The Pan Afrikan Voice invites all Afrikan/Black Working Class and Progressive People to celebrate the Life of this outstanding revolutionary Communist Working Class Hero and Mother of the Notting Hill Carnival.

Date & Time: Sunday 28th February 2010 @ 4pm
Venue: KARIBU EDUCATION CENTRE 7 Gresham Road, Brixton, London SW2 (3rd right street from Brixton Tube Station)

Speakers Invited

Marika Sherwood – The Life of Claudia Jones in Exile in Britain
Sister Christine Pan Afrikan Society Community Forum : The Role of Woman fighters in the Haitian Revolution
Radha D’Souza Lecturer : The Role of Women in the Struggle for Social Justice in India
Nickglais of Democracy and Class Struggle : The Task of the British Working Class Against Racism and Class oppression and the Struggle for Socialism in the 21st Century
Comrade Tongogara of George Jackson Socialist League: The need for a Multinational Workers Party in Britain
Speaker from Fight Racism Fight Imperialism: British Imperialism in the World Today and the task of the British Working Class

Entry Free – Donations welcome

Organised by:

George Jackson Socialist League

Supported by:

This interview is published on Sanhati.  Thanks to David Pugh for bringing this into our attention.

Far inside the jungles of the Eastern Ghats we met the general secretary of the CPI (Maoists) Ganapathy aka Mupalla Laxman Rao. After welcoming us and inquiring from us whether we, in particular Jan Myrdal, faced any problem having to travel the rough terrain, the interview began. Following is the summary of the interview with him. We have retained the interview in the form in which it was given, read and approved by him with some minor language changes.  In particular we draw attention of readers to the General Secretary laying down concisely his party’s stance on the issue of talks in light of the disinformation spread by the Union Minister of Home P Chidambaram that CPI(Maoist) had “scoffed” at the Indian Government’s offer for talks. Indeed he told us:

To put concisely the main demands that the party has placed in front of the government [of India] for any kind of talks are 1) All-out war has to be withdrawn; 2) For any kind of democratic work, the ban on the Party and Mass Organizations have to be lifted; 3) Illegal detention and torture of comrades had to be stopped and they be immediately released. If these demands are met, then the same leaders who are released from jails would lead and represent the Party in the talks.

However, we consider the full text of the interview of importance for all those who want to know more about the policies of the party which the Government of India considers its main internal security threat.

Q: How do you envisage the linking of this struggle with a general struggle in India in terms of class ? Chairman Mao after 1935 took the Long March to Yenan created a base for national level and part of which was the united front with the Chiang Kai-Sheik. Thereby it became the main national power in China. How do you envisage becoming to a national power in India?
A: In China, in which condition Long March to Yenan took-place and created a base and a part of it formation of a United Front with Chiang Kai-Sheik for national level is different to our present situation of New Democratic Revolution(NDR) of India. Chinese revolution had took-place in first half of the 20th century. Since then several significant changes have occurred in the world. Those are, firstly emergence of a Socialist Camp and its subsequent down fall, secondly downfall of colonialism and emergence of neocolonialism, thirdly emergence of so-called parliamentary system as the common political system throughout the world, fourthly, a long gap emerged in the revolutionary upsurge after success of revolutions in Vietnam, Kampuchea and Laos in-spite of some upsurges and significant struggles in several countries. If we look into the entire world history, after emergence of working class on the globe, it is confronting with the bourgeoisie class and all other reactionary forces and seized power from them in Paris for a short-while and then in Russian, China and several European countries for a long time and shocked the entire globe. In this trajectory, there were various ups and downs in the World Socialist Revolution but nonetheless the struggle continuous. It is like waves at times and it slowed down, but it never ceased. So we have to see any revolution of a country in the light of historical context.

In relation to our revolution, first of all I would like to introduce our history in a short account to understand the present condition correctly. Our unified Party, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) was formed on 21st September 2004 by merging two Maoist revolutionary streams of India, the Communist Party of India(Marxist Leninst) [CPI (ML)]and Maoist Communist Centre (MCC). Our great beloved fore-founder leaders and teachers, Comrades Charu Mazumdar(CM) and Kanhai Chatterji(KC) who led an ideological and political struggle ceaselessly for a long time against revisionism and modern revisionism of Communist Party of India and CPI(Marxist).

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Progressive Nepalese Society has organised a protest rally against the Indian Aggression and Expansionism. The protest will march from Trafalgar Square to the Indian Embassy. The Protest is supported by:

Date & Time: Monday, 15th February 2010 @ 12:00 PM (Sharp)
Venue: The rally will start from Trafalgar Square, North Terrace and march towards the Indian Embassy.

Slogans are as below:

Click here to read Progressive Nepalese Society’s call to attend the demonstration.

Source: Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) International Department

Present Situation and Historical Task of the Proletariat

Dear Comrades,

Today, our great and glorious party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), has arrived at a serious and extraordinary juncture of possibilities and challenges.

The way how people’s revolution, in the external struggle, is advancing amid immense possibility of victory and serious danger of defeat, in the same manner, party’s internal life, as a reflection of the former, also lies in the midst of potentiality of advance and danger of anarchism and chaos as well. The height to which we can create new unity, voluntary discipline, self-confidence and vigour by means of a correct line, strategy, tactic, plan and programme to ensure as far as possible the decisive victory of revolution in this complex crossroads of class struggle, to that level will we be able to make victorious the revolution and party by safeguarding them from the danger of defeat and anarchism. In order to develop that kind of line and plan, we, by abandoning all kinds of subjective prejudices, must be able to have objective estimation of the situation and balance of class force based on the universal theories of MLM. The plan and programme prepared on the basis of objective analysis will enable our party to lead the decisive victory of revolution. Expressing high regard and esteem to the entire known and unknown martyrs of Nepalese people’s revolution including those of ten years of people’s war and admiring the entire disappeared, injured fighters and their family members, this plenum of the central committee will be able to bring about a new dynamism in our party.

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Democracy and Class Struggle welcomes the meeting in Paris on 30th – 31st January 2010 which seeks to develop Marxist Leninist Maoist Party building in Europe.

In Britain we have embarked on the preparatory stage of party building through the Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain.

We agree with the Maoist Communist Party of France in the paper Drapeau Rouge concerning the rise of Fascism in Europe and Party building in the following statement.

Modern Fascism or Fascisation? Revival of Fascist Organisations danger of return to Fascism in its initial form.

“It is not the case today that the principal question of opposing fascism is to prepare to assume leadership of a United Front, it is a question of the Party.

The adherents of fascisation put off the appointed day with the excuse that it is necessary to win the masses over before building a Party. In fact it is necessary for links to be built with the masses in struggle led by the Party and to learn with them the fusion of theory and practice. They lament the absence of a Party but refuse to go to the masses under the Maoist banner contrary to those communists and Maoists who preceded us and who built the vanguard parties of their day”.

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