#communist party of India Maoist

[connorthemaoist]

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!

[lasttarrasque]

CPI (Maoist) stands in solidary with Palestine and the Palestinian resistance!

[themassespress]

FACAM Statement on Operation Clean

By the Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization 23rd July, 2024 – There has been news coming from Jharkhand about state terror that is being unleashed upon the Adivasi peasantry by the Indian state as part of its Operation Clean. The Indian state has been establishing new forward operational camps in the Kolhaan Division of Jharkhand as part of this Operation Clean. The people of Kolhaan…

[zvaigzdelasas]

With a history of short-term governments in Nepal’s 15 years of democratic progression, the current reconfiguration is no surprise, and it will be no surprise if the Maoists get back again with the Nepali Congress in months and years to come.

Power sharing, political discontent, ideological differences, underperformance, and pressure to restore Nepal to a Hindu state – a long list of reasons reportedly forced the Maoists to sever ties with the Nepali Congress. While the Nepali Congress expected the Maoist leader and current prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal (also known by his nom de guerre, Prachanda) to leave the alliance, it did not expect an overnight turnaround. [...]

Dahal reportedly conveyed to the Nepali Congress chair, former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, that external pressure forced him to join hands with CPN-UML and form a new government.

If this assertion is true, China emerges as a plausible factor, given its historical inclination toward forging alliances with leftist parties in Nepal. This notion gains credence in light of China’s past efforts, such as its unsuccessful attempt in 2020 to mediate the conflict between Oli and Dahal.

On the other hand, India has enjoyed a comfortable working relationship with the Nepali Congress and the Maoists. Although Maoists were a challenging party for New Delhi to get along with when Dahal first gained the prime minister’s seat in 2008, the two have come a long way in working together. However, the CPN-UML has advocated closer ties with the northern neighbor China; Beijing suits both their ideological requirements and their ultra-nationalistic outlook – which is primarily anti-India. [...]

India faces challenges in aligning with the Left Alliance for two key reasons. First, the energy trade between Nepal and India has grown crucial over the past couple of years. However, India strictly purchases power generated through its own investments in Nepal, refusing any power produced with Chinese involvement. With the CPN-UML now in government, Nepal may seek alterations in this arrangement despite the benefits of power trade in reducing its trade deficit with India.

Second, India stands to lose the smooth cooperation it enjoyed with the recently dissolved Maoist-Congress coalition. During the dissolved government, the Nepali Congress held the Foreign Ministry, fostering a favorable equation for India. Just last month, Foreign Minister N.P. Saud visited India for the 9th Raisina Dialogue, engaging with top Indian officials, including his counterpart, S. Jaishankar.

As concerns arise for India regarding the Left Alliance, there is also potential for shifts in the partnership between Nepal and the United States, a significant development ally. Particularly, there may be a slowdown in the implementation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) projects. Despite facing domestic and Chinese opposition, the Nepali Parliament finally approved a $500 million MCC grant from the United States in 2022, following a five-year delay.

China perceives the MCC as a component of the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific strategy, countering its BRI. Hence Beijing aims to increase Chinese loans and subsidies to Nepal to enhance its influence.

To conclude, the re-emergence of Nepal’s Left Alliance signals a shift in power dynamics, impacting domestic politics and regional geopolitics. With China’s influence growing, Nepal’s foreign policy may tilt further toward Beijing, challenging India’s interests. This shift poses challenges for India, particularly in trade and diplomatic relations, while also affecting Nepal’s partnerships with other key players like the United States.

[[The Author,] Dr. Rishi Gupta is the assistant director of the Asia Society Policy Institute, Delhi]

6 Mar 24

[guerillas-of-history]

Communist Party of India-Maoist

Military wing: Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA)

Also known as Naxalites

[timetravellingkitty]

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

[marxism-transgenderism]

Memory from high school that just erupted from within me: I did once print off the full Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) on my school library's printers. Not even the clean FLN edition I'm talking that crunchy pdf you could only find on shit like bannedthought dot net. Half way through the librarian asked if I was printing off a whole book and I was like "no." It was like 150 pages.

[communist-ojou-sama]

In one of your recent posts you made a distinction between Maoist and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. I wasn’t aware there was a difference, I sort of thought Maoist was just shortening the whole term. Could you explain what distinctions there are between the two?

As I understand it Maoism tends to be more of a theory of revolution and protracted asymmetrical struggle against an established state enemy, with ideological and geopolitical thought that extends from the ideological lines that developed through Mao's tenure as head of the CPC through to the GPCR, and developed further by responses to Mao Zedong thought, especially by other guerilla groups that focus on organizing the peasantry. Notably, as I understand it Maoist groups while not anarchist often reject the idea of a vanguard party. So the communist guerillas in eastern India and the Philippines, for example, are Maoist, but not Marxist Leninist Maoist

Marxism Leninism Maoism is the application of certain aspects of both Mao Zedong Thought and also organizing innovations of the CPC at large throughout its entire history, including after the GPCR, as adjustments to what they consider to be contradictions within Marxism Leninism that the CPC managed resolved with ideological and organizing innovations (such as the mass line). However MLM is fundamentally democratic centralist like Leninism, and in terms of it's theory of revolution is fundamentally vanguardist (if indeed my understanding is correct)

[milkboydotnet]

Support the Indian Revolution! Down with Operation Kagaar!

Robert Reid | Chairperson FFPS On May 24, eight peasants of the indigenous Adivasi people were brutally arrested and executed by state forces in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. This brutal episode is only one of the many fascist attacks by the Indian state against the Adivasi people and opponents of the state in the last months. Operation Kagaar, the name of the broader “counterinsurgency” operation, has as of June 2024 taken the lives of more than 130 people, with many more victims of harassment, abductions, displacement, torture, and rape.  The indigenous Adivasis live in remote areas that are extremely rich in natural resources, like the Dandakaranya forest. Due to this wealth, the Adivasis have been facing displacement and oppression by the Indian state, on behalf of national and international capital, for decades.  The Adivasi people and their allies have been bravely resisting this imperial plunder. The strongest force in this has been the revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Since 2004 the CPI (Maoist) and the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) have been waging people’s war against the Indian state, feudal oppression and exploitation, and imperial domination.  The revolutionary movement has been deeply rooted among the Adivasis in their fight for the environment, ancestral land, and livelihood. They have been such a big threat to the national and international capital that the Indian state has named it the ‘biggest internal security threat’ of India. In a desperate attempt to destroy the revolutionary movement and to displace the Adivasis from their rich lands, the Indian state has been committing a decade-long genocide on the Adivasis. Operation Kagaar is just the latest in this series of “counterinsurgency” operations.  In response to the current operation Kagaar, the CPI (Maoist) and the International Committee to Support the People’s War in India (ICSPWI) have called for a campaign to oppose the Operation Kagaar and to support the resistance of the Adivasi people, with the people’s war as its highest expression. The call has been answered by many struggling peoples all around the world, including by the revolutionary movement in the Philippines which has declared a month of solidarity with the Indian people’s struggle.  We as Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle celebrate these concrete expressions of international solidarity with other oppressed and exploited peoples of the world ,and also stand in solidarity with the Indian people’s struggle, in particular with the revolutionary movement and the Adivasi masses. As we stand together to expose the genocidal operation Kagaar, we know that for as long as the Indian masses are exploited and oppressed, they will continue to resist. So let’s celebrate their people’s resistance and their revolution, as we recognize it as a just and necessary effort of the Indian people to liberate themselves and achieve a genuine peace!  From India to the Philippines, stop the bombings! From India to the Philippines, victory to the resistance!  Stop Operation Kagaar! Long live international solidarity!

Source: ffps.info

[apas-95]

There's a post going around rn with a document from the communist party of India (Maoist) and the communist party of the Philippines condemning China for their supplying of arms to the Indian and Duterte govs, and how those arms have been used against those communist parties and innocents. It seems to me that to go against their trade agreements because of that would be in violation of China's non interventionist party, let alone if they supplied arms to the communist guerrillas for a Comintern 2 situation, but I'm unsure if that holds up on inspection

The SIPRI Arms Transfer Database shows zero arms trades between China and the Philippines, or India.

In the case of the Philippines, I'm aware of the specific thing being referenced whenever this point is brought up - a ceremonial gift of a few hundred rifles, given to the government of the Philippines during their campaign against local ISIS groups. This doesn't appear on any databases for the SIPRI peace institute because it's not an arms trade, it's an incredibly small token gift without any possible impact.

In the case of India, I've got no idea what's being referenced - especially since India is actively engaged in military competition against China, not only through posturing, but through active border clashes, and China is engaged fairly heavily in arming Pakistan against India.

I can understand why, on the level of national interest, these groups might oppose China - and, further, on the ideological level - but I think it's fairly clear that China isn't interested in suppressing these groups, its foreign policy towards a given nation is simply uninvolved with which group in a nation has power, and would just as happily work with these groups should they manage to rally their countrymen to their side.

If anything, given the clear ideological differences between themselves and the CPC, they should appreciate the fact that the CPC hasn't decided to impose its vision of socialism on other countries, and to let them undergo their own processes of national development.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.13 (after 1940)

1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. 1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences. 1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. 1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls. 1955 – Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy. 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. 1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. 1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. 1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York. 1978 – Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. 1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. 1983 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people. 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. 1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. 1996 – The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre). 2001 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944. 2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. 2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. 2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. 2021 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. 2021 – A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.

[leftistfeminista]

This is a text written by Anuradha Ghandy, also known as Avanti. She was spearheading the proletarian feminist movement in India, and was a Central Committee member of the underground Communist Party of India (Maoist). This text is considered to be one of the seminal proletarian feminist texts.

Overview of Women’s Movement in the West Liberal Feminism

Critique Radical Feminism

Sex-Gender System and Patriarchy

Sexuality: Heterosexuality and Lesbianism

Critique Anarcha-Feminism Eco-Feminism Socialist Feminism

Socialist-Feminist strategy for women’s liberation

Critique Post-modernism and Feminism Summing up

[lasttarrasque]

Solidarity with the CPI (Maoist) and Adivasi masses against the Hindu-Fascist state of India!

The Hindu-Fascist state of India has recently launched what it calls “Operation Kagaar” (Kagaar meaning “final” in Hindi) against the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the Adivasi people of the Chhattisgarh state, particularly in the Abujhmaad region on the behest of imperialist extraction, particularly US mining companies. The state forces and paramilitary troops sent by the Fascist Modi regime have already carries out war crimes on-masse such as rape, forced surrender of noncombatants and the execution and killing of civilians, even including infants.

The Communist Party of the Philippines has declared June 20th - July 20th as a month of solidarity with the Indian people, especially the Adivasi masses in their fight for socialism and liberation. The Central Committee calls upon all revolutionary forces within India and outside of India, to express in various ways, their support for the Indian people’s struggle against the heightening brutal war of suppression and counterinsurgency campaign of the reactionary Indian state and educate others on the events of this struggle and its current phase in Operation Kagaar. 

I ask that all of you do your best to engage in all useful means of support in solidarity with the people of India and against Operation Kagaar, publicly show solidarity for the Adivasi people against Operation Kagaar and educate your comrades, members of the masses and yourself on these events.

[harryofderby]

Richard Plantagenet, the third Duke of York was born on the 21st September, 1411 which was exactly 593 years before that of the Communist Party of India ( Maoist) with whom he shares his birthday. He spent his youth battling the French feudalists and imperialists in Normandy thereby avenging the colonisation of England by the Normans some three centuries prior and had built himself mass support amongst the peasantry and the proletariat of England and Ireland to overthrow the elements of the feudal classes who favoured the Henry of Lancaster ( commonly known as Henry VI & II of England and France) which was wont to partake in anti-people measures ( amongst other things by corruption and graft thereby letting the Beauforts monopolise the control of the productive forces in England and by depriving the poorer peasantry and proletariat who had less than 40 shillings from having any say in governance by depriving them the right to vote in 1430). As it is evident, he was in contact with the mass uprising led by Jack Cade and the fact that he had based his demands on what the people had demanded in the uprising but in a more formalized manner shows that he came up with the Maoist practice of implementing the mass-line on his own. He then waged the People's War against the House of Lancaster and was ultimately beheaded in Wakefield at 1460 by the Lancastrian roadsters.

[connorthemaoist]

We as Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle, join the International Committee in Support of the People’s War in India in the month-long campaign to:

Honor the martyrs of the Philippine and Indian revolution.

Call for the freedom of political prisoners.

Support the People’s War in the Philippines and India.

Both the Filipino and Indian revolutionaries are waging a struggle for liberation against imperialism. The imperialist powers such as the U.S. are dependent on the exploitation of their (semi-)colonies. They brutally oppress and exploit the people in these countries, plunder the resources and destroy the environment. But the people in the oppressed countries have taken up arms and are fighting back. It is especially these peoples’ wars that weaken the chains of imperialism and open up the system for further and intensified attacks, until its inevitable downfall. To struggle against imperialism, is to struggle for freedom and genuine peace!

The campaign starts on July 1st, the 13th anniversary of the kidnapping of comrade Azad, then spokesperson of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The fascist state forces in India killed him afterwards. This killing bears striking familiarity to the murder of the Tiamzons, two leading cadres of the Communist Party of the Philippines, last year in the Philippines. The CPI (Maoist) and the CPP are both on the forefront of the liberation struggle and provide important revolutionary leadership.

As solidarity organisation, it is important for us to militantly side with the Filipino and Indian people and their peoples’ wars, and all anti-imperialist forces in the world. For us to stand for a genuine and just peace for the people, a peace that is born through the people’s revolutionary war. Sa digma ay sisilang ang payapa!

The many heroic martyrs and political prisoners of the Philippine and Indian revolution have given their life and their freedom in service to the people and their liberation. We honor these heroes and engulf ourselves with their great revolutionary spirit as we continue to support and join their struggle for liberation. 

The martyrs of the revolution will never be forgotten! Long live the People’s War in India! Long live the People’s War in the Philippines! Immediate freedom to all political prisoners in India and the Philippines!

[redstarnotebooks]

Historic Eight Documents, Charu Mazumdar

A selection of eight important documents issued by a left faction in the Communist Part of India (Marxist) which split to become the CPI (Marxist-Leninist). The split was broadly over the passivity and reformism of the CPI (M) in the face of fierce but spontaneous uprisings by peasants, and the refusal of armed struggle or even illegal work by the CPI (M) leadership.

The documents form the basis of the Naxalbari uprising and the subsequent Maoist insurgency in India. They've had their ups and downs over the years, between infighting and Operation Green Hunt, but unified a few years ago as CPI (Maoist) and have survived massive counterinsurgency campaigns and urban repression. This is due in large part to the people's war being fueled by objective conditions faced by small peasants and Indigenous Peoples in India.

There's a lot of interesting stuff in the book, like the building of underground Activist Groups to train new party cadre pending a broader central organization of the new party. Or the "gun-collection" campaign, or the role of the Soviet Union in propping up the Indian bourgeoisie alongside the Americans. There's some interesting discussion of class ideology in India at the time. One thing near the end got my attention.

"...there is amongst us a group of revolutionary comrades who accept the Chinese party and the Thought of the great Mao Zedong and also accept that as the only path. But they view the book 'How to be a Good Communist' as the only road to self-cultivation and are consequently led into a serious deviation. The only road to Marxist self-cultivation taught by Lenin and Chairman Mao is the path of class struggle... the main point of of party education is application of the teachings of Marxism-Leninism in class struggle, arriving at general principles on the basis of that experience and taking back to the people the principles summed up from experience. That is what is called 'from the people to the people.'... Self-cultivation is possible only in the process of changing the existing conditions through revolutionary struggle."

Lots more interesting things, and it's just under 80 pages. I read it on the ride to work this morning.