jueves, 10 de julio de 2025
INDIA:July 1, the 15th martyrdom anniversary of CPI (Maoist) spokesperson ‘Azad’.from Azad to Basavaraj - the martyrs of Indian revolution are immortals! - long live CPI (Maoist)! People's War until the victory!
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A note on July 1, the 15th martyrdom anniversary of CPI (Maoist) spokesperson ‘Azad’.
See here for the statement from Sanhati in July 2010
Cherukuri Rajkumar, better known by his nom de guerre Azad (meaning “free”), was a revolutionary thinker of India’s Maoist movement.
Born in 1952 into a wealthy landlord family in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, Rajkumar was, even as a child, deeply sensitive to social inequality and exploitation. During his college years, he was drawn to Marxism-Leninism and profoundly influenced by the Naxalbari uprising (1967) and China’s Cultural Revolution.
In the 1970s, while studying at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, he became active in student politics. In 1978, he was elected leader of the Radical Students Union (RSU), an organization inspired by Naxalite ideals. Around this time, he became affiliated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) or CPI(ML).
In 1980, Rajkumar went underground and joined the CPI(ML) People’s War Group, which later merged into the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Over time, he emerged as a key member of the party’s Central Committee and Politburo. Although he wasn’t a combatant in the armed struggle, he became widely known as the party’s spokesperson, strategist, and ideological leader.
Azad played a pivotal role in organizing the Maoist movement in southern India, especially in Karnataka and Maharashtra. He made significant contributions to the party’s propaganda, policy formulation, and strategic planning. After the CPI(Maoist) was formed in 2004, he served as its principal public spokesperson, maintaining dialogue with the press and with intellectual circles.
He strongly defended the Maoist strategy of “People’s War” and described the Indian state as “semi-colonial and semi-feudal.” He believed that only through armed revolution could a truly liberated, exploitation-free society be achieved.
On July 1, 2010, Azad was killed in the forests of Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh, in what police described as an “encounter.” The Maoists, however, claimed that he was extrajudicially executed. His death was a major blow to the CPI(Maoist), as he was considered one of the party’s most intellectual and diplomatic figures.
Azad was also a prolific writer and speaker. His works, such as “Maoist Party and Revolutionary Violence” and “India: The State and Revolution”, are regarded as foundational texts of the Maoist movement in India.
Though the Maoist movement remains a subject of intense debate, Azad was respected for his unwavering stance against imperialism, capitalism, and state repression. After his death, many leftist intellectuals remembered him as the “theoretical architect of the People’s War.”
Azad was not merely a guerrilla leader—he was a thinker, organizer, and revolutionary diplomat. His life and work remain a crucial chapter in the history of India’s Maoist struggle. To the state, he was a “terrorist”; to his followers, he was a selfless soldier of liberation.
miércoles, 9 de julio de 2025
GRECIA: Initiative of Solidarity with the Indian People
Dear comrades,
Recently, we have founded the Initiative of Solidarity with the Indian People. In doing so, we have set a wide range of goals, namely, among others:
First of all, to dispel all the myths surrounding Indian state and the role of the Indian comprador big bourgeoisie (CBB) in the international arena.
Furthermore, to inform the Greek people about the nascent reactionary economic, military and political alliance forged between Greek comprador bourgeoisie and the Indian CBB and more precisely about all the projects and “corridors” like IMEC including the Zionist genocidal settler “state”.
Besides, to shed light to the internal policy of the Indian CBB, in particular about Hindutva in all its aspects (majoritarianism and persecution of nationalities, Muslims, women etc., its role as a narrative of CBB, etc. but also its similarities with Zionism).
Last but not least, to highlight the true alternative for the Indian people: the People’s War headed by CPI (Maoist).
The work to be done is not easy. First of all, many here simplistically believe that, as long as Pakistan is a friend of Turkey, which has territorial claims against Greece and has occupied Cyprus, then Greece should forge an alliance with Modi.
Furthermore, there are those who believe that India is among the nations that create a so-called “multipolar world”, therefore, Greece should create an alliance with the Indian “rising power”.
Moreover, there are many who claim that BRICS – without even considering its internal and inherent contradictions – is a kind of new “antiimperialist camp”. Therefore, as India is a member of BRICS, we should not criticize the Indian ruling class.
Besides, there are many people who think that India is an exotic place where people practice yoga and even like (!) casteism and this kind of “traditions”.
All of the above constitute the majority of the Greek people. Nevertheless, we will insist, as, apart from the internationalist task, not studying India means not knowing the trends in the contemporary world.
As part of our first actions, we have already been to three political festivals with our stand and propagandistic material. We share with you photos with the stand we had in the Antiracist Festival held between 4-6/7 in Athens with more than 30,000 visitors. We distributed the CPI (Maoist) DKSPZ Committee statement d.d. 25/5/2025 regarding the killing of cde. Basavaraj, a leaflet with our goals and two books of CPI (Maoist), namely “The caste question in India” and “The nationality question in India” translated by a member of ours.
There are many plans, especially regarding Operation Kagaar and the 25-year anniversary of PLGA.
Lal Salam from Greece
