To the Oppressed Struggling Masses of Nepal
- Statement
the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
April 1992
According to
imperialist newspaper reports, during a protest strike and mass
demonstrations on 6th April 1992 called by the Nepal Communist Party
(Unity Centre), the Nepali government's riot police opened fire
on the crowds in the streets, killing at least five people and wounding
50. They then imposed curfew for the following several nights in
Katmandu and its suburbs. But instead of being cowed by such a brutal
show of force by the riot police and other government forces in
the capital, the heroic Nepali masses took to the streets in their
thousands in the following days to protest and to reclaim the dead
bodies of their fallen comrades. The Committee of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement denounces this barbarous act by the reactionary
Nepali government and expresses its firm solidarity with and support
for the heroic revolutionary masses of Nepal in their just struggle.
Only two years
ago the masses of Nepal rose up in a countrywide heroic upsurge
against the decades-old oppressive monarchy. But the leading political
forces in that historic upsurge, the now governing Nepali Congress
Party, in collaboration with what was then the Seven-party Left
Alliance led by pro-Chinese and pro-Soviet revisionists, betrayed
and deceived the mass movement by making a deal with the monarchy
to establish a multiparty parliamentary system under a constitutional
monarchy. They acclaimed this deceptive deal a great victory for
the masses and hailed it as democracy. It was this so-called multiparty
democratic regime which did not stop short at shooting and killing
the masses, who were merely trying to exercise their minimum democratic
right to protest against its enormous misdeeds and to demand their
basic rights.
This shows
that while these reactionaries claim that political power comes
from the ballot, in fact, as Mao Tsetung taught long ago, "political
power grows out of the barrel of a gun". These developments also
show that, as in all oppressed countries, mass movements and mass
upsurges, however widespread, militant and even revolutionary they
may be, even if they lead to a change of government or regime, cannot
bring about the liberation of the masses of Nepal. For true liberation
the masses need to take up arms in hand and to prepare and launch
revolutionary people's war - a protracted people's war along the
path charted by Mao. Unless the whole existing social system of
feudalism/semi-feudalism, bureaucratic comprador capitalism and
imperialist-expansionist domination is overthrown by new democratic
revolution, no reform of regimes or change of government or implementation
of multiparty elections and so on can bring any fundamental change
in the lives of the broad masses.
This is why
in its message to the Nepal Communist Party (Mashal) in May 1990,
the Committee of RIM emphasized that the masses' struggle "...must
have as its aim the total revolutionary overthrow of semi-feudal
and imperialist exploitation and domination and the building of
new democratic Nepal with workers-peasants' rule under the leadership
of the proletariat, guided by Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought...."
The Committee
of RIM strongly feels that the present re-awakening of the masses
in Nepal calls for the Maoist revolutionary communists to step up
the preparations for launching protracted people's war and, in order
to do that, initiating guerrilla warfare in the countryside based
on Maoist strategy and tactics. Only in this way can the blood,
sweat and sacrifices of the masses win victory and the aspirations
of the masses be fulfilled. The advancing people's war in Peru under
the leadership of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) is providing
a glorious, living example of this. RIM, along with the proletariat
and the revolutionary masses of the world, will stand firmly with
the masses of Nepal in their revolutionary struggles ahead.
Cast
Away Illusions About the Multiparty So-called Democracy!
Forward
Along the Maoist Path of People's War to Make New Democratic Revolution
in Nepal!
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