Long Live the Revolutionary Uprising in Nepal!
In recent weeks, international media have announced the fall of the government in Nepal due to the furious protests of the poor youth, following the government’s decision to ban social media in the country. However, the true reason behind this revolutionary uprising lies in the absolute incapacity of capitalism to even provide work for its wage-slaves. The wastefulness of the wealthy classes, corruption, nepotism, censorship, and militarism are merely expressions of a wage-labor system rotten at its very core.
The massive protests began in the capital, Kathmandu, and the government declared a curfew, but this failed to stop the mobilizations. The youth did not back down in the face of repression, which caused the murder of the first 19 demonstrators. These street protests soon became a genuine revolutionary uprising that led to the burning of the Nepali parliament, several regime institutions, and the residences of ministers and other officials. This acute political crisis finally provoked the fall of Prime Minister Sharma Oli, and one by one the rest of his cabinet members resigned.
Since the fall of the monarchy in Nepal nearly two decades ago, attempts have been made to govern a nation of 30 million inhabitants amid constant crises and uprisings. The role played by all Stalinist-Maoist factions in the Popular Front governments has been a complete scam and betrayal of the impoverished masses. Reformism has fulfilled its most perfidious role in revolutionary processes: handing the masses over to bourgeois institutionalism and thus to complete subordination to imperialism. It is no coincidence that the United States praised the government of the Maoist prime minister Prachanda as an example of democracy, while he handed over the country’s resources.
This shows that the bourgeoisie needs reformism to maintain the order of capitalist business in any country, and when reformism is exhausted it is replaced by another administrator. What they do not expect is the explosive convulsions of the last years of the exploited and unemployed proletariat, which is capable of taking the future into its own hands. Now the crossroads lies in the rise to power of Sushila Karki, former president of the Supreme Court. The enormous uprising is once again being subordinated to the rotten institutions of the bourgeois regime; the Stalinists and Maoists are seeking to negotiate once more with the military caste over the murder of more than 70 young people.
Proletarian youth must form their own independent organs of struggle, separate from the bourgeois parties that seek to regain control of the country, while the police continue to fill the streets with blood. Enough conciliation with the regime: let workers’ leaders break their subordination to parliament and the bourgeois presidency; let self-defense bodies be established, voted in assemblies; let factories and lands be taken over—the time has come for the direct action of the masses. A provisional revolutionary government is necessary, led by the proletariat that brought down the regime, in alliance with the poor peasants and artisans. The working class of the European powers and the Japanese proletariat are the principal allies in this struggle against imperialism and the bourgeoisie. Only in this way can imperialism be fought and the massacre in Palestine be halted.
The uprising in Nepal is part of a revolutionary upsurge of the exploited masses in Asia. This continent, marked for decades by wars and bloody dictatorships, now sees a proletarian youth capable of burning the institutions of the capitalist regime and overthrowing bourgeois governments, regardless of their administrator of the day. May the streets of Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Indonesia erupt once again! May the mighty Chinese and Indian proletariat rise! The situation shows that the masses want to fight, and they will only be able to secure victory by taking power into their own hands and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat as an essential step in the struggle for socialist revolution in every country of the region.
For this revolution not to be betrayed once again by the old Stalinist leaderships, an international regroupment of the proletarian vanguard is necessary to refound the Fourth International and combat the conciliatory policies of reformism; only there lies the true legacy of revolutionary socialism.
DOWN WITH THE BOURGEOIS TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT!
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION OF THE ASIAN PROLETARIAT!
