Charu Mazumdar

Pakistan Forum, Vol. 2, No. 12. (Sep., 1972), p. 20.

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Page 20 P a k i s t a n Forum September 1972

NEWSFRONT

Crackdown of t h e bKP

Taking advantage of t h e C e n t r a l Gov- e r n m e n t ? ~ d i f f i c u l t i e s i n n e g o t i a t i n g s e t t l e m e n t w i t h I n d i a and r e s t o r i n g peace i n t h e Sindh province , t h e Na t iona l Awami Party-Jamiat u l Ulema e I s l a m c o a l i t i o n Government i n t h e Sarhad province h a s d e c l a r e d v i r t u a l independence from Paki-s t a n and has dec ided t o wipe out i n one s t r o k e t h e m i l i t a n t peasant movement --t h e s t aunches t a n t i - s e c e s s i o n i s t f o r c e i n t h e province .

A s a p a r t of i t s a n n i h i l a t i o n cam-paign t h e Sarhad Government rounded up more t h a n 50 l e a d e r s and workers of t h e Mazdoor-Kisan P a r t y a l l over t h e prov-i n c e and banned t h e e n t r y o f i t s promin-en t l e a d e r s , I shaque Mohammad, Af z a l Bangash and Sher A l i Yacha, i n t o t h e d i s t r i c t s of Dera I s m a i l Khan and Bannu. L a t e r on o r d e r s of a r r e s t were i s s u e d a g a i n s t 3angash and Bacha who happened t o be i n Punjab. The Sarhad Government could not i s s u e a n a r r e s t warrant f o r I shaque because he i s not a r e s i d e n t of Sarhad .

The o f f i c e s o f t h e MKP and t h e hones of i t s l e a d e r s were r a i d e d and t h e i r e f f e c t s l o o t e d . Thousands of peasan t s sympathe t ic t o t h e p a r t y have been imp l i -ca t ed i n f a l s e c a s e s o r thrown i n t o t h e g a o l .

B r e i g n of t e r r o r e x i s t s i n t h e Sar -had province where l a n d l o r d s and t h e i r p r i v a t e a rmies , p r o t e c t e d by t h e a r n s of t h e s t a t e , have gone on a rampage t o k i l l , bea t up, e v i c t and l o o t t h e t e n a n t s . The p o l i c e , t h e F r o n t i e r Cons tabulary and t h e NAP 7 s p a r a - m i l i t a r y arm, t h e Pakhtun Zalme, a r e be ing used f r e e l y t o t e r r o r i z e t h e peasan t s i n t o submission.

What happened i n Chakdra on J u l y 26 i s t y p i c a l of t h e happenings a l l over t h e province . 500 armed goondas h i r e d by t h e l a n d l o r d s of t h e r e g i o n pu t t o t h e t o r c h Chakdra's S a r k a r i Bazaar and t h e nearby v i l l a g e of A l i Mast, a s a r e s u l t of which s e v e r a l shops and homes were g u t t e d , two p e a s a n t s , H a j i I r a q and S h r i Mulla, were k i l l e d and a number of people wounded. Th i s a c t of a r s o n and murder took p l a c e be fo re t h e eyes of t h e C e n t r a l Government -appointed o f f i c i a l s who da red not i n t e r f e r e w i t h t h e campaign of t h e P r o v i n c i a l Government.

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Charu Mazumdar

On J u l y 16,1972-the I n d i a n p o l i c e a r r e s t e d Charu

Mazumdar, l e a d e r of t h e Communist P a r t y of I n d i a (M-L), a f t e r a t h r e e y e a r s ' u n r e l e n t e d hun t f o r t h e "Naxa l i t e " l e a d e r . Twelve days l a t e r t h e I n d i a n Government announced t h a t he had d i e d i n a h o s p i t a l w h i l e in cus tody . The e x c e r p t r e p r i n t e d below i s t aken from h i s " ~ e t t e r t o a Comrade," w r i t t e n on J u l y 23, 1971 and pub l i shed i n L i b e r a t i o n .

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To us there is no contradiction between national and international interests. since when we speak of a nation we mean the peasants, workers and other toiling people. Their interest is to make revolution. That is why Chairman Mao has said: "With regard to the question of world war, there are but two possibilities:One is that the war will give rise to revolution and the other is that revolution will prevent the war."

The slogan of national self-defense is a bourgeois slogan. By raising it the bourgeoisie seeks to suppress the just right of workers, peasants and petty-bourgeois toilers to exist and tries to utilize all the resources of the nation in its own interest. Therefore, in no way andunder no circumstances will that be our slogan. That is why our slogan is national revolutionary war and this war can be waged only in the form of people's war. To develop people's war it is necessary to make the peasants-the basic force of this revolutionary war- participants in the revolutionary struggle and this can be accomplished, only on the basis of class struggle and a class line.

So, under no circumstance, is it our responsibility to support the bourgeoisie. Our responsibility is to be united with that section of the bourgeoisie which desires to be united with us on the issue of national independence. And on the question of unikation also two things have to be remembered: (1) the party will have the right to conduct war independently and (2) the initiative in regard to the struggle will be in the hands of the party. These two conditions are in- divisible and only on the basis of these two conditions is it possible to build such unity as can enthuse and inspire the broad masses to participate in the war of national independence. So,you can understand that the idea they are spreading to create confusion in the name of the great Chinese party is opposed to Mao Tsetung Thought and is only a new edition of the Wang Ming-Liu Shao- chi line of tailing after the bourgeoisie.

If a bourgeois state becomes a partner in a just war, then the Chinese party and the Chinese government will surely support it. But this support does not mean that within the country the communists will have to tail behind the bourgeoisie. At the time of World War I1 Chiang Kai-shek got the support of the Soviet Union and on the pretext of that support, he and his associates repeatedly sought to have the Chinese party tied to Chiang Kai-shek. As Chairman Mao understood the need for unity, so also he realized the necessity of independent work and initiative and did not make compromises in any sphere.

That is why, after 1945, when communists all over the world laid emphasis on unity with the bourgeoisie and decided to surrender arms, Chairman Mao, even after having admitted the necessity of unity, gave a call for taking up arms with a firm hand. That is why we see that after the World War Communists of almost all countries took to the path of revisionism but, under Chairman Mao's leadership, the Chinese Communist party could, thmugh a successful revolution, raise the banner of Marxism-Leninism higher still and reach the stage of Mao Tsetung Thought.

Therefore, the revisionist path is the path of tailism and those who today are talking of supporting Yahya Khan have taken to his path of tailism and fallen deep into the mire of revisionism. If you have learnt to hate revisionism, then you will learn to hate this Khruschev thesis of the national bourgeoisie seizlng power through peaceful methods. Eight years ago, Chairman Mao tore the mask off this thesis, as a result of which there has been a new hlgh tide in the worldwide communist movement and a new horizon has opened up before the struggle.

After eight years the Khrushev thesis is being propagated again in our country and this is being done in the name of Chairman Mao. This is called opposing Mao Tsetung in the name of Mao Tsetung, opposing the red flag in the name of the red flag, opposing revolution in the name of revolution. In our country the CPI and the CPI-M have directly taken the path of class collaboration; that is why they are supporting Mujib. But behind their 'leftist' mask, the others are talking of s u ~ ~ o r t i n n Yahva on the basis of the same theory. Therefore, this 'leftGt' slogan of theirs iB in reality another manifestation of revisionism.