martes, 27 de mayo de 2025
GALIZA: HONOR AND ETERNAL GLORY TO COMRADE BASAVARAJU!
From the Construction Committee of the Maoist Communist Party of Galicia, we wish to express our deepest condolences to the Party leadership, all members, friends, and family, and pay our sincere tribute by raising our fists and showing eternal respect to Comrade Basavaraju, the CPI (Maoist), and all the fighters who gave their lives for the Revolution in India.
We know the intentions of the Hindu-Fascist Modi and his genocidal government: to decapitate the Party and end the glorious People's War. But if they think you have achieved this with this assassination, they are very mistaken. As was the case with Comrades Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, Charu Mazundar, and Chairman Gonzalo. Their deaths have turned them into eternal shining beacons to continue their glorious People's Wars, under the ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, toward the democratic revolution, the socialist revolution, and communism in their countries, as well as examples and guides for the international proletariat and the oppressed peoples of the world.
HONOR AND ETERNAL GLORY TO COMRADE BASAVARAJU!
LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM!
LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)!
LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS PEOPLE'S WAR!
Galiza May 27, 2025
Construction Committee of the Maoist Communist Party of Galiza
GRECIA: Solidarity with the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the Indian revolutionary movement!
Condolence and Tribute Message to Comrade Basavaraj @Nambala Keshava Rao
General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
For over a year now, the Indian fascist state's attacks on the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, on members of the indigenous tribes and democratic people in India led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) have escalated to genocidal levels. Operation Kagaar, the title the central government has given to the large-scale massacre unleashed by the country's central government, has the declared objective of finally crushing the armed Naxalite movement and "ridding the country of Maoists by 31/3/2026", as Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah has openly stated.
As part of the larger Operation SAMADHAN-Prahar, launched in 2017 by the Modi government of the Hindu fascist BJP, the ongoing crackdown campaign is a continuation of Operation Green Hunt, launched in 2009, when the central command was headed by the — now opposition — National Congress Party. The target of the Indian state's attacks is India's heroic armed revolutionary Maoist movement, rooted in the glorious 1967 Naxalbari uprising, its struggle for liberation and social progress, as well as the struggle of the poor peasants and indigenous people (Adivasis) in central and eastern India against the land grab by the imperialist-capitalist monopolies, which this movement has led with considerable success.
In this context, recently, in the Kareguta hills, a major centre of the armed struggle on the border between the states of Chhattisgarh and Telangana, tens of thousands of military, police and paramilitary forces have been mobilised under the name of "Operation Sankalp", using even indiscriminate aerial bombardment and committing horrific crimes against party leaders, militants and ordinary citizens. This is happening at a time when the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has declared a unilateral ceasefire and is ready for peace talks.
According to a recent statement of the Coordinating Committee for Peace (16/5/2025), the victims are subjected to inhumane treatment even after their death, with the following description being typical: "When relatives arrived at the hospitals to identify the bodies, the media arrived there and revealed that the bodies were covered with worms and decomposing and were impossible to identify. The police made no effort to keep the bodies in a safe condition. Looking at the photos and details released by the police, it appears that some of the dead are as young as 16 years old." The committee demands that the ongoing war be declared a civil war and that the elementary rules of war be observed, which — on the lines of what the imperialist powers do in their "humanitarian" interventions and the Zionist state in its genocide of the Palestinian people — are being brutally violated by India’s fascist state.
At the same time, it is defiantly announced by the local government of Kerala state, led by the reactionary-revisionist Communist Party of India (Marxist) that extreme poverty will be immediately eradicated in the region. That is, in a country where 60 per cent of the population lives below the official poverty line and 250 million people survive on less than $2 a day, the ruling pseudo-leftists claim to bring prosperity. The subservient revisionists, more than a few brutal accomplices in the anti-Maoist repressive campaign of the state of India, are mocking the people of India and throwing dust in the eyes of the revolutionary-progressive forces in the rest of the planet.
Every progressive and democratic person should denounce the crime that is being committed against the revolutionaries and the people of India. Let us show our practical support for the struggle of the revolutionary movement in India, which is a source of inspiration and lessons for movements all over the world!
Stop Operation Kagaar!
The demands of the Coordinating Committee for Peace must be immediately met!
Hands off the revolutionaries and fighters!
Long live internationalist solidarity and the common struggle of the proletariat and the peoples!
18/5/2025
The Press Office of the KKE(m-l)
ITALIA: Tribute to comrade Basavraj! Support to people's war in India! support internationalist to CPI(Maoist)! italian/english
Saluto al compagno Basavraj! Sostegno alla guerra popolare in
India! sostegno internazionalista al PCI (Maoista)
Il segretario generale del Partito Comunista dell’India (maoista), Basavraj, è stato assassinato combattendo insieme a 26 quadri maoisti, nelle foreste del Chhattisgarh.
E’ stato necessario per il regime di Modi mettere in campo un’enorme forza militare per colpire il compagno Basavraj e i suoi compagni. Questo mostra non la forza ma la debolezza del regime indiano.
La morte di Basavraj e dei nostri compagni è una grave perdita per il Partito, per i proletari e le masse popolari nel mondo e per il movimento comunista internazionale, di cui questo Partito, basato sul marxismo-leninismo-maoismo e impegnato nella più grande guerra di popolo attualmente al mondo, nel paese più popoloso del mondo, dove si gioca una parte determinante dello scontro mondiale tra imperialismo e proletari e popoli oppressi del mondo. Uno scontro che gioca una parte decisiva nell’attuale situazione mondiale caratterizzata dalla marcia verso la guerra imperialista, la repressione, lo sfruttamento, la miseria e l’oppressione dei popoli.
L’imperialismo e il regime indiano gridano alla vittoria. Ma si sbagliano! La straordinaria storia del movimento comunista indiano e della guerra di popolo in questo paese nasce dai gloriosi anni ’70 e dal vento della rivoluzione che dalla Cina rossa, guidata da Mao Tse tung, arriva in India e si incarna nel movimento dei Naxaliti, guidato da Charu Mazundar e dal Partito da lui fondato; anch’egli martirizzato allo scopo di soffocare questo movimento. La realtà ha dimostrato che la rivoluzione indiana, il movimento naxalita, il Partito Comunista dell’India marxista-leninista – oggi PCI (maoista) - sono indistruttibili.
I governi reazionari della borghesia burocratico compradora passano e si consumano, e finiscono nella pattumiera della storia; mentre il movimento comunista marxista-leninista-maoista e la marcia per la rivoluzione di Nuova Democrazia verso il socialismo e il comunismo, nonostante vittorie e sconfitte, avanzate e arretramenti, si dimostrano invincibili. Essi servono non solo la liberazione dei proletari e delle masse indiane ma la rivoluzione mondiale.
Il compagno Basavraj è il frutto di questa storia, è il prodotto del proletariato e delle masse oppresse dell’India, è forgiato dal Marxismo-Leninismo-Maoista e dalla forza della rivoluzione.
Il compagno Basavraj ha cominciato la sua lunga storia come dirigente e organizzatore del movimento degli studenti e poi come militante e quadro del Partito. E’ stato il fondatore, sotto la guida del Partito, dell’Esercito guerrigliero popolare ed è stato la guida della pagine più alte come Comandante degli attacchi allo Stato reazionario indiano, ai suoi governi che hanno fatto di questo Partito quello “il nemico interno principale” dal regime indiano e dall’imperialismo.
Il compagno Basavraj è stato maestro della guerra popolare, costruttore di Basi di guerriglia e di organismi del potere popolare. E questo ne ha fatto, quando il compagno Ganapathi deve lasciare il suo posto per motivi di salute, il segretario generale del Partito comunista dell’India (maoista). In una situazione estremamente difficile, con il regime indiano che scatena la guerra contro il popolo attraverso diverse operazioni, sempre con l’obiettivo principale di colpire il Partito, i suoi quadri, la sua Direzione, ; sempre con l’obiettivo di servire la borghesia indiana e l’imperialismo su scala nazionale e mondiale; sempre nell’illusione disperata di cancellare la guerra popolare e arrestare la marcia della rivoluzione.
Il governo fascista di Modi non comprende – come è stato detto- che la rivoluzione di Nuova democrazia non nasce da un individuo, né può essere soffocata con il martirio di un individuo. Il popolo e solo il popolo è la forza motrice della storia. E’ il popolo che produce e riproduce il Partito, i suoi quadri, è il popolo che ha prodotto il compagno Basavraj.
Ed è il popolo che, nonostante la grave perdita, darà un presente e un futuro alla rivoluzione indiana e al Partito.
Certo, questo è sempre il frutto della capacità di applicare, con l’analisi concreta nella situazione concreta, il MLM, le leggi della guerra.
Certo, questo ha bisogno di una strategia e tattica che rispondano sia agli avanzamenti che agli arretramenti. Ed è attraverso questo che la rivoluzione resiste e vince. Tutto questo non è solo il frutto della forza della rivoluzione indiana e del suo Partito, richiede e domanda il sostegno dei proletari e dei popoli del mondo. Ogni rivoluzione quando ha potuto contare su questo ha vinto.
E questo richiede che il Movimento Comunista Internazionale, i suoi Partiti, le sue Organizzazioni, grandi e piccole che siano, qualunque sia lo stadio della loro guerra rivoluzionaria, siano incarnazione dell’internazionalismo proletario.
Siamo totalmente al fianco del Partito Comunista dell’India (maoista) in questo momento. I compagni indiani sentono forte e chiaro l’appoggio del nostro Partito, lo sforzo prodotto per l’avanzamento del sostegno alla guerra popolare, che è parte indissolubile della rivoluzione mondiale .
La morte del compagno Basavraj, il suo dare la vita insieme ai suoi compagni, alle migliaia di compagni caduti in battaglia, diventa e deve diventare sempre più una spinta e un impegno per far avanzare la via della guerra di popolo in tutto il mondo.
L’esempio eroico che viene dal compagno caduto è una forza ideologica e materiale che ci fa affermare con certezza che nulla e nessuno può fermare la guerra di popolo, nulla e nessuno può fermare il Partito comunista dell’India (Maoista), nulla e nessuno può fermare l’unità dei proletari e dei popoli del mondo per combattere l’imperialismo, i suoi regimi fascisti, assassini, genocidi, i suoi servi e complici che, nella loro crisi profonda, vogliono portarci verso l’orrore di una nuova guerra imperialista mondiale.
La vita del compagno Basavraj vive nella nostra lotta, ha conquistato il suo posto nella storia della nostra classe e della marcia verso il comunismo.
Il compagno Basavraj è un eroe del popolo e per questo immortale!
Viva il Partito Comunista dell'India (Maoista)!
Morte all'imperialismo e al regime fascista di Modi !Guerra di popolo fino alla vittoria!
Viva l'internazionalismo proletario!
Partito Comunista maoista - Italia
maggio 2025
unofficial traslation
Tribute to comrade Basavraj! Support to people's war in India! support internationalist to CPI(Maoist)!
The General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), comrade Basavraj, was killed while fighting along with 26 Maoist cadres in the Abuijhmad forest, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh
The Modi regime had to deploy a huge military force to hit Comrade Basavraj and his comrades. It shows not the strength but the weakness of the Indian regime.
The death of Basavraj and other our comrades is a serious loss for the Party, the proletarians and the people’s masses in the world and for the international communist movement, of which this Party, based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and waging the largest people's war in the world today, in the most populous country in the world, where a decisive part of the global clash between imperialism and the proletariat and oppressed peoples of the world is being played out. A clash that plays a decisive role in the current world situation marked by the march towards imperialist war, repression, exploitation, misery and oppression of the peoples.
Imperialism and the Indian regime are crying victory. But they are wrong! The extraordinary history of the Indian communist movement and the people's war in this country was born in the glorious 70s, when the wind of revolution came to India from red China, led by Mao Tse tung, and was embodied in the Naxalite movement, led by Charu Mazundar and the Party he founded; he too was martyred in order to suffocate that movement. Reality has shown that the Indian revolution, the Naxalite movement, the Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist – today CPI (Maoist) – are indestructible. The reactionary governments of the comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie pass and fall, and end up in the dustbin of history; the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communist movement and the march for the New Democratic Revolution towards socialism and communism, through victories and defeats, advances and setbacks, prove invincible. They serve not only the liberation of the proletariat and the Indian masses but the world revolution.
Comrade Basavraj was the fruit of this history, product of the proletariat and the oppressed masses of India, he was forged by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the strength of the revolution.
Comrade Basavraj began his long history as a leader and organizer of the student movement and then as a militant and cadre of the Party. He was the founder, under the leadership of the Party, of the People's Guerrilla Army and led as Commander the highest pages of the attacks to the reactionary Indian State and its governments that made this Party the "main internal enemy" of the Indian regime and imperialism.
Comrade Basavraj was a master of the people's war, builder of guerrilla bases and bodies of people's power. And this is what, when comrade Ganapathi had to leave his post for health reasons, made him the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). It occurred in an extremely difficult situation, with the Indian regime unleashing war on people through various operations, always with the main objective of hitting the Party, its cadres, its Leadership, always with the aim of serving the Indian bourgeoisie and imperialism on a national and global scale; always in the desperate illusion of wiping out the people's war and stopping the march of the revolution.
The Modi’s fascist government does not understand -as it has been said- that the New Democratic Revolution does not arise from an individual, nor can it be suffocated with the martyrdom of an individual. The people and only the people are the driving force of history. It is the people who produce and reproduce the Party, its cadres, it is the people who produced comrade Basavraj.
And it is the people who, despite the grave loss, will give a present and a future to the Indian revolution and the Party.
Of course, this is always the result of the ability to apply, with concrete analysis in the concrete situation, the Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the laws of war.
Of course, this requires a strategy and tactics that respond to both advances and setbacks. And it is this way that the revolution resists and wins. All this is not only the fruit of the strength of the Indian revolution and its Party, it requires and calls for the support of the proletarians and peoples of the world. Any revolution which could rely on that has won. And this requires that the International Communist Movement, its Parties, its Organizations, large and small, whatever the stage of their revolutionary war, be the embodying of proletarian internationalism.
We are totally on the side of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) at this time. The comrades in India feel loud and clear the support of our Party, the efforts made for the advancement of support for the people's war, as an inseparable part of the world revolution.
The death of comrade Basavraj, the giving his life together with other comrades, with the thousands of comrades fallen in battle, becomes and must become more and more a push and a commitment to advance the path of the people's war throughout the world.
The heroic example that comes from the fallen comrade is an ideological and material force that makes us state with certainty that nothing and no one can stop the people's war, nothing and no one can stop the Communist Party of India (Maoist), nothing and no one can stop the unity of the proletarians and the peoples of the world to fight imperialism, its the fascist, murderous, genocidal regimes, its lackeys and accomplices who, amidst their deep crisis, want to lead us towards the horror of a new world imperialist war.
Comrade Basavraj's lives in our struggle, he has won his place in the history of our class and the march towards communism.
Comrade Basavraj is a hero of the people and therefore immortal!
Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist)!
Death to imperialism and the fascist Modi’s regime!
People's war until victory!
Long live proletarian internationalism!
CP maoist _Italy
May, 2025
lunes, 26 de mayo de 2025
FILIPINAS: Highest honors to Comrade Basavaraju, martyr of the Indian people, hero of the international proletariat
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines raises high its Red banners to pay tribute and give its highest honors to Comrade Basavaraju (Nambala Keshava Rao), secretary general of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), who paid the ultimate sacrifice in fighting for the revolutionary cause of the oppressed and exploited peoples of India, and the cause of the international proletariat.
Along with 26 other revolutionary fighters, Comrade Basavaraju, 70, was murdered last May 21 by the mercenary troops of the Modi fascist regime in the Abhujmad forests, along the Narayanpur-Bijapur-Dantewada districts in Chhattisgarh state.
The fascists unleashed disproportionate amounts of military force to carry out the bloody crime. The massacre was a gross display of power meant to terrorize the people of India, in order to force them to submit and surrender to imperialism and state terrorism.
The Modi fascist regime carried out the brutal mass killing with the aim of projecting strength, but has, in fact, further exposed the rottenness of the ruling system and its deepening political crisis. This is characterized by the increasing isolation of the Modi regime, which has resorted to open terrorist rule and increasing monopolization of power, in its desperation to suppress the growing armed and non-armed resistance of the broad masses of India to social and economic oppression.
Over the past years, it has carried out Operation Kagaar, an intensive campaign of terrorism, marked by the deployment of tens of thousands of combat troops and police forces in the desperation to take over the lands of the Adivasi people by dotting it with scores upon scores of military camps and detachments, in order to pave the way for the imperialists and local big capitalists to plunder the wealth of the land. On Modi’s orders, the reactionary armed forces have mounted aerial bombing campaigns using drones and jet fighters supplied by the US and Israel, and carried out successive massacres of both guerrilla fighters and civilians.
A similar US-directed campaign of all-out suppression is being carried out in the Philippines, along the same strategy of using overwhelming military force, in a vain attempt to terrorize the people and put an end to their armed and non-armed resistance. Wherever the fascist armed forces carry out their rampage, drooling American multinational corporations follow with their earth-moving machines eager to take over the land. However, the more atrocities and brutalities committed by the reactionary forces against the peasant masses and the minority people, the greater the contempt that they provoke among the people, leaving them with other option than to take up arms to defend their rights and lives.
The fascists are celebrating the death of Comrade Basavaraju. In truth, they are trembling in their knees, for fear that his death will stir the indignation and inspire greater revolutionary resistance of the millions of working people, the semiproletariat, the peasant masses, the Adivasis and other progressive sectors of India, all of whom Comrade Basavaraju dedicated his thoughts and energy.
The Modi fascist regime and its imperialist masters are utterly wrong to think that the death of Comrade Basavaraju will lead to the defeat of the CPI (Maoist) and the people’s war in India. In life, he led, taught and strengthened the mettle of thousands of communist cadres and revolutionary fighters (Naxalites). In death, his heroism and martyrdowm will surely inspire even more to fight without fear, and with even greater determination to advance and win the people’s war.
The CPP extends its deepfelt sympathies to the leadership and entire membership of the CPI (Maoist) and the to People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) for the loss of their dear comrade and leader. We pay tribute to the invaluable contributions made by Comrade Basavaraju, especially in founding the PLGA in 2000 and leading it in many of its victories and achievements in building the revolutionary base areas and carrying out tactical offensives against the fascist forces. He picked up the mantle of leadership from Comrade Ganapathy in 2018 and served as general secretary since.
The CPP joins the CPI (Maoist) and all revolutionary forces in India in forever keeping the memory of Comrade Basavaraju alive. His name now shines among the immortal heroes of the epic people’s war in India and the revolutionary struggles for national liberation and socialism around the world. In bearing the torch of the armed struggle in India, Comrade Basavaraju helped illuminate the path of the world proletarian revolution, especially in the past decades of setbacks and defeats of socialist forces around the world. For that, Comrade Basavaraju will always be remembered as a hero of the international proletariat.
We fully trust that the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist) will promptly elect an equally capable leader to take over the responsibilities of Comrade Basavaraju. We are confident that by combining the wisdom of its senior cadres, with the energy and acumen of its young cadres, the CPI (Maoist) will surmount all difficulties, persevere on the path of revolutionary armed struggle, and accumulate even greater victories the people’s war in India.
Long live the memory of Comrade Basavaraju, martyr of the Indian people, hero of the international proletariat!
Long live the people’s war in India!
Long live the People Liberation Guerrilla Army!
Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist)!
TURQUÍA: RED GREETINGS (LAL SALAAM) TO COMRADE BASAVARAJ, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) AND 26 MAOIST PEOPLE'S FIGHTERS!
“Now is not the time to be sad, comrades, it's time to stand up like fire!”
(Charu MAZUMDAR)
On May 21, we learned with great anger that our sister party, Communist Party of India (Maoist) General Secretary Basavaraj (Nambala Keshav Rao) and 26 Maoist people's fighters were massacred in a clash between the Maoists and the fascist Indian state in the countryside of Abujhmad in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
In the spirit of international solidarity, we extend our sincere condolences to the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist), party members and militants, the valiant commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) and of course to all the oppressed working people of India, especially the working class and the poor Adivasi peasants.
We are aware of the void created by the loss of Comrade Basavaraj and 26 Maoist people's fighters. However, we also realize and believe that the Indian People's War, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist red torch of South Asia, is capable of achieving victory by healing the wounds, filling the void and embracing the struggle more firmly. Chairman Mao said, “We communists are like seeds and the people are like soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people there, take root and blossom among the people.” The revolutionary war of the CPI (Maoist) and the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, the vanguard and leading force of the struggle for New Democratic Revolution, Socialism and Communism in the geography of the world called India, has ensured that the seed of communism sown by the communists in these lands has taken root and grown and developed among the masses. Comrade Basavaraj is undoubtedly one of the most important cadres of this struggle. He dedicated his 50 years of struggle to the liberation struggle of the Indian working class, peasants, students, women and all oppressed toiling masses. With his revolutionary practice, in which he was involved with Marxist-Leninist-Maoist consciousness and communist labor, he won the deep love of the masses and became the enemy's fearful dream.
As the flames of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution swept across the world, India was one of the steppes ignited by this fire. In this geography where anger, rebellion and resistance against imperialism and its local henchmen, the comprador capitalists and feudal landlords, was brewing, a communist movement had emerged in the midst of the Naxalbari peasant resistance in the 70s. The seeds of communism sown under the leadership of Comrade Charu Mazumdar flourished, the People's War progressed with victories and defeats in the intervening decades, and became the hope of the masses under the leadership of the Communist Party. This struggle has created, nurtured and developed its own sons and daughters. Comrade Basavaraj, wearing the legacy of Tsaru Mazumdar, bathed and steeled himself in the fiery fire of the communist struggle.
Thousands of supporters, militants, fighters and party members, dozens of CC members have been immortalized in the more than 50-year history of the Indian People's War. Comrade Basaravaju was one of those who dedicated his life to the struggle for the liberation of humanity. However, the leadership mission he assumed within the party and the war increased the weight of the void he created. On May 21, the sound of bullets echoing through the forests of Abu Dharm was not just the targeting of a man, but of a revolutionary tradition rooted in the bosom of the people. Comrade Basaravaju was a devoted student of the MLM, an indomitable teacher of the masses, an outstanding leader of the Maoist party, a vanguard commander of the people's war.
He started his revolutionary life as a student in his 20s and continued his revolutionary life with a communist identity by organizing in the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (People's War), which was founded in 1980. Comrade Basavaraj, who developed himself in a short time, became a Party CC member. At the same time, he played an active role in the development of the war as the secretary of the Central Military Commission of the CPI (ML) (People's War). In 1987, Basavaraj received military training from the Tamil Tigers and throughout his life of struggle, he made great efforts in the military-tactical development of the People's War, especially in the creative implementation of the war strategy. At the same time, he became the enemy's fearful dream with the actions he organized and inflicted great losses on the enemy.
Comrade Basavaraj was re-elected to the Central Committee in 2004 at the Unity Congress of the Maoist Communist Center of India (Maoist Communist Party of India). He continued to work as a member of the SB and again as the secretary of the Military Commission in the appointments made within the CC. In 2018, he was elected General Secretary by the CC after Comrade Ganapathy, General Secretary of the CC (Maoist), resigned due to health problems. Comrade Basavaraj, who duly fulfilled this duty until the date of his immortalization, left a great legacy to both the Maoists waging the Indian People's War and the International Communist Movement, together with the 26 Maoist people's fighters who were immortalized with him.
Comrade Basavaraj was a leader who knew how to establish a dialectical link between revolutionary theory and practice. He was a communist who knew how to apply Mao Zedong's People's War Strategy to the specific conditions of India, igniting the fire of hope in the hearts of millions of oppressed. His role in organizing poor peasants, Adivasis, workers and all the oppressed in a vast geography from Telangana to Odisha, from Andhra Pradesh to Calcutta, from Bastar to Jharkhand and bringing them into the armed struggle is of historical importance. The line Basavaraj represents is the line of the People's War based on the people's own power and not on parliamentary dreams.
The Massacres of the Fascist Indian State Will Not Prevent the Victory March of the Indian People's War, the People's War Will Win!
In India, where inequality in income distribution is appalling, exploitation is brutal, poverty, hunger, deprivation and held back are at their darkest, there is a communist movement that is developing and gaining strength, that is emerging among the masses, that is rooting out all this and fighting for a world without exploitation and without borders. As oppression and persecution grows, there are millions of masses turning their faces to the hope of liberation. This increases the fears of the rullers. As the masses' own self-management apparatus under the leadership of the CPI (Maoist) in the guerrilla base areas shakes their authority, their fear grows and their power cracks. That is why they attack the People's War with the bloodiest and most brutal methods, organize massive operations to destroy the vanguards and leaders of the people, massacre, arrest and intimidate the masses. Over the last 20 years, they have carried out extensive extermination attacks, saying “We will eradicate Maoism from India”. “Operation Green Hunt” in 2010, ‘Operation Samadhan’ between 2017 and 2020 and finally ‘Operation Kagaar’ since 2023 have the common aim of destroying the Maoist Movement as a whole, eliminating the revolutionary movement and protecting the interests of their imperialist masters in India and maintaining the plunder order as they want.
The Indian ruling classes, which mobilized tens of thousands of armed forces for “Operation Kagaar”, are also plundering the lands of the poor Adivasi peasants in the area where they carry out the operation and are attempting to open mining sites for imperialist monopolies. In other words, while Operation Kagaar is targeting the CPI (Maoist), which is vanguarding and leading the revolution that will radically overthrow their power, it is also being carried out to plunder the living spaces of the masses for the sake of rent. Finally, the operation in which comrade Basavaraj and 26 Maoists were massacred was carried out for the sake of these ambitions. Fascist Prime Minister Modi, who appeared in front of the cameras with great shouts of joy after the massacre attack, screamed, “We will erase Maoism from India by May 26, 2026”. However, history has proven and will continue to prove that their ambitions will fail today and tomorrow as they did yesterday. On the contrary, the Maoist People's War will continue to grow against all their attacks and will achieve victory. Because comrade Basavaraj's revolutionary practice has been part of a labor that has led to the training of thousands of militant fighters and the hope and taking up the People's War by tens of thousands of masses. The revolution does not end when it loses its leaders, on the contrary, the blood of the leaders spilled on the ground becomes the lifeblood that grows the struggle. The revolution is integrated with the masses and is developing. The power of the rulers is not enough to eradicate this root. Because this war is the struggle to break the shackles of the Adivasis who want to protect their land, the mothers who cannot buy medicine for their children, the peasants who cannot get the rewards of their labor in their fields, the workers who have difficulty surviving in the wheel of intense exploitation, the laborers who have sacrificed their youth to unemployment, the youth whose future has been stolen, the women who are shackled by feudal value judgments.
Comrade Basavaraj is no longer with us. But his revolutionary legacy will live on in our struggle. His discipline in every mass work in India, his tactics in every guerrilla raid, his revolutionary spirit and communist practice in every guerrilla unit will continue to live on. Not only in India but in all the fields of struggle of the International Proletariat, the war will continue in his place and the struggle for which he longed and for which he gave his life will be crowned with victory.
Today, our duty is not to mourn, but to add our anger to the mortar of the revolution, to increase our struggle, to tighten our ranks. Each of us must take one step forward after him, one step forward in the positions of the People's War.
We, as TKP/ML, will embrace the faith, aspirations and ideals of Comrade Basavaraj and 26 people's fighters in the People's War we wage as TKP/ML, and we will fire every bullet we direct against the enemy with the consciousness of accountability.
We call on communists and revolutionaries, progressives and anti-imperialists, the International proletariat and the oppressed peoples of the world to stand in solidarity during this difficult but honorable period of the Indian People's War.
With our heads held high, our fists clenched, our consciousness clear and our practice strong, we bow respectfully in front of Comrade Basavaraj and the 26 Maoist people's fighters who were murdered and we say; The reactionary ruling classes in India will lose, the People's War will win!
Comrade Basavaraj is Immortal!
The 27 murdered Communist Fighters will live in the People's War!
Long Live the CPI (Maoist) and the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army!
Long Live the People's War!
Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!
MAY 2025
TKP/ML
(Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist)
International Committee to Support the People's War in India (ICSPWI) - statement english/spanish
The International Committee to Support the People's War in India (ICSPWI) salute Comrade Keshava Rao, Basavaraj, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), murdered by the repressive forces of the fascist Modi’s regime, lackey to imperialism, along with 26 other Maoist cadres in the Abuijhmad forest, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh on May 21.
This is a huge loss for the Party, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, the proletariat and masses of India engaged in the people's war, for the International Communist Movement, for the proletarians, the exploited and the oppressed peoples in the world.
Comrade Basavaraj was the founder of the People's Guerrilla Army in 2000 and has led as Commander the most important actions of the people's war in recent years, dealing bold blows to the reactionary Indian regime and imperialism. His role in the formation of the Guerrilla Bases and the birth of the People's Power Organizations was crucial.
Basavaraj became the Party's general secretary in 2018. He was trained by the Party and the masses, always giving an extraordinary example of bravery, wisdom and determination. He was a master of the people's war and has given his life for the revolution.
He will never be forgotten!
The Indian Modi’s regime has murdered the comrades as part of the 'Operation Kagaar', a genocidal campaign of repression, massacres, arrests, bombings and devastation on the people, particularly
the most oppressed and exploited masses, the Adivasis, etc., within a plan that aims to wipe out the people's war and the Party leading that by March 2026.
Now they cry victory, but the Indian masses and the Party know how to respond to this attack with adequate strategy and tactics, strengthening and extending the resistance and mobilization of the masses.
The Committee had already launched a one-year-long campaign of internationalist solidarity and support, holding a first successful week of action on April 7-12.
The death of comrade Basavaraj calls us, also in his honor and name, to multiply our efforts so that this campaign is even stronger and wider and contributes to deal hard blows on the Indian regime and imperialism; all the more so because it is inextricably linked to international solidarity with the Palestinian people, who heroically face the genocidal plan of Israel and imperialism -Netanyahu is supported in all forms by the reactionary Modi’s regime- and is part of the struggle of the proletariat and peoples against the imperialist war.
Honour in all forms comrade Basavaraj!
Intensify mobilization and actions against the Operation Kagaar, for the release of political prisoners in India
Extend the support to the People's War in India and to the Communist Party of India (Maoist), as important international reference point for the liberation struggle of the people oppressed by imperialism, for the world proletarian revolution, socialism and communism!
El Comité Internacional de Apoyo a la Guerra Popular en la India (CIAGPI-ICSPWI) rinde homenaje al camarada Keshava Rao, Basavraj, Secretario General del PCI (Maoísta), asesinado por las fuerzas represivas del régimen fascista de Modi, lacayo del imperialismo, junto con otros 26 cuadros maoístas en la selva de Abuijhmad, distrito de Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, el 21 de mayo.
Esta es una enorme pérdida para el Partido, el Ejército Guerrillero Popular de Liberación, el proletariado y las masas de la India que participan en la guerra popular, para el Movimiento Comunista Internacional, para los proletarios, los pueblos explotados y oprimidos del mundo.
El camarada Basavraj fue fundador del Ejército Guerrillero Popular en el año 2000 y, como comandante, lideró las acciones más importantes de la guerra popular en los últimos años, asestando duros golpes al régimen reaccionario indio y al imperialismo. Su papel en la formación de las Bases Guerrilleras y el nacimiento de las Organizaciones del Poder Popular fue crucial.
Basavraj asumió el cargo de secretario general del Partido en 2018. Fue formado por el Partido y las masas, dando siempre un ejemplo extraordinario de valentía, sabiduría y determinación. Fue un maestro de la guerra popular y dio su vida por la revolución. ¡Jamás será olvidado!
El régimen indio de Modi ha asesinado los camaradas como parte de la «Operación Kagaar», una campaña genocida de represión, masacres, arrestos, bombardeos y devastación contra el pueblo, en particular contra las masas más oprimidas y explotadas, los adivasis, etc., dentro de un plan que pretende erradicar la guerra popular y al Partido que la lidera para marzo de 2026.
Ahora cantan victoria, pero las masas indias y el Partido saben cómo responder a este ataque con la estrategia y las tácticas adecuadas, fortaleciendo y ampliando la resistencia y la movilización de las masas.
El Comité ya había lanzado una campaña de un año de solidaridad y apoyo internacionalista, con una primera semana de acción exitosa del 7 al 12 de abril.
La muerte del camarada Basavraj nos llama, también en su honor y nombre, a redoblar nuestros esfuerzos para que esta campaña sea aún más fuerte y amplia, y contribuya a asestar duros golpes al régimen indio y al imperialismo; sobre todo, porque está indisolublemente ligada a la solidaridad internacional con el pueblo palestino, que se enfrenta heroicamente al plan genocida de Israel y el imperialismo —Netanyahu cuenta con el apoyo incondicional del régimen reaccionario de Modi— y forma parte de la lucha del proletariado y los pueblos contra la guerra imperialista.
¡Honorar en todas formas al camarada Basavraj!
¡Intensificar la movilización y las acciones contra la Operación Kagaar y por la liberación de los presos políticos en la India!
¡Extender el apoyo a la Guerra Popular en la India y al Partido Comunista de la India (Maoísta), como importante referente internacional en la lucha de liberación de los pueblos oprimidos por el imperialismo, por la revolución proletaria mundial, el socialismo y el comunismo!
CIAGPI-ICSPWI
25 Mayo 2025
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