Document by General Secretary Prachanda, Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoist)
Two
Momentous Years of Revolutionary Transformation
This document
by Comrade Prachanda is taken from The Worker, organ of
the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), No. 4, May 1998 – AWTW.
1. Introduction
The process of the revolutionary transformation of
the present semi-feudal and semi-colonial Nepalese society through
the People’s War has completed two years. Within this period the
Party has successfully implemented two strategic plans of initiation
and continuation of the People’s War and is at present carrying
out the Third Strategic Plan. Today the People’s War has established
itself as the only revolutionary alternative in Nepal by breaking
through innumerable cycles of repression by the reactionaries and
the opposition of the revisionists. In the process of the destruction
of the old state power and the construction of a new one, the People’s
War has today reached the stage of exercising local democratic state
power. Creating a challenging influence and debate in every aspect
of national life, from the military point of view the People’s War
has reached the stage of the development of guerrilla zones. By
practically opening the doors of a new state structure in the form
of a Revolutionary United Front of the masses of different classes,
nationalities and regions oppressed for centuries, the People’s
War is showing in the course of development the path of its own
preservation, development and victory. In place of the corrupt,
immoral, fraudulent and extremely individualistic anarchist culture
of the old state, the People’s War has developed a new collective
and lofty culture based on sacrifice, ideological commitment and
self-sacrifice. In totality, amidst the process of intense repression
and resistance within the past two years, the People’s War has performed
a memorable role in revolutionary transformation.
Up to now ninety of the best sons and daughters of
the Nepalese people have sacrificed their lives for accomplishing
this historic success. Thousands of revolutionary fighters are braving
jail, persecution and horrendous torture perpetrated by the reactionary
regime. Hundreds of thousands of people are nurturing this
historic process through innumerable instances of sacrifice, devotion
and self-sacrifice.
The path of development and victory of revolution has
never been straight, easy and normal anywhere. The dialectical law
of development is such that everywhere and always the revolution
forges ahead by giving birth to intense opposition and counter-revolution
and through ascent and descent, ups and downs, and losses and gains.
The experience of the last two years of People’s War in Nepal is
also no exception to that rule. Today, on the occasion of the completion
of the two glorious years and of entering into the third challenging
year of the People’s War it would be relevant to briefly review
the past experiences.
2. Two years of People's War and the condition of the Reactionary
State
In the initial phase of the historic People’s War,
the Nepalese reactionary ruling class, like the reactionary classes
of the world, tried to play down the great role of the people. Because
of their own class outlook the reactionaries everywhere and always
tend to “belittle” and “bully” the forces of the people. On the
basis of this outlook the Nepalese reactionary ruling classes “declared”
that they would wipe out the people’s forces within one and a half
to two months and resorted to state terrorism with mass arrests,
torture, pillage and genocide. The masses, the Party and the revolutionary
fighters continued to resist this by setting historic examples of
devotion and sacrifice.
What was the result? The result was consistent with
what happens in genuine revolutionary movements all over the world.
The result was as per the prognosis of the invincible ideology of
Marxism-Leninism‑Maoism. The reactionary rulers had thought
that they could easily extinguish the fire of People’s War by resorting
to genocide, repression and terror. But, as has been proved by the
law of science and the experience of history, the killing of the
masses did not extinguish the fire of revolution, but added fuel
to the fire. The negative act of the state terrorism was transformed
into the positive result of development of the people’s revolution.
Instead, the state terrorism tore off the mask of the so-called
democracy, constitution and human rights donned by the reactionary
state and helped the masses to recognise the fascist nature of the
state. The fascist repressive drive of the whole year did not only
reveal the crisis within the ruling state but deepened the crisis
even more. After one year of repression they realised that there
was an even bigger wave of people’s sympathy and co-operation for
the People’s War. That thousands are replacing the hundreds, and
hundreds of thousands are replacing the thousands! They realised
that People’s War cannot be easily wished away, that it was a fundamentally
new type of war.
Along with aggravating the crisis within the rotten
state of the reactionary class this great process of People’s War
intensified the contradictions within its different political factions.
Among the various parliamentary cliques which serve as stooges
for different imperialist and expansionist plunderers, the process
of manoeuvering for power was intensified. Under the background
of the above crisis and immediately after the celebration of the
first glorious anniversary and commencement of the second year of
People’s War, a new coalition within the reactionary state was installed,
demonstrating naked perversion, immorality, hypocrisy and flunkeyism.
The new government, with the participation of the renegade United
Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [UML] clique under the
leadership of the Panchayati butchers was a mockery of even the
limited achievements of the 1990 historic people’s movement. It
adopted a new strategy of repression combined with diplomatic intrigue
against the People’s War. Under this strategy in the beginning it
was pronounced that the People’s War was a “political problem” and
that it could be solved through “dialogue”. However, in practice
preparations were made for even more intense suppression by constituting
different commissions, particularly an intelligence commission.
The people grasped the overall conspiracy of the new government
when it decided to introduce an anti-terrorist bill and to mobilise
the military against the people even when there was no change in
the objective conditions.
By reflecting upon the teachings of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
the universal principle of the development of revolutionary war
and the specificities of the development of the People’s War in
Nepal, the Party had already visualised the possibility of the enemy
mobilising its army against the People’s War. To resist this, the
Party had prepared its entire rank and file, the combatants and
the masses to a certain extent, with a series of political and military
strategies and tactics. Postulating the mobilisation of the army
against the People'sWar as a sign of the victory of People’s War
from the military point of view, the Party had already prepared
itself for the great prospects and grave challenges.
The great Nepalese masses launched a countrywide protest
campaign against the reactionary government’s decision to introduce
the so-called anti-terrorist bill and to mobilise the army against
the People’s War, thus rendering it dormant for the time being.
Within the short period of one and a half months, the fascist nature
of the new government got exposed. More importantly, for the first
time the broader masses of people got the opportunity of identifying
and understanding the reactionary nature of the revisionist renegade
UML clique. Against the wrath of the people the government was forced
to retreat. To a certain extent, the Nepalese people rightly experienced
it as a form of victory for their initiative.
Alarmed by this kind of development, the feudalists
and the imperialists started looking for another equation for maintaining
their state. In this context started the much hated process of the
buying and selling, confining and kidnapping of parliamentarians
mainly under the intervention and for the interests of the Indian
expansionists! The hypocrisy of parliamentary democracy got even
more exposed. It became once more clear to everyone that the parliament
and the parliamentarians are nothing but the sheepfold and sheep
of imperialism and feudalism.
Ultimately a coalition government was formed, consisting
of the past fascist Panchas and the Congress, infamous as traitors,
mass-murderers and stooges of the Indian expansionists. This new
government, most hated and shunned by the people, in its first public
declaration made known its policy of containing the People’s War.
They declared that they would “wipe out” the People’s War within
a period of three months. The new government is proceeding ahead
with the strategic policy of using government-sponsored goons under
the name of the People’s Defence Committee, killing revolutionary
cadres with surprise attacks, making false and vicious propaganda
against the leadership of the People’s War, mobilising huge commando
police and military forces through an unannounced, countrywide campaign
of repression, arrest and torture, and making armed interventions
against peaceful programmes of different mass organisations. In
this way nine revolutionary combatants, including Comrades Dhanraj
Pun, Suk Bahadur Rokka, Prem Bahadur Rokka, Bhim Prasad Oharti of
Rolpa district, a woman Comrade, Kamala Bhatt, of Gorkha district,
and Com. Padam Bahadur Rokaya of Jajarkot district, have been murdered
by this government of Indian stooges (up till January 1998).
However, the more important aspect is the new and unprecedented
wave of people’s support in favour of the People’s War that has
been increasing together with such declarations and activities of
the government. The peasants, women, students and intellectuals
in their thousands are forging ahead at greater speed in the process
of militant struggle. The military actions of people’s guerrillas
have not only expanded widely but also attained newer heights. This
has been confirmed by the recent success of higher forms of guerrilla
action accomplished in Rukum and Dhading, among other parts of the
country.
Amidst this people’s hatred, wrath and resistance,
another drama of the formation of a new coalition within the reactionary
state has begun. In the form of a meaningless debate of whether
to hold a mid-term election or a special session of parliament,
power struggles between the Royal palace, the USA and India are
taking place. For their own exclusive domination and plunder, the
Indian expansionists and the American imperialists are today openly
penetrating into the reactionary groups, including the Royal palace,
Nepali Congress, UML and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP).
It is now as clear as the day-light that various contradictions
and conflicts within the different reactionary cliques of the country
are in essence the reflection of power struggles between different
imperialist and expansionist camps.
From the above scenario of the People’s War and the
reactionary state it becomes clear that the reactionary state is
sliding towards its doom and the great process of the People’s War
is heading towards its victory. The present reactionary state is
the root cause of the downfall of the country and the people, and
the People’s War represents the banner of the safeguard and liberation
of the country and the people.
Today, the feudalists, the expansionists and the imperialists
are conspiring through their Nepalese stooges, the Nepali Congress,
UML, the Royal palace, RPP, etc., to let loose more intense repression
against the Nepalese people and the People’s War. It is not possible
to attain easy victory in People’s War. For this, wider participation
and the more unified efforts of the masses is warranted. There are
great possibilities and at the same time serious challenges, too,
ahead of the People’s War.
Up to now the reactionary class has been adopting the
strategy of disinformation campaigns politically and that of encirclement
and suppression militarily against the People’s War. To counter
this the People’s War is adopting the strategy of “demystifying
rumour” politically and “breaking encirclement and mounting resistance”
militarily.
We should not assume the failure of different reactionary
political groups as the failure of the overall reactionary state.
If need be, the reactionary state can do away with the present political
groups as the failure of exercising extreme despotism against the
people. It is only by preparing themselves to face the worst state
that the revolutionaries can fulfill their historic role. The main
point is to dare to win over the fear of death, through adherence
to the revolutionary principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and commitment
for the sake of the people. However arduous the path may be, the
destruction of the reactionary state and the victory of the people
is for sure.
3. ROLE OF PEOPLE’S WAR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THREE INSTRUMENTS
OF REVOLUTION
A. The Party
Comrade Mao has synthesised that the three magic instruments
of the new democratic revolution are the party, the revolutionary
united front and the people’s army. Even though the theory may remain
the same, the specific development of these instruments depends
upon the specificities of historical development of different countries.
Here there is no question of accommodating mechanistic thinking.
It is well known that amongst the three instruments, the party is
the main instrument which will give leadership to the other two.
The People’s War which has been forging ahead for the
past two years has played a historic role in developing and transforming
the Party itself. In a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country like
ours and in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution the
process of the protracted nature of the people’s war is also a process
of the revolutionary transformation of the party. We are realising
with our own experience that in comparison to tens of years of idealistic
talking and sermoning, the two years experience of the People’s
War has played an amazing role in the revolutionary transformation
of the Party.
The People’s War has played an important role in the
transformation and development of the Party, such as: by strengthening
the ideological unity of the Party through emotional unity; by raising
the ideological and political awareness and level of the Party to
a newer height through unfolding specific characteristics of the
Nepalese revolution; by leading the whole Party towards the development
of a proletarian revolutionary culture of renouncement, devotion
and sacrifice essential for giving leadership to the people’s revolution;
by raising consciousness about the dialectical relationship and
the correct handling of class struggle and inner struggle; by qualitatively
consolidating and expanding the relationship between the mass, class,
Party and the leaders; by increasing the role, responsibility and
recognition of the Party in the national and international field,
etc.
It was the process of resisting against the reactionary
state’s fascist repression and facing the venomous attacks of the
old and the new revisionists that sped up the revolutionary transformation
process of the Party. The fact that the development of the Party
as the revolutionary representative of the proletarian class takes
place through an intense process of class struggle and ideological
struggle has been proved correct in Nepal too.
Based on the synthesis of the experiences, achievements
and limits of People’s War, the Party is today stressing making
lessons of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) its
point of departure so as to prevent the Party from changing its
colour and to be more revolutionary and matured in the face of repressive,
conspiratorial and splittist activities of the reactionaries and
the opportunists. For a continuous transformation of the Party as
the leader of the revolution, for defending it physically and ideologically
and for expanding and strengthening its relationship with the masses
there is no other scientific method in the present-day world than
the teachings of the GPCR. The Party is the unity of opposites;
as long as the Party exists the phenomena of unity and struggle
between the opposites will also remain. The more developed and the
more complex the class struggle becomes the more the Party also
necessarily becomes developed and complex. In that context a maximum
and continuous practice of democracy both within and outside the
Party becomes necessary so as to preserve the revolutionary quality
of the Party and to defeat different manifestations of revisionism
and opportunism. To ensure the maximum participation of the general
cadres and the labouring masses in the internal affairs of the Party
is the only guarantee to save it against revisionism. Hence, the
Party is able to visualise clearly through the experiences of the
two years of People’s War that unless one adopts a system of generating
innumerable revolutionary successors from the rank and file cadres
and the masses, it will be impossible to defeat feudalism, imperialism
and revisionism. The important achievement of today is the realisation
of the necessity of developing consciousness and initiatives among
the cadres and the masses to “bombard the headquarters” of opportunism
so as to fulfill the role of giving leadership to the great revolution
of the people against the exploitation and oppression of feudalism
and imperialism and the betrayal and treachery of revisionism.
B. The Revolutionary United Front
Theoretically, it is obvious that the success of democratic
revolution is impossible without the broad revolutionary united
front between different anti-feudal and anti-imperialist classes,
sections, and levels of people under the leadership of the proletariat.
Similarly, it is clear that the basis of such a form of united front
will be and should be the unity between workers and peasants.
However, the process of initiation and development
of the revolutionary united front will be different, depending upon
the situation of different countries. In Nepal, the greatest manifestation
of opportunism has been on the question of the united front.
Although theoretically our Party had been forwarding
a revolutionary line on this question for a long time, it was not
able to put it into practice and it was also not possible without
initiating the People’s War. Today the experiences of the People’s
War have given a clear picture of the tactical and strategic aspects
of the revolutionary united front. Looking at the historical specificities
of Nepal and the experiences of the two years of People’s War, the
broad united front of oppressed classes and masses, oppressed nationalities
and the people of the oppressed regions will be the concrete manifestation
of our revolutionary united front. This conclusion has an immense
historical importance.
This will smash the present “unity” imposed by the
Hindu feudal state power based on class, national and regional inequality
and oppression and open the door for building a new unity based
on democratic values. Today the People’s War has had maximum impact
on the oppressed classes and masses of workers, peasants, women,
etc., on different oppressed nationalities and untouchable dalit
castes and on the people of the oppressed regions of the far West
and the Terai.
The Party regards it as a historical necessity of Nepal
to give maximum importance to the question of the struggle against
national and regional oppression as an integral part of class struggle
and democratic revolution. Until the political, economic, linguistic,
religious and cultural rights of different nationalities usurped
in the course of formation of the centralised feudal state of Nepal
are reinstated democratically and they are guaranteed full participation
in the new democratic state, and until a great force of national
unity based on democracy is created, it will be impossible to smash
feudalism and imperialism.
In order to achieve that great national unity there
is no proletarian outlook other than to recognise the right of self-determination,
including the right to secede politically, for the oppressed nationalities.
Hence our Party has firmly accepted the right of self-determination
of different oppressed nationalities in order to ensure their participation
as a necessary part of the revolutionary united front. Accordingly
the Party has been undertaking initiatives to put into practice
national autonomy as the concrete programme for the present.
In the present stage of the development of the People’s
War, wherever there is an exercise of the local democratic state
the Party has been trying to practically apply the concept of the
united front in it, and at the central level to build the united
front as an instrument of struggle against class, national and regional
oppression. In order to ensure the victory of the Nepalese revolution,
the relevance of the Party’s concept of the united front should
be propagated amongst the workers, peasants, different nationalities,
oppressed castes and the people of the oppressed regions and it
should be given an organisational form as fast as possible and as
best as possible. At the ideological level, it is necessary to launch
a more vigorous struggle against the rightist revisionists who
hanker after opportunistic alliances in the name of the united front.
C. People’s Army
The People’s War, which is forging ahead with Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
slogans such as: “The people without an army have nothing of their
own”, “The main instrument of the state is the army”, “In New Democratic
Revolution the main form of organisation is the army and the main
form of struggle is the war”, etc., is playing an important role
in the formation of the people’s army. Today unarmed masses are
systematically transforming themselves into armed masses relying
on the revolutionary theory that war teaches war. Using the strategy
and tactics of total war in the face of the extreme unbalanced condition
of the military forces of the enemy and the people, the People’s
War has been moving forward the process of building the army with
the Nepalese specificities.
By unfolding many concrete laws of dialectical relations
between open and secret work, rural and urban activities, legal
and illegal struggle, political and military activities, and mass
actions and mobilisation, the People’s War has been developing military
consciousness and the power of the people.
4. ROLE OF PEOPLE’S WAR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY
MASS ORGANISATION AND THE MASS MOVEMENT
The historic initiation of People’s War and its successive
development has opened a new door to the development of revolutionary
mass organisation and the revolutionary mass movement. First of
all, it has created new waves of revolutionary mass organisation
and revolutionary mass movement by making a mockery of the revisionist
cowards who refuse to see the possibilities of developing the mass
movements and mass organisations beyond the limits of reformism
and parliamentarism and who were indulging in the self-gratification
of their monopoly over that area after the initiation of the People’s
War.
Today the workers, peasants, women, students, teachers,
intellectuals, dalits, oppressed nationalities and cultural
activists are fueling the fire of organisation and struggle as allies
of the People’s War with a new zest and zeal. The waves of the revolutionary
mass movements and revolutionary mass organisations have been created
throughout the country, chiefly in the principal areas of struggle,
by challenging the severe state terrorism perpetrated by the reactionary
state and the cowardly twaddle of the revisionist renegades.
Has the modern history of Nepal ever seen such amazing
initiative of the thousands of the labouring women of the rural
areas of the country who have raised the flag of revolt, defying
all kinds of difficulties? Can the revisionist cowards ever imagine
the great surge of women’s participation in the form of guerrilla
fighters and commanders who defy death consciously and willingly?
Amidst terror unleashed by government-sponsored goons, the police
and the army, today thousands of labouring women from each and every
remote district are participating in women’s meetings and conferences,
shaking heaven and earth and fighting for their due rights. These
have proved the new relationship between the People’s War and the
mass movement. The fact that women are the most inspired group in
the last two years of People’s War itself is indicating definite
victory for the Nepalese revolution.
Today a new horizon of the peasant’s meetings, conferences
and struggles has opened up throughout the country. The way the
poor peasants are taking great initiative in capturing thousands
of quintals of grains, crops and lands and in destroying forged
bond papers of different feudal landlords of the country — behind
all these the People’s War has definitely played a great role. Hundreds
of thousands of peasants from the main areas of struggle are attempting
to exercise new democratic power by systematically resisting the
enemy’s mass killing, looting and terrorising. Have such scenes
ever before been observed by the Nepalese communist movement? It
is definite that by taking the path of revolutionary land reform
consciously and in a planned manner in different parts of the country,
the flames of the revolutionary peasant struggles will in future
reduce to ashes the whole feudal relations of production. Similarly
the revolutionary youths and students are marching forward, spreading
organisation and struggles throughout the country, defying killing,
repression, arrest and torture by the enemy. The People’s War has
given new energy for sacrifice and initiative to the students by
qualitatively developing among them a sense of responsibility towards
their country and the people.
Along with the development of the People’s War a new
consciousness for fighting for their own rights and liberation is
spreading amongst many oppressed nationalities of the country such
as Magars, Gurungs, Tamangs, Newars, Tharns, Rais, Limbus and Madhises.
People’s War has speeded up the process of the formation of various
national liberation fronts and expansion of nationality organisations.
Similarly, today along with the development of People’s War, a wave
of organisation and struggle has been created among dalit castes
at a greater speed and on a wider scale. The dalits are today rebelling
against the inhuman tyranny perpetrated upon them by the feudal
state of high caste Hindus.
Similarly, the People’s War has made teachers, professors
and intellectuals more conscious and active with regards to their
responsibilities towards the country and the people. It is a significant
change that thousands of intellectuals are coming forward to give
moral support to the great historic process of People’s War and
are organising against the social evils and the degeneration and
tyranny of the reactionary state.
In the field of the cultural front, the People’s War
is helping the revolutionary cultural activists in their initiative
and alignment against the present capitalist, revisionist and neo-revisionist
hypocrisy. In the field of literature, art and culture, the People’s
War is directly helping in the formation of a countrywide new cultural
army. The role played by the cultural front in making hundreds of
thousands of people participate in the People’s War has been unprecedented.
It is not only within the country but also outside
the country, particularly in India, that the People’s War has created
a new spirit and confidence among the expatriate Nepalese to get
themselves organised and participating in the People’s War in Nepal.
The Party’s influence and work among hundreds of thousands of expatriate
Nepalese has increased.
Similarly today the People’s War is playing an important
role in attracting agricultural technicians, doctors, engineers,
lawyers, human rights activists, etc., towards the new democratic
revolution.
From these facts it becomes clear that the People’s
War does not weaken mass movement and mass organisation but instead
strengthens them and opens the door for their qualitative expansion
and development. From the experience of the past two years, it has
become clear that it is the revisionists who have been hampering
the revolutionary development of mass organisation and the mass
movement by parroting mass movementism but
worshipping reformism and parliamentarism.
5. ROLE OF PEOPLE’S WAR IN EXPOSING THE REVISIONISTS
Nowhere in the world proletarian movement has the success
of the revolution been achieved without waging intense ideological
struggle against revisionism. One of the essential conditions for
the development and victory of the Nepalese revolution is also to
liberate the people of Nepal from the fatal poison of revisionism.
Comrade Lenin has poignantly expressed that it is foolish to try
to fight against modern revisionism only with theoretical debate.
Together with ideological debate it is mainly through the development
of class struggle that revisionism can be defeated. It is not so
simple and trivial to fight against Nepalese revisionism, which
has deeply penetrated within the Nepalese communist movement in
the past five decades and poisoned the minds of hundreds of genuine
people.
As has been said by Lenin, it is mainly the development
of class struggle, here in the form of people’s war, along with
ideological debate, that has started burning Nepalese revisionism
(in Engels' words: “colossal heap of garbage”).
That today the new and the old revisionists have become
more terrorised by the ghost of the People’s War than even the old
reactionaries and are madly assailing it proves that the revisionist
heap of garbage is on fire. Immediately after the initiation of
the People’s War, the new and the old revisionist pundits violated
the common morality of class solidarity and showed their true character
by putting their faith in the feudalist and imperialist propaganda
and by doubting and dishonouring the great sacrifice and initiative
of the masses. They exposed their true self by lending their voice
to the reactionary state and by trumpeting the charge of terrorism
and extremism against the People’s War. It is not only the leadership
of the UML that has degenerated into reaction, but also the new
revisionist ringleaders who claim themselves as the upholders of
“New Democracy” and “Mao Thought” that have been serving the reactionary
state against the People’s War and thus revealing their true character.
In this context it is worth recollecting Mohan Bikram, who is getting
degenerated and marginalised due to his own immoral, hypocritical
and revisionist character, who outwitted all others by announcing
that the People’s War would be wiped out within ten months. However,
when the old and the new revisionists saw that the People’s War
was spreading more and more against their wishes, they started parroting
that there was a reactionary hand in promoting the People’s War,
just as the Congress and the Royal palace have been accusing each
other of the same. They lamented that the reactionaries were not
able to repress the People’s War, which in fact has been resisting
reactionary massacres and state terror.
When the People’s War entered the second year, it was
transformed into the life process of hundreds of thousands of people,
and it started challenging the ruling reactionary state all the
more, and it also triggered the process of genuine cadres from the
revisionist camp joining and supporting the People’s War overtly
or covertly. Seeing this, the old revisionists openly went to give
leadership to the reactionary state in order to suppress the People’s
War. The new revisionist ring leaders, in order to fight for their
survival, went nakedly to play into the reactionaries’ hands. They
instigated the reactionaries against the People’s War by making
mountains out of mole hills of insignificant events at a local
level.
The People’s War has now entered the third year, after
completing two years. It has established itself as the only revolutionary
alternative in the country. For the reactionary state today the
People’s War has become the greatest obstacle. It sounds ironic
that along with the imperialists, expansionists, Nepali Congress,
Rastriya Prajatantra Party and United Marxist-Leninist group, even
the leaders of Mashal and the Unity Centre should be branding the
People’s War as terrorism. But this is a fact. Nowhere and never
have the elements that have degenerated into reformism and parliamentarism
ideologically and politically ever helped the revolutionary movement.
Even after the success of people’s revolution in the future, such
kinds of people will continue to oppose it. It is well known that
the Bolsheviks in Russia and the Maoists in China were attacked
even after the revolution by the revisionists who described themselves
as communists.
Today the People’s War is scaling ever greater heights
while exposing all the rubbish of the new and the old revisionists.
So long as the revolutionaries are guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
and so long as they remain loyal to the Nepalese people and march
forward to liberate the country and the people, the venomous attacks
of the revisionists will not be able to stop the development of
the People’s War. Rather, with the passage of time the revisionists
will get thoroughly exposed. The revolution will triumph. The development
of two years of People’s War has sufficiently proved this.
6. PEOPLE’S WAR AND THE EXPANSION AND CONSOLIDATION OF INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
Before the historic initiation of People’s War the
Party had pledged that “the Nepalese revolution is an integral part
of the world proletarian revolution and will serve the world revolution”.
Today with two years of experience this pledge has been proved absolutely
correct. It is already known to all that our Party is a participating
member of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), which
is striving for the building of a “New International”. Within this
period our relationship with the RIM Committee and all other participating
fraternal Parties of RIM has become qualitatively alive and strengthened.
The initiation of the People’s War and its successive development
has, at one end, given new inspiration to the participating parties
of RIM, and at the other end, the Nepalese People’s War has received
moral support from all the Parties. In the course of development,
today, the international responsibility of our Party and the revolutionary
Nepalese people has increased qualitatively.
Today our relations are not only spreading among the
participating members of RIM but also among those revolutionary
Marxist Parties and organisations who are outside RIM. Similarly,
relations with revolutionary organisations waging national liberation
struggles against imperialism and expansionism are also expanding
along with the development of the People’s War in Nepal. The way
the Nepalese People’s War, which is of a protracted nature, has
expanded its international relations and its influence has itself
become a specific manifestation of the Nepalese revolution. It is
a matter of pride that the Nepalese People’s War is getting warm
support, love and inspiration from millions of revolutionary masses
all over the world within such a short period.
Also, just as the Nepalese People’s War is speeding
up its relations with international revolutionaries, at the same
speed the imperialists, expansionists and various reactionaries
are hatching conspiracies and intrigues against it. In this regard
the comments of particularly the ruling classes of India and the
American imperialists, the world gendarmes, are worth noting. Many
conspiratorial and repressive moves by these powers against the
Nepalese People’s War and the Party leading it have come to the
surface. These elements are mainly instigating their stooges, the
ruling class and various reactionary groups of Nepal, to suppress
the People’s War. This way the Nepalese People’s War has proved
to be a big slap to the world imperialist system which is undergoing
new economic and political crises. It is now becoming clear that
the Nepalese People’s War will have a historic role in developing
the new wave of world revolution in the near future.
The continuous development of the Nepalese People’s
War has not only started exposing Nepalese revisionism but also
world revisionism. The People’s War has been a major blow to the
old and the new revisionists who have been swimming in the dirty
pools of reformism and parliamentarism and have betrayed the people’s
revolutionary movement all over the world. In this regard the attacks
of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of
India and other revisionist renegades against the Maoist People’s
War in Nepal are particularly noteworthy.
Today, in many other countries of the world, final
preparations for launching a Maoist People’s War are taking place.
It is a matter of pleasure for all the Nepalese revolutionaries
to know that the experiences of the initiation and continuation
of the People’s War in Nepal are directly helping in these preparations.
Today requests have been received from revolutionary workers in
different parts of the world to come to Nepal and to participate
in the warfront in order to safeguard and develop the Nepalese People’s
War and to learn practical lessons from it. These are the highest
manifestations of the international impact of the two years of the
development of the People’s War.
This way, at one end, the Nepalese People’s War has
become a new challenge to international imperialism and revisionism,
and at the other end, a new source of inspiration for the communist
revolutionaries and the masses of the people. This situation has
definitely placed more international responsibility on the shoulders
of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the revolutionary fighters
and the general masses of Nepal. The leading districts, the great
martyrs and all the revolutionary fighters of the People’s War in
Nepal have now been transformed into the common assets of communist
revolutionaries all over the world. It is this sense of seriousness
and responsibility that has inspired the Nepalese revolutionaries
to develop the People’s War to greater heights and to set 1iving
examples of devotion and sacrifice.
7. CONCLUSION
The great process of the People’s War is marching forward
by giving birth to powerful forces of revolutionary transformation
in all areas of Nepalese society. The enemies and the opportunists
within and outside the country are conniving with each other to
repress and thwart this great process of revolutionary transformation.
The revolutionary communists and the masses of the people within
and outside the country are getting all the more organised on a
bigger scale to safeguard and develop this great process. Thus,
at one end, the two years of People’s War have opened the doors
of historic possibilities, while at the other end, a situation of
bigger challenges from the enemies and the opportunists has also
been created.
The revolution is not following the subjective wishes
of anyone, but the dialectical path of its own development. The
two years of People’s War have inspired the Party to fulfil its
historic responsibility of liberating the people with greater firmness,
devotion and responsibility while remaining committed to the invincible
principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Let us unite in the service
of and for the liberation of the great Nepalese people! However
difficult and challenging the path may be the people’s victory is
certain.
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