The latest issue of Monde Diplomatique (English edition) has given extremely useful information about the successes of the Maoist movement in India, about which one generally hears very little - as indeed one heard very little about the Nepalese Maoist movement until it had effectively conquered 80% of the country.
Many people assumed that the Naxalite movement of the late 1960's simply died away, but far from it. Inspired by the Naxalite uprising in Bengal, “armed Maoist groups sprang up in the jungle and remote countryside. Their military activities were sporadic until September 2004 when the two main movements - the People’s War Group in central India and the Maoist Communist Centre of India, which is active in Bihar - joined forces to create a single, banned, Maoist party ...
