The aim of the Naxalites is to establish a communist state in India by the capture of political power through armed struggle. They are for the establishment of a ‘people’s government’ and label the democracy currently existing in the country as ‘semi-colonial’ and ‘semi-feudal’, with the ruling classes dominated by neo-imperialists…

The word Naxalism, has been derived from Naxalbari, a tiny village of West Bengal where a section of CPI(M) led by Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal sparked a violent uprising in 1967…