The 'business' of Maoist movement in India
April 24, 2008
Financing a 'revolution' is not child's play. It is all the more tough when the organisation is proscribed and hence operates underground.
For the Indian Maoists, also known as Naxalites, the conditions are a little more unfavourable because they claim to be fighting for the deprived and neglected sections of society who are poor.
And the Maoists do not enjoy the support of the affluent.
But still the Maoists are being able to collect and manage vast sums of money. According to a media report of April 9, 2008, the annual 'extortion' by the Maoists is a whopping Rs.1,000 crore.
more at:
http://www.aol.in/news/story/2008042409159019000001/
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India's Maoist insurgents kill 54 in raid on police outpost
Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
Friday, March 16, 2007
New Delhi -- Communist rebels besieged a police outpost in eastern India on Thursday, killing 54 people and wounding nearly a dozen more before fleeing into the surrounding jungle under cover of darkness.
The early morning raid was one of the bloodiest attacks in years by the so-called Naxalites, Maoist insurgents who have waged an armed campaign against the Indian government for the past four decades. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the group the nation's No. 1 threat to public security.
more at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/16/MNG99OMASE1.DTL
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From The Christian Science Monitor, 2006:
India's rising Maoist rebellion
Experts, officials say Naxalite insurrection may be more dangerous than Kashmir separatists
By Arthur Bright | csmonitor.com
The eastern Indian state of Orissa has outlawed membership in the militant Communist Party of India (Maoist) known as the Naxalites, escalating a 40-year-old conflict between the Indian government and Maoist rebels.
more at:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0614/dailyUpdate.html
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Two die in Chhattisgarh maoist attack
Daily News & Updates
India Defence Premium
Dated 6/2/2006
Jashpur: Communist Party of India (Maoist) cadres today attacked a police outpost here in Chhattisgarh, bordering Jharkhand, killing two policemen and injuring 12 others.
Preliminary reports said a group of armed naxalites stormed into the police outpost around 0300 hours and killed two security personnel on the spot while twelve others sustained injuries, including eight seriously.
more at:
http://www.india-defence.com/reports/1309
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From Asia Times Online, 2004:
India playing with Maoist fire
By Sultan Shahin
NEW DELHI - India appears to be taking a big gamble with Maoist insurgents. Encouraged by the central government in Delhi, the ruling Congress-led coalition government in the state of Andhra Pradesh has removed a nine-year-old ban on the People's War Group (PWG), which was recently put on a terrorist watch list by the United States.
more at:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FG31Df07.html
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From the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP):
Maoist Organizations Unite in India
Revolutionary Worker #1200, May 25, 2003, posted at rwor.org
On January 15, the Maoist Communist Center and the Revolutionary Communist Center, India (Maoist), issued a communiqué "wholeheartedly declaring before the toiling people of India" that they have united to form a single group. "Our united organization will be based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and remain firmly committed to the long-cherished need of the great Indian people to carry forward and complete the New Democratic revolution," the statement said.
The united party, now called Maoist Communist Center (India), is a participant in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM). The MCC was a participant before; the RCCI (M) was a candidate participant. The two formerly separate groups had been conducting struggles in different Indian states. The MCC had strongholds in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal in the northeast part of the country, and the RCCI (Maoist) in Punjab in the northwest. The people in all these states have a long history of heroic struggle going back to the armed peasant uprising that began in Naxalbari and spread throughout India in the 1960s and '70s, giving birth to India's Maoist movement. Forged in 1969, the MCC had a long history of struggle on the ideological and political fronts, even before its formation. Its founders had taken Maoist China's side in the debate against the revisionists led by Khrushchev, who restored capitalism in the USSR and tried to impose their betrayal of Marx and Lenin on the international communist movement. It upheld the path of protracted People's War and New Democratic Revolution in India and carried out armed struggle. Having undergone twists and turns in its political life and significant line struggles within the Party, it became a participating organization of RIM in 2002.
more at:
http://www.rwor.org/a/1200/awtwindia.htm
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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006
Interview with Bill Ayers:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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