Today the main speeches of the organizing forces, the International Committee to Support the People's War in India and the Ligue Against the Imperialist Agression, Hamburg, follow below.
On the next days we will publish all other texts
Speech of the International Committee to Support People's War in India to the International Conference in Hamburg
24th
November 2012
The date of
today, the November 24, would remain a black day in the annals of Indian
revolutionary movement history. The November 24, 2011 the fascist Indian regime
that labelled CPI (Maoist) as “the biggest internal security threat” killed
Comrade Mallojula Koteswara Rao, comrade Kishanji, after capturing and
torturing him alive in a well planned conspiracy.
We learned
with rage and sadness the death of that leader of Indian revolution, killed by
Indian regime, supported by world imperialism.
We united
our hands with CPIm in that bad hour. The struggle of Maoists in India,
comrades, is our struggle, their loss is our loss.
The
ideological, theoretical and practical contribution of comrade Kishanji to the
CPI(m), to the People’s War, to the proletarian and oppressed people’s struggle
in India
cannot be cancelled.
Instead, it
is now more shining and its light reaches all corners in the world.
Since then
up today, we redoubled our effort to transform that sorrow into strength!
We
redoubled the support to war people in India; we intensified our struggle
against imperialism in the world; we worked for proletarian internationalism, we
called all the proletarians, revolutionaries, communists in our countries to
advance in the revolution.
It was our
way to honour comrade Kishenji and all martyrs of the revolution in India and
in the world
This
Conference is a further step in fulfilling our commitment and, at, first, let’s
renew today our salute to comrades Kishanji, Azad and all the martyrs fallen
for the revolution in India and all around the world.
Comrades,
stand up and observe a minute of silence in honour of all the martyred comrades!
Maoist Comrades in India wrote us:
Comrades,
We extend our
revolutionary greetings to the activities of support that with a great effort
you promoted.
We read the
calls, posters, slogans ... excellent!
The current stage
of our struggle has not changed, despite the "Operation Green Hunt"
and the murderers of our leading cadres, despite the efforts of the enemy, we
grow in strength in the guerrilla areas and expand in new areas. In the course
of People’s War, in different places we have reached the stage of mobile
warfare.
The Operation
Green Hunt unleashed by the government has not achieved its goals. Despite the
blows we have suffered, the enemy’s morale is low. The plan of the ruling
classes to annihilate our party and deprive the people of their guide and
proletarian leadership is doomed to fail, because the people and all those who
love freedom in this country support and protect the revolutionary movement and
its leadership like the apple of their eyes, because they know that this way
they safeguard the future of the country and new generations.
The people and
people’s movements generate new revolutionary leaders and want that the New
Democratic revolution in India advance to the victory and sweep away
imperialists and their lackeys, the landlords and the comprador and
bureaucratic bourgeoisie with all their representatives.
The impact of the
global crisis and imperialist policies on workers and the people of our country
is heavy. Corruption, unemployment, prices, poverty, migration
due to loss of lands, forests, water, are increasing. The living conditions of the working
class, oppressed people, peasantry, the middle class itself, has become
unbearable and they are turning more and more to the revolution. Workers'
strikes and people’s struggles have expanded in unprecedented way and they are
adding to the unrests in all sectors of the people: those of adivasi peasants,
which intensify and often result in riots; the economic struggles of the
proletarians, that turn more and more into political struggles.
The strength of
our party consists in integrating this raging river of the mass movement, with
the slogans: land, people’s power and democracy, self-reliance.
We bring the
consciousness that no fundamental change can be achieved without the complete
destroying of the exploiting classes, in India and around the world.
Your effort is a
great expression of proletarian internationalism, we support and see it as a
part of the action to denounce the crimes of the Indian regime, the barbaric
and genocidal Operation Green Hunt, the effort to gather all the friends of
Indian revolution.
Let’s dare to fight and the victory will be of the
people!
Furthermore,
on the current situation in India, they wrote in their documents:
The Indian
state is relentlessly continuing its extremely brutal attacks on the people of
the country, particularly the adivasis, in the last two and half years in the
name of Operation Green Hunt. The police and paramilitary forces unleashed by
the ruling classes are perpetrating acts of 'encounter' killings, mass murders,
sexual assault, torture, burning of villages, destruction of crops and grains,
plunder of peoples' property, wanton arrests and forced 'disappearances etc.
The objective of this war on people is to uproot the ongoing Maoist movement in
the country, particularly in its central and eastern regions.
The comprador bureaucratic
bourgeoisie and the imperialists are in desperation to loot and plunder our
beloved country which is richly endowed with vast mineral, forest and water resources.
From 2008 in particular, in the context of the deepening world economic crisis,
they are scheming many a conspiracies to cheaply exploit the natural resources
and labour power available in underdeveloped countries like India. After
concluding MoUs involving investments worth lakhs of crores with the comprador
governments and by undertaking the large-scale destruction of jal-jangal-zameen,
these forces are displacing a large number of people from their homes and
hearths. The people too have risen up against this aggression.CPI (Maoist) is leading the people in this struggle and is standing with them. This is the reason why the Maoist movement has become the biggest hurdle before the exploitative ruling classes and their government. However, the threat felt by the ruling classes from the Maoist movement is being propagated by them as 'the biggest threat to the internal security of the country' with an aim to deceive the masses.
The ruling classes are portraying their imperialist-dictated neo-liberal policies of destitution, destruction and death as 'development', and are branding anyone as 'anti-development' who is opposed to such anti-people policies. They have singled out the Maoists in particular as the target of such misinformation campaign carried out through the pliant corporate media which is conducting a widespread propaganda-war against the Maoist movement by terming it as 'anti-development', violent and terrorist. The ruling classes are extremely terrified by the alternative model of development presented by the masses in the Maoist struggle areas, particularly in the Dandakaranya region where the people have destroyed the political power of the local feudal and reactionary forces through class struggle and have established organs of people's power in their embryonic forms. It is under the leadership of this peoples' government and through its initiative that this alternative model of development based on self-reliance and cooperation is taking shape. The ruling classes have undertaken its brutal offensive in order to wipe out this nascent revolutionary society and its path of people-oriented development. The imperialists, particularly US imperialism, are not only guiding this offensive but are also directly or indirectly participating in it. The proposed NCTC (National Counter-Terrorism Centre) too is being set up as per the diktats of US imperialism which is not only a threat to the basic rights of the citizens of the country but also is a severe blow to its so-called federal structure.
As a part of this military aggression, Indian Army was deployed in Bastar a year ago. This is not an issue merely confined to Bastar or Dandakaranya alone. The purpose of this army deployment is to crush the countrywide revolutionary movement. However, this deployment is being done under the garb of 'training' in order to mitigate the protests and opposition to the use of Indian Army against the people of the country - an army meant for confronting enemy forces of foreign countries. The Chhattisgarh government has decided to hand over 750 square kilometres of forest land in the Maad region to the army for 'training' purposes. This is a glaring proof of the manner in which the government itself is the biggest violator of the statutory prohibitions on the transfer of adivasi land to non-adivasi owners - be it the Fifth Schedule, PESA and other laws. The intention of the army, which is presently 'training' at a point between Narayanpur and Kondagaon, is to gradually cross the Narayanpur town and to occupy the interior villages of Maad. The top brass of the army are personally overseeing this 'training' programme.
Raids and attacks under Operation Green Hunt are being conducted for the last one year under the command of the Indian Army in which armed forces are being deployed in brigade-level formations. From 3 to 5 thousands of government armed forces and commandos are being utilised for each such massive attack. In this massive military operation, 19 villages were attacked and 12 villagers were arrested. The government forces beat up many other villagers. They entered many houses and looted them.
Maad region was encircled and simultaneously attacked from three sides - from Bijapur and Narayanpur districts of Chhattisgarh and from Garhchiroli district in Maharashtra - as per a massive military offensive by three thousand armed forces. This operation was named 'Operation Vijay' and 'Operation Haka'.
Nearly three thousand adivasis of Dandakaranya are presently confined in the prisons of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. They have been framed in many false cases as a result of which they are languishing in the dark cellars of prisons without any access to judicial redress or bailout. The condition of many of them is such that even if they were convicted of their crimes after the completion of the judicial process, they would have come out of jail by now after completing their jail terms. Many of them have been able to even engage any lawyer due to poverty and backwardness. Family members are prevented from meeting their relatives in prison, so much so that many of the prisoners are under conditions of mental agony. This is not just the condition of Dandakaranya, but the same situation prevails in Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. Simply put, the prisons of the country are being filled with adivasis so that the ground beneath the feet of the adivasis can be then handed over to the corporates.
The Central Committee of our Party has given the call for a number of 'Bharat Bandhs' to stop the fascist attacks on the people of the country by the exploitative ruling governments, to prevent the deployment of army in Bastar under Operation Green Hunt, to send back the armed forces camping in the pretext of 'training', to unconditionally release the adivasis and political prisoners confined in the jails of the country, and to demand the scrapping of the proposed fascist NCTC. These Bandhs have been primarily observed in Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and in Gondia, Chandrapur and Garhchiroli districts of Maharashtra.
Why have we promoted an International Committee
in support of the People’s war in India, how did we reach this Conference?
In India an
impetuous people’s war against the Indian bourgeoisie and the imperialism is
developing and spreading more and more in nearly one third of the districts of
the country.
It is not
simply a guerrilla made by few thousands of fighters coming from the castes and
tribal areas of the country. It is a real people’s war, led by the party of the
proletariat of India, the Communist Party of India (Maoist), in which are
involved – or is supported by – millions of poor peasants, women,
“untouchables” fighting to free themselves.
The
people’s war began where the root of the riot, the poverty, the tribal and
capitalistic exploitation, the caste oppression, the plundering of the natural
resources, were deeper and, therefore, the contradictions brought by the Indian
capitalism ruled by the imperialism were sharper.
The
people’s war won masses of young people, students, democratic and revolutionary
intellectuals also in the cities and gained attention and support over the
world.
Against the
people’s war the Indian State, supported by the imperialists, launched a giant
repressive offensive called “Green Hunt”, a real manhunt that hits the poor
masses in India as animals to exterminate. The Indian State launched an
internal military offensive against the people, waged by hi-tech-armed troops,
police units and paramilitary militias, in order to spread terror and genocide
in the villages, with raids, crop destroying, massive rapes and killings,
selective murders, mass detentions and disappearing. In particular they aimed
to behead the leadership of the people, targeting the leading comrades of the CPI(Maoist).
All this
with the illusion to drown in blood the struggle of the people for their
liberation.
With the
silent/consent of the imperialist governments of US, Europe, Russia, and their
mass-media, the crimes of the Indian State found the internal opposition of a
wide front of prominent intellectuals. In all countries of the world political
activists denounced those crimes and mobilized to stop “Green Hunt”.
A world
campaign of information and solidarity has been launched by ICAWPI.
But in our
opinion, we need something more than the condemnation of the crimes of the
counter-revolution in India.
The masses
led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) are writing a historical chapter
of the class clash in the world between, on one side, imperialism and the
reactionary bourgeoisies and, on the other side, the proletariat and the people
of the world.
The
development of the people’s war in India is a new proof that the revolution is
the main tendency in the world today.
It shows
again that the Maoism, the Marxism-Leninism of our era, is the command and
guide of the world revolution against the imperialism in crisis.
The
vanguard proletarians must understand that the advance of the people’s war in
India seriously questions the strength balance, not only in the South-Asian
region but on a world scale.
That is why
we launched the proposal to form an International committee and organize
world-wide campaigns of support to the People’s war in India, particularly in
the belly of the imperialist beast, the countries where most of us operate.
The
International Committee was born based the call launched from the international
meeting in Paris on January 2010. Comrades from different countries have
joined.
Since
the very beginning it was made clear that the Committee was not to be built as
a “cartel of groups” but as a centre of actions and propaganda of which
proletarians and masses are the main subjects and players.
In
each country, the committee was built as an autonomous organization that can
collaborate with all those who bring support to the People’s Wars and the
liberation struggles of the countries oppressed by imperialism, while
maintaining its autonomy in the program and actions.
We
always rejected any attempt to misuse our initiatives as a place for a general
debate, forgetting that it is the support to the PW in India that unites and
mobilizes.
Having
adopted this approach, on 2 to 9 April 2011 the first International Week of
mobilization in support of PW was called and took place, involving a lot of
countries in all the continents.
With
that, thanks its wide extension reached by the campaign, the Committee has
shown its international dimension and the ability to play its role in promoting
information and support for the People’s War in India, in the general context
of the more general situation of the class struggle, the situation of
imperialism and the struggle of the proletarians and oppressed peoples.
Drawing on the
experiences of the first campaign, we stressed even more that we aim to reach
the proletariat and the masses. Where we applied this, the campaign got a mass
participation, where there was an attitude to seek the agreement between groups
first, it was not successful.
Then, in
the framework of a protracted campaign we decided, handling the contradictions
in the different countries, to launch a new international week of action from
14 to 22 January 2012 with the slogans: "the repression by the Indian
government does not stop but feeds the People's War" "may the wind of
the People's war reach the proletarian masses all-around the world".
Finally, in
particular in the imperialist countries, we called to mobilize particularly
against Indian transnational companies, that expand their assets and profits
even in the imperialist countries.
About one
hundred of actions took place all around world during the second international
week. New committees were formed, many other revolutionary and anti-imperialist
forces joined the campaign. The posters with Kishenji and Azad have been on the
walls in many countries and their heroic example live in the struggle of
proletarians and oppressed peoples.
Colombia, Canada,
Italy, Sweden, Austria,
Spanish State, France,
Germany, Turkey, Italy
etc., in about 30 countries the posters of campaign, very appreciated by Indian
comrades, have marked the march of the internationalist support !
The line
and method of the International Committee, its united approach to support won
against splitting positions and also against those who wants to shrink the
support only to struggle against the Operation Green Hunt.
This second
campaign opened the work that led to the international conference of today.
The People’s War in
India in the international context and the world situation
The imperialist
system is going through the most severe crisis since the 1930s. The current
attempts to address and overcome the crisis only serve to deepen and extend it.
The crisis
has its origin in the laws of running of the capitalist system itself. It is
the expression of the limits of production for profit, and the contradiction
between productive forces and relations of production, including the general
and global nature of the production and private appropriation. In the world
scene this means an ever growing gap between the wealth of a handful of
imperialist countries and the poverty of three quarters of human beings in the
countries oppressed by imperialism, between the wealth in the hands of the
bourgeoisie and the relative and absolute impoverishment of proletarians and
masses in the imperialist countries , between the overflowing richness of a
parasitic and comprador bourgeoisie and the living conditions of misery and
hunger of the proletariat and broad masses in the countries oppressed by
imperialism.
The world is
still faced with two possibilities: the exit from capitalism or a painful
temporary recovery from this crisis by strengthening, enhancing the mechanisms
of capital and thus prolonging the misery of the masses.
The
imperialist bourgeoisie all over the world take advantage of the crisis to
restructure imperialism on a global scale and save the interests of their class
for their profits.
This leads
to unloading the vicious weight of the crisis on the workers and masses. In
both the oppressed countries and imperialist countries, unemployment, job
insecurity and the cost of living increase, exploitation is ratcheted up to
modern forms of slavery, workers' rights are reduced, social achievements won
through years of struggles are erased, factories are closed with massive
layoffs, peasants are ruined and driven to suicide, cuts in social expenditures
and privatization of education and healthcare grow, the logic of
commodification and profit is extended even to primary goods, such as water,
air, sun, etc..
In the
countries oppressed by imperialism, the protests, rebellions and liberation
struggles have found in the revolts in Arab countries and in the Persian Gulf a
new height and a new dawn. Young people, proletarians and the masses and, in
some cases, organized sectors of workers, attacked and overthrew dictatorial
regimes subservient to imperialism that seemed permanent. This has paved the
way for new anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, anti-feudal, new-democratic
revolutions.
In this new wave
of struggle and resistance we must support and strengthen the struggle for the
liberation of peoples and for new democracy, towards socialism and communism.
This is the
context in which a potential new wave of the world proletarian revolution
develops and emerges. It has as its reference points and strategic anchor the
people's wars led by Maoist parties.
In this
context, the people's war led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
successfully withstands unprecedented attacks by the enemy and is able to
expand and advance.
The kind of support to the People's War in India, that we
need
As we said
before, on one hand, we formed the International Committee to go over the
simple struggle against the war on people waged by the Indian regime and its
crimes, and, on the other hand, in each country we built the Committee not as a
cartel of groups, but as mass organization aimed to unite and mobilize
proletarians and masses around the support to the PW, rejecting any attempt to
turn the activities of support into an occasion of self-propaganda or to
criticize and discuss other positions existing in the revolutionary and
communist movement or even the those of the CPI(Maoist). Often, both these
narrow or “leftist” tendencies, in the name of different pretexts, had the same
effect to desert the campaign and the national chapters of the Committee. But these problems could not stop
the development of our work and the process that has lead to the Conference
today, where we all together are make clearer and stronger our internationalist
solidarity.
While the
criticism to the statement or international relationships held by single forces
participating the International committee is legitimate, to break the unity of
the International Committee in support of PW because of that criticism is
unacceptable. First, because this Committee has a limited task, the support to
the PW in India; secondly because the CPI (Maoist) itself appreciates the
International Committee of support; thirdly because the International Committee
includes forces from different countries and therefore it moves in a context in
which the different positions existing at national level are not the decisive
factor for the work of the Committee.
For all these
reasons, those who desert the struggle of the International Committee, no
matter what they argue, support in the speeches the PW and boycott in the facts
this support. They agree with the Committee only if it has their positions and
not to develop the widest possible support.
The Committee calls workers:
We call the
workers, temporary workers and unemployed people, to hail the struggle of the
masses against the reactionary regime of India and the imperialist powers that
support it.
It is
important to realize that the masses in India are fighting against the bosses,
who sack and exploit them, against high prices, corruption and state terrorism.
They are waging big demonstrations and strikes, occupations of factories and
other actions against the bosses.
In India,
the government has decided to sell the natural and human resources to Western
imperialist transnational companies joint with the new monopolies that own the
big steel and automobile industries like Tata, Essar, Jindal, Mittal, etc.,
which extract profits from the fierce exploitation of workers – often women and
children; profits that allow them to become purchasers and share-holders of the
great international monopolies in those sectors, in alliance with the bosses in
imperialist countries.
The
struggle for the rights of working people, for jobs, wages, better living
conditions; the fight for freedom, for democracy; the struggle to topple the
power of the bosses and put the power in the hands of the workers and the broad
masses: those struggles have an international character and they unite us all
over the world.
For those
reasons, we call the workers to express our outmost solidarity to the Indian
masses and the party that leads them; we congratulate them for fighting against
the enemy’s attacks and advancing towards victory.
We particularly call women to support the people's
war in India
The international
press has found that women are at the forefront, leading the revolution in
India.
Reports referred
that among the Maoists operating in the areas of people's war in Maharahstra,
many are women, and women are members of the Committees of division,
Commanders. Women are even more than men are among the cadres and added
commander. Women are the first to attack repressive foundations of the State.
The state and its
repression are particularly fierce on women, using even the rapes as weapon. At
the same time, the class and sex oppression on women is long lasting. But that
is why the protracted people's war and attracts and helps the participation of
many oppressed women and this actually makes the people's war a war of masses.
This makes the is
people's war an international phenomenon of the struggle for women's liberation
and the revolution in the revolution, to fight on two fronts, the class
struggle and the struggle of gender, that masses of women need to impose their
path and bring a general view, transforming the revolutionary struggle.
As the writer
Arundhati Roy, prominent personality of the anti-globalization and women's
movements, said, these comrades come form long years of struggle of women
within the party, not only for their rights, but to convince the party that equality
between men and women is at the center of an ideal of just society.
These women come
from rebellion against feudal legacies, the traditions of forced marriage,
abduction of women, violence and the brutal mutilation. They have not won all
the battles, but - adds Arundhati Roy - "Which feminists have won?"
that is why The
struggle of the Indian comrades is an example and inspiration for the women's
movement in all corners of the world.
To the Youth we say:
In
India there
is an ongoing People's War waged
by the heroic People's Liberation
Guerrilla Army and
led by the glorious Communist
Party of India (Maoist) that is
changing the face of the second
most populated country in the world.
In the "largest
democracy in the world", where indeed
the majority of people
live in poverty and are dispossessed of their fundamental rights
to increase the profits of Indian capitalism, servant
of imperialism, in the liberated areas the people’s democracy is growing for the poor masses, peasants, adivasi and tribal people, women, a real embryo
of the state of new Democracy prelude to socialism. The
reactionary Indian state wants to nip in
the bud all this.
With genuine internationalist spirit, young revolutionaries have to support the People's War in India
as it is decisive for the advance of world
revolution, for the young revolutionaries in the imperialist citadels and metropolises, the
People's War in India is a
source of inspiration and encouragement in the revolutionary work.
Therefore
it needs to inform and
mobilize young people in support of
People's War in India in schools, universities and working-class neighborhoods.
To all the communist, revolutionary,
anti-imperialist, internationalist solidarity forces, we say:
The International Committee of support to the People’s war in India invited
to participate and support the International Conference in support of People's
War in India and the following decisions.
The international conference deals a hard blow to imperialism and Indian
regime in the world and to the Indian expansionism, and is a major step to
support to the people's war in India, to establish the road of People's War and
revolution, the proletarian internationalism in the world.
The International Committee calls, in order to inform
and discuss as best as possible about India and the People's War in India, the line and
the action of the CPI (Maoist), the development of the Indian revolution in the
international context, how to support it, to organize everywhere is possible of
initiatives, in most cities, towns, workplaces, neighborhoods.
These initiatives, autonomously called by each force, should be coordinated
with the International Committee, having as reference the international calls
issued.
Comrades,
The
International Committee of support to People's War in India, with its history,
its trajectory, the difficulties it found, is a work in steps, of networking,
of finding the real forces that actually can be united.
It is a
revolutionary mass work.
It is a
work to be fused with the proletarian struggles and the revolutionaries
experiences of the class struggle.
It is the
opposite of a dogmatic and sectarian approach.
It is a
work that goes beyond the democratic mobilization against the State repression
in India, because if we focus only on this aspect, we will end to make
imperialism to appear strong and unbeatable, while in India the State and
imperialism defend themselves and the People's War successfully withstands and
grows.
In this
work we appreciate the commitment of brave intellectuals, like Arundhati Roy,
Ian Myrdal and others, but our aim is to mobilize base comrades, those who live
in direct contact with masses, to build a real, international and
internationalist movement.
To say so,
the International Committee, with its formation, its life, its campaigns, has
passed through the “strategic defensive”. After the International Conference in
Hamburg, it enters a stage of “strategic equilibrium”, in which it cannot be
cancelled but yet cannot win and pass to the offensive.
We call all
the forces that have contributed to this work to advance together, to continue
this work in every country, to use all the forms of struggle, from the
propaganda, to spread information and unite masses, to the actions to hit the
symbols of the Indian Regime and imperialism.
Let’s support the People’s War in India, until
the victory!
International
Committee of Support to People’s War in India,
November
2012
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