The International Committee to Support the People’s War in India (ICSPWI) calls on all democratic, progressive, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces worldwide to join the International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar.
What is Operation Kagaar?
Since January 2024, the Indian state under Narendra Modi’s Hindutva fascist regime has been conducting Operation Kagaar, a military operation whose stated goal is the complete destruction of the revolutionary movement in India by March 2026. In reality, this is a comprehensive war against the people, directed primarily against the Adivasi population, poor farmers, revolutionary activists, journalists, students and political prisoners. Entire regions are being occupied by the military, villages bombed and burned down, civilians abused as human shields, prisoners tortured and extra-judicially executed in so-called ‘fake encounters’.
Operation Kagaar is a continuation and escalation of earlier counter-revolutionary military operations such as Samadhan-Prahar and Green Hunt. With the deployment of the army, paramilitaries and air force, the Indian state is attempting to destroy the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) and the New Democratic Revolution they are leading. This counter-revolutionary offensive hit the revolutionary movement particularly hard in 2025, when numerous leading cadres, including the party’s general secretary, Comrade Basavaraj (Namballa Kesava Rao), and other well-known Adivasi leaders, were assassinated. At the same time, the state is intensifying its psychological warfare, deliberately spreading rumors about alleged surrenders and attempting to demoralize the revolutionary forces.
Steadfastness and revolutionary continuity
Despite these heavy losses, the revolutionary movement in India remains steadfast on its path. In several public documents, the CPI (Maoist) has made it clear that there will be no abandonment of armed struggle and no surrender to the state. Rather, the party openly analyses its mistakes, learns lessons from its losses and reorganizes itself under the changed conditions. The protracted people’s war remains the only way to overcome exploitation, national oppression, the caste system, patriarchy and imperialist penetration.
A central element of repression is mass imprisonment. Under laws such as the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, thousands of people in India are detained for years without trial. Journalists are criminalized for critical reporting, students are arrested for possessing Marxist literature, and activists are tortured and isolated. India presents itself internationally as ‘the world’s largest democracy,’ but in reality it is a prison for its people, where fundamental democratic rights are systematically suspended.
This development is no coincidence, but rather an expression of the increasing fascistization of the Indian state. Under the Hindutva regime, religious minorities are persecuted, national oppression is intensified, and social protests are met with military force. At the same time, India acts as a strategic pillar of US imperialism in South Asia and as a close ally of Israel. Internal oppression and an aggressive external role are two sides of the same policy.
International significance of the struggle in India
This is precisely why the struggle of the Indian people is of international significance. The New Democratic Revolution in India represents one of the most important fronts in the global anti-imperialist struggle. Its defeat or victory would have a direct impact on the global balance of power between imperialism and the proletarian world revolution. Solidarity with the people’s war in India therefore also means solidarity with all oppressed peoples and political prisoners worldwide.
Against this background, the ICSPWI calls for an International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar. The aim of this campaign is to expose the crimes of the Indian state internationally, build political pressure, demand the release of all political prisoners and provide practical support to the revolutionary forces in India. Actions, rallies, events and publications have already taken place in numerous countries on several continents. This mobilization must be expanded, deepened and coordinated.
Call for participation
We call on all individuals and organizations in solidarity to participate in the month of action against Operation Kagaar in March 2026. On March 28, 2026, an international demonstration will take place in Zurich in solidarity with the revolutionary movement in India.
Today, more than ever, it is important to take a clear stand. Operation Kagaar must be stopped. The massacres of the Adivasi population must be stopped. All political prisoners in India must be released immediately. Imperialist support for the Indian regime must end.
The struggle of the Indian revolutionaries is our struggle. Their steadfastness is a call to all of us to strengthen international solidarity and advance the common struggle against imperialism, fascism and oppression.
STOP OPERATION KAGAAR!
FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!
SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE’S WAR IN INDIA!
MARCH 28 – ZURICH H.15
Switzerland Coordination
INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST OPERATION KAGAAR
Parallel actions in Europe, North and South America, South Asia, Australia and North Africa.
-International Emergency Campaign Against Operation Kagaar
Source : https://maoistroad.blogspot.com/2026/03/call-for-international-emergency.html