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ILPS CONGRATULATES THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF NEPAL (MAOIST)
AND THE NEPALI PEOPLE FOR VICTORY OF DEMOCRATIC CAUSE
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
19 April 2008
As chairperson of the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of the
International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), I hereby convey the
warmest congratulations of the ICC and participating organizations of
the ILPS to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the people of
Nepal for their victory in the elections for the Constituent Assembly.
We are jubilant over this highly significant victory of the anti-imperialist
and democratic cause. It spells the abolition of the monarchy and
establishment of the democratic federal republic and opens the way
for the undertaking of basic democratic reforms towards the completion
of the new democratic revolution. We anticipate that under the
leadership of CPN (Maoist) the new broad-based government shall
carry out basic democratic reforms soon in the field of politics, social
economy, culture and international relations in response to the urgent
demands of the people.
To comply with previous agreements of the CPN (Maoist) and the
Seven-Party Alliance (SPA), the bureaucratic and military apparatuses
of the state need to be re-oriented and restructured, allowing the
integration of the revolutionaries, in order to consolidate the conditions
of peace and advance the national and democratic interests of the Nepali
people. Subsequent to the integration of the revolutionaries, the army
can be systematically downsized as the people's militia is developed in
order to support the basic democratic reforms on a wide scale and reduce
and make more efficient the cost of defense.
In response to the strong urgent clamor of the peasant masses, land
reform needs to be carried out as the main substance of the democratic
revolution and the main self-reliant support for economic development.
National industrialization can be undertaken in concert with land reform
and the promotion of agricultural production. A national, scientific and
mass culture needs to be propagated and developed. An independent,
peace-loving and development-oriented foreign policy needs to be
adopted against imperialism and reaction.
We express to the CPN (Maoist) our best wishes in carrying out the
mandate from the people of Nepal and in leading them to still greater
victories in realizing basic democratic reforms and in carrying the new
democratic revolution forward. We hope that the CPN (Maoist) and
the people of Nepal will play a crucial role in promoting the advance of
movements for national liberation, democracy, social justice, development
and peace against imperialism and reaction.
The International League of Peoples' Struggle shall always cooperate
with the patriotic and progressive forces and broad masses of the Nepali
people in mustering international support for all their efforts aimed at
national and social liberation and in building international solidarity against
imperialism and reaction and in raising the level of revolutionary struggle
and achievement in the world to a new and higher one.###
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