A Public Convention was organised in Raipur on 21st May on the topic of “Growing threat of Sanghi Manuvadi fascism and our role.”
Echoes at Convention: “We need daily bread, housing, education and health, not hate and division”

Raipur, 22 May 2025. Jan Sangharsh Morcha Chhattisgarh organised a Jan Convention on the topic “Growing Danger of Sanghi Manuvadi Fascism and Our Role” at Raipur, Chhattisgarh, on 21 May. Comrade Prasad Rao, the front coordinator, chaired the convention. Comrade P.J. James, General Secretary of CPI (ML) Red Star, presented a seed statement based on his article. Comrade Lakhan Subodh among the distinguished speakers (President Guru Ghasidas Sevadar Sangh and President Caste Abolition Movement Chhattisgarh), National Muslim Front India General Secretary Advocate Shakir Qureshi, PUCL Chhattisgarh General Secretary and Coordinator of Raila Cultural Forum Comrade Kaladas Dahariya, Buddhist Preacher Wing Chhattisgarh founder Savita Buddha, former MLA and Chhattisgarh Chairman of the front Comrade Janak Lal Thakur, Senior Leftist CPI State Committee Member Comrade Omprakash Singh, Progressive Anganwadi Workers Assistant Association and President of AIRWO Chhattisgarh, Comrade Shankar, Central Committee Member of Caste Elimination Movement, Comrade Pramila, Coordinator of Basti Security Forum Odisha, Chhattisgarh of Indian Kisan Union (Tikait) Keeping your word. Welcome statement from Comrade Saura, State Secretary of CPI(ML) Red Star. Tuhin of Jan Sangharsh Morcha did operation and gratitude. Also, PUCL Chhattisgarh President Jashpur’s Junus Tirki, Alka Buddhist and Jayashree Buddhist connected with Mahabodhi Mahavihar Mukti Movement, Advocate Anischaran and Central Committee member of Tribal Bharat Mahasabha, Comrade Urmila, also kept their words. Famous public singer Nisar Ali, associated with Ipta rural, Kaladas of Labour Workers Committee, AIRSO President Comrade Akshay, Comrade Bandu and Comrade Shankar presented the revolutionary public song. On this occasion, “Understanding RSS Fascism, Resist it and Win it” (On Understanding, Resisting and Overcoming RSS Fascism), CPI(ML) Red Star Publishing book and Red Star magazine were also released. Convention unanimously in favor of peace against war mania, in favor of ceasefire in Bastar, against repression of tribals and corporate robbery of water forest land, against wakf amendment law and targeting Muslims in the country, under the guise of Islamophobia, the Palestinian people Five proposals passed by terrorist Israel in favor of public’s united struggle against genocide and the growing threat of federal manuvadi fascist forces and division culture in Chhattisgarh. Faiz’s famous poem “Hum Dege” was sung against the recent FIR filing incident in Nagpur, on singers singing the song of great poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz at the end of the convention. And everyone announced the slogan of “Lal Salam Jai Bhim” against the statement of giving an illegal agreement to the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister.
Speakers said in one voice that today the world’s largest and oldest fascist organisation, RSS, is facing horrific disruption throughout the country’s entire social terrain, highly hated divisive policies and communal provocations.

Chhattisgarh is being transformed into a new laboratory of Hindurashtra by Sanghi Manuvadi Fascist forces after Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.
In Chhattisgarh, especially the minority Christian and Muslim communities, as well as women, the poor, hardworking public, tribal and dalit oppressed are also being targeted in a fascist campaign. Ninety per cent of the country’s general public are bearing the highest burden of poverty, hunger, unemployment and inflation in the last 75 years due to the loot of corrupt corporate houses. These fascist forces across the country and at their gestures, the Godi media has spread fierce war mania.

It is a call of time to form a struggling front against corporate saffron fascism at the state level with like-minded organisations/forces in such dark times. Jan Sangharsh Morcha Chhattisgarh called for an initiative for an anti-fascism front with progressive forces of the state. Along with this, appealed to all leftist, farmers, labourer organisations, publicists, secular progressive forces, minority communities, dalit/ oppressed tribal public, women, youth and like-minded organisations/forces to start a statewide political campaign against RSS neo-fascism. At the end of the convention, Chairman Comrade Prasad Rao announced a 20-member coordination committee reorganising the Jan San Sangharsh Morcha to give a wider and more effective method to Chhattisgarh. Representatives of Janwadi Organisation, Dalit/Oppressed, Tribal, Women and Minority Communities from different areas of Chhattisgarh participated in the program.
Long live the revolution
Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Bismil, Ashfakulla, Udadevi, Veer Narayan Singh, Guru Balakdas’s martyrdom. Long live

With congratulations
Prasad Rao, Lakhan Subodh, Advocate Shakir Qureshi, Kaladas Dahriya, Savita Buddhist, Neera, Tuhin and Comrade Saura (9425560954)

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22 May 2025

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The “fascist double engine” regime has been engaged in extra-judicial mass murder of Maoist activists and Adivasis under the so called Operation Kagar, even after the CPI (Maoist) has informed the State of its unilateral willingness to have a peace-talk. The killing of Comrade Keshav Rao, General Secretary of CPI (Maoist) and Maoist activists at Narayanpur-Bijapur today is in continuation of this. It amply reveals the blood thirsty mind-set of an inhuman fascist regime, which is highly condemnable. Instead of approaching the whole issue including the corporate plunder of forests that destroys the livelihood and sustenance of Adivasis, the ongoing extra-judicial murders show the fascist regime’s commitment to corporates.

Central Committee
CPI ( ML) Red Star

New Delhi
21 May 2025

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It is High Time for People to Demand De-escalation!

Not War, but People’s Solidarity and Social Harmony can Defeat Terrorism!

At the time of All Party Meeting on 8th May 2025, the government had unequivocally declared of achieving the “intent and objectives” of its “non-escalatory” military strike. It was also reported that the government has “no interest in escalating the situation”. But, as of now, the “non-escalating strikes” between Pakistan and India are on the verge of an escalation into a full-blown war. This is the inherent logic of every war, i.e., those who initiate a war cannot stop it.

Now, while the people of J&K, are the worst affected, all the States bordering Pakistan are bearing the brunt of the burden of escalation. Along with loss of lives and untold miseries to the people who are mainly in J&K, collateral damages are spreading to other places also, and more gruesome may be the situation in Pakistan. Pakistan, often called a ‘military state’, and so called ‘failed state’, has already given full powers to military to take decisions. Revealingly, following Pahalgam terrorist attack, the regime in India, the so called “Mother of Democracy”, has also granted full freedom to millitary to take decision regarding the strikes. This is an endorsement of ‘militarism’, that too at this juncture in human history, where none of the problems confronting humanity, including terrorism has a military solution. Rather, political solution is the only option!

Meanwhile, even as war is not formally declared, the godi media and corporate-owned TV channels are working overtime manufacturing consent for war. While there is no official intervention to restrict the fake-news, warmongering and war hysteria propagated by the corporate-media, state surveillance is in full swing for censoring/blocking even well meaning web magazines/portals which are upholding independent views. Those who are expressing dissent and differing views are silenced, attacked and incarcerated. At the same time, heinous fascist moves to orchestrate alienation, stigmatisation and hatred towards Muslims and Kashmiri people including students are in full swing across India.

This is the time for the people, majority of whom are working and oppressed, who are devoid of even minimum livelihood including food, medicine and shelter to come forward and resolutely say ‘No to War’. War is an opportunity for all ruling regimes to divert people’s attention from their real life. War is a godsend opportunity for the military-industrial complexes of imperialist powers like US and China, upon whom countries like India and Pakistan are depending for weapons, to boost their profits. And the entire burden will be on the shoulders of people in the form of rising prices, taxes, cut in social security, etc., in the guise of war-oriented resource mobilisation.

Therefore, what requires is urgent diplomatic initiatives and meaningful dialogues for halting the escalation. However, in the neofascist situation today, as we have seen in the case of the prolonged Ukraine war and Zionist aggression on Palestine, except rhetoric, meaningful and genuine initiative from the international community is lacking. As such, it is the task of the people, irrespective of their ideological or religious orientation, together with all progressive-democratic forces in the country, to unitedly come forward compelling the regime to go for a an immediate de- escalation and strive for peace. Terrorism can be eliminated only through people’s solidarity and social harmony. The need of the hour is the broadest possible anti-war people’s movement, which alone can prevent a war and bring peace today!

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
09.05.2025

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International Workers’ Day or May Day is celebrated this year, when under neoliberalism, working class and oppressed peoples of the world are passing through one of the darkest periods in history. Since world imperialist system is in an unprecedented crisis, and as all the inter-imperialist contradictions are sharpening, as manifested through the various local and regional conflicts and ongoing Trump-led ‘trade wars’ across the world, the entire burden of these crises and contradictions are shifted to the shoulders of the working class and all oppressed at a global level. And, to facilitate this process, the close nexus between most corrupt corporate billionaires and the far-right reactionary political leadership in both imperialist countries and in oppressed Afro-Asian-Latin American neocolonial countries are resorting to neofascism and unleashing super-exploitation and oppression on world working class and all oppressed, snatching away all their hard-earned democratic rights.

For almost a quarter century following the Second World War, due to the presence of an ideologically equipped International Communist Movement and continuing National Liberation struggles, imperialism was forced to envisage a ‘welfare state’ with provisions for social and democratic rights. However, since the 1970s, when the imperialist crisis bounced back with intensified vigour, on account of the ideological-political setbacks, the International Left was in disarray. Taking advantage of this situation, imperialist regimes and their lackeys across the world abandoned ‘welfare capitalism’ and embraced neoliberal globalisation with unrestrained and unfettered global mobility for financial oligarchs to super-exploit the working class and plunder nature. To counter working class struggles, imperialist think-tanks and neoliberal institutions formulated a host of post-Marxist and postmodern theories, to disorient and depoliticise the workers and oppressed, and thereby laying down the ideological-political background for the unprecedented corporate-fascist offensive.

In the post-Cold War phase following the collapse of Soviet Union, using the internationalisation of capital as material foundation, and through Islamophobia and anti-Communism and a whole set of reactionary ideologies such as racism, xenophobia, religious fundamentalism, neo-atheism and even neo-tribalism and so on as ideological base, neofascist regimes sprang up across the world, and are superimposing draconian laws and biggest-ever inhuman burdens over workers, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in imperialist countries. It further intensified the super-exploitation of workers and all-round oppression on people. As a consequence, using the latest advancements in technology including AI, which have brought about several-fold increase in productivity of labour, a new international division of labour and ‘flexible specialisation’ are imposed the world over. Thus, rather than contributing to an increase in workers’ real wages and reduction in their working time, these new technologies are used for keeping the workers in a state of slaves or bonded labourers. The working class is increasingly becoming informal or unorganised devoid of any collective bargaining power as the production process itself is decomposed into several stages and relocated globally. And an increasing trend under the neoliberal-neofascist context is the spectacular growth in speculative-financial sectors relative to job-oriented real production such that the world itself is transforming into a ‘waste-land of unemployment’.

Global neofascism, with its anti-Communist, Islamophobic, racist and xenophobic orientation, as already noted, has sharpened all inter-imperialist contradictions, geopolitical tensions, imperialist sponsored wars, and even protectionist trade wars as under Trump regime in US today. The continuing war in Ukraine with its twists and turns, the holocaust unleashed on Palestinians in Gaza by Zionist-US evil axis transforming the entire Gaza into a massive grave yard, where the official death toll alone has crossed 52000, and the imperialist-instigated regional wars within Africa, intensifying tensions in South Asia and Asia-Pacific are manifestations. The intimidating and bullying tariffs imposed across the world by Trump has shocked the entire Western imperialist bloc with the threat of global stagflation. This was in continuation of neofascist Trump’s massive deportation of immigrants to their countries of origin in gross violation of all international procedures. At the same, imperialist China’s cold response to Trump’s tariff war by imposing equivalent retaliatory tariffs on US and the consequent collapse in US stock and financial markets and erosion in profit of US MNCs worth trillions of dollars have already challenged postwar imperialist hegemony of US itself.

Even amid this unprecedented imperialist crisis, wealth concentration with world’s corporate billionaires has now reached hitherto unknown levels, while workers, majority of whom are condemned to subsist on unorganised/informal sectors, are subjected to horrific levels of super-exploitation and surplus-value extraction. Today, more than 60 percent of the world working class is in unorganised sectors where 8-hour work, job and social security, etc., have become a thing of past. In India, the most populous country today, the unorganised or informal workers now comprise around 95 percent of the working class, the largest contingent of international proletariat today. The fascist Modi regime in India, whose reins are with RSS, the biggest and longest-running fascist organisation, has already abolished 44 labour laws that prevailed till the advent of far-right corporate fascism. Instead, it has brought forward 4 pro-corporate Labour Codes along with many other draconian laws and constitutional amendments in tune with the role of Modi government as a ‘corporate facilitator’. In this way, far-right RSS fascism is serving the most corrupt corporate capital, both Indian and global, by compelling the Indian workers to sell their labour power at the cheapest wages and on a casual/contract basis devoid of any basic democratic rights. And all the long-cherished goals of the working class such as 8-hour working day, permanent employment, pension system, equal pay for equal work, gender-friendly working conditions and so on have become a myth under fascist Modi regime. Even the annual budgetary allocation to the Employment Guarantee Scheme is also drastically reduced over the years, at a time when India is undergoing the biggest unemployment in recorded history.

Today, the consequences of far-right neofascism in India, with around 145 crore people, are incomparably more horrific than that in any other country. Under Modi, who came to power on an anti-corruption plank in 2014, India has become one among world’s most corrupt countries and a flourishing example of crony capitalism defined as the unholy nexus between corrupt corporates and ruling regime. Policy decisions are made in corporate board rooms while parliament remains as a mere spectator. On account of the corporate-friendly labour, tax, and environmental policies, and consequent super-exploitation of workers and corporate plunder of nature, the widening of the gap between the poor and the rich reached spectacular levels. As a result, the top one percent of super-rich Indians holds more income than that under British colonialism, while that of bottom 50 percent today is less than what it was in 1951. Corporate crony capitalists in whom India’s wealth is concentrated and who are totally depending on imperialist centres for technology and expertise are least interested in employment-generating real production and are engaged in money-spinning speculative businesses. The earnings of working class and oppressed people are steeply going down and they are unable to subsist due to sky-rocketing prices of food, fuel, medicine and other items. With world’s majority of “absolute poor”, India is called a “citadel of global poverty” today.

And, effectively utilising the reactionary ideologies of Brahmanical casteism, anti-Muslimness/Islamophobia, and anti-Communism, far-right RSS is in the maddening pace towards its ultimate goal of a majoritarian, Manuvadi Hindu Rashtra. Through a series of constitutional amendments and administrative moves such as abrogation of Article 370, CAA, pro-Hindutva SC judgement for constructing Ram Mandir at the very site of demolished Babri Masjid, 103rd Constitutional Amendment incorporating upper-caste oriented Economic Reservation and thereby undermining caste-based reservation, anti-Muslim Waqf Act, UCC and so on, the fascist regime is steadily moving ahead with its heinous agenda. Even the latest terrorist attack on tourists at Pahalgam is also used as a godsend opportunity for shoring up Islamophobia and for majoritarian polarisation in the society. More heinous is Modi government’s unholy links with the Zionist regime as part of the Evangelist-Zionist- Saffron nexus and altogether abandonment of India’s erstwhile solidarity with the Palestine liberation struggle. Of course, it needs to be seen in the broader context of the innumerable overseas extensions and affiliates of RSS and its links with neofascist forces at a global level.

At this critical neoliberal-neofascist context, when we observe International Workers’ Day, the task of the working class and all oppressed are more tedious than any other previous period in history. Of course, workers and oppressed peoples across the world are coming forward resisting fascism and imperialism in manifold ways. However, what conspicuously lacks, both at the global level and in India, is the badly needed political alternative on the part of Left. That is, while the reactionary global capital is unleashing the biggest-ever corporate fascist offensive on world people, even regarding the understanding and approach to 21st century fascism, basic differences are there among many self-professed communist parties and groups. Regarding the analysis of imperialism too, fundamental differences are there among the broad Left. Of course, this ideological-political and organisational weakness of the Left is an opportune situation for the fascist regimes to intensify neoliberal-neofascist oppression on the one hand, while enabling corporate think-tanks to hoodwink and depoliticise the people on the other. Hence, while observing May Day, the most urgent task on the part of all genuine Communists, progressive and democratic forces today is to build up the necessary ideological-political and organisational alternative which is capable to resist and overthrow fascism and neoliberal imperialism, and move towards a people’s democratic society.

Long Live May Day!
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Unite!
Overthrow Fascism and Imperialism!
March Towards People’s Democracy!

CPI (ML) Red Star

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CPI (ML) Red Star expresses its heartfelt condolences on the demise of Sanjay Singhvi at the age of 67. He was a Polit Bureau Member of CPI (ML) Red Star from 2011 to 2018, and a Central Committee member before his leaving the Party in 2022.

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24.04.2025

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Resolutely Condemn Terrorist Attack on Tourists Visiting Pahalgam!

— CPI (ML) Red Star

CPI (ML) Red Star resolutely condemns the brutal and inhuman terrorist attack, killing 26 tourists on 22 April afternoon in Pahalgam, that belongs to Baisaran, also known as ‘Mini Switzerland’ in J&K. This is the first major attack on civilians since abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, that took away the Special Status of J&K. In spite of government’s claim on bringing back normalcy to the state of J&K, attacks on security forces are continuing without any let up, though this dastardly and targeted attack on civilians is a relatively new trend. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of all those killed.

Despite Baisaran and Pahalgam being a high-security zone, there was no security force at the time of the attack. It is reported that the police could reach the spot only after 20 minutes of the horrific crime. Though Modi regime speak about achieving normalcy in J&K, for which it justified abrogation of Article since the 2019, as the latest event shows, together with recurring attacks on security forces, the situation in J&K is far from normalcy; rather it is worsening.

Instead of utilising the latest terrorist attack as a disguise for intensifying the regime-led ongoing fascistisation in the country, what is urgently required on the part of the government is to take concrete steps to bring back peace and security for people in J&K at the earliest. For this, instead of rhetoric and propaganda blitzkrieg, what required is to take the people in to proper confidence and initiate consultation with all stake-holders involved. J&K is one of the most militarized regions, not only in India, but in the entire world. It is being proved time and again that this will not solve the problem. To be precise, rather than superimposing militarisation that alienates the people further, the badly needed approach in the present situation is a lasting process of peace and democratization in J&K.

Central Committee
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
23.04.2025

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