Message to
7th Congress of Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist
Dear comrades
Lal
Salam!
We greet you on this historic
occasion and apologise for not being able to participate directly. Please
accept this message instead.
Mao Tsetung has taught us the
decisive importance of a correct ideological, political line. The history of
your party itself stands testimony to this. With a correct line, it could rebel
against the Teng Siao Ping revisionists who seized power through a coup in 1976,
destroyed the historic advances made through the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution and restored capitalism in socialist China. Thus, persisting on the
path laid down by Mao Tsetung, your party played an important role in the
international struggle to uphold the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in the
wake of this setback, the struggle that led to the formation of the
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM). Further on, by deepening the
struggle to uphold and apply Maoism, your party ruptured from dogmato-revisionist
views that blocked revolution. It forged a correct line and boldly initiated
the people’s war. The great gains of this glorious war, “creation of People's
Liberation Army, establishment of base areas and people's government, role
played by workers, peasants, women, indigenous nationalities and Dalits, and
the awareness developed in this whole process”, were principally the gains of
the correct line followed by your party. Today most of them are lost. This is
the outcome of the subversion of the Maoist line and the imposition of a
revisionist line by the Prachanda-Bhattarai clique. In both its advances and
setbacks, the history of the international communist movement and its national
contingents confirms the truth ‘The correctness or incorrectness of the line
decides everything’.
You have revolted against the
Prachanda-Bhattarai revisionist line. This Congress is the child of that revolt.
It has the task of deepening the struggle against Prachanda-Bhattarai
revisionism, consolidating the gains, forging a correct line and chalking out concrete
plans for retaking the revolutionary road in the midst of the complex political
situation in your country. The successful accomplishment of this task is
mainly a matter of summing up the lessons of your own struggles, both the
people’s war and the line struggle within the party. But it obviously will not
be restricted to that alone. As a contingent of the international communist
movement you will also draw on its wider experiences and lessons. Here we would
like to share an important lesson synthesised by the founder leader of our
party, comrade Charu Mazumdar. Critically analysing the numerous revolts
against the rightist leadership, he pointed out how centrist elements repeatedly
blunted and betrayed them. He warned that
“Centrism is the stepping stone to revisionism” and called on the rank
and file to root it out. Centrism can appear in many forms. But its essence is
always the same - it fails to take ideological struggle to its revolutionary
conclusion. It blocks the communists from making a complete rupture from the
wrong line, methods and practice. Ultimately, it smuggles back the rotten old
stuff dressed up in new garb. Therefore, the struggle against revisionism must
be extended to exposing and rupturing from centrism by digging out its concrete
manifestations. This is the lesson we have learnt from the history of the
communist movement in our country. We hope it will be of use to you during your
deliberations in this Congress.
When it was following a correct line,
your party had complete faith in the masses of Nepal and throughout the world.
This was the bedrock strength of the people’s war it led. Fully relying on the
masses and internationalist ties with other Maoist parties, this revolutionary
war successfully inflicted significant defeats on internal reaction and foiled
the machinations of imperialism and Indian expansionism. The Prachanda-Bhattarai
clique tried their best to cut off these sources of strength. Reliance on
proletarian internationalist ties with Maoist parties in South Asia and
elsewhere was increasingly undermined and replaced by diplomatic manoueveres to
cosy up with Indian expansionism and imperialism. At one time, reliance on the
boundless revolutionary will and patriotism of the Nepali people was sought to
be replaced by the Prachanda faction with reliance on the Chinese state as a
counter to Indian expansionist/US imperialist threats. This deviation was
inevitable. Revisionism can never dare to rely on the masses. It can never draw
strength from proletarian internationalism. Conversely, tactics or policies
that rely on diplomatic relations with reactionary states instead of placing
faith on the masses, tactics that give more importance to cosying up with
revisionist and reactionary parties than proletarian internationalist ties with
fraternal Maoist parties, inevitably reflect some grave ideological defect. The
matter is not in the gloss, the sweet talk justifying this in the name of ‘tactical moves’ or something else, but in its ultimately liquidationist essence. This is
an important lesson we have learnt from the bitter setback suffered by the
Nepalese and international Maoist movement through the treachery of the
Prachanda-Bhattarai clique. We put this before you in the belief that your
Congress will be able to deal with this issue thoroughly, since you have
experienced it directly.
Your Congress is being held at a
time when the world situation is bearing out the words of the 2012 Special
Meeting of RIM Parties and Organisations which noted that “The devastations
of imperialist globalisation, wars of aggression and the devastating economic
crisis of the imperialist system and its impact on proletarians and the broad
masses have awakened worldwide a wave of struggles and revolts. In this context
a potential new wave of the world proletarian revolution develops and emerges,
with the people's wars led by Maoist parties as its reference points and
strategic anchor.” The global financial crisis has thrown the imperialist
economies into recession. Third world powers like China and India, who earlier had
seemed capable of holding out, are also
caught in its grip. Reactionary rulers throughout the world throw the whole
weight of the crisis on the backs of the
people. And the peoples of the world are out on the streets, in one country or
the other, to resist and beat back this attack. But their heroic struggles,
including the Arab revolts that brought down decades old dictatorships, are being
subverted. They fail to achieve radical, revolutionary, change. Revisionism and dogmatism pick on these failures to
justify their own pessimist conclusions. But Maoists see the great potential
for revolution indicated by this turmoil. They understand the huge
responsibility they have in unleashing this potential by hoisting the banner of
MLM in words and deeds.
What is true of the world is true
of South Asia also. In this region Indian expansionism is the central pillar of
reaction. Since it is now openly backed by US imperialism, it has become even
more arrogant and aggressive. Its aggravated intervention in Nepal’s political
affairs and other crimes it has committed, and is committing, against your
country are well known. Indian expansionism dominates over the nations and
peoples of South Asia politically, economically and culturally. Its attempt to
armtwist the Maldivian government to protect Indian bureacrat capitalist
interests is a recent example. The intensified exploitation and oppression
carried out by the Indian ruling classes inside
India is the other side of their reactionary face. Within this, the
massive ‘war on the people’ it has launched to destroy the people’s war led by
the CPI(Maoist) stands out as a focal point. This is so because this
revolutionary war stands up as the biggest obstacle to the plans of the Indian
ruling classes who want to further open up the country to intensified
imperialist, bureaucrat capitalist penetration in accordance to the needs of
globalisation. The exploitation and oppression of the Indian ruling classes
within India and in neighbouring countries has always drawn forth fierce
resistance from the people. This continues to be so. Along with the deep anger
of the masses against the ruling classes of their own countries, this goes to
intensify contradictions and promotes the grounds for revolution.
Today, while assessing the
situation in South Asia we must also take note of a new factor - the growing
contention between Indian expansionism (backed by US imperialism) and Chinese
expansionism. This is not limited to South Asia. It extends to South East Asia.
It must be analysed in relation to the US imperialism's strategic plans to
retain and bolster its domination in these regions and the Pacific against any
threat that could arise from China. So far as South Asia is concerned, this
contention has created opportunities for the comprador rulers of smaller
countries to either stand up to Indian expansionist pressures or drive better
bargains. This causes problems for the Indian state and upsets some of its
plans. To that extent it can be of indirect use to the nations and peoples of South Asia in their struggles against Indian expansionism.
But, being disciples of Mao Tsetung, we must never forget his words: “beware
of the wolf entering from the backdoor, while driving away the tiger from the
frontdoor.” The Chinese ruling classes are as reactionary as any other
comprador state. Their history is as bloody as that of any other exploiter.
Following the coup in 1976, they imprisoned and murdered thousands of Maoists,
including the valiant fighters comrades Chiang Ching and Chang Chun Chiao.
While they amass billions, the vast majority of the Chinese masses rot in
poverty. Their revolts against such inhuman conditions are suppressed by brute
force. The Chinese workers are forced to slave for imperialist transnational
corporations in the most oppressive labour relations enforced and protected by
the Chinese state. Obviously, this ‘wolf’ can never be a genuine friend of the
revolutionary people in any country. Today, it is very important that the
Maoists have clarity on this and educate the people. In the 1970s and ‘80s, the
erstwhile Soviet social imperialists infiltrated and subverted various
revolutionary movements by offering diplomatic and material support. Those
bitter experiences teach us that Mao’s warning must be taken up as a guideline by
all of us while chalking out our strategy and tactics in today’s South Asia,
within the context of the expansionist contention developing here.
The potential for revolution is bright.
But the subject weakness of the Maoists stands out. Their internationalist
organisations, the Revolutionary Internationalist Movemement (RIM) and the
Co-ordinating Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisatons of South Asia
(CCOMPOSA), have become defunct. The revisionism of the Prachanda-Bhattarai
clique was joined by the revisionism of Bob Avakian in destroying the RIM. The
former is extremely exposed because of its open surrender to reaction. But many
are confused by Avakian’s post-MLM revisionism because it is camouflaged in a
lot of Marxist verbiage. Yet the fact is that it is no less dangerous. It
insists on imposing Avakianism as the guiding ideology of the international
communist movement thus liquidating its MLM base. So the genuine Maoists are
faced with the task of fighting against both these varieties of neo-revisionism
and reorganising their international organisations.
In the past, your party
contributed immensely to the strengthening of internationalist ties and the
formation of the RIM and CCOMPOSA. These internationalist Maoist organisations
became a reality through ‘unity of the like-minded’. They could purposefully
promote MLM and aid revolution, instead of becoming empty resolution-shops,
precisely because of their common ideological foundations. We can never forget
this valuable lesson. Today, the world is witness to numerous progressive,
democratic forces and trends who are opposed to imperialist globalisation and
particularly to US imperialism. This affords grounds for various levels or
forms of broad unity. But that cannot replace the international organisation of
Maoists. In fact, such broader unity of anti-imperialist forces calls for the
vanguard role of a Maoist international organisation. We take this opportunity
to once again place before you the call made by the 2012 Special Meeting of the
RIM Parties and Organisations – “Today, facing
the crisis and the collapse of the RIM, we must rebuild the international
organization of MLM parties and organizations on the basis of the positive and
negative experiences of the RIM. The current situation presents the need to
unite in this new organization all the MLM parties and organizations, inside
and outside the RIM, for a political and organizational leap. This is necessary
to put the communist movement at the height of the class struggle in the new
century.” Addressing the need for broader
unity, it has also noted that “The
international organization of MLM communists is and should be the core of a
front, of an international anti-imperialist alliance of the proletarians and
oppressed peoples.”
Dear comrades,
We hope we haven’t taken up too much of your time. The communists and revolutionary masses in Nepal and
throughout the world look up to you with great expectations. Let this be a
decisive moment in the history of your party and of the international Maoist
movement. We end this message, wishing you all success in accomplishing the
tasks you have taken up.
with communist greetings,
Central
Organisation Committee,
Communist
Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) NAXALBARI
January 9, 2013
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