Maoism : Responses of the State

Dead-end of the Tunnel

An armed guerilla struggle by a section of peasantry against the Indian state was launched from Naxalbari in West Bengal. It was led by Charu Majumdar who broke away from the CPI(M) because he considered that the Communist Party of India (Marxist), formed in 1964, wasn’t militant enough and its parliamentary road to establish communist rule could never succeed and the oppressed, laboring classes cannot be, ‘liberated from the oppressive rule of semi-feudal, comprador, collaborating capitalist classes’.