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.
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.
End of Part 1 - to be continued
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