Mahendra Karma's Annihilation - CPI Maoist statement

Elimination of fascist Salwa Judum leader Mahendra Karma: Legitimate response to the inhuman atrocities, brutal murders and endless terror perpetrated on the Adivasis of Bastar!

Attack on top Congress leaders: Inevitable reprisal to the fascist Operation Green Hunt being carried on by the UPA government hand in glove with various state governments!

On May 25, 2013, a detachment of the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army conducted a massive attack on the 20 plus vehicles convoy of Congress party which resulted in wiping out of at least 27 Congress leaders, activists and policemen including Mahendra Karma, the bitter enemy of the oppressed people of Bastar and Nand Kumar Patel, president of the Congress’ state unit. It took place when the Congress party leaders were touring in Bastar region as part of their ‘Parivartan Yatra’ program (i.e. March of Change) keeping their eye on forthcoming assembly elections. At least 30 others also were injured in this attack including ex-central minister and veteran Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla. The dog’s death of Mahendra Karma, notorious tyrant, murderer, rapist, robber and maligned as corrupt, in this historic attack has created a festive atmosphere in entire Bastar region. Former state home minister Nand Kumar Patel was also had the history of suppressing the people. It was in his tenure, paramilitary force (CRPF) was deployed in Bastar region for the first time. It was also not hidden from anyone that the former central minister VC Shukla who had been in various portfolios including Home ministry, was also a people’s enemy who had acted as a loyal servant of imperialists, comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and landlords and had played a key role in formulating and implementing exploitative government policies. 

The goal of this attack was mainly to eliminate Mahendra Karma and some other reactionary Congress top leaders as well. However, during this massive attack some innocent people and some lower level Congress party activists who were in fact not our enemies, were also killed and injured caught in the two-hour long gun battle that ensued between our guerrilla forces and the armed police forces. Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of Communist Party of India (Maoist) regrets for this and expresses condolence and sympathy to the families of the bereaved.

Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of Communist Party of India (Maoist) takes absolute responsibility for this attack. We send our revolutionary greetings to the PLGA commanders who led this daring ambush, to the red fighters who contributed in this success, to the people who took part in it by lending active support and to the entire revolutionary masses of Bastar region. This attack has once again proved the historic fact that those fascists who perpetrate violence, atrocities and massacres on the people, will never be forgiven and they would inevitably be punished by the people.

The so-called tribal leader Mahendra Karma was born into a feudal manjhi family. Both his grandfather Masa Karma and father Bodda Manjhi were notorious harassers of the people in their times and were acted as trusted agents of colonial rulers. His family’s entire history is known of inhuman exploitation and oppression of Adivasis. Mahendra Karma’s political life was started in 1975 as a member of AISF while he was studying the law. He was elected as MLA from CPI first in 1978. Later in 1981, when he was denied ticket by CPI, he joined Congress. In 1996, he had gone with a breakaway faction of Madhavrao Scindhia and became member of Indian Parliament as an independent candidate. Later he rejoined the Congress party.

In 1996, a massive movement took place in Bastar demanding the implementation of Sixth Schedule. Though mainly CPI had led that movement, our party – it was CPI (ML) [People’s War] then – also took active part in that movement mobilizing the masses on a large scale. But Mahendra Karma took bitter stand against that movement proving himself as representative of the selfish urban business people, who had come to Bastar as settlers and had accumulated massive wealth. Then only his anti-adivasi and pro-comprador nature was clearly exposed before the people. Since the 1980s, he had strengthened the bonds with big business and capitalist classes in Bastar.

Then in 1999, Karma’s name was exposed in a big scam called ‘Malik Makbuja’. A Lokayukta report revealed that in the period of 1992-96, Mahendra Karma hand in glove with timber black-marketers had made millions of rupees by cheating adivasi people and colluding with revenue and forest officials and the district collector. Though a CBI probe was ordered into this scam, nothing harm was done to the culprits as always happen.

Mahendra Karma was minister of jails in undivided Madhya Pradesh. Later became industries and commerce minister in Ajit Jogi’s government when Chhattisgarh state was carved out of it.  At that time a forceful land acquisition took place in Nagarnar for the proposed steel plant by Romelt/NMDC. While the local people refused to give up their lands, Mahendra Karma took stand against the people and in favor of the capitalists. He played a key role in forcibly taking away the lands by suppressing the people with support of brutal police force. The people who lost their lands in Nagarnar received neither compensation nor the employment as government had promised till now. They were forced to disperse.

From the very beginning, Mahendra Karma stood as an arch enemy of the revolutionary movement. The reason is clear – hailed from a typical feudal family and ‘grown up’ as an agent of big business and bourgeois classes. The firstJan Jagaran (‘awareness’) campaign was launched in 1990-91 against the revolutionary movement. The revisionist CPI had participated in that counter-revolutionary campaign. Karma and many of his relatives belonged to the landlord classes had actively participated in it. The second Jan Jagaran campaign was launched in 1997-98 led by Mahendra Karma himself. This was started in Mahendra Karma’s own village Faraspal and its surrounding villages and spread up to Bhairamgarh and Kutru areas. Hundreds of people were tortured and arrested and sent to jails. Many an incidents of looting and setting fire to houses took place. Womenfolk were raped. However, under the leadership of our party and mass organizations people came together and strongly countered this counter-revolutionary onslaught. Within a short time, this campaign was defeated.

Later the revolutionary movement became more consolidated. Anti-feudal struggles were intensified in many areas. Landlords like Podia Patel, the brother of Mahendra Karma, and some close relatives of him were killed as part of mass resistance actions. In many villages the power of feudal forces and bad gentry was thrown out and the process of establishment of People’s Revolutionary Power organs began. The feudal forces including Mahendra Karma were very furious as their lands were redistributed among the poor and landless peasants and the customs like unjustly forcing the people to pay penalties to the landlords were stopped. They opposed the progressive changes like stopping of forced marriages of women, discouraging polygamy etc. also. And at the same time, the revolutionary movement was seemed as a hurdle by the corporate houses like Tatas and Essars who started their attempts to plunder away the natural resources of Bastar region. So, they naturally colluded with the counter-revolutionary elements like Mahendra Karma. They fed him with millions of coffers in order to create conducive atmosphere for their arbitrary depredations. On the other hand, after the emergence of CPI (Maoist) as a country-wide consolidated party as an outcome of the merger between the genuine revolutionary organizations, exploitative ruling classes intensified their counter-revolutionary onslaught in the guidance of the imperialists so as to crush the revolutionary movement. Thus, a brutal attack in connivance with the Congress and the BJP has started in Bastar region namely ‘Salwa Judum’. So many followers and relatives of Mahendra Karma like Soyam Muka, Rambhuvan Kushwaha, Ajay Singh, Vikram Mandavi, Gannu Patel, Madhukarrao, and Gota Chinna etc. emerged as key leaders of Salwa Judum.

One can hardly find any examples in the history to compare the severity of the devastation and barbarity caused by Salwa Judum to the lives of the Bastar people. It killed more than one thousand people in cold blood; torched 640 villages into ashes, robbed thousands of houses; ate or took away chickens, goats, pigs, etc.; forced more than two million people to be displaced; dragged more than 50 thousand people into state-run ‘relief’ camps. Thus the Salwa Judum became anathema to the people. Hundreds of women were gang raped. Many women were murdered after rape. Massacres took place in many places. The atrocities perpetrated on the people and havoc created by the hooligans of Salwa Judum, the police and paramilitary forces, especially the Naga and Mizo battalions crossed all limits. There were several incidents in which people were brutally cut into pieces before being dumped in rivers. Cherli, Kotrapal, Mankeli, Karremarka, Mosla, Munder, Padeda, Paralnar, Pumbad, Gaganpalli... in many villages people were killed en masse. Hundreds of tribal youth were recruited as SPOs and were turned into hardened criminals. Mahendra Karma himself led the attacks on several villages in the name of conducting meetings and marches. Many women were raped by the goons with the direct instigation of Mahendra Karma. He was directly involved in many incidents of burning the villages, torturing and murdering the people. Thus, in the minds of the people of Bastar, Mahendra Karma remained as an inhuman killer, rapist, dacoit and a loyal broker of the big capitalists. In entire Bastar people have been demanding our party and the PLGA for many years that he must be punished. Many of them came forward voluntarily to give active support in this task. There were also a few attempts, but due to petty mistakes and other reasons he was able to escape.

With this action we have taken revenge of over a thousand adivasis who were brutally murdered in the hands of Salwa Judum goons and government armed forces. We also have taken revenge on behalf of those hundreds of mothers and sisters who were subjected to cruelest forms of violence, humiliation and sexual assault. We have taken revenge on behalf of the thousands of Bastarites who lost their homes, cattle, chickens, goats, bald, pottery, clothing, grain, crops ... everything and were forced to live a miserable life in subhuman conditions.

Immediately after this attack, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh etc. dubbed this as an attack on democracy and democratic values. One wonders whether these pet dogs of exploiter classes have any moral qualification even to take the name of democracy! Of late, on May 17, when eight people including three innocent children were killed by police and paramilitary forces in Edsametta village of Bijapur district, then why did none of these leaders bother to think about ‘democracy’? Between January 20 to 23, when villages named Doddi Tumnar and Pidiya of Bijapur district were attacked by your forces who torched 20 houses and a school house run by the people, did your ‘democracy’ flourish there? Exactly 11 months ago, on the night of June 28, 2012 in Sarkinguda village, 17 adivasis were slaughtered and 13 women were gang raped.  Were those incidents a part of your ‘democratic values’? Does your ‘democracy’ only applicable to the mass murderers like Mahendra Karma and ruling class agents like Nand Kumar Patel? Whether the poor adivasis of Bastar, the elderly, children and the women come under the umbrella of your ‘democracy’ or not? Are the massacres of adivasis a part of your ‘democracy’? Do any of those who are shouting loudly against this attack have any answer for these questions?

By the end of 2007, Salwa Judum was defeated by the resistance of the masses. Then in 2009, Congress-led UPA-2 has unleashed a countrywide offensive by name Operation Green Hunt (OGH). The US imperialists are not only giving guidance and help and support, but by deploying their special forces in India they also are actively participating in counter-insurgency operations. They are giving emphasis on killing the Maoist leadership. The Union government has so far sent more than 50 thousand paramilitary forces to Chhattisgarh as part of ongoing OGH, i.e. ‘War on People’. As a result, there has been manifold increase in massacres and destruction. 400 adivasis were killed by central and state armed forces here in Bastar so far since 2009. From mid-2011, Army troops have been creating bases in Bastar region in the name of setting up ‘training schools’. Both Chidambaram and Shinde, the former and present home ministers, including PM Manmohan Singh have been eagerly rendering all support to the Chhattisgarh government and expressing full satisfaction over Raman Singh government’s performance in crushing revolutionary movement. Raman Singh too has been expressing his gratitude on every occasion for Centre’s help. Therefore, in Chhattisgarh, there are no differences between ruling BJP and opposition Congress in terms of policies of suppressing the revolutionary movement. Only due to public pressure, as well as to gain electoral benefits, some of the local leaders of the Congress at times came in condemnation of incidents like Sarkinguda and Edsametta massacres. Their opposition is sham which is nothing more than opportunism. Both Congress and BJP are same in implementing corporate friendly and oppressive policies. The frequent penetration of Greyhounds forces across the Chhattisgarh borders from Andhra Pradesh, and the mass murders it committed first in Kanchal (2008) and recently in Puwwarti (May 16, 2013) are part and parcel of the oppressive policies adopted and implemented by Congress party. That's why we have targeted top leaders of Congress.

Today, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar, Ministers Ramvichar Netam, Kedar Kashyap, Vikram Usendi, Governor Shekhar Dutt, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil etc.; DGP Ram Niwas, ADG Mukesh Gupta and other senior officials of the police, who are hell-bent on crushing the revolutionary movement of Dandakaranya, are in the big illusion that they are unbeatable. Mahendra Karma also has kept the illusion that Z plus Security and bullet-proof vehicles would save him forever. In the history of the world, Hitler and Mussolini were in the same pride that no one could beat them. In the contemporary history of our country, the fascists like Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi also were victims of similar misgivings. But the People are invincible. People only are the makers of the history. Ultimately, a handful of exploiters and a few of their pet dogs will only be thrown in the dustbin of the history.

Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of Communist Party of India (Maoist) calls upon the workers, peasants, students, intellectuals, writers, artists, media persons and all other democrats to demand the governments to stop the OGH immediately; to withdraw all kinds of paramilitary forces from Dandakaranya; to give up the conspiracy of deploying the Army in the name of ‘training’; to put an end to the interference of Air Force; to release all the revolutionary activists and ordinary adivasis languishing in various jails immediately; to scrap the cruel laws like UAPA, CSPSA, MACOCA, AFSPA, etc.; to cancel the all those MoUs signed with the corporate houses with the aim of plundering the natural wealth of the country.

(Gudsa Usendi) 

Spokesperson Dandakaranya 

Special Zonal Committee CPI (Maoist) 

(This is translated and slightly abridged version of Hindi original)

Source : Banned Thought

On the 'Rise and Fall of Maoism'

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Posted by Ed Thompson on Monday, 20 May 2013 in Theory

                                                                                                                                                                   'I listened to this audio presentation by Tithi Bhattacharya and I'd like to respond to some points.

The overall thesis is that Maoist politics are defunct, and that they replace the emancipation of the working class by the working class itself with guerrilla units leading a guerrilla war.

Ms. Bhattacharya assumes that “in a conflict between a guerrilla army and a fully functioning state, it is not a mystery who will win”.

Is it? Guerrilla warfare has developed for hundreds of years, from Spanish resistance to the Roman invasion onwards. It can in fact win out, so long as it remains connected to the people's struggle, as the people themselves are the ones who carry it out.

But further, the idea that guerrilla warfare was the most that Maoists have accomplished is equally false. The Chinese didn't defeat the KMT and the Japanese soley by relying on guerrilla units. They had a standing and well disciplined military force in the millions that fought pitched battles, using aircraft, artillery and everything available to them. 

Ms. Bhattacharya essentially blames the Naxalites for the brutality of the Indian state, calling the Indian state's butchery as evidence of the failure of 'Maoist politics'. She consistently portrays Maoists as bloodthirsty criminals who “rule the regions...at the point of their guns”.

By the end of it, I was baffled. Ms. Bhattacharya goes on to claim that Maoism is the reason why the Indian left is isolationist, and even fails to develop an internationalist politics. Considering that Maoist politics spread throughout Asia, in South America and Africa, it is unclear where the evidence is for this claim. She also used Prachanda as an example of a “ Maoist leader”, completely ignoring the divisions and contest within the Nepalese communists that consider Prachanda and his 'path' as revisionist. Although this presentation was from 2012, the political divisions between Prachanda and others in Nepal have been developing clearly for some time.

The speaker conflates 'party' with an anti-proletarian organization, assuming what amounts to a charge of 'authoritarianism' of the party over the proletariat, instead of a unity of the proletarian with the party. This is further demonstrated in the argument that 'all that stands in the way between the Adivasi and the mining corporations is the armed Maoist guerrilla.'The mistake here, and note it well, is the absence of any discussion of Protracted Peoples War.

The current struggle by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a protracted peoples war. The whole purpose of this is to use the military engagements, the military organization to transform the tribal societies not only into fighting units against the Indian state, but for the people themselves to be leading this struggle. The CPI-M cadre are facilitators, trainers in this fight, but not the primary people on the front lines. The point of this is that the people, by leading the war, lead themselves, emancipate themselves. This is to develop 'dual power', or the emergence of an alternative state apparatus to the Indian state. The resulting military organization develops sophisticated tribal associations, peoples justice, etc.

So the charge that the party is somehow denying or controlling the Adivasi people, which is what Ms. Bhattacharya's argument really amounts to, is not only ludicrous, but outright offensive to the people on the front lines. The Adivasi are not some helpless ignorant tribal mass: they have embraced these politics as their own. It should be stressed that the actual leadership of the CPI-M includes Adivasi people.

But why are military means being used in the first place? Although Ms. Bhattacharya consdiers Mao's quote that "political power grows from the barrel of a gun" as some ultra-leftist phrase mongering, the fact remains that in places like Chhattisgarh, to speak of revolution is to speak a death wish. It is the conditions that necessitate military struggle and political struggle becoming realized in unity. It is hardly ultra-left to recognize that military conflict is an essential component to the proletarian revolution. Put another way by Clausewitz (who both Lenin and Mao studied intensely) “War is politics by other means”.

I guess, I'm baffled by what is seen as the alternative? Were the people not supposed to use military engagement to overthrow the monarchy in Nepal? Or as A.Roy puts it, if non-violence is essentially theatre, who is going to applaud a hunger strike in the middle of a jungle?

The most that the speaker's arguments amount to is that the Maoists are somehow denying agency of the poor, and trying to use them into some sort of “bloodbath” fight against the Indian state. This just simply isn't the case.

My last point. The crux of the argument against Maoist politics was the charge that Mao's political theories were essentially theories of failure, that after the CCP lost the cities, the tactical maneuvers necessary to save themselves (going to the peasantry, forming red base areas, etc) were elevated to a matter of new-found principle.

This sounds reasonable at first. But although the speaker doesn't consider the China in the 1920s-1949 semi-colonial or semi-feudal, and thinks by citing the number of workers that went on strike in the 1920s is proof of this, it highlights her misconception of what semi-colonial/semi-feudal means.

Semi-feudalism as a concept wasn't developed by Mao. It comes from Mariátegui. Mao developed this idea further. Mr. MLM Mayhem examines this idea in more detail: here.

Semi-feudalism doesn't mean that there isn't a working class. It instead attempts to grasp the complexities and uneven development of a 'periphery' nation. Periphery meaning outside the centers of imperialist power, able to be controlled by the imperialist powers.

Asia in general had been influenced by, then progressively dominated by, European imperialist power since the 15th century. The idea that Mao's strategy of revolutionizing land relations between peasants and landlord/comprador class only started because the CCP were butcherd by the KMT in the 1920's is silly. Its an essential component to establishing a sovereign nation from imperialist control and was in place well before the outbreak of civil war. Mao's document on classes in Chinese societies was written in 1926, before the Chinese Civil War began, and  Mao's analysis of the peasant class as ally to the proletariat is already present. This was before the move towards red base areas, and thus, the crux of the argument against Maoist politics by the speaker is essentially void.

Although the arguments in this presentation give the impression of serious research, unfortunately the analysis remains superficial. It continues an unfortunate tradition in the left of rhetoric over substance, amounting to a refusal of real political engagement.

editor note: fixed some bad formatting in this article that was causing it to display incorrectly.

India - Chhattisgarh: Naxals kill Salwa Judum founder Mahendra Karma, ex-Congress MLA, 19 others

                 
                                    Picture : Mahendra Karma founder of Salwa Judum

Democracy and Class Struggle says the use of Salwa Judum by the government for anti naxal operations was criticized for its violations of human rights, use of child soldiers and poorly trained uneducated youth for counter-insurgency roles. The militia consisting of local tribal youth receives support and training from the Chhattisgarh state government.  On July 5, 2011, the Supreme Court of India declared the militia as illegal and unconstitutional. The court directed the Chhattisgarh government to recover all the firearms given along with the ammunition and accessories.  It also ordered the government to investigate all instances of alleged criminal activities of Salwa Judum.[3]

Raipur: In one of the deadliest Naxal attacks in Chhattisgarh, at least 21 people including anti-Naxal movement Salwa Judum's founder Mahendra Karma and former Congress MLA Uday Mudliyar were killed on Saturday evening in Darba Ghati Valley of Jagdalpur district.

The attack targeting the Congress party convoy occurred during the Opposition party's Parivartan Yatra and most of those killed were party leaders and workers.

Following the carnage the Naxals also abducted state Congress president Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh Patel. The seriously injured included veteran Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla, MLA Kwasi Lakhma and prominent party worker Gopi Vadhwani, who were rushed to a hospital in Jagdalapur.

The heavily-armed Naxals, numbering several hundred, reportedly opened fire on the Parivartan Yatra when it reached near forested Darba Ghati area on way to Jagdalpur, the police said. The PCC chief and his son were also abducted by the rebels.

At least 30 people were also injured in the attack Chhattisgarh ADG, Intelligence, Mukesh Gupta confirmed that Karma and Mudliyar had been killed while Patel and his son was missing. Gupta added that Shukla had been grievously injured, sustaining three bullet injuries.

What has baffled experts is that Karma was killed despite having 'Z' category security. Ministry of Home Affairs confirmed that at least 21 people have died in the attack. "Close to 30 people are injured. The casualty figure could go up," MHA sources added.

The MHA sources also said that the Congress convoy was targeted in the landmine blast which was followed by continuous firing. A MHA delegation will be travelling to Chhattisgarh on Sunday morning.

An emergency meeting was called at the residence of Chattissgarh CM Raman Singh immediately after the attack.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has offered additional forces to the state for help. The Home Ministry, sources said, was rushing forces to the state to tackle the crisis. Congress President Sonia Gandhi met the PM to discuss the issue while MoS Home RPN Singh said he would visit the state on Sunday.

The Chhattisgarh Congress, on the other hand, has called for a statewide bandh on Sunday in protest.

Chhattisgarh Congress media cell president Shailesh Trivedi, however, said it was matter of investigation whether Naxals were involved in the attack. He alleged that ruling BJP government did not provide adequate security to the Congress' Yatra despite opposition from Naxals.

"Naxals have opposed both BJP's Vikas Yatra and Congress' Parivartan Yatra. However, the state government provided security only to BJP's Yatra and not to the one organised by Congress. Had it been provided security, today's incident would not have happened," he said.

Trivedi said he was trying to contact the party leaders who were part of the Yatra but was unable to do so as the incident occurred in forested area. Congress had launched Parivartan Yatra on April 12 in the state where Assembly elections are due by year end.

Source IBN India

See Also : http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/fresh-massacre-against-indian-natives.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/salwa-judum-has-gone-out-of-control.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/police-link-to-reliance-attackers-salwa.html

RSU Theory - Stalinism

Indian Elections views of Vijay Prasad and Arundhati Roy : Kobad Ghandy on Freedom and Democracy

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.in/

The views of Vijay Prasad and Arundhati Roy contain limited insights into Indian "Democracy"  and are not Marxist Leninist Maoist.

For insights into Marxism Leninism Maoism and Democracy and Freedom visit comrade Kobad Ghandy here :

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/questions-of-freedom-and-peoples.html

Here is the Communist Imagination that our sister Arundhati seems to have missed, that is needed today.

Communism is the return of man himself as a social, i.e. really human being, a complete and conscious return which assimilates all the wealth of previous development. Communism, as a fully developed naturalism, is humanism, and, as a fully developed humanism, is naturalism. 

It is the DEFINITIVE resolution of the antagonism between man and nature, and between man and man. It is the true solution of the conflict between existence and essence, between objectification and self-affirmation, between freedom and necessity, between individual and species. It is the solution of the riddle of history and knows itself to be this solution. —Karl Marx

The Adivasi have the Communist Imagination  of the resolution of the antagonism between man and nature.

CONCENTRATE TOTAL FORCE TO RAISE PREPARATIONS FOR THE OFFENSIVE TO A NEW HEIGHT THROUGH CORRECT HANDLING OF CONTRADICTIONS*

http://cpnmaoist.org/Documents/Detail/187

This meeting of the Politburo has been organized with a view to introduce necessary refinement to the policy & plan for the coming days by making a general review of the political and military situation after the last plenum of the Central Committee (CC), in general, and after the breakdown of ceasefire, in particular.

1. Review of the World Situation

            The analysis and conclusions of the CC (meeting) on 'World Situation' have been all the more relevant and correct today. After the Iraq war, the US imperialism has been, with every passing day, isolated politically and caught in the quagmire of greater crisis militarily. This is getting confirmed not only by the contradictions manifested in the recent United Nations General Assembly meeting and the world conference of the W.T.O. held in Cancun, Mexico, but also by the increasing resistance against US troops even in Iraq and Afghanistan and the bankruptcy of the so-called 'Road Map' for peace in the Middle East. In the background of this crisis its (i.e. the US's) strategy to tighten its hegemony in South Asia is also facing newer problems. In this context, the objectivity of our policy to concentrate ideological, political and military attacks on the US imperialism and the royal military dictatorship surviving on its (i.e. the US's) leftovers has been proved in a grand manner. As a result of the initiative of the (Party) Center on the basis of the above policy, not only our relations with the communist revolutionaries and anti- imperialist masses the world over have been strengthened and expanded but also the diplomatic relations with reactionary forces having different levels of contradictions with the US imperialism are getting expanded. Hence, the Party should stress on to make the implementation of the said evaluation of the world situation and the formulated policy more extensive and effective.

2. Review of the Domestic Political Situation

            The Party has attained a new offensive position politically, due to the flexible tactical stand of making the masses sovereign through a Constituent Assembly and the overall initiative taken for this during the negotiation process. Party's political supremacy has been established not only within the country but also outside along with the declaration of cessation of relevance of ceasefire & negotiations and appeal to go ahead with the resistance (struggle) after the presentation of the retrograde "Concept Paper" by the old state during the third round of negotiation and the massacre at Doramba at the same time. In this whole process the Party has been successful to exercise its strategic firmness and tactical flexibility from a new height.

            The political existence of the old state, which has become a puppet of Western imperialism, particularly the US imperialism, is now reduced into a royal military terrorism against the people. The Party's analysis and conclusion that the old state has degenerated into military fascism dictated by imperialism after the palace massacre, has now been vindicated all the more sharply. The fact that the so-called commitment of the feudal elements towards multiparty democracy is nothing but hypocrisy is thoroughly exposed by their unwillingness to co-opt even the parliamentary political parties begging for their co-option even within the old state. By exhibiting the extremity of imperialist and feudal obstinacy, the old state is now making utterly ridiculous nominations to the so-called local bodies and is insanely advocating the organization of parliamentary elections. It is clear that a crafty conspiracy to put a veil of legitimacy to the military fascism of the old state by obliterating the existence of even the parliamentary political parties is inherent in all this. The political inaction of the major parliamentary parties is gradually turning into a cause of their own extinction. The political extinction of such elements that cannot gauze the impossibility of constitutional monarchy in the specificity of the present world situation of the 21^st century and the development of civil war in the country are quite natural. The inability to grasp the fact that in Nepal there is no other alternative to either rally behind the leadership of the proletariat to complete the bourgeois democratic revolution or to completely capitulate to the military fascism based on the coalition of feudalism and imperialism has become the destiny of the parliamentary forces. The decision of the last CC that even though it may appear triangular in form but in essence and in class terms the political struggle in the country is bipolar, has been proved correct.

            In this context it is clear that it is necessary to carry forward firmly the Party policy of concentrating attacks on military fascism by making political exposure of parliamentary capitulationism presenting itself as a middle-roader and by uniting with the broad masses and classes.

People's Voice: a new Nepali Maoist journal

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Category: South Asia Revolution
 
Created on Saturday, 11 May 2013 22:33
 
Written by Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist

Kasama is pleased to share news of a new international pubilcation being produced by the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist called People's Voice. The following is an introduction article to this new magazine. Kasama will be sharing articles from the magazine over the next few days. A PDF version of the magazine is alsoavailable.

Towards New Revolution

International Department of Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist has decided to bring out regular informative online service, which can fulfill the demand of our friends in abroad who like to get information about ongoing revolutionary movement in Nepal. Out friends in abroad were facing with a situation of making opinion about the political movement of Nepal fully based on bourgeois media, which is deliberately against the revolutionary movement. We believe that this problem will be overcome by now.

Right at this moment Nepalese society is heading towards a sharp polarization. Serious political crisis had started after the dissolution of Constituent Assembly after four years of its election without making New Constitution. Both objectives of the “peace process”, the Integration of PLA and Royal Nepal Army and Making New Constitution were completely shattered which gave rise to the insurmountable political crisis. This crisis has been further aggravated after the retrogressive event of 14 March 2013, in which the President announced a 25 point Declaration by annulling 20 clauses of present Interim Constitution and appointed a “Nonparty-election government”, at the recommendation of “mechanism of supreme leaders of four major parties” which is completely unconstitutional. The proposed election was shattered due to the boycott movement of political forces led by C P N –Maoist. Though the “election of Second Constituent Assembly” has not yet been formally declared by the government, it has again started to collect the names of voters for new election, which is being disrupted by revolutionary forces.

In a new development wide protest has been started when the “election government” appointed a man who was declared responsible for the suppression of Historic Mass Movement and convicted in corruption cases, at the post “Commission for Abuse of Authority”, which mainly looks after the cases of corruption. It has further helped polarize the people of Nepal in two different camps: Patriotic, Republican, Leftist forces in one side and Nation betrayers, anti-people and reactionary forces on the other. It is CPN-Maoist, which is leading the Patriotic and Democratic movement. 

The issue of “election” has become such an issue which distinguishes entirely two different camps. The renegades, puppet of foreign forces, anti-people forces are hell bent to hold the “election”. Majority of the political groups are against it. It is clear that the so called “election” has not been planned to deliver a new constitution, but to get rid of and get approval for the betrayal of nation, anti-people acts, and corruption scandals. So the drama of “election” deserves to be boycotted. Only a popular Mass Movement can resolve the confronting crisis. Revolutionary forces are trying to transform this political crisis into a people’s revolution.

Nepali Maoists: The coup regime elections will not be held

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Created on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 06:51
 
Written by C.P. Gajurel

The fact is that this election is being conducted not for drafting of the new constitution. Instead the election is to goad the country towards party less system and also is being held or will be held at the cost of national sovereignty. That is why I would say that the entire process of the election is nothing more than a drama. This election will not be held. We will not allow it to happen.

For months now, the coup regime in Nepal has been trying to hold sham elections aimed at legitimizing a new form of oppression in Nepal. To date, 57 political parties being led by the Conmmunist Party of Nepal-Maoist have been organizing general strikes and mass resistance to the coup led by Chief Justice Regmie and three counter-revolutionary political parties. The following is an interview with Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Vice Chairman Gajurel. It first appeared on Telegraph Nepal. 

TQ1: Practically all the parties have by now kept themselves busy in preparation of the poll, however, your party doesn’t appear to have been inclined for that. But why?

Gajurel:  Yes! It is true. Why to bother for such an election which is not going to be held. To recall, Prachanda and the likes had been crying for election in the past. They got tired thereafter. Now once again they have been crying in favor of election. Neither the election dates have been announced nor there the atmosphere for participating in the said poll prevailing. If not so then most of the parties may in all likelihood reject the poll. That is why this election will not be held as propagated. There is thus no question to participate in a poll which will not be held at all. That is why we are free from election fever.

TQ2: Why the election should not take place? Most of the political parties have stated that election would be held even if your party rejects the poll? What say you?

Gajurel: They will definitely say so. You may recall that they used to claim that the election would be held in June itself. But why it did not take place? They had told that the election fever was on since the beginning of February/March. So neither the country is in the grip of what is being taken as election fever, nor do the people appear that much interested in the conduct of the poll. I tell you frankly that until the basic fundamentals for conducting the poll remain not in place, Nepal will not have the poll as such.

TQ3: So what if the election is held?

Gajurel: Take it for granted that there is no chance for the conduct of the poll. What will we do in case election does take place is a matter which could be decided later? Until and unless the 25 and 11 point agreed upon by the four parties doesn’t get dissolved, none of the parties will take part in a poll to be conducted by this unconstitutional government.  So will we do? No participation in the poll.

On Marx's Birthday Remembering the Early Life of Marx and Engels until they became Marxists

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Obviously nobody can be born a Marxist – not even Marx. There has to be a process through which ideas and views are developed and formulated and take a basic shape which can be called an ideology. Naturally Marx and Engels too had to go through such a process before they came to discover and themselves grasp the basic truths of what we today know as Marxism. This process of thought was naturally determined to a great extent by the concrete experiences that both of them went through. In order therefore to understand this in some depth let us briefly look at the early life experiences of these two great teachers.

Gal Sun Chapna, Raj Lay Aa Apna

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by Laal

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Laal is a revolutionary band from Pakistan.  Lyrics by Habib Jalib.  Directed by Taimur Rahman.

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