Revolutionary Greetings from the Ceylon Communist Party-Maoist.

As a contingent of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, the CPN-had waged People's War against the Nepalese State for ten years, from 1996 to 2006. Under the leadership of the CPN-M, the People's Army had achieved great heights principally by establishing and expanding the red liberated base areas and other areas under the control or influence of the Party throughout the country. In these liberated areas, the proletariat, peasantry and oppressed nationalities and masses, led by the Party, exercised their own New Democratic state power, while clearing the path to the Socialist Revolution, as part of advancing the World Proletarian Socialist Revolution aimed at achieving Communism worldwide. These precious achievements won through great sacrifice, under tenacious Maoist leadership, provided inspiration to all Maoists and other revolutionary forces throughout the world, while creating panic among all imperialist and reactionary forces. These historic advances also served to unite Maoist revolutionary forces in South Asia .

In 2006, the CPN-M had taken the initiative in entering into a power sharing arrangement with the Nepalese bourgeois parliamentary opposition aimed at overthrowing the Monarchy. This has taken the form of contesting an election to a Constitutional Assembly that would formulate a new republican federal constitution. This tactical compromise was made at the cost of de-mobilizing the Peoples Liberation Army and suspending the People's War. In these elections the CPN-M has come out as the leading force, with an overwhelming majority of votes.

This tactical turn has been based on the analysis that the Monarchy represents the semi-feudal production and social relations and constitutes the immediate and principal obstacle to the forward march of the New Democratic Revolution. On this basis, the CPN-M had decided to enter into an alliance with the bourgeois parliamentary opposition to dispose of the Monarchy represented by king Gayendra. This decision was also propelled by the heroic advances gained by the people's war and the mass upsurge generated by it, which compelled the Nepalese bourgeois parliamentary opposition, world imperialism and India , to concede political space for the CPN-M. For their part, their tactical option was, " if you cannot devour them now, let us co-opt them, so we can devour them that much better ". However, the real danger lies in turning this tactical 'necessity' into a strategic principle.

The principal contradiction in all oppressed countries remain that between imperialism and the oppressed people. The strategic path defined by this contradiction is to wage protracted people's war to overthrow and uproot the Comprador Bureaucratic state by combining the Agrarian Revolution and the National Democratic Revolution aimed at overthrowing both semi-feudalism and imperialist domination and establishing the People's Democratic State, representing the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry, in alliance with all classes and nations oppressed by imperialism, as a necessary transition to waging the Socialist Revolution. That is why we need to target imperialism as the principal enemy of the New Democratic revolution and continue waging protracted people's war, against all odds and placing our faith in the international proletariat and the oppressed masses that they shall fight and seek liberation in Communism.

We extend our internationalist solidarity with the CPN-M at this most momentous conjuncture. We urge that through all the compromises that have to be made, you strengthen and build the New Democratic state power , embodied in the liberated red base areas, already gained through so much heroic sacrifice of the people and the warriors of the PLA, maintain the independence and initiative of the CPN-M to carry forward the New Democratic Revolution, in unity with the international proletariat and the world revolution.

People's War News [8th May 2008]

RANCHI: In Jharkhand more than 1,000 CPI (Maoist) activists, armed with modern weapons, blocked the National Highway 100 (NH), which connects Chatra to Bagodar via Hazaribag for four hours from 8 in the morning. The Maoists also blew up a police vehicle in which a wireless supervisor of Giridih police Oliver Purti was killed and three other policemen were injured at Roll Pathar on Holong Ghati under Bishungarh police station. An eyewitness said they also hurled powerful bombs on the police. They said, "A Ranchi- bound Tata 407 police van of the Giridih police was ambushed by armed Naxals as it reached the Holong Ghati." According to the reports, the Maoists, after blowing up the police vehicle captured the 5 km stretch of Hazaribag-Dhanbad road via Bishnugarh and Bagodar (NH-100) blocked it from both the sides.

Shameless Bengalurians!!

They speak about infrastructure, they comment in national media about the bad infrastructure , bad roads, irritating traffic and other negative elements of the city .Do you think they are responsible citizens ? if you think so you are wrong .

In the first phase of election in Karnataka the vote percentage is around 65% . Excluding BBMP and Bengaluru city the percentage rises to 73%. BBMP has a percent of 55% and bengaluru city has the lowest 44.5%!!! what right do the bengalurians have to question politicians??

Where are they? election was on saturday and there was holiday on thursday[ basava jayanthi] , so if you put a cl on friday you will get 4 day holiday and people of bengaluru are enjoying it. while returning to their home they will comment on roads and traffic and criticise politicians ..................... jai hind

Nepal Maoists must concentrate on continuing the class struggle'

K. Srinivas Reddy in Hindu - 5th May 2008
It is possible only when they do not become part of governmentBe wary of the possibility of coups, assassinationsThey would be powerless to effect radical changes in ConstitutionHYDERABAD: In a shift from their earlier stand on the Nepalesedevelopments, Indian Maoists maintain that the current situation inthe neighbouring country provides immense possibilities for carryingforward the revolutionary programme by relying on the masses andcarrying out the class struggle, while utilising the State.However, such a scenario will be possible only when the Maoistleadership in Nepal does not become part of the government butconcentrates on continuing the class struggle, says Azad, Maoistspokesman in India.In a statement on Wednesday, the CPI (Maoist) Central Committeedescribed the electoral victory of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN)as "a verdict against feudal monarchy, Indian expansionism and U.S.imperialism. " Cautioning them "not to become dizzy with success" andto be wary of the possibility of coups and assassinations, thecommittee said the real test would begin once the CPN took over thereins of power.The Maoist party was of the firm view that radical restructuring ofthe system would not be possible without militant mobilisation ofmasses. Such systemic changes could not be brought about throughState decrees and laws.With the Nepal Maoists lacking a majority in the ConstituentAssembly, they would be powerless to effect radical changes in theConstitution.There were only two alternatives — either to compromise and adjustwith reactionary forces or to mobilise people and intensify strugglethrough all means, including armed insurrection. The CPN should befully prepared to confront coup attempts, assassinations, artificialscarcity of goods through economic blockades and sabotage by inimicalforces that included India and the U.S, the Maoist party said.While sending their "fraternal revolutionary greetings,' IndianMaoists reminded the CPN leaders that very limited gains could beachieved by a government which came to power through elections."Survival of such a regime depends on taking a conciliatory stand onseveral crucial matters. Hence to overestimate the prospects ofradical restructuring of the society or economy by a Maoistgovernment would be illusory," the statement said.

Stop war and start talks: plea for new tactics in India's Red Corridor

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India should seek peace talks with Maoist rebels whose influence has spread to half the country and who threaten to undermine an economic boom, according to an internal report sent to the Government yesterday.
The report, a copy of which was seen by The Times, urges the reversal of the 40-year policy of refusing to negotiate with the Naxalites, as the Maoists are known, until they renounce violence.
It also criticises the Government for treating the insurgency as a law-and-order problem rather than addressing its underlying causes: poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, social injustice and the caste system.
“The first point is to talk to them - we just have to open the lines of communication,” said Santosh Mehrotra, a member of the panel that compiled the report for the Planning Commission, the Government's internal think-tank.

“Point two is that the Government's approach has been so heavily security-centric. That's not the way to go. It has to be walking on two legs - security and development.”
Dr Mehrotra said that the report was sent to the offices of Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister, and several senior Government members yesterday.
The recommendations mark the first time since the 1980s that the Government has explored the root causes of the Naxalite movement and highlights growing concern about India's unbalanced economic development.
Mr Singh described the Naxalites last year as India's single biggest internal security threat. Officials now fear that the Naxalites have been encouraged by the success of the Maoists in neighbouring Nepal, who won a parliamentary election last month after fighting a decade-long insurgency.
Inspired by Mao Zedong, the Naxalite movement began with a peasant uprising in 1967 in the village of Naxalbari - after which it is named - in the state of West Bengal. Since then it has claimed about 7,000 lives and grown into a force of 40,000 permanent armed cadres and 100,000 militia members, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, a research centre based in Delhi.
The Naxalites now control a “Red Corridor”, consisting mainly of dense forest, stretching from West Bengal to the border of Nepal. The group is active in 16 of India's 28 states.
Last year Naxalite violence caused 696 deaths, compared with 678 in 2006, and so far this year more than 220 people have died in Maoist-related violence.
The latest reported deaths came over the weekend when Naxalite rebels killed three policemen in the eastern state of Jarkhand.
The Maoists are also now striking at economic targets, such as an iron ore enrichment plant in the state of Chhattisgarh, where they set fire to more than 50 lorries eight days ago.
Several state governments have responded by supporting local armed vigilante groups, known as Salwa Judum, which means “purification hunt”.
But the report recommended disbanding them, saying that it “delegitimises politics, dehumanises people, degenerates those engaged in their security and above all represents the abdication of the State itself”. In Chhattisgarh, the violence between the two sides had displaced about 100,000 people, many of them from indigenous tribal groups, it said.
The report said that the Government should focus instead on bridging the widening income gap between urban and rural populations, and between upper castes and lower castes or ethnic minorities. “To reduce the anger of the people, it is necessary that those affected should feel they are a part of mainstream Indian society and not an external element to be looked down on by others.”
Some experts on the Naxalites disagreed with the report's recommendations, claiming that development would take too long and security should remain the priority. But Dr Mehrotra said that he hoped the report would prompt the Government to place greater emphasis on development in Naxalite areas, instead of simply trying to crush the rebels.
“I think the tide is turning,” he said.