Press Statement
These are days when the UPA government is imposing further
price rises and other burdens over the common people under its neo-liberal
budget, when even the existing workers’ rights are snatched away, mounting attacks are unleashed on people’s
movements at Kudamkulam, Jaitapur, Kalinga Nagar, POSCO etc, and when the
AFSPA-Army policing is making life intolerable for people of J&K and
Northeast. This is also a time when the UPA govt is getting more crisis ridden
than ever. The BJD govt in Odisha is also faced with mounting people’s wrath
against its pro-Corporate-MNCs policies. At such a time by abducting two Italian tourists the
CPI(Maoist) has provided a very good opportunity for the central and state
government to divert people’s attention from the crises faced by the ruling
system and to mount attack on the people in the name of confronting ‘left wing
extremism’. Even it may be used to deploy army to these areas in the state, as
already an army training camp is established in Jagdalpur in neighbouring
Chathisgarh in the name of meeting Maoist threat. Instead of stopping
the ‘Operation Green Hunt’ as the Maoists have now demanded, it is only going
to be intensified as a result of this anarchist action. Even if they succeed to
get some of their cadres released from jail as in the past as a result of the
so-called ‘peace talks’, it will only become a further justification for the
state forces to kill their cadres in fake encounters. This is an absolutely
futile anarchist action which, instead of serving revolution, is serving the
counter revolution. It should be severely condemned by all communist and
democratic forces.
The CPI (Maoist) leadership has become so blind due to
dogmatism that they are not ready to recognize the damage they are doing to the
revolutionary movement. By their squad actions they destroyed the powerful mass
movement in Lalgarh in West Bengal which had blocked Jindal like corporates
from that area, and opened the way for deployment of central forces and for
Jindal to start its project. While the CPI (ML) could lead mass movements and
stop the SEZ in Ragnandgaon and partially stop the privatization
of Sivnath river in Chathisgarh, in the stronghold of Maoists in Bastar, the
Essar has succeeded to construct and operate 204 kms long pipe line to
Visakhapatnam to loot the iron ore from Baladilla. There is no single instant any where in India
where the Maoists could stop or block any corporate-MNC project through their
anarchist actions. Similarly, in the name of defeating CPI (M), they went to
the extent of supporting the TMC in last year’s assembly elections in Bengal as
they are repeatedly doing in AP and Jharkhand, ultimately helping the forces of
reaction. When all the erstwhile socialist countries have degenerated to
capitalist path and the communist movement is facing many theoretical and
practical challenges in politicizing, mobilizing and leading the masses to the
revolutionary path, such isolated squad actions and anarchist practice of the
Maoists are not only against the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism and Mao’s
contributions to revolutionary theory, but also ultimately serve the ruling
classes and their imperialist masters as we are witnessing in the areas where
the Maoist squads are operating.
It is unfortunate that not recognizing this, some
intellectuals who are not ready to involve themselves in any revolutionary
propaganda or practice among the masses get infatuated with the adventurist
‘actions’ of Maoists and get carried away by the media hype they attract. This
section like the Maoist leadership is far away from the Marxist teaching that
the masses, masses alone are the
creators of history. CPI (ML) appeals to these intellectuals and sections,
influenced by the anarchist practice of the Maoists, to rethink and rectify
their mistake. At a time when the imperialist system as a whole and the
comprador ruling system in India are getting discredited and when objective
conditions for revolutionary advances of the masses are becoming increasingly
positive, the Maoist anarchist actions will only serve the ruling classes to
attack the communist forces and weaken the people’s upsurges as they are using
the social democratic CPI (M) led forces for this purpose. CPI (ML) appeals to
all democratic forces and masses of
people to oppose and severely condemn the anarchist line of the CPI (Maoist)
leadership and rally with the revolutionary left forces for advancing the class
struggle for achieving people’s democracy and socialism.
K.N.Ramachandran
General Secretary, CPI (ML).
Dated 20th March,2012.
Ph.011-25332343, Mob. 09447112136.
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