The Nepalese King Gyanendra, who was installed as king after a coup following the massacre of the former king and his family in the beginning of June, has now declared Nepal in a state of emergency, and, contrary to the Nepalese constitution, ordered the army to be brought into action against the People's Liberation Army, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and all others supporting the revolutionary People's War.
Nepal is the poorest country in the world, with an impoverished rural population of millions of poor people, widespread illiteracy, illnesses, political corruption, and an illegitimate royal house, which has seized power following a bloody coup. The extreme exploitation and repression necessarily leads to revolution - a revolution which according to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is intended to establish a republic and a new democracy based on real popular power.
After four months of peace negotiations, which did not lead to anything because
of the manoeuvres of imperialism and Nepalese reaction, the People's War has
now been resumed.
In the royal decree on the state of emergency, the Nepalese government declares
"the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), its sister organisations and any
organisation and individuals that support the Maoist party and its activities
as terrorists".
This is a statement having resemblance to the ban on the Danish communists in
1941, and it expresses very clearly that the so-called "global war against
terrorism", headed by the US and supported by all the world's reactionaries,
is a war against the struggle of the workers and the peoples for democracy and
social progress.
The US has condemned the resumption of the People's War. The EU has "deplored" the attacks, and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has expressed concern. They are all urging the resumption of "peace talks". With these statements, they are putting up a smokescreen with the purpose of hiding their support for the reactionary Nepalese government and the bloodstained royal house. The whole international reaction headed by the US and India, which has ambitions to control Nepal, will support the Nepalese counter-revolution - if necessary with rearmament, intelligence, money and troops.
But the Nepalese people are trying to take their destiny and future in their
own hands - to become free of the tyranny of reaction and imperialist interference.
Therefore, the working class and the peoples all over the world support the
People's War and the struggle of the Nepalese people. Because the so-called
"terrorists" are freedom fighters, and the armed counter-revolution
headed by the coup king and the Deuba government are the real terrorists.
The just struggle of the people will prevail!
November 27, 2001
The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Communist Party of Denmark (APK)