Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War, usually called People's War Group (PWG). PW was a major underground militant naxalite faction in India. The ideology of the party was Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The party was founded in 1980 by Kondapalli Seetharamaiah, a development out of Central Organizing Committee, CPI(ML) (which had been dissolved in 1977) in Andhra Pradesh. KS had been the leader of the Andhra Pradesh branch of COC, CPI(ML).
In 1998 CPI(ML) Party Unity, based in Jehenabad, Bihar, merged with PW.
In 2000 PW launched the People's Guerilla Army. The party had thousands of activists organized in 'dalams', small guerrilla units. PW and PGA were mainly active in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar and the Midnapore district in West Bengal.
PW condemned participation in elections, and advocated boycott.
PW was a member of Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organizations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA).
On September 23 2004 the Andhra Pradesh state government declared they would be holding peace talks with PW and CPI(ML) Janashakti.
On September 21 PW merged with Maoist Communist Centre (India) to form Communist Party of India (Maoist).
External links
Party constitution (http://www.vovindia.com/Constitution.pdf)
Voice of the Vanguard (http://www.vovindia.com/), a CPI(ML) PW publication
People's March - Voice of Indian Revolution (http://www.peoplesmarch.com/), publication close to PW
Political and Organizational Review, 9th Congress (http://www.vovindia.com/POR9thCong.pdf)
War and violence are the very foundation of this empire, of this subjugation of whole nations.
Millions of people have already experienced the dead-end of capitalist and opportunist politics; as their anti-war sentiment grows they are also assimilating their experiences and looking for the way forward.
This means that people must start from their own aims and rally around an immediate program which demands an end to U.S. aggression and intervention everywhere, the withdrawal of all U.S. troops stationed abroad, recognition of the sovereign equality of every country and the demilitarization of our country.
War certainly generates confusion, as Clausewitz noted calling it the "fog of war", but that does not discredit the notion that war is organized to begin with.
Many who explain war's origins in man's abandonment of reason also derive their thoughts from Plato, who argues that "wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires." That is, man's appetite sometimes or perpetually overwhelms his reasoning capacity, which results in moral and political degeneration.
Just war theory begins with an assessment of the moral and political criteria for justifying the initiation of war (defensive or aggressive), but critics note that the justice of warfare is already presumed in just war theory: all that is being outlined are the legal, political, and moral criteria for its justice.
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