21.10.2023

to all ICOR Members

urgent call: Freedom for Maryam Abu Daqqa

The Palestinian comrade and released prisoner, Maryam Abu Daqqa, former member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and leader of the Front, and leading member of the World Conference of Grassroots Women was arrested on Monday 16/10/2023, by the French police.

She was arrested on the instructions of French Interior Minister Darmenian. Together with Prime Minister Macron, he is responsible for the measure that all demonstrations, flags, public discussions in support of the struggle in Palestine are banned in Paris. The action against Ms. Maryam Abu Daqqa thus joins a series of fascistoid measures to suppress and discredit the Palestinian resistance and to protect the Zionist government of Israel, which persistently breaks international law and is currently committing war crimes against the population in Gaza.
Now she is under house arrest and the intention to deport her could put her life in danger.

Maryam Abu Daqqa arrived in France from Gaza last September, for a tour that has taken in several French cities and is due to end on November 10, with the aim of telling the story of her struggle for Palestinian women’s issues and the struggle of the Palestinian people.

We condemn these practices of the French state apparatus, which are devastatingly reminiscent of the worst times of the barbaric colonial power of France.

We call on all activists and progressives in France, and on all those who support the Palestinian cause, to mobilize for her release, not to expel her, and to condemn the barbaric and racist actions against Palestinian activists.

Freedom for Maryam
Long live the Palestinian people!
Long live international solidarity!

Monika Gärtner Engel, Main Coordinator; Hatem Laouni, Africa Coordinator

and ICC

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Down with the reactionary war in Sudan! Down with the reactionary militias!
Victory for the Sudanese workers and masses!

Since April 15, Sudan has been experiencing an escalation of violence in the capital Khartoum, where the Sudanese Armed Forces led by General Alburhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by General Hamidati are engaged in a fierce exchange of fire after days of tension between the two forces. So far, more than 400 civilians have been killed, some 3,500 people injured and thousands displaced in this armed conflict.
This escalation of the armed conflict comes five years after the uprising of the Sudanese people, who succeeded in overthrowing the reactionary dictator President Omar Al Bashir. Unfortunately, the uprising has not succeeded in building the new Sudan of democracy and freedom that the Sudanese people deserve, as the army generals have taken power and hijacked the people’s revolutionary process.
ICOR, the International Coordination of Revolutionary Organizations, which is an international front of leftist revolutionary parties and organizations, is following the current events with great concern and hereby declares the following:
1. ICOR condemns the escalation of violence and armed conflict between the different armed groups and considers it a reactionary war between reactionary armed groups. The war is an expression of rival imperialist powers behind each of them and does not serve the interests of the Sudanese people. ICOR demands the immediate cessation of armed operations and killing.
2) ICOR reaffirms its full solidarity and support for the Sudanese people and their revolutionary forces such as the Sudanese Communist Party and the Coalition of Civil Organizations, that are waging a continuous revolutionary struggle against the reactionary regime and the army. It welcomes the efforts to form resistance committees for the self-defense of the masses and expresses its confidence that victory will come to the workers and the oppressed people.
3) ICOR considers that one of the reasons of this armed conflict is the imperialist intervention in Sudan. Imperialist powers want to secure the control of the rich raw materials of the country, among others gold and oil, also by military means. ICOR condemns imperialism and imperialist intervention from any side that exploits and plunders Sudan and hinders its progress.
4) ICOR calls upon the revolutionary forces in Sudan, in Africa and in the whole world to unite in the struggle against imperialism and to form the United Front against imperialism and fascism.
5. ICOR stands up for a strategic socialist perspective in the struggle for freedom and democracy.

Signatories (as of 27 April 2023, further signatories possible):
1. ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo
2. CPK Communist Party of Kenya
3. MMLPL Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line
4. CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)
5. PPDS Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia
6. SPB Socialist Party of Bangladesh
7. CPI (ML) Red Star Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star
8. NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)
9. CPA/ML Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
10. PR-ByH Partija Rada – ByH (Party of Labor – Bosnia and Herzegovina)
11. MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)
12. UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France
13. BP (NK-T) Bolşevik Parti (Kuzey Kürdistan-Türkiye) (Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan-Turkey))
14. KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)
15. RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands
16. UMLP União Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa (Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Union)
17. MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)
18. TKP-ML Türkiye Komünist Partisi – Marksist-Leninist (Communist Party of Turkey – Marxist-Leninist)
19. MLKP Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)
20. KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine
21. UoC Union of Cypriots, Cyprus
22. PCC-M Partido Comunista de Colombia – Maoista (Communist Party of Colombia – Maoist)
23. PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))
24. PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic

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(Resolutions Passed Polit Bureau Meeting of CPI (ML) Red Star held from 1st to 3rd March 2023 at Kolla Venkaiya Vignana Kendra, Guntur, AP)

PB Resolution Dharavi

Resist and Defeat Adani’s Dharavi Slum Redevelopment Project

During the last quarter of 2022, when Adani was India’s biggest crony capitalist who was closely identified with Modi govt, he won the bid for redeveloping Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum that is home to more than a million people. The Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), one of world’s biggest “slum redevelopment plan” that comes under the notorious PPP model is a testimony to the extreme decay and parasitism of crony capital where even slum renewal and redevelopment has become an avenue of loot and plunder by corporate capital.

Today, following the Hindenburg Report on the brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme pursued by Adani, the latter has fallen from the rank of 3 in world billionaires’ list to 33. However, now DRP is going to be a source of fabulous wealth appropriation by Adani. Since he is bound to use only 149 acres for rehabilitation out of around 700 acres including 47.5 acres of Railway land in Dadar, the remaining land will form part of the “sale component” of the deed which Adani can freely use for realty business including building up of residential flats on commercial basis. The lakhs of crores that Adani can earn from this so called rehabilitation may be guessed in view of the present market price of Rs.70000 per sq ft of land in Mumbai’s Badra-Kurla, one of the most prominent business complexes in Asia that is adjacent to Dharavi.

On the one hand, as per Adani’s agreement with government, only half of the one million slum dwellers of Dharavi who settled there before 2000 will be eligible for rehabilitation in 300/350 sq ft house. On the other, along with this ‘ghettoisation’ of Dharavi, half of the residents whose ancestors were living there for generations since colonial days being ‘ineligible’ will be evicted and thrown out by Adani with the backing of state power.

Thus, as Adani now becomes the ‘developer’ of Dharavi, dark days are ahead of its one million residents. The superimposed DRP which is in tune with corporate greed in total disregard of the concerns and requirements of the dwellers of Dharavi is part of the corporate-fascist offensive unleashed on the toiling and oppressed by the RSS/BJP regime throughout the country. Therefore, it is high time on the part of of residents Dharavi to rise up against this slum renewal project, the worst of its kind in the world.

In this context, CPI (ML) Red Star appeals to the Dharavi residents to resolutely rise up joining with all progressive-democratic forces to defeat Adani’s superimposed DRP which is destined to bring one of the biggest-ever, displacement, destitution and deprivation.

PB Resolution on Ukraine

Condemn the Inter-imperialist War in Ukraine by Using the Latter as Proxy

Russian attack against Ukraine that began on February 24, 2023 and US-led NATO’s retaliation using Ukraine a proxy are continuing without any let-up. As is obvious, the immediate cause for imperialist Russia’s war was US’ machinations instigating Ukraine against Russia together with its efforts to reinforce the 30-member NATO. No doubt, the Russian invasion enabled US to galvanise the transatlantic alliance between US and EU and reinvigorate NATO at a critical juncture when NATO was losing its cohesion and EU was even planning for a pan-European military alliance independent of US-led NATO. Both politically and economically, US has been the biggest gainer from the war in Ukraine, which has now become Europe’s biggest land conflict since World War II. And with intensified war efforts on both sides and Ukraine itself transforming as world’s third largest arms-importer within an year, especially from US, a settlement seems to be remote now. And the growing conflict between Russian imperialism on the one side, and US imperialist-led NATO on the other has its repercussions the world over in the form of rising fuel prices and mounting burden on the shoulders of working and oppressed people. The biggest-gainer from the ongoing war in Ukraine is imperialist war-industry as manifested through the sudden hike in military budgets in all countries with US imperialism in the lead.

During the past one year, the Biden administration was facing many setbacks including the debacle in Afghan and loosening hold over West Asia following Saudi-Iran deal brokered by China together with latter’s carving out of neocolonial spheres of influence formerly held by US in Afro-Asian-Latin American countries. At one time, France even declared the North-Atlantic alliance as ‘brain dead’ and even withdrew its ambassador from US in protest in the context of the formation of AUKUS which is part of the US move towards an ‘Asian NATO’ targeting China. However, the Ukraine war facilitated US to orchestrate a unified Western response to Russia keeping NATO united, coordinating US-EU economic sanctions, supporting the deployment of troops and weapons in Ukraine against Russia, helping US imperialism to rally round the Western imperialist block against growing China-Russian alliance and in ensuring the backing of its close allies in the sharpening inter-imperialist contradictions with China in particular.

According to reports, within Russia public opinion is not in favour of continuing the war with Ukraine and demonstrations and speeches calling for peace with Ukraine are there. The working class and oppressed sections of Russia who are bearing the burden of war are against the policies of the financial oligarchy which Putin represents. In the same vein, even though land in Ukraine is among the most fertile in Europe and though Ukraine is rich in natural resources, Ukrainian society is one of the poorest in Europe and obviously, even much before the Russian attack, the Zelensky regime had been faithfully pursuing policies that suit the imperialist interests of US and EU and, in the interests of mining oligarchy, was regularly repressing striking miners. His main support-base is the neo-Nazi sections seeking integration with EU and NATO.

In this context, as communists who uphold proletarian internationalism, we have to stand in solidarity with the working class and oppressed in both Ukraine and Russia. The roots of the war in Ukraine where the latter is a proxy lay deep in the political, economic and military needs of imperialism. As of now, report of a Russian warplane colliding with a US surveillance drone over Black Sea and striking it down is also coming in, pointing to direct confrontation between Russia and US. The US surveillance over the region is part of NATO’s intensified offensive against Russia by arming Ukraine with more weapons. Therefore, it is high time on the part of world people to rise up against the ongoing war in Ukraine and compel those involved to to stop it with immediate effect through appropriate settlement process at the earliest.

Down with Imperialism !
Down with NATO !!
Fight for World Peace and Revolution!!!
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World Unite !!!!

PB Resolution on Palestine

CPI (ML) Red Star Condemns the Intensifying Zionist Offensive on Palestine People

Observe Land Day on March 30 as International Palestine Solidarity Day

We condemn the intensified aggression on Palestinian people by the Zionist state of Israel under the far-right neo-fascist Netanyahu regime with the connivance of US imperialism. For last many years, the Zionist forces have been indulging in a series of massacres during and adjacent months of Ramadan. It was in relation to that the Zionist forces committed one of the most horrific massacres at Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza strip neighborhood in May 2021, killing over 150 Palestinians. The series of this mounting aggression is still continuing, the latest being the Nablus massacre in the West Bank towards the end of February 2023, killing 11 Palestinians.

The recent accord between Saudi and Iran with the avowed aim of establishing bilateral relationship between the two, unlike analysed by corporate media, is not leading to a peaceful situation in West Asia. Rather, it is going to a further sharpening of the inter-imperialist contradictions with their multi-dimensional impact in relation to imperialism’s geopolitical interests in West Asia. And under the camouflage of the accord, the Zionists backed by US imperialism, in fact, are carrying on unprecedented attacks on the Palestinians.

It is also reported that to divert Israelis’ anger against the far-right neoliberal and fascistic policies of Netanyahu, the latter may try for a severe attack on Palestine people in the month of May with more casualties than that in 2021. Revealingly, the opposition leaders who are leading the protests against the fascistic policies of Netanyahu were totally silent on Israel military’s unleashing of mass arrests and targeted killings of Palestinians and confining of them in a ghetto during the Jewish festival of Purim last week – pointing to the sad situation in Israel in which the ruling factions while quarrel each other for power have reached a consensus on the Zionist approach to Palestine.

In this context, CPI (ML) Red Star appeals to all progressive- democratic forces and oppressed masses of the world to extend solidarity to the national liberation struggle of Palestine people and resolutely condemn the Zionist attack in collusion with imperialism, especially US led imperialist camp and various neo-fascist regimes including the RSS Neo-fascists led Modi government. We also appeal to join the call of ICOR to observe the Land Day on March 30 as International Palestine Solidarity Day!

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