martes, 22 de julio de 2025
FILIPINAS:Firmest revolutionary salute to the martyrs of the Indian revolution - Communist Party of the Philippines
Marco L. Valbuena, Chief Information Officer
Communist Party of the Philippines
July 19, 2025
The
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its unwavering
solidarity to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and all
revolutionary forces across India as they observe their annual Memorial
Week from July 28 to August 3. The Filipino revolutionary forces join
the Indian people in honoring the heroes and martyrs who have made the
ultimate sacrifice in the fierce struggle against imperialism,
feudalism, bureaucrat capitalism and fascism in India. The heroes of the
Indian people are heroes as well of the Filipino people because they
gave their lives in the struggle for national and social liberation.
In the past year, the Indian revolutionary forces have suffered great losses. We join the CPI (Maoist) in paying tribute to their fallen leaders and members who dedicated their lives to the service of the people. We pay special homage to its former general secretary, Comrade Basavaraju (Nambala Keshava Rao), who was martyred alongside 27 comrades last May 21.
Since 2024, the reactionary Indian state has waged Operation Kagaar—a ruthless campaign aimed at delivering a decisive blow to the CPI (Maoist) and the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA). Under this operation, the Modi regime has unleashed brutal massacres against the masses of the indigenous Adivasi people and their revolutionary forces.
Reports reveal that under Operation Kagaar, the reactionary state forces murdered 287 people in 2024, and have killed at least 113 in 2025. One third of the victims were Adivasis, and 40% were women. Many deaths are falsely reported as “encounters” between the state’s armed forces and the revolutionary fighters. The regime’s violent onslaught has not spared even infants and children—in 2024 alone, 14 children aged 14 years and below, including a 6-month-old infant, were mercilessly killed.
As we demand justice, we join the Indian people in honoring these martyrs. The names of Comrade Basavaraju and all fallen heroes now shine among the immortal heroes of India’s epic people’s war and the revolutionary struggle for national liberation and socialism around the world. They have raised high the torch of armed struggle in India, inspiring the proletarian revolutionary forces around the world to persevere in struggle amid favorable conditions arising from the global capitalist crisis.
The oppressed masses of India would have no path to liberation from imperialist domination without the sacrifices of their martyrs in waging revolutionary armed struggle. The same holds true for the masses of workers, peasants and other oppressed and exploited classes and sectors in the Philippines, whose aspirations for a bright future cannot be realized without the sacrifices of the martyrs and heroes of their national democratic revolution.
In today’s deepening crisis, imperialists and reactionaries will unleash harsher counterrevolutionary violence in their desperation to perpetuate the rotten ruling system. To overthrow this system of oppression and exploitation and replace it with a just and progressive society, Party cadres and the broad masses of working people must be ready to wage a life-and-death struggle.
In both India and the Philippines, increasing numbers of workers, peasants and other oppressed classes will be drawn to the revolutionary path, steeled and inspired by the enduring legacy of their heroes and martyrs.
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BANGLADESH: Memorial and Protest Meeting Held Condemning the Massacre of Maoists and Adivasis Including the Martyred CPI (Maoist) General Secretary and Great Maoist Leader Basavraj
Press Release
INDIA: CASR Strongly Condemns The Abduction And Brutal Torture Of Students And Other Activists By Delhi Police Special Cell
the Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) expresses grave concern and strong condemnation of the recent and ongoing wave of illegal abductions, enforced disappearances, and custodial torture of democratic activists in Delhi and surrounding areas. These actions represent not only an attack on civil liberties and democratic rights but constitute gross violations of constitutional, statutory, and international legal protections.
On July 9, 2025, activists Gurkirat, Gaurav, and Gauraang of the Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch were picked up without any arrest warrant or notice, in complete violation of Sections 35 and 36 of the BNSS. They were detained at New Friends Colony Police Station, without informing family members or legal counsel.
On July 11, Ehtmam-ul Haque and Baadal were similarly abducted in Delhi, while Samrat Singh, a psychologist and social worker, was picked up from his residence in Yamunanagar, Haryana, without the knowledge of local authorities and outside the jurisdictional mandate of the Delhi Police.
None of these detentions followed the legal procedures required under Article 22 of the Constitution of India, which guarantees the right to be informed of the grounds of arrest and to consult and be defended by a legal practitioner of one’s choice. Nor were the requirements laid out in the D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal (1997) Supreme Court judgment adhered to—no arrest memos were prepared, families were not informed, and the detainees were denied access to legal counsel.
While in custody, the activists were subjected to torture that directly violates the right to life and dignity under Article 21 of the Constitution. They were stripped naked, beaten, electrocuted, and subjected to degrading treatment including having their heads submerged in toilet bowls. The police also issued horrific threats of sexual violence, particularly against female activists, who were told they would be raped using rods—a tactic of intimidation that constitutes sexual torture under both Indian law and international conventions.
These acts amount to criminal offenses under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, including wrongful restraint and confinement (Sections 124 and 125), kidnapping and abduction (Sections 137 and 138), voluntarily causing hurt and grievous hurt (Sections 112–115), and criminal intimidation (Section 138(2)), as well as violations of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, where applicable. The Indian Supreme Court has repeatedly held that custodial torture is not only illegal but a direct assault on the rule of law.
These detentions and acts of torture are not isolated incidents. They form part of a broader national pattern of state repression under the Surajkund Scheme, to silence and criminalize all forms of democratic dissent. The country is witnessing an undeclared emergency, marked by surveillance, forced surrenders, and normalized custodial violence, with students, civil rights activists, and people’s activists being treated as enemies of the state.
As of now, Ehtmam-ul Haque and Samrat Singh continue to be detained illegally at New Friends Colony Police Station, without being produced before a magistrate as required under Article 22(2) of the Constitution and Section 187 of the BNSS, 2023, which mandate that no person shall be detained without judicial oversight beyond 24 hours.
We demand:
1. The immediate and unconditional release of Ehtmam-ul Haque and Samrat Singh from illegal detention.
2. A judicial inquiry into the abductions, enforced disappearances, custodial torture, and threats of sexual violence faced by the detained activists.
3. The registration of criminal cases against, and prosecution of, police personnel and officials responsible for these unlawful acts.
4. An end to the targeted criminalization of student activists, people’s organizations, and civil society voices through arbitrary detention, surveillance, torture, and fabricated cases.
The use of abduction, torture, and sexual threats as instruments of governance constitutes a complete collapse of the rule of law and a descent into fascist authoritarianism.CASR calls upon all sections of society—civil liberties organizations, trade unions, student movements, lawyers, journalists, artists, and ordinary citizens—to raise their voices and stand united against this assault on democratic freedoms.
*CAMPAIGN AGAINST STATE REPRESSION Organizing Team*
(AIRSO, AISA, AISF, APCR, ASA, BASF, BSM, Bhim Army, bsCEM, CEM, COLLECTIVE, CRPP, CSM, CTF, DISSC, DSU, DTF, Forum Against Repression Telangana, Fraternity, IAPL, Innocence Network, Karnataka Janashakti, LAA, Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan, Mazdoor Patrika, NAPM, Nazariya Magazine , Nishant Natya Manch, Nowruz, NTUI, People’s Watch, Rihai Manch, Samajwadi Janparishad, Smajwadi lok manch, Bahujan Samjavadi Mnach, SFI, United Peace Alliance, WSS, Y4S)
July 18, 2025