New Fear for India's Elite: International Support for India's Maoists

The following article appeared in the Times of India. It warns opinion-makers and oppressors in Official India that support is building internationally for the Maoists of India -- exactly those who the government and army are trying to put in their murderous cross hairs.

This report (and others like it) are from the mainstream press -- so that its statements and claims should not be assumed to be true. However an article like this is a statement of their views, their fears, and their assessments -- i.e. that international support for the Indian Maoists is an important new development, just as the government's army is planning systematic destruction of the revolutionary base areas.

NEW DELHI: If the government is finding it difficult to combat growing Maoist movement and its violent ways across the country, it now has more reasons to be concerned. The movement seems to be garnering international support, thanks to a solidarity initiative launched by Maoist parties and groups across the world. Their slogan -- "Let's sustain the people's war in India" -- does not augur well for the government.

According to a statement made by "International Committee to Support the People's War in India," a week-long international campaign to "sustain" the people's war in the country will be held from April 2 to 9, 2011 across nations.

Posters have been made in various languages -- like French and Spanish --showcasing the CPI (Maoist) cadres and their slogans in Hindi.

"International Committee in support of the people's war launches a great international campaign, to be conducted in all forms, in the most number of countries as possible, through a week of action," states an official release. It, however, does not specify what "all forms" refer to.

"This campaign is the expression of proletarian internationalism and advancement of unity of the international proletariat, of revolutionaries, democratic forces and oppressed peoples around the world," says the release.

Encouraging the Left-wing extremism in India, the statement claims, "Indian masses, led by the Maoist Communist Party of India, are writing an historical page in the class struggle in the current world. In India the people's war is intensifying... Led by CPI(Maoist), it has support of millions of poor farmers, women, masses of untouchables, and now controls about 10 states of the confederation of India... That's a people's war against poverty, feudal, capitalistic exploitation...".

The forum also raises the human rights violation issue. "The Indian government describes the People's War as the greatest threat to internal security, and launched against it an unprecedented offensive, under the name of operation "green hunt" through raids, indiscriminate destruction, rapes and mass murders, arrests and disappearances, trying to assassinate the leaders, as occurred with Comrade Azad," it adds.

The solidarity forum does not name its member groups. But, Maoist movement in the form of World People's Resistance Movement (UK), Communist Party of Philippines, Maoist Communist Party of Italy, Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada), and Maoist groups in France and US are likely to be participate in it.

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    Had you ever have heard a sentence like this back in the USA?
    I am talking about Prime Minister Singh saying:
    greatest threat to internal security (of India)?

    it was said as the following:
    The Black Panther Party was a progressive political organization that stood in the vanguard of the most powerful movement for social change in America ... (its) ideals and activities were so radical, it was at one time assailed by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States."

    And how did they fight them? Through many ways the COINTELPRO was played. false letters sent to leaders to conside one another as snitch or theives of party material and cash, framing them for example for killing a person in LA while the alleged killer was according to their own spies on the phone in Norht of California then and, many, many other ways. Remember how Fred Hampton was killed in absolute innocent ways?
    - - - -
    That Unforgettable Morning
    That evening Fred Hampton and several Party members including William O'Neal came home to the BPP Headquarters after a political education class. O'Neal volunteered to make the group dinner. He slipped a large dose of secobarbital in Fred's kool-aid and left the apartment around 1:30am, a little while later, Fred fell asleep. Around 4:30am on December 4, 1969 the heavily armed Chicago Police attacked the Panthers' apartment. They entered the apartment by kicking the front door down and then shooting Mark Clark pointblank in the chest. Clark was sleeping in the living room with a shotgun in his hand. His reflexes responded by firing one shot at the police before he died. That bullet was then discovered to be the only shot fired at the police by the Panthers.
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    Many hearts were broken and minds shattered with seeing such great comrades killed in such brutal vicous ways.
    same feelings are for how Azad and other comrades of CPI Maoists are getting killed and arrested and tortured with false allegation or, accused of selling out their own comrades.

    But due to have majority of their peoples in forests and, seeing in places like Nandigram and Lalgrah that it is not the party that goes out looking to recruit but, it is the people's own resistences that turns them into mass basis for the party and, looking for its advices, believe me, as we have learnt in China or, for example Philippine that has had the longest history of people's war, they cannot defeat India's Maobadi revolution.

    Comrade Dave of MLM Study Group once had suggested such petitions to be presented to people to sign (the following is a draft) and later, international support groups, Party affiliaes have presented its finalized version that I will supply as soon as I get my hand on it.

    The draft reads:
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    The Government of India has launched a domestic war named Operation Green Hunt in the forested regions of East-Central India, stretching from the states of Chhattisgarh to Jharkhand and West Bengal. This region is home to significant amounts of natural resources.
    Big corporations, both Indian and foreign, are plundering these natural resources for quick profits and plan to continue doing so while paying almost no attention to the enormous environmental and human costs inherent in their ventures. The state and central governments continue to welcome these big corporations with open arms by signing an unknown number of memoranda of understanding with them—whose details have been kept secret. A recent report by the Ministry of Rural Development, on the other hand, described these trends as one of the biggest land grabs since the time of Columbus.
    This forested region, rich in natural resources as it is, is also home to a large section of India’s roughly 100 million Adivasis (i.e., the tribal population). Using all means at their disposal, the Adivasis resisted the government’s efforts to forcibly drive them from their ancestral lands. Drawing on the Fifth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, which is devoted to Adivasi rights and provisions for their protection, Adivasi activists challenged the government's expropriations.
    Instead of addressing the genuine grievances of the Adivasis, the Indian government has cracked down on their legitimate protests in violation of the letter and intent of the Indian Constitution. Peaceful resistance movements across this region have been met with police brutality and military might; this forced the arming of a section of the resistance movement led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist). State-assisted vigilante groups like the Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh and Harmad Bahini in West Bengal were a response of the state to the armed resistance of the Adivasis.
    When that failed, Operation Green Hunt—a further escalation and militarization of the State's response—emerged.
    We invite you to join in the international protest movement against Operation Green Hunt.
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    and with such perspectives and staetments there were few picket lines in front of the Indian embessies in the United States.

    Salute to those responsible comrades!

    Invite oppressed people of the US, ex supporters of Black movement, Puerto Ricans, women movement, everybody to participate in April's week of support for Indian revolutionaries

    And while Times of India suggests that only groups such as
    ...Maoist movement in the form of World People’s Resistance Movement (UK), Communist Party of Philippines, Maoist Communist Party of Italy, Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada), and Maoist groups in France and US are likely to be participate in it....,

    to only be fair, it would be good to see the name of the signaturies and the text of one of the international solidarity groups' formation. Its name is somewhat different from the calling group and possibly through time changes have come and/or, it is another example of supporters of the line that will be there:

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    INTERNATIONAL CALL
    Support people’s war in India!
    RFE #29 • June 6th 2010 •

    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 guerilla waged 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 on 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 and it has already took big areas throughout a dozen of states of the Indian Federation.
    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. Today this people’s war is winning masses of young people, students, democratic and revolutionary intellectuals also in the cities and gains 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 – like the recent genocide offensive occurred in Sri Lanka against the Tamil people and liberation movement.
    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 intellectuals – including the prominent representative of the world anti-globalization movement, the writer Arundhati Roy. And 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 (International Campaign Against War on the People in India). But we need 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, the 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 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 also on a world scale. That is why we, Maoist and revolutionary parties and organizations, launch a big campaign of support and call to form an International Committee of Support to organize conferences, meetings, demonstrations in various countries, particularly in the heart of the imperialist beast.
    With people’s war in India towards the victory!
    Maoist Communist Party – France
    Maoist Communist Party – Italy
    Maoist Communist Party - Turkey/North Kurdistan
    Revolutionary Communist Party - Canada
    Communist Party of India (ML) Naxalbari
    theredflag.ca

    Therefore you can see that in addition to Italy, France, Canada and British groups that will be there there are also an Indian group (CPI ML Naxalbari) and, courageous peoples of Turkey North Kurdistan (one of the group that used to be called CPTurkey M-L that is now called
    Maoist Communist Party - Turkey/North Kurdistan
    and thus in addition to Turkish people of Turkey, they are also creating a revolutionary progressive dimension in North Kurdistan people's wars way above nationalist lines of groups like PKK

    But is that enough?
    NO! Never!! It is you the reader of the statement of International Call who should re produce and post it all over the world and invite as many friends/comrades you have to bring their power to this most remarkable happening of a revolution in contemporary human's history!

    And ex Maoist confused peoples! It is never too late to get away from dogmatic self described High Calibre meglamaniacs who consdier everybody else "Worthless" and "Counter Revolutionary" if they don't buy their born again synthesis!

    Resign from confused movements be it American, Iranian and what have you and get away from falling into the deep hole of modern revisionism that are result of their faith in a self proclaimed genious who probably show up once in a great while!!! (see Letter No. 8 of the 9 letters written to comrades - work of M Ely and other honest revolutionary comrades who new that worshiping a leader is a cult feature and communists never want to act as a religious cult)

    Come back to your original Maoist line and, force your corrupted party leaders to open their eyes and see the importance of their being in solidarity with revolution in India, if they want to hold upon what their "MLM" or "revolutionary" party titles really stand for and imply!
    And/or in the least, if Maoism is an old revolutionary fashion and now leader's though matters the most but proof to us which was is closer to your general line; the Naxalite CPI Maoists or, the bloody current caste minded Indian regime.

    Anybody's aware passivity is a service to the enemy.