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Party of the Committees to Support Resistance - for Communism (CARC) - Italy
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National Direction - International Relations Department
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16/03/2010
Interview with Comrade Basanta
Between 11 and 14 march representatives of CARC Party were in Anvers, for a
meeting regarding Nepali revolution, where they met comrade Basanta of the
Central Committee of the Unified Nepali Communist Party (maoist). We
interviewed him, and below you may find the answers he gave us.
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Our Party saluted the victory the democratic revolution led by UNCP(m) got
in 2008 as the first victory of the international communist movement of 21st
century, and makes knows how it goes on both as a form of solidarity with
Nepali people's revolutionary movement and because it is rich of teachings
for Italian Communists and people's masses as well.
Question. On December issue of our newspaper Resistenza we wrote that
UNCP(m) launched a campaign of mobilizations all over the country against
the coup de main the reactionary forces tried refusing to comply with the
agreements about the merging of old royal army and People's Liberation Army.
The campaign is aimed 1, to establish the supremacy of civil over military
power, 2. to defend national independence, and 3. for the agrarian reform.
- Is this campaign still going on? Which developments and effects is it
producing?
Answer. The great People's War that our party initiated in February 13, 1996
was aimed at accomplishing the New Democratic Revolution, the first stage to
clear the way forward to socialism and worldwide communism. In order to
achieve the minimum strategic goal of New Democratic revolution in Nepal we
have been applying various tactics in compliance with the concrete analysis
of the concrete conditions. When the deposed monarch Gyanendra usurped the
whole power with the strength of reactionary army, the political
contradiction between the entire masses on the one hand, and the king on the
other, came at the forefront. Objectively, it created a situation at which
the political parties that claimed themselves as democratic ones could be
brought together in a fight to establish democratic republic. Based on the
12-point understanding the tactical unity between seven political parties
and ours was the correct implementation of firmness in strategy and
flexibility in tactic on our part. The abolition of monarchy and
establishment of democratic republic from the first meeting of the
Constituent Assembly is an important step forward to our minimum strategic
goal of New Democratic Revolution but it is not the New Democratic
Revolution itself.
The New Democratic Revolution has two aspects: anti-feudal and
anti-imperialist. With the abolition of monarchy, the feudal institution,
the feudalism has been weak politically but it has not yet been abolished.
And on the other, the agrarian programme based on the principle of land to
the tiller is far from being implemented. The bureaucratic comprador
bourgeois has come at the fore in the reactionary power. It means that
Nepalese people's struggle to establish democracy i.e. the struggle to make
the people sovereign and to resolve the land problem and as well to
establish national independence is not over. It should be understood that
sometimes the question of democracy comes at the forefront and sometimes
that of national independence. But now, the civilian supremacy and national
independence have been inseparably interconnected and the struggle for
establishing national independence has come at the first place. Therefore,
the struggle for democracy i.e. civilian supremacy over the state power and
national sovereignty will continue till the oppressed Nepalese people get
rid of feudalism and imperialism, mainly the Indian expansionism in our
case, from the soil of Nepal.
The struggle for civilian supremacy and national sovereignty that we are
waging now is training the masses to stand for it. In other words, this
struggle has aroused consciousness further on the need to establish people's
sovereignty in the state power and national independence. It has prepared
ground for the final offensive in case there is obstruction in establishing
civilian supremacy and national independence in Nepal.
Q: Which are the reactions of countries as India, USA and China that tried
to deter NCP(m)U from launching this campaign, telling that it would cause
troubles and damages to the population and to the country?
A. The imperialism never wants to provide oppressed classes the political
power in any country. Nepal cannot be an exception to it. Rather,
imperialism has been very much afraid of growing people's strength towards
the seizure of power by the Nepalese oppressed classes under the leadership
of our party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The Indian
expansionism knows that the first country that gets most influenced by the
Maoist's victory in Nepal is India. With the victory of Nepalese people,
Indian expansionist ruling class is on the one hand going to loose its
political, economical and cultural domination over Nepal and on the other it
is also aware of the fact the success of New Democratic Revolution in Nepal
is going to arouse more the Indian masses against the reactionary Indian
ruling classes. Therefore India has come at the fore against our struggle to
establish civilian supremacy and national independence in Nepal. Till now,
China has been maintaining its non-interference policy in the internal
political affairs of our country.
Q. To establish a political direction firm and able to transform the social
order of Nepal: is not it the core of the struggle for put an end to feudal
system, to economic backwardness, to misery and illiteracy, to cast system,
to oppression over women and national minorities in which Nepali population
has been put and held by monarchy and imperialists?
A. There is no doubt that the entire problems like economic backwardness,
misery, illiteracy, inhuman caste system, gender descrimination and national
oppression by which the Nepalese people are till now down weighed are all
the inevitable outcomes of the semi-feudal and semi-colonial socio-economic
condition of Nepal. It is not the end of one of the feudal lords only but
the end of feudal system and its interconnection with inperialism that
brings about a revolutionary transformation in the society. However, the end
of monarchy is a step forward in the direction of abolishing feudalism and
imperialism from the Nepalese soil. Unless Nepalese people defeat feudalism
and imperialism and therby establish New Democratic power there will be no
revolutionary transformation of the Nepalese society except some cosmetic
changes.
Q. Which are the steps UNCP(m) thinks to do for making advance the
revolutionary movement until winning over internal and foreign enemies?
A. Everyone is aware that we are now in the constituent assembly to draft a
new constitution that opens the way forward to resolving the fundamental
contradictions of the society. However, the domestic and foreign
reactionaries are conspiring to dissolve the constituent assembly, impose
presidential rule and push the country into civil war in order to maintain
the status quo. Till the last we will be struggling hard to write people's
constitution and establish people's republic from the constituent assembly
but we will not in any cost let them reverse the process. We are prepared to
defeat them by people's insurrection if the reactionaries impose unjust
civil war upon the Nepalese people.
Q. Most of Italian Communists think that revolutions is something that
breaks out. We think that it something to be built step by step. What do you
think about?
A. Revolution can neither develop in someone's subjective wish nor does the
revolutionary crisis make it happen spontaneously. It is the correct
handling of the dialectics between the objective situation and subjective
planning on the part of the proletarian vanguard that pushes the
revolutionary process forward.
Q. In our country many comrades are weighed down by the idea that we are few
and besides surrounded by a reactionary and backward mass. Even part of the
workers and of labourers follow and support openly reactionary and racist
forces. Does not NCP(m) shows the contrary, by its action, that is that
Communists can win to the revolution all the classes or anyway most of the
classes of the popular masses (because for their class position Socialism is
the only or anyway the best prospect of life and future)?
A. In the begining, there is always a small group of consciuos activists
that initiate the revolutionary process. The idea that without preparing a
strong mass base no revolutionary struggles can be initiated is wrong. Nor
is it a process that a tiny committed group of revolutionary activists can
accomplish revolution. It is a process that grows from the small to big,
from the simple to complex and from the part to whole. Yes, the experience
of our party has clarified it correctly. In the beginning of the people's
war, we were only 70 committed fulltime leaders and cadres in our party.
People's consciousness was very backward. But our conscious intervention
upon the situation started changing the situation in a qualitative manner.
Revolution develops in a spiral way. Truly, had not we made any conscious
intervention upon the situation 15 years before, the present situation would
not have come.
Q. Do you want to send a message to all those who, in Italy, are involved in
the struggle for "not paying the crisis of the masters", and are looking for
a way out to the economical, political and environmental disaster in which
the bourgeoisie (the masters, the Vatican, the rich people and their
authorities) made us sink?
Objectively, the situation is getting favourable for the revolutionaries to
make revolution. The conscious effort to change this situation is the need
of the day. The economic crisis is sure in the coming days to lead to a
political crisis in the imperialist world order. And the political and
environmental disaster that the bourgeoisie have brought about is growing
hatred of the toiling masses against the system. It has definitely created
an objective base upon which revolution can step forward.
Palash Biswas
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