क्रान्तीकारी नेपाल

Internationalist Greetings,
Below is the final edited version of what I emailed yesterday to the moderators of the current debate on the Maoist practice and theory of revolutionary united front work during the new democratic stage of the internationalist proletarian revolution in oppressed nations.
Now that Borhan had rigorously linked the current debate on the possible formation of a united front in Iran to fight against an imminent U.S. invasion to the historical precedent of the formation of the united front between the CCP and the Guomindang to fight Japanese imperialist occupation of Chinese territory since 1895 starting with the occupation of Taiwan, please allow me to render him some supporting fire.
The first major difference between then and now is most countries in Asia and Africa were direct colonies of one imperialist power or another with a few exceptions such as China and Thailand whereas after World War 2, most former colonies in Asia and Africa have successfully fought for and gained formal independence from their former colonial masters. (Most former colonies in Latin America had already successfully fought for and gain formal independence from their former colonial masters by the end of the 19th century.) The contradiction between a handful of oppressor imperialist nations and the vast majority of colonized oppressed nations in the world before WW2 was overshadowed by the contradiction among those handful of oppressor imperialist nations fighting for a bigger piece of the colonial pie but the existence of a big socialist country like the USSR helped to strengthen the growing anti-colonial and anti-imperialist sentiments in the oppressed nations particularly in semi-colonial China since the late 1910s.
The current imperialist world order is characterized by indirect neo-colonial subjugation of the vast majority of oppressed nations in the world through all kinds of comprador-semi- feudal bureaucratic class dictatorship set up all over the world under the hegemony of U.S. imperialism after World War 2. Since 1949 with the completion of the new democratic revolution in China, the contradiction among a handful of oppressor imperialist nations in the world has been overshadowed by the contradiction between the vast majority of oppressed nations and those handful of oppressor imperialist nations led by U.S. imperialism. By the late 1970s with the restoration of capitalism in China, capitalism rules supreme in the world again but the post-WW2 neo-colonial ruling order in Asia, Africa and Latin America began breaking down to the point that by the late 1990s a Maoist-led new democratic revolutionary high tide is threatening to seize nation-wide power first in Nepal and to sweep through other parts of the Indian subcontinent under the leadership of various Maoist revolutionary parties and organizations.
Since the 1990s, so many long-standing neocolonial ruling structures in Asia, Africa and Latin America have begun to tether on the brink of collapse that imperialist ideologues have to openly talk about the need to recolonize oppressed nations in the world in order to reestablish their imperialist new world order starting with the invasion of Panama ordered by the then newly elected U.S. President Bush senior. This sets the broad historical context under which U.S. imperialism is threatening to invade Iran to reestablish a reliable neocolonial regime in its attempt to control all the major oil-producing nations in the world that is concentrated in central and west Asia in the wake of the meltdown of revisionist social imperialism.
We need an internationalist perspective based on the historical necessity for all oppressed nations and peoples in the world to complete our Maoist new democratic revolution as our contribution to the internationalist proletarian revolution to get rid of all forms of oppression and exploitations on planet earth. In 1979, the great Iranian people brought down one of the most brutal neo-colonial semi-feudal monarchies set up by U.S. imperialism but were unable to thwart the establishment of an Islamic fundamentalist republic after their major armed uprising attempt in Amol was brutally crushed in the early 1980s. Now that revolutionaries in Iran have succeeded against all odds to establish a Marxist-Leninist- Maoist party, the most urgent task at hand is relying on the Iranian people, mobilizing them and organizing them to initiate another armed struggle to establish the armed might of the people to exercise political power in areas favorable for a protracted people’s war to eventually seize nationwide power.
Without a battle-tested people’s army fighting to develop revolutionary base areas, CPI(MLM) is in no position to lead any united front against any possible invasion led by U.S. imperialism. This is the cardinal lesson to be learned from the new democratic revolution in China and Borhan has brought out ample historical evidences to show that without a people’s army, the people have nothing to fight against all forms of oppression and super exploitation rained down on them by what Mao had called the “three mountains for men and four mountains for women”. I hope to hear news of the successful initiation of revolutionary armed struggle led by the CPI (MLM) in the near future. Long live the great people of Iran!
Yours in solidarity