Revolutionary Students’ Front – Context Nepal: Imperialist Plot vs. Revolutionary Potential
We hereby share an unofficial translation of an article published by the Revolutionary Students’ Front (RSF) from India on the recent developments in Nepal. Since our last report, the death-toll has been updated: at least 51 people died and more than 1,300 have been injured. A new Prime Minister has been appointed, the former Chief Justice, Sushila Karki.
A curious ‘Ram-Left’ [Translator’s note: Ram Chandra Poudel, Nepal’s president, previously part of the Nepali Congress Party] unity is being seen on Indian social media in the context of the ongoing mass uprising in Nepal. The “leftists”, including the conspiracy-mongers, already see the hand of the CIA everywhere (it is not being claimed that the CIA’s hand is not in the events in Nepal, this is discussed later), but since the RSS [Translator’s note: Rastriya Samachar Samiti, main media outlet in Nepal] – the pet of the United States, has not been getting proper water from its old owner for some time, they have also joined the ‘CIA-CIA’ cry. But, is it just the CIA? Is it all ‘meticulous design’? The mass uprising in Nepal began with the Nepalese government imposing a ban on 26 social media apps. However, that is just an excuse. Those who have been keeping an eye on Nepalese social media for some time know that two words have emerged even after the ban on social media has been suppressed. Who are the ‘Nepo Babies’? Before looking for an answer to this question, it is necessary to talk a little about Nepal’s recent history.
Nepal is currently a so-called ‘democratic republic’, but even at the beginning of the 21st century, Nepal was under the rule of the king. This monarchy, a broker of imperialism and a patron of feudalism, was like a bloodsucking leech to the people of Nepal. At the end of the 20th century, with the dream of uprooting all the systems of exploitation, the people of Nepal embarked on a revolutionary people’s war with the aim of uprooting the old anti-people state system of Nepal, including the monarchy. This people’s war, organized under the leadership of revolutionary communists, shook the foundation of the monarchy of Nepal. The real sponsors of the monarchy, that is, the various types of imperialist states, the plundering circles like the IMF-World Bank, and the bloodsucking big bureaucratic bourgeoisie and big landlords in Nepal realized that if the king was to be sustained, the Nepalese people would destroy the entire structure of their plunder. They were represented by parliamentary parties like the Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), [Translator’s note: Party lead by the until now Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli] etc. All these evil forces and their proxy parliamentary parties were able to make a part of the leadership of Nepal’s revolutionary people’s war, i.e. Prachanda-Oli-Baburam Bhattarai etc. their partners. This combined circle kept spreading propaganda by throwing dust in the eyes of the Nepalese people who were struggling to build a new society, saying that only the end of the monarchy will provide a fundamental solution to all the problems of the Nepalese people!
The Nepalese monarchy was officially overthrown in 2008. But what did that mean? With the fall of the monarchy, the so-called ‘parliamentary democracy’ was established in Nepal, but none of the fundamental problems of the Nepalese people were solved. Rather, just like the Indian ‘parliamentary democracy’, thousands of small and big ‘kings’, leaders of parliamentary parties who were fed by the big bureaucratic bourgeoisie, big landlords and corporations, grew up in kingless Nepal. They became even more skilled than the former kings in plundering the people. They had big cars, big houses, and immense assets deposited in foreign banks. On the other hand, the people of Nepal got nothing by shedding so much blood. These crownless kings of kingless Nepal are the ‘Nepo babies’. Ever since the so-called ‘parliamentary democracy’ was established in Nepal, the people of Nepal have been trapped in the web of oppression and exploitation by these ‘Nepo babies’. The anger of the common people participating in this mass uprising is directed precisely at these ‘Nepo babies’.
So, is the CIA not involved in the events in Nepal?
Of course there is. It should be remembered that various right-wing evil forces have been trying to shape public opinion in favor of bringing back the monarchy for the past few years, exploiting the just anger of the Nepalese people against this rotten ‘parliamentary democracy’ model. A foreign-funded ‘apolitical’ NGO named ‘Hami Nepal’ has emerged as the center of the mass movement in Nepal. It is clear that the imperialists must have some ‘meticulous design’ for Nepal, just like Bangladesh. It is important to know one thing about the conspiratorial “leftist” forces. When a just public anger against the state arises in a country under the influence of one of the camps of imperialism, the rival camp of that camp has always tried to misdirect that public anger for the fulfillment of their own interests. In other words, this kind of imperialist conspiracy is nothing new. So what should be the duty of real communists in such a situation? In such a situation, revolutionary communists should do exactly what the Bolsheviks did during the February Revolution in 1917. That is, taking advantage of the imperialists’ internal conflicts, destroying the trap of ‘meticulous design’ and giving the people’s just mass anger a revolutionary direction. The conspiracy-mongering “leftists” may not know that there was a ‘meticulous design’ by some imperialists regarding the Russian people who were struggling to end tsarism in Russia. Let’s see what Lenin said in this context.
“But while the defeats early in the war were a negative factor that precipitated the upheaval, the connection between Anglo-French finance capital, Anglo-French imperialism, and Russian Octobrist-Cadet capital was a factor that hastened this crisis by the direct organisation of a plot against Nicholas Romanov.
This highly important aspect of the situation is, for obvious reasons, hushed up by the Anglo-French press and maliciously emphasised by the German. We Marxists must soberly face the truth and not allow ourselves to be confused either by the lies, the official sugary diplomatic and ministerial lies, of the first group of imperialist belligerents, or by the sniggering and smirking of their financial and military rivals of the other belligerent group. The whole course of events in the February-March Revolution clearly shows that the British and French embassies, with their agents and “connections”, who had long been making the most desperate efforts to prevent “separate” agreements and a separate peace between Nicholas II (and last, we hope, and we will endeavour to make him that) and Wilhelm II, directly organised a plot in conjunction with the Octobrists and Cadets, in conjunction with a section of the generals and army and St. Petersburg garrison officers, with the express object of deposing Nicholas Romanov.” – V.I. Lenin, Letters From Afar
The “leftist” Parties, which are in despair, are obsessed with ‘meticulous design’ and ‘plotting’, and do not know how to trust the people, and above all, their own politics. Even if this ‘meticulous design’ is using the justified anger of the people, the struggle for social change must be fought through trusting the people and revolutionary communist politics. This uprising of the people of Nepal is justified. If the imperialists’ ‘meticulous design’ is really to be thwarted, then the main task should not be to support the Nepalese State, but to build a united revolutionary alternative power center in the interests of the workers-peasants-middle class in the ongoing battle against the Nepalese State.
Yesterday, September 9, the leader of the revisionist Communist Party of Nepal, Prime Minister K.P. Oli resigned and fled the country with the help of the army. In the historical context, September 9 is also the death anniversary of Comrade Mao Tse-tung. Keeping this historical context in mind, it is necessary to emphasize Comrade Mao’s words again and again today — “Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.”
Author: Soumyadeep Kanji
