On November 18, member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) Central Committee, Comrade Madvi Hidma, was martyred in Andhra Pradesh alongside six other comrades including his wife.
Contrary to the lies of the Old Indian State, Cde Hidma and his comrades were not killed in a firefight but in an extrajudicial execution. The seven Communists were arrested on October 28 before being summarily executed, according to the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee.
An Adivasi by birth, Cde Hidma witnessed the misery and destruction brought by landlords and capitalists firsthand. He joined the ranks of the People’s War since his youth. In 2017, after years of dedicated work leading the masses in the Dandakaranya, Cde Hidma was promoted to the Central Committee of the Party and became the youngest CC member at the age of 36.
As a CC member, Cde Hidma was known as one of the most outstanding commanders of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army and one of the most feared enemies of the Old Indian State. According to sources of the class enemy, Cde Hidma was accused of leading and participating in many offensives that inflicted heavy losses to the reactionary State forces.
Cde Hidma set an example of Communist leadership and fighting spirit: he was never far away from the trenches of the People’s War, always vigilant, and made learning an integral part of his life. His indomitable story, from a poor Adivasi village of only a few hundred people, rising to the highest leadership of the all-India revolution, growing stronger in every battle, continues to serve as a shining red flag for all revolutionaries across the world.
His legacy of a fighting revolutionary spirit and dedication to the masses is a lesson for all those who yearn for liberation and emancipation the world over, and is mirrored in the Communist Party of India (Maoist)’s pledge to never surrender to the enemy. This refusal to capitulate and join the ranks of liquidators and traitors in India comes in the face of intense repression during the bloody Operation Kagaar.
The Indian Revolution should be of interest to all revolutionary-minded people in the United States, especially as US imperialism is the foremost enemy that oppresses and exploits the Indian masses. It is one of our key international solidarity tasks to support the Indian people, their Party, and their revolutionary mass organizations particularly during this difficult period.
