Both of these
parties are a major influence in both India and the world’s Maoist parties and
movements. So this news is very important and announcing it for May 1 was a
great idea. I wondered why these two didn’t merger earlier. -សតិវ អតុ
From Maoist Road;
By comrades Abhay, CPI(Maoist) and Krantipriya, CPI(M-L)Naxalbari
, spokespersons of their respective parties
On this occasion of the International
day of the world proletariat, the glorious May Day, we the Maoists of India,
with a great sense of responsibility and firm conviction, announce the merger
of the CPI (Maoist) and CPI(M-L) Naxalbari into a single party, to be known as
CPI(Maoist). Thus strengthening the vanguard of the Indian proletariat, which
is a contingent of the world proletariat, we dedicate ourselves evermore firmly
to the cause of the Indian revolution and the world proletarian revolution.
The Maoist movement took form
through the great Naxalbari uprising of 1967. Inspired and led by comrades
Charu Mazumdar and Kanhai Chatterjee, founder leaders of our party, thousands
of leaders, cadres and masses laid down their invaluable lives to advance the
revolutionary movement and build a strong party.
After the setback of early 1970s
and the martyrdom of comrade Charu Mazumdar, the communist revolutionary forces
were divided into many groups. The genuine revolutionaries while trying to
build the movement in their respective areas made serious attempts to unify all
revolutionaries into a single party. In the course of this process over the
last four decades the two main streams represented by the erstwhile CPI (ML)
(People’s War) and the MCCI merged into a single party, the CPI (Maoist), on 21st September 2004.
This marked a qualitative leap in realizing a long drawn aspiration of the
workers, peasants and other oppressed masses to build a single directing centre
leading the new democratic revolutionary war in India to success and marching
forward to establishing socialism and then communism. Similarly, the CPI (ML)
Naxalbari made serious efforts to unify all genuine Maoist forces by fighting
against the revisionism of erstwhile CRC, CPI (ML) led by the liquidationist K.
Venu and Red Flag led by the opportunist KN Ramachandran. As a culmination of
these processes the two parties the CPI (Maoist) and CPI (ML) Naxalbari have
unified, thus our party, the CPI (Maoist), have been further strengthened. This
unification has proved beyond doubt that, on the one hand, by mobilising
oppressed masses in Protracted People’s War against the ruling classes and
imperialism and, on the other, by adhering to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the
revolutionary line of the party and waging persistent struggle against the
revisionists and liquidationists, all the genuine Maoist forces can unite into
a single party, however long a process it might be. Our party shall continue
the task of unifying all the genuine revolutionary forces functioning in
various ML groups.
The unified party takes
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as its guiding ideology and deepens its understanding
by upholding, defending and applying it creatively. Continuously summing up the
lessons of its revolutionary practice and learning from the experiences of the
revolutionary contingents of the proletariat and struggling people all over the
world it develops its line and practice. It shoulders the tasks of carrying out
the anti-feudal, anti-imperialist new democratic revolution. This revolution
leads to socialism and further to communism by continuing the revolution
through cultural revolutions. Imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism
are the targets of the new democratic revolution, whose main content is the
armed agrarian revolution. The path of revolution is that of protracted
people’s war. The contradiction between feudalism and the broad masses is
principal. It considers that the contradiction between imperialism and the
oppressed nations and peoples is the principal contradiction at the world level.
It is intensifying along with the other basic contradictions in the world.
The unity now achieved gives a
boost to the capacity of the CPI (Maoist) to better fulfill its role as the
vanguard of the Indian revolution. Over decades of arduous struggle, sacrificing
thousands of lives of great communist leaders, red fighters and oppressed
masses, the CPI (Maoist) has developed the people’s war in India to the level
where guerilla bases and red political power, in the form of Revolutionary
Peoples Committees, have been established in central and eastern India,
protected by the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army and the People’s Militia.
This has been achieved by fighting against most vicious suppression campaigns,
now concentrated in Operation Green Hunt - a war against the people. As part of
this, tens of thousands of people have been brutally attacked. Murder, rape,
burning down houses and destroying crops, forcible displacement and many other
inhuman practices are common. Now the Indian state is actively rehearsing
airborne and ground attack with its air force and army. But despite this
murderous onslaught the protracted people’s war continues to advance in waves.
The recent expansion it has made in the southern part of the Western Ghats
situated along the western coast of the Indian peninsula is proof that the
flames of revolution will continue to spread till the Indian state, this pillar
of imperialism in South Asia, is destroyed.
When the imperialists and their
lackey ruling classes all over the world are trapped in an unabated crisis, the
favourable revolutionary situation in the world has led to intense class
struggles in the imperialist world and people’s wars led by Maoists and
anti-imperialist struggles by other forces in oppressed countries. In India, on
the one hand, the ruling classes have deployed four lakhs of its mercenary
forces in central and eastern India, where the class struggle has reached the
stage of intense revolutionary civil war, emerging as a revolutionary
alternative, which is inspiring vast oppressed masses towards revolution and is
concretised in the formation of People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) and
the new democratic state in its embryonic form. It is stepping up
militarisation of Western Ghats to crush the budding revolutionary armed
struggle. On the other hand, it is forcibly thrusting the anti-people
globalisation policies on the workers, peasants, adivasis, dalits, women and
other oppressed masses, leading to an increase in militant struggles. Utilising
this favourable situation the party will make greater efforts to advance the
revolutionary movement to a higher level and better fulfill its international
tasks. It will strive go all out to mobilise the masses in lakhs, intensify and
expand the guerrilla war, meet the critical challenges faced by the
revolutionary movement and overcome them.
Painfully aware of the deep
suffering and misery in which the vast majority of the people are forced to
live in India and the world over by the inhuman world imperialist system,
conscious of the devastation caused by this system on the global environment
and the very existence of life on this earth, cherishing the memories of the
thousands of martyrs who laid down their lives for the cause of communism, and
rallying under the Red Flag crimson with their blood, we pledge to make this
unity we have achieved a powerful weapon of revolution.
Ganapathy
General Secretary
CPI(Maoist)
Ajith
Secretary
CPI(ML)Naxalbari
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