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More on “Revolution and State Power in Nepal” |
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May 16, 2009 In keeping with the importance of supporting the people's revolution in Nepal, we have been following the rapidly changing developments after the attempted sacking of General Katawal, Chief of Staff of the reactionary Nepalese Army, by the Maoist-led government. We have also been looking more closely at the statements by party leaders following the National Conference of the Unified CPN (Maoist) held in November 2008. Finally we have developed our views on the particular circumstances posed by the revolution in Nepal. We have decided to make some further comments that clarify, correct and elaborate upon our paper of April 4, 2009.
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Revolution and State Power in Nepal |
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The central question in Nepal today is state power and the means by which it can be conquered and wielded in the service of the overwhelming majority of the people of Nepal. Does the present unstable Maoist-led coalition government represent the beginnings of a process leading to socialism, and a beacon and valuable resource for the worldwide struggle against capitalism and imperialism? Or is a disorienting political strategy being implemented that is unprepared for the next challenge and is blocking further advance of the revolutionary process? (April 2009, 6 pp.)
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The Political, Military and Negotiating Strategies of the Chinese Communist Party (1937-1946) and Recent Developments in Nepal |
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The most germane experience in assessing recent developments in a semi-feudal, semi-colonial country like Nepal is the military and political strategy and tactics of the Chinese revolution. A close look at the CCP’s integrated political-military strategy and negotiating tactics from 1937-1946— which served to advance China’s protracted people’s war to final victory-- can yield important lessons for the revolution in Nepal and other countries, for how revolutionaries should be “firm as a pine and flexible as a willow." (February 2007, revised April 2009. 17 pp.)
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Assessing Recent Developments in Nepal |
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A Bibliography on the State, a Peaceful Transition to Socialism, Democracy and Dictatorship, Negotiations, and their Relevance to the International Communist Movement in the 21st Century (16 pages, January 2007)
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The Destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party in 1965 and the Road Not Taken |
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The slaughter of more than one million Indonesian communists and supporters in a U.S.-backed military coup cannot be understood without examining the history of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) from the 1920s to the 1960s. This article sheds new light on the PKI's politics, particularly the development of a revisionist political line that viewed the Indonesian state as having two aspects, progressive and reactionary. This line politically and militarily disarmed the revolutionary forces when US imperialism and General Suharto made a decisive move in October 1965, with tragic consequences for the Indonesian people. (33 pages, July 2007)
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Chinese Foreign Policy during the Maoist Era and its Lessons for Today |
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All socialist states face a continuing, and at times acute, contradiction between the necessity of defending the socialist country--including through making agreements with imperialist and reactionary states--and the goal of promoting and supporting the world revolution. This paper examines how socialist China handled this tension during four periods between 1949 and 1976. It contrasts the strong internationalist support given to the Korean people and to the Vietnamese and other struggles for national liberation in the 1960s, with the development of bourgeois nationalist lines around the 1955 Bandung Conference and the reactionary "three worlds theory" of the early 1970s. This paper also takes on the view that nationalist governments and their leaders, not revolutionary people's movements, are the most important challenge to imperialism in the world today. (40 pages, January 2007)
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MLM Revolutionary Study Group Speech on the Cultural Revolution |
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Abbreviated version of "Evaluating the Cultural Revolution and its Legacy for the Future," presented at the forum on the Great Proletarian Revolution and Lessons for the Working Class Movement on April 1, 2007 in The Hague, Netherlands. (11 pages, April 2007)
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Evaluating the Cultural Revolution in China and its Legacy for the Future |
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What does it mean to embark on, and wage a determined revolutionary struggle to stay on, the socialist road to communism? This comprehensive paper describes the sweep of the Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976; its theoretical foundations; its many achievements in the areas of culture, education, industry, agriculture and the liberation of women; the serious obstacles it faced and its shortcomings in a number of areas; and why future revolutionary movements and socialist states must stand on its shoulders. An extensive bibliography on the Cultural Revolution is included. (85 pages, March 2007)
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