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The Communist Party of the Philippines extends its most cordial and militant
comradely greetings to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)[People's
War] on the occasion of your forthcoming Party Congress. We are confident that
through this congress you will be able to unite the whole Party around the
correct ideological, political and organizational line and thus raise the level
of struggle in the new democratic revolution through people's war.
We pay our highest respect to your martyrs, Comrades Shyam., Mahesh and Murali,
members of the Central Committee who were brutally murdered by the Indian
fascists last December, and to all the comrades who have made the supreme
sacrifice for the Indian and world revolution since the establishment of your
Party. Their memory will always be cherished not only by the Indian masses but
also by all revolutionaries throughout the world. We turn our grief into
revolutionary courage. The revolutionary Indian people will surely avenge the
deaths of your martyrs and pursue the revolutionary struggle until complete
victory.
We Congratulate you for the great achievements that you have accumulated through
31 years of arduous struggle. The CPI(ML)[PW] has been steeled in the furnace of
struggle not only against the local class enemies but also against both "Left"
and right deviations within the Party and all sorts of bankrupt theories being
peddled by the revisionists at home and abroad.
The key to your Party's success is its adherence to Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong
Thoughts. But concretely applying this theory in the concrete conditions of
India, you have correctly analyzed the character of Indian society as
semi-colonial and semi-feudal, put forward the general line of new-democratic
revolution with a socialist perspective and advanced the strategic line of
protracted people's war and surrounding the cities from the countryside, The
Indian masses have rallied to this correct revolutionary line and have
offered their best sons and daughters for the struggle.
The decision to adopt the armed struggle as the principal form of struggle was
decisve in your steady advance in the last twenty years. It has enabled you to
advance wave upon wave in building the people’s army from squads to developed
guerrilla force, and in base building from guerrilla zones and guerrilla bases
to establish extensive and consolidated base areas.
In advancing the revolution, the Party has wielded the two weapons of the armed
struggle and the united front. There has been significant advances in the armed
struggle with an increasing tempo in the tactical offensives that have dealt
heavy blows against the enemy, brought in more weapons for the people's army and
raised the morale and fighting will of the masses.
The united front is being developed with the basic alliance of the workers and
peasants serving as flier base, winning over the urban petty bourgeoisie and the
national bourgeoisie and taking advantage of contradictions among the
reactionaries.
You have developed deep roots among the masses in both the rural and urban areas
and have been successful in arousing, organizing and mobilizing them for their
immediate and long term interests. As a result, concrete benefits have been
achieved by the masses in land reform, production, raising of wages of farm and
non-farm workers, and so on. Thus, the Party and people's army enjoy the wide
and enthusiastic support of the broad masses of the people.
The urban mass movement is able to mobilize hundreds of thousands to expose and
resist the anti-people and pro imperialist policies of the Indian ruling
classes. These policies follow the neoliberal policy dictates of such
imperialist agencies as the IMF, World Bank and WTO. The socio-economic crisis
of the local ruling system has gone from bad to worse and imposes enormous
sufferings on the broad masses of the people.
The call to build the Party into a nationwide Bolshevik Party that is
broad-based and mass-oriented and theoretically, politically and
organizationally consolidated on the occasion of the 31st Party anniversary is
appropriate in the face of the growing demands of the revolutionary armed
struggle and the great potential for expanding the revolution.
India is a big country with a large population and holds a strategic position in
mainland Asia. The advance of the revolution in India will surely have great
significance, implication and consequences in the world proletarian revolution.
The Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and movements waging people's war are of
critical importance in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution. They
brilliantly uphold in theory and practice the Marxist-Leninist theory of state
and revolution and carry forward the world proletarian revolution through armed
revolution. They play an outstanding role amidst the global conditions in which
the imperialists and local reactionary ruling classes are escalating the
exploitation and oppression of the proletariat and people.
The Communist Party of India (ML)[PW] and the Communist Party of the Philippines
are close comrades-in-arms in the fight against imperialism and all reaction. We
are determined to continue our close cooperation and mutual support in our
common struggle to free our peoples from the exploitation and oppression of the
imperialists and the local reactionaries and thereby make our own contribution
to the forward advance of the world proletarian revolution.
We wish you utmost success in your congress. We look forward to greater
victories of the revolutionary armed struggle under the leadership of the
Communist Party of India (ML)[PW] in the years ahead. We are confident that you
will win in the new democratic revolution and subsequently commence the
socialist revolution.
Long
live the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)[People's War]
Long
live the Indian revolution
Long
live proletarian internationalism!
Central
Committee Communist Party of the Philippines,
February
10, 2001
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