1 People’s March February 2021 contents

05  US ELECTION 05

 CMC MESSAGE 08

 interview 22

39 08  PLGA - A NEED OF THE PEOPLE 26

 PLGA ANNIVER sARY CEL EBRATED 29 29 Excerpts of speeches of leader- ship comrades of the Party

30  ENVIRONMENT 30

 PEOPLE RESIST POLICE CAMPS 35

35  CPM’S SOCIAL FASCISM 39

 MINAPA AMBUSH 40 Editorial PLGA - The ‘Life line’ of People’s State Power

eople’s armed revolutions and rebellions against imperialism in colonial, semi-colonial countries in the 20th century were vital in putting an end to colonialism. Revolutionary struggle in the leadership of the Communist Party of China against Imperialism, P Comprador Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie, big Feudal classes took an armed form since the beginning that led to the success of New Democratic Revolution. The oppressed people of China attained state power in the leadership of the proletariat. People’s Liberation Army played a vital role in the success. The defeat of fascism in World War II, weakening of imperialism and the success of China Revolution led to a spate of armed struggles in several countries that continued for three decades. In India the historic Telangana peasant armed struggle and militant, widespread peasant struggles such as Tebhaga, Punapra vailar and Varli took place in various states in the decades of 1940s and early 1950s in the leadership of the Communist Party of India. But the revisionist leadership adopted Parliamentary path and betrayed the unfolding Protracted People’s War. Breaking apart from revisionism, Armed Revolution began with the Spring Thunder of Naxalbari in the leadership of Comrade Charu Mazumdar and Comrade Kanhai Chatterjee in the turbulent 60s. The revolutionary armed rebellion of Naxalbari spread all over the country especially in Lakhimpur- Kheri, Srikakulam, Birbhum, Gopi Vallabhapur, Mushahari, kanksha and Sonarpur other such places. Thousands of students and youth of the country plunged into revolution. Indian Revolution entered into an era of revolution, the path of Protracted People’s War to successfully complete the New Democratic Revolution and then to advance further to Socialism-Communism. It is now advancing passing through twists and turns in the leadership of Communist Party of India (Maoist). The armed detachment of the proletariat, the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) has been developing PPW, a magnificent weapon in the hands of the proletariat. It has been playing a vital role in the revolutionary class struggle of the Indian masses against Imperialism, the Big Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie and the Big Landlords for the past 20 years after its formation. The fascist regime killed Comrades Shyam, Mahesh and Murali, Members of the Central Committee of the erstwhile CPI (ML) [PW] on 2nd December 1999 in a covert operation. This led to severe anger and hatred amongst the Party, people and the guerilla units across the country. Exactly one year after the shameless cold blooded murders, PLGA was formed on 2nd December 2000 in memory of the beloved heroic leaders of the Party and the people. The CPI (ML) [PW] and the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) merged to form the CPI (Maoist) on 21st September 2004. The people’s armies of the two parties also merged. The PLGA became a formidable force in intense guerilla warfare across the country in a period of time. The reactionary ruling classes of the country inherited a strong centralized state machinery from the colonialists. Since the great Naxalbari peasant uprising, Military, Para-military, state police forces and the various kinds of central and

3 People’s March February 2021 state Commando forces engaged in all types of support of the imperialists to suppress the revolutionary movement. The PLGA evolved from the heritage of anti-British independent, national democratic movement, particularly the tribal and peasant rebellions of the country and strengthens gradually. Unlike in China where PLA was formed from the above, in India PLGA started at the ground level in the form of armed peasant squads. It gained strength and is developing into higher armed formations of guerilla army with the objective to transform into People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The pyramid structure of PLGA is developing from the thousands of People’s Militia that is the base force from among the lakhs of revolutionary people and is evolving into Sections, Platoons, Companies and Battalion formations in the vast tracts of guerilla zones in strategic areas. The first guerilla operation started from Magurjan as an inseparable part of the historic Naxalbari armed peasant uprising to the present heroic Mukaram, Amuvatikar and other ambushes. Starting with attacks on the notorious state government police forces the guerilla war advanced to attack the Indian Para-military forces, Central special Commando forces like the COBRA and even some smaller units of the Indian Army in the guise of DRG in Minapa ambush in 2020 March. The People’s Militia is engaged extensively in controlling the local gentry, the agents of the enemy, in gathering information of the enemy, in defending RPCs and the people in agricultural production work, in collecting forest produce, in sabotaging enemy supplies etc. and in self-defense armed actions against the enemy forces and also in destroying enemy communication networks. It participates in guerilla actions together with the regular forces of PLGA. People are not only extending wide support but are also playing a crucial role in various ways in these actions. With these actions and support of the people the PLGA is achieving significant successes in the Tactical Counter Offensive Campaigns. This is showing a good impact on the oppressed people of India. The people mainly of the oppressed classes, social sections and castes of the country mobilizing in the revolutionary class struggle are voluntarily joining PLGA. They are a militant part of PLGA as warriors and Commanders. Thus PLGA is well acquainted with the socio- economic, cultural life of the people. PLGA developed into a resilient force in the past two decades under the leadership of the CPI (Maoist) in the light of the theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. It instills combat spirit among the people and creates shudders among the ruling classes. The Indian ruling classes took up counter revolutionary Operation Green Hunt and declared an all-out war on the people of the country in the present brutal ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive. The party, people and the PLGA are putting up a courageous and united fight against this fascist offensive by making enormous sacrifices. In the process of the class struggle in the countryside and the sprouting and developing peoples’ political power, the RPCs in the Guerilla Zones are developing into Guerilla Bases and the PLGA is strengthening itself and is playing a prominent role in the formation, consolidation and expansion of People’s state power. The imperialists and their compradors are entangled in the unending financial crisis of capitalism that is paving the way for their gradual collapse. They are taking refuge in fascism and bringing in several kinds of rotten policies and acts to sustain their exploitative system. The situation is turning more and more in favor of world revolution. The proletarian revolutionary forces across the world are in the process of formation, consolidation and in some countries like ours and Philippines, Peru, Turkey etc. are waging people’s war and establishing organs of state power through guerilla war under the leadership of Maoist parties. Oppressed nationalities of various countries are increasingly resisting imperialism. Our PLGA in association with the New People’s Army (NPA) of the Communist Party of Philippines (CPP), and people’s guerilla armies of Peru, Turkey and other such countries contributes to consolidate the World Socialist Revolution, i.e. the ongoing working class struggles in capitalist-imperialist countries, the struggles of the oppressed people and oppressed nationalities and the revolutionary democratic movements of the world to root out imperialism forever from the earth that leads to Communism on our planet. *** 4 People’s March February 2021 US ELECTION - 2020 Theatrics Unlimited

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even in our regional language media. he world witnessed a high octane The ruling class bias tilting towards TV reality show in US Presidential faith on the elites to take responsible Election. They were watching decisions viz., a vie selecting the T something they had never seen president and sheer contempt for before – the out-of-control antics of public opinion stands fully exposed to an incoherent American president, a man clearly its bare bones. That too in front of the desperate to stay in office because losing could mean same world where they were found his prosecution, humiliation and liquidation all at the sermonising about the virtues of same time. Speculations and huge lies confused the democracy. Nefarious ways of political voters and signaled bloodbath. ‘Left are planning elites to circumvent the Electoral insurrection’ and ‘possible civil war’ was rife. Trump College if they didn’t like it, were the declared himself winner and was not willing to means introduced by their racist vacate the White House added to the excitement. founders in the Constitution, a That’s up to the time this article got finished, may be document hopelessly out of date, that more is in the offing. anchors the corporate interest above Till the last US elections hardly a fraction of 0.1 everything else. The governance was percent of our literate population knew anything reduced to a ‘Department of Tweet’ by about US election process. But this time around this Trump as he declared his policies to the hard kept ambiguity has been exposed thoroughly people even without discussing with 5 People’s March February 2021 his concerned ministry. This art was perfected Worst of all was his handling of Covid-19 and taken to greater heights during the pandemic. He should be held singularly elections. The destructive force of this opinion responsible not only for more than 3 lakhs building social media exploded into an all-out deaths but for letting loose the profiteers to vertical division among the civilian masses make their best in the worst ever human crisis leading to virtual paranoia. Game of political the civilisation has faced. His lack of interest in hallucinations which led to consolidation of reasoning and sciences was driven solely by right vigilantism, was in fact systematically profit necessities. The frenzy he created with fueled since Trump took office. One can only the intention to keep the economy in motion wonder what more is left of the great ‘Sham has led to proliferation of orthodoxies like American Democracy’. “Jesus is my Vaccine” or “Not to wear a mask is Though the scenario looked like a cake walk a show of masculinity” and developing a strong for Democrat Biden at start, turned out to be a opinion against lockdowns. He capitalised the hard fought battle with a close finish. What anti-China sentiments to cover up his shoddy stunned the gullible educated urbanites handling and blamed the WHO for conspiring around world, so enthralled by the great US of along with China and withholding information A, was how could a cretin like Trump come so and abruptly breaking relations with it. close to winning with a track record driven by Though contrary to the expectations, he did racist, conservative and radical ideology. He not start any new war but in a bid to overcome publicly made fun of the handicapped, the the sluggish war economy and gearing up for powerless and the vulnerable. The misogynist the requirements of growing inter imperialist was known for his putrefied public comments contradiction, Trump kicked started arms race on women. He wanted to take away health again. Instead of demilitarizing space, Trump care from 20 million poor people. The would- has created a Space Force over the be immigrant children of Central American Pentagon’s resistance, and has withdrawn families were separated, some never to be from the Open Skies Treaty over European reunited, and put in cages at the southern resistance. He abrogated the Intermediate- border. The three rings of Trump’s circus – his range Nuclear Forces Treaty negotiated by White House, his do-nothing Senate, and his the Reagan administration, which will lead politicized judiciary – have contaminated to a renewed arms race in Europe and Asia. governance. Trump has trampled democratic The defense budget exceeds over $1 trillion norms, and has purged professional civil annually, which is more than what the rest servants and policy experts. Replacing of the world spends on defense. The $44.5 corporate lobbyists as in charge of key billion for nuclear weapons, a 20 percent agencies and departments such as the increase over last year’s allocation, exceeds Environmental Protection Agency and the four times more than China ($10.4 bn) and Department of the Interior. He ended job five times more than Russia ($8.5 bn) spent. protection for tens of thousands civil servants Outdated ICBMs are back in use and it’s arsenals as a result, for the first time in history, every are to be increased as $100 billion has been assistant secretary position is filled by an allocated for modernizing it even though the acting chief or a political appointee. He submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), destroyed the administrative setup to such an are more accurate and powerful and US has a extent that it will take a decade to replace them fleet of 12 subs each fitted with more than 24 again. Especially the judiciary is filled with SLBMs enough to destroy 100s of metropolitan rightist reactionaries from top to bottom. cities. The mainstream media took cudgels with Trump represented the oil and other him throughout his tenure and were always up hydrocarbons corporates and strongly opposed in arms. They exposed him thoroughly, his tax any controls for environmental protection, frauds, his family’s financial exploits through hence came out of Paris Protocol. In fact the the corridors of power, their relationship with growing crisis since 2008 crash is heading for Russia and China. Trump-created swamp of further slide and all attempts to come out of it corruption, incompetence laced with blatant has either had minimal effect or contributed violations of law and disruptions of order. to further slide. Thus a section of US ruling class is strongly in favour of coming out of WTO-

6 People’s March February 2021 globalisation and going all out for protective equally impeccable record of sending the poor policies. It is becoming difficult for US to sustain especially the people of colour to the Private its world number one status with growing Prison Industrial Complex as a Public challenges from China-Russia combine. Already Prosecutor. He may back off and rejoin Paris it is failing on political fronts as resistance and Protocol, the Iran nuclear agreement or settle assertions from European Union or Turkey is scores with WHO for window dressing his brand undermining and weaning its world and manage the deteriorating image of the US domination. Its foreign policy under Trump had internationally. But given the history, he will been confrontationist and has further helped hardly offer anything new, albeit worse. crystallisation of conflict groups. Thus we see Obama’s war records were worse than that of an intensification of major contradiction in the Bush. Given his involvement in TPP under present multipolar world. Obama, his China policy will not differ but will In fact Trump era was a much needed be less jingoistic and South Pacific will continue breather the ruling classes had been looking to be the focal point of contention between for in this period of crisis. As president, he US and Chinese imperialism. continued to side with the mob, never Perhaps the most sobering conclusion denounced the neo-Nazis, applauded the from the recent period is that a big section of armed demonstrators who demanded the the country is indifferent to the actual reopening of the economy in the pandemic mechanisms of the sham democracy. Nor do March 2020, and defended 17-year-old Kyle they see anything different in the Republican Rittenhouse after he killed two Black Lives or Democrat candidate. They see them as Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in representatives of the Military Industrial August 2020. White nationalist groups Complex and the Wall Street. They see a united increased from 100 in 2017 to more than 200 ruling class conspiring, along with the bankers, in 2020 with armed militia groups totaling even against a watered down Social Democrat 15,000 to 20,000 members, including a number Bernie Sanders, a la Roosevelt. They see of veterans with combat experience. White institutionalised racism advancing far right supremacist Atomwaen Division, killed five vigilantism (lynch mobs). They see growing while, the far-right Boogaloo Bois conducted power of the Police state armed with military two ambushes on police officers killing two grade weapons over funded as a reward for and injuring three, dozens of right-wingers their anti-people exploits. They see the wrath drove vehicles straight into crowds of Black of climate change destroying everything in one Lives Matter protesters. Extreme nationalism, blow. They see the damage of all the social evils scapegoating immigrants and foreigners in including Covid pandemic effecting the poorest general, white supremacy, “strong - blacks and Latinos the most. They see even (narcissistic)-man” government, aggressive the faintest of the facade of democracy foreign policies, and hysterical redbaiting are weaned off in the name of jingoism and the tailor made recipes for a crisis ridden national interest (read ruling class interest). finance capitalism, not just for the U.S. but for They see the pillars of pseudo democracy the world today. The fascist states are left with crumbling like ancient structures. They see the no option but to curb capitalism’s opponents devastations created by Globalisation policies and dissent citing treasonous disloyalty. not only in their lives but also to the poor and Most of the surveys show that the Trump the oppressed around the world. They see voters in 2016 have not reduced but in fact Media and Judiciary polarising and conspiring grown. The U.S. system offers such abysmal against them. They see fake revolutionaries choices, seemingly worse ones every four wrapped in various shades of Avakianism (New years. The lesser evil Biden is still evil, Synthesis) sitting on the cliffs and waving their especially given former Vice President’s flags at the struggling masses. dismal record of war mongering, acting as an The pouring out of anger after George Floyd errand boy for big banks and turbocharging the murder and the consistent struggles in Portland prison-industrial complex. He championed the and elsewhere guarantees that the tide is strict public surveillance system through the turning in our favour and this is making the Beast Patriotic Law. It’s no wonder that he selected really restless and nervous. Kamala Harris as running mate, who has an PM 7 People’s March February 2021 CMC Message

8 People’s March February 2021 and revolutionary people and other reasons . Let us practice the communist values of the martyrs, ear comrades, people! their bravery in being steadfast before the enemy, their relentless fight without fear of 2 December 2000 is the day on D death and their dedication to the people as our which the oppressed people of India formed ideals. Let us pledge to fight until the end to fulfill an army for themselves, the People’s their ideals and to make their dreams true. Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA). PLGA was formed on that day in the direction and The CMC hopes that the comrades injured in guidance of the founders of our Party, teachers the attacks of the enemy and in guerilla war and the founders of Indian Revolutionary operations all over the country shall plunge into movement, martyrs Comrade Charu Mazumdar the arena of war with the enthusiasm of war. and Kanhai Chatterjee, in the spirit of martyrs The CMC calls upon the entire ranks of the Comrades Shyam, Mahesh and Murali to make Party, PLGA units, the Revolutionary people’s true the dreams of thousands of martyrs. Our governments, Mass Organisations and brave PLGA would be completing 20 years by revolutionary people to grandly celebrate the this December 2. The Central Military 20th anniversary of PLGA with revolutionary Commission (CMC) of the CPI (Maoist) conveys enthusiasm in the villages and towns of the areas revolutionary greetings to the entire party of the movement all over the country. The CMC committees, commands, party members, PLGA gives the call to take up the campaign for commanders, warriors, the forces of people’s consolidation of PLGA for one year from 2020 militia, the leaders and activists of December to 2021 December all over the country Revolutionary people’s governments and Mass and to take up propaganda, resistance and Organisations. On the occasion, the CMC consolidation activities for one year according to conveys revolutionary greetings also to all the the conditions of the various states with the comrades striving to advance the Indian objective to preserve the Party and the PLGA from revolutionary movement for the past 20 years the counter revolutionary ‘SAMADHAN’ strategic and all the comrades participating in the offensive of the enemy, as per the call of the CC ongoing political, military and organisation effort for the past one year to fight back the last year. counter revolutionary ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive. The successes of PLGA in the past 20 years 4483 comrades became martyrs resisting the The fundamental and central task of counter revolutionary enemy offensive in the revolution is to bring down the exploitive classes past two decades with the objective of making from power and establish that of the oppressed the Indian New Democratic Revolution a classes as per the theory of Marxism-Leninism- success. 839 out of them are women comrades. Maoism. Communist Party builds strong people’s Out of the total martyred comrades, 283 army and strong revolutionary United Front in comrades were martyred in the attacks by the order to fulfill this task. These work in the PLGA on the enemy forces and the rest of the leadership of a strong Communist Party. Our PLGA comrades laid their lives in the attacks of the also is working in the leadership of our Party. enemy forces on our PLGA forces and Therefore we cannot separate the successes of revolutionary people in encounters, fake PLGA with that of the Party. Let us briefly see the encounters and covert operations of the enemy, successes we achieved in enriching our political- in the jails, in accidents, due to ill health and military line, building people’s army, conducting other reasons. The CMC pays humble people’s war and building people’s state power revolutionary homage to the heroic guerillas through developing revolutionary class struggle and all the martyrs who laid down their lives in for the past 20 years. the tactical counter offensives and campaigns to defeat the counter revolutionary strategic We (CPI (ML), MCC) applied the theory of MLM offensive schemes of the Indian exploitive to the concrete conditions of our country and ruling classes in various phases to totally decided the fundamentally correct political- eliminate the revolutionary movement; in the military line in 1970. We formed the People’s daring resistance to the attacks of the armed Liberation Guerilla Army on 2 December 2000 in forces of the enemy on our forces to protect the process of developing the Indian the leadership comrades, party, PLGA forces Revolutionary movement in the light of this path. 9 People’s March February 2021 Starting with the formation of the united CPI respective formations and various ancillary (Maoist) party in 2004, we further enriched our departments at various levels. political-military line in the Unity Congress- Depending on the balance of forces of the Ninth Congress in 2007. Basing on the line we movement in the various guerilla zones, we achieved many valuable experiences in achieved experience in coordinating mass work theoretical, political, military, organizational and military work to develop guerilla war to and cultural sectors. higher level. We also gained experience in With the theoretical clarity that we can taking up campaigns through small, medium develop guerilla zones into liberated areas and big kind of actions and through only through developing the People’s decentralized and centralized actions. We Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) into People’s synthesized the same. During 2007-2011 we Liberation Army (PLA) and guerilla war into took up guerilla war in the higher level and mobile war, our Unity Congress-Ninth Congress made few guerilla actions that had the formulated the central task of developing characters of mobile war. Through this we Dandakaranya and Bihar-Jharkhand into attained practical clarity about the process of liberated areas. This is a positive experience developing the PLGA into PLA and guerilla war in the theoretical and political application of into mobile war. MLM and in the application of the rules of We expanded and intensified guerilla war Maoist people’s war. and built organs of people’s state power in the After the Unity Congress in 2007, we made village level in DK, BJ, AOB, West Bengal, efforts to take our political-military line into Odisha and Maharashtra (Balaghat-Gondia). We practice and to develop PLGA into PLA. In the built these organs in the area level in DK and process we built hundreds of people’s militia AOB. In DK we also built division level organs. units as the base force, several Local Guerilla In DK we gained experience in building new Squads (LGS) and Local Organisational Squads democratic economic, political and cultural (LOS), guerilla platoons as the secondary forces systems at primary level. These areas are and several guerilla platoons and guerilla contributing as guerilla bases to achieve the companies as the main force. We also launched strategic tasks of guerilla war. Basing on the the formation of guerilla battalion. In order to area and divisional guerilla bases DK stood in make the PLGA function regularly politically, support of the movement in other states of the militarily and organizationally, we formed central region. BJ sustained as the main guerilla Central, Special Area/Special Zone/State zone and supported the movements of other Military Commissions and Commands starting states in the Eastern region. from the panchayat to regional bureau level As a part of application of rules of Maoist along with the party committees in the people’s war, we gained experience in building

10 People’s March February 2021 people’s army and in formulating the tactics to armed forces of the enemy came to attack in be followed in self-defense-offense, retreat- the areas of movement starting from Paddeda advance, defeat-success that are part of to Kasaram in DK and from the Saranda ambush people’s war. We analysed the changes in the to Avaspat ambush in BJ, in the Tellarayi ambush level and nature of enemy offensive and are in AOB and in many parts of the area of the adopting the offense-self-defense tactics to movement and fought back this tactics of the fight back and defeat them. enemy. We gained experience to an extent in There were ambushes in many places in the implementing the tactics of separating and areas of the movement on the police who came eliminating a part of the police, Para-military with bullet proof jackets on high velocity motor and Commando forces that penetrate the cycles that came to give a blow to the guerillas. guerilla bases in thousands and as many The Urpalmetta ambush has a special batches. We developed primary level importance as the incident in which the enemy Improvised Artillery weapons. forces in mopping up operations and combing Our brave PLGA took up 208 big, 318 operations in the interior areas by foot and that, medium and 3948 small kind of war operations which brought a qualitative change in war in the past 20 years through many kinds of maneuvering. In the later period PLGA gave a tactics. They are – blow to the enemy forces that came by foot in Dandakaranya and Bihar-Jharkhand. For the past two decades PLGA took up extensive-intensive guerilla war in Bihar- It is making guerilla actions in the carpet Jharkhand (BJ) until 2006, Dandakaranya (DK), security area for the past 15 years resisting the Telangana, Andhra Pradesh (AOB since 2001), tactic of the enemy with the attempt to defeat North Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. Since 2007 the guerilla ambushes through carpet security. along with BJ and DK it continued in West It attacked the road opening parties of the Bengal until 2011 and in the new East Bihar- enemy and affected the enemy supplies, North East Jharkhand (EB-NEJ) since 2014. Since deployment of enemy forces and visits of 2006 it conducted few big, medium operations officers to a certain extent. and several small kinds of guerilla actions in Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB). Small kinds of According to the decision of the 2007 Unity guerilla actions also took place in Telangana Congress to develop guerilla war into mobile and Balaghat-Gondia since 2016 and in Odisha war, PLGA made a historic ambush on 6 April, and Karnataka in 2012 and in Trijunction after 2010 in Mukaram in DK and wiped out an entire 2012. company force (76 personnel) of the CRPF. Following the incident it wiped out PLGA has been resisting and fighting back considerable number of enemy forces in the counter revolutionary schemes and Kongera, Madanveda, Kassalpad, Burkapal in offensives of the central and the state DK, Kajara-Lakhiserai, Dhardharia, Chipadohar, governments in the leadership of the Party and Bhandaria, Kalapahad, Chakkarbandha, active participation of the people for the past Budhapahad, Saraikela-Kharsava-Tiridih two decades. In this process it fought back the ambushes and counter offensive operations new tactics of the enemy that they brought against Operation Hill Vijay and Operation forth each time they faced defeat with new Monsoon in Bandu-Panduva in Bihar- counter tactics. Jharkhand, in Mantriyamba (Baiperguda), During 2005-2009, the central and the state Rallagadda, Sunki-Supalput in AOB, and in governments took up offensive through Salwa Sanbayal ambush in Odisha. In Trijunction area Judum, Sendra, Santivahini/Santisena, Nagarik of the Western Ghats, it conducted Politico- Suraksha Samiti and other such counter Military Campaign (PMC) in 2014-2015 with the revolutionary white militia which the PLGA objective of opening up another war front and defeated through hundreds of guerilla actions attracted the broad masses towards the in the red resistance areas and guerilla zones. revolutionary movement. In Maharashtra- Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC), it is It eliminated the enemy forces through working with the objective of forming red blasting Mine Proof Vehicles through which the resistance area. In AOB, Telangana and Andhra 11 People’s March February 2021 having mass base. It took up hundreds of sabotage actions on the properties of the government, foreign Multi- National-domestic comprador corporate companies, landlords and the enemies of the people. It took up Tactical Counter Offensive Campaigns (TCOC) during elections to the Assemblies in various states and Parliamentary elections during the past 20 years. It gained valuable experiences in scores of raids in Bihar-Jharkhand, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, AOB, Dandakaranya and West Bengal in the past 20 years. Each of these raids has an importance. ( ) People throng to Jahanabad Jail after ‘Operation Jail Break’ inset the The raids in Giridih, Jehanabad and Jajpur in BJ, the joint raid in Raiding Forces of PLGA Kalimela-Motu, R.Udayagiri then CM of Andhra Pradesh Pradesh efforts are going on to multiple raid and Koraput raid Chandrababu Naidu in Alipiri in revive the movement. in AOB, Murikinar and Ranibodili 2003, on CM of the same state, raids in DK, Shilda raid in West PLGA is making guerilla war in Janardhan Reddy in 2007 and on Bengal and the Nayagarh raid in many places on the enemy forces the CM of West Bengal, the direct leadership of the CMC that penetrate the guerilla bases Buddhadev in 2008. It wiped out and joint command of Eastern and is sustaining and protecting the leader of Salwa Judum and and Central regions have special the guerilla bases. murderer Mahendra Karma near importance. Although the enemy is Jeeramghati in 2013. It wiped out attacking civil and military few SP and ASP rank police We took up 99 guerilla supplies all over the areas of the officers in a few places in DK and operations in 2020 until now. One revolutionary movement and BJ. It is giving a blow to the of it is the Minapa ambush that trying to defeat guerilla war intelligence-informer-covert is a big operation, 8 are medium through several means, it is system of the enemy to an kind and 90 small kind preparing gun-powder, booby extent. operations. Minapa ambush has an importance. We fought back traps, claymores, mines, arrow In 2008 there was a historic one Operation Prahar that the bombs and improvised primary ambush in Balimela reservoir in central and the state artillery basing on local AOB in which 38 personnel of the governments took up through a resources, continuing guerilla Grey-hounds force and another few units of the Indian Army war and fighting back enemy 4 policemen were wiped out. It that were deployed in the veil tactics. took up ambushes on the armed of state police force, Greyhounds forces of the enemy travelling in PLGA punished several commando force and COBRA trains in Bihar-Jharkhand, West political leaders who were the commando force of Telangana, Bengal and AOB. It attacked enemies of the people. Few MPs, Chhattisgarh State Commando helicopters in a few places in DK MLAs, sarpanches and political Force (STF), district level and BJ and affected the enemy leaders of bourgeois, revisionist, commando forces such as DRG to an extent. It made many night neo-revisionist, Hindutva and the Para-military in Minapa ambushes in DK and BJ. parties who were the enemies ambush in which we achieved of people were eliminated. It It seized enemy supplies in new and higher experiences. held daring ambushes on the the areas of the movement 12 People’s March February 2021 In the past 20 years, 2958 guerilla war-people’s war in for ten years fell in the mire men of the armed forces of the red resistance areas/ of Parliamentary path. The the enemy such as police, guerilla zone perspective struggle organisation ‘FARC’ Para-military and Commando areas and in the guerilla that has been making armed forces were wiped out and zones-guerilla bases. It struggle for a long time in 3507 injured in the guerilla war destroyed the state Columbia took up the operations taken up by the machinery of the exploitive parliamentary path after PLGA. PLGA seized various ruling classes and the holding talks with the kinds of 3208 modern hegemony of feudal classes in exploitive ruling classes. On weapons and 1,52,899 rounds strategic areas and the whole we see that the of ammunition. established revolutionary revolutionary forces over the people’s state power in the world will have to advance the Thus the PLGA in the embryonic stage as an revolutionary movement in leadership of our Party utilized alternative. their respective countries the favorable revolutionary towards the goal of Socialism- situation internationally and These two decades are Communism amidst severe domestically and achieved important in the international unfavorable conditions. In considerable successes plane. The revolutionary this situation the through creatively applying movement in Peru that was in achievements of PLGA in the the principles of Protracted the ‘bend on the road’ is leadership of the Party in the People’s War to the concrete going on although in a feeble country holding aloft the red conditions of our country in manner. The revolutionary flag of MLM have much the light of MLM. These movement of Philippines is importance. These successes that were achieved advancing in the leadership of achievements shall by fighting back the phase the Communist Party of contribute to consolidate the wise intense multipronged LIC Philippines (CPP). The people’s struggles against strategic offensive of the revolutionary movement of imperialism going on all over enemy are of international Turkey is making efforts to get the world, to further and domestic importance. reorganized. However, in strengthen the solidarity Especially the PLGA that is a Nepal the modern revisionist building up among the Maoist wonderful weapon of the clique in the leadership of forces of the world, to expose party played an important role Prachanda and Bhattarai who the modern revisionism of in mobilizing worker, peasant, betrayed the people’s war Prachanda-Bhattaria and middle classes, students- that the Maoist Party took up youth, women, Dalits and tribal people in several states SPOs killed in Ranibodili Attack all over the country at various levels in various forms; in developing people’s upsurges like Kalinganagar, Nandigram, Lalgarh, separate Telangana, Narayanapatna and Niyamgiri; in organizing the people in various open-secret mass organisations; and especially in developing those struggles into resistance struggles in the areas of revolutionary movement. It created a spate of struggles of the people of oppressed classes and sections. PLGA stood in firm support of the nationality liberation struggles in Kashmir and North East. It intensified

13 People’s March February 2021 Avakian and to win new sections Party, PLGA, Mass the Indian revolutionary toward Communism. Organisations and movement. Few guerilla zones Revolutionary people’s suffered temporary setback. Few Present situation of the governments in the red others were affected or revolutionary movement resistance areas and guerilla weakened. We had to retreat or The revolutionary zones of the country. Several vacate a few of them. As a result, movement in the leadership of members of the committee at present some of the areas of our Party has been going on starting from those of the CC revolutionary movement are with ups and downs, ebbs and to the cells and party working as main guerilla zones flows, setbacks-leaps, twists committees at the village level (there are few guerilla bases and turns, advance and retreat lost their lives in enemy among them), as the zones that and with unequal offensive. The PLGA lost are working for the revival of development. During 2001- several commanders and guerilla zones/movement, as 2011, positive aspects were the warriors of various levels in areas of red resistance/guerilla main for 11 years in the Party and enemy attacks. Party and the zone perspective, as affected the revolutionary movement PLGA that leads the class urban and plain areas and as and favorable aspects were in struggle-guerilla war became primary areas of movement. In the upper hand and the Indian weak with arrests, order to transform this revolutionary movement was in degeneration and betrayals. unfavorable situation and create the position of advance. The main reason is the a new upsurge in the However, the central and the weakness in following the revolutionary movement, the state governments adopted rules of guerilla war and secret SAC/SZC/SC/SOC of the several counter revolutionary methods of functioning. In respective states reviewed the schemes for the elimination of addition to this, we faced situation of the movement from the Indian revolutionary shortcomings and weaknesses the state level to the area level movement for the past 20 years in changing the program of in the plenums and adopted and intensified offensive. class struggle and adopting immediate tasks and is striving There were attacks through proper tactics in class struggle to preserve, reorganize and Salwa Judum, Sendra and other with an analysis of the ongoing strengthen the movement. In white militia from 2004 to 2009, changes in the relations of this situation it is our main task the Operation Green Hunt production-class relations due to politically mobilise and unite offensive from 2009-2017 and to class struggle and the vast oppressed masses and the ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive globalization. So, there were extend and intensify class since 2017 that affected our several unfavorable aspects in struggle-guerilla war. Let us expand-intensify class struggle-guerilla war to advance the revolutionary movement-Let us defeat counter revolutionary ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive: Since the BJP/NDA government in the leadership of Narendra Modi came to power the second term, the ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive intensified further. A meeting of the Chief Ministers of ‘left terrorist affected’ states was held in the leadership of the Central Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi in the month of Weapons seized by PLGA from Nayagarh August. The meeting adopted Armory in Odisha an action plan for efficient 14 People’s March February 2021 implementation of Every year battalions of strength of the movement and ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive for the additional Para-military forces the preparation of the coming three years (2019-2022). are deployed in the areas of oppressed masses of the revolutionary movement and respective areas, in order to The Central government re- enhance mass base in all the appointed Vijaykumar, the carpet security is expanded and strengthened. Presently there areas of the movement across adviser of security affairs to the the country. We have to intensify Governor of Kashmir as the are 6 lakhs of police, Para- military and commando forces in anti-imperialist, anti-comprador adviser of internal security bureaucratic capitalist, anti- affairs for the Central the areas of the revolutionary movement. feudal class struggle on the government, for better fundamental problems of daily coordination and more efficient We can strengthen the Party life of the people. We have to implementation of this action and the PLGA only by mobilizing enhance our mass base by plan all over the country. the vast masses, intensify class mobilizing the active, militant Immediately after Vijaykumar struggle, and enhance mass new forces coming forth into took up the responsibility he base. We can thus fight back the these struggles, into open- held a meeting with civil, police, ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive secret revolutionary mass Para-military and intelligence efficiently by expanding- organisations. We must pay top officials in the ‘left terrorist intensifying guerilla war. special attention to build and affected states’ in December and Therefore let us make efforts to strengthen the Party in the framed the ‘Prahar’ scheme. The take up the following utmost secret methods. Prahar scheme is to eliminate theoretical, political, military, the leadership of the Party and organizational and cultural tasks We must expand and PLGA by centralizing attacks in 30 for the coming time. strengthen the anti-Brahmanic districts in areas where the Hindutva fascist struggles that revolutionary movement is We have to pay importance to we have been taking up for the strong. Few units of the Indian implement the tasks that our past few years, expand and Army were secretly deployed to Central Committee gave on the strengthen them all over the carry out operation Prahar. The occasion of the 16th Anniversary country. The party cadres of the evil scheme was planned so as of the party to mold it strong, plain and urban areas must the district and state commando secret and invincible to the organize the oppressed people forces and the COBRA enemy. facing the Brahmanic Hindutva commando forces of the With the understanding that fascist attacks and resist the respective states, the commando enhancing mass base is the same. forces of the border states (for primary aspect in class struggle, In order to defeat the counter example the deployment of we have to mobilise/organise revolutionary ‘SAMADHAN’ Greyhounds forces in Telangana the people in legal-anti-legal, offensive we must first protect and Andhra Pradesh in the open-secret forms of struggle our Party, PLGA, Mass operations in Dandakaranya) and and organisation, as per the units of Indian Army. The Prahar offensive is going on since January this year in the 30 districts in the strong areas of revolutionary movement in which we see severe changes in the counter guerilla war operations of the enemy armed forces. Since then the armed forces of the enemy made attacks in large numbers, in two to three circles and shelling through artillery-RPG, mortars and UBGLs.

15 People’s March February 2021 organisations and organs of expand mine warfare in centralization-decentralisation people’s state power all over the those areas. Small teams of forces, extensively take up country from the enemy must be formed in several small and medium kind of offensive. We have to rectify the forms along with the sniper decentralized operations, mistakes in implementing secret teams to eliminate police, complete all kinds of methods of work and rules of Para-military and preparations, centralise our guerilla war to prevent losses in commando forces. In forces and wipe out the enemy order to defeat ‘SAMADHAN’ addition to these we have in big numbers. offensive. We can attack the to give a blow to the enemy as a part of active self- We have to activate intelligence/informer defense tactics only if we protect Revolutionary People’s system that is passing the our forces. Due to the Committees/Janatana Sarkars information about the shortcomings in implementing basing on the new experiences revolutionary movement to the rules of secret method of that we achieved in the enemy and the ex- functioning and guerilla war, our implementing the people’s state activists that are helping Party and PLGA forces were power in the carpet security the enemy in all ways. We affected and our efficiency in areas. have to make relentless war decreased. Therefore we political-military- We have to fight against the have to prevent losses, protect organisational efforts for imperialist, feudal vicious our forces and enhance our the same. We must thus culture and work in creative ability to make war. We have to weaken carpet security. methods in the cultural sector in take up guerilla war on the order to develop New enemy by taking up TCOC in the We have to utilize the Democratic culture. We have to red resistance areas and guerilla available opportunities in a make special effort to develop zones and conduct guerilla war better way basing on mass communist values among the to the best of our strength. base, favorable terrain and ranks/forces of the Party and the PLGA formations, wipe out As a part of it we have to PLGA so as to work as the servants the maximum possible further develop the tactics of of the people and as their co- numbers of the armed guerilla war so as to weaken the warriors/warriors hand in hand forces of the enemy carpet security of the enemy and with them. through small, medium and the enemy does not get big kind of operations and We have to consolidate the organized. We have to constantly seize arms and PLGA politically-militarily- harass the enemy through ammunition. We must gain organisationally. We have to militia. The main, secondary and hold on the tactics of strive to achieve the tasks and base forces must together 16 People’s March February 2021 achieve small successes daily or monthly. We between imperialism and the oppressed people have to achieve big successes basing on small and oppressed nationalities in the backward successes. countries are intensifying all over the world. This is resulting in the intensification of people’s Dear comrades, people! struggles against imperialism all over the world. We see that the fundamental contradictions The people are realizing the fact that there shall are further intensifying in the international and be no change in the lives of the oppressed domestic sectors with the policies of the nationalities, worker, peasant and other imperialists and the exploitive ruling classes in oppressed masses as long as imperialism exists the name of controlling Corona virus (Covid-19). on this earth and that all round development The pandemic came forth in a situation where without giving way for crises is possible only by the economic crisis since 2008 was not yet wiping out imperialism and establishing solved. The lockdown policies of the Socialism-Communism. We see that favorable imperialists and exploitive ruling classes situation for revolution is evolving all over the brought the economy to a standstill all over the world. We must utilize this favorable situation world. This affected the small capitalists of all and advance New Democratic Revolution as a countries. Following this, capital is getting part of World Socialist Revolution. concentrated and accumulated in the hands of Coming to the country, the Modi government very few Multi-National Corporations. Poor is speedily and aggressively implementing the people, the toilers, migrant labor and workers agenda of establishing Brahmanic Hindutva across the globe are facing innumerable fascist state. As a part of it, Article 370 that difficulties due to the lockdown policies. They provided special status to Kashmir was annulled are dying out of hunger. In this situation the last August and the state was divided into two contradictions between the imperialists are on areas under central rule. This year on one hand the rise in economic and military sectors. The the country was put in lock down in the name of contradictions between the bourgeois class and Corona and on the other Prime Minister the proletariat in the capitalist countries,

17 People’s March February 2021 Narendra Modi laid the foundation to build Ram agreement with India against China. This led to temple in the place of Babri Masjid on August 5. tensions between India and China for some The central government adopted anti-people, time. There was loss of life on both sides in the anti-worker, anti-student, anti-farmer, pro- scuffle between the soldiers of both the sides imperialist, pro-comprador bureaucratic on 15 June in Galvan valley in Ladakh. Following capitalist and pro-feudal laws in the Parliament this incident India banned 224 apps of China. The meeting in September. All these laws are Sangh Parivar and the Central government are intended to intensify imperialist exploitation making a planned propaganda that boycott of and oppression in our country and on the other Chinese goods is genuine patriotism and that to strongly sustain the out dated feudal system. those who consume Chinese goods are not The new labor laws affected the security for jobs patriots. This propaganda intends to brush of the workers. They shall suffer severe Chinese investments out of the Indian market exploitation of labor in the hands of domestic and establish the hegemony of investments of and foreign corporate enterprises. The National the US, the Ambani’s and other comprador Education policy shall make education a investments that harbor the central commodity, privatize the education sector and government. This apart, the Sangh parivar and transform it as per the interests of the the Central government are instigating anti- imperialists. On the other hand it deprives the China national frenzy and fake patriotism. This poor students, those of the Dalit, tribal and is going to intensify in the coming days. In a bid religious minorities of education. It shall rewrite to re-seize power in the upcoming general the entire syllabus with Hindu religious ideas elections the Central government that horribly and tries to sustain feudal culture. The new laws failed to solve the daily life and fundamental the central government formulated in the name problems of the people of the country, is of ‘revolutionary change’ in the agrarian sector diverting the people from the actual and shall not only encourage corporate agriculture genuine problems. Just like it posed Pakistan as in a big way but also help the foreign and a problem through the Pulwama incident during domestic corporate enterprises to gain super the 2019 Parliament elections, now it is taking profits and push the rural peasantry into further up this extensive propaganda in a bid to pose crisis. China and Pakistan as a problem to India. Our Party and PLGA must work to explain and China is contending with the US for a re- mobilise the people in militant struggles against division of the world. Both the contending the anti-government, traitorous policies of the countries are trying to keep other countries on Narendra Modi government. We must be their side in its strategic, economic and military prepared with immediate and protracted interests. As a part of it the US made a strategic schemes to expose the Brahmanic Hindutva

18 People’s March February 2021 fascist conspiracies and mobilise the people in the class struggle. For this purpose the PLGA communities all over the country. The must take up fight against Brahmanic Hindutva fascist gangs attacked and Hindutva fascism in ideological and political massacred 53 protestors peacefully spheres and stand in the forefront in resisting demonstrating against the CAA in the fascist offensive on the oppressed people. Northeast Delhi in February this year. Peaceful protests cannot protect the Call to the people oppressed people and oppressed social  Daringly fight back the counter communities where the state mechanism revolutionary ‘SAMADHAN’ offensive! along with the courts is contributing to Wipe out the enemy and seize weapons! implementing the agenda of Hindutva fascists. Therefore we call upon the Dalits,  CMC calls upon the people of the country tribals and religious minorities to take up to get widely organized, to unite, militant resistance against Brahmanic organize and fight militantly and recruit Hindutva fascists. into PLGA in large numbers to eliminate the imperialist, comprador bureaucratic  The recent anti-farmer acts of the Central and feudal oppression and exploitation government shall push the peasantry of in the country and establish new the country into further crisis. As a result democratic India to build New of the corporate agriculture of the Democratic India by wiping out the domestic and foreign corporate exploitation and oppression of enterprises, crores of peasantry shall be imperialism, comprador bureaucratic deprived of their lands. Therefore we call capitalism and feudalism and save the upon the peasantry to prepare for armed country from the Hindutva fascists. peasant struggles against corporatization of agriculture and to protect their lands.  There is a rise in the attacks of Hindutva fascist gangs on the people of oppressed  The exploitation of the natural wealth by classes and oppressed social imperialists, comprador bureaucratic 19 People’s March February 2021 capitalists through agreements with the central and the state governments is Dear comrades and displacing lakhs of tribal and peasant people! masses. Therefore we call upon the people Hold aloft the successes prone to displacement to prepare for achieved by the PLGA holding aloft armed resistance to protect their forest, the red flag of MLM in the lands and villages and the entire natural leadership of our party in the past wealth. two decades in the interests of the oppressed people and by spilling  We appeal to the entire oppressed people blood. Staunchly state that the of India to take up broad struggles against people have nothing without a the anti-nature, anti-environment people’s army. There is nothing but destructive policies of the imperialists and miserable life, dependence and their comprador ruling classes all over the death out of exploitation, world for the preservation of oppression, suppression and atrocities for the people in the rule environment. of imperialists and their comprador  We call upon the entire oppressed classes, rulers. Revolution is the only oppressed social communities and alternative for the people. Therefore oppressed nationalities of the country to unite the vast masses against the handful imperialists and their fight against the ‘new India’ that the compradors. Utilize the situation in Brahmanic Hindutva fascists are building the country and the world that is and to accomplish New Democratic favorable for revolution, adopt Revolution. appropriate tactics according to the speedily changing conditions  Let us prevent losses, let us defeat the and bring about a revolutionary enemy offensive! upsurge. Rectify the shortcomings  Organise the Party, PLGA and United Front! in the revolutionary movement, overcome weaknesses, daringly  Strengthen and expand the Revolutionary face the strategic ‘SAMADHAN’ People’s governments! scheme of the enemy depending on the lessons drawn from mistakes.  Recruit youth in large numbers into PLGA! Advance the revolutionary  Surrender to the enemy is slavery! movement towards achieving many more successes in the path of PPW  Fight back the vicious surrender policies with the goal of Socialism- of the enemy! Communism. People shall achieve the ultimate victory!  Intensify anti-imperialist, anti-comprador bureaucratic capitalist and anti-feudal class struggle!  Long live New Democratic Revolution!  Expand and unite the people’s struggles 2020 October 14 against Brahmanic Hindutva fascism! Revolutionary greetings,  Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism! Central Military Commission  Long live PLGA! CPI (Maoist)  Long live CPI (Maoist)! 20 People’s March February 2021 There is nothing for the people without the People’s Army Interview with the In-charge of the Central Military Commission of the CPI (Maoist) Comrade Devji

‘People’s March’ met the In-charge of the state through Protracted People’s War. PLGA Central Military Commission (CMC) of the CPI emerged with the glorious legacy of the (Maoist) Com Devji on the occasion of the Naxalbari revolutionary peasant uprising and 20th Anniversary celebrations of PLGA in a such struggles like Kanksha, Sonarpur, Guerilla Zone. When approached he spoke in Srikakulam, Bhirbhum, Lakhimpur-Kheri. length about the relevance, the objectives, When the struggles took a consolidated and successes, failures and future course of PLGA. militant form in the later decades under the The excerpts – proletarian leadership of the Communist People’s March – Red Salutes Comrade Party guided by the theory of Marxism- Devji! Firstly tell us about the present Leninism-Maoism, in the process, the PLGA occasion. took shape as the People’s Army. It is one of Devji – Red Salutes! The Central the three magnificent weapons in the hands Committee of the CPI (Maoist) decided to of the Party. celebrate the 20th Anniversary of People’s PLGA is a political army that works in the Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) for one year interests of the workers, peasants and other starting on 2nd December 2020. I thank oppressed classes, oppressed social sections ‘People’s March’ for giving me an opportunity and oppressed nationalities of the country. to speak about our glorious PLGA on this This shall develop into the People’s occasion. Liberation Army (PLA). It establishes PM – How do you define PLGA? liberated areas in the rural areas through Dj – Our great Marxist teacher Karl Marx guerilla war, mobile war and positional war stated that revolution will be violent. Our and ultimately encircle the towns and Party decided that the basic problems of the establish people’s state power all over the people of the country originating from this country. rotten social system will be solved only by Now there are different levels of guerilla destroying it and bringing down the formations in 13 states out of the total 17 exploitive classes of imperialists, comprador states of revolutionary movement in the bureaucratic capitalist and feudal landlords country. There are higher formations of PLGA and establishing the new democratic state of in places where class struggle and guerilla all the oppressed classes, social sections and war are intense and dealing with power nationalities, i.e., a genuine democratic new question practically. 21 People’s March February 2021 PM :– What is the role of PLGA struggles for right to self- India offensive that started in in Indian Revolution? determination. 2009 in the name of Operation Dj – We can understand the PM – Tell us the experience Green Hunt (OGH). Under the role of PLGA in Indian of the PLGA and the people in guidance of the Party, relying Revolutionary Movement from fighting back the series of on the people and with their the specific characteristics of counter revolutionary active participation the PLGA is the Indian society. 72 years of offensive campaigns in two succeeding in fighting back formal or fake independence in decades by the fascist state each and every of these our country did not solve any of through their mercenary barbaric enemy campaigns. the basic problems of the central and state forces. With the heroic resistance of various oppressed classes, Dj – The state has been the people and the PLGA, the social sections and following the LIC policy of the central and the state nationalities. There is severe US imperialists in attempting to governments once again failed exploitation and cruel wipe out the revolutionary in achieving their goal through oppression of the entire movement in the country. It has this counter revolutionary laboring masses including been unleashing one counter Operation Green Hunt. industrial workers. Crores of revolutionary offensive after With the intensifying workers are pushed on to the on the revolutionary guerilla war in several parts of roads. Nearly half of the rural movement i.e. the party, PLGA the country the ruling classes of population is landless. 85 per and the people to destroy their the country needed another cent of the landed peasantry valuable fruits of revolution in counter revolutionary belong to the poor and lower vain. Various Counter Guerilla offensive. As a part of the middle classes with less than 5 forces such as the DRG, DVF, DF economic crisis all over the acres per family. More than at the district level, State level world the imperialists are bent three lakh farmers committed Commando forces such as the on further looting the natural suicide in the country in the Greyhounds, C-60, Hawk Force, resources of countries like past three and a half decades of STF, SOG, Jaguar and India. The comprador rulers imperialist globalisation. Thunderbolt, COBRA of the made hundreds of agreements Poverty is rising sharply. The CRPF have been formed apart with the imperialist Multi- students and the youth of the from all other Para-military National Corporations. The country are frustrated with forces such as CRPF, BSF, ITBP, increasing resistance of the rising unemployment. The SSB, CISF and Central Reserved oppressed people of the micro, small and medium type Battalions together amounting country under the guidance of industries in the MSME sector to above 6 lakhs. In addition to the CPI (Maoist) and its suffer heavily due to the these forces the ruling classes magnificent weapon the PLGA aggressive policies of the Modi deployed special units of the came in the way of the government that are in favor of Indian Army in disguise in 2020. exploitive classes. In a bid to the imperialists and their The PLGA is able to heroically wipe out the revolutionary compradors in the country. fight back with the support of movement they started the The oppressed sections are the masses all these forces. multipronged counter increasingly being attacked by 4,520 comrades shed blood to revolutionary strategic the Brahmanic Hindutwa fascist advance the People’s War in “SAMADHAN” offensive in policies. There is a day to day India in the past two decades. It 2017. rise in the atrocities on women. fought back white militia such The people know they will There is a rise in the inhumane as the Jan Jagaran, Sendra, have to fight until they win and shameless attacks on the Peace Committee, Harmad final victory over the enemy Dalit people. Millions of tribal Vahini and Salwa Judum in classes by destroying this evil people and peasants are various states of the social system and set up their pushed away by the fascist revolutionary movement. new state power. People are state from their lands that they All these counter with the Party and the PLGA. have been cultivating for the revolutionary offensives This is the real strength of the past centuries. All oppressed turned futile in eliminating the people and this is the real nationalities are under the iron revolutionary movement in the strength of the Party and the heel of Indian expansionists country. Then the Indian ruling PLGA. who are curbing their just classes once again started an all 22 People’s March February 2021 PM – Explain the successes came forth in these big guerilla basing on these positive and failures of PLGA. battles. In the past 20 years experiences. Dj – The successes of PLGA PLGA wiped out 3,058 and Coming to the major are based on the politico- injured 3,604 Central and State failures, PLGA fails whenever it military line of the Party. Our armed forces and seized 3,240 is negligent towards the line was tested and steeled in arms and 154,247 rounds of implementation of the rules of PPW. Basing on the line the ammunition from them (up guerilla war. It is a failure of PLGA gives utmost importance dated numbers). The actions PLGA to not able to protect its to build mass base and makes temporarily contain the strength by avoiding war to wipe out the enemy aggressiveness of the unnecessary losses. We lost forces to the possible extent as mercenary armed forces to an our cadres in large numbers in well as to preserve the extent. Minapa ambush in 2020 major attacks of the enemy in revolutionary forces. Seizure of March is a new and higher several areas of the country. state power is the central task experience for the PLGA in We mainly suffered losses of revolution that needs force. which the enemy forces since 2011. Losses show a We destroyed the local included a special unit of the negative effect. They affect authority in several rural areas Indian Army in the guise of the recruitment, few cadres lose of the country where the PLGA central and state forces. This is confidence, weak elements strongly fought back the another significant success. surrender to the enemy and enemy forces and established Armaments are one some even turn traitors. We organs of people’s state power. important factor in any war and are reviewing the situation This is a significant political PLGA develops them. Com. time and again and trying to success. Arvind (Com Dev Singh, PBM rectify the mistakes in our We are developing the PLGA and CCM martyred in 2018 practice. We will certainly by creatively applying the March) stood exemplary in overcome our weaknesses and theory of PPW in the direction preparing Improvised shortcomings. But we are of transforming it into People’s Explosives with the help of the undeterred with the failures. Liberation Army (PLA). We are guerilla forces. He made People’s war in invincible relentlessly striving to experiments with chemicals in and People’s Army is accumulate our subjective the guerilla zones of Bihar- invincible. strength, our fighting capability Jharkhand and spread these PM – How does PLGA and expand areas of the valuable experience to all integrate with the people? movement by political and areas. Dj – PLGA’s sole interest is organisational work and Although the state is to serve the people and fight expansion and intensification encircling all the main areas of against the enemy to establish of guerilla war and procuring the movement since the OGH, people’s state power. The armaments from the enemy. In deprived civil and military People’s Army propagates the process we took up several supplies and is attacking the relentlessly that the three big Guerilla actions in the past people, Party and the PLGA, we classes – Imperialism, 20 years that possess the are preparing several kinds of Comprador Bureaucratic characteristics of mobile war. Improvised weapons and Capitalism and feudalism are We wiped out the enemy Explosive material basing on the main enemies of the broad forces in relatively large local resources and making masses of the people and as a numbers in ambushes such as guerilla war. PLGA is able to part of rousing them in Mukram and Kajara in DK and procure material for making revolutionary politics, BJ in which a platoon of the war through the people in mobilises them in class enemy forces was wiped out spite of severe blockades of struggles and organizes them and in Mukaram we wiped out the state. This is another for their liberation from a company of the CRPF. In achievement of People’s War. exploitation and oppression almost all these major battles These are the major and building a genuine our people’s forces seized successes of the PLGA and the democratic society. The CPI large number of armaments people. We are confident that (Maoist) creatively applied the from the enemy forces and we can fight back any number theory, laws and tasks of PPW armed itself. Certain of fascist offensives of the formulated by the great characteristics of mobile war enemy in the coming days teacher of international 23 People’s March February 2021 proletariat Comrade Mao, to the concrete enemies. One of the political and conditions of our country. It not only respects organisational task of the Party is to organize people and people’s culture but also the enemy forces as like any oppressed class extensively participates in people’s cultural or section. The Party Committee takes activities. It strictly follows class line and disciplinary action on those violate the mass line. It serves the people in many ways. military policy. It provides health care. It participates in their PM – Does PLGA have relations with the agricultural production activities. It lends a People’s Armies of the Maoist parties of hand in collecting forest produce. It achieved other countries? the enormous love and affection of the Dj – Our Party and PLGA hail proletarian people. The people send their dear young internationalism. It has ideological relations boys and girls into PLGA as their with the People’s Armies of the Communist responsibility in strengthening it and Parties that are ideologically together with advancing people’s war. People are very close our Party. PLGA imparted training to the PLA to PLGA and do not hesitate to criticize its cadres in Nepal years ago. Our Party supports mistakes. Thus the PLGA is being steeled and the fight of the North East armed steeling further step by step as a real and organisations. We are studying the strong People’s Army. In the process it experiences of the People’s War in the strengthens the Party and the United Front. Philippines, Turkey, Kurdistan and other such PM – There are reports about the heroic armed struggles. PLGA is ideologically hand deeds of women cadres of PLGA. How could in hand with the New People’s Army (NPA) of you achieve the development? Philippines and TIKKO, the Guerilla army of Dj – Women are the most oppressed social the TKP (ML). section in the society. They are half of the PM – What is your message to the Party, society. They possess enormous strength. PLGA and the people? Our Party and PLGA led many class struggles Dj – The entire Party and PLGA must study against the enemy including patriarchy and the theory of PPW and its laws and the brought a change in the society to some experiences of the Bolshevik revolution, the extent. Our Party is making strenuous efforts PPW in China, Vietnam and the ongoing to shed patriarchal values among the cadres PPWs in several countries through which it in three fronts, the Party, the PLGA and UF can learn, enhance its understanding and organisation and explore the strength and initiative and efficiency in conducting creativity of women cadres. The fact that people’s war. The Party Committees and the women constitute almost twenty to half Military Commands must give utmost percent of PLGA in the country reveals their importance to the creative application of the aspirations. We have the task of developing rules of Maoist theory of PPW in concrete them into leading cadre at all levels in all the revolutionary practice. They must also study fronts. the invaluable experiences of our PM – What is the policy of PLGA in military revolutionary movement in the past 50 years, actions? especially the experiences of guerilla war in Dj – The Party formulated the policy in the past 20 years after the formation of PLGA military actions basing on class line-mass and master political work, mass work and line. The PLGA follows it. The armed forces of military work and regain and accumulate the exploitive ruling classes are constituted strength and expand the PPW to all corners mostly with the oppressed masses. of the country according to the changing Therefore the Party and the PLGA appeal to conditions. Only thus we can overcome the the armed forces to aim their arms against temporary setback and pave the way to their masters and not on the people. And it achieving great successes. The people of the also repeatedly appeals them to quit. PLGA oppressed classes, social sections and does not eliminate the surrendered enemy nationalities must understand the aims and personnel. It treats the injured enemy. But objectives of our party, its political line, unite whenever the armed forces make brutal in a genuine democratic united front to attacks on the people and the PLGA cadres become a mighty force. It is the only way for we ferociously retaliate. It also eliminates the emancipation of the 13 billion vast the diehard police informers and class masses of the country. PM 24 People’s March February 2021 and told us. We got angry. The whole village revolted against the police. The Party and the PLGA guided us not to “Need” of the compromise. We went to the district Collector’s office and demanded punishment to the people, policemen’. The incident took place on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The government ordered the the People’s people to go around only in the buffer zone. In another incident in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra the people cut an Liberation 8 km long fencing wire of the Kolamarka National Park where the government set up CC cameras also. The people wish the presence of an Army Guerilla Army that could protect their right to On behalf of PM Neha was land. The people against interviewed with PLGA Bodhghat dam on River comrades. Indravati say, ‘although we are making struggle against it, the construction stopped due to ‘e did not take over the Coffee estates for profit. the presence of the People’s The forest, water and land are ours and ours alone. Army’. The people in the area PLGA stood for our struggle and we will sustain of Raoghat and Chargaon mines our achievements with its support. We will not in North Bastar of Chhattisgarh W fall in your conspiracies’. told the journalists when asked The people of ‘Manyam’ forest area of Andhra Pradesh who how they would face the were struggling for their just right to land on which coffee was armed police, ‘We have our planted told the government and police officers who tried to People’s Army. We also shall pacify them. Such kind of inevitable people’s struggles that are hold arms. We will send our part of the class struggle in the country molded the People’s children into the Army’. Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA), the People’s Army of the The situation during such oppressed and exploited of India, in the leadership of the repressive campaigns of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). state in the states of strong ‘Our villages are not like in the earlier period when armed revolutionary movement squads of the Party were around. Now the rich have the say. No shows how the people and the one questions corruption. No one questions land grabbing. people’s army are Women are sexually assaulted. They are supported by the police intermingled. ‘The police came and the government. We live in fear. Someone has to be wiped into our villages and did out for peace in the area. You must come’. whatever was ought not to be done. They spoilt paddy, they The central and the state governments thought they could threw away the utensils. They contain the People’s Army in Telangana and Srikakulam. But this sexually assaulted our mothers is the condition and wish of the people that the Party is trying to and sisters, they killed our kith fulfill. and kin in the most atrocious ‘My uncle went on hunting fish and entered into the core zone manner. If it was not for PLGA of a proposed National Park. The police saw him. They beat him we would not have lived. We to death and made a false propaganda that he was shot dead by know that the Party guides the Maoists. But another person of our village saw what happened PLGA. So we are with the Party 25 People’s March February 2021 bigger ambushes. Otherwise the police will ‘You are the genuine patriots. You are not stop coming into our villages.’ the real heroes. We wish to come on to PLGA is addressing the basic needs of food, your path. Will you give us the health and education of the people. ‘PLGA opportunity? The sacrifices of the members helped me in leveling my land. Now martyrs are great’. ‘Brother, we want to I get more yield of paddy’. ‘I am waiting for meet you. We want to work for the people the PLGA doctor to treat my daughter. She is like you. Please give us your address’. suffering from dysentery’. ‘I could not study and so I want my children to know how to read ‘I shall join the Naxalites and sustain and write. The police came and burnt the my prestige’ said Indugumilli Prasad, a school run by the Janatana Sarkar. The dalit youth of Rajamahendravaram in AP Commander of the Platoon (of PLGA) told me who was insulted by a police officer for that they would be coming soon to rebuild the going in the way of sand mafia. school’. PLGA is part and parcel of every activity of and PLGA’. During the infamous Salwa Judum the people and the people also participate in in Chhattisgarh in 2005-2006 when a big the military actions of the PLGA. As soon as number of police forces were wiped out in they hear the caution or the gun shots, the raids of PLGA, they said, ‘Men who ate us died. people start with food, water and also cots to Now we are safe. We shall celebrate’. serve the fighting warriors and to carry the The people of the Dandakaranya Special injured. There are instances in Narayanapatna, Guerilla Zone where the police go on regular Bastar and other such places where the people patrols developed a method to take up their brought the injured amidst police firing. normal agricultural work without being Women are increasingly active in such disturbed by the mercenary police forces of participation. They go on patrols and scout the state. They say, ‘We have no option. We with traditional arms like sickle, knife and axe. have to sleep in the forest. Early morning, the They become part of transport of arms and militia and now mostly the women patrol ammunition seized during raids on the round the village to know the presence of government armed forces. Whenever they police forces. Once it is cleared we enter the find empty bullets or shells or any such military fields to plough, sow or harvest. Even then we equipment, they carefully pick them up and are not sure without a sentry on vigil’. When hand them over to the PLGA. People are the the PLGA wiped out above two scores of backbone of each and every victory of PLGA. policemen in an ambush in DK in 2017 the At times of failure in ambush the people police arrested all the men of one of the say, ‘You did not make proper reconnaissance. nearby village. The women of the village told You did not choose the correct ambush site’. the party, ‘We are prepared for the worst. But ‘They came as close as to hold your hand. Why if you do not continue attacks on the did you not fire upon them?’ they question. policemen we cannot survive.’ With such On some occasions the people advance victories of the People’s Army the people of towards the enemy faster than the cadres of plain areas say, ‘We need the People’s Army PLGA. Apart from the Militia constituted with to protect our land from the government’. the youth, every able person of the village can The advancing agrarian revolution is raising be a member of the Gram Rakshak Dal (GRD class consciousness in the people. ‘The police meaning village defense squad) and Bhoomkal attack us when we are irrigating our lands. Militia. On an occasion when the cultural They do not let our children be educated in organization Chetan Natya Manch was holding the schools run by our people’s government. a workshop in Kishtaram area of South Bastar, They do not allow us the supply of medicine the police came. The cultural activists, militia for basic health. So we are making spike holes and people chased them for 10 to 15 kms and on their way. Yes. Our militia, the base force continued the program. After the Bottem protecting the people also makes ambushes encounter in South Bastar where nearly 10 and wipes out the police personnel. We want comrades were killed, the people dug spike the higher military formations of PLGA to do holes in which 17 police were injured. They

26 People’s March February 2021 ask the PLGA, ‘we want to fight more, give us People are staunch critics of the Party and arms’. PLGA. They found fault with the cadres for An unemployed friend of the movement not taking precautions that led to the Kasnur- from a nearby town in a border area of two Halbi Tumirigunda massacre. The people said, states told the Party Committee comrade, ‘you are negligent because you think you are ‘The government armed forces are killing so very strong’. They also pat the PLGA cadres many of you. You seem to remain like a when they feel sorry for a failure in ambush Python. Why don’t you retaliate’? The and say, ‘in the present condition, though unemployed, the settlers like Bengalis, the small the incident makes good impact’. urban people facing corruption want a change A considerable number of cadres have and believe PLGA is working in this direction. surrendered to the enemy and turned PLGA is the need of the people. So they traitors. The people are teaching them a are prepared to give their life when the PLGA lesson. A woman who fed a traitor when he falls in danger. The cadres of AOB were saved was a squad member gave him a slap. many times by the people. The people of the Another beat another traitor with a stick. The cut-off area on the border of Odisha and women abuse them calling ‘dog’, ‘thief’ and Andhra Pradesh tried in several ways to so on. They tell them that they were ‘born to inform the squad and if they could pass the a dog’ (which gives a very wrong meaning). information the Ramguda incident in 2016 The people are clear about why the PLGA would not have taken place. Later the people punishes certain people. On one occasion increased their vigil and saved the Party and the PLGA cadres out of danger in more than a Much is talked about eradication of caste in India. An score of incidents. In 2018 when Com. Meena incident in a plain area shows that this too needs force. It has was injured and killed in an attack the people been a long time since the Maoist party went there. The Dalit unhesitatingly went to the police demanding community of a village told the PLGA cadres, ‘Now you are her dead body be handed over to them. In not there. The upper caste people are back in power. They are 2020 the cadres including the leadership were beating us, grabbing our lands, not allowing us to have water encircled by outnumbering policemen in the and indulging in all sorts of atrocities like before. They put up a Pedabayalu area when the people bravely false case against us. The police officer told us to compromise. and tactically accompanied them to safe When we said no they blamed us to have been supporting places. After the Ramguda encounter the the Maoists. We do not have enough strength to face them. people who lost their children in the We need you. You punish them. We are prepared for the encounter said, ‘the sacrifices of our children consequences’. And the PLGA did the needed amidst intense are lesser to the sacrifices of the Party and patrols of the government armed forces. PLGA members’. On one occasion in Telangana the people brought home the dead body of when journalists met the people of Maad an unknown woman comrade who was killed Division in Dandakaranya after a people’s in a police attack and performed the last rites. court in which the PLGA wiped out two People’s support proved to be more persons who worked as informers for the effective than the modern technology of the police department, they said, ‘Yes. The two state force. The cadres in more than one persons became enemies to us. They Special Guerilla Zone said that the police at informed the police about the activities here times managed to place a GPS in the wireless and led to an encounter. We lost five people sets. The police chased the PLGA squads but among which two were militia members from the cadres were helped and saved by the our village’. ‘We are not caught between the people. In places of severe repression the Maoists and the police. The police are cruel people say, ‘Do not come to meet us in risky and atrocious towards us and the PLGA is for conditions. Tell us what to do and we shall us’ say the people. execute’. A member of an Action Team was The people are not for a little betterment in a village when police came suddenly. The in their lives. They are for a total change. So people knew that he was there. They they are aware of their duty in the ongoing immediately brought clothes and paint and People’s War. ‘I want to send three of my five disguised him as a priest. An old woman took children into the Party. This is my duty. I work away his watch and hid it in her clothes. He in the Bhoomkal Militia’. was saved. PM 27 People’s March February 2021 PLGA 20th Anniversary

Celebrated On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army, meetings were held on 2nd December in various States/Special Guerilla Zones/Special Area Committees of the CPI (Maoist). People’s March received reports of the meetings. These are a few excerpts from the speeches of leadership comrades –

we cannot imagine the Party without the active participation of the people in Protracted People’s War, we cannot imagine PLGA without the Party and the Party without PLGA’. ‘Yesterday the enemy said – ‘you do not have weapons, you cannot win’. Now the enemy is panicked with the spike holes dug by the people. The policemen flee on hearing the sound of ordinary bomb blasts by the People’s Militia to caution the people and the main and the secondary forces of PLGA’. ‘With the support from the People’s Army, PLGA, the people of the Special Guerilla Zones in Bihar-Jharkhand and Dandakaranya took up the slogan ‘our village – our government’. They are showing an alternate path of revolution for the liberation of the people of the country’. ‘CCM Martyr Comrade Dev Singh ‘At present as the movement weakened the (Arvind, Nishant) was holding a meeting PLGA also weakened. However, it was in a village in Jehanabad of Bihar tempered in the past two decades of victories (where there was a jail break in his and defeats in battles with the mercenary leadership in 2005 December). The armed forces of the ruling classes’. people questioned how they can win the ‘The strength of the enemy is like the ‘full war without ammunition, gelatin and Moon’ and that of PLGA is like the ‘half Moon’. nitrate. Comrade Arvind answered that Enemy’s strength is gradually declining while people can win the war if they think PLGA’s strength is gradually rising’. hard. The people asked him how. Then ‘In spite of any number of obstacles the Comrade Arvind asked the people to enemy creates, theoretically armed with bring a big vessel and told them to pass Marxism-Leninism-Maoism PLGA marches forward. It develops weaponry through local urine in it. The people laughed at the resources and shall win the war for people’s idea. But seeing he was serious they did state power’. as told. After the vessel was filled ‘PLGA seized hundreds of arms and Comrade Arvind boiled the liquid and thousands of ammunition in the past two mixed it with certain other materials. decades and armed the people. It gained their Then he made an explosion!!’ confidence as one of the instruments of attaining state power’. ‘If we overcome our weaknesses and apply MLM to the objective condition, we can transform the countrywide spate of people’s struggles into a revolutionary spate’. ‘PLGA in the leadership of the CPI (Maoist) is strengthening through its support to the anti-displacement struggles, anti-feudal struggles and anti-state struggles in various parts of the country that constitute the proletarian class struggle’. PM 28 People’s March February 2021 - Neelima

29 People’s March February 2021 EnvironmentOVID-19, Corona pandemic pushed forth normal. There are untimely floods and the alarming reality of the state of famines. In 2019 Australia recorded environment in a way that none can keep temperature unknown in the past it aside. Yes. The earth is heading towards almost 80 years. The US also recorded C a dead end with Global warming due to highest temperature in 2019 July, not and only due to the unscientific, known since 1880. European countries exploitive, anti-peoplemovement policies of the imperialists and like Belgium recorded deaths out of capitalists over the world. The discussion and struggles heat. Forests are on flame in California, about the destruction of environment, grandly named Texas and other states in the US. Sahara ‘Climate change’ and the movement for protection of the desert is witnessing snowfall. While environment took a U-turn with the Corona pandemic. The India is gaining higher and higher place issue gained importance in all angles including a striking in pollution, there are more and more musteffect on the recentbecome elections in the US. The pandemic flames in the Amazon forest in Brazil. brought forth facts about the destruction of natural living Africa is increasingly becoming of animals for the sake of profits out of meat business and vulnerable due to the exploration of the harm to human life. It brought forth the issue of oil from countries like Sudan and environmental and ecological protection onto the top of Angola. the agenda of all progressive, democratic and Mother Earth in pathos integralrevolutionary people’s organisationsto the and parties. The Scientists say that if the earth is not present situation made it stark clear that the issue needs saved from the changes in climate it to be integral to the ongoing anti-imperialist people’s shall be saturated in another twelve movements of the world. years and lead to the gradual Much has already been said about the artificial meat extinction of the human race. The People’sproduction by the imperialist firmsWar mainly of the US and normal temperature of the earth is at China. A recent study informs startling details regarding 15 degrees Celsius that increased by the matter. According to the State Serum Institute of 0.6 degrees in the past century. Denmark, there were COVID-19 infections in 216 mink Scientists assess that it might rise to farms in Denmark and Netherlands in 2020 November. The 5.8 degrees by 2100. Studies reveal that alarming fact that the doctors found out was there were it rose by 1.5 degrees in 2019. new variants. Minks are extensively farmed for its thick Prominent scientist Stephen Hawking brown fur, mostly in North America and in some parts of warned that if the situation continues Eurasia. While Netherlands and Spain tried to reduce the earth shall perish in another 600 years. infections through other means the Danish government is Rise in the temperature of the earth planning to cull the 1.7 crore mink population through shall lead to rise in the temperature of legislation. Denmark is first in the production of fur in the the Seas. The Sea level rose by 2 to 3 global market. The UK is also recording new variants in mm in the past two years. Food crops the South East. are affected. Many kinds of living While Corona is the present pandemic, Global warming organisms are becoming extinct. When is the basic issue that is leading to several kinds of ill effects compared to the period of industrial to human life and need to be addressed in the basic level. pollution, there is a rise of one degree We know that we cannot live without air and water. But Celsius in the temperature of the the capitalist system indiscriminately destroys the natural earth. A rise of another 0.5 degree wealth to produce goods and squeeze profits. The Celsius shall lead to terrible imperialist system is unleashing methods that would consequences. However 2020 is the destruct the whole world for super profits and more and warmest year and 2016 – 2020 the more accumulation of capital. The natural air has been warmest period until date. High polluted in an unimaginable level with the poisonous temperature will cause diseases like gases emitted from the various kinds of industries and Malaria, Dengue, Yellow fever and vehicles. This is leading to Global warming. Another reason Encephalitis. A recent research into for it being the depletion of Ozone that filters sun rays. atmospheric changes predicts mega- The Chlorine gas being released since industrialization droughts that would last more than two shall go on destroying Ozone for the coming decades. The decades. loss out of the emission of the gases is unending. We see In order to see that the temperature that there is a lot of change in the seasons. Heat, rain and of the earth does not rise, no more cold are either rising or going down above or below the 30 People’s March February 2021 out with a genuine program to control rise in pollutants must be added to the atmosphere Global warming. The governments of the until 2050. The rise in temperature can be capitalist and imperialist countries are making maintained at 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 only if nominal claims about measures for pollution we achieve this by 2035. This needs a stop to the control. But it is those countries that destruct exploration and refining of oil and natural gases. the people of the world economically, socially But this is unimaginable in the capitalist world. and culturally that are destructing the Coming to other consequences, the balance environment. The countries are holding of natural Carbon Cycle that sustains life and meetings almost once in a year, the first being evolution of living organisms has been spoiled that of 150 countries in Rio De Janeiro of Brazil in leading to Anthropogenic Emissions. According 1992. This meeting reiterated the declaration of to a study of the World Meteorological the United Nations on human environment in Organisation (WMO) of the UN in 2020 October, Stockholm on 16th June, 1972. Later in 1997 La Nina, the phenomenon of cooling of sea December 160 countries together made the temperature once again surfaced after almost a Kyoto Protocol. US that were first in the emission decade in the Central and the Eastern equatorial of GHG at 20 percent did not become part of the Pacific Ocean. This might cool the sea surface protocol. Although it signed the agreement later temperatures from 2 to 3 degrees Celsius than due to pressure from various countries, it the average, thus reducing rainfall. It is assessed withdrew in 2000. Russia that was in the second that parts of Africa and Central Asia shall place at 17 percent emission also did not agree experience below average rainfall. East Africa to become part of the protocol. 181 countries shall have drier than usual conditions that will became part of the protocol by 2008. affect food crops. Underground waters are The Conference of Participants (COP) – 17 polluted all over the world. Lands are turning held in Durban in South Africa in 2011 decided to infertile in the areas near mines and industries. continue the protocol until 2017. Even if the There shall be more water scarcity that would Kyoto protocol is implemented the temperature increase various kinds of socio-cultural of the earth shall come down by only 0.1 Celsius. discrepancies. Bushfires and wind erosion are COP-22 held in Marrakesh in Morocco and later expected to be more in near future. COP-23 also remained nominal. ‘Paris Accord’ ‘Agreements’ never implemented was made in 2015 with the participation of 196 The various agreements reached by the countries. COP-24 was held in Katovis city in capitalist countries since 1992 to the Madrid Polland from the 3rd to the 15th December 2018 meeting in 2019 December 15th failed to come to formulate plans to implement the ‘Paris

31 People’s March February 2021 Accord’. This was named Fire in Amazon – harm to people are being Katovis agreement. There humankind implemented. 1330 square were demonstrations in Since comprador miles of forest was destructed Berlin, London, Brussels and government came to power in in Brazil within one year. The other such cities in protest to Brazil there is a rise in the fires G-7 meeting in France in the the negligent attitude of the third week of August 2019 only US towards environment. made a nominal discussion for According to the Paris Accord the protection of Amazon. the countries must make Apart from the Amazon forest, arrangements for pollution 3,90,00,000 acres of forest was control to the extent they destroyed all over the world cause. The fiasco of the out of which 89 lakh acres agreement is clear from this. were rain forests. Nearly 4 No country is going to come crores of trees were cut every out with the actual facts of the year from 1990 to 2000. level of pollution. These India in the third place agreements only suggest India is in the third place technical methods for the after the US and China in the reduction of GHG. They emission of Green House suggest that Carbon dioxide in Amazon forest, the rain Gases. The rise in the can be sucked from the forest that protects the earth. temperature of the earth is by atmosphere and be stored The 70 lakh square kilometer 1.2 degrees in India. The rise underground and that forest that is spread over 60 in the emissions was 2 percent supervising machinery and percent in Brazil and 40 in in the world and 4.6 percent sources to measure the Columbia, Bolivia, Ecuador, in India by 2017. We can see emissions could be Guinea, Peru and Surinam is that the rise owes to the established. the biggest and the most concentration of Finance Apart from these needed for the world. Capital pouring in from agreements there are also McDonald, Burger king, various imperialist countries agreements regarding ban on Subway, Nestle, Cargill and with the slavery of the Indian nuclear tests, on the other such Multi-National Comprador Bureaucratic expansion of nuclear arms, on Companies have been Bourgeoisie. Several the production and storage of indulging in cutting and industries were set up in the deadly weapons, on burning the Amazon forest. most unscientific manner, production, development and Brazil companies close to the without taking into storage of chemical weapons, US took up National Highway consideration the effects on on the decrease of BR-163 for the transport of raw the surrounding people and strategically harmful weapons materials through Amazon. the environment. The Indian and so on. None of these are Soya beans are sowed in the government liberalized the implemented. Montreal state of Para and transported rules regarding Protocol that agreed for the via the Sea in which the US environmental clearance. It preservation of Ozone and investment companies introduced a policy of other such agreements and Blackstone, Patria, Hindrovias assessing the effect of acts related to the protection invested more than half for environment that faced of environment are also not the construction of terminal. severe resentment. On implemented. The newly The Brazil government contrary to what Modi boasts elected President of the US indiscriminately allowed about cleanliness through his stated they would become business and exploitation of ‘Swach Bharat Abhiyan’, India part of the Paris Accord that is mineral wealth in the name of is in the 177th place in the highly unimaginable due to its development of agriculture Environment Performance major contribution to and industries. It permitted Index (EPI) related to environmental destruction as Hydro-electrical plant and cleanliness by 2018. In an imperialist country. Obidos bridge for which plans addition to this, the most to displace nearly 10 lakh tribal polluted 14 cities out of the

32 People’s March February 2021 Save the Earth

total 15 are in India. Acts made for the protection With the severe, unending financial crisis, of environment such as the Forest Preservation imperialism is spreading its tentacles all over the Act of 1980 and Environment Protection Act of world in a more and more aggressive manner. It 1986 are not implemented. The Central Board of took chance of the present pandemic to mint Pollution Control is corrupt like any government profits. There is a rise in the number of department and ‘gives clearance’ to projects and billionaires in the world. Penetration of finance industries in the interest of imperialists and their capital involves political intervention, military domestic compradors. attacks and socio-cultural sabotage. The Let us strengthen People’s War – let us situation of many countries became as save the Earth vulnerable to environmental degradation as to the finance capital. India is like a volcano of Starting from the US bombing on Hiroshima pollution. We need to realize the severity of the and Nagasaki in 1946, discussion is going on about situation, study and formulate appropriate plans the use of chemical and nuclear material in the to prevent the damage. attacks of imperialism for world hegemony. There is increasing talk and hope of Socialism 1,50,00,000 tons of oil was left into the Atlantic and Communism all over the world. The crises Ocean during WW II. Bombings in Iraq, of all kinds brought forth by imperialism are Afghanistan and other such oil rich countries for bringing the people together in all parts of the hegemony on the resources led to intense globe. The workers, peasants, the petty and emission of poisonous gases that shall affect the middle bourgeoisie are more and more coming people for a long time. The civil wars in Rwanda on to the streets and their consciousness is rising. in 1994, in Ethiopia in 2000 and that in Sudan that The world has a rich history of people’s continued until 2006 pushed the countries in revolutions and people’s wars. The ongoing famine and thousands into migration. Israel People’s Wars in India, Philippines, Turkey and leaked 20 tons of oil into the Mediterranean Sea the preparations in few other countries are during its war on Lebanon and Palestine. The rise throwing light on the path of revolution. Only in military of the imperialist forces, mainly the revolution can end the crises. The path to protect US and China are causing a lot of emission of the world is the path of people’s revolution, the carbon gases. Missiles and nuclear arms cause path of Protracted People’s War. So, we must large damage. Almost 6 percent of the total land make environmental protection integral to the in the world is used for military. ongoing People’s War in a concrete form. We see that any global health or Without doing so, we cannot protect the country. environmental issue is nothing but the result of We cannot save the earth without changing the imperialist globalization. Health crises are as much inevitable as economic crises in capitalism. society. PM

33 People’s March February 2021 People’s rally in front of Aakabeda police camp in Maad, Chhattisgarh

The rising struggle of the people of Dandakaranya Special Guerilla Zone and Jharkhand against the camps T of the police and Para- military forces reveals that the struggle is not only anti-state. In essence it is part of the class struggle against the ruling classes, i.e. the Comprador Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie and the Feudal class that are selling away the natural wealth of the country to the imperialists. The Brahmanic Hindu fascists in power in the country are indulging in more exploitation and oppression on the people of the country through various economic, political, judicial and cultural means. In the name of war on the Maoist Party that is leading the people in the path of struggle to attain state power, the ruling classes are unleashing various kinds of repressive measures. One such is the carpet security to facilitate the armed forces to protect the exploitation. The struggle against carpet security is part of the struggle for state power. These are the recent struggles going on in the Special Guerilla Zone – The people of Kadiyametta of Kondagaon district (whose struggle against the new police camp has been reported in the 2020 October issue of the magazine) demonstrated in front of the camp set up in their village this year in protest to the arrest of a villager Budru on 12th November. Instead of fulfilling their demand the police lathicharged the people. The people 34 People’s March February 2021 People of Eeknar, N’pur holding demonstration

answered the police lathicharge with an attack protection of the proposed mining project in with axe and sticks. They broke the gate and tried Taralmetta of Dantewada district. Holding to go inside and pick up Budru. The police tried traditional weapons they sloganeered ‘save in vain to take him in a vehicle. The people Taralmetta’, ‘we do not need police camp, we returned in big numbers the next day to get need school and hospital’. released Phulder and Kodiyal arrested along On October 5th nearly 4500 people of around with Budru. When the police beat them the 70-80 Madiya tribal villages surrounding the people beat the police. They sat on the way of Aakabeda police camp in Narayanapur district the police who tried to take away the three. By held a large demonstration in front of the camp that time people of the surrounding villages also and warned serious consequences if the camp joined them. The police also made an attack on was not vacated. People armed with traditional the school run by the people’s government in weapons raised slogans against the traitors of Morod village a few kilometers away from revolutionary movement appointed into the Kadiyametta. The children and people took up police force, revenue land certificates and protest demonstration in front of the camp. It is acquisition of land. They were demanding the to be noted that Morod is in continuation with withdrawal of the agreement to hand over 750 the Amdai hill range and also the Tulad hill sq.kms of land in Maad to Indian Army. On the where also the government proposes mining. 24th of this month a dharna was held against the Tulad is a sacred place for the local tribal people. camp in Kohkametta of the same district. The Meanwhile a new police camp was set up on people demanded a stop to patrols and not to the top of Amdai hill where preparations are spread Corona. The slogans were ‘absolute right going on for mining iron ore. The people to land for the tribal people’ in protest to continue to fight. individual and community certificates for their Police send dogs on the people lands and revenue survey in Maad. The police brought a new form to scatter and As carpet security is being strengthened, the threaten the people. They are sending dogs on people are increasingly resisting. They became the people demonstrating against the police clearly aware of the ill consequences of a police camps being set up. Many women were injured camp amidst their villages and are taking up due to dog bites. But the people are continuous struggles. Mohandi and Kachapal are unwaveringly going forth with their demands. two more proposed police camps in Narayanpur Nearly four thousand people held a massive district. More than 15 thousand Madiya tribal rally on 7th September to protest the proposed people gathered in village Mohandi from 11th to new police camp in village Gumiyapal for the 13th of November in the leadership of Sarv 35 People’s March February 2021 Women going towards the police picket in Giridih, Jharkhand

Aadivasi Samaj (all tribal association). People of the program that they declared would rallied from their villages holding traditional continue until the camps are withdrawn. They weapons and traditional musical instruments. came prepared with rice and clothes. The Traditional art forms were performed in the officers tried to pacify the people by serving meeting. Gram Sabha was organized in them tea and biscuits but they rejected. Before Mohandi which unanimously resolved against leaving the place people worshipped their the proposed police camp. They sent the Mother Goddess Banjarin Devi by placing resolution to the Governor of the state. The stones. They said that the camp was meant only people expressed firm will to fight for to loot the mineral wealth of the area in the autonomy of Maad, to protect the identity and name of protecting them and that they are survival of the society and against betrayal. demanding their just right. They also raised Later a delegation of 170 persons went and met objection that the area falls under the 5th the officer in the nearby police camp and gave schedule and the government did not follow the memorandum in the name of the Governor. the rule of asking the permission of the Gram The people warned of consequences if the Sabha. The three day program was enthused camp was not vacated. The agitation against with cultural performances. proposed police camp in Kachapal took place In spite of the people’s protest, the in the last week of November. 700 authorities did not withdraw the camps. So the representatives from ten panchayats took part people intensified their struggle. They rallied in the demonstration that went on in the to Pratapur to meet higher officials. They also similar manner as in Mohandi. demanded a stop to repressive campaigns, In Giridih district of Jharkhand nearly one atrocities on them and against the spread of thousand people attacked the picket of the 7th Corona through the police patrols. They sent a Battalion of the CRPF in Pandeydih village of delegation to Raipur, the capital city of the state Pirtand block on December 23rd. The people in the first week of January 2021. The with outnumbering women held traditional delegation includes those from all societies and weapons and went in a procession to the police youth organisations. picket and tried to destroy it. In Bhairamgarh of Bijapur district thirty Struggle against police camps is going on in thousand people mobilised against the new Karkaghat and Tumirighat in Koyilibeda block police camps and the bridge on River Indravati of the Kanker district since 17th December. that is under construction on 24th December. People raised severe objections to these two They formed into Indravati Bachao Andolan BSF camps set up on 29th November since the (movement to protect River Indravati). The place is traditionally sacred for them. The Sarv waters of the river up the stream are already Aadivasi Samaj and SC, ST, OBC Samaj took the being diverted from industries for a long time. lead. People of nearly 90 villages became part The downstream villages are witnessing less

36 People’s March February 2021 and less waters for agriculture. The people say that the bridge instead of facilitating their transport to the market would only give more way to the police forces to come and attack their villages. The people of Pumbad and the surrounding villages of Bijapur district that have been having an important role in the ongoing People’s War are now up in the struggle against the new police camp within a short distance from Pumbad since December second week. The police arrested 9 persons during the first day of the rally and the people sat in front of the Gangalur police station demanding their release also. They declared they would not move an inch without the withdrawal of the police camp. The police made lathicharge on the demonstrators in which 90 were injured. They are fired in the air to scatter the people. The people are also against the road being laid to take the iron ore from Bailadilla. They are firmly fighting for their demand. Apart from protesting proposed and set up new police camps, people are increasingly resisting police attacks. In the first week of October, 3000 people held a big demonstration in protest to the police officer of Chota Betiya in Kanker district. The officer beat the fisher-folk who helped people cross the River Mendki alleging to have been helping Maoists. people of the surrounding panchayats and There was regular patrol near the river and villages in protest to the continuing police attacks people returning from the weekly market were and new camps. Nearly ten thousand people robbed of the material and money, beat and gathered in front of Chota Dongar Para-military threatened on the allegation that they bought it and police camps in Narayanapur district. The 8 for the Maoists. After three days of km road from Chota Dongar to Dowla was filled demonstration the officer had to admit his with the protesters. The police tried to stop the mistake and ask for excuse. people by putting up a fencing on the road. Then On 22nd October people of Eeknar and the the people sent a delegation to the Collector. In surrounding villages more than two thousand Orcha further interior to Chota Dongar 5000 people demonstrated in front of the Dhanora people rallied against the police camps in the camp in Narayanpur district demanding the end of December. immediate release of Rakesh, a youth of the The people are also demanding to stop the village. As they tried to encircle the police proposed Bodhghat dam on River Indravati near station, the police stopped them 200 metres Barsur. The dam would drown few villages and away. The police told the people that they knew dry some other villages. The people of both nothing. But the people did not believe and sent kinds of villages have been fighting against the a delegation to see inside the station. People proposed dam meant for hydro-power project warned that they would intensify the agitation for the past more than 20 years. and only then he was produced in the court on The struggles of the people need the support false allegations. The people continued the of broad sections of the society. struggle in more numbers joined with the PM 37 People’s March February 2021 CPM’s social fascism exposed once again in a fake encounter Velumurugan

The CPM Pinarayi Vijayan’s government in But the police did not allow them to see the place Kerala once again proved to be nothing less of incident in spite of repeated requests. After ruthless in suppressing the just people’s postmortem the police secretly shifted the dead movement. The fake encounter of Kuppu Devraj body to Kozhikode Medical College hospital and and Ajita in the end of 2016 November started came out with the usual concocted story of an wide discussion about the stance of the state ‘encounter’. In Kozhikode, Velumurugan’s government towards the people’s movements brother A Murugan who is a lawyer and other and a rift in the ruling coalition and continued family members were not allowed to see the with the fake encounter in Attapadi in 2019 body. October in which four comrades were martyred. Velu Murugan is the eighth activist who died The CPM government was in fact proved to be in the past four years. The main partner of the the inheritors of Khrushchev way back during the coalition government, CPI strongly condemned Naxalbari armed peasant rebellion in 1967. The the murder. Protest to this kind of violation of ruling CPM government of West Bengal sought Constitutional norms is rising. The sister of help from the central government, deployed Manivasagam of Tamilnadu, who died in the large numbers of Para-military forces and Attappadi encounter, filed a petition in the court crushed the movement in a brutal manner. at which the court directed the police to deposit People have no illusions on the social fascists. the weapons used in the incident and to register Now it is the case of fake encounter of Velu a FIR. The petitioner, her husband and their only Murugan. Murugan belongs to a poor family in son were foisted UAPA and imprisoned. The CPM Teni of Tamilnadu. He was a law student who wants to silence minimum voice against its left his studies and became part of revolutionary atrocities. There are 40 injuries and 4 bullets in activities. The Tamilnadu government foisted the dead body of Murugan. Kerala People’s cases and imprisoned him. He utilized his jail Human Rights Movement is planning to file a life to enrich his theoretical understanding. As case and to see that the direction of Supreme soon as he was released on bail he became Court is implemented. underground. The state government declared a There were protests in Ernakulam, reward of Rs. 2 lakhs for him. Malappuram and Kozhikode against the fake The notorious Thunder bolt force of Kerala encounter. People gathered at High Court fired upon the Banasura squad of CPI (Maoist) in Junction in Ernakulam on November 4th to Valaram hill in Padignaretara of Vayanad district protest the encounter. The protesters are on November 3rd. Velumurugan was killed in the demanding a judicial investigation into all fake encounter. Journalists, rights’ activists and the encounters until date and to disband the officers of the area immediately went to the spot. Thunderbolt Commandos. PM 38 People’s March February 2021 continue in last page in two directions. Then the PLGA forces advanced in teams and started to fire upon Balaghat, Mandla, Dhindhori, Nagpur, the enemy forces from both sides. The Gadchiroli, Gondia and Bandara districts whole force reached the place and one of three states in 6 months. Ex DG of CRPF batch of the enemy forces was encircled. Vijay Kumar was once again appointed to The rest engaged to contain the support the post of Adviser of internal security to batches. 6 DRG Commandos were injured implement the strategy. The Operation was in the initial BGL shelling after which they named ‘Prahar’ that was being already could not advance. A Company of the occasionally unleashed in Bihar- COBRA force 500 meters away also did not Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, dare to move. Three PLGA comrades lost Odisha and other states of strong their life and few were injured when the revolutionary movement for quite some police made rapid firing in flank. Then the time. The present offensive stipulated for PLGA forces increased their arch and took a period of five years took the lives of on the enemy forces. The police forces above 400 that includes countrywide were bewildered with the attack and fled leadership, that of the state, division, area, leaving their dead and injured colleagues. village and the revolutionary cadres and PLGA seized the weapons. people. Thousands have spilled their blood The total incident took place for 18 hours in the earlier campaigns and defeated at a stretch including 2 hours of battle. In them to advance the ongoing People’s War addition to the usual weapons PLGA used to attain people’s state power. all kinds of Primary Improvised Artillery ‘Minapa ambush is a new and higher made out of local resources. There was experience of PLGA’ stated the DK SZC in heavy shelling in which the participation one of its reports. The ambush fell like a of women was significant and lightning on the armed forces of the Indian commendable. Command, Control, state. Around 550 Commando forces Communication and Coordination (C4) including a small special detachment of were well demonstrated in the ambush the Indian Army entered the forest area of which the PLGA Commanders, Fighters and Gundrayi and Elmagonda villages for a Snipers executed in great precision and combing operation. PLGA came to know of grand revolutionary spirit. Revolutionary it through the scout team and planned for People, significantly women were part of an attack. The main, secondary and base every stage of the operation starting from forces engaged in battalion formation. The reconnaissance, scout, getting food and anger toward the brutal offensive on the water and carrying the injured and the people and the spirit of their beloved seized weapons. The Dandakaranya State martyred leader Member of the CC and Military Commission (SMC) shot a Secretary of DKSZC Comrade Ravula documentary on Minapa ambush that Srinivas (Ramanna) led them forward. The showed the low morale of the enemy forces plan was to hit on the weakness of the and the high morale of the PLGA forces. enemy. As per the plan the PLGA cadres The success of the ambush enthused initially started in side by side single line the people in a situation of ceaseless formation. After one hour they went in patrols and combings of the enemy forces. parallel with the information that the police The ambush instilled tremendous force was in Elmagonda village. But 25 confidence in the revolutionary people and minutes before the PLGA forces reached the revolutionary army. The experience of Elmagonda the police left. The PLGA forces the ambush shall last in the history of PLGA followed the enemy forces towards the as a feather in the cap. North. By that time the enemy forces understood the situation and started to flee PM 39 People’s March February 2021 Minapa Ambush – A blow to Operation Prahar

ndian state is making a war on the people for its of ammunition, 2 UBGLs, 9 modern loot of natural wealth and as a part of which is wireless sets, 1 shot-line phone and 12 unleashing fascist offensives one after another. mobile phones. As per available Apart from the various phases of repression as information, for the first time the Indian I per the policy of Low Intensity Conflict (LIC) of US Army took part in the ambush that shows imperialism in Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, rise in its participation in future. Three Telangana, Maharashtra and other states, it took up special comrades of PLGA, Comrade Sakru, PPCM campaigns in the past two decades such as Jan Jagaran, of Company-6, Comrade Rajesh, a member Peace Committee, Sendra, Salwa Judum, Operation Green of the Battalion and Comrade Sukku, Hunt and the present SAMADHAN strategic offensive since member of Platoon-12 of West Bastar gave 2017. There are increasing attacks on the people, atrocities their lives in the battle. on women, destruction of developmental activities SAMADHAN coined as a strategy to undertaken by the RPC such as schools, hospitals and eliminate the Indian Maoist party evolved special activities to hike production. People are not able to through a series of deliberations since the live an ordinary life amidst these repressive campaigns. 22nd meeting of the Central Regional In this situation an ambush in Minapa village of Sukma Council in Raipur on January 28th 2020. A district of South Bastar of Chhattisgarh on 20th March 2020 meeting of the police officers of the gave ‘samadhan’ (answer) to SAMADHAN. This was the concerned states took place in the same continuation of the Tactical Counter Offensive Campaigns city in February that discussed about (TCOC) that the PLGA had been periodically taking up. The further modernization of the state police. government stated that 15 policemen of the Para-military, After the meeting the DGP of Chhattisgarh state and district forces died and 17 were injured in the DM Avasthi stated that they prepared a battle. The PLGA stated that the numbers are more and road map for an action plan to eliminate that they seized40 11 AK-47, 1 SLR LMG, 2 In sass,People’s 1550 rounds March the Maoists inFebruary Kavardha, 2021Rajnandgaon,