[From Liberation, Vol. II, No.9 (July 1969).]
[This report had another part - a brief one - on the struggle in Bihar. This part is being omitted, for it adds little to the reports on the struggle in Bihar included in this Anthology.]
Revolutionary peasants' armed struggle in the rural areas of India continues to develop and expand, particularly after the formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). The peasants' revolutionary armed struggle led by the Party is spreading deeper and faster than ever before in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as in many other states of India.
With the spread of the peasants' revolutionary armed struggle in newer places in the Palia area in the Lakhimpur district, the reactionary police have run amuck. They carried out terror-raids in Khejiria, Krishnanagar, Raninagar, Ibrahimpur villages and beat up men, women and children alike. They are also organizing provocative raids across the India-Nepal border - in Nepalese territory - to force the Nepalese authorities to agree to carry out joint suppression campaigns against the revolutionary peasants. For instance, the reactionary Indian police organized dacoity in the house of one Rajaram (Radha) and later again in the house of one Bir Singh (Baisakhi), both places being in the Nepalese territory. A few weeks ago, the reactionary Indian armed police entered into a village in Nepalese territory, raided the house of Comrade Jiut and beat up his wife and two children. They also intimidated and oppressed other villagers. They are forcing labourers to construct various military structures in some places in the forest and to dig "trenches" without payment.
Peasants are being arrested and tortured. Police raids have been carried out in some 30 places in Nainital, Moradabad and Lakhimpur districts.
But no amount of repression can stop the revolutionary armed struggle from advancing, be it in Palia or in Moradabad or in Nainital. What is more, the armed struggle has already spread to wider areas in Palia. No matter what repressive measures the reactionary ruling classes may take, the revolutionary people led by the Communist revolutionaries cannot be cowed; they are preparing to deal effectively with every repressive measure.