Dear
comrades,
Lal
Salam!
We
greet you on this historic occasion and apologise for not being able
to participate directly. Please accept this message instead.
Mao
Tsetung has taught us the decisive importance of a correct
ideological, political line. The history of your party itself stands
testimony to this. With a correct line, it could rebel against the
Teng Siao Ping revisionists who seized power through a coup in 1976,
destroyed the historic advances made through the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution and restored capitalism in socialist China. Thus,
persisting on the path laid down by Mao Tsetung, your party played an
important role in the international struggle to uphold the banner of
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in the wake of this setback, the struggle
that led to the formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement (RIM). Further on, by deepening the struggle to uphold and
apply Maoism, your party ruptured from dogmato-revisionist views that
blocked revolution. It forged a correct line and boldly initiated the
people’s war. The great gains of this glorious war, “creation of
People's Liberation Army, establishment of base areas and people's
government, role played by workers, peasants, women, indigenous
nationalities and Dalits, and the awareness developed in this whole
process”, were principally the gains of the correct line followed
by your party. Today most of them are lost. This is the outcome of
the subversion of the Maoist line and the imposition of a revisionist
line by the Prachanda-Bhattarai clique. In both its advances and
setbacks, the history of the international communist movement and its
national contingents confirms the truth ‘The correctness or
incorrectness of the line decides everything’.
You
have revolted against the Prachanda-Bhattarai revisionist line. This
Congress is the child of that revolt. It has the task of deepening
the struggle against Prachanda-Bhattarai revisionism, consolidating
the gains, forging a correct line and chalking out concrete plans for
retaking the revolutionary road in the midst of the complex political
situation in your country. The successful accomplishement of this
task is mainly a matter of summing up the lessons of your own
struggles, both the people’s war and the line struggle within the
party. But it obviously will not be restricted to that alone. As a
contingent of the international communist movement you will also draw
on its wider experiences and lessons. Here we would like to share an
important lesson synthesised by the founder leader of our party,
comrade Charu Mazumdar. Critically analysing the numerous revolts
against the rightist leadership, he pointed out how centrist elements
repeatedly blunted and betrayed them. He warned that “Centrism is
the stepping stone to revisionism” and called on the rank and file
to root it out. Centrism can appear in many forms. But its essence is
always the same - it fails to take ideological struggle to its
revolutionary conclusion. It blocks the communists from making a
complete rupture from the wrong line, methods and practice.
Ultimately, it smuggles back the rotten old stuff dressed up in new
garb. Therefore, the struggle against revisionism must be extended to
exposing and rupturing from centrism by digging out its concrete
manifestations. This is the lesson we have learnt from the history of
the communist movement in our country. We hope it will be of use to
you during your deliberations in this Congress.
When
it was following a correct line, your party had complete faith in the
masses of Nepal and throughout the world. This was the bedrock
strength of the people’s war it led. Fully relying on the masses
and internationalist ties with other Maoist parties, this
revolutionary war succesfully inflicted significant defeats on
internal reaction and foiled the machinations of imperialism and
Indian expansionism. The Prachanda-Bhattarai clique tried their best
to cut off these sources of strength. Reliance on proletarian
internationalist ties with Maoist parties in South Asia and elsewhere
was increasingly undermined and replaced by diplomatic manoueveres to
cosy up with Indian expansionism and imperialism. At one time,
reliance on the boundless revolutionary will and patriotism of the
Nepali people was sought to be replaced by the Prachanda faction
with reliance on the Chinese state as a counter to Indian
expansionist/US imperialist threats. This deviation was inevitable.
Revisionism can never dare to rely on the masses. It can never draw
strength from proletarian internationalism. Conversely, tactics or
policies that rely on diplomatic relations with reactionary states
instead of placing faith on the masses, tactics that give more
importance to cosying up with revisionist and reactionary parties
than proletarian internationalist ties with fraternal Maoist parties,
inevitably reflect some grave ideological defect. The matter is not
in the gloss, the sweet talk justifying this in the name of ‘tactical
moves’ or something else, but in its ultimately liquidationist
essence. This is an important lesson we have learnt from the bitter
setback suffered by the Nepalese and international Maoist movement
through the treachery of the Prachanda-Bhattarai clique. We put this
before you in the belief that your Congress will be able to deal with
this issue thoroughly, since you have experienced it directly.
Your
Congress is being held at a time when the world situation is bearing
out the words of the 2012 Special Meeting of RIM Parties and
Organisations which noted that “The
devastations of imperialist globalisation, wars of aggression and the
devastating economic crisis of the imperialist system and its impact
on proletarians and the broad masses have awakened worldwide a wave
of struggles and revolts. In this context a potential new wave of the
world proletarian revolution develops and emerges, with the people's
wars led by Maoist parties as its reference points and strategic
anchor.”
The global financial crisis has thrown the imperialist economies into
recession. Third world powers like China and India, who earlier had
seemed capable of holding out, are also caught in its grip.
Reactionary rulers throughout the world throw the whole weight of
the crisis on the backs of the people. And the peoples of the world
are out on the streets, in one country or the other, to resist and
beat back this attack. But their heroic struggles, including the Arab
revolts that brought down decades old dictatorships, are being
subverted. They fail to achieve radical, revolutionary, change.
Revisonism and dogmatism pick on these failures to justify their own
pessimist conclusions. But Maoists see the great potential for
revolution indicated by this turmoil. They understand the huge
responsibility they have in unleahing this potential by hoisting the
banner of MLM in words and deeds.
What
is true of the world is true of South Asia also. In this region
Indian expansionism is the central pillar of reaction. Since it is
now openly backed by US imperialism, it has become even more arrogant
and aggressive. Its aggravated intervention in Nepal’s political
affairs and other crimes it has committed, and is committing, against
your country are well known. Indian expansionism dominates over the
nations and peoples of South Asia politically, economically and
culturally. Its attempt to armtwist the Maldivian government to
protect Indian bureacrat capitalist interests is a recent example.
The intensified exploitation and oppression carried out by the Indian
ruling classes inside India is the other side of their reactionary
face. Within this, the massive ‘war on the people’ it has
launched to destroy the people’s war led by the CPI(Maoist) stands
out as a focal point. This is so because this revolutionary war
stands up as the biggest obstacle to the plans of the Indian ruling
classes who want to further open up the country to intensified
imperialist, bureaucrat capitalist penetration in accordance to the
needs of globalisation. The exploitation and oppression of the Indian
ruling classes within India and in neighbouring countries has always
drawn forth fierce resistance from the people. This continues to be
so. Along with the deep anger of the masses against the ruling
classes of their own countries, this goes to intensify contradictions
and promotes the grounds for revolution.
Today,
while assessing the situation in South Asia we must also take note of
a new factor - the growing contention between Indian expansionism
(backed by US imperialism) and Chinese expansionism. This is not
limited to South Asia. It extends to South East Asia. It must be
analysed in relation to the US imperialism’s strategic plans to
retain and bolster its domination in these regions and the Pacific
against any threat that could arise from China. So far as South Asia
is concerned, this contention has created opportunities for the
comprador rulers of smaller countries to either stand up to Indian
expansionist pressures or drive better bargains. This causes problems
for the Indian state and upsets some of its plans. To that extent it
can be of indirect use to the nations and peoples of South Asia in
their struggles against Indian expansionism. But, being disciples of
Mao Tsetung, we must never forget his words: “beware
of the wolf entering from the backdoor, while driving away the tiger
from the frontdoor.”
The Chinese ruling classes are as reactionary as any other comprador
state. Their history is as bloody as that of any other exploiter.
Following the coup in 1976, they imprisoned and murdered thousands of
Maoists, including the valiant fighters comrades Chiang Ching and
Chang Chun Chiao. While they amass billions, the vast majority of the
Chinese masses rot in poverty. Their revolts against such inhuman
conditions are suppressed by brute force. The Chinese workers are
forced to slave for imperialist transnational corporations in the
most oppressive labour relations enforced and protected by the
Chinese state. Obviously, this ‘wolf’ ever be a genuine friend of
the revolutionary people in any country? Today, it is very important
that the Maoists have clarity on this and educate the people. In the
1970s and ‘80s, the erstwhile Soviet social imperialists
infiltrated and subverted various revolutionary movements by offering
diplomatic and material support. Those bitter experiences teach us
that Mao’s warning must be taken up as a guideline by all of us
while chalking out our strategy and tactics in today’s South Asia,
within the context of the expansionist contention developing here.
The
potential for revolution is bright. But the subject weakness of the
Maoists stands out. Their internationalist organisations, the
Revolutionary Internationalist Movemement (RIM) and the Co-ordinating
Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisatons of South Asia
(CCOMPOSA), have become defunct. The revisionism of the
Prachanda-Bhattarai clique was joined by the revisionism of Bob
Avakian in destroying the RIM. The former is extremely exposed
because of its open surrender to reaction. But many are confused by
Avakian’s post-MLM revisionism because it is camouflaged in a lot
of Marxist verbiage. Yet the fact is that it is no less dangerous. It
insists on imposing Avakianism as the guiding ideology of the
international communist movement thus liquidating its MLM base. So
the genuine Maoists are faced with the task of fighting against both
these varities of neo-revisionism and reorganising their
international organisations.
In
the past, your party contributed immensely to the strengthening of
internationalist ties and the formation of the RIM and CCOMPOSA.
These internationalist Maoist organisations became a reality through
‘unity of the like-minded’. They could purposefully promote MLM
and aid revolution, instead of becoming empty resolution-shops,
precisely because of their common ideological foundations. We can
never forget this valuable lesson. Today, the world is witness to
numerous progressive, democratic forces and trends who are opposed to
imperialist globalisation and particularly to US imperialism. This
affords grounds for various levels or forms of broad unity. But that
cannot replace the international organisation of Maoists. In fact,
such broader unity of anti-imperialist forces calls for the vanguard
role of a Maoist international organisation. We take this opportunity
to once again place before you the call made by the 2012 Special
Meeting of the RIM Parties and Organisations – “Today,
facing the crisis and the collapse of the RIM, we must rebuild the
international organization of MLM parties and organizations on the
basis of the positive and negative experiences of the RIM. The
current situation presents the need to unite in this new organization
all the MLM parties and organizations, inside and outside the RIM,
for a political and organizational leap. This is necessary to put the
communist movement at the height of the class struggle in the new
century.” Addressing
the need for broader unity, it has also noted that “The
international organization of MLM communists is and should be the
core of a front, of an international anti-imperialist alliance of the
proletarians and oppressed peoples.”
Dear
comrades,
We
hope we haven’t taken up too much of your time. The
communists and revolutionary masses in Nepal and throughout the world
look up to you with great expectations. Let this be a decisive moment
in the history of your party and of the international Maoist
movement. We end this message, wishing you all success in
accomplishing the tasks you have taken up,.
with
communist greetings,
Central
Organisation Committee,
Communist
Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) NAXALBARI
January
9, 2013
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