Maoist document reveals plans to thwart offensive

Aiming to thwart the planned offensive against ultra-Left extremism by the Centre, Maoists plan to intensify their violent struggle through tactical counter-offensive against the security forces by expanding the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army and mobilising people politically and militarily for violent mass movements across the country.

A Maoist document reveals how the ultra-Left terrorists plan to unite other insurgent groups and enthuse them with daring counter offensives and prepare them to undertake similar operations. The fight this time, the document says, “will be more long-drawn and bitter than the one against the British imperialist armies.”

The 14-page document of the Politburo of Communist Party of India (Maoist) titled Post-Election Situation — Our Tasks, recovered recently by the CRPF after an operation in Chhattisgarh, reveals their strategy to engage the security forces over a wider area and keep them dispersed.

Under the sub-title ‘Immediate Tasks’, the document reads, “Prepare the people, the party and the PLGA to….take initiative to unite with other struggling organisations and forces to forge strong united fronts on every issue and at every level possible, enthuse them with the daring counter-offensives carried out by our forces in various parts of the country and prepare them to undertake similar operations….”

“We have to further aggravate the situation and create more difficulties to the enemy forces by expanding our guerilla war to new areas on the one hand and intensifying the mass resistance in the existing areas so as to disperse the enemy forces over a sufficiently wider area. Hence, the foremost task in every State is to intensify the war …while in areas of intense enemy repression, there is a need to expand the area of struggle by proper planning…tactical counter-offensives should be stepped up and also taken up in new areas so as to divert a section of the enemy forces from attacking our guerilla bases and organs of political power,” reveals the document.

The Maoists, according to the document, also plan to exploit the situation arising out of the
global economic downturn and oppose the economic reforms and liberalisation policies through propaganda.

The June 12, 2009 Politburo resolution believed to have been passed at a meeting in Abhujmaad jungles of Chhattisgarh exhorts its cadre to “utilise the excellent situation arising out of the ever-deepening crisis in the world economy and overcome the negative factors like the setback in Sri Lanka, lull in Nepal, massive offensive on Islamic Jihadist forces in Pakistan.”

“Immense possibilities are unfolding in front of our eyes to advance the revolution at a rapid pace. The entire world is caught in neck-deep crisis and there seems to be no let up particularly since the past one year after the US was engulfed in the worst-ever economic crisis in its history. Industry after industry is closing down throwing out millions of workers onto the streets. Poverty and homelessness, starvation and destitution have become a global phenomenon providing an excellent condition for advancing people’s struggles and revolutions everywhere,” adds the document.