Foreword
On
the occasion of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the formation
of CPI(Maoist), as part of our endeavour to put together and
republish a number of hitherto published and unpublished party
documents, we are presenting here a compilation of interviews given
by the party’s central leadership since the formation of the
unified party. The party puts forth its views and understanding about
the domestic and international developments, political and economic
situation, social, cultural and other topical issues from a
proletarian standpoint from time to time. Along with party literature
and press statements, interviews play an important role in the wider
propagation of the party’s opinion and stand. These interviews
present the consolidated understanding of the entire party
articulated by the leadership comrades. Released in the written form
as also through audio-video recordings in some cases, these
interviews were published in various party magazines, electronic and
print media and the internet over the decade.
The
last ten years have been a significant period in the Indian
revolutionary movement. Ten years back, the two foremost
revolutionary streams of the country CPI (ML)[PW] and MCCI achieved
unity. a single directing centre of the Indian revolution emerged
with the formation of CPI(Maoist) . This was the fulfilment of a
long-cherished hope of the oppressed masses of our country and
revolutionaries all over the world.
The
interview by the general secretaries of the two erstwhile parties on
the occasion of the merger and formation of the new party in
September 2004 extensively deal with various aspects of this unity.
The Unity Congress-9th Congress of the party, held after 37 years of
the 8th Congress of CPI (ML) in 1970, strengthened, deepened and
consolidated this unity. The historic significance of the Congress is
explained in an interview by the general secretary after its
successful completion in early 2007.
The
unified party made significant advances in the last ten years in
carrying out the central task of areawise seizure of political power
through
armed
agrarian revolutionary war. The party is striving to fulfil the call
of the Unity Congress to transform guerilla zones into base areas and
guerilla war into mobile war. Many of these interviews elaborate the
achievements of the party, army and united front along with the
challenges they face in realising these aims.
The
party withstood severe attacks from the enemy over these years and
advanced the people’s war by firmly adhering to its revolutionary
line.
It
enriched and united itself through internal ideological and political
struggles against right and ‘left’ deviations as well as
non-proletarian trends. It engaged in struggles, polemics and debates
against revisionism and right-opportunism in the international
communist movement and strove to defend Marxism- Leninism-Maoism. The
party’s martyred spokesperson Com. Azad’s several interviews
opposing the revisionist line of Prachanda-Baburam is a testimony to
this.
The
achievements of the PLGA in this period are recounted in many of
these interviews. Com. Basavraj, the Central Military Commission
in-charge, deals with various aspects of the people’s war
spearheaded by the PLGA under the leadership of the party in his two
interviews included in the volume. While the first was published just
after the historic Nayagarh Raid of 2008, the other was in the
context of Operation Green Hunt and PLGA’s resistance to it. In the
same way, the significance of the attack on the notorious Greyhound
forces at Balimela in 2008 can be learnt from the interview of Com.
Bhaskar.
The
interviews place before the people the advances made by the
revolutionary movement in different guerilla zones by facing brutal
repression unleashed by the reactionary ruling classes. They
emphasise the role of the masses in developing embryonic forms of
alternative political power. The achievements of the revolutionary
movement in Dandakaranya (DK) is highlighted by Com. Sonu in the
interview given in 2007, a period when the fascist Salwa Judum
campaign was on a rampage. Com. Kosa answers queries related to the
assembly elections of Chhattisgarh in 2009 as well as the election
boycott campaign of the party in DK. Under the guidance of the
Central Committee, BJSAC spokesperson Com. Gopalji talks about the
people’s political power in Bihar-Jharkhand (B-J) which is
sprouting by
fighting
the armed goons of landlords, vigilante gangs and the government.
The
revolutionary women’s movement is an inseparable part of the Maoist
movement. It has made great strides in mobilising the toiling women.
Com.
Sheela’s interview included in the volume is a rich account of the
movement in B-J, while Com. Anuradha talks of the DK women’s
movement as well as the movement of the country’s urban women in
historical perspective.
The
last ten years have seen a massive upsurge of people’s movements
all across the country. Workers, peasants, the middle classes,
dalits, adivasis, women, religious minorities, nationalities,
students and youth, other oppressed classes and sections carried out
militant struggles. The party was actively involved in many of these
and extended support to others. The party tried to put forward its
understanding of these movements and sought to mobilise wider support
for them through these interviews. Various interviews of Comrades
Ganapathy, Azad and Kishenji throw light on these movements in
particular, although almost all interviews touch upon the ongoing
people’s movements. Since 2009, the interviews also give an
overview of the party’s efforts to fight back Operation Green Hunt,
the latest and the most extensive counter-revolutionary war launched
by the Indian state against the people of the country.
Our
stand on the sham parliamentary elections is explained in the
interviews of Comrades Azad and Abhay, while the interview by Com.
Anand
and the conversation of the general secretary with Jan Myrdal and
Gautam Navlakha clarified our stand on talks with the government.
Detailed discussions about the experience of talks by the Andhra
Pradesh State Committee (APSC) of the erstwhile CPI(ML)[PW] with the
AP government, which took place at a time when the formation process
of CPI(Maoist) was at an advanced stage, can be found in the
interviews of Comrades Ramakrishna and Prakash published in 2004.
Com. Satenna’s interview included in the volume highlights the
uncompromising struggles waged by revolutionaries within the four
walls of the enemy prisons. Likewise, Com.
Arvind
responds to queries related to the disastrous path of economic
development pursued by the Indian ruling classes since 1947 and
presents the Maoist alternative. We also include the interviews of
two martyred
leaders
of Indian revolution Comrades Sushil Roy and Ajayda who present
various aspects of the ongoing people’s war in the light of their
rich revolutionary experience.
Here
we have mentioned only a few facets of the interviews included in the
volume, though each one of them cover a wide range of topics and
themes related to the ideological, political, military and
organisational aspects of the revolutionary movement. All of them
complement one another and chronicle the development of the movement
in the past decade. Together, they present an overall picture of the
Maoist movement in India. At a time when the enemy is conducting its
brutal war on the people, banning revolutionary organisations,
clamping down on the propagation of revolutionary literature,
proscribing all genuine opposition to the existing system and running
an aggressive psychological war against the Maoist movement, these
interviews are significant in taking the voice of the party to the
masses. They also provide the party an opportunity to respond to the
concerns of the people.
Not
all the interviews of the party’s central leadership are in
English.
Nor
have we been able to translate all of them from various Indian
languages and make it available to the English readership. Moreover,
many of these interviews are presently unavailable to us. This
compilation therefore remains partial and incomplete. Our efforts to
publish collections of more such interviews in English and some
Indian languages will continue in the future.
With revolutionary
greetings
Central
Committee
CPI(Maoist)
1 September 2014
CPI(MAOIST)
10TH ANNIVERSARY
COMMEMORATIVE
VOLUMES
Collected
Interviews
September
2004 - August 2014
1. Comrades
Ganapathy and Kishen, General Secretaries of the erstwhile
CPI(ML)(PW) and MCCI, on the occasion of the merger of the two
parties and the formation of the Communist Party of India (Maoist),
People’s
March, Volume 5, No. 11-12, November- December 2004
2. “South
Asia is indeed becoming a storm centre of world revolution” -
Interview of Comrade Ganapathy to the Worker, organ of the Communist
Party of Nepal (Maoist), May
2006 3.
Interview with Com. Ramakrishna, Andhra Pradesh State Committee
Secretary, CPI(ML)[PW], People’s
March, Vol.5 No.9, September 2004
4. “No
Illusions that Something Drastic would Emerge Out of the Talks. If
Government Violates Cease-Fire We will Fight Back by Intensifying the
People’s War!”, - Interview with Com. Prakash, People’s
March, Vol.5 No.9, September 2004
5. Movement
of Jharkhand Adivasi Women – An interview with Comrade Budhini
Munda (Sheela, Shobha), Central Committee Member, CPI(Maoist),
People’s
March, October 2003
6. “We
have experiences of several countries where the toiling masses
suffered heavily due to the wrong line of the Communist party” -
Interview with Comrade Azad, Spokesperson, CPI(Maoist) on Nepal
developments, People’s
March, Volume 7, No.6 & 7, June-July 2006
7. Interview
with Comrade Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist) in the
background of the successful completion of the Unity Congress-9th
Congress of the CPI (Maoist), People’s
March, Volume 8 No: 7, July 2007
8. Interview
with Comrade Sonu, Central Committee Member, CPI(Maoist) on the
revolutionary movement in Dandakaranya, People’s
March, Volume 8 No. 6, July-August, 2007
9. History
of Naxalite movement in West Bengal seen through the eyes of veteran
martyr Comrade Ajayda, People’s
March, Volume 8 No. 8, December, 2007
10. Interview
with Comrade Basavaraj, chief of Central Military Commission,
CPI(Maoist) on the historic Nayagarh Raid, Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 2, 20 May 2008
11. Interview
with Comrade Azad, Spokesperson of the CC, CPI(Maoist) on the present
developments in Nepal, People’s
Truth, No. 2, July 2008
12. Interview
with Comrade Bhaskar, Secretary, Andhra-Odisha Border Special Zonal
Committee (AOBSZC) on Balimela attack on Greyhounds, Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 3, 20 July 2008
13. Interview
with Comrade Arvind on Indian economy, People’s
Truth, Bulletin No. 2, July 2008
14. Interview
with Comrade Azad, Spokesperson, CPI(Maoist) on Kashmir and
Khandamal, Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 4, 10 September 2008
15. “People’s
war has shattered the hesitations of the women of Dandakaranya” -
Interview with Comrade Janaki (Anuradha) by ‘Poru Mahila’,
People’s
Truth, Bulletin No. 3, September – December 2008
16. Interview
with Comrade Kosa, Secretary of DKSZC and member of Central
Committee, CPI(Maoist), Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 6, 15 January 2009
17. Interview
with Comrade Azad, Spokesperson, Central Committee, CPI(Maoist) on
2009 Lok Sabha Elections, Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 7, 15 April 2009
18. Interview
with Comrade Kishenji on Lalgarh movement and other issues,
April-November
2009
19. Interview
with Comrade Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist), Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 11, 7 October 2009
20. Comrade
Azad, Spokesperson, Central Committee, CPI(Maoist), on the current
unprecedented military offensive by the central and various state
governments on the CPI(Maoist) and the armed agrarian revolutionary
movement, Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 12, 31 October 2009
21. Interview
with Comrade Anand, Secretary, Central Regional Bureau (CRB),
CPI(Maoist), Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 13, 5 December 2009
22. Comrade
Ganapathy in conversation with Jan Myrdal and Gautam Navlakha,
People’s
March, Volume 11, No.1, January-February 2010
23. Comrades
Satenna and Sonu in conversation with Jan Myrdal and Gautam Navlakha,
People’s
March, Volume 11, No.1, January-February 2010
24. Comrade
Azad, Spokesperson, Central Committee, CPI(Maoist), answers the
questions sent by The
Hindu,
April
2010
25. Interview
with Gopalji, Spokesperson of the Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area
Committee (BJSAC) of the CPI(Maoist), Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 17, May 2010
26. “Nobody
can kill the ideas of ‘Azad’! Nobody can stop the advancement of
the revolution!” - Interview with Comrade Ganapathy, General
Secretary, CPI (Maoist), Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 20, October-November 2010
27. Interview
with Comrade Basavaraj, In-Charge, Central Military Commission (CMC),
Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 26, August-December 2012
28. Interview
of Comrade Sushil Roy, veteran leader of CPI (Maoist), October
2012
29. Interview
with Comrade Abhay, Spokesperson, CPI (Maoist) on General Elections
2014, Maoist
Information Bulletin, No. 29, January-June 2014
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