Four decades after the Naxalbari uprising, much has been learned on both sides – of which terribly little has been acted upon. India’s Maoists must dare to act on the realisation that the gun is not a mobilisational tool. The Indian state must understand that a broad-brushed approach to what is truly a splintered, localised phenomenon will never deliver security, for either the national interest or local communities.
The writer has a Masters in International Relations from Sussex University, is currently pursuing a PhD on the class structure of Pakistan from School of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS) and is teaching at LUMS
An article on Maoism by Anil Biswas, published in the Marxist, December 2005 issue.
Its an abridged version of the article by Prakash Karat, PB member of CPIM, published in the Marxist, 1985.
An article by Bhagat Singh
(Secretary, Rawalpindi District Committee, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party
Member: National Council, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party)
This article is mainly based on an analysis of the General Programme of the CPI (M-L) Liberation (2001), its Policy Resolution on Tactics (2001) and the Political Organisational Report of its 7th Congress (Nov.2002) and relevant documents of the CPI (M). Written by P.M.S. Grewal, Secretary of the Delhi State Committee, CPI (M).
This article is mainly based on an analysis of the General Programme of the CPI (M-L) Liberation (2001), its Policy Resolution on Tactics (2001) and the Political Organisational Report of its 7th Congress (Nov.2002) and relevant documents of the CPI (M). Written by P.M.S. Grewal, Secretary of the Delhi State Committee, CPI (M).
This article is mainly based on an analysis of the General Programme of the CPI (M-L) Liberation (2001), its Policy Resolution on Tactics (2001) and the Political Organisational Report of its 7th Congress (Nov.2002) and relevant documents of the CPI (M). Written by P.M.S. Grewal, Secretary of the Delhi State Committee, CPI (M).