POLICY STATEMENT ON THE VANGUARD WEBSITE 
AND THE VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN


    1. Nature and purpose.  The Vanguard website (VW) and Vanguard International Bulletin (VIB) are created to publicize the articles and news reports of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations.
    2. VW and VIB are initiated by the Convenors of the International Seminar on Mao and People’s War, which was held last December 1998 to celebrate Comrade Mao’s 105 birth anniversary.  These convenors are: the Communist Party of India (ML) People’s War, the Communist Party of the Philippines and the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist.
    3. The representatives of the aforesaid convenors have constituted themselves as the initial editorial board of VW and VIB.  Other Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations can nominate their representatives to this editorial board.  Representatives of said parties and organizations may use noms de plume.  They shall also serve as correspondents to help ensure the submission of news reports and articles from their respective parties.

    4. The essential task of the board is to gather articles and news reports from the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations and to publish these according to technical requirements and the frequency possible. If the number of representatives nominated to become members of the editorial board exceeds seven, a consensus shall be taken in order to define some reasonable criteria for composing and distinguishing the editorial board members and the list of correspondents. 

    5. Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations are urged to submit at any time either by e-mail or snail mail, for posting on the website, articles and news reports.  If any of such party has its own website, the Vanguard website may establish a link to it.
    6. From the website, the editorial board shall select articles and newsreports for publication in the quarterly issue of the Vanguard International Bulletin.   Every issue shall be posted on the website
    7. Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations may submit articles and feedbacks under the heading of correspondence in the website of the Vanguard.  Correspondences shall be selected for inclusion in VIB.
    8. The MLM parties and organizations can download any material appearing on the Vanguard website and make their own translation in any language, layout and  mass reproduction in hard copy according to their needs and wishes.