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…..However, the proletarian vanguard organisations are not yet strong enough to catch up with the demands of the toiling people and provide a united leadership for their movements in the direction of liberation. Our Party announced its stand towards the need and formation of an International Forum to develop unity and solidarity among the proletarian vanguards of the world. The CC of our Party appeals to sister organisations to respond to our stand and to advance efforts in this direction.
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)
Central Committee
Long live Internationalist May Day!
Let us work for more unity and organization of World revolutionary workers, toilers and their organisations!
The toiling class of the world, especially the proletariat is going to celebrate May Day this year on the eve of 150 years of ‘Paris Commune’ where the proletariat held high the Red Flag and achieved state power. This is a big festive day for the entire proletariat of the world. It is the world proletariat rights day. May Day is the day on which the proletariat assesses its balance of forces and pledges to work relentlessly, with firmer determination and to mobilise its entire strength for its freedom, independence, equality and brotherhood and to accomplish proletarian revolutions and World Socialist Revolution. On the occasion of May Day the Central Committee of our Party conveys its heartfelt Revolutionary Greetings to the proletariat of the world. It pays humble revolutionary homage to all the toilers who laid down their lives to achieve their rights.
Imperialism is facing a severe crisis all over the world. The exploitive ruling classes are indulging in a number of attacks and conspiracies to shift the burden of this crisis on to the proletariat and to intensify the exploitation of labor force. By the time world crisis was about to break in a more intense way than the financial and economic crisis of 2008, the COVID pandemic took over the whole world. This is one of the deadly viruses that the imperialists created out of their hunt for profits. While the contemporary world is upended with the pandemic, crores of migrant workers lost their livelihood and are on the streets, the Multi-National corporate enterprises and their comprador companies are competing for the vaccine business and gaining multifold super profits. Imperialist globalisation resulted in the expansion of capitalist world economy to an unprecedented level and so the contradictions between imperialism and the oppressed nationalities and oppressed people, between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat and among the imperialist forces reached the peak. There is a rise in the imperialist aggression and capitalist onslaught on the oppressed nationalities and people. A re-division of the world countries and markets is going on with the contention between the imperialists, especially the US imperialists and China SocialImperialists for world hegemony and to exploit the natural wealth of the countries of the world. The ‘trade war’ is putting severe economic burden on the oppressed people of the backward countries. The proletariat, peasantry, middle class people, women, religious minorities, oppressed nationalities, nationalities and other communities facing racial discrimination and other communities are suffering from much severe economic, political, socioculture exploitation and oppression. The disparity between the rich and the poor reached an unprecedented level. Toiling people of the world are suffering from poverty, unemployment, hunger, inequalities and racial discrimination. All these are the ill consequences of imperialist globalisation.
Apart from the workers of the backward countries, the workers of the imperialist and capitalist countries are also suffering from the severest of severe exploitation due to the neo-colonial exploitive policies. The situation and the need for the unity of world proletariat is growing day by day. This is the time for steadfast fight to end globalisation policies. Apart from the proletariat of the imperialist and capitalist countries, the people of all sections in several semi-colonial, neo-colonial countries are struggling against the imperialist globalisation policies. The proletarian vanguard i.e. the Revolutionary Communist Parties must lead these struggles. Today there is an increasing need to advance in a more united and organized manner in this direction.
In our country, the entire oppressed classes, social sections and oppressed nationalities including the proletariat and the peasantry are facing the brutal onslaught of the Modi government in the form of Brahmanic Hindutwa Fascism with imperialist support. Struggles of workers, employees and farmers are intensifying day by day. In the interest of the imperialist finance capital the Modi government brought forth Robotic, 3D printing and Artificial Intelligence depriving the workers of job security and shrunk the existing 44 labor laws into 4 codes to validate its exploitation. The organized and unorganized workers are making militant agitations against this bifacial onslaught. The farmers of India are making an unprecedented non-compromising struggle centered in the capital city of the country. Traders are against GST. Lakhs of organized and unorganized workers and employees are taking up strikes opposing the merger of banks and privatization of the public sector enterprises. Students, teachers and academicians are against the National Education Policy – 2020 adopted by the Hindu reactionary forces in the centre. The indigenous people of the country including those in the strategic areas that are acting as a strong centres of revolutionary movement are militantly fighting for their just rights. Toiling castes are taking up united struggles against the caste based Brahmanic order that is one of the peculiarities of India and its exploitation, oppression, suppression and discrimination. The state is unleashing repression on the democratic and progressive forces that stood in support of the struggling people of the country and is throwing them behind the bars. Secular forces are fighting against the communal violent policies of fascist Brahmanic Hindutwa forces. Several rights organisations are taking up the demand to withdraw the fascist draconian laws being bureaucratically unleashed on the struggling people.
Thus we see that the governments of all the backward countries of the world are acting alike in the interests of the Multi-National corporate Companies. Therefore it has become more vital for the revolutionary proletarian parties and organisations to lead the struggles of the entire struggling toilers in all the countries.
The large scale struggles of the oppressed people and nationalities all over the world for the past two years make it clear that conditions are in favor of revolution. The world proletariat can step forward in the direction of fulfilling its main task of accomplishing World Socialist Revolution by utilising these favorable conditions. There are two strategic tasks for the genuine vanguard organisations of the international proletariat. The first is to launch revolutionary movements of the workers and other oppressed sections in the capitalist-imperialist countries. The proletariat, peasantry, other democratic classes and social sections in each and every semi-colonial, semi-feudal country must be organized and build and lead national democratic movements. The second is to build a strong United Front of Communist movements of capitalist countries and national-democratic movements of neo-colonial, semi-colonial countries against imperialism and its compradors. For this purpose it is essential of the genuine proletarian parties and organisations to establish an appropriate International Revolutionary proletarian organization according to the contemporary concrete conditions. The Maoist forces must unite with the entire progressive, democratic forces in every country and also with the entire anti-imperialist democratic forces against the worldwide enemy. Both these strategic tasks are mutually related and play an important role in advancing the World Socialist Revolution.
However, the proletarian vanguard organisations are not yet strong enough to catch up with the demands of the toiling people and provide a united leadership for their movements in the direction of liberation. Our Party announced its stand towards the need and formation of an International Forum to develop unity and solidarity among the proletarian vanguards of the world. The CC of our Party appeals to sister organisations to respond to our stand and to advance efforts in this direction.
Let us fight back all kinds of onslaught of the imperialists. Let us pledge to lead the anti-imperialist people’s struggles and strive for the success of World Socialist Revolution. Let us further unite and get organized in this direction. This is the need of the hour.
Long live May Day!
Long live Revolution!w Long live World Socialist Revolution! Down with all shades of revisionism!
Down with Imperialism! Long live Proletarian Revolutions!
Abhay
Spokesperson
Central Committee
Protest Indian Prime Minister’s Programmes at Portugal to Sell the Indian resources to EU and Make Agreements in Military Front
Dear Comrades and friends of Indian Revolution at abroad particularly EU and Britain, Red Salutes
On behalf of Central Committee I appeal all of you and to the oppressed people, proletariat of EU especially Portugal to protest and resist Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist Indian Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Porto of Portugal to participate in a meeting between EU and India on 8th of May which is aimed to make commercial and military agreements to serve the Imperialist interests which are in essence will only pave the way for the loot and plunder of Indian people and against the interests of the working class people of Portugal and EU.
Now my country is facing very severely the 2ndwave of Corona pandemic crisis. Yesterday it has broken all time record with more than 3 lakh infected cases within 24 hours. The people are under severe panic. But country’s Prime Minister did not bother about it and he is too busy in his routine election business and his Make in India flagship programme. The above said meeting is also part of it. In India the central and all States governments are limited to the only propaganda against pandemic. Newly invented Corona vaccine has been made a competitive commodity in the market. Our Party is seriously condemns the government attitude towards the people of the country.ndian peasants are on strike since last 26th November (Indian Constitution Day) against central government’s farm laws which are passed in benefit of big corporate houses. So many small and middle class businessmen were lost their businesses due to Modi’s demagogic and genocidal economic policies like demonetisation and GST. These people’s businesses were very badly affected due to lockdown in 2020. Now they are against to lock down and decided to go on protest against it particularly in Maharashtra. Students and progressive intellectuals all over the country are bitterly opposing the new national education policy which is upholding the Hindutva, privatisation-corporatisation and extreme centralisation thought. proletarian of the Country is opposing the government’s LPG policies, pro capitalist changes in Labour laws. Democratic, secular, progressive sections are strongly opposing the CAA and other such acts which are against the spirit of the pro people aspects of the Indian constitution and completely based on so-called hindu majoritarian religion.The Indian indigenous people are demanding to implement the government laws like PESA and New Forest Act-2006 to get their rights on Jal (water), Jungle (Forest), Jameen (Land). But all the governments are implicating them under draconian laws and punishing them. Our Party-CPI (Maoist) strongly condemns all the anti-people policies of the Central and State governments. In Modi Raj number of democrats and secularists, pro people historians, intellectuals, writers, artists, rationalists, advocates and journalists were arrested and their voices were suppressed. Some pro people intellectuals were assassinated like Gouri Lankesh, Govind Pansare, Kalburgi and Narendr Dabholkar. Mob lynching cases are growing year by year. In Indian caste society the dalit and the muslm community people are becoming victims to it. Our Revolutionary Mass Organisations are building the mass movements with genuine demands of the people along with democrats and pro people elements. This has become unbearable to the exploiting ruling classes particularly reactionary Hindutva forces which are in power at Centre and States. They are branding them as Urban Maoists and suppressing their voices and haunting them. Now dozens of Mass Organisation’s leaders are behind the bars. As you know our Party is building the revolutionary movement in India since last five decades. Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army is leading the Armed Struggle under the leadership of our party. But the Indian ruling classes those are collaborated with their imperialist masters particularly US imperialists are trying to root out our party and the revolutionary movement. They deployed more than 6 lakhs police and para – military forces which are well trained in counter insurgency guerrilla warfare. Since 2017 their country wide Counter Guerrilla Operation SAMADHAN is going on with five years target of moping of the movement. Especially since last one year the cover of operation Prahaar they are raising war against us and people. Our PLGA dedicatedly and determinedly resisting it along with revolutionary masses. Recently it ambushed the notorious DRG (District Reserve Group) and other state and central para military forces at Kadenaar (Narayanpur District, Chattisgarh), Jeeraguda (Bijapur, Chattisgarh) and West Singhbhum (Jharkhand) to protect the people’s power i.e. Revolutionary Peoples Committees and revolutionary movement. We lost more than 1,000 lives of our cadres including Party leaders, PLGA fighters and revolutionary masses in fascist Modi Raj since 2014. The Indian Home Minister hypocrite Amit Sha and the Chattisgarh State’s Chief Minister Bhupesh Bhagel have jointly decided to send more police forces to take revenge on revolutionary people. They are very eager to start even air strikes. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddav Thakre has already said that Maoists are more dangerous than Covid-19 and provoked the C-60 Commandos to continue their combing operations in Gadchiroli Jungles. Since more than last two decades the strategic areas of our revolutionary movement have become as an undeclared war zones. Massacres and Khaki gang rapes are going on and countless police atrocities are being committed on people. They are intensifying all these anti people activities to suppress the revolutionary movement. So, at last I appeal all the comrades and friends of Indian Revolution at abroad, the proletarian masses of EU especially of Portugal to protest and resist the fascist Indian Prime Minister’s Portugal visit which is aimed to loot India more and more by EU.
With Revolutionary Greetings, Abhay, Spokes Person, Central Committee CPI (Maoist)
‘People’s March’ met the In-charge of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the CPI (Maoist) Com Devji on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary celebrations of PLGA in a Guerilla Zone. When approached he spoke in length about the relevance, the objectives, successes, failures and future course of PLGA.
The excerpts.
– People’s March – Red Salutes Comrade Devji! Firstly tell us about the present occasion.
Devji – Red Salutes! The Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist) decided to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) for one year starting on 2nd December 2020. I thank ‘People’s March’ for giving me an opportunity to speak about our glorious PLGA on this occasion.
Dj – Our great Marxist teacher Karl Marx stated that revolution will be violent. Our Party decided that the basic problems of the people of the country originating from this rotten social system will be solved only by destroying it and bringing down the exploitive classes of imperialists, comprador bureaucratic capitalist and feudal landlords and establishing the new democratic state of all the oppressed classes, social sections and nationalities, i.e., a genuine democratic new state through Protracted People’s War. PLGA emerged with the glorious legacy of the Naxalbari revolutionary peasant uprising and such struggles like Kanksha, Sonarpur, Srikakulam, Bhirbhum, Lakhimpur-Kheri.
When the struggles took a consolidated and militant form in the later decades under the proletarian leadership of the Communist Party guided by the theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, in the process, the PLGA took shape as the People’s Army. It is one of the three magnificent weapons in the hands of the Party. PLGA is a political army that works in the interests of the workers, peasants and other oppressed classes, oppressed social sections and oppressed nationalities of the country. This shall develop into the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). It establishes liberated areas in the rural areas through guerilla war, mobile war and positional war and ultimately encircle the towns and establish people’s state power all over the country. Now there are different levels of guerilla formations in 13 states out of the total 17 states of revolutionary movement in the country. There are higher formations of PLGA in places where class struggle and guerilla war are intense and dealing with power question practically.
PM :– What is the role of PLGA in Indian Revolution?
Dj – We can understand the role of PLGA in Indian Revolutionary Movement from the specific characteristics of the Indian society. 72 years of formal or fake independence in our country did not solve any of the basic problems of the various oppressed classes, social sections and nationalities. There is severe exploitation and cruel oppression of the entire laboring masses including industrial workers. Crores of workers are pushed on to the roads. Nearly half of the rural population is landless. 85 per cent of the landed peasantry belong to the poor and lower middle classes with less than 5 acres per family. More than three lakh farmers committed suicide in the country in the past three and a half decades of imperialist globalisation. Poverty is rising sharply. The students and the youth of the country are frustrated with rising unemployment. The micro, small and medium type industries in the MSME sector suffer heavily due to the aggressive policies of the Modi government that are in favor of the imperialists and their compradors in the country.The oppressed sections are increasingly being attacked by the Brahmanic Hindutwa fascist policies. There is a day to day rise in the atrocities on women.There is a rise in the inhumane and shameless attacks on the Dalit people. Millions of tribal people and peasants are pushed away by the fascist state from their lands that they have been cultivating for the past centuries. All oppressed nationalities are under the iron heel of Indian expansionists who are curbing their just struggles for right to selfdetermination.
PM – Tell us the experience of the PLGA and the people in fighting back the series of counter revolutionary offensive campaigns in two decades by the fascist state through their mercenary central and state forces.
Dj – The state has been following the LIC policy of the US imperialists in attempting to wipe out the revolutionary movement in the country. It has been unleashing one counter revolutionary offensive after on the revolutionary movement i.e. the party, PLGA and the people to destroy their valuable fruits of revolution in vain. Various Counter Guerilla forces such as the DRG, DVF, DF at the district level, State level Commando forces such as the Greyhounds, C-60, Hawk Force, STF, SOG, Jaguar and Thunderbolt, COBRA of the CRPF have been formed apart from all other Para-military forces such as CRPF, BSF, ITBP, SSB, CISF and Central Reserved Battalions together amounting to above 6 lakhs. In addition to these forces the ruling classes deployed special units of the Indian Army in disguise in 2020. The PLGA is able to heroically fight back with the support of the masses all these forces. 4,520 comrades shed blood to advance the People’s War in India in the past two decades. It fought back white militia such as the Jan Jagaran, Sendra, Peace Committee, Harmad Vahini and Salwa Judum in various states of the revolutionary movement. All these counter revolutionary offensives turned futile in eliminating the revolutionary movement in the country. Then the Indian ruling classes once again started an all India offensive that started in 2009 in the name of Operation Green Hunt (OGH). Under the guidance of the Party, relying on the people and with their active participation the PLGA is succeeding in fighting back each and every of these barbaric enemy campaigns. With the heroic resistance of the people and the PLGA, the central and the state governments once again failed in achieving their goal through this counter revolutionary Operation Green Hunt. With the intensifying guerilla war in several parts of the country the ruling classes of the country needed another counter revolutionary offensive. As a part of the economic crisis all over the world the imperialists are bent on further looting the natural resources of countries like India. The comprador rulers made hundreds of agreements with the imperialist Multi-National Corporations. The increasing resistance of the oppressed people of the country under the guidance of the CPI (Maoist) and its magnificent weapon the PLGA came in the way of the exploitive classes. In a bid to wipe out the revolutionary movement they started the multipronged counter revolutionary strategic “SAMADHAN” offensive in 2017.The people know they will have to fight until they win final victory over the enemy classes by destroying this evil social system and set up their new state power. People are with the Party and the PLGA. This is the real strength of the people and this is the real strength of the Party and the PLGA.
PM – Explain the successes and failures of PLGA.
Dj – The successes of PLGA are based on the politicomilitary line of the Party. Our line was tested and steeled in PPW. Basing on the line the PLGA gives utmost importance to build mass base and makes war to wipe out the enemy forces to the possible extent as well as to preserve the revolutionary forces. Seizure of state power is the central task of revolution that needs force. We destroyed the local authority in several rural areas of the country where the PLGA strongly fought back the enemy forces and established organs of people’s state power. This is a significant political success. We are developing the PLGA by creatively applying the theory of PPW in the direction of transforming it into People’s Liberation Army (PLA). We are relentlessly striving to accumulate our subjective strength, our fighting capability and expand areas of the movement by political and organisational work and expansion and intensification of guerilla war and procuring armaments from the enemy. In the process we took up several big Guerilla actions in the past 20 years that possess the characteristics of mobile war. We wiped out the enemy forces in relatively large numbers in ambushes such as Mukram and Kajara in DK and BJ in which a platoon of the enemy forces was wiped out and in Mukaram we wiped out a company of the CRPF. In almost all these major battles our people’s forces seized large number of armaments from the enemy forces and armed itself. Certain characteristics of mobile war came forth in these big guerilla battles. In the past 20 years PLGA wiped out 3,058 and injured 3,604 Central and State armed forces and seized 3,240 arms and 154,247 rounds of ammunition from them (up dated numbers). The actions temporarily contain the aggressiveness of the mercenary armed forces to an extent. Minapa ambush in 2020 March is a new and higher experience for the PLGA in which the enemy forces included a special unit of the Indian Army in the guise of the central and state forces. This is another significant success. Armaments are one important factor in any war and PLGA develops them. Com. Arvind (Com Dev Singh, PBM and CCM martyred in 2018 March) stood exemplary in preparing Improvised Explosives with the help of the guerilla forces. He made experiments with chemicals in the guerilla zones of Bihar- Jharkhand and spread these valuable experience to all areas. Although the state is encircling all the main areas of the movement since the OGH, deprived civil and military supplies and is attacking the people, Party and the PLGA, we are preparing several kinds of Improvised weapons and Explosive material basing on local resources and making guerilla war. PLGA is able to procure material for making war through the people in spite of severe blockades of the state. This is anotherachievement of People’s War. These are the major successes of the PLGA and the people. We are confident that we can fight back any number of fascist offensives of the enemy in the coming days basing on these positive experiences. Coming to the major failures, PLGA fails whenever it is negligent towards the implementation of the rules of guerilla war. It is a failure of PLGA to not able to protect its strength by avoiding unnecessary losses. We lost our cadres in large numbers in major attacks of the enemy in several areas of the country. We mainly suffered losses since 2011. Losses show a negative effect. They affect recruitment, few cadres lose confidence, weak elements surrender to the enemy and some even turn traitors. We are reviewing the situation time and again and trying to rectify the mistakes in our practice. We will certainly overcome our weaknesses and shortcomings. But we are undeterred with the failures. People’s war in invincible and People’s Army is invincible.
PM – How does PLGA integrate with the people?
Dj – PLGA’s sole interest is to serve the people and fight against the enemy to establish people’s state power. The People’s Army propagates relentlessly that the three classes – Imperialism,Comprador Bureaucratic Capitalism and feudalism are the main enemies of the broad masses of the people and as a part of rousing them in revolutionary politics, mobilises them in class struggles and organizes them for their liberation from exploitation and oppression and building a genuine democratic society. The CPI (Maoist) creatively applied the theory, laws and tasks of PPW formulated by the great teacher of international proletariat Comrade Mao, to the concrete conditions of our country. It not only respects people and people’s culture but also extensively participates in people’s cultural activities. It strictly follows class line and mass line. It serves the people in many ways. It provides health care. It participates in their agricultural production activities. It lends a hand in collecting forest produce. It achieved the enormous love and affection of the people. The people send their dear young boys and girls into PLGA as their responsibility in strengthening it and advancing people’s war. People are very close to PLGA and do not hesitate to criticize its mistakes. Thus the PLGA is being steeled and steeling further step by step as a real and strong People’s Army. In the process it strengthens the Party and the United Front.
PM – There are reports about the heroic deeds of women cadres of PLGA. How could you achieve the development?
Dj – Women are the most oppressed social section in the society. They are half of the society. They possess enormous strength. Our Party and PLGA led many class struggles against the enemy including patriarchy and brought a change in the society to some extent. Our Party is making strenuous efforts to shed patriarchal values among the cadres in three fronts, the Party, the PLGA and UF organisation and explore the strength and creativity of women cadres. The fact that women constitute almost twenty to half percent of PLGA in the country reveals their aspirations. We have the task of developing them into leading cadre at all levels in all the fronts.
PM – What is the policy of PLGA in military actions?
Dj – The Party formulated the policy in military actions basing on class line-mass line. The PLGA follows it. The armed forces of the exploitive ruling classes are constituted mostly with the oppressed masses. Therefore the Party and the PLGA appeal to the armed forces to aim their arms against their masters and not on the people. And it also repeatedly appeals them to quit. PLGA does not eliminate the surrendered enemy personnel. It treats the injured enemy. But whenever the armed forces make brutal attacks on the people and the PLGA cadres we ferociously retaliate. It also eliminates the diehard police informers and class enemies. One of the political and organisational task of the Party is to organize the enemy forces as like any oppressed class or section. The Party Committee takes disciplinary action on those violate the military policy.
PM – Does PLGA have relations with the People’s Armies of the Maoist parties of other countries?
Dj – Our Party and PLGA hail proletarian internationalism. It has ideological relations with the People’s Armies of the Communist Parties that are ideologically together with our Party. PLGA imparted training to the PLA cadres in Nepal years ago. Our Party supports the fight of the North East armed organisations. We are studying the experiences of the People’s War in the Philippines, Turkey, Kurdistan and other such armed struggles. PLGA is ideologically hand in hand with the New People’s Army (NPA) of Philippines and TIKKO, the Guerilla army of the TKP (ML).
PM – What is your message to the Party, PLGA and the people?
Dj – The entire Party and PLGA must study the theory of PPW and its laws and the experiences of the Bolshevik revolution, the PPW in China, Vietnam and the ongoing PPWs in several countries through which it can learn, enhance its understanding and initiative and efficiency in conducting people’s war. The Party Committees and the Military Commands must give utmost importance to the creative application of the rules of Maoist theory of PPW in concrete revolutionary practice. They must also study the invaluable experiences of our revolutionary movement in the past 50 years, especially the experiences of guerilla war in the past 20 years after the formation of PLGA and master political work, mass work and military work and regain and accumulate strength and expand the PPW to all corners of the country according to the changing conditions. Only thus we can overcome the temporary setback and pave the way to achieving great successes. The people of the oppressed classes, social sections and nationalities must understand the aims and objectives of our party, its political line, unite in a genuine democratic united front to become a mighty force. It is the only way for the emancipation of the 13 billion vast masses of the country.
In a letter released by AOBSZC official spokesperson Ganesh, while condemning the comments of Jalandhar Reddy, alleged that the latter had deceived ditched the Maoists.
“Jalandhar Reddy had lost his commitment to the movement. He surrendered before police to protect himself. He had made false statements on the Maoists before the media and the police,” Ganesh alleged. “It is not correct to say that the movement has weakened. We are still fighting against the anti-people policies of the State and Central governments with the support of the people. We will teach him a lesson,” he added
Professor Hargopal wrote a letter to KCR – demanding the lifting of the ban on 16 mass organizations
Professor G Haragopal
Visiting Professor
NLSIU, Bengaluru
Subject: Withdrawal of G.O.73 Declaring Sixteen Democratic Organizations Unlawful
To:
Dear Shri Chandrashekar Rao Garu,
Trust you are recovering fast.
Sir, we should mention that declaring sixteen democratic organizations by your government as unlawful had come as a rude shock. This includes even the Civil Liberties organization, a part of erstwhile APCLC. You may recall that you addressed this organization during the Telangana separate statehood movement. We recall that on this occasion, you did go on record that after the formation of Telangana state, you would like to be a part of this movement. How can such an organization become unlawful? It has been fighting for democratic rights for almost the last five decades. All these sixteen organizations have been working within the constitutional framework openly for the last three to four decades. Each organization has its own defined program and pursues their public activities. It may also be mentioned that each of these organizations participated in the separate Telangana movement. You would have interacted with many of them during the Telangana movement. Almost all members of all these organizations stand for certain higher human values. They constitute moral resources of Telangana society.
Last one year due to the pandemic no organization could carry its activity. As far as Maoist actions are concerned during the last six to seven years, there are hardly any actions from their side in Telangana. There has been relative peace. What prompted the State government at this stage and time to revoke repressive laws and declare these organizations unlawful? This is very disturbing.
The governments do claim that we are a democratic system and governed by the Constitutional law. This very constitution encodes several democratic rights to the citizens. Government is bound by those legal standards and norms. Universal Declaration of Human Rights in its preamble emphatically says that repression always leads to rebellions. Human history is full of such instances. After all, separate state movement of Telangana was a product of such prolonged repression. The then government of united Andhra Pradesh attempted at dubbing the separate statehood movement as a Maoist movement. All the organizations that have now been declared unlawful have been active participants and enthusiastic supporters of the separate Telangana movement. People of Telangana wanted a free and democratic climate. It is one of the reasons why people participated in such large numbers. In one of the meetings convened by the Committee of Concerned Citizens which worked for peace almost for one decade, you mentioned that if a ball is thrown with force, it would bounce back with equal force. Having led a movement we do expect that you understand and respect the value of democratic struggles.
Sir, given the aspirations of the telangana movement, constitutional rights, and long history of democratic movements, this decision declaring these organizations unlawful is a negation of those democratic values.. We urge you that this undemocratic unconstitutional G.O 73 be withdrawn. Please ensure the expansion of democratic space which the people of Telangana have been aspiring for.
Yours Sincerely,
Prof. G. Haragopal
Convener,
Nirbandha Vyatireka Vedika
8 — 284/OU/ 263,
O.U. Colony,
Sheikpet,
Hyderabad-500008.
New Delhi, May 7, 2021: The wife and brother of ailing political prisoner G.N. Saibaba have again approached the Maharashtra state government for parole, or at least caregivers to be deployed for the wheelchair-bound man.
The 53-year-old former Delhi University professor, who was arrested in 2014, is serving a life sentence in Nagpur prison for links to the CPI (Maoist). He is paralyzed below his waist due to polio and was admitted to hospital in February after getting infected with Covid-19.
In a letter to Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, his wife A.S. Vasantha Kumari and brother G. Ramadevudu said that two co-accused caregivers are now reluctant to help him as they were affected by Covid-19.
They said in their letter: “His left hand is not functioning due to traumatic brachial plexopathy and his right hand is also slowly becoming non-functional. It is very difficult for Prof. Saibaba to shift himself from the wheelchair to the bed and back without the assistance of caretakers.”
“He is also frequently falling unconscious during the daytime as well as night-time. He requires at least two caretakers for his movements on the wheelchair for daily chores such as using toilet, brushing, taking bath, eating food etc.”
Saibaba’s parole was rejected twice last year, and his family members said that despite assurances to Bombay High Court by the jail authorities, none have been given to him now.
They added: “Tens and hundreds of prisoners are suffering with Covid-19 in the jails of Maharashtra also. In the last year, Maharashtra government released prisoners on parole from the jails. We request your highness to release Prof. G.N. Saibaba who is wheelchair bound and cannot walk with his 90% physical disability at least on parole.”
“Under this critical situation, We request your highness to look into the matter sympathetically on humanitarian grounds and instruct the authorities concerned to provide at least two caretakers to him in the jail for executing his daily routine works.”
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)
Central Committee
Press Release 17 April, 2021
Long live Internationalist May Day!
Let us work for more unity and organization of World revolutionary workers, toilers and their organisations!
The toiling class of the world, especially the proletariat is going to celebrate May Day this year on the eve of 150 years of ‘Paris Commune’ where the proletariat held high the Red Flag and achieved state power. This is a big festive day for the entire proletariat of the world. It is the world proletariat rights day. May Day is the day on which the proletariat assesses its balance of forces and pledges to work relentlessly, with firmer determination and to mobilise its entire strength for its freedom, independence, equality and brotherhood and to accomplish proletarian revolutions and World Socialist Revolution. On the occasion of May Day the Central Committee of our Party conveys its heartfelt Revolutionary Greetings to the proletariat of the world. It pays humble revolutionary homage to all the toilers who laid down their lives to achieve their rights.
Imperialism is facing a severe crisis all over the world. The exploitive ruling classes are indulging in a number of attacks and conspiracies to shift the burden of this crisis on to the proletariat and to intensify the exploitation of labor force. By the time world crisis was about to break in a more intense way than the financial and economic crisis of 2008, the COVID pandemic took over the whole world. This is one of the deadly viruses that the imperialists created out of their hunt for profits. While the contemporary world is upended with the pandemic, crores of migrant workers lost their livelihood and are on the streets, the Multi-National corporate enterprises and their comprador companies are competing for the vaccine business and gaining multifold super profits. Imperialist globalisation resulted in the expansion of capitalist world economy to an unprecedented level and so the contradictions between imperialism and the oppressed nationalities and oppressed people, between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat and among the imperialist forces reached the peak. There is a rise in the imperialist aggression and capitalist onslaught on the oppressed nationalities and people. A re-division of the world countries and markets is going on with the contention between the imperialists, especially the US imperialists and China SocialImperialists for world hegemony and to exploit the natural wealth of the countries of the world. The ‘trade war’ is putting severe economic burden on the oppressed people of the backward countries. The proletariat, peasantry, middle class people, women, religious minorities, oppressed nationalities, nationalities and other communities facing racial discrimination and other communities are suffering from much severe economic, political, socioculture exploitation and oppression. The disparity between the rich and the poor reached an unprecedented level. Toiling people of the world are suffering from poverty, unemployment, hunger, inequalities and racial discrimination. All these are the ill consequences of imperialist globalisation.
Apart from the workers of the backward countries, the workers of the imperialist and capitalist countries are also suffering from the severest of severe exploitation due to the neo-colonial exploitive policies. The situation and the need for the unity of world proletariat is growing day by day. This is the time for steadfast fight to end globalisation policies. Apart from the proletariat of the imperialist and capitalist countries, the people of all sections in several semi-colonial, neo-colonial countries are struggling against the imperialist globalisation policies. The proletarian vanguard i.e. the Revolutionary Communist Parties must lead these struggles. Today there is an increasing need to advance in a more united and organized manner in this direction.
In our country, the entire oppressed classes, social sections and oppressed nationalities including the proletariat and the peasantry are facing the brutal onslaught of the Modi government in the form of Brahmanic Hindutwa Fascism with imperialist support. Struggles of workers, employees and farmers are intensifying day by day. In the interest of the imperialist finance capital the Modi government brought forth Robotic, 3D printing and Artificial Intelligence depriving the workers of job security and shrunk the existing 44 labor laws into 4 codes to validate its exploitation. The organized and unorganized workers are making militant agitations against this bifacial onslaught. The farmers of India are making an unprecedented non-compromising struggle centered in the capital city of the country. Traders are against GST. Lakhs of organized and unorganized workers and employees are taking up strikes opposing the merger of banks and privatization of the public sector enterprises. Students, teachers and academicians are against the National Education Policy – 2020 adopted by the Hindu reactionary forces in the centre. The indigenous people of the country including those in the strategic areas that are acting as a strong centres of revolutionary movement are militantly fighting for their just rights. Toiling castes are taking up united struggles against the caste based Brahmanic order that is one of the peculiarities of India and its exploitation, oppression, suppression and discrimination. The state is unleashing repression on the democratic and progressive forces that stood in support of the struggling people of the country and is throwing them behind the bars. Secular forces are fighting against the communal violent policies of fascist Brahmanic Hindutwa forces. Several rights organisations are taking up the demand to withdraw the fascist draconian laws being bureaucratically unleashed on the struggling people.
Thus we see that the governments of all the backward countries of the world are acting alike in the interests of the Multi-National corporate Companies. Therefore it has become more vital for the revolutionary proletarian parties and organisations to lead the struggles of the entire struggling toilers in all the countries.
The large scale struggles of the oppressed people and nationalities all over the world for the past two years make it clear that conditions are in favor of revolution. The world proletariat can step forward in the direction of fulfilling its main task of accomplishing World Socialist Revolution by utilising these favorable conditions. There are two strategic tasks for the genuine vanguard organisations of the international proletariat. The first is to launch revolutionary movements of the workers and other oppressed sections in the capitalist-imperialist countries. The proletariat, peasantry, other democratic classes and social sections in each and every semi-colonial, semi-feudal country must be organized and build and lead national democratic movements. The second is to build a strong United Front of Communist movements of capitalist countries and national-democratic movements of neo-colonial, semi-colonial countries against imperialism and its compradors. For this purpose it is essential of the genuine proletarian parties and organisations to establish an appropriate International Revolutionary proletarian organization according to the contemporary concrete conditions. The Maoist forces must unite with the entire progressive, democratic forces in every country and also with the entire anti-imperialist democratic forces against the worldwide enemy. Both these strategic tasks are mutually related and play an important role in advancing the World Socialist Revolution.
However, the proletarian vanguard organisations are not yet strong enough to catch up with the demands of the toiling people and provide a united leadership for their movements in the direction of liberation. Our Party announced its stand towards the need and formation of an International Forum to develop unity and solidarity among the proletarian vanguards of the world. The CC of our Party appeals to sister organisations to respond to our stand and to advance efforts in this direction.
Let us fight back all kinds of onslaught of the imperialists. Let us pledge to lead the anti-imperialist people’s struggles and strive for the success of World Socialist Revolution. Let us further unite and get organized in this direction. This is the need of the hour.
Long live May Day!
Long live Revolution!w Long live World Socialist Revolution! Down with all shades of revisionism!
Down with Imperialism! Long live Proletarian Revolutions!
Abhay
Spokesperson
Central Committee
Dichiarazione
Comitato Centrale PCI (Maoista)
Viva il 1 maggio internazionalista!
Lavoriamo per una più grande unità e organizzazione degli operai e lavoratori
di tutto il mondo e delle loro organizzazioni!
Le classi lavoratrici del mondo, in particolare il proletariato, celebrano quest’anno il Primo Maggio nel 150° anniversario della “Comune di Parigi”, in cui il proletariato issò alta la bandiera rossa e conquistò il potere statale. È un grande giorno di festa per l’intero proletariato mondiale. È la giornata mondiale dei diritti del proletariato. Il Primo Maggio è il giorno in cui il proletariato valuta i rapporti di forze e si impegna a lavorare incessantemente e con più ferma determinazione, a mobilitare tutte le sue forze per la sua libertà, indipendenza, uguaglianza e fratellanza e per fare rivoluzioni proletarie e avanzare verso la Rivoluzione socialista mondiale. In occasione del Primo Maggio, il Comitato Centrale del nostro Partito rivolge il suo più sentito saluto rivoluzionari al proletariato mondiale. Rende umile omaggio rivoluzionario a tutti i lavoratori che hanno sacrificato la propria vita per realizzare i propri diritti.
L’imperialismo sta attraversando una grave crisi in tutto il mondo. Le classi dominanti sfruttatrici lanciano una serie di attacchi e cospirazioni per scaricare il peso di questa crisi sul proletariato e per intensificare lo sfruttamento della forza lavoro. Mentre già la sua crisi mondiale stava per divampare ancora più intensamente della crisi finanziaria ed economica del 2008, la pandemia COVID 19 ha investito il mondo intero. È uno dei virus mortali che gli imperialisti hanno creato nella loro caccia ai profitti. Mentre oggi il mondo è sconvolto dalla pandemia, milioni di lavoratori migranti hanno perso il loro sostentamento e sono sul lastrico, le multinazionali e le loro associate compradore, competono tra loro per il business dei vaccini e moltiplicano i super profitti. La globalizzazione imperialista ha spinto l’espansione capitalista dell’economia mondiale a un livello senza precedenti e così le contraddizioni tra imperialismo e nazionalità e popoli oppressi, tra borghesia e proletariato e tra le potenze imperialiste hanno raggiunto l’acme. Crescono le aggressioni imperialiste e l’assalto capitalista alle nazionalità e popoli oppressi. Con la contesa inter-imperialista avanza una una ri-divisione dei paesi e dei mercati mondiali, in particolare tra imperialisti americano e social-imperialisti cinesi, per l’egemonia mondiale e per lo sfruttamento delle ricchezze naturali dei diversi paesi del mondo. Questa “guerra commerciale” impone un grave peso economico sui popoli oppressi dei paesi arretrati. I proletari, i contadini, la classe media, le donne, le minoranze religiose, le nazionalità oppresse, le minoranze nazionali e gli altri gruppi sociali che subiscono discriminazione razziale e altre comunità ancora soffrono per il pesante sfruttamento economico e l’oppressione politica e socioculturale. Il divario tra ricchi e poveri ha raggiunto un livello senza precedenti. Le masse lavoratrici di tutto il mondo patiscono povertà, disoccupazione, fame, disuguaglianza e discriminazione razziale. Tutti questi sono frutti velenosi della globalizzazione imperialista.
Oltre ai lavoratori dei paesi arretrati, anche i lavoratori dei paesi imperialisti e capitalisti subiscono il massimo sfruttamento a causa delle politiche di sfruttamento. Le condizioni e la necessità dell’unità del proletariato mondiale cresce di giorno in giorno. È il momento di lottare fermamente per porre fine alle politiche di globalizzazione. Oltre al proletariato dei paesi imperialisti e capitalisti, anche tutti i settori di popoli in diversi paesi semicoloniali e neocoloniali stanno lottando contro le politiche di globalizzazione imperialista. L’avanguardia proletaria, cioè i partiti comunisti rivoluzionari, devono guidare queste lotte. È necessario oggi più che mai avanzare in modo più unito e organizzato in questa direzione.
Nel nostro paese, tutte le classi oppresse, i settori sezioni sociali e le nazionalità oppresse, compresi il proletari e contadini, stanno affrontando il brutale attacco del governo Modi, sotto forma di fascismo brahmanico hindutwa sostenuto dall’imperialismo. Le lotte di operai, impiegati e contadini si intensificano ogni giorno di più. Nell’interesse del capitale finanziario imperialista, il governo Modi ha sospinto l’introduzione di robot, stampa 3D e intelligenza artificiale, privato i lavoratori della sicurezza del posto lavoro e ridotto le 44 leggi sul lavoro esistenti in 4 codici che ne sanciscono lo sfruttamento. I lavoratori, organizzati e non, stanno sviluppando agitazioni militanti contro questo assalto bifronte. I contadini di tutta l’India stanno conducendo una lotta senza precedenti e senza compromessi che ha raggiunto la capitale. I commercianti si oppongono alla tassa su beni e servizi. Migliaia di lavoratori e impiegati, organizzati e non, stanno facendo scioperi contro la concentrazione delle banche e la privatizzazione delle imprese del settore pubblico. Studenti, insegnanti e accademici si oppongono alla National Education Policy 2020 adottata dalle forze reazionarie indù al governo centrale. Le popolazioni indigene del paese, comprese quelle nelle aree strategiche che rappresentano i centri forti del movimento rivoluzionario, combattono in forme militanti per i loro giusti diritti. Le caste inferiori sviluppano lotte unitarie contro l’ordine brahmanico basato sulle caste peculiare dell’India e contro lo sfruttamento, oppressione, repressione e discriminazione che comporta. Lo Stato sta scatenando la repressione contro le forze democratiche e progressiste che si schierano a fianco del popolo in lotta in tutto il paese e le incarcera. Le forze laiche lottano contro le politiche di violenza integralista delle forze fasciste Brahmaniche Hindutwa. Diverse organizzazioni per i diritti su stanno unendo alla richiesta di abrogazione delle leggi draconiane fasciste usate sistematicamente contro chi lotta.
Così vediamo che i governi di tutti i paesi arretrati del mondo agiscono allo stesso modo nell’interesse delle società multinazionali. Pertanto è diventato più vitale per i partiti e le organizzazioni proletarie rivoluzionarie guidare le lotte di tutti i lavoratori in lotta in tutti i paesi.
Le lotte su larga scala dei proletari, popoli e nazionalità oppresse degli ultimi due anni in tutto il mondo rendono evidente che le condizioni favorevoli per la rivoluzione. Approfittando di queste condizioni favorevoli, il proletariato mondiale può avanzare in direzione della realizzazione del suo compito principale, la rivoluzione socialista mondiale. Alle autentiche organizzazioni d’avanguardia del proletariato internazionale si pongono due compiti strategici per. Il primo è lanciare movimenti rivoluzionari dei proletari e degli altri settori oppresse nei paesi capitalisti-imperialisti, mentre in ciascun paese semicoloniale e semifeudale i proletari, i contadini, le altre classi e settori sociali democratici devono organizzarsi, costruire e dirigere movimenti democratici nazionali. Il secondo è costruire un forte Fronte Unito dei movimenti comunisti dei paesi capitalisti e dei movimenti di nazionali e democratici dei paesi neocoloniali e semicoloniali contro l’imperialismo e i suoi associati. A tal fine è essenziale che i partiti e organizzazioni proletarie autentiche stabiliscano un’organizzazione proletaria rivoluzionaria internazionale adeguata alle condizioni concrete di oggi. Le forze maoiste devono unirsi con tutte le forze democratiche progressiste in ciascun paese e anche con tutte le forze democratiche antimperialiste contro il nemico mondiale. Entrambi questi compiti strategici si influenzano reciprocamente e giocano un ruolo importante per l’avanzata della rivoluzione socialista mondiale.
Tuttavia, le organizzazioni proletarie di avanguardia non sono ancora abbastanza forti per mettersi al passo con le necessità delle masse lavoratrici e dare una direzione unitaria ai loro movimenti verso la liberazione. Il nostro Partito ha dichiarato la sua posizione sulla necessità e la formazione di un Forum Internazionale per sviluppare l’unità e la solidarietà tra le avanguardie proletarie del mondo. Il CC del nostro Partito fa appello alle organizzazioni sorelle a raccogliere la nostra posizione e a fare sforzi in questa direzione.
Combattiamo ogni tipo di attacco degli imperialisti. Impegniamoci per guidare le lotte popolari antimperialiste e contribuire alla vittoria della Rivoluzione socialista mondiale. Uniamoci ancora di più e organizziamoci in questa direzione. Questa è la necessità dell’oggi.
Viva il Primo Maggio! Viva la rivoluzione!
Viva la rivoluzione socialista mondiale! Abbasso il revisionismo di ogni tipo!
Abbasso l’imperialismo! Viva le rivoluzioni proletarie!
Abhay
Portavoce, Comitato Centrale
INDIA: ¡Viva el Primero de Mayo internacionalista! Comité Central del CPI (maoísta)
Partido Comunista de La India (Maoísta)
Comité Central
Comunicado de prensa 17 de abril de 2021
Tomado de Dazibao Rojo – Traducción de Revolución Obrera
¡Viva el Primero de Mayo Internacionalista!
Trabajemos por una mayor unidad y organización de los obreros revolucionarios del mundo, de los pueblos y sus organizaciones.
La clase trabajadora del mundo, especialmente el proletariado, va a celebrar el Primero de Mayo este año en la víspera de los 150 años de la “Comuna de París”, donde el proletariado mantuvo en alto la Bandera Roja y alcanzó el poder del Estado. Este es un gran día festivo para todo el proletariado del mundo. Es el día de los derechos del proletariado mundial. El Primero de Mayo es el día en el que el proletariado evalúa la correlación de fuerzas y se compromete a trabajar sin descanso, y con una determinación más firme a movilizar todas sus fuerzas por su libertad, independencia, igualdad y fraternidad y a realizar las revoluciones proletarias y la Revolución Socialista Mundial. Con motivo del Primero de Mayo, el Comité Central de nuestro Partido transmite su más sincero saludo revolucionario al proletariado del mundo. Rinde un humilde homenaje revolucionario a todos los trabajadores que dieron su vida para conseguir sus derechos.
El imperialismo se enfrenta a una grave crisis en todo el mundo. Las clases dominantes explotadoras están llevando a cabo una serie de ataques y conspiraciones para trasladar el peso de esta crisis al proletariado e intensificar la explotación de la fuerza de trabajo. Cuando la crisis mundial estaba a punto de estallar de forma más intensa que la crisis financiera y económica de 2008, la pandemia del COVID se apoderó del mundo entero. Este es uno de los virus mortales que los imperialistas crearon en su afán de lucro. Mientras que el mundo contemporáneo está trastornado por la pandemia, millones de trabajadores migrantes han perdido su medio de vida y están en la calle, las empresas corporativas multinacionales y sus compañías compradoras están compitiendo por el negocio de las vacunas y obteniendo superbeneficios multiplicados. La globalización imperialista dio lugar a la expansión de la economía mundial capitalista a un nivel sin precedentes, por lo que las contradicciones entre el imperialismo las nacionalidades y los pueblos oprimidos, entre la burguesía y el proletariado y entre las fuerzas imperialistas alcanzaron el punto máximo. Se produce un aumento de la agresión imperialista y del ataque capitalista a las nacionalidades y pueblos oprimidos. Se está produciendo una redistribución de los países y mercados del mundo con la disputa entre los imperialistas, especialmente los imperialistas norteamericanos y los socialimperialistas chinos por la hegemonía mundial y por explotar las riquezas naturales de los países del mundo. La “guerra comercial” está imponiendo una severa carga económica a los pueblos oprimidos de los países atrasados. El proletariado, el campesinado, la clase media, las mujeres, las minorías religiosas, las nacionalidades oprimidas, las nacionalidades y otras comunidades que sufren discriminación racial están sufriendo una explotación y opresión económica, política y sociocultural muy severa. La disparidad entre los ricos y los pobres ha alcanzado un nivel sin precedentes. Los trabajadores del mundo sufren la pobreza, el desempleo, el hambre, las desigualdades y la discriminación racial. Todas estas son las consecuencias nefastas de la globalización imperialista.
Además de los trabajadores de los países atrasados, los trabajadores de los países imperialistas y capitalistas también están sufriendo la más severa explotación debido a las políticas neocoloniales de explotación. La situación y la necesidad de la unidad del proletariado mundial crecen día a día. Es el momento de luchar con firmeza para acabar con las políticas de globalización. Además del proletariado de los países imperialistas y capitalistas, los pueblos de todos los sectores de varios países semicoloniales y neocoloniales están luchando contra las políticas de globalización imperialista. La vanguardia proletaria, es decir, los Partidos Comunistas Revolucionarios, deben dirigir estas luchas. Hoy en día es cada vez más necesario avanzar de manera más unida y organizada en esta dirección.
En nuestro país, todas las clases oprimidas, los sectores sociales y las nacionalidades oprimidas, incluidos el proletariado y el campesinado, se enfrentan la brutal embestida del gobierno de Modi en forma de fascismo hindú brahmánico con apoyo imperialista. Las luchas de los obreros, empleados y campesinos se intensifican día a día. En interés del capital financiero imperialista, el gobierno de Modi introdujo la robótica, la impresión en 3D y la inteligencia artificial privando a los trabajadores de la seguridad laboral y redujo las 44 leyes laborales existentes a 4 códigos para validar su explotación. Los trabajadores organizados y no organizados están haciendo agitaciones militantes contra esta doble embestida. Los agricultores de la India están llevando a cabo una lucha sin concesiones sin precedentes centrada en la capital del país. Los comerciantes están en contra del GST. Miles de trabajadores y empleados organizados y no organizados están haciendo huelgas para oponerse a la fusión de los bancos y a la privatización de las empresas del sector público. Los estudiantes, profesores y académicos están en contra de la Política Nacional de Educación 2020 adoptada por las fuerzas reaccionarias hindúes en el centro. Los pueblos indígenas del país, incluidos los de las zonas estratégicas que actúan como fuertes centros del movimiento revolucionario, están luchando militantemente por sus justos derechos. Las castas trabajadoras están emprendiendo luchas unidas contra el orden brahmánico basado en las castas, que es una de las peculiaridades de la India y su explotación, opresión, supresión y discriminación. El Estado está desatando la represión contra las fuerzas democráticas y progresistas que apoyan al pueblo que lucha en el país y las está encarcelando. Las fuerzas laicas están luchando contra las políticas violentas comunales de las fuerzas fascistas brahmánicas hindúes. Varias organizaciones de derechos humanos están exigiendo que se retiren las leyes draconianas fascistas que se están desatando burocráticamente contra el pueblo luchador.
Así vemos que los gobiernos de todos los países atrasados del mundo están actuando por igual en interés de las empresas corporativas multinacionales. Por lo tanto, se ha vuelto más vital para los partidos y organizaciones proletarias revolucionarias dirigir las luchas de todos los trabajadores que luchan en todos los países.
Las luchas a gran escala de los pueblos y nacionalidades oprimidos en todo el mundo durante los últimos dos años dejan claro que las condiciones están a favor de la revolución. El proletariado mundial puede dar un paso adelante en la dirección de cumplir su tarea principal de realizar la Revolución Socialista Mundial aprovechando estas condiciones favorables. Hay dos tareas estratégicas para las auténticas organizaciones de vanguardia del proletariado internacional. La primera es lanzar movimientos revolucionarios de los trabajadores y otros sectores oprimidos en los países capitalistas-imperialistas. El proletariado, el campesinado, las demás clases democráticas y los sectores sociales de todos y cada uno de los países semicoloniales y semifeudales deben organizarse y construir y dirigir movimientos democráticos nacionales. La segunda es construir un fuerte Frente Unido de los movimientos Comunistas y movimientos de los países capitalistas y movimientos democráticos nacionales de los países neocoloniales y semicoloniales contra el imperialismo y sus compradores. Para ello es imprescindible que los auténticos partidos y organizaciones proletarias establezcan una organización revolucionaria internacional proletaria adecuada a las condiciones concretas contemporáneas. Las fuerzas maoístas deben unirse con todas las fuerzas progresistas y democráticas de cada país y también con todas las fuerzas democráticas antiimperialistas contra el enemigo mundial. Ambas tareas estratégicas están mutuamente relacionadas y desempeñan un importante papel en el avance de la Revolución Socialista Mundial.
Sin embargo, las organizaciones proletarias de vanguardia aún no son lo suficientemente fuertes como para estar a la altura de las exigencias del pueblo trabajador y proporcionar una dirección unida para sus movimientos en dirección a la liberación. Nuestro Partido anunció su posición respecto a la necesidad y formación de un Foro Internacional para desarrollar la unidad y la solidaridad entre las vanguardias proletarias del mundo. El CC de nuestro Partido hace un llamamiento a las organizaciones hermanas para que respondan a nuestra postura y adelanten esfuerzos en esta dirección.
Luchemos contra todo tipo de ataques de los imperialistas. Nos comprometemos a dirigir las luchas populares antiimperialistas y a luchar por el éxito de la Revolución Socialista Mundial. Unámonos más y organicémonos en esta dirección. Esta es la necesidad del momento.
¡Viva el Primero de Mayo!
¡Viva la Revolución! ¡Viva la Revolución Socialista Mundial! ¡Abajo todos los matices del revisionismo!
¡Abajo el imperialismo! ¡Vivan las revoluciones proletarias!
Abhay
Portavoz
Comité Central
From Redspark.
Bus Services Paralyzed By Bharat Bandh Called By CPI Maoist:
Bhadradri Kothagudem District, April 26, 2021: Bus services were paralyzed in the interior areas of Bhadrachalam Agency on Monday during the Bharat Bandh observed by CPI (Maoist) in protest against the Central government’s anti-Maoist operations – “Operation Samadhan-Prahar.”
The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) suspended operation of buses to the remote tribal areas on Monday as a precautionary measure.
The inter-district bus services between Bhadrachalam and Wazed in Mulugu district were operated only up to Venkatapuram within the stipulated time till late in the afternoon.
The inter-State bus services between Bhadrachalam-Konta-Vijayawada were suspended until Tuesday in view of the volatile situation along the inter-State borders with Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, TSRTC sources said.
The night bus services were already suspended due to the night curfew in force to stem the spread of coronavirus infections. Villagers of several remote tribal habitations in Bhadrachalam Agency had to face severe hardships due to the suspension of bus services and are forced to spend extra money for their daily commute due to the alleged hefty fare charged by the private vehicles, mainly auto-rickshaws, sources added.
An uneasy calm persisted in the forested border region spread across Charla and Dummugudem mandals, adjoining Chhattisgarh, during the Maoists’ bandh even as a large posse of police personnel maintained a strict vigil at vantage points along the forest stretch to deal with any eventuality.
The recent escalation of Maoist violence in the trouble-torn pockets of neighboring Chhattisgarh triggered tension in the forest fringe tribal habitations lying close to the inter-State border in Dummugudem and Charla mandals.
CPI Maoist Cadres Sabotage Railway Track In West Singhbhum District:
West Singhbhum District, April 26, 2021: Cadres of the CPI (Maoist) blew up about a meter of railway track on the Howrah-Mumbai main line between Sonua and Lotapahar stations under Chakradharpur division of South Eastern Railway (SER) in West Singhbhum district in the early hours of Monday, officials said.
“Around 2.15am Monday, Station Manager of Sonua received information that in between Lotapahar and Sonua stations at km 322/19-23 Loco Pilot of N BOST/KAV (Goods Train) found heavy jerk on Up line. Following this, all movement in the Rourkela-Chakradharpur section is being immediately stopped and eight mail express/passengers trains and several goods trains are controlled at different stations as a security measure,” Manish Kumar Pathak, senior divisional commercial manager (Sr DCM), Chakradharpur division of SER, said.
The incident took place during a day-long Bharat Bandh called by the CPI (Maoist) on Monday in support of the ongoing farmers’ protests. The Maoists alleged suppression of people’s movement by the government, as stated in the banners, pamphlets and posters posted near the blast site
It brought train movement on the Howrah-Mumbai main Up line to a standstill for hours.
Pathak said patrolling teams were sent for inspection with security personnel, while a railways team reached the indicated jerk site with RPF and State Police and started investigation.
“During investigation of the site, it was found that the Up main line track was sabotaged and blasted rail piece flowed around 35 metres from the site. Restoration work was immediately started after getting security clearance. Down line was given fit around 7.15am the third line around 8.35am. Movement over the lines has resumed,” said Pathak.
After necessary clearance and fitness from all departments, train movement was restored in Up line between Sonua-Lotapahar section around 9.35am. The train movement over Chakrdharpur and Rourkela section was also normalized. Junior Administrative Grade inquiry was also ordered by the Railways.
Last Sunday, CPI (Maoist) cadres put up posters, banners and pamphlets calling for Bharat Bandh in areas under Sonua police station, Lotapahar and other areas in the district.
Bhadradri Kothagudem District, April 5, 2021: The Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist) has called for ‘Bharat Bandh’ on April 26 to protest against the suppression of people’s movements in the country.
A statement released here on Monday by the South Sub-Zonal Bureau of the CPI (Maoist) appealed to the public to support the bandh and revealed that a campaign on revolutionary activity of the Maoists and extending support to all public movements in the country was being organized from April 1 to April 25.
The Maoists appealed to para-military, Chhattisgarh police and Indian jawans not to take part in the anti-Naxal operation, ‘Prahar’ but to quit their jobs, join and support the people’s movement to defeat the operation ‘Samadan-Prahar’
The statement alleged that police forces at the behest of their officials and the government were killing revolutionary activists to earn rewards and awards.
Even after four months of agitation and sacrifice of life by 300 farmers no steps were taken to address demands of the farmers protesting against the three Farm Laws, the Maoists alleged.
Supporters asked to reverse its decision and reinstate the professor.
Saibaba, convicted at the Nagpur Central Jail for Maoist links in 2017, had been teaching English in RLA since 2003. He was under suspension since 2014 when he was arrested, and received 50% of his salary thereafter. On March 31, RLA Principal issued a memorandum terminating his services with immediate effect.
The ‘Committee for the Defense and Release of Dr G N Saibaba’ comprises teachers from the University of Delhi and other universities, writers, artists, social and political activists.
“The committee has learned that the College had been given a clear directive from the University of Delhi to send a second Show Cause Notice to Dr Saibaba, regarding the termination of his services, in June 2019. In November 2020, the College wrote again to Dr Saibaba’s wife, stating that he would be given fifteen days to reply. She replied stating that Dr Saibaba was unable to reply because of extreme ill-health, and the lockdown due to COVID-19 only made matters worse for him,” G Haragopal, convenor of the committee said in a statement.
“However, without waiting for Dr Saibaba’s reply to this second notice, the College has arbitrarily, and in complete violation of all principles of natural justice, proceeded to terminate his services… The Committee for the Defense and Release of Dr G N Saibaba strongly condemns this arbitrary action, and demands that the college and Delhi University immediately reverse their decision, and reinstate Dr Saibaba in service, until his appeal against his conviction is disposed off,” he said.
The committee said Saibaba had appealed his conviction in the Nagpur High Court, and was “hopeful of a favorable verdict”, and that he had also contracted Covid-19 earlier this year.
“Under the circumstances, it is nothing short of inhuman to terminate his services in this unjust manner,” the Committee said.
The DU Teachers’ Association (DUTA) also wrote to the DU VC Tuesday stating “any action against Dr G N Saibaba should await the final decision of the Hon’ble High Court in the matter of his appeal”.
“The decision to terminate his services without waiting for his reply, when he is unable to respond because of prison lockdown conditions and extreme ill-health (that includes testing positive for Covid-19 along with other life-threatening ailments) seems arbitrary, vindictive and against the principles of natural justice,” DUTA said.
“It is pertinent to note that at the time of his initial suspension, and even subsequently, the Ram Lal Anand College or its Governing Body never made out a case for disciplinary action against Dr G N Saibaba independent of the criminal case filed by Maharashtra Police against him,” they said.
On May 8, fascist and genocidal Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, will visit Porto (Portugal) to participate in a meeting between the EU and India for the purpose of reaching commercial and military agreements. These agreements collaborated with the Hindu-fascist and genocidal project that is taking place in India. EU rulers are complicit in these atrocities.
The Hindu-fascist government of Narendra Modi is a government that does not respect human rights, that defends a fascist ideology where there are people who do not have the same rights (caste system), that indiscriminately assassinates the Adivasi, Dalits communities, to the peoples of Kashmir, Assam or Manipur and which persecutes religious minorities such as Christians and Muslims, which detains human rights activists, trade unionists, students and intellectuals, declaring a real war against the people.
The Galician Committee in support of popular war in India makes an international call, especially to the Portuguese people, to all progressive and democratic political, union and mass organizations, to publicly express their greatest rejection to the visit of the fascist and genocidal Narendra Modi.
We will not be accomplices.
Modi Will not pass!
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info statement of CPI(Maoist) about an action at Tarrem in Chattisgarh’s Sukma district
Sukma District, April 6, 2021: The CPI (Maoist) released a statement on Tuesday that the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) commando who went missing after the April 3 encounter at Tarrem in Chattisgarh’s Sukma district was in their custody.
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) also demanded that the State government announce a mediator for the release of the commando.
Chhattisgarh Director General of Police D.M Awasthi said that the letter issued by the Maoist party was authentic and the government would soon take a call on the mediator.
The commando, identified as Rakeshwar Singh Minhas, belonged to the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action unit (CoBRA) of the CRPF, a unit specially trained for operations in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas.
A senior government official said that a media person or a social activist could be considered as a mediator.
The statement signed by “Vikalp”, spokesperson of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of the CPI (Maoist), said that four People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) cadres were killed in the encounter at Tarrem on April 3. It added that they had also taken away 14 weapons, over 2,000 rounds of ammunition, and other items belonging to the security personnel.
The PLGA cadres killed during the firefight were identified by the Maoists as Odi Sanni, Padam Lakhma, Kowasi Badru and Nupa Suresh, all residents of south Bastar. Sanni’s body was recovered by security forces on April 3.
The Maoists said that the men had died in the “courageous” counter attack. “We could not secure the body of Sunny. Final rites of the remaining three were held with revolutionary traditions,” they stated. The statement said that Madvi Sukkal, another villager, was also killed before the encounter.
The Maoists have named the condition that the officer would be set free if the government specifically announced the names of the mediators. “Till then he would be safe in the protection of Janatan sarkar,” a Telugu statement released in the name of CPI (Maoist) Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee official spokesperson Vikalp said.
The statement also said, “We are always ready for talks but the government had no integrity or conviction. Revolutionaries never gave up arms during the several previous talks held with governments. It is the government’s responsibility to creative atmosphere conducive for talks…Talks would materialise only if the government stopped deployment of forces, organising camps, attacks and restrictions. Policemen lost their lives in Kondagaon, Narayanapur and Bijapur since the government was carrying out attacks instead of holding talks. Government is responsible for this situation.”
Conveying condolences to the bereaved families of 22 policemen killed in the “counter attack”, the Maoists said the police were not their enemies. “We appeal to the police not to become scapegoats in the unjustified war brought about by the ruling classes,” the spokesperson said.
According to them, nearly 2,000 policemen “belonging to Modi and Amit Shah”, led by the Bastar Inspector General, had come to carry out attacks on villages in Sukma and Bijapur three days ago. The main objective of the “Samadhan-Prahar” operation was to decimate the PLGA, they said.
Close to 150 civilians and “our party workers and leaders” were killed in such attacks executed since November, 2020, the Maoists said. A similar offensive was organized by the police three days ago by deploying thousands of policemen, they said.
The seven-year rule of Narendra Modi, deepened economic crisis and deteriorated political situations had posed a serious threat to the lives and property of people, the Maoists said. Attacks on intellectuals and supporters of democracy were on the rise “by branding them Urban Naxals”. People were fighting against this suppression with the slogans of “Jal-Jungle-Jameen” and the Maoists would continue to support their struggle, the statement said.
Chhattisgarh Police had said in a statement on April 4 that teams had been dispatched to Tarrem as they wanted to corner PLGA chief Hidma, who was said to be in the area. Hidma heads the PLGA Battalion 1, one of the most lethally armed and trained units of Maoists active in southern Chattisgarh.
Chattisghar Encounter: Maoist Party released a Letter
The outlawed CPI (Maoist) has claimed that CoBRA commando Rakeshwar Singh Manhas, who went missing after the April 3 ambush in Chhattisgarhʹs Bastar region, is in captivity of ultras, and asked the state government to appoint interlocutors for his release.
The Maoist Party also admitted that four of its cadres were killed in the encounter in which 22 security personnel had lost their lives.
Constable Rakeshwar Singh Manhas of the 210th CoBRA battalion, an elite unit of CRPF, had gone missing after the gunfight along the border of Sukma and Bijapur districts last Saturday.
The CPI (Maoist) statement also claimed that 24 security personnel were killed in the encounter.
ʹAs many as 2,000 police personnel had reached near Jiragudem village to execute a major attack (on Saturday). To thwart them, PLGA (Peoplesʹ Liberation Guerilla Army) retaliated during which 24 security personnel were killed and 31 others injured. We have caught a policeman (CoBRA commando) at the spot while others escaped,ʹ said a statement purportedly written by Maoists and being circulated on social media on Tuesday.
It said the government should first announce names of interlocutors and the jawan will be released later. He will remain safe in our captivity till then, it said.
The two-page statement was issued in the name of Vikalp, spokesperson of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) of Maoists, which had been instrumental in executing several deadly attacks in south Bastar, including the Jhiram valley attack in Bastar district on May 25, 2013, in which top Congress leaders of Chhattisgarh unit were killed.
Maoists admitted that four cadres were killed in the Bijapur gunfight and the body of the slain woman cadre could not be retrieved from the spot.
Visakhapatnam District, April 6, 2021: CPI (Maoist) Visakha East Division Committee secretary Aruna has alleged that the Central and State governments are trying to suppress the tribal people and Maoists to further their agenda of bauxite mining in the Agency areas of the district.
In a statement here on Tuesday, the Maoist leader alleged that the Adivasis like ‘Pilku’ were being turned into ‘police informers’ by the police themselves and hence, the police and government should own responsibility for his death in the hands of the people. She called upon the tribal people to oppose the ‘false campaign’ launched by the police against the Maoist party.
She alleged that the police were trying to create a rift between the tribal people and the Maoists. She claimed that Maoists were true followers of revolutionary leader Alluri Seetharama Raju, who had fought the British rulers to protect the tribal people and their rights in the forest areas of Visakhapatnam district. She lashed out at the Centre on its move to privatize the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) and other PSUs.
Political Prisoner G N Saibaba Dismissed From Post At Delhi University’s Ram Lal Anand College
April 2, 2021: Authorities in Delhi University’s Ram Lal Anand College have removed scholar-activist GN Saibaba from his assistant professor post. Confirming the development, his 22-year-old daughter Manjeera told Scroll.in that the family received his termination letter on Thursday.
Saibaba, a wheelchair-bound, 90% physically disabled scholar-activist was sentenced to life for his alleged connections with Maoists in 2017, and has been in the Nagpur Central Jail since. On February 13, he tested positive for Covid-19.
Saibaba taught English at Ram Lal Anand College until his arrest in 2014. After that, the college had formed a one-member committee to look into the matter of his suspension.
Manjeera said there were no supporting documents attached to the letter to provide any reason for the termination. She said the family would challenge the letter in court, which said her father’s services are terminated with immediate effect from March 31 afternoon. The letter added that three months’ salary has been credited to Saibaba’s account.
“They initiated disciplinary proceedings [at the time of his arrest] against him saying that he was not present in college to teach so he has violated terms of services,” Manjeera said. “Our lawyer was in touch with the committee and we sent them a letter demanding some documents they did not give us, and we said they cannot use that reasoning because he is in a situation where he is not voluntarily not going.”
Saibaba’s daughter said the family had sent a letter six months ago to the college about the documents, but they did not receive any response. “All of a sudden, we got this new termination notice,” she said.
The termination notice would end Saibaba’s salary from the college, raising concerns for the family. “It is a matter of our sustenance now,” Manjeera said.
Last month, members of human rights groups, civil society organizations, and international academic associations had demanded Saibaba’s immediate release on a medical parole, citing his grave health condition. A statement said that over the past five years, the government has consistently ignored and rejected appeals and petitions demanding that Saibaba be provided with medical care appropriate to his ailments or that he be allowed medical bail to seek treatment.
The farmers’ movement has been ongoing for the past four months. After several rounds of negotiations with the Centre and its subsequent silence, the farmers’ unions have announced they will intensify the fight against the Farm Laws. First published in Newsclick.
Farmers’ march to parliament: The date for the event will be announced in the coming days (File)
Thousands of farmers, who have been protesting against the central government’s three agriculture laws near Delhi borders for over four months, will march to parliament in the first half of May, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha – an umbrella body of 40 farmers’ unions that has been leading the agitation – announced on Wednesday.
“SKM has announced a parliament march in the first fortnight of May. Other than farmers and labourers, women, Dalit-Adivasi-Bahujans, unemployed youth and every section of the society will be part of this march. This program will be completely peaceful,” it said in a statement.
The body said protesters will come to the three main protests sites – Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur – in their vehicles to participate in the “paidal” (on foot) march to parliament. The date for the event will be announced in the coming days, it added.
The farmers’ unions will intensify their agitation against the laws from April 1. They said they will block the KMP expressway for 24 hours on April 10.
The march to parliament had originally been scheduled on February 1, the Budget Day. However, it was cancelled in the wake of violence during the farmers’ Republic Day tractor march.
Hundreds of police personnel had been injured on the Republic Day, when thousands of farmers on tractors had veered off the permitted routes and barged into the national capital, breaching barriers set up by the authorities.
Kothagudem District, March 28, 2021: Viplava Karmika Samakhya (Vikasa), affiliated to the CPI (Maoist), extended its support to the protest planned on April 5 in New Delhi demanding that the Central government set up a railway coach factory at Kazipet. Four railway trade unions and an all-party delegation, excluding BJP, planned to stage dharna at Jantar Mantar to put pressure on the Centre to fulfill the demand.
In a statement released to the media here on Sunday, Samakhya secretary Azad called upon the laborers, students, youth, intellectuals, artists and others to extend their solidarity to the protest. For several decades, the local laborers and public have been demanding the government to establish a coach factory and set up a railway division with Kazipet as its headquarters. There was highest number of workers at Kazipet, which also earns more in comparison to all existing divisions, he said.
Yet the Modi government denied the possibility of setting up the coach factory, Azad said while adding that a provision was made in Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act for sanctioning a Tribal University, Bayyaram steel factory and Kazipet coach factory to Telangana State. He reminded that the coach factory was sanctioned at Kazipet during the tenure of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.
He also accused the Modi government of privatizing the Indian railways, the heart of the public transportation system in India. Pledging the Samakhya’s support for the cause, Azad urged the public and working class to continue their agitations until the demand was fulfilled, and to oppose the privatization of railways.
Gaya District, March 24, 2021: The CPI (Maoist) has announced a Bandh in southern Bihar and western Jharkhand on March 24 and 25 to protest against the murder of four Naxalites in a fake encounter in Gaya district of Bihar.
The CPI (Maoist) have termed the encounter between Cobra, CRPF and Naxals that took place in the Chakarbandha forest of Dumariya block on March 16 as a fake encounter.
The Naxalites have accused the police of shooting Amareesh, Shivpujan, Sita, Udaya under a conspiracy to murder them and show their killing as an encounter. The Maoists claim that the police want to get the credit by saying that they have killed them in an encounter but this is not an encounter it is the cold blooded murder of Maoist leaders.
The Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee of CPI (Maoist) issued a press release, supporting the Bharat Bandh of March 26 called by ‘Samyukta Kisan Morcha’ against three farm act brought by the Central Government and appealed to the common people to make it successful as well. The Maoists’ letter has protested against all three agricultural laws. In the letter issued by the Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee Spokesperson, Azad mentioned that the outfit is fully supporting the demand of the farmers’ organization.
It may be mentioned here that the Bharat Bandh has been called by the United Kisan Morcha on 26 March against the three farm bills brought by the Central Government. The CPI Maoist has written in support of the farmer movement that all the three agricultural laws are anti-people. Therefore, it is very important to repeal it. The organization fully supports the Bandh called on March 26 in protest against the three laws.
In view of the CPI Maoist’s Bandh on March 24 and 25, the announcement of Bandh in southern Bihar and western Jharkhand and the CPI Maoist support for the Bharat Bandh by farmers on March 26, an alert has been issued in Bihar-Jharkhand and the rumor is being monitored.
Nabarangpur: Maoist posters have surfaced yet again in Raighar area of Nabarangpur district on Wednesday.
The Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr. GN Saibaba organised a press conference at the Press Club of India in Delhi which was addressed by writer Arundhati Roy, former Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha D Raja, General Secretary of the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) Muralidharan, former President of DUTA Nandita Narain, professor Parminder Singh, filmmaker Sanjay Kak, wife of Dr. Saibaba and women’s rights activist Vasantha and Delhi University professor Vikas Gupta. Dr. GN Saibaba tested positive for COVID-19 on February 12th 2021. A wheelchair bound former professor of Delhi University with 90% disability and several severe co-morbidities,Dr. Saibaba remains incarcerated in the Nagpur Central Jail. The speakers strongly underlined the need for his release, immediate and adequate medical care and access to his family to ensure his recovery.
After repeated appeals by Dr. Saibaba and other inmates to the jail authorities to test the inmates at the Nagpur Central Jail, he was eventually tested for the COVID-19 and the results were positive.
Vasantha spoke of how 13 out of 25 people in his barrack tested positive. Despite this, none of the inmates were taken to the hospital. They were provided basic antibiotics and told to fend for themselves. Distressed by the neglect of Dr. Saibaba’s health she asked, “why was he not taken to the hospital? Why is a person suffering from post-polio paralysis, a person who cannot walk, a person whose heart and mind work but every other part of his body is affected not being given bail? Why is the State afraid of giving him bail?” She spoke of how he was not allowed to meet his dying mother or even perform the last rites after her death. When so many others were being given parole, bail or even being acquitted after being released from jail, why is Dr. Saibaba still being held in custody? She spoke of the terror she felt when she heard of the death of Kanchan Nannaware, a prisoner with a severe ailment in the heart who was operated on and died during surgery, a surgery performed without informing her husband or family. Speaking of the strength shown by Dr. Saibaba who consoled her over the phone, she said, “he told me to not lose my confidence as these dark days will not continue for long. Every period of repression has to end. So, he asked me to continue fighting boldly for his release.”
Reiterating the inhumanity of denying a person with such severe ailments reprieve, Muralidharan said, “the experience of Dr. Saibaba amounts to nothing but torture, cruelty and indignity.” As someone speaking for the rights of persons with disabilities, he said, “we are demanding that they implement the laws enshrined in the Constitution.” With COVID-19, Muralidharan felt that when the government is willing to acknowledge that persons with disabilities are more vulnerable then why are they not releasing Dr. Saibaba? He said that denial of assistive devices like wheelchairs for persons who cannot walk amounts to torture. In light of the torture faced by him, Dr. Saibaba must be released.
Laying out the current political climate where anyone fighting for the rights of others faces false cases, Nandita Narain reiterated the unequal nature of the law wherein, “today, justice looks at the face of the person standing before it and gives justice accordingly. If you are a Saibaba, Sudha Bharadwaj or others, false cases are foisted on you, something proved beyond doubt by the Arsenal Report.” She said, “we are here to demand his release on bail and proper medical treatment instead of the anda cell.” Also speaking of the use of electronic evidence to accuse, charge and convict dissenting voices, Prashant Bhushan spoke of the manner in which emails are planted in computers as revealed by the Arsenal Consulting Report. He drew attention to Justice DY Chandrachud’s dissent in the Supreme Court in the petition filed by Romila Thapar and others in light of the Bhima Koregaon arrests where emails which were allegedly recovered from the computers of people using a language unknown to its purported author. He said, “they are now going after everyone who is seen as against the government. They have even gone after journalists who have written stories against the government. The method of doing this is by making any kind of charge. As seen in the Delhi Riots case, they have gone after people against whom they have no evidence, people like DevanganaKalita, SafooraZargar, Umar Khalid besides many others, all of whom are targeted under the UAPA.” He felt that this law is utilised due to the provision where at the first instance, without any investigation into the facts of the case, the judge is expected to establish if there is a prima facie case against the accused. He concluded by saying that, “unless the police are held accountable for foisting false cases, they will go on doing this.” Likewise, the continued incarceration of Dr. Saibaba amounts to torture and he called on the courts, the establishment and the others to ensure that he is released immediately.
Drawing connections between the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Sedition Act, the role of the BJP-RSS and the incarceration of Dr. Saibaba, D Raja said, “today, anyone who questions the government is targeted. We are facing a grave threat to the ethos that we have been proud of. Today, we are witnessing fascist rule. Why are they afraid of Dr. Saibaba? They are not afraid of his body but his brain. The government is afraid of the questions raised by people like Saibaba and the hundreds and thousands of people coming to the streets questioning the policies of the State.” Remarking on the mental agony of the family of Dr. Saibaba, he felt that people from all sections of society must come together to demand his release. Highlighting the physical ailments of Dr. Saibaba, Vikas Gupta found the inordinate delays by the judiciary amounts to denial of justice. He hoped that, “the judiciary will learn a little more sensitivity and release Dr. Saibaba expeditiously.”
As a member of the defence committee for Dr. Saibaba, Sanjay Kak reminded everyone of the threat posed by Dr. Saibaba for simply drawing attention to the Operation Green Hunt. But today, the threat to his life is also a threat to us and what lies ahead for all of us. Calling Dr. Saibaba a prisoner of conscience, he said that Dr. Saibaba was appealing to the conscience of the people, just as those at the borders of Delhi today are appealing to the conscience of the people of this country. He found that, “it is a tragic situation that this tussle over an embattled nation is being conducted over a body like that of Dr. Saibaba. And so, it becomes our duty to continually speak for his release.”
Marking the importance of the questions raised by people like Dr. Saibaba, Prof. Parminder Singh spoke of the condition of the people of Central India. Those struggling for their land, water and minerals belong to a glorious history of struggle by tribal communities in India against the predatory acts of the government, something repeatedly raised by Dr. Saibaba. He found that, “if we consider the imprisonment of people like Sudha Bharadwaj, Rona Wilson, Gautam Navlakha and others, it becomes clear that they were speaking against the acquisition of resources, against the attack on the natural resources of this country.” He felt that it was out bounden duty of all the democratic people and organisations to speak against the neoliberal policies of the state. Locating the struggle against acquisition of land in central India with the present-day struggle of the peasants in the outskirts of Delhi he found that, “this is also a part of the same struggle as the ones waged by tribals and Dalits. Today, the peasants fear that their land will be acquired under one pretext or another.” He felt that it is not merely a question of livelihood under threat but the resources of the people under attack by the corporate world. And to defend these rights is to defend the basic rights of the people of this country to their livelihood, resources and culture and to live a life of dignity. In this context he found that to demand the release of Dr. Saibaba becomes absolutely urgent and legitimate as his incarceration is part of the onslaught against all those who speak against the attack on the resources of this country.
Starkly reminding the audience of the changing conditions over the last five-six years, Arundhati Roy spoke of how the incarceration of Dr. Saibaba, a person in judicial custody, amounts to torture every single day that he spends behind bars. She said, “every single day something irreversible is happening to him. This is every day, slowly taking something away from him. While there is a sliding scale of access on the basis of ability, caste, class etc., for a person like Dr. Saibaba who is paralysed waist down, for him even in judicial custody he is tortured every day and everything that happens to him is irreversible.”
Speaking of Operation Green Hunt and the period where hundreds and thousands of security personnel were released to wreak havoc against Adivasis, she spoke of how people expected the Adivasis to protest non-violently. Drawing parallel with today, she spoke of how the struggle being fought today by peasants was being fought by Adivasis over all those years. At one time Saibaba, Sudha, Gautam and others were fighting it. It has now reached the borders of Delhi. It has not reached our homes. The people have understood that their land is being corporatised. She said, “what we are witnessing now is not politics, it is pathology.” She said, we have to remember that some of the best lawyers in this country, including Dr. Saibaba’s lawyer, Adv. Surendra Gadling, is in jail. Anyone who stands up for anyone is in jail. Remarking on the threat looming over everyone daring to speak for the release of others, she said, “Today, it is dangerous to be in the defence committee. Whoever speaks for Saibaba is likely to be picked up, be it Rona Wilson, Hany Babu and others.”
She felt that the nation is being hypnotized in some way. We have to capture the alternate, the reality, and disable this onslaught on the people of the country.
From bourgeoisie press collected by Redspark
CAF Trooper Killed By IED Blast Triggered By Naxalites In Dantewada District
Dantewada District, March 5, 2021: A Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) trooper was killed on Thursday when a pressure improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites went off in Dantewada district, police said.
The incident occurred around 1 pm near Pahurnar village in the Geedam police station area when security forces were providing security to a bridge undergoing construction work, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P said.
Personnel belonging to the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and CAF launched an area domination drive from the Chhindnar police camp for the project on the Indravati river, he said.
“When the patrol team was on the other side of the river, Head Constable Laxmikant Dwivedi (CAF 22nd Battalion) inadvertently stepped over the IED, triggering a blast that left him critically injured,” Sundarraj said.
The incident occurred near Pahurnar, some 400 km from Raipur. Dwivedi, from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh, succumbed to his injuries.
CPI Maoist Squad Execute Police Informant In Visakhapatnam District
Visakhapatnam District, March 6, 2021: A squad of CPI (Maoist) cadres allegedly executed a 35-year-old tribal person and former militia member after branding him as a police informant, at Kothapalem village near Mandipalli under G.K. Veedhi police station limits in the Agency area of Visakhapatnam district, late on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Korra Pilku, a resident of Kothapalem
According to ASP of Chintapalle, Ch. Vidhya Sagar Naidu, Pilku allegedly was an active militia member about a year ago. He allegedly used to supply food, provide accommodation and make other arrangements for the Maoists. However, since the last six months, he started to stay away from the Maoists with an intention to lead a peaceful life with his family.
The ASP said that since he stopped working for the Maoists, they grew suspicious about him. They put pressure on him several times to cooperate with them, but Pilku reportedly refused. Suspecting that he had become a police informant, the CPI (Maoist) tried to kill him on a couple of occasions, but he managed to escape.
A squad of about 15 Maoists, reportedly led by Kakuri Pandana alias Jagan of Galikonda area committee, came to the village late on Friday night and asked him to accompany them. His family members and other villages protested and urged the Maoists to leave him. But they promised to return him back after questioning him, said Superintendent of Police B. Krishna Rao.
The Maoists executed him by beating him with sticks and hacking him with axes late in the night. “They wanted to set an example and create fear among other villagers,” Mr Vidhya Sagar Naidu said.
The victim is survived with a wife and four children.
This is the third incident in the last four months. Earlier, Maoists executed two tribal people after branding them as police informants in G. Madugula mandal in December last year.
The G.K Veedhi police have registered a case and an investigation is ongoing.
3 Jaguar Force Jawans Killed By Landmine Blast Triggered By CPI Maoist In West Singhbhum District
West Singhbhum District, March 4, 2021: Three jawans of Jharkhand Jaguar (JJ) Special Assault Group-11, a special unit of the state police department, were killed and four others were injured in a landmine blast triggered by the CPI (Maoist) in Langi jungle atop Langi hills under Toklo police station (PS) in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand early Thursday morning, said police. The encounter with the Maoists is still underway, it added.
“Three JJ AG-11 jawans have died while two others have been seriously injured in IED blasts triggered by Maoist in Langi jungle under Toklo PS in West Singhbhum district this morning. Two other jawans have also sustained minor splinter injuries and have been shifted to Chakradharpur hospital while two seriously injured jawans have been airlifted to Medica Hospital in Ranchi. Encounter with the Maoists is currently on,” said Niraj Sinha, Jharkhand director general of police (DGP).
As per sources, the landmine blasts were triggered by the Maoists when a joint team of district police, CRPF and JJ were on a search operation early this morning in and around Langi hills, the site of four encounters in three days between security forces and the Maoists last month.
Kokhan DIG Rajiv Ranjan Singh, West Singhbhum SP Ajay Linda, DSP Sudhir Kumar, with additional forces, had reached Chakradharpur and were on their way to the encounter site under Toklo PS
Two of the three killed jawans have been identified as constable Haridwar Shah (Palamu) and constable Kiran Surin (Simdega).
Three of the four injured jawans have been identified as head constable Devendra Kumar Pandit (Godda), constable Deep Topno (Khunti), constable Nikku Oraon (Latehar).
March 7, 2021: Poet and activist Varavara Rao, who is an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, was released on Saturday from a hospital, reported NDTV. The Bombay High Court had on February 22 granted the 81-year-old activist bail on medical grounds for a period of six months.
He was undergoing treatment at Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital, where he was admitted by the Maharashtra government following the High Court’s intervention. Rao’s lawyer Indira Jaising posted a photo of the activist, saying he was “free at last”.
Rao was granted bail on the condition that he has to stay within the jurisdiction of the Special National Investigation Agency Court. The court also asked the activist to mark his presence with the nearest police station through video call on messaging platform WhatsApp. Besides, Rao has been directed not to issue any statements or speak to the media.
The activist and poet was shifted to Nanavati Hospital, after the High Court on November 18 observed that he was “almost on his deathbed”. Since then, the court extended his stay in the hospital on December 15, December 21 and then on January 7. The National Investigation Agency has, however, maintained that he was fit to be shifted back to Taloja Jail, where he was lodged before being hospitalized.
Rao was arrested in 2018 along with several other activists and booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. The poet and activist suffers from multiple ailments.
Dear Comrades and Friends,You all are well aware that for past 5 decades we have been building a Revolutionary movement. The revolutionary movement led by our Party is not tolerated vie bit by the ruling classes. This revolutionary movement has become a big hurdle to their loot. They have understood that they cannot come out of the swamp of crisis without setting aside this ‘Hurdle’ . Hence, in 2005 itself they declared that Left Wing Extremism (that is our Party) is thesinglelargestthreatto the Internal Security of our country. They are speedily advancing to uproot our Party and the Indian revolutionary movement. Hence, in the areas of our revolutionary movementthey have deployed Indian Army in disguise. Apart from this, applying Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) too is in the pipeline. You all have seen how AFSPA have destroyed lives in Kashmir and the North East. Very soon the iron heels of the Indian Army is going to mercilessly trample upon the people of the areas of our movement in Central and Eastern India. This should not be acceptable to any Indian citizen on any condition. This would be purely unconstitutional. We appeal to you all to strongly oppose this develop a moment on the demand for calling the Indian Army Since the Indian government declared the Left wing Extremism (that is our Party) as the singlelargest threat to the Internal security of our country it has resulted in continuous and prolonged repression campaigns against our Party, the revolutionary movement and the revolutionary masses. You all are well aware that between 2005 and 2009, under the aegis of state and Central governments, how the white militia, Salwa Judum and Sendra, were organised and unleashed on the masses and an environment of terror was created in the areas of the movement. Then too we were united in defeating their attempts. Later, from mid 2009 theenemy started an undeclared-Operation Green Hunt, with the intent to repress our all India movement. When this too was challenged by us then in mid 2017 the Indian State reviewed it and since May that year they are carrying out the multi pronged, fixed 5 year Operation SAMADHAN. We are facing this for past threeandhalfyears. Now that the duration of SAMADHAN is about to end, the North Block is again restless. Consequently, since Dec 2019, they brought in a new plan named ‘Prahaar’. As a part of this, since November 2020 the Prahaar is intensified. Under the leadership ofour Party, the revolutionary movement and the PLGA is giving them a fitting reply, but some actions such as nearMinapa village on March 21 2020, led by the PLGA,has made them really disterbed. As a result, with the aim of uprooting Indian revolutionary movement on October 15th 2020, National (Internal) Security Adviser, Vijay Kumar conducted a meeting of top Police Officials of five states, Paramilitary, State and Central Intelligence Agencies via video conference and declared a new decisive attack plan,to be implemented from November 2020 to June 2021, of 10 point tactics based on the lines of military operations. Actually, before the declaration of this plan, the police have acknowledged the deaths of 4 Army jawans in the March 21st 2020, Minapa village ambush, carried out by the PLGA.Eventhough they participated in the campaign as DRG, it is clear that the Indian ruling classes are deploying Indian Army in disguise and carrying out its wars on the people of India.The Army that is supposed to fight foreign invaders are being stealthily disguised as DRG and put to war against the civilians of the country, that too on the indigenous inhabitants of this country. We appeal you to strongly condemn this and develop a movement at several levels on the demand to call back the Army. Since 2014 we are facing deadly attacks by the ruling hindutva forces. We have already lost people’s well wishers like Gauri Lankesh and Govind Pansre. Presently a lot of friends are languishing in many of the jails of the countryeven at the time of Corona Pandemic. They have neglected their own Supreme Court suggestions to release prisoners in the background of Corona, and denied bails to them. Actually they are all innocent people who have committed the only crime of opposing the dictatorial, blind religious and murderous policies of 2Brahminic Hindutva Fascists’ government. To finish the Indian revolutionary movement such conspiracies are carried out. The ruling Brahminic hindutva fascist are trying to stifle every voices of dissent and everyone who struggles. They have converted the whole country into a big Jail. They are constantly conspiring to divert and divide the people’s movements and creating an environment of terror and amuck. Leftists and Democrats are perpetual enemiesof these Brahminic hindutva fascist. They have violated promises and rights enshrined in the constitution to the Kashmiris. They have trampled upon the aspirations of self-determination of the people of North East. They brought CAA on religious lines. They have brought the farm laws with the intent to smash the agricultural sector. In the name of New Education Policy they’re encouraging irrelevant hindutva policies. They are not tolerating any opposition to their neoliberal Brahminic hindutva fascist policies by the peasants, students and workers. They are trying their level best to divert such movements. They are attacking the left democratic leadership who are not willing to compromise. This needs to be countered with even more unity. Those neoliberal hindutva policies, their idea of new India needs to be opposed by creating strong people’s movements.
Abhay,
Spokes person,
Central Committee,
CPI (Maoist)
We extend our revolutionary solidarity and support to the militant peasant farmers and agricultural workers joining together as a peoples’ united front, resolved in the struggle to force the repeal of the reactionary and anti-people laws imposed by the Indian ruling classes led by the Modi government.
The protests began in mid-August 2020 in northern India in anticipation of the introduction of the three laws designed to remove all legal barriers to the spread of the influence of rapacious finance capital and corporation in the agricultural sector. In September 2020, ignoring the protests, the Modi Government using its majority position in the parliament, circumventing the parliamentary procedures pushed through the three ruinous bills. These controversial bills remove all barriers to the extension of India-WTO agreements signed in 1995 to the agricultural sector. This can only mean the wholesale handover of the Indian agricultural industry to the local and international financial institutions to further exploit and plunder.
Enraged by these anti-people bills, tens of thousands of farmers, particularly from the northern state of Punjab, after protesting in vain for almost three months, on November 26, 2020, began their march to New Delhi, the capital. The reactionary Modi government responded by deploying paramilitary troops armed with water cannons and tear gas and protected by barricades, razor wire and deep trenches dug into the freeways at the borders of the capital blocking the farmers’ journey to the centre of the city. The militant farmers fought off the violent attempts and held their ground against the authorities’ brute force.
Since then, the protests have spread across the whole country and represent the largest ever mass mobilization of farmers in India to date. Currently, an estimated 500,000 peasant farmers and agricultural laborers are encamped surrounding the city. Led by an alliance of 32 farmers’ and workers’ unions, the historic protest has swelled into an almost 20km stretch of camps with community kitchens, public libraries, film screenings and platforms for political meetings. So far, over 90 people have died during the protests. Some have died because of the cold, and some have committed suicide in protest as a political statement.
So far, eleven rounds of fruitless discussions and negotiations between the farmers’ representatives and the government bodies have taken place. While the government aims to exhaust the protests, the farmers are determined that they will not return to their homes unless these laws are repealed.
On January 26, hoisted as “India’s Independence Day” by the Indian ruling classes, the protest organizers had called for peaceful rallies and marches. They had negotiated agreed routes with the police. But the roads for the demonstrations by the masses were blocked by the authorities. During the mayhem, a group of militant farmers, notwithstanding the police violence and the blockades, broke away and symbolically occupied the Red Forth, where these ceremonies usually take place. They thus showed nothing can stop or hinder their resolve.
The upsurge and the resilience of the militant protests of the peasant farmers and its spread across the country is a significant blow to the Modi government and it’s policies of “divide and rule” as undisguised attacks on the working class and other toiling masses in India. During his term in office, furling the flag of Hindutva fascism, Mr Modi has unleashed many retrogressive measures aggravating social division and communal violence. Yet, at these protest gatherings, peasant farmers from all origins and from different communities, including Hindu, Muslim and Sikhs, live together, share the same food and shout the same slogans in their rallies. They stand resolutely, shoulder to shoulder against the authorities. Women, the backbone of the rural economy, have played a frontline role in the struggles. Dalits, typically undertaking the hardest manual labour in the countryside, have played a significant role in these struggles.
While the Indian ruling classes claim India to be the “largest democracy” in the world today, they deploy the most brutal repression against all forms of protest against the government. They unleash government backed Hinduvta fascist thugs to attack and brutalize the unarmed peasant farmers and protestors physically. Particularly during the last three weeks of the protests, the regime has cut internet and mobile access to New Delhi and surrounding areas. It has forced the closure of many social media channels that spread the news of the protests. The reactionary Modi Government has increasingly resorted to using “sedition laws” against protestors. These laws dating back to the 1870s when India was under British rule and are now revived to intimidate protesters and contain their struggles.
Yet despite all repression, the militant farmers continue in their fight. On February 18, 2021, they launched further protests calling a national day of protest and occupations of the railway stations to express their determination and resolve in continuing their struggles.
The struggle of the Indian peasant farmers against such reactionary policies today is unprecedented in size and the dimension of the resistance. But it is not a new phenomenon. The agricultural sector in India, which largely consists of smallholding and subsistence farming, is the source of income for over 50% of the population. As such, it has always been sensitive to such reactionary machinations by the ruling classes both during the British direct rule and since 1947 when power was passed to the Indian ruling classes.
Historically, Punjab was the epicenter of the notorious “Green Revolution” unleashed in the 1960s. The “Green Revolution” in India was the localized version of a general policy sponsored by US imperialism following the Second World War. It was designed as a comprehensive policy to stifle the influence of communists leading peasant revolutions sympathetic to the Soviet Union and the Peoples’ Republic of China led by Mao Tse-tung. It was aimed at putting an end to the revolutionary transformation of feudal relations through a revolutionary process and to impose a state-sponsored reform. Particularly in Punjab, following independence in 1947 and throughout the 50s and 60s, there were significant militant struggles for land reform and agrarian revolution by peasant movements led by communists. The “Green Revolution” in India followed similar examples in Latin America (Guatemala) and south-east Asia (Philippines), Middle East (Iran and Turkey) to stop the spread of communist influence. It was hoisted as an initiative to overcome “famine and food shortages”. This was applied to agriculture where the US supplied high yield fertilizer hungry seeds to increase the production of wheat, rice and other cash crops, introducing a basic form of industrial agriculture. With a Keynesian outlook, the Indian government subsidized and provided minimum prices for these agricultural products. The “Green revolution” ushered in greater and deeper dependency on the US and the supply of seeds, chemical fertilizers, and other farming products.
While the reactionary ruling classes in India and the US imperialism and it harbingers hail this as a success story, the effect was seen and felt on the ground taking the processes of dispossession and pauperization of the large numbers of peasant farmers to new dimensions. The “Green revolution”, in effect, was aimed at integrating the feudal relations with the comparator relations maintaining the existing social relations, the class structure, and the caste system of oppression intact.
Today, the Modi government is hailing the introduction of these laws as the “Green Revolution 2”. It is claiming that this will double the farmers’ wages and income. Yet all statistics show otherwise. With inflation at a steady average of 7.5%, farmers’ income has steadily decreased during the last decade. As a barometer of the worsening conditions of life, rising debt and bankruptcy of the peasant farmers, the suicide rate has taken a dramatic rise. In September 2020, the Indian parliament heard reports indicating that in 2019 alone, the number of recorded suicides amongst farmers and daily wage earners was 42,480 people. Some estimates show the number of suicides is steadily rising and that during the last decade alone, a figure close to 300,000 farmers and daily wage earners have committed suicide.
Clearly, the imperialist model of development and its endemic crisis is at the root of the problem. India is considered ripe for further extensive plunder of its resources and markets by imperialist powers and their collaborators. The Indian ruling classes, serving these interests, have at least for the past 25 years strived to introduce “neoliberal” policies and have made every attempt to usher in further instruments to ease the expansion of domestic and international finance capital over the country. Yet, at every turn and every attempt, the ruling classes have faced militant resistance by the people. Clearly, neither their policies designed to auctions off the tribal lands in order to plunder its mineral resources disguised as “Operation Green Hunt”, nor the opening of mega-store to the “Indian Walmarts”, or the opening of the claws of domestic and international finance capital in the agriculture, facilitated by the latest three bills passed by the government of Mr Modi, can address the crisis of a corrupt, decadent and reactionary system that is long overdue for revolutionary transformation.
The struggle of the Indian peasant farmers in India is an inseparable part of the worldwide struggle of workers and other oppressed against imperialism and reaction. The struggle against colonialism and imperialist domination and for a people’s democracy has a long, glorious history in India. The peasant farmers in India carrying on with such militant traditions in their just struggles are certain to attract the support, solidarity and sympathy of all oppressed and proletarian forces at home and abroad. Their persistent fight will undoubtedly contribute to and extend the ongoing revolutionary struggles of progressives democratic and communist forces in India.
We stand shoulder to shoulder with the revolutionary struggle of all workers and other oppressed people in India.
We extend our solidarity with the just struggle of the peasant farmers movement in India.
Victory to the oppressed farmers in their just and militant struggle against the imperialist backed reactionary offensive of the Indian state!
TKP-ML International Bureau
February 2021
INDIA: ‘Will go to Singhu border and sit with farmers,’ says activist Nodeep Kaur after release from jail
Labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur on Friday said that she will join the farmers’ protest against the new agricultural laws at Singhu border, NDTV reported. “I will definitely go to Singhu, sit with farmers,” she said, upon her release from Karnal Jail late in the evening. “I have not done anything illegal in the past and will not do anything illegal in the future and will always stand for the people.”
Earlier in the day, the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted bail to Kaur. She was arrested on January 12 for mobilising workers near the Singhu border, the epicentre of the farmer protest against the three new agricultural laws. The Dalit activist and her colleagues staged a demonstration in the Kundli industrial area, near Singhu, outside a factory that had not paid its workers their wages.
Speaking on Shiv Kumar, another activist who was arrested along with her, Kaur said that his condition was very bad and he has not been shifted to a hospital despite orders of doing so. “He wasn’t even there on the 12th [January], yet he was arrested and thrashed brutally.”
A medical report has shown that Kumar has sustained eight injuries that are more than two weeks old. The court had on February 19 directed the superintendent of Sonipat Jail to have Kumar examined at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, after his father Rajbir alleged that the jailed activist was “subjected to police torture”.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=scroll_in&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1365316710643851264&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fscroll.in%2Flatest%2F988061%2Fwill-go-to-singhu-border-and-sit-with-farmers-says-activist-nodeep-kaur-after-release-from-jail&siteScreenName=scroll_in&theme=light&widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&width=550px
Kaur also spoke about the agitating farmers and said that people should speak out in favour of their demands. “The farmers are sitting on protest sites, leaving their fields,” she said. “Nobody likes to sit on the streets if not for their demands. So, people should speak out in their favour so that a resolution is reached.”https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=scroll_in&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1365315761900724232&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fscroll.in%2Flatest%2F988061%2Fwill-go-to-singhu-border-and-sit-with-farmers-says-activist-nodeep-kaur-after-release-from-jail&siteScreenName=scroll_in&theme=light&widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&width=550px
Meanwhile, her sister Rajvir Kaur said that the fight was still on as many activists were still in jail, PTI reported. “We have not won this fight,” she said, according to PTI. “How can we win this fight till the time activists like Shiv Kumar, Umar Khalid [accused in Delhi riots’ conspiracy case], Khalid Saifi [booked under UAPA in Delhi riots case]…The list is very long, are inside jails? They all are our country’s true leaders.”
She was speaking at the Press Club of India in Delhi during a public meeting, marking a year since the arrest of Saifi and Ishrat Jahan, both booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February last year.
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)
Central Committee
Press Release
Continue The Struggle Against The Three Anti People Agriculture Related Laws, Until Modi Government Doesn’t Repeal Them Completely.
Communist Party of India (Maoist), once again, conveys Red Salutes by extending revolutionary greetings to all those, in Delhi and all over India, who are resolutely, continuously and unitedly struggling for repealing the three anti peasants laws of the Modi government. We fully welcome with warm spirits, the ‘Tractor Rally’ carried out by them on 26th January 2021.
These struggles around Delhi and all over India reminds us once again of the struggles against the British government’s Rowlett Act. Then it was the British, now its Imperialist agent Modi. Then it was Bhagat Singh, today, as his rightfull heirs, there are lakhs of rebellious peasants. Instead of repealing those laws, the government is adopting the policy of buying time and exanimating the movement. 11 rounds of talks have taken place, where the peasant’s leaders have made it clear to the government that their main demand is that the three laws must go, yet the government is wantonly dilly dallying. It’s because the government, is in fact the government of the Imperialists and the Comprador Bourgeoisie of India.
On 26th January, lakhs of peasants in tractors marched to Delhi and exposed to the world how biased and anti farmer, this sham ‘Republic Day’ of India is. Even if after giving permission for the rally, the government had been, via police, consistently trying to stop the farmers from carrying it out. They barricaded the routes. Tear gassed. Lathi Charged. Navrit Singh, a youth was dead. Law and order is the responsibility of the government. They tried their best to convert the peaceful March of the farmers into a violent one. In fact they had been trying from start to infiltrate the peasants struggle to split it or create confusions. They succeeded in infiltrating BJP agents Deep Sidhu and Lakha Sidhna in the Rally. Even after tight security arrangements these agents were allowed to proceed towards Red Fort. Allowing them to proceed to Red Fort, hoist there flag, create ruckus and paint the tractor rally as violent and then foist false cases on in its leaders are a part of the conspiracy of the Brahminic hindutva fascist Modi government. We condemn this cheap and repressive tactics of the government. We appeal to the soldiers and the police to maintain balance and stand in support of the farmers, as they too are the sons and daughters of farmers.
This Rally has exposed the double-dealing hypocrite Modi who masquerades as ‘Principally Servant of the People’. The truth that he is not the ‘Principal Servant of the People of India’, but is in fact the obedient servant of the Imperialists and the comprador corporate houses, has come out openly. With an unreconciling stand towards repealing the laws you have through your unity and firm resolve has smashed all tricks to manipulate you to some sort of negotiation. Still there are some forces outside of the United Front. We appeal to all of them to understand the necessity of the situation and join hands in the fight to repeal the laws.
The Modi government is stealing the morsel from the mouth of the poor by handing over procuring and hoarding rights to corporate Adani and Ambani. They are tightening the noose around the farmer’s necks by starting private markets and making provisions to hand over the lands to the corporate. This law is a decree to snatch the livelihood of the small businesses and traders. It is not just the peasants but 80% of the ordinary citizens who will be badly affected by this law. Hence we appeal the vast masses to join the struggle. In the areas of your work carryout consistent struggles in support, and force the government to repeal these laws. We appeal all the people to protest and demonstrate at different places all over the country in support of the call by the Farmers United Front to gherao the parliament on Feb 1st 2021 and other programs we call on the Maoist party caders, PLGA, revolutionary organisation, other organisations and Revolutionary People’s Communities (RPCs) to carryout various struggles in support of All India militant movement and against the 3 – laws. As a continuation of this follow it up on 10th February (on Great Bhoomakal Day) all over the country.
Abhay,
Spokesman,
CPI (Maoist), 30-01-2021.
from Maoistroad
Farmers’ protest in India
Thousands of farmers poured into India’s capital, New Delhi, in a real siege between November and December last year to protest against the new three agricultural laws that the government enacted in September 2020.
A protest never seen in size, as several media admit: “Protests are the largest mobilization ever of the peasants …”
Soon after the promulgation of the three black laws, as the peasants call them, protests had begun in the various states of the Indian Union, especially in the northern states of the country, Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh… and after a general strike on 25 September throughout India (Bharat Bandh), the protest also spread to entire Uttar Pradesh, and also to Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Kerala, Uttarakhand and parts of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh; but since the beginning of November the organized peasant masses gathered in over 40 large “unions”, having had no response from the government, have decided to move the protest directly to the city where the government is based.
The reasons for challenging the three black laws are clear and simple, so as clear has become to everyone their substance: the government wants to give the green light to the entry of multinationals into the country’s agriculture by clearly dismantling the current system of production, sale and distribution of agricultural products (a system which works through the sale to the state at collection centers and protected markets – the so-called ‘mandi’ – at a guaranteed minimum price – MSP is the acronym used in India), which allows millions of farmers to survive; the government wants the privatization of the whole sector which accounts for about a quarter of gross domestic product and 650 million workers involved in agriculture (half of the population!) and put it in the hands of the large multinationals, especially Indian at the moment, dominated by the Ambani, Adani, Birlas, Tata etc., with their control over agricultural products, control of prices on contracts with farmers, etc., in short, total control of the sector. Modi’s statements in this regard are clear: “The new decade will see the birth and growth of indigenous multinationals”, “Reforms, from agriculture to space, will increase the scope of business…”
The meaning and objectives of the laws are therefore clear, but as everyone knows, governments try to disguise their content by adding words to deceive, to calm the masses in revolt, declaring that these laws even represent improvements and benefits for the people!
The three laws bear these high-sounding names:
- Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act
- Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act
- Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act
The first law expands the planned current commercial areas for agricultural products to “any place of production, harvesting, aggregation”; allows both wholesale and retail e-commerce of essential agricultural products: a modality almost impossible for farmers to use; prohibits state governments from imposing market taxes, excise duties or other types of levies on farmers, traders and e-commerce platforms acting in an “external trading area”.
The second provides a legal framework that should safeguard farmers who enter into contracts with purchasers, and provide for price indication; but in anticipation of the logical prevarication of “buyers” towards farmers, it defines a dispute resolution mechanism. The farmers, that is, after being screwed, as a journalist says, will be able to “complain”, perhaps bringing to court giants of the world economy!
The third law removes foodstuffs such as cereals, legumes, potatoes, onions, edible oilseeds and oils from the list of essential products, removing the storage limits of such items except in “extraordinary circumstances”; And in order to throw smoke in the eye it imposes a limit on the accumulation of stocks for agricultural products only if this leads to an increase in prices.
In fact, as we can see, it is precisely the dismantling of the current system, which by the masters of the multinationals has been called for as a ‘prerequisite’ (free market, prices to be bargained for, no ‘protected’ production) for any investments.
To get farmers into even more debt and bankrupt them, that is what they aim to, for a “free” use of the land, transforming it into monocultures or factories, mines. That’s what, exactly, they have been trying for about 30 years, as some analysts remember! It is the recipes of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the “structural adjustments” imposed on various states in exchange for the possibility of obtaining international loans: in fact, this is the case of “reforms” that worsen the living and working conditions of workers, labourers and the popular masses in general. And the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund says it openly: “The laws on agriculture and work are important steps in the right direction. They have the potential for a more flexible labour market… and in the case of agriculture to have a more integrated market that creates competition…” These ‘adjustments’ are gladly followed by Modi, who is simultaneously trying to restrict the powers of the various States of the Union, such as on agriculture, by centralizing decisions and passing the costs on to them.
Protests
Once they have understood the true content of the laws (and to these must be added the new law called the “amendment” on electricity that provides, also this, price liberalization and related increase in tariffs and additional costs for farmers!), the masses of farmers have unleashed protests with the sole aim of forcing the government to withdraw the three laws: these are the firm demands to date, together with another series of demands to lighten the burden on the masses of farmers … such as raising the minimum support price (MSP) by at least 50%, reducing the prices of agricultural diesel by 50%, withdrawing all charges against protesting farmers and releasing arrested leaders.
The protests targeted not only the government symbolically in the various states, but the places of production, sale and storage of the goods of India’s masters: supermarkets, petrol pumps, storage silos, telecommunications towers. The attack on these towers, in particular (about 2000) has unleashed the ire of billionaire Ambani (who has a personal wealth of 170 billion dollars in a country where the large masses “live” with one dollar a day – 102nd place out of 107 in the international ranking of countries where hunger is most suffering) who asked the courts and the government to intervene to put an end to “vandalism”.
These protests, which took the government itself by surprise in part, perhaps thinking of splitting the front that has been created by using the differences between large and small farmers, have expanded to the far-fetched, have expanded to other states and many other sectors, have won popular support, the solidarity and material support of intellectuals and workers who fight daily against masters, and against ruthless governments: just think of the factory workers who, when they rebel, are attacked and sometimes killed by the private militias of the masters with the support of the State that uses its industrial police (CISF) to safeguard the profits of multinationals; or think to the same State led by Modi who shows no scruples in having Muslims massacred by discriminatory and racist laws.
Repression
The right protests of the peasants were met by the government with the harshest violence; it first tried to stem protests in different states and then tried to prevent farmers from arriving in the capital New Delhi, raising barricades, even digging trenches in the streets, using “water cannons in the middle of winter, abuse, provocation, trolls, blatant misinformation…” (the Hindu), and still barbed wire, tear gas in an already ice-cold Delhi for polar cold and rain floods.
The death toll so far is about 60, not to mention the absurd scourge of debt and poverty suicides, more than 10,000 in 2019.
The strength of protest
But despite the implementation of a powerful internal “troop” movement, the government failed to do so: “We used water cannons and installed barricades but we were not able to stop the peasants who kept going … Protesters move in large numbers and some of them throw stones at policemen during clashes,” “Protesters broke through vehicle windows with water cannons and walked through the square. Because of the large number we had no choice but to let them through,” one policeman reported. “The police dug trenches to stop us from getting to Delhi. Our brave farmers have passed every barricade, water cannons, tear gas to get here,” said one farmer.
This revolting mass has armed itself not only with traditional weapons of popular struggles to repel police attacks, but also from a “legal” point of view, intelligently using the results of the National Farmers’ Commission led by a famous agricultural scientist and under the jurisdiction of the government itself; results that say that the solution is not at all that of privatization, but rather to strengthen the current system by recognizing farmers a higher price for their products.
The “novelty” of the massive presence of women
The other “surprise” of these gigantic protests against the Modi government is that of women. In fact, thousands of women have gradually joined the peasants that started the fight, somehow “breaking the feudal mentality” as one journalist says, and who have shown all their determination by placing themselves at the forefront of the fight.
For some Indian media it was a “surprise” and they talked about it in these terms: “A surprising feature of the protests this time is the presence of women”… “thousands of women have become a pillar of the farmers’ protests blocking the streets in New Delhi and which have become a major challenge for the government. The presence and above all the protagonism of women is truly a gigantic challenge for Modi’s Hindu fascist government. But this surprise is only the effect of the “invisibility” of the female workforce on India’s vast farmland.
Nearly 75% of rural women in India who work full-time are farmers, according to non-governmental organization Oxfam India, and the number is expected to even increase as more and more men migrate to cities to find a work. Yet just under 13% of women own the land they work. And now these women have “taken to the streets” as some of them say, with the intention of staying there until they have won their battle.
The importance of the issue (within the global crisis)
The Modi government’s obstinacy in wanting these laws to be applied at all costs is explained by the “necessity” of the representative of the Indian masters to give a positive response, this certainly, to the hunger for profits of multinationals aggravated by the global crisis and further aggravated at this time by the global pandemic. The scope of the demonstrations, in fact, a reflection of the importance of the subject in question, is of the gigantic ones, it concerns the current state of affairs at world level, it concerns the crisis and the response that governments try to give to it to get out of it, it touches on global competition, the kind of food supply that is fundamental to the very existence of humanity, it touches on land grabbing, with the expulsion of local populations, it concerns the destruction not only of agricultural land with the use of chemistry, but also the destruction of the immense forests of the country and the management of the immense “raw materials”.
Land and forests that must be “free”, precisely from the control of farmers to allow the owners of the multinationals Ambani, Adani etc. to “stay on the market”, to compete internationally, and given that, for example, the production of household appliances or clothing and other “old” sectors stagnates, other investment fields are needed such as the immense agricultural market or the “new sectors” of high technology that allow great profits… it is recent and very important, in this sense, Ambani’s billionaire agreement with the giants of the Internet, Facebook Inc., Google etc. and implanting new technologies, (the towers destroyed by farmers during protests!) throughout the country means having control of the territory, penetrating the forests building new roads.
This aspect of forest control is of great interest for the Modi government because these are the main place of action of the People’s War led by the PCI (Maoist), an insurmountable obstacle to the government’s plans. And it is no coincidence that some members of the government immediately targeted the protest and solidarity with it by saying that the farmers’ protest ended up in the hands of the Maoists.
Government plays the card of ‘dialogue’
After the first incessant and very strong weeks of struggle and the encirclement of New Delhi, the government summoned the representatives of the peasants to open the discussion on the three laws. After 7 meetings, however, the government, mainly through its Minister for Agriculture, has stood firm on its positions, it does not intend to abolish the three laws! He just wants to discuss some clauses and even try to convince the farmers of the goodness of the laws. And Narendra Modi, always filling his mouth with the word democracy, has said it openly and clearly: these laws are a watershed! There is a before and after these laws, and there can be no ‘human approach ‘on his part, as some farmers would like!
The farmers, and the peasants, in turn, have stood firm in their demand for the abolition of the three laws and are threatening other initiatives if the request is not granted. The answer is in fact the continuation of the struggle: the farmers have already built real citadels around the capital (which has about 20 million inhabitants) and in particular in some crucial places, and the situation can become even more fiery given that the huge outskirts of Delhi has a large number of industries and hundreds of thousands of workers. After 8 January, if there are no adequate answers, peasants are preparing the “tractor parade”, a march inside the capital for 26 January, Republic Day.
We then can say that with his new three pro-multinational laws Modi has raised such a great stone that in falling back he could give the mortal blow to him and his government…
PUTTING UNDER SIEGE FOR MORE THAN 40 DAYS NEW DELHI, IN A HEAD-ON CONFRONTATION WITH THE HINDU MODI FASCIST GOVERNMENT, FOR THE CANCELLATION OF THE LAWS ON AGRICULTURE THAT WOULD THROW THEM INTO HUNGER AND MISERY CRUSHED BY THE LARGE MULTINATIONAL GROUPS.
GOVERNMENT, WHICH RECENTLY ENACTED LABOR LAWS FOR EASY LAYOFFS, WAGE CUTS, PRECARIOUSNESS, WHICH LED TO THE GIANT STRIKE OF 250 MILLION WORKERS ON NOVEMBER 26, WHICH GAVE FARMERS STRENGTH TO BEGIN THE SIEGE
IN THE STREETS FOR DENUNCIATION OF THE FALSE NEGOTIATIONS TO BREAK THE FRONT OF STRUGGLE, OF THE JUDICIARY THAT FLANKS MODI AGAINST THE PEASANTS, OF THE REPRESSION AGAINST THOSE WHO FIGHT
BEAUTIFUL SQUARES THAT LOOK ‘TO INDIA AS AN EXAMPLE’
WHICH WERE ANIMATED BY THE ACTION OF THE WOMEN WHO, FROM THE LABORS ON THE FIELDS, TOOK THEIR PLACE IN THE FRONT ROW OF THE MOBILIZATIONS
WHO RECALLED THE SACRIFICE OF THE DOZENS OF PEASANTS WHO HAVE ALREADY DIED IN THIS HARSH SIEGE
A MOBILIZATION, THAT OF THE 17TH, THAT IS ONLY JUST ON THE BEGINNING, LOOKING AT JANUARY 26, THE DAY OF NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE, WITH THE DROP OF PEASANTS IN NEW DELHI THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO PREVENT, BUT THAT ‘MUST BE DONE’ BECAUSE ONLY THE FIGHT PAYS OFF.
naio – OGGI LA SOLIDARIETA’ INTERNAZIONALISTA DEI LAVORATORI A FIANCO DELLA GRANDE LOTTA DEI CONTADINI IN INDIA
17.01.2021:
ORE 15.00 BRESCIA PIAZZA VITTORIA
ORE 15.00: CHIARI, TELGATE, CALCINATE, COLOGNO, CIVIDATE AL PIANO, GORLAGO, TRESCORE BALNEARIO,
NELLE PIAZZE DAVANTI AI COMUNI,
con il rispetto delle misure anti contagio, distanziamento e mascherine
Pubblicato da sindacatodiclasse a 15 gennaio – CON I CONTADINI INDIANI, PER LA VITTORIA DEI CONTADINI INDIANI, FORTE IMPEGNO SOLIDALE DEI LAVORATORI NELLE FABBRICHE E COOPERATIVE TRA BERGAMO E BRESCIA, IN CAMPO PER GARANTIRE LA RIUSCITA DELLA MOBILITAZIONE DEL 17 GENNAIO https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxZAgGcpfddSdl9cSolhKHftc9SZ1EYfnF91x3rDzfOfMbLP3zpr5nFW5HQhW3H0YEcMWnKM30Crbw3cKI-SHHlT4V7jzb32WYGIRTBVgiKq_qw_iTvKItZWgBQMZ6rQCyHZncK
PUTTING UNDER SIEGE FOR MORE THAN 40 DAYS NEW DELHI, IN A HEAD-ON CONFRONTATION WITH THE HINDU MODI FASCIST GOVERNMENT, FOR THE CANCELLATION OF THE LAWS ON AGRICULTURE THAT WOULD THROW THEM INTO HUNGER AND MISERY CRUSHED BY THE LARGE MULTINATIONAL GROUPS.
GOVERNMENT, WHICH RECENTLY ENACTED LABOR LAWS FOR EASY LAYOFFS, WAGE CUTS, PRECARIOUSNESS, WHICH LED TO THE GIANT STRIKE OF 250 MILLION WORKERS ON NOVEMBER 26, WHICH GAVE FARMERS STRENGTH TO BEGIN THE SIEGE
IN THE STREETS FOR DENUNCIATION OF THE FALSE NEGOTIATIONS TO BREAK THE FRONT OF STRUGGLE, OF THE JUDICIARY THAT FLANKS MODI AGAINST THE PEASANTS, OF THE REPRESSION AGAINST THOSE WHO FIGHT
BEAUTIFUL SQUARES THAT LOOK ‘TO INDIA AS AN EXAMPLE’
WHICH WERE ANIMATED BY THE ACTION OF THE WOMEN WHO, FROM THE LABORS ON THE FIELDS, TOOK THEIR PLACE IN THE FRONT ROW OF THE MOBILIZATIONS
WHO RECALLED THE SACRIFICE OF THE DOZENS OF PEASANTS WHO HAVE ALREADY DIED IN THIS HARSH SIEGE
A MOBILIZATION, THAT OF THE 17TH, THAT IS ONLY JUST ON THE BEGINNING, LOOKING AT JANUARY 26, THE DAY OF NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE, WITH THE DROP OF PEASANTS IN NEW DELHI THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO PREVENT, BUT THAT ‘MUST BE DONE’ BECAUSE ONLY THE FIGHT PAYS OFF.
naio – OGGI LA SOLIDARIETA’ INTERNAZIONALISTA DEI LAVORATORI A FIANCO DELLA GRANDE LOTTA DEI CONTADINI IN INDIA
17.01.2021:
ORE 15.00 BRESCIA PIAZZA VITTORIA
ORE 15.00: CHIARI, TELGATE, CALCINATE, COLOGNO, CIVIDATE AL PIANO, GORLAGO, TRESCORE BALNEARIO,
NELLE PIAZZE DAVANTI AI COMUNI,
con il rispetto delle misure anti contagio, distanziamento e mascherine
Pubblicato da sindacatodiclasse a 15 gennaio – CON I CONTADINI INDIANI, PER LA VITTORIA DEI CONTADINI INDIANI, FORTE IMPEGNO SOLIDALE DEI LAVORATORI NELLE FABBRICHE E COOPERATIVE TRA BERGAMO E BRESCIA, IN CAMPO PER GARANTIRE LA RIUSCITA DELLA MOBILITAZIONE DEL 17 GENNAIO https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxZAgGcpfddSdl9cSolhKHftc9SZ1EYfnF91x3rDzfOfMbLP3zpr5nFW5HQhW3H0YEcMWnKM30Crbw3cKI-SHHlT4V7jzb32WYGIRTBVgiKq_qw_iTvKItZWgBQMZ6rQCyHZncK
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from Maoistroad
Farmers’ protest in India
Thousands of farmers poured into India’s capital, New Delhi, in a real siege between November and December last year to protest against the new three agricultural laws that the government enacted in September 2020.
A protest never seen in size, as several media admit: “Protests are the largest mobilization ever of the peasants …”
Soon after the promulgation of the three black laws, as the peasants call them, protests had begun in the various states of the Indian Union, especially in the northern states of the country, Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh… and after a general strike on 25 September throughout India (Bharat Bandh), the protest also spread to entire Uttar Pradesh, and also to Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Kerala, Uttarakhand and parts of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh; but since the beginning of November the organized peasant masses gathered in over 40 large “unions”, having had no response from the government, have decided to move the protest directly to the city where the government is based.
The reasons for challenging the three black laws are clear and simple, so as clear has become to everyone their substance: the government wants to give the green light to the entry of multinationals into the country’s agriculture by clearly dismantling the current system of production, sale and distribution of agricultural products (a system which works through the sale to the state at collection centers and protected markets – the so-called ‘mandi’ – at a guaranteed minimum price – MSP is the acronym used in India), which allows millions of farmers to survive; the government wants the privatization of the whole sector which accounts for about a quarter of gross domestic product and 650 million workers involved in agriculture (half of the population!) and put it in the hands of the large multinationals, especially Indian at the moment, dominated by the Ambani, Adani, Birlas, Tata etc., with their control over agricultural products, control of prices on contracts with farmers, etc., in short, total control of the sector. Modi’s statements in this regard are clear: “The new decade will see the birth and growth of indigenous multinationals”, “Reforms, from agriculture to space, will increase the scope of business…”
The meaning and objectives of the laws are therefore clear, but as everyone knows, governments try to disguise their content by adding words to deceive, to calm the masses in revolt, declaring that these laws even represent improvements and benefits for the people!
The three laws bear these high-sounding names:
- Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act
- Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act
- Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act
The first law expands the planned current commercial areas for agricultural products to “any place of production, harvesting, aggregation”; allows both wholesale and retail e-commerce of essential agricultural products: a modality almost impossible for farmers to use; prohibits state governments from imposing market taxes, excise duties or other types of levies on farmers, traders and e-commerce platforms acting in an “external trading area”.
The second provides a legal framework that should safeguard farmers who enter into contracts with purchasers, and provide for price indication; but in anticipation of the logical prevarication of “buyers” towards farmers, it defines a dispute resolution mechanism. The farmers, that is, after being screwed, as a journalist says, will be able to “complain”, perhaps bringing to court giants of the world economy!
The third law removes foodstuffs such as cereals, legumes, potatoes, onions, edible oilseeds and oils from the list of essential products, removing the storage limits of such items except in “extraordinary circumstances”; And in order to throw smoke in the eye it imposes a limit on the accumulation of stocks for agricultural products only if this leads to an increase in prices.
In fact, as we can see, it is precisely the dismantling of the current system, which by the masters of the multinationals has been called for as a ‘prerequisite’ (free market, prices to be bargained for, no ‘protected’ production) for any investments.
To get farmers into even more debt and bankrupt them, that is what they aim to, for a “free” use of the land, transforming it into monocultures or factories, mines. That’s what, exactly, they have been trying for about 30 years, as some analysts remember! It is the recipes of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the “structural adjustments” imposed on various states in exchange for the possibility of obtaining international loans: in fact, this is the case of “reforms” that worsen the living and working conditions of workers, labourers and the popular masses in general. And the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund says it openly: “The laws on agriculture and work are important steps in the right direction. They have the potential for a more flexible labour market… and in the case of agriculture to have a more integrated market that creates competition…” These ‘adjustments’ are gladly followed by Modi, who is simultaneously trying to restrict the powers of the various States of the Union, such as on agriculture, by centralizing decisions and passing the costs on to them.
Protests
Once they have understood the true content of the laws (and to these must be added the new law called the “amendment” on electricity that provides, also this, price liberalization and related increase in tariffs and additional costs for farmers!), the masses of farmers have unleashed protests with the sole aim of forcing the government to withdraw the three laws: these are the firm demands to date, together with another series of demands to lighten the burden on the masses of farmers … such as raising the minimum support price (MSP) by at least 50%, reducing the prices of agricultural diesel by 50%, withdrawing all charges against protesting farmers and releasing arrested leaders.
The protests targeted not only the government symbolically in the various states, but the places of production, sale and storage of the goods of India’s masters: supermarkets, petrol pumps, storage silos, telecommunications towers. The attack on these towers, in particular (about 2000) has unleashed the ire of billionaire Ambani (who has a personal wealth of 170 billion dollars in a country where the large masses “live” with one dollar a day – 102nd place out of 107 in the international ranking of countries where hunger is most suffering) who asked the courts and the government to intervene to put an end to “vandalism”.
These protests, which took the government itself by surprise in part, perhaps thinking of splitting the front that has been created by using the differences between large and small farmers, have expanded to the far-fetched, have expanded to other states and many other sectors, have won popular support, the solidarity and material support of intellectuals and workers who fight daily against masters, and against ruthless governments: just think of the factory workers who, when they rebel, are attacked and sometimes killed by the private militias of the masters with the support of the State that uses its industrial police (CISF) to safeguard the profits of multinationals; or think to the same State led by Modi who shows no scruples in having Muslims massacred by discriminatory and racist laws.
Repression
The right protests of the peasants were met by the government with the harshest violence; it first tried to stem protests in different states and then tried to prevent farmers from arriving in the capital New Delhi, raising barricades, even digging trenches in the streets, using “water cannons in the middle of winter, abuse, provocation, trolls, blatant misinformation…” (the Hindu), and still barbed wire, tear gas in an already ice-cold Delhi for polar cold and rain floods.
The death toll so far is about 60, not to mention the absurd scourge of debt and poverty suicides, more than 10,000 in 2019.
The strength of protest
But despite the implementation of a powerful internal “troop” movement, the government failed to do so: “We used water cannons and installed barricades but we were not able to stop the peasants who kept going … Protesters move in large numbers and some of them throw stones at policemen during clashes,” “Protesters broke through vehicle windows with water cannons and walked through the square. Because of the large number we had no choice but to let them through,” one policeman reported. “The police dug trenches to stop us from getting to Delhi. Our brave farmers have passed every barricade, water cannons, tear gas to get here,” said one farmer.
This revolting mass has armed itself not only with traditional weapons of popular struggles to repel police attacks, but also from a “legal” point of view, intelligently using the results of the National Farmers’ Commission led by a famous agricultural scientist and under the jurisdiction of the government itself; results that say that the solution is not at all that of privatization, but rather to strengthen the current system by recognizing farmers a higher price for their products.
The “novelty” of the massive presence of women
The other “surprise” of these gigantic protests against the Modi government is that of women. In fact, thousands of women have gradually joined the peasants that started the fight, somehow “breaking the feudal mentality” as one journalist says, and who have shown all their determination by placing themselves at the forefront of the fight.
For some Indian media it was a “surprise” and they talked about it in these terms: “A surprising feature of the protests this time is the presence of women”… “thousands of women have become a pillar of the farmers’ protests blocking the streets in New Delhi and which have become a major challenge for the government. The presence and above all the protagonism of women is truly a gigantic challenge for Modi’s Hindu fascist government. But this surprise is only the effect of the “invisibility” of the female workforce on India’s vast farmland.
Nearly 75% of rural women in India who work full-time are farmers, according to non-governmental organization Oxfam India, and the number is expected to even increase as more and more men migrate to cities to find a work. Yet just under 13% of women own the land they work. And now these women have “taken to the streets” as some of them say, with the intention of staying there until they have won their battle.
The importance of the issue (within the global crisis)
The Modi government’s obstinacy in wanting these laws to be applied at all costs is explained by the “necessity” of the representative of the Indian masters to give a positive response, this certainly, to the hunger for profits of multinationals aggravated by the global crisis and further aggravated at this time by the global pandemic. The scope of the demonstrations, in fact, a reflection of the importance of the subject in question, is of the gigantic ones, it concerns the current state of affairs at world level, it concerns the crisis and the response that governments try to give to it to get out of it, it touches on global competition, the kind of food supply that is fundamental to the very existence of humanity, it touches on land grabbing, with the expulsion of local populations, it concerns the destruction not only of agricultural land with the use of chemistry, but also the destruction of the immense forests of the country and the management of the immense “raw materials”.
Land and forests that must be “free”, precisely from the control of farmers to allow the owners of the multinationals Ambani, Adani etc. to “stay on the market”, to compete internationally, and given that, for example, the production of household appliances or clothing and other “old” sectors stagnates, other investment fields are needed such as the immense agricultural market or the “new sectors” of high technology that allow great profits… it is recent and very important, in this sense, Ambani’s billionaire agreement with the giants of the Internet, Facebook Inc., Google etc. and implanting new technologies, (the towers destroyed by farmers during protests!) throughout the country means having control of the territory, penetrating the forests building new roads.
This aspect of forest control is of great interest for the Modi government because these are the main place of action of the People’s War led by the PCI (Maoist), an insurmountable obstacle to the government’s plans. And it is no coincidence that some members of the government immediately targeted the protest and solidarity with it by saying that the farmers’ protest ended up in the hands of the Maoists.
Government plays the card of ‘dialogue’
After the first incessant and very strong weeks of struggle and the encirclement of New Delhi, the government summoned the representatives of the peasants to open the discussion on the three laws. After 7 meetings, however, the government, mainly through its Minister for Agriculture, has stood firm on its positions, it does not intend to abolish the three laws! He just wants to discuss some clauses and even try to convince the farmers of the goodness of the laws. And Narendra Modi, always filling his mouth with the word democracy, has said it openly and clearly: these laws are a watershed! There is a before and after these laws, and there can be no ‘human approach ‘on his part, as some farmers would like!
The farmers, and the peasants, in turn, have stood firm in their demand for the abolition of the three laws and are threatening other initiatives if the request is not granted. The answer is in fact the continuation of the struggle: the farmers have already built real citadels around the capital (which has about 20 million inhabitants) and in particular in some crucial places, and the situation can become even more fiery given that the huge outskirts of Delhi has a large number of industries and hundreds of thousands of workers. After 8 January, if there are no adequate answers, peasants are preparing the “tractor parade”, a march inside the capital for 26 January, Republic Day.
We then can say that with his new three pro-multinational laws Modi has raised such a great stone that in falling back he could give the mortal blow to him and his government…
from Red Spark
Rajnandgaon District, January 15, 2021: A group of Naxalites executed the husband of a village sarpanch on suspicion of being a police informant in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place on Wednesday night in Pardoni village in the Manpur police station limits, a Naxalite-affected area located around 170 km from Raipur.
The 47-year-old police informant, husband of the Pardoni village sarpanch (panchayat head), was beaten to death.
According to preliminary information, a group of Maoists entered the police informant’s house when he was resting after dinner and dragged him out on the street.
They then took him to the village outskirts and thrashed him brutally. The police informant died on the spot.
After being alerted, a police team shifted the informant’s body to a hospital for post-mortem.
Maoist pamphlets were recovered from the site in which the deceased was accused of being a police informant. A police official denied the informant’s association with the police.
A search operation by police has been launched to trace the Naxalite squad that carried out this execution.
According to a police official, on May 8 of last year, four Naxalites were killed in a gun battle with police in Pardoni village. The Naxals suspected that the informant tipped off the police about the presence of their colleagues.
Kandhamal District, December 28: CPI (Maoist) cadres today blocked Kotagarh-Muniguda road near Radiguma in Odisha’s Kandhamal district by cutting down trees as a part of bandh observed by the party. Vehicular movement was temporarily disrupted due to the incident.
The Maoists also put up posters at various places in Kotagarh and Tumudibandha areas of the district urging the people to extend support to the bandh call. In the posters, the Maoists have opposed construction of CRPF camp in the area and destroying of ganja cultivation.
The CPI (Maoist) has also alleged that tribal people are being engaged as police informers through the lure of money and false promises.
The Maoists had earlier given an Odisha bandh call for today protesting the recent deaths of several Maoist cadres during exchanges of fire with security forces. Releasing an audio clip in this regard, CPI (Maoist) Odisha Committee spokesperson Sonali said the rebels will give befitting reply to the deaths of the cadres. Terming the deaths as killings by SOG and DVF jawans, she warned of destroying the police informers network.
Giridih District, December 24: At least a thousand villagers launched an attack on the picket of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Pandeydih village under Pirtaand Block of Giridih district on Wednesday evening.
Holding traditional weapons, the villagers marched towards the picket. The attack has been alleged to be instigated by the Maoists.
The 7th Battalion of CRPF has opened a picket close to the house Ajay Mahato, a member of the Special Area Committee of the CPI (Maoist), in his village Pandeydih. Mahato is on the most wanted list of police with prize money of Rs 25 lakh on his head.
Pandeydih under Pirtaand Block of Giridih is a CPI (Maoist) stronghold. Apart from Mahto who is active from Parasnath to West Bengal and Orissa border, other Maoist cadres Karamchand Manjhi, and Dhirenda also belong to this village.
The entire Pirtaand block, which was once an impregnable fort of the Maoists, has now crumbled with CRPF’s bold presence and opening of the picket. By opening the picket virtually in the Maoists den, the Police and CRPF has managed to penetrate deep inside the area.
According to sources, the angry villagers, in which a large number of women were present, vandalized the picket. However, the CRPF jawans posted at the picket handled the situation in a calm and restraint manner using force and persuasion. The patience of CRPF personnel helped in normalizing the situation and avert any mishap.
In many places, Maoist violence has mellowed but despite all efforts, Ajay Mahto remains evasive. Mahto is involved in triggering several Maoist incidents and is presently active in the Chaibasa area, said sources.
CRPF DIG Dilip Kumar Chaudhary said, “The mob was there, but the CRPF personnel persuaded them to return. Naxal is directing and instigating them to protest against CRPF camp there.”
Sources said the villagers were opposing the opening of CRPF Picket in their village.
However, men-in-khakis believe that launching of the attack by villagers is a conspiracy of CPI (Maoist) cadre Ajay Mahto, whose entry to his house and village got restricted with the opening of the CRPF picket. The villagers before attacking the picket demonstrated with a traditional weapon and took out a procession in the village.
Police are camping on the spot after the incident. The atmosphere of the village remains tense at the moment.
Varavara Rao Will Remain In Nanavati Hospital Until January 7
Bombay high court on Tuesday continued the stay of Telugu poet and Political Prisoner P Varavara Rao (81) at Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital till January 7, with the interim order of letting his family see him there.
Rao is fit enough to be sent back to Taloja jail, said additional solicitor general Anil Singh for National Investigation Agency (NIA) on his bail plea on medical grounds. Rao was shifted to the hospital in Vile Parle on November 19 for 15 days and then renewed for 15 others.
Narayanpur District, December 13: An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) trooper was injured when a pressure improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites went off in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Saturday, police said.
The blast occurred around 1 pm on the Narayanpur-Kurusnar road in the Kurusnar police station area where a team from the ITBP’s 53rd Battalion was on patrol, Inspector General of Police (Bastar) Sundarraj P said.
When the team was cordoning off the route that goes through a dense forest, one of the men inadvertently stepped over the IED connection, triggering the blast which left him injured, the official said.
The jawan was rushed to a local hospital from where he was shifted to Raipur for further treatment.
The ITBP is deployed in Narayanpur district, around 250 km away from Raipur, for anti-Maoist operations.
On October 30, an ITBP constable was injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxalites in Kohkameta area of Narayanpur.
ICSPWI
Political Prisoner Varavara Rao To Remain In Nanavati Hospital Until December 15
December 3, 2020: A division bench of the Bombay high court (HC) on Thursday extended 82-year-old political prisoner P Varavara Rao’s stay at Nanavati Hospital till December 15. Rao’s wife, P Hemlatha, told the court that Rao’s family is happy with the progress in his health, but needed to study the medical report before they could argue for his bail on medical grounds. The court accepted this and restrained the state and National Investigation Agency (NIA) from discharging Rao without informing the court. Rao is among the accused in the Bhima-Koregaon case.
On November 18, the court had directed the state to shift Rao to Nanavati Hospital for treatment. Rao has been in the hospital since November 19. On Thursday, Hemlatha’s petition regarding Rao’s medical condition came up for hearing and the state submitted Nanavati Hospital’s medical report on Rao before the division bench of justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik in a sealed envelope.
After seeing Rao’s report, the bench observed there had been some improvements in Rao’s condition, which Hemlatha’s legal team, comprising advocates Indira Jaising, Anand Grover and R Satyanarayan, confirmed.
Jaising requested the court to give the family a copy of the report and to allow them time to study it so that they may argue further. She also requested the court to restrain the state and NIA from discharging Rao and returning him to Taloja Jail.
The court acceded to the request and noted in its order, “Pursuant to the order passed by court on November 19, Rao is in Nanavati Hospital. Since the matter is adjourned to December 15, Rao may not be discharged from Nanavati Hospital without informing this court. The earlier order dated November 18 (related to visit of family members) shall continue.”
Chief public prosecutor Deepak Thakare and additional solicitor general Anil Singh for NIA informed the court they had no objection to the defense’s request. The court will hear the matter next on December 15.
International call to support the resistance of Dr. G.N. Saibaba!
Professor at Delhi University Dr. G.N. Saibaba has been held in Nagpur Central Prison since 2014, despite being 90 percent disabled. Well-known outside of India, attending many conferences abroad, human rights advocate Dr. G.N. Saibaba started a hunger strike on 21 October 2020, to condemn human rights violations in prison, as well as demanding medical care, books, and sending letters, which is the most fundamental right of every prisoner.
Saibaba, who is in life threatening condition due to many chronic illnesses he suffers from, had previously applied to the Supreme Court, but his brother’s house, which he showed as the address, was rejected because it was within the boundaries of the COVID 19 quarantine. At the current stage, the necessary medical needs are not met, and the medical supplies that his family wants to send are rejected. In addition, the books, letters, and newspaper clippings sent to him by his friends and family from outside have not been given for months. Letters and books are a prisoner’s most natural right and only connection with the outside. Not allowing them to him is a violation of human rights.
As if all this were not enough, Dr. G.N. Saibaba has been prevented from meeting with his lawyers on the pretext of getting COVID-19 for months. He is only allowed to speak to his lawyers by phone twice a month. Preventing him from meeting with his family, friends, and lawyers, and preventing the sending of books, magazines, letters, and newspapers from outside, is an attempt to cut his relationship with the outside world.
With his arrest, the Indian state is trying to achieve multiple goals, preventing him from giving lectures at university as well as cut his communication with outside to arrest his thoughts as well. Dr G.N Saibaba is not the only prisoners facing the human rights violations in India, there are thousands like him. Thousands of people in many countries of the world are arrested, tortured, and mistreated in prisons for their political ideas and opinions.
Dr. G.N. Saibaba’s Freedom Is Possible Through Solidarity!
We, the undersigned, are calling on the international public to announce for Dr Saibaba to be freed, to be treated in a healthy environment, to be given his medicines, books, letters, and newspapers! The hunger strike initiated by Dr G.N Saibaba can only end with victory with the support of Democratic organisations and Individuals. We urge the democratic organisations and individuals to force the Ministry of Justice of India and Nagpur Central Prison to meet the needs of Dr G.N Saibaba!
We call on all organizations and individuals in the international arena to organise solidarity campaigns in their fields to support Dr Saibaba’s resistance!
Signatories:
ATİK – Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe
UPOTUDAK- International Committee for Solidarity with Political Prisoners
Partizan
Secours Rouge International
Secours Rouge Toulouse
Le CRI Rouge pour la défense des prisonniers révolutionnaires
Comité d’actions et de soutien aux luttes du peuple Marocainc
Campagne unitaire pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
Corriente del Pueblo Sol Rojo –Mexiko
Soccorso Rosso proletario – Italia
International Comittee of Support the People’s War in India
Dr. G.N. Saibaba’nın Direnişini Sahiplenmek İçin Enternasyonal Çağrı!
Delhi Üniversitesinde profesör olan Dr. G.N. Saibaba yüzde 90 engelli olmasına rağmen 2014 yılından beri Nagpur Merkez Hapishanesinde tutulmaktadır. Hindistan dışında da tanınan, bir çok ülkede üniversitelerde konferanslara katılan, insan hakları savunucusu Dr. G.N. Saibaba; hapishanedeki insan hakları ihlallerini kınamak, her tutsağın en temel hakkı olan tıbbi bakım, kitap okuma, mektup alıp gönderme talebiyle 21 Ekim 2020 tarihinden itibaren açlık grevine başlamıştır.
Hindistan’ın Nagpur eyaletindeki Merkez Hapishane’de tutulan ve birçok kronik hastalıktan yaşamsal tehlikesi bulunan Saibaba için daha önce Yüksek Mahkeme’ye başvuru yapılmış, ancak adres olarak gösterdiği kardeşinin evi, COVİD 19 karantinası sınırları içinde bulunduğu için reddedilmişti. Gelinen aşamada kendisine gerekil tıbbi ihtiyaçları karışlanmamakta, ailesinin göndermek istediği tıbbi malzemelerde ret edilmektedir. Ayrıca dışarıdan arkadaşları ve ailesinin kendisine gönderdiği kitaplar, mektuplar ve gazete kupürleri de aylardır verilmemektedir. Mektup ve kitaplar bir mahpusun en doğal hakkı ve dışarıyla olan tek bağlantısıdır. Bunların kendisine verilmemesi insan hakları ihlalidir.
Tüm bunlarla birlikte Dr. G.N. Saibaba aylardır COVİD-19’a yakalanma bahanesiyle Avukatlarıyla da görüşmesi engellenmektedir. Avukatlarıyla sadece ayda iki defa telefonla görüşmesine izin verilmektedir. Ailesiyle, arkadaşlarıyla, avukatlarıyla görüşmesinin engellenmesi, dışarıdan kitap, dergi, mektup ve gazetelerin gönderilmesinin engellenmesi, onun dışarıdaki dünya ile ilişkisinin kesilmesine yönelik bir girişimdir. Hindistan devleti, Dr. G.N. Saibaba’yı tutuklayarak onun üniversitede ders vermesini, yeni öğrenciler yetiştirmesini engellerken, aynı zamanda hapishanedeyken dışarıyla bağını kopararak onun düşüncelerini de hapsetmek istemektedir. Dr. G.N. Saibaba’nın yaşadığı Hindistan’da tutuklu olan binlerce politik tutsağın yaşadıklarından farklı değildir. Dünyanın bir çok ülkesinde binlerce insan düşüncelerinden dolayı hapishanelerde tutuklanmakta, işkence ve kötü muamele görmektedir.
Dr. G.N. Saibaba’nın Özgürlüğü Dayanışmayla Mümkündür!
Bizler aşağıda imzası bulananlar;Dr. G.N. Saibaba’nın özgürlüğüne kavuşması, sağlıklı bir ortamda tedavisinin görülmesi, ilaçlarının, kitaplarının, mektuplarının ve gazetelerinin kendisine verilmesi için uluslararası kamuoyunu duyuralı olmaya çağırıyoruz! Dr. G.N. Saibaba’nın taleplerinin kabul edilmesi amacıyla 21 Ekim’den itibaren başlattığı açlık grevini kazanımla sonuçlanması demokratik kurumlara ve bireylerin Nagpur Merkez Hapishanesi ve Hindistan Adalet Bakanlığı üzerinde baskı kurmasıyla mümkündür! Uluslararası alanda tüm örgüt ve bireyleri Dr. G.N. Saibaba’nın direnişine destek vermesi için bulundukları alanlarda dayanışma kampanyalar örgütlemeye çağırıyoruz!
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Naxalites Kill CRPF Commandant In Landmine Attack In Sukma District
Sukma District, November 29: The Assistant Commandant of the Central Reserve Police Force has been killed and seven other soldiers injured in a landmine blast in Naxal-affected Sukma district of Chhattisgarh state. On Sunday, Inspector General of Police of Bastar region, Sundararaj P, said that Naxalites detonated a landmine in a forest near Tadmetla village under Chintalnar police station area of Sukma district. In this incident, Nitin P. Bhalerao, Assistant Commandant of 206 Cobra Battalion of CRPF was killed and seven other soldiers were injured. Earlier on Saturday night, the police had informed about the injuries of five soldiers in this incident.
Sundararaj told, “CRPF personnel were sent to patrol in Chintalnar area. The security forces personnel were in the forest of Tadmetla village at around 8.30 pm on Saturday, when the Naxalites detonated a landmine. Eight people, including assistant commandant Bhalerao, were injured in the incident. “They said that there was no information about firing during the incident.”
Inspector General of Police said that on Saturday, five soldiers were injured in the incident. Later it was learned that three other jawans were also injured in this incident. He said that after getting information about the incident, the injured jawans were taken out of the jungle by helicopter and they were sent to Raipur for treatment.
Sundararaj said that the Assistant Commandant has died from his injuries, and that seven other injured soldiers are being treated in a private hospital in Raipur. A police official said that the operation against the Naxalites involved in the incident is going on in the area.
CPI Maoist Posters Surface In Visakhapatnam and Kalahandi Districts During Run Up To PLGA Week
Visakhapatnam District, November 29: Ahead of the CPI (Maoist) People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) week, scheduled from December 2 to 8, posters allegedly surfaced in Visakhapatnam district on Sunday.
The posters, issued in the name of CPI (Maoist) Visakha East-Division Committee, were pasted on the walls at Maddigaruvu and other areas in G Madugula mandal.
The CPI (Maoist) conveyed through the posters that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the PLGA week and appealed to the tribals to participate in week-long celebrations and make it a success. The Maoists also appealed to the tribal youth to join the PLGA.
It may be remembered that since the year 2000, the Maoists have been observing the PLGA week from December 2 to 8, to condemn the killing of three Central Committee Members of the party, namely Seelam Naresh, Nalla Adi Reddy and Yerramreddy Santosh Reddy, by the security forces in Koyyuru forest in Karimnagar district of Telangana, on December 2, 1999.
During the PLGA Week, the Maoists hold meetings in villages and offer tributes to the red rebels who were killed in police encounters.
Kalahandi District, November 27: CPI (Maoist) posters surfaced in Phuladumera village of Trilochanpur panchayat under Bijepur police limits in Kalahandi district on Friday.
Phuladumera village is located at the foot of Niyamgiri hill. On Friday the residents there discovered CPI (Maoist) posters put up throughout their village.
The Banshadhara-Ghumusar-Nagamali division of the CPI (Maoist) is opposed to the construction of a road at the foot of Niyamgiri hill. The party, which is said to be active in the Niyamgiri area but has not carried out any actions recently, has once again made its presence felt.
The CPI (Maoist) has also urged the population to observe it’s annual People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army Week, beginning December 2.
The last time the Odisha Police’s Special Operations Group jawans engaged in a gunfight with the PLGA was September 9. During that encounter two jawans were killed.
India saw one of the biggest nationwide strikes by workers, joined by protesting farmers today. Several states saw a complete shutdown. Over 250 million workers across sectors participated in the strike, called by 10 central trade unions and hundreds of worker associations and federations.
Kerala, Puducherry, Odisha, Assam and Telangana witnessed a complete shutdown while normal life was partially affected in several other states as workers struck work and took to the streets, protesting against the “anti-worker” and pro-corporate policies and labour laws as well as the new farm laws brought in by the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata party government, among other demands.
“The states of Kerala, Puducherry, Odisha, Assam and Telangana have reported complete shut down. Tamil Nadu reported complete shut down in 13 districts, while the industrial strike continues in the rest of the districts. Punjab and Haryana have reported that the state road transport buses have not left their depots in the morning,” a joint statement issued by the trade unions said.
Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh reported 100% strike, including at BALCO, the statement said.
The joint platform incudes Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC), Trade Union Co-ordination Centre (TUCC) and Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) , Labour Progressive Federation (LPF) and United Trade Union Congress (UTUC).
The strike saw stoppage of work in banks, financial services, various government services, transport, steel units, port and docks, telecommunication services, plantations, power generating units, coal and other mines, oil and natural gas production units, and millions of other miscellaneous industries. Government offices, railways, post and telegraph services and scores of other government offices are also likely to be affected as employees will hold solidarity demonstrations. Several lakh women working as Anganwadi workers/helpers, healthcare workers, mid-day meal cooks and those employed in other government run schemes have also gone on strike.
“Reports of successful strike in coal and copper mines, including other mineral resource mines, have been received. The employees of postal, telecom and steel sector were also in action and gramin dak sevaks observed 100 per cent strike,” the statement said.
Farmers from across the country also marched to Delhi in protest against the new corporate-friendly farm laws and in solidarity with workers, braving arrests, teargas, water cannons and numerous barricades on the way, especially in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh .
Almost five million labours from different sections including local government, union government, port, private companies, railway, anganwadi, banks in Maharashtra participated in the strike. This was the biggest strike in recent times.
Work in factories, refineries, banks, transport sector in Assam came to a standstill as workers, including in several tea gardens in Upper Assam participated in the strike. In Jorhat district, Jogibheta tea garden, Hindubari tea garden, Monomoi tea garden and Damayanti tea garden, workers organised protests and PM Modi’s effigy burning.
Among the places where picketing was reported since early morning were Digboi refinery, Guwahati refinery, India Carbon, Assam Carbon, Assam Asbestos etc. The Noonmati area, which has over 3,000 workers, joined the strike. Massive protests were also seen in Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited, ONGC Silchar and other small scale industries in Assam. – Sandipan Talukdar
In Tamil Nadu the strike was near complete in banking, insurance, BSNL, Salem Steel Plant BHEL, Thoothukudi VOC Port and Bharat Petroleum bottling plant. Government employees, employees of cooperative societies, local administration department and anganwadi workers participated in large numbers in the strike and demonstrations.
G Sukumaran, general secretary of Tamil Nadu unit of CITU said, “The strike saw massive participation from workers across various sectors against the policies pursued by the BJP government. More than 50,000 people were detained across the state with huge participation of women workers as well”.
Narendra Rao, general secretary of Water Transport Workers Federation of India (WTWFI) said, “The workers of major ports across the country took part in the strike while we withdrew the strike in Chennai port. We reiterate our demands on scrapping the Major Ports Act, 2020, withdrawal of New Stevedoring policy and the new pension scheme”.
Work in Salem Steel Plant came to a standstill as 98% of the employees participated in the strike. Panneer Selvam, president of SPEU said, “The employees of the SSP have resolved to defeat all privatisation moves carried out by the Union government.” –Neelambaran A
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana saw massive campaigns among workers across sectors against the new labour laws.
Saibabu, Telangana state general secretary of CITU said there was complete strike in public sector units, including Bharat Electronics Limited, Bharat Dynamics Ltd, Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd among others.
“Among private entities, industries located around Hyderabad across Patancheru, Cherlapalli, Medchal and Sangareddy saw thousands of organised sector workers boycotting work and joined protest demonstrations,” he said.
Over 40,000 coal workers across units of the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd in Kothagudem, Bellampalli and Ramagundam too joined the strike, including contract and outsourced workers.
In the construction sector, “about 3 lakh construction workers, 2.5 lakh hamalis (loading and unloading workers) and about three lakh beedi workers have stopped work on Thursday,” said Paladugu Bashkar of CITU.
In Andhra Pradesh, despite Cyclone Nivar causing heavy rainfall, “response to the general strike has been overwhelming,” CH Narasinga Rao, Andhra Pradesh CITU president said.
PSUs in Visakhapatnam including steel plant, shipyard, Bharat Heavy Electronics Limited, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Visakha Port, Dockyards, Indian Oil Corporation, Dredging Corporation of India, National Thermal Power Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited were completely shut down except for essential purposes. “Over 90% workers in Adani Group’s Krishnapatnam port in Nellore stopped their work as part of the general strike,” said Rao. – Prudhviraj Rupawat
Thousands of people took to streets and staged protests in Bihar during the nationwide general. Employees of banks, insurance, income tax ,BSNL along with contractual employees of the health,e ducation and other department of the state government participated in the strike that badly hit the work in offices and in the field.
Employees of about 5,127 bank branches sans SBI in Bihar remained on strike.
“It was a complete strike in banks as employees of Bihar Gramin banks and Cooperative banks also joined us.We have protested against privatisation of public sector banks by the centre”, D N Trivedi,a leader of All India Bank Officers Association said.
More than 15 million workers in Kerala along with farmers took part in the nationwide strike affecting normal life, barring essential services.
“Few states have proposed 12-hour work day. The government wants to reinstate enchained working system,” said state CITU president Anathalavattam Anandan, adding that the workers won’t allow the governments to exploit them.
The general strike saw participation of unions and associations from all sections including banking, insurance, public sector undertakings, scheme workers- including ASHAs, Anganwadi Workers- plantation, motor vehicle, unorganized sectors etc.
The employees from private finances and non-banking sectors, also joined under the banner of Non-Banking and Private finance Employees Association. The employees from BPCL, Manappuram Finance, Muthoot finance and other firms also held protests.
The strike witnessed a significant support among the workers in the satellite cities of the national capital; Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad.
The workers of the industrial units in Noida marched in Sector-2 and 8, Botanical Garden, Hosiery complex, Eco Third area and peacefully dispersed following the coronavirus guidelines.
Gangeshwar Dutt Sharma, Secretary, Noida CITU, said “trade unions, for long, have been demanding a liveable salary for factory workers. Currently, factory workers in Noida are being paid only Rs 8,400 as minimum salary.”
Sharma said workers’ anger was also against rampant privatisation of public sector undertaking that was snatching away employment.
Narendra Nath Pandey, Treasurer, Rehri Patri Karmakar Union affiliated to CITU, in Greater Noida said workers are being consistently fired from jobs after the nationwide lockdown was announced.
Roma Sharma, a street vendor at the March said that she has lost her confidence in the central government after it passed labour codes without consulting workers or their organisations. “We had no other option but to hit the street and we did it today.”
CITU West Bengal Committee secretary Anadi Sahoo and INTUC State President Kamrujjmann said 90% of Central government employees joined the strike while 60 -70% state government employees participated.
In military engineering services, 85% workers participated and ordinance factories saw only 20% attendance .
There was ‘huge ‘response in the jute, tea, coal steel and small and medium iron-based industries, too, the unions said.
The strike was also effective in Kolkata Port, cement, banking, wholesale markets and among medical representatives.
About 70% of vehicular traffic in Kolkata was off roads and picketing and blockades on suburban Railway lines were reported.
In Dumdum and Garia there were reports of skirmishes with police as well as in Jadavpur too.
The Police and administration had taken tough measures to foil the strike as the ruling Trinamool Congress did not supporting the workers and farmers strike, while backing the issues raised. – Sandip Chakraborty
Owing to the imposition of Section 144 in the various districts of State in a view of COVID-19 guidelines and cancellation of permission for rallies and processions, the nation-wide general strike got a lukewarm response in Madhya Pradesh.
Out of 52 districts, the strike got support in nearly 25-30 districts including Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Sagar, Damoh, Dhar in various sectors and workers and labourers of the various trade unions and factories registered their disappointment and boycotted the work for the first couple of hours.
Madhya Pradesh farmers who were on their way to Delhi to picket Parliament have also been stopped on Agra-Delhi National Highway 2. Social activist Medha Patkar, CPI(M) leader Jaswinder Singh who were marching towards Delhi with the farmer’s convoy had been stopped from entering Delhi.
The strike was effective in banks, coal mines of of Singrauli, Anupur, Shahdol, Umaria, Baitul and Chhindwara districts and Cement plants of Rewa and Satna districts where 65-70 % of the workers either remain absent or boycotted the half-day work.
In nearly 20 districts including Sagar, Damoh, Panna, Chhattarpur, Indore the private buses and loading trucks were off the road till 12 pm, claimed trade unions.
Various factories of Special Economic Zones including Govindpura Industrial Area, Mandideep, Malanpur, Pithampura and Defense factories of Jabalpur and Itarsi remain closed for half-day in support of the strike. Aganwadi, ASHA-USHA workers, Krishi Upaj Mandis labourers and medical representatives also extended their support and carried out protests despite the imposition of section 144.—Kashif Kakvi
Jammu and Kashmir saw a huge participation of workers in support of the national general strike called jointly by 10 central trade unions. Hundreds of workers gathered in protest at Press Clubs, of Jammu division and Kashmir division, respectively.
Raja, a migrant labourer from Bihar in Jammu, who works as a casual labourer with Border Roads Organisation said since 2016, they are working even on Sundays with no payment for extra work.
“Are these good days that Modi ji had promised? By keeping us empty stomach,” he said.
Slogans like Inqilab Zindabad, Lal Jab Aayega, Inqalab Laayega, Hamari Maange Poori Karo, rent the air as Anganwadi workers joined the strike, too.
In Chenab valley including Kishtwar, Doda, Ramban, workers had picketed outside their work stations. Jai Lal Parihar, CITU leader from Kishtwar, said the primary demand of workers were minimum wages.
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Jharkhand State, November 10: Indian Railway has issued an alert to Jharkhand Police about possible attacks by CPI (Maoist) cadres on railway installation and infrastructure in the wake of ‘Khuni Kranti Saptah’ observed by the Maoist party.
Every year the CPI (Maoist) organize ‘Khuni Kranti Saptah’ from November 9 to November 15 to commemorate the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, during which it’s armed wing (PLGA) targets police, railway and other government installations.
Sources in the railway said that senior officials of the railway too have been briefed about the security protocols to be observed during operation of trains.
“Intelligence inputs suggest that rebels are observing Khunti Kranti Saptah in their stronghold area. Railway being their soft target the possibility of destructive and subversive activities on railway infrastructure can’t be ruled out. In the light of the above findings we have sent an intelligence alert to Jharkhand Police whereas Government Railway Police and Railway Protection Force will also remain alert,” a senior official of railway said.
Meanwhile, Jharkhand police have also issued specific alerts and security has been tightened in the Naxal affected train routes like Parasnath to Chichaki, Gajhandi to Pahadpur, Gomia to Karmahat and Tokisud to Barwadih where the CPI (Maoist) have a sizable presence.
On these routes patrolling has been intensified to ensure safety and security of rail track, railway underpass and likes.
Other than the railway, security has been increased in the Maoist hit pockets in the districts like Latehar, Lohardaga, Simdega, Gadhwa, Dumka, Palamu, Saraikela Kharswan, Gumla, Chatra, Hazaribagh and others.
Two Police Critically Injured During Ambush By CPI Maoist Cadres In Lohardaga District
Lohardaga (Jharkhand), October 30: Two police personnel were critically injured during an ambush by armed cadres of the CPI (Maoist) in Jharkhand’s Lohardaga district on Friday, police said.
During a search operation in Shahi Ghat area, Maoists exploded an IED and fired upon a police team, in which two personnel were critically injured, a senior officer said.
The policemen returned fire at the Maoists, following which they escaped into the dense forest, Lohardaga Sub-divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Jitendra Kumar Singh told PTI.
The injured police personnel Upendra Singh and Arvind Pandey were airlifted and admitted to a hospital in Ranchi, he said.
Additional police forces and CRPF personnel have been deployed in the area and a search operation is underway, the officer added.
ITBP Jawan Injured By IED Blast Triggered By Naxalites In Narayanpur District
Narayanpur District, October 30: One Indo-Tibetan border police officer has been injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxalites in Narayanpur district while on a search operation where a sudden explosion occurred. However, it is reported that it was a minor blast and not much loss has been inflicted on the police force.
This is not the first time such an incident of attack has occurred in the Naxalite areas as previously, it has been noted that the Maoists were responsible for an attack at a camp of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force in the restive Bastar region of Chhattisgarh a few years ago, with no casualty or injury to anyone on the ITBP side.
Press Conference Invite Wednesday, 21.10.2020 12.00 noon via ZOOM
Political Parties & Eminent persons will jointly address this press conference : • to condemn the illegal arrests of 16 activists implicated in the Bhima Koregaon Conspiracy Case • to demand the release of all the arrested prisoners • and against the brazen misuse of the UAPA against dissentors.
Dear Madam / Sir,
There was nationwide outrage over the recent arrest in Ranchi by the NIA of 83 year old Father Stan Swamy, on 8th October, 2020, in the Bhima Koregaon case. Despite him being a patient of Parkinson’s disease and suffering other health problems, he is now in jail. Similarly writer and poet Sh. Varavara Rao, 80 years has been languishing in Jail for more than two years. Despite being seriously ill and having suffered COVID and subsequent hospitalisation, even bail is being denied to him. Apart from these two, there are five others currently incarcerated in this case who are senior citizens being held without any role in the criminal conspiracy of the Bhima Koregaon violence that happened on 1st January, 2018.
A total of 16 people have been arrested under the UAPA in this case, which include the recently arrested 3 cultural activists of the Kabir Kala Manch (KKM), Ramesh Gaichor, Sagar Ghogre and Jyoti Jagtap, as well as thinker, writers and academics Anand Teltumbde, Gautam Navlakha, Shoma Sen, Hany Baby, lawyers, Sudha Bharadwaj, Surendra Gadling, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, who are all also trade unionists, and activists Sudhir Dhawale, Mahesh Raut and Rona Wilson, who are all being held in prison in this completely fabricated and motivated case.
This Press conference has been organized by PUCL to condemn the role of investigating agencies in carrying out these illegal arrests, to highlight the humanitarian crisis and misuse of UAPA to criminalise dissent and to demand the release of all 16 activists arrested in this case.
It will be addressed by the following members of political parties and civil society representatives : 1. Mr. Hemant Soren, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Jharkhand. 2. Mr. Sitaram Yechury, Ex-MP, General Secretary, CPI(M). 3. Mr. D. Raja, MP (Rajya Sabha), General Secretary, CPI. 4. Ms. Supriya Sule, MP (Lok Sabha), NCP. 5. Ms. Kanimozhi, MP (Lok Sabha), DMK. 6. Mr. Shashi Tharoor, MP (Lok Sabha), INC.
7. Prof. Jean Dreze, Eminent economist. 8. Fr. Dr. Marianus Kujur, Director, XISS, Ranchi. 9. Ms. Dayamani Barla, well known tribal rights activist. 10. Mr. Mihir Desai, Senior Advocate, Bombay HC and Vice President, PUCL. 11. Ms. Rupali Jadhav, Kabir Kala Manch.
The ZOOM link to the call which will start sharp at 1200 pm (noon) on Wednesday, 21st October, 2020 is:The ZOOM link to the call which will start sharp at 1200 pm (noon) on Wednesday, 21st October, 2020 is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84413261787?pwd=Z25URE9MNlFTQW1OQXl1KzVsSHp1QT09
Meeting ID: 844 1326 1787 Passcode: 247523
We request you to send a reporter to cover the Press Conference. Regards, Dr. V. Suresh, General Secretary, (9444231497) For more details please contact: Kavita Srivastava, National Secretary, 9351562965 Mihir Desai, Vice President, 9821138056 V Suresh, General Secretary, 9444231497
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