CPI-Maoist cadres attack BJP MLA's property in Bihar
Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set ablaze a petrol pump owned by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) and hurled bombs and opened fire at his residence on March 13 in Muzaffarpur District, reports The Times of India. Around 15-20 Maoists attacked the petrol pump of Ram Surat Rai in Ahiapur Police Station area, around 10 km from District Headquarters, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Saurabh Kumar said, adding, the Maoists took the staff hostage and set on fire an oil tanker and portion of the petrol pump. They assaulted the petrol pump staff before vandalising the petrol pump and setting it on fire. After plundering the petrol pump, the Maoists went to Rai's residence in Bocha Police Station area of the District and opened fire besides hurling bombs. The MLA was neither at the petrol pump nor at his home during the attack.
21st March 2014, 11:44
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Maoists call for favourable atmosphere for talks
Hindustan Times
Speaking exclusively to HT at a training camp on Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh border, top leaders of CPI Maoist Bihar-Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh Special Area Committee said they were ready for talks with the government provided a favourable atmosphere was created.
"We have burnt our fingers many times in the past. We lost our top central committee leader Cherikuri Rajkumar alias Azad and politburo member Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji who went that extra mile to broker peace and were instead killed in cold blood," said the committee secretary Deenbandhu. He asked the governments to immediately release all prisoners of war (Maoists) lodged in various jails and then initiate the peace process.
While Azad was killed on July 2, 2010 in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh, Kishenji was killed on November 24, 2011 in West Midnapore district of West Bengal.
Maoists allege both their top leaders were killed in fake encounters. Days before his killing, they said, Azad had begun process for dialogue with the Centre.
The leaders conceded that the organisation was going through an acute leadership crisis, but quickly asserted that they were used to these ups and downs and would soon bounce back with a vengeance.
"You may kill us but you cannot kill our ideology," said zonal commander Sanjayji, 50, elucidating the increasing police atrocities on people who supported them.
"We have not budged from our ideology. We are pro poor people. Allow us to work in a peaceful manner with the farmers and working class. We do not believe in gun power. Guns are not our political weapons. It is for self-defence. We are fighting a political battle," he added.
Maoists are distributing pamphlets among villagers urging them to raise their voices to secure the release of "revolutionaries, who have been arrested unarmed from bus stops, railway stations, markets, hospitals, homes, marriage functions, even temples and are languishing in jails for years". Some of them, the rebels alleged, were in their seventies and battling old-age related diseases behind bars.
"Look at the paradox, actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted for terror charges, gets successive paroles but 63-year-old Kobad Ghandy, without a single conviction and battling cancer along with heart conditions, fails to get bail," he said.
Sanjayji also thanked the Doon School Old Boys' Society for supporting Ghandy's release. "If Ghandy is anti-national, why haven't such charges been leveled against the MPs who threw chairs and sprayed pepper in Parliament, bringing disrepute to the country, globally," asked another rebel leader, Deenbandhu.
24th March 2014, 12:20
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Naxals ban use of mobiles till polls
Raipur: Maoists have imposed a ban on use of cell phones in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-wracked Bastar to “disable” the intelligence network of security forces in the region, police sour-ces said on Saturday. Inte-lligence sources said the rebels have also launched a drive in remote areas in Bastar to seize cell phones from the local tribals. Sources said Naxals have issued a directive to tribals to deposit their cell phones with the local rebel leaders and warned of serious consequences if they defied the diktat.
“We have received reports of Naxals enforcing ban on use of cell phones in remote villages. The ultras have also been forcing the local tribals to part with their cell phones or face serious consequences,” Rajendra Narayan Das, SP of Kanker said. The drive apparently was aimed at “disabling” intelligence network of security forces in Naxal-stronghold areas by identifying the police informers. “Naxals are scrutinising the cell phones of villagers to check if phone numbers of police personnel have been stored in them. The rebels punish those whose cell phones have such numbers saved, suspecting them as police informers,” Mr Das said.
A senior police officer posted in south Bastar disclosed that several innocent tribals who were found to have stored mobile numbers of their kin serving in police department were executed after being branded police spies by the ultras. “The other motive was to prevent security forces from locating their movements during the Lok Sabha polls in Bastar on April 10,” he said. http://www.deccanchr...iles-till-polls
Maoist held with a weapon
A Maoist was arrested today with a weapon from a locality at Khaira in Bihar’s Jamui district, sources said. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a hideout in Garhi Bazar locality and nabbed the ultra, identified as Kedar Yadav, the sources said. A country-made pistol was recovered from Yadav’s possession, they said. A native of Ghuthiya village, the Maoist was wanted in several cases of naxal violence in the district, the sources added. http://www.business-...32300322_1.html
Maoists blow up two school buildings in Giridih area
Maoists cadres blew up two school buildings in Navakaniya village of Giridih district in Jharkhand on Friday night as the banned outfit stepped up its violent campaign ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The village targeted by cadres of the CPI-Maoists is around 35km from the district headquarters and 230km from capital Ranchi. The banned outfit is opposed to the elections and has asked people of the state to stay away from the democratic process.
Security personnel had no knowledge of the incident till they reached the village on Saturday afternoon. The nearest Pirtand police station is just 12km from the village. The heavily-armed Maoist cadres also terrorised the villagers and held two of them captive while the others planted dynamite on the school buildings before blowing them up. The Maoists distributed pamphlets dictating villagers to boycott polling activities. Terrorised villagers remained tightlipped before the media. However, an eyewitness, on condition of anonymity, said, “At around 7:.30pm, a group of 50 to 60 armed Maoists arrived here and assembled near the Navakaniya upgraded middle school. Later, they called upon two of the villagers and assaulted them.” http://www.hindustan...News Headlines)
Police arrest Maoist in Jharkhand
Lohardaga /Jhargram, Mar 23 (ANI): Acting on a tip-off Police arrested a Maoist and recovered money in Lohardaga district of Jharkhand. http://www.aninews.i...mine-in-wb.html
Maoist Posters Found Again
Fresh anti-poll posters by Maoists have surfaced in Rayagada, leaving local leaders worried over the conduct of peaceful Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the Maoist-hit region. Maoist posters and banners were found at Parsali panchayat office of Kalyansingpur block on Saturday where the ultras urged upon Dongria Kondhs residing in Niyamgiri hill to boycott the elections. Police said they have recovered few posters and suspect it to be the handiwork of the local Maoist supports.
Few days back, similar posters were found in interior Majhiguda and Dasmantpur panchayats of Koraput where ultras had asked the locals not to exercise their franchise on April 10 and accused all political parties of being anti-poor. The posters also asked the people not to let politicians enter villages for campaigning. http://www.newindian...ce#.Uy8EBJJTW1E
Maoists fire at SPO’s family
The villagers said the police had not even visited Hembrom, but district police officials said investigations were on A squad of the CPI(Maoist) on Friday night opened fire at a social gathering at Khunti, 30 km from Ranchi, injuring two villagers and set fire to a jeep. The tribal villagers said they suspected the rebels targeted the family and friends of Raila Dhingra Munda for his work as a special police officer (SPO) gathering intelligence for the Khunti district police.
On Saturday, Mara Munda, Raila’s younger brother who had been shot in the right thigh and had fractured a bone, lay in Ranchi’s Rajendra Institute of Medical Institute’s orthopaedic intensive care ward. “We had invited more than 400 villagers to celebrate the ear-piercing ceremonies of both my sisters. At 8.30 p.m., I stepped out of our courtyard and heard a gunshot. The next moment, I fell,” Mr. Munda said. “There was panic as everyone tried to flee. I cried out for my friends to pull me inside the house or I would have died,” recounted the 20-year-old with some effort as his father, Sande Munda, who can speak only Mundari, looked on.
The Maoists had killed his eldest brother, Rupu Munda, who also worked as an SPO, in a market at Adki in 2010. Mr. Mara’s elder brother, Raila, who the family suspects was the Maoists’ target, was away in Khunti town when the incident happened. The villagers first rushed both to Khunti’s Sadar Hospital, and to Ranchi in the morning. While the villagers in Hembrom in Adki block said the police had not even visited the village since Friday night, district police officials said investigations were on. “Our search operations are on for the Maoists,” said Superintendent of Police Anish Gupta. Mr. Raila Munda said he started working as an SPO in 2008. http://www.thehindu....icle5820420.ece
28th March 2014, 11:07
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Indian Maoists Pledge Support for Renewed Tamil Eelam Struggle
Indian Maoists pledge support for armed Eelam struggle
Indian Maoists have pledged support for another armed struggle by the Sri Lankan Tamils for an independent Eelam.
Indian website thatstamil.oneindia.in has quoted Maoist general secretary Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathi as having told a pro-naxalite website in an interview that the Eelam struggle has not died down with the passing of LTTE leader Prabhakaran. “It is still alive and we shall support it with arms”.
Apparently keeping in mind the Indian experience where naxal groups like Maoist Communist Centre, the People’s War and others have come together and are controlling vast areas in Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal, he said: “The battle for Tamil Eelam is not lost yet. Eelam will blossom one day if all the (Tamil) groups come together and, with changed strategies, resume the struggle”
Mr Ganapathi said: “We shall smuggle in sophisticated arms in ultra-modern boats to the rebels to revive the armed struggle in Sri Lanka and nobody can stop us. We are formed groups for this”.
Admitting that the Eelam struggle has suffered a big setback, maybe a virtual defeat with the elimination of the LTTE, Mr Ganapathi has said, ” the Eelam movement has now become rudderless, but the thirst for freedom has not died down among the Eelam Tamils”.
He said, “there is no change in the situation” which led to the armed struggle for an independent Eelam” in the early 1980s. The “celebration of Prabhakaran’s death by Sinhala chauvinists in Colombo and the encouragement given to them by the fascist Sinhala Government show the Sinhalese’ hatred for Tamils and the Tamil nation”.
He also expressed the fear that there would be another State-sponsored colonisation of Tamil areas by the Sinhalese, leading to a change in the demographic pattern in the “Tamil homeland” of northern and eastern provinces.
Mr Ganapathi accused the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government of having carried out a “genocide” of Tamils. He expressed anguish over the confinement of displaced Tamils in “internment” camps fenced off by barbed wires and said,”whoever tortures people like this deserve to be punished and no one can stop us from arming these people”.
The Maoist leader said “we are not only willing to extend all help the Eelam Tamils achieve their independence but also guide leaders of resistance movements on how to achieve the goal of a Democratic People’s Republic of Tamil Eelam”.
Answering questions, Mr Ganapathi said the Maoists had consistently denied having received any arms training from the Tamil Tigers and added, “but we always supported their struggle”. He said “we did receive training from the renegades of the LTTE in the early 1980s, but not in recent times”.
Defence experts have from time to time spoken about links between the LTTE and the Maoists and the interview confirms this.
Speaking in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly in early 1991, the then Home Minister M V Mysoora Reddy said the Maoists (in their then avatar as People’s War) had acquired 60 AK-47s and 20 Sten guns from the LTTE. This was reiterated in the Lok Sabha, on Dec 10, 1991, by Bandaru Dattatreya, then an opposition MP who later became Minister of State for Railways.
In 1995, Mallojula Venugopal, the then secretary of the Dandakaranya Special Zone Committee, claimed that some ex-LTTE cadres had initially trained them in fabricating landmines.
Maintaining the same line, Ganapathi himself said in an interview in 1998: “They were not LTTE. They were ex-LTTE. What happened was that these people came to India after leaving their organisation and formed Communist groups. (We) had relations with these groups. As part of that, they held training camps for us”.
Further proof of the Maoists’ LTTE links surfaced, once again, when two video cassettes containing LTTE’s training modules were recovered in December 2001 from an arms dump of the rebels in Nelimaliga village of Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh.
In the aftermath of the failed Oct 1, 2003 assassination attempt on the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, the then Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani said that the rebels had received expertise in using improvised explosive devices (IED) from the LTTE.
Speaking to mediapersons in a village in Madhuban block in Supaul district of Bihar, CPI-Maoist spokesman Azad said on Dec 14, 2005 that they had learnt “new warfare tactics from the on-the-run and purged LTTE military commanders in 1986-87″. He added that the LTTE commanders gave them training in making and laying landmines.
Troop movement crippled in Maoist zone as rebels and contractors join forces
By Abhishek Bhalla
A nexus between Maoists, construction contractors and government officials has hit the development of key infrastructure like roads in the rebel strongholds of Chhattisgarh, hampering anti-insurgency operations ahead of the polls.
A major national highway that runs through Maoist citadels in Sukma is virtually non-existent for about 80 kilometres.
Sources said deals between the rebels and contractors, coupled with red tape and corruption, are taking a toll on security forces involved in anti-Maoist operations. Rebels take advantage of bad roads to lay an ambush and find enough time to escape.
A senior police officer – who is part of anti-insurgency operations – described the nexus between contractors and Maoists as a scam and “an agreement between two parties to help each other”.
“The contractors take money from the government to start a project and give part of it to the Maoists. Then they don’t begin the work on the pretext of security concerns,” the officer said.
When Mail Today travelled on National Highway 221 that connects Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, the 80km stretch from Sukma to Konta took about five hours to cover, as the asphalt disappeared.
The stretch is dotted with rebel strongholds like Chintanlar, considered the Maoist capital, and Jagargonda, which is almost completely cut off and surrounded by thick forests. This region is a favourite spot for rebels, who often plant IEDs to target security forces.
The contract for a Rs 198-crore project to repair NH 221 was given nearly two years ago, but work has still not begun. A payment of over Rs 10 crore was also made, but fearing a backlash from the rebels, the firm has not begun work, sources said.
There is a similar situation on National Highway 16 connecting Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh to Maharashtra. The 50km stretch from Bijapur to Bhopalpatnam is a nightmare and can take up to three hours to cover. Just like Sukma, Bijapur is a Naxal hotbed and bad roads affects operations.
The highway connecting Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh is a major trade route and good connectivity will also mean more development, which would be a major setback for the Maoists.
Civil and police officials said providing security to construction parties was not a problem.
“There are some procedural delays. The estimated cost of the project has increased but security is not a problem,” said A.K. Topo, district collector of Sukma.
“We have to secure only one side of the road that is heavily dominated by Maoists. On the other side is a river, so they cannot attack from there. We can use all our resources to counter any attack on construction parties,” a police officer said.
The officer said there had been no attack on construction parties or no incidents to hold up work. Significantly, the road is in almost perfect condition once it enters Andhra Pradesh.
Sources said contractors sometimes burn their equipment and stop work in order to show that there is a threat from rebels. When the matter is probed, it turns out that there was no attack, they added.
Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Arun Deo Dutt said good roads can be of great help for security forces.
“Force mobilisation will be easier. If the highway is in a good condition, connectivity to villages along the road will also be better. This will result in pushing back the Naxals,” he said.
Mobile tower lethargy
Land has been allotted for installing mobile towers in the Red Corridor, but the four-year-old project has not been completed. The project was first planned in 2010 and got an impetus in May last year after a Maoist attack on a Congress convoy killed 27 people, including senior party leaders.
A June 2014 deadline for completing the project is unlikely to be met as only 363 towers have been installed.
To make matters worse, an error in estimates in the Rs 3,046 crore budget has further delayed matters, because fresh calculation suggests the need for an additional Rs 789 crore.
Sources said even the towers that have been installed are not functioning due to maintenance problems. At least 75 mobile towers are not working in Chhattisgarh alone.
Militants called the Kuki National Army have banned the Indian National Congress from running for elections in the Lok Sabha for the Outer Manipur constituency. It is time for the people of India to throw off the shackles of generations of the INC monopolization of democracy in India.
13th April 2014, 17:51
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Maoist attack kills 14 police and poll staff
Two days after peaceful polling in insurgency-hit Bastar zone, the Red brigade carried out two separate strikes within a span of one hour, killing 14 people, including five CRPF men and seven people returning from election duty, in south Chhattisgarh.
It took the Maoists barely 10 minutes to target an ambulance after 10 CRPF personnel boarded it to return to their camps. The rebels detonated a powerful blast at Kamanar near Darbha in Bastar district, about 350 km from state capital Raipur. Five jawans were killed on the spot.
Another five personnel were injured and were air-lifted to Raipur for advanced medical attention. In the span of 11 months, this is the third major attack by the guerillas in the Darbha region.
In another blast triggered by the rebels seven poll staffs were killed and five others injured at Ketulnar in Bijapur district. According to Bijapur police, the poll officials were returning from Kutru to the district headquarters in a passenger bus. “After the blast, the Maoists opened fire which was repulsed by the security forces who were deployed nearby for road opening operations,” the police source said.
Sunil Kujur, the Chhattisgarh chief electoral officer, said. The Bastar Lok Sabha poll saw 52 per cent turnout on April 10.
The landmine blast near Darbha came as a surprise since the road was recently built. “It appears that the Maoists planted the explosives before the roads were built and the blast was triggered by someone sitting 150 metres from the spot,” Bastar superintendent of police Ajay Yadav said.
The ambulance was thrown up in the air and landed some 15 metres away from NH-30 where the incident occurred. A four feet deep crater was formed.
11th April: Seven STF jawans killed, 11 injured in Maoist attack in Bastar
Seven personnel of Special Task Force (STF) were killed and eleven others injured in an encounter with outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) rebels at a village near Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region on Saturday. Additonal director general of police (anti-Naxal operations) Rajinder Kuamr Vij said that the encounter took place at Pidmal village between Dornapal and Chintagufa when the rebels tried to attack the security personnel. The forces retaliated leading to a fierce encounter during which seven security personnel died and eleven others injured.
The gun-battle continued for more than an hour with the rebels who were believed to be in large numbers. STF’s commander Shankar Rao is among the dead. The injured personnel have been shifted to nearby hospitals and the critically injured are expected to be airlifted to state capital for further treatment. After lying low for sometime, there are indications that the Maoist rebels can step up violence in Bastar region during summer when they observe their tactical counter offensive campaign (TCOC).
12th April: Another Naxal attack: 17 vehicles torched at mining site in Kanker
A day after killing seven policemen in an ambush in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, the Naxals on Sunday allegedly set ablaze at least 17 vehicles engaged in mining work in insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said. No one was hurt in the incident, they said. A group of armed Naxals raided the Barbaspur iron ore mining site under the limits of Korar police station and after threatening the labourers, they torched 17 vehicles engaged in mining work, Kanker Superintendent of Police Jitendera Singh Meena said.
After torching the vehicles, the Maoists fled into the forest, he said. On getting information about the incident, a police team was immediately rushed to the spot which found the vehicles, including trucks, mining machineries and JCB, burnt, he said. A search operation has been launched in the region to nab the ultras involved in the incident, the SP added. The extremists are reportedly opposing iron ore mining in the area being done by Neco Jayaswal Company.
13th April: Third Naxal attack in 48 hours, BSF soldier killed in gunbattle in Kanker district
In the third Naxal attack in the last 48 hours, one Border Security Force soldier was killed in a gunbattle with the rebels in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on Monday. A group of Naxals opened indiscriminate firing on security personnel who were carrying out patrolling in the proximity of Chhote Baithiya BSF camp under Bande police station area late Sunday night, Kanker Superintendent of Police Jitendra Singh Meena said. A gunbattle erupted between security forces and ultras and the rebels soon fled to the core forests, he added.
13th April: 3 cops killed, 8 injured in an attack on security vehicle in Chhattisgarh At least 4 police officials have been killed and eight are injured as Naxalites in its fourth attack in last three days tried to explode a mine protected vehicle (MPV) near Cholnar in Dantewada district in tribal Bastar region of Chhattisgarh on Monday. According to the police sources, the rebels triggered a powerful blast aiming at the anti-landmine vehicle that injured 11 security personnel who have been taken to a district hospital. The incident was reported near Cholnar, approximately 25 Kms from district headquarters of Dantewada. After reaching the ambush site, Dantewada district superintendent of police Kamal Lochan Kashyap is supervising relief and rescue operations.
17th April 2015, 07:56
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Naxals kill abducted police constable in Chhattisgarh
The body of a police constable, who had been abducted by the Naxals last week, was today found on a road in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. Police said that constable Beera Basant, the victim, had left for Bijapur on April 7 after being transferred to the district. He was earlier posted at Awapalli. Naxals abducted him near Bijapur valley. Today his body, with injuries inflicted by sharp-edged weapons, was found near Pamelvaya in the district. Police said a piece of paper found on the body had a warning to the people not to join anti-Naxal campaigns.
Naxals kill abducted police constable in Chhattisgarh
The body of a police constable, who had been abducted by the Naxals last week, was today found on a road in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. Police said that constable Beera Basant, the victim, had left for Bijapur on April 7 after being transferred to the district. He was earlier posted at Awapalli. Naxals abducted him near Bijapur valley. Today his body, with injuries inflicted by sharp-edged weapons, was found near Pamelvaya in the district. Police said a piece of paper found on the body had a warning to the people not to join anti-Naxal campaigns.
source: business-standard(dot)com
Gotta love those spooky scary Maoists
27th April 2015, 11:33
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[FONT=Arial]17th of April:
A 30-year-old man was found bludgeoned to death at Machh Bhandar in Ghatshila subdivision of East Singhbhum District on April 17 triggering suspicion that the murder might be a handiwork of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), reports The Telegraph. The victim is yet to be identified. The body was lying near an under-construction canal over Subarnarekha River in the Ghurabandha Police Station area. Boulders used to bludgeon him were also found near the murder spot along with some Maois[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Maoist posters were found near Kurli panchayat office under Bisamcuttack police limits in Rayagada district on Friday. In the posters, Maoists protested the aggressive operation of the CRPF against them and the plan to establish new CRPF camps in Niyamgiri. The posters and banners were found a day after the IG of CRPF, Piyush Anand, took stock of the steps taken to curtail Maoist menace in the district.t posters calling for a hike in wages of kendu (Diospyros Melanoxylon) leaves collectors. However, Police cannot be sure of the rebel hand as of now, as the posters can be old. "At the moment, we are not in a position to say for sure that the Maoists committed the murder. The body has been recovered and sent for autopsy to Ghatshila government hospital," Additional Superintendent of Police (anti-Naxalite operations) Sanjiv Kumar Burnwal said. (source: satp(dot)org)
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[FONT=Arial]Maoist posters were found near Kurli panchayat office under Bisamcuttack police limits in Rayagada district on Friday. In the posters, Maoists protested the aggressive operation of the CRPF against them and the plan to establish new CRPF camps in Niyamgiri. The posters and banners were found a day after the IG of CRPF, Piyush Anand, took stock of the steps taken to curtail Maoist menace in the district. (source: newindianexpress(dot)com)
23rd of April:[/FONT] Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda again goes on hunger strike
Berhampur (Odisha): Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda has again started hunger strike in Berhampur Circle Jail here.
Earlier, Panda was on hunger strike from March 31 to April 4 protesting his solitary confinement in the jail and accusing authorities of stopping his letters from reaching the court.
He also demanded that he be provided with the list of cases pending against him in different police stations.
The rebel leader had postponed his strike after jail authorities assured that they would draw the attention of the authorities to his demands. Since his demands were not fulfilled, he is on an indefinite fast since yesterday, said his advocate Deepak Patnaik.
Sabyasachi was served food, but he is not eating anything since yesterday, said Assistant Jailor Satya Narayan Behera.
In another development, Dandapani Mohanty, who is lodged in the same jail for alleged Maoist activities, threatened to launch a hunger strike from tomorrow.
Mohanty, convener of Damana Pratirodha Manch, a human rights organisation, was arrested from his house here on February 8, 2013.
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27th April 2015, 11:34
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Activists and villagers threatened as UP police continues crackdown on anti-dam protest
After police firing in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, marred an anti-dam protest on Ambedkar Jayanti last week, activists have now accused the police of further brutality on the morning of April 18 as it attempted to clear protestors, mostly tribals, from the dam site.
The police allegedly attacked protestors with rubber bullets, tear gas and lathis. They chased protestors back to their villages, where they also vandalised their homes.
On Monday, a fact-finding team from the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan released a report stating that the district police and around 500 to 1,000 Provincial Armed Constabulary surrounded the site of the protest and “beat and chased the villagers right up to their villages”.
It is not yet clear how many people were injured in this round of attacks, but at least 14 people from four villages have been admitted to a block hospital in nearby Duddhi. Many women were beaten on their thighs and buttocks. The April 14 attack left 39 people injured, of whom 12 had serious injuries. As Scroll reported last week, one person is still near death in a Varanasi hospital. The police allegedly also seized tents and generators at the site of the protest and burned posters and banners.
Villagers have been protesting at the site of the proposed Kanhar Dam since December 23, following an order by the National Green Tribunal to stay construction until it could hear the case.
However, the proposed height of the dam has been increased from 39.9 metres to 52.9 metres, expanding the submergence area and intensifying fears, the report said. Even more shocking, it added, is that affected villages in Chhattisgarh have not even been informed that any part of their land will be submerged.
As the Uttar Pradesh state government continued construction despite the order, villagers on April 14 decided to intensify their protest by blocking the approach to the dam, leading to the first police backlash. After the police firing on April 14, the protest swelled with people streaming in from surrounding villages. All protestors have now been dispersed. Unidentified people cleared the dam site of all machinery on Saturday morning.
Villagers targeted
Police action has been followed with direct threats, both to villagers and to activists who came to the area after the initial news of police firing on April 14.
After the protests made front-page news in Uttar Pradesh papers, the district magistrate visited residents of Sundari village, one of several affected, and asked them to make a list of demands, said Gambhira Prasad, an activist leading the protests, but now in hiding.
“The DM said that he would give our requests to the government, so that is going on at the side,” Prasad said. “But we don’t know what will come of that.”
The Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan might have an answer. Dominant caste leaders held a meeting in Sundari on Sunday, saying that they would give their consent to the government.
“Most of them were quoting the DM Sanjay Kumar belligerently saying that he had said that all protest and movements should stop,” the report said. “Otherwise he would foist so many cases that they would rot in jail for the rest of their lives and use up all the compensation in paying lawyers.”
The Uttar Pradesh government suspended the last district magistrate, Dinesh Singh, for being lax on development work. The police has filed cases against around 956 people in all.
Meanwhile, those who had joined the protests after news of the April 14 firing spread have now dispersed to their villages. Not everyone has been able to leave the area. The police has shut off an area around Sonbhadra, claimed Prasad.
“Our guests from Delhi are not being allowed to go away,” Prasad said over the phone. “They had tried to drive their cars back, but were turned back in Duddhi itself.”
Despite repeated attempts, Scroll could not reach the district magistrate. The sub-district magistrate put down the phone after hearing Scroll's query.
Activists under watch
Even as the administration attempts to negotiate with villagers, it continues to target activists who came from outside the affected area to investigate these incidents.
Two separate fact-finding teams, one from Delhi and another from Chhattisgarh, went to the site of Kanhar dam on Sunday after reports emerged of the firing on April 14. The Delhi team, which included Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association, and Priya Pillai of Greenpeace, is yet to file theirs.
On Sunday evening, as the Delhi team finished its visits to villages around the Kanhar dam area and headed to another outside the affected area to spend the night, its members were informally detained by a group of policemen. Led by a still-unidentified man in plain clothes, the police searched their car and bags and also attempted to intimidate the car’s driver.
“When Priya [Pillai] and I tried to intervene, the man in civil clothes wagged his finger at us and told us, ‘You are women, aapki beizzati hojaegi,’” Krishnan said.
Another member of the team, Debaditya Sinha stepped between them, at which the plain clothes man threatened to arrest him as a Naxalite.
After police firing in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, marred an anti-dam protest on Ambedkar Jayanti last week, activists have now accused the police of further brutality on the morning of April 18 as it attempted to clear protestors, mostly tribals, from the dam site.
The police allegedly attacked protestors with rubber bullets, tear gas and lathis. They chased protestors back to their villages, where they also vandalised their homes.
On Monday, a fact-finding team from the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan released a report stating that the district police and around 500 to 1,000 Provincial Armed Constabulary surrounded the site of the protest and “beat and chased the villagers right up to their villages”.
It is not yet clear how many people were injured in this round of attacks, but at least 14 people from four villages have been admitted to a block hospital in nearby Duddhi. Many women were beaten on their thighs and buttocks. The April 14 attack left 39 people injured, of whom 12 had serious injuries. As Scroll reported last week, one person is still near death in a Varanasi hospital. The police allegedly also seized tents and generators at the site of the protest and burned posters and banners.
Villagers have been protesting at the site of the proposed Kanhar Dam since December 23, following an order by the National Green Tribunal to stay construction until it could hear the case.
However, the proposed height of the dam has been increased from 39.9 metres to 52.9 metres, expanding the submergence area and intensifying fears, the report said. Even more shocking, it added, is that affected villages in Chhattisgarh have not even been informed that any part of their land will be submerged.
As the Uttar Pradesh state government continued construction despite the order, villagers on April 14 decided to intensify their protest by blocking the approach to the dam, leading to the first police backlash. After the police firing on April 14, the protest swelled with people streaming in from surrounding villages. All protestors have now been dispersed. Unidentified people cleared the dam site of all machinery on Saturday morning.
Villagers targeted
Police action has been followed with direct threats, both to villagers and to activists who came to the area after the initial news of police firing on April 14.
After the protests made front-page news in Uttar Pradesh papers, the district magistrate visited residents of Sundari village, one of several affected, and asked them to make a list of demands, said Gambhira Prasad, an activist leading the protests, but now in hiding.
“The DM said that he would give our requests to the government, so that is going on at the side,” Prasad said. “But we don’t know what will come of that.”
The Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan might have an answer. Dominant caste leaders held a meeting in Sundari on Sunday, saying that they would give their consent to the government.
“Most of them were quoting the DM Sanjay Kumar belligerently saying that he had said that all protest and movements should stop,” the report said. “Otherwise he would foist so many cases that they would rot in jail for the rest of their lives and use up all the compensation in paying lawyers.”
The Uttar Pradesh government suspended the last district magistrate, Dinesh Singh, for being lax on development work. The police has filed cases against around 956 people in all.
Meanwhile, those who had joined the protests after news of the April 14 firing spread have now dispersed to their villages. Not everyone has been able to leave the area. The police has shut off an area around Sonbhadra, claimed Prasad.
“Our guests from Delhi are not being allowed to go away,” Prasad said over the phone. “They had tried to drive their cars back, but were turned back in Duddhi itself.”
Despite repeated attempts, Scroll could not reach the district magistrate. The sub-district magistrate put down the phone after hearing Scroll's query.
Activists under watch
Even as the administration attempts to negotiate with villagers, it continues to target activists who came from outside the affected area to investigate these incidents.
Two separate fact-finding teams, one from Delhi and another from Chhattisgarh, went to the site of Kanhar dam on Sunday after reports emerged of the firing on April 14. The Delhi team, which included Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association, and Priya Pillai of Greenpeace, is yet to file theirs.
On Sunday evening, as the Delhi team finished its visits to villages around the Kanhar dam area and headed to another outside the affected area to spend the night, its members were informally detained by a group of policemen. Led by a still-unidentified man in plain clothes, the police searched their car and bags and also attempted to intimidate the car’s driver.
“When Priya [Pillai] and I tried to intervene, the man in civil clothes wagged his finger at us and told us, ‘You are women, aapki beizzati hojaegi,’” Krishnan said.
Another member of the team, Debaditya Sinha stepped between them, at which the plain clothes man threatened to arrest him as a Naxalite.
“What we need to focus on is why the people are opposing dams,” Krishnan said. “You can’t take away both their land and livelihood. Many tribals collect mahua from forests even if they don’t own land. How will they survive? The government needs to offer them land and rehabilitation in exchange for what they are losing, not just compensation. That is the issue here and that is why they are opposing the dam.”
“What we need to focus on is why the people are opposing dams,” Krishnan said. “You can’t take away both their land and livelihood. Many tribals collect mahua from forests even if they don’t own land. How will they survive? The government needs to offer them land and rehabilitation in exchange for what they are losing, not just compensation. That is the issue here and that is why they are opposing the dam.”
I too find the Indian Revolution interesting, and if it succeeds will be up there with the Russian and Chinese Revolutions. That will be over 17% of the world's population under the DotP.
Signalfire is where a lot of the stuff on this thread is copied-and-pasted from. That site also has stuff on Rojava, Kurdistan and Turkey too, and some interesting translations of older articles on Marxist theories. Lately it's been the usual, police frame people, state says they're stepping up and on the verge of victory and the Naxals later prove them wrong, and snitches get shot.
It's a few months old, but there was an interview with the CPI(Maoist) General Secretariat Ganapathy. I thought it was interesting that he mentioned the objective condtions globally for a revolution were improving:
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MIB: What is the position of the International Communist Movement (ICM) at present especially since the party’s assessment is that the objective world situation is turning further favorable to the revolution? What do you think would be the impact of Avakianism and betrayal of Nepal Revolution by Prachanda-Bhattarai clique for the ICM?
GP: The objective world situation is turning excellent for the advancement of revolution. As noted before, the imperialist system continues to go through its most serious crisis since the Great Depression, leading to massive lay offs and shrinking of job opportunities, unemployment and impoverishment on the one hand and intensified exploitation of working masses and neo-colonial plunder of oppressed countries and people on the other. Wars of occupation have shown no signs of abating, with US imperialism getting bogged down in Iraq, Afghanistan and several other warfronts. Revolutionary, democratic and national liberation forces against imperialism and its domestic props are strengthening in different parts of the world. Workers, peasants, the middle classes, Blacks, immigrants, Muslims and other persecuted communities, women, students, youth and various oppressed classes and sections are coming out onto the streets.
Several EU countries have been rocked by massive worker’s demonstrations and strikes against job cuts, unemployment and underemployment, reduction in real wages, withdrawal of social security spending and other ‘austerity’ measures of the governments. As the gap between the rich and the poor is widening and class antagonism is sharpening, more and more people are joining struggles in the capitalist countries. The Black people, Muslims, immigrants and other oppressed people are protesting in Europe and North America for their democratic rights. In the backward countries too, the disparity of wealth, impoverishment and destitution of the working people, political oppression are all leading to mass upheavals. Several Asian and African countries are going through turmoil and civil war. The armed national liberation struggles of the Iraqi, Afghan, Palestinian, Kurd and other peoples are advancing even in the face of bloodbaths and massacres.
National aspirations of the Scot, Catalonian and other nations of Europe are sustaining. In South America, people have organised massive protests against the anti-people neo-liberal policies adopted by the governments of countries like Brazil. However the subjective forces in the ICM are seriously lagging behind this favourable objective situation in the world today. There is a contradiction between the potential of the objective situation and the subjective capacity of the Maoist forces to utilise it for the advancement of World Socialist Revolution. We know from the lessons of history that this subjective weakness can be overcome principally by waging revolution according to the concrete conditions of each country.
As the revisionist and reformist forces are proving incapable of addressing the people’s issues, the possibility of their rallying with the Maoist forces is increasing. Maoist parties and organisations in many countries are gaining strength and some new parties are in the process of formation. The unity among Maoist parties, organisations and forces is also growing. The potential for a powerful new wave of revolutions is increasing. Facing several odds, PPWs in the Philippines and India are continuing. Maoist parties are carrying out struggles in several other countries as well. Solidarity activities among international Maoist forces around support to the people’s war in India, international mobilisation against counter- revolutionary OGH and Oplan Bayanihan, struggles for the rights of political prisoners, etc. are being carried out. So it is possible that the ICM and the Maoist forces will be in a position to play a significant role in people’s struggles and thereby usher in a revolutionary wave in the future.
Of course, the revisionism of Prachanda-Bhattarai clique and their betrayal of the cause of Nepali people and WSR caused serious damage to the ICM. These traitors have destroyed the glorious people’s war from inside and helped the enemy to retain their stranglehold over the oppressed Nepali people. This is a reversal not only for the Nepali people but also for the entire ICM. However, the bitter struggle waged by genuine Maoist forces against Prachanda-Bhattarai clique, their shameless surrender before the imperialists and their agents, and most importantly, Nepali people’s own struggle against these traitors has have exposed the clique’s reactionary character and its betrayal of MLM in the name of developing and enriching it.
These modern revisionists have become the most trusted lackeys of imperialism, domestic feudal and comprador bureaucratic capitalist forces and Indian expansionism. Nepali masses and the ICM have completely rejected their class collaborationism and will definitely advance on the path of revolution by throwing these turncoats into the dustbin of history. Similarly, the so-called new synthesis of Avakianism too has seriously damaged some Maoist parties. This is because Avakianism is nothing but disguised revisionism and liquidationism. Though it may have some negative impact in the ICM temporarily, it will certainly be defeated. As a detachment of the world proletariat, our party will continue to struggle against Avakianism and all forms of revisionism in the communist movement internationally and in the country.
http://www.signalfire.org/wp-content...a-in-India.jpg SATP on CPI (Maoist) strategic shift towards base building and urban work in Maharashtra
…There has been a clear downward trend in other patterns of violent activities as well. The Maoists orchestrated one blast in Gadchiroli District in 2015, as against three such incidents in 2014, and seven in 2013. They were involved in four arson incidents in 2015, as against one in 2014. In one such incident on January 22, 2015, the Maoists set on fire around 14 vehicles of an Andhra Pradesh-based private company engaged in road construction in the Dhanora tehsil of Gadchiroli District. The Maoists roughed up a few labourers and their supervisor when the work on the Gharanji-Pustola stretch was underway for the connecting road between Edampayali and Korkoti.
Amidst the slump in their activities in Maharashtra and elsewhere, the Maoists are shifting focus towards recruiting active supporters and are planning the formation of a Revolutionary People’s Council, to function parallel to local civic bodies like panchayat samities (village committees) and zilla parishads (district councils). This was revealed during the interrogation of a senior Maoist cadre arrested by the Gadchiroli Police.
Meanwhile, in a press statement, the CPI-Maoist acknowledged the death of ‘central committee’ member, identified as Sridhar Srinivasan aka Vijay aka Vishnu, of heart attack on August 18, 2015. The Maoists also acknowledged that Srinivasan was active in the Mumbai, Pune and Vidarbha regions before his death. These revelations strengthen the apprehension expressed by Chief Minister Fadnavis that the rebels are trying extend their influence into these urban spaces… http://www.eurasiareview.com/2912201...wall-analysis/
http://www.signalfire.org/wp-content...ts-690x377.jpg Suspected Maoist commits suicide at Ghatshila police station
Jamshedpur : A 19-year-old youth who was a suspected member of CPI Maoist committed suicide at the Ghatshila police station lock-up in the wee hours today. The deceased was identified as Ramesh Mahali alias Bhuchan, a resident of Shyamsundarpur in Ghatshila sub-division of East Singhbhum. According to information, Bhuchan was one of the three accused who had killed Venket Reddy (40), site in-charge of a construction company, at Shyamsundarpur jungle after kidnapping him from Kharkasoli, a canal construction site along Subernarekha river in Shyamsundarpur on December 8. In this connection, the police had already arrested Jairam Munda, an close associate of dreaded rebel Fogra Munda and sent him jail earlier.
The more accused Fogra and Bhuchan were still absconding. Bhuchan was arrested in Shyamsundarpur yesterday and had been shifted to Ghatshila police station for being forwarded to the Ghatshila Sub-jail after his production in a judicial magistrate court in Ghatshila today, but he committed suicide in the lock-up today. The police discovered about the incident and later shifted the body to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem,” noted an official. http://www.avenuemail.in/jamshedpur/...station/86510/ MAOISTS HOLD MEETING TO WIN VILLAGERS’ CONFIDENCE
Maoists are reportedly losing support of tribal in Nawadih block of the Bokaro district a stronghold of the rebels that shares borders with Giridih and Hazaribagh. The rebels have enjoyed an advantageous position in Nawadih block due to solid tribal support. But sources said excess interference of Maoists in the day to day life of tribals is eroding their support base in the area.To build confidence among villagers of upper ghat, a Maoist-affected block of Bokaro district, held a meeting at the forest area of upperghat here on Sunday night ,sources said.
According to sources, more than 100 rebels including local villagers, assembled near Kachho and Pipradih forest areas .The meeting has been described as local issue and slow pace of implementation of schemes in the villages of 18 panchayat of Nawadih block of the Bokaro district have been issued of the meeting, sources said. http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/maoists-hold-meeting-to–win-villagers-confidence.html Maoist abduct, kill postman in Bastar
RAIPUR: Slain body of a postman was found at Dantewada district of Bastar region on Tuesday. The postman was abducted by Maoists last week from Pariya village of Kuwakonda region in Dantewada. Police said 34-year-old Sujit Modiyami was abducted on Saturday from weekly market and his body was found lying near forests which was reported by the natives. Police said that it seemed that Maoists had killed him under suspicion that he was police informer and tagged him as secret trooper. Sources said that in the pamphlets found near body of slain postman, Maoists alleged that he had taken money from police for persuading lower rank cadres to surrender. Modiyami used to charge Rs 50,000-60,000 for surrender of each cadre and was also allegedly getting a monthly payment of Rs 6,000 from police. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/Maoist-abduct-kill-postman-in-Bastar/articleshow/50376109.cms Maoists shifting base from Chhattisgarh?
VIJAYAWADA: The encounter which left Sabari Area Committee (SAC) commander Nagesh alias Ganesh dead in Chinthur area under East Godavari district has once again proved that a large number of Maoists have entered Andhra Pradesh of late. The deceased, a Guttikoya by caste, hailed from Chattisgarh and was drafted to head the SAC sometime ago. There was a reward of Rs 8 lakh on his head because he planned the gruesome murder of five persons and also oversaw extortion in Chinthur, Yatapaka and VR Puram areas this year.
Security agencies suspect that armed cadre have been infiltrating into the state especially after bifurcation. The encounter in which a Maoist was killed near Visakhapatnam in June and a gunfire between the police and the Maoists in Araku forest area subsequently suggest the banned outfit has clear intention to focus on AP. In the undivided state, Maoists were mainly confined to some parts of Telangana, leaving the Andhra region untouched by and large.
A senior officer attached to OCTOPUS (Organisation for Counter Terror Operations) said there were no encounters between the police and Maoists who carried out their operations in the form of People’s War Group (PWG) earlier in the Andhra region since 1990. The trend of gun battles that began in June this year indicates the aim of Maoists to expand their base in AP, he added. The bauxite mining issue in Visakhapatnam Agency and Polavaram-induced tribal displacement in the twin Godavari districts appear to come in handy for the outfit to make a foray into the Agency where few officials have chosen to visit in the past few months. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/50377336.cms
Maoist arrested in Chhattisgarh
A Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre, identified as Sudan Korram, wanted in connection with murder of a Police Constable and several other crimes, was arrested from his house at Erandarwal village under Mardapal Police Station limits in Kondagaon District, reports The Pioneer on December 31. http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detail...31/2015&id=9#9
Attack on Nitta Gelatin: Charge sheet filed
KOCHI: In the case related to attack on Ernakulam Nitta Gelatin India Ltd (NGIL), the police have submitted the charge sheet. This is the first charge sheet in the case. It has been filed against the first five accused. In the charge sheet, the police have alleged that the accused are CPI Maoist members. The charge sheet has been filed against Arun Balan, Sreekath, Jose, Ramanan and Anoop. The police have alleged that the above five had indulged themselves in anti-national activities and hence they were a threat to national security.
It was in November 2011, NGIL office at Ernakulam Panampilly Nagar was allegedly damaged by the accused. The police’ claim was that Maoists were behind the attack. They also claimed to have recovered Maoist pamphlets from the incident spot. Well ahead of the incident, the company was in the news as locals had risen in protest against it, alleging that it dumped huge quantities of factory waste into Kathikudathu River near Chalakkudy. http://www.kaumudi.com/innerpage1.php?newsid=73160
21st August 2016, 13:25
John Nada
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Originally Posted by Me
Signalfire is where a lot of the stuff on this thread is copied-and-pasted from.
Scratch that. The editor of Signalfire is no longer interested in MLM or the People's War in India. It won't be updated anymore.:(
21st August 2016, 13:40
John Nada
Call of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) - Ganapati
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversaries of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) and the Historic Naxalbari Armed Uprising, Centenary of the Earth-shaking Russian Socialist Revolution and the Bicentenary of the Birth of the Great Teacher of International Proletariat Karl Marx with Revolutionary Enthusiasm and Spirit!
Call of the Central Committee
Dear comrades, friends of the Indian revolution, workers, peasants, toiling masses,
We are going to celebrate four historically significant world proletarian anniversaries within a short span of time. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) – which is completing its fiftieth anniversary this year – was an unprecedented revolutionary mass upsurge in socialist China led by Mao and the Communist Party. It aimed at bringing each and every sphere of the cultural superstructure in conformity with the countryʹs socialist economic base by arousing the vast working masses against bourgeois and other forms of reactionary culture. It involved a bitter class struggle against the entrenched capitalist-roaders, it was a continuation of the anti-revisionist struggle of the Great Debate and marked a new stage in the development of the Chinese Revolution.
It reinforced Maoʹs teaching that many cultural revolutions will be necessary on the path to communism by building and consolidating socialism. Internationally, it provided the conditions and context for a decisive break with revisionism in the communist movements of many countries, formation of ML parties and a new wave of armed agrarian revolutionary wars. In India, the great Naxalbari peasant revolutionary armed uprising – which is going to complete its fiftieth anniversary – was influenced and inspired by the GPCR. Naxalbari was a path-breaking event under the leadership of comrade Charu Majumdar – one of the two great leaders, teachers and fore-founders of CPI(Maoist) comrades CM and KC – which marked a new beginning in the history of the countryʹs democratic revolution.
The centenary of the victory of the great Russian Socialist Revolution is also approaching. It smashed the political power of the Russian capitalist and the feudal classes through armed insurrection and for the first time established a new state of the working class and the toiling masses under the leadership of comrades Lenin and Stalin. It undertook the task of building socialism and laid the foundations of a socialist system, thus paving way for the transition to communism. Bolshevik Revolution was guided by the correct proletarian ideology of Marxism and a correct proletarian revolutionary party. It adopted correct strategy and tactics and carried out relentless struggle against right and ʹleftʹ opportunism within the party and the country. In the course of socialist construction and struggle against domestic and international opportunism, Marxism developed into a new and higher stage – Leninism or Marxism-Leninism. The bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx, the founder of the proletarian ideology, politics and scientific socialism and a great revolutionary philosopher who formulated an entirely new and thoroughly scientific theory and method, is also coming near. Marx showed a new path for humanity that flourished in the process of bitter class struggle and in struggle against bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideology, economics, politics and culture as well as in struggle against right and ʹleftʹ opportunism within the working-class movement. It marked the dawn of a new epoch for humanity that was chained to class exploitation and oppression for thousands of years.
This made the transition to a classless society – and hence to the realm of freedom – a real possibility. These anniversaries are important occasions to reaffirm the irrefutable truth that the only alternative to wage-slavery, exploitation, oppression, domination, destitution,
discrimination, disparity, devastation, crises and wars engendered by capitalism in the present world is socialism and communism. These are occasions to declare once again that in the fight against capital, its grave-diggers will bury the old decadent social relations and build new social ones in their place in the course of building socialism to progress to a classless society, thus bringing the prehistory of humanity to an end so that the real history of humanity can begin. Those who claim the permanence of capitalism and the out-datedness of communism wantonly forget that humanity has spent most of its past in a classless society, has emerged from a classless society and is destined to once again enter a classless society by passing through successive higher stages under the leadership of the proletariat – the newest, the last and the most revolutionary class in history.
Those who point to the reversal of the Soviet and Chinese socialist societies willfully forget that the bourgeoisie too had to face innumerable defeats over several centuries before it could emerge victorious in its struggle for power against the feudal class. Ever since the Paris Commune, every defeat has brought new lessons to the proletariat. Learning from mistakes and drawing lessons from defeats, the proletariat and its party will relentlessly, doggedly and steadfastly pursue its struggle against the bourgeoisie as the vanguard of all oppressed social classes and social sections to build socialism in one country and then in several countries to finally establish socialism on a world-scale by defeating capitalism, imperialism and all reaction.
Then, after all the necessary conditions have matured, the society will finally be able to inscribe on its banner – ʹfrom each according to his/her ability, to each according to his/her wantʹ. So let us once again assert in the course of celebrating these anniversaries that there is no alternative to Marxism/MLM! There is no alternative to proletarian party/leadership! There is no alternative to revolution and there is no alternative to socialism and communism!
Three of these anniversaries – the fiftieth anniversary of the GPCR, the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution and the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx –are going to be celebrated by the proletariat in all the countries of the world. Our Party, CPI(Maoist), is a committed detachment of the international proletariat. It is guided by the scientific ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM) and creatively applies this ideology in concrete revolutionary practice. It staunchly and relentlessly fights against revisionism of all hues, be it right-opportunism or ʹleftʹ-sectarianism. It is engaged in a widespread protracted war to successfully complete the New Democratic Revolution (NDR) in India as an inseparable part of the world
socialist revolution.
CPI(Maoist) joins the international proletariat in celebrating these important anniversaries. It is our bounden duty to celebrate these three great world proletarian revolutionary events along with all genuine Maoist parties and organizations and individuals of the world as a way of upholding, defending, following and applying MLM for advancing the NDR in our country. To celebrate these events is to grasp the revolutionary essence of Marxism, to emulate the spirit of the victorious proletarian revolutions of the past, to learn from the positive and negative experiences of the international proletariat, to draw lessons from our defeats and mistakes and to rely on our strength for boldly advancing towards completing the NDR in our country in new social and revolutionary conditions by fighting imperialism and all reaction.
Therefore, these historic occasions should be celebrated by our Party to the best of our strength and ability in all places where we have our presence. All the party units should make preparations, put maximum efforts and issue calls to the vast masses to actively and energetically participate in these celebrations. We call upon them to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the GPCR from 16 to 22 May 2016, the fiftieth anniversary of Naxalbari from 23 to 29 May 2017, the centenary celebrations of the Bolshevik Revolution from 7 to 13 November 2017 and the birth bicentenary of Karl Marx from 5 to 11 May 2018. If for any reason it is not feasible to conduct these events on the above-mentioned dates, they can be organised in any other time of the years of these anniversaries (The CC regrets the delay in issuing the call for the fiftieth anniversary of the GPCR due to unavoidable circumstances. It should therefore be celebrated at any time for a week between May 2016 and May 2017 with the aim of taking the great significance of GPCR to the masses). These occasions should be celebrated in the form of campaigns and as Anniversary Weeks.
Comrades,
The world capitalist system is giving rise to acute economic and political crises, destruction of productive forces, intensified exploitation and oppression and predatory wars across the globe. A great majority of the countries, nations and people are subjected to the growing stranglehold of imperialism, resulting in massive resentment as well as resistance among the people. The coming social upheavals are making all reactionaries of the world and their institutions shudder. Therefore they are adopting various repressive and deceptive tactics including widespread counter revolutionary propaganda against MLM and socialist revolutions, new democratic revolutions and national liberation movements as well as all kinds of peopleʹs democratic struggles to pacify and divert the boiling social discontent. In such a situation, our aim should be to confront the enemy on a wider plane encompassing ideological, political, military and all other spheres. The four upcoming revolutionary anniversaries should be utilized for this task.
We should use these occasions to ideologically and politically educate the countryʹs workers, peasants, students, youths, intellectuals, the oppressed social sections including women, Dalits, Adivasis and oppressed nationalities and religious minorities and all other sections of the toiling masses. We should call upon them to rise to the occasion, unite and get organized strongly enough to resist the ruling-class onslaught by all possible means. We should appeal to the masses to participate in the new democratic revolution and join the peopleʹs war in large numbers and more militantly. The message that the new democratic revolution is the only way for the liberation of the vast toiling masses should be widely propagated among them. This is all the more crucial in the present times when Brahmanical Hindu fascism in serving the interests of the Indian ruling classes and imperialism is more viciously and widely attacking communism and all progressive and democratic ideologies, movements, cultures, values, aspirations and practices openly and in the parliamentary guise as a part of its general offensive against the people.
We will have to plan two types of programmes to celebrate these anniversaries. The first type is the programmes in rural areas organised by our Party, PLGA, Revolutionary Peopleʹs Committees (RPCs) and the revolutionary mass organisations (MOs). The second type is the open and legal programmes mainly in the cities to be organised by open organisations either independently or with other revolutionary-democratic forces and individuals. Our MO leadership should take maximum initiative for organizing these events. They should take the responsibility of chalking out the plan of these programmes with other friendly forces. While the fiftieth anniversary of Naxalbari uprising has international significance, it is basically related to the ongoing protracted peopleʹs war of our country. Pro-Maoist and radical democratic parties, organisations and individuals at all-India and state levels may be willing to come together with us for celebrating this anniversary if we make necessary efforts, take initiative and show necessary flexibility. While it is important to try to celebrate the occasion jointly with other
forces, we should not allow the dilution of the ideological-political essence and significance of Naxalbari. So it is better to unite with only those who broadly uphold Naxalbari without diluting its essence. They should generally be supportive of the ongoing revolutionary and democratic movements. Keeping the above in mind, maximum participation should be ensured. Our Central Committee appeals to the genuine proletarian parties, organisations and individuals of different countries as well as the friends, well-wishers and supporters of the Indian revolution to organise
programmes celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Naxalbari in the context of the ongoing protracted peopleʹs war in India.
Genuine Marxists as well as revisionists will uphold and celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the GPCR, the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution and Marxʹs birth bicentenary. So there is a possibility of organizing these celebrations on an even wider basis by involving many more forces than the Naxalbari anniversary. But we should unite with only those Marxist and democratic forces which uphold the core teaching of Marx – the absolute necessity of smashing the old state by applying force to build socialism under the dictatorship of the proletariat so as to proceed towards establishing a classless society, i.e., communism. This essential teaching of Marxism– which was first put in practice in its true spirit in Russia under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin – is ignored and rejected by the revisionists and neo-revisionists of the world and in this way fight against Marxism in the name of Marxism in the interest of capitalism-imperialism.
These forces are in existence in all countries today and they try to prevent the working class from advancing on the revolutionary road.Opportunists like CPI and CPI(M) in our country too do not adhere to this fundamental teaching of Marx. So it is better to avoid uniting with them on the basis of the Party banner for these celebrations. We must not forget for a moment that it is impossible to advance in the fight against the enemy with clarity, courage and unity in the ranks of the Party and the people without a relentless and uncompromising struggle against opportunism of all hues. However, those intellectuals who uphold the essence of Marxʹs teachings, Bolshevik Revolution and the GPCR even while supporting such parties can be invited to our forums and programmes.
Since the fiftieth anniversary of the GPCR, the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution and Marxʹs birth bicentenary will be celebrated internationally, efforts should be made to organize at least one international program in any of the Indian cities on a date agreeable to all participants. We can utilize the event to talk about all the four anniversaries. Likewise, Indian revolutionaries should participate in international programmes organized by genuine revolutionary forces abroad to celebrate these events.
It is to be expected that the enemy will try to create all kinds of hurdles everywhere to prevent us from organizing these anniversaries, be it in the urban or the rural areas. We should be prepared for this and make realistic and practicable plans to conduct these programmes successfully in spite of such disruptionist efforts. We should organize public meetings, hall meetings and seminars in urban areas by depending on our mass base and by mobilizing the people. All programmes should aim at taking the ideology of MLM, its relevance in the present conditions and in the future and the Partyʹs ideological-political line to the vast masses. MLM should be presented as the alternative to all bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideologies such as economism, reformism, parliamentarism and post-modernism, etc. The necessity of the world proletarian revolution, the unprecedented world historic achievements of the Russian and Chinese revolutions and the great advancements they made in the history of humanity in spite of later betrayals by the revisionists, renegades and capitalist-roaders emerging from the Party leadership should be highlighted. The reasons behind the collapse of the Russian, Chinese and other socialist/new democratic states along with measures to prevent similar reversals in the future should be discussed deeply and comprehensively. Our views on the scientific theory of the proletariat emerging from the struggle for production, class struggle and scientific experiment, the need for applying proletarian leadership method and style of work as well as the application of class-line and mass-line should be placed before the broad masses of the people.
In addition, the Party, PLGA, organs of peopleʹs power/RPCs and revolutionary MOs should widely propagate the achievements of Indiaʹs revolutionary movement among the masses. All party committees from top to bottom along with primary units and Party fractions in MOs/united front forums should conduct theoretical study and political classes on MLM, Bolshevik Revolution, GPCR and the NDR of our country during these occasions. New recruitment campaigns should be taken up by the Party, militia and MOs to replenish their strength with new forces. Torchlight/armed processions, rallies, pubic meetings and group meetings etc. should be conducted in the Guerrilla Zones by following all methods of defense and secret functioning considering the likelihood of enemy attacks to disrupt our programs. Similarly, rallies, hall meetings, public meetings, seminars, etc. should be organised by the mass organisations in the cities by mobilizing like-minded forces and the people. Our Party, PLGA, RPCs and revolutionary MOs should prepare propaganda material, give interviews to the media and publish theoretical-political books and special issues of magazines in concerned languages.
Books on revolutionary theory and history should be published/republished. Propaganda material of different kinds and all other publications should in general have a simple and creative style of presentation easily understandable to the masses. Fractions in MOs should pay special attention and take initiative in this regard. Special attention should be paid to bring out books/booklets/collection of articles written in a lucid style for enhancing the understanding of MLM, Russian Revolution, GPCR and our Party history among the cadres and activists. Given the significance of the four anniversaries, attention should be paid to enhance the ideological-political level of the Party. Revolution is a festival of the workers and the toiling masses and its victories are the fruits of their heroic sacrifices. The upcoming anniversaries too are the festive occasions of the masses. So their active participation and involvement should be ensured in all our propaganda, mobilization and programmes. We must strive to involve the people to the widest possible extent so that they embrace these events as their own and enthusiastically enhance their role in the countryʹs ongoing evolutionary war.
Comrades,
The international proletariat shoulders the historic responsibility of guiding the vast masses in thousands of battles against the enemy through a tortuous path to establish a classless society. Wielding the invincible weapon of MLM – the present-day Marxism – it will continue to advance towards fulfilling this historic mission. Our Party as one of its detachments has achieved some significant successes in the last fifty years since the outbreak of the great Naxalbari armed agrarian uprising by passing through a thorny path with many ups and downs, twists and turns in the path of protracted peopleʹs war. These achievements have been won by creatively applying MLM to the concrete conditions of the country, fighting back the continuous fascist repression of the ruling classes in collusion with the imperialists and with the blood of thousands of heroic martyrs. We should utilize the upcoming anniversaries to uphold and defend these achievements and draw inspiration from them to make further advancements in the peopleʹs war. We should equip, educate and remould the Party and the masses with MLM on these occasions and place before them the positive and negative experiences and the lessons learnt from the mistakes in our practice. We should strive to enhance the enthusiasm and fighting spirit of our Party, PLGA, RPCs, MOs, friendly forces and the masses through these anniversaries. We should try to gain the confidence of the friendly forces and the people and to win them over to our side so that they can be united vastly and strongly against the common enemy. We should make all efforts to propagate new democracy, socialism and communism as the only path of liberation from the chains of exploitation, oppression, bondage and
enslavement. This is the path shown by the great international proletarian teachers Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. This is the trail blazed by Bolshevik Revolution, Chinese Revolution and Naxalbari. On the occasion of the four upcoming anniversaries, let us renew our pledge to continue advancing on this path! We call upon all Party units and members to propagate this Call extensively among the people and successfully conduct the anniversary celebrations with their active involvement and participation.
With revolutionary greetings,
Ganapathy)
General Secretary,
Central Committee,
CPI(Maoist)
Originally Posted by Maoists take the aerial route, fight CRPF in Chhattisgarh with desi rockets
One night this February, six rockets whooshed out of the forest and burst into flames, raining shrapnel into trees surrounding a police camp in Chhattisgarh. No lives were lost but the explosions sounded a loud alarm for the security forces fighting a decades-old, violent Maoist insurgency.
Until recently, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) cleared all the trees and shrubs before pitching their camps in the forests where the rebels hold sway. But these days the trees are left to stand as a shield against projectiles that the insurgents seem to fire with worrying frequency.
Security specialists say the Maoists are adapting themselves to the changing ground situation. With the region teeming with 118 paramilitary battalions comprising 120,000 troops, they are taking to the aerial route to attack.
“The more we learn their tactics, the more they learn our tactics,” said a senior CRPF officer involved in anti-Maoist operations. “As we improve, so do they.”
The Maoists’ crude artillery of rockets and mortars was on display even during the deadly ambush in Sukma two weeks ago that killed 25 CRPF soldiers. The guerrillas used five different kinds of airborne projectiles in the ambush, officials said.
One of the projectiles seized from the spot of the attack was what security forces describe as the “Rambo arrow”. Fired from a traditional bow, the arrowhead carried low-grade gunpowder that explodes on impact after hitting a target.
“Rambo arrows don’t cause much damage, but they disorient you in the fog of war,” said a CoBRA trooper who survived the ambush. The CoBRA is a special commando unit that specialises in guerrilla warfare.
Intelligence officials who studied the ambush said the projectiles were used to force troopers to abandon cover positions and come into the open, where they were picked off with gunfire.
The rockets, including the crude versions, bear testimony to the Maoists’ changing tactics under heightened pressure exerted by the swelling number of security forces. Their area of influence has shrunk over the years and mounting ambushes are becoming difficult, though not entirely rare. Triggering improvised explosive devices (IEDs) is also becoming a challenge.
“We have been recovering IEDs of increasing sophistication,” Jamal Khan, the principal of CRPF’s Institute of IED Management at Pune told HT. “As we have grown better at identifying and defusing IEDs, the Maoists have been forced to adapt”.
The new emphasis on airborne projectiles, field officers say, is a logical next step in a decades-long game of cat-and-mouse between soldiers and guerrillas.
Originally Posted by ʹThere Was No Encounter.. No casualities from Maoistsʹ -maoist party audio statement
Maoist party rejects heavy encounter in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. firing,The Statement maintained that the police deliberately launched a malicious propaganda on Maoists and issuing concoted versions about the death toll to rejuvenate the demoralised cadre of the CRPF This act Wonʹt deter the Maoists in the bastion and the people Would continue to Wage the Struggles, it reiterated.
Dandakarnya committee of Maoist Party said in statement. After recent attack on Police by Maiosts, Police are creating furore in forest villages, the statement criticised. On May 13,14,15 Police fired in air and created panic among people, it said. Police physically tortured the people who were there at forest villages, the statament criticised.