Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Xi Jinping: "follow communist ideals" by Maoist Rebel
Democracy and Class Struggle combats views of China which do not recognise its capitalist social character, has we see this recognition has a precondition for return of socialism to China.
We take the view that some of Henry CK Liu writings overestimate socialism in the State sector in China and Samir Amin confuses state ownership of Land has a form of pre-socialism, he should be well aware that nationalisation of land is a capitalist demand.
Lenin's views on Land Nationalisation was clear :
"consequently the concept of nationalisation of the land, in terms of economic reality, is a category of commodity and capitalist society"
For some of Mao's thoughts on Land ownership and in particular the signifcance of a 1962 Law popularly known as the 60 Articles , guaranteed, in the words of Peter Ho that collective ownership was invested in the lowest level: the production team - ie the village. Chairman Mao's time a 1962 Law popularly known as the 60 Articles , guaranteed, in the words of Peter Ho that collective ownership was invested in the lowest level: the production team - ie the village.
see my note here.
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/chinas-land-ownership-how-to-fight-land.ht
Samir Amin does not understand the commodification of Land in China and the threat it poses to food security in China see here :
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/land-grabs-in-china-threat-to-food.html
See also discussion on Land at 18th CPC Congress here :
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/eighteenth-party-congress-new-land.html
Concerning the above video we at Democracy and Class Struggle identify one of the reasons for the current marxist rhetoric of the Chinese leadership has emanating from the contradictions with US imperialism and Obama's aggressive Asia Pivot and TPP polices.
The Chinese Military are fed up with kneeling before US Imperialist expansion in the Pacific and want to defend China's national interests unlike some of the comprador Chinese leaders.
See Statement of Chinese Military here
Democracy and Class Struggle view on China
See Also: http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/contradictions-in-china-is-new.html
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/contemporary-china-what-is-its-social.html
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/thirty-years-of-capitalist-reform-by.html
For Alternative View on China by Henry CK Liu
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-historical-significance-of-mao.html
For Alternative View of China by Samir Amin
http://monthlyreview.org/author/samiramin
Statement in English and Turkish: Remembering Comrade Azad - We shall never forget our comrade or forgive his murderers - The Indian Comprador State : Statement in English and Turkish
We republish statement from Communist Party of India Maoist on his murder in 2010
Picture: Comrade Azad
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) CENTRAL COMMITTEE
North Regional Bureau Press statement
3rd July, 2010
It is not an encounter at all!! It is a cold blooded murder by AP Police!!
Red Salutes to Martyrs com. Azad (Cherukuri Rajkumar) and com. Hem Pandey (Jitender)!!
Let us avenge the killings of the beloved comrades by the khaki clad fascist gangs of AP government!!
Azad was arrested at Nagpur on June 1st along with com. Hem Pandey
On June 1st, the notorious Andhra Pradesh Special Branch Police for its abductions and cold blooded murders, have arrested com. Azad, Polit Bureau member and Spokesperson of CPI (Maoist), and com. Hem Pandey, a zonal committee level comrade in Nagpur city around 11’o clock when they went to meet a comrade who was supposed to receive them from Dandakarnaya zone. Com. Azad reached Nagpur around 10 am on the fateful day along with com. Hem Pandey, after travelling from long distance. With specific information, the lawless goons of AP SIB abducted them, perhaps flown them in a helicopter, to Adilabad jungles near Maharashtra border and killed them point block and in cold blood.
We pay our red homage to our beloved comrades and vow to take vengeance of these killers.
Life of com. Azad
Comrade Azad is one of the senior most party leaders of CPI (Maoist). He was born in Krishna district of AP, in a well to do family. He did his school education in Sainik School, at Korukonda of the present Vizianagaram District. Com. Surapuneni Janardhan, a legendary comrade of the student movement brought com. Raj Kumar into RSU in 1974. A brilliant student at the Regional Engineering College, which became famous as Radical Engineering College in those days, he finished his Mtech in Chemical Engineering and moved to Vishakhapatnam as per the Party direction. He was the second president of AP Radical Students Union till 1984. He was the catalyst behind many all Andhra wide student agitations and peoples movements in that period. He became the district committee member of vizag unit of the CPI (ML) (PW). He moved length and breadth of India, to organize the Seminar on Nationality question held in Madras (now Chennai) in 1981. He was shifted to Karnataka in 1982 and com. Azad was one of the founder members of the Karnataka Party and worked as the secretary of the Karnataka State Committee. He was taken into CC, after the Central Plenum in 1990. He was the elected member of CC in the All India conference in 1995 and since then he served in CC and PB. He continued in those posts after the formation of CPI Maoist too in 2004. He has been the spokes person of the CC since then.
Known for his simple life and hard work; voracious reading and brilliant analyses of situations, crystal clear articulation and sharp logic, and fine organizational skills, he contributed widely to the revolutionary movement in many spheres. He wrote profusely to the People’s March, Peoples war (theoretical organ of the CPI (Maoist), and to the Maoist Information Bulletin. He wrote a fine critique of the intellectuals of AP, who got disillusioned and lost faith in revolutionary movement after the 1990 events of collapse of soviet imperialism and its satellite regimes.
In his death, the Indian revolutionary movement lost an exemplary comrade and a shining star, who served the movement more than three and half decades.
Just before his last journey, he received questions for interview from a well known magazine. He replied that he was in the journey and would send the answers as early as possible.
It is not Sukhdev, but com. Hem Pandey of Uttarakhand who was killed by APSIB
Com. Hem Pandey, 30, hailed from a nearby village of Pithoragarh town of Uttarakhand State. He did his MA history in Nainital University and got himself registered in PhD. While he was in college, he was active member of AISA, and slowly realizing he pseudo revolutionary character of AISA politics, he moved to the radical groups, later in 2001 he joined the then CPI (ML) (PW). He organized peasantry in the mountainous villages in Almora district, taking up umpteen numbers of issues of peasantry, including the problems arose out of Binsar Sanctuary. Soft-spoken, bespectacled, lean and energetic Com. Hem won the love of people of that region. He was moved into more important works in 2005. He had done his new assignments with patience and endurance. His appetite for learning new things, reading more and more, and zeal for penning his ideas are things for the emulation for all the revolutionaries. He has written various articles to newsmagazines under various pen names. We request the civil rights organisations to demand the A P police to send the body of com. Hem Pandey to his bereaved mother who is in Haldwani, Uttarakhand state, who is his sole surviving parent.
APSIB- the Indian avatar of Mossad
The Andhra Pradesh Special Intelligence Bureau, which has been partially trained partially by the Mossad, has acquired the notoriety of its master trainer-Mossad, in India. It has been moving across the state borders, and conducting abductions and cold blooded murders with impunity. This is all happening with clear blessings of Manmohan- Sonia and Chidambaram. This fascist gang has established its tentacles all over India, resorting the killings of revolutionaries, scoffing at the recent AP high court judgement that all encounters are to be first booked as murders under IPC 302, Ultimaely these killers will be taken to task by the revolutionary masses.
Will Chidambaram expect CPI (Maoist) to sit for talks with his blood on his hands of com. Azad and com. Hem Pandey?
CPI (Maoist) never contested or raised any hue and cry in the case of real encounters. The AP Police is resorting to globbeian lies, not believed even by gullible. CPI (Maoist) stood for truth and accountability to the people, and always stated facts. There is no such programme of Azad going to Sarkepally forest of Adilabad. Azad was going to discuss with our comrades, inter alia, the concrete proposals of well meaning people like Swamy Agnivesh about particular dates for the mutual cease fire. He was a carrying the confidential letter of Swamy Agnivesh written to Azad dated- 26th June 2010. Will Chidambaram expect CPI (Maoist) to sit for talks with his blood on his hands of com. Azad and com. Hem Pandey? He calls repeatedly to us to abjure violence? Killing the unarmed comrades by AP Police with your blessings – is it not like devils chanting scriptures?
White lies by AP Police
When there is no movement and organization in Adilabad, what is the necessity of Azad going to Azad? That the police found AK47 is again white lie. He alighted from a train around 10 am along with com. Hem Pandey in Nagpur Station, and was caught by the APSIB unarmed. Is the government following its own constitution of article 21? Is the government following kernel of the Geneva Convention that “defenceless persons” should not be harmed? Is it not utter hypocrisy and hoax that on one hand the government is placing the prevention of torture bill and the police every minute resorting to the torture of the detained? It is a concocted story of encounter repeated ad nauseum, by the AP Police, churned out to the media umpteen times. The right life, guaranteed under the constitution is mocked and the right to be produced within 24 hours of the arrest is metamorphasized into killing within 24hours of arrest, so that there is no scope for any redressal by their near and dear.
We appeal to the civil rights organizations, democrats, patriots to raise to raise to the occasion thoroughly investigate this fake encounter as an example of extra judicial killing that are happening in scores in this country and bring out the truth before the people.
Ajay,
Spokes Person,
CPI (Maoist)
Komünist Önder Azad katledildi! -YENİLENDİ
HKP (Maoist) Merkez Komite-Siyasi Büro üyei ve Parti Sözcüsü Cherukuri Rajkumar (Yoldaş Azad), polisler tarfından kaçırılarak katledildi
HİNDİSTAN (03.07.2010)- Hindistan Komünist Partisi (Maoist) Merkez Komite-Siyasi Büro üyesi ve Parti Sözcüsü Cherukuri Rajkumar (Yoldaş Azad), bir yoldaşı ile birlikte, Andhra Pradesh Polis Özel Timi tarafından tutuklanmalarının ardından helikopterle Maharashtra sınırındaki Adilabad ormanlarına götürülerek katledildiler.
Adilabad Polis şefi P. Promod Kumar, basına yaptığı açıklamada Maoistlere bağlı bir gerilla birliğinin Maharashtra’dan ormanlık bölgeye girdiği ihbarını aldıklarını, bölgenin yoğun olarak kontrol altına alındığını, sonuç olarak bir polis birliğinin 25-30 kişilik gerilla grubunu pusuya düşürdüğünü, en az 3 saat süren çatışmada Yoldaş Azad ile birlikte 2 kayıp veren Halk Kurtuluş Gerilla Ordusu’na bağlı birliğin iç bölgelere doğru çekildiğini açıklamıştı. HKP(Maoist) tarafından yapılan açıklama; devlet güçlerinin, çatışma çıktığı yalanını medyaya servis ederek, kaçırdıkları iki Maoist lideri hunharca katlettiklerini gizlemeye çalıştıklarını gözler önüne seriyor.
Hindistan Komünist Partisi (Maoist) tarafından yapılan açıklamada polis şefinin yaptığı açıklamının aksine herhangi bir çatışmanın olmadığı, Yoldaş Azad ile Hem Pandey’in Andhra Prades Polis Özel Timi tarafından kaçırılarak katledildiği belirtildi.
Hindistan Komünist Partisi (Maoist), Merkez Komite Kuzey Bölge Bürosu tarafından yapılan açıklamayı olduğu gibi yayınlıyoruz:
Bu kesinlikle bir çatışma değil! Bu, Andhra Pradesh polisinin soğukkanlılıkla işlediği bir cinayettir.
Şehit yoldaş Azad’ı (Cherukuri Rajkumar) ve yoldaş Hem Pandey’i (Jitender) selamlıyoruz.
Azad, 1 Haziran’da yoldaş Hem Pandey ile birlikte tutuklanmıştı
İnsanları kaçırması ve soğukkanlılıkla katletmesi ile ünlü azılı Andhra Pradesh Polis Özel Timi, 1 Haziran günü, partimiz HKP (Maoist)’in Polit Büro üyesi ve sözcüsü olarak görev yürüten yoldaş Azad’ı ve bir bölge komitesinde faaliyet yürüten yoldaş Hem Pandey’i, kendilerini Dandakarnaya bölgesinden alacak yoldaşımızla buluşmaya giderken Nagpur şehri yakınlarında, saat 11 sularında tutukladı. Yoldaş Azad, yoldaş Hem Pandey ile birlikte uzun bir yolu katettikten sonra, saat 10 sularında Nagpur şehrine ulaştı. Andhra Prades Polis Özel Timi, aldığı özel bilgi ile söz konusu noktada yoldaşlarımızı kaçırarak, helikopterle Maharashtra sınırındaki Adilabad ormanlarına götürerek katlettiler.
Değerli yoldaşlarımızın önünde saygıyla eğiliyor ve katillerinden itikamımızı alacağımızı and içiyoruz
Azad yoldaşın hayatı
Andhra Pradesh’in Krisha bölgesinde, iyi halli bir ailenin çocuğu olarak dünyaya gelen yoldaş Azad, HKP (Maoist)’in üst düzey liderlerinden birisiydi. Vizianagaram bölgesinde bulunan Sainik Okulu’nda eğitim gördü. Azad yoldaş, öğrenci hareketinden gelen efsanevi yoldaşlarımızdan Surapuneni Janardhan tarafından 1974 yılında Radikal Öğrenciler Birliği (RSU)’ne getirildi. Radikal Mühendislik Koleji olarak ün yapmış olan Bölgesel Mühendislik Koleji’nde parlak bir öğrencilik dönemi geçiren yoldaş Azad, Kimsaya Mühendisliği’nde mastırını tamamladı ve partinin direktifi doğrultusunda Vishakhapatnam’a gitti. 1984 yılına kadar Andhra Pradesh Radikal Öğrenciler Birliği’nin ikinci başkanı olarak faaliyet yürüttü. Bu dönemde Andhra Pradesh genelinde gelişen hemen tüm öğrenci hareketlerinin ve halk hareketlerinin arkasındaki itekleyici kuvvet olarak onun damgası vardı. Kısa süre içinde Hindistan Komünist Partisi-Marksist/Leninist (Halk Savaşı) partisinin [Bu parti, Hindistan Komünist Partisi (Maoist)’in öncellerinden birisidir –çevirenen notu-] bölge komitesi üyeliğine getirildi. 1981 yılında, Madras’ta (bugünkü adıyla Chennai) ulusal soruna ilişkin bir seminer düzenlemek için Hindistan’ı bir boydan bir boya gezdi. 1982 yılında Karnataka’ya kaydırılan yoldaş Azad, partinin Karnataka’daki örgütlülüğünün oluşturulmasında önder bir rol aldı ve Karnataka Bölge Komitesi’nin sekreteri olarak görev yürüttü. 1990 yılında yapılan Parti Merkezi Toplantısı’nın ardından Merkez Komitesi’ne getirildi. 1995 yılında gerçekleştirilen Tüm Hindistan Konferansı’nda da durum değişmedi ve yoldaş Azad bir kez daha Merkez Komitesi’ne alındı, o tarihten itibaren Merkez Komite ve Polit Büro üyesi olarak devrime hizmet etti. 2004 yılında Hindistan Komünist Partisi (Maoist) kurulduğunda da, yoldaş Azad’ın bu görevlerine devam etmesi kararlaştırıldı ve bu tarihten itibaren yoldaş, HKP (Maoist)’in Merkez Komitesi’nin sözcülüğü görevini de yürüttü.
Okuma hırsı ve koşulları parlak bir biçimde tahlil etmesi, berrak-keskin bilinci ve örgütsel becerisiyle ülke genelinde devrimci harekete önemli katkılarda bulunmuş olan yoldaş Azad, mütevazı yaşamı ve sıkı çalışması ile bilinen bir önderdi. Yoldaş Azad, Halkın Yürüyüşü (People’s March), HKP (Maoist)’in teorik yayın organı Halk Savaşı’na (People’s War) ve Maoist Enformasyon Bülteni’ne (Maoist İnformation Bulletin) çok sayıda yazı yazdı. O, 1990’larda sovyet emperyalizminin ve onun uydu rejimlerinin çökmesinin ardından büyük bir kırılma yaşayan ve devrimci harekete-devrime inancını yitiren Andhra Pradesh’li entellektüellere dönük sağlam eleştiri yazıları kaleme aldı. Ölümüyle, Hindistan devrimci hareketi, 35 yılını devrimci mücadeleye vermiş örnek ve mükemmel bir yoldaşını, parlayan bir yıldızını kaybetti.
Son seyahatinden önce, tanınmış bir dergiden, bir röportaj için gönderilen soruları almıştı. Soruları gönderen dergiye, bir geziye çıkmış olduğu için soruları yanıtlama şansının olmadığını, ancak mümkün olan en kısa sürede yanıtlarını yollayacağını bildirmişti.
Azad’la birlikte şehit düşen Sukhdev değil, yoldaş Hem Pandey
Yoldaş Hem Pandey (30), Uttarakhand Eyaleti’nin Pithoragarh köyü yakınların doğdu. Eğitimini Ulusal Üniversite’de tamamladıktan sonra felsefe doktorası yaptı. Tüm Hindistan Öğrenciler Cemiyeti (AISA)’nin aktif bir üyesiydi ve giderek AISA’nın devrimci söylemlerinin sahteliğinin farkına vardı. Radikal bir gruba katıldı ve sonrasında, 2001 yılında, HKP-ML Halk Savaşı’na katıldı. Almora bölgesindeki dağ köylerinde yoksul köylüleri örgütledi, onların sorunlarına dair sayısız yayıma imza attı. İyi bir konuşmacı, sade ve enerjik bir kişiliğe sahip olan yoldaş Hem, bölgedeki halkın sevgisini kazanmayı başardı. 2005 yılında daha önemli faaliyetler için görevlendirildi. Yeni şeyler öğrenme iştahı, sürekli okuması ve fikirlerini yazıya dökmesi tüm devrimcilerin örnek alması gereken şeylerdir. Farklı isimler altında birçok haber dergisine birçok makale yazmıştır. Sivil haklar organizasyonlarından yoldaş Hem Pandey’in cenazesinin Andre Pradesh polisi tarafından, Uttarakhand eyaletinde, Haldwani’de yalnız yaşayan annesine gönderilmesi için ısrar etmesini talep ediyoruz.
APSIB- Mossad’ın Hint Avatarı
Kısmen Mossad tarafından eğitilmiş olan Andra Pradesh Özel İstihbarat Dairesi, Hindistan’da usta öğretmeninin kötü şöhretini kazandı. Dokunulmazlığı olan APSIB, eyalet sınırlarını geçerek kaçırma eylamlerini ve soğukkanlılıkla işlenen cinayetleri yönetiyor. Bütün bunlar Manmohan- Sonia ve Chidambaram’ın açık desteğiyle gerçekleşiyor.
Bu faşist çete, karşılaşmalar sonucu yaşanan ölümlerin IPC 302’ye göre cinayet olarak kaydedileceği şeklindeki son AP Yüksek mahkeme kararıyla da dalga geçerek tüm Hindistan’a uzantılarını yerleştirmiştir ve sürekli devrimcileri katletmektedir. Bu katillerin hesabı eninde sonunda devrimci kitleler tarafından görülecektir.
Chidambaram ellerinde yoldaş Azad ve yoldaş Hem Padey’in kanları varken HKP (Maoist)’in görüşmeler için masaya oturacağını mı umuyor?
HKP (Maoist) gerçek karşılaşmalar (iki tarafın karşılaşması sonucu çıkan çatışmalar) yaşandığında asla feryat edip ağlamadı. Andra Pradesh polisi avanakların dahi inanmadığı yalanlara başvuruyor. HKP (Maoist) halka karşı gerçeği ve hesap verilebirliği savundu ve her zaman gerçekleri açıkladı.
Azad’ın Adilabad’ın Sarkepally ormanlarında katılacağı bir program söz konusu değildir. Azad, diğer şeylerin yanısıra Swamy Agnivesh gibi iyi niyetli insanların karşılıklı ateşkes için belirli tarihlere dair somut önerilerini yoldaşlarla tartışmak için gidiyordu.
Swamy Agnivesh’in Azad’a yazdığı 26 Haziran 2010 tarihli mektup üzerindeydi. Chidambaram ellerinde yoldaş Azad ve yoldaş Hem Padey’in kanları varken HKP (Maoist)’in görüşmeler için masaya oturacağını mı umuyor? Sürekli bize şiddetten vazgeçmemiz çağrısı yapıyor. Silahsız yoldaşlarımız Andra Pradesh polisi tarafından sizin teşvikinizle öldürülürken- bu şeytanların ilahi okuması gibi değil mi?
AP Polisi’nden Beyaz Yalanlar
Adilabad’da herhangi bir organizasyon ve hareket yokken Azad’ın Adilabad’a gitmesinin gereği neydi? Polisin bulduğunu söylediği AK 47 de yine yalandır. Azad yanındaki yoldaş Hem Pandey ile sabah saat 10 civarında, Nagpur istasyonunda bir trenden indi ve Andra Pradesh Özel İstihbarat Dairesi tarafından silahsız olarak yakalandı. Hükümet kendi anayasasının 21. maddesini uyguluyor mu? Hükümet Cenevre Konvansiyonu’nun “savunmasız insanlara zarar verilmemesi gerektiği”ni söyleyen özünü takip ediyor mu? Hükümet bir yandan işkenceyi önleme yasa tasarısını sunarken öte yandan polisin her dakika gözaltında işkenceye başvurması tam anlamıyla ikiyüzlülük ve aldatmaca değil midir? Bu AP polisi tarafından tezgahlanmış ve mide bulandıracak kadar tekrarlanan, medya tarafından çoğaltılan bir çatışma hikayesidir. Anayasanın garantisi altındaki yaşam hakkı ile dalga geçilmiş, 24 saat içinde mahkemeye çıkarılma hakkı, gözaltında 24 saat içinde öldürmeye dönüştürülmüştür.
Bu ülkede yaşanan yüzlerce yargısız infazın bir örneği olan bu düzmece çatışmayı derinlemesine inceleyerek sesimizi daha da yükseltmek ve gerçeği göz önüne sermek için sivil haklar örgütleri, demokrat ve yurtseverlere başvuracağız.
Maoist Communist Party of France - Long Live People's War in India
Long live People’s War in India !
Glory to the fallen Comrades for the cause of revolution !
In the occasion of the international day of support to People’s War on July 1st, our Party pay a tribute to the Comrades, men and women, fallen in the frontline, murdered in cold blood, jailed, tortured by reaction.
We particularly salute Comrades Azad and Kishenji’s memory, assassinated on July 1st 2010 and November 24th 2011.
Through the recent attacks carried out by the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA), Communist Party of India (maoist) demonstrated the liveliness of People’s War and the amplitude of the threat that it represents for indian ruling classes.
We cannot but salute the elimination of the counter-revolutionary militia Salwa Judum’s chief, Mahendra Karma, which the awful crimes were published in the 25th May communiqué issued by Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee of CPI (Maoist) :
“One can hardly find any examples in the history to compare the severity of the devastation and barbarity caused by Salwa Judum to the lives of the Bastar people. It killed more than one thousand people in cold blood; torched 640 villages into ashes, robbed thousands of houses; ate or took away chickens, goats, pigs, etc.; forced more than two million people to be displaced; dragged more than 50 thousand people into state-run ‘relief’ camps. Thus the Salwa Judum became an anathema to the people. Hundreds of women were gang raped. Many women were murdered after rape. Massacres took place in many places. The atrocities perpetrated on the people and havoc created by the hooligans of Salwa Judum, the police and paramilitary forces, especially the Naga and Mizo battalions crossed all limits. There were several incidents in which people were brutally cut into pieces before being dumped in rivers. Cherli, Kotrapal, Mankeli, Karremarka, Mosla, Munder, Padeda, Paralnar, Pumbad, Gaganpalli... in a number of villages people were killed en masse. Hundreds of tribal youth were recruited as SPOs and were turned into hardened criminals. Mahendra Karma himself led the attacks on several villages in the name of conducting meetings and marches. Many women were raped by the goons with the direct instigation of Mahendra Karma. He was directly involved in many incidents of burning the villages, torturing and murdering the people. Thus, in the minds of the people of Bastar, Mahendra Karma remained as an inhuman killer, rapist, dacoit and a loyal broker of the big capitalists. In entire Bastar people have been demanding our party and the PLGA for many years that he must be punished. Many of them came forward voluntarily to give active support in this task. There were also a few attempts, but due to petty mistakes and other reasons he was able to escape.”
We reiterate once again our support to the Communist Party of India (maoist) in its hard struggle against indian state which relies on several imperialist powers in its war against its own people, including France which is supposed to deliver 126 Rafale warplanes and 63 optional.
We reaffirm that our support to People’s War in India can only find its full-fledged existence in the development of revolution in our own country, led against our own imperialism. We follow in that sense proletarian internationalism as defined by Lenin : “There is one, and only one, kind of real internationalism and that is working wholeheartedly for the development of the revolutionary movement and the revolutionary struggle in one’s own country, and supporting (by propaganda, sympathy, and material aid) this struggle, this, and only this, line, in every country without exception.”
We salute the development of revolutionary people’s governments (Krantikari Janatana Sarkars) in the red areas despite the ferocious fights that oppose revolutionaries to state armed forces. These represent the future of indian society, a development to serve the people opposed to capitalist development imposed by ruling classes from which people’s masses are suffering.
We salute the revolutionary women in their struggle to break the specific oppression which they are suffering from, particularly in a semi-feodal society like indian society.
We salute the adivasis, dalits and religious and national minorities which are suffering from cast and hindu chauvinist domination and from indian expansionism.
We salute the male and female workers who are struggling against the dreadful exploitation of their bosses, puppets of imperialist monopolies.
We salute the peasantry and agricultural workers who oppose to feudal landlords.
We salute the intellectuals and students who are siding with the exploited and oppressed by supporting actively People’s War and opposing Green Hunt Operation.
We salute the large people’s masses who struggle on a daily basis for their liberation and emancipation.
In our country, we are working actively so that echoes of the People’s War in India will reach the hearts of the factories, people’s neighborhoods, universities, schools to strengthen and develop class struggle for revolution.
Long live Communist Party of India (maoist) !
Long live People’s War in India !
Long live proletarian internationalism !
Long live world proletarian revolution !
Maoist Communist Party of France
Monday, July 1, 2013
The Special Office for the Protection of Children (SOPC) of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) takes strong exception to the false and biased reports of the UN Office of the Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict (SRCAC) on the so-called recruitment and use of children by the New People’s Army (NPA).
Those claimed to be child soldiers were civilians whom the AFP had illegally arrested, detained and tortured or killed during military operations against communities suspected of supporting or under the influence of the revolutionary movement.
By CONI K. LEDESMA
Chairperson, NDFP Special Office for the Protection of Children
Member, NDFP Negotiating Panel
01 July 2013
Report of UN Office of the Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict shows continuing prejudice and persistent falsehood against the revolutionary movement
The Special Office for the Protection of Children (SOPC) of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) takes strong exception to the false and biased reports of the UN Office of the Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict (SRCAC) on the so-called recruitment and use of children by the New People’s Army (NPA).
After consultations with its regional representatives, the SOPC has confirmed that the allegations by the UN SRCAC of recruitment and use of children by the NPA in 2012 are baseless. Those claimed to be child soldiers were civilians whom the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) had illegally arrested, detained and tortured or killed during military operations on what the Manila government calls “peace and development projects” against communities suspected of supporting or under the influence of the revolutionary movement.
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All of these children happened to be in areas close to where armed encounters between the AFP and the NPA took place. One was killed because of indiscriminate gunfire by AFP soldiers; others had been traumatized by artillery and aerial bombardments and were arrested while attempting to seek refuge in nearby communities.
The AFP practice of targeting children in communities and presenting them as child soldiers was again exposed on 23 June 2013 by the Mindanao Human Rights Action Center (MinHRAC) when they presented to the media three teenagers who were arrested and detained by the AFP in Kulasi, Sultan Kudarat, for purportedly being rebels when they were actually refugees who were attempting to return to their homes with adult companions to get their belongings after having evacuated from their community due to an armed encounter between the AFP and the NPA.
We urge the UN SRCAC to advice its Philippine Country Task Force for Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) to be more discerning and circumspect in the performance of its functions by exercising basic due diligence and not relying solely on reports by agencies of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) such as the AFP, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and Commission on Human Rights (CHR).
The CTFMR as befitting its mandate should investigate the situation on the ground by talking to the people in the concerned community – the parents, teachers, independent human rights groups and even local officials. The illegally arrested and detained children have suffered enough and should not be coaxed or coerced into making false statements and incriminating admissions while in the presence of GPH officials.
We also urge the UN SRCAC and its country task force to submit their findings to the SOPC of the NDFP for appropriate verification and investigation of such reported alleged recruitment and use of children by the NPA. We deplore the fact that while the AFP is given an opportunity to respond, the NDFP through its SOPC has not even been informed of such allegations.
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The NDFP has issued its Declaration and Program of Action for the Rights, Protection and Welfare of Children. The policies and program of the NDFP to protect the rights of children are clearly stated in this document. This document is strictly followed by all the allied organizations of the NDFP, which include the New People's Army and the Communist Party of the Philippines.
(Sgd) CONI K. LEDESMA
Chairperson, NDFP Special Office for the Protection of Children
Member, NDFP Negotiating Panel
Chairperson, NDFP Special Office for the Protection of Children
Member, NDFP Negotiating Panel
Message of Solidarity with People's War in India from National Democratic Front of the Philippines
We are confident that the Communist Party of India (Maoist) will win victory against the “War on People” being waged by the Indian reactionaries supported by US imperialism and other imperialist powers.
Message of solidarity to the People's War in India led by the CPI (Maoist)
By National Executive Committee
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
On the occasion of the International Day of Support for the People's War in India, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) conveys its warmest revolutionary greetings of solidarity and comradeship to the Communist Party of India (Maoist0, the People's Guerrilla Liberation Army (PGLA), and the revolutionary masses in India. The NDFP comprises the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People's Army (NPA) and 15 other revolutionary allied organizations.
We reiterate our firm support for the People's War in India launched and led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist). We are confident that, with the enthusiastic participation and support of the oppressed masses in India, the CPI (Maoist) will win victory against the fascist “War on People” being waged by the Indian reactionaries supported by US imperialism and other imperialist powers.
The regime's “Operation Green Hunt” and other forms of its “War on People” are bound to be defeated by the Indian revolutionary forces led by the CPI (Maoist). As Comrade Ganapathy, Secretary General of CPI (Maoist) has aptly declared, “People who are the makers of history will rise up like a tornado under our party's leadership to wipe out the reactionary blood-sucking vampires ruling our country.”
In the Philippines, the Filipino people are also waging a People's War against US imperialism and the local reactionaries of big landlords and compradors. We are fighting against the US-designed fascist counter-insurgency program, deceptively named “Oplan Bayanihan” (Operation Plan Cooperation), which perpetrates gross human rights violations against the peasants, workers, indigenous people, urban poor, women, youth and other sectors of the people. The puppet Aquino regime carries out the neoliberal policies of liberalization, deregulation, and privatization..The oppressed masses in the Philippines are rising to wage militant struggles led by the CPP.. They participate and enthusiastically support the people's war that is now being carried out in 70 out of 81 provinces of the country.
We take this occasion to render our revolutionary salute to Comrade Azad and all the martyrs of the Indian people's Revolution. They live in the People's War and anti-imperialist and revolutionary struggles in India and in the world. We likewise honor our beloved guerrilla commander and spokesperson of the CPP, Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal and other revolutionary martyrs of the Filipino people.
We salute our comrades-in-arms waging People's War in India! We wish them and the Indian people they lead ever greater victories in their New Democratic Revolution and in establishing the People's Democratic Federal Republic and thereafter the socialist system, Their brilliant victories inspire us and other revolutionary forces in the world.
We take this opportunity to express our very deep appreciation for the week of solidarity last April which the CPI (Maoist) carried out for the CPP and the People's War in the Philippines.
Silent Violence - The AKP Years in Turkey Neoliberalism with a Muslim Face
SILENT VIOLENCE:
NEOLIBERALISM, ISLAMIST POLITICS AND THE AKP YEARS IN TURKEY
"The AKP Years in Turkey: Neoliberalism with a Muslim Face"
by Professor Simten Cosar (visiting speaker from Turkey)
recorded on March 20th, 2012
at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
Book Contents
Part I: State, Law and Society
1. Politics and Discourse under the AKP’s Rule: The Marginalisation of Class-Based Politics, Erdoğanisation, and Post-Secularism [21] by: Galip Yalman
2. Fragments of Changes in the Legal System in the AKP Years: The Development and Reproduction of Market Friendly Law [43] by: Ali Murat Özdemir
3. The AKP’s Hold on Power: Neoliberalism Meets the Turkish-Islamic Synthesis[67] by: Simten Coşar
4. Islamist Bourgeoisie and Democracy under the AKP’s Rule: Democratisation or Marketisation of Politics?[93] by: Berna Yılmaz
Part II: Social Policy, Citizenship and Gender
5. The Social Policy Regime in the AKP Years: The Emperor’s New Clothes [125] by: Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir
6. The AKP’s Citizenisation Project: Where To? [153] by: Nalan Soyarık-Şentürk
7. The AKP and the Gender Issue: Shuttling between Neoliberalism and Patriarchy [179] by: Metin Yeğenoğlu & Simten Coşar
Part III: Global Interfaces: Politics, Economy and International Relations
8. Turkish Foreign Policy under the AKP Governments: An Interplay of Imperial Legacy, Neoliberal Interests and Pragmatism [213] by: Birgül Demirtaş
9. Internalisation of Dependency: The AKP’s Dance with the Global Institutions of Neoliberalism [251] by: Filiz Zabcı
10. The EU and the AKP: A Neoliberal Love Affair? [269] by: Zuhal Yeşilyurt-Gündüz
Conclusion: Hearing the Silence of Violence: Neoliberalism and Islamist Politics under the AKP Governments [295] by: Simten Coşar & Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir
Democracy and Class Struggle publish this video has useful background to current events in Turkey even though the talk was given in March 2012 for a better analysis of Kemalism see :
Taksim and Tahrir are both against Neo-Liberalism with a Muslim face, however the opposition forces to neo liberalism need to raise up the three magic weapons of revolutionary change the revolutionary party, the united front and the people's army guided by the ideology of Marxism Leninism Maoism and expose the fake revolutionaries like Otpor and other capitalist hijackers of people's revolt .
Egypt massive anti-govt rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square 30 june 2013
Huge protests across Egypt calling
for the resignation of President Mohammed Morsi have taken place through the
night, with some outbreaks of violence.
In the capital, Cairo, tens of thousands of people massed in Tahrir Square and outside the presidential palace in the biggest demonstration there since the 2011 revolution.
At least one person was killed in clashes at Cairo's headquarters of Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Four others died in clashes elsewhere.
Millions of protesters across the country accuse the country's first Islamist president of failing to tackle economic and security problems since taking power a year ago.
Democracy and Class Struggle welcomes the exposure of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt but is well aware that other pro - neo liberal contenders are trying to hi jack the people's movement, we have warned about Otpor but they are only one of many organisations and states like Qatar and Saudi Arabia trying to subvert the Egyptian Revolution, until a revolutionary party, a united front and people's army come into existence in Egypt guided by Marxism Leninism Maoism there will be no permanent gains from the struggle.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
33 Years Anniversary of People's war in Peru by Harsh Thakor - Defend the Life Of Chairman Gonzalo
Marx wrote in 18th Brumaire
"Proletarian revolutions, like those of the nineteenth century, constantly criticize themselves, constantly interrupt themselves in their own course, return to the apparently accomplished, in order to begin anew; they deride with cruel thoroughness the half-measures, weaknesses, and paltriness of their first attempts seem to throw down their opponents only so the latter may draw new strength from the earth and rise before them again more gigantic than ever, recoil constantly from the indefinite colossalness of their own goals – until a situation is created which makes all turning back impossible, and the conditions themselves call out"
With this in view Democracy and Class Struggle will be publishing critical appraisals of Proletarian Revolutions not over the last century but in the last decades.
We begin with this contribution by Harsh Thakor on People's War in Peru. This article represents the personal views of Harsh Thakor and are not the views of Democracy and Class Struggle.
Publishing materials of the Organization of the Workers of Afghanistan (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, principally Maoist) does not mean we agree with them, because we do not.
Democracy and Class Struggle's position is that until we hear directly from Chairman Gonzalo outside of prison we do not accept he is the author of the peace accords any more than he was author of letter supporting Nepalese neo-revisionist leadership here
Defend the Life of Chairman Gonzalo!
On June 24 , the head of Peru's National Penitentiary Institute (INPE), Guadalupe Perez told Canal N referring to President Gonzalo, said:
"We can not guarantee the health of a person of 80 years, and that must be left clear."
Democracy and Class Struggle call for the immediate release of Chairman Gonzalo in view of such disturbing statements by the Peruvian regime.
We will publish other evaluations of People's War in Peru we judge helpful in furthering the spirit of Marx in the above quotation on Proletarian Revolutions.
33rd anniversary of peoples war in Peru
From 1980 to 1992 the PCP led the greatest peoples war after the Chinese Communist Party.
Whatever be the errors in theory and practice the peoples war was a lesson to all the proletarian revolutionaries worldwide.
No protracted War resembled the Chinese revolution led by Com Mao as the Sendero Luminoso and it will be written in red letters in the annals of history.
It was remarkable the way the P.C.P’s army could engulf the cities from the countryside and resist the enemy forces.
It’s achievement in that period was comparable to that of the Vietnamese against the Americans.
Imagine fighting when being on the border of a great military superpower and with support of no Socialist Country.
Com Gonzalo made some outstanding contributions towards developing MaoTse Tung’s military theories and combining them with the massline.
In the 1988 plenum he demonstrated his mastery of Maoist theory not only in the military line but also on the question of party building. Revolutionary forces demarcated this movement as the outstanding revolutionary war in the World.
Without hesition the author calls Com Gonzalo as the greatest Marxist leader after Comrade Mao.
He brilliantly innovated de-centralisation in the military strategy. Quoting Bhavin in June 2003 of the C.P.I(M.L.) Naxalbari “After the Chinese revolution led by CPC under the leadership of Mao, it is only in Peru and Nepal that we see the concrete application of strategic planning and that too in a creative manner.
Based on this understanding PCP Chairman Gonzalo established the axes, sub-axes, and the directions and lines of movement, so as to maintain the strategic direction of war.
This was done after a thorough study of history of social relations, wars, political, military and economic conditions, terrain etc.
Next on the basis of this National Military Plan was formulated, which was strategically centralised and tactically decentralised guided by the Maoist understanding of linking strategy and tactics, strategic operational plans were formulated.
Every committee below it formulated their own strategic operational plans based on the strategic operational plan followed by the entire party.
All military plans are based on thorough reconnaissance and careful study of the situation of the enemy and our forces, and are guided by the political strategy and the military strategy. (From PCP Base Document,p 43)
The strategic centralisation and tactical decentralisation gives full play to the lower committees to decide specific struggles to be carried out in their area, based on the guidelines.”
One of the most significant aspects of the peoples war was the preparatory stages initiated to build it.
From 1970 to 1979 no armed action was launched but the peoples preparatory schools were launched to prepare for the peoples War.
An Important contribution of Gonzalo is also the 2 line struggle to re-organize the party in 1965. With remarkable skill the PCP combined the armed struggle with the mass movements, forming people’s mass organizations.
The peoples Guerilla Army formed in 1983 had remarakable similarity with that of the Chinese Red Army in the 1930’s.
The village committees formed displayed great democratic functioning.
Some of the most heroic armed actions were launched implementing Com Mao’s theory of protracted Peoples War.
The PCP led P.G.A would comeback facing any setback like launching daylight in the most hazardous of storms .
Although Peru had several neo-colonial features one of the most remarkable aspects was the way the P.C.P carried out the peoples war in spite of such a high urban population the War actually gave credit to Mao’s theory of protracted peoples war in semi-colonial countries.
I recommend readers to read the article ‘Red Flag flying in Peru ‘ in the 1990 edition of a ‘World to win’
It brilliantly summarizes the military actions in ambushing military patrols and in creating revolutionary power in the countryside.
Peasant committees were formed in late 1982 where land was seized from landlords and distributed to poor peasants,relying on the massline.
From building peasant committees guerilla Zones were built into base areas.
A superb action was launched in 1982 on the prison of Ayacucho after which Edith Lagos was martyred.
In 1986 the peoples war entered the phase of building base areas.
New revolutionary political power was created.
Peoples Commitees were established taking into account the subjective forces.
The Commitees comprised 5 members-called commissioners.They were chosen by representatives of the village mass organzaitions of poor peasants, labourers,women,intellectuals,youth and children.
The secretary represented the party and the proletariat.The commissioner,also a party member was in charge of the defence of the political power,by the local organized people,into militias. Finally the commissioner of production and economy organizes the new production relations,supervising the dividing of the land.
He also organizes the production directly owned by the committee.The security commissioner was in charge of police functions The job of the committee was to creat a new politics, new economy ,new culture in the countryside, as part of preparing to be able to do so on a countrywide scale.
In 1983 the PCP had formed the Organizing Committee for a New Democratic Peoples Republic. In the cities ,with the situation different from the villages a Revolutionary Peoples Defence Movement was created “ with the goal of mobilizing the masses to resist and to raise their struggles to a higher level-peopes war .
Shanty town dwellers were mobilized .The Revolutionary Peoples Defence Movement called for armed shutdowns in Ayacucho lasting 3 days in 1988.
The armed shutdowns later rocked Lima and the capital was shaken in November 1989 and March 1990.
On the eve of the November strike,the traditional day of the dead’ about 3000 families of the prisoners of war marched into Lima in honour of the fallen heroes of the peoples war.
On 21st August another shutdown was launched following Fujimori’s price hikes with leafleting at markets, factories, schools. etc.
The documents of the PCP had remarkable similarities with those of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930’s.
Where the P.C.P showed weaknesses was their formulation of the Peoples Guerilla Army doing the mass work in the cities and weakness in developing urban work.
Pre-revolutionary China did not face the onslaught of neo-colonialism or multi-nationals like Peru which had stronger impact of Capitalism.
Com Mao had a more analytical understanding of work in the towns which is revealed in the writings of the C.C.P.on work in the yellow Unions.
There is also an overemphasis of Com Gonzalo on the military aspect in his writings as against the overall question of the mass line and the proletarian party.
A term like ‘militarization of the party’ was used which is erroneous to me as the party is not a military organization. He also stated that it is the stage of ‘principally Maoism’ which is an error as it underestimates Com Lenin’s definition of era of Imperialism and Proletarian Revolution.
A kind of Personality cult was formed around Com Gonzalo and the introduction of Gonzalo Thought is questionable.
Another error is stating that ‘boycott of parliamemtray elections’ is the strategic path of Revolution and that extra-parliamentary tactics can never be deployed.
This is counter to the views of Lenin or Mao. However the author assesses a lineage in Gonzalo thought although in the end its form was distorted from the mass line. In the period of Gonzalo itself there was an attempt to copy the Chinese party experience in toto.
There was also over –emphasis on bureaucrat-capitalism. Although there was a preparatory state and adequate base of revolutionary mass organization or movement was not created.
There was also an under-estiimation of the strength of the enemy forces.
After the arrest of Gonzalo the movement received a setback but the documents of the P.C.P. revealed there was virtually no setback to the peoples War Sympathisers upto 2001 felt that the War was winning. However morally there was great setback and conflict had seriously abrupted within the forces of the CORIM and the M.P.P. Strangely it was the MPP that supported negotiations.
In this work I am compiling some of the best writings and achievements of the P.C.P. as well as reflections of errors. In the end the peoples war tragically lost and the party got divided into factions and splinter groups.
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