The "Communist Party of Nepal(Maoist)" chose November 7th (U.$. elections) as the date to announce a plan to disarm the People's War in Nepal. Of course, reminiscent of the terrible Chile slaughter of 1973, the BBC called the announcement an "historic" breakthrough for "peace." Rebels will supposedly gather in eight places while the UN holds their weapons.
On the whole, the media blitz justifies MIM's Central Committee decision in May, where it announced it was not going to be tolerating parties in a thorough position of accommodation with u.$. imperialism. It would be hard to come up with one news story more damaging to Maoism than this.
There is no way to teach Marxism-Leninism-Maoism as a means of supporting the CIA in Iran and disarming existing People's Wars the way RIM has taught people. The bourgeois media will be all over the place confusing people who may not focus long enough to do other than dismiss Maoism. Meanwhile the cpnm.org and KrishnaSen online had nothing to say. They have not had much to say in a long time, a sign of a dead vanguard party, especially in a country with supposedly as many revolutionaries as Nepal has.
Against MIM, there is much to say. The People's War has gone on 10 years. Perhaps Fanon would say that the oppressor's lid on the brain of the oppressed has been lifted long enough that it can indeed vote its way through a political swamp. Fanon says that ordinarily the violence of the oppressor is accommodated deep inside us and the way the lid on that comes off is not pretty.
So too against us is the idea that Nepal is only in the bourgeois stage of revolution. So perhaps the people of Nepal have found a new path to success, the Prachanda path. Maybe even Liberalism is strong enough in Nepal to get the job done.
The Nepal revolution had no national component as clear-cut as Mao's where the Japanese imperialists destroyed previous China and allowed the creation of a new one. The temptation in these conditions to get a vote of legitimacy instead of a national war of legitimacy is strong.
We hope it is not true that the people of Nepal are giving up access to weapons. That would be fatal. MIM is not in Nepal and does not recruit in Nepal. There must be revolutionaries there with experience. Our hopes lie with them.
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" Nepalese rebels renounce violence ," http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6129314.stm