http://www.timesofindia.com/today/09mcal6.htm PWG stresses on unity of revolutionary forces The Times of India News Service KOLKATA: The People's War Group, at its recent party congress, has stressed on the need for unity of different "revolutionary parties, organisations and individuals". The 19-day long congress of the banned outfit was held in March somewhere in the jungles bordering Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. Reports and photographs of the congress were sent to the TOINS by the PW through a messenger. The organizational highlight of the congress was the consolidation of the unity of August 1998 between the People's War and the Party Unity factions of the CPI(M-L). There was need, however for further consolidation of other parties and groups. The congress made a distinction between "Maoism" and "Mao Tse-tung thought". It was settled at the congress was that the guiding ideology of the party wuld be "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism". This would imply that Mao's thoughts were not relevant only to the practice of the Chinese revolution. The PW decided to regularize the newly set up "people's guerilla army" and threatened to intensify attacks on police and government installations. The present guerilla army platooons would b expanded in size and number and brought under a central command. A recruitment drive was on in the guerilla army and it was meeting with success in many places, it was claimed. The regularization of guerilla forces was the result of a process of consolidation of existing "revolutionary people's committees" and "armed people's militias". Politically, the PW criticized the policies of globalization of the Centre and the WTO agreement. These would have a "disastrous effect" on agriculture and indigenous industry. It called for a unity of different secular forces. Among the foreign delegates present at the congress was one from the Communist Party of Nepal(Maoist). The PW congress said India should ot play the role of "regional policemen". A new central committee of the PW was elected at the congress.
