The 14th of april 2012 "Jan Myrdals great award, the Lenin award" was handed out in a theatre in Varberg, Sweden. Individuals from different countries and mostly from different parts of of Sweden came for the celebration. Many of participants stayed at Hotell Gästis in central Varberg which have a lot of interesting arts, a library with revolutionary litterature and a beautiful pool, called the "Lenin bath". At the hotel we where very happy to be able to interview the joint secretary of Revolutionary Democratic Front of India, G.N.Saibaba. 

Indiensolidaritet, Sweden, 28/8 -2012

Interview with G.N.Saibaba in Varberg Sweden, 14-15th april 2012
(The transcript of the interview is checked by Saibaba)

Indiensolidaritet: Can you say something about the political work you do in India?
 
Saibaba: I work for an organization called Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF). It is a federation of revolutionary mass organizations working among different oppressed classes and sections of the Indian society. Revolutionary students’ and youth organisations, revolutionary peasants’ organisations, revolutionary workers’ organisations, revolutionary cultural organisations as well revolutionary womans’ organisations from different regions across India are constituents of RDF. Thus RDF is a large network of revolutionary organisations reaching out to all sections and strata of the society.
From the year 2009 onwards began the Operation Green Hunt, the Indian state’s genocidal war on the poorest of the poor in India. All of us in our organization RDF work with other parties, groups, democratic organisations and individuals to raise our voice collectively and unitedly against the present military onslaught on the people and the extermination campaign against the people of India. We see this massive military operation as a continuation and the latest addition in the war waged by India’s ruling classes against the people of the subcontinent for last many decades – be it in Kashmir, North East, Punjab, and now in central and eastern India. So we are at one level involved in the basic struggles of the people and at another we are working along with a large network of political forces and carrying out a countrywide campaign against Indian state’s anti-people policies, particularly Operation Green Hunt. 
 
IndiensolidaritetThe way we see it, there are two lines regarding solidarity work in Europe. One line is trying to unite people on an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal basis and another one focuses more on Maoism. What do you think about this?