• Accept the People’s Verdict

• Intn’l greetings to the Republic of Nepal

• The fall of a 240 year old Dynasty

• Utilise Narayanhity for the People

• Republic Celebrations

• UML: trailing behind Congress Party?

•  Everest day Awards

• ‘Faith in the younger generation’

INTERVIEW

• These achievements are gained through People’s War - Dharmendra Bastola, Central Committee Member, Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist

OPINION

LITRERATURE

• Redefining the tasks of the revolutionary cultural movement - Florentino A. Iniego, JR

INTERNATIONAL

EDITORIAL

A victory for the people

The Nepalese People have passed a historic milestone. The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) has abolished the monarchy and implemented a Federal Democratic Republic (FDR). A dark chapter of feudal history has ended, and a new chapter of Nepalese history has begun, a bright future into a Federal Democratic Republic.

The 240 years of the Shah dynasty, including the Ranas, represented an extremely centralised, absolutist and cruel era in Nepalese history. During this long tyrannous rule, the Nepalese people spent their lives in conditions of scarcity, poverty, misery, repression and exploitation; while at that time; big historical changes were taking place in the international political arena. The changes in foreign countries and the development of mass consciousness inspired the Nepalese people to struggle against the feudal order.

The armed struggle and the people’s movement of 2007, 2013, 2028, 2036 and 2046 BS ended with the monarchy making compromises. The aims and aspirations of the people and the movement were unfulfilled because of the class character and the inefficiency of the parliamentary parties. People felt that the bourgeois parliamentary parties would not be able to accomplish the struggle to end the monarchy. Therefore, the People were in search of a revolutionary party that could abolish the monarchy

After the initiation of People’s War (PW), the people had the golden opportunity to contribute to the decisive struggle. The revolutionary, progressive, patriotic and forward leaning forces united under the leadership of CPN-Maoist and Com. Prachanda. The People’s War developed in leaps and bounds, taking the struggle ahead to a decisive and logical end.

After a decade long People’s War and the second Peoples Movement (janandolan), the CPN-M was able to form a broad United Front with the parliamentary parties after the 12-point understanding. Though the parliamentary parties tried to end the struggle in a compromise with the monarchy, the CPN-M took the flexible but scientific initiative to fight a political struggle, a ‘table war’. The mandate of the PW and the People’s Movement was to finish off feudalism and the monarchy. This aspiration and mandate had the grand support of the people. With this large support, the Maoist moved victoriously forward. The table-war went on smoothly towards a peaceful political outlet. The parliamentary parties were actually pro-monarchist. They could not even imagine eradicating the feudal reign of Nepal. The CPN-M fought unceasingly against the pro-monarchist and status-quo tendencies of the parliamentary parties.

In the recently held CA election, the CPN-M gave a clear picture of the FDR by proposing a presidential system in its commitment paper. The majority of the people heartily accepted the commitment of the Party; the people voted for the Maoist to implement the FDR and to bring in the new Nepal; this is why they were elected as the largest party in the CA.  The people have proved victorious and have created history. They are now creating a new future. The people and only the people are the creators of the history.

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