Saorsa
22nd July 2008, 16:04
http://comradealastair.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/reactionary-forces-sabotage-formation-of-maoist-led-government-in-nepal/
Reactionary forces sabotage formation of Maoist-led government in Nepal
http://southasiarev.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/nepal-big-red-flag.jpg?w=354&h=249
This new and unexpected development represents a temporary setback to the unfolding revolutionary process in Nepal. But it by no means represents the end of the road - rather, as Chairman Gonzalo famously put it, this is but a bend in the road, a road that leads all the way to socialism and ultimately to communism. If the reactionaries class forces and the parties that represent them will not allow the Maoists to gain state power through peaceful democratic means, there are alternatives the Maoists can turn to - they proved to be extremely good at these alternatives during the decade long People’s War.
The CPN (M) made noises in the lead up to the elections that if it was not able to gain power through the ballot it and it’s fighters would “return to the jungle”. This may now be necessary to smash the resistance of the comprador-capitalist and landlord classes, who are desperately trying to prevent the creation of a Maoist led government that will initiate agrarian reforms based on Land to the Tiller, and will lead a program of idnustrialisation and working-class mobilisation to lay the basis for a transition to socialism.
The Maoists recieved by far the largest vote in the elections, and the efforts by the other parties to block the democratic will of the Nepalese masses only reveals their true and reactionary nature.
In government, the Maoists could have achieved huge things for Nepal, and they were always clear that this would have to be backed up by and carried out through mass mobilisation and class struggle. In opposition, the Maoists may not be able to effect their revolutionary policies, but with their mass support and stunning organisation skills, they have the strength to resist anything the reactionary classes throw at them, and perhaps even to advance their radical agenda outside of the halls of office.
Nobody can say right now where things will go from here, but one things for sure - it’s going to be bloody interesting to watch. All eyes must remain on the New Nepal - Lal Salaam!
The Maoists will not participate in the government of Nepal
10 minutes ago
KATHMANDU (AFP) - The Nepalese Maoists, whose presidential candidate was defeated on Monday, will not participate in the first government of the Republic of Nepal, plunging the country into a new political crisis.
The former rebels communicated its decision, seen as a blow to the peace process in Nepal, a day after his candidate for the presidency was rejected by the Constituent Assembly, which preferred a centrist candidate.
“The party’s central committee decided not to form a government. After the presidential election, it is clear that we have no majority. So we have no basis for forming the future government,” declared to AFP Bhadur Krishna Mahara, spokesperson of the Maoists.
In the April elections to the Constituent Assembly, the Maoists were the next most popular list, but failed to secure the absolute majority. Then insisted that its candidate for president should be elected and they were to form government.
However, in the voting on Monday in the Constituent Assembly, parliamentarians elected as first president of the country to Ram Baran Yadav, the Nepali Congress Party (centrist), the main rival of the Maoists.
The post of president is largely symbolic, but the Maoists said that the election of Yadav will leave little room for manoeuvre if they formed government and little chance to carry out major changes in the country, including an ambitious agrarian reform.
The spokesman of the Maoists qualified that “the door remains open to negotiate with other parties.”
The participation of the Maoists in national politics is seen as crucial to the success of the peace process in Nepal, born of an agreement signed in 2006 that ended an uprising a decade, during which at least 13,000 people died.
At the moment it is unclear whether other parties will be able to forge an alliance between them to achieve lift Nepal’s power vacuum that dominates the country after the abolition of the monarchy on May 28.
“The decision by the Maoists to stay in the opposition is a setback to the peace process. If the Maoists remain in his position will be complications,” said Gunaraj Luitel, editor of Kantipur Daily.
“No party has a clear majority, but being the largest party, the Maoists have the right to form government, and also have to earn the confidence of other parties,” added the editor.
Lok Raj Baral, a professor of political science at Tribhuvan University, said that the other parties “have to bring the Maoists to the government as it is, to keep alive the peace process.”
“A minority government in which the Maoists are not will not be stable,” he adds.
“All political parties are equally responsible for the political confusion, because they are unable to trust each other. Now must understand that there is no alternative to the politics of consensus,” says Baral.
Reactionary forces sabotage formation of Maoist-led government in Nepal
http://southasiarev.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/nepal-big-red-flag.jpg?w=354&h=249
This new and unexpected development represents a temporary setback to the unfolding revolutionary process in Nepal. But it by no means represents the end of the road - rather, as Chairman Gonzalo famously put it, this is but a bend in the road, a road that leads all the way to socialism and ultimately to communism. If the reactionaries class forces and the parties that represent them will not allow the Maoists to gain state power through peaceful democratic means, there are alternatives the Maoists can turn to - they proved to be extremely good at these alternatives during the decade long People’s War.
The CPN (M) made noises in the lead up to the elections that if it was not able to gain power through the ballot it and it’s fighters would “return to the jungle”. This may now be necessary to smash the resistance of the comprador-capitalist and landlord classes, who are desperately trying to prevent the creation of a Maoist led government that will initiate agrarian reforms based on Land to the Tiller, and will lead a program of idnustrialisation and working-class mobilisation to lay the basis for a transition to socialism.
The Maoists recieved by far the largest vote in the elections, and the efforts by the other parties to block the democratic will of the Nepalese masses only reveals their true and reactionary nature.
In government, the Maoists could have achieved huge things for Nepal, and they were always clear that this would have to be backed up by and carried out through mass mobilisation and class struggle. In opposition, the Maoists may not be able to effect their revolutionary policies, but with their mass support and stunning organisation skills, they have the strength to resist anything the reactionary classes throw at them, and perhaps even to advance their radical agenda outside of the halls of office.
Nobody can say right now where things will go from here, but one things for sure - it’s going to be bloody interesting to watch. All eyes must remain on the New Nepal - Lal Salaam!
The Maoists will not participate in the government of Nepal
10 minutes ago
KATHMANDU (AFP) - The Nepalese Maoists, whose presidential candidate was defeated on Monday, will not participate in the first government of the Republic of Nepal, plunging the country into a new political crisis.
The former rebels communicated its decision, seen as a blow to the peace process in Nepal, a day after his candidate for the presidency was rejected by the Constituent Assembly, which preferred a centrist candidate.
“The party’s central committee decided not to form a government. After the presidential election, it is clear that we have no majority. So we have no basis for forming the future government,” declared to AFP Bhadur Krishna Mahara, spokesperson of the Maoists.
In the April elections to the Constituent Assembly, the Maoists were the next most popular list, but failed to secure the absolute majority. Then insisted that its candidate for president should be elected and they were to form government.
However, in the voting on Monday in the Constituent Assembly, parliamentarians elected as first president of the country to Ram Baran Yadav, the Nepali Congress Party (centrist), the main rival of the Maoists.
The post of president is largely symbolic, but the Maoists said that the election of Yadav will leave little room for manoeuvre if they formed government and little chance to carry out major changes in the country, including an ambitious agrarian reform.
The spokesman of the Maoists qualified that “the door remains open to negotiate with other parties.”
The participation of the Maoists in national politics is seen as crucial to the success of the peace process in Nepal, born of an agreement signed in 2006 that ended an uprising a decade, during which at least 13,000 people died.
At the moment it is unclear whether other parties will be able to forge an alliance between them to achieve lift Nepal’s power vacuum that dominates the country after the abolition of the monarchy on May 28.
“The decision by the Maoists to stay in the opposition is a setback to the peace process. If the Maoists remain in his position will be complications,” said Gunaraj Luitel, editor of Kantipur Daily.
“No party has a clear majority, but being the largest party, the Maoists have the right to form government, and also have to earn the confidence of other parties,” added the editor.
Lok Raj Baral, a professor of political science at Tribhuvan University, said that the other parties “have to bring the Maoists to the government as it is, to keep alive the peace process.”
“A minority government in which the Maoists are not will not be stable,” he adds.
“All political parties are equally responsible for the political confusion, because they are unable to trust each other. Now must understand that there is no alternative to the politics of consensus,” says Baral.