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Cobra Battalion Officer Injured in IED Blast by Maoists in West Singhbhum

Cobra 209 Battalion’s SI Jitendra Dani injured in Maoist IED blast in Baliba, West Singhbhum. Cobra 209 Battalion’s SI Jitendra Dani sustained serious injuries in an IED blast planted by Maoist rebels in Baliba, West Singhbhum. CHAIBASA – SI Jitendra Dani of Cobra 209 Battalion was critically injured in an IED explosion by Maoists in Baliba on Thursday morning. The incident occurred at 7:30 AM in…

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Are there communist parties in India?

of course there are! the oldest one is the communist party of india founded in 1925. then in 1964 along with the sino-soviet split came ideological differences and what is now known as the communist party of india (marxist) split from cpi. then in 1969, a radical faction within the cpi(m) split from the party, forming the communist party of india (marxist leninist) on lenin's birthday. this came after the 1967 naxalbari revolt led by tribal peasants and said radical faction of cpi(m). this revolt eventually spread and led to the ongoing naxalite insurgency. unfortunately, after the death of charu majumdar, the leader of cpi (ml), it splintered into multiple naxalite groups, communist part of india (maoist) being one of them

cpi and cpi(m) are unfortunately very moderate parties that engage in electoralism and aren't actually communist in any meaningful way, but that's a story for another day. cpi (maoist) however has no use for parliamentarism and are instead waging a protracted people's war against the indian state, for which they are banned. there are other minor commie parties but who cares about the trotskyists lmao

[milkboydotnet]

The CPP and the CP of India (Maoist) are parties that seriously carry out the people’s democratic revolution through protracted people’s war in their respective parties. They also seriously carry out international work in the spirit of proletarian internationalism and anti-imperialist solidarity with all peoples. They are conscious of their revolutionary struggles being contributory to the world proletarian revolution, seek international support and are ever ready to share their ideas and experience. But neither of them claims to be the leader or center of the world proletarian revolution. They have joined anti-imperialist as well as communist international organizations, conferences and seminars. But they do not make the immodest claim of being the center of authority or line-setter for the entire communist movement, unlike certain small groups calling themselves Maoists and exaggerating one component of Maoism like protracted people’s war and obfuscating other components of Maoism. Like those who were called infantile communists by Lenin, there are infantile Maoists whose main activity is to prance around and preach dogmatically that protracted people’s war is doable at all times in all kinds of countries irrespective of the actual state of domestic social conditions and inter-imperialist conflicts. But if you look at the biographies of these infantilists in imperialist countries, they have been babbling about people’s war for at least two decades to make themselves look superior to the real Maoists who are actually waging protracted people’s wars. These pseudo-Maoists do not do any serious mass work and do not set up any self-defense organization among the people for possible armed resistance. They are little chicks in comparison to the fascist gangs. These infantile Maoists are a fringe phenomenon and do not involve or cause any serious crisis of Maoism. Neither is it a crisis that certain genuine Maoist parties are still in the process of trying to reach the level of armed struggle and prominence already achieved by the CPP and the CPI (Maoist).

Jose Maria Sison

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June 15, 2023 | The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) joins the international proletarian movement in paying the highest tribute to Katakam “Comrade Anand” Sudarshan. Comrade Anand was a leading cadre of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), member of the Politburo of CPI (Maoist) Central Committee and is considered one of the most important guiding figures of India’s struggle for national and social liberation.

Comrade Anand was a teacher before he joined the Naxal movement in the 1970s. His unwavering service to the Indian revolution spanned five decades. He was one of the pioneering leaders in expanding the armed revolution in the Dandakaranya area. Comrade Anand became known for his strong command of guerilla warfare which dealt heavy blows against Indian security forces.

As Secretary of the Central Regional Bureau for almost two decades, and as a leading figure of their revolutionary magazine People’s March, he helped the Indian revolutionary struggle gain global recognition and prominence.

Comrade Anand’s passing is weightier than Mount Tai. The NDFP and the entire Philippine revolutionary movement take inspiration from his victories and enduring lessons in the struggle against imperialism and all reaction. The continuous advance of India’s revolution is a testament to his legacy as a revolutionary leader, an ingenious guerilla commander, and a great teacher of the international proletarian struggle.

Long live Comrade Anand! Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist)! Long live the International Proletarian Struggle!

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Security forces say they have killed 29 Maoist rebels in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, days before the country goes to polls.

The incident took place in Kanker area close to Bastar, which is a stronghold of the rebels.

The state police say this is the highest number of Maoist casualties in a clash in recent years.

Chhattisgarh has seen a long-running insurgency by Maoists who say they are fighting for the rights of the poor.

People in Bastar are set to vote on Friday on the first day of the general election, while Kanker goes to polls on 26 April.

Security forces said Tuesday's clash happened after they received a tip-off about the presence of leaders from the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) in Kankar.

A gunfight broke out during the search operation by forces and after that, 29 bodies of Maoist rebels and a large cache of arms were recovered, P Sundarraj, Inspector General of Police of Bastar, told reporters on Wednesday.

India's Border Security Force (BSF) said that two senior members of the CPI (Maoist) are believed to be among those killed.

Federal Home Minister Amit Shah has congratulated security personnel on the success of the operation.

Mr Shah was in Chhattisgarh earlier this week for an election campaign. On Wednesday, he said his government was "determined to free the country from the scourge" of Maoist rebels.

The Maoist insurgency began in West Bengal state in the late 1960s and has since spread to more than a third of India's 600 districts.

The rebels control large areas of several states in a "red corridor" stretching from north-east to central India.

Major military and police offensives in recent years have pushed the rebels back to their forest strongholds and levels of violence have fallen.

But clashes between security forces and rebels are still common, killing scores of people every year.

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Since Satyamurthy’s life is enmeshed in communist and Maoist politics, it is important to understand the historical context which brought him there. Gidla’s presentation of Communist party politics and Satyamurthy’s involvement misrepresents and grossly ignores legendary Dalit figures who built the communist movement in Andhra. Even though Dalits remained invisible in the mainstream communist party histories and were a mere social base as labourers and workers. A perusal of Telugu newspapers from the 1930s to the late 1950s as also secret reports of the police department reveal that Dalits were the vanguards of the communist movement as political and cultural activists. For example, Nambury Sreenivas Rao from Machilipatnam in Krishna district was a famous balladeer and organised Dalits and other marginalised sections. He travelled extensively. Inspired by his songs and performances, people in many villages looted the houses of landlords in Krishna, Guntur and Godavari districts. The Madras police department formed a special police battalion to capture him and failed. Only after independence was he jailed and released after he gave a written undertaking to disassociate himself from the Communist Party of India (CPI). Bethala Yesudas, a Dalit Christian from Tenali, organised Dalit agricultural labourers as part of the communist movement. He was also considered an outlaw by the Madras government and arrested after independence. Even in Vijayawada and Gudivada, much before Satyamurthy’s time, Pakis, also known as Rellis (manual scavengers), were organised by Thupakula Simhachalam, a Paki himself, into the Municipal Workers Union under the Communist Party in Vijayawada. Simhachalam’s moving autobiography, Nenu Communistunetlaina: How Did I Become A Communist (1946), provides the history of political mobilisation of the Paki community and also narrates the mistreatment of the Paki community even by fellow untouchable Malas and Madigas in the Vijayawada and Gudivada areas. Surprisingly, without even a scant reference to Thupakula Simhachalam, Gidla eulogises Satyamurthy as the pioneer in organising Pakis in Vijayawada. This ahistorical portrayal of Dalit lives not only erases the real heroes but is a gross injustice to activists. Gidla discusses Guntur Bapanayya, another communist leader who lived in the same Slatter Peta slum in Gudivada where Satyamurthy’s grandmother, Marthamma, bought a dwelling for them. Bapanayya was an elected member of the Madras Legislative Assembly and also general secretary of the Andhra Provincial Agricultural Labourers Association. Given the age of Satyamurthy at that time, Bapanayya would have been a source of inspiration to him as Bapanayya’s brother-in-law, Nancharayya, was a lifelong associate of Satyamurthy. In this context, by the time Satyamurthy came to Gudivada to study, the Communist Party already had roots among the Dalits and established leaders among them. Satyamurthy walked into a canvas of communist politics led by Dalits in their respective spheres and radicalised Dalit communist activism. Gidla’s portrayal of Satyamurthy as the pioneer of communist mobilisation among Dalits, including Pakis, is factually inaccurate and tantamount to the erasure of history of Dalit activists who sacrificed their lives to emancipate their brethren. Even though caste Hindus monopolised visible positions of power within the CPI, the spade work was done by Dalit activists. In this way, the communist movement in the coastal Andhra districts was built on the backs of Dalits such as Nambury Srinivasa Rao, Bethala Yesudasu, Gunturu Bapanayya and Thupakula Simhachalam

— How Not to Write a Dalit Memoir

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Maoist leader trying to spread Naxalism in NE arrested by NIA | India News - Times of India

Maoist leader trying to spread Naxalism in NE arrested by NIA | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency on Monday arrested CPI (Maoist) activist Samrat Chakraborty alias Nilkamal Sikdar in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal in a case related to CPI (Maoist)’s efforts to spread roots in Assam and the northeast in general. NIA had registered the case earlier this year, with the FIR saying that CPI (Maoist) has been making attempts to set up base in Assam and…

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Jharkhand cops arrest freelance journalist for Maoist links

Jharkhand cops arrest freelance journalist for Maoist links

JHARKHAND POLICE on Sunday arrested a freelance journalist, Rupesh Kumar Singh, in connection with a 2021 case lodged in Saraikela district in which senior CPI (Maoist) leader Prashant Bose alias Kishanda is an accused. The police alleged that Singh used to arrange funds for the Maoists. Jharkhand Police spokesperson Amol V Homkar confirmed that Singh was arrested from his home in Ramgarh…

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Maoists ready for talks, but Chhattisgarh says no to riders | India News

Maoists ready for talks, but Chhattisgarh says no to riders | India News

RAIPUR: Nearly a month after Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel invited the Maoists to peace talks, the insurgents have said they are willing to sit across a table but have set stiff riders — revoke the ban on CPI (Maoists) and its frontal organisations, release all jailed leaders and withdraw all security forces from Bastar. Chhattisgarh home minister Tamradhwaj Sahu, however, clarified that there…

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Security Forces Thwart Naxal Threat in West Singhbhum

5 kg IED recovered and safely destroyed during ongoing anti-Naxal operation A joint security operation in West Singhbhum has successfully recovered and neutralized a 5 kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by Naxalites. CHAIBASA – Security forces conducting a joint operation in West Singhbhum have recovered and safely destroyed a 5 kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by Naxalites…

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Maoists ready for talks, but Chhattisgarh says no to riders

Maoists ready for talks, but Chhattisgarh says no to riders

RAIPUR: Nearly a month after Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel invited the Maoists to peace talks, the insurgents have said they are willing to sit across a table but have set stiff riders — revoke the ban on CPI (Maoists) and its frontal organisations, release all jailed leaders and withdraw all security forces from Bastar. Chhattisgarh home minister Tamradhwaj Sahu, however, clarified that there…

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“Following the appeal of the Communist party of Peru, many Maoist parties and organizations including our party, trade unions and intellectuals had demanded for the better medical facilities to comrade Gonzalo and made appeal to the ruling ʹleft-wing’ government of Peru for his immediate release. But social fascist left-wing government had acted according to the agenda of American imperialists and its Peru compradors. The appeals made from all over the world to release comrade Gonzalo were not heard by the above said social fascist left-wing government as per itʹs class nature.“

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Sabyasachi Panda

Sabyasachi Panda

Leader of the Naxals Sabyasachi Panda is a key leader of the Naxalite movement. He is known as Sunil, a Maoist leader in the Maoist organization. In the last 16 years, there have been 61 cases of murder and violence against him in six districts of Odisha. Sabyasachi, who is said to be the main accused in the 2008 Nayagarh Naxal attack and the murder of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, was arrested on July 18, 2014 from Berhampur.

Early life and family-- Sabyasachi is the son of Ramesh Chandra Panda, a former MLA from Ranpur Assembly constituency. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Samanta Chandra Shekhar College, Puri. Sabyasachi is married to Shubhshree Panda.

Maoist organization-- At first, Sabyasachi left the house after arguing with his parents. Later, he stayed with prominent leftist leader Nagbhushan Patnaik and worked for the CPI (M). He was expelled from the CPI (M) after a series of riots broke out in 1996 and Nagbhushan's office was demolished. He was then inspired by the Naxal ideology and took the lead in forming his own organization, the Kui Lobang Sangh, in Mochikipadarachcha, Padmapur, Rayagada district. His biggest crime was the killing of a liquor store owner in the Padmapur block in 2001. After leading the Kui Lobang Sangh for almost four years, the CPI (ML) joined the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) zonal committee. He later took over as secretary of the CPI (Maoist )'s Bashdara division.

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Top Maoist Leader Prashant Bose Alias Kishan Da Carrying 1 Crore Bounty Arrested In Jharkhand: Police

Top Maoist Leader Prashant Bose Alias Kishan Da Carrying 1 Crore Bounty Arrested In Jharkhand: Police

Top Maoist leader Prashant Bose alias Kishan Da was arrested by police. (Representational) Ranchi: Top Maoist leader Prashant Bose alias Kishan Da, who was carrying a bounty of Rs 1 crore on his head, has been arrested in Jharkhand along with his wife Sheela Marandi, a senior police officer said on Friday. Marandi is also a member of the CPI(Maoist). Bose, wanted in several criminal cases, is a…

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When Greyhounds struck in Andhra Pradesh’s fading red zone

When Greyhounds struck in Andhra Pradesh’s fading red zone

In June, six Maoists including top leaders of the CPI(Maoist) were killed by the Greyhounds in Koyyuru mandal in Visakhapatnam Agency. Sumit Bhattacharjee reports on the setback to the movement which is already at its lowest ebb in the region On June 16, rain-bearing clouds loomed over Koyyuru mandal in Visakhapatnam Agency, about 170 km from Visakhapatnam city. The monsoon had set in. The…