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Tribute to comrade Basavraj! Support to people's war in India! support internationalist to CPI(Maoist)!
The General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), comrade Basavraj, was killed while fighting along with 26 Maoist cadres in the Abuijhmad forest, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh
The Modi regime had to deploy a huge military force to hit Comrade Basavraj and his comrades. It shows not the strength but the weakness of the Indian regime.
The death of Basavraj and other our comrades is a serious loss for the Party, the proletarians and the people’s masses in the world and for the international communist movement, of which this Party, based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and waging the largest people's war in the world today, in the most populous country in the world, where a decisive part of the global clash between imperialism and the proletariat and oppressed peoples of the world is being played out. A clash that plays a decisive role in the current world situation marked by the march towards imperialist war, repression, exploitation, misery and oppression of the peoples.
Imperialism and the Indian regime are crying victory. But they are wrong! The extraordinary history of the Indian communist movement and the people's war in this country was born in the glorious 70s, when the wind of revolution came to India from red China, led by Mao Tse tung, and was embodied in the Naxalite movement, led by Charu Mazundar and the Party he founded; he too was martyred in order to suffocate that movement. Reality has shown that the Indian revolution, the Naxalite movement, the Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist – today CPI (Maoist) – are indestructible. The reactionary governments of the comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie pass and fall, and end up in the dustbin of history; the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communist movement and the march for the New Democratic Revolution towards socialism and communism, through victories and defeats, advances and setbacks, prove invincible. They serve not only the liberation of the proletariat and the Indian masses but the world revolution.
Comrade Basavraj was the fruit of this history, product of the proletariat and the oppressed masses of India, he was forged by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and the strength of the revolution.
Comrade Basavraj began his long history as a leader and organizer of the student movement and then as a militant and cadre of the Party. He was the founder, under the leadership of the Party, of the People's Guerrilla Army and led as Commander the highest pages of the attacks to the reactionary Indian State and its governments that made this Party the "main internal enemy" of the Indian regime and imperialism.
Comrade Basavraj was a master of the people's war, builder of guerrilla bases and bodies of people's power. And this is what, when comrade Ganapathi had to leave his post for health reasons, made him the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). It occurred in an extremely difficult situation, with the Indian regime unleashing war on people through various operations, always with the main objective of hitting the Party, its cadres, its Leadership, always with the aim of serving the Indian bourgeoisie and imperialism on a national and global scale; always in the desperate illusion of wiping out the people's war and stopping the march of the revolution.
The Modi’s fascist government does not understand -as it has been said- that the New Democratic Revolution does not arise from an individual, nor can it be suffocated with the martyrdom of an individual. The people and only the people are the driving force of history. It is the people who produce and reproduce the Party, its cadres, it is the people who produced comrade Basavraj.
And it is the people who, despite the grave loss, will give a present and a future to the Indian revolution and the Party.
Of course, this is always the result of the ability to apply, with concrete analysis in the concrete situation, the Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the laws of war.
Of course, this requires a strategy and tactics that respond to both advances and setbacks. And it is this way that the revolution resists and wins. All this is not only the fruit of the strength of the Indian revolution and its Party, it requires and calls for the support of the proletarians and peoples of the world. Any revolution which could rely on that has won. And this requires that the International Communist Movement, its Parties, its Organizations, large and small, whatever the stage of their revolutionary war, be the embodying of proletarian internationalism.
We are totally on the side of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) at this time. The comrades in India feel loud and clear the support of our Party, the efforts made for the advancement of support for the people's war, as an inseparable part of the world revolution.
The death of comrade Basavraj, the giving his life together with other comrades, with the thousands of comrades fallen in battle, becomes and must become more and more a push and a commitment to advance the path of the people's war throughout the world.
The heroic example that comes from the fallen comrade is an ideological and material force that makes us state with certainty that nothing and no one can stop the people's war, nothing and no one can stop the Communist Party of India (Maoist), nothing and no one can stop the unity of the proletarians and the peoples of the world to fight imperialism, its the fascist, murderous, genocidal regimes, its lackeys and accomplices who, amidst their deep crisis, want to lead us towards the horror of a new world imperialist war.
Comrade Basavraj's lives in our struggle, he has won his place in the history of our class and the march towards communism.
Comrade Basavraj is a hero of the people and therefore immortal!
Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist)!
Death to imperialism and the fascist Modi’s regime!
People's war until victory!
Long live proletarian internationalism!
CP maoist _Italy
May, 2025
