Neelam Sharma
Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Forum, Nepal
Contribution to the International Communist Seminar
"Imperialism, Fascisation and Fascism"
Brussels, 2-4 May 2000
Dear Comrades
First of all I would like to thank the organizers of this International Communist Seminar for giving me this opportunity to present my feelings with in such a distinguished gathering.
Coming to the subject of our international Seminar "Imperialism and Fascism". I agree this is perhaps the most vital topic for this moment. But in this statement I am going to picture the situation of Nepal and the heroic struggle of the people of Nepal.
In the present era of Imperialism and Nepal's specific geopolitical case of India-locked ness, the external class relations also constitute a dominant variable in the development dynamics of Nepal. Particularly the dominance-dependence relations concerning the regional hegemonistic power of India exercises a near deterministic influence on the politico-economic processes in Nepal. The growing economic and political interventatrion and expansion of domination of Indian monopoly Capitalism in Nepal is likely to sharpen the contradiction between Nepalese Nationalism and Indian Expansionism. Also the growing penetration of metropolitan and financial and capital is fast turning Nepal into a neo-colonial appendages of world reaction.
Every people's war is basically the outcome of the prevailing class contradictions in society. In that sense present People's war is an attempt at readjustment of social contradictions sharpening over the years. Particularly after the 1950's when the roots of traditional feudalism were somewhat shaken. However taking partial advantage of then international cold war domestic feudalism reorganized itself under the absolute dictatorship of the monarchy and in 1960 easily did away with the political liberalism (multiparty Parliamentary Democracy) imported from outside in 1950. Since then the form of state policy was an one party monarchial feudal autocracy known as a party less Panchayat system. However after the 1960's as a result of the unprecedented dynamism achieved by international capitalism and natural alliance between feudalism and imperialism in the 3rd world countries, there was rapid expansion of extraverted merchant and financial capital in Nepal, too, and the old feudal classes gradually transformed themselves into comprador capitalist classes. The limited capital emerging from the backward rural agriculture incresingly got expanded more on the exchange and consumption of imported luxury goods rather than on the production activities. As a result the national economy remained under developed and the overwhelming majority of the population got trapped in the vicious circle of poverty and exploitation.
Without demolishing the basic structure of the state, the beurocatic capitalist class of rulling position wanted to reformist changes choosing the multiparty parliamentary system in Nepal. In the absence of alternate organized revolutionary force it made a large confusion to the people. From the lesson of 1990's movement (Restoration of So called democracy), the revolutionary parties wanted to build a strong revolutionary party and they made it a Unity Centre. After building a revolutionary party, it transformed into CPN (Maoist) and it declared to conduct the People's War in Nepal.
The people's war of Nepal was started on 13 Feb 1996. The process of revolutionary transformation of the present semi-feudal and semi-colonial Nepalese society through the people's war has completed the 4 yours. Within this period the party has successfully implemented the plans. 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 opposition of the revisionist. In the process of destruction of the old state power and construction of a new one, the people's war has today reached the stage of exercising local democratic state power. In every aspect of national life, from the military point of view the people's war has reached the stage of development base area. By practically opening the doors of a new state structure in the form of a new democratic revolutionary front of masses of different classes, nationalities and region oppressed for centuries, the people's war is showing in the course of development the path of it's own preservation, development and victory. In place of the corrupt, immoral, fraudulent and extermly 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.
Until now 1050 (one thousand fifty) best sons and daughters of Nepalese people have sacrificed their lives for accomplishing this historic success. More than 2000 revolutionary fighters are in the Jail (Prison) of reactionary government. In the name of fake encounter the popular leader of Nepalese revolution Comrade Suresh Wagle alias BASU (the alternate political bureau member of central committee of the CPN Maoist) and the famous mass leader of Rukum Com. Bisshewor Pokhrel are killed by the Nepalese dog of imperialism. About 150 guerilla members have given their life and more than 250 reactionary police has lost their life in real fighting. The remaining number about 900 is the cause of genocide. In the initial phase of historic people's war, the Nepalese reactionary ruling class 'declared' that they could wipe out the people's forces within one and half to two months and resorted to state terrorism with mass arrest, torture pillage and genocide. 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. Now they (the reactionary forces) are realized that the bigger wave of people's sympathy is increasing on people's war. The All Nepal National Independent Students Union (Revolutionary), All Nepal Women Association (Revolutionary), All Nepal Trade Union Congress, All Nepal People's Cultural Association, Nepal National Intellectuals Organization are working nationally as the mass organization of the party and the region oppressed organization Terai Salvation Front, Karnali Salvation Front, Khambuwan Salvation Front, like this the Racial organization Tamang Salvation Front, Tamuwan Salvation Front, Magarat Salvation Front, Tharuwan Salvation Front, Newa khala and Dalit Salvation Front are prepared to co-operate the people's war.Alarmed by this kind of development the feudalistic and the imperialists started looking for another education for maintaining their state. In this context the scenes of the much hated process of buying and selling, confining and kidnapping of parliamentarians mainly under the intervention and for the interest of the Indian expansionists. The hypocrisy of parliamentary democracy got even more exposed. The Indian expansionists and mainly the American imperialists are today openly penetrating into the reactionary groups including the Royal Palace, Nepali Congress, CPN (UML) and 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 struggle 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. Today, the feudalists, the expansionists and the imperialists are conspiring through their Nepalese stooges, the Nepali Congress, UML, the Royal Palace, RPP etc. The facistization of the domestic reactionary is the cause of the intervention of imperialists. The Nepalese revolutionary people want to increase the international solidarity. In present the CPN (Maoist) wants to relate those Marxists Parties and organizations that are outside the RIM also. The RIM is not sufficient yet. Similarly relations with revolutionary organizations waging national liberation struggle against imperialism and expansionism are also expanding along with the development of people's war in Nepal. The way the Nepalese people's war, which is of, protracted nature has become a specific manifestation of the Nepalese revolution. This way the Nepalese people's war has proved to be a big slap to the world imperialist system, which is under going new economic and political crises. The continuous development of the Nepalese people's war has not only started exposing national revisionism but also world revisionism. It is now becoming clear that the Nepalese people's war will have a historic role in developing new wave of world revolution in the near future. 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. The revolutionary fighters of the people's war in Nepal have now been transformed into common assets of communist revolutionaries all over the world.
Now in Nepal, the revolutionary masses of the village are destructing the stooge power of imperialist and creating new one. The interest to stranglehold on Nepalese economy of imperialist's economic diplomacy is becoming the subjects of hate and people know it as a source of exploitation. The economic sovereignty of the people is established in various districts in spite of the various INGOs of different organization of imperialists. The new height of the people's war transformed the social life of the people than in the better scale of reactionary fascism than the scale of imperialist's intervention.
The four years of people's war have inspired the people to fulfill the historic responsibility of liberating the people with greater firmness, devotion and responsibility while remaining committed to the invincible principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The seed of world revolution is just going to product the fruit in Nepal. On behalf of the Anti- Imperialist Revolutionary people of Nepal I Would like to request to the distinguished communist leaders of the world and participants of this international gathering to inspire the revolutionary people of Nepal by visiting and knowing the actual height of people's war. Like this I again request you to safeguard the lamp of revolution and to campaign internationally as the intregal part of world revolution.
Long live Proletarian Internationalism !
Long live Marxism,Leninism, Maoism!
Long live the Anti-imperialist International Solidarity!
Long live the Revolutionary Friendship!