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I avoid posting articles from other sources here, but tonight I
am making an exception. Mike Ely at the Kasama Project put this
up today on both the main Kasama site and on the Revolution in
South Asia site. It is well worth reading and considering:
Nepal: Ring The Bell Loudly
To put this as bluntly as I can:
The Nepali Maoists are preparing right now (i mean over the
next few weeks) for what-may-be a decisive military/political
confrontation with the reactionary government and army.
The insurrection they have been preparing so carefully and so
long may take place over the next two months.
The Maoists are seeking to mobilize the people (based on the
understanding that their enemies will be wanting to act closely
with Indian intrigues, and can be isolated by exposing those
intrigues.) Their Indian, Nepali and American enemies understand
this. Their revolutionary core base knows this. And we need to
know it.
I will be ringing this bell loudly, and more loudly… and I want
you to join me in ringing this bell.
Everyone we know and meet should start to consider how they can
discuss and explain this important revolution in (what may be)
its most bold and desperate hour.
The endgame is now taking shape in Nepal, perhaps in the next
month or two, as the Maoists sum up their repeated “dress
rehearsals”
in Kathmandu and evaluate when (exactly) to go for a seizure of
power.
It is possible that they will decide not to go for the final
revolution this spring. But more likely (at this point) is that,
through tremendous efforts and unexpected events, they will now
rise in a test of strength — and fight for a peoples democratic
Nepal — the birth of a Nepal on the socialist road. It may be the
first serious (and potentially successful) attempt at communist
revolution in decades.
With the utmost respect, I would like to disagree with the
following
claim:
>With the spearhead directed against India, the PLA [Maoist
Peoples Liberation Army] is looking to the south, rather than being
readied to do battle with the Nepal Army and the other repressive
forces
of the state.”
This misreads the situation. The reactionary/monarchist Nepali
Army’s
limited-but-real popular prestige in Nepal has been precisely based
on their history of (supposedly) upholding Nepali independence
against India.
In their moves to isolate and then defeat that National Army, the
Maoists (and their Peoples Liberation Army) are politically
claiming
that national banner (AWAY from the monarchists’ army) in order to
expose, divide and defeat that National army as Indian puppets and
collaborators (which they are).
This is not some diversion from the preparations for power — It is
one important way the Nepali Maoists are dividing their enemies
and
winning over intermediate forces (including in and around that Army
itself), precisely as the Maoists work to sum up a series of dress
rehearsals for power.
We need to be preparing ourselves (here in the U.S.) for a
political
offensive of popularization and exposure — with teach-ins,
outreach,
and the active organization of all who can be won to such an
effort.
And for us to play our role, we need to clearly understand that we
may (from now to spring) be facing the key time for “speaking on
another plane” and to much wider audiences (as the Maoists own
actions
push them into the headlines).
Revolution in South Asia
<http://southasiarev.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/nepal-ringing-the-
bell-
loudly/#more-7103>
Kasama Project site
<http://kasamaproject.org/>
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