Saorsa
20th March 2010, 03:22
New Pamphlet: Revolution in Nepal
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This new pamphlet contains two essays: Revolution in Nepal, by Alastair Reith and Eyes on the Maobadi: Four Reasons Nepal’s Revolution Matters, by Mike Ely.
For the full pamphlet in printable form. (http://workerspartynz.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/revolution-in-nepal.pdf)
from Alastair Reith’s introduction;
The first communist revolution of the 21st century is unfolding in Nepal. The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is leading the workers, peasants and oppressed in a movement that seeks nothing less than a whole new world. Ever since the destruction of the Soviet Union, the ruling class has told us that communism is dead. Unfortunately for them, the people of this small, desperately poor country do not appear to be listening.
Nepal’s Maoists are fighting to make a new kind of revolution in a new kind of way. They do not seek to mechanically copy the models of revolution we have seen in the past, and they have made a painstakingly detailed analysis of what they see as the mistakes made in the revolutions of the 20th century and how they intend to avoid them. They have often surprised their friends and supporters around the world with their creative and innovative tactics, and they have consis¬tently sought to develop a method for applying Marxism to Nepal that actually fits the conditions in that country. They take their tactics from an analysis of the real world around them, not from century-old books.
Having analysed the degeneration and eventual defeats of the socialist revolutions in Russia and China, the UCPN(M) has proposed that in order to try to prevent this from happening in Nepal, multi-party democratic elections will continue even after the seizure of state power by the revolution. They envisage a system where the ordinary working people are capable of voting the party bureaucrats out of office if it becomes apparent that things are going wrong, and Maoist leader Chairman Prachanda has publicly stated that they see themselves as continuing in the tradition of Lenin, not Stalin, who they see as having made serious errors. They have proposed that Nepal’s standing army be dissolved and replaced by arming the people. A system of people’s militias responsible to local power authorities that are in turn responsible to a state structure under the control of the people would, in their opinion, make a large permanent military force unnecessary.
They have fought for almost 20 years for a new Nepal, where the workers have jobs, the peasants have land, the oppressed nationalities have self-determination, the women have equality and the nation has full independence. Their struggle has transformed Nepal, and opened up possibilities for revolution and freedom that the world has not seen in decades. A successful revolution in Nepal will create an echo heard around the world, and will have a particularly large im¬pact on Nepal’s south Asian neighbours, such as India, where there is already an advanced revolutionary movement that the Indian government has declared to be the greatest security threat the Indian ruling class has ever faced. As the man who Nepal’s Maoists take their name and their ideology from once said, a single spark can start a prairie fire. And, after centuries of poverty, inequality and injustice across the world, the grass is very dry.
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/political.jpg
This new pamphlet contains two essays: Revolution in Nepal, by Alastair Reith and Eyes on the Maobadi: Four Reasons Nepal’s Revolution Matters, by Mike Ely.
For the full pamphlet in printable form. (http://workerspartynz.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/revolution-in-nepal.pdf)
from Alastair Reith’s introduction;
The first communist revolution of the 21st century is unfolding in Nepal. The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is leading the workers, peasants and oppressed in a movement that seeks nothing less than a whole new world. Ever since the destruction of the Soviet Union, the ruling class has told us that communism is dead. Unfortunately for them, the people of this small, desperately poor country do not appear to be listening.
Nepal’s Maoists are fighting to make a new kind of revolution in a new kind of way. They do not seek to mechanically copy the models of revolution we have seen in the past, and they have made a painstakingly detailed analysis of what they see as the mistakes made in the revolutions of the 20th century and how they intend to avoid them. They have often surprised their friends and supporters around the world with their creative and innovative tactics, and they have consis¬tently sought to develop a method for applying Marxism to Nepal that actually fits the conditions in that country. They take their tactics from an analysis of the real world around them, not from century-old books.
Having analysed the degeneration and eventual defeats of the socialist revolutions in Russia and China, the UCPN(M) has proposed that in order to try to prevent this from happening in Nepal, multi-party democratic elections will continue even after the seizure of state power by the revolution. They envisage a system where the ordinary working people are capable of voting the party bureaucrats out of office if it becomes apparent that things are going wrong, and Maoist leader Chairman Prachanda has publicly stated that they see themselves as continuing in the tradition of Lenin, not Stalin, who they see as having made serious errors. They have proposed that Nepal’s standing army be dissolved and replaced by arming the people. A system of people’s militias responsible to local power authorities that are in turn responsible to a state structure under the control of the people would, in their opinion, make a large permanent military force unnecessary.
They have fought for almost 20 years for a new Nepal, where the workers have jobs, the peasants have land, the oppressed nationalities have self-determination, the women have equality and the nation has full independence. Their struggle has transformed Nepal, and opened up possibilities for revolution and freedom that the world has not seen in decades. A successful revolution in Nepal will create an echo heard around the world, and will have a particularly large im¬pact on Nepal’s south Asian neighbours, such as India, where there is already an advanced revolutionary movement that the Indian government has declared to be the greatest security threat the Indian ruling class has ever faced. As the man who Nepal’s Maoists take their name and their ideology from once said, a single spark can start a prairie fire. And, after centuries of poverty, inequality and injustice across the world, the grass is very dry.