Maoist Information Bulletin - 34 July- December 2016 Editorial ..... 2 Homage to Martyrs ..... 4 Homage to Comrade Kuppu Devaraj ..... 11 On Ramguda Encounter, Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) ..... 17 CC Call on the 12th Anniversary of the Formation of CPI(Maoist) ..... 32 CMC Call on the Occasion of the 16th Anniversary of PLGA ..... 43 Interview with Comrade Kishan, PBM and Secretary, ERB ..... 60 News from the Battlefield ..... 73 Voices against War on People ..... 85 People’s Struggles ..... 117 News from Behind the Bars ..... 143 News from the Counter-revolutionary Camp ..... 156 Pages from International Communist Movement ..... 170 Statements of CPI(Maoist) ..... 181 Central Committee Communist Party of India (Maoist) Editorial Una struggle marks a turning point in the democratic movement of the Dalits Dalits, accompanied by a large number of democratic organisations and individuals, carried out a series of protests against the brutal caste violence on four Dalit youths by a gang of Hindutva-fascist ‘cow protectors’ in Una Taluka of Gir district, Gujarat on 11 July 2016. This included a march to Una – the site of this heinous crime – from Ahmadabad covering a distance of nearly 350 kilometres. Militant protests were carried out throughout Gujarat, including bandhs, rasta rokos, mass rallies, boycott of caste-based degrading professions, and so on. Several Dalits tried to commit suicide in protest. This expression of collective anger by the indignant Dalits of Gujarat and outside following the Una violence has been termed by some as a social revolt. The movement has distinguished itself from other Dalit struggles to erupt in recent times. Not content at asking only for the punishment of the culprits of caste violence, the Dalits during the Una movement went further and challenged the very foundations of casteism by refusing to perform their caste-based traditional occupations. In place of these occupations – which were not of their choice but were imposed on them by the Brahmanical feudal society – the Dalits raised the demand of sufficient cultivable land for every household which would enable them to raise crops with their family labour, make them independent peasants and liberate them from the humiliating dependence on the big landholders and proprietors belonging to the so-called Upper Castes. 2 July - December 2016 MIB-34 In this way, Una struggle has inaugurated and Samata Sainik Dal led by Dr. Ambedkar a new phase of Dalit struggle by not only to the Dalit Panthers movement on the one challenging caste-based violence, inequality, hand, while alluding to the tradition of discrimination and humiliation but by going revolutionary struggle of the landless and beyond it to challenge the very foundations, poor peasants for land and political power i.e., the economic base, of the Brahmanical inaugurated by Naxalbari armed agrarian feudalism that perpetuates the hated hierarchy revolutionary uprising on the other. of castes. What makes Una struggle Therefore, even though what the Dalits are immensely significant – and not only for the demanding in the wake of Una is within the Dalits but for all democratic classes, strata and framework of democratic reforms, these sections of the Indian society – is the fact that reforms – and the democratic struggles to in addition to reaffirming the demand for the achieve these reforms – have the potential to right to life, livelihood, dignity and equal aid and ally themselves with the Indian opportunity promised by the Indian revolution at its present new democratic stage. Constitution, it has raised the demand for the Una struggle has once again right over the principal means of production, demonstrated that the toiling Dalit masses of particularly land. Thereby it has raised the the country are ready to struggle for their concerns not only of the Dalit petty emancipation. But their aspiration for putting bourgeoisie but also of the vast landless Dalit an end to the present degrading social system masses of the countryside. which keeps them enslaved can only be It is undeniable that just like all realised by following the correct path of opportunities and avenues of social progress struggle. Therefore, it is the duty and the task such as public education and jobs have been of all revolutionaries to take the message to monopolised by the upper strata of the so- the Dalit masses that it is only the democratic called Upper Castes (leaving the degrading revolution – led by the proletariat and guided jobs for the Dalits), in the same way, the by the proletarian ideology of Marxism- principal means of production – the most Leninism-Maoism that follows the path of important of which is land for an agrarian protracted people’s war – that can uproot the country like India – has been monopolised by present semi-colonial and semi-feudal system the landlords belonging to the upper strata of and accomplish the historic task of the dominant castes. This monopoly has been annihilating caste both in the economic base maintained at the expense of all other classes and the superstructure. and castes, the Dalits being placed at one of It is therefore necessary to ensure that the the two extreme ends of this social flame of struggle lit up by Una is not polarisation. The breaking of the monopoly extinguished and the unity of the over the means of material production revolutionary, democratic, progressive and through a revolution, therefore, is no less secular forces exemplified by the Una struggle important than the breaking of the monopoly is carried forward with redoubled initiative. over means of mental production through Just like the Dalits and other democratic reservation and other reforms. In fact, unless sections have challenged the Brahmanical the very basis of caste is destroyed, any Hindu-fascist forces at their very stronghold amount or kind of reforms, no matter how Gujarat through the Una struggle, the united important they may be in themselves, will struggle of all the exploited, oppressed and never be able to accomplish the aim of humiliated people of India, by pursuing the annihilation of caste. correct path of struggle, not only can By addressing this question, the Una challenge but finally overthrow the regressive, struggle has established a new landmark in the reactionary and counter-revolutionary social democratic movement of the Dalits for social forces along with their reprehensible social and economic emancipation. By doing so, it system in order to usher in a truly democratic, has upheld the militant tradition of Dalit egalitarian and just society. struggles from the days of Mahad Satyagraha MIB-34 July - December 2016 3 Homage to Martyrs Homage to the Martyrs (July-December 2016) In a bid to eliminate the Indian comrades including 15 villagers were Revolutionary movement the exploitive murdered in fake encounters by the ruling classes are unleashing the offensive government mercenary armed forces. in the third phase of Green Hunt in a Member of BJSAC, Comrade Ashish was much more severe manner. Especially in killed in a covert action. Eleven comrades 2016, in the name of Mission 2016 they were martyred in enemy ambushes. unleashed massacres and attacks in a Comrade Ajit Yadav, a member of Zonal serious manner. Brave comrades of PLGA, Committee was killed along with three People’s Militia and revolutionary masses comrades in the attack of the counter laid their warm blood and took up the war revolutionary TPC gang in Palamu district of resistance to defeat this offensive, in the of Jharkhand. Nearly 20 comrades out of leadership of our Party. This People’s war the martyrs laid their lives in encounters is inspiring not only the oppressed people with the enemy forces putting up a heroic of our country but of the world too. It is fight. The police forces murdered 4 in instilling the masses with confidence in our Jharkhand and five in Odisha in the attacks Party. Democrats across the country are on the activists of anti-displacement agitating against the fascist suppression of movements. the Indian exploitive classes under the Member of the Central Committee of direction of the Imperialists, mainly the the Party Comrade Kuppu Devaraj US imperialists. (Yogesh), SAC/SZC/SC members In this path of People’s War/Struggle, Comrades Raghunath Mahato (BJ), nearly 150 comrades became martyrs all Himadri Roy (Bidhan, Somen, West over the country in a period of six months Bengal), Vijendra Yadav (Ashish, BJ), from July to December 2016. Our Bakuri Venkataramana (Ganesh, AOB), comrades heroically resisted the attack of Chamala Kishtaiah (Daya, AOB), Ajitha the AP Greyhounds in Ramaguda of the (Kaveri, Western Ghats) are among the Andhra-Odisha border area, laid their lives martyrs. In the DVC/ZC level, there are and protected the leadership. Thirty-one Comrades Prabhakar (Gangadhar, AOB), comrades have been martyred in this Suvarnaraju (Kiran, AOB), Jagath (Kursam incident. On the whole in this period, a CC Ramamurthy, West Bastar, DK), Ajit Yadav member and an SZCM in the Western (Palamu, Jharkhand). There are 22 AC/ Ghats, 81 comrades in DK, 20 in BJ, 32 in PPC comrades, 34 PMs/PLGA warriors, AOB, 6 in Odisha and 1 in West Bengal 2 RPC leaders, 6 leaders of mass were martyred. Ninety of the martyred organisations, 23 people’s militia 4 July - December 2016 MIB-34 Com. Kuppu Devaraj Com. Raghunath Mahato Com. Himadri Roy Com. Vijendra Yadav (CCM & WGSZCS) (former BJ SACM) (WB SCM) (BJ SACM) Com. Bakuri Venkataramana Com. Chamala Kistaiah Com. Ajitha (AOB SZCM) (AOB SZCM) (WG SZCM) commanders and fighters and 25 revolutionary the comrades of the whole party, especially the sympathisers and masses. The leader of civil comrades in the three states of the South West rights Comrade Bojja Tarakam and the region to learn from his ideals and to advance founder president of RYL and RWA member with his great spirit in a firm manner.