Mao and Lenin Quotations

Mao

 “The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds good universally, for China and for all other countries.” (“Problems of War and Strategy”, Selected Works, Vol. 2)

Mao
"Problems of War and Strategy": “According to the Marxist theory of the state, the army is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and retain state power must have a strong army. Some people ridicule us as advocates of the ‘omnipotence of war’. Yes, we are advocates of the omnipotence of revolutionary war; that is good, not bad, it is Marxist.“

Lenin
 Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder: “The fundamental law of revolution, which has been confirmed by all revolutions and especially by all three Russian revolutions in the twentieth century, is as follows: for a revolution to take place it is not enough for the exploited and oppressed masses to realize the impossibility of living in the old way, and demand changes; for a revolution to take place it is essential that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way.“

Lenin
“One will readily agree that any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner.” “In politics it is even harder to know in advance which methods of struggle will be applicable and to our advantage in certain future conditions. Unless we learn to apply all the methods of struggle, we may suffer grave and sometimes even decisive defeat, if changes beyond our control in the position of the other classes bring to the forefront a form of activity in which we are especially weak.“

Mao
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.” (Mao Zedong, “On Protracted War”, Selected Works, Vol. 2)
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Lenin
 “History as a whole, and the history of revolutions in particular, is always richer in content, more varied, more multiform, more lively and ingenious than is imagined by even the best parties, the most class-conscious vanguards of the most advanced classes.“

India - 9 political prisoners writes letter from Pune Jail to Maha Governor

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To
The Governor of Maharashtra
Mumbai
We have been held under judicial custody for the past one year in Yerawada Central Jail of Poona. Five of us were arrested on June 6, 2018, for the alleged crime related to the ʹElgar Parishadʹ that took place in Shaniwarwada of Poona, and four others were arrested on August 28, 2018. We have been accused of various criminal conspiracies such as inciting violence in Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 2018 as well as inciting hatred and hostility between two communities, sedition, anti-nationalism etc. These are utterly false charges.
If ʹthe nationʹ means its people, then how can it be an act of anti-nationalism if the people of the country speak against an elected government and inspire others to think likewise? It is not true that the audience were being provoked to violence against the government through the speeches, motivational songs or plays presented in the Elgar Parishad Convention. Rather, an appeal was being made to the people to collectively struggle against exploitation and oppression in order to ʹdefend the Constitution, the democracy and the nationʹ, and to refrain from voting for the BJP Government which has been acting against the Constitution. It is for this act that we have been charged under fabricated crimes. A severe act of injustice is being perpetrated on us.
Despite clear guidelines of the Supreme Court through the rule of ʹbail not jailʹ, the matter of our bail petitions is being indefinitely dragged by the prosecution. Just like the public prosecutor and the investigating police officer have run the case like a media trial, our bail hearings have been turned into a mini media trial as well. The emails that have been allegedly exchanged with Maoists are being readily published by the prosecution through the media. But the relevant electronic documents have still not been given to the accused party for more than a year now. This raises doubts about the prosecutionʹs intentions. Political detainees are in this way rotting in prisons for years – a straightforward violation of the fundamental principles of ʹjustice for allʹ and ʹjustice on timeʹ.
ʹSabka Saath Sabka Vikaasʹ – this has been the slogan of the new government but one can arguably be suspicious of how effective it would be in reality, simply by looking at the past doings of the previous governments. If the government wishes to win the peopleʹs confidence from all factions, it will first have to prove its commitment to the Constitution, based on which it functions. And for that, it must provide equal justice to all. Crushing all disagreements, anti-government stances and critical ideas, and arresting all opponents under the charge of anti-nationalism is an open attack on the freedom of expression. As the new government has come to power, cow-lynching has begun all over again. Not only is the government being oblivious to such violence, it is also not taking any steps to prevent religious fanaticism inciting hatred and hostility, or acts such as public commemoration of Nathuram Godse. ʹSabka Vikaasʹ is thus clearly a hoax.

If democracy means constitutionality, then why doesnʹt everyone in the country get equal justice? Why are some held inside as prisoners while some roam freely outside? If indeed a constitutional democracy is to be established in India, then we demand as its precondition that all political prisoners be immediately and unconditionally released.

Your political prisoners

(1) Sudhir Dhawale
(2) Surendra Gadling
(3) Mahesh Raut
(4) Rona Wilson
(5) Arun Ferreira
(6) Vernon Gonsalves
(7) Varvara Rao
(8) Sudha Bhardwaj
(9) Shoma Sen

India -  Varavara Raoʹs wife Hemalatha wrote letter...Intellectuals Extends solidarity

• Hyderabad, July 19, 2019.Respected Sri Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao garu,
  Governor of Maharashtra.
  I, P Hemalata, wife of Varavara Rao who was implicated in Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad case and currently lodged in Yerawada Central Prison, Pune in Maharashtra for the last eight months, would like to request you to take all legal, just and humanitarian actions under your purview with regard to
  Varavara Rao.
  I need not introduce Varavara Rao, who is undergoing incarceration at the age of 79 years for his political and social views. Though you have different political views, you must have acquaintance with him. You might as well have shared a prison life with him when you were also imprisoned during Emergency. Today you are holding the top most constitutional position to the state in which he is imprisoned. I am writing this letter to request you to take all actions under your official purview with regard to the case, to the inordinate delay in granting bail and to the conditions in jail.
  

Chinese protesters sing anthem The Internationale

Video 0:44 Chinese protesters sing anthem The Internationale

Chinese protesters sing the socialist anthem The Internationale in China, in the days before the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-03/chinese-protesters-sing-the-communist-anthem/11167590?fbclid=IwAR10EecQYkBQ__rrAhHkfrtrle9F1_hQBaD6VL2mH0NzmR7EZGKYy3x38BM

India - Kituba (Odisha) Fake Encounter – HRF Statement

• July 12, 2019

Press Release
The Human Rights Forum (HRF) demands that personnel of the Special Operations Group (SOG) and District Voluntary Force (DVF) who participated in the killing of 5 Maoists near Kituba village of Badel panchayat in Nandapur block, Koraput district of Odissa on May 8 this year be booked for murder under IPC 302 and other relevant provisions of the penal code and criminally prosecuted.
A three-member HRF fact-finding team visited Kituba village on Thursday (June 6) and spoke with residents in the area. We were able to ascertain that there is no truth in the official version that a combined team of the SOG and DVF came upon the Maoists in the Badel forests upon which the Maoists initially opened fire and the security forces returned the fire in self-defence leading to the death of five Maoists.

PCI (Maoist) - support mass struggle in India - support people's war in India - support PCI(Maoist) - ICSPWI

....We call upon the international friends of the people of India to stand in solidarity with this struggle by taking up campaigns for the persecuted social activists. 
Down with the feudal-comprador Brahmanical Hindu-fascism! 
Down with Modi government and its cohorts... !
Long live the countrywide united people’s movement against Hindutva-fascist BJP...! 
Long live the anti-feudal, anti-imperialist and anti-fascist people’s democratic revolution!

(Abhay) Spokesperson Central Committee CPI(Maoist)

on the road of the comrade Surendra for the building of Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)

Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) leader and once General Secretary of the Party, Ajith Rupasinghe, comrade Surendra passed away on 3 April 2017

 Comrade Surendra had assumed the leadership of the Ceylon Communist Party as the General Secretary after the death of Comrade N. Sanmugathasan . Later on, he named the party Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist). 

Comrade Surendra had supported the people’s war in Nepal and that support remained intact until the then leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) abandoned the revolutionary line. Surendra had joined the Communist Movement while studying in the USA and became a revolutionary activist there. He always stood firm in the side of the revolutionary line in the international communist movement.

Ceylon Communist Party had been one of the participant party of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement RIM. As a participant party of the Maoist regional organization CCOMPOSA (Coordination Committee of the Maoist Parties and Organisation), Comrade Surendra had participated in this organization. He tried to unify the Maoist forces in Sri Lanka several time which had undergone splits among small groupings. His Party had worked in the areas of the poor people in the tea garden of the hilly area of Ceylon. Comrade Surendra was an outstanding leader came out of the Singhala nationality to support the Tamil people and demanded the right of self-determination of the Tamil nationality.