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People War Group (PWG)

The PWG traces its ideology to the Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung's theory of organised peasant insurrection. It rejects parliamentary democracy and believes in capturing political power through protracted armed struggle based on guerrilla warfare. This strategy entails building up of bases in rural and remote areas and transforming them first into guerrilla zones and then as liberated zones, besides the area-wise seizure and encircling cities. The eventual objective is to install a \'people's government\' through the \'people's war\'. The PWG ceased to exist with the formation of the Communist Party of India-Maoist. However, the goals of the former PWG are very similar to that of the CPI-M. The CPI-M's current goal is to establish a "Compact Revolutionary Zone," an area of control that would extend from the Nepalese border to Andhra Pradesh in the south. Eventually this zone would be converted in to an independent communist state. September 21, 2004 was the momentous occasion; the birth of a single, unified 'proletarian' party in India the Communist Party of India (Maoist); the CPI (Maoist). The targets of the revolution would be the imperialists, the comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie and the big landlord classes. These three perceived enemies have blocked the development of the country and people. According to the People's March, a magazine that supports their cause," the enemies of the revolution are imperialism, feudalism and comprador bureaucrat capitalism. The motive forces of the revolution are the workers peasants and petty bourgeoisie, with the national bourgeoisie being vacillating allies. Therefore, the immediate basic programme before the political representatives of the Indian proletariat and its vanguard - the communist party - is to overthrow the semi-colonial, semi-feudal rule of the big landlord-comprador bureaucratic bourgeoisie classes, and imperialism that backs them, through armed struggle and to establish the people's democratic state under the leadership of proletariat-the new democratic state in place of it, by smashing the reactionary autocratic state." The merger of the major naxalite outfits in India has further strengthened their ideological and logistical strength and there is better coordination in their attacks now. The PWG, even after the merger retains its primary objectives, which are now part of the objectives of the CPI-Maoist.