When Armenian Revolutionaries Met the PKK in Lebanon

Monte Melkonian was an US-born Armenian revolutionary who struggled for the liberation of his land from Turkish occupation from the late 80’s until the Nagorno-Karabach war against Azerbaijan where he fell martyr in 1993. The struggle for the Armenian cause brought Monte to Lebanon where he joined the ranks of ASALA (Armenian secret army for the liberation of Armenia) in the late 80’s. There, he, together with other Armenians, Kurds, Arabs and Turkish fighters took part in the resistance against the Israeli invasion of the South-Lebanon. For some time his brother Markar joined him in Lebanon in the Palestinian resistance. On the base of his own memories and the ones reported in Monte’s self-biography “A self-Criticism”, Markar wrote the book “My brother’s road”.

The book includes a passage where he speaks about the PKK cadres he met at the PLO military camp in the Beka’a valley, talking about their approach, both among themselves and with the others militants. We decided to share this witness-report, which allows to understand how the PKK, from the very beginning, developed in a deeply internationalist context shaped by the cooperation between communist, socialist and national liberation movements against the hegemonic forces. In his description we find one of the mayor reasons for the success of the PKK: Militancy, discipline and an absolute insistence on their values and living by them. Exactly in this period 11 cadres of the PKK fell martyr in Lebanon fighting the Zionist aggression.

“Many of the trainees at the Struggle Front camp were shibl, or “cubs,” in their teens. Some of them had literally run through the desert and crossed the Syrian border a few hundred meters east of the camp, to flee Syrian President Hafez al-Assad’s crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria that summer. The older trainees consisted of Arabs and Armenians, mostly from Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. There were six Kurdish cadres, too, from Abdullah Ocalan’s PKK. At night, the Kurds actually dreamt about their suffering motherland, and as soon as they awoke they charged off to the drill ground. They dug foxholes with gusto and shouted Thaura! Thaura! “Revolution!” during assault practice, instead of the usual Allahu Akbar! “God is Great!” Whethey picked the odd quince, they left coins for the farmer at the foot of the tree, and when a Druze farmer came to harvest olives at a nearby orchard they climbed the trees with buckets to help. Once, when the Kurd Suleiman broke a banana in half and absent-mindedly handed Comrade Hassan the smaller of the two pieces, his PKK comrade Terjuman demanded a round of criticism and self-criticism. Suleiman came clean with a self-criticism and a solemn oath never again to engage in such unseemly behavior. After their initial amusement wore off, the scruffy, swearing, cigarette-smoking Arabs and Armenians at the camp began to feel self-conscious in the presence of the abstemious Kurds, with their internationalist songs, their allusions to German classical philosophy, and their constant focus on revolution. But Monte loved these goings-on. “These guys are like gold!” he effused. Their enthusiasm was contagious. One by one, the smokers started tossing aside their cigarette rations after returning from the morning jog. All the comrades grimly huddled around the radio for news about the September 12, 1980 military coup in Turkey. Arab recruits volunteered to shoot Turkish diplomats. Before long, they were all stomping shoulder to shoulder under the sun, shouting in Arabic, Kurdish, and Armenian: “Return to the homeland!” “Struggle until victory!” and “We are fedayees!” At Yanta, Monte felt that expansive feeling that comes with living and fighting together for a common purpose. It was a feeling for which the word “solidarity” is entirely too tepid. The simplest activities— squatting around a tray of lentils; tearing bread and handing it out; donating blood; passing the overcoat at the change of the guard—each of these gestures formed part of a daily liturgy that had nothing to do with egoism or altruism.”

The struggle for Armenia and Kurdistan liberation has always been deeply intertwined, although within the national liberation paradigm they have taken different strategic lines. In the 1980 conference held in Sidon, Lebanon, ASALA and the PKK announced that they were fighting together against Turkish state occupation and trained together in PLO camps in Lebanon until 1983.

ASALA went through a complex process of deviation from the revolutionary line that had several consequences: the split of the organization between the faction of the bloodthirsty founder Hagop Hagopian and the Melkonian faction, the rupture of relations between Hagopian and the PLO, and numerous reprisal murders against dissident militants ordered by him. The Melkonian’s struggle then continued uninterrupted even during the critical moment of the fall of real socialism, a phase in which, arguably for Kurdistan, the question of the future of both nations and their revolutionary struggle in the new world order arises forcefully. In Melkonian’s understanding, the Kurdish and Armenian peoples, who share the burden of colonization and genocide on the same land, also share the duty of common liberation. He has always shown a very critical and broad approach to this issue. With his stance he marked a different line from the one of many nationalist militants and Armenian intellectual figures who never really accepted the idea of common struggle because of the involvement of various Kurdish tribal elites in the 1915 Armenian genocide. With the same attitude, he harshly criticized the violence, carried out as a form of historical revenge, that Armenian troops (many of them under his command) committed against the Kurds living in the Nagorno-Karabakh territory during the 1993 war against Azerbaijan.

Melkonians reflections from his book “A self-ctiticism,” on the meaning of the holy-day “Newroz” precisely reflect his internationalist position and his attempt to understand the struggle of the PKK and the Kurdish people in a right way.

“NEWROZ: A NEW STAR
Every year, on March 21, the Kurdish people celebrate their holiday. This is one of the most important and ancient of dates on the Kurdish calendar. The Kurds call it Newroz or “the new day”. The exact origin of Newroz is uncertain, but the tradition is traced back to the fall of the Neo-Assyrian capital, Niniveh in 612 B.C. For many tribes of the Jazira; the defeat and burning of Ninive represented the overthrown of a despotic; oppressive regime. This defeat marked a new era for the people previously dominated by the Assyrians. Among the people to celebrate the new era were the predecessor of modern Kurdish nation. For over 2500 years Newroz has been celebrates by building bonfire which give light through the night, separating winter and spring. The date is festive, with dancing and feasting. Our main concern of course is not ancient history. What concerns Armenian militants is the significance of Newroz for our Kurdish comrades today. How has Newroz as an important festival, and why has it gained so much emphasis in recent years? In Answering this question we may learn a lesson which is internationally valid. The Symbolism of Newroz is clear: the end of winter and the start of spring; departure from the old and welcoming the new; the end of an oppressive regime and the beginning of a new era. Newroz, in short, signifies a new start. This is why Newroz has survived, and why it is so very important today. The Kurdish people today are struggling for their national self-determination. They are struggling to cut the feudal bonds of the past and establish a democratic socialist and revolutionary Kurdistan. They are for something new, something better than anything that has occurred in the past. Their struggle is for progress, for future. This is a simple but powerful lesson which has a such meaning for Armenians as for Kurds. The Armenian people are also at the stage of leaving behind old ideas and institutions. We are replacing counterproductive ideologies with new approaches for the problems we face. We are taking a step forward, toward the goal which, if achieved will results in conditions for Armenian people better than any yet have been existed for three thousand years. We are not struggling for military domination of land or for an imperialistic-controlled “Armenian regime”. We are struggling for the liberation of our homeland from the domination of imperialism. In this struggle, we are no longer alone. Alongside us there are our Kurdish compatriots, our Turkish comrades and all peoples struggling for their freedom and national rights. It is truly the dawn of a new day, a Newroz. We have the right to celebrate, to be festive. We have started now.”

22 December 1985, Fresnes prison, France.
Monte Melkonian

Like Melkonian, we can, by learning about our respective struggles and giving meaning to our history find similarities and differences that will enrich our common vision for a socialist life. In order to develop common struggles and strengthen each other we need to dive into each others realities and find the core of humanity in our shared values.

On the day of Monte Melkonian’s martyrdom we remember his great struggle for the Freedom of the Armenian people and his efforts for developing an internationalist approach and understanding that overcomes the disease of Nationalism which has caused so much division among Revolutionaries. As he said: “In this struggle, we are no longer alone. Alongside us there are our Kurdish compatriots, our Turkish comrades and all peoples struggling for their freedom and national rights.”

source: Internationalist Commune of Rojava

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India: Police Officer Killed in Maoist Ambush

On Sunday evening, Maoist guerrillas set fire to an excavator in a mining company near Dondra (Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state). On Monday morning, they ambushed the team of police officers who had come to carry out the investigation. A deputy police commissioner was killed in one attack. The Maoists targeted the police vehicle and triggered a powerful IED.

Commissioner Akash Rao, who was seriously injured in the explosion, was rushed to Konta Hospital but succumbed to his injuries shortly after. Several other police officers were also injured in the ambush and were transferred to Jagdalpur hospital for treatment.

Source: https://secoursrouge.org/inde-un-policier-tue-dans-une-embuscade-maoiste/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19592

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Zionist Occupation is Killing its Own Captive Soldiers and Palestinian Prisoners

On Saturday afternoon, 7 June, Abu Obeida, the military spokesperson of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, issued an urgent statement, declaring:

“Urgent warning to whomever it may concern: The occupation forces are besieging a place where the Zionist prisoner Matan Zangauker is located. We affirm categorically that the enemy will not be able to recover him alive. If this prisoner is killed during an attempt to free him, the occupation army will be the one responsible for his death, after we preserved his life for a year and 8 months. He who warns is excused.”

This is only the latest example of the occupation regime’s killing and attempts to kill its own prisoners — occupation soldiers captured by the Palestinian resistance in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on 7 October 2023. This has come not only through repeated airstrikes where the occupation claims that the Palestinian resistance is holding Zionist prisoners, which has taken the lives of dozens of captives, but also through the direct assassination of several prisoners who managed to escape amid an ongoing series of attacks and airstrikes.

“The Zionist regime is committed to killing its own prisoners in order to keep the fascist Netanyahu government in power, to continue the genocide in Gaza, and to keep Palestinian prisoners tortured behind occupation bars,” said Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. “It is the Palestinian resistance who has kept these prisoners alive for 20 months, and released them in far better conditions than Palestinian prisoners held in Zionist dungeons, despite the genocidal US-Zionist bombing and their deliberate imposition of famine and starvation against Palestinians in Gaza.”

In a conversation with Samidoun, Dr. Basem Naim, a member of the political bureau of Hamas, said: “The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, affirms, its readiness to release all ‘Israeli’ prisoners in a comprehensive and dignified exchange that will lead to the end of the war and the complete withdrawal of the occupation forces from Gaza, with assurances that humanitarian aid will enter Gaza immediately and effectively.”

“The policy that Netanyahu is insisting on using since the beginning of the aggression has led only to the killing of more of the Zionist prisoners. The release of the Zionist prisoners alive to their families has come consistently through negotiations and an agreed upon mechanism,” Naim said.

Abu Obeida’s statement further underlines the Zionist regime’s use of the “Hannibal directive,” a military order in the “Israeli” Occupation Forces that requires the IOF to use all means to prevent the capture of occupation soldiers by resistance fighters in Palestine and Lebanon. The resistance forces capture occupation soldiers and hold them prisoner in order to exchange them for thousands of Palestinian and Arab political prisoners jailed by the occupation and held in torturous conditions. The IOF has implemented the Hannibal directive at wide scale during the genocide in Gaza and particularly on 7 October 2023, during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, with IOF tanks and helicopters engaging in large-scale shelling and bombing of areas where resistance fighters were operating, killing hundreds of Zionists alongside Palestinians, with one occupation soldier referring to it as a “mass Hannibal.”

“It is clear from decades of experience that a prisoner exchange is the only effective mechanism to liberate Palestinian prisoners from Zionist jails,” said Kates. “However, it is also clear that a prisoner exchange is the only effective means to free Zionist prisoners held by the Palestinian resistance. It is the resistance that has been working to keep their prisoners alive, at the same time that over 70 Palestinian prisoners have been martyred inside occupation prisons through torture, deliberate starvation, and medical neglect.”

Earlier, the Al-Qassam Brigades released a video of Zangauker, in which he affirmed that the actions of the Netanyahu government — particularly repeatedly refusing a ceasefire, withdrawal from Gaza and a prisoner exchange — are keeping him imprisoned.

“Not only is this a joint genocide, with the US providing billions of dollars in arms, intelligence and surveillance information, and diplomatic and political cover including the repeated use of the veto at the United Nations, but the US has also played a particularly nefarious role in undermining a prisoner exchange and preventing an end to the genocide and the withdrawal of occupation forces in Gaza,” Kates noted. “Rather than living up to its responsibility to provide humanitarian aid and allow the thousands of trucks waiting at the crossings to enter Gaza after the Palestinian resistance acted in good faith to release Zionist-American captive Edan Alexander, it has imposed a series of so-called ‘aid distribution’ centers that are, in reality, centers of death and destruction where hundreds of Palestinians have been martyred and injured seeking relief from the Zionist-imperialist imposed famine.”

There are currently over 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held inside occupation prisons, with thousands more from Gaza who have been forcibly disappeared and their fate undisclosed. Palestinian prisoners are being subjected to extreme torture and starvation — alongside the genocide in Gaza — while the leadership of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement are held in isolation, routinely beaten, and targeted for a policy of “slow assassination.” The Zionist-imperialist genocide in Gaza has already taken the lives of over 54,000 Palestinian martyred and injured — often severely — hundreds of thousands, most frequently with US-made weaponry. Fellow imperialist powers, including Britain, Canada, Germany and France, continue to engage in the arms trade with the Zionist regime, while simultaneously engaging in harsh repression against anti-genocide campaigners in their own countries.

source: Samidoun

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19518

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TKP-ML TİKKO Command: Lal Salaam To Comrade Basavaraj And The 27 People’s Heroes!

We, as the fighters and commanders of the People’s Army TİKKO, have learned that CPI (Maoist) General Secretary Namballa Kesava Rao alias Basavaraj and 27 commanders and fighters of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) were immortalized on May 21.

For this reason, we send our condolences to all the workers, peasants and laborers of India, especially to the fighters and commanders of our sibling army PLGA. We respect the memory of the immortals and declare our eternal commitment to their struggle.

Throughout his entire life of struggle, Comrade Basavaraj worked for the liberation of the workers and peasants with a consciousness of fire and a will of steel. He dedicated his life to the freedom of the poor people living on the soil of India. He understood the revolution not only as a duty but as a way of life, and he brought the Indian revolution into existence in his own life.

He passed through the enemy circle countless times; He repeatedly carried out revolutionary attacks against the enemies of the people and against Indian reaction and was in the leading position of these attacks. Comrade Basavaraj will live forever in the struggle of the workers and peasants and the international proletariat for the People’s Democratic Revolution, Socialism and Communism.

The reactionary Indian state, with its expansionist policy and as the gendarmerie of imperialism in South Asia, is pursuing an aggressive policy against the people inside the country and against the lands of other countries in the region. The fascist Brahmanical Hindutva RSS-BJP Regime is using fascist terrorism to defend the interests of large mining companies and multinational monopolies. Under the name of operations against Maoist guerrillas, it is massacring indigenous peoples who resist large mining companies and manipulating this operations by presenting everyone they killed as guerrillas.

In today’s world, where the imperialists are preparing for a new world war, imperialist competition has gained momentum in South Asia. The struggle for dominance over new trade routes has increased regional conflicts. On one side, the struggle for hegemony between the imperialist blocs led by the US and China continues. On the other side, the regional competition between Indian expansionism and Chinese imperialism, the hegemony struggle they have entered into in South Asia and Indochina are gradually evolving the regional tension towards a war. In order to maintain its aggressive line in foreign policy, the reactionary Indian state has launched an all-out attack wave under various names, primarily against the Maoist forces waging a people’s war, but also against all progressive-revolutionary forces.

Today, the reactionary Indian state and its fascist speakers are sending a message to the Indian people by shouting victory cries upon the immortalization of Comrade Basavaraj and 27 Maoist peoples heroes. However, there is something they ignore: from the Naxalbari uprising to the present day, the workers, peasants and laborers of India have built an indestructible bridge of freedom extending from the shoulders of tens of thousands of peoples heroes under the leadership of the CPI (Maoist). This bridge is an indestructible fortress that has been mortared with the blood of martyrs. The current name of this fortress is CPI (Maoist). Therefore, just as the great communist leader Comrade Charu Mazumdar said, “Now is not the time to be sad, comrades, but to rise up like fire.”

We believe that this twist that history has brought before us today will only be an occasion to leap even further on the illuminated path of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in the flowing struggle of the masses like a flood. The absolute victory of the People’s War will shine like a star in the skies of South Asia.

Once again, we bow respectfully to Comrade Basavaraj and the 27 Maoist people’s heroes and reaffirm our commitment to their struggle.

Long Live the CPI (Maoist)

Long Live the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army

Martyrs of the Revolution Are Immortal

TKP-ML TİKKO Command

May 2025

Source : https://www.tkpml.com/tkp-ml-tikko-command-lal-salaam-to-comrade-basavaraju-and-to-the-27-peoples-heroes-video/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19514

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Myanmar: Maoists Strike Junta Army in Sagaing Region

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of Burma, intercepted and attacked a military council patrolling a village in the Sagaing region of Burma. Bordering the Indian states of Nagaland and Manipur to the north, Kachin State, Shan State and Mandalay region to the east, Magway region to the south, and Chin State to the west, this region is considered of strategic importance by the Maoists.

It was initially reported that eight Tatmadaw soldiers, including a second lieutenant, were killed in the attack, and that two rifles and ammunition were seized.

Source: https://secoursrouge.org/birmanie-des-maoistes-frappent-larmee-de-la-junte-dans-la-region-de-sagaing/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19488

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Internationalist Organizations Pay Homage to Fallen Indian Revolutionary Comrade Namballa Kesava Rao

CPI (Maoist) Central Committee spokesperson, Comrade Abhay, called for a Bharat Bandh on June 10 condemning the killing of the Maoist party’s General Secretary Namballa Kesava Rao alias Basavaraj in an encounter in Chhattisgarh on May 21.

Comrade Abhay said at the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, large numbers of commando and paramilitary forces and State Police raided forests in the Maad area of Chhattisgarh’s Narayanapur district and killed many cadres of the PLGA, (the armed wing of the CPI (Maoist)).

Memorial meetings in honor of the slain Maoists have to be conducted from June 11 to August 3 across the country to condemn the encounter and protest against ‘Operation Kagaar’, Comrade Abhay stated.

Comrade Abhay declared that Kesava Rao, in his 51 years of revolutionary life, made great contributions to the party and that his death was a great loss to the Maoist movement, adding that despite this loss the Maoist party would regroup and recover.

During the past 53 years, the CPI (Maoist) lost many Central and State committee leaders in encounters, but the Maoist party continued its fight for the oppressed classes and poorer sections of society, Comrade Abhay remarked.

Below we publish commemorations to CPI General Secretary Namballa Kesava Rao alias Basavaraj.

PBSP/Bangladesh CC Statement In Memorial Of CPI (Maoist) GS Basavaraj And His Fellow Comrades

On May 21, 2025, in Narayanpur, a border region between the Indian states of Chhattisgarh and Telangana, India’s Hindutva- fascist Modi–Amit Shah regime carried out a barbaric assassination of Comrade Namballa Kesava Rao, known as Basavaraj, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), along with 28 fellow comrades. Our Party extends its heartfelt tribute and proletarian internationalist revolutionary salute to them and to the revolutionary masses who were victims of the genocidal “Kagaar” operation. We lower the Party flag in their honor.

We express our deep condolences to the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist), all Party members, the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), the Janatana Sarkar, the proletarian class of India, the bereaved families of the martyrs, and the broad revolutionary masses.

At the same time, we express our strong outrage and condemnation against the genocidal and destructive campaign of brutal repression carried out in the name of Maoist extermination.

The martyrdom of Comrade Basavaraj is an irreparable loss for the people of India and for the exploited and oppressed peoples of the world. He lived a life fully devoted to the service of the people and had led the advancing Maoist movement in India with great skill over the past 7 to 8 years.

The fascist Modi–Amit Shah regime, lackeys of imperialism, are celebrating the death of the comrades with frenzied joy, as though the revolution has come to an end. They are indulging in a daydream.

We firmly believe that this celebration will be proven futile and that the Maoist movement in India will return even stronger. Through the path of invincible people’s war, it will accomplish the new democratic revolution and pave the way towards socialism and communism.

Just as the Maoists rose again from the martyrdom of Comrade Charu Mazumdar, waging relentless struggle amidst all odds to become the greatest threat to the ruling classes today, so too will the Maoist movement advance—through its inevitable ups and downs—until the revolution is fulfilled. The revolutionary legacy of Naxalbari has proven this time and again.

The sacrifice, valor, and legacy of Comrade Basavaraj and the countless revolutionaries and people’s martyrs will eternally serve as a beacon of inspiration for the oppressed peoples and nations of India and across the world.

As the great Maoist leader Comrade Charu Mazumdar proclaimed, “Srikakulam is the future history of India” (Deshabrati, July 14, 1970). Red Salute to Maoist Comrade Basavaraj of Srikakulam!

Central Committee,

PBSP / Bangladesh

May 25, 2025

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Official CPI (Maoist) DKSZC Statement On The Murder Of Namballa Kesava Rao

Our dear comrade, a great leader of the Indian revolutionary movement, General Secretary of our party Communist Party of India (Maoist), Comrade Namballa Kesava Rao alias Basavaraj alias BR Dada, was martyred in the massacre on May 21, 2025 in the Gundekot forest in Maad area of Narayanpur district. The Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee pays tribute to that revolutionary hero with a humble bow. Our Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee humbly pays tribute to all the comrades who lost their lives in this massacre, including CC Staff State Committee level Comrade Nageshwar Rao alias Madhu alias Jung Naveen, CC staff Sangeetha, Bhumika, Vivek, CPYPC Secretary Comrade Chandan alias Mahesh, CPYPC member Guddu, Rame, Lalsu, Surya, Mase, Kamala, Nagesh, Rago, Rajesh, Ravi, Sunil, Sarita, Reshma, Raju, Jamuna, Geeta, Hungi, Sanki, Badru, Nilesh, Sanju. We pledge to fulfill the aspirations of these comrades. We express our deepest condolences and sorrow to the families and friends of these martyrs.

We call upon the citizens of the country, the ranks of the party, PLGA, the working people of the world and the revolutionary organizations to organize Shaheed Smriti Sabhas in memory of these martyrs and to move forward on the path of struggle with a firm resolve to fulfill their highest aspirations. We strongly condemn this brutal massacre, which was part of the conspiracy of the Brahminical Hindutva fascist government.

The police intelligence officers already knew that our party General Secretary Comrade BR Dada was in Maad. During these 6 months, some people from various units in Maad area became weak and surrendered before the police officers and turned traitors. Through them, our secret information has been reaching the intelligence agencies from time to time. In the months of January and March, two major attacks were carried out targeting Comrade BR Dada. But they were unsuccessful. After these operations, in the last one and a half months, 6 people from that unit surrendered to the enemy. Among them were the CYPC members who played a major role in Dada’s security. The Unified Command member who led the Maad movement also turned traitor at the same time. This made their job easier. All these traitors, including Ricky, also participated in the operation. It is because of them that we had to suffer such a huge loss. The operation aimed at driving them off the forests and land and handing over their assets to corporations was possible only because of these traitors.

From May 17, DRG personnel started deploying in Narayanpur and Kondagaon districts from Ora side. On the 18th, DRG soldiers from Dantewada and Bijapur districts, and Bastar fighters went in. They reached our unit at 9 am on the 19th. A day before the operation, on the 17th, a PPC member of that unit ran away with his wife. After they ran away, we moved the camp from there. On the morning of the 19th, after receiving information that the police force had reached a nearby village, the camp left there. On the way, the first encounter with the police personnel took place at 10 am. After that, five encounters took place throughout the day. No one was harmed in these encounters. They tried all day on the 20th to get out of the encircled area, but they failed. During the night, 20 thousand police personnel surrounded the area.

The final operation was carried out on the morning of the 21st. On one side, there were thousands of goons equipped with modern weapons. During the operation, food and water were brought to them by helicopters. On the other side, there were only 35 revolutionaries who were fighting against the socioeconomic problems of the country. Our people had not found anything to eat or drink for the last 60 hours. They were hungry. A battle began between these two sides. Our comrades put up a resistance by keeping BR Dada in a safe place between them. Kotlu Ram of the DRG died in the first round. After this, they did not dare to come forward for some time. Then they started firing again. The first person to be martyred while actively leading the resistance was Commander Chandan. However, everyone resisted bravely till the end. Many soldiers were injured. One group managed to break through the encirclement. But the rest could not escape through that route due to heavy shelling. After breaking the siege, the group separated from the main group. Everyone performed the responsibility of protecting the leadership very well and did not let Dada get even a single scratch till the end. After everyone was martyred, Comrade BR Dada was caught alive and killed. There were 35 of our comrades in that group. Out of them, 28 comrades became martyrs. 7 people escaped safely from this encounter. The list of martyrs is different. The body of Comrade Nilesh has been identified by PLGA.

The main point to note here is that a unilateral ceasefire was declared from our side throughout this zone. On the instructions of Comrade BR Dada, the actions of the government armed forces were stopped and an atmosphere conducive to peace talks was created. Not a single such action was taken in 40 days. During this time, through a conspiracy, the Central and State governments have jointly organized such a big attack. Not a single media person is raising any question about this. This is a matter of concern. It is a common question that what did the party do in terms of security of the top leadership… It is a question that arises in everyone’s mind. If we have to answer this question, yes… we have failed. Till January, the strength of this unit was more than 60. The number was reduced to enable easy movement in adverse conditions. In the meantime, some senior men of that company became weak and surrendered. When the incident happened, the strength reached 35. We had already anticipated that there would be big attacks in the months of April and May. But Comrade Basavaraj was not ready to go to a safe place. When we asked about his safety, his reply was… “You don’t have to worry about me, I can only carry out this responsibility for two or three years. You should take care of the safety of the young leadership. Inspired by the sacrifices, the revolutionary movement will re-emerge with many times more strength, the evil plans of this fascist government will not come to fruition, and the ultimate victory will be with the people.” Even after many of our colleagues tried to convince Dada, he did not listen. Despite adverse circumstances, he decided to stay with the cadre and provide close guidance.

The politicians, police officers and media who are spreading false propaganda about our movement and leadership should realize this. All those who are spreading false propaganda that the leadership has abandoned their responsibilities should be ashamed. Real revolutionaries will never be afraid. We are worried about the future of the country. The government and the reactionary forces are celebrating victory. They are describing it as a big victory. We believe that this is a big victory for them. If their plan to build a corporate Hindu nation is implemented, this is a clear victory in the direction. Crores of people in the country who disagree with the RSS and BJP plan to turn the country into a corporate Hindu nation in the name of New India, Developed India, are worried about this loss. This is a huge loss for the Indian revolutionary movement. May 21 will go down as a dark day in history. Revolutionary movements are likely to suffer such losses when faced with a strong enemy. This movement was built on the strong ideology and long-term cooperation of Comrade Basavaraj. A strong cadre working under his guidance has developed. There is a Central Committee with experienced comrades. Based on these, revolutionary movements emerge from this negative situation. The government is using its full power, not only this, but also receiving help from the imperialists. The army is being used in the country, violating national and international laws and regulations. Large artillery and tanks are being used. This may be somewhat successful in physically eliminating the armed revolutionaries, but it is not possible to eliminate revolutionary ideas.

We appeal to the people of the country to understand the real motive behind this massacre in the name of Operation Kagaar. We urge them to support the thoughts and politics of true patriots who are sacrificing their lives to protect our country, its wealth and the environment. Let us unite against those who are selling the country and its assets.

The Indian government is presenting evidence that Pakistani army officers and terrorists are in cahoots. If we believe this to be true… how did the ceasefire come into effect immediately on the orders of the Pakistani DGMO? The government is implementing a plan to kill hundreds of tribal people and revolutionaries without listening to the appeals made by the democratic and revolutionary people of our country for a ceasefire to resolve the issue through peace talks. Why is this happening? Which power has kept its mouth shut on the issue of ceasefire with Pakistan? What success is being achieved by organizing the Tiranga Yatra? Have we misled the people? This does not mean that we want war with Pakistan. Understand the nexus between the people in power in the country, big corporations and imperialists. Whenever they need it, they keep creating such an atmosphere.

Note: Our Central Committee will release a booklet on the sacrifices of our comrades who became martyrs in the revolutionary movement.

Vikalp

Official Spokesperson

Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee

Communist Party of India (Maoist)

May 25, 2025

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TKP-ML CC Statement: Comrade Namballa Kesava Rao Amar Rahe!

We have learned that Comrade Namballa Kesava Rao, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), popularly known among the people as “Comrade Basavaraj,” has been immortalized. It was announced that in the same clash, 26 of our comrades from the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), including Comrade Sajja Nageswara Rao, also fell. We convey our deepest condolences to the oppressed people of India, especially the Indian working class; to the comrades of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA).

The immortalization of our comrades, including Comrade Basavaraj, is not only a loss for the Indian revolution. It is also a heavy loss for the international communist movement, the struggle for revolution and socialism. But we communists, from our historical experiences, know very well that: “The wheel of history cannot be turned back.”

Every comrade who falls in battle is at the same time a seed sown for the victory of the revolution and the future. The loss of our comrades, foremost among them Basavaraj, is such a loss. They laid down their lives for the advance of the Indian revolution.

This truth is best known by the fascist Indian state. For this reason, it continues its attacks on the Indian revolution and its vanguard, the organized Maoist movement. The counter-revolutionary assault campaign launched under the name “Operation Kagaar” aims to defeat the Maoist movement by March 2026.

The real goal of the fascist Indian state and the Brahmanical Hindutva fascist Modi government is, above all, to drive out the Adivasi peoples and the true owners of Indian land, to exploit workers, peasants, and laborers, and to hand over India’s underground and above ground resources to imperialists and comprador bureaucratic capitalists. The reactionary Indian state attacks the Indian revolution for this purpose. Because they know that the only obstacle to Brahmanical Hindutva’s fascist and reactionary policies is the People’s War waged by the CPI (Maoist), united with the masses, to create New Democratic India.

The reactionary Indian state’s fear is not without reason. The imperialist capitalist system is in deep crisis. Therefore, the imperialists are preparing for a new imperialist re-partition war. The reactionary Indian state, serving imperialism, sees as the primary threat to its rule the People’s War and the New Democratic Revolution struggle led by the CPI (Maoist). The fear of the fascist Indian state and the Brahmanical Hindutva fascist Modi government is New India! That is why they attack and slaughter. Yet with every killing they draw closer to the end of their own rule.

The fact that Comrade Basavaraj fought tirelessly for 50 years for a just and free society, that he began his revolutionary struggle in his youth and carried it forward with determination for many years, that he took an uncompromising stand and waged ideological struggle against every form of right and left deviation, revisionism, and reformism, is an immensely important legacy for the international communist movement.

That Comrade Basavaraj was one of the pioneering leaders in uniting Maoist forces in India and establishing a strong central unity of the CPI (Maoist) is a practice of vital importance and one from which lessons must be drawn by the international communist movement. Again, we draw inspiration from Comrade Basavaraj’s leadership in many military successes of the Indian revolutionary movement, especially in the construction of guerrilla bases in Dandakaranya and in the decisive role he played in establishing the people’s democratic institutions.

Comrade Basavaraj took up the general secretaryship at age 65 during a very difficult period for the revolutionary movement and led the CPI (Maoist). He never retreated from the struggle and was immortalized at age 72. Comrade Namballa Kesava Rao became the second general secretary killed by the reactionary Indian state after Charu Mazumdar.

As Comrade Basavaraj said in an interview, “Thousands of martyrs poured out their blood for this advance.” Now, together with Comrade Basavaraj and dozens of comrades including Comrade Sajja Nageswara Rao, they have poured out their blood for the advance of the revolution in India and the world. Glory and honor to them!

Comrade Namballa Kesava Rao Is Immortal!

“Lal Salam” to the Immortal Comrades!

Long Live the CPI (Maoist) and the PLGA!

Long Live the Indian Revolution!

Long Live MLM!

Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!

TKP-ML Central Committee

May 2025

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CPP CC Statement: Highest Honors To Comrade Basavaraj, Martyr Of The Indian People, Hero Of The International Proletariat

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines raises high its Red banners to pay tribute and give its highest honors to Comrade Basavaraj (Namballa Kesava Rao), secretary general of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), who paid the ultimate sacrifice in fighting for the revolutionary cause of the oppressed and exploited peoples of India, and the cause of the international proletariat.

Along with 26 other revolutionary fighters, Comrade Basavaraj, 70, was murdered last May 21 by the mercenary troops of the Modi fascist regime in the Abhujmad forests, along the Narayanpur-Bijapur-Dantewada inter-district border in Chhattisgarh state.

The fascists unleashed disproportionate amounts of military force to carry out the bloody crime. The massacre was a gross display of power meant to terrorize the people of India, in order to force them to submit and surrender to imperialism and state terrorism.

The Modi fascist regime carried out the brutal mass killing with the aim of projecting strength, but has, in fact, further exposed the rottenness of the ruling system and its deepening political crisis. This is characterized by the increasing isolation of the Modi regime, which has resorted to open terrorist rule and increasing monopolization of power, in its desperation to suppress the growing armed and non-armed resistance of the broad masses of India to social and economic oppression.

Over the past years, it has carried out Operation Kagaar, an intensive campaign of terrorism, marked by the deployment of tens of thousands of combat troops and police forces in the desperation to take over the lands of the Adivasi people by dotting it with scores upon scores of military camps and detachments, in order to pave the way for the imperialists and local big capitalists to plunder the wealth of the land. On Modi’s orders, the reactionary armed forces have mounted aerial bombing campaigns using drones and jet fighters supplied by the US and Israel, and carried out successive massacres of both guerrilla fighters and civilians.

A similar US-directed campaign of all-out suppression is being carried out in the Philippines, along the same strategy of using overwhelming military force, in a vain attempt to terrorize the people and put an end to their armed and non-armed resistance. Wherever the fascist armed forces carry out their rampage, drooling American multinational corporations follow with their earth-moving machines eager to take over the land. However, the more atrocities and brutalities committed by the reactionary forces against the peasant masses and the minority people, the greater the contempt that they provoke among the people, leaving them with other option than to take up arms to defend their rights and lives.

The fascists are celebrating the death of Comrade Basavaraj. In truth, they are trembling in their knees, for fear that his death will stir the indignation and inspire greater revolutionary resistance of the millions of working people, the semi-proletariat, the peasant masses, the Adivasis and other progressive sectors of India, all of whom Comrade Basavaraj dedicated his thoughts and energy.

The Modi fascist regime and its imperialist masters are utterly wrong to think that the death of Comrade Basavaraj will lead to the defeat of the CPI (Maoist) and the people’s war in India. In life, he led, taught and strengthened the mettle of thousands of communist cadres and revolutionary fighters (Naxalites). In death, his heroism and martyrdom will surely inspire even more to fight without fear, and with even greater determination to advance and win the people’s war.

The CPP extends its deep felt sympathies to the leadership and entire membership of the CPI (Maoist) and the to People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) for the loss of their dear comrade and leader. We pay tribute to the invaluable contributions made by Comrade Basavaraj, especially in founding the PLGA in 2000 and leading it in many of its victories and achievements in building the revolutionary base areas and carrying out tactical offensives against the fascist forces. He picked up the mantle of leadership from Comrade Ganapathy in 2018 and served as general secretary since.

The CPP joins the CPI (Maoist) and all revolutionary forces in India in forever keeping the memory of Comrade Basavaraj alive. His name now shines among the immortal heroes of the epic people’s war in India and the revolutionary struggles for national liberation and socialism around the world. In bearing the torch of the armed struggle in India, Comrade Basavaraj helped illuminate the path of the world proletarian revolution, especially in the past decades of setbacks and defeats of socialist forces around the world. For that, Comrade Basavaraj will always be remembered as a hero of the international proletariat.

We fully trust that the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist) will promptly elect an equally capable leader to take over the responsibilities of Comrade Basavaraj. We are confident that by combining the wisdom of its senior cadres, with the energy and acumen of its young cadres, the CPI (Maoist) will surmount all difficulties, persevere on the path of revolutionary armed struggle, and accumulate even greater victories in the people’s war in India.

Long live the memory of Comrade Basavaraj, martyr of the Indian people, hero of the international proletariat!

Long live the people’s war in India!

Long live the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army!

Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist)!

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C(M)PA Condolence And Tribute Message To Comrade Basavaraj Of The CPI (Maoist)

With hearts full of sorrow and heads held high in pride, we extend our deepest condolences on the tragic loss of Comrade Basavaraj, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), to all Maoists, progressive forces, workers, peasants, committed intellectuals, and freedom fighters.

Basavaraj, a true son of the people and a symbol of resistance against imperialism and class oppression, dedicated his life to an unyielding struggle against the fascist Indian state and its imperialist backers in pursuit of justice, equality, and liberation. He was not only an exceptional strategist and leader but also a source of inspiration for generations of fighters throughout South Asia and beyond.

With firm steps in the red forests and unwavering trenches of resistance, he inscribed the message of liberation for the people with his blood. His untimely martyrdom on May 21, 2025, along with twenty-six (26) other Maoist comrades—including vanguard fighters of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army of India—by the security forces of the fascist Indian government under a campaign known as the “Anti-Naxalite Operation of the Indian State” in the forested area of Abujhmarh in Chhattisgarh, marks a great loss but also lights the path forward more brightly for us.

The memory and name of Comrade Basavaraj shall forever fly high like a flag in the history of anti-imperialist and anti-reactionary struggles!

Together with all the Maoist comrades of India and Maoists around the world, we vow to continue his path with unwavering determination, organization, and class consciousness.

Down with imperialism and reaction!

Long live the people’s resistance!

Naxalbari will never die!

Long live the name and path of Basavaraj!

With full military honors and internationalist solidarity

Central Committee of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan

May 25, 2025

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19474

#asia #guerrilla #india #repression

Elias Rodriguez… The Feda’i Who Revealed Positions on the Resistance

The operation carried out by the feda’i Elias Rodriguez was not a passing event or an act isolated from the current political and strategic context. Rather, it marked a pivotal moment in clarifying positions and exposing contradictions—especially in the international arenas where solidarity movements with the Palestinian people are active. Occurring amid one of the fiercest phases of the genocidal war waged by the Zionist entity against the Gaza Strip for more than twenty months, the operation was a natural and legitimate response to this brutal aggression and an echo of the voice of resistance that remains alive and deeply rooted in the conscience of free peoples.

The revolutionary intellectual and martyr Ghassan Kanafani (1936–1972) was the foremost theorist of revolutionary violence in confronting imperialism and Zionism. Kanafani’s link to armed struggle was not romantic but was tightly bound to his political thought, his convictions, and the approach whose logical and moral coherence he defended until the moment of his martyrdom. This practical, organic connection was among the chief reasons for his assassination.

Kanafani also waged an unrelenting intellectual struggle against those—whether Palestinians, Arabs, or others—who opposed “external operations.” The author of the dictum “behind the enemy everywhere” continually affirmed, up to the moment of his assassination, that there is neither separation nor contradiction between the actions of the fedayeen in Palestine and across its borders and “external operations,” so long as the political strategy is unified and the enemy is one. Has the enemy camp changed today? Have its colonial policies changed, or have they grown even more savage?

Rodriguez’s heroic operation clarified that the “solidarity movement” with the Palestinian people is not a single current or unified vision, but rather a mixture of diverse forces: some believe in the path of resistance and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, while others have positioned themselves within liberal frameworks that confine the conflict to human rights discourse and the diplomatic arena, and practically call for what is termed the “two-state solution” as the only viable horizon for the Arab-Zionist conflict. This divergence is not new. It reflects the political and ideological contradictions that have always accompanied international solidarity movements, from the Algerian revolution to the support movements for the struggles in Vietnam, South Africa, Ireland, and others. In fact, it also reveals internal Palestinian contradictions—but that is a longer discussion…

At the heart of this complex picture lies the importance of Rodriguez’s operation. It was not only a security challenge to the U.S. security apparatus but also held up a mirror reflecting the reality of positions: who truly stands with the resistance, and who hides behind general slogans to promote a vision oscillating between nihilism and surrender. Many speak of “the Palestinian people’s right to resist,” yet they reject any actual, conscious practice of this right if it steps outside the bounds of discourse acceptable in the West, a discourse that often translates into calls for compromises and political concessions, foremost among them the promotion of the “two-state solution” and a “peace” that entails recognition of the Zionist entity’s legitimacy and the surrender of Palestine—and of our minds as well.

Conversely, there are those who stood firmly and clearly with the resistance, not only as a theoretical concept, but as practical action grounded in the principles of liberation, return, and the rejection of the occupation’s legitimacy. These are the natural extension of Palestinian liberation movements around the world, who view the Palestinian struggle as part of a global front against colonialism, racism, and predatory and brutal capitalism. For this reason, we are witnessing the advance of radical labor, youth, student, and women’s forces, while the trend of “conditional solidarity” is in retreat.

Rodriguez’s operation not only revealed the limits of liberal discourse; it also restored the value of direct action as a mobilizing and agitational tool, placing everyone before their responsibilities. The broad popular response to this operation, particularly among youth and within Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities, reveals that popular sentiment remains aligned with armed struggle and a revolutionary position on Palestine. The battle being waged by the Palestinian people is not confined to the West Bank and Gaza, but extends and expands globally within the framework of revolutionary struggle against imperialism, Zionism, and reactionary and fascist regimes.

These differences, despite their sharpness, must not turn into a source of nihilistic discord; rather, they should be understood as part of the natural plurality within global liberation movements. Historically, solidarity movements with just causes have witnessed similar divergences, whether in supporting the Cuban revolution, the struggles of Latin America, or even positions on the resistance in Iraq and Lebanon. However, there is an urgent need to prevent the enemy from exploiting this “plurality,” especially amid the genocide. The Zionists, through propaganda campaigns and political and legal pressures, seek to demonize all who support the resistance and its supporters, and to sow doubt and distrust within the ranks of solidarity activists in general.

Our assessment is that the majority of the Palestinian people—inside the homeland and in the diaspora—especially in light of the massacres in Gaza, see the revival of feda’i action as a revolutionary necessity. They are calling for broader popular participation in supporting the resistance, whether political, financial, media, or cultural support, or through direct involvement. This is the popular cradle and the revolutionary driving force needed to halt the aggression, shift the balance of power, and achieve liberation. The greater the occupation’s crimes, the deeper the conviction that there is no place for neutrality and that confronting the enemy has become a duty, not a choice.

Today’s battle is not confined to Gaza or the West Bank, but includes the diaspora as well. Therefore, Rodriguez’s operation represents a cry in the face of the American system, and a message that resistance is not the preserve of geography, race, or color, but is an affiliation, an identity, and an ethical and political stance that allows for no compromise.

In conclusion, the forces of resistance and their allies must build on this moment, broaden the circles of revolutionary dialogue with liberation movements on an international level, and safeguard their ranks against the Zionist campaigns that seek to isolate and defame the resisters. The battle is long and open to all possibilities, but clarity of vision and direction—as Rodriguez demonstrated—is the first condition for victory.

Khaled Barakat
source: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movemen

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19371

#alAqsaFlood #guerrilla #northAmerica #palestine #resistance #Solidarity

Police Ambushed by ELN

PUBLIC STATEMENT

The alliance that the Police maintains with paramilitarism and criminal gangs such as the Tren de Aragua, the AK47, the Porras gang, the Pepino gang is clear. A recent example of this criminal alliance was the massive escape of 5 inmates, all linked to gangs operating in Cúcuta and the border, who were detained at the Villa del Rosario Police Station, last Sunday, April 6.

Just 6 days ago in this same municipality, 6 uniformed officers of this institution who were part of these gangs were captured, not counting the other arrests of police officers that have been registered in previous months at the stop, Villa del Rosario and Cúcuta. What security is General Willian Quintero talking about when his own subordinates are an active part of the criminality that plagues not only Villa del Rosario but the entire metropolitan area?

Not only do they deny the clear and historic alliance between the Colombian State and paramilitarism and in the face of the inability to solve the difficult situation of criminality that the city is experiencing, as a good formula learned from State terrorism they resort to false positives; proof of this was the news that was published on May 20, where it is misreported that a member of ELN was killed in combat with the government Army near the Model Prison of Cúcuta; we confirmed that the murdered person was alias “Pocho” who belonged to a criminal gang in the area, where days before they banished two women from the area. This gang operates in alliance with the army and the police.

On May 24 at 8:30 p.m., units of the FGUN, in a punitive action, ambushed a patrol of the Special Operations Group of the Police (GOES) with rifles, in Villa del Rosario, Norte de Santander. This resulted in the casualty of the deputy superintendent of the Police attached to the GOES, Luis Alfredo Argote Rincón, with 5 years of experience in this operations corps. And the mayor Édison Oswaldo Porras Carreño is seriously injured, the Hilux patrol in which they were traveling is also incinerated. Our units are withdrawn without incident.

The National Urban War Front reaffirms the certainty of popular victory, always together with the people.

¡Colombia… for workers!
Not one step back… Liberation or death!

FRENTE DE GUERRA URBANO NACIONAL
COMMANDER IN CHIEF CAMILO TORRES RESTREPO

EJÉRCITO DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL

Cities of Colombia
May 26, 2025

Source: https://insurgenciaurbana-eln.net/comunicado-publico-11/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19331

#colombia #eln #FGUN #guerrilla #southAmerica

Indian State Presses on With Repressive Operation Kagaar

A roundtable meeting organized by the Communist Party of India (CPI) has demanded an immediate halt to Operation Kagaar and urged the Union government to hold peace negotiations with the CPI (Maoist). The meeting also passed a resolution calling for the bodies of Maoist leader Namballa Kesava Rao and others killed to be handed over to their families.

The meeting was held on Sunday in protest against the “Central government’s repressive actions” under Operation Kagaar. The meeting also called for a judicial inquiry by a sitting Supreme Court judge into the Narayanpur massacre and the ongoing violence in the forests. The resolution expressed solidarity with the democratic movements opposing the corporate exploitation of forest lands rich in minerals and natural resources. It demanded constitutional protection of tribal rights and the removal of paramilitary and police camps from forest areas.

CPI leader Ramakrishna said the so-called Operation Kagaar is nothing but State repression and demanded that the Central government stop it. He reiterated that the recent encounter, which claimed 27 lives, including that of Namballa Kesava Rao, was not a real encounter but a cold-blooded government killing. He criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for congratulating those responsible for the killings and condemned the delay in handing over of the bodies.

CPI (M) State leader V. Umamaheswara Rao alleged that Operation Kagaar is a conspiracy to hand over forest resources to corporate entities and it involves killing Maoists and tribals. He stressed that no political party would accept the violation of tribal rights and, despite ideological differences, united struggle is needed for civil rights. He accused Mr. Modi of halting Operation Sindoor on Trump’s orders.

Dalit Bahujan Front leader Korivi Vinay Kumar said the photos of the deceased clearly indicate this was a massacre, not an encounter, and called for resistance against these brutal actions.

Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah announced to the press on Wednesday (May 21) that CPI (Maoist) General Secretary Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraj, was among 27 Maoists killed by security personnel in a firefight in the Abujhmad area of Chhattisgarh state that day. One District Reserve Guard (DRG) team member was killed and several other security personnel sustained injuries in the encounter.

According to HAM Shah, the DRG, a specialized unit of the Chhattisgarh State Police, received intelligence inputs about a large number of Central Committee and Politburo members of the Maoist party, as well as senior Maad Division cadres and cadres of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), in Abujhmad area.

HAM Shah said that, following the inputs, teams from Narayanpur, Dantewada, Bijapur, and Kondagaon districts were dispatched to Abujhmad for the combing operation that went on for 72 hours inside the thick jungles of the region. During the combing operation a skirmish broke out between cadres of the Maoist party and the security forces.

HAM Shah concluded his remarks by declaring that following the encounter the bodies of 27 Maoists, including Nambala Keshav Rao, were recovered from the site of the gun battle, adding that the combing operation was ongoing.

Meanwhile, Rao’s family members at Jiyannapet were not sure whether his body would be brought to his native village.

Last month, the CPI (Maoist) said it was ready for dialogue if the government withdrew security forces and halted the ongoing offensive.

Early Life of Nambala Keshav Rao

Basavraj was born on July 10, 1955, in Jiyannapet in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh.

He was drawn towards the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology since his engineering days. He joined the CPI (ML) People’s War, led by Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, in 1980.

He was also an active member of the RSU.

His active participation with the Maoist movement started in Visakhapatnam. Basavaraj, along with Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, who was killed in July 2010, established the Rythu Coolie Sangham. He had focused on the tribal areas of what is now ASR district.

From 1980 to 1987, he worked in various capacities in Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts under the East Division.

After the expulsion of Kondapalli from the party, he was drafted into the Central Committee of the CPI (ML) PWG, which later became CPI (Maoist) with the merger of PWG and MCCI (Maoist Communist Centre of India), in 2004. He had played a key role in the merger and was the main strategist behind the idea of making the ‘Red Corridor’ and ‘Janatana Sarkar’ (People’s Government) in Chhattisgarh state.

In 2001, he became a member of the Politburo of the Maoist party and the chief of the party’s Central Military Commission (CMC).

In a press statement dated November 10, 2018, the CPI (Maoist) announced that Muppalla Lakshman Rao alias Ganapathy had “withdrawn from his responsibilities”, and the new general secretary of the party was Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraj.

In another exchance an individual believed to be a Naxalite was killed in an exchange of fire with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, a police official announced to the press on Friday.

According to the police official, the firefight broke out on Thursday evening in a forest near Kistaram during an anti-Naxal operation carried out by a joint team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force, and the CRPF’s elite CoBRA unit.

The police official claimed that authorities received intelligence inputs concerning the presence of a large number of Naxalites in the dense forests of Kistaram.

Acting upon this information, a joint task force comprising jawans of the District Reserve Guard, Special Task Force, and Commando Battalion for Resolute Action was deployed for an anti-Naxal combing operation. As the security personnel arrived at the site of the gun battle, a squad of Naxalites opened fire, prompting an immediate retaliation, the police official alleged.

In conclusion, the police official stated that this incident followed a separate encounter on Thursday along the Sukma-Bijapur inter-district border, where both a CoBRA commando and a Naxalite were said to have been killed.

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19318

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#Internacional 🌏| Siendo un elemento trascendente, y así lo reconoce Turquía, la existencia del PKK no tiene por qué ser determinante para la evolución de la lucha del pueblo kurdo.

https://www.desdeabajo.info/rotador-incio/item/el-movimiento-kurdo-tras-la-disolucion-del-pkk.html

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DC Zionist Embassy Resistance Shooting Operation Communique: Elias Rodriguez Manifesto

Below is the likely manifesto of the shooter of the Zionist embassy workers in DC which was originally published by Ken Klippenstein. The manifesto speaks for itself and we all hope to see Palestine freed from the clutches of Zionist and American genocidal barbarism.

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Halilintar is a word that means something like thunder or lightning. In the wake of an act people look for a text to fix its meaning, so here’s an attempt. The atrocities committed by Israelis against Palestine defy description and defy quantification. Instead of reading descriptions mostly we watch them unfold on video, sometimes live. After a few months of rapidly mounting death tolls Israel had obliterated the capacity to even continue counting the dead, which has served its genocide well. At time of writing the Gaza health ministry records 53,000 killed by traumatic force, at least ten thousand lie under rubble, and who knows how many thousands more dead of preventable disease, hunger, with tens of thousands now at risk of imminent famine due to Israeli blockade, all enabled by Western and Arab government complicity. The Gaza information office includes the ten thousand under the rubble with the dead in their own count. In news reports there have been those “ten thousand” under the rubble for months now, despite the continual making of more rubble and repeated bombing of rubble again and again and the bombing of tents amid the rubble. Like the Yemen death toll which had been frozen at some few thousand for years under Saudi-UK-US bombardment before being belatedly revealed to stand at 500k dead, all of these figures are almost surely a criminal undercount. I have no trouble believing the estimates that put the toll at 100,000 or more. More have been murdered since March of this year than in “Protective Edge” and “Cast Lead” put together. What more at this point can one say about the proportion of mangled and burned and exploded human beings whom were children. We who let this happen will never deserve the Palestinians’ forgiveness. They’ve let us know as much.

An armed action is not necessarily a military action. It usually is not. Usually it is theater and spectacle, a quality it shares with many unarmed actions. Nonviolent protest in the opening weeks of the genocide seemed to signal some sort of turning point. Never before had so many tens of thousands joined the Palestinians in the streets across the West. Never before had so many American politicians been forced to concede that, rhetorically at least, the Palestinians were human beings, too. But thus far the rhetoric has not amounted to much. The Israelis themselves boast about their own shock at the free hand the Americans have given them to exterminate the Palestinians. Public opinion has shifted against the genocidal apartheid state, and the American government has simply shrugged, they’ll do without public opinion then, criminalize it where they can, suffocate it with bland reassurances that they’re doing all they can to restrain Israel where it cannot criminalize protest outright. Aaron Bushnell and others sacrificed themselves in the hopes of stopping the massacre and the state works to make us feel their sacrifice was made in vain, that there is no hope in escalating for Gaza and no point in bringing the war home. We can’t let them succeed. Their sacrifices were not made in vain.

The impunity that representatives of our government feel at abetting this slaughter should be revealed as an illusion, then. The impunity we see is the worst for those of us in immediate proximity to the genocidaires. A surgeon who treated victims of the Mayan genocide by the Guatemalan state recounts an instance in which he was operating on a patient who’d been critically injured during a massacre when, suddenly, armed gunmen entered the room and shot the patient to death on his operating table, laughing as they killed him. The physician said the worst part was seeing the killers, well known to him, openly swagger down local streets in the years after.

Elsewhere a man of conscience once attempted to throw Robert McNamara off a Martha’s Vineyard-bound ferry into the sea, incensed at the same impunity and arrogance he saw in that butcher of Vietnam as he sat in the ferry’s lounge laughing with friends. The man took issue with McNamara’s “very posture, telling you, ‘My history is fine, and I can be slumped over a bar like this with my good friend Ralph here and you’ll have to lump it.'” The man did not succeed in heaving McNamara off a catwalk into the water, the former secretary of state managed to cling to the railing and clamber back to his feet, but the assailant explicated the value of the attempt by saying “Well, I got him outside, just the two of us, and suddenly his history wasn’t so fine, was it?”

A word about the morality of armed demonstration. Those of us against the genocide take satisfaction in arguing that the perpetrators and abettors have forfeited their humanity. I sympathize with this viewpoint and understand its value in soothing the psyche which cannot bear to accept the atrocities it witnesses, even mediated through the screen. But inhumanity has long since shown itself to be shockingly common, mundane, prosaically human. A perpetrator may then be a loving parent, a filial child, a generous and charitable friend, an amiable stranger, capable of moral strength at times when it suits him and sometimes even when it does not, and yet be a monster all the same. Humanity doesn’t exempt one from accountability. The action would have been morally justified taken 11 years ago during Protective Edge, around the time I personally became acutely aware of our brutal conduct in Palestine. But I think to most Americans such an action would have been illegible, would seem insane. I am glad that today at least there are many Americans for which the action will be highly legible and, in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.

I love you Mom, Dad, baby sis, the rest of my familia, including you, O*****

Free Palestine

-Elias Rodriguez

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19291

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Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades Mourns Martyred Comrade, “Adham Karam Abu Sharkh”

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19273

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Yemeni Armed Forces Declare Haifa Port Under Naval Siege

The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced on Monday the imposition of a naval blockade on Haifa Port in occupied Palestine, declaring the strategic Zionist-controlled port a new target. The move comes in response to the continued and escalating Zionist aggression against Gaza and its blockade-induced starvation campaign.

In an official statement, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesperson for the YAF, cautioned all maritime companies whose vessels are docked at or en route to Haifa to treat the announcement and future warnings with utmost seriousness.

This escalation follows the successful enforcement of a blockade on the Port of Umm al-Rashrash — also known as Eilat — which ceased operations under Yemeni military pressure.

Saree: We will not hesitate to escalate

Brigadier General Saree reaffirmed that the Yemeni military will not hesitate to escalate further in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance. He stressed that all military actions against the occupation would only cease if the aggression on Gaza ends and the blockade is fully lifted.

“The armed forces will not hesitate to take any additional necessary measures in solidarity with Gaza,” Saree declared. He also underscored that Sanaa’s position remains firm in backing Palestine’s right to resist occupation and systematic oppression.

Aerial and naval targeting of the occupation intensifies

The Haifa Port blockade is the latest phase in an expanding military campaign led by Yemen. On May 4, the Yemeni Armed Forces declared their intention to impose a complete aerial blockade on Zionist authorities by targeting the Ben Gurion Airport.

Subsequent reports confirmed multiple strikes targeting Ben Gurion, leading to evacuations and forcing settlers into shelters. These operations were described as a direct response to the occupation’s siege on Gaza and its ongoing airstrikes across the Strip.

Airline warnings and Ben Gurion strikes continue

In parallel with military actions, the Yemeni leadership in Sanaa has issued repeated warnings to international airlines, urging them to avoid Zionist airspace entirely. These warnings have coincided with a string of attacks that disrupted civilian aviation and highlighted Yemen’s growing regional military influence.

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19227

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Hamas’ al-Qassam Ambush Kills, Wounds Zionist Soldiers in Beit Lahia

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters carried out a complex ambush in the al-Atatra area west of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Monday.

The al-Qassam Brigades stated that its fighters targeted three Zionist  military vehicles with two “Shawaz” explosive devices and a “Tandem” shell, then engaged another occupation force in confrontations. It added that the operation resulted in casualties, killed and wounded, while also reporting the landing of helicopters to evacuate the injured on Friday.

Earlier, a Zionist undercover unit disguised in women’s clothing infiltrated west of Salah al-Din Street in northern Khan Younis, attempting to reach Zionist captives.

The source confirmed that the unit failed in its mission to reach the captives and instead killed Palestinian commander Salah al-Din Ahmed Sarhan from the al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades before abducting his wife and children.

This comes as the occupation expands its war on Gaza, launching a wide-scale ground invasion dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots”, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to “take over all of Gaza.”

Occupation launched ground invasion of Gaza

On May 18, the Zionist military revealed that it had initiated a major ground invasion across both northern and southern Gaza, signaling a significant and intensified escalation in the conflict as part of what it has named “Operation Gideon’s Chariots”.

The occupation spokesperson stated that ground troops had launched a widespread invasion across multiple areas of northern and southern Gaza, following intensified airstrikes aimed at weakening the Palestinian Resistance’s capabilities.

The occupation claimed its air force had carried out strikes earlier in the week, hitting more than 670 sites throughout the Gaza Strip in what it described as an effort to degrade the operational capabilities of Gaza’s resistance factions and pave the way for the ongoing ground offensive.

Earlier on May 19, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported that hospitals across the Strip have received 136 martyrs, with 11 of them pulled from under the rubble, along with 364 wounded victims during the past 24 hours.

Netanyahu: We are going to take over all of Gaza

On a related note, Netanyahu indicated that pressure on the occupation was “approaching a red line,” necessitating the resumption of aid into Gaza to press ahead with its ground assault.

“[US] Senators I know as supporters of ‘Israel’… come to me and say, ‘We’ll give you all the help you need to win the war… but we can’t be receiving pictures of famine [in Gaza],” Netanyahu said in a video released on his personal Telegram channel.

The occupation announced that “minimal aid” must be distributed in the Strip to prevent mass starvation among the civilian population. However, Netanyahu did threaten that the occupation “is going to take over all of Gaza, that’s what we are going to do.”

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19223

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TKP-ML CC Statement On The 52nd Anniversary Of The Martyrdom Of Ibrahim Kaypakkaya

Wherever there is Resistance and Struggle, there lives and fights Ibrahim Kaypakkaya!

We are on the 52nd anniversary of the murder of the communist leader comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya by the fascist Turkish state. The young communist leader from the Kurdish and Turkish nations, from various nationalities and beliefs of the working class and the working people of Turkey and the founder of our party I. Kaypakkaya was immortalized on May 18, 1973, in the Amed Prison after months of torture.

From the murder of I.Kaypakkaya to the present day there are lessons from the class struggle and the social practices of him to learn; this has proven why he was seen by the class enemies as the “most dangerous representative of revolutionary communism” and why he was murdered precisely for this reason. Comrade Kaypakkaya is still the nightmare of the Turkish state. Even to defend his views, carrying posters and banners with his picture on it is seen as a crime. This is not without reason, of course. Because Comrade I.Kaypakkaya shed light on the ground on which the Turkish state rose and moreover showed how to overthrow this reactionary fascist power.

The fear of Turkish fascism remains because I.Kaypakkaya is the product of the class struggle of our geography. It is the most advanced consciousness of the class struggle of these lands. As long as there are classes in our geography and the class struggle is continuing, this consciousness will continue to live and fight.

I.Kaypakkaya constitutes the communist aspect of the ’71 revolutionary movement, which is the glorious shake-up of the revolutionary movement against all kinds of parliamentarianism and reformism, which were defended in the name of communism and revolution in our geography. The revolutionary and communist movement, which was liquidated in the last period of the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor of the Turkish state, with the interruption of the struggles of the Armenian and Greek revolutionaries with genocide and the murder of the leading cadres of the TKP, including M. Suphi, reasserted itself with the ’71 revolutionary movement after nearly half a century of silence.

Within this movement, I.Kaypakkaya undoubtedly emerged as an exception. His being an exception among the revolutionary leaders of ’71 was not because he was murdered in torture as a young communist leader who “gave his head but not his secrets” after months of torture. What made him special and the reason why a significant part of the theses he put forward are still current is his defense of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the scientific theory of the era of imperialism and proletarian revolutions, and his understanding of dialectical materialism. Comrade I.Kaypakkaya is first of all a revolutionary in practice. He took part in the mass struggles of his period, “thrown into the vast sea of class struggle with his whole being” and by synthesizing the experience he gained from this practice with MLM and “throwing away the old and taking the new”, he led the communist movement to rise again in our geography.

The emergence of I.Kaypakkaya cannot be evaluated separately from the class struggles of the working class and the masses of the people, especially the youth in our geography. The developments in the international arena in the ’60s and especially the world-shaking storm of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution led by Chairman Mao in China found its echo in our geography; The class struggle evolved into a new stage with the anti-imperialist youth actions, the land occupations of the peasants and the great workers’ resistance on June 15-16.

I.Kaypakkaya took part in all these resistances and learned from them; The quality and path of the revolution in Turkey, the class structure and historical development of the Turkish state, especially the fascist character of Kemalism, the theses on the national question, especially the Kurdish national question, and even the theses on the class struggle in socialism, the communist party, especially the theses on organization and armed struggle are theses that he brought up through his fight.

I.Kaypakkaya’s strict adherence to the principle of being a revolutionary in practice first has caused the theses he put forward to continue to guide the revolutionary and communist movement while putting the communist movement in our country on its feet once again. That is why; although half a century has passed, a significant part of the theses put forward by I.Kaypakkaya for the revolution in Turkey remain up to date.

Being revolutionary in practice, building theory within practical revolutionary activity is an MLM principle and the guarantee of scientificity. Since the ground on which the Communist Party rised are the theses derived from the class struggles and mass movements of our country, the actuality and scientificity of these theses will continue to live, as long as the class struggle and mass movements continue.

52 years ago, those who thought that by assassinating Comrade I.Kaypakkaya, they destroyed the revolutionary communism that rose again as a product of the class struggles of the working class and the people in our geography were greatly mistaken. The flag that I.Kaypakkaya “raised high” continued to wave. Today, his name echoes in the language of the people’s youth, especially in the mass actions and struggles that took place on March 19 and afterwards, and his pictures are waving in their hands. I.Kaypakkaya is alive!

From Istanbul to Ankara, from Izmir to Dersim, from the Middle East to Germany and even from Bangladesh to India, from the Philippines to Nepal, the name and picture of Comrade I.Kaypakkaya echoes in all resistance and actions. This is what it means to be immortalized! The photo of him with a cap taken to make a fake ID is still enough to scare the ruling classes. Comrade I.Kaypakkaya lives and fights wherever there is resistance and struggle.

Ibrahim Kaypakkaya Lives and Will Live in Our Fight!

TKP-ML CC

May 2025

Source : https://www.tkpml.com/tkp-ml-cc-wherever-there-is-resistance-and-struggle-there-lives-and-fights-ibrahim-kaypakkaya/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19205

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TKP-ML IB Statement On The Commemoration Of The Nakba

Resistance Until Liberation: The Unfinished Return

On the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, we stand with Palestinians everywhere to shatter the silence that hides ongoing dispossession. In May 1948, more than seven hundred thousand lives were uprooted so that colonial powers could plant their flags in the Middle East. The violence of 1948 did not end with history; it echoes today in Gaza’s relentless blockade, where families endure chronic shortages of food, water, fuel, and medicine; in the West Bank, where airstrikes and sniper fire stalk children playing in the streets; and in Jenin and other refugee camps, where bulldozers raze homes by night and soldiers carry out mass arrests at dawn.

We fully expose, in all its brutality, the settler-colonial Zionist ideology that legitimizes the genocide against the Palestinian people. Imperialist states arm occupation forces, spin tales of “peace” and “stability,” and look away as bombs fall on refugee tents and entire neighborhoods are flattened. Their calculated silence is part of a broader strategy of re-division, an ominous prelude to a new imperialist world war in which Palestine is but one battlefield among many. Yet their plots only bind us more tightly together in solidarity.

Our solidarity is rooted in everyday acts: workers refusing to service weapons factories, students organizing divestment campaigns on campuses, and communities hosting Palestinian artists and speakers. We bring Palestinian voices into our unions, our neighborhoods, and our classrooms, offering spaces where their stories are heard, learned, and passed on. Through these actions we make clear that the right to return is not a distant hope but a shared responsibility and collective mission.

As long as checkpoints still choke movement, blockades starve families, and imperialist powers scheme fresh carve-ups under the threat of a third world war, our solidarity will pulse through every corner of the globe. We are bound together in struggle until every Palestinian can walk home again, unhampered by colonial walls.

Long live the struggle of the Palestinian People!

Long live International Solidarity!

Free Palestine!

TKP-ML International Bureau

May 2025

Source : https://www.tkpml.com/statement-of-the-tkp-ml-international-bureau-on-the-commemoration-of-the-nakba/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19123

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