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