Series. 2 Vol. 01 Issue: 12 December, 2025 Contribution. 30 /- Maoist Party Politics in Chaos It is the Time to Take Correct Lessons
Many details are emerging about the base area established by the Maoist party in Chhattisgarh. The practice of tactical line of the party, which began as the People’ s War Party, has been subjected to tests many a time. Many senior leaders have come out of that political life, released some self-critical reviews, and have come out of their organisational responsibilities. This has been happening for the past thirty years.
Mukku Subba Reddy, KG Satyamurthy, Kondapalli Sitaramayya, Nimmaluri Bhaskara Rao and others without learning Charu Majumdar’ s left sectarianist policies went on to build a broad movement by formulating the armed struggle tactics with some changes. These changed policies have resulted in extensive mobilization and organizing innumerable cadre. But they haven’ t given up on what was supposed to be left behind. The left sectarian tendency was made stronger and more skillful with the sacrifices of the comrades creating a commotion. A few years later, the above leaders were unable to review and repair the damage caused by the policies they had adopted. Moreover, the leaders have come out of the party organisation.
Many of the international developments, such as the revisionist developments in the Chinese Communist Party, have influenced the social, economic and political developments in India. During the process of transforming into Maoist party, the People’ s War Party has declared an armed war on the state giving the slogan of‘ people’ s war’ to the people. It implemented with the firm understanding that only by declaring war on the government, the people would take up arms and join the people’ s war to overthrow the system of exploitation. The war was declared by gathering some of the necessary resources and went to war.
People became closer to the party with the efforts of the party. Their daily problems were being solved.
The Srikakulam tribal movement was completely paralyzed within a few months of the government’ s decisive repression at the very initial stage. There is no lesson learned from this. The Charu Majumdar line which did not want to organise mass organisations was revised to a broader armed struggle program and changed into a broader level of left extremist opportunism. This development resulted in the hype of the movement and its armed actions proceeding in fits and starts. Instead of mass movements being combined with armed struggle, the mass movements stagnated, leaving only isolated armed incidents.
In Jagtial, Sircilla and other areas, there was a mass movement against the feudal forces. They declared that an alternate power has taken over the situation. There are lessons to be learned here, too. Dozens of activists stood up as revolutionaries in the influence of the mass movement. Expansion efforts have been undertaken in many areas.
Specific mass activities have been combined with squad actions in Chittoor, Anantapur, Nallamala and AOB areas. The nature, consequences and results of the actions of the squads were not examined from the Marxist-Leninist outlook.
As a result, many activists and leaders continued to retreat. But while most of them remained silent and broken-hearted, others kept away from the organisation without declaring that there were many mistakes going on in the movements and so it could not move forward.
Jagtial, Sircilla, Orissa-Andhra Border Region, erstwhile West Midnapore district in West Bengal, Nallamala region, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka
Bulletin of the Central Committee of CPI( ML)