BANNEDTHOUGHT
Vanguard — Official Publication of the
Communist Party of India (M-L) People’s War
Vanguard, or the Voice of the Vanguard, was the official publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People’s War. The first issue was in March 1983. It appeared on nearly a monthly schedule through 1985. At that point its publication had to be suspended for 5 years. In May-June 1991 publication was resumed, and it appeared somewhat irregularly thereafter until the CPI(M-L)PW merged in late 2004 with the Maoist Communist Centre of India to form the present Communist Party of India (Maoist).
Even when Vanguard was being published it was quite difficult to obtain because of the oppressive attempts of the Indian government to prevent its circulation. Thus after a number of years it is extremely difficult to locate all the published issues, and sometimes the issues posted here are missing some pages or sections (sometimes marked with a string of red X's). If anyone has access to issues (or parts of issues) which are not available below (or which are available in the original hardcopy or in the better PDF format) please contact us so that we can post them here.
Recently some revolutionaries in India scanned in many of the issues of this important publication and made them available for posting. These issues are in Microsoft Word format. Be forewarned that there are quite a few uncorrected scanning errors and gaps in various places, but generally these problems do not prevent the comprehension of the original articles.
We also have scans in PDF format of portions of a few of the later issues.
Contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net
1983:
March: MS Word Format [39 pages, 237 KB] April: MS Word Format [38 pages, 209 KB] May: MS Word Format [34 pages, 175 KB] June: MS Word Format [39 pages, 211 KB] July-August: MS Word Format [31 pages, 172 KB] September: MS Word Format [34 pages, 175 KB] October: MS Word Format [39 pages, 184 KB] November: MS Word Format [42 pages, 218 KB] December:
MS Word Format [29 pages, 154 KB]
1984:
January: MS Word Format [35 pages, 143 KB] February: MS Word Format [30 pages, 149 KB] March: MS Word Format [26 pages, 132 KB] April-May: MS Word Format [42 pages, 205 KB] June: MS Word Format [28 pages, 148 KB] July: MS Word Format [34 pages, 159 KB] August: MS Word Format [26 pages, 127 KB] September: MS Word Format [29 pages, 143 KB] October: MS Word Format [30 pages, 151 KB] November-December:
MS Word Format [45 pages, 207 KB]
1985:
January: MS Word Format [30 pages, 145 KB] February: MS Word Format [30 pages, 141 KB] March: MS Word Format [29 pages, 141 KB] April-May: MS Word Format [52 pages, 215 KB] June: MS Word Format [37 pages, 162 KB] July-Aug.: MS Word Format [35 pages, 160 KB] September-October: MS Word Format [54 pages, 234 KB] November-December:
MS Word Format [39 pages, 176 KB]
1991:
May-June: MS Word Format [37 pages, 178 KB] July-August: MS Word Format [31 pages, 160 KB] September-October: MS Word Format [42 pages, 186 KB] November 1991—February 1992:
MS Word Format [34 pages, 151 KB]
1992:
March-April: MS Word Format [34 pages, 150 KB] May-June: Not available! [BannedThought.net needs this issue.] July-September: MS Word Format [38 pages, 167 KB] October-December:
MS Word Format [44 pages, 186 KB]
1993:
January-March: MS Word Format [31 pages, 138 KB] April-June: MS Word Format [36 pages, 151 KB] July-September: MS Word Format [36 pages, 159 KB] October-December:
MS Word Format [49 pages, 207 KB]
1994:
January-March: MS Word Format [40 pages, 177 KB] April-June:
MS Word Format [37 pages, 155 KB]
1997:
July-October:
PDF Format [Scan of xerox copy of pp. 7-19, 1,950 KB. Includes these articles:]
• “Charu Mazumdar: The Architect of Naxalbari Path”
• “Naxalbari and CPI(ML) Are Inseparable — A Reply to MCC”
• “When Maharashtra Burned for Four Days”
November-December:
PDF Format [Scan of xerox copy of pp. 19-26, 1,354 KB. Consists of this article:]
• “New Democracy Group’s Vicious Campaign Against CPI(ML)(PW) is a Desperate Attempt
to Cover Up their Political Bankruptcy and Movement’s Degeneration”
[More issues to be added if we can obtain them.]