Chairman Prachanda’s warnings
While announcing the renewal of the ceasefire, Chairman Prachanda warned, “We feel it is our duty to clarify here that the government of the seven parties and the so-called parliament, instead of moving forward and standing in favour of the eight-point agreement, are trying to step back on various pretexts. In this context, it has been an issue of a more serious concern that the pressure and signals of foreign power centres are active behind their attitude… It is totally shocking to see that the government of the seven parties is building relationships with the very oppressors of the people’s movement and spreading illusions about the major ally of the movement, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).” If the parliamentary parties fail to “awake” from their dream that the peace talks are a sign of the Maoists’ weakness and refuse to abide by “the thrust of the eight-point agreement,” he declared, “We will be obliged to declare a powerful programme of peaceful people’s movement even during the period of the ceasefire.”
“If we look at the current international balance of forces as also the regional balance of forces in South Asia then it is difficult to reach the centre of power. We will have to take a diversion. That’s why our moving forward after reaching an understanding with the liberal faction of the bourgeoisie is being called a transitionary phase by us. If we look at deeply at the essence of that which we are calling a democratic republic then we would find that it was none other than the people’s republic. I am saying this because within that we have raised the class question, nationality question, gender question and the regional question. If all these four issues are solved then it amounts to having a new democratic republic. Contentwise it is fine but since we are also talking about the peaceful competition with the bourgeoisie, its form looks like a bourgeois democracy whereas it is a New Democracy in essence. That’s why we said that it could be a transitional democracy. We feel that only this way we can fulfil people’s aspiration for a revolution in the current global scenario and can somewhat contribute towards international communist movement and world proletarian revolution…
