India:

24th June : Posters against the killing of three Maoist fighters have appeared in Kalahandi district of Odisha state, causing fear and panic in the camp of the old Indian state. The posters paid tribute to three Maoist fighters killed in a fake encounter on May 9 and stated that the three revolutionaries were not killed in a firefight but tortured to death. The posters also highlighted the lives and achievements of the three martyrs for the new democratic revolution and called on the masses to support the bandh (author's note: armed general strike) on June 25. Posters were also found in Rayagada district warning against acting as police informers or face serious consequences.

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28th June : In Sukma district in Chhattisgarh, a deputy sarpach (author's note: elected village chief) and a teacher were allegedly killed by Maoist guerrilla fighters. Both were found guilty of being police informers and sentenced to death by a people's court. It is important to highlight that the Deputy Sarpach was summoned two years ago and warned to stop his anti-revolutionary activities, after which he was allowed to continue his life and leave the area.

30th June : According to bourgeois media reports, ten militants of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), which operates under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), set fire to two excavators, five dump trucks and two tractors in Muniguda town in Odisha state. After the attack, police found posters stating that the owner of the crushing plant was exploiting his workers and damaging the environment by causing pollution and damaging roads in the area; the posters warned him of similar armed actions if he continued with such activities. Following the action, police deployed additional forces in the area but were unable to locate the perpetrators.

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Manipur:
Skirmishes including gunfights and arson attacks are still reported in Manipur.

1st July : Old Indian State reported a firefight between two different groups in Chinglangmei and Langza in Samulamlam block of Churachandpur district at Saturday and Sunday nights, killing one person and injuring another. Armed forces of the old Indian state searched the area and launched an operation, but discovered that the armed attackers had managed to escape into the jungle.

2nd July : Gunmen fired shots at Phougakchao Awang Leikai and Kwakta villages in Bishnupur district from the adjacent hills on Sunday evening, injuring another person.

3rd July : On Monday, gunmen burned down some farmhouses in Chirik village and fired from hills at Leikinthabi and Chirik villages in Imphal West district.

Although the bourgeois media describes the conflict in Manipur as a rivalry between different religious and ethnic groups, the struggle in Manipur actually has a strong class character. The revolutionary news website "The Red Herald" describes the background of the current conflict in an article in which it states:" Regarding the sides involved in the struggle, mainly are two:
On the one hand, there is the bureaucratic capitalist class and the big landlords, interested in take of the lands of the peasantry. They belong to the tribe Meitei and they are mainly Hindu. They have the resources of the Indian State, and they always ruled the State of Manipur, no matter with which political party, and for this, they are able to make big deployments of police forces in order to expel the peasants from their lands (...) Besides the State repressive forces, these dominant classes also have made their own militias and groups of thugs, and they are using these ones as a head of spear against the peasantry which want to expel from their lands.“ The Red Herald continous to explain:“ On the other hand, there is the peasantry, who is defending itself against the attempts of expel and the aggression of the bourgeoisie and the big landlords. The peasantry is mainly gathered in two tribal groups, the Kuki and the Naga, and they are mainly Christians. They live mainly in the hills.” Coming to the conclusion that: “We can see a main contradiction in this struggle, and is the contradiction between peasantry and feudality. The mass media are explaining this struggle as a simple tribal or religious conflict, and the State states that all the situation is returning to normalcy, and the riots has being made by troublemakers. But all of this is unmask the reality because the key of these facts is the struggle for the land, the contradiction between peasantry and bureaucratic capitalist class and big landlords. The peasant masses are struggling and resisting the attacks from the Indian State and the ruling classes, and they are confronting directly with them.”