From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:00:07 +0100 To: "Peoples War" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] Nepal: "Mainstream" Communists Reunite - FEER Far East Economic Review Nepal Communists Reunite =================== Nepal's mainstream communist parties, alarmed by defections from their ranks to the rebel Maoist movement, have been working secretly to join forces. The Nepal Communist Party-United Marxist and Leninist, or NCP-UML, and the splinter Nepal Communist Party-Marxist and Leninist hope the move will strengthen the communist movement in the Himalayan kingdom, according to NCP-UML politburo member Bharat Mohan Adhikari. The NCP-UML has 67 seats in the 205-member House of Representatives while its rival, which split from the bigger party over policy matters in 1996, failed to win a single seat in the 1999 general election. But the NCP-UML, though it became the biggest single party in parliament's upper house earlier this year, has generally not functioned effectively as an opposition party. And both these communist parties are acutely aware of the Nepal Communist Party-Maoist's increasing attraction to the rural poor and unemployed pro-leftist youth. The NCP-UML first expressed willingness to take back its dissidents at a party function on July 27 in Kathmandu, which was attended by Bamdey Gautam, general secretary of the rival Nepal Communist Party-Marxist and Leninist. "Without a Peoples Army the people have nothing" Mao _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
