Ultimately It's Class Struggle That Determines The Real Path To Freedom From Exploitation And Oppression
For the past few months, at the behest of the BJP government, armed police, paramilitary forces, have been carrying out intense repression of the Maoists in some regions of Chhattisgarh, Andhra and Maharashtra largely inhabited by Adivasis. As per media reports, many top Maoists leaders have been killed in encounters. Modi and Amit Shah of the BJP government at the Centre have once again unabashedly declared that they will wipe out the Maoists by March 2026. Why? Because the Maoists are a political force carrying on with their armed struggle in this Central Indian region against the state for a number of years. Citing this as the reason, BJP led Central and the state governments have unleashed this path of suppression of the Maoists with the might of its police andparamilitary forces.
There is another reason behind this brutal attack on the CPI(Maoists). The ruling classes are very much eager to exploit the vastmineral resources in adivasi inhabited areas. The government forces areforcibly evicting the tribals from their traditional habitats andforests in order to hand over the vast mineral and natural resources ofthe forest areas of the tribal-dominated region to the domestic andimperialist capital. A large part of this mineral rich area is dominatedby the CPI(Maoists). Without removing the maoists from this region theruling classes will not be able to utilise the area for mining. Thisattack is not limited to the areas where Maoists have been dominantforce. Such attacks on poor, tribal and local inhabitants are beingcarried out over wider regions up to Sijimali, Gandhamardan Hills,Niyamgiri in Odisha, and places in Jharkhand also where there are largedeposits of various ores which the capitalists are fervently seeking toget possession of.
In spite of overlapping of the two different nature of assaults inthe Central Indian region, the attack on the Maoists is of courseprimarily because the Maoists having established a base across this vastregion of Central India comprising of hills and ??dense forests have stoodfor years as a force defying the state. That is why such attacks havenot only been carried out by the present BJP ruled governments. Evenearlier the Congress governments used such force in the name ofOperation Green Hunt. They also set up armed militia groups Salwa Judumand Special Police Officers from the local Adivasi people which weredeclared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
The only difference is that today the ruling BJP is much moreaggressive. Now the BJP governments have also built-up another sucharmed outfit, District Reserve Guard, comprising of Adivasis andsurrendered Maoists, for the present assault on the Maoists. As anextremely authoritarian fascist force in power, this is very natural.From the beginning, they have continuously created an atmosphere ofvicious propaganda against the Maoists and Naxalites, and even all otherkinds of opposition to the Indian state's policies using terms such as'Tukde Tukde Gang', 'Urban Naxal', etc. They have also imprisoned manyintellectuals for long periods without trial on various pretexts in theBhima Koregaon incident. And today they are directly targeting theMaoists by deploying the government armed forces.
But whichever ruling political party may be in the governmentultimately it is the capitalist?landlord state that has continued withthis suppressive role of the Maoists by force. From the time of Congressparty government, the Maoists have been declared to be the biggestinternal threat to the country.
In such a war by the state undue imprisonments, death and torture ofcommon people, especially the Adivasis are inevitable. As a result oframpant use of force many common Adivasi people, their women are facingthe brunt of war and becoming victims of torture at the hands of thegovernment forces. Questions are being raised in the media about fakeencounters in captivity and extra-judicial killings. Hence we opposesuch undemocratic and autocratic act of brutal force by thecapitalist-landlord state.
On the other hand, at the same time we also oppose the path theMaoists have adopted in the name of their declared goal of liberatingthe poor exploited oppressed masses. Neglecting the struggle of theworking class from the start of their movement, leaving aside the poorpeasant, agricultural labourers, the poor toilers of the vast ruralregions they chose the jungles and hilly regions of Central India fortheir armed struggle, as they felt it was suitable terrain. Incidentallythe long history of poverty, deprivation and oppression of the tribalpeople of these regions served as the basis of support for the Maoistsenabling them to stay put in these regions for a long time. But today,when they are facing severe repression by the state that support of thepoor and oppressed tribal people seems to be breaking down. On the otherhand, with the increasing penetration and dominance of big capitalistsand imperialist organizations and the various reforms for capitalistdevelopment of the ruling class and relief programs for the poor by thegovernment have probably also been able sway away a significant sectionof the tribals from the influence of the Maoists.
Without arousing and awakening the working class and the rural poortoiling masses--the poor peasants, agricultural labourers' the strugglefor freedom from oppression and exploitation cannot proceed. The workingclass is constantly experiencing the brutal face of the exploitation andoppression of the capitalist classes. The workers, poor peasants andagricultural labourers know how in order to maintain this system ofexploitation by the capitalist-landlord ruling classes, this samecapitalist-landlord state suppresses and crushes their protest movementsat various levels of society. All this is going on unhindered as theworkers and the toiling masses have no active organized movement, noongoing class struggle exists worth its name. With all these exploitedclasses scattered, unorganized and inactive they are being trampled uponhands down. That is the very reason why there are no real protests inspite of the onslaughts of the state police forces on the Maoists andthe common Adivasi people.
Hence for the revolutionary proletariat, the difficult task ofawakening and reorganizing the scattered, fragmented working class, theclass which alone can unite the toiling, oppressed masses for strugglealong the real path to freedom from exploitation and oppression with itsleading role is of utmost necessity. This is presently the mostimportant, the prime task. The more the crisis-ridden capitalist classcontinues to impose its burden of crisis on the workers and the workingpeople, the more recklessly it increases its attacks, the further newerground is being created for the struggles of the working class and therural poor. The more is the necessity arising for establishing not onlya people's democratic society but also a socialist society by risingunitedly as a class against the unbridled exploitation and plunder ofthe domestic big capitalist class and imperialist capital. It is notpossible without arousing and awakening the exploited classes.Ultimately it's class struggle of the working classes that determinesthe real path to freedom from exploitation and oppression.
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