Long Live Naxalbari!
Why We Support Solidarity with India:
The peasant, Indigenous, and working people of India have been engaged in an arduous struggle against landlords, the police, and the Indian government that spans decades.
In the country-side, the Indian government is currently actively displacing India’s Indigenous populations (India Military Campaigns – Banned Thought), while in the cities, working people are facing mass evictions and displacements at the whim of the old state. (Why Target Us? – NDTV, Jun. 2, 2025).
The Indigenous people of India, known collectively as the Adivasi people, are being murdered and detained by the thousands under the brutal boot of imperialism. This is so that India’s government can gain control of their mineral-rich land and natural resources for the benefit of corporations. (The Red Herald – State Campaign Against Operation Kagaar, July 5, 2025, Minority Rights – Adivasis in India).
The Indian government claims that their merciless military attacks against civilian peasants and Indigenous people are efforts to quell Maoism in India. The major crime the Maoists supposedly committed to justify these responses? “they became familiar with the poverty of the Adivasis and their exploitation by non-tribal traders and contractors[…]The Maoists started organizing people around local issues and slowly entrenched themselves in the area.” (The Caravan – Monsoon Massacre, Dec. 31, 2018).
Meanwhile, in Delhi, working people and several families face great uncertainty about when and if they will become targets of mass evictions and demolitions based on the greed of the wealthy few who steer their government’s interests. In 2023 alone, hundreds of families and thousands of people had their homes destroyed for the G20 Summit (Fear & Fury In Delhi’s Demolition Sites – Article 14, May 17, 2023). More recently, the residents of the Khizar Baba Colony are facing down evictions and demolitions after many have lived there for decades, dutifully paying rent (Why Target Us? – NDTV, Jun. 2, 2025).
How it relates to the housing struggle:
Imperialism’s cycle of housing and land theft – steal land through genocide and evictions, “develop” the land and sell it and/or its resources for a profit, rinse and repeat – is echoed through housing struggles everywhere.
India’s peasant populations have a long history of resistance to this cycle, a history which includes significant armed struggles and uprisings against landlords and police, such as the 1940’s Telengana Movement (Indian Council of Historical Research – The Telengana Movement, Sept. 2006) and the 1967 Naxalbari uprising (The Naxalbari Uprising – Banned Thought).
The Indian government is threatened by the liberation that the Indigenous, peasant, and working people of India will gain and by the agricultural control that will come with it and that the peasants and Indigenous peoples will wield for the collective good of the people and against the interest of profits for the wealthy few. That is why their military onslaught has continued in its murderous rages and that is why they cowardly assassinated Comrade Basavaraj, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India(Maoist) and 27 brave people’s warriors earlier this year (India Military Campaigns – Banned Thought, Turkey: Comrade Basavaraj, the immortalized General Secretary of the CPI(Maoist), and 28 Maoists were commemorated in Istanbul – The Red Herald).
RAN wholeheartedly supports the continued advancement of liberation for India’s peasant, Indigenous, and working peoples, knowing that our struggles are linked through the common-thread of anti-imperialism and that our right to be adequately sheltered and our responsibility to care for the land we are sheltered on is shared.
The shared struggle to find and maintain work or some means of making money, the shared struggle to find and keep housing, the shared struggle to have one’s work actually be fairly rewarded by what it produces.
These shared struggles are why we join in the calls for solidarity and the cries of our comrades in India!