Call for an International Emergency Campaign against Operation Kagaar

The International Commitee to Support the People’s War in India (ICSPWI) calls on
all democratic, progressive, antifascist, antimperialist and revolutionary forces
worldwide to join the International Emergency Campaign against Operation Kagaar.

What is Operation Kagaar?

 
Since January 2024, the Indian state under Narendra Modi's Hindutva fascist regime
has been conducting Operation Kagaar, a military operation whose stated goal is the
complete destruction of the revolutionary movement in India by March 2026. In
reality, this is a comprehensive war against the people, directed primarily against the
Adivasi population, poor farmers, revolutionary activists, journalists, students and
political prisoners. Entire regions are being occupied by the military, villages bombed
and burned down, civilians abused as human shields, prisoners tortured and
extrajudicially executed in so-called ‘fake encounters’.
Operation Kagaar is a continuation and escalation of earlier counter-revolutionary
military operations such as Samadhan-Prahar and Green Hunt. With the deployment
of the army, paramilitaries and air force, the Indian state is attempting to destroy the
Communist Party of India (Maoist), the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) and
the New Democratic Revolution they are leading. This counter-revolutionary offensive
hit the revolutionary movement particularly hard in 2025, when numerous leading
cadres, including the party's general secretary, Comrade Basavaraj (Nambala Keshava
Rao), and other well-known Adivasi leaders, were assassinated. At the same time, the
state is intensifying its psychological warfare, deliberately spreading rumours about
alleged surrenders and attempting to demoralise the revolutionary forces.

Steadfastness and revolutionary continuity

 
Despite these heavy losses, the revolutionary movement in India remains steadfast
on its path. In several public documents, the CPI (Maoist) has made it clear that there
will be no abandonment of armed struggle and no surrender to the state. Rather, the
party openly analyses its mistakes, learns lessons from its losses and reorganises itself
under the changed conditions. The protracted people's war remains the only way to
overcome exploitation, national oppression, the caste system, patriarchy and
imperialist penetration.
A central element of repression is mass imprisonment. Under laws such as the
Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, thousands of people in India are detained for
years without trial. Journalists are criminalised for critical reporting, students are
arrested for possessing marxist literature, and activists are tortured and isolated.
India presents itself internationally as ‘the world's largest democracy,’ but in reality it
is a prison for its people, where fundamental democratic rights are systematically
suspended.
This development is no coincidence, but rather an expression of the increasing
fascistisation of the Indian state. Under the Hindutva regime, religious minorities are
persecuted, national oppression is intensified, and social protests are met with
military force. At the same time, India acts as a strategic pillar of US imperialism in
South Asia and as a close ally of Israel. Internal oppression and an aggressive external
role are two sides of the same policy.

International significance of the struggle in India

 
This is precisely why the struggle of the Indian people is of international significance.
The New Democratic Revolution in India represents one of the most important fronts
in the global antimperialist struggle. Its defeat or victory would have a direct impact
on the global balance of power between imperialism and the proletarian world
revolution. Solidarity with the people's war in India therefore also means solidarity
with all oppressed peoples and political prisoners worldwide.

Against this background, the ICSPWI calls for an International Emergency Campaign
Against Operation Kagaar. The aim of this campaign is to expose the crimes of the
Indian state internationally, build political pressure, demand the release of all political
prisoners and provide practical support to the revolutionary forces in India. Actions,
rallies, events and publications have already taken place in numerous countries on
several continents. This mobilisation must be expanded, deepened and coordinated.

Call for partecipation

 
We call on all individuals and organisations in solidarity to partecipate in the month of
action against Opera,on Kagaar in March 2026. On 28 March 2026, an international
demonstration will take place in Zurich in solidarity with the revolutionary movement
in India.
Today, more than ever, it is important to take a clear stand. Operation Kagaar must be
stopped. The massacres of the Adivasi population must be stopped. All political
prisoners in India must be released immediately. Imperialist support for the Indian
regime must end.
The struggle of the Indian revolutionaries is our struggle. Their steadfastness is a call
to all of us to strengthen international solidarity and advance the common struggle
against imperialism, fascism and oppression.

STOP OPERATION KAGAAR!
FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!
SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN INDIA!

28 MARCH – ZURICH  H.15

Switzeland Coordination

INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST OPERATION KAGAAR

Parallel actions in Europe, North and South America, South Asia, Australia and North Africa.
International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar