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mosfeld
24th September 2011, 17:39
Against the liquidators: Maoist Communist Party of France

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There are Maoists in Nepal who are fighting for revolution and we must support them against the liquidators !
Maoist Communist Party of France

(These days, the Revolutionaries within the UCPN(Maoist) are fighting against the revisionists of 21st century . In fact, they are fighting against the Neo-reactionaries. Now the two line struggle has turned into the class struggle. The Indian expansionism backed Baburam Bhattarais government has declared war against the oppressed and the landless people of Nepal. The revolutionaries within the UCPN (Maoist)are going to take a new step for the safeguard of Nepalese revolution. They are against disarming the PLAthe politics of national surrender. Revolutionary faction, lead by Comrade Mohan Baidhya and Comrade Gaurav, has got support and solidarity from the revolutionaries of all over the world . Here we have an article from Maoist Communist Party France.)

ABOUT THE LINE STRUGGLE WITHIN THE UCPN (MAOIST)
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has waged a peoples war for ten years, from 1996 to 2006, extending the area of the Partys influence to 80% of the country.

In 2006, following an alliance with the seven oppositional parties, the Party became legal, stopped armed struggle, agreed to the confining of weapons in containers under UN control. The Party won general election with 40% vote. Prachanda became Prime Minister, at the head of a government including members of the bourgeois parties, even the feudal, pro-imperialist parties and the revisionist parties (the UML) too, it was a government of national union.

Under such conditions, it was almost impossible to establish a real democracy for the people, and implement any land reform. In spite of all, the Party kept and perhaps is still keeping an important possibility of significant mobilization.

A new Constitution was to be installed, but from one retreat to another of the parties allied to the PCN(M), which had since become Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the Constitution has not yet been enacted. Prachanda, stalled in a deadlock, had to resign when the President of the Republic maintained general Katawal at the head of the armed forces. Some members of the Party are still members of Parliament.

Within the Party, the thesis is put forward that Revolution in Nepal includes several phases : peoples war, parliamentary struggle, stopping of the peoples war, preparation of the masses for insurgency.

There is a difference that appeared in practise. What the Party presented as a tactic in order to prepare conditions for insurgency had turned into a strategy for the introduction of a New Democracy within the conditions of the 21st century in conformity with the Prachanda path; and all this was presented as something which could be generalized to all countries in the world and advised to all parties, though there was absolutely no proof of the validity of such thesis, just well otherwise.

From one retreat to another, various tendencies and directions emerged in the UCPN(M). One line favours the establishment of a Republic of Parliamentary Democracy of the bourgeois type. Another (centrist), promotes a strategy of mobilizing masses in coordination with the struggle in Parliament and through heading the State apparatus. It seems to us that this line went bankrupt. Another line states that they want to advance the revolution by giving priority to the mobilization of the masses and transforming the Party from within. This seems extremely difficult at present.

In the spirit of maintaining the unity of the Party, rightwing, centrist and revolutionary positions co-exist. In order to preserve unity at all costs and go on with the line which has led to the present situation of deadlock and current paralysis, and in order to regain the leadership of government as Prime Minister, the Central Committee met and suggested to choose as a candidate for Prime Minister a representative of the bourgeois type of democracy.

The obvious problem arising is that the appointment of a Prime Minister issued from the UCPN (Maoist) will be accompanied by the dissolution of the PLA, the surrender of weapons and the integration of part of it into the National Army headed by a high commander from the old Royal Army. In other words, this means the complete liquidationof the PLA and its complete disarming.

Under these conditions, there are two possibilities.

1. Complete surrender, total renunciation to the prospect of insurgency. It has been five years that the Party has been engaged in these transactions, with no significant progress to solve the issue of power. What do the masses think about all this? They are either in expectation for the better, or disappointed for the worse.

2. The resumption of the revolutionary fight, which involves mobilizing the masses. One divides into two and not two combine into one. One has to choose. The rightist line must be denounced to the masse; the only way is to return to the masses because the masses make history and at the same time suffer when their leaders take false, flickering or liquidationist, revisionist positions.

The best support that should make Maoists in the world is to firmly support the second option, to tell things clearly to our comrades who want to lead the revolution to success and assert our positions. The issue that will prevail and be achieved in Nepal is important for the communist movement as a whole and not only for the Nepalese communists. To criticize the false positions, the inadequate tactics adopted, to denounce the liquidators and revisionists etc. is the best support that we can bring to the relatively correct positions and to the comrades who want to continue the struggle for revolution in Nepal. There are Maoists in Nepal who are fighting for revolution and we must support them against the liquidators !

Notes and precisions :

The above text was written a few days before the election of Bhattarai as Prime Minister. The situation has been made clearer since then, and the liquidators have unveiled their real class nature. If Bhattarai has been able to become Prime Minister, it is due to an agreement between Bhattarai and Prachanda on the one hand and, on the other, the Madhesis parties. It is well known that that the Madhesis parties are the representatives of the Indian interests in Nepal. But what is most disturbing are the contents of the above agreement. One point mentioned is the establishment of an inclusive democratic republic. It is just the opposite of the Party line of a Federal Peoples Republic. The agreement also includes the establishment of a separated unit inside the Nepalese Army for 10 000 Madhesis at the very moment when the PLA is being disarmed and when the plans for its integration under command of the Nepalese Army. Furthermore, little time before the liquidation of the PLA through its disarmament, the government headed by Bhattarai ordered the districts governments to hand over all the lands seized by the Maoists during the Peoples War. What will the masse be able to keep?

But the liquidators must face opposition and Hari Gyawali, a maoist leader in the Kochila district stated: We have obtained lands in exchange of our blood. We cannot give this land back as long as the agrarian revolution is not implemented. The government will have to face confrontation if it uses coercive means. The squatters, the Kamaiyas (former serfs) and the martyrs families are using these lands. We shall not give them back as long as a revolutionary agrarian reform is not implemented. Furthermore, the left wing of the Party is organizing its own training meetings throughout the country. The situation might turn to open confrontation. In any case, the Central Committee is due to meet on September 30th. In the meantime, let us carefully examine a situation which might evolve rapidly.

Le Drapeau Rouge,
Organe du Parti Communiste maoste de France
http://drapeaurouge.over-blog.co

RED DAVE
24th September 2011, 17:47
Sure, finally, when the sell-out, which was apparent years ago, is now so blatant that it can't be denied, now Maoists are screeching about it.

Fact is, though, what they haven't done is analyzed why this happens. Hint,m Comrades, when you lie down with dogs (apologies to all good dogs), you get covered with dog shit. When you posit, as part of the theoretical basis of your tendency, the permissibility of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie, a sell-out is inevitable.

Within the block of four class, a cornerstone of Maoism, it is alleged that the proletariat dominates and will triumph. History has shown us, again and again, that this is not true. The proletariat of any given country has only its own resources: we are not at the stage where the international working class can aid revolutions. The bourgeoisie, whether "native" or comprador, can avail itself of resources from its class from all over the world.

RED DAVE

Delenda Carthago
25th September 2011, 11:29
Sure, finally, when the sell-out, which was apparent years ago, is now so blatant that it can't be denied, now Maoists are screeching about it.

Fact is, though, what they haven't done is analyzed why this happens. Hint,m Comrades, when you lie down with dogs (apologies to all good dogs), you get covered with dog shit. When you posit, as part of the theoretical basis of your tendency, the permissibility of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie, a sell-out is inevitable.

Within the block of four class, a cornerstone of Maoism, it is alleged that the proletariat dominates and will triumph. History has shown us, again and again, that this is not true. The proletariat of any given country has only its own resources: we are not at the stage where the international working class can aid revolutions. The bourgeoisie, whether "native" or comprador, can avail itself of resources from its class from all over the world.

RED DAVE

Given the fact that capitalism is more progressive than feudalism(that dominated the Nepal society and economin Nepal befor)the real questions about the whole situation should be:
A. Would an antifeudal revolution be achieved without this class collaboration?Could the working class act by itself and would socialism be a real choise
B.Are the conversations within the party the way they supposed to be? Are they made in a democratic way or there where flaws in that?
C. What is the (maoist) base of the party saying about all that? There were major reactions to it. What could be the aftermath of all that?

RED DAVE
25th September 2011, 13:26
Given the fact that capitalism is more progressive than feudalism(that dominated the Nepal society and economin Nepal befor)the real questions about the whole situation should be:The issue of capitalism vs. feudalism is a moot one as Nepal was not feudal. Even the Maoists use the term "semi-feudal." What exists in countries like Nepal or India are feudal remnants, which are integrated into the capitalist system. The issue for Nepal or India is not feudalism vs. capitalism but capitalism vs. socialism. The program of the Maoists, advocating the block of four classes and so-called New Democracy, which is capitalism, is Menshevism: a stage theory in which capitalism must, per se, replace feudalism and then and only then can capitalism be overthrown and socialism achieved.


A. Would an antifeudal revolution be achieved without this class collaboration?Could the working class act by itself and would socialism be a real choiseThe answer to this question was given by the Bolsheviks almost 100 years ago. Capitalism is incapable of achieving the anti-feudal revolution in its entirety. The bourgeoisie needs the collaboration of the working class to achieve this. This being the case, does the working class need the bourgeoisie. It is clear from the historic precedent of the Russian Revolution that the answer is: No!

The consequences of either (a) yoking the working class to the bourgeoisie politically and/or (b) using the state to exploit the working class in the same manner as the bourgeoisie are the same: capitalism.


B.Are the conversations within the party the way they supposed to be? Are they made in a democratic way or there where flaws in that?It is obvious that Prachanda and Bhattarai are, to a certain extent, acting high-handedly. However, this is in the finest traditions of Maoism and Stalinism. Does anyone really think that the current leadership of the UCPN(M) is controlled, democratically, by its membership?

Kiran, who is on the outs politically, is at this point only arguing that Prachanda and Bhattarai are violating a party decision about the timing of the hand-over of control of Peoples Liberation Army weapons to the Royal Nepali Army. In fact, the fundamental betrayal took places six (I'm writing from memory) years ago, when the PLA was disarmed (the regular army was not disarmed) and the UCPN(M) began to negotiate as a bourgeois party.


C. What is the (maoist) base of the party saying about all that? There were major reactions to it. What could be the aftermath of all that?There has been some dissent within the party, but it is unclear how large it is. This dissent is also still under the aegis of Maoism, which means that it is not examining the basis of the sell-out in Maoism ideology itself.

RED DAVE