क्रान्तीकारी नेपाल

CP Gajurel, In-charge, International Bureau, Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist

What are the major problems that CPN-Maoist has to face in the national and international context after the landslide victory in the election constituent Assembly? (more…)

The role of revolutionary literature on the Maoist Victory

- Florentino A. Iniego, JR

Another way of understanding the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist’ s victory is to study its revolutionary literature. As a researcher from the Philippines, I have been struggling to learn the Nepali (more…)

Maoist chairman Prachanda has rejected outright pre-conditions put by major poliitical parties (Nepali Congress and UML) such as disbanding of Young Communist League (YCL) and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for joining a government led by his party and declared that he will be at the helm by June 2. (more…)

From Kasama
Posted by Mike E on March 27, 2008Maz calls attention to the following essay written by “A Circle of Revolutionaries in Canada.” It was originally posted on the Maoist Revolution List. It adds to the earlier discussion we have already over Maoism vs. Jihadism. I thought the following passage (which is the closing of this essay) have general importance (including to the discussion of Obama happening on our other threads.) (more…)

Summary Of Debate On Resistance To Imperialism (Part 2) This summary is of the second part of an ongoing debate concerning the correct Maoist line on resistance to imperialist aggression against oppressed countries. The second summary covers the period October-November 07. It takes in some important contributions. It summarises debates 16-23, although it also includes Debate 14, which wasn’t included in the previous summary of the debate. (more…)

I have just finished reading this book and strongly recommend anyone
with an interest in Mao Zedong to buy it and read it.
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PERU: ‘All-Out War’ on Maoist Guerrillas. And once again the Maoists are never defeated but come back stronger and more determined.
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For the first time, the words ‘utilizing the state’used by the Indian Maoists on the victory of the CPI (N) (more…)

“Communism has revived itself from all the old experiences. New ideology, new strategy has been created by the Nepalese Maoists.”
- Prachanda

6 hours ago
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Nepal Maoists must concentrate on continuing the class struggle’
K. Srinivas Reddy in Hindu - 5th May 2008

It is possible only when they do not become part of government
Be wary of the possibility of coups, assassinations
They would be powerless to effect radical changes in Constitution

HYDERABAD: In a shift from their earlier stand on the Nepalese
developments, Indian Maoists maintain that the current situation in
the neighbouring country provides immense possibilities for carrying
forward the revolutionary programme by relying on the masses and
carrying out the class struggle, while utilising the State. (more…)

REVOLUTION AND COMMUNISM: A FOUNDATION AND STRATEGIC ORIENTATION
Revolution newspaper is excited to announce the publication of a pamphlet entitled Revolution and Communism: A Foundation and Strategic Orientation on May 1, 2008. This pamphlet contains Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity, by Bob Avakian, along with On the Possibility of (more…)

Gegen Imperialismus, gegen modernen Faschismus, kämpfen, organisieren, die Partei aufbauen!

An diesem 1. Mai ist der Imperialismus in der defensive, denn er ist mit dem vom Volkswiderstand in Irak, Afghanistan, Palästina, Kurdistan und auf der ganzen Welt konfrontiert. Bushs unbegrenzter Krieg bringt keinen Erfolg. Die imperialistische Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise wird auf das Volk und die ärmsten Volksmassen abgeladen. Elend und Hunger verbreiten sich, aber auch Revolten gegen Hunger und Elend, die von Ägypten bis Tunesien, von den Philippinen bis Indien und Vietnam unter Führung der Arbeiter/innenklass e stehen. (more…)

Morreu um comunista!
Francisco Martins Rodrigues morreu aos 81 anos na madrugade de 22 de Abril de 2008. A cremação realiza-se a 23 de Abril, pelas 13h30 no Cemitério do Alto de São João, em Lisboa. Militante revolucionário de longa data, foi membro do CC do PCP e viria a romper com o seu reformismo por altura da polémica sino-soviética, fundando a FAP e o CMLP, a primeira organização marxista-leninista portuguesa. Foi o primeiro a introduzir em Portugal de uma forma organizada as lições da revolução chinesa e o exemplo de Mao Tsétung. Preso várias vezes e barbaramente torurado pela PIDE, manteve-se ao longo de toda a sua vida do lado da Revolução e empenhado na organização de uma corrente comunista revolucionária. O 25 de Abril de 1974, apanhou o camarada “Chico” na prisão e os militares “democratas” do MFA tentaram mantê-lo preso. Só a forte vontade popular e grandes manifestações à porta da prisão o conseguiram libertar. Ultimamente foi o fundador e director da revista “Política Operária”.

U.S. subverting Nepal poll mandate writes Siddharth Varadarajan in
Hindu
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Dear Comrades
Here is article 3 from Haghighat. It describes the party’s strategy of

combining the struggles of students and factory workers as part of a mass movement strategy.

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Article 3: from Haghighat, Number 11 – July-August 2003 (lead article)
Summation of Ninth July and Continuation of the Path Ten days of uprising by the students and people of Tehran and other cities in June left a new open political space. This ten-day movement opened the door to a promising period in the struggles of the people of Iran . The bold and sharp slogans of this movement demonstrated its political quality by becoming nation-wide, it expanded the people’s united front against the regime from the North to the South and from the East to the West. Its continuation for ten days showed the everlasting energy of the masses of the people and the conscious intellectuals for the struggle against oppression and injustice and for obtaining their rights and justice. Our land was ploughed and became more fertile. This movement started by the heroic students, led to a movement of the masses of people on the streets and in the allies, which was carried miles further on their shoulders. The people’s morale changed qualitatively. Now we are faced with such a morale that would be hard to silence with petty reforms of the political system or to satisfy by tailing the foreign forces.The summation of this period of short, concentrated and nation-wide struggle is extremely important for its further advance. This summation is political, as well as practical. The activists of this movement must recognise the strengths and weaknesses of the camp of the people, as well as the camp of the enemy, in order to advance this movement scientifically and to lead it in the direction of opening the gates of the bright future.
Ninth of July
Many were expecting that on the ninth of July the students and people’s movement would leap to a higher level. This expectation and hope was reflected in the slogans of the students and revolutionaries. People were safeguarding the links they obtained during the ten days of the June struggle in order to use them for dealing further painful blows against the rotten regime on that day. Although this did not happen, there were many inspiring small and large demonstrations all over the country. Tehran University was calm under the boots of the thugs of the Islamic Republic. However, there were many important struggles initiated by the university students in different parts of the country. The beginning of the student’s struggle on 10 June had an advantage over 9 July, which was the element of surprise. In fact, the Islamic regime was preparing itself way before 10 June, to prevent the anniversary of the 9 July taking place. The start of the struggle by the students before the anniversary, caught the regime by surprise. The students took the initiative and, by using the tactic of surprise against the enemy, caused an unprecedented uprising all over the country. But the anniversary itself lacked the advantage of the element of surprise. Apart from the lack of the element of surprise, it is important to be aware that it is the nature of mass movements that they advance in waves and with leaps and bounds. Its leaps cannot last for long periods. It requires rest and time to think about how to prepare for the next leap. “Thinking” is in the form of summing up and planning by the advanced, as well as discussions and analysis amongst the ranks of the people. In the periods of temporary lull or subsidence some become saddened and lose hope but the advanced use it as an opportunity to sum up, regroup those who think alike, join together and form cells and co-ordinate and plan so as to accelerate the course of the struggle. But the most important reason why 9 July did not turn into what was expected, was the repressive measures by the regime. The regime heightened its efforts and preparations many folds in order to prevent a massive eruption on 9 July. It showed its claws and teeth like a monster having its final writhe on its death bed. It increased its armoured vehicles in the streets and occupied the university and campus. It gathered and arrested student activists and militant youth and sent them to torture chambers and kept them there. After 9 July Rafsanjani at Friday prayers thanked “those people who care for Islam”, meaning their Ansar thugs, guard corps and security forces in civilian clothes. The regime relied on suppression and temporarily achieved a result. This was a many-sided suppression. On the one hand, the regime eradicated and closed the universities and in the towns paraded its military forces in order to terrify the people, and on the other hand, the Islamic Societies and the “Office of Consolidating Unity” began to distribute pain relief tablets to the student movement. The offices of the Islamic Societies forbade the students from joining the people and warned them as much as they could. The students of the Islamic Societies continuously called for the methods of struggle that would help to subside the people’s movement on the streets. For example, they picketed outside the UN office in Tehran and wrote a submissive letter to Kofi Anan, (Head of the UN), to come forward and tell Iran what to do! The Second of Khordad Coalition strongly feared the radicalisation of this movement, as the night’s uprisings began one of their theoreticians wrote: “Unfortunately this has become a mass movement”. (Quote from Majid Mohammadi from Gooya.com.) But the question was not just the actions of the Islamic Republic. The Western powers gave the green light to the Islamic Republic to impose repressive measures to prevent widespread popular uprising. Specifically, Colin Powel, the US Secretary of State, a few days before the 9 July announced that the US would not intervene in the internal affairs of Iran, and that its internal affairs are the concern of the Iranian regime. Also, Jack Straw, the Foreign Minister of the British Government, hurriedly travelled to Iran to show that his government is supporting the Iranian regime. Jack Straw emphasised that “Iran must sign the International Atomic Energy Agency Treaties”, wanting to show the Iranian regime that their differences had nothing to do with the Iranian people and to feel free to deal with the people, the point is not to put their [UK] interests in danger. These measures by the US and British imperialists are a sign that they are terrified of the masses uprising. The US is worried that they may lose control of the situation and before they can prepare themselves and build an alternative, the revolutionary forces might use this situation and that popular revolutionary organisations may form. The European countries have kept silent over the barbaric suppression and arrest of students and youth by the military and security forces, because they prefer the revolutionary and anti-imperialist forces to be crushed by the regime before it is toppled. The US had a scenario that was based on using the student movement and its links with the Islamic Societies and the monarchist forces in the US to channel people’s energy into supporting the US and, therefore, pave the way to impose a US built alternative. But they gave up this scenario, because they realised that the students’ movement in Iran has turned into a popular movement. Therefore, they lost their hope of transforming this movement into their stooge. They saw with their own eyes that the society is like an ammunition dump that could explode in such a way as to block all the roads for the reactionaries and imperialists. Such a fire could blaze, which could only be in the interests of an all-round revolution against the imperialists and all reactionaries. They realised that a large section of the students are no longer under the influence of the Islamic Societies, and that the masses of people, especially the youth under twenty, are exercising their power on the streets and do not serve any kind of god!
Weaknesses of the People’s Camp
The Islamic regime created important obstacles, but one must look at what were the limitations in the ranks of the people and anti-regime militants, which meant they could not break these obstacles? Amongst these factors one should seriously consider scatteredness, lack of organisation and lack of leadership in the ranks of the people and anti-regime militants. The people’s political movement lacks suitable organisation and leadership in order to be able to continue this movement and help to advance the political consciousness of the people. What is to be done for the present political movement to continue? The regime closes the universities, but when the political movement of the people has already begun, this action can completely go against the aims of the regime, because when they close the universities, the students go amongst the masses. This is excellent. The militant students can and must help the masses to unite and organise. In the June movement, the university played the role of caller. But with the closure of the universities, the militant students lost this position. Amongst the advanced of the movement, there is a question of how they can create centres and headquarters not dependent on the regime’s policies, so that whenever it decides it closes them? (Of course the Islamic Societies can still continue their activities, because they are governmental organisations. In fact, by giving open space for public activities to the Islamic Societies and suppressing the rest, the regime wants to force the students into activities within the framework of the Islamic Societies. But the militant students have realised this and have tried every possible way to get out of their containment and control.) Overcoming this deficiency depends on the militant students organising themselves in an underground organisation. For them to be in touch with each other and by night leaflet and nation-wide student links bring their calls to the masses. This is one level of forming stable organisations for continuing the political movement. As we have already said, “The leftist students must organise their own trend. As leftist and revolutionary students are under more brutal repression, they must do this with the utmost care and hidden from the eyes of the enemy…those students who want the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran in its entirety by the people must distance themselves from the pro-government organisations (Islamic Societies) and organise themselves.” (From Haghighat number 10, “Hail to the Student Movement”.) The formation of student cells from the militant students of all universities in every city and linking them together could create a mass organisation that could play a very important role in increasing the level of the political movement in Iran . One method of spreading and making the student movement more militant is to include the high school students into the movement. University students can play an important role in this field. Today, we witness that teenagers are an active force in the street battles. University student organisations must also include the high school students. Now that the political movement has spread amongst the masses, the question is how can we help people to form primary and anti-government organisations? People in many neighbourhoods are ready to rebel and struggle, but there is not any level of organisation to organise and co-ordinate their struggle. Committees or cells must be formed to pass on night leaflets and guidance in each neighbourhood. Apart from the universities and high schools, neighbourhoods and factories must be transformed into centres of resistance. The task of the militant workers is to form such cells in order to help to continue the political movement and its appearance on the streets. (On the question of guidelines, refer to the article “Victory in Tomorrow’s Battles Depends on Victory in Today’s Battles” in Haghighat number 11.) The political struggle of the masses consists of many different subjects and fronts and it requires different organisations. For example, the struggle of the families of the political prisoners for the release of their loved ones. The struggle of the families of the martyrs to find the graves of their dearest and to build a memorial structure in their graveyards in Khavaran, Amol, etc. The students’ activity for the commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in 1988 on the first days at the beginning of the academic year in September. The struggle of the high school students against despotic rule by boycotting the first day of the academic year. The nation-wide strike of the toiling and respectable teachers of our country. The strike of the workers and staff of the oil industry for the release of political prisoners and in support of workers in other parts of the country. As the masses of people rose up in defence of the students, the students must also react to all the cruelties brought upon different stratas of the people. Thus, these special days would not be limited to the days of students’ struggle. For example, the militant students must seriously think about commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners that took place under the orders of Khomeini. This day coincides with the opening days of the universities in mid-September.
Philosophy and the Line
In great struggle, the advanced are also in search of a philosophy and line, because when one starts to move one seriously needs a road map. To carry out serious practical struggles inevitably creates vital questions in the minds of the militants: What are the aims? Which path? Which political, social and economic alternative can really liberate the majority of the people? These questions come up and demand answers. These questions also find their way into the street battles of the people. Because it is in the streets that political alternatives in the form of flags and slogans come to the scene and send the march of the people in this or that direction. Challenging these questions and providing them with the correct answers are an inseparable part of the leadership of the struggle of the masses. The best time for the agitation and propaganda of the science of revolution is at the time that revolution itself is alive and taking place. When militant activity is combined with the development of political consciousness and the adoption of the revolutionary class philosophy and ideology, the energy and creativity of the activities of the militants will blossom to the ultimate limit, because the militants will act with more confidence. When the aim and horizon are clear, the sources of creativity and selflessness will be endless. Those advanced that have come to the fore from the recent uprisings of the masses are already thinking of the farther horizons, more correct policies and more effective methods of struggle. More than ever, their eyes and ears are open to find the flag that will show the true path for victory and liberation.

RAIPUR, India - About 300 heavily-armed Maoists raided a plant of a major imperialist steel company in Chhattisgarh, burning around 53 trucks and three heavy machines on friday.The attack on Essar Steel’s plant highlighted the strength of the Maoist rebels in the forested state, where many mining companies operate. (more…)

On behalf of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina we express you our warmest congratulations for the triumph in the election of the Constituent Assembly that will put an end to the monarchy in Nepal.

No doubt, this is the triumph of the entire people of Nepal under the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (maoist).

The Communist Party of Nepal (maoist) has waged protracted people´s war for many years , conquering a great portion of the territory, had many martyrs in this struggle and furthermore hegemonized in 2006 the huge united uprising of the masses .

From Argentina, in the furthest south of the American continent, where no information on Nepal is published in the mass medias, we appreciate your struggle for a revolution of new democracy in its way towards socialism and our final aim: communism.

Otto Vargas,

General Secretary to the

Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina

IL PARTITO COMUNISTA (MAOISTA) NEPALESE HA VINTO LE ELEZIONI!
Le elezioni in Nepal segnano una svolta storica nella politica del (more…)