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Blazing Trail: A Journey Through the Indian Revolution

World Revolution Media says Blazing Trail is the "saga of India's Communist Revolutionary Movement initiated by the historical Naxalbari uprising of May 1967, breaking the chains of revisionism that had enveloped the movement for decades. From the first Congress of the Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) held in 1970 to its second congress held over three decades later in 2001 under the name Communist Party Of India(Marxist-Leninist)(People's War). A saga of heroism and sacrifice in the face of a brutal enemy masquarading as the World's 'largest democracy', foundations are being laid for a New Democratic India."

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We — featuring the words of Arundhati Roy

       

This is a public service announcement... Some anonymous pirates took Arundhati Roy's historic Come September speech and adapted it for the web with video and music to illustrate her plea for our common humanity. We is not about Roy so much as all of us, and the place we find ourselves at the start of this century. We is the future of agit/prop. Words of genuine wisdom, song and movement — anonymous and catalytic. Undeniable. This is our one and only life.

Free for distribution as a stream or download,(100mb, wmv), a $5 DVD is also available at WeRoy.org

Gaddar: The Fela of South Asia

NPR ran a profile of Gaddar, who I can only call the Fela of South Asia, an "Indian man who can barely finish a sentence without breaking into song."  He was once a soldier in the Naxalite movement, but has brought art to the science of revolution. Listen.

Additional list of songs

Celebration and concern among Maoists regarding developments in Nepal

No revolution in the twenty-first century can be propelled forward without taking proper lesson from the experiences of great revolutions and counter-revolutions of the twentieth century. From this point of view, our party has been giving plenty of importance to the questions of defense, application and development of the fundamental principles of MLM. —Prachanda

Major institutions from the international communist movement are beginning to speak on developments in Nepal.

In the interests of gathering a developed assessment of what is up and to facilitate discussion:

Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist): The Worker #10
This is the most comprehensive political and strategic statement so far from the CPN-M, published in their party magazine and distributed internationally. It includes a number of articles analyzing domestic and international issues, from leaders and politically allied organizations from the region and the RIM. These articles have been posted to the web by an independent Maoist collective in the United States.

A World to Win News Service (CoRIM): Nepal Maoists and Government Sign Peace Agreement
This careful explication of the terms of the peace agreement has a notably restrained tone. It comes from the CPN-M's comrades in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, of which they are a participating member. This article is posted in full below.

People's March: Exclusive Interview with Communist Party of India (Maoist) spokesperson on Nepal Developments
Dated Aug. 6, 2006, this critical assessment of the peace accords comes from one of the CPN-M's closest companion organizations. Leading a people's war in neighboring India, the CPI (Maoist) is a co-participant with the Nepalese in the CCOMPOSSA, a political coordinating body of South Asian Maoists.

Analytical Monthly Review: People's Victory in Nepal, U.S. and Indian Reactions
Short analysis from the Indian companion magazine to Monthly Review here in the USA.

In the comments below, a comrade has posted a joint press statement from Aug. 8 by the Communist party of Nepal (Maoist) and Communist Party of India (Maoist) on the recent debates between two parties. They have also released statement condemning the brutal attack on Lebanon.