The outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoists) is planning to step up its offensive by exploiting the situation arising out of the current global economic downturn even as it is apprehensive that the Centre could unelash a military offensive against the movement. A 16-page document circulated internally recently by the Politburo of CPI (Maoists), which is available with the PTI, analysed the post-poll scenario in the country in vivid detail and listed out the tasks before it to "outsmart the enemy by all means". "Today we are facing an extraordinary situation. Immense possibilities are unfolding in front of our eyes to advance the revolution at a rapid pace. The entire world is caught in neck-deep crisis and there seems to be no let up particularly since the past one year after the US was engulfed in the worst-ever economic crisis in its history. Industry after industry is closing down throwing out millions of workers onto the streets. Poverty and homelessness, starvation and destitution have become a global phenomenon providing an excellent condition for advancing the people's struggles and revolutions everywhere," the statement said.
It said that with the Congress improving its seat tally and in a position to play "a more decisive role" compared to its last stint in office, it has given the party and the ruling United Progressive Alliance "greater scope for unleashing a more brutal and bigger military offensive against our party and movement". "The unfolding state terror and state-sponsored terror under Sonia-Manmohan-Chidambaram combine will be far more brutal, deadly and savage than under any other regime hitherto witnessed," the Maoist politburo alleged.
It said it was very essential to "rouse" the masses throughout the country, stand up in support of the struggles in Dandakaranya, Bihar-Jharkhand, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka and other places and build a broad-based countrywide mass movement against the"fascist offensive". The statement also referred to the setback suffered by the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka and the situation in Nepal. "The experience of LTTE's setback in Sri Lanka is very important for us to study and take lessons. The mistake of LTTE lay in its lack of study of the changes in the enemy tactics, capabilities, international support and open assistance by imperialist powers and an underestimation of the enemy along with an overestimation of its own forces and capabilities," the Maoists said.
