Maoist Information Bulletin - 37 January - June 2018 BIRTH BICENTENARY OF KARL MARX SPECIAL ISSUE Editorial ..... 2 On the Birth Bicentenary of Karl Marx ..... 7 CC Message for Martyrs’ Week ..... 25 Obituary: Comrade Dev Kumar Singh (Arvind) ..... 38 On the Kasanur-Tumirgunda Encounter ..... 50 News from the Battlefield .....70 Voices against War on People ..... 78 People’s Struggles .....89 News from Behind the Bars .....100 News from the Counter-revolutionary Camp ..... 104 Statements of CPI(Maoist) ..... 111 Central Committee Communist Party of India (Maoist) Birth Bicentenary of Karl Marx Editorial Hold high the revolutionary proletarian legacy of Karl Marx Marx’s name will endure through the ages, and so also will his work. – Frederick Engels in his speech at the grave of Karl Marx This year, the world proletariat and other sections of the oppressed people across the world are celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism and great teacher of the downtrodden masses. Born on 5 May 1818 at Trier in Rhine province of Prussia (later a part of unified Germany) in a middle class family of lawyers, Marx from his very youth displayed a profound and exceptional empathy for the dispossessed and the disinherited humanity, championing the cause of truth and justice at their service. From the beginning of his public life as the editor of the radical democratic newspaper Rheinische Zeitung in the early 1940s to his passing away in the capacity of the foremost leader of the international proletariat in London on 14 March 1883, Marx boldly and consistently lent his powerful voice to the cause of the oppressed, speaking up for the peasants persecuted under the draconian ‘wood theft’ laws up to that of the working class yoked to grinding wage- slavery of capitalism. In the process, Marx made epoch-making contributions in the field of scientific research – founding the method of historical and dialectical materialism, unravelling the laws of motion of the capitalist society and particularly the theory of surplus value as the cornerstone of capitalist exploitation in his classic work Capital, identifying the dictatorship of the proletariat as the transitional form of state in the socialist society and outlining the path to communism – just to name a few. In fact, he along with his close comrade-in-arms Frederick 2 January - June 2018 MIB-37 Engels laid the foundations of Marxism, the initiation of this struggle, which was fought integrated world outlook and guiding ideology on a sound scientific basis since the late 1840s of the proletariat – the builders of the new was declared to the world by Marx and Engels society. It was Marx on whom history bestowed through their path-breaking Communist the task of synthesising the best of human Manifesto -– the programme that continues to knowledge developed over the millennia and guide the international communist movement using it for the struggle of liberation of the even to this today. Marx not only prepared the human race from class exploitation and theoretical basis of this struggle but led it from oppression, which is rooted in the historic the front through various working-class division of the society into classes resulting organisations he helped in founding – from the emergence of private property in the Communist League, International means of production and its concentration Workingmen’s Association, and so on. He into a few hands. Marx’s work thereby brought hailed the great revolutionary uprising of the about a great leap in the field of human French proletariat – the Paris Commune of knowledge of society and nature and in social 1871 – and guided the communist sections practice. within it, even while warning beforehand that Since his demise, the direction of the uprising was premature and doomed to historical development of society Marx failure. He fought a relentless and indicated has been substantiated in practice. uncompromising lifelong battle against all The necessity and inevitability of the forms of reactionary, petty-bourgeois and superseding of capitalism by socialism as a reformist ideologies within the working-class transitory stage towards the establishment of movement, exposed and defeated them one a classless society or communism has been after another and played the pioneering role demonstrated by the victorious revolutions of in establishing the predominance of scientific the twentieth century, particularly by the socialism. glorious October and Chinese revolutions and In the process of this bitter class struggle, by the advances made in socialist construction the theory of Marxism – the repository of the and the emergence of a world socialist teachings of Marx and Engels – developed in economy. History has proved the correctness the last century into the newer and higher stages of the conclusion arrived at through his of Leninism and Maoism, thereby enriching scientific studies by Marx about the transient the proletarian weapon of interpreting and nature of capitalism as a mode of production, changing the world. It is under the guiding which after reaching its highest stage of light of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM) development, must necessarily create that the genuine proletarian parties of a conditions for its own demise and the coming number of countries including the into being of a newer, higher and more rational CPI(Maoist) are presently conducting mode of production – communism. It is in communist movements and are holding high this society that the exploitation, oppression, the banner of revolutionary Marxism. Though discrimination and domination based on class, the international communist movement has nationality, religion, gender, caste, etc., will suffered a serious setback due to the great finally be brought to an end along with their reversals in the USSR and China, the instrument – the state machinery. consequent collapse of the socialist camp and Marx identified the leading and decisive the disintegration of the world socialist role of the proletariat in building this new economy, every development in the field of society from the rubbles of capitalism through economics and politics in the last five decades a life-and-death class struggle with its since then has vindicated the universal truth antagonist – the bourgeoisie – to be fought in and continued relevance of Marxism as the alliance with other oppressed classes. The credit only genuine guide for the final liberation of for identifying the revolutionary potential and humanity. Disproving the bootleggers of the historic necessity of combining socialism with bourgeoisie who proclaim the ‘end of history’, the working-class struggle goes to Marx. The the obsolescence of communism and the MIB-37 January - June 2018 3 permanence of capitalism, every new passing through a difficult period - while the economic crisis is making even bourgeois capitalist economic and political system is economists run back to the works of Marx for heading for another of its severe cyclic crises, direction. the best way for us in India to commemorate Marx’s works are still being read by the birth bicentenary of Karl Marx is to more millions and continue to be in print in a variety thoroughly and conscientiously study his of languages all over the world. His life and teachings and learn more deeply from his works continue to be the inspiration for exemplary revolutionary practice with the aim generations of communist revolutionaries, of advancing the revolution. Let us take pledge national liberation fighters, democrats and all to uncompromisingly struggle against all forms sections of the oppressed people struggling for of bourgeois ideology and revisionism in the their emancipation. At a time like this when light of Marxism to defend the revolutionary the international communist movement is proletarian ideology and politics of the great going through a phase of revival and Karl Marx! Let us boldly beat back the enemy’s consolidation following the setbacks of the last counter-revolutionary offensives to march century - and particularly when the forward on the path to socialism and countrywide revolutionary movement is communism under the invincible red banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism! 4 January - June 2018 MIB-37 Birth Bicentenary of Karl Marx Special Article This issue of MIB carries a special section on the occasion of the birth bicentenary of the great proletarian revolutionary leader and teacher Karl Marx. We are including in it the following article written by the Central Committee of CPI(Maoist) on the occasion and is reproduced from People’s War, No.13 where it was first published - MIB Hold aloft the red flag of invincible Marxism! March forward daringly on the revolutionary path of the international proletariat!! Celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx on 5 May 2018 all over the country with revolutionary enthusiasm! Central Committee, CPI(Maoist) “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it” - Karl Marx The theoretician of the international birth bi-centenary on this day with proletarian revolution, the most respectable revolutionary enthusiasm. On this occasion, among the world proletariat and the toiling the Central Committee (CC), CPI (Maoist) masses, a great leader and teacher Comrade pays him its sincere red homage. It takes pledge Karl Marx was born in the city of Trier in to persist in revolutionary class struggle and Rhine province of Prussia (Germany) on 5th organizational efforts in