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Nepal: Peoples Army marches through provincial city centre
A tug at rotten teeth: the reactionary state of Nepal
Nepal: Peoples Army marches through provincial city centre
27 March 2006. A World To Win News Service. The Nepal Maoist weekly Janadesh
reports that Nepals Peoples Liberation Army staged a march through the city
centre of Gularia, the district headquarters of Bardiya in western Nepal 21
March. Gularia is a medium-sized city, by Nepali standards, situated around 50
kilometres west of Nepalgunj, the Nepali city that serves as Indias business
gateway to western Nepal. Gularia itself is less than five kilometres from the
Indo-Nepal boarder. The Indian state has already set up its armed forces across
the border areas to control the Maoist revolutionaries.
This is the first time that the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) has carried
out this kind of action, a full-force, deliberately staged march through the
city by a PLA Urban Team beginning at 10:30 in the morning, local time, and
not the kind of brief and incidental crossing of an urban area that has
sporadically occurred before in the course of a battle with the enemy ever
since the Peoples War was initiated in 1996. It caused widespread surprise in
Nepal, although the news was blacked out by the reactionary state propaganda
machinery and other bourgeois media.
The 21 March Janadesh quoted a PLA source who called it a dress rehearsal for
armed insurrection to capture the city centres. The spokesperson also said that
it was a last warning to the royal state. Janadesh reported that a great new
enthusiasm erupted among the city dwellers after the PLA completed its passage
through the city.
There are army barracks and police centres in Gularia. The royal regimes
security forces attempted to disrupt the march, resulting in the death of three
policemen. After PLA soldiers detonated a land mine, the Royal Nepalese Army
was confined within the barracks. The PLA march proceeded through town as per
plan. Although an RNA helicopter attacked the march, there were no PLA
casualties. It is not known yet whether the helicopter came from Nepalgunj or
another regional or district headquarters.
In a separate action, the Peoples Revolutionary Government confiscated a
vehicle of the old state centred in the Rolpa district headquarters. The
Revolutionary Government, like the PLA, is led by the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoist).
In other news, King Gyanendra Shah has left Kathmandu, and has been living in
Pokhara tightly encircled by his Royal Army. While he temporarily returned to
the capital a few days ago to speak with a visiting Chinese representative, he
arrived at the Royal Palace in a helicopter after the sky had been cleared of
all aircraft for 22 minutes. This contrasted with his attempts to portray his
situation as one of unconcern when almost four months ago, during the
unilateral ceasefire implemented by the CPN (Maoist), Gyanendra had invited the
media to cover him as he took a day-long walk in Lalitpur, in the capital
Kathmandu. Gyanendra has been worried about Kathmandu residents since they
pelted his hooligan son, Paras Shah, with stones in the Baneshwor district,
halfway between the airport and the Royal Palace, as the son was going to
welcome home Gyanendra from a month-long trip abroad.
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A tug at rotten teeth: the reactionary state of Nepal
27 March 2006. A World To Win News Service. Nepal has witnessed dramatic
twists and turns in recent days in the struggle against the feudal state. At
one point, the 12-point memorandum of understanding reached between Communist
Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the bulk of the parliamentary parties (the Seven
Party Alliance SPA) was on the verge of collapse. Now, in a last-minute
agreement between the parliamentarians and the revolutionaries, both have
reaffirmed the 12-point memo, which states that the autocratic feudal monarchy
is the main obstacle to progress in the country today and the common target of
attack. The SPA has called for a general strike 3-6 April. The Maoists have
announced their full support for it.
The 12-point agreement between the CPN(Maoist) and the SPA was achieved
earlier this year despite enormous pressure from the US and other imperialist
powers to give up the struggle to abolish the monarchy. Subsequently, when the
parliamentarian parties failed to come up with effective programmes for
struggle, the Maoists had announced a 20-day blockade of the capital and other
headquarter cities of the reactionary state, followed by an indefinite
political strike starting 3 April. The blockade began 14 March, crippling
normal life in Kathmandu. Then, when the parliamentarian parties agreed to lead
a four-day general strike to drive out the feudal monarchy, the CPN(Maoist)
called off the blockade and withdrew its own call for an unlimited general
strike.
The CPN(Maoist)s slogans for the general strike it called were: Abolish the
feudal and comprador monarchy! Establish a multiparty democratic republic!
Block the illegitimate royal power! Organize parallel democratic government!
Dissolve the feudal mercenary royal army! Build up a new democratic national
army! Conduct a free and fair election for a constituent assembly! Restructure
the state as to ensure class, nationality, regional and gender liberation!
Implement the Maoist-Parliamentarian 12-point understanding! Create a
countrywide storm of united movement! The police and Royal Army became
extremely demoralized and terrified. On several occasions, they fired on
demonstrators in the Kathmandu Valley.
In the face of the attacks and provocations of the diehard feudal elements
and their imperialist masters, the parliamentary leaders have always been
unable to counter them politically and organisationally. Their vacillation,
confusion and dependence on their imperialist masters has prevented them from
coming up with a strong programme for struggle to flush down the Nepal
monarchy. These parliamentarian parties have failed time and again to lead the
masses in a manner meeting their historical needs. Various mass organizations
such as student, peasant, women and worker groups and middle-class forces
sympathetic to them are demanding a radical change in Nepalese society and
chanting slogans such as Down with monarchy! Hail the democratic republic of
Nepal! While the Maoists have been fighting for a Peoples Republic and have
come to an immediate agenda of a democratic republic, the parliamentarians have
been urged to unite with the Maoists around common slogans and a
single programme.
The US, along with Britain, Japan and India, has been staunchly supporting
Gyanendra and pressuring the parliamentarian parties to surrender to him. Among
recent examples of intense imperialist interference against the Nepalese
revolution are the constant pressure of the American ambassador in Kathmandu,
his interview with the BBC where he criticized the parliamentary parties for
failing to unite with the king, the visit of American Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Donald Camp to Kathmandu and the
remarks of President Bush while in India, and the recent visit of the British
parliamentary members to Nepal, where they urged the parliamentarians to return
to the kings embrace.
Because of the stakes in this fight between imperialism represented by the
king and the Nepalese people represented by the proletarian party, the Maoists
seek to win over the parliamentarian parties, who have been struggling against
the king for their interests and in their own way. The imperialists may
calculate that if the parliamentarian parties are made to surrender to the
king, that would open up the way to invade Nepal. The CPN(M)believes that if
the parliamentary parties take a stand in favour of the people, the
centuries-old feudal monarchy in Nepal can be wiped out.
The diehard feudal autocrats and the imperialist forces have seen the
12-point agenda as a harness in the Maoists hands and have been doing
everything in their power to avert this alliance. From US Ambassador Moriarty
to King Gyanendras loyal ministers Kamal Thapa and Kitinidhi Bistha, they have
repeatedly and provocatively declared that in accepting the 12-point agreement
the parliamentarians have fallen into the hands of the Maoists.
The following point from the first agreement is reiterated in the new, second
agreement: The seven agitating parties are fully committed to the fact that
only by establishing absolute democracy through the restoration of the
Parliament with the force of agitation, forming an all-party government with
complete authority, holding elections to a constituent assembly through
dialogue and understanding with the Maoists, can the existing conflict in the
country be resolved and sovereignty and state power completely transferred to
the people. It is the view and commitment of the CPN (Maoist) that the above
mentioned goal can be achieved by holding a national political conference of
the agitating democratic forces, and through its decision, forming an interim
government to hold constituent assembly elections. An understanding has been
reached between the agitating seven parties and the CPN (Maoist) to continue
dialogue on this procedural work-list and find a common
understanding. It has been agreed that the force of the peoples movement is
the only alternative to achieve this.
That means that the seven parties have not yet made the required break with
their political vacillation, confusion and hopes that Gyanendra Shah will hand
over power without having to be violently overthrown. Still the agreement has
tremendous importance because it has achieved a political victory in forging a
united front against the reactionaries.
CPN(M)Chairman Prachanda said in a recent interview in the Maoist weekly
Janadesh, Through the successful leadership of ten years of peoples war, the
role of a responsible political party to free the entire country from the
feudal autocracy forever has fallen on our shoulders. It is our responsibility
to play this role in a real sense. From this point of view, our party with
utmost sincerity, confidence and flexibility, has been accentuating to unite
all those who can be united against the feudal autocracy.
The Maoist-led revolutionary Peoples War that has been shaking the old
Nepalese state for a decade is approaching a climax, the uprooting of the
reactionary state. Now Nepalese society in many ways is feeling combined pangs
of pain and pleasure, just as children feel when their rotten teeth are pulled
out to the root in order to make room for a new tooth. Obviously, it is painful
while the 237-year-old feudal roots are being jerked out, but there is
confidence that once the old and rotten tooth is gone, a new and stronger one
can grow. Not only is the world anxiously witnessing the tumultuous political
developments in Nepal, but also the Nepalese people themselves are taking
cautious measures under the leadership of the proletarian party, a
participating party in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, to make
revolution a success and prevent it from being nipped in the bud by the
reactionaries at home and aboard.
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