THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN INDIA
WILL PLAY A DECISIVE ROLE IN THE WORLD REVOLUTION

"Particularly India has a great historical responsibility in the great wave of the world revolution. The people of India, for centuries sunk into the most cruel exploitation and misery, are showing its inexhaustible source of struggle, demanding People's War, a people that will know to assume under the leadership of the Party. Correspondingly in India it is necessary to smash the imperialist plans of putting together false communist parties, with chieftains that do not do anything and never will do anything, for they are made of revisionist rottenness and do not care a hoot about the spilled blood of the masses, they are agents paid by Yankee imperialism." Letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru to the Communist Party of India (ML) (Naxalbari), July 2004

Over a billion inhabitants. A whole subcontinent. A country where on one side there is such fabulous wealth that it is difficult to imagine, and on the other, a human misery so desperate that calling it hell couldn't even begin to describe it. An oppressed, semi-colonial and semi-feudal country where a bureaucrat capitalism unfolds, which at the same time acts as the hangman of the peoples, the foreman of imperialism, in the whole region. This is India. This is where the armed revolution lives and struggles. This is where Maoism is beating in the heart and mind of the communists.

In these lines we want to put forward some fundamental things, in accordance with the importance that the Communist Party of Peru gives to the revolution in India, as expressed, for example, by the Letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Peru to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Naxalbari) from the year 2004.

Since the rebellion of the Naxalbari people, in 1967, 40 years of incessant armed struggle have passed led by the communists in India. It has been 40 years of twists and turns in the hard striving to apply Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in the midst of the bloody war between revolution and counterrevolution. It is a struggle that has undergone and continues going through a complex struggle to unite under Maoism in service of the armed struggle for Power for the proletariat and the people. Among those who took up Chairman Mao, the CPCh and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the people's war, two parties arose, the Maoist Communist Centre (known by its English abbreviation, MCC) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) founded by Comrade Charu Mazumdar. It is not the purpose of the present article to make an analysis of the two parties, their differences and their prior divisions, but for the moment it is sufficient to see that it took almost four decades for the two to unite (after even having fought each other in armed combat). As a result of such unification the Communist Party of India (Maoist) was born and which resulted in an unprecedented level of unification of forces in the country. Nevertheless, there are parties, like most notably the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Naxalbari), which is a full member of the RIM, who adhere to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, that maintain their independence.

The Prime Minister of India has declared that those they call the Naxalite Movement, constitute the main danger for the State, while at the same time pointing out that they control 160 of 604 districts in the country; experts on the matter, they say that the Naxalites have expanded from 64 districts in the year 2005 to 169 in 2007, covering the greater part of the Federal States of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa. The Maoists themselves declare that the reaction is exaggerating the figures to justify using the Police Forces of Andhra Pradesh more and more and funds for their "counter-subversive" programs- i.e. campaigns of encirclement and annihilation-but they sustain that, politically speaking, their zone of influence is even greater. It is not a question of an isolated movement or one of reduced influence. It is a movement that mobilizes millions of poor peasants in the country, a movement that struggles with arms in hand to demolish the old and rotten State of India and to install the government of workers and peasants under the leadership of the proletariat and its Party.

The weight of the masses in the world is in the oppressed nations, which constitute the base of the World Proletarian Revolution, and one-fifth of the world population is now concentrated in India. That is why our camp as well as the other camp is very conscious of the importance of what is taking place there. Thus it is not an accident that imperialism tries to use the influence of those in Nepal who are in conspiracy with new revisionism, who have capitulated while in the antechamber to the takeover of power in the whole country, to bring on the defeat of the struggle of the proletariat and the people of India. Prachanda has been very clear in shouting from the rooftops that he wishes for the comrades in India to stray from the road of the people's war, the only road of the people, to follow his "example" and to sink into the swamp of revisionism. His younger brother in arms in the "war without arms", comrade Guarev, has recognized their intentions as well as their limitations: "We also want them (the Naxalites) to enter the parliamentary mainstream, but it may not be possible," (Interview with CP Gajurel, in charge of the International Department of the CPN (M), in the daily The Telegraph, April 22, 2007).

It is a known fact that the communists of India have rejected the efforts made to sow capitulation in their ranks and they have reaffirmed themselves in, not just to go on, but to do it in the only way possible, struggling against the siren songs of those who already sold themselves for a plate of beans, which is why they put forward: "Even when confronted with great difficulties and odds against the revolutionaries, the genuine Maoists in India never vacillated or drifted from their line of new democratic revolution and achieving it through the line of protracted people's war. They had not only rejected the parliamentary path but also fought against the parties who wanted to participate in elections in the name of utilizing it as a tactic." Exclusive Interview with the CPI (M) Spokesperson on Nepal Developments, August 6th, 2006).

The firm orientation of the communists of India of staying on the road of the people's war and, even more, of developing it, was resolved with full clarity by the Ninth Congress of the CPI (M) in March of 2007: "Today the Maoist movement is facing the great challenge of building a strong PLA and establishing the base areas in the remote countryside as an immediate task" (Inaugural Speech of Comrade Ganapathy to the Ninth Congress of the CPI (M), March, 2007). The Comrade himself underlines the resolution of the Party to develop the people's war: "The general direction of the Congress is to intensify the people's war and to take the war to all fronts. Concretely it decided to take the guerrilla war to a higher level of mobile war in the areas where guerrilla war is in an advanced stage and to expand the areas of armed struggle to as many states (federal, translator note) as possible." (Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, Communist Party Of India (M), April 2007). The words of the comrade are not empty like those of so many others; during 2007 until now the PLA, who the CPI (M) leads, has developed powerful military campaigns, causing hundreds of casualties for the bloody hordes of the Old State and defeated extensive campaigns of encirclement and annihilation.

With revolutionary joy, we Marxist-Leninist-Maoists, Gonzalo Thought, see the advance of our comrades in India. We know that our struggle is one inside the powerful New Great Wave of the World Proletarian Revolution that has begun to develop guided by Maoism. We give them our support without reservation with the development of the People's War in Peru and we consider that developing the people's war in India would be the best support that we could have. We consider that the struggle to apply the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, should go on to advance to new heights, generating in the class struggle of the proletariat and principally in that of its Party, the guiding thought that sustains the Great Leadership of the revolution in that country. We reaffirm our promise to learn from them and give them the experience of Chairman Gonzalo and his all-powerful Gonzalo thought, the PCP and the People's War which blazes in our country that also serves them for advancing in the people's war, knowing that a militarized Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Party, with a Base of Party Unity, a guiding thought and great leadership, can withstand any ordeal by fire with people's war. "The reactionaries and revisionists of India are in collusion in order for the People's War not to develop, knowing that it would be the end of them, just as the imperialists know the decisive role that that would have in the world revolution and that it would change the correlation of forces in the world, that it would allow the encirclement of the imperialist nations, having as support bases the oppressed nations that develop People's War. This is the moment." Letter from the CC of the PCP to the CPI (ML) (Naxalbari), July 2004