HarshThakor
23rd May 2013, 19:13
C.P.I. (Maoist)-an assement
Today,the C.P.I(Maoist) is carrying out a major movement In the areas of Jharkhand, Bihar and Dandkaraya. Without doubt they have committed serious errors and have serious theoretical flaws, but any Maoist critique must applaud their effort.To have created such bastions of revolutionary struggle in Andhra Pradesh,Jharkhand,Bihar and Dandkaranya is an achievement of historical proportions. In Lalgarh they made great efforts to enhance the movement.Base areas have yet to be created but with great tenacity they have defended their guerilla zones. The fact that they have heroically resisted the enemy forces f or a period of 30 years and form a Central Peoples Guerilla army to become the strongest Maoist party in the World when no Socialist Country in the World exists and when the forces of globalization are acting as tentacles is one of the greatest achievements in the annals of the world Communist Movement.
. The merger of the Maoist Communist Centre of India with the Peoples War group was s a remarkable event as Earlier the erstwhile C.P.I.M.L (Peoples War) and Erstwhile C.P.I. (M.L) Party Unity (Before and after they united in 1998) insisted that the 1969 Charu Mazumdar C P.I.M.L. was the re-organised party and not just a revolutionary organization. Now both the Charu Mazumdar C.P.I. (M.L) and the Maoist Communist Centre are recognized as the 2 original revolutionary parties... The most outstanding work of the Maoists has been in Chhattisgarh where they have been able to create alternative democratic Organs..In Lalgarh they merged with the masses like fish in water literally swimming with the tide. Above all they are now working with an All-India perspective spreading all over like wildfire.
History
Earlier Some historic meetings and rallies took place of mass fronts led by such forces like the rally of the 1992 and 1994 rallies of the All-India Peoples Resistance Forum ,the 2000 conference of the A.I.P.R.F., The All-India Revolutionary Student Federation conferences In 1985,1989,1993 ad 1997,as well as the 1985 and 1990 conferences of the Andhra Pradesh Rytu Coolie Sanghams.(Peasnts organization)Almost 4 lakh peasants assembled for the Rytu Coolie Sangham conferences and on the day it looked like a red flame burning all over the place.The ‘Go to-Village campaigns of the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union will also have a permanent place in history where students integrated with the revolutionary peasant struggles for the first time..The author will never forget the 1994 A.I.P.R.F.rally in Calcutta where the gathering of the road masses looked like a tornado appearing and the 1997 All-India Seminar in Mumbai on the sham of 50 years of independence. I t dealt with all aspects from Democratic Rights to anti Imperialist, to revolutionary Peasant Struggles, Working Class Struggles and Nationality Struggles. What was also unforgettable was their All-India campaign against state repression in Andhra,Bihar and Dandkaranya in 1999,mainly in Bihar and Punjab.They covered area after area like a river flowing and literally lighting a torch against state repression. In earlier phase in Andhra Pradesh(erstwhile Peoples War group) it brilliantly braved the State forces inspite of intensive repression in Andhra Pradesh in 1985 and 1991.A powerful Students and peasants Movement was built and the mass organizations heroically survived working underground in conditions of repression.A series of conferences were staged by fronts combating severe repression. The erstwhile Party Unity group built revolutionary mass movements in a huge range of spheres from Democratic Rights,to land distribution, minimum wages,struggle for fishing rights , International issues, protests against Communalism. Etc.which spread from in Jehanabad and Palamau to other areas like Bhagalpur Gaya,etc....Inspite ofa ban on the their peasant organization, Mazdur Kisan Sangram Samiti, the organization resurrected itself to work under the banner of the Mazdur Kisan Sangrami Parishad.
The Maoist Communist centre survived for 35 years against the onslaught of the Indian State with phenomenal tenacity in Bihar and Jharkhand conducting a series of military actions comparable to the intensity of that of the Chinese Communist Party and foming revolutionary peasant committees..It did remarkable work in building the Nari Mukti Sangh-a classical Revolutionary women’s Front It’s final merger into the C.P.I(Maoist) is a historical achievement.
At the conclusion of the decade of the 1990’s 3 important leaders of the People’s war Group were slain in a police encounter. A massive anti-repression programme took place in Andhra Pradesh in December 1999.Such Comrades were truly the best sons of the land heroically laying down their lives for liberation.Various communist Revolutionary Groups belonging to various groups participated...The People`s War Group launched retaliatory Actions to give a severe blow to the Indian State.After the armed Actions the People`s War Group made a self-critical assesment stating"Even when there were ample opportunities to educate and involve the People,our cadres only resorted to protest actions.These are incorrect actions.Because of non-participation of people in such actions,the outcome of such actions, is contrary to the impact we wanted"Thus this group was not aware that such armed actions of Party Guerilla Squads,by themselves cannot succeed in their basis and ultimate objective of defeating the reactionary State.Infact the people have to own such actions and voluntarily participate in them with revolutionary political Consciousness and confidence in their own organised strength.Even in the post encounter Joint Protests the leading rank of the People`s War Group remained pre-occupiedwith either the representative team protests or armed retaliatory actions.-thus their organized attempts for militant mass attempts for militant mass political mobilisations remained Sparse. True the C.P.I.Maoist has mass support in major areas in Bihar, Jharkhand and Dandakaranya , has guerilla zone s in some respects similar to those of the Chinese Revolutionary period during their armed struggle and have carried out magnificient retaliatory actions in self defence against enemies-t(particularly in Chattisgarh by the P.G.A.) and been the only revolutionary Organization to have ever seriously attempted protracted Peoples Warfare in recent times. However their pockets of revolutionary resistance are dictated by their Armed squads. Even if they partially integrate with mass movements often are used to give shelter to mass organizations and replace peoples independent actions. They are losing more and more cadre day by day and are unable to consistently replace the fighting forces lost..In West Bengal,Jharkhand and Chattisharh retaliatory actions took place in retaliation of torture and killing of mass sympathizers and cadres, like the blowing up of a police jeep or landmining and killing innocent people .In revolutionary struggle ethics is an important question and revolutionary violence does not justify the killing of innocent people. The C.P.I.(Maoist)have eliminated may people suspected of being police informers who could have been innocent on grounds of their safety.In the authors view this is violation of revolutionary ethics.
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Analysis of line of C.P.I.(Maoist) a.Defective functioning of mass organizations and agrarian revolutionary struggle
I admire the efforts of the PW.G,MCC, and Party Unity groups to make self criticism and initiate agrarian revolutionary movements and the mass political movements described above, particularly to build movements from the underground as well as work openly. However there were sharp tendencies to use such front’s as direct tools of party propaganda and Marxism-Leninism Mao ZeDong thought was directly propogated through these forums. Mass struggles were built but a sufficient broad base was not created as often party politics was propagated from the platform of the student mass organization.(A.P.R.S.U.) The Student and youth movement of the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union was directly linked to the agrarian revolution and many student cadres directly participated in the armed movements and squads. I admire the efforts and sacrifices of the “Go to Village Campaigns’ but it was an error to directly link the student movement to the Agrarian or New Democratic Revolution. The required political consciousness was not built up in the student movement to link it with the agrarian revolutionary movement. In this similar period Democratic Students Organisation was formed in 1978 to rectify the wrong trends in the student Movement in Andhra Pradesh and give an independent identity to the student organization and movement. Initially it built a mass organization implementing the correct trend but later it veered towards the rightist trends. In the 1970’s the Navadoya Yuva Sangham played a similar role in defending the revolutionary democratic nature of the mass organization. It played an important role in opposing the Kappu –Kammu riots in Andhra Pradesh in late 1989.True a long period was laid out where armed struggle was suspended from 1977 to 1979 by the Andhra Pradesh State Committee ,but vanguardist trends prevailed. Mass organizations like Radical Youth League and Radical Students Union initiated direct party propaganda and armed squads though not carrying out guerilla actions were functioned in areas where peoples resistance movements were as not still built. The struggle of the Punjab Students Union in the 1970’s is a textbook for the study of mass line in student and youth movement This trend was also prominent in forums like the Revolutionary writers Association, the All-India League for Revolutionary culture etc where their manifesto’s declared their upholding of Marxism-Leninism –Mao Tse Tung Thought as a necessary perquisite. In Andhra Pradesh,The Organisation for Protection of democratic Rights (O.P.D.R.)formed in 1975 fought for a democratic rights movement that asserted the right to struggle as a fundamental right and against the democratic rights platform being used to propogate political ideology ,which was prominent in the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee.(This issue divided the democratic rights movement in the 1970’s)It is significant that this tendency is still prevalent in the civil liberties movement in Andhra Pradesh (A.P.C.L.C is virtually a front organization of the C.P.I.Maoist),however commendable the work of the A.P.C.L.C in the last 3 decades.
In Maharashtra ,too these tendencies prevailed. Although the Vidhyarti Praghati Sanghatana built the biggest student movement it was unable to give the mass organization the correct political identity and party politics was propogated from this forum.(directly linking student movement to villages etc)In the 1980s although small, a significant formation was that of the Vidhyart Yuva Jagruti SAnghatana ,that rejected the imposing of Marxist Leninist policies and defended the need of giving a student organization an independent democratic identity. It seriously took up issues like facilities and admissions for students. [/B]
[B]In Bihar Maoist historians have to admire the tenacity and skill of the cadres and leaders to resurrect the peasant organizations and revive the agrarian revolutionary movement.(particularly by the C.P.I.(M.L.) Party Unity.)However in the end the intensity of the repression on the mass organizations grew as the actions of armed squads by revolutionary groups increased. Fronts like Democratic Students Union and Bharat Naujavan Sabha,or earlier Revolutionary Students league could not build mass movements. The peasant organizations were often deployed to create a mass base for the armed squads which complemented the struggles of peasant resistance. In the author’s opinion the armed actions of the armed squads in mass peasant movements have given a setback to the agrarian revolutionary movement and building of peasant associations and substituted the people’s resistance. Infact the red defence corpses often played a defective role like the 1987 M.C.C , Dalechak-Baghura retaliatory action .or the resistance struggles of the MK.S.S (particularly in Jehanabad-Plamau region)or later M.K.M.M. Today with armed struggle of the Peoples Liberation Guerilla Army at a most intense level mass student, youth and peasant associations are unable to build mass movements ,even from underground. To a certain extent peasant councils of the Krantikari Kisan Commitees function perform, but not peasant associations like the Mazdoor Kisan Sangrami Parishad earlier.In Dandkaranya ,great rectifications have been made but still the mass fronts are greatly used to create a mass base for the Peoples Liberation Guerill Army.In Dandkaranya we must applaud the embryonic democratic forms of power they have introduced.. The struggle of the Peasants and Workers Union (DAKAMS),women’s organization(KAMS)and Gram Rajya committee is remarkable .However they are not able to sufficiently build mass movements or Sufficient development of people’s political power.. It is noticeable that in the last decade there has been a decline in the functioning and building of mass movements and organizations in the areas of work of the C.P.I. (Maoist) from that of the erstwhile C.P.I.(M.L.) Peoples War ,C.P.I.(M.L.) Party Unity or M.C.C.
b.Military line
In practice the C.P.I.(Maoist ) today is the most correct and genuine revolutionary force in the practical light in India and the world ,leading the biggest armed revolutionary movement in the World. I would sympathize with the C.P.I.(Maoist),who receive no support from any Socialist Country as the C.P.C.had in the 1930’s and 1940’s and are facing the onslaught of Imperialism with globalization much more than the Chinese C.C.P.The Indian revolutionary situation is far more complex with the factor of caste and so many varying cultures and nationalities. Today ,we have to salute the Peoples Liberation Guerilla Army formed in 2000 ,which is the strongest of it’s kind in the world and resembles the red army of the C.C.P. of the 1930’s and 40’s,in many ways.The 2004 formation of C.P.I.(Maoist) and The 2007 C.P.I.(Maoist)conference were historic occasions in the Communist Movement. They have proved the correctness of launching armed resistance for 3 decades without which the mass movement would never properly develop. However it has to recognize that the subjective conditions do not still exist for launching of armed struggle. Today in their guerilla Zones they are launching mobile warfare before the building of a peoples armed peasant revolutionary resistance. A correct military line has not been developed by which the armed squads intervene in the people’s movements. Remember the setback in Andhra Pradesh in 2000 after 2 decades of armed struggle. The movement in India is still the stage of building people’s revolutionary resistance and self-defence in the agrarian revolutionary stage . Infact the actual practice of the C.P.I.(Maoist) has not been able to live upto the goals they declared in 1980 and the self rectification of the Charu Mazumdar era.
The C.P.I.(Maoist party )made a major contribution in sharpening the teeth of the Jungalmahamal movement, complementing mass struggles with their armed movements. They made great sacrifices but not enough independence was given to the P.C.A.P.A. or enough space made to extend the mass democratic movement of the Adivasis.The P.C.A.P.A. virtually became a front for the Maoist armed squads. In Orissa too, although the Chasia Mulia Adivasi Sangh is sympathetic to the Maoist movement, the mass leaders or cadres have differences and a correct mass-organsiational structure has not been created. I agree that the C.P.I.(Maoist)has made a historic contribution and resisted valiantly in defending the guerilla Zone in Dandkaranya.Great rectifications of previous errors have been made in Dandkaranya and it is the highest form of armed resistance since the Naxalbari period . Prof.Amit Bhattacharya compared it’s level of development to the Chinese communist party in the 1930’s.However still it has not gone beyond the stages of Naxalbari or Telengan a in building armed peasant. Dandkaranya is not a liberated base area, as the Chinese Communist Party formed n the 1930’s or 1940’s. It is similar to the A.I.C.C.R. declaring Srikakulam as a base area in 1967. Historically one has to remember how initially from the 1980’s armed squads migrated from Andhra Pradesh to directly establish liberated areas in Dandkaranya.
A remarkable factor has been the massive protests within the jails as in 1995 in Andhra Pradesh and later in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.The most remarkable in have been the jail committees of Maoist political prisoners in West Bengal struggling for rights in central jails such as Presidency, Alipur and Dumdum. It is creditable that the P.L.G.A of the C.P.I.(Maoist) has carried out actions in self defence and retaliated killings of Comrades as well as held certain mass protest rallies.. However they have hardly involved the broad masses in the protests against killings of their leaders.
The author respects some of the contributions of writers like Gautam Navlakha and Bernard d’mellow whose writings do justice to the efforts of the C.P.I, (Maoist),particularly Navlakha in his recognition of the need for armed resistance and their complementary role to peoples movements.Prof.Amit Bhattacharya supports the movement in the same light and compares Dandkaranya to the Chinese experience. He also defends the Maoist’s work in Jungalmahal and gives it the credit for the building of mass democratic struggles.Bernard’d’mellow elaborates on the inability to convert guerilla zones into base areas as well as the combining of mass struggles with armed struggle. I am critical of writers like Sumanta Banerjee and the C.P.I.(M.L.) led K.N.Ramchandran who term the Maoist armed squads as ‘roving bands’ and fail to respect the resistance of the Maoist party. I admire the contributions of Comrades like Kishenji who literally shed their blood and strived to combine mass struggles with the armed struggle.
Today,the C.P.I(Maoist) is carrying out a major movement In the areas of Jharkhand, Bihar and Dandkaraya. Without doubt they have committed serious errors and have serious theoretical flaws, but any Maoist critique must applaud their effort.To have created such bastions of revolutionary struggle in Andhra Pradesh,Jharkhand,Bihar and Dandkaranya is an achievement of historical proportions. In Lalgarh they made great efforts to enhance the movement.Base areas have yet to be created but with great tenacity they have defended their guerilla zones. The fact that they have heroically resisted the enemy forces f or a period of 30 years and form a Central Peoples Guerilla army to become the strongest Maoist party in the World when no Socialist Country in the World exists and when the forces of globalization are acting as tentacles is one of the greatest achievements in the annals of the world Communist Movement.
. The merger of the Maoist Communist Centre of India with the Peoples War group was s a remarkable event as Earlier the erstwhile C.P.I.M.L (Peoples War) and Erstwhile C.P.I. (M.L) Party Unity (Before and after they united in 1998) insisted that the 1969 Charu Mazumdar C P.I.M.L. was the re-organised party and not just a revolutionary organization. Now both the Charu Mazumdar C.P.I. (M.L) and the Maoist Communist Centre are recognized as the 2 original revolutionary parties... The most outstanding work of the Maoists has been in Chhattisgarh where they have been able to create alternative democratic Organs..In Lalgarh they merged with the masses like fish in water literally swimming with the tide. Above all they are now working with an All-India perspective spreading all over like wildfire.
History
Earlier Some historic meetings and rallies took place of mass fronts led by such forces like the rally of the 1992 and 1994 rallies of the All-India Peoples Resistance Forum ,the 2000 conference of the A.I.P.R.F., The All-India Revolutionary Student Federation conferences In 1985,1989,1993 ad 1997,as well as the 1985 and 1990 conferences of the Andhra Pradesh Rytu Coolie Sanghams.(Peasnts organization)Almost 4 lakh peasants assembled for the Rytu Coolie Sangham conferences and on the day it looked like a red flame burning all over the place.The ‘Go to-Village campaigns of the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union will also have a permanent place in history where students integrated with the revolutionary peasant struggles for the first time..The author will never forget the 1994 A.I.P.R.F.rally in Calcutta where the gathering of the road masses looked like a tornado appearing and the 1997 All-India Seminar in Mumbai on the sham of 50 years of independence. I t dealt with all aspects from Democratic Rights to anti Imperialist, to revolutionary Peasant Struggles, Working Class Struggles and Nationality Struggles. What was also unforgettable was their All-India campaign against state repression in Andhra,Bihar and Dandkaranya in 1999,mainly in Bihar and Punjab.They covered area after area like a river flowing and literally lighting a torch against state repression. In earlier phase in Andhra Pradesh(erstwhile Peoples War group) it brilliantly braved the State forces inspite of intensive repression in Andhra Pradesh in 1985 and 1991.A powerful Students and peasants Movement was built and the mass organizations heroically survived working underground in conditions of repression.A series of conferences were staged by fronts combating severe repression. The erstwhile Party Unity group built revolutionary mass movements in a huge range of spheres from Democratic Rights,to land distribution, minimum wages,struggle for fishing rights , International issues, protests against Communalism. Etc.which spread from in Jehanabad and Palamau to other areas like Bhagalpur Gaya,etc....Inspite ofa ban on the their peasant organization, Mazdur Kisan Sangram Samiti, the organization resurrected itself to work under the banner of the Mazdur Kisan Sangrami Parishad.
The Maoist Communist centre survived for 35 years against the onslaught of the Indian State with phenomenal tenacity in Bihar and Jharkhand conducting a series of military actions comparable to the intensity of that of the Chinese Communist Party and foming revolutionary peasant committees..It did remarkable work in building the Nari Mukti Sangh-a classical Revolutionary women’s Front It’s final merger into the C.P.I(Maoist) is a historical achievement.
At the conclusion of the decade of the 1990’s 3 important leaders of the People’s war Group were slain in a police encounter. A massive anti-repression programme took place in Andhra Pradesh in December 1999.Such Comrades were truly the best sons of the land heroically laying down their lives for liberation.Various communist Revolutionary Groups belonging to various groups participated...The People`s War Group launched retaliatory Actions to give a severe blow to the Indian State.After the armed Actions the People`s War Group made a self-critical assesment stating"Even when there were ample opportunities to educate and involve the People,our cadres only resorted to protest actions.These are incorrect actions.Because of non-participation of people in such actions,the outcome of such actions, is contrary to the impact we wanted"Thus this group was not aware that such armed actions of Party Guerilla Squads,by themselves cannot succeed in their basis and ultimate objective of defeating the reactionary State.Infact the people have to own such actions and voluntarily participate in them with revolutionary political Consciousness and confidence in their own organised strength.Even in the post encounter Joint Protests the leading rank of the People`s War Group remained pre-occupiedwith either the representative team protests or armed retaliatory actions.-thus their organized attempts for militant mass attempts for militant mass political mobilisations remained Sparse. True the C.P.I.Maoist has mass support in major areas in Bihar, Jharkhand and Dandakaranya , has guerilla zone s in some respects similar to those of the Chinese Revolutionary period during their armed struggle and have carried out magnificient retaliatory actions in self defence against enemies-t(particularly in Chattisgarh by the P.G.A.) and been the only revolutionary Organization to have ever seriously attempted protracted Peoples Warfare in recent times. However their pockets of revolutionary resistance are dictated by their Armed squads. Even if they partially integrate with mass movements often are used to give shelter to mass organizations and replace peoples independent actions. They are losing more and more cadre day by day and are unable to consistently replace the fighting forces lost..In West Bengal,Jharkhand and Chattisharh retaliatory actions took place in retaliation of torture and killing of mass sympathizers and cadres, like the blowing up of a police jeep or landmining and killing innocent people .In revolutionary struggle ethics is an important question and revolutionary violence does not justify the killing of innocent people. The C.P.I.(Maoist)have eliminated may people suspected of being police informers who could have been innocent on grounds of their safety.In the authors view this is violation of revolutionary ethics.
T
Analysis of line of C.P.I.(Maoist) a.Defective functioning of mass organizations and agrarian revolutionary struggle
I admire the efforts of the PW.G,MCC, and Party Unity groups to make self criticism and initiate agrarian revolutionary movements and the mass political movements described above, particularly to build movements from the underground as well as work openly. However there were sharp tendencies to use such front’s as direct tools of party propaganda and Marxism-Leninism Mao ZeDong thought was directly propogated through these forums. Mass struggles were built but a sufficient broad base was not created as often party politics was propagated from the platform of the student mass organization.(A.P.R.S.U.) The Student and youth movement of the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union was directly linked to the agrarian revolution and many student cadres directly participated in the armed movements and squads. I admire the efforts and sacrifices of the “Go to Village Campaigns’ but it was an error to directly link the student movement to the Agrarian or New Democratic Revolution. The required political consciousness was not built up in the student movement to link it with the agrarian revolutionary movement. In this similar period Democratic Students Organisation was formed in 1978 to rectify the wrong trends in the student Movement in Andhra Pradesh and give an independent identity to the student organization and movement. Initially it built a mass organization implementing the correct trend but later it veered towards the rightist trends. In the 1970’s the Navadoya Yuva Sangham played a similar role in defending the revolutionary democratic nature of the mass organization. It played an important role in opposing the Kappu –Kammu riots in Andhra Pradesh in late 1989.True a long period was laid out where armed struggle was suspended from 1977 to 1979 by the Andhra Pradesh State Committee ,but vanguardist trends prevailed. Mass organizations like Radical Youth League and Radical Students Union initiated direct party propaganda and armed squads though not carrying out guerilla actions were functioned in areas where peoples resistance movements were as not still built. The struggle of the Punjab Students Union in the 1970’s is a textbook for the study of mass line in student and youth movement This trend was also prominent in forums like the Revolutionary writers Association, the All-India League for Revolutionary culture etc where their manifesto’s declared their upholding of Marxism-Leninism –Mao Tse Tung Thought as a necessary perquisite. In Andhra Pradesh,The Organisation for Protection of democratic Rights (O.P.D.R.)formed in 1975 fought for a democratic rights movement that asserted the right to struggle as a fundamental right and against the democratic rights platform being used to propogate political ideology ,which was prominent in the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee.(This issue divided the democratic rights movement in the 1970’s)It is significant that this tendency is still prevalent in the civil liberties movement in Andhra Pradesh (A.P.C.L.C is virtually a front organization of the C.P.I.Maoist),however commendable the work of the A.P.C.L.C in the last 3 decades.
In Maharashtra ,too these tendencies prevailed. Although the Vidhyarti Praghati Sanghatana built the biggest student movement it was unable to give the mass organization the correct political identity and party politics was propogated from this forum.(directly linking student movement to villages etc)In the 1980s although small, a significant formation was that of the Vidhyart Yuva Jagruti SAnghatana ,that rejected the imposing of Marxist Leninist policies and defended the need of giving a student organization an independent democratic identity. It seriously took up issues like facilities and admissions for students. [/B]
[B]In Bihar Maoist historians have to admire the tenacity and skill of the cadres and leaders to resurrect the peasant organizations and revive the agrarian revolutionary movement.(particularly by the C.P.I.(M.L.) Party Unity.)However in the end the intensity of the repression on the mass organizations grew as the actions of armed squads by revolutionary groups increased. Fronts like Democratic Students Union and Bharat Naujavan Sabha,or earlier Revolutionary Students league could not build mass movements. The peasant organizations were often deployed to create a mass base for the armed squads which complemented the struggles of peasant resistance. In the author’s opinion the armed actions of the armed squads in mass peasant movements have given a setback to the agrarian revolutionary movement and building of peasant associations and substituted the people’s resistance. Infact the red defence corpses often played a defective role like the 1987 M.C.C , Dalechak-Baghura retaliatory action .or the resistance struggles of the MK.S.S (particularly in Jehanabad-Plamau region)or later M.K.M.M. Today with armed struggle of the Peoples Liberation Guerilla Army at a most intense level mass student, youth and peasant associations are unable to build mass movements ,even from underground. To a certain extent peasant councils of the Krantikari Kisan Commitees function perform, but not peasant associations like the Mazdoor Kisan Sangrami Parishad earlier.In Dandkaranya ,great rectifications have been made but still the mass fronts are greatly used to create a mass base for the Peoples Liberation Guerill Army.In Dandkaranya we must applaud the embryonic democratic forms of power they have introduced.. The struggle of the Peasants and Workers Union (DAKAMS),women’s organization(KAMS)and Gram Rajya committee is remarkable .However they are not able to sufficiently build mass movements or Sufficient development of people’s political power.. It is noticeable that in the last decade there has been a decline in the functioning and building of mass movements and organizations in the areas of work of the C.P.I. (Maoist) from that of the erstwhile C.P.I.(M.L.) Peoples War ,C.P.I.(M.L.) Party Unity or M.C.C.
b.Military line
In practice the C.P.I.(Maoist ) today is the most correct and genuine revolutionary force in the practical light in India and the world ,leading the biggest armed revolutionary movement in the World. I would sympathize with the C.P.I.(Maoist),who receive no support from any Socialist Country as the C.P.C.had in the 1930’s and 1940’s and are facing the onslaught of Imperialism with globalization much more than the Chinese C.C.P.The Indian revolutionary situation is far more complex with the factor of caste and so many varying cultures and nationalities. Today ,we have to salute the Peoples Liberation Guerilla Army formed in 2000 ,which is the strongest of it’s kind in the world and resembles the red army of the C.C.P. of the 1930’s and 40’s,in many ways.The 2004 formation of C.P.I.(Maoist) and The 2007 C.P.I.(Maoist)conference were historic occasions in the Communist Movement. They have proved the correctness of launching armed resistance for 3 decades without which the mass movement would never properly develop. However it has to recognize that the subjective conditions do not still exist for launching of armed struggle. Today in their guerilla Zones they are launching mobile warfare before the building of a peoples armed peasant revolutionary resistance. A correct military line has not been developed by which the armed squads intervene in the people’s movements. Remember the setback in Andhra Pradesh in 2000 after 2 decades of armed struggle. The movement in India is still the stage of building people’s revolutionary resistance and self-defence in the agrarian revolutionary stage . Infact the actual practice of the C.P.I.(Maoist) has not been able to live upto the goals they declared in 1980 and the self rectification of the Charu Mazumdar era.
The C.P.I.(Maoist party )made a major contribution in sharpening the teeth of the Jungalmahamal movement, complementing mass struggles with their armed movements. They made great sacrifices but not enough independence was given to the P.C.A.P.A. or enough space made to extend the mass democratic movement of the Adivasis.The P.C.A.P.A. virtually became a front for the Maoist armed squads. In Orissa too, although the Chasia Mulia Adivasi Sangh is sympathetic to the Maoist movement, the mass leaders or cadres have differences and a correct mass-organsiational structure has not been created. I agree that the C.P.I.(Maoist)has made a historic contribution and resisted valiantly in defending the guerilla Zone in Dandkaranya.Great rectifications of previous errors have been made in Dandkaranya and it is the highest form of armed resistance since the Naxalbari period . Prof.Amit Bhattacharya compared it’s level of development to the Chinese communist party in the 1930’s.However still it has not gone beyond the stages of Naxalbari or Telengan a in building armed peasant. Dandkaranya is not a liberated base area, as the Chinese Communist Party formed n the 1930’s or 1940’s. It is similar to the A.I.C.C.R. declaring Srikakulam as a base area in 1967. Historically one has to remember how initially from the 1980’s armed squads migrated from Andhra Pradesh to directly establish liberated areas in Dandkaranya.
A remarkable factor has been the massive protests within the jails as in 1995 in Andhra Pradesh and later in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.The most remarkable in have been the jail committees of Maoist political prisoners in West Bengal struggling for rights in central jails such as Presidency, Alipur and Dumdum. It is creditable that the P.L.G.A of the C.P.I.(Maoist) has carried out actions in self defence and retaliated killings of Comrades as well as held certain mass protest rallies.. However they have hardly involved the broad masses in the protests against killings of their leaders.
The author respects some of the contributions of writers like Gautam Navlakha and Bernard d’mellow whose writings do justice to the efforts of the C.P.I, (Maoist),particularly Navlakha in his recognition of the need for armed resistance and their complementary role to peoples movements.Prof.Amit Bhattacharya supports the movement in the same light and compares Dandkaranya to the Chinese experience. He also defends the Maoist’s work in Jungalmahal and gives it the credit for the building of mass democratic struggles.Bernard’d’mellow elaborates on the inability to convert guerilla zones into base areas as well as the combining of mass struggles with armed struggle. I am critical of writers like Sumanta Banerjee and the C.P.I.(M.L.) led K.N.Ramchandran who term the Maoist armed squads as ‘roving bands’ and fail to respect the resistance of the Maoist party. I admire the contributions of Comrades like Kishenji who literally shed their blood and strived to combine mass struggles with the armed struggle.