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We, the undersigned
Maoist parties and organisations of South Asia proclaim the formation of the
Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA)
and issue this Joint Statement :
Under the signboard
of globalisation, structural adjustment and open market economy; world
imperialism has announced its global agenda to further intensify the domination,
exploitation and oppression of the people. The agenda reflects a new spiral of
crisis of world imperialism bringing about the inevitability of even more
misery, horror, devastation and war, on a world scale.
The proletariat and
the oppressed people of the world continue to resist this agenda by raising
revolutionary struggles, against imperialism and the subservient reactionary
ruling classes of different countries, generating a new wave of people struggles
all over the world, particularly in the oppressed countries.
As Mao had
formulated, the oppressed countries constitute the storm centres of world
revolution and revolution is the main trend in the world today. The region of
South Asia continues to provide a concentrated expression of this truth.
South Asia, with more
than 1/5th of the world population, is a simmering volcano, as recognised by the
imperialists themselves. All the major contradictions in the region are
intensifiying and call for revolutionary solutions.
Inspired by the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, the historic Naxalbari armed uprising
under the leadership of Charu Mazumdar, served to ignite sparks of protracted
people’s war in different parts of South Asia. The drums of Naxalbari continue
to reverbrate throughout South Asia and beyond. The protracted people’s war
which are advancing in Nepal, India (Andhra, Dandakaranya, Bihar etc), and the
preparations for initiating protracted people’s war in the region basically
derive their origins from the Spring Thunder of Naxalbari.
National liberation
movements are also continuing in Kashmir, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and other
North Eastern areas, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Various peoples
struggles against imperialism and the reactionary ruling classes are also
surging forward.
The irresistible
advance of the New Democratic Revolution and Protracted People’s War in Nepal
under the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) — CPN (Maoist),
along with protracted people’s wars in India led by the Communist Party of India
(Marxist-Leninist) [People’s War] — CPI (ML) [PW] and the Maoist Communist
Centre (MCC), is changing the political geography and revolutionary dynamics of
South Asia. The emerging new wave of protracted people’s war is clearly visible
in the South Asian region. The Indian ruling classes, under the leadership of
the BJP, are sharpening their offensive against the on-going protracted peoples
wars and various nationality movements in India. Various operational command
units have been formed to suppress these struggles and the central government is
directly coordinating all the various operations. The BJP, a Hindu chauvinist
force, is rapidly transforming the state into a facist apparatus and is adopting
newer and newer black laws to crush all types of democratic movements in India,
surpassing all its predecessors. It has also started functioning as the gendarme
of US imperialism in order to fulfill its expansionist ambitions, suppressing
people’s movements in the sub-continent, particularly threatening armed
intervention in Nepal.
The reactionary
ruling classes of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan are intensifying their
fascist repression of the masses and against the democratic, progressive and
Maoist revolutionary forces.
Inspite of viscious
fascist repression, the masses continue to resist and are surging forward in the
region.
The Indian
expansionist state, backed by world imperialism, particularly US imperialism,
constitute the common enemy of the people of South Asia. This provides a
concrete political basis for building the unity of the South Asian Revolutionary
process. The increasing collusion between US imperialism and Indian Expansionism
can be clearly seen in the politics of the region in recent years.
This can be seen
clearly in the recent developments in Nepal. However much the imperialists and
their lackeys try to cover up the real politics behind the brutal massacre of
the Royal Family of Nepal, the people know the truth. The crisis that led to the
massacre is directly related to the development of the New Democratic Revolution
and Protracted People’s War in Nepal. King Birendra and the Royal family were
annihilated in order to ensure that state power would be in the hands of more
reliable fascist and die-hard sections of the ruling class that could be
entrusted with the task of deploying the armed forces in an all-out, total
counter-revolutionary war against the CPN (Maoist), the people’s war and the
oppressed masses of Nepal. This crisis was deliberately desinged
to create the conditions for external intervention by Indian Expansionism in the
hope of extinguishing the flames of Maoist protracted peoples war in Nepal. This
massacre was clearly planned and executed as a conspiracy between US
imperialism, the Indian expansionist state and the most die-hard fascist sections
of the Nepalese ruling classes.
The CPN (Maoist) and
the masses recognise that this massacre has effectively liquidated the
traditional monarchy, placing the establishment of the People’s Democratic
Republic in Nepal on the people’s immediate agenda.
The Coordination
Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations (CCOMPOSA) has been formed in
order to unify and coordinate the activities of the Maoist parties and
organisations in South Asia to confront this developing situation by spreading
protracted people’s war in the region, in the context of hastening and advancing
the World Proletarian Socialist Revolution. This is a historic step of
far-reaching significance.
This initiative is
the result of ideas and suggestions put forward by the CPN(Maoist) and CPI (ML)
[People’s War].
The CoRIM played a
positive role in this process.
The Coordination
Committee resolves to combine their efforts and raise their revolutionary
struggles with the aim of fanning the flames of protracted people’s war
throughout the region and beyond, in conjunction with the protracted people’s
war in Peru, the Philippines, and Turkey. We resolve to combat and defeat
Revisionism — both parliamentary and armed — as the main danger to developing
protracted people’s war. We declare our principled unity and conscious
determination to hoist the Red Flag of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Communism in
all its splendour on the silver summits of the Himalyas and throughout the
region. We understate this responsibility towards destroying the system of
imperialism and achieving our final goal of socialism and communism by
accoplishing the New Democratic Revolution through the path of protracted
people’s war.
We appeal to all
Maoist forces of South Asia to join CCOMPOSA to defend and advance the ongoing
protracted people’s wars in Nepal and India and to achieve the victory of New
Democratic Revolution in the countries of South Asia. We appeal to all
anti-imperialist democratic forces to support us in strengthening the rising
mass struggles against imperialism and Indian expansionism.
Signed :
Bangladesh
(i) Purba Bangla Sarbahara Party (CC)
(ii) Purba Bangla Sarbahara Party (Maoist
Punargathan Kendra)
(iii) Bangladesh Samyabadi Party (ML)
India
(i) Maoist Communist Centre (MCC)
(ii) Communist Party of India (ML)
[People’s War]
(iii) Revolutionary Communist Centre of
India (MLM)
(iv) Revolutionary Communist Centre of
India (Maoist)
Nepal
(i) Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
Sri Lanka
(i) Communist Party of Ceylon (Maoist)
July 1, 2001
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