Indian Scene

Observe July 28 as Martyrs Day
Intensify Revolutionary Struggles to End Neo-Colonial Slavery
March Forward For National Liberation and People’s Democracy

It was on July 28, 1972, com. Charu  Majumdar, first general secretary of CPI(ML) became a martyr in Lalbazar Police headquarters of Kolkata where he was subjected to continuous questioning from the time to was taken in to custody by the police, in spite of his very poor health, speeding up his death. The martyrdom of CM was an irreparable loss to the revolutionary movement as, in spite of his leading role in taking the movement to the sectarian path under the influence of the left deviation dominating the CPC then, only he was capable of initiating the rectification process as his last article just before his arrest, People’s interest is the Party’s interest showed, while all other leader’s who were in the forefront in attacking him were or are fumbling in the darkness.  From the time of Naxalbari uprising of May 1967, in order to carry forward the struggle for national liberation and people’s democracy for which tens of thousands of revolutionaries had already laid down their lives from the early days of colonization, thousands of comrades  continue to sacrifice everything to throw out the yoke of neo-colonialism intensified by the comprador rulers.  The Central Committee of the CPI(ML) call on all revolutionary forces to observe July 28 as Martyr’s day at all India level to re-dedicate ourselves for the cause of the revolutionary overthrow of the reactionary ruling system and for ushering in people’s democracy and socialism. 
These are days when adamantly refusing to take lessons from past history of the international communist movement (ICM) and of the Indian communist movement large sections of former communists have abandoned revolutionary Marxism and embraced social democratic degeneration.  They are serving imperialism and its compradors, refusing to fight the intensifying neo-colonial slavery and becoming part of the ruling system.  On the other hand those who pursue the anarchist path, like the Bakunists and Narodniks of the past, are alienating the masses from revolution dogmatically upholding that “it is the heroes who make history”.  Besides, in spite of the severe setbacks suffered by the ICM in the last five decades, falling from the high position of 1950s when it was  threatening to destroy imperialism for ever, vast sections of the so-called communists refuse to learn any lessons, refuse to seek the ideological- political reasons for the setbacks.  They refuse to give cognizance to the changes made in the forms of plunder and domination by the imperialist system under the initiative of US imperialism in the post-Second World War period from colonial to neo-colonial forms or, they refuse to make a concrete study of the present situation and to develop the theory and practice accordingly.
Even when Soviet Union had started degenerating to capitalist path, to social imperialist path from the time of Khruschovian leadership  advocating ‘Theory of three peacefulls’, till its disintegration in 1991, vast sections of so-called ‘Marxists’ refused to recognize this reality.  Similarly even after China degenerated in to an imperialist country under the banner of “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”, not only the CPI-CPI(M) like forces but also CPI(ML) Liberation like forces still upload China as a socialist country under various justifications.  Thus they obliterate the line of demarcation between imperialism and socialism.  Besides implementing the neo-liberal policies wherever they are in power, or advocating that “there is no alternative to globalization”, or propping up comprador governments as CPI(M) did by keeping alive the UPA government for almost five years from 2004, they  act like apologists or executioners of neo-colonialism.
On the other side of the spectrum, many of the so-called Marxist-Leninist groups are still sticking to mechanical copying of the ‘Chinese path’ contrary to the concrete conditions in India and the present international situation based on “semi  colonial, semi feudal evaluation “ and ‘protracted people’s war’ approach.  They are confusing the struggling masses by refusing to recognise the neo-colonial forms of plunder resorted to by imperialism or are utilizing semi-colonial and neo-colonial words synonimously. Whatever may happen they are not ready to rectify the sectarian mistakes of late 1960’s and early 1970s.  CPI (Maoist) has added militarism to the old annihilation line.  .
All these trends even while raising the red flag, upholding the martyrs and pledging to complete their unfulfilled dreams are actually leading the people to blind alleys.  Instead of fulfilling the martyr’s dreams, they are shattering them.  It is in this context the significance of the ideological political struggle waged by CPI(ML) for almost three decades in order to establish a more advanced and developed Marxist- Leninist understanding about imperialism in its neo-colonial phase should be evaluated.  This strenuous struggle has led to the adoption of the four basic documents in the Bhopal Conference and to the all round expansion of party and class /mass organizations at all India level.  In this manner the CPI(ML) is strenuously trying to overcome the erstwhile mistakes and to establish the line and path of Indian revolution according to present conditions.  This is the best possible manner to honour the martyrs.  Let the whole party mobilize the masses more vigorously and lead the revolutionary struggles forward at a faster pace with more determination which shall be the best way to remember the martyrs.