State Government Plot to ban NGOs in the Conflict Zone fails……

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No ban on MSF, says Chhattisgarh Government

SpecialCorrespondent

NEW DELHI: The Chhattisgarh Government has clarified that there is noban on the representatives of the Medicine Sans Frontiers (MSF), aglobal non-governmental organisation, from functioning in thenaxalite-affected areas of Bastar.

A statement by an official spokesperson said on Saturday that theadministration in Bastar had only issued an advisory to the local MSFrepresentatives asking them to avoid travelling to sensitive interiorareas. This was issued out of concern for their security.

The NGO was free to carry out its humanitarian activities according tothe norms of Medical Council of India, the spokesperson said.

Describing as “factually incorrect” the news items that suggested thatthe MSF had been banned, he said the Government had not evencontemplated barring the NGO from working in any part of the State.It was sensitive to the humanitarian aid provided by the MSF acrossthe world and in India.

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NPA ambush AFP troops in Monkayo; holds POW

Ka Aris Francisco

Alejandro Lanaja Command
Front 3 Operations Command
New Peoples Army-Southern Mindanao
August 11, 2007

Red fighters from the Alejandro Lanaja Command-New People’s Army ambushed elements of the 72nd Infantry Battalion-Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and paramilitary Cafgu, on Friday, August 10, in Sitio Kidapang, Brgy. San Isidro, Monkayo, Compostela Province around 7:30 in the morning.

Three Cafgus were killed instantly. One Army regular was seriously wounded while another one surrendered. The NPA suffered no casualty and seized an M16 rifle.

The tactical offensive against the fascist AFP is one of the series that the NPA is staging in the fight against US-Arroyo regime’s Oplan Bantay Laya. The ambush also serves as a punitive action for the military’s role in protecting the palm oil expansion by Monkayo Mayor Manuel Brillantes.

Brillantes is a despotic bureaucrat aggressively pushing for the palm oil expansion amid the resistance of local residents and leaders. Through his death squads and with the support of the fascist military, Brillantes kills, harasses and intimidates residents who opposed his interests.

Meanwhile, Pfc. Marjun Gatela (Serial Number 837898), 30 years old, married and from Tagum City who surrendered to the NPA, will undergo investigation to ascertain his individual culpability for the crimes against the people. His rights as a Prisoner of War (POW) will be guaranteed in accordance with the Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, and international rules of war.

If Pfc. Gatela is found not guilty of any crime against the people, the revolutionary movement will immediately release him. However, continuing military operations will complicate his situation. The military and paramilitary troops will have to deal with the Red fighters who will not hesitate to attack them.

The case of the three Cafgu casualties only proves that the US-Arroyo regime and the AFP are merely using the paramilitary groups as pawns and sacrificial lambs.

DECLARATION TO REAFFIRM THE SIGNIFICANCE AND RELEVANCE OF THE ANTI-REVISIONIST STRUGGLE AND THE GPCR

01 May 2007

Signatories and annotations updated on 13 August 2007

We, the undersigned Marxist-Leninist, Mao Zedong Thought and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations, hereby issue this declaration to reaffirm the significance and relevance of the struggle against modern revisionism starting in 1956 in opposition to the
revisionist content of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in February 1956 leading to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 and continuing after the bourgeoisie seized power in China in 1976. We do so after one year of
activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the anti-revisionist struggle and renewing our commitment to pursue this struggle.

We honor and pay the highest respect to Comrade Mao Zedong for leading the Communist Party of China (CPC) and all Marxist-Leninist parties in the struggle against modern revisionism. He promptly caused the publication of the editorial of the People’s Daily, “On the Historical
Experience of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” in April 1956 in response to the 20th Congress of the CPSU. In this congress the Khrushchov revisionist clique repudiated in February 1956 under the pretext of opposing “personality cult” the fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism and the great revolutionary achievements of the Party of Lenin and Stalin in building socialism, fighting fascism and leading the international communist movement for more than 30 years.

The actions of the Soviet revisionists headed by Khrushchov laid bare the phenomenon of modern revisionism in opposition to the proletarian dictatorship and put the Soviet Union on the road of capitalist restoration. They reorganized the Soviet Party, the state, the economy
and the cultural institutions in order to subvert Marxism-Leninism and the socialist system.

They opposed the dictatorship of the proletariat and propagated bourgeois populism with the notions of “party of the whole people” and “state of the whole people” and bourgeois pacifism with the notions of “peaceful transition,” “peaceful competition” and “peaceful coexistence”. They undertook to undermine the international communist movement and pushed “peaceful coexistence” as the general line to oppose proletarian internationalism and to attack the international communist movement and the national liberation movements.

Revisionism destroyed all the formerly socialist countries. It transformed these into colonies of social imperialism, deprived the revolutionary world movement of its revolutionary center, destroyed revolutionary parties and brought confusion, division and liquidationism into the international communist and working class movement. It had a corroding effect on the proletarian class struggle and the anti-imperialist struggle and led to defeats involving heavy losses. The process of the international proletarian revolution has been set back for decades.

There are ideological, political, socio-economic and cultural causes of modern revisionism. The major causes include deviation from materialist dialectics, abandonment or waning of the proletarian class stand and class struggle, worship of outdated or revisionist Soviet examples and the degeneration of a great number of bureaucrats and intellectuals due to their petty bourgeois social conditions and ways of thinking, which are the gateway to modern revisionism as full bourgeois ideology.

Hankering for personal privileges, nepotism, careerism, abuse of power, enrichment and other forms of self-interest, those afflicted with the petty bourgeois mode of thinking gain the upper hand among the leading functionaries in the party, state, economy and cultural institutions and
give rise to modern revisionism as bourgeois ideology and as platform for bourgeois policies.

Comrade Mao defended the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism against the line of modern revisionism. He denounced the revisionists for sowing confusion in the international communist movement and generating disorder and uprisings against the socialist cause in Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

Under the direction of Comrade Mao, the delegation of the CPC pursued the anti-revisionist line in the Moscow meetings of communist and workers’ parties in 1957 and 1960. Thereafter, the Marxist-Leninists led by the CPC launched an international ideological struggle on a comprehensive range of issues against the modern revisionists centered in the Soviet party.

Further on, the Marxist-Leninists led by Comrade Mao proceeded to the criticism and repudiation of the phenomenon of monopoly bureaucrat capitalism and social imperialism during the long regime of Brezhnev. Monopoly bureaucrat capitalism masqueraded as socialism while the bureaucrats and businessmen connived to steal from the state sector. In international relations, the Soviet revisionists engaged in socialist phrase-mongering and in the practice of imperialism.

Comrade Mao did not rest content with the critique of modern revisionism as it had arisen and grown in the Soviet Union and in the other countries of the Soviet bloc. He examined and analyzed the growth of modern revisionism in China, arising from both homegrown factors and
external influences. Thus, he united the leading antirevisionist revolutionaries in the CPC, who rallied forces to launch the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in May 1966 in order to carry out the theory of continuing revolution under proletarian dictatorship. This is to combat revisionism, prevent the restoration of capitalism and consolidate socialism.

The theory and practice of continuing revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat through the GPCR constituted a new and higher stage in the development of Marxism-Leninism. It posed a series of problems in the building of socialism, for a whole historical epoch in transition from capitalism to communism, and brought up the basic principles and methods for solving said problems, involving the existence of classes and class struggle in socialist society, the relations of the social base and superstructure, the mass line, cultural revolution, revolution and production, succession by the youth, leadership in the factories and
communes and the formation of the organs of political power.

Many of these issues were not understood or could not have been understood through the decades of socialism in the Soviet Union. The launching of the GPCR reflected an understanding and summation of that Soviet experience, and was an unprecedented political mobilization of
the masses against revisionism, this time in the CPC.

Comrade Mao successfully led the Chinese proletariat and people from victory to victory in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution against tremendous odds and against powerful adversaries. But soon after his death, the enemies of the Chinese proletariat and people made a coup and reversed his proletarian revolutionary line in carrying out socialist revolution and construction. Since then the new bourgeois rulers in China have launched the most brutal attacks against the Chinese workers and peasants. While they have continued to claim the title of the “Communist Party of China”, they in fact, are now the worst oppressors and exploiters and abusers of the Chinese people.

There are manifestations of China’s all-round retrogression and degradation to the status of being a big-comprador neocolonial adjunct of the US and other imperialist powers. China has completely tied itself to the policy of imperialist globalization pushed by the US and other
imperialist powers. But China is also trying to become a relatively autonomous imperialist power, extending its economic investment and political influence on a world scale in places such as Africa, Latin America and Asia. It is reminiscent of a generally backward and poor but
imperialist Russia before the Bolshevik revolution.

The full restoration of capitalism in China and in the former Soviet bloc countries vindicates the teaching of Comrade Mao that socialism is lost when the revisionist line prevails within the ruling communist or workers’ party and that eventually the bourgeoisie within the party and
state succeeds in unleashing a coup and overthrowing the proletariat.

Comrade Mao has bequeathed to us a legacy with which we can combat and defeat modern revisionism and with which we can revive and further develop the forces of socialism. We are alert to and oppose the continuing dangers of revisionism, modern revisionism and other forms of opportunism.

We reaffirm Comrade Mao’s revolutionary theory and practice of continuing revolution under proletarian dictatorship through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We condemn the betrayal of socialism and of Comrade Mao’s proletarian revolutionary line by the Liu Shaoqi-Deng Xiaoping clique and the new Chinese bourgeoisie.

We renew our determination and efforts to carry out the historic mission of the proletariat, which is to carry out a new-democratic and socialist revolution and construction. All the evils that have beset the former revisionist-ruled countries drive us to uphold Marxism-Leninism-Maoism against modern revisionism and to pursue the revolutionary cause of socialism.

Upon the temporary success of modern revisionism against Marxism-Leninism and the dictatorship of the proletariat, monopoly capitalism headed by US imperialism has been able to launch the worst attacks against the proletariat and the oppressed peoples, such as “free market” globalization, racism, repression and wars of aggression. In response to the escalation of oppression and exploitation, the proletariat and people are intensifying their resistance through armed struggle and other forms of resistance.

It is not enough to defend Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in order to generate a new upswing in the struggle for genuine socialism. The international Marxist-Leninist and working class movement must draw the lessons from the defeat of socialism by revisionism and from the
successes of the 50 years of struggle against revisionism.

The building of Marxist-Leninist parties world-wide, the overcoming of the fragmentation, the strengthening proletarian revolutionary parties closely linked to the masses and their international revolutionary collaboration are the essential ideological, political and organizational preconditions for the liberation of humankind.

It is the internationalist duty of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties to unite and to arouse, organize and mobilize the proletariat and people in their respective countries and in the world at large in the struggle for national liberation, democracy and socialism against imperialism, revisionism and reaction. We renew our commitment to persevere in the revolutionary struggle and strive to win ever greater victories under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.

Uphold, defend and advance the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao!
Reaffirm Marxism-Leninism-Maoism against modern revisionism!
Carry forward the revolution against imperialism, revisionism and reaction!
Glory to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution!
Long live all Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties!
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!

SIGNATORIES [In alphabetical order (English) by country]:

Argentina – Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina*
Belarus – Revolutionary Communist Group ‘Red Wedge’
Brazil – Communist Party of Brazil (Red Fraction)
Germany – Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany
Greece – Communist Party of Greece-ML
India – Communist Party of India (Maoist)**
Indonesia – Communist League of Indonesia
Italy – Committee to Support Resistance – for Communism (CARC)
Moldova – Maoist Anti-Imperialist Circle
Panama – Communist Party of Panama
Peru – Communist Party of Peru (ML)
Philippines – Communist Party of the Philippines***
Russia – Russian Maoist Party
Turkey – Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML)
United States – Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Revolutionary Study Group
Uruguay – Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay

(Note: Any signatory may qualify its agreement on any point in this
declaration with an annotation.)

*Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina considers: (1) that the
bourgeoisie seized power in China during the 12th Plenum of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of China in December 1978 rather than
in 1976 (see 1st paragraph); and (2) that China today is an imperialist
country (see 15th paragraph).

**Communist Party of India (Maoist) stresses that China has completely
tied itself to the policy of imperialist globalization pushed by the US
and other imperialist powers (see 15th paragraph).

***Communist Party of the Philippines regards the Communist Party of
China (CPC) as the Marxist-Leninist center of the international
communist movement in the period after the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union became revisionist and before the CPC itself became revisionist
(see 5th paragraph).

Maoists spreading network, police worried

Maoists spreading network, police worried

Statesman News Service

SAMBALPUR, Aug 13: If the news doing the rounds in Bargarh, a part of the old Sambalpur district is true, then there is every reason to believe that Maoists are spreading their network in this district also. There were rumours earlier that Maoists had launched an effort to capture Barpahar forest region on the bank of Hirakud dam reservoir covering both Sambalpur and Bargarh districts. This would be helpful for them to establish a corridor to Koraput and Kalahandi.

Police was also aware of the matter. They had also detained a Christian pastor from Barpahar forest suspecting him for having Maoist links last year, but later released him after a thorough investigation.

But, Saturday night’s incident have shaken both police and public in this district since Maoists entered an explosives godown in Bageibira village under Bargarh police station of the district, overpowered two chowkidars (guards) Mr Udhhab Bhoi (50) and Mr Manglu Seth (65) and instructed them to tell the owner of the godown to pay Rs two lakh, and hand over explosive materials within a week. The Maoists also pasted a poster on the wall of the godown before leaving the place. It is further learnt that the owner of the explosives godown, a resident of Angul district hasn’t lodged any FIR. The reason might be that the owner is either afraid of a Maoist backlash, or that he doesn’t have a valid licence to run the godown. While junior police officers of the district confirmed the incident, the S P of Bargarh Mr Sanjiv Panda said: “I am going to the spot to verify everything personally since it is a sensitive issue. Things will become clear tonight.”

Black Day

Maoists in Malkangiri district are gearing up to observe the coming Independence Day as ‘Black day’ throughout the district. Naxal hits are likely to be affected at large.

Posters and banners are seen in Kurmanur, Papulur, Vejangiwade panchayats of Andhra-Orissa border. Maoists are on a whirl-wind tour to Chitrakonda, Kalimela, Motu, MV-79 police station limit villages. The Maoists have decided to hoist black flags on offices and schools protesting against the government that has done nothing for the tribals in last 60 years. Schools in interior villages are reported have been closed in the afternoon onwards. Last Republic Day Maoists had blocked the state highway-25 by feeling trees at village MV-126 and one CRPF jawan was killed while clearing the log.

This time, similar incidents, may not be ruled out. The district SP Mr. Satish Kumar Gajbhaia has personally overseen the arrangements and have tightened the security arrangement.

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50 injured in lathi-charge in Bettiah

50 injured in lathi-charge in Bettiah

Special Correspondent

PATNA: At least 50 people were injured in yet another lathi-charge in Bettiah in the flood-hit Bihar on Monday. Thousands of people had gathered outside the BDO’s office in Bettiah, West Champaran, demanding relief material. The officials made it clear that they had no material for distribution.

When the people refused to give up their dharna, the officials summoned the police. In the lathi-charge that followed, more than 50 people were injured, at least 12 of them seriously. Some reports said more than 100 people suffered injuries. The police claimed five personnel were injured when the demonstrators pelted stones at them.

Earlier, two persons were killed and more than 100 people injured in police action in various parts of the State against people demanding relief material.

CPI MPs M. Appadurai and Bhwaneshwar Prasad Mehta and State unit secretary Badri Narain Lal criticised the State Government for the “shocking neglect in caring for the distressed lot.”

The CPI-ML, protesting against the poor relief operations, staged a demonstration and burnt the effigy of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar here.

Leader of the Opposition Rabri Devi condemned the police brutality in Saharsa and Bettiah.

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