Once Again, Yan’an (Or Rolpa) - With the Nepalese People In Struggle
"The Maoist revolt had grossly perverted by the time it arrived in Kathmandu from Rolpa. It is not possible to unite with the party that has strayed from the Maoist ideology." - Comrade Biplav
The images of the Nepalese people rising up against the corrupt government that has, as of the publishing of this statement, murdered 20+ students and workers in the streets of Kathmandu, gladdens the heart of revolutionary Communists the world over. Mao and thousands of years of class struggle have taught us that it is right to rebel against reactionaries - many comrades lose sight of this, choosing instead to play geopolitical fantasy football. Our role is clear: when a government fails to serve the people, instead choosing to fatten their own pockets and allow their children to drive around in Benzes and BMWs and go to school in Switzerland, it is the right of the people to overthrow that government.
The Nepalese people have been struggling for socialism and democracy for decades. The people’s war that started in 1996 under the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal - (Maoist) was rooted in the atrocious semi-feudal conditions in which the masses were forced to live. A royal family lived in luxury while the masses starved. The Filipino comrades say that people’s war is for people’s peace. What this means is that the peace of the ruling class must be broken to ensure the peace of the people. The interests of the ruling class, whether it be feudal monarchy, capitalist-imperialist-fascist, or bureaucratic comprador capitalist, are antagonistically opposed to the masses of the people. Their loss is our gain, their gain is our loss. The only way that the people of the world will see peace is through toppling the ruling class.
Western media is characterizing this struggle as simply over a social media ban. The ban on social media was a spark, but the underlying conditions are the misery in which the masses continue to live, contrasted to the luxurious, corrupt lifestyles of the country’s ruling elite, a motley array of renegade “Maoists” that betrayed the revolution and gathered around Prachanda’s opportunist clique in the withered husk of the CPN-Maoist Centre, modern revisionists of the CPN (UML) Party, and "social democrats" of the Nepali Congress. As Maoists, we recognize one of the primary tasks of the revolutionary movement being to combat revisionism, because it imposes misery on the people under the red flag. The Nepali people are veterans of struggle, and they remember the real red flag and what was fought for 30 years ago. Revisionists characterizing this struggle as a “color revolution” believe that the people of Nepal are children that need a bureaucrat in Washington DC to think for them. The people can think for themselves, and are fully capable of expelling from the ranks of the struggle those who would hand the country over to foreign imperialists, social-imperialists, or fascists.
It is our task to stand in unwavering solidarity with masses of students, workers, and peasants of Nepal as they finish the revolution, oust the corruption from their midst, and demand a true People’s Republic! The revisionist prime minister, Oli, has resigned in disgrace, the home of the scum Prachanda has been burned to the ground, and ministers are being held accountable for their crimes before the people. We hope that the Maoist comrades who remember the martyrs of 1996 unite with the masses and raise the red flag over Kathmandu.
