Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia
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The Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organizations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA) is an umbrella organization
of various South Asian Maoist parties and movements and its purpose is to coordinate their activities throughout South Asia
(as well as elsewhere as needed).
(RCCI(M) and MCC merged in 2003 and became MCCI. MCCI and CPI (M-L) (PW) merged in 2004 and became the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
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, Vladimir Lenin
and Mao Zedong
, and, not least, to build on the examples and experience of Protracted People's Wars in Peru
, Nepal
, Philippines
, India
, Turkey
and elsewhere.
The conference resolved that coordination would be deepened and extended, while asserting that Nepali Maoists would not meddle in the 'Indian People's War'.
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Umbrella organization
An umbrella organization is an association of institutions, who work together formally to coordinate activities or pool resources. In business, political, or other environments, one group, the umbrella organization, provides resources and often an identity to the smaller organizations...
of various South Asian Maoist parties and movements and its purpose is to coordinate their activities throughout South Asia
South Asia
South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east...
(as well as elsewhere as needed).
Bangladesh
- Purba Bangala Sarbahara Party (Central Committee)
- Purba Bangla Sarbahara Party (Maobadi Punargathan Kendra)
- Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal (Marksbadi-Leninbadi)
- Purba Banglar Communist Party - Marksbadi-Leninbadi (Lal Patakar)
- Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party (Maoist Bolshevik Reorganization Movement) (observer status)
India
- Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari
- Maoist Communist Centre of India
- Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
- Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist)Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist)Revolutionary Communist Centre of India , was a communist group based in Punjab. RCCI was formed in 1995, as the Revolutionary Communist Centre of India was divided into two...
- Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's WarCommunist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's WarCommunist Party of India People's War, usually called People's War Group , was an underground communist party in India. It merged the Maoist Communist Centre of India to form the Communist Party of India in 2004...
(RCCI(M) and MCC merged in 2003 and became MCCI. MCCI and CPI (M-L) (PW) merged in 2004 and became the Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Communist Party of India (Maoist)
The Communist Party of India is a Maoist political party in India which aims to overthrow the government of India through violent means. It was founded on 21 September 2004, through the merger of the People's War, and the Maoist Communist Centre . The merger was announced to the public on October...
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Declaration
At CCOMPOSA's second annual conference in 2002, a declaration was issued, outlining the vision CCOMPOSA had for its role in revolutionary politics, how it would operate, and how the political situation in South Asia and the world looked from their point of view. It was declared that the organization would follow the ideas carved by Karl MarxKarl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
, Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
and Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
, and, not least, to build on the examples and experience of Protracted People's Wars in Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
and elsewhere.
Fourth Conference
In August 2006, CCOMPOSA held its fourth conference in Nepal. Representatives of eight parties attended, including those of the Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist), who did not sign the resolutions. That has been taken as an indication that the CCP(M) was invited as an observer. The parties that participated in the conference were the following: Purba Bangala Sarbahara Party (Central Committee), Purba Banglar Communist Party - ML (Lal Patakar), Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal (ML) (all from Bangladesh), Communist Party of Bhutan (MLM), Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Communist Party of India (Maoist), Communist Party of India (ML) Naxalbari and Communist Party of India (MLM).The conference resolved that coordination would be deepened and extended, while asserting that Nepali Maoists would not meddle in the 'Indian People's War'.
See also
Many parties of CCOMPOSA are members of the Revolutionary Internationalist MovementRevolutionary Internationalist Movement
The defunct Revolutionary Internationalist Movement was an international Communist organization which upheld a version of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism founded in 1984 sought to "struggle for the formation of a Communist International of a new type, based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism"...
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External links
- CCOMPOSA website hosted by CPN(M) (includes numerous further links)
- CCOMPOSA News and Information
- 2002 Declaration of CCOMPOSA
- Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)