The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist has quit the country’s interim government and launched a campaign
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The autocratic monarchy, which represents the declining feudal class and its allies, was forced to hand over virtually all of its power to an interim government last year. The CPN-M, after 10 years of armed people’s struggle, had organized 19 days of strikes and protests aimed at toppling the regime.
Within the interim government, a political polarization has been taking place between bourgeois and other parties that vacillate back and forth about the monarchy, and the CPN-M, which seeks to wash away every last remnant of the old feudal state. The state has kept the country underdeveloped economically and divided into castes.
Completing the political transformation of the state from monarchy to bourgeois republic is a stated short-term goal of the CPN-M. The party’s stated ultimate goal is socialist revolution.
On Sept. 26, the CPN-M met with the other parties in the government and agreed in principle to the establishment of a federal republic. The government, including the CPN-M if it participates, would be presiding over system based on capitalist economic relations. The struggle in Nepal is far from over.
