Vol. 9, Issue : 5
May 2017
50 y
ear
s of Naxalbari
year
ears
Hold High the Banner of Naxalbari Struggle
A Revolutionary Peasant Struggle for Land, Food and Liberation!
25 th May 1967 was a day when nine peasant
fighters fell to the bullets rained by the armed police
and became Martyrs in Naxalbari, Siliguri Sub-
division, Darjeeling district of West Bengal. It is 50
years since then.
On this day, the Naxalbari peasants had
sacrificed their lives, set the masses of Indian
peasants once again on the rails of revolution and
brought a most essential historic turn in the Indian
politics.
Our hearts will overflow with revolutionary
enthusiasm even after 50 years when we recollect
the scenes of surging revolutionary waves of
Naxalbari. The blood shed by the Martyrs will fill the
eyes with tears and turn red. The higher level of
consciousness, path of struggle and the message
handed down by this struggle would further sharpen
one’s understanding.
Those were the Revolutionary Days
Those were the days when the national
liberation and national independence movements,
people’s revolutions and anti-imperialist struggles
were advancing in many countries of Asia, Africa and
Latin America. Particularly, the US imperialists, who
were most arrogantly threatening to crush the world
people under their feet were biting the dust facing
one defeat after the other in the hands of heroic
people of Vietnam. The solidarity and unity among
the anti-imperialist and anti-aggression struggles
were sweeping in the world. The working class and
other toiling people in the capitalist countries were
increasingly coming into struggle in defence of their
lives and rights. The rise of modern revisionism in
USSR and world was, doubtlessly, a painful and
adverse development. But it is also an indisputable
fact that the Marxist Leninist forces in the world were
not swept away by demoralization. They did not
compromise with the situation. The Marxist Leninist
forces in various countries had revolted against
modern revisionism and intensified the ideological
struggle against it under the leadership of CPC and
Albanian Party. All this had enhanced the confidence
and strength of the forces striving to protect and
advance the revolutionary movements in various
countries of the world.
Those were the days when the economic and
political crisis had intensified in India. The exploiting
ruling classes in India had driven the country into
much deep crisis by devaluing the rupee as dictated
by the US imperialists. They imposed unbearable
burdens on the backs of people. The food crisis had
taken an ugly form. It led the people in some areas
of the country into waves of struggles. In many areas,
the workers, other toiling people, middle classes,
students and youth took to the path of struggle. More
particularly, with the intensification of contradictions
between the landlords and poor, landless peasants,
the rural India in many parts had turned into a volcano
ready to explode. The anti-feudal struggles had
erupted in Bengal, Andhra, Bihar, UP, Punjab and
Organ of the Central Committee of CPI(ML)