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Fwd: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] New book: Maoists in India-Writings and Interviews by Azad



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Subject: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] New book: Maoists in India-Writings and Interviews by Azad
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Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle
(www.revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com) received the following
announcement:

Dear Friends,

This is to announce a new book – Maoists in India: Writings &
Interviews by Azad, published by Friends of Azad. Below are the
Preface and Table of Contents to generate your interest.  The book is
priced Rs 100 in India and $ 6 outside India. The books can be had
from Varavara Rao, 203, Lakshmi Apartments, Malakpet X Roads,
Hyderabad, India 500036.

With regards

Friends of Azad

In Honour of Our Friend

We, the friends of Cherukuri Rajkumar (Azad), present this bouquet of
his writings and interviews collected from popular newspapers and
websites, to all those who are interested to know the ideas of the
Maoist politics in India in general and Azad's articulation of the
politics in particular. Azad has been our friend for more than thirty
years and as much time, two thirds of his short life of 56 years, he
spent developing, exploring, elucidating and debating these ideas.

A voracious reader and prolific writer that he was, the writings
collected here might be less than a tenth of his literary output. Much
of his writing was anonymous or under different pseudonyms in
clandestine journals and documents and we leave it for future research
to prepare his collected works, most probably with active support from
the party for which he was a spokesperson, member of Central Committee
and Politbureau at the time of his brutal killing by police on July 2,
2010 in Adilabad forests of Andhra Pradesh.

His death brought back his memories to us and we, from different walks
of life, began cherishing his recollections more after his death.
Indeed he began living amongst us more vigorously after his death,
justifying the saying "a tyrant dies and his rule is over, a martyr
dies and his rule begins". Azad's writings, statements, opinions,
letters and his expositions of the revolutionary movement that is
spreading leaps and bounds are reverberating in the present more
vociferously. During the last three months after his cold-blooded
killing by the police his name is more visible in the news than when
he was alive.

We, as friends of Azad, thought it was our duty to propagate his
ideas, his personality and his thoughts and writings. Even as we
understand that his party would be in a better position to undertake
that effort, we also wanted to add our bit to the task. Within one
week of his death, we brought out a small collection of obituary
articles written by prominent journalists and civil libertarians in
Telugu. We were overwhelmed by the international response against his
killing and brought out another slim volume of statements of
solidarity and condolence issued by various parties, oraganisations
and individuals across the world.

This book, in that process, is our third attempt to propagate Azad's
ideas. All these articles and interviews appeared in popular
newspapers like Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, Mainstream,
People's March, etc. and available on the net. We gratefully
acknowledge all the publications and websites.

We distributed our earlier publications to all those people we knew
but we thought this book should be available to all those whom we may
not know, but really want the book. We would like to remind all those
that given the kind of repression prevailing in India now it would be
difficult to identify ourselves. Hence we requested revolutionary
writer Varavara Rao, who was an emissary of the CPI (Maoist) when the
latter had peace negotiations with the government of Andhra Pradesh,
to lend his address to the book. We are thankful to him for accepting
our request.

Our friend Azad lives here in his words. In his eloquence. In his turn
of phrase. In his penchant for truth. In his meticulous approach. In
his incisive analysis. In his steadfast practice. In his supreme
sacrifice. Azad continues to inspire.



Table of Contents

Preface

A Brief Biography

Azad's Writings and Interveiws

1. Maoists in India                                           October 2006

2. On the 'Comprehensive Peace Agreement' in Nepal            December 2006

3. Interview on the Developments in Nepal                     May 2008

4. On V Prabhakaran                                           May 2009

5. On Patel Sudhakar Reddy & Venkataiah                       May 2009

6. On the Election Boycott Tactic of the Maoists              September 2009

7. Interview on the Governments' military offensive           October 2009

8. On Talks                                                   October 2009

9. On Balagopal                                               October 2009

10. On Telangana                                              December 2009

11. On Sakhamuri Appa Rao & Kondal Reddy                      March 2010

12. On Dantewada Guerilla Attack                              April 2010

13. Interview to The Hindu                                    April 2010

14. Letter to Swami Agnivesh                                  May 2010

15. On Jnaneswari Express Tragedy                             May 2010

16. On Bhopal Verdict                                         June 2010

17. A Last Note to A Neo-Colonialist                          July 2010

http://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/new-book-maoists-in-india-writings-and-interviews%C2%A0by%C2%A0azad/
[Note: This book is also available in PDF (142 pages) on BannedThought.net at:
http://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Azad_Book.pdf
(1.2 MB)--ed.]



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Palash Biswas
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