacrifices of the martyrs, we cannot imagine any of the campaignstaken up by the party in political, military, cultural, organizational, people’swelfare spheres, campaigns for expansion into newer areas and newerspheres and the good results achieved by these. In spite of the manyschemes and ploys of the enemy to stifle the movement through carpetsecurity and by increasing the police, paramilitary and commando forces,the sacrifices of the martyrs are helping a lot in keeping the initiative in ourhands in the movement. The enemy is establishing stronger informernetworks in perspective areas to stop us from expanding to vast new areasin the country to confine our movement to limited areas. Despite this ourforces engaged in expansion of our movement are fighting face to facewith the enemy, making invaluable sacrifices in the tough guerilla warfareand are playing their role in keeping People’s War alive.

In the TCOCs taken up by our party, military commissions andcommands to defeat the OGH of the enemy, small and medium actionshave taken place. Particularly, the Kajara (Lakhisarai) ambush in Biharand our counter operation that failed the enemy attack in Saranda last

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year; one of the bravest ambushes conducted by our PLGA in Dhardhariaforests in Lohardagga district in the midst of severe repression in Jharkhandthis year; in DK - the Morpalli (Chintalnar) ambush, Borguda night ambush(Kerlapal), Amamora (Gariyaband) ambush, Jharaghati frontal attack, thenight ambush at Gatam on MPV, the ambush nearby Bejji camp, the nightambush at Kirandul, Sulungi (Koilibeda) ambush etc have checked theaggressiveness of the enemy. Particularly, these attacks which happenedwhen the enemy was intensifying the process of deploying army inNarayanpur district in DK have greatly alarmed the exploiting ruling classesand the enemy forces. Similarly in Jharkhand, our PLGA forces have mostbravely fought back the enemy attacks on our central camps which wereconducted in military style with thousands of forces.

On the other hand, the Lalgarh and Narayanapatna movements arecontinuing militantly and developing without surrendering to the enemydespite severe repression. The anti-state, anti-feudal struggles have takenup the correct line for seizure of political power and have become part inPPW. The anti-displacement struggles in Kalinganagar, Niyamgiri, Mali-Deomali in Odisha, Lohandiguda, Raoghat, Bodhghat, Pallemadi in DK,Sompeta and Kakarlapalli, against mining of China clay in Dumriguda,against mining of bauxite in Visakha district in AP are advancing further inthe same path. Movement for separate Telangana is becoming strongerwith each day with the support of a vast sea of masses and is advancing ina militant manner. This has been possible only due to the blood spilled byseveral agitators. In recent times, with the inspiration of Singur, Nandigramand Kalinganagar struggles and that of Lalgarh and Narayanapatna massrebellions which were carried out with the participation of revolutionaryforces, anti-displacement struggles are erupting in several areas in ourcountry. The people are everywhere rejecting the ‘development model’ ofthe imperialist and the comprador ruling class rich-corporates and agitating.Wherever such struggles are erupting the intelligence dogs are sniffingaround them for their links with Maoists and are trying to portray all ofthem as Maoist movements. This in itself shows how nervous the rulingclasses are about Maoists. On the other hand, the Maoist People’s War isenthusing the democrats and progressive elements in our country verymuch. The sacrifices of our martyrs are giving them the inspiration.

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Comrades,

Due to the launching of ‘counter-revolutionary war on people’ in thename of OGH to suppress the revolutionary movement which proved to bea hurdle to the reactionary, anti-people, anti-national, pro-imperialist, pro-corporate, expansionist economic, political, social and ecological policiesof the Indian comprador ruling classes, all social contradictions in our countryare sharpening. Due to this, great opportunities are coming forth for theMaoist forces, progressive democratic forces, patriotic forces, the nationalliberation movement forces, the vast socially oppressed communities likeAdivasis, dalits, religious minorities etc to unite and continue the massresistance on a wider scale. On the one hand, South Asia and Arab worldare simmering and on the other hand anti-imperialist struggles are flaringup against loot of resources in Asia, Africa and Latin America and lakhs ofworkers and unemployed youth who have been thrown on the roads due tothe closure of several industries as a result of the capitalist economic crisisare agitating. Due to this all the basic contradictions in the world areintensifying. In one word, the objective situation in our country and theworld has turned excellent. In such a situation, the task of defending theleadership by fighting back all conspiracies, strategies and tactics of theenemy to annihilate the leaders of movements, particularly the Maoistleadership has assumed greater significance than before. By deeplyunderstanding the dynamism of the theory of Maoist People’s War withproletarian thinking, in an impregnable manner to the enemy, by givingimportance to committee work methods and discipline, by preservingourselves and wiping out the enemy our party must serve as a model to theentire revolutionary ranks. We must properly understand the strength andstrategic goal of the enemy. We must change our old tactics and functioningmethods and formulate new tactics and functioning methods. We must bevery firm in implementing the tactics formulated and secret functioning.Thus we can decrease our leadership losses and prevent unnecessarylosses.

We must intensify and expand the guerilla warfare by continuouslyconducting small, medium and big operations in a planned manner dependingon mass base in order to damage the initiative of the enemy forces whichare aggressively coming to attack us with the help of carpet security in our

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movement areas. Our plans for operations should be such that theyguarantee success. We must creatively use combat skills, weapons,grenades, mines, cocktails etc in coordination in our battle operations. Wemust intensify anti-imperialist, anti-feudal, anti-state and anti-state violencemass struggles and agitations in support of guerilla warfare. Mass agitationsmust be developed into armed resistance struggles. We must expose thedeceptive LIC war of enemy aiming to decimate the revolutionary movementby destroying its mass base. We must strengthen vast mass base aroundthe revolutionary movement by awakening the people. Appropriate attentionmust be given to United Front apart from party and people’s army andfoundations must be laid for the building of strategic UF by mobilizing themasses of four classes in various agitations, building tactical united forumsand strengthening them. Revolutionary People’s Committees (RPCs) whichare the form of strategic UF must be built from the village level andstrengthened. We must advance towards building strategic UF by takingRPCs all over the country as the base.

Comrades,

Our beloved comrades have sacrificed everything to fulfill the centraltask decided by our Unity Congress and have transferred that responsibilityto us now. No revolution in this world can be victorious without greatsacrifices. The sacrifices of our martyrs would not go in vain. This is anera of revolutions. Today our revolution is demanding that we prepareourselves for more sacrifices to achieve greater successes. Our martyrsare inspiring us for that. History is teaching us that people are invincible ifthey dare to fight. Let us advance with firm determination in the path ofpeople’s war by efficiently utilizing the excellent revolutionary conditionsholding high the international banner of proletariat which turned crimsonwith the blood of the martyrs.

Comrades,

Celebrate Martyrs’ Memorial week on a huge scale in every villageand town all over the country with revolutionary spirit. Fight back the enemyat every step with the aim of defeating OGH while holding high the sacrifices,communist values, creativity, courage and bravery and dedication of ourmartyrs. Publish the life histories of our ideal martyrs. Build martyrs’

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memorial columns in every village. Propagate widely about the sacrificesof martyrs in creative forms such as distributing pamphlets, pasting wallposters, wall writings, tying banners etc. Conduct meetings and ralliesupholding their ideals. Make success the Martyrs’ Memorial Week in amanner which would fill the party, PLGA, mass organizations andrevolutionary masses with revolutionary spirit.

On the occasion of this year’s Martyrs’ Memorial Week, our CC isgiving a call to the entire party, PLGA, mass organizations and people tofulfill the following tasks in the present concrete conditions as part offulfilling the aims of our martyrs.

· Expose the deceptive LIC war of the enemy which aims to decimatethe revolutionary movement by destroying its mass base, strengthenthe mass base by rallying the vast masses !

· Consolidate party and PLGA theoretically, politically and militarilyto take the place of the fallen heroes and to create new cadres on ahuge scale with the aim of developing PLGA into PLA. DevelopMaoist dynamism in order to get rid of non-proletariat trends. Avoidunnecessary losses by implementing secret style of functioning withproletariat discipline ! Do not hesitate to sacrifice !

· Conduct tactical counter-offensives like Mukram-Tadimetla,Kongera, Mamayil, Silda, Baiphariguda (Mantriyamba), Kajra-Lakhisarai, Saranda counter operation, Lohardagge-Dhardharia,Amamora, Gatam and Borguda on a huge scale with the participationof people!

· Expand the Maosit People’s War to vast areas according to thewishes of the people with invaluable sacrifices !

· Create mass upsurges like Lalgarh, Narayanapatna, Kalinganagar,Niyamgiri, Sompeta, Govindpur-Dhinkia of anti-Posco agitation etcto end the exploitation and oppression of imperialists and the Indianruling classes. Advance such struggles with the aim of seizure ofpolitical power !

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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July 17, 2011

CONDEMN GRUESOME MUMBAI BOMB BLASTS!

Demand for an impartial and independent probe intoall the incidents of bomb blasts including Mecca Masjid,

Malegaon and Samjhauta Express blasts!

Communist Party of India (Maoist) severely condemns the bomb blaststook place in Mumbai on July 13, 2011. These incidents of serial blasts areinhuman in which at least 20 innocent people have lost their lives andnearly 80 people were injured. Our Party also strongly condemns the deviousand baseless allegations of exploitative ruling classes and their police/intelligence agencies who are trying to blame our Party without any clue ofwho might be responsible for these bomb blasts and even before theinvestigation is started. The oppressed people of India know very well thatour Party which is fighting for the emancipation of people would nevercommit such attacks aimed at innocent people putting their lives at peril.Murderous ruling classes and their corporate media are deliberately blamingus so as to depict our Party as a terrorist organization and our just people’smovement as terrorist one, and thus to justify their brutal suppressioncampaign and the Army deployment in the second phase of ongoingOperation Green Hunt — the War On People.

If we retrospect into the earlier incidents of bomb blasts took place tillthis day in our country, we would never know the real culprits hiddenbehind those who are being shown as offenders. It’s become a norm nowthat whenever such incidents of bomb blasts take place, the pro-Hindufundamentalist Indian state, its intelligence/investigative wings and thecorporate media immediately claim that Muslims and so-called Islamicterrorist organizations are responsible. In fact, as part of a conspiracy andcollusion of the Indian state which always try to blame Muslim society forevery attack of this kind and the top leaders of the ruling class parties likeCongress and BJP, the IB itself created an illusionary organization namedIndian Mujahiddin which is being held responsible for every incident ofbomb blast by the authorities. Corporate media barons and bankruptintellectuals servile to the ruling classes are branding all those who ask for

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proof of these allegations and who demand for comprehensive and impartialprobe as outright traitors and attacking them belligerently, irrationally andfrantically. Thus people are being kept at bay from knowing the truth. Inour so-called biggest democracy on the earth, the big joke is not asking forincisive probe has become the touchstone for patriotism and the personwho asks for any probe is branded as traitor!

In earlier instances of bomb blasts in Mecca Masjid, Malegaon,Samjhauta Express etc. hundreds of innocent Muslims, particularly theyouths were arrested, tortured inhumanly and sent to jails. Many werekilled in fake encounters. Even after the obvious evidences came forththat the Hindu fanatics belonging to the right-wing RSS gang wereresponsible for those ghastly incidents, no justice was done to the Muslims.No leader of the Hindu terrorist organizations like Abhinav Bharat, Hindudefence force, Rashtriya Jagaran Manch, Bajrang Dal, Viswa HinduParishad has been punished until this day. At the same time, death sentencegiven to Afzal Guru in the case of attack on Parliament and to 11 Muslimsin Godhra train carnage case recently on March 1 are some examples ofthe anti-Muslim and pro-Hindutva character of the Indian State. While thebutchers like Narendra Modi whose hands have stained with the blood ofover 2,000 innocent Muslims are freely wandering in the corridors of power,Muslims are being meted out stringent punishments by virtue of bizarreand inadequate evidences. And this has been spreading the feeling of severefrustration and fury among the Muslim masses.

It’s an obvious fact that because of the grisly incidents like thedestruction of the Babri Masjid and Gujarat genocide, the Muslim communityin general, a large section of Muslim youth in particular, has become furiousand outrageous against the Indian ruling classes. Another irrefutable factis that this situation has given birth to some Islamic organizations. Exploitingthis situation and by taking organizations of this sort into their grip or bymisleading them in a deceitful manner or by even creating some neworganizations of this kind, both India’s and Pakistan’s intelligence agencieslike RAW, IB, ISI are engineering bomb blasts and other attacks in bothcountries as part of serving their vested political interests. Failing to identifytheir real enemies many a frustrated Muslim youths are stuck in this latticeand taking part in acts of mindless violence of this kind. Thus they are

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taking of the lives of innocent people. This is such a vicious cycle wherethese youths don’t even know in whose hands are they acting and whosevested interests are being fulfilled with such attacks in deed.

On the other hand, after it was clearly exposed that an organizationcalled Abhinav Bharat belonged to the Sangh gang (i.e. RSS) wasresponsible for bomb blasts of Malegaon, Mecca Masjid and SamjhautaExpress, people of India have started seeing Saffron terrorism as adangerous trend. When it became obvious that the Saffron terrorists areresponsible for Ajmer Sherif bomb blast also, the demand for a review ofall investigations done into the incidents of bomb blasts in various places ofour country has come forth. The Muslim youths of Malegaon and Hyderabadhave demanded that the government should apologize for the police atrocitiesinflicted on them. Despite of all its rhetoric, the Congress-led UPAgovernment has been instigating Saffron terrorism as a part of promotingits wicked political motives. The corporate media which act hand in glovewith Hindu fundamentalism in general, on the one hand, attack Muslimsand Islamic organizations aggressively without any clear evidence and onthe other hand, report as less as possible even when there is evident proofis available that the Saffron terrorist organizations were responsible forvarious incidents of bomb blasts.

If we see in this backdrop, we could arrive at the conclusion thatSaffron terrorist organizations or so-called Islamic militant organizationssponsored by the very intelligence agencies like IB, RAW might havecommitted these heinous acts of July 13 Mumbai bomb blasts. It’s alsolikely that the mafia gangs hand in glove with police top brass and rulingclass political leaders could have committed these attacks. Whoever elsehas done this, only the interests of ruling classes would be served withsuch acts of mindless violence. Firstly, people’s attention could be divertedfrom the issues like price rise, corruption, scams, black money, Swiss banksaccounts which have become burning issues in the country now. Secondly,by posing terrorism as biggest danger, even more draconian laws could beprepared and the teeth of State’s suppressive machinery could be sharpenedby importing arms and technology from imperialist countries on a massivescale misusing trillions of rupees of hard earned people’s money. Thirdly,by supporting directly or indirectly all invasive wars, attacks and intimidations

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of US imperialism going on in the name of ‘Global War on Terror’ and thusby acting as its junior partner in south Asia region, the Indian State couldgo ahead reducing the country more servile to it by signing the treacheroustreaties like Homeland security, civil nuclear deal etc. Fourthly, using thepretext of terrorism, public consent could be built for crushing the people’smovements and growing Maoist revolutionary movement militarily whichare surging against anti-people and pro-imperialist neo-liberal policies ofthe governments. Apart from this, consolidating Hindu vote bank by blamingMuslims and Islamic organizations every time without any proof anddiverting the people’s attention from the basic problems of our country likefood, clothing, shelter, price rise, unemployment, poverty, starvation,displacement etc. are necessary for both Congress and BJP and for thefeudal and comprador bourgeoisie classes whom they represent, so thattheir exploitative rule can be carried on unchecked.

However, Communist Party of India (Maoist) believes that the realperpetrators of Mumbai blasts could be traced only through an impartialand independent probe. Our Party humbly appeals the masses anddemocrats of the country to not to sway away with the maliciouspropaganda, falsehood and prejudices unleashed by the ruling classes, theirintelligence agencies and the corporate media in a mad, one-sided andirrational manner. Our Party demands to uncover the culprits responsiblefor these blasts and punish them severely. At the same time, our Partycalls upon entire people of the country to demand the governments forimpartial and independent probes into all incidents of bomb blasts that tookplace since 1992 and for unconditional release of Muslims and Christianswho are languishing in various jails with false cases. Our Party also callsupon the people of the country to demand to punish all those Saffron terroristleaders who are responsible for all the attacks perpetrated on religiousminorities including the Babri Masjid destruction, Gujarat genocide,Kandhamal (Odisha) attacks and to condemn Hindu religiousfundamentalism and all other religious chauvinisms.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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August 19, 2011

Throw into the dust bin all the viciouspropaganda carried on

by the ruling classes and corporate mediaagainst the Maoist leadership!

At present the Indian revolutionary movement is facing many hardchallenges and advancing through the process of victory-defeat and victory.With the aim of completely wiping out the revolutionary movement, theruling classes are carrying on a cruel war of suppression with the fullsupport of the imperialists. Particularly by following the LIC strategyformulated by the US imperialists, these fascists are carrying on this counter-revolutionary war. Particularly from 2009 onwards the UPA governmentin coordination with the state governments is carrying on a countrywidesuppressive war in the name of OGH. In this unjust war carried on againstthe people under the leadership of the Sonia-Manmohan Singh-Chidambaram-Pranab Mukherji gang, their strategy is said to be ‘suppressionand development’ (read suppression of the people and development of thecorporate houses). As part of this they are using psychological warfare asa strategic weapon and vicious propaganda on revolutionary leadership isa key component in this. Media is being used as one of the main instrumentsin this psy-war. Media persons who represent corporate sector and pseudointellectuals who are apologists for the ruling classes’ ideology areparticipating actively in this psy-war through foul-mouthed propaganda.

Counter-revolutionary propaganda is as old as the revolutionarymovement. The German fascist propaganda minister Goebbels who saidthat repeating a lie a hundred times would turn it into the truth has foundhis Indian avatars in Sonia, Manmohan, Pranab Mukherji, Raman Singh,Naveen Patnaik, Nitish Kumar, Kiran Kumar etc and their faithfulspokespersons like Arnab Goswamis and Chandan Mitras are leading thisnasty campaign in various forms in the media. Right from the propagandathat Marxism has become outdated to the propaganda that bitter differenceshave cropped up among the Maoist leaders, news items against the

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revolutionary movement and its leadership with utter lies and outlandishfabrications, falsehoods and half-truths are being published and relayedday in and day out. The single and foremost aim of this psy-war is tospread confusion, disappointment and lack of confidence among the peopleand the revolutionary ranks towards Maoist leadership by creating doubts,prejudices and illusions about our party and its leadership. The ruling classesand their lackey intellectuals are dreaming that by deceiving the peoplethey can carry on their exploitation and pro-imperialist economic policieswithout any opposition whatsoever. Some of the journalists who come underthis category are hand in gloves with the intelligence officials and arepropagating crap about the Maoist revolutionary movement throughcorporate media houses. The white lie published under the title ‘Bitterdifferences crop up between Maoist PW and MCC factions’ in Times ofIndia dated July 17, 2011 is undoubtedly part of this Psy-War.

This news item dictated by the Indian intelligence agencies and writtenby Rakhi Chakrabarthy has not only targeted the Maoist leadership but hasalso falsely created ‘PW and MCC factions’ and ‘severe differences ofopinions among them’ in the party. The unity of these two revolutionaryparties in accordance with the much-awaited aspirations of the oppressedpeoples of the world and our country and rich experiences of these twoparties by overcoming the most painful period named as “Black chapter”by both of them in their histories has opened a glorious chapter in ourcountry’s revolutionary movement. Only genuine and selfless revolutionariescan so accept their mistakes publicly and seek apology from the peopleand work with steadfast determination not to repeat them. That is why thisgenuine unity has enthused the oppressed people and revolutionary ranksall over the world as much as it had spread anxiety and dread among theIndian ruling classes and their imperialist masters. It is to be noted that thefaithful servant of the imperialists and the Prime Minister of India ManmohanSingh began describing the Maoist movement as the biggest internal securitythreat after this historic unity. It is also an undeniable fact that the rulingclasses have intensified their fascist offensive on massive scale againstthe revolutionary movement only after this.

It is an age-old trick of the ruling classes to create illusionary divisionsamong the top leaders of the revolutionary parties so that people would

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come to believe that even these parties would not lead them properly withsuch careerisms and divides among their leaders. Umpteen numbers ofsuch instances can be quoted from all over the world and this news item ofTOI is one such most vicious propaganda against our leaders who in facthave spent decades of their lives in service of the people selflessly. Someof them are now languishing in jails facing inhuman treatment from thestate without the minimum facilities or medical treatment at this old age.The callousness of the state towards our leaders who have sacrificedeverything for the liberation of the oppressed people of our country isreaching unprecedented heights with each day. In a way, this only indicatesthat the state is scared about the increasing influence of revolutionarypolitics and is resorting to all kinds of tricks to reduce it in vain. Our Partyis completely rejecting all these allegations leveled against our leadershipand is appealing to the oppressed masses and the revolutionary camp notto believe even a word of it.

All genuine revolutionary parties have several differences of opinionsand shades of differences among their members in ideological, political,organizational, military, cultural etc matters. Various ideas come fordiscussion and they are concluded with a majority after each and everymember has voiced her/his opinion on them. This is a democratic processfollowed by the revolutionary parties which can never be seen in orunderstood by the ruling class parties. Only through such discussions andcriticism-self-criticism does a party sustain its revolutionary content andnot by blindly following any one leader like in the bourgeois parties.Revolutionaries steel themselves in the flames of class struggle and bygoing through many sessions of criticisms and self-criticisms. Theintelligence agencies are trying to distort this healthy atmosphere inside theparty as exactly its opposite and trying to confuse the people and the ranksby propagating that there are bitter differences inside the party and thattoo on the lines of PW and MCC. We appeal to the oppressed people ofthe world and our country, democrats and revolutionary ranks to condemnthis vicious propaganda, to stay alert to such tricks of the state, to throwthem into the dust bin and to stand firmly with the revolutionary movementin solidarity.

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MCC’, we feel it would suffice if we reiterate what our party GeneralSecretary Comrade Ganapathy had said in an interview given to the mediain October 2010.

“....The struggle between correct ideas and wrong ideas is a continuousprocess in the party. We would solve our differences of opinion by abidingthe principle of democratic centralism and in the light of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. This would only lead to the development of the party. We achievedgreat unity with the merger of the two parties. Now any discussions orconflict of ideas which takes place in the party would be in the form ofideological and political discussions in a united party and not in the form ofdifferences between erstwhile MCCI and erstwhile CPI (M-L) (People’sWar). We categorically state that the differences would never ever takethe form of conflicts before the merger.”

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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September 24, 2011

Condolence message of CC, CPI (Maoist) to

the CC, Communist Party of The Philippines

on the demise of

Gregorio “Ka Roger” RosalDear Comrades,

Our CC felt deep sorrow when we heard the news of passing awayof Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal, spokesperson and chief of the InformationBureau of your Party, the CPP. On behalf of the Indian revolutionarymovement and entire revolutionary masses of India, we send our heartfeltcondolences to the CPP, NPA and NDF, all near and dears of the departedveteran of Filipino revolution. We share your grief. The demise of KaRoger is a great loss to entire Communist revolutionaries of the world.

Veteran Communist leader Comrade Roger greatly contributed to theFilipino revolution ever since he joined into the revolutionary movement in1972. Born in a poor peasant family in the countryside, he raised to thelevel of the spokesperson of the Party. This would inspire every communistacross the world. From ‘Great Escape’, he played crucial role in expandingand consolidating the Filipino revolution as well as armed struggle andmass struggles. He strode unwaveringly against all odds faced in his personaland political life. Understanding the significance of the propaganda workin revolution he accrued immense experience in propaganda front strivinghard. The way your Party waged a relentless revolutionary propagandawar in defeating the psychological war being carried out by the imperialistsand their lackey Benigno Aquino III is simply great. It’s been an immenseinspiration to our Party. Despite severe ill health, as a veteran communistleader Ka Roger had been in touch with the Propaganda Bureau of theCPP furnishing it with his invaluable suggestions till the end and thus hehanded over his legacy to his comrades so that the tasks of the revolutioncould be carried on ceaselessly.

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World Socialist Revolution as well. He displayed enormous competence,patience, straightforwardness, intelligence, patriotism and love for his nationthroughout his career as a revolutionary. Thus he presented himself beforethe world people as a model of how communists should think about theworld.

The CC of CPI (Maoist) humbly bows its head in memory of thisGreat Leader of the World Proletariat Ka Roger and vows to carry theWorld Proletarian Socialist Revolution forward.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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October 1, 2011

Separate telangana state must beimmediately formed!

MAKE SUCCESS “BHARAT BANDH” on October11, 2011

in support of the “SAKALA JANULA SAMME”(Entire People`s Strike)!

Telangana people’s aspiration for a separate state has turned into anunprecedented upsurge. Unity of Telangana people is blooming. In the“Sakala Janula Samme “ initiated by employees, Singareni, RTC, Electricworkers with students, lawyers and teachers being in the forefront - artisans,auto drivers, unorganized workers, municipal workers, traders, priests andpeasants have joined. With the participation of all sections of people, artisansand intellectuals the strike is intensifying with every day. The participationof family members of the entire people right from old persons to womenand children indicates how widespread this strike has become. Worriedthat they may become isolated from the people with this entire people’sstrike the ruling class parties like congress, TDP and BJP are vying witheach other to tender resignations which are any way rejected. Congress istrying to show as if it is bringing pressure on the high command for SeparateTelangana. As the strike intensified congress leaders started immediateconsultations in Delhi with Gulam Nabi Azad. In his report to the Congresshigh command, Azad has stated that it would take ‘some more time’ totake any decision on Telangana issue and thus displayed his betrayal natureonce again. On the other hand all kinds of possible political alternatives arecoming to the fore. Congress high command is hands in glove with theSeemandhra wealthy classes and is trying to bring to the fore pre-plannedmoves. The conspiracy to separate Hyderabad from Telangana and makingit a Union Territory or to make it the common capital of two states is partof this. They are propagating another proposal where Hyderabad would

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be separated and a separate state would be formed by joining Kurnoolwith the rest of Telangana. Telangana people would never accept any ofthese proposals. That Hyderabad is an inseparable part of the Telangana isan undeniable historical truth. Telangana people must stand united anddefeat the conspiracies to form Separate Telangana state withoutHyderabad.

Government is resorting to severe repression to suppress the entirepeople’s strike which is raging like wild fire since 18 days. It is using ESMAto suppress the rights of workers and employees; is turning factories, minesand offices into police camps, lathi charging and firing rubber bullets onprocessions, making illegal arrests and resorting to threats. On the otherhand it is trying to bring a divide between Telangana people and Andhrasettlers and trying to suppress the movement. As part of this, it is bringingblack legs into the strike and they are resorting to attacks on workers.NGO leader Swami Goud was attacked as part of this. As part of thisconspiracy Lagadapati Rajgopal came to Hyderabad under the pretext ofa courtesy visit to RTC workers and was also in the forefront in trying tofizzle out the strike by bringing in drivers on hire from Seemandhra. GovernorNarasimhan, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and DGP Dinesh Reddyare severely trying to suppress the entire people‘s strike under the ordersof the Central Government. Congress ministers from Hyderabad DanamNagender, Mukesh Goud and Owaisi brothers who are Majlis leaders areworking against the demand of Separate Telangana and have turned intotraitors of Telangana. Governments and ruling classes are controlling themedia following the suggestions given in the 8th chapter of Sri KrishnaCommittee that this entire people’s strike going on at higher leval shouldnot be propagated in Andhra Pradesh and in other states of our country.Thus they are trying to continue their rule by keeping the people of ourcountry in dark.

Beloved people of Telangana!

Carry on the entire people’s strike with more determination and intensifyit. Formation of a Separate Telangana state would be possible only bypreparing ourselves for bitter struggles. We cannot expect the ruling classeswhich suppress even the basic rights of people to start the process of

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formation of Telangana state so easily. When we look at the past historytoo it can be seen how the Telangana people had to shed blood even forfundamental rights. Preparing ourselves for long term, united and militantagitations and advancing forward along the path of struggle is the only wayto achieve Telangana state by bending the Central Government. We allknow that the ruling classes and their leaders would try to fizzle out themovement at the first chance by resorting to compromising agreementsalways. We must expose these conspiracies from time to time and defeatthem. When the movement rages for a long time, we must fight back thevacillations occurring among the leaders and keep alive the movement.TRS which believes strongly in achieving Telangana through lobbying isparticipating in the entire people’s strike in an inevitable situation to saveitself from getting isolated from the people. But on the other hand it istrying to get its candidate (who jumped from TDP to TRS) elected inBanswada by-election and this is nothing but tactics to divert the peoplefrom entire people’s strike. Congress which claims that it is committed toTelangana had exposed its opportunism by contesting this election. TDPwhich had always been opposing Telangana state announced that it wouldnot participate in elections till Telangana is formed and boycotted theBanswada by-election. This is nothing but rank opportunism. The variousJACs must advance forward in accordance with the struggle unity comingto the fore very strongly in the entire people’s strike in Telangana. Theymust keep aside their vacillations and lead the militant agitation of thepeople properly. This is the appeal of CPI (Maoist) to the various JACs atthis juncture.

The entire people’s strike is creating a great impact on the people ofour country. It is serving as a strong inspiration to movements for separatestates. It is an important task before the people of our country to stand insupport of the Telangana people at present. Our Party is whole heartedlyissuing an appeal to the people of Seemandhara to respect the aspirationsof the Telangana people which are blooming during the entire people strikeand stand in support of the separate statehood demand. We appeal to themnot to give in to the conspiracies of the exploiting ruling classes which arescheming to create a divide between Telangana and Seemandhra peopleand to welcome the democratic demand for Telangana state.

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We demand that Separate Telangana State be immediately formed inaccordance with the strong aspirations of the people of Telangana and areissuing a call for Bharat Bandh on October 11, 2011 in support of the entirepeople’s strike. We appeal to workers, peasants, students, intellectuals,women, democrats, progressive mass organisations, progressive elements,poets, artistes and the vast masses to participate in observing the bandhand make it a success. We appeal to the people of our country to shutdown offices, educational institutions, trade organisations etc completelyand show solidarity to the movement for separate statehood of Telangana.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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November 20, 2011

Let us intensify People’s War with the aim of

defeating “Operation Green Hunt” –

War on People !

Call of Central Military Commission, CPI (Maoist) on theoccasion of PLGA 11th anniversary

Beloved people!

By December 2, People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) wouldcomplete eleven years. On this occasion Central Military Commission(CMC) is giving a call to celebrate the 11th anniversary in all our guerillazones and red resistance areas with the determination to defeat OperationGreen Hunt (OGH) of the exploiting ruling classes. In the People’s Warongoing for the liberation of toiling masses in India nearly 150 best daughtersand sons of the soil and ordinary people have laid down their precious livessince December 2010 to September 2011. Let us pay revolutionary homageto all the brave fighters. Let us vow to fulfill their aims.

In the past one year, hundreds of local mass organizations, revolutionarypeople’s government activists and people were arrested, booked underblack laws and put in jails. To suppress the revolutionary cultural movement,death sentences were pronounced on four cultural activists of JharkhandAbhen including Jeeten Marandi. It is necessary to build a strong people’smovement to annul these death sentences. Particularly, as part of inflictinglosses on our party leadership in the dog hunt of the enemy intelligenceagencies on April 29, 2011 three Central Committee members and in Julycomrade Bhupeshda and many other leadership comrades and activistswere arrested by the enemy. The enemy is making conspiracies toincarcerate them in jails permanently. CMC is giving a call to the people tobuild agitations everywhere for the release of these political prisoners.

In the operations conducted by our PLGA forces against fascist OGHall over the country, 150 mercenary policemen were wiped out, 180 were

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injured and seized 60 weapons all over the country successfully sinceDecember 2010 to October 2011. Moreover, in the continuous single actionsconducted by the PLGA forces, 170 anti-people elements, were wipedout. Particularly, the role of people’s militia forces is worth mentioning inthis.

The central and state governments have announced that the secondphase of the fascist OGH is ongoing. This unjust war (Green Hunt militaryoffensive) unleashed by the Sonia-Manmohan Singh-Chidambaram cliqueagainst the people of this country from mid-2009, is nothing but a war to letthe comprador companies and MNCs to loot the mineral wealth in theadivasi areas. In order to brutally continue the ‘War on people’ thegovernment deployed a brigade level army force in the name of training inMay end of this year. In fact, army officials have been guiding the counter-insurgency operations of the paramilitary forces since six years with theaim of wiping out the revolutionary movement which is proving to be ahurdle to corporate loot. The army on its own established counter-terrorismJungle Warfare schools including the ones at Kanker of Chhattisgarh andAmbicapur in North Chhattisgarh and is giving special training to police-paramilitary forces. Army higher officials have conducted Bastar toursseveral times. During the days when Salwa Judum was at the height of itscruelty, American consulate officials have visited the Jungle Warfare Schoolin Kanker and had consultations with Raman Singh and police higherofficials in Raipur. All these undoubtedly prove that all this is happeningunder the guidance of the US imperialists.

Attacks on people, murders, sexual atrocities on women, razing downhouses, loot, destruction of harvest and looting of hens, pigs and goats havebecome commonplace in the fascist Green Hunt military offensive. TheChintalnar murders-atrocities-razing of houses-loot, the massacre conductedin Netai village (Lalgarh, PB) by the CPM with the help of central andstate Joint Forces and the massacre by PLFI goons in Jamgai village (Gumladistrict, JH) are living examples for this. Ninety nine percent of the personskilled by the reactionary Salwa Judum, Sendra, Nagrik Suraksha Samity,Santi Sangams, government armed forces including several kinds of killergangs in Bihar and Jharkhand are unarmed people. The armed guerillasdying in encounters and fake encounters will not be more than one percent.

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This hugely indicates that this is a ‘War on the people’.

By portraying DK as a stronghold of Maoist guerillas, the Indian Armystepped in DK in the name of ‘training’ by violating the laws banning landtransfer, PESA act and the acts giving all powers to the Gram Sabhas. Butthe actual aim of the army is to chase the Adivasis away from their agesold abode to wipe out the most ancient human community and their primitiveculture and to nip in the bud the Janatana Sarkars being established by theadivasi people under the leadership of the Maoists. For this sake, the centralgovernment gave all powers to the army to implement the majority aspectsin AFSPA and to go to any length in the name of self-defence. IndianArmy which is supposed to defend the borders of the country is now readyto wage war on its own people in the heart of the country. All adivasicommunities all over the country must now agitate against the conspiraciesof the Indian ruling classes to safeguard the interests of the imperialistsand MNCs and to extend the atrocities and massacres carried on by theIndian Army and paramilitary forces on Kashmir and North-East nationalliberation struggles. People belonging to all classes and sections, democrats,patriots and mass organizations must stand firmly in their support.

Beloved people!

As a consequence of the distorted development of the imperialist LPGpolicies, the impact of the world economic crisis is severe on our countrytoo. Increase in corruption, unemployment, price rise, poverty anddisplacement and due to loss of lands, forests and water, the living conditionsof the oppressed working class, peasant and middle class people becameunbearable and they do not have anywhere to turn except towards revolution.Material conditions are ripening for revolution. Strikes and agitations of allsections of people are increasing. Economic struggles are turning into politicalstruggles. The political agitations of the backward adivasi peasantry areintensifying. Struggles like Lalgarh, Kalinganagar, Narayanapatna, anti-Posco, Niayamagiri, Mali, Deomali, Singareni, Open casts, Polavaram,Sompeta, Kakarapalli, Jaitapur and Greater Noida, struggle of peopledisplaced due to urban development in Jharkhand, countrywide anti-SEZstruggles, price rises, anti-corruption struggles, struggles on peasant issuesand the struggles of dalit and women indicate the political consciousness ofthe people. People are rallying militantly for the formation of separate

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Telangana state. The national liberation struggle of Kashmir is continuingto rage. In order to divert the militant struggles of the people, NGOs runwith the guidance of imperialists and those under the leadership of personslike Anna Hazare are bringing forth struggle forms like hunger strikes inthe name of non-violence. Fascist repression of the ruling classes isincreasing on our Maoist party which is serving as the beacon light of theoppressed masses and also on working class, peasantry, middle class andoppressed masses. The economic and political crisis is intensifying everywhere and so vast masses must display revolutionary spirit and take uppolitical agitations with the slogan that we will fight till our last breath. Wemust rally on a huge scale on daily issues and political issues. We mustrealize that it is not possible for the economic interests of the oppressedmasses to be fulfilled without decisive political struggles and develop theseagitations to a higher level by linking it with the slogan that “Political Powermust be seized through People’s War”.

Call of the CMC

Beloved workers, peasants, adivasis, toiling masses, women, students,youth and intellectuals! Thousands of people, particularly adivasi peasantryare rallying into these struggles to defeat the ‘War on People’ conductedby the central and state governments. All the toiling classes and sections ofthe people must integrate into these struggles. Rally actively to stop thebrutal attacks of the mercenary police who are massacring hundreds ofadivasis and looting their properties, dignity and everything dear to themlike a pack of wolves attacking a flock of sheep, in the name of fightingterrorism. Maoists are not advocates of violence. In fact, they would be inthe forefront among those who wish for peace. Do not believe a word ofthe vicious propaganda unleashed by the bourgeois media on Maoists!Stand firmly with the revolutionary movement! If we do not defeat thisenemy offensive, if we do not defeat the conspiracy to wipe out therevolutionary movement, Maoist party, PLGA, alternate people’s powerorgans and mass organizations, then all the valuable fruits won by therevolutionary movement would be destroyed. So, play your role in isolatingand defeating the enemy! Join the PLGA in huge numbers, increase itsforce manifold and strengthen it! Integrate with the deluge of massmovements rising in several areas in our country with the slogans of land-

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power-democracy-building of people’s army and self-reliance! Join handswith them! Stand shoulder to shoulder with the armed resistance strugglesof PLGA! There can be no fundamental change without completelydestroying the exploiting classes. The reforms thrown by them as breadcrumbs are useless and would only destroy the lives of the people further.Let us advance for an alternative new democratic society by declaringthat reforms are part of the conspiracy to damage the unity of the peopleand fight them back! Come! Dare to fight and ultimate victory belongs tothe people!

· Let us develop PLGA into PLA and guerilla warfare into mobilewarfare with the aim of developing Dandakaranya and Bihar-Jharkhand into Liberated Areas!

· Let us oppose the deployment of army by the Indian ruling classesfor wiping out Maoist revolutionary movement!

· Let us teach a lesson to the mercenary Indian Army which loots,represses and suppresses the Indian toiling masses through ourglorious People’s War!

· Long live the CPI (Maoist)!

Deoji,

For Central Military Commission

CPI (Maoist)

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November 25, 2011

Condemn the brutal murder of

Comrade Mallojula Koteswara Rao,

the beloved leader of the oppressed masses,the leader of Indian revolution and

CPI (Maoist) Politburo member!

Observe countrywide protest week

from November 29 to December 5 and

48-hour ‘Bharat Bandh’ on December 4-5!!

November 24, 2011 would remain a black day in the annals of Indianrevolutionary movement’s history. The fascist Sonia-Manmohan-Pranab-Chidambaram-Jairam Ramesh ruling clique who have been raising a dinthat CPI (Maoist) is ‘the biggest internal security threat’, in collusion withWest Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, killed Comrade MallojulaKoteswara Rao after capturing him alive in a well planned conspiracy.This clique which had killed Comrade Azad, our party’s spokesperson onJuly 1, 2010 once again spread its dragnet and quenched its thirst for blood.Mamata Banerjee, who had shed crocodile’s tears over the murder ofComrade Azad before coming to power, while enacting the drama of ‘peacetalks’ on the one hand after assuming office, killed another topmost leaderComrade Koteswara Rao and thus displayed nakedly its anti-people andfascist facet. The central intelligence agencies and the killer intelligenceagencies of West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh chased him in a well plannedconspiracy and killed him in a cowardly manner in a joint operation andnow spreading a concocted story of encounter. The central home secretaryR.K. Singh even while lying that they do not know for certain who died inthe encounter, has in the same breath announced that this is a big blow tothe Maoist movement. Thus he nakedly gave away their conspiracy behindthis killing. The oppressed people would definitely send to grave the

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exploiting ruling classes and their imperialist masters who are day dreamingthat they could wipe out the Maoist party by killing the top leadership of therevolutionary movement.

Comrade Koteswara Rao, who is hugely popular as Prahlad, Ramji,Kishenji and Bimal inside the party and among the people, is one of theimportant leaders of the Indian revolutionary movement. The tireless warriorwho never rested his gun while fighting for the liberation of the oppressedmasses since the past 37 years and who has laid down his life for the sakeof the ideology he believed in, was born in 1954 in Peddapally town ofKarimnagar district of North Telangana, Andhra Pradesh. Raised by hisfather Late Venkataiah who was a freedom fighter and his motherMadhuramma, who has been of progressive views, Koteswara Rao imbibedlove for his country and its oppressed masses since childhood. In 1969, hehad participated in the historic separate Telangana movement while hewas in his high school studies in Peddapally town. He joined the revolutionarymovement with the inspiration of the glorious Naxalbari and Srikakulammovements while studying graduation in SRR college of Karimnagar. Hestarted working as an active member of the Party from 1974. He spentsome time in jail during the black period of the Emergency. After lifting upof the Emergency, he started working as a party organizer in his homedistrict of Karimnagar. He responded to the “Go to Villages” campaigncall of the party and developed relations with the peasantry by going to thevillages. He was one of those who played a prominent role in the upsurgeof peasant movement popular as ‘Jagityal Jaitrayatra’ (Victory March ofJagityal) in 1978. In this course, he was elected as the district committeemember of the Adilabad-Karimnagar joint committee of the CPI (ML). In1979 when this committee was divided into two district committees hebecame the secretary of the Karimnagar district committee. He participatedin the Andhra Pradesh state 12th party conference, was elected to the APstate committee and took responsibilities as its secretary.

Up to 1985, as part of the AP state committee leadership he played acrucial role in spreading the movement all over the state and in developingthe North Telangana movement which was advancing with guerilla zoneperspective. He played a prominent role in expanding the movement toDandakaranya (DK) and developing it. He was transferred to

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Dandakaranya in 1986 and took up responsibilities as a member of theForest Committee. He led the guerilla squads and the people in DK. In1993 he was co-opted as a member into the Central Organizing Committee(COC).

From 1994 onwards he mainly worked to spread and develop therevolutionary movement in Eastern and Northern parts of India includingWest Bengal. Particularly his role in uniting the revolutionary forces whichwere scattered after the setback of the Naxalbari movement in West Bengaland in reviving the revolutionary movement there is extraordinary. Hemingled deeply with the oppressed masses of Bengal and the various sectionsof the revolutionary camp, learnt Bangla language with determination andleft an indelible mark in the hearts of the people there. He worked tirelesslyin achieving unity with several revolutionary groups and in strengtheningthe party. Comrade Koteswara Rao was elected as a Central Committee(CC) member in the All India Special Conference of erstwhile CPI (ML)(People’s War) held in 1995. He strived for achieving unity between People’sWar and Party Unity in 1998. In the Party Congress of erstwhile CPI(ML)(PW) held in 2001 he was once again elected into CC and Politburo.He took up responsibilities as the secretary of the North Regional Bureau(NRB) and led the revolutionary movements in Bihar, Jharkhand, WestBengal, Delhi, Haryana and Punjab states. Simultaneously he played a keyrole in the unity talks held between erstwhile PW and MCCI. He servedas a member of the unified CC and Politburo formed after the merger ofthe two parties in 2004 and worked as a member of the Eastern RegionalBureau (ERB). He mainly concentrated on the state movement of WestBengal and continued as the spokesperson of the ERB.

Comrade Koteswara Rao played a prominent role in running partymagazines and in the field of political education inside the party. He tookpart in running ‘Kranti’, ‘Errajenda’, ‘Jung’, ‘Prabhat’, ‘Vanguard’ andother party magazines. He had a special role to play in bringing out variousrevolutionary magazines in West Bengal. He wrote many theoretical andpolitical articles in these magazines. He was a member of the Sub-Committee on Political Education (SCOPE) and played a prominent role inteaching Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to the party ranks. In the entire historyof the party he played a memorable role in expanding the revolutionary

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movement, in enriching the party documents and in developing themovement. He participated in the Unity Congress-9th Congress of the partyheld in 2007 January, was elected as CC member once again and tookresponsibilities of Politburo member and member of the ERB.

The political guidance given by Comrade Koteswara Rao to the Singurand Nandigram people’s movements which erupted since 2007 against theanti-people and pro-corporate policies of the social fascist CPM governmentin West Bengal and particularly to the glorious upsurge of people’s rebellionin Lalgarh against police atrocities is prominent. He guided the West Bengalstate committee and the party ranks to lead these movements and on theother hand conducted party propaganda through the media too with initiative.In 2009 when the Chidambaram clique tried to mislead the middle classesin the name of talks and ceasefire, he worked significantly in exposing it.He did enormous work in keeping aloft the importance of People’s Warand in taking the revolutionary politics into the vast masses. This greatrevolutionary journey which went on for almost four decades came to anabrupt end on November 24, 2011.

Beloved People! Democrats!!

Do condemn this brutal murder. It is the conspiracy of the ruling classesto wipe out the revolutionary leadership and deprive the people of correctguidance and proletarian leadership. It is a known fact that the Maoistmovement is the biggest hurdle to the big robbers and compradors who arestashing millions in Swiss banks by selling for peanuts the Jal, Jungle andZameen of the country to the imperialist sharks. The multi-pronged, country-wide brutal offensive named Operation Green Hunt of the past two yearsis exactly serving this purpose. This cold-blooded murder is part of that. Itis the duty of the patriots and freedom-loving people of the country toprotect the revolutionary movement and its leadership like the pupil of theireye. It’s nothing but protecting the future of the country and that of thenext generations.

Even at the age of 57, Com. Koteswara Rao led the hard life of aguerilla like a young man and had filled the cadres and people with greatenthusiasm wherever he went. His life would particularly serve as a greatinspiration to the younger generation. He studied and worked for hours

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together without rest and traveled great distances. He slept very little, leda simple life and was a hard worker. He used to mingle easily with peopleof all ages and with people who come from various social sections and fillthem with revolutionary enthusiasm. No doubt, the martyrdom of ComradeKoteswara Rao is a great loss to the Indian revolutionary movement. Butthe people of our country are very great. It is the people and the people’smovements which gave birth to courageous and dedicated revolutionarieslike Koteswara Rao. The workers and peasants and the revolutionarieswho have imbibed the revolutionary spirit of Koteswara Rao right fromJagityal to Jungle Mahal and who have armed themselves with therevolutionary fragrance he spread all over the country would definitelylead the Indian New Democratic Revolution in a victory path. They wouldwipe out the imperialists and their lackey landlord and compradorbureaucratic bourgeoisie and their representatives like Sonia, Manmohan,Chidambaram and Mamata Banerjee.

Our CC is appealing to the people of the country to observe protestweek from November 29 to December 5 and observe 48-hour ‘BharatBandh’ on December 4-5 in protest of the brutal murder of ComradeKoteswara Rao. We are appealing that they take up various programmeslike holding meetings, rallies, dharnas, wearing black badges, road blocksetc protesting this murder. We are requesting that trains, roadways,commercial and educational institutions be closed and that all kinds of tradetransactions be stopped as part of the ‘Bharat Bandh’ on December 4-5.However, we are exempting medical services from the Bandh.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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January 13, 2012

Revolutionary greetings from CPI (Maoist)

to the friends of Indian revolution and

well wishers

Comrades and Friends,

On 24 November, 2011 the Indian revolution lost its great leader andthe oppressed masses of India lost their most reliable servant. November24 would remain a dark day in the history of the Indian revolution. On July1, 2010 the Indian ruling classes had murdered our Politburo member andspokesperson Comrade Azad. Within one and a half years, another Politburomember Comrade Koteswarlu (who is popular among the people and partyranks as Kotanna, Prahlad, Ramji, Kishenji and Bimal) was caught alive ina covert operation, tortured inhumanly and was killed in a fake encounter.In India which claims to be the largest democracy in the world, the feudaland comprador bureaucratic bourgeois ruling classes, with the support ofthe imperialists, particularly the US imperialists, are trying to suppress thedemocratic, national liberation and revolutionary movements with iron heel.Particularly, since 2009 they are carrying on an unjust war on the people inthe name of ‘Operation Green Hunt’. They are shamelessly violating eventhe constitution and the laws formulated by themselves and are killing people,activists and leaders of the movement. They are unsuccessfully trying tojustify all their unlawful murders in the name of a lie named ‘encounter’tracing the footsteps of the British colonial rulers. Now it is an establishedfact that ‘encounter’ anywhere in India means a conspiratorial murder bythe state.

Comrade Koteswarlu was born on November 26, 1954 in Peddapallitown of Karimnagar district which has a legacy of the glorious Telanganaarmed struggle. He led the Indian revolutionary movement for nearly fourdecades. Comrade Koteswarlu was brought up by democratic thinkingparents and imbibed patriotic feelings and love for the oppressed peoplesince childhood. He was a top rank representative of the generation afterthe glorious Naxalbari rebellion. Though the Naxalbari rebellion whichestablished Maoist Protracted People’s War as the path for the Indian

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revolution was suppressed within a few years, it had a great impact allover the country. Peasant rebellions arose in many areas following its model.It awoke the students in colleges and universities. The slogan ‘NaxalbariEk Hi Rasta’ (The Only Way is Naxalbari) reverberated all over thecountry. It was this backdrop that turned Comrade Koteswarlu into a Maoistrevolutionary. Firstly, at the end of 1970s, he organized the peasantry againstdeeply entrenched feudalism in his home district of Karimnagar and ledmany struggles. He played a key role in the peasant movement popularlyknown as ‘Jagityal Jaitrayatra’ (Victory March of Jagityal). In no time thisspread to the whole of North Telangana apart from Karimnagar and Adilabaddistricts. Even while mobilizing peasants into anti-feudal struggles, he greatlystrove to attract students, writers, intellectuals, workers…all oppressedclasses and sections of people into the fold of revolutionary movement. Inthis course, he worked as a party organizer at first, then as the districtcommittee secretary and was later elected as the secretary of the AndhraPradesh Sate Committee and won the accolade of the people and theparty ranks. Since 1986, he played a crucial role in the development andexpansion of the revolutionary movement in central, eastern and northernparts of India. He particularly concentrated on Dandakaranya for eightyears and on West Bengal for eighteen years. Since 1993 till he breathedhis last he worked as a Central Committee member, later as Politburomember member and held responsibilities for Northern and Eastern RegionalBureaus. He contributed greatly in many spheres in the party such aspolitical education, magazines, propaganda and shone as a man of manytalents. He played a prominent role in enriching the party documents and indeveloping party political-military line and policies. He represented the CCin the meetings and bilateral talks held with various national liberationorganizations and Maoist forces in South Asia. He strove a lot to unite theMarxist-Leninist groups and individuals that divided and scattered afterthe setback of Naxalbari and particularly to achieve unity of the ML andMCC organizations which continued as separate streams since Naxalbari.Thus his role remains etched forever in the annals of the history of Indianrevolution.

At the end of 1970s, Comrade Koteswarlu played a crucial role in theJagityal peasant movement and in the first decade of the 21st century hebecame the architect of the illustrious Lalgarh people’s upsurge. He was

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an inspiring leader who never left the people and the cadres and who stoodfirmly during many an ebb and flow in the Indian revolutionary movementwith courage and initiative. He was an organizer with initiative, a warriorcommander and a guide who imparted love and care. His very presenceproved to be a hard nut to crack for the enemy right from the beginning.He successfully fought back several attacks and attempts to murder him.He was a tireless warrior who fought incessantly and uncompromisinglyand never let go of any opportunity to attack the enemy politically andmilitarily. That is why the ruling clique of this country led by Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram-Pranab-Jairam colluded with the Chief Ministerof West Bengal Mamata Banerjee and killed him in the cruelest manner.The brutal signs of torture on his dead body indicate the fascist nature ofthe enemy, his cowardliness and his defeat. On the other hand he bore allthe inhuman tortures in the hands of the enemy and emerged victoriouseven in the face of death. The crimson of the international red flag of theproletarians turned deeper with the blood spilled by him in Jungle Mahal.

With the murder of Comrade Koteswarlu @ Kishenji the Indianrevolutionary movement lost a great leader. This is a huge loss for ourparty. Our party has been continuously losing main leadership forces sincea few years and this loss cannot be surmounted under these circumstances.However our party would fight firmly to advance the Indian revolution onthe path of victory by overcoming these losses. The exploitative rulingclasses can never comprehend the truth that people and the people’smovements give birth to hundreds and thousands of leaders like Koteswarluand Azad and they continue daydreaming that they could suppress themovements by killing the leaders. As long as there are exploitation andsuppression, people would continue to revolt. Leaders like Koteswarlu keepon emerging. That is why the great struggles with sacrifices and the idealsestablished by the thousands of great martyrs serve as an inspiration.

Our Central Committee pays red homage with bowed heads to thegreat martyr Comrade Koteswarlu. Our CC is expressing deep empathyto mother Madhuramma who was calling upon the people to follow thefootsteps of her son even while immersed in deep sorrow, to other familymembers and friends of Comrade Koteswarlu. Our Central Committeecalls upon entire Party, PLGA, activists of mass organizations andrevolutionary masses who are immersed in deep sorrow and agony with

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the brutal murder of Comrade Koteswarlu to overcome the grief andintensify the People’s War. Our CC calls upon the youth to join our Partyand PLGA in large numbers and to march forward in the footsteps ofComrade Kotanna to fulfill his cherished dreams. Our party is sendingrevolutionary greetings to the democrats and revolutionary sympathizerswho brought the deadbody of Comrade Koteswarlu from West Bengal toPeddapalli and to all the people who participated in the funeral processionon a huge scale to pay last respects to the fallen leader by overcomingmany restrictions and encirclements of the governments and police forces.We humbly express our thanks to various mass organizations, civil rightsorganizations, revolutionary parties, democrats, writers, journalists, mediafriends, artistes and the agitators of Separate Telangana struggle whocondemned the brutal murder of Comrade Kishenji. Our red salutes to allthose writers and intellectuals who have written articles and reportsunequivocally condemning this killing. Our CC is sending revolutionarygreetings to all the revolutionary parties and democratic organizations ofseveral countries that condemned the murder of Comrade Kishenji and thewar unleashed by the Indian government on its people and sent condolencemessages to our party.

Our CC is firmly taking the vow once again on behalf of the entireparty, PLGA, revolutionary mass organizations and the revolutionary massesof India that we would advance by overcoming all the hurdles in the pathof accomplishment of New Democratic Revolution of India with the aimof achieving socialism and communism and that we would carry theunfulfilled aims of the thousands of martyrs including Comrade Kishenji tilltheir fulfillment. It is assuring the oppressed masses of India as well asentire world that it would not rest until feudalism, comprodor bureaucraticbourgeoisie and imperialism are sent to the grave and all kinds of reactionare put to an end.

Long Live Comrade Kishenji!

Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!

Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!

Abhay,Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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March 2, 2012

Condemn the arrests and torture of Maoistactivists in Kolkata and Mumbai!

In the last week of February 2012, the police have arrested activistsof our Party including some senior cadres from Kolkata and Mumbai. Onthe specific intelligence inputs provided by the murderous APSIB, jointforces of police and STF of AP, Maharashtra and West Bengal have raidedthe shelters of our comrades in Kolkata and Mumbai suburbs and arrestedat least nine comrades including two women comrades. Comrades SadanalaRamakrishna, Deepak Kumar Pargania, Sukumar Mandal, Bapi Mudi andSambhu Charan were arrested from Kolkata while Comrades DineshWankhede, Aasimkumar Bhattacharya, Suman Gawde and Paru Patel werepicked up from Thane in Maharashtra. Comrades Sadanala Ramakrishnaalias Santosh (62) and Aasimkumar Bhattacharya (65) were the seniorsamong the arrested. Senior comrade Sadanala Ramakrishna has beenworking for the revolution for at least four decades. He has been ailingwith serious health problems for so many years. A mechanical engineergraduated in prestigious Regional Engineering College (REC) of Warangalfrom where martyr leaders like Surapaneni Janardhan and Azad wereemerged as great revolutionaries of their times, Comrade Ramakrishnasacrificed his bright life for the cause of liberation of the downtrodden.

Both the two women comrades arrested - Vijaya and Suman - havebeen undergoing medical treatment for some time staying in the sheltersoutside the struggle zones. Particularly, comrade Vijaya has been sufferingfrom serious heart problems.

The police forces, better known for worst kind of cruelty, have beentorturing these comrades mentally and physically in custody. They havefoisted several false cases against these comrades so that they could belanguished behind the bars forever.

On one hand the ruling classes are asserting that these arrests are abig success for them and on the other hand, they are trying to portray ourcomrades as dangerous criminals claiming that they have recovered hugeamounts of cash and other material that is used for making arms.

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These arrests are nothing but a part of Operation Green Hunt (OGH),i.e. the ‘War on People’, which has been underway since 2009. Thecomprador ruling classes in connivance with their imperialist masters,particularly with the US imperialists, have unleashed this brutal war ofsuppression in the poorest parts of India so that their neo liberal policies ofplunder of resources could get going unhindered. They are particularlytargeting the revolutionary leadership and eliminating them. As the Pentagonitself claimed recently, the US Special Forces are not only actively involved,but also assisting their Indian counterparts on the ground in the counter-insurgency operations aimed at eliminating the revolutionary leadership.This fact also shows us that the US has been patronizing in the ongoingOGH making the values such as freedom, independence, and sovereigntyof our country a joke. The exploiting rulers of our country are daydreamingthat this movement can be suppressed if its leadership is wiped out.

Revolutionary movement cannot be crushed with arrests and murders.The bars of the dungeons can not restrict the revolutionary ideas fromspreading among the vast masses.

The CC of CPI (Maoist) strongly condemns these arrests and inhumantorture being inflicted to them. We demand immediate and unconditionalrelease of these comrades, as well as all of the political prisoners languishingin various jails in all corners of our land. We also demand to lift all the falsecases foisted against these comrades.

Abhay,

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May 2, 2012

Scrap the Proposal for the Formation ofAnti-people, Tyrannical and Fascist NCTC!On May 5, 2012, a meeting was planned by the Central government

with the state Chief Ministers to take final decision on the formation ofNational Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) and to make some changesin the police and intelligence structures. NCTC is an outright fascistinstitution that is going to be formed with the advice, guidance of theimperialists, particularly the US imperialists, following their model. Themotive of the Indian ruling classes behind the formation of NCTC is tocrush with more centralized methods the people of our country fighting ontheir issues and for democratic rights, the Muslim minorities who areprotesting in various forms and resisting the attacks of the Hindu chauvinistsand Hindu fundamentalism, the nationality movements fighting for the self-determination of the nationalities including the right to secession andparticularly the Maoist movement that is rejecting the government’s shamdevelopment model and building people’s alternative development modeland fighting for the liberation of all the oppressed masses of India throughNew Democratic Revolution. This institution that is to be formed based onthe provisions in UAPA that curbs the democratic rights of the peoplemore cruelly than all the previous repressive laws and gives arbitrary powersto the Indian armed forces, is going to be the ‘biggest threat to thesovereignty, peace, security, freedom, democracy and right to live of thecitizens of this country’.

The Central Home Minister Chidambaram suggested while puttingthe proposal for the formation of NCTC in 2009 December the bifurcationof the MHA separating law & order and investigation so as to allow theHome Minister to concentrate his full energy to the crucial function ofinternal security keeping in view the imperatives and challenges in internalsecurity at present and in the coming 5 to 10 years. He said that the securityarchitecture must be radically restructured at the national level. All theinternal security challenges that he mentions are in fact nothing but thehurdles that the imperialists, feudal lords and the comprador bureaucraticbourgeoisie (CBB) are facing in indiscriminately looting the natural resources

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and riches of our country. These challenges are the struggles waged bythe most poor and most oppressed masses of our country to stop the sellingof our country to corporate companies. Particularly, the armed resistanceput up by the workers and peasants, the majority of whom are Adivasisand Dalits, under the leadership of CPI (Maoist) against exploitation andoppression on them is prominent among these challenges. After theintroduction of New Economic Policy that opened wide the doors of ourcountry to the imperialists and in accordance with the imperialist LICstrategy, a restructuring of all spheres in our country is going on. Thisproposal to restructure the security architecture at the national level is alsopart of it. The sole aim of this restructuring in all the spheres is to securesuper profits for the imperialist MNCs and the CBB companies. Any thingthat proves to be a hurdle to these profits is to be crushed under thejuggernaut of the ruling classes – whether it is democracy, sovereignty ofour country or the rights won by the people through struggles. Thecharacteristic feature of this restructuring is more fascization and morecentralized powers – in all spheres and in all aspects.

This proposal would make the Home Minister an unopposed emperorof internal security. All the intelligence agencies would be put under this.This would tear the veil of even the namesake federalism written in theconstitution and would give full powers to the centre. This would be apocket borough of the centre to completely control the states. This wouldcontrol and coordinate all the counter-terrorist operations. Functionaries ofthe state government (including police) must provide information, documentsand reports to NCTC. The Defence and Finance ministries all also supposedto depute their representatives to the NCTC. They want to bring anyinstitution that participates in suppressing the so-called terrorism under theoversight of NCTC to the extent they deal with ‘terror’. Since NCTCwould be under the IB, this would give arbitrary powers to the IB andNCTC director. The HM mentioned that his director would be the singleperson accountable to the country on all matters relating to internal security.Intelligence, investigation and operations would also come under this. Withmany more arbitrary powers the ruling classes are forming this as an opaque,most tyrannical institution above the constitution that is not answerable toany and thus violating even the namesake democratic principles written intheir own constitution. More alarmingly, the ruling classes are portraying

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all kinds of political movements as ‘terrorist’. They are focusing ‘terrorism’as a monster to divert the attention from the basic issues of the people andburning problems such as displacement, nuclear projects, SEZs etcimplemented as part of the pro-imperialist policies. So, bringing all counter-terrorism operations under it means suppressing all political movements byterming them ‘terrorist’.

Such centralized powers are in fact ridiculing the law & order that isa state government subject. It is on this point that non-congress ChiefMinisters like Mamta Banerji, Naveen Pattanayak, Narendra Modi, PrakashSingh Badal and Jayalalitha are creating a ruckus that this would curb therights of the state governments and violates federalism. Are they reallyworried about federal principles? Not at all. And there is not a single wordfrom them that NCTC would lead to further suppression of the people. Infact, the Congress party and the non-Congress ruling parties are all blood-sucking dictators. The history of each of these dictators is one of soakingthe people’s movements in blood and murdering the people’s leaders whoare the daughters and sons of the soil and wiping out the revolutionarymovement’s leaders. All of them kowtow in front of the corporatecompanies, stash away the millions they earn as kickbacks, tie their intereststightly with that of the corporate classes and go to any end to remove allkinds of democratic and revolutionary forces that resist this. So, why thishullabaloo as if they are opposing the NCTC? Their actual grievance isthat their bandit leader Chidambaram is violating their agreements ondistribution of booty and rights and entering their arena and trying to usurptheir repression powers too. These CMs who rule like despots in theirstates without being accountable to anybody are worried that they mayhave to be now accountable to the home ministry to that extent. This is justlike a squabble between the robbers while distributing the booty. The mostundemocratic manner in which they all passed the amendments to theUAPA in December 2008 unanimously, without any discussion or oppositionin the parliament would suffice to understand that they are in the sameboat. And it is on these arbitrary powers of the UAPA that this NCTC isbased. Without any doubt all these bandits would solve their so-called‘differences’ ‘smoothly’ in a ‘friendly’ atmosphere on May 5th and wouldappear on the screen more ‘united’. That this unity is to intensify in a more‘united’ manner the ‘War on People’ goes without saying.

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Beloved people and Democrats!

Already as part of Operation Green Hunt, the ‘War on People’, thedemocratic rights of people are getting curbed with each passing day. Thegovernment armed forces are crushing all kinds of resistance (both unarmedand armed) under their iron heels. If NCTC is formed every fightingorganization would be banned just as our party and other organizationshave been banned under UAPA. Every protest of the people would becomea crime. Every struggle would be termed illegal. All movement areas wouldturn into concentration camps. India would turn into Germany under Hitler.Particularly, the intervention of US would increase further in all mattersrelated to internal security.

So, our CC, CPI (Maoist) is giving a call to build a huge movementdemanding the scrapping up of the proposal by the ruling classes to set upNCTC as a naked fascist institution to sell our country to the MNCs and tocompletely wipe out all the organizations that are proving a hurdle to theimplementation of hundreds of MoUs signed with them. NCTC formed byreplicating the Homeland Security Act of US and tying the interests of ourcountry to the security and intelligence agencies of US would try to wipeout any king of people’s resistance to corporate loot by banning fightingorganizations in the name of ‘War on Terror’ and by suppressing thedemocratic rights of the people. This is bent upon annihilating the leadersof the people’s movements, particularly that of revolutionary movementsso that such people’s resistance can be made leaderless. Our CC is callingupon the workers, peasants, students, intellectuals, writers, journalists,professionals, media friends, women, minorities, Adivasis, Dalits, democrats,progressives, patriots and one and all to grasp the conspiracy behind NCTCand demand that the proposal for its formation be withdrawn to fail thatconspiracy. It is appealing to the people to rally on a huge scale demandingthat UAPA that is taken as the basis for NCTC and other repressive lawssuch as AFSPA, CGSPSA, MCOCA etc should be annulled immediately.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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May 10, 2012

Revolutionary Greetings from CPI (Maoist)

To the NPA for seizing 66 weapons in theButuan Raid

The New People’s Army Front under Front 4 under the NPA NorthCentral Mindanao Command successfully conducted a raid on an armsstorage facility being maintained by a security agency in Butuan City in theMindanao island of Philippines on April 22, 2012 and seized 66 assortedhigh-powered firearms. CPI (Maoist) congratulates the NPA commandersand the red fighters for conducting this successful raid. The caché offirearms seized by the NPA is composed mostly of AK-47 assault rifles,several sniper rifles and hand pistols.

NPA seized these modern weapons from the Earthsaver SecurityAgency’s office that the mining companies had established in BarangayLibertad, Butuan City. This brave raid enthused the people and therevolutionary forces of Philippines a lot. This raid served as a model to theNPA forces all over Philippines. The people and the NPA hailed the NPAforces in the North Central Mindanao Command. Many young womenand men who were motivated by this raid are coming forward to join NPA.They are readying themselves to advance the armed agrarian revolution intheir country. Our party, the CPI (Maoist) is sharing this elation along withyou. This incident very much inspired the advancing revolutionarymovements in Philippines, India, Turkey and other countries.

In the past few years, the NPA revolutionary guerillas led by theCommunist Party of Philippines conducted hundreds of tactical counteroffensives on the counter-revolutionary police (APP) and military forces(AFP). They seized hundreds of weapons. These offensives played a crucialrole in advancing the People’s War in Philippines. At present, the Philippinesrevolution is striving to advance in a planned manner from the stage ofstrategic self-defence to the stage of strategic stalemate. The NPArevolutionary forces conducted the Butuan raid as part of this. Within afew days of this incident, on April 25, 2012, in a brave ambush conducted

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by the NPA in Ifugao, eleven soldiers including battalion operations officerof the 86th Infantry Battalion were wiped out. This is another big blow tothe Philippines Army this year.

Comrade Mao has repeatedly taught us that wiping out the enemyand seizing of weapons play the most crucial role in establishing the NewDemocratic society by overthrowing the exploiting society. The task of therevolutionaries all over the world who are following the path of ProtractedPeople’s War is to wipe out the enemy in huge numbers on the one handand on the other hand build revolutionary people’s armies with the weaponsseized from the enemy forces, train them, further advance the People’sWar and establish alternative people’s political power. At present, it isnecessary to conduct many more raids like Butuan for the advance of theWorld Socialist Revolution. Through such raids we must build the people’spolitical power, strengthen it and expand it. Our party is sending revolutionarygreetings to the NPA and CPP for placing a model in front of the worldrevolutionaries through this Butuan Raid. Communist revolutionary parties,groups and revolutionaries following the path of People’s War formulatedby Comrade Mao would definitely advance forward by emulating the modelof Butuan Raid.

Abhay,

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May 11, 2012

Chidambaram has no moral right to talk about‘kidnaps’ by Maoists While incarcerating

thousands of Adivasis and agitators in jailsOn 9-05-2012 Home Minister P. Chidambaram while replying in Rajya

Sabha said - Maoists ‘kidnapping’ young collectors, elected representativesand foreigners indicates a clear shift in the nature of the Maoist extremismand shows that Maoists are resorting to ‘terror’ tactics to bend the stategovernment to their demands and that Maoists seek to stop development inthose districts. He reiterated his government’s resolve to continue the anti-naxal operations by following a two-pronged strategy of development andsecurity related strategies to face this challenge.

Chidambaram was obviously referring to the recent ‘kidnaps’ of theItalian tourists and Jhina Hikaka (MLA) in Odisha and collector Alex PaulMenon in Chhattisgarh. This statement also comes in the backdrop of thecentre pushing hard for the formation of the NCTC. The government wantsto put each and every just struggle under the head of so-called ‘terrorism’and suppress the movements that they are part of. With the May 5th meetingwith the Chief Ministers not reaching a decisive conclusion on the formationof NCTC, P. Chidambaram even while trying every trick in his basket toform it, is fast weaving his vicious web to create opinion that would pushevery action taken by the people for their genuine demands into the so-called ‘terrorism’ vat and consequently makes every citizen who participatesin these struggle forms a so-called ‘terrorist’.

Firstly, we want to state that these are not ‘kidnaps’ done for ransom,vendetta, personal demands or settling scores. People are ‘arresting’ themand putting the genuine long-standing collective demands of the oppressedpeople, particularly the Adivasis in those areas in front of the government.All the demands are pertaining to the severe excruciating state repressionthat has been unleashed on them, particularly for the release of thousandsof Adivasis incarcerated in the jails and their leaders. 3000 Adivasis are injails in Chhattisgarh while 6000 Adivasis are in jails in Jharkhand. Thousandsmore are jailed in Punjab, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha, West

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Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and otherstates for fighting against displacement and for Jal-Jungle-Zameen.Peasants fighting the land lords with the slogan ‘Land to the tiller’ andfighting police atrocities have been put in jails in large numbers in areaslike Narayanapatna and Lalgarh. They had been implicated under falsecases and denied bails in the most unjust manner. Many had been arrestedin front of the jail gates after being granted bails and again put in jails afterfoisting more false cases on them. In fact, most of them would have beenreleased even if they had been sentenced. Such is the callousness of theIndian state towards the Adivasis and the poor of our country and thereason for this is to pave the way for corporate loot of natural resources inthe mineral rich forest areas of our country.

The sole reason for such ‘arrests’ is not any so-called ‘terroristtendencies’ among the people or the CPI (Maoist) leading them but theIndian State. If at all it had delivered justice to the people at any point oftheir life, people would not have been forced to take up such struggleforms to get their demands fulfilled. A people crushed under the iron heelsof the State are very rarely taking up such forms after taking up all kinds ofstruggle forms like dharnas, bandhs, rallies, protest marches, hunger strikes- in one word every kind of collective struggle form involving hundreds andthousands of people for days, weeks, months or even years together to gettheir people (ranging from juveniles to very elderly persons) released. TheIndian state always answered with bullets, more arrests, more beatings,more custodial deaths, more false cases and more ‘abductions’ of theseagitators. The police, paramilitary, judiciary, civil administration, bureaucracyetc that constitute the Indian State are acting like the tentacles of a giantOctopus and entangling the people and making them breathless. Thestruggles of political prisoners in the jails are also being crushed most brutally.The rights to which prisoners are entitled are also violated most blatantly.It is this suffocating situation inside and outside jails that is leading to arrestsof government representatives by people.

With all doors closed for justice, such struggle forms are taken up tofind some respite from the umpteen numbers of violations of human rightsof the Adivasi people by the central and state armed forces. In a countrywhere media corporations are in cahoots with the interests of the imperialists,

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MNCs and the big land lords and do not lend their voice or space to thepoor people, sometimes such struggle forms are being used by the peopleto even bring the genuine demands of theirs to the attention of the citizensof this country.

A quick perusal of the main demands put forward during such arrestswould give anybody a fair idea about the ordeal of people under OperationGreen Hunt (OGH). They are demanding the release of ordinary Adivasiswho were ‘kidnapped’ by the state and have been traceless since then orwere put in jails under fabricated charges and they are demanding therelease of their leaders. On such occasions, they are also focusing thedemand to end the multi-pronged country-wide offensive named OGH butin reality a ‘War on People’ - on the toiling masses of our country, most ofwhom are Dalits and Adivasis and half of whom are invariably women.

The young collectors that Chidambaram is speaking of areimplementing the ‘development’ part of the two-pronged strategy and thisdevelopment leads to nothing but the impoverishment and displacement ofthe hundreds of thousands of Adivasis and is nothing but the other side ofthe coin that has repression on one side. And the foreigners he is speakingof were taking objectionable photos of Adivasi women as part of tourismthat the Indian state wants to promote at the cost of the dignity of theAdivasi people. There is no need to write much about the ‘electedrepresentatives’ that are part of the rotten parliamentary system reekingof corruption, nepotism and is implementing nothing but anti-people policiesas dictated by their imperialist masters. These representatives have donenothing to get the poor Adivasis released from the jails and deliver justiceto them in all the years of their tenure. In fact, they are very much part ofthe implementation of OGH in their areas.

So we appeal to all democrats and citizens of this country to trulydistinguish who the real ‘terrorists’ are – is it the poor Adivasis led by theirparty the CPI (Maoist) resorting to some struggle forms for their genuinedemands or the Indian State that is unleashing ‘terror’ day in and day outon the disadvantaged destitute of our country? We appeal to the Indianmasses to support the genuine demands put forward by the peopleduring such arrests and fight for their fulfillment by joining handswith them. Our party firmly believes that a broad united struggle of

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the Indian masses is compulsory and necessary for getting theindisputable democratic rights of the deprived to be realized inpractice.

It is the democratic right of the people to take up various struggleforms for fulfilling their genuine demands or even to propagate them whenevery inch of democratic space is being gradually but rapidly occupied bythe giant octopus that is the Indian State. When this space is getting shrunkwith each passing day due to the marching of the security forces in theirhamlets and villages and now with the formation of a fascist institution likethe NCTC, it is the inalienable right of the people to resort to variousstruggle forms including arrests of this kind. No struggle form is anathemato the fighting people as long as they adhere to mass line and class line astaught by our Marxist Teachers.

Chidambaram is saying that formation of NCTC is the ‘need of thehour’. Through this fascist institution modeled on the NCTC of US, theIndian ruling classes and the imperialists, particularly the US imperialistsbacking them wish to crush every democratic aspiration and genuinedemand of the people. The ‘need of the hour’ is to fight back such fascistattempts by the Indian State to crush every political struggle and struggleform in the name of so-called ‘terrorism’. The Indian people would definitelydefeat the two-pronged strategy of ‘development’ and repression (twosides of the same coin) of the central and state governments by creativelyinaugurating a rainbow of myriad struggle forms. Yes, of course, Mr.Chidambaram! The people led by the CPI (Maoist) definitely wish to put astop to your anti-people, pro-imperialist, undemocratic and repressive‘development’ model. They categorically reject it and are very clear aboutit. They would prove with their uncompromising struggle for NewDemocratic Revolution that true ‘development’ is what they aspire forwhile having the interests of their children and their ecology at heart andnot what the ruling classes want to impose on them while having the interestsof the MNCs and the big land lords at heart.

Abhay,

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May 14, 2012

60 Years of Parliamentary rule in India meantImpoverishment & displacement for the

people, particularly the Adivasis, Servitude toimperialists for the country, Prison house for

the nationalities and Insecurity &discrimination for the minorities,

Dalits and womenThe Parliament of the world’s ‘largest democracy’ celebrated 60 years

of its existence with much fanfare in May 2012. The Prime MinisterManmohan Singh unabashedly waxed eloquent about Progress, Peace andDevelopment achieved and to be achieved under the Parliamentary system.

The Indian Parliament is one of the most rotten institutions in the wholeworld and parliamentary democracy is a big lie. It is a thin cover for theautocratic rule representing the dictatorship of comprador bureaucraticbourgeoisie (CBB) and feudal classes subservient to imperialism. Its verybirth was a result of collusion between the imperialists, the big land lordsand the CBB and it was imposed by British imperialism from above. It wasan absolute deception of the Indian people and sell-out to the imperialists.In its 60 years of existence it had absolutely fulfilled the purpose for whichit was formed – facilitating and exacerbating the exploitation, oppressionand discrimination of the toiling masses by the exploiting classes and sellingof our country’s resources and riches to the imperialists for peanuts.

What Progress can be achieved when the workers and peasants whoproduce the riches of our country are being exploited and oppressed in themost inhuman manner? Peasants who feed this country with their sweatand blood are committing suicides in their lakhs. Due to pro-imperialistagricultural policies of the governments, agriculture became a burdensomeoccupation and the overwhelming majority of the Indian population thatdepends on land for livelihood is increasingly and rapidly becoming landless.

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Agri business corporations are guzzling the water that is essential forirrigating the lands and the vast number of MoUs signed by the governmentsfor SEZs and other useless-for-people projects are displacing the peasantson a huge scale. Workers who fulfill every need of the citizens throughtheir toil are progressively being denied all the hard-won rights at workplace and are forced to work 12 to 18 hours a day like in 18th centuryEurope. Strikes are banned, demonstrations are fired upon, protests arecrushed and agitators are jailed. Retrenchments, forceful retirements,closures of factories, evictions of slums, unemployment, backwardness,uneven development, price rises, deaths due to malnutrition or malaria,inflation, illiteracy, female foeticide, lack of housing or safe drinking waterfacilities, utter paucity of medical care in the villages…the list of the ‘gifts’bestowed by the stinking Parliament to the Indian people can go on. It isobvious that no viable solution of the fundamental problems of the peoplecan be sought through this Parliament. Progress does not mean anythingwithout ‘Land to the tiller’ in India. And the pigs fattening on the sweat andblood of the workers and peasants of the country have the audacity todeclare that their pigsty of a Parliament represents Progress, Freedom andSelf-respect!

What Peace can we expect to have with the unprecedented swellingof armed forces and whopping increases in defence budgets all of whichare meant for targeting the poor people of our country? The Indian Armyis marching wreaking havoc in its footsteps in the North-East, Kashmirand now in the heartland of India fighting the nationalities, Dalits andAdivasis who are perceived as the ‘biggest enemies’ by the rotten heartlesssystem known as the Indian Parliament. If Peace means loot, destruction,rapes, massacres, fake encounters, mayhem, arson, abductions, missingcases, incarcerations, tortures, custodial deaths, false cases, denial andviolation of human rights then we have a horrendous abundance of it. Therevelation that Special Forces of the US are already present in India alsocomes with a ‘Peace’ tag. The blood-sucking man-eaters sitting in theParliament would want us to believe that even the land mines of hundredsof MoUs signed between the governments and the MNCs and planted inthe mineral-rich regions of our country all set and ready to blast the veryexistence of the indigenous communities and their age-old cultures are

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meant for Peace. They would also like us to believe that all the draconianlaws they got as a legacy from their British masters or those they formulatedor amended in the Parliament are also for Peace and if these happened tomaim and wreck the lives of lakhs of people we just have to understandthat as ‘collateral damage’ accompanying Peace by taking a leaf from theBushes and Obamas.

What development can we expect under this Parliamentary systemthat had spent its whole 60 years of existence formulating laws, Acts andamendments to the constitution surrendering to arm-twisting by theimperialists, particularly the US imperialists? Parliament served the interestsof big land lords, CBB and imperialists whether it followed the ‘mixedeconomy’ model or adopted New Economic Policies. It widely opened thedoors for corporate loot of our country and shamelessly placed thesovereignty of our country at the feet of the imperialists. All that this‘development’ gave to the people, particularly the Adivasis is displacementdue to big dams, SEZs, mining projects, nuclear power plants etc andimpoverishment. It is paving the way for the intervention of the USimperialists behind every policy making decision that decided the fate ofour people in economic, political, social and cultural spheres. It is servingthe expansionist interests of the Indian ruling classes by trying to coerceand control the South-East Asian countries through various treaties.

The Indian Parliament completely served the Indian ruling classes inturning the country into a prison house of nationalities and Manmohan didnot forget to compliment the Parliament for achieving this feat. The juststruggles of the nationalities for self-determination including the right tosecession are being crushed by it in the most brutal manner. The IndianParliament has done little to end the horrible plight of Dalits, minorities andwomen of our country in these sixty years. On the contrary, it is playing acrucial role in perpetrating oppression, exploitation and discrimination onthem due to its Brahminic, patriarchal and Hindu communal nature. It isdeliberately trying to divide the people and rule using caste, religion, ethnic,nationality and other differences.

Whether it is the ruling parties/coalitions or the opposition parties sittingin the Parliament – all are working hand in gloves in intensifying the

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repression on the toiling masses. Wasting huge amounts of public exchequer,parliamentarians are making a mockery of democracy and several of themare stashing away billions of dollars through scams and kickbacks fromimperialists. Most of them are billionaires and came to power throwinghuge amounts of money and using muscle power. Several of them havecriminal records including allegations of rape. Manmohan said that thiswas not a perfect democracy but a functioning democracy. So much for its‘functioning’! If the kowtowing to the US imperialists is absolute, then itwould be ‘perfect’ for this spineless PM who wails whenever there iseven namesake opposition to US dictated policies brought forth by him.

CPI (Maoist) has always called for a boycott of the sham Parliamentand the elections for it. It is once again appealing to the Indian people torealize the exploitative, oppressive and repressive nature of this instrumentof the State and reject it outright. As Lenin said almost a century back,“Elections are held to decide once every few years which member ofthe ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament—such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only inparliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the mostdemocratic republics.”

It firmly reiterates one more time that only New Democratic Revolutionwith armed agrarian revolution as its axis following the path of protractedpeople’s war can smash this Parliament and the semi-colonial, semi-feudalIndian State that it is part of and pave the way for a genuine democraticstate of the four revolutionary classes (the proletariat, peasantry, the urbanpetty-bourgeoisie, and national bourgeoisie) based on worker-peasant unity.Only such a state can ensure an end to all kinds of regressive, reactionary,counter-revolutionary characteristics that the present Parliamentary systemblatantly represents.

Abhay,

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June 4, 2012

Condemn the proposal to ban world-renowned writer Jan Myrdal’s visits to India

by the Central Government

Comrade Jan Myrdal belongs to Sweden and is a world-renownedwriter. He visited several countries including People’s China and is writingsince six decades in support of the oppressed masses of the world and onseveral subjects including art, culture, history, environment etc. He visitedIndia at the ripe age of 82 years to attend some democratic program andtoured the revolutionary movement area led by the CPI (Maoist) and wrotea book “Red Star Over India”. He met the top leadership of CPI (Maoist).Again he visited India and went to several cities including the capital Delhifor the inaugural meetings of this book and shared his views with severalwriters, democrats, students and journalists. All his tours and publicationsare happening in public view with everybody’s knowledge. Similarly, hisviews are also clearly known to everybody. He clearly stated that he wasa communist. He has been clearly observing since more than three decadesthe long-term repressive measures on the revolutionary movement by theexploiting ruling classes in India. He toured Andhra Pradesh in the early1980s and wrote a book “India Awaits”. The supports he has been givingrecently to those who mobilize democratic forces all over the world insupport of the Indian democratic revolutionary movement are praiseworthy.He stood on the side of the oppressed masses and is fearlessly stating hisanti-imperialist, democratic and communist views using his pen effectively.It is known world over that US imperialism has imposed indirect ban onhim from entering US by imposing stringent regulations. The Indiangovernment trying to ban his visits to India tracing the footsteps of the neo-fascist US state uncovers its democratic facade completely and exposesits fascist nature and its fear towards revelation of truth. Our partyunequivocally condemns the fascist treatment of the world-renowned writerby the Indian state. It appeals to the intellectuals, democrats, writers, artistes,students, journalists and people from all walks of life to condemn the

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tyrannical stand taken by the Indian government.

Apart from Jan Myrdal, his father Gunnar Myrdal and mother AlvaMyrdal had close relations with India. Both of them were Nobel Laureatesand his mother had served as Sweden’s ambassador in India for about fiveyears between 1955 and 1961. The Indian government felicitated the couplewith the Jawaharlal Nehru International Understanding Award. Their sonMyrdal is frequently giving speeches on several issues in Delhi University.Thus he has been in touch with our country since a long period, knowingabout the issues and difficulties of the oppressed masses here and puttingthem in writing to his full ability. The stand taken by the Indian governmentto stop such a great friend of India from coming is most shameful. TheIndian government that is giving red carpet welcome to MNCs and bigbourgeoisie to indiscriminately loot the most valuable riches of India isbeing intolerant towards those who are opposing them with genuinedemocratic and progressive views. The Indian government is invitinginternational big corporate sharks like Enron, Dow Chemicals, POSCO,Monsanto, Vedanta and Areva and so many others. It is hugely supportingJindal, Mittal, Esssar, Tata and Ambani that are colluding with these andserving them. The Adivasis are fighting a life and death struggle to preservethe most valuable lands, forests, hills, waters, minerals and all kinds ofother natural resources in the vast areas of our country from theirexploitation. The central and state governments have deployed lakhs ofpolice and paramilitary forces in the forests and rivers of blood are flowingdue to its cruelest Green Hunt military offensive of the past three years.Green Hunt offensive has extended to towns and cities and the rulingclasses are harassing, arresting, interrogating, inhumanely torturing andimplicating in false cases, the democrats, revolutionaries, Adivasi well-wishers, people’s writers, artistes and journalists in various manners. Theproposed ban on Jan Myrdal’s visits to India is an express example of thefact that at present Green Hunt offensives have crossed the country’sborders. The Indian government is all set and ready to deploy the IndianArmy at any second apart from the armed forces that were deployed tocrush the revolutionary party that is leading the revolutionary movement.Our party is absolutely hopeful that people’s writers, poets, artistes,democrats and Adivasi well-wishers, in other words all those who side

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with the oppressed masses would stand firmly in support of Comrade JanMyrdal who himself stood firmly with the oppressed masses and therevolutionary movement by exposing the most dangerous trends of theimperialists and fight against this proposed ban.

It is not new for the ruling classes of this country to deal artistes,writers, journalists, film producers and directors in a fascist manner. Thereare several writers and democrats who have been implicated in countlessconspiracy cases and put in jails in this country. Even recently on July 1,2010 a Delhi based journalist named Hem Chandra Pandey was shot deadin a fake encounter by the Andhra Pradesh police. Well-known writerArundhati Roy was sentenced under the Indian Penal Code for supportingthe just struggle of the Kashmir people. The communal goons beat SupremeCourt lawyer Prasant Bhushan. The state that killed Safdar Hashmi in thepast, recently sentenced people’s artiste Jeeten Marandi to death and laterwithdrew it due to popular pressure. Recently the Bengal neo-fascistEmpress, Chief Minister Mamta Banerji got Professor Abhishek Mahapatraarrested with the ire that he drew a cartoon on her. The Jadavpur Universitystudents who questioned this were harassed in the name of Maoists. Thusthe fascist attacks of the ruling classes are increasing and spreading by theday and exposing the cruelest face of Green Hunt. During the British rule,several writers, artistes and revolutionaries were hanged for displayingtheir patriotism. The Indian state is obediently following the steps of thoseimperialists, particularly the US imperialists at present and is intensifyingits suppression measures. Our party is appealing to one and all to condemnthe above, to build a broad and strong solidarity movement that would givemore strength to the pen of Comrade Jan Myrdal and to fight till the Indiangovernment revokes the proposal to ban his visits to India.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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July 10, 2012

Punish the perpetrators of BasagudaMassacre !

Demand the immediate withdrawal of allparamilitary and military forces from Bastar !

On 28-6-2012 in one of the most brutal massacres till date inChhattisgarh’s Bastar region 17 innocent, ordinary, unarmed villagers werekilled by about a thousand blood-thirsty CRPF-CoBRA, state police forcesand Koya Commandos and SPOs. These mercenary forces surrounded agathering of villagers discussing about their harvest and related festivals inSarkinguda on that night and killed several people in an indiscriminate, one-sided cold-blooded firing reminding one of the Jallianwalabagh massacre.Many more villagers were injured. Nine of the dead were juveniles between12 and 16 years of age. There were children, women and elderly personsamong the injured too. The mercenary forces wreaked havoc the wholenight and shot dead some more villagers, looted their homes and resortedto sexual abuses on women. They threatened the villagers who tried tohelp the injured that they too would face the same fate. On the same daytwo more Adivasi peasants were murdered by the same fascist governmentarmed forces in Simlipenta, a nearby village taking the toll to 19.

This massacre was perpetrated by the mercenary forces as part ofthe second phase of Operation Green Hunt (OGH) launched by the Indianruling classes with the full support and aid of the imperialists, particularlythe US imperialists since mid-2009. The blue-print for this well-plannedmassacre was prepared under the auspices of the notorious ruling cliqueof Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram-Jairam Ramesh and their ‘reliablelieutenants’ at the centre and in Chhattisgarh (CG) – secretary for HomeRK Singh, CRPF DG Vijaya Kumar-Raman Singh-Nankiram Kanwar-Longkumer-Anil Navani-Ramnivas et al., who are carrying on this country-wide, multi-pronged, counter-revolutionary massive military offensive onthe Maoist movement areas in the most atrocious manner and wheremassacres of ordinary villagers has come to be one of the most common

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forms of repression in this “War on the People”. The statements by RamanSingh and Nankiram Kanwar about a massive offensive on Maoists to belaunched in June in CG forewarned about what was in store because asany keen observer of these ‘offensives on Maoists” is well aware – it ismost common for ordinary people to become victims in fake encounters,lock-up deaths and massacres in such ‘offensives on Maoists’.

In Dandakaranya (DK) starting from Singaram massacre in January2009 several massacres of Adivasis have been carried on by the state andcentral mercenary forces like in Vechapad, Singanamadugu, Palachelima,Gompad, Gumiapal, Kokavada, Takilod, Ongnar and massive destructionand murders as in Tadimetla-Morpalli-Chintalnar etc., and none of theperpetrators – neither the ‘Generals’ like Sonia, Manmohan, Chidambaram,Raman Singh, Nankiram Kanwar, Vijay Kumar, Longkumer or a Kallurinor the actual police-paramilitary officers and ‘foot soldiers’ who carriedout their orders - of these massacres have been booked or punished tilldate. All the culprits are roaming scot-free in the corridors of power inNew Delhi and Raipur and the off the hook police-paramilitary forces areruthlessly going about their daily routine of mayhem, murder, loot,destruction, arson and rapes in the heart of India.

The Basaguda massacre is all the more bizarre for the utter lies,distortions, twisting of facts and the lower depths the ruling classes couldstoop to justify their unscrupulous deed. Firstly, they for the umpteenthtime repeated the routine story that armed Maoists had attacked them andthat these ‘Maoists’ were killed when they retaliated. They even lied thatthey had seized weapons and explosives from the site. Six injured jawanswere shown as ‘proof’ of the fact that an exchange of fire took place.Herr Chidambaram could not hide his glee at the death of ‘twenty Maoists’and in a moment of truth announced that ‘this was a pre-planned attack’based on information. Later this Indian avatar of Goebbels had to eat hisfoul lexis as every fact pointed out to a cold-blooded massacre and eventhe Congress in CG was forced to form a committee on this after thepeople of the village and neighboring villages came on the roads and statedthe facts for the entire world to hear. In spite of the facts put forward bythe entire people of the village and his own party, Chidambaram convenientlyand shamelessly ‘passed the buck’ to the Raman Singh government sayingthat it is for the state government to decide if an enquiry is needed or not

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and that the central government had nothing to do with this. Sheddingcrocodile tears he had the audacity to say that he regretted if innocentpeople had died even while self contradicting himself that this was a‘transparent and upfront’ attack. Raman Singh not even caring if any saneperson believed him, once again spun the same old bull-shit theory thatMaoists used the ordinary people as human shields and so they died! Likea pet dog more faithful than the master Nankiram Kanwar went to the endof saying that whoever is with the Maoists is also a Maoist implying thatthose villagers could be (or deserved to be) killed as ‘they were withMaoists’.

The stark fact is that there were no Maoists with the villagers and noexchange of fire had taken place. The mercenary forces just surroundedthe villagers from all sides and fired upon them and some were pulled outof their homes and shot dead. Even the so-called injuries of the jawansmust have been a hoax as in some earlier instances or they might havebeen injured in their own cross-fire.

This massacre happened in the backdrop of the deployment of IndianArmy in Bastar in the name of training and the attacks already beinglaunched by the Air Force in the pretext of logistical support and self-defense. It is like a curtain-raiser to the things in store and let nobodymake the mistake of seeing this massacre as a mistake of the governmentforces in the field. As every concerned democratic citizen in this country isincreasingly realizing and as our party has stated several times, this “Waron People” is being perpetuated with the sole aim of the plunder of the richnatural resources of our country and to crush every kind of force thatproves to be a hurdle to it. The people led by the CPI (Maoist) and theparty are perceived by the imperialists and the Indian ruling classes as themost formidable ‘hurdle’ (read biggest threat to the ‘internal security’ ofthe plunderers) to the loot of our country and particularly that of Adivasiareas by the imperialists, comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and the biglandlords of our country which explains this massive military offensive onour movement areas. In the name of crushing Maoists the ruling classesare crushing all kinds of democratic and patriotic forces in this country andwe once again appeal to the people to realize that this is not just an offensiveon the Maoists but a “War on the People”. This is what lies behind massacreslike the one at Basaguda.

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The lives of ordinary citizens and Adivasis of this country hold novalue for the ruling classes is something that has been proven hundreds oftimes in police firings and such massacres. The only new thing is that nowthey are shouting this fact from the roof-tops openly. The convoluted logicthat whoever is with the Maoists deserved to be killed or could be killedshould be thoroughly exposed and condemned as this is nothing but a thinlyveiled threat to the lives of the citizens of this country and particularly theAdivasis in the Maoist movement areas. The full scale preparations fordrone attacks and the future deaths of Adivasis in these attacks would alsobe justified with the same logic of ‘collateral damage’ as in Afghanistan ora Pakistan. Already in Peda Kedwal and Chinna Kedwal villages of Bastarthe government forces conducted an aerial operation in December 2011using more than a dozen helicopters for deployment of forces. In all themassive military operations conducted recently in Dandakaranya, Bihar,Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh-Odisha Border and Andhra-Odisha Border areasinvolving Brigade level of forces, UAVs were used. They had openlydeclared that this is how future attacks would be conducted in Maoistareas.

We appeal to all citizens of this country, democrats, patriots, well-wishers of Adivasis and all civil liberties organizations to condemn theBasaguda brutal massacre in no uncertain terms and demand severepunishment for the perpetrators. Demand the immediate withdrawal of allparamilitary and military forces from Bastar. We particularly appeal to themedia persons to bring the facts about this massacre into light as somepro-government corporate media persons are trying to hide the facts andfalsely portray this massacre as ‘people being crushed between governmentforces and Maoists’. We appeal to one and all to build a vast and unitedagitation all over the country with these demands. We appeal to allrevolutionary and democratic forces in the country and the world to condemnthis massacre, to oppose the deployment of UAVs to crush the Maoistmovement in India and to demand an end to “War on People” – the OperationGreen Hunt.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)

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July 16, 2012

CC, CPI (Maoist) out rightly rejectsall the vicious, baseless and sham allegations

made by Sabyasachi Panda In cahoots withthe ruling classes And expels him

from the party for his betrayal

Sabyasachi Panda, the secretary of our Odisha State OrganizingCommittee released a 16-page letter addressed to the General Secretaryof our party, Comrade Ganapathy to the media on 14-07-2012. In cahootswith the ruling classes he spit venom on the CPI (Maoist) and therevolutionary movement led by it and hurled several baseless, shamallegations and fabricated lies. He released this letter with the evil intentionof liquidating the party and the revolutionary movement, discarded theideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and left the vanguard party of theproletariat. He openly declared that he is completely disassociating himselffrom the People’s War line and revolutionary practice and exposed hismodern revisionist face. In the most abominable, crooked and conspiratorialmanner he betrayed the party and revolution and the great cause of thetoiling masses, particularly of the oppressed masses of Odisha and provedhimself to be a renegade

Sabyasachi Panda worked for some period in the CPI (M) and later inthe CPI (ML)-Liberation. He was influenced by the revolutionarymovement and joined the erstwhile CPI (ML) [PU] in 1998 leaving theright opportunist Liberation party. Due to the merger of parties he continuedto work in the erstwhile CPI (ML) [PW] and latter in CPI (Maoist). Heworked as a member of the AOBSZC between 2003 and 2005, as a memberof Odisha State Organizing Committee from 2005 and as its secretarysince 2008. In his 15 year long practice, though he worked in a revolutionaryparty he failed to transform himself into a genuine proletarian revolutionaryand had been criticized several times by his colleagues, cadres and the CCcomrades for his anti-revolutionary opportunist political views, stands and

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practice. Even in the state level Special Plenum held in December lastyear, when he was criticized he accepted only some of his mistakes thattoo for namesake and escaped answering some of them. This coward ranaway leaving the revolutionary movement instead of sincerely realizingand rectifying his mistakes like a true proletarian revolutionary.

His 16-page letter is full of rotten lies, distortions and twisting of factsand there is not an iota of truth in them whatsoever. They were hurled withthe most awful intention of liquidation and destruction of revolutionarymovement in Odisha and damaging the image of our party that is servingas a ray of hope for the toiling masses and renowned for dedication to agreat cause, the cause of liberation of our country and selfless unparalleledsacrifices. It is an open secret that he hurled them with the evil and appallingintention of fulfilling his selfish political motives that serve the ruling classes.Ruling classes bring to the fore people like Panda to gain legitimacy for thefoul propaganda they carry on about the revolutionary movement and suchphenomena occur frequently in history. The enemy has been hurling suchfabricated lies on several of our leaders like comrades Charu Mazumdarand Kanhai Chatterji, on our party and the revolutionary movement eversince the launch of the revolutionary movement by keeping opportunistslike Panda in the front.

Before going into the allegations made by Panda and the reasons behindthem, we want to clearly state the fact that our party conducts meetings,plenums and conferences in order to correct and improve our practice andto advance with higher tasks. It realizes its mistakes and corrects themthrough criticism – self-criticism, reviews and rectification campaigns takenup specifically. This is a continuous process. Panda’s evil intentions can begauged from the fact that in spite of knowing all these things he placedbefore the people his 16-pages of sham allegations. The actual fact is thathe decided to leave the party as he was not ready to rectify himself in sucha process.

The list of Mr. Panda’s filthy and foul-smelling allegations is long enough,some of the allegations he hurled prominently are as follows :

1. Violence for no reason and killings of innocent persons has becomethe norm for the Maoists; cadres are being ordered to kill innocent andunarmed policemen indiscriminately 2. There is domination of Telugu and

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Koya comrades in the Party. 3. Adivasis are exploited the most by theMaoists, they are made to cook and carry luggage; cadre are not allowedto meet their families even during festivals; Adivasi women are beingexploited sexually by the Maoists 4. Ganapathy wants to establish adictatorship based on terror and fear.

State suppresses people fighting for their rights with all kinds of weaponsavailable with it. And if that fight is for the liberation of the people i.e., forthe political power of the toiling masses, the state suppresses it mostseverely. Its police, paramilitary and military carry on this offensive fromthe front while all its other components participate most cruelly in theoffensive in a planned, coordinated and conspiratorial manner. So it becomesabsolutely necessary for people to resort to armed struggle. Anybody whoknows ABC of Marxism would know about this fundamental and primaryprinciple about revolutionary violence. Nobody would think that Panda didnot know about this party line when he left the right opportunist CPI (ML)-Liberation party, accepted the line of the revolutionary party and joined theparty and when he accepted the line of the Unity Congress. However asPanda wanted to disassociate himself from the party, he is spitting venomthat Maoists resort to violence for no reason and that they are killing innocentpeople. He is trying to show that he is opposing all this so that the Indianstate takes a benevolent attitude towards him. Class enemies likeLaxmananand and Jagbandhu, government armed forces and officers whocarry on the state repression and participate in it, who severely torture thepeople, destroy their lives in all aspects and resort to killings, are suddenlybeing perceived as innocents by Panda. He is displaying more faith thanthe master to kowtow before the ruling classes and is surpassing the enemyfoul propaganda in uttering lies.

Panda is resorting to the age-old cheap ‘divide and rule’ tactic of theBritish colonialists and the Indian ruling classes who are retracing theirsteps by making the allegation that Telugu and Koya comrades aredominating in Odisha. The revolutionary movement led by CPI (Maoist)follows the path of Protracted People’s War and builds the revolutionarymovement to finally seize political power all over the country by spreadingfrom smaller areas to vaster areas, isolated areas to all over the country,and by developing from a small force to a mighty force. From the beginning

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with a strategic outlook it deploys its forces in various areas accordinglyand carries on the work. It develops local mass base, develops party andarmy and establishes area-wise political power. By following this line, itbrings a change in the strength of forces, finally surrounds the cities andcaptures political power all over the country. Keeping this in view, everymember of our party must be prepared to go to any part of the country towork. Moreover, as internationalists communists must be prepared to goany country or area and work shoulder to shoulder with the people therefor their liberation. The entire history of Indian revolution indicates thatrevolutionary movement spread to various parts of the country due to thedetermined and revolutionary efforts of comrades who left their areas andstates and went to other areas and states to work. Such comrades learntthe languages, respected the cultures of the people there and integratedthemselves with them. The movements built in new areas are proof of thiscollective effort of comrades. Due to his narrow-minded regionalism notjust today, but Panda could never accept the fact that comrades from otherstates are coming and working in Odisha. Instead of appreciating theselflessness of those comrades he continuously and conspiratorially triedto create a divide between them and the Odiya comrades by resorting tofactionist methods. Panda displayed narrow-minded regional chauvinismtowards comrades from other states who came to work in Odisha accordingto the needs of the movement and behaved in a domineering, undemocraticand sectarian manner with them. The fact is Odiya people and the Odiyacomrades have happily welcomed and accepted the fact that comradesfrom Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are coming to work forthem and with them. We hope that those handful of cadres who are withPanda would rethink about the People’s War path, see through the lie andexpose him by realizing his conspiracies.

Nothing could be more deceiving than Panda shedding crocodile tearslike the ruling class butchers and hurling accusations about the ‘exploitationof Adivasis’ by the Maoists even while discarding the aim of liberating theAdivasis as part of people’s revolutionary movement. For Panda who neverparticipated in collective works while he was in the party, the striving ofAdivasi comrades for revolution by bringing out their energy to the fullvoluntarily and with the highest level of revolutionary consciousness islooking like ‘exploitation by Maoists’ after he wore the glasses of the ruling

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classes. And, who are Maoists? Who are Adivasis? Are not all the Adivasicomrades inside the party Maoists? We are not at all surprised that theindividual labor necessary in the daily life of a revolutionary movement, thecollective labor necessary in military, technical, production-development,welfare and other fields and the various kinds of labor that people do in thecourse of people’s movements looks like ‘exploitation by Maoists’ to thisbrand new opportunist who left the revolution and became an apologist forthe ruling classes. In a proletarian party everybody does one’s own workas part of daily life. Everybody participates in collective works and carriesluggage too. Patients, physically weak persons and those with specialresponsibilities are extended help by other comrades. A people’s armyitself means that apart from participating in war it does its works likecooking and carrying luggage that are an integral part of it on its own.Everybody must inevitably do all these works as part of People’s War withno discrimination based on nationality, gender, region etc. This has happenedin all the guerilla zones in our country and is still continuing. In fact, theculture in a Maoist party is a democratic, socialist culture that does notdiscriminate between man and woman, literate and illiterate and cadresand leaders. This is one of the major factors in attracting a huge number ofAdivasis towards our party. It is this kind of culture that our party strives tospread among millions of people.

The allegation that Maoists are raping and sexually harassing womenin the party/Adivasi women has been hurled repeatedly by the state. Inwhat other manner can we expect the newly turned renegade to attack theMaoists than in the heinous manner of the ruling classes? The answergiven by our party several times in the past is the answer to this allegationnow too. But the best answer to this allegation is being given by the hundredsof women comrades who are joining the party, the thousands-lakhs ofmembers in revolutionary women’s organizations along with the women inour movement areas and the hundreds of women martyrs who had laiddown their lives for the liberation of the toiling people in the past 45 yearssince Naxalbari.

Since communist party was formed in India in 1925 till now, in themore than 90 years of Indian communist movement’s history, it is not anexaggeration to say that never before had the communist party integrated

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itself with the people, their culture and all the aspects relating to people’slives as in the past 25 years. Not only had our party integrated but it is alsoholding aloft all the progressive elements in the political and cultural livesof the people, imbibing them, developing them and revolutionizing them.The revolutionary masses would anyway not believe the allegation by Pandawho worked as a state secretary that party is not allowing activists to gohome even for festivals. This is just another instance of an opportunisticattack by him to make those who are not familiar with the realities of therevolutionary movement to believe that the revolutionary party is so horribleas to not send activists home even for festivals.

The allegation that Ganapathy wants to establish a dictatorship basedon terror and fear is so ridiculous that it in fact does not even deserve anexplanation. CPI (Maoist) is not at all any bourgeois party. Its immediateaim is to overthrow the present semi-colonial, semi-feudal system in ourcountry and establish new democratic revolutionary rule, i.e., the democraticdictatorship of four classes – workers, peasants, petty-bourgeoisie andnational bourgeoisie under the leadership of the proletariat and based onworker-peasant unity. Its ultimate goal is the establishment of socialismand communism. Panda is fully aware of this. Panda is making falseallegation on comrade Ganapathy and our party with the selfish motive ofgaining a place through compromise in the dictatorship of the compradorbureaucratic bourgeoisie and the land lords that are in collusion with theimperialists and carrying on an unprecedented despotic rule wearing themask of parliamentary democracy.

In reality, it was Panda who was trying to establish his dictatorshipinside Odisha. After seeing the reviews and decisions made in the SpecialPlenum he realized that the party cadres are no longer prepared to accepthis domination. They criticized his bureaucratic behavior and hisundemocratic and sectarian attitude towards comrades from other states.Realizing that he can no longer carry on his bureaucratic methods, thisopportunist decided to quit the party and doubled his preparations for thesame since then.

In fact, Panda stopped contacting the Odisha state in-charge CCcomrade since the completion of the state level Special Plenum. Sincethen, for nearly half a year he went on spitting venom on the party in

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interviews and statements. This created political and organizational problemsin the party and caused severe damage to the Odisha movement as he wastaking stands that were against the decisions of the Special Plenum, party’spolitical line and policies. He resorted to downright opportunistic methodsduring the arrest of Italian tourists under his leadership. He declared aone-sided seize-fire for the entire state of Odisha. But in fact, it was notcorrect on his part to declare so when two different state border partycommittees are working in considerable parts of Odisha and its bordersand he had no right to dictate terms to the other two party committees. Henot only openly criticized AOB comrades for arresting a MLA and killing aSI after he had declared his one-sided seize fire but even went to theextent of saying that it had become a fashion for AOB comrades to kill.

Keeping aside the reviews made by the entire party under OdishaSOC, he declared that the annihilations of class enemies Laxmananda andJagbandhu were not correct. He began a malicious campaign by givingstatements in the name of comrade Nikhil, trying to create divide betweencomrades hailing from various communities and states. It is not a coincidencethat when stories were being published continuously in the media aboutPanda leaving the party and forming a new group, Panda who alwaysstays in touch with the media did not release any explanation. It is clear asthe day that since the completion of the Special Plenum, Panda had beenplanning to desert the party and resorted to all these opportunistic methodsand liquidationist activities. Finally he quit the party as a culmination of hisdegeneration.

Panda took a right opportunist stand regarding some political issuesthat came to the fore in the course of the Odisha movement and finallydegraded into a revisionist who rejects the line of Protracted People’sWar. His sectarian, bureaucratic, ultra-democratic, factionist attitudes,careerism, craving for name and fame and organizational indiscipline causedsevere damage to the Odisha party and the movement. He sought an easylife and was not hard-working. This opportunist utilized the situation whereOdisha party and the State Organizing Committee that were in the courseof consolidating faced severe losses and the enemy offensive was seriouslyconcentrated on the CC, to carry on his disruptionist activities. The root forall this lies in his spilling over individualism which keeps the individual at

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the centre. Apart from this, there has been a considerable change in thecounter-revolutionary war carried on by the Indian ruling classes with thefull support of the imperialists, particularly US imperialists since mid-2009in the name of Operation Green Hunt. Panda’s degeneration and betrayalmust be seen in the context of the country-wide, multi-pronged massivemilitary offensive that is being carried out on our movement since then.Party suffered serious losses all over the country in this offensive. EvenOdisha state where class struggle is still weak had to bear the brunt and itsuffered serious losses from end-2010. The offensive is bound to intensifyin this state too. The reason for the intensification of this massive offensiveis the MNC and our country’s comprador corporate interests that want tocrush every organization and the people that prove a hurdle to their plunderof natural resources and raw materials in backward countries like India.As the financial crisis that is engulfing the world economy intensifies, theoffensive on the revolutionary party, its leadership, movement and theoppressed and toiling masses would also be intensified in proportion bythem in order to come out of it. In such a backdrop, to lead the revolutionarymovement is like walking a sword’s edge for any leader of the revolutionaryparty. Any true party leader would strive to utilize the excellent revolutionarymaterial conditions in the country and the world to politically prepare thepeople, to develop the People’s War and turn the tide in favor of therevolution. It requires commitment towards revolutionary ideology,tremendous grit, courageous decision-making, mobilizing the party, people’sarmy and the people in a unified way, and sacrificing nature to fulfill thistask. It requires a steely will to transform oneself and the party accordingto the needs and tasks of the revolution. Those who do not display thesequalities either fail to give leadership to the revolution or lose their capacityto lead. Some among them run away like cowards from the battlefield orjoin the enemy ranks. These opportunists and renegades take the side ofthe ruling classes and resort to all kinds of allegations to cover up the fact.There have been such renegades not only in our party history but also inthe revolutions of various countries in the past and Panda would not be thelast one.

Keeping all these things in view, our Central Committee began puttingspecial efforts to rectify him by placing all allegations on Panda in front ofhim in a political manner and giving him a chance to rectify. But since the

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completion of the state level Special Plenum, he cut his contacts with theCC in-charge comrade and went on attacking our party, movement andthe leadership openly and in a series. As a culmination of all this, he releasedthis letter to the media and proved himself to be a renegade. So our CC isexpelling Sabyasachi Panda from the party and declaring the fact to ourparty comrades in Odisha, the entire revolutionary masses and therevolutionary camp in our country.

We are appealing to the Odisha comrades, mass organizations of Odishaand the revolutionary-democratic masses to condemn Panda’s enemy-likeopportunistic stand towards our party, movement and leadership and thepro-ruling class, anti-people stands taken by him and to completely rejecthim and his rotten modern revisionist politics and his allegations. Historyhas proven several times that renegades such as Panda who boast aboutthemselves as the heroes of revolution and who are focused as such by theruling classes would be relegated to the dustbin and that the truerevolutionary party, its leaders and the revolutionary masses led by it wouldadvance en-route for victory in the midst of great storms and whirlwindswith undaunted courage and bravery. It is people who are makers of historyand not sham revolutionaries like Panda. Our party is fully confident thatthe revolutionary masses of Odisha would certainly reject traitors like Pandawho try to be in the limelight in the name of Odisha and immerse themselvesin the service of the ruling classes to their heart’s content and that theOdisha comrades and the vast toiling masses would follow the revolutionarypath under the leadership of the CPI (Maoist).

Anand

PBM, Central Regional Bureau SecretaryFor Central Committee

CPI (Maoist)

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July 29, 2012

Red Salutes toVeteran of Srikakulam Struggle &

Epitome of Staunch Communist CommitmentComrade Goru Madhava Rao

The revolutionary movement in our country has lost another greatfighter. The communist fighter Comrade Goru Madhava Rao who arosefrom the flames of Srikakulam armed struggle died on July 18, 2012 in hisnative village Jinkibhadra due to old age. He stood steadfast with theoppressed masses and greatly served the revolutionary movement for nearlyfive decades since he joined the ‘Tegimpu Sangham’ (revolutionary peasantorganization) as a youth and till he breathed his last. He stood as a hugepillar of support for the movement and his martyrdom left a void for therevolutionary movement.

Comrade Madhava Rao was born in a poor family in Jinkibhadra village(Sompeta Mandal, Srikakulam district). As the communist movement wasstrong in that area, he imbibed revolutionary ideas since his childhood. Theimpact of the movement led by popular revolutionary leader ComradeTamada Ganapathy and other comrades in that area was strong on him. Inthose days ‘Tegimpu Sanghams’ were formed in each village. The youngMadhava Rao joined the Sangham of his village and became its activist.Soon he developed into a communist party member.

Madhava Rao got married while working in the movement andintroduced revolutionary politics to his life partner Comrade Muthyalu too.He paid attention in teaching communist politics to her as he believed themwith all his heart. They had two girl children.

The Naxalbari armed peasant rebellion led by Comrade CharuMazumdar showed the path for the revolutionaries in our country and inSrikakulam too genuine revolutionaries rejected the modern revisionism ofCPM and chose the path of armed struggle. When the question whether tostart armed struggle in Srikakulam or not arose, the right opportunists tried

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to postpone the armed struggle by resorting to several excuses. Thecommunist revolutionaries argued that armed struggle must be launchedimmediately. Comrade Madhava Rao stood on the side arguing for thelaunch of armed struggle and displayed clear understanding regardingrevolutionary line from the beginning. Thus the effort put by ComradeMadhava Rao and all the Srikakulam revolutionaries in those days inrejecting modern revisionism and in breaking its back and later in defeatingright opportunist politics and holding aloft the line of armed struggle wasvery crucial in establishing correct revolutionary line in our country. Thiswould serve as guidance for practice for generations of revolutionaries tocome.

As soon as armed struggle was launched in the district, ComradeMadhava Rao responded to party’s call and joined it as a professionalrevolutionary. Comrade Muthyalu welcomed his decision. He joined theguerilla squad led by the legendary woman commander Comrade PachadiNirmala. He stood in the forefront in several revolutionary activitiesconducted by that squad. With the information provided by an informer, themercenary police and paramilitary forces surrounded their squad early inthe morning on December 22, 1969 and cruelly shot dead comrades Nirmala,Ankamma, Saraswathi, Tamada China Babu, Subbarao Panigrahi andRamesh Chandra Sahu after torturing them inhumanly. Comrade MadhavaRao who was in the squad when this happened could escape from theenemy dragnet. Later he worked along with comrades Dr. Chaganti BhaskarRao and Devineni Mallikarjuna Rao in Uddanam area. Comrade MadhavaRao was arrested in 1971, was given life sentence based on false evidencesand put in Visakhapatnam jail. He again began working as a professionalrevolutionary since his release from jail in 1979. Comrade Muthyalu alsoworked as a PR and till 1990 both of them fulfilled several technical needsof the party.

Madhava Rao participated as a delegate in Andhra Pradesh State 12th

Conference held in 1980 September and the AP State 13th Conferenceheld in 1987 of the erstwhile CPI (ML) [People’s War]. He conductedproceedings as the President in the 12th Conference and unfurled the PartyFlag in the 13th Conference.

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and centers of revolutionary publications and sales like ‘Kranti Publications’and ‘Peace Book Center’ were targeted by the state, Comrade MadhavaRao served as one of the centers for publication of revolutionary literaturein AP. He published banned literature that the ruling classes wanted to stopfrom reaching the people and earned the ire of the state. He publishedseveral books belonging to erstwhile CPI (ML) [PW] and later CPI (Maoist)with his address and played a great role in propagating revolutionaryliterature. Though the state threatened him with arrest if he published naxaliteliterature, he did not dither and went on publishing revolutionary literatureand continuously transmitted revolutionary ideas to the people. Thisrevolutionary commitment of Comrade Madhava Rao is worth emulating.He participated in various people’s struggles, in movements of students,youth and women, in united front activities of the people and put efforts fortheir advancement as much as he can.

Comrade Madhava Rao had immense confidence in the party line.Though the Srikakulam armed struggle suffered a setback, though PullaReddy, Nagi Reddy groups tried to liquidate the revolutionary line withright opportunism, though Pyla Vasudeva Rao who was elected the party’sState Secretary after the martyrdom of Comrade Adibhatla Kailasam joinedhands with Satyanarayana Singh and turned into a liquidationist and thoughliquidationists like Choudary Tejeswara Rao tried to divide the party,Comrade Madhava Rao did not leave the party or the party line. ComradeMadhava Rao was one of those few revolutionaries who held aloft therevolutionary line when the Srikakulam movement suffered several lossesand damage and when several revolutionaries were leaving the revolutionand running away. He stood staunchly with the revolutionary side duringhis incarceration in jail too. He always strongly criticized the methods ofright opportunists that tried to cause damages to the revolutionary line. Hewas very much inspired with the deluge of revolutionary peasant movementthat began from the end of 1970s in AP. He imparted the experiences ofSrikakulam armed struggle to the delegates of the new generation ofrevolutionaries who attended the 12th State Conference and inspired thema lot.

When Satyamurthi and Kondapalli Seetharamaiah created internal crisisin the party in 1985 and 1991 respectively, Comrade Madhava Rao stood

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firmly with the revolutionary movement. Though the AP movement suffereda setback in 2006-2007, he held aloft the party flag in AP and continued hisrevolutionary practice. He imparted party’s message to the revolutionaryranks and people inside the state and by traveling to several areas in thecountry and strove hard to further increase confidence in them towardsthe revolutionary movement.

As Comrade Madhava Rao and his life partner Comrade Muthyaluworked in the movement they had no private property whatsoever. Whenhe went underground during the Srikakulam movement, she bravelywithstood several difficulties with their young daughters. Even in thosedifficult days, she looked after the revolutionary activists who came to herhome like a mother with lot of affection. She was a party member too. Thecouple rejected feudal values while raising their girl children. ComradeMuthyalu breathed her last on June 30, 1993. Comrade Madhava Rao leda very simple life. He was born in an utterly poor family and imbibedcommunist ideals. That was why his simplicity was reflected in the mannerhe maintained the several dens according to the needs of the movement.There was never any pretense or show put-up in his manner or words.Though he was one of the most senior comrades in the revolutionarymovement and fulfilled several responsibilities according to the needs ofthe movement as assigned by the party, he never gave a thought as to whathis level in the party was. Such was his unselfish nature. The den hemaintained in Kolkata served as a reliable center for the erstwhile MCCparty during merger talks between revolutionaries in India as he was aveteran of Srikakulam movement and had enormous faith in the party line.The erstwhile MCC stream of comrades had enormous confidence andrespect on him.

The lessons imparted by the Naxalbari and Srikakulam movementsare very valuable for the present history. Similarly, the practice of Naxalbarigeneration of revolutionaries like that of Comrade Madhava Rao, theiruncompromising struggle with modern revisionism, left and rightopportunisms, their staunch commitment towards the liberation of theoppressed masses and unflinching confidence on the line of the revolutionaryparty are also most valuable to the next generations and worth emulating inpractice. It is not only the younger generation of revolutionaries but also

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every democrat and intellectual who wishes to liberate our country fromfeudal, comprador bureaucratic bourgeois and imperialist exploitation andoppression that must learn from the life and practice of Comrade MadhavaRao, a veteran of Indian revolutionary movement. In the backdrop wheresome persons are leaving the revolutionary path showing various reasonsand excuses as they are not able to withstand the ups and downs, difficultiesand travails and enemy repression in the course of revolutionary movement,the ideal of comrades like Madhava Rao who continued in the revolutionarymovement till the end through decades of practice must be held aloft,followed and propagated widely.

With the martyrdom of Comrade Goru Madhava Rao, the party andthe revolutionary masses have lost a great revolutionary fighter who heldaloft the party line for more than five decades. CPI (Maoist) CentralCommittee pays revolutionary homage to him with bowed heads on behalfof the entire revolutionary ranks. It pledges to carry forward his aspirationstill they are fulfilled.

Abhay,

Spokesperson, CC, CPI (Maoist)