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.)
Which Way Forward for the UCPN(Maoist) and the Nepali People’s Revolutionary Struggle?
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MLM Revolutionary Study Group
April 4, 2010
The central question facing the Unified Communist Party of Nepal(Maoist) (UCPNM) is whether it can develop the political line, strategy and tactics to conquer state power and wield it in the service of the vast majority of the people of Nepal and the world.
This question has become the subject of discussion and debate throughout the world, ever since the Maoists in Nepal signed an agreement in 2006 to end their 10-year old people's war. Over the years of the people's war, the revolutionary forces had inspired people the world over, winning wave upon wave of victories and building both guerrilla zones and liberated areas which were beginning the work of a new society. The Peoples War in Nepal, it must be said, rekindled the spirit and hopes of revolution around the world. Their successes, winning nearly 80% of the territory of Nepal, had drawn such attention and acclaim that ending of the people's war with the peace agreements of 2006 came as a great surprise and shock to many.
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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, The Destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party in 1965 and the Road Not Taken, 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. The analysis of these events provides some important lessons to communist and anti-imperialist forces worldwide, especially concerning countries where peaceful, electoral paths to socialism, or some variant, are being pursued.(33 pages, July 2007 -- Revised and updated, February 2013)
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.)
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)