Jharkhand - NAPM, NFF, NFFPFW Statement condemning the murder of Sr. Valsa John by the mining mafia

November 18, 2011

Press Release by  National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), National Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF) & National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers (NFFPFW)

Sr. Valsa, an activist of the Rajmahal Pahad Bachao Andolan (RPBA) and an ordained nun with the Sisters of Charity of Jesus & Mary, who had been working among Santhal Adivasis in the coal rich region of Dhumka, Jharkhand was brutally murdered by a group of about 40 armed men on the night of 15th November 2011. On behalf of Indian peoples’ movements and resistance struggles, NAPM, NFF and NFFPFW condemn this heinous and cowardly act, evidently conceived by the powerful mining mafia, aimed at essentially hunting down individuals and movements to silence the voices of resistance by people.

Lessons from a Long History of Dissent: From the Early Twentieth Century to Occupy Wall Street

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/magdoff161111.html
by Fred Magdoff

World Peace Forum Teach-In, Vancouver, Canada, November 12, 2011 (Modified from Notes)

We are at what social theorists call a "historic moment," in which real change suddenly seems possible.  It is therefore all the more important to learn from past struggles.  One of the first lessens of a long history of dissent from the early twentieth century to the current Occupy Wall Street movement is that relatively small numbers -- that is, significantly less than a majority -- of people can cause big changes through either armed revolutions or non-violent actions.  Support by large sectors of society can be gained along the way.  Examples include Russia, China, Cuba, the union/left movement and reforms during the Great Depression, anti-colonial liberation movements, the U.S. civil rights struggles, etc.

Nepal: Revolutionary peasants refuse to return land

Posted by redpines on November 18, 2011

Peasants with the ANPF(Revolutionary) flag

One of the aims of the  People’s War (1996-2006), was to provide “land to tiller,” or free agricultural land for peasants to farm individually or collectively. To accomplish this, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) helped peasants confiscate lands from feudal lords or rich landowners. This was especially necessary in the heavily-populated Terai region in Southern Nepal, where arable land is scarce relative to the population.

However, according to the terms of the recent Seven-Point Agreement, peasants have been ordered to return much of this land. Peasants who are part of All Nepal Peasants Federation-Revolutionary are refusing to do so.

This development is especially interesting, as some leaders of the ANPF(Revolutionary) are aligned with Prachanda, who signed the seven-point agreement. What this means, if anything, is not clear. 

Peasant Against Returning Land

by RedStar

Kathmandu, 16 November:

All Nepal Peasants Federation-Revolutionary (ANPF (Revolutionary) has declared not to return the land; which was confiscated in the period of People’s War. It was declared in a press meet held in capital city Kathmandu yesterday. ANPF-Revolutionary is standing against the returning of the land where the poor and homeless people are farming for their livelihood making their small huts.

Vice Chairman of the organization Thakur Prasad Chapagain has said that returning land without alternative option, as it was already said that revolutionary land-reform would be its scientific option, is against the people and the nation. The 7-point agreement, itself is traitorous and anti-people.

He said that peasants will protest and fight against the the ruling parties and the ruling factions if they mobilize soldiers and armed police forces to seize land for returning the land laords.

Press Note: Joint Statement Calls for Rejecting 2011 Land Acquisition Bill

November 17, 2011

The 2011 Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill is a dangerous exercise in doublespeak that will worsen the injustice and devastation caused by the present law. Below is a joint statement on this legislation from a number of organisations and individuals, calling for the rejection of the new Bill and raising the basic issues that need to be addressed by any legal framework.
The statement points out that:

* Despite making gestures and pious statements, the Bill contains so many loopholes that all its provisions for public accountability and consultation will be meaningless in practice. Bureaucrats will remain extremely powerful. In particular, most projects (private or public) will be able to escape without either taking the consent of the affected people or responding to their objections.

Nepal’s Revolutionaries call for PLA to abandon army integration

Posted by redpines on November 17, 2011

Nepal’s Revolutionary Maoist forces are shaking things up.

As this statement points out, the revolutionaries are taking concrete steps to resist the terms of the Seven Point Agreementbetween Bhattarai, Prachanda and several bourgeois parties. Leaders Kiran and Badal are calling for PLA fighters to abandon the process of integrating with the Nepal Army.

The statements were originally published in the English-language version of The Red Star.

Revoluionary faction calls PLA Soldiers not to participate in fusion

by RedStar

16 November, 2011

Kathmandu, 16 November: Senior Vice Chairman Mohan Baidya “Kiran” and General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa “Badal” have called the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to be separated fronm the procvess of integration of the army.

In a joint press-statement released yesterday, they have appealed ‘PLA soldiers not to participate in the process of fusion because it is very disrespectable and anti-peace processes’. They have appealed the ‘self-respected PLA commanders and soldiers to be totally separarted from the process of surrendering.’

Therevolutionary faction is against the process of disarming and recruiting PLA commanders and soldiesr as the first recruiters in army.

A Disrupted Karl Rove Demands: “Who gave you the right to occupy?”

Posted by kasama on November 16, 2011



Karl Rove Flips Out At Protesters:


‘Who Gave You The Right To Occupy America?’


By Zaid Jilani


Last night, former Bush official Karl Rove appeared at Johns Hopkins University to speak as a part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. Rove soon discovered that he wasn’t going to deliver his right-wing rhetoric unopposed, as a cry of “Mic Check!” rang out among the audience. “Karl Rove is the architect of Occupy Iraq, the architect of Occupy Afghanistan!” yelled the demonstrators. Occupy Baltimore had infiltrated the crowd and began chanting against Rove.


“Who gave you the right to occupy America?” asked Rove to the protesters, apparently unaware of the Bill of Rights. As they repeated their slogan, “We are the 99 percent!” Rove petulantly responded, “No you’re not!” He snidely added, “You wanna keep jumping up and yelling that you’re the 99 percent? How presumptuous and arrogant can you think are!”

Repression Creates Resistance - Anonymous targets New York Supreme Justice Michael Stallman :

source: Democracy and Class Struggle 

Picture Michael Stallman


Citizens of the world.
We are Anonymous.

We have been monitoring the events currently taking place. The decision made by the New York Police Department and the city of New York displeases us. A city cannot have the power to destroy the people's right to free speech and assembly.

We've been called by various supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement for our help. We will not disappoint them. We shall continue to target New York Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman until he repeals his decision and allows the protesters to return to camp in Zuccotti Park.

In addition, we have decided to take drastic measures in ensuring that this happens. We have released Justice Michael Stallman's private information as well as others supporting his decision.

Citizens of the world, hear us now. The time has come to rise up. It is time to rise up against the system. The system has now met its match, and the people shall prevail. We will participate in this war. There will be no stopping us. If the government presents a threat to us, they will expect no mercy. We shall terminate this system, indefinitely.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect us.

Democracy and Class Struggle publishes this for information purposes and it should not be read has an endorsement of the statement issued.

Lew Rockwell on "Crazy Keynesianism" and the Police State

Arundhati Roy: “The people are under siege”

Posted by hetty7 on November 16, 2011

This profile of Arundhati Roy originally appeared at The Independent UK.”

The country that I live in is becoming more and more repressive, more and more of a police state…. India is hardening as a state. It has to continue to give the impression of being a messy, cuddly democracy but actually what’s going on outside the arc lights is really desperate.

Arundhati Roy: ‘The next novel will just have to wait…’

by Peter Popham

October 17, 2011

Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things, is not in the frame this year. Again. In fact, she has yet to follow up on that first book, what John Updike described as her “Tiger Woodsian debut.”

It’s not for want of trying: it is no secret that she has a second one on the stocks. “Everybody has known that for many years!” she laughs. Few people have had a glimpse of it, however, one exception being her friend John Berger, the octogenarian novelist and art critic. He was so impressed that he urged her to drop everything and finish it. “About a year and a half ago I was with John at his home,” she recalls “and he said, ‘You open your computer now and you read to me whatever fiction you are writing.’ He is perhaps the only person in the world that could have the guts to say that to me. And I read a bit to him and he said, ‘You just go back to Delhi and you finish that book.’ So I said ‘okay…’”

Indian communist solidarity with OWS: Bury the 1% With the 99%

Posted by hetty7 on November 16, 2011

This important statement of solidarity appeared at Democracy and Class Struggle.

A Call from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) NAXALBARI:

Bury the 1 Per Cent with the 99 Per Cent!

Nov. 2nd 2011 — A wave of rage and unrest is seen worldwide. The youth are out in the streets – protesting, resisting, hitting back. They are supported and joined by people from a wide spectrum. Dictators, who squeeze out the life breath of freedom; rulers, who load all the hardship of the crisis on the people’s backs; billionaire sharks, who speculate and profit on hunger and homelessness; politicians, who plunder public funds – the whole lot is targeted,

This is wonderful!

On the repressive situation in Jangalmahal - reports, statement

http://sanhati.com/articles/4330/

November 16, 2011

Translated by Suvarup Saha

Click here to read the pamphlet in Bengali

Mazdur Kranti Parishad (MKP) has been active in West Bengal for the last five years, functioning primarily as a political organization of the working people. It consists of workers and employees of various factories and institutions, laborers belonging to the unorganized sector, landless laborers in the farm sector, daily-wage earners, poor farmers and various other working people.

Soon after its inception in 2006, MKP became an active constituent of the Singur movement to protect the farmers’ rights over their cultivable lands and livelihoods. The ruling left front government of the time had unleashed brutal terror via police to break the people’s resistance and like others, MKP activists had also been physically assaulted on numerous occasions. At the time when Ms. Mamata Banerjee was fasting in December 2006 to force the government return the farmers’ lands, MKP leader and worker of the Hindmotor Car factory, Mr. Avas Munsi had accompanied her in the fast for 20 straight days! In 2007 February when the Singur farmers decided to break the fortification put up by the TATAs in their lands, the MKP leadership was in the forefront of that movement and bore the brunt of the police excesses.

David Harvey speaking at Occupy London Stock Exchange - A Message for the Occupy Movement

David Harvey at Occupy London / November 12, 2011 / International Day of Solidarity from Elaine Castillo on Vimeo.

Occupy Wall Street: Posters answer NYC police attack! Posted by kasama on November 15, 2011

Exposing Lorrie Goldstein

NYPD raid video: OWS protesters arrested at Zuccotti Park

Police destroy Occupy Wall Street tents, emergency meeting called by protesters

November 15 Occupy NYC Police Raid

Police Break Up New York 'Occupy' Camp

The purpose and non-coverage of Occupy Wall Street

Revolution #250, November 13, 2011

The following was sent out by Revolution distributors in New York City:

1 a.m., Tuesday, November 15, the NYPD moved in to shut down Occupy Wall Street. With helicopters overhead, the police moved into Zuccotti Park, blocking off the surrounding area, blocks away. Reports on the Occupy Wall Street web site are that subway stations in the vicinity and the Brooklyn Bridge have been closed, and there is a massive police presence at Canal and Broadway. The livestream shows a huge police force trashing the tents and throwing people’s possessions in large piles and in dumpsters. The NYPD destroyed the OWS Library, throwing 5,000 donated books in a dumpster. People are being arrested. The site reports that press helicopters were evicted from airspace over the park. People on the scene, five blocks away, are being pushed back by the police, pepper sprayed was used, and arrests made. The New York Times reported, “The police move came as organizers put out word on their Web site that they planned to ‘shut down Wall Street’ with a demonstration on Thursday to commemorate the completion of two months of the beginning of the encampment, which has spurred similar demonstrations across the country.” People are planning a demonstration on Tuesday to protest this outrage.

Occupy Wall Street Declares Goldman Sachs Guilty

Bhopal Disaster Victims: Lab rats for Big Pharma

That's Rich: New 'poverty standards' enrage Indians

Nepali Revolutionary Song

The UN Vote… the Occupation of Palestine… and the Struggle for Liberation

Picture Bandhu Bikram Chhetri

Student Leader, Nepal Unified Maoists interviewed by Nepal Telegraph

Mr. Bandhu Bikram Chhetri, originally hails from Dolakha district who is an active member of the Unified Maoist party. He had pursued Masters Degree both in Sociology and Economics from Tribhuwan University, Nepal. Currently, he is acting as the President of Kathmandu University Unit of the student wing of his party. He has published several articles on contemporary political issues in different leading Nepali national dailies.


Mr. Chhetri represents the hardliner camp inside his party led by Senior Vice-Chairman Mr. Mohan Vaidya 'Kiran'.


The Telegraph Weekly and its online edition telegraphnepal.com talked to this energetic young man on several aspects of the internal rifts prevailing inside his party as a part of our ongoing campaign to promote youth leadership in the country.

Below is the excerpt of this exclusive interview: Chief Editor

What Does Wall Street Think of Its Occupation?

Inside Story - India corruption exposed

Occupy Berkeley: 'Cops hit us with batons in stomachs'

Occupy Cardiff

Croeso i Meddianwn Caerdydd


Support Occupy Cardiff, a new younger generation in Wales takes up the class struggle for social justice

Full Text of Press Statement by Comrade Kiran and Badal

Democracy and Class Struggle thanks Next Front Nepal for making this document available in English.

Respected media persons,

It is known to all that an agreement paper entitled “An agreement reached among the political parties on the issues including peace process” and jointly signed by the chairman of the UCPN (Maoist), chairman of CPN (UML), president of the Nepali Congress and leaders from United Democratic Madheshi Front was brought to public through media. The said agreement has seriously hurt at the credence and prestige of the great people’s war waged by the Maoists for ten years, the expectations, aspirations and dreams of the martyrs, disappeared and injured fighters and the outstanding records of devotion, heroism and sacrifice by the PLA and the entire freedom-loving masses as well. Although efforts have been made to beautify this agreement as a historical agreement that initiates a new era but in essence it has become a symbol of capitulation and a serious betray towards nation and the people. We strongly oppose this kind of agreement.

On the repressive situation in Jangalmahal - reports, statement

November 11, 2011

Mamata’s “tide of development” gives rise to new waves of corruption in Jangalmahal

by Partho Sarathi Ray

The West Bengal government has openly adopted a carrot-and-stick policy to combat the struggle of the people of Jangalmahal against state repression and exploitation. On one hand, the operations of the joint forces are continuing, resulting in raids on villages, arrests of people, especially youngsters, and brutal beatings being meted out to villagers. Just last week, twelve students, belonging to the student organizations Jharkhand Student Federation (JSF), Chatrasamaj and USDF, who had been campaigning in the villages regarding a convention which they were holding in Kolkata, were picked up by the joint forces from a house where they were staying near Jhargram, and brutally beaten up. The SDPO of Jhargram himself kicked a couple of students in their abdomen. They were released only in the afternoon, once the news of their detention became public in Kolkata and protests were held. Three days back, Raju Hansda, a student belonging to the JSF from Ramgarh in Lalgarh area, was picked up from his home and charged with eighteen different murder cases. As this juggernaut of state repression rolls on, the mainstream media is rife with speculation about when the “actual” operations against the Maoists are going to begin, as if this was not enough to bring misery to the life of people in Jangalmahal.

UNITED STUDENTS’ STRUGGLE HAS FORCED THE AUTHORITARIAN JNU ADMINISTRATION TO REVOKE THE BAN ON JNU FORUM!

http://www.icawpi.org/en/peoples-resistance/statements/799-united-students-struggle-has-forced-the-authoritarian-jnu-administration-to-revoke-the-ban-on-jnu-forumSTUDENTS 


UNITED SHALL ALWAYS BE VICTORIOUS!

8 November 2011.  After a prolonged uncompromising struggle by the student community for the last six months with JNU Forum's initiative, the administration today on 8 November was forced to revoke its authoritarian 'restraint' order on the JNU Forum against War on People. All the prohibitions on the JNU Forum, including the holding of public meetings, printing and distribution of pamphlets, posters etc. have also been removed. The administration could not provide any valid reason for the imposition of the restrain - which is tantamount to banning a political organization - and was forced to admit of its mistake in taking this undemocratic and unprecedented repressive action. The five day long indefinite hunger strike and the massive mobilization of students around it has once again proved that it is the victory of the entire progressive section of the student community who with a sustained struggle have upheld the democratic culture of JNU, our freedom of expression and right to dissent.

The collective struggle of the students already made the authoritarian JNU administration concede to two of the five demands of the present phase of the struggle - to withdraw the politically motivated proctorial action against AIBSF and to tender a public apology by the Chief Proctor for his condemnable casteist remarks on AIBSF. Thereafter, five days of indefinite hunger strike, the relay hunger strike and a massive united protest demonstration today forced the administration to talk to a teacher's delegation followed by an all-organisation delegation. Unable to justify its actions, the administration had to accept all the demands of the JNU Forum once the names of the Forum members with signatures were submitted. With this, the two draconian Circulars from the Proctor's Office dated 19 May 2011 stands scrapped. The 'Statement of Agreement' signed between the administration and the protesting students reads:

In a meeting with the students sitting on indefinite hunger strike and their representatives it was agreed that as the JNU Forum against War on People is a forum of bonafide students of JNU, whose names have been submitted by the Forum with the JNU administration, the restraint order on the Forum is being withdrawn with immediate effect. The students on hunger strike therefore have also agreed to end their agitation and break their fast with immediate effect.

Apart from acceding to the primary demand of revoking the ban on JNU Forum, the administration has also been forced to backtrack from the witch-hunt of individual students in the name of the farcical Proctorial Enquiry on the Forum. The administration has also principally agreed that the unjust fine imposed on two Forum members on the basis of the ban for 'facilitating' a public meeting will be withdrawn. The successful culmination of this phase of the struggle signifies a crucial victory for the student movement of JNU and our collective commitment to fight for the campus's democratic space, our freedom of expression, right to dissent and right to organize/unionise. In this united struggle initiated by JNU Forum, a large number of students and students' organizations including AIBSF, AISA, AISF, DSU, KNS, PSU, SFR, UDSF participated.

This sends a strong message to the authoritarian JNU administration and its political masters that the voices of the students of this campus and our opposition to the Indian state's war on people in the name of Operation Green Hunt cannot be gagged by administrative crackdown. This struggle also coveys a strong solidarity with the peoples' movements fighting against Green Hunt and all forms of state repression. At a time when Green Hunt is being intensified all over the country by the Indian state using all its coercive force including the Army and Air Force, this successful struggle inspires us to expose and resist policies of state repression with greater intensity. We firmly believe that people's struggles will be able to defeat the Indian state in its aims to crush the voices of dissent and violently suppress people's rights. JNU Forum against War on People once again reiterates its firm resolve to continue our struggle against Indian state's anti-people campaign of Operation Green Hunt in the coming days.

ITV News - Italy: latest Euro victim

Reading BAsics 1:5 : On 1% and 99%

Kill Yourself For The Dalai Lama

Notes on the Oakland Commune

November 4, 2011

by Jesse Ross Knutson

There have been questions raised about the precise politics or lack of politics of the Occupy Oakland movement. It is still in many ways an open territory and encourages great respect for diversity of tactics. But some common threads also become visible that reveal its fundamentally progressive and increasingly anti-Capitalist nature. This is a new and young movement; its strength is precisely its organic character; in the way, through some highly self-conscious social practices, it is formulating and debating itself as it advances. There is a true dialectic of practice and thought taking place, with collective practice being collectively reflected upon in general assemblies, as well as `mike checks’ which can erupt anywhere at any time, even in the midst of action or violent attacks from the police.

Mike Check

When the need is felt for announcement or debate, participants shout `mike check’, and multiple people repeat the words of a given speaker to broadcast them as widely as possible. It sounds like a booming echo. Thus a debate about a tactic can take place even while the tactic is being deployed. This mix of action and deliberation might seem a little hazardous at times, but the strength of this movement is perhaps in its very fragility. I thought, for example, that it was unproductive when yesterday (November 2nd) in the midst of the `Anti-Capitalist March’ around downtown Oakland which began at 2pm, a `mike check’ suggested that part of the march split off from the masked Anarchists who decided to engage in some destruction of property, mostly bank windows. The action of the ten or twenty young people was seen by some to constitute `violent’ as opposed to `peaceful’ protest, as well as an incitement to the police. While the question was never really resolved, we just kept moving. It was obvious that a decision to split off would have been a decision to criminalize and expose a segment: the question was answered by feet moving forward on the street. This was a test. Later last night when we spontaneously surrounded a car trying to speed through and access the docks, a `mike check’ allowed us to emphasize that we should not hurt any of the people in the car and instead allow them to retreat unharmed. In both cases, the `mike check’ ultimately served to calibrate and refine an action in real time and infuse it with the genius of the collective.

The Occupy Movement - What do they want ? by Mumia Abu Jamal

The purpose and non-coverage of Occupy Wall Street

By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

The main—and, up to this point at least, the overwhelming—aspect of these "Occupy" protests has been their very positive thrust: in mobilizing people to stand up against injustice and inequality and the domination of economic, social and political life, and international relations, by a super-rich elite class whose interests are in opposition to those of the great majority of people; and in contributing in significant ways to an atmosphere in which people are raising and wrangling with big questions about the state of society and the world and whether and how something much better can be brought into being. It will be a very good thing if these protests continue to spread and further develop, with this basic thrust and this positive impact. And these "Occupy" protests can be a significant positive factor in contributing to the revolution that is needed—IF this is approached, by those with the necessary scientific communist understanding, in accordance with that understanding and the strategic orientation and approach that flows from it.

You Just Don't Get It, And I Don't Get You

No Blank Cheque for Resistance

By Gautam Navlakha

A spate of crackdowns and arrests made by the security agencies in last two years in UP, Bihar, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Orissa, West Bengal does suggest that Maoists have suffered setback, but it also shows how rapidly Maoists had spread in different parts of India! While not everyone arrested was a Maoist, there is no doubt that they had managed to spread to urban areas as well as having made sizable gains in the countryside. Their worst critics were proved wrong in claiming that their politics was leading nowhere. In Jangalmahal region of West Bengal they had managed to break the shackles and emerge as a strong fighting force of the people, just as they did in Dumka (Jharkhand). But they are weaker today than they were a few years ago. This needs to be explained.

Maoists are of course not rulers in the 21st century India and their rule in what they describe as their Guerilla Zone and Guerilla Base cannot be compared to what took place in China after 1949. But to the extent that area-wise seizure of power has enabled them to set up parallel administration they do combine a dual role as both outlaws and rulers. What they do as rulers impacts their Movement.

Libya recolonised

AIJAZ AHMAD

Libya is the first country that the Euro-American consortium has invaded exclusively on the pretext of human rights violations.

IVAN SEKRETAREV/AP 

On the outskirts of Tripoli, a residential building reduced to rubble in a NATO airstrike on June 19. Even the most conservative estimates suggest that the war in Libya has led to the loss of at least 50,000 lives, mostly at the hands of NATO's bombers and local allies.

FROM Kabul in October 2001 to Tripoli in October 2011, a decade of unremitting planetary warfare has seen countries devastated and capitals occupied over a vast swathe of territory from the Hindu Kush to the northern end of Africa's Mediterranean coast. Within the Arab world, this ultra-imperialist offensive of Euro-American predators may yet move on to Syria as well – and beyond that to Iran at some future date. For now, in any case, the occupation of Libya by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) clients and corporations marks the vanquishing of the spirit of rebellion that was ignited in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt earlier this year and has been under attack ever since. For much of Africa, though, this may yet be merely a beginning of a new conquest by the Euro-American consortium that may ravage the continent even more ferociously than did the famous “Scramble for Africa” that was sanctified in Berlin at the end of the 19th century.

Protest Against National Betrayal organised by Comrades Kiran and Badal

The revolutionary faction lead by Comrade Mohan Baidhya ‘Kiran’ and Badal organized a press conference today. They said that the agreement reached among the parties was a deception to the Peoples Liberation Army and was against the country. They denounced the 7-pt agreement and declared, yesterday 2nd November as the Black Day in the history of Nepalese revolution. They stated that: Prachanda has betrayed the revolution, he has turned himself into a real traitor of imperialism and expansionism. But they will never let down the flag of revolution.


A 9pt leaflet was distributed during the press conference. After the press conference a protest rally was organized and the paper of 7pt deal -a document of national betrayal was burnt


Source: Next Front

Hardliner Baidya flays 'landmark agreement'; calls it deception to PLA, country

A day after the major three political parties- UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML signed an agreement to end long-standing political deadlock, vice -chairman of the Maoist party Mohan Baidya Wednesday strongly flayed the deal and accused party constitutional democrat faction of trying to split the party at the behest of the ‘imperialists and expansionists’.


Organising a press conference at the City Hall in Kathmandu, the revolutionary leader Baidya said that the agreement reached among the parties was a deception to the Peoples Liberation Army and was against the country.


He also said that they were compelled to oppose the unilateral decision of the party establishment as it was against the decision of the party.


The revolutionary leader also accused the party establishment leaders of having links with the ‘expansionists and imperialists’.


“We want to keep party unity intact. Those who have links with expansionists and imperialists are trying to split the party,” he added.


Stating that the issue of the party unity should not be advocated on the basis of absolutism, Baidya said that they will not compromise with the mistakes of the leadership in the name of the unity.


He also warned party establishment that they would seriously think of seeking alternative of the government led by Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai if the mistakes are not corrected at the soonest.


Source: Maoist Road

ILO Report Warns Of Sharp Employment Downturn, Social Unrest

By Joseph Kishore

01 November, 2011
WSWS.org

The International Labour Organization, an agency of the United Nations, released a report Monday pointing to a disastrous global jobs situation and a “vicious cycle” sending the world economy into a new downturn.

“The next few months will be crucial for avoiding a dramatic downturn in employment and a further significant aggravation of social unrest,” warns the opening editorial to the World of Work report, released ahead of a G20 meeting later this week.

In addition to documenting the employment situation, affecting both advanced and “developing” countries, the reports presents a damning portrait of contemporary world capitalism: growing financialization, declining taxes on the wealthy and corporations, and a collapse in the share of income going to the working class.

Three years after the crash of 2008, “economic growth in major advanced economies has come to a halt and some countries have re-entered recession, notably in Europe,” the ILO notes. “Growth has also slowed down in large emerging and developing countries.”

nepal ..'DARK DAY IN NEPAL'S HISTORY' -

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011

nepal ..'DARK DAY IN NEPAL'S HISTORY' -

'DARK DAY IN NEPAL'S HISTORY' - MAOIST GENERAL SECRETARY THAPA

'RESPONSIBLE LEADERS HAVE LINKS WITH IMPERIALISTS AND EXPANSIONISTS' ; VICE CHAIRMAN BAIDYA.

Revolutionary faction of the Maoist Party opposes November 2 agreement; calls it deception to PLA, country.

A day after the major three political parties- UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML signed an agreement to end long-standing political deadlock, vice -chairman of the Maoist party Mohan Baidya Wednesday strongly flayed the deal and accused party constitutional democrat faction of trying to split the party at the behest of the ‘imperialists and expansionists’.

General secretary of UCPN (Maoist) Ram Bahadur Thapa (center)...

Organising a press conference at the City Hall in Kathmandu, the revolutionary leader Baidya said that the agreement reached among the parties was a deception to the Peoples Liberation Army and was against the country.
He also said that they were compelled to oppose the unilateral decision of the party establishment as it was against the decision of the party.
The revolutionary leader also accused the party establishment leaders of having links with the ‘expansionists and imperialists’.

Revolutionary Hopes in Nepal Near Death

Nepalese Leaders sign Peace Deal - 6,500 Combatants to be Integrated.

Democracy and Class Struggle publishes these reports from Kantipur for information purposes.We will publish materials from comrades when they become available. We  aso note that some of the sites we rely on for information from Nepal from the revolutionary perspective have been disrupted.

Dahal aka Prachanda tried to get the backing for deal from Baidya aka Kiran , General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa and Secretary CP Gajurel who objected to the deal saying that it is against the party's official decision.

Speaking to reporters after the deal, Baidya aka Kiran  said they could not agree on it, but also said that it would not cause a split in the party. Earlier during the negotiations, leader CP Gajurel from this camp walked out the three-party meeting.

The Maoist Party General Secretary Thapa said the deal is against the will of the Nepali people and it would not be helpful in concluding the peace process in real sense“ "We have registered note of dissent and we will bring our view tomorrow organising a press conference”," said Thapa. 

Anti-Posco : Villagers resist the government’s push to acquire lands

November 1, 2011

Update from POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (November 1, 2011)

We earnestly appeal to all of you to send your immediate protest letter to the government of Odisha regarding its recent decision to start the construction of coastal road from Paradeep to our village for POSCO. We fear that over 400–500 henchmen of POSCO followed by police forces might forcibly enter into our area. From media reports, it may construe that they can attack on or before 3rd of November 2011. On 30th October 2011, our villagers have decided to intensify the protest if the Government goes ahead with land acquisition and construction of the coastal road.