Dear Comrades and Friends,
Two leading members of the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoist) -- including a member of the current
negotiating team with the government -- are currently
in Europe holding holding discussions of various
kinds. To take advantage of this unique opportunity to
hear first hand about the situation in Nepal and the
CPN(M)'s analysis of how the people's struggle there
against imperialism and feudal reaction is likely to
proceed we have been requested to organize some public
meetings in a number of cities. This will be the first
time that top leaders of the CPN (M) will speak
publicly in Europe to explain the Party's views and
programm. Although this is on short notice, we urge
everyone to make the maximum effort to mobilize as
broadly as possible for these events.
The title of the programs will be --
Revolution in Nepal: The Current Situation and
Perspectives for the Peoples Struggle
The call is pasted below and we urge people to contact your local World
People's Resistance Movement branch to find out your local meeting. E mail
details of of europe wide WPRM branches below the call.
In Struggle,
Revolution in Nepal:
The Current Situation and Perspectives for the Peoples Struggle
A presentation and discussion with a leader of the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoist) and member of the CPN (M) negotiations team with the current
government in Kathmandu.
This past April the peoples struggle in Nepal made headlines around the
world as hundreds of thousands poured into the streets of Nepals cities and
towns to demand and end to the monarchy, the feudal social relations it serves.
In doing so the people defied government curfews; shoot-on-sight orders; and
police clubs and bullets intended to quell this huge upsurge with naked force.
This attempt failed and in an effort to save his sinking regime Nepals king
Gyanendra was forced to reinstate the discredited parliament he had previously
dismissed as corrupt and ineffective.
These developments took many people in the West by surprise. That was because
the revolution that has been taking place in Nepal for the past 10 years has
been essentially blacked out by the mainstream media or declared to be
terrorist. The truth is that in Feb. 1996 the CPN (M) launched what it calls
a Maoist Peoples War and New Democratic Revolution with the aim of
emancipating the country and its people from centuries of the most brutal
caste, class and gender oppression and the domination over the country by big
foreign powers and institutions. They declared their basic strategy to be one
of mobilizing the rural population to establish revolutionary base areas in the
countryside, surround the cities and from that basis then liberate the entire
country. And they stated that the struggle they are leading is part of and
serves a revolutionary process aimed at eliminating imperialism all around the
world.
Starting with just a handful of combatants they have built up a powerful
Peoples Liberation Army with 7 divisions and supported by local militia also
numbering tens of thousands of people. It is a sign of the unprecedented
character of this revolution that over 30% of the liberation fighters are
women. In the past 10 years these base areas have come to encompass over 80% of
Nepals territory and population. They are administered by Peoples Committees
elected in the villages and led by the party. This form of genuine peoples
power has already brought about dramatic changes in peoples lives; knocking
down discrimination based on caste, sex and nationality and removing the burden
of the oppression and exploitation that Nepals peasants have suffered at the
hands of Nepals feudal overlords.
This is the background and basis for the upsurge in April this year. When the
CPN (M) declared a ceasefire in Kathmandu valley and threw its political
support to the mass movement, the way was open for the mass outpouring the
world witnessed. The parties of the reinstated parliament and newly appointed
government signed an agreement with the CPN (M) calling for the establishment
of an interim government and constitution and elections to a constitutional
assembly. Along with that a ceasefire has been negotiated between the two
sides. It can truly be said that the peoples struggle in Nepal has entered a
new and extremely complex phase. The potential for major advances and even
victory are great. At the same time, the danger of intrigues and plots aimed at
derailing or misleading the struggle, as well as the possibility of open
foreign intervention are increasing as well. Already hundreds of US Army
personnel and truckloads of arms are flooding into the country in an effort
to prepare the Royal Army (now officially called the Neapli Army) to launch a
possible counter-attack as happened in Chile and other places. The government
has refused to implement the agreements it has signed and is calling for the
CPN (M) to disarm first: i.e. surrender.
The success or failure of the revolution in Nepal is not only of great
significance to the people of that country and even all of South Asia, it is of
tremendous importance for the people of the entire world. The worlds current
rulers constantly declare that the only choice people have is either to side
with them and their imperialist system or with some kind of religious
fundamentalism of other backward ideology. The struggle in Nepal demonstrates
that this is NOT the case. There is a future that can be won in which people
can experience genuine equality and liberation from all the forms of
superstition, oppression and exploitation that dominate the world today: true
emancipation. We urge everyone who supports or is interested in this struggle
and in learning more about the revolution in Nepal to take advantage of this
unique opportunity to hear first hand about the current situation and the
perspectives for advance from one of the leaders of that struggle.
World Peoples Resistance Movement (Europe)
(for local information)
UK WPRM
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