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On the 50th anniversary of Naxalbari

HISTORY WAS MADE TODAY ON OCTOBER 20TH 1969 WITH FORMATION OF MAOIST COMMUNIST CENTRE -50TH ANNIVERSARY .MAJOR PRECURSOR OF UNIFIED C.P.I.(MAOIST) WHICH PRACTICED MASSLINE MORE THAN C.P.I.(M.L.) AND ARGUABLY CLASSICALLY MORE LIKE THE CPC BEFORE THE CHINESE REVOLUTION THAN EVEN THE ERSTWHILE C.P.I(M.L.) PEOPLES WAR.MUTUAL SELF-CRITICISM OF BOTH PARTIES TO STOP IN INTER-GROUP KILLINGS RANKS AMONGST THE MOST GLORIOUS AND DEFINING CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN COMMUNIST MOVEME. THEIR EVENTUAL MERGING INTO THE UNIFIED CPI(MAOIST)WROTE A NEW EPOCH IN ANNALS OF WORLD COMMUNIST HISTORY.

Below posting article from August 2019 issue of Peoples March on 50 years of MCC.Invaluable writing to read for comrades.

Drawing a clear-cut line of demarcation on

political and organizational issues with revisionist

views and path, as a firm commitment was made

to build a genuine revolutionary party on the basis

of revolutionary theory and in the course of

revolutionary struggle, soon after the revisionist

Seventh Congress of the CPM in 1964 a

revolutionary centre was established, followed by

the emergence of the organisation as MCC on

October 20, 1969.

At the outset, the nature of this organisation

formed by the initiative of Comrade KC, Comrade

AmulyaSen and Chandrashekhar Das was that of a

revolutionary centre. This organisation then was

very limited in strength and was isolated. In such

a situation, Comrade KC had described what should

be our important duty, which in brief can be

summed up thus : as a guiding line for the Indian

revolution create public opinion on the basis of a

concrete line regarding Strategy and Tactics; build

Professional Revolutionary cadres; a line for work

in the rural areas, adopt a line for work in the cities,

a line for work among workers, students-youth etc.

and, as the principal and central task, adopt a

concrete plan for building the Army and Base Areas

in accordance with our strength and capacity; and

must in fact, to get involved in practice fully.

As concrete reflections of revisionism the

various expressions against which under Comrade

KC’s able leadership it was then decided to

conduct struggle were: (1) Economism (2)

Spontaneity (3) Legalism (4) Bureaucratic

Centralism (5) Bourgeois Parliamentary System etc.

The various opportunist perceptions that we

had to vigorously struggle against in the course of

our struggle against revisionism were: (i) The view

that did not accept neo-colonialism as a new form

of Colonialism, that is the method It was in the process of parting ways with the

undivided Communist Party in 1964, right from the

Seventh Congress of the CPM wherein the banner

of revolt was raised to rupture ties with the

revisionist line of the CPM, that the question

emerged as to what should be the correct line of

the Indian revolution, what would be the stage

and path of Indian revolution and who would be

the friends and enemies of the revolution, and so

on.

In fact, to find answers to such questions, an

attempt was made through documents called

‘Chinta’, published in 1965 [It was to vigorously

struggle against revisionism secretly within the

then CPI (M) party, that ‘Chinta’ was published, of

which 6 documents were brought out]. Later in

1966, the political and theoretical debate was

continued vigorously against revisionism through

a magazine called ‘Dakshindesh’. However, the

need was felt for a consistent line presented

through a basic document. In this process, as an

effort to find answers to the above questions,

Comrade KC presented (for discussion) a document

on the Outline of a Strategic and Tactical Line for

Indian Revolution. Comrade KC had prepared this

document basically on the basis of Comrade

Lenin’s Colonial Thesis and articles on Nationality

Problem; Comrade Stalin’s article on Nationality,

the History of the Bolshevik Party, Problems of

Leninism; the important documents related to the

Great Debate published by the CPC led by Mao,

especially the General line of the International

Communist Movement (the June 14th letter),

Apologist of Neo-colonialism; Mao’s On New

democracy, Analysis of classes in Chinese society,

The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist

Party, important articles on military matters etc.

Through this document presented by

Comrade KC, a sharp line of demarcation was

politically drawn with the revisionism of the CPI

and CPM. The political points on which the

documenton Strategy drew a sharp line of

demarcation were:

(a) Indian revolution as an inseparable part of

world revolution.

(b) Indian society today - (i) Has imperialism

been eliminated? On the contradiction between

imperialism and the broad masses; (ii) Indian

polity; (iii) Has feudalism been eliminated? On the

contradiction between feudalism and the broad

masses; (iv) Indian culture today.

(c) The character of the present Indian national

economy.

(d) The Indian social system and social crisis.

(e) The character of Indian revolution; two

stages of Indian revolution.

(f) On the internal relationships and the

leadership of National revolution and Democratic

revolution.

(g) The basic duty of democracy: (i)

Democratic state and politics - the specificities of

the state system; (ii) Democratic economics; (iii)

Democratic culture.

(h) The basis of unity of nationalities.

(i) The path of revolution - the central task of

revolution is to capture political power through

Peoples’ War; the path of Protracted Peoples’ War

demonstrated by Chairman Mao is the path of

India’s liberation.

(j) The protracted nature of the Peoples’ War

in India is determined by the specificities of the

actual conditions.

(k) Expose the Treacherous Façade of

Elections, Take to the path of Protracted Peoples’

War.

(l) Three Magic Weapons of Revolution.

(m) The international significance of the great

Indian revolution.

Then, the points on which a line of

demarcation was drawn with revisionism in the

document regarding tactics were:

(a) The central task of revolution is to seize

political power by armed force.

(b) The path of revolution in Russia or the path

of revolution in China? The path of the new

democratic revolution of India is the path of the

great Chinese revolution.

(c) The vast countryside is the enemy’s

weakest area - the storm-centre of revolution. The

peasantmasses are the firmest friends of

revolution, the Agrarian Revolutionary War is the

basic key that would make the peasant masses join

the Peoples’ War.

(d) The focus of all work is to establish

Protracted Peoples’ War; the primary, principal and

central task at present is to form a Peoples’ Army

and Base Areas in the countryside.

(e) The work in the rural areas must be

principal. On the correct relation between the work

in villages and cities, on the line for work in the

cities.

(f) The principal form of struggle and

organisation are Peoples’ War and Peoples’ Army.

The relationship between the main and

secondary forms of struggle and organisation.

(g) Maintain a firm hold over the class line and

mass line, centralise work on among the working

class and poor and landless peasants.

In fact, the above document on Strategy and

Tactics presented by Comrade KC is a concrete

expression of the political views and practical work

of the MCCI.

In order to give a practical form to the line of

Protracted People’s War and the building of the

Agrarian Revolution, Army and Base Areas, MCC

initially started work in Sonarpur of West Bengal.

But eveBut even before the organisation could be built

up and made concrete and functional to some

extent, the enemy began attacking it. In such a

situation it was not possible to adopt any tactics

(contd in p.36)

There are changes in the balance of forces

between the imperialist forces due to the severe

economic and financial crises of the world

capitalist system. The re-division of the market

gained momentum according to these changes.

The commercial and military conflicts between the

major imperialist forces are on the rise. These

forces are encouraging realignments in order to

increase their strength. The changes in the balance

of forces of the imperialist forces caused the first

two World Wars. But now there are large scale

nationality liberation struggles, Democratic

(contd in p.19)

PM

Revolutionary struggles and People’s struggles

against imperialism all over the world. In view of

the whole situation, in order to mold the present

crisis into a revolutionary explosion, in order to

build and continue the revolutionary wars to

end these wars by mobilizing the oppressed

nationalities and people against all these unjust

wars, workers, oppressed nationalities, oppressed

people, revolutionary, democratic nationality

liberation organisations of the world, unite! Work

with the objective to wipe out the imperialists and

their lackeys on this earth and achieve liberation!

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other than the method of retreating in selfdefence.

In terms of result and quality, the

Sonarpur struggle could not reach an advanced

stage. The revolutionary struggle of Kanksa- Gaya

- Hazaribagh could be advanced only after taking

Lessons from the Sonarpur struggle. The history

of the Kanksa Struggle is one of serial episodes. It

began in the year 1970-71. In 1970 some economic

and political struggle commenced here and there.

Between February-March and June-July in the

year 1971, many economic and political struggles

were waged under the leadership of the Kanksa

Area Committee. There was a good mass

participation in these struggles.

Lessons of the Gaya - Hazaribagh struggle in

undivided Bihar

Keeping in mind the experience of the Kanksa

struggle, where the task of timely expansion of

the area and political and organisational

preparations within the area, that is, the task of

preparations regarding the Party, Army and United

Front could not be done in good time, an attempt

was made now to advance the revolutionary

struggle in Gaya-Hazaribagh of former Bihar in a

more systematic and planned manner.

By then, the revolutionaries had developed

an understanding regarding military matters that

in order to carry out military activities in a proper

manner, a vast expanse of area was required so as

to advance and retreat, or maneuver from time to

time. This thinking was later reflected in practice

with the formation of the Bihar-Bengal Special

Area Committee.

Anyway, in the then Dhanbad and Hazaribagh

area (Hazaribagh district then included the present

Chattra, Giridih and Koderma districts) and in the

Gaya area (Gaya then included Aurangabad,

Jehanabad, Navada and such districts) work started

with the perspective of advancing with the

concrete orientation of building the Army and

Base Area in the middle of 1969 and the latter half

of 1968, respectively.

Hazaribagh had plenty of hills and forests and

was inhabited by the Adivasis withthe influence

of the nationality movement i.e., the separate

Jharkhand movement. Gaya was a vast plain area

(also having a few hills and forests), in the strong

hold of the crude feudal system.

The clarion call of Armed Agrarian

Revolutionary Guerrilla struggle had echoed in the

Parasnath and Jilga hills of Dhanbad and

Hazaribagh and the Neri-Mehudia hill of Barkagaon

and surrounding areas in 1971 itself. Similarly, in

the latter half of 1972 the red flaming torch of

Agrarian Revolutionary struggle was lit in the

Chalho hills and the surrounding areas of Gaya

area.

In the struggle of the Hazaribagh area, owing

to the broad participation of the adivasi masses as

well as non-adivasi masses, a revolutionary

upsurge-like situation was created. The enemy

was alarmed at the revolutionary struggle in this

backward and adivasi-inhabited area. Thus, the

brutal “encirclement and suppression”

campaignstarted. In order to defeat this

“encirclement and suppression” the process of

advancing further also began from the side of

the revolutionaries. The “encirclement and

suppression” campaign of 1974 was stinging and

intense, wherein some comrades were martyred

and some other leading comrades were arrested.

Therefore, the struggle was forced to retreat for a

while.

However, within a year or two the work began

to be advanced afresh and with a new plan in a

vast expansive area comprising Hazaribagh

(including Hazaribagh, Giridih, Koderma, Chattra

districts) and Dhanbad (including the present

Bokaro district). Especially, as the enemy

conducted his “encirclement and suppression”

campaign, and efforts were made on our part to

defeat it and gradually to expand the struggle

further and take it to a higher plane, this process

enabled us to acquire new experience in political

and military aspects as well as in organisational

aspects.

Meanwhile, the struggle in Gaya area too had

surpassed the Chalho area, spreading into many

new areas. An earth-shaking struggle against

feudal landowners, their goons and private armies

made it a powerful upsurge. By the thousands, the

peasant masses and toiling masses participated in

this revolutionary struggle, devastating the old

rotten system and taking firm steps ahead to build

a new system that is a peoples’ democratic order.

The idea of forming a Special Area emerged

in order to give practical shape to the task of

building the army and base area. Although it was

decided very early that building the Army and Base

Area was the primary, principal and central task,

yet how it would be translated into reality had

always been a big question posed before the

revolutionaries. In what practical from would

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (then Mao Tse-tung

thought) be implemented in the concrete

situation, or concrete specificity of India, was also

posed as a big question.

It was realized that to seek a proper answer to

this serious issue, it would not suffice to merely

give a general call regarding the Army and Base

area, but it was also necessary to actually

determine a concrete task to form the Army and

Base Area. In order to carry out this task, it was

also necessary to select some strategic area where

a Base Area self-sufficient in economic, political

and military aspects could be built.

Therefore, in order to build the Army and Base

Area on the soil of our country, the idea emerged

of considering Bihar (now Bihar - Jharkhand) and

some areas of Bengal (West Midnapore-Bankura-

Purulia) as a Special Area.

Efforts began in 1975 itself to form the Special

Area, and in mid-1976 a Bihar-Bengal Special Area

Committee was formed under the direct guidance

and leadership of Comrade KanhaiChatterjee with

some leading comrades working in the Kanksa

area of Bengal and Dhanbad, Giridih, Hazaribagh,

Gaya, Aurangabad, Navada and other districts.

The formation of a committee by the name of

Special Area had a very positive impact. This

nomenclature had aroused much interest about

why a Special Area was formed and what would

be its tasks. Thus, a clear concept was formed for

an Army and Base Area, and the building of a

Special Area in order to enable this. It was

understood by the revolutionaries that not even a

single step ahead could be taken as regards

forming the Army and Base Area in a spontaneous

manner, without any plan or without the concept

of Strategic Area.

Right from the beginning MCC held aloft the

great Naxalbari Peasant Struggle. It acknowledged

the role of great Naxalbari in the Indian revolution

and the positive role of Comrade CM as the

founder and leader of Indian Revolution. At the

same time it was critical of Party building in 1969

and a few of its tactics. MCC was critical towards

the splits after the temporary setback of the

movement in the leadership of ML Party in 1972

and their practice. MCC leadership took the

positive and negative experiences till the setback

of Naxalbari movement along with the

experiences of the revolutionary peasant struggle

in Sonarpur and Kankshainto view in developing

the movement in [Bihari Lal Chhabra](https://www.facebook.com/imbiharilal?fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdKH-R-R&eid=ARAmipBUS76NuLiVN6vzx1ndTnfj2V_uB8n8tm8PGGEvr73fHQXSDps4lwHW3oe9_1EHcUmpapdvzsYC&dti=172729396144229&hc_location=group)At the time when the movement was

advancing in the leadership of MCC, the founders

of MCC Party Comrades AmulyaSen and KC who

not only guided the movement but also led it

directly were martyred due to ill-health within a

few months. Central Organising Committee

formed with Comrade SushilRoy who came up

under the direct guidance and training of these

great leaders led the movement.

The State and the Central Conferences in 1989

and 1996 and the Bihar-Bengal Special Area

Conference in 2001 were historic. These

Conferences summarized the experiences of the

movement. As a part of it they adopted the

favorable and unfavorable factors and lessons and

tasks. The movement was developed

considerably through proper theoretical, political,

organizational and military efforts. The movement

spread to various states, vast areas and various

fields. Party, Guerilla forces (Military Management

Committee, Formations and others), and the Mass

base developed considerably. With the relentless

and firm efforts Party could enhance its

understanding about Party line, Party, People’s

Army, formation of Political power, tactics and

other things.

The Party produced a body of rich literature –

Party Basic documents, Polemical Documents, on

Nationality question, on the separate state of

Jharkhand, documents on woman’s question,

political organizational reviews, on the

revisionism of Deng, on the Three Worlds

theory, documents on Maoism, political-military

documents, political, military training notes,

circulars and other valuable theoretical, political,

organizational, military and tactical documents in

abundance. All these were adopted in the process

of practice in the light of Marxism-Leninism-

Maoism. They were embedded in the development

of the Party line.

With the theoretical struggle in the Central

Committee in 2001, the Party took a leap in its

understanding and practice. This internal struggle,

the end to the clashes with the People’s War Party,

unity of the Party, casting away dogmatic and

sectarian attitudes led to a favorable condition to

achieve a breakthrough in the formation of

People’s Army-Development of People’s War-

Liberation areas. The unity process speeded up, a

few genuine Marxist-Leninist groups and forces

merged with it and MCC developed as an All India

Party – the MCCI. It formed PLGA and Commissionsand Commands for this on the 22nd April, 2003.

MCCI took leaps and developed in a qualitative

manner in these fields very soon only after an

internal struggle over all these issues. MCCI and

People’s War Parties merged and a new Party CPI

(Maoist) emerged.

12/10/2023

Comrade Ramakrishna(RK) one of the top Maoist leader of Communist Party Of India (Maoist)

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