People's War Group: In 1980, the People's War Group (PWG) was founded in Andhra Pradesh, a southern state in India. The group considers themselves to be champions of the peasants and landless and adheres to the ideology of Mao Tse Tung's organized peasant rebellion. Since its founding, the group has participated in an armed struggle against the Indian government, landowners, and those the group believes to conspire with the government. The group has been known under the names the People's Guerilla Army, the Naxalites, and the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist. The group spent much of the last twenty-five years combating other communist groups as well as the government and landowners. However, in 2004, the PWG announced a merger with a former competitor for power of the Naxalite movement, the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCC). The group declared a joining of forces to become the Communist Party of India-Maoist.