-Extrats of Speech of the International Committee to Support People's War in India to the International Conference in Hamburg november 2012
...We united our hands with
CPIm....The struggle of Maoists in India, comrades, is our struggle,
their loss is our loss.
….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.
Comrades,
We extend our
revolutionary greetings to the activities of support that with a
great effort you promoted....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!
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”....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.
...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.
With that, thanks its wide
extension reached by the campaigns, 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.
....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.
... 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"....
the
line and method of the International Committee, its united approach
to support won against splitting positions ...
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 had a new height and a new dawn. .
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.
....
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 ..often these narrow or “leftist”
tendencies, in the name of different pretexts, had the same effect to
desert the campaigns and the national chapters of the Committee....
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. ..
...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.... 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.
International Committee
of Support to People’s War in India,
November 2012
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