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Maoist Information Bulletin - 31 October 2014 - June 2015 Editorial ..... 2 CC Message on the Occasion of Martyr’s Week, 28 July 2015 ..... 6 CMC Call on the Occasion of the 14th Anniversary of PLGA ..... 17 10th Anniversary of the Formation of CPI(Maoist) Celebrations ..... 28 News from the Battlefield ..... 30 People’s Struggles ..... 56 Voices against War on People ..... 68 News from Behind the Bars ..... 77 News from the Counter-revolutionary Camp ..... 96 Pages from International Communist Movement ..... 121 Statements of CPI(Maoist) ..... 154 Central Committee Communist Party of India (Maoist) Editorial Compradors cannot bring prosperity to the people and the country; Only a united people’s revolutionary struggle will bring real prosperity In May this year, Narendra Modi-led struggle and the stepping-up of resistance of NDA government has completed one year in the masses in the guerrilla zones led by the office. This period has been characterised by Maoist Party and the PLGA. These an aggressive imposition of reactionary anti- developments are discussed in the present issue people policies by the Modi government in all of MIB. spheres of the Indian society – economic, Though the Maoist movement is a political, cultural and environmental – and the genuine opponent of the Modi government in growing antagonism of various classes, sections the country – a fact the central government has and groups of the oppressed masses against it. acknowledged by it several times – it by no Based on a dangerous mix of the feudal- means is its only adversary. In fact, had the Brahmanical Hindutva ideology with Maoists been the only major force resisting it, imperialist-dictated neo-liberalism, the anti- Modi government would have had much less people and anti-country treacherous policies of to worry. But the reality is that within a the Modi government has given rise to a wide relatively short period, Modi government and range of opposition. The same basic policies the small gang of Sangh Pracharaks at its helm which made the previous UPA government the have antagonised a wide section of the vast butt of mass resentment are now being pursued masses, came in sharp conflict with its faster, more extensively and aggressively by parliamentary opponents on many issues and Modi government, receiving a similar response even its NDA partners had shunned it on a few from the oppressed people. Resistance to these occasions. Thus, on a few issues BJP found policies is also becoming more extensive, itself temporarily isolated. frequent and militant. As the primary focus of Even a bird’s-eye view of the last one MIB is to reflect the developments related to year’s political developments will show that the the country’s Maoist movement, in its present Modi government has made more enemies and past issues MIB has concentrated more on than friends in this period. The fascist gang Modi government’s political and military led by Modi, Amit Shah and Mohan Bhagwat policies against the movement. These anti- and their RSS storm-troopers have become the Maoist counter-revolutionary policies too have no.1 threat to the people and the country. become more cruel, aggressive and deceptive Consider the opposition that has confronted in the last nine months of NDA rule which Modi government. The amended land initiated the third phase of Operation Green acquisition ordinance promulgated by the Hunt. This indicated a sharpening of the class government and the amended bill tabled in the 2 October 2014 - June 2015 MIB-31 parliament drew vehement opposition from the parliament too is a reflection of the growing peasants across the country since more than bickering within the ruling-classes. The half of the country’s 1.2 billion people depend drubbing BJP received in the Delhi assembly on land for their existence. This strong elections along with Congress was a rejection opposition from the peasantry who of Modi governments’ policies rather than an demonstrated in different parts of the country acceptance of AAP’s NGO-type politics. forced all major political parties to put up a Modi government’s steps to impose its serious opposition against it – a rarity in the monolithic Hindutva agenda on a highly dog-eat-dog Indian parliamentary politics. diverse society by adopting coercive means such Even some of the NDA allies were compelled as making Sanskrit, Yoga and Hindu prayers to voice their opposition to the amended land compulsory in schools, banning of cow bill, forcing Modi government on the back-foot slaughter and sale of beef in BJP-ruled states, temporarily in spite of the strong pressure put attempts at saffronisation of education and by foreign and domestic big capital. imposition of Hindi, etc. have drawn wide- Amendments to labour laws that have scale opposition. Renewed thrust on drastically impinged on the hard-earned rights intensifying the so-called ‘War on Islamic of the working people have galvanised them Terrorism’ in the country in conformity with and pushed their toothless trade unions to the US-led ‘War on Terror’, growing attacks confront the government. A good measure of on rationalist-progressive critics of Hinduism the growing discontent among the workers was and superstition, increasing government demonstrated by half a million coalmine interference in the matters of faith and workers who carried out a two-day education of the Muslim and Christian countrywide strike against privatisation of Coal minorities coupled with growing physical and India Limited. The salaried lower middle- verbal attacks on them by BJP and other classes – government employees of banks, affiliates of the Sangh Parivar, repeated insurance companies, public sector industries, vandalisation of the Islamic and Christian teachers, health workers and others have carried places of worship by RSS hooligans, forced out several protest actions against Modi conversion to Hinduism of the people of government’s policies. Demanding better religious minorities in the name of ‘Ghar pension and a life with dignity, even retired Wapasi’, frequent talks about the building of soldiers have come to the streets against Modi Ram temple at Ayodhya and similar government – something unprecedented in the expressions of bigotry at regular intervals, history of ‘independent’ India. Opposition has release of the perpetrators of atrocities on been frequently voiced by various state minorities in Gujarat pogrom, Ishrat Jahan governments run by non-BJP ruling-class fake encounter, Hashimpura massacre, parties against the attempts by Modi Kandhamal riots, Hindutva terrorists government to dismantle even the nominal and responsible for blasts in Mecca Masjid, already hollowed-out federal structure to Samjhauta Express etc., withdrawal of concentrate and centralise maximum criminal cases pending against Amit Shah and administrative and financial powers. Far- other Sangh Parivar leaders – all these and reaching measures such as dissolution of the numerous other signs of growing Hindutva- Planning Commission, introduction of Goods fascist threat in the last one year have been and Services Tax and the unilateral actions of opposed by the Muslims and Christians as well the centre are seen by non-BJP ruled state as the democratic, progressive and patriotic governments as a process in this direction. The sections of the society. Muzzling the creative spectacle of the Bihar chief minister going on works of progressive filmmakers, artists, hunger strike against discriminatory policies novelists, writers and intellectuals, etc. which of the central government during this period are critical of Brahmanical Hindu obscurantist can be seen as an example of this. The mutual values, attempts at regulating the internet and mudslinging and frequent logjams in the cyber surveillance that impinge on privacy, MIB-31 October 2014 - June 2015 3 persecution of the vocal critics of Modi, giving rise to angry protests in Kashmir. Armed overhauling of the selection process of the resistance to the Indian forces is also higher judiciary, steps to introduce compulsory continuing. A significant development in the voting, attacks on the even the limited period is the resumption of the Naga national democratic space and other such dictatorial liberation war by NSCN led by S S Khaplang measures by the Modi government have from March this year. The deadly ambush on enraged the vocal intelligentsia and the the Indian Army by the Naga rebels in Manipur democratic section of the broad middle classes. that wiped out 18 soldiers marks a turning point Cancelling the registration of thousands of non- in the movement and became a cause of great governmental organisations such as Green worry for Modi government. The centre’s Peace which create hurdles to the government’s decision to give refugee status to Bangladeshi ‘development’ plans and targeted attacks on Hindus in the country without any regulatory their activists have forced even some of these mechanism has united the people of Asom and docile bodies to speak up against the drawn them to the path of struggle. Attempts government. Attack on the autonomy of by the government to stop the people from educational institutions exemplified by the commemorating the martyrs of Khalistan interference in IIT Madras and FTII Pune by movement have led to militant protests in some the union Human Resource Ministry and the parts of Punjab. Discontent is thus fomenting students’ agitations resisting it demonstrate the among different sections of the people all over stirring among the student community against the country and are increasingly finding Modi government’s Hindutva politics. Caste expression in struggles against Modi oppression against the Dalits by the government. Brahmanical dominant castes is on the rise Soaring price rise and high rate of after the electoral victory of BJP. The Dalits inflation coupled withdrawal of government are resisting it to some extent. Adivasis too are subsidies from basic necessities of life is cutting continuing their struggles for Jal-Jangal-Zameen into the real income and savings of all sections and against displacement in different parts of of the working people, thereby lowering their the country.