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JOINT PRESS STATEMENT OF CPN (MAOIST) and CPI (ML) PEOPLE’S WAR

A call for united resistance to fascist state repression

The two fighting revolutionary parties, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and Communist Party of India (ML) [People’s War] issued a joint press statement to resist the collaboration of both countries reactionary regime. This statement came just after the visit of Indian home secretary Mr. Pandey with his Nepali counterpart Padam Prasad Pokhrel were agreed to fight the terrorists (it is terrorism for the looters and oppressors). Both regimes have been collaborating to suppress the revolutionary struggles in past and it is the ground for Indian Intervention in Nepal. In Nepal the government is in the hand of expansionist puppet. India is forcing its hegemony to its neighbouring countries. In India the revolutionaries are fighting since about 30 years, at the beginning it was know as Naxalbari revolt, now it is spreading in different corner of Indian oppressed masses , in a direction towards the establishment of base areas. In Nepal, the people’s war was initiated in 13^th of February 1996 under the leadership of CPN (Maoist) which is able to develop the people’s base areas and exercising the people’s power as elected joint people’s committee’s local government in western Nepal. All the other parts are developing as the Guerrilla Zones and Guerrilla action zones.

To get victory it is necessary to unit and to get support from the oppressed of the world, specially in south Asian region the Indian Expansionism is the common enemy for the revolution, so it is important to make unity among the revolutionary struggles in this region. In this direction this appeal is an important quality of integration. The full text of appeal statement signed by Com. Gaurav, CCM of CPN (Maoist) and  Com. Ajaya, CCM of CPI (ML) [People’s war] on 8^th of July is as below which we receive here:

“The Indian ruling classes, led by the genocidal BJP-led government at the Centre and megalomaniacs like Chandrababu Naidu in the states, have unleashed a campaign of extermination on the revolutionary forces in India.

Revolutionary cadres and leaders are being brutally tortured and killed in fake encounters. Even top leaders of the Party, like the three Central Committee members of the People’s War, were meted out this same barbaric treatment. In just the past one year over 300 revolutionaries have been murdered in India and thousands more incarcerated in prisons throughout the country. The Andhra Pradesh1 government leads in this brutality, with its continuing ban on the People’s War and its mass organisations. The centre, after the April 4 meeting convened by the central home minister and attended by the chief ministers, home secretaries and police chiefs of the five affected states, is now implementing a planned and concerted offensive against the Maoist forces throughout the country, in intensified attacks. The onslaught, though initiated against the revolutionaries, is slowly spreading to all sections of the struggling people.

While capitulating totally to the dictates of the imperialists and slavishly selling the country to the transnational corporations, the BJP2 and all other ruling class parties, are ruthlessly suppressing the masses with the aim of allowing a free hand to the foreign robber-barons. With this goal, they are re-introducing draconian black laws like TADA3; buying highly sophisticated counter-insurgency equipment from Israel, France, US, etc., and are being trained by Mossad4, Scotland Yard and US counter-insurgency experts.

The Indian rulers, in their hysteric worldwide campaign against so-called terrorism, seek to crush the revolutionary forces of not only India, but also throughout South Asia. Acting as a regional gendarme of the imperialists, specifically the US imperialists, the Indian expansionists, together with their puppets in Nepal, are now planning further intervention in the sovereign state of Nepal, to crush the growing Maoist forces there.

The reactionary Nepalese government has already massacred more than 1,300 heroic sons and daughters, in the wake of the rapidly developing people’s war under the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The people’s war in Nepal, which has now become the hope of the oppressed masses, is growing to a high level, to establish base areas in the countryside, with the active participation of the masses. The people’s guerrilla army have already demoralised the government commando forces in big battles. Therefore, the present government of Nepal, led by Girija Prasad Koirala, the hated puppet of the Indian expansionists, is planning to create rivers of blood of the Nepalese people on their own soil, by deploying the army. Hundreds of thousands of revolutionary masses and prominent personalities are rising against this conspiracy of the enemy. Revolutionaries should be alert, and prepared for any eventuality.

In India too, in spite of the massacre of 1,500 revolutionaries in the past decade, the people’s war is advancing in extent and depth. The Guerrilla Zones are slowly developing to a higher stage and the organs of the new people’s power are taking shape in the villages of North Telangana and Dandakaranya, in a direction towards the establishment of base areas.

Simultaneously the people’s guerrilla forces are being strengthened, and the Party is taking deeper roots in the masses. In addition, the Party has spread to ten states of the country. The people of both countries, led by their Maoist parties, have been heroically fighting back the state offensive, and are advancing towards genuine liberation and freedom. While the revisionists and sham Marxists continue their policies of betrayal of the people’s struggles, it is the genuine Maoist revolutionary forces who are leading the people’s war for total emancipation.

We, of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) [People’s War], appeal to the people of both Nepal and India, to rise unitedly to oppose the fascist and genocidal policies of the Indian ruling classes and their lackeys, including the Nepali ruling classes, and fight for the freedom of both countries from the imperialists’ onslaught and against the strategies of Indian expansionism, and for the total liberation of the masses from the clutches of domestic reaction.

Comrade Gaurav,

Central Committee, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

Comrade Ajaya

Central Committee (Provisional), Communist Party of India (M-L) [People’s War]”