Ahead of global meet, Maoists admit to setbacks

The CPI (Maoist), which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, told the Milan International Conference in a letter uploaded on its website bannedthought.net: “The situation we face is very difficult. But we are firmly holding on, boldly facing up to it, and pushing forward to overcome it. Needless to say, the solidarity you extend immensely helps us in this task.”

Indirectly admitting that the party had to concede ground in some areas “in the face of superior forces”, the committee said that “we are striving hard for revival of the movement from the areas where we had to retreat.”

It also said that it is opening a new war front in the “Sahyadri (Western Ghats) border regions of Karnataka-Kerala-Tamil Nadu”.
It also referred to “setbacks” in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana but added that the revolutionary people’s committees are trying to rebuild the party organisation.

The party said it is facing an internal crisis with many of its members surrendering. “Repeated and heavy attacks have caused harm to the party structures in the villages and consequently to the people’s committees and mass organisations. A section of the masses have become passive,” it said.

It claimed it had formed the “people’s government” at the district level in Dandakaranya, where it is running schools with a specially designed syllabus and encouraging a community-based economic model of “self-reliance”.

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