From the opening session of the 7th Historic Congress of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, January 2013.

Photo by Natalio Pérez (selucha)

Three revolutionary women from the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist. Photo by Natalio Pérez (selucha).

Comrades from the People’s Volunteers, a militant urban wing of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist.

Click here for more of my photos from the opening session of the 7th Congress of the CPN-Maoist in Kathmandu. The Congress just concluded today, after a two day extension on the closed sessions. Much more information to come!

[Photo by Natalio Pérez. Feel free to distribute and repost, preferably linking back to kasamaproject.org]

Back to the basics.

Thanks to Ka Marco for this. The image is of “Ka Roger” of the Communist Party of the Philippines. The abbreviation “Ka” is short for the word kasama, which roughly translates as comrade in English but is closer to the term compañero in Spanish.

The CPP yesterday announced the death of its former spokesperson Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal who succumbed to a heart attack on June 22. The CPP had delayed issuing a public announcement because it had to confirm first whether his daughters had already received the news of their father’s passing. Intensive military operations prevented the sad news from reaching Ka Roger’s children with dispatch.

The CPP statement was released on the internet through the Philippine Revolution Web Central (www.philippinerevolution.net) which dedicated its website to the memory of Ka Roger. Immediately after, the Facebook and Twitter accounts of CPP media liaison officer Marco Valbuena was filled with expressions of sympathy and grief. Internet users posted their condolences to Ka Roger’s family, friends and comrades. By nighttime, “Ka Roger” became one of the top trending words in the Philippines. The people who twitted about Ka Roger’s death ranged from bloggers, journalists and reporters, government officials and friends to ordinary folk. Text messages were received from ordinary people, especially those who said they were among those whose lives were touched by Ka Roger as representative of the revolutionary cause.

“The only sour note yesterday were the hypcroticial statements from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson who expressed feigned sympathy with Ka Roger’s family after more than twenty years of tormenting his daughters and relatives with their intensive surveillance operations.”

theredfuckingmenace:

From Indigo’s Sketchbook

When Mao unleashes creativity, he unleashes metaphorical fucking birds from his fucking underarm. What happens when you do?

I think I know the girl that did this, actually.

A drawing of comrade George Jackson by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Minister of Defense for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter. The NABP is a Maoist, communist organization whose ideas are more clearly articulated in Johnson’s recent book, Defying the Tomb.

The text in the image says “In our struggle for liberation there are various fronts, among which there are the fronts of the pen and of the gun, the cultural and the military fronts. To defeat the enemy we must rely primarily on the army with guns. But this army alone is not enough; we must also have a cultural army, which is absolutely indispensable for uniting our own ranks and defeating the enemy.”