Maoist Information Bulletin - 33 January - June 2016 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF GPCR COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE Editorial ..... 2 On the 50th Anniversary of the GPCR in Socialist China ..... 3 CC Call for Four Upcoming Anniversaries ..... 27 CC Message for Martyrs’ Week, 28 July – 3 August 2016 ..... 33 CMC Call on the Occasion of the 15th Anniversary of PLGA ..... 43 A Reply to Sumanta Banerjee - Comrade Ganapathy ..... 63 News from the Battlefield ..... 73 Voices against War on People ..... 88 People’s Struggles ..... 116 News from Behind the Bars ..... 150 News from the Counter-revolutionary Camp ..... 164 Pages from International Communist Movement ..... 176 Statements of CPI(Maoist) ..... 198 Central Committee Communist Party of India (Maoist) Editorial The Great Proletarian Cultural proletariat were developed which were Revolution of socialist China (1966-76) was necessary to guarantee the victory of an earth-shaking event of world-historic socialism. Not only that, these theories were importance. It was the result of the summing tested and proven in the crucible of practice up of all the positive and negative experiences during the GPCR. This was a unique, new and of the world working class movement for higher level experience for the world proletariat establishing socialism and communism. and the international communist movement. Under the leadership of Mao, it developed the Apart from changing the entire Chinese revolutionary theory and practice of the society, the GPCR also had a worldwide international proletariat to a new and higher impact. It was a catalyst for a new wave of level. It was a unique and unprecedented communist and national liberation movements revolution led by the proletariat against the across the world. It provided the impetus for a bourgeoisie under the conditions of socialism decisive ideological and political break with and the dictatorship of the proletariat. It was revisionism. It provided the backdrop of the a revolution to bring the superstructure in beginning of a new type of working class conformity with the socialist economic base. movements in the capitalist countries and It was a revolution of the period of transition protracted people’s wars in several oppressed from capitalism to communism through the countries including India which upheld intermediate stage of socialism by defeating Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as their guiding the attempts of domestic and foreign ideology. revisionists and reactionaries to restore capitalism. It was a revolution by millions upon In the communist movement of our millions of people who rose up like stormy country, an ideological struggle was already waves to smash the enemy strongholds. In the going on under the leadership of revolutionary process, they also transformed their own world forerunners like comrades CM and KC. This outlook, which was essential for carrying ideological struggle led to the historic forward the socialist revolution. It was a Naxalbari armed agrarian revolutionary revolution to continue the revolution to till its upsurge of 1967. Thus, it was in the final victory – the establishment of international backdrop of the GPCR that the communism by carrying the socialist people’s war was initiated in India under the revolution through to the end. leadership of comrades CM and KC. This glorious people’s war has continued on a GPCR was the result of the further tortuous path for the last five decades and is development of the Marxist theoretical concept going to complete its fiftieth anniversary next of continuous revolution. Led by Mao, new year. theoretical principles related to class struggle under socialism and the dictatorship of the continued on p.115 2 January - June 2016 MIB-33 Editorial Article On the 50th Anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Socialist China A cultural revolution is the ideological reflection of the political and economic revolution and is in their service. - Mao, ‘On New Democracy’, 1940 This year marks the 50th anniversary of public institution or organisation was left the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution untouched or unaffected by this fierce struggle (GPCR) in socialist China. Many years in the between two classes, two ideologies, two making, this revolution began in the cultural politics, two lines, two roads and two goals. field and took the form of a mass upsurge by The revolutionary masses confronted the class mid-1966. It continued for three tumultuous enemy in each and every field and rose up in a years in a zigzag course and passed through great upheaval to shake the citadels of the several stages before the Ninth Congress of the reactionaries to their very foundations. The Communist Party of China (CPC) announced struggle that ensued unleashed the unbound its victorious conclusion and summed up its creativity, energy and enthusiasm of the results in 1969. Although the GPCR continued revolutionary masses on an unprecedented for another seven years in various forms till scale. Guided by the revolutionary line of the mid-1976, it was in its high-tides in the three CPC, they introduced wide-ranging initial years and constituted its most significant innovations in the forms of organisation and period. This unique and unprecedented struggle and in the party, government, military, revolution in the superstructure shook the industry, agriculture, trade, science and Chinese society to its roots, touched the technology, education, health, culture, Chinese people to their very souls and made a literature and art – i.e., in all spheres of class worldwide impact. On the call of the Left in struggle, struggle for production and scientific the CPC led by Mao, millions upon millions experiment. of people in China entered the arena of intense The most pernicious and deceitful class struggle across the country against representatives of the old-world muck were the bourgeois ideology, politics and practice, revisionists ensconced in the higher echelons against bourgeois control and influence over of the Communist Party, the People’s the party, army and government and against Liberation Army (PLA) and the people’s all the old-world muck pulling the wheels of government. The CPC had a long history of history backwards. Not a single Party fighting revisionism within its ranks since its committee, factory, commune, collective farm, MIB-33 January - June 2016 3 inception. Till the country’s liberation, the they adopted increasingly more secretive, Party had successfully carried out six major conspiratorial and deceptive forms and two-line struggles against the revisionist lines methods, making their line even more of Ch’en Tu-hsiu, Ch’u Ch’iu-pai, Li Li-san, damaging. This resistance became even Lo Chang-lung, Wang Ming and Chang Kuo- stronger in the process of socialist tao, without defeating which the victory of the industrialisation and socialist transformation Chinese new democratic revolution would of agriculture, handicrafts and trade, which have been impossible. was basically completed by 1956 and China was Within a decade after liberation, the all set to enter the stage of socialist construction revolutionaries in the CPC were once again through the Great Leap Forward. This called into battle against the revisionist lines vindicated Lenin’s teaching that the of Kao Kang and P’eng Te-huai. Two-line overthrown reactionary classes would increase struggles under the conditions of dictatorship their resistance to the revolution manifolds of the proletariat, however, differed after the establishment of the proletarian significantly from those during the pre- dictatorship. With their counter-revolutionary liberation days. The internal ideological line and practice, the revisionists in the CPC struggle became more acute after the tried to transform the revolutionary party into countrywide seizure of power and the a social-fascist party, the dictatorship of the establishment of the proletarian dictatorship, proletariat into a bourgeois dictatorship and since the revisionists now tried to supplement socialist China into a capitalist one. the authority of their top party positions with After 1956, the position of the revisionists that portion of state power which they had in China was further strengthened by the surreptitiously usurped from the people. seizure of power by the Khrushchev revisionist Misusing their positions of authority, they clique in the CPSU and the restoration of struggled against the revolutionary line of capitalism in the Soviet Union. Not Mao, opposed socialist construction, exercised surprisingly, while all the two-line struggles in dictatorship over the proletariat and worked the CPC before liberation and the struggles towards reversing the socialist revolution. against Kao Kang and P’eng Te-huai’s lines They did this by promoting capitalism in the thereafter could be settled within the party economic base and propagating bourgeois through internal struggles, by the time of the ideology in the superstructure. They suppressed GPCR the revisionists had become too the socialist new things that were sprouting in powerful and influential to be defeated through the course of socialist construction. the old method of internal struggle within the Moreover, while the revisionists of the party alone. Mao pointed out that capitalist- pre-liberation period used mainly open forms roaders had already usurped one-third of state and methods of struggle against the power in China by 1966. It was only by relying revolutionaries, in the post-liberation period on the vast masses of people and mobilising