Dem Volke Dienen – India: Against the Low-Intensity Warfare

We hereby share an unofficial translation of an article published by Dem Volke Dienen on the current situation in India.

On the evening of August 29, a “teacher” at a government “school” was eliminated in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, just days after a similar incident took place in the neighboring Sukma district.

The substitute teacher worked as a so-called “Shiksha Doot.” This latest incident highlights the risks faced by local collaborators of the old Indian State in its war against the people when they sell themselves for a plate of lentils.

Shiksha Doot are “educators” sent by the old State to remote and insurgency-affected areas of India, especially regions affected by the People’s War waged by the CPI (Maoist). Their tasks are part of the counter-subversive war. They are one aspect of the “benefits” that the reaction offers the people in order to separate the guerrillas from the masses. These “teachers” supposedly promote literacy and

education, but in fact they promote the counter-revolutionary initiatives of the old State.

As part of the counter-subversive war, the local administration, with the support of the police (or the

army), is opening “schools” in areas dominated by “Naxalites” where not only the counter-revolutionary indoctrination of students is to take place, but also the spying on the masses to gather information against the people’s war.

In Sukma, one such “Shiksha Doot,” who had worked for years in such a “school” in Silger, was recently punished on the evening of August 27 because he, like other members of his family, were police informants.

Following such punitive actions, the reactionary media usually pours out a torrent of feigned outrage over the alleged killing of “civilians” and “attacks on indigenous villagers” and so on, which is also part of the counter-subversive warfare waged by the old Indian State.

In fact, it is the CPI (Maoist), the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army, and the mass organizations that are promoting literacy campaigns, especially among the Adivasi—it was the Party that first developed a form of written language for this most oppressed section of the Indian people.