Questions for Nepal

[chegitz guevara]

Jed Brandt, our comrade in Nepal has requested interview questions.


Also, please send me an interview... a number of questions that I can answer in a sitting. Ask the questions you want and I'll put them together.

I'll forward them to Jed.

[pranabjyoti]

My question to Jed:
What would be the industrial progress policy of New Democratic Nepal? Would it go for SEZ and capitalist industrialization, as Prachanda had announced before or they have other plans?

[Saorsa]

Tell us more about the Maoist trade unions and how they work, how is leadership elected etc.

[bailey_187]

will there be a new international?

[Nolan]

What will be the first thing the maoists do after the revolution is successful?

[RedSonRising]

How will the movement preserve the interests of the working class while making the initial transition to capitalism? How long/after what point will a transition towards socialism be implemented?

[Spawn of Stalin]

I don't really have any political or economic questions as such. But I would like to know about the overall atmosphere among those supporting the Maoists and the general strike. Optimistic? Lively? Quiet? Is there much tension and if so, what is the general consensus that this kind of tension could lead to in the coming days/weeks/months?

Actually I do have a q come to think of it. How well are cadres (and indeed, everyone else) coping with the fact that they are living in a country which has literally been bought to a standstill?

Thanks and much respect to Jed, I've been following his blog and it is excellent.

[Ismail]

What is the stand of the Nepalese Maoists in-re Deng Xiaoping and Deng Xiaoping Theory?

[kefka]

I bet it has already been answered but I would like to know how are the relations between UCPN-M and for example ICP(Maoist) and the Philippine maoists?

secondly, how are their relations with national minorities? (I know there is on called Gurkha in Nepal and Northern India at least)

[Saorsa]

With regard to national minorities, the Maoists have always had stronghold support bases amongst the oppressed nationalities. The People's War began among the Magar people in the west. The Maoists have recently declared autonomous states for the oppressed nationalities, and these are currently preparing to construct parallel states.

[scarletghoul]

It would be cool to hear their views on the international situation in general right now. What do they think specifically of all the differant movements in Latin America, Greece, other Maoist movements, aswell as the surviving socialist states from the cold war, and how do they all fit together
.. Maybe that would take too long to ask/answer but yeah anything regarding their view of international socialism right now would be great.. "what do you think of venezuela" "who is on our side and who is against us, internationally" i dunno, cant think straight right now but you get the idea

Also, what are the plans for if the current campaign fails ?

[RED DAVE]

Re the the general strike and its abrupt termination:

Is it possible that the handling of this was an error in timing, duration and target?

To make such a tremendous effort based on a demand for a draft constitution, and then to end the strike without warning, argues for tactical strategic errors of the first magnitude.

RED DAVE

[kasama-rl]

why?

[mosfeld]

It would be cool to hear their views on the international situation in general right now. What do they think specifically of all the differant movements in Latin America, Greece, other Maoist movements, aswell as the surviving socialist states from the cold war, and how do they all fit together
.. Maybe that would take too long to ask/answer but yeah anything regarding their view of international socialism right now would be great.. "what do you think of venezuela" "who is on our side and who is against us, internationally" i dunno, cant think straight right now but you get the idea

Also, what are the plans for if the current campaign fails ?

This (http://kasamaproject.org/2010/05/08/maoist-theory-from-nepal-is-the-international-situation-favorable-to-revolution/) article answers this question pretty nicely.


Mao while making assessment of the international situation arrived at a conclusion that Asia, Africa and Latin America are the ‘storm centers’ of the world revolution. Still it holds good to some extent. There was revolutionary wave in the Latin American countries during the time of Cuban revolution and consequently during the 60s and 70s. After the bloody coup in Chile in 1972, communist movement in Latin America had to face a big setback. Nevertheless, anti-imperialist struggle continued in most of the Latin American countries at different level. Since last six or seven years, there is a kind of anti- US imperialist wave in most of the countries in Latin America. Parties upholding the principle of ‘Bolivarian socialism’ are winning the presidential and parliamentary elections. Some of the governments like that in Venezuela have infuriated the U S administration by nationalizing the big oil companies owned by the US big capitalists. The other ‘socialist governments’ also follow the same line. The Hugo Chavez government further infuriated the US government when it (Chavez government) signed a large arm deal quite recently with Russia. The recent developments in Latin America should be considered as favourable factor at the international level.These developments in Latin America should be considered very significant especially in a situation when there is no socialist block to support the revolution.

[Honggweilo]

I already asked this question to a UCPN-m (then still CPN-m) representative a while ago in Brussels, but in recent lights its much more relevant.

How do you think the geo-political strategy towards Nepal by China will be inlight of a maoist rule? (in face of the recent support of a UCPN-m included government by China) Will China fear internal sympaties, due to major allienation of the workingclass and rural poor, for a more leftist line with a bordering country being a example of Maoism in the 21th century? Or will they hope for a geopolitical ally free of western and indian influence?

[The Vegan Marxist]

Has a strategical plan been thought out yet, in light of the coming days of May 28th?

[scarletghoul]

This (http://kasamaproject.org/2010/05/08/maoist-theory-from-nepal-is-the-international-situation-favorable-to-revolution/) article answers this question pretty nicely.
Yeah i wrote the question like just before that issue of Red Star showed up ha.