ALEMANIA: Actions in Honor of Comrade Basavaraj and Support for the People's War in India in Germany – An Overview

On May 21, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Comrade Basavaraj, along with nearly 30 other comrades, was murdered by the Indian reactionaries as part of the encirclement and annihilation campaign known as "Operation Kagaar" against the revolutionaries in India. In the first half of 2025 alone, several hundred communists, revolutionary fighters, and masses were killed.

In honor of the fallen General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and in memory of all the revolutionaries who have fallen in India, the organizations Partizan, Young Struggle, and the Red League called for actions in solidarity with the comrades in India.

Based on this call, joint events were held in seven German cities: Berlin, Bremen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Leipzig and Hamburg. A variety of organizations and individuals participated, with more than one hundred attendees at the events in sum.

 

Another event was organized by Young Struggle in Darmstadt. Independently, the Red Youth of Rostock published a solidarity video on social media, a graffiti was painted in Hamburg by "Fight as a Class" and the Red Youth of Cologne released a solidarity photo.

 

Various actions were carried out by activists of the Red League in different parts of the country. Reports reached us from Dortmund, where a mural featuring the portrait of Comrade Basavaraj and slogans was painted in the Nordstadt, and from Freiburg, where large wallpapers with the picture of the murdered General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) were hung in the neighborhoods of Unterwiehre, Stühlinger, and Vauban. We also received reports of Dazibaos in Leipzig.

 

We have also received photos from Essen-Altendorf, Leipzig, and Cologne documenting wall paintings with slogans. In Cologne and Leipzig, the poster or call of the joint campaign was also put up.

 

The revolutionary newspaper RoPo dedicated both the front page and the "Image of the Month" in the current issue No. 88 to the cause.

 

Finally, it should be noted that the action days were quite a good success. It is particularly commendable that very different organizations and groups participated in these action days.

We are convinced that with a bit more time for preparation and coordination, much more powerful actions could have been carried out. We hope that this will be possible in the future and that all sincere anti-imperialists in Germany will continue to develop and strengthen their joint efforts for the campaign to support the People's War in India.

 

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Below, we document reports published to date on DemVolkedienen.org in chronological order regarding this topic:

Indien: Der Generalsekretär der KPI (Maoisten), Genosse Basavaraj, soll getötet worden sein

Leipzig: Malung zu Ehren des Genossen Basavaraj

Aktion zu Ehren und Gedenken des Generalsekretärs der Kommunistischen Partei Indiens (Maoistisch), Genosse Basavaraj und der 27 maoistischen Kämpfer in Frankfurt

IKB: Die höchsten roten Grüße in Ruhm und Ehre an den Generalsekretär der Kommunistischen Partei Indiens (maoistisch) und die unsterblichen Helden!

Aktion in Gedenken an Genosse Basavaraj in Freiburg

Gedenkveranstaltung für Genosse Basavaraj in Köln

Düsseldorf: Gedenkveranstaltung zu Genosse Basavaraj

Aktionen für Genosse Basavaraj in Dortmund und Essen

Gedenkveranstaltung für Genosse Basavaraj in Bremen

Hamburg: Erfolgreiche Veranstaltung zur Verteidigung des Volkskrieges in Indien

Leipzig: Erfolgreiche Veranstaltung zum Genossen Basavaraj und dem Volkskrieg in Indien

Gedenkveranstaltung für Genosse Basavaraj in Berlin

Köln: Malungen zu Aktionstagen in Indien

Gedenkveranstaltung für Genosse Basavaraj in Dortmund

Leipzig: Dazibaos für Genosse Basavaraj

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Hamburg: Kundgebung in Solidarität mit dem Widerstand Palästinas!

 

 

Wir teilen hier einen Aufruf des Bündnis gegen imperialistische Aggression Hamburg für den 18. Juli, 18:30 Uhr, Billstedter Marktplatz:

 

Die blutige Aggression des israelischen Besatzers, unter Anweisung ihrer Befehlshaber in Washington, 3at noch immer kein Ende in Sicht. Auch nach bald fast zwei Jahren des aktuellen völkermörderischen Feldzuges, hatten sie noch immer keinen Erfolg damit den gerechtfertigten nationalen Widerstand des Volkes Palästinas zu beenden, welches im Gegenteil jeden Tag aufs Neue kraftvolle Aktionen im Kampf gegen den Besatzer vorantreibt.

 

Das Bündnis gegen imperialistische Aggression (BgiA) ruft deshalb alle antiimperialistischen, revolutionären und alle wirklichen demokratischen Menschen und Organisationen zur Kundgebung am 18. Juli auf, um den andauernden tapferen Widerstand des Volkes Palästinas zu unterstützen!

Freitag, 18. Juli, 18:30 Uhr, Billstedter Marktplatz

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Veröffentlicht: 13. Juli 2025

INDIA:July 1, the 15th martyrdom anniversary of CPI (Maoist) spokesperson ‘Azad’ .- GRECIA: Solidarity with the Indian Peopl

 

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 

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