Nepal

Nepal protests

Nepal joins regional wave of revolt as popular anger at repression and inequality spreads across South Asia

Sankha Subhra Biswas — Today’s anti-government mass movement in Nepal did not emerge spontaneously. Instead, it developed as a result of two decades of ineffective and unproductive politics by Communist parties.
Burning parliament Nepal

Nepal’s horrific reckoning with its failed political class

Roman Gautam — After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment.
Youth in Nepal hold posters demanding an end to corruption during the Gen Z protests.

CPI(ML) Liberation on Nepal’s Gen Z Uprising

CPI(ML) Liberation issues a call to support the youth struggle, defend secular republican democracy, resist the monarchy’s return, and ensure peace.
Supporters and activists of what was then called the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) hold a mass rally, 1 May 2010.

Is Marxism alive in Nepal?

Khagendra Prasai — Ostensibly Communist parties govern the Himalayan republic, but socialism remains a long way off.

Nepal elections: Defeat for Maoists, gains for a united left

Despite all the ideological weaknesses, the left in Nepal remains a mass force that is no

Statement of the ‘Politics and women going together’ international women’s conference, March 25-28, 2013, Kathmandu, Nepal

April 4, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – This gathering of left women’s organisations and activists from Afghanistan, Indonesia, Kurdistan, Nepal, Philippine

One divides into two – Nepal’s Maoists in crisis

Many fighters of the People's Liberation Army have joined the new party.

More coverage of Nepal HERE.

June 23, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, an earlier version of this article was posted at International Viewpoint – The Maoist party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) -- UCPN(M), has entered a crisis and has split. On June 16-18, 2012, the radical faction of the party held a national convention and decided to organise the first congress of a new revolutionary party, named CPN–Maoist, to be held on February 12, 2013. One-third of the central committee members of the UCPN(M) have joined the new party. Alex de Jong looks at the background to this development.

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Discussions with the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist): Lessons for the Philippine left

By Reihana Mohideen

[A contribution to Ang Masa (The Masses), a monthly magazine published by the Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses), following the author’s recent visit to Nepal.]

March 20, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- While Nepal is very different from the Philippines in many key aspects of the country’s economy, society and politics, nevertheless the experience of the Maoist movement in that country holds valuable lessons for the Philippine left – both the Maoists and the non-Maoist revolutionary movements.

In Nepal we see the successful implementation of a people’s war strategy, followed by and combined with the development of an insurrectionary urban mass movement, which resulted in the overthrow of a feudal monarchy, the declaration of a federal democratic republic, the establishment of a constituent assembly and a successful intervention in elections in 2008 by the United Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist (UCPN-M).

Nepal: ONU retira entre punto muerto

[English original at http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46486.]

Domingo, 23 de Enero de 2011

Por Ben Peterson, traducido por Sean Seymour-Jones

Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/Green Left Weekly-- El primer ministro, Madhav Kumar Nepal, ha argumentado que las balas, los explosivos y otras municiones ya no constituyen “armamento letal” con tal de que sea usado para “el adiestramiento y otras obras relacionadas”.

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