second partAfter the emergence of PLGA under the leadership of Party and the
later commissions and commands at various levels, PLGA forces intensifiedwidened guerrilla war on the class enemies, their agents, on the government
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mercenary armed forces and gained higher level experience in the process of
achieving the central and other important tasks of the party. In different areas
through guerilla warfare tactical counter offensive campaigns and actions
conducted in joint and independent forms with coordination. Various kinds of
military training syllabi were developed and with this the leadership in the
military front as well as PLGA's forces fighting capacity, skills and the efficiency
in preparing tactics were developed. They have been taking up timely Tactical
and Counter Offensive Campaigns (TCOC) in their direct guidance and
achieving a considerable positive change. As a part of it, there were guerrilla
war actions in the leadership of the Central and East Regional Commands that
dealt strong blows on the enemy forces such as the – Nayagarh campaign –
Operation ‘Ropeway’; Jehanabad and Chaibasa jail breaks, Giridih, Khasmahal,
Rajpur-Baghela, Jhajha, Jajpur raids, the attack on the Lakhiserai district court
and release of PBM-CMCM, Mamail, Bandu-Panduva counter offensive
actions, attack on the police escort vehicle of the inmates of Giridih prison,
retaliation in Chipa Dohar, Dhar dharia, Bhandaria, Amuvatikar, the Dumrinala,
Kalapahad ambush, retaliation of Operation Hill Vijay, Operation Monsoon and
in Kolhan-Podahat in Bihar-Jharkhand; Murkinar and Raniboodili raids,
ambushes in Padeda, Kothacheruvu, Urpalmetta, Mallampodur, Madanveda,
Mukaram, Kongera, Pusutola, Jeeramghati, Tahkavada, Kasalpad,
Kothacheruvu, Burkapal, Jamburkheda, Minapa, Kadenar and Jeeragudem, the
retaliation to Bottem aerial strike, Dharmaram and Jeeragudem raids in
Dandakaranya; R.Udayagiri, NALCO raids, Tellarayi, Balimela and Sunki
ambushes in Andhra-Odisha Border area; Navatola ambush in Maharashtra;
Sildah raid in West Bung; Sanbayal and Sahajpani ambushes in Odisha. PLGA
took up 4,073 big, medium and small kind of tactical counter offensive actions
on the central and the state armed forces in the past two decades. It wiped
out 3,090 and injured 4,077 police, Para-military personnel and Commandos,
and 2,365 modern weapons as well as 1,19,682 cartridges etc., seized from
them. By practicing the principle 'the enemy's weapon is our weapon' armed
and strengthened PLGA and hundreds of new fighters were armed. Apart from
this PLGA forces faced hundreds of encirclements and elimination attacks in
this two decades. Most of these attacks were retaliated and replied bravely by
the PLGA. By all these efforts guerilla war was relatively intensified and
extended in the revolutionary movement areas.
Intelligence, education, health, culture, technical, communication,
supply and other such departments of the Army developed in PLGA. Under the
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leadership of Party PLGA been as a revolutionary political army through doing
the propaganda of revolutionary politics of seizure of state power, building the
Party, Mass Organizations, People's Militia, RPCs and mobilization of people in
the people's struggles, participating and protecting in agricultural production,
land levelling and irrigation campaigns and enhancing the living standard of
the people by participating and building welfare activities such as education
and people’s health, Party and PLGA were able to win the strong hold in the
hearts of the people. PLGA fulfilled its role in the various political campagns
and especially in the several recruitment campaigns as per the call of the party
committees and commands. Hundreds of youths joined PLGA. These
recruitment campaigns primarily took place in two guerrilla zones, apart from
the RPCs and Gram Sabhas of the people, parents also played a vital role in
these campaigns.
As a part of its international proletariat task, the party actively
participated in the theoretical struggle against the various trends in the
country and at the international plane. It played a vital role in establishing the
Coordination Committee of South Asia Maoist Parties and Organisations
(CCOMPOSA) and in fighting against the modern revisionism of PrachandaBhattarai. Our party placed before the International Communist Movement
the document of understanding towards the formation of international
proletarian organisation. It is maintaining relations with the various
revolutionary organisations in various forms and worked to develop mutual
solidarity movements in the International Communist movement. Especially,
solidarity movements have been continuously going on since 2011
internationally in support to the People’s War in India and demanding stop to
the counter revolutionary offensive campaigns on the People’s War in India
and with the demand to release political prisoners. Our party took up
campaigns in solidarity to the People’s War in Philippines in 2013 and 2022.
The Communist Party of Philippines took up solidarity campaigns against
Operation SAMADHAN and Operation Kagaar in 2024 June-July. All these
activities had a positive impact on our People’s War and the International
Communist Movement.
Although the party ideologically, theoretically and politically enriched
its line, it lost on big scale leadership, members and PLGA forces initially in the
urban and plain areas and later in the forest areas in the nearly two decades
of concentrated fascist counter revolutionary campaigns unleashed by the
Indian fascist ruling classes with the support of the impalists. Revolutionary
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Mass Organisations and Revolutionary people’s governments weakened. Mass
base and Areas of the movement shrunk. On the whole, people’s movements,
guerrilla war and subjective strength decreased to a large extent. The fascist
central and state governments assessed this change in the revolutionary camp
and started ‘Operation Kagaar’ offensive stating it to be the ultimate war of
elimination, as a part of the new counter revolutionary Surajkund plan to
eliminate the party, PLGA, organs of the people and the revolutionary
movement in two years starting from 2024 January. Thus, there is a
fundamental change in the character of enemy offensive in ‘Operation Kagaar’.
The enemy completed all preparations to stop our activities. They are
attempting to affect the morale of the party and the people and to eliminate
the revolutionary mass base. They deployed a large number of additional IPS
officers in anti-Maoist operations in the areas of the movement. They
strengthened informer-covert network in a big way. They deployed central,
state, Para-military, special police and Commando forces, Army special units in
the veil of these forces, NSG Commandos, Air force Garuda Commandos with
modern weapons and technology in thousands. Counter revolutionary
Greyhounds, STF, Jaguar, Hawk, SOG, Thunderbolt, C-60, DVF, DRG, Bastariya
Battalion, Danteswari fighters and other such state, district forces and COBRA
Para-military Commando forces with unemployed youth, tribal youth, traitors
of revolution and those from the families of people’s enemies, of the states of
the revolutionary movement and deployed them. The number of all these
forces was three and a half lakhs by mid-2010 that rose to 5 lakhs by 2014 and
to above 7 lakhs now. Modi government stated it would send additional forces
in the revolutionary areas. The central government nearly completed its plan
to set up 400 fortified police stations and 2,200 communication towers before
launching of Operation Green Hunt in 2009. These apart, the establishment of
Forward Operational Bases (FOB) was completed by the end of 2023 as a part
of ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive campaigns. The Central Home Ministry declared it
established 199 FOBs in the areas of Maoist movement from 22019 to 2023. As
per the plan an additional 300–500-armed personnel were deployed in each
camp bringing the total number to nearly one lakh. Residential areas,
agricultural lands and forests are being bombed through drones to create
terror among the people as a part of the operations to suppress the Maoists.
Of late Army tanks are being used. Fifty new police and para-military camps
were set up in the country since 2024 January. The central and the state
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governments announced they would set up another 29 camps in Bastar in the
coming days. In Jharkhand new camps are being posting in the same manner.
In the border areas of the seven states' strategic areas the process of
expansion of carpet security is almost completed. RESAT-1 satellite was
experimented to keep a vigil on the movements of guerrillas in the forest in
2012. In the later period, each and every police station and police camp are
supplied with drones. Real time information is being collected. The enemy
forces participating in each and every operation against the Maoists are being
given several kinds of incentives. These forces are being instigated to fire with
automatic rifles and artillery shelling on the people and indulge in
indiscriminate massacres and atrocities without any hurdles.
The central and state government forces, Para-military, police
Commando forces and Indian Army are deployed to eliminate the leadership
of the party from the CC to the AC, mainly the CC and state level leadership
working in the protection of PLGA units in section, Platoon, Company and
Battalion formations and the PLGA forces. The central and the state
governments are utilizing NIA and other such intelligence agencies and armed
forces to make large scale attacks on the Mass Organisations and people’s
movements in the urban, plain and forest areas. Presently the enemy is mainly
following the method of encirclement and attack in the guerrilla zones and red
resistance areas. A big operation involves 1500 to 3000 or even more Special
Police, Commando, Para-military and Army personnel. Twenty to twenty five
villages or 10-12 kms are covered in each operation in cordon, search and kill
method.
Due to these offensives, there are inncreasingly severe hurdles and
dangers in the political, organizational and military efforts of our Party, PLGA
and United Front in the rural, urban and plain areas all over the country.
In the past two decades of intense class struggle between the enemy
and us, we temporarily setback in the country and our subjective strength
(Party, PLGA and UF) decreased. But we sustained actively in certain forest
areas. On the whole, in spite of few weaknesses amidst severe losses in the
revolutionary movement, it advanced with historic and great successes from
2004 to 2011. In the later period, since we could not fight back the intensifiedwidened brutal repressive campaigns in an effective manner; since we could
not develop the people’s movements; since the party could not overcome its
subjective mistakes, weaknesses and limitations, the revolutionary movement
faced difficult situation by 2013 and faced countrywide temporary setback.
The CC synthesized the efforts to overcome the temporary setback in the
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revolutionary movement on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the party
in 2024.
The CC gave a call for a campaign to consolidate the party in 2019 with
the understanding that theoretical, political, organizational consolidation of
the party is vital to overcome the temporary setback and advance the
revolutionary movement. In this campaign, there were efforts to train the
party ranks to achieve the central task and other immediate tasks in the
situation of temporary setback, in the changed social conditions and
strengthening carpet security. There were efforts to raise party membership,
consolidation of the party committees from the bottom to the top, to mobilise
the broad masses in struggles to solve the daily, fundamental problems
utilizing the propaganda-agitation programs, in open and legal forms of
organisation in the leadership of various forums of UF together with friendly
forces in all the areas in the country where party is working. There were efforts
to mobilise thousands of people in anti-imperialist, anti-Comprador
Bureaucratic Capitalist, anti-feudal, anti-Corporatisation-Militarisation
struggles.
Basing on the fundamental guerilla warfare tactics the PLGA forces
took up tactical counter offensive in guerrilla areas. In the 669 guerrilla war
actions taken up from 2021 to 2024 July, 261 police men were wiped out and
516 were injured. 25 arms were seized.
Although there was this positive effort to overcome the temporary
setback in the past three and a half years, we did not change the tactics and
methods of work according to the objective conditions such as to prevent
losses in the enemy offensive. This caused severe losses of comrades from the
Central Committee to the bottom. We lost 439 utmost valuable comrades of
the Party, PLGA and UF and 215 weapons. This resulted in further weakening
of the three magnificent spheres of People’s War quantitatively and
qualitatively.
An overall view shows that the party is facing an unprecedented
encirclement-elimination war in Operation Kagaar. Protection of the party,
PLGA, UF and the Indian revolutionary movement came forth as the immediate
task. While the enemy offensive is bringing forth the shortcomings and
weaknesses in our party, on the other hand, it is also creating the condition
needed for our ranks to fight daringly and determinedly by applying the correct
tactics and war skills to advance.
Testing times exposed those who argued that PPW does not suit our
social conditions only to hide their defeatism and those who fell for the enemy.
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By getting influence with the few crumbs thrown by enemy a section of weak
elements fell in the trap. In these testing times all these elements were
exposed one by one. Due to enemy's hook and crook policies a section in
people has become inactive. Few others surrendered to the pressure of the
enemy forces. Local organs of the people were mostly affected. All these are
affecting the morale of a section of comrades.
Without imbibing in the light of
MLM theory, by grasping the wide experience of the party gained through
enormous sacrifices, the valuable lessons, the militancy and sacrificing
consciousness of the party and by working determinedly inpractice and
without providing proper understanding of all these all over the party, we
cannot understand the favourable aspects in unfavourable conditions.
We must not forget that the revolutionary movement advances in
waves. In class struggle, there is the enemy offensive, the counter offensive of
the revolutionary forces and offensive and counter offensives between these
mutually antagonistic forces. In the process there are quantitative and
qualitative changes in the balance of forces, twists and turns and ebbs and
flows through which the revolutionary forces are tempered and reach the
situation of ending the enemy offensive. Twists and turns, victories and
defeats are natural in Protracted People’s War. Ultimately people will achieve
success. The exploitive ruling classes concentrate their entire strength to
sustain their power up to the time they are totally destroyed. This is the fact
pronounced in the experiences of the world revolutionary movement.
However, in spite of any number of twists and turns and ups and downs
according to the dialectical historic materialist principles, social changes will
inevitably go forth in the path of a new and classless society development. This
is the rule of history. In order to understand this, we need to enhance our
theoretical level and put politics in command. We must deeply mingle with and
take our revolutionary politics and theory widely among the broad masses. We
must overcome the shortcomings and limitations in creatively applying PPW
to specific conditions. We must rectify the mistakes in our tactics and
functioning and creatively develop them. We must become red and expert in
fulfilling our tasks. Then we will develop stronger, more organised and more
dynamic.
MLM is our theory and a powerful weapon for us to achieve the
objective of revolution to rectify the various aspects becoming hurdles in the
way to achieve our tasks and to strengthen our party. Let us take it up stronger
than ever before. This is the essence of proletarianizing and bolshevising the
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party.
It means – 1. We must study and deeply understand Marxism-LeninnismMaoism and the political and military line of the party and strongly abide by it
without vacillation; must creatively apply MLM to our specific practice; must
determinedly implement the party line; must prove it is correct; must
strengthen the party theoretically, politically and organisationally fighting
against the various non-proletarian trends that are coming forth in the party
under the influence of the various capitalist and feudal theories; 2. Must
develop the party strong with proper theoretical, political, organisational,
military line and an organisation that properly implements democratic
centralism and discipline and develop the party as an organisation of mass
nature; 3. Must fight against all kinds of right and left opportunist trends inside
and outside the party; 4. Must sincerely admit our mistakes, shortcomings and
weaknesses, correct those and learn from practice so that they do not recur;
5. Must follow class line and mass line and closely unite with the people
through following the Maoist principle of ‘from the masses to the masses’ and
through guiding them. We can thus make true the Marxist principle that
‘people are the makers of history’.
Therefore, in spite of any number of unfavourable conditions in the
revolutionary movement, there are abundant opportunities all over the
country to overcome those. The people of oppressed classes, social sections
and nationalities are the source like a perennial river for the revolutionary
movement. This apart, although our subjective strength considerably
decreased in all the spheres, the party ranks, PLGA forces, revolutionary mass
organizations of revolutionary people and people exist. International and
domestic conditions are very favourable for revolution.
Basing on these, the present immediate, main and central task is to
preserve the party, organise the people and take up class struggle-guerrilla war
basing on the continuously rising mass base, strengthen the mass base and
develop the subjective forces. For the purpose, depending on the concrete
conditions of the various areas, preparing correct perspectives, deploying the
party cadres in the planful manner with strategic outlook. We must organise
the people of the oppressed classes, social sections and oppressed
nationalities in the urban, plain and forest areas in struggles for daily life and
fundamental problems. We must gain command in leading these struggles in
a mutually dependent manner. In any area, we must base proper natural
covers and consolidate the party invincible to the enemy. We must
continuously revolutionise the people with the politiccs of seizure of state
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power.
The Party must utilise the two magnificent weapons PLGA and UF. We
must concentrate on raising the quality of the Party in a planned manner to
make success the party consolidation campaign and as a part of it, training the
party theoretically, politically, organisationally and militarily and thus make
efforts to enhance the quantity. Only thus the party will once again strengthen
and advance in the path of success.
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