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June 15, 2023 | The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) joins the international proletarian movement in paying the highest tribute to Katakam “Comrade Anand” Sudarshan. Comrade Anand was a leading cadre of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), member of the Politburo of CPI (Maoist) Central Committee and is considered one of the most important guiding figures of India’s struggle for national and social liberation.
Comrade Anand was a teacher before he joined the Naxal movement in the 1970s. His unwavering service to the Indian revolution spanned five decades. He was one of the pioneering leaders in expanding the armed revolution in the Dandakaranya area. Comrade Anand became known for his strong command of guerilla warfare which dealt heavy blows against Indian security forces.
As Secretary of the Central Regional Bureau for almost two decades, and as a leading figure of their revolutionary magazine People’s March, he helped the Indian revolutionary struggle gain global recognition and prominence.
Comrade Anand’s passing is weightier than Mount Tai. The NDFP and the entire Philippine revolutionary movement take inspiration from his victories and enduring lessons in the struggle against imperialism and all reaction. The continuous advance of India’s revolution is a testament to his legacy as a revolutionary leader, an ingenious guerilla commander, and a great teacher of the international proletarian struggle.
Long live Comrade Anand!
Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist)!
Long live the International Proletarian Struggle!
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With a history of short-term governments in Nepal’s 15 years of democratic progression, the current reconfiguration is no surprise, and it will be no surprise if the Maoists get back again with the Nepali Congress in months and years to come.
Power sharing, political discontent, ideological differences, underperformance, and pressure to restore Nepal to a Hindu state – a long list of reasons reportedly forced the Maoists to sever ties with the Nepali Congress. While the Nepali Congress expected the Maoist leader and current prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal (also known by his nom de guerre, Prachanda) to leave the alliance, it did not expect an overnight turnaround. [...]
Dahal reportedly conveyed to the Nepali Congress chair, former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, that external pressure forced him to join hands with CPN-UML and form a new government.
If this assertion is true, China emerges as a plausible factor, given its historical inclination toward forging alliances with leftist parties in Nepal. This notion gains credence in light of China’s past efforts, such as its unsuccessful attempt in 2020 to mediate the conflict between Oli and Dahal.
On the other hand, India has enjoyed a comfortable working relationship with the Nepali Congress and the Maoists. Although Maoists were a challenging party for New Delhi to get along with when Dahal first gained the prime minister’s seat in 2008, the two have come a long way in working together. However, the CPN-UML has advocated closer ties with the northern neighbor China; Beijing suits both their ideological requirements and their ultra-nationalistic outlook – which is primarily anti-India. [...]
India faces challenges in aligning with the Left Alliance for two key reasons. First, the energy trade between Nepal and India has grown crucial over the past couple of years. However, India strictly purchases power generated through its own investments in Nepal, refusing any power produced with Chinese involvement. With the CPN-UML now in government, Nepal may seek alterations in this arrangement despite the benefits of power trade in reducing its trade deficit with India.
Second, India stands to lose the smooth cooperation it enjoyed with the recently dissolved Maoist-Congress coalition. During the dissolved government, the Nepali Congress held the Foreign Ministry, fostering a favorable equation for India. Just last month, Foreign Minister N.P. Saud visited India for the 9th Raisina Dialogue, engaging with top Indian officials, including his counterpart, S. Jaishankar.
As concerns arise for India regarding the Left Alliance, there is also potential for shifts in the partnership between Nepal and the United States, a significant development ally. Particularly, there may be a slowdown in the implementation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) projects. Despite facing domestic and Chinese opposition, the Nepali Parliament finally approved a $500 million MCC grant from the United States in 2022, following a five-year delay.
China perceives the MCC as a component of the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific strategy, countering its BRI. Hence Beijing aims to increase Chinese loans and subsidies to Nepal to enhance its influence.
To conclude, the re-emergence of Nepal’s Left Alliance signals a shift in power dynamics, impacting domestic politics and regional geopolitics. With China’s influence growing, Nepal’s foreign policy may tilt further toward Beijing, challenging India’s interests. This shift poses challenges for India, particularly in trade and diplomatic relations, while also affecting Nepal’s partnerships with other key players like the United States.
[[The Author,] Dr. Rishi Gupta is the assistant director of the Asia Society Policy Institute, Delhi]
6 Mar 24
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Communist Party of India-Maoist
Military wing: Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA)
Also known as Naxalites
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There's a post going around rn with a document from the communist party of India (Maoist) and the communist party of the Philippines condemning China for their supplying of arms to the Indian and Duterte govs, and how those arms have been used against those communist parties and innocents. It seems to me that to go against their trade agreements because of that would be in violation of China's non interventionist party, let alone if they supplied arms to the communist guerrillas for a Comintern 2 situation, but I'm unsure if that holds up on inspection
The SIPRI Arms Transfer Database shows zero arms trades between China and the Philippines, or India.
In the case of the Philippines, I'm aware of the specific thing being referenced whenever this point is brought up - a ceremonial gift of a few hundred rifles, given to the government of the Philippines during their campaign against local ISIS groups. This doesn't appear on any databases for the SIPRI peace institute because it's not an arms trade, it's an incredibly small token gift without any possible impact.
In the case of India, I've got no idea what's being referenced - especially since India is actively engaged in military competition against China, not only through posturing, but through active border clashes, and China is engaged fairly heavily in arming Pakistan against India.
I can understand why, on the level of national interest, these groups might oppose China - and, further, on the ideological level - but I think it's fairly clear that China isn't interested in suppressing these groups, its foreign policy towards a given nation is simply uninvolved with which group in a nation has power, and would just as happily work with these groups should they manage to rally their countrymen to their side.
If anything, given the clear ideological differences between themselves and the CPC, they should appreciate the fact that the CPC hasn't decided to impose its vision of socialism on other countries, and to let them undergo their own processes of national development.
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Happy birthday, Charu Majumdar! (May 15, 1919)
A founding member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), and its General Secretary from 1969 to 1972, Charu Majumdar was born in West Bengal to a fighter in the struggle for Indian independence. Majumdar became active in the left wing of the Communist Party of India as an underground organizer, later splitting to form the CPI(ML). A skilled writer and theorist, Majumdar ultimately aligned himself with Maoist thought, writing the Historic Eight Documents which provided the ideological foundation of the Naxalite movement. Initially a leader in the rebellion, Majumdar was killed by state security forces in 1972.
“Without class struggle — the battle of annihilation — the initiative of the poor peasant masses cannot be released, the political consciousness of the fighters cannot be raised, the new man cannot emerge, the peoples army cannot be created.”
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This is a text written by Anuradha Ghandy, also known as Avanti. She was spearheading the proletarian feminist movement in India, and was a Central Committee member of the underground Communist Party of India (Maoist). This text is considered to be one of the seminal proletarian feminist texts.
Overview of Women’s Movement in the West
Liberal Feminism
Critique
Radical Feminism
Sex-Gender System and Patriarchy
Sexuality: Heterosexuality and
Lesbianism
Critique
Anarcha-Feminism
Eco-Feminism
Socialist Feminism
Socialist-Feminist strategy for
women’s liberation
Critique
Post-modernism and Feminism
Summing up
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Richard Plantagenet, the third Duke of York was born on the 21st September, 1411 which was exactly 593 years before that of the Communist Party of India ( Maoist) with whom he shares his birthday. He spent his youth battling the French feudalists and imperialists in Normandy thereby avenging the colonisation of England by the Normans some three centuries prior and had built himself mass support amongst the peasantry and the proletariat of England and Ireland to overthrow the elements of the feudal classes who favoured the Henry of Lancaster ( commonly known as Henry VI & II of England and France) which was wont to partake in anti-people measures ( amongst other things by corruption and graft thereby letting the Beauforts monopolise the control of the productive forces in England and by depriving the poorer peasantry and proletariat who had less than 40 shillings from having any say in governance by depriving them the right to vote in 1430). As it is evident, he was in contact with the mass uprising led by Jack Cade and the fact that he had based his demands on what the people had demanded in the uprising but in a more formalized manner shows that he came up with the Maoist practice of implementing the mass-line on his own. He then waged the People's War against the House of Lancaster and was ultimately beheaded in Wakefield at 1460 by the Lancastrian roadsters.
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Historic Eight Documents, Charu Mazumdar
A selection of eight important documents issued by a left faction in the Communist Part of India (Marxist) which split to become the CPI (Marxist-Leninist). The split was broadly over the passivity and reformism of the CPI (M) in the face of fierce but spontaneous uprisings by peasants, and the refusal of armed struggle or even illegal work by the CPI (M) leadership.
The documents form the basis of the Naxalbari uprising and the subsequent Maoist insurgency in India. They've had their ups and downs over the years, between infighting and Operation Green Hunt, but unified a few years ago as CPI (Maoist) and have survived massive counterinsurgency campaigns and urban repression. This is due in large part to the people's war being fueled by objective conditions faced by small peasants and Indigenous Peoples in India.
There's a lot of interesting stuff in the book, like the building of underground Activist Groups to train new party cadre pending a broader central organization of the new party. Or the "gun-collection" campaign, or the role of the Soviet Union in propping up the Indian bourgeoisie alongside the Americans. There's some interesting discussion of class ideology in India at the time. One thing near the end got my attention.
"...there is amongst us a group of revolutionary comrades who accept the Chinese party and the Thought of the great Mao Zedong and also accept that as the only path. But they view the book 'How to be a Good Communist' as the only road to self-cultivation and are consequently led into a serious deviation. The only road to Marxist self-cultivation taught by Lenin and Chairman Mao is the path of class struggle... the main point of of party education is application of the teachings of Marxism-Leninism in class struggle, arriving at general principles on the basis of that experience and taking back to the people the principles summed up from experience. That is what is called 'from the people to the people.'... Self-cultivation is possible only in the process of changing the existing conditions through revolutionary struggle."
Lots more interesting things, and it's just under 80 pages. I read it on the ride to work this morning.
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Events 2.13 (after 1940)
1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1955 – Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy.
1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
1978 – Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1983 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
1996 – The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
2001 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
2021 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.
2021 – A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.
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A little step toward a better world has just been achieved today,as the communists form a government in Nepal openly challenging Indian imperialism and the buthan puppet government
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⚠️ IL NEPAL AVRÀ UN GOVERNO COMUNISTA, VITTORIA GEOPOLITICA PER IL PARTITO COMUNISTA CINESE ⚠️
🇨🇳|🇳🇵 Il 12 settembre, Li Zhanshu - Presidente del Comitato Permanente dell'Assemblea Nazionale del Popolo Cinese - si è recato in Nepal, per un incontro sia con Bidhya Devi Bhandari - Presidente del Nepal - che con i vertici dei due partiti comunisti:
🔺CPN-UML - il cui Segretario è Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli 🚩
https://www.cpnuml.org/
🔺CPN-MC - il cui Segretario Generale è Dev Gurung, ma la figura più importante del partito è Pushpa Kamal Dahal, conosciuta come "Prachanda", un ex-guerrigliero maoista 🚩
https://www.cpnmc.org/
✈️ Si trattava, al tempo, della terza Visita di Alto Livello di un membro del Partito Comunista Cinese in Nepal, dopo quella di Wang Yi - Ministro degli Affari Esteri della RPC, e Liu Jinchao - Direttore del Dipartimento degli Affari Esteri del Comitato Centrale del Partito Comunista Cinese, che si occupa delle relazioni tra il CPC e partiti politici esteri, come il Partito Comunista del Vietnam o il Partito Rivoluzionario del Popolo Lao ⭐️
🧾 Il 20 novembre, in un clima "bollente", si sono svolte le elezioni in Nepal, e le formazioni si sono presentate in questo modo:
📄 La "Coalizione dei 5 Partiti", una sorta di miscuglio - essenzialmente guidato dall'opportunismo - che aveva iniziato a guidare il paese dopo il litigio tra Oli e Prachanda nel 2020. In tale coalizione, che presentava i medesimi partiti della coalizione di governo, vi era il Partito del Congresso, un partito politico pro-India e pro-USA, così come l'MC di Prachanda (❗️), che si trovava lì per motivi opportunistici più che ideologici.
📄 L'UML - guidato da Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli - come unico partito d'opposizione.
📊 Le elezioni in Nepal si dividono in "Party List" e "Constituency" - l'UML aveva preso 26,95% nel PL e 30,83% nel Constituency, mentre il Congresso 25,71% e 23,19%, e l'MC 11,13% e 9,37%.
🏵 Alle elezioni, l'UML ha trionfato in quasi tutte le regioni, ma la C5P - se unita - superava di gran lunga l'UML, anche se mancavano due seggi per l'ottenimento della maggioranza.
🇮🇳|🇺🇸 In ogni caso, sembrava fatta per una vittoria di una coalizione pro-India e pro-USA guidata dal Partito del Congresso, che aveva in mente di accettare un pacchetto da 500 milioni di dollari dagli USA, un vero e proprio "acquisto di sovranità" da parte degli imperialisti statunitensi, che avevano intenzione di trasformare il Nepal nell'ennesimo fantoccio anti-Cinese e anti-comunista.
↩️ Invece, nei giorni precedenti, Prachanda - leader dell'MC - ha iniziato a mostrare un dissapore nei confronti della C5P, rea - secondo lui - di aver tradito le promesse pre-elezioni.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/26/maoist-leader-prachanda-emerges-nepals-next-prime-minister/
⭐️ Inoltre, Dev Gurung - SG del Centro Maoista - ha iniziato a proporre l'idea di una coalizione comunista, e così, sia lui che Prachanda, hanno iniziato a dialogare con Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli 🚩
🇨🇳 Wang Xin - Ambasciatore Cinese in Nepal - ha intensificato gli incontri politici con i partiti comunisti del Nepal, con l'obiettivo di costruire l'unità per poter governare.
🇳🇵Inoltre, Barsaman Pun - membro del Centro Maoista, ed ex guerrigliero - è tornato velocemente in Nepal dalla Cina, per contribuire - come affermato da Khabarhub, media nepalese - alla costruzione dell'unità tra i comunisti.
🇳🇵E così, nonostante le alte probabilità di un nuovo governo pro-India e pro-USA, ieri - 25 dicembre - è stata annunciata l'alleanza tra i comunisti, tra l'UML e il MC, con Pushpa Kamal Dahal - Prachanda - come nuovo Primo Ministro.
🇳🇵|🇮🇳|🇨🇳 Il Nepal è da sempre in orbita pro-India, pertanto un tale capovolgimento - il secondo, per giunta, ma questa volta dovrebbe essere più stabile - rappresenta un'enorme vittoria geopolitica, nonché ideologica, del Partito Comunista Cinese.
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⚠️ NEPAL WILL HAVE A COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT, GEOPOLITIC VICTORY FOR THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA ⚠️
🇨🇳|🇳🇵 On September 12, Li Zhanshu - Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China - went to Nepal, for a meeting with both Bidhya Devi Bhandari - President of Nepal - and with the leaders of the two parties communists:
🔺CPN-UML - whose Secretary is Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli 🚩
https://www.cpnuml.org/
🔺CPN-MC - whose General Secretary is Dev Gurung, but the most important figure of the party is Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as "Prachanda", an ex-Maoist guerrilla 🚩
https://www.cpnmc.org/
✈️ It was, at the time, the third High-Level Visit of a member of the Communist Party of China to Nepal, after that of Wang Yi - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC, and Liu Jinchao - Director of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which deals with the relationship between the CPC and foreign political parties, such as the Communist Party of Vietnam or the Lao People's Revolutionary Party ⭐️
🧾 On November 20, in a "hot" climate, elections were held in Nepal, and the formations presented themselves as follows:
📄 The "Coalition of 5 Parties", a sort of hodgepodge - essentially driven by opportunism - which had started to lead the country after the quarrel between Oli and Prachanda in 2020. In this coalition, which featured the same parties as the government coalition , there was the Congress Party, a pro-India and pro-US political party, as well as Prachanda's MC (❗️), who were there for opportunistic rather than ideological reasons.
📄 The UML - led by Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli - as the only opposition party.
📊 Elections in Nepal are divided into "Party List" and "Constituency" - the UML had taken 26.95% in the PL and 30.83% in the Constituency, while the Congress 25.71% and 23.19%, and the MC 11.13% and 9.37%.
🏵 In the elections, the UML triumphed in almost all regions, but the C5P - if united - far exceeded the UML, even if there were two seats left to obtain a majority.
🇮🇳|🇺🇸 In any case, it seemed made for a victory of a pro-India and pro-US coalition led by the Congress Party, which was planning to accept a 500 million dollar package from the US, a real "buying of sovereignty" by the US imperialists, who intended to turn Nepal into yet another anti-Chinese and anti-communist puppet.
↩️ Instead, in the previous days, Prachanda - leader of the MC - began to show a disagreement with the C5P, guilty - according to him - of having betrayed the pre-election promises.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/26/maoist-leader-prachanda-emerges-nepals-next-prime-minister/
⭐️ Also, Dev Gurung - SG of Maoist Center - started proposing the idea of communist coalition, and so both he and Prachanda started dialogue with Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli 🚩
🇨🇳 Wang Xin - Chinese Ambassador in Nepal - has intensified political meetings with the communist parties of Nepal, with the aim of building unity in order to govern.
🇳🇵 Furthermore, Barsaman Pun - a member of the Maoist Center, and a former guerrilla - quickly returned to Nepal from China, to contribute - as stated by Khabarhub, Nepalese media - to the construction of unity among the communists.
🇳🇵And so, despite the high probability of a new pro-India and pro-USA government, yesterday - December 25th - the alliance between the communists, between the UML and the MC, with Pushpa Kamal Dahal - Prachanda was announced - as the new Prime Minister.
🇳🇵|🇮🇳|🇨🇳 Nepal has always been in a pro-India orbit, therefore such a reversal - the second, moreover, but this time should be more stable - represents a huge geopolitical, as well as ideological, victory for the Party Chinese Communist.
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We as Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle, join the International Committee in Support of the People’s War in India in the month-long campaign to:
Honor the martyrs of the Philippine and Indian revolution.
Call for the freedom of political prisoners.
Support the People’s War in the Philippines and India.
Both the Filipino and Indian revolutionaries are waging a struggle for liberation against imperialism. The imperialist powers such as the U.S. are dependent on the exploitation of their (semi-)colonies. They brutally oppress and exploit the people in these countries, plunder the resources and destroy the environment. But the people in the oppressed countries have taken up arms and are fighting back. It is especially these peoples’ wars that weaken the chains of imperialism and open up the system for further and intensified attacks, until its inevitable downfall. To struggle against imperialism, is to struggle for freedom and genuine peace!
The campaign starts on July 1st, the 13th anniversary of the kidnapping of comrade Azad, then spokesperson of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The fascist state forces in India killed him afterwards. This killing bears striking familiarity to the murder of the Tiamzons, two leading cadres of the Communist Party of the Philippines, last year in the Philippines. The CPI (Maoist) and the CPP are both on the forefront of the liberation struggle and provide important revolutionary leadership.
As solidarity organisation, it is important for us to militantly side with the Filipino and Indian people and their peoples’ wars, and all anti-imperialist forces in the world. For us to stand for a genuine and just peace for the people, a peace that is born through the people’s revolutionary war. Sa digma ay sisilang ang payapa!
The many heroic martyrs and political prisoners of the Philippine and Indian revolution have given their life and their freedom in service to the people and their liberation. We honor these heroes and engulf ourselves with their great revolutionary spirit as we continue to support and join their struggle for liberation.
The martyrs of the revolution will never be forgotten!
Long live the People’s War in India!
Long live the People’s War in the Philippines!
Immediate freedom to all political prisoners in India and the Philippines!
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the leftist youtube i want: today, we're interviewing {members of the IRA | transgender sex workers from three continents | members of the communist party of india (maoist) | havana citizens | etc}
the leftist youtube i have: The Season 7 Finale of DC Super Girls is A Mess, and Here's Why (part 1) (2:30:15 runtime)
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Revolutionary Maoist Coalition of Chicago – Points of Unity
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We are an anti-capitalist, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization. It is the capitalist system which creates the exploitation, oppression, starvation, and systematic killing of the global working classes. Capitalism has exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic; capitalism keeps people from acquiring adequate healthcare; capitalism creates houselessness; capitalism creates police terror. Maoism is the only revolutionary ideology equipped to dismantle and replace the exploitative system of capitalism.
We are inspired by – and learn from – the concrete experiences of the three world-historic revolutions: the Paris Commune, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Chinese Revolution; as well as domestic organizations such as the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Party. In addition to these, we strive to learn lessons from the contemporary Peoples’ Wars and national liberation struggles such as those in the Philippines, India, Peru, Nepal, Turkey, Bangladesh, Palestine, Ireland, and Swaziland to name a few.
We are firmly dedicated to serving our communities and neighborhoods across Chicago by means of free food programs, combating police violence, organizing the masses into tenant unions or neighborhood committees, community gardens, political education, clothing drives, or any other means that match the needs of the oppressed masses.
We are firmly dedicated to the labor struggle and building working class power by means of unionizing our workplaces, as well as aiding and providing solidarity to our fellow workers in their struggles for unionization.
We follow and uphold the mass line. We understand that the masses – and the masses alone – are the makers of history. This means that we must be sure to learn the needs of the masses, and we must organize and mobilize the most advanced sections of them around those needs. Our leaders must come from the masses, and we must be sure to never think we know better than the masses. This principle may be briefly summed up in the formulation of “from the people, to the people”.
We are dedicated to anti-imperialism and revolutionary internationalism. We stand with all people who struggle against neo-colonialism, settler-colonialism, and imperialist domination.
We recognize the struggle of all oppressed nationalities in the United States including the Black/New Afrikan nation, the Chicano nation and other Latinos, Asian Americans, the Hawaiian peoples, Puerto Ricans, Pacic Islanders, Arab Americans, and all indigenous nations on whose land we occupy, with a particular focus on the indigenous nations which continue to live on the land called Chicago which includes the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois Nations. We recognize the United States as a settler-colonial project and view the country as a prison house of nations. RMC-CHI recognizes and is rmly committed to the national self-determination of these peoples and their liberation from settler-colonial capitalist oppression including through return of occupied land, national independence and land back. This must be achieved by organizing the nationally oppressed masses into revolutionary multinational organizations as well as the formation of revolutionary national liberation organizations which will allow for the oppressed nations to simultaneously organize in their own self-interest and self-defense.
We embrace revolutionary proletarian feminism. We are dedicated to the liberation of working and oppressed women – socially, politically, and economically – from patriarchy and capitalism. RMC-CHI emphatically rejects any and all manifestations of male chauvinism. The liberation of women must be achieved by organizing working class and oppressed women into broad revolutionary communist organizations as well as the formation of women’s organizations/committees which will allow for women to simultaneously organize in their own self-interest and self-defense.
We are dedicated to the liberation of all LGBTQ2S people from patriarchal cisgender-heterosexual power structures. We must unite the struggle for queer liberation with the struggle for national self-determination, women’s liberation, and communism. This must be achieved by organizing working class and oppressed queer people into broad revolutionary communist organizations as well as the formation of queer organizations/committees which will allow for the LGBTQ2S community to simultaneously organize in their own self-interest and self-defense.
We are dedicated to the liberation of all disabled and neurodivergent people from oppressive power structures. Neurodivergent and disabled people make many valuable contributions to our society and are cherished members of our class. The struggle for disabled and neurodivergent people must be linked with the struggles for national self-determination and socialism. The liberation of disabled and neurodivergent people must be achieved by organizing disabled and neurodivergent people into broad revolutionary communist organizations as well as the formation of organizations specifically for disabled and neurodivergent people which will allow them to simultaneously organize in their own self-interest and self-defense.
We recognize the need for revolutionary self-defense. The settler-colonial capitalist system reinforces itself by means of violence using the pig police and their fascistic brown-shirt enforcers (the Klan, Proud Boys, and other reactionary organizations/individuals). Colonized, patriarchy-affected, disabled, and poor people are particularly subject to the horric violence of the capitalist-imperialist system. It is necessary to defend ourselves and our communities against this violence, by any means necessary. In this vein, we encourage our members and the masses to train in both unarmed and armed self-defense, and to utilize such training in the defense of oppressed people whenever necessary.
We recognize the revolutionary potential of the lumpen/proletariat. We reject the notion that this strata of the popular masses do not have a strong vested class-interest in proletarian socialism and that they will not play a major part in a revolution in this country. Much like the Bolshevik and Chinese Red Armies had to win the peasantry of their countries to the side of revolutionary socialism, so do we have to form a close class alliance with the lumpen/proletariat in order to make revolution here.
We recognize the revolutionary potential of the so-called United States. We believe that revolution for the working and oppressed masses can be fought and won, and that the imperialist, settler-colonial project of the US can be entirely dismantled. All of our political education, agitation, and organization are means to this end.
We recognize the need for the formation of a Maoist Communist Party. Although we are not a party formation, we understand that no revolution can be won without the leadership of a vanguard party armed with the ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. It is our hope that through the experience and theories learned from work within our revolutionary mass organization that the most politically advanced members among us will develop further and eventually be able to constitute a Maoist Party which is capable of toppling the capitalist-imperialist system.
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So the perpetual tankie discourse is still going on here, and as someone who's read a lot and done a lot of organizing I think that its vitality and it's inanity spring from the same source. By aggregating the hundreds of living Marxist, Marxist leninist, and Marxist leninist maoist traditions alongside the kind of cargo cult politics we see in the US, you can dismiss all of them as pseudo fascist, while the group of contrarians who label themselves tankies get to pretend to be the earnest defenders of those living traditions that millions of people are and have been a part of.
And like, yeah, someone who is earnestly labeling themself a tankie sucks but let me tell you that when you're actually organizing you never have to deal with them! Nor even most of the problems presented by this discourse!
So in practice what this discourse actually does is dismiss the living traditions of millions of living people, who very much have their own problems (the French communist party or the CPUSA does not by any categorization have the same problems as the communist party of India or of the Phillipines!) and disconnect us from those traditions. It ends up making us, the Americans who argue online, deeply provincial, using the histories and intellectual work of other countries merely to buttress our sectarianism
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Since Satyamurthy’s life is enmeshed in communist and Maoist politics, it is important to understand the historical context which brought him there. Gidla’s presentation of Communist party politics and Satyamurthy’s involvement misrepresents and grossly ignores legendary Dalit figures who built the communist movement in Andhra. Even though Dalits remained invisible in the mainstream communist party histories and were a mere social base as labourers and workers. A perusal of Telugu newspapers from the 1930s to the late 1950s as also secret reports of the police department reveal that Dalits were the vanguards of the communist movement as political and cultural activists.
For example, Nambury Sreenivas Rao from Machilipatnam in Krishna district was a famous balladeer and organised Dalits and other marginalised sections. He travelled extensively. Inspired by his songs and performances, people in many villages looted the houses of landlords in Krishna, Guntur and Godavari districts. The Madras police department formed a special police battalion to capture him and failed. Only after independence was he jailed and released after he gave a written undertaking to disassociate himself from the Communist Party of India (CPI).
Bethala Yesudas, a Dalit Christian from Tenali, organised Dalit agricultural labourers as part of the communist movement. He was also considered an outlaw by the Madras government and arrested after independence. Even in Vijayawada and Gudivada, much before Satyamurthy’s time, Pakis, also known as Rellis (manual scavengers), were organised by Thupakula Simhachalam, a Paki himself, into the Municipal Workers Union under the Communist Party in Vijayawada. Simhachalam’s moving autobiography, Nenu Communistunetlaina: How Did I Become A Communist (1946), provides the history of political mobilisation of the Paki community and also narrates the mistreatment of the Paki community even by fellow untouchable Malas and Madigas in the Vijayawada and Gudivada areas. Surprisingly, without even a scant reference to Thupakula Simhachalam, Gidla eulogises Satyamurthy as the pioneer in organising Pakis in Vijayawada. This ahistorical portrayal of Dalit lives not only erases the real heroes but is a gross injustice to activists.
Gidla discusses Guntur Bapanayya, another communist leader who lived in the same Slatter Peta slum in Gudivada where Satyamurthy’s grandmother, Marthamma, bought a dwelling for them. Bapanayya was an elected member of the Madras Legislative Assembly and also general secretary of the Andhra Provincial Agricultural Labourers Association. Given the age of Satyamurthy at that time, Bapanayya would have been a source of inspiration to him as Bapanayya’s brother-in-law, Nancharayya, was a lifelong associate of Satyamurthy. In this context, by the time Satyamurthy came to Gudivada to study, the Communist Party already had roots among the Dalits and established leaders among them.
Satyamurthy walked into a canvas of communist politics led by Dalits in their respective spheres and radicalised Dalit communist activism. Gidla’s portrayal of Satyamurthy as the pioneer of communist mobilisation among Dalits, including Pakis, is factually inaccurate and tantamount to the erasure of history of Dalit activists who sacrificed their lives to emancipate their brethren. Even though caste Hindus monopolised visible positions of power within the CPI, the spade work was done by Dalit activists. In this way, the communist movement in the coastal Andhra districts was built on the backs of Dalits such as Nambury Srinivasa Rao, Bethala Yesudasu, Gunturu Bapanayya and Thupakula Simhachalam
— How Not to Write a Dalit Memoir
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