Kommunistiska Föreningen mourns the death of Comrade Basavaraj, general secretary for the Communist Party of India (Maoist), and the 27 heroes who fought to their last breath protecting the party and the revolution.
Comrade Basavaraj, in true communist spirit, dedicated and ultimately gave his entire life to the party and the heroic people’s war it leads. Comrade Basavaraj continued, even in the most difficult conditions and situations, to lead and persevere, under the enemy’s encirclement and annihilation campaign and constant attacks by the reactionary armed forces. Together with his 27 comrades, immortal heroes and red combatants, he has been immortalized in the history of the peoples of the world, a history of struggle written in blood and fire. Comrades, the crimes of reaction will not go unpunished. They will live on in the memory of the people and constantly remind us to stay the course: the course toward communism through the path of people’s war.
We extend our warmest greetings to the Communist Party of India (Maoist), to its Central Committee, to its entire leadership from top to bottom, to its members, militants, and combatants. We extend our greetings to the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army, to the party’s various mass organizations, fronts, and the democratic forces under the party’s leadership who are fighting day in and day out to seize power throughout the country, to complete the new democratic revolution, by expelling imperialism, bureaucratic capitalism, and feudalism, in the service of and as part of the proletarian world revolution.
This is not the first time that a leading comrade has fallen in the people’s war, either in India or in any other country. The reactionaries believe that with Comrade Basavaraj’s death, they have dealt a fatal blow to the people’s war, that it will be the beginning of the end of the people’s war—let them continue to dream! All the blood that is spilled only fertilizes the earth and waters the revolution, giving way to and producing new leaders and comrades. It is a historical necessity, as Lenin teaches us, that the revolution demands and thereby produces revolutionary leaders in accordance with the general laws of social movement, in particular the process of revolution and counterrevolution.
The old Indian state cannot solve the problems and needs of the Indian people; it cannot respond to the demands of the people; it can only bring them more misery, more hunger, more death, and war. Indian bureaucratic capitalism cannot solve its own problems either. Imperialism, in its constant pursuit of more and more profit, dying and disintegrating, can only solve its economic problems by increasing exploitation worldwide; it demands that the relatively strong Indian bureaucratic capitalism sell out its country, its resources, and its people for cheaper and cheaper prices—imperialism, bureaucratic capitalism, and feudalism in India are digging their own grave. The so-called “Operation Kagaar” is further proof of this fact. It is a counterrevolutionary plan on the part of the reactionaries aimed at clearing away the organized resistance of the people to the intensification of their exploitation. When the people fight and resist, their answer is, and can only be, genocide, for their time is past. The people, led by the party of the proletariat, understand that when you have an old shoe, it must be thrown away and a new one acquired; the old state must be smashed throughout the country, and in its process of decomposition, a people’s India must be raised in its place—the new power.
The people’s war, as long as the subjective force creatively and correctly elevates, applies, and defends the scientific ideology of the international proletariat, today Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, in creative application to its concrete conditions, in struggle against all forms of revisionism and opportunism, is unstoppable and cannot be defeated—imperialism will continue to fall into its grave, dragging its lackey state in India with it, under the force of the armed sea of the Indian peoples. The Communist Party of India (Maoists) and the people’s war it leads are a light shining on the peoples of the world, showing a way out of oppression and misery – a symbol of the new world. For communists in Sweden, its struggle has always been a source of guidance, inspiration, and courage.
HONOR AND GLORY TO COMRADE BASAVARAJ!
LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)!
LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE’S WAR IN INDIA!
Kommunistiska Föreningen
June 2025