The Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organizations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA) is an
umbrella organization
An umbrella organization is an association of (often related, industry-specific) institutions who work together formally to coordinate activities and/or pool resources. In business, political, and other environments, it provides resources and ofte ...
of various South Asian
Maoist
Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...
parties and movements and its purpose is to coordinate their activities throughout
South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical
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(as well as elsewhere as needed).
Founding parties
CCOMPOSA was founded in 2001 by the following parties:
Bangladesh
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Purba Bangala Sarbahara Party (Central Committee)
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Purba Bangla Sarbahara Party (Maobadi Punargathan Kendra)
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Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal (Marksbadi-Leninbadi)
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Purba Banglar Communist Party - Marksbadi-Leninbadi (Lal Patakar)
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Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party (Maoist Bolshevik Reorganization Movement) (observer status)
Bhutan
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Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) (observer status)
India
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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari
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Maoist Communist Centre of India
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Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
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Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist)
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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War, usually called People's War Group (PWG), was an underground communist party in India. It merged with the Maoist Communist Centre of India to form the Communist Party of India (Maois ...
Note: Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist) and Maoist Communist Centre merged in 2003 and became Maoist Communist Centre of India.
In 2004 Maoist Communist Centre of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People's War merged to become Communist Party of India (Maoist)
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist banned communist political party and militant organization in India which aims to overthrow the "semi-colonial and semi-feudal Indian state" through protracted people' ...
)
Nepal
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Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
Sri Lanka
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Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)
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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 Marx
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,
Vladimir Lenin
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and
Mao Zedong
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, and, not least, to build on the examples and experience of
Protracted People's War
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s in
Peru
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,
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
,
Philippines
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* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
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,
India
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,
Turkey
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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 were members of the
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) was an international communist organization founded in France in March 1984 by 17 various Maoist organisations around the world. It sought to "struggle for the formation of a Communist Internationa ...
prior to its dissolution.
References
External links
CCOMPOSA statements and documents{{Maoism
Communist parties in Asia
Anti-revisionist internationals
Organizations established in 2001