The politico-military offensive against Maoism constitutes a veritable war on the people of India, a multipronged assault on their basic democratic rights. The central as well as state governments are
In the name of combating the ‘Maoist menace’ (termed as the ‘gravest internal security threat’ by the Prime Minister), the UPA government has embarked on a massive combat operation. While
Operation Green Hunt (OGH) is the most conspicuous part of the Indian state's ongoing war on "left wing extremism", a top-priority project with a pronounced military thrust, a diversionary ‘development’
Commentators have romanticised, deified and demonised 'Maoism' in many superficial ways; the point however is to appropriately assess this important trend and develop a correct political approach to it.
The Indian
As we have just seen, the historic conflict and overlap between anarchism and revolutionary Marxism – or more generally between petty bourgeois and proletarian revolutionism – took different shapes in
Our assessment of the CPI (Maoist) is based not just on a macro level theoretical study; it is informed by decades of practical experience of engagement with them since the