Thursday, 19 July 2012

Message sent by Comrade Ganapathy


The people’s war is developing in Dandakaranya under our party’s leadership and as a result New
Democratic Power is emerging there. Our party is striving hard for this New Democratic Power in the
form of Janthana Circars to gain flesh and blood and strengthen itself day by day and take a
qualitative leap as Dandakaranya level People’s Power. The Janathana Circar leadership is launching
this magazine with the aim that this should serve as a powerful instrument for this revolutionary
practice. The Polit Bureau sends its heartfelt greetings to the Janthana Circar leadership on the
occasion of the publication of their first issue. The PB whole heartedly wishes that this endeavour of
the Janathana Circar leadership would be a success.

The new state power developing in Dandakaranya is strategic, has a concrete historical background
and is one which is assuming great significance in the contemporary world socialist revolutionary
situation which is passing through a complex phase.

In any social revolution, including the Indian New Democratic Revolution, the most crucial, central
and main question is that of (state) power. Our party is striving to establish area wise power by
mobilizing people politically into the protracted people’s war, building the people’s army (in the form
of guerrilla army) and destroying the state machinery of the enemy‐ruling classes. It is as part of this
revolutionary process that it is establishing Janathana Circars in Dandakaranya. Janathana Circars are
completely opposed to imperialism, comprador bureaucratic capitalism and feudalism. They are
being formed through the destruction of enemy’s state machinery. The majority of the conscious
peasantry is establishing them in the countryside under the leadership of the revolutionary
proletariat party. They politically represent the proletariat, peasantry, urban petty bourgeoisie and
the national bourgeoisie. They strive to implement real democracy for the people and people’s
democratic dictatorship on the enemies of the people. They are determined to change the semi‐
colonial, semi‐feudal society of today in a fundamental and complete manner politically,
economically and culturally and are striving day and night with enormous perseverance. As the
embryonic form of the people’s democratic system which would be completely established all over
the country in future, they are sprouting in Dandakaranya and strengthening themselves. They
represent that system of future.

Basing on this new power, the leadership of party, army, and Janathana Circars are striving to
mobilize people on a vast scale into people’s war, consolidate them well, strengthen the people’s
army, fulfill the tasks of production, defence, training etc., extend the movement to neighbouring
areas thereby extending the guerrilla war and new power and helping to fulfill the political tasks inthe neighbouring states by coordinating with them to help today’s power. In one word, the
leadership of party, army leadership and the Janathana Circars are striving to fulfill political, military
and organizational tasks to liberate Dandakaranya by basing themselves on this newly emerging
power. They are fulfilling these tasks with the strategic view too of using Dandakaranya as a main
prop to bring about qualitative changes and to speed up the pace of development of Indian
revolution. That is why the new power and Janathana Circars developing in Dandakaranya are
strategic. Depending on how much our leadership can mobilize the proletariat, peasantry, petty
bourgeois and democratic‐revolutionary forces in the country and on how much these forces can
fulfill their revolutionary role the people’s power developing in Dandakaranya would be defended
and would develop into base areas. Depending on this there would be change in the strategic role of
the Janathana Circars.

During the historical Telangana armed revolutionary peasant struggle ”village governments” were
established in three thousand villages. The communist party leadership surrendered to the Indian
ruling classes, withdrew the armed struggle and betrayed the Indian revolution immensely. As a
result the village governments were nipped in the bud. Comrades Charu Mazumdar and Kanhai
Chatterji fought against the parliamentary‐economist‐reformist line of the Communist Party of India,
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leadership ideologically and politically and broke their back. Out
of the flames of armed peasant revolutionary struggles headed by comrades Charu Mazumdar –
Kanahai Chatterji by creatively applying the protracted people’s war line to the concrete conditions
in our country, the ”revolutionary committees” and ”revolutionary peasant committees” emerged as
the revolutionary peasant power organs. But within a short period they were suppressed. The Indian
revolution suffered a temporary setback. The revolutionary peasant committees could not develop
to a higher level in time. It was as a result of summing up of the experiences of village governments,
revolutionary committees and revolutionary peasant committees that the Janathana Circars are
being established in Dandakaraya as their higher, consolidated form with the task of fulfilling the
higher aim. The merger of two main streams in the Indian revolution on September 21, 2009 and the
formation of Communist Party of India (Maoist) had created unprecedented favourable conditions
for the building of new power organs, their development and establishment of base areas. This is the
historical background for the Janathana Circars.

But what this historical background is clearly stating is that the leadership should be very firm
regarding the strategy, line and policy; it should fight with determination to protect and develop the
power organs; it should strive hard to protect the new power and subjective forces by defeating the
enemy offensive; it should advance in time with higher tasks and lead efficiently in establishing base
areas. Only by keeping in mind this invaluable historical background, can the party leadership and the
Janathana Circars’ leadership give efficient and skillful leadership for the successfully fulfilling the
task of establishing Dandakaranya and Bihar‐ Jharkhand base areas as formulated by our Unity
Congress – 9th Congress.

In 1976, immediately after the death of our great Marxist teacher Comrade Mao, the reactionary,
revisionist clique of capitalist roaders in the China Communist Party had usurped power. As a result
the last base area of the world proletariat had collapsed. However, the revolutionary proletariat and
the oppressed nationalities are resisting the imperialists and the reactionary ruling classes in various
forms and at various levels. This resistance was carried out at a higher level in Philippines, Peru and
Nepal. Due to internal and external reasons these revolutions had faced ups and downs. Peru isfacing long term setback. The Philippines revolution was damaged considerably and has again picked
up by correcting its mistakes. After reaching the stage of strategic offensive, the Nepal people’s war
is facing the grave danger of opportunism in leadership. Though revolutionary parties had been
formed in many countries in the world and are organizing the people, they have not developed to the
stage of setting up a strong confrontation with the imperialists or with the ruling classes in their
countries. In our country, though our party had formed the People’s Liberation guerrilla Army, is
developing the people’s war and forming new organs of power, we haven’t still established base
areas. It is striving hard for that. On the whole, the proletariat revolutionary subjective forces in the
world are still weak.

On the other hand, all the countries in the world, including the US imperialism are neck‐deep in
trouble due to the severe economic crises. The fundamental contradictions in the world have
sharpened further. Immense frustration is seething among the working class, oppressed nationalities
and oppressed people. The objective condition is becoming very favourable for social revolutions to
break out.

Today the world socialist revolution is passing through a complex phase where objective condition is
very favourable and the revolutionary subjective forces are weak. In these conditions, our party is
mobilizing lakhs of adivasi peasantry and striving hard to develop people’s liberation guerrilla army
into people’s liberation army and guerrilla warfare into mobile warfare in order to turn
Dandakaranya into base area. On the basis of Janathana Circars established from the village level to
the division level, it is striving hard to establish power at Dandakaranya level. In these conditions, the
imperialists and their Indian compradors are creating massive hurdles to prevent us from fulfilling
our aim. The liberation of Dandakaranya by resisting the offensive of the Indian ruling classes would
also depend on how much support our party leadership is able to garner from the world proletariat‐
revolutionary‐progressive forces and on how far these forces would fulfill their international
responsibility too. That is why the newly emerging power in Dandakaranya is gaining significance in
the complex situation of the world proletariat revolution. With the liberation of Dandakaranya this
significance would increase considerably.

Increasing the participation of people considerably in all the state affairs will become the most vital
issue in defending, consolidating and expanding Janathana Circars.

There are two fundamental aspects in the revolutionary process we follow to liberate Dandakaranya
‐ destruction and construction. Of the two the first one would be the principal aspect. Only by
carrying on these two aspects in coordination we can liberate Dandakaranya. The active participation
of the people would be the decisive factor in this process from the beginning till victory. Unless we
rouse people for political power we cannot stir them militantly and in vast numbers into class
struggle. We cannot mobilize them effectively into guerrilla war. We cannot bring unity among them;
we cannot turn them into an invincible force by bringing out their enormous energy and creativity;
we cannot effectively implement the people’s democratic dictatorship; the established power may
not only become unstable but also get destroyed. This means that unless we mobilize people
politically and the people participate actively, we will not only be unable to win even one
considerable victory in the process of establishing base area but we may even lose the victories we
had won.If we wish to enhance the active participation of people in the affairs of the state it is necessary to
have vast democracy of the people. In conducting the affairs of the state, we would be able to
effectively implement the people’s democratic dictatorship only when we have vast democracy of
the people; only then we would be able to consolidate people’s democratic power, state machinery
and administrative departments; only then we can ensure that the people’s democratic power
doesn’t become unstable.

To enhance people’s democracy the leadership of the party and Janathana Circars should politically
arouse the people continuously and follow the democratic methods given here. We should ensure
that the village meetings of the Janathana Circars, people’s councils, departments of people’s
government and standing committees are run on the principle of democratic centralism. Even at the
higher levels, we should ensure the mass character of the Janathana Circar organizationally by not
depending just on the party and army professionals. They should work in such a manner that they
represent the interests of the oppressed classes and oppressed social sections. We should solve the
contradictions arising among people in a friendly manner which would help to develop unity among
the people. In all our activities we should adhere to class line and mass line. We must the grasp the
significance of class struggle and carry on the development and welfare activities of the people. We
should not generally resort to physical punishment to counter political opinions. We should win over
people with correct politics and democratic methods. In the matter of correcting mistakes, we should
implement the policy of ”treating the ailment to save the patient”. We must ensure that the people
participate actively in internal struggle, in criticizing the wrong trends and mistakes inside the party
and Janathana Circars. In the matter of education, our aim should be to develop it in such a way that
it would help in bringing about transformation, increasing unity, solving problems and achieving
higher aims.

The shortcomings in broadening the people’s democracy would lead to the wrong trends of
corruption, malpractices, lavishness, careerism, selfishness and bureaucracy among the party,
government leaders and cadres who lead in running the government‐ state affairs. Due to this, the
danger of the party and government leaders getting isolated from the people increases. We have the
experience in fighting against such wrong trends. So the leadership should always be engaged in the
service of people under the continuous surveillance and control of the working people. We must
strive to enhance people’s democracy and ensure the huge participation of the people in
government‐state affairs. This is most essential to liberate Dandakaranya.

In order to establish this power at the Dandakaranya level by consolidating the people’s democratic
power, we have to accrue cadres, professionals, technicians and experts who could work in various
spheres at that same level and as widely.

Talking about state power means giving actual form to it, developing it and creating an alternative
system. In any country which takes up the line of area wise seizure of power, the leadership should
think seriously about this. For this, depending on the people in the areas where we wish to establish
base areas would be the basic policy. For establishing base area, depending on other areas in the
country would be secondary. Regarding revolution in one country as a whole, dependence on the
assistance of foreign, progressive revolutionary forces would be but secondary. When we take into
consideration the social conditions of Dandakaranya and the historical process through which themovement developed here, though the policy is the same, assistance from other areas assumes more significance.
The central leadership of the party should keep this in view and develop the new power in
Dandakaranya. With regard to the development of political power, i.e. in the matter of building the
minimum and necessary machinery what we had done or have been doing till now is much
inadequate.

By increasing the participation of the people in the people’s government‐ state affairs, by expanding
the people’s democracy, by augmenting mass character in the higher level Janathana Circars too, by
increasing our political work in people’s organizations, by taking up special organizational‐ training
campaigns, by enhancing the capabilities of the cadres and experts working in this sphere, by
working creatively to accumulate resources and by developing cadre policy in this sphere we would
be able to ensure considerable development in the establishment and development of Janathana
Circars.

People are establishing Janathana Circars by defeating the people’s enemies and demolishing and
destroying the enemy’s power locally. Due to this phenomenon, the class struggle has directly and
indirectly only intensified and has not ended. The class struggle had extended to all spheres of social
life. Now it is being carried out not only in the political and military spheres but also in the
ideological, economic and cultural spheres.

The local landlords, bad gentry, a section of the tribal chiefs, reactionary bad elements, a small
section of parasitic, anti‐people rich persons who had colluded with the exploitative government and
depend on its funds had surrendered to the people in the areas where the Janathana Circars have
captured power. They tried to conspire internally against the people’s power in various ways but had
failed. As the offensive of the central and state forces on Dandakaranya had intensified and with the
launching of the reactionary Salva Judum, most of them had joined the Salva Judum or had joined
hands with the enemy forces and are resorting to cruelest attacks on the people to destroy people’s
power. The class struggle had intensified to an unprecedented scale between the people and their
enemies, between the newly emerging power and the enemy’s power. These enemies are carrying
on the attacks with double the vengeance in order to gain their lost authority and to continue their
exploitation and oppression again. Even while carrying on attacks openly, they are also severely
trying to carry on treacherous activities by utilizing the various kinds of government reform schemes
and clandestinely using the links they have with their relatives, friends or clan. The state is building
up its intelligence network among the people depending on these people’s enemies.

So, in order to preserve their power and develop to the level of Dandakaranya the Janathana Circars
should not only fight locally but also carry on class struggle with the state in all spheres sharply. In
this context, there is great need to adhere to the class line and mass line and to mobilize people
actively. To the extent we carry on the class struggle sharply and to the extent we mobilize the
people actively in this struggle, we would be able to suppress the enemies of the people, defeat the
state offensive and defend the new power.

After we had formed the new power organs and had established the political power locally, they are
striving to transform the economic, cultural spheres in the rural life to be pro‐people and democratic.
They had carried out revolutionary land reforms, come forward to form mutual aid teams fordevelopment of agriculture and had taken up preservation of forest, education, health and culture.

This revolutionary work along with improving the living standards of the people is also helping in
fulfilling the main political task of developing people’s war. There is need to double our efforts in this
field.

We can say that we have made considerable progress in this matter in the recent years. Due to the
reactionary Salva Judum mopping up campaigns conducted by the central, state governments and
their police, paramilitary forces, hundreds of villages had been completely destroyed along with the
people’s economy in Dantewada and Bijapur districts (South and West Bastar). The People’s
Liberation guerrilla Army, Janathana Circars, all people’s organizations and people had mobilized
under our party leadership and had earned great experience in the struggle to defeat the campaigns
of the enemy. In the guerrilla zones and in the areas where Janathana Circars were formed, the
People’s Liberation guerrilla Army, with the armed assistance of the militia and the consolidated force of the people, continued agricultural production again. 

Along with many people’s militia members, the fighters in People’s Liberation guerrilla Army’s main and secondary forces, Janathana Circar leaders, members and people were martyred in battles while defending these campaigns. Likewise the enemy had closed the markets completely, obstructed all supplies, destroyed the economic life of the people completely and tried to get them to surrender. They wanted to stop
supplies not only to the people but also to the ever increasing people’s forces and Janathana Circars
and destroy the initiative of the revolutionary camp. We had countered even this unprecedented
grave situation in Dandakaranya movement and had emerged victorious to a large extent.

One need not have any doubts that the enemy would carry on ruthlessly the most brutal offensive in
future, with a long term perspective. So there is a need to devise a plan to fulfill the ever growing
needs of the people, people’s forces and Janthana Circars, to improve the life standards of the
people, to stop forceful migration, to develop production (agriculture, forest, handicrafts etc) and
develop trade in Dandakaranya. There is a need to bring the necessary developments in the people’s
economy in accordance with the situation where the needs of the people, people’s forces and the
Janthana Circars are ever increasing and becoming interdependent. If we wish to devise the plan by
keeping in mind these needs, we will have to make average estimates about the whole of
Dandakaranya. 

If we can make estimates about the areas depending on the local Janthana Circars, the Division level Janthana Circars can prepare correct estimates basing on these actual estimates. If we can completely and correctly utilize the situation where people are taking their destiny into their own hands and can formulate and implement, even if at a basic level at present, a plan which coordinates needs, production, consumption, market and capital, then we will be able to take a leap in the economic sphere. This leap would definitely consolidate the people’s political power. For area wise seizure of power and for carrying on people’s war, such efforts in the economic sphere are very much necessary. Mobilizing people politically into the economic affairs and enhancing their participation and active role would be decisive.

The People’s Liberation guerrilla Army had been formed as a new people’s army due to the
application of Marxism‐Leninism‐ Maoism to the concrete conditions of our country by our party for
the building of New Democratic Revolutionary movement and due to the efforts we have put among
the people in the ideological, political and organizational spheres. From the moment it had been
formed the People’s Liberation guerrilla Army and it has become the backbone of the revolutionary movement. It is carrying on guerrilla warfare and political, organizational work. As a result of this
effort new people’s power is being created. It was due to this effort that Janathana Circars have been
formed in Dandakaranya. 

The Janathana Circars are strengthening and expanding and in turn are helping in the strengthening and expanding of People’s Liberation guerrilla Army. It means that while the party had imparted Marxism‐ Leninism‐Maoism to the people, the people had created the people’s army. While the people’s army had helped in creating their power and the people’s power is helping in strengthening of the party and army. As the party, people’s army and the people’s power are gaining strength, people are increasingly joining the political work and people’s war. In Dandakaranya, this strategic practice is continuing as our basic and central practice. This strategic effort should be the focal point of all our practice.

In the catastrophic situation where the imperialists and the Indian ruling classes are bogged down in
economic crises and gasping for breath, they are getting terrorized with the developing people’s war
in the country. They are implementing the Low Intensity Conflict policy to counter the people’s war.
In the case of Dandakaranya, they are quickly changing their tactics as each of the tactics they had
used against the people have been foiled and had failed. With the full support and backing of the
imperialists and full assistance and help of the Indian army, with the full support of Andhra Grey
Hounds they are carrying on attacks with unprecedented level of coordination with paramilitary and
state police forces. With the strategy of suppressing the newly emerging power, the reactionary
ruling classes have chosen Dandakaranya as the focal point for their offensive.

The reactionary ruling classes had built up Special Forces, special intelligence mechanism and terror
gangs using modern methods in order to carry on their Low Intensity Conflict policy effectively. They
are carrying on psychological warfare to distract the people ideologically and politically and to
confuse the people and revolutionary camp and smash it to smithereens. They are resorting to
unending deception. 

For this, they are utilizing reforms, media, old and new false Non Governmental Organizations, religious organizations and all reactionary structures. They are carrying on centralized offensive in all spheres by mobilizing all resources and by bringing all the government departments in the administration under the police department. They are cruelly suppressing those who put forth revolutionary demands and they themselves are falsely focusing them. They are studying every detail which may either help or hinder the counter revolutionary war at the micro‐level and are working to utilize the favourable factors to the hilt, and to turn the unfavourable ones in their favour or destroy them completely. 

In order to justify and legitimize each reactionary action by them they are posing every action in favour of the revolution as illegal and suppressing it. They are modernizing all spheres at high speed (weapons, communication, transport, security, maintenance of records, propaganda, decisions, implementation, coordination etc) in order to get effective results by carrying on high‐tech warfare. If we have to explain Low Intensity Conflict policy in one sentence, it is a reactionary warfare which carries suppression in the cruelest manner utilizing high‐tech and by resorting to endless deception.

We all know that our enemies had developed Low Intensity Conflict as a complete reactionary war as
part of their strategic and tactical policy, in the process of countering the strategy and tactics of
protracted people’s war. However, in countering the people’s war in our country they had modified
the Low Intensity Conflict policy according to the concrete conditions here and implementing it. We
should also put efforts in all spheres to develop our warfare to suit today’s new war situation, forliberating Dandakaranya and to preserve and expand the people’s power established in Dandakaranya. 

One of the greatest lessons which the Andhra Pradesh revolutionary movement had given to us is – we should prepare ourselves according to the new war situation. As we could not prepare ourselves in Andhra Pradesh the movement suffered a setback there. Or we can say this is also one of the main reasons for our setback in Andhra Pradesh. We will have to carry on an all‐out war to counter the enemy’s Low Intensity Conflict warfare in Dandakaranya. 

If we want to counter the enemy effectively and liberate Dandakaranya, we must definitely develop war according to the new war situation in all spheres such as ideological, political, military, psychological, organizational, economic, cultural, ecological etc. At present, our people’s war in this country is in strategic defence. In such a situation, it is not so easy to develop our present day war into a complete war with a correct and comprehensive plan. Our Central Committee and Dandakaranya Special Zone Committee have to strive very hard to solve this most complex problem.

However, this is not impossible if our central and Dandakaranya leadership mobilizes our whole
party, People’s Liberation guerrilla Army, people’s organizations, Janathana Circars and people to
solve this problem. This is a crucial political‐ military‐organizational task in front of our party today.
Another crucial political‐military‐organizational task in front of us today is to develop the backbone
of people’s war i.e. the people’s army (People’s Liberation guerrilla Army at present) into an
invincible army which counters the enemy’s reactionary war effectively.

The successes or failures which our party, army and people’s government leaderships gain while
implementing these crucial political, military and organizational tasks would have an effect on the DK
revolutionary movement for a long time to come. So, to advance the people’s war successfully and
liberate Dandakranya, we have to develop people’s war into complete war according to the new
situation, as a counter to the reactionary Low Intensity Conflict warfare of the enemy. At present, the
conditions in Dandakaranya are favourable for this.

Comrades!
The successes we had gained till now in people’s war which is carried out with the immediate, aim of
liberating Dandakaranya are considerable. The liberation of Dandakaranya would lead to a great
change in the Indian New Democratic Revolution. In order to advance with greater victories for the
liberation of Dandakaranya, we must definitely analyze the favourable and unfavourable conditions
faced by our new power from an all‐ India perspective and formulate tactics.

The favourable conditions which would help the advancement of the struggle for the liberation of
Dandakaranya are as follows – the DK people had tasted power; the revolutionary subjective forces
are relatively consolidated; struggle is at a higher level; the positive and negative experiences of
Andhra Pradesh are in front of us; people’s war is continuing in the country. Not only that, the
struggles waged by the oppressed people, oppressed nationalities and the workers in our country
and in the world are very much favourable to us in gaining victories while we strive to achieve our
aim.

Though these favourable conditions exist for the advancement of the movement, we are facing
limitations in the following matters – the strength of Janathana Circars, mass base, military strength,
the extent of the area of our movement, the help and assistance this movement is getting from allover the country and from other countries, the stronger areas of movement in our country. Added to
these, the setback of the Andhra Pradesh movement, the severe leadership losses our party suffered
in the country and Dandakaranya becoming the focal point for the enemy’s offensive etc are the
actual conditions which should be kept in mind while formulating tactics and we should prepare
ourselves for tough battles.

We had already decided from a strategic view, the following tasks for the liberation of Dandakaranya
‐ extension, strengthening party, people’s army, people’s organizations and Janathana Circars and
enhancing their quality, united front – utilizing the contradictions among the enemies, developing
the mass struggles breaking out spontaneously into consolidated struggles, education, training,
arming, preservation of our subjective forces, rectification etc. All these tasks should be carried out in
a planned manner. We must strive very hard to carry on all political, military, organizational,
educational etc campaigns with more coordination. We must utilize the new power – the Janathana
Circars to fulfill these tasks s uccessfully.

Comrades!
We must gain immense strength by learning from all the positive experiences in the revolutionary
history which were gained while fighting out for political power under the leadership of the
proletariat in our country, particularly from the positive experiences of the political power organs.
Let us fight bravely for the liberation of Dandakaranya imbibing the spirit and sacrifice of all known
and unknown martyrs who had laid down their invaluable lives for the seizure of political power. Our
aim is lofty and great. Our path is full of twists and turns, filled with difficulties and is afar. But the
Marxism‐Leninism‐ Maoism in which we were trained is scientific. The protracted people’s war which
we have chosen is invincible. All our strength lies in the strength of the people. People and people
alone are makers of history. Imperialists and all kinds of reactionary rulers are nothing but paper
tigers. Let us advance with determination for the liberation of DK by creatively applying to our
practice the Maoist strategic and tactical principles which say that strategically put one against ten
and tactically put ten against one. I hope that the Janathana Circar magazine which you are launching
would serve as a powerful instrument in achieving this lofty aim. I whole heartedly wish that your
venture would be a complete success.

With revolutionary greetings, Ganapathy, General Secretary, Lenin’s birthday, 2009
CPI (Maoist)

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The Dandakaranya Janathana Circars of today are the basis for the Indian People’s Democratic
Federal Republic of tomorrow.
Message sent by Comrade Ganapathy on behalf of Polit Bureau to the magazine of Dandakaranya
Janathana Circar.
PEOPLE’S MARCH - Voice of the Indian Revolution
Vol.11 No. 1, Jan‐Feb. 2010 p. 22‐26 and 13, 18.
Jan‐Feb. 2010

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