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2014-08-06 Collection of CC Statements Part 3 (2010-2014) CPI(MAOIST) 10TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE VOLUMES COLLECTED STATEMENTS PART 3 AUGUST 2010 - AUGUST 2014 CENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) 67. The great revolutionary leader comrade Sushil Roy would 334 forever illuminate our path like a red sun! Let’s grasp, imbibe and propagate widely his great communist qualities and ideals (19-6-2014) 68. Fight back the ‘bitter pill’ of railway fare hikes that Modi is 341 pushing down our throats! Put up a united fight against the steep price hikes (21-6-2014) 69. Oppose the construction of Polavaram project – the most heinous 344 crime against the Adivasis and synonymous with human tragedy and ecological destruction! Build a broad people’s movement demanding the termination of the project (29-6-2014) 70. Condemn the invasion of Gaza and massacre of Palestinians 354 by Zionist Israel! Hail the heroic national liberation struggle for independent Palestine!! (31-7-2014) 71. Immediately stop harassment of veteran Maoist leader Comrade 356 Kobad Ghandy! Unconditionally release all senior citizen Maoist political prisoners! (28-9-2014) 72. Red homage to veteran communist and people’s leader Comrade 359 M T Khan (29-9-2014) 57. Red salutes to the revolutionary masses for boycotting the 282 recently-concluded Chhattisgarh assembly elections (2-12-2013) Foreword 58. Condemn arbitrary arrests, harassments & false cases against 285 people’s leaders! Defeat the conspiracy of the ruling classes to crush mass organizations by rallying, consolidating millions of masses into people’s movements (28-12-2013) On the occasion of the ten years celebrations of the formation of CPI (Maoist), as part of our endeavor to republish a number of valuable party 59. Condemn the murder of Telangana Praja Front President 290 documents, we are bringing out here a compilation in three volumes press comrade Akula Bhoomaiah! Appeal to the people to observe statements issued by the Central Committee, CPI (Maoist) since its formation Telangana Bandh on January 2, 2014 (30-12-2013) on September 21, 2004. The first part consists of the CC statements from September 21, 2004 till the Unity Congress-9th Congress that was 2014 successfully held in January-February 2007. The second part covers the period from the Unity Congress till the martyrdom of comrade Cherukuri 60. Condolence message of CC, CPI (Maoist) on the demise of 297 Rajkumar (Azad) on July 1, 2010. He was the spokesperson of the CC in comrade S.A. Rauf, a leader of Indian Revolution (1-3-2014) this period. The third part covers the statements since issued till September, 61. Boycott the sham parliament and assembly elections! Make the 301 2014, when the tenth anniversary celebrations of the formation of CPI New Democratic Revolution successful! The building of an (Maoist) begin. These volumes contain majority of the statements issued Indian People’s Democratic Federal Republic based on genuine by the CC in the past decade but they may not be complete in the sense democracy and self-reliance is the only alternative (24-3-2014) that some of the statements issued by CC are not available with us and could not be recovered from various sources. This problem will not be 62. Tongpal Ambush is the consequence of white terrorism of the 310 Indian state in the name of Operation Green Hunt – ‘War on found in the third volume and would be found more in the case of the first the People’ (25-3-2014) volume. The CPI (Maoist) responded to the various important political 63. Hail the merger of the Maoist parties in India into a single party 314 – Merger Declaration of CPI(Maoist) and CPI(M-L)Naxalbari developments in our country and in the world in this decade and categorically (1-5-2014) stated its stand through these statements. In view of the historical and political significance of these statements we compiled them and are placing 64. Condemn the arrest of Asst. Professor Dr. G N Saibaba! Free 318 the compilation before the rank and file of our party, the people and all Dr. Saibaba immediately and unconditionally (15-5-2014) Maoist, progressive and democratic parties, organizations and intellectuals 65. The victory of BJP in Narendra Modi’s leadership indicates the 322 in our country and abroad who stand in solidarity with the Maoist movement. intensification of exploitation, oppression and fascism in the It would be useful in informing all those who support the Maoist movement country! Build a widespread struggle to fight back the threat about the stand of the party. The calls given by the party in these statements from Brahmanical Hindu-fascists by uniting all the revolutionary were implemented by the party cadres and thus these statements had and democratic forces (19-5-2014) significance in revolutionary practice too. 66. Red salutes to veteran leader of Naxalbari and revolutionary 330 These statements include a few statements issued by the Central Regional intellectual comrade Suniti Kumar Ghosh (20-5-2014) Bureau (CRB) and the Eastern Regional Bureau (ERB) (Bureaus that were formed as part of the CC). However, we have not been able to compile 48. See through the conspiracy of the ruling classes to launch bigger 226 here all the statements issued by these two Bureaus as they are in Telugu offensives on the people using the 25 May attack as a pretext! and Hindi respectively. We hope that at some future date, the Indian Unite, fight back and defeat the ‘War on People’ (11-6-2013) revolutionary movement would be able to make all these statements available 49. The catastrophe in Uttarakhand is the result of pro-imperialist 236 in English due to their political and historical significance and we would and anti-people economic, ecological policies of the comprador welcome all endeavors from the revolutionary camp to make this a possibility. Indian ruling classes (26-6-2013) This has been a decade of rich experiences in the path of protracted 50. Red homage to senior Virasam member, prominent writer and 241 people’s war waged for the victory of new democratic revolution in India, a translator comrade Aluri Bhujanga Rao (30-6-2013) decade of glorious people’s struggles, intensification and expansion of guerilla warfare and supreme sacrifices of party leaders and cadres, PLGA 51. Condemn and fight back the tightening grip of US Imperialism 245 commanders and fighters and the revolutionary masses and also a decade on internet freedom! Overthrow of imperialism is the only way of substantial revolutionary propaganda. These statements are but a part of for all kinds of freedoms (1-7-2013) the entire revolutionary propaganda activity of the party that was carried on 52. Condemn the dastardly murder of comrade Ganti Prasadam! 252 in various forms, at various levels and through various forums. Consequently Long live comrade Ganti Prasadam who laid down his life For they are also a part of the entire propaganda war waged by the proletarian the liberation of the oppressed masses! Observe protest week parties of the world as part of the world socialist revolution against the from July 15 to 21 condemning this brutal murder! Observe imperialists, their lackeys and all kinds of reactionaries the world over. AP-NT-AOB Bandh on July 21 (7-7-2013) However we humbly realise that much remains to be done on this front to 53. Revolutionary greetings to the people of Telangana who won a 258 confront the gigantic propaganda machine of the exploiters that is unleashing historic victory by trouncing the Congress and other bourgeois vicious attacks full of lies, falsities, and fabrications all the time spitting parties! Carry on New Democratic Revolution for solving the venom on the revolutionary movements. basic problems of the people in Telangana (31-7-2013) The imperialist world failed in overcoming the financial crisis it has 54. The right to decide the future of Syria lies with and only with 262 been bogged down in since 2008 despite desperate and countless attempts the Syrian people, not with imperialists or any one else! Oppose to do so. The fundamental contradictions in the world intensified further strongly the neo-Nazi US led imperialist aggression on Syria while the people’s resistance mounted against imperialist wars of aggression, (5-9-2013) exploitation, suppression, intervention and control. This international political 55. Observe Bharat Bandh on October 5 protesting the brutal and economic scenario manifested in India too. On the other hand the 274 offensive of the worldwide imperialist propaganda against communist massacre of 14 Maoists in Malkangiri by the neo-fascist Naveen ideology continued with the same ferocity, if not more. But we also witnessed Patnaik government in Odisha (17-9-2013) a turning point when people all over the world, especially in Europe, one of 56. Condemn the judgment of the Patna High Court (Bihar) 278 the ideological epicenters for the apologists of imperialism, began taking acquitting the perpetrators of Laxmanpur-Baathe massacre! interest in what Marx said about capitalist crises after the worldwide economic Condemn the Kandhamal District Court judgment that handed crisis shook their economies. A trend of turning to MLM is growing among out punishment to the innocent persons wrongly accused of them to seek solutions to the problems they are facing. These statements killing Laxmananand – the notorious leader of the Hindu- fundamentalist VHP (16-10-2013) 4 Collected Statements of Central Committee, CPI (Maoist) Part 3 (August 2010 - August 2014) 13 imperialists in the Parliament to sell our country’s sovereignty also have a share, however small, in giving answers to some of their queries to the FDI giants (21-9-2012) about the exploiting systems that are in power and their working. They 41.
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