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Communist Party of India (Maoist) भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (माओवादी) ভারতের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি (মাওবাদী) | |
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| General Secretary | Nambala Keshava Rao |
| Founded | 21 September 2004 |
| Banned | 2009 |
| Student wing | All India Revolutionary Students Federation |
| Youth wing | Radical Youth League |
| Women's wing | Revolutionary Adivasi Women's Organisation |
| Political orientation | Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Anti-imperialism |
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The Communist Party of India (Maoist), often called the Naxals, is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist political party in India.[1] CPI (Maoist) was formed in 21st September 2004 by the merging of Maoist Communist Centre of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War. Its militant wing, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, is currently engaged in a protracted people's war with the Indian government.
The minimum age for joining the CPI (Maoist) is 16 years. Capitalists cannot join the party unless they hand over their property and integrate with the masses.[2]
The Naxalite movement operates heavily in the Adivasi (scheduled tribe) belts of Central and Eastern India. However, the dominant CPI (Maoist) line historically subsumes Adivasi land and forest rights under the broader rubric of "agrarian class struggle." The CPI (Maoist) condemns the People's Republic of China and Vietnam as "social-imperialist" and "revisionist."[3] By cutting themselves off from existing socialist and anti-imperialist states, the Naxalite factions limit their ability to challenge the global, transnational structure of settler extraction.
Structure[edit | edit source]
The highest body of the CPI (Maoist) is the All-India Party Congress, which is held once every five years. The party congress elects a presidium, which elects the Central Committee. When the party congress is not in session, the Central Committee is the highest organ of the party. The Central Committee elects the Politburo and its leader, the general secretary.
Below the national level, the CPI (Maoist) has state, divisional, sub-divisional, committees that meet once every three years and are composed of professional revolutionaries. Area conferences are held once every two years. The lowest committees are village, factory, and college committees.
Local day-to-day activities are organized by party cells with three to five members or two to three villages combined.[2]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "CPI(ML) Naxalbari, CPI(Maoist) merge" (2014-05-01). The Hindu. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Muppala Lakshmana Rao (2004). Party Constitution. [PDF]
- ↑ Prasenjit Bose, Convenor of the Research Unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist); P.M.S. Grewal, Secretary of the Delhi State Committee, and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist); Nilotpal Basu, member of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist); Vijay Prashad, the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, USA (2010). Maoism: A Critique from the Left: 'Indian Maoists: Flawed Strategy and Perverted Praxis'. New Delhi, India: LeftWord Books; www.leftword.com. ISBN 978-81-87496-61-8