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Police Claim 17 Maoists Killed In Firefight With Security Forces In Sukma District

Sukma District, March 29, 2025: At least 17 persons alleged to be cadres of the CPI (Maoist) were killed in a fierce gun battle with security personnel along the inter-district border area of Sukma-Dantewada close to Gogunda hilly forest terrain, about 480 km south of Raipur on Saturday morning, Inspector General of Police of Bastar Range Sundarraj P announced to the press today.

According to the IGP, the firefight broke out around 8am in the forest area under the Kerlapal police station limits, when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Maoist operation.

In his report the IGP stated that personnel from the District Reserve guard (DRG), a unit of the state police, and the Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPF) 159th battalion were involved in the operation, launched on Friday night based on intelligence inputs about the presence of Maoists in the forests of Gogunda, Nendum and Upampalli villages in the Kerlapal police station area.

In his prepared remarks, the IGP said three DRG personnel and one CRPF jawan sustained minor injuries in the skirmish, adding that the injured jawans have been admitted to a hospital, and their condition was stated to be normal.

The IGP told the press that after the exchange of fire stopped, the bodies of 17 individuals purported to be Maoists were recovered from the encounter site, in addition to a large cache of firearms, including an AK-47 rifle, self-loading rifle (SLR), INSAS rifle, .303 rifle, a rocket launcher and barrel grenade launcher (BGL), and explosive materials.

As per the IGP’s report, seven of the deceased persons have been identified so far, while efforts are underway to ascertain the identity of the others.

According to the IGP, one of the deceased identified by police is believed to be Kuhdami Jagdish, alias Budhra, a Special Zonal Committee member of the Maoist party and a secretary of the Maoist party’s Darbha Division.

The IGP reported that six of the deceased individuals include four Area Committee Members of the Maoist party.

The IGP concluded his statement by saying that a search operation was still underway in the area, and that further details are awaited, adding that Saturday’s encounter in Sukma is the fifth this month in Bastar division.

Sukma, among the seven most Maoist-affected districts in Bastar zone, is cited as an epicenter of Maoist activities in south Chhattisgarh

a leading cadre of the CPI (Maoist) was killed in a gun battle...let's intensify support people's war in India! ICSPWI international week 7-12 avril

 

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Bijapur District, April 1, 2025: A person authorities believe to be a leading cadre of the CPI (Maoist) was killed in a gun battle between security personnel and a squad of alleged Maoist cadres on Monday in the dense jungle hills near the tri-junction of Nelgoda, Ikeli, and Belnar villages in the Dantewada forest area of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, Chief of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj P announced to the press today.

According to the police official the exchange of fire started around 9am on Monday while security forces were out on an anti-Maoist combing operation based on intelligence inputs. The exchange of fire lasted nearly two hours. When the encounter ended, the body of a woman police claim to be leading Maoist cadre Renuka was recovered from the site.

The police official claimed that the deceased individual, identified as Renuka, operated under several aliases — Chaite, Saraswati and Damyanti — and had been active in the Maoist movement since 1996. She allegedly served as the in-charge of the Maoist party’s press team in the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee and the party’s Central Regional Bureau. She was also purported to be the editor of the underground Maoist publication Prabhat Patrika.

In his report the police official alleged that Renuka came from Kadavendi village in Warangal district of Telangana state and held a law degree. She supposedly joined the Maoist movement nearly three decades ago and rapidly climbed the ranks. Her early days in the movement were reportedly spent working alongside leading Maoist cadre Krishna Anna in Andhra Pradesh. In 2003, she was believed to have been promoted in the Maoist ranks and by 2006, she was active in South Bastar under the guidance of leading Maoist cadre Dula Dada alias Anand.

As per the report of the police official, in 2013, Renuka was said to have moved to the Maad region and worked closely with leading Maoist cadre Ramanna. Following Ramanna’s death due to COVID-19, Renuka was made the press team in-charge of the Central Regional Bureau in 2020. Under her leadership, several Maoist publications including Prabhat Patrika, Mahila Margam, Awami Jung, People’s March, Jhankar, and Pituri were regularly issued.

The police official concluded his remarks by declaring that security personnel recovered an INSAS rifle, other arms and ammunition and items of daily use from the encounter site, adding that further search operations were underway in the area.

international week of action 7-12 avril

 

1-2 April: Call to Action to Free Anan Yaeesh, Palestinian political prisoner in Italy

On 2 April 2025, in an Italian court in L’Aquila, the political trial of Palestinians Anan Yaeesh, Ali Arar and Mansour Doghmosh will begin. The three Palestinians are accused of “subversive association for terrorist purposes” in a case that began when the Zionist entity, “Israel,” demanded the extradition of Anan Yaeesh, a liberated Palestinian prisoner, from Italy. While Ali and Mansour have been provisionally released pending trial, Anan has been imprisoned in Italy for one year, since January 2024.

• Sign the petition by Urgence Palestine to support Anan Yaeesh and his fellow detainees

Anan Yaeesh is a 37-year-old Palestinian activist from Tulkarem in the West Bank of occupied Palestine. Active in the liberation movement during the Second, Al-Aqsa, Intifada, he was imprisoned for 4 years in Zionist prisons and seriously injured after an ambush by colonial special forces in 2006. In 2013, he left Palestine for Norway before settling in Italy in 2017 and obtaining a residence permit there in 2019. In 2023, he visited Jordan, where he was detained by Jordanian authorities, who maintain normalization and security cooperation with the Zionist regime, for several months; he was able to return to Italy in November 2023.

At the end of January 2024, he was arrested by the Italian police in the city of L’Aquila where he resides at the request of the “Israeli” regime, then transferred to detention in the high-security prison of Terni for alleged collaboration with the Tulkarem Brigades, an organization linked to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (one of the armed groups of Fatah, that continue to uphold Palestinian liberation rather than “security coordination” with the occupier.)

While the L’Aquila court rejected his extradition on 12 March 2024, noting that he would be subjected to torture, Italian prosecutors arrested two more Palestinians one day before, on 11 March 2024 — Ali Irar and Mansour Doghmosh — accusing all of them of supporting the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Tulkarem. In September 2024, the court ordered Ali and Mansour’s provisional release, while the charges remained in place, but Anan has been continually imprisoned in a high-security facility.

On 2 April 2025, his trial in Italy will begin, and we encourage all organizations, supporters, activists and people in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance to support Anan Yaeesh through actions, banner drops, posters, videos of support, etc. We have a sample poster in solidarity with Anan Yaeesh that you can download and use:

On Wednesday, 26 February, Anan Yaeesh addressed the court, emphasizing the legitimacy of Palestinian resistance under international law and the necessity of confronting genocide.He noted:

“You want me to defend myself against the accusations against me, but I am ashamed to seek acquittal on charges that, for me, represent a source of honor. I do not want to defend myself against the accusation of having rights and having claimed them, or of having tried to liberate my people and my country from colonial oppression. I swear that I have no intention of being acquitted of the legitimate resistance against the Zionist occupation. The Palestinian resistance is one of the noblest phenomena known to history. On the contrary, I am ashamed to find myself in a warm room, even in prison, while children in Gaza die of cold, hunger, and thirst. I am ashamed of the humane treatment received from the prison authorities here, while my fellow prisoners in Israeli jails suffer the worst torture, oppression, and abuse.”

On the same day, Georges Abdallah, Lebanese communist and Palestinian resistance fighter imprisoned in France since 1984 although he has been eligible for release since 1999, will celebrate his 74th birthday. We urge all to join with the call of the Unified Campaign to Free Georges Abdallah for actions on 2 April.

Let’s make 1 and 2 April days for broad mobilization, calling for the release of Georges Abdallah, Anan Yaeesh, Ali Irar and Mansour Doghmosh; Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker of the Holy Land 5; Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Yunseo Chong and all those targeted for ICE detention; the Filton 18, and all our comrades incarcerated in imperialist, normalizing and reactionary prisons, for their participation in or support for the resistance of the Palestinian people!

Actions you can take:

• Sign the petition by Urgence Palestine to support Anan Yaeesh and his fellow detainees
• Join protests for Anan, Ali and Mansour:
  Paris – Tuesday, 1 April, 7 pm, Square D’Ajaccio, Rue de Grenelle and Boulevard des Invalides. Free Anan Yaeesh and his comrades. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHyq4UgCxLR/
  L’Aquila – Wednesday, 2 April, 9:30 am, Tribunale de L’Aquila, Via XX Settembre 68, 9:30 am. Rally for Anan, Ali and Mansour at their hearing. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHvf5UDM-io/
• Poster, drop a banner or hand out leaflets in your community about the case of Anan Yaeesh, Ali and Mansour. Use this sample! 

- 2 avril 2025 : journée internationale pour la libération de Georges Abdallah

 

Temps est venu de vaincre ! Arrachons la libération de Georges Abdallah !

Chers amis, chers camarades,
Alors qu’il y a quelques jours était commémoré le 49e anniversaire de la journée de la Terre, nous ferons, cette année encore, du
02 avril prochain une journée internationale pour la libération de Georges Abdallah.
Célébrer conjointement la journée de la Terre et l’exigence de la libération de Georges Abdallah, telle est notre évidence car
indéniablement les deux sont intrinsèquement liés. Georges Abdallah et les Palestiniens entrés en résistance ne font qu’un pour
une Palestine unie de la mer au Jourdain avec le droit juste et légitime au retour de tous les réfugiés. Georges Abdallah et les
Palestiniens combattants ne font qu’un dans leur lutte acharnée, engagée de longues dates, sans jamais aucun reniement ni aucune
compromission contre l’impérialisme et le sionisme, contre l’exploitation et toutes les formes d’oppression, contre le colonialisme
et toutes les formes de fascisation d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. Georges Abdallah et les Palestiniens, fédayins, ne font qu’un quand ils
démontrent dans leur chair et par leurs actes que la résistance est un droit et qu’il est juste de se révolter parce que « Palestine
vivra et Palestine vaincra » et pour l’émancipation des peuples. Georges Abdallah et les Palestiniens ne font qu’un, quand flambeaux
de la résistance, ils ont à affronter la petite barbarie de la prison à vie de Lannemezan à Damoun, Jalama et Ofar mais que tous
démontrent, jour après jour, qu’être captif, là n’est pas la question car il s’agit de ne pas se rendre !
Alors oui, en ces deux dates historiques - ô combien symboliques car à jamais marquées du sceau du combat d’un peuple, d’un
homme réaffirmés dans une terre, une identité et une Histoire inlassable de résistance face à l’occupant et la colonisation – nous
réaffirmons notre total engagement aux côtés des résistants palestiniens en lutte depuis le premier jour de l’occupation de la
Palestine et faisant toujours front aujourd’hui malgré le génocide en cours. Tout comme nous réaffirmons aussi qu’en France, tout
soutien à la résistance palestinienne passe inévitablement par le soutien à l’un des combattants de cette résistance qu’est Georges

EN MEMORIA DEL COMPAÑERO PROFESOR CELEDONIO LUIS SANTIBÁÑEZ

“Hay hombres que luchan un día y son buenos.

Hay otros que luchan un año y son mejores.

Hay quienes luchan muchos años y son muy buenos.

Pero hay los que luchan toda la vida: esos son los imprescindibles”.

 

Bertolt Brecht.

 

·         Ha fallecido uno de los mejores hijos del pueblo

EN MEMORIA DEL COMPAÑERO PROFESOR CELEDONIO LUIS SANTIBÁÑEZ

 

A la clase obrera y los trabajadores

Al campesinado pobre y los pueblos originarios-oprimidos

A las mujeres y las juventudes del pueblo

A las organizaciones y sindicatos democráticos

A la Liga Anti-imperialista (LAI) y nuestros amigos en todo el mundo

 

Compañeras y compañeros.

Con profundo pesar informamos sobre el fallecimiento de nuestro compañero Profesor Celedonio Luis Santibáñez, quien fuera fundador de nuestra organización democrática, miembro de nuestro contingente histórico e integrante destacado de la Comisión Política de la Corriente del Pueblo Sol Rojo.

El compañero Celedonio Luis Santibáñez tenía 72 de edad al momento de su defunción, y perdió la vida este 30 de marzo de 2025 librando su última gran batalla contra un cáncer que invadió su cuerpo y le mantuvo alejado de sus actividades políticas desde el pasado mes de diciembre de 2024. Apenas en enero de este año nuestra Asamblea General rindió un homenaje en vida al compañero Celedonio Luis Santibáñez guardando su lugar de honor en el presídium, honrando su nombre y sus enseñanzas bajo las cuales se han formado varias generaciones de luchadores y dirigentes populares.

 

El Profesor Celedonio Luis Santibáñez nació en una familia de campesinos pobres el 18 de octubre de 1952 en la comunidad indígena zapoteca de Buena Vista, municipio de San Agustín Lochixa, Oaxaca. Pese a la miseria y las dificultades que los pobres de esa región padecen, el joven Celedonio destacó en sus estudios siempre como un alumno responsable, brillante y dedicado a sus tareas. Como todos los jóvenes Xiches de las montañas de la Costa oaxaqueña, le gustaba el basquetbol, nadar y trabajar en la siembra y pisca del café. Así, combinando el trabajo en el campo y los estudios, Celedonio pudo concluir la educación básica para tomar el camino que cambiaría su vida para siempre, la Educación Normal.

Statement for Palestinian Land Day: From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free!

Statement of the ILPS for Palestinian Land Day

ILPS commemorates Palestinian Land Day in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for self-determination against Zionist settler-colonialism actively seizing their land and attempting to exterminate them. In the face of the renewed genocidal offensive by the Zionist entity, we call on members to militantly stand with the Palestinian people and their resistance in their fight to end the occupation of their historic land.

First commemorated in 1976 following a general strike in which 6 Palestinians were massacred by the Zionist entity while protesting land stolen from the Arab villages of Sakhalin and Arraba, Palestinian Land Day has stood as a day of national unity of Palestinians for the demands of the return of their land, the end of the Zionist occupation and settlements, and the right of return for Palestinians. At the end of the day, the struggle for Palestinian self-determination is a struggle for their land against Zionism and U.S. imperialism.

Since the Balfour Declaration in 1917, British and then U.S. imperialism has supported and used Zionism as a tool to dispossess the Palestinian people of their land in their attempts to carve up West Asia. Sanctioned in the UN’s Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947 and enacted by the Zionist settlers through the Nakba in 1948, half of the Palestinian population was displaced and dispossessed of their land. Since then, the Zionist entity supported fully by the new hegemon—U.S. imperialism—has continued to violently uproot more Palestinian people and occupy more of their land with aims to annex the West Bank, Gaza, and whole countries in West Asia through its aspirations for a ‘Greater Israel’. The continued barbaric imperialist control by the U.S. and Zionist occupation of Palestine is based on the significance of West Asia’s massive reserves of fossil fuels, but also strategic trade routes critical for transporting plundered resources from Africa and the Asia-Pacific to Europe.

In general, imperialism will always aim to expel the oppressed and toiling peoples from their land in order to deprive them of their livelihood and self-determination so they cannot act as a united political force against their oppressors. This is why the imperialists support and create fascist puppet and settler states such as the Zionist entity, which has a messianic drive to separate the people from their land and whose main ideology is to exterminate the people at all costs to do this. Land is life and central to the struggle of the Palestinian people alongside those in the countryside in the colonies and semi-colonies across the world for national and social liberation.

Now, with an over year-long genocide conducted by the Zionist entity with the full support of U.S. imperialism that has spilled over to Lebanon and Syria after the Al-Aqsa Flood, the demands that Palestinian Land Day stands on must be propagated internationally to isolate the Zionist entity and weaken a limb of imperialism in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Now, more than ever, the peoples across the world must take the streets and show unconditional solidarity with the people of Palestine and their demand for sovereignty, ending the occupation, and a right to return to their historic land.

Signed,

International League of Peoples’ Struggle