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11-days General strike announced
kathmandu, March 13/ Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has announced 11-days General strike from 2nd -12th April. Chairman of the party issuing a press Statement today has appealed the masses of the people of all levels and sects including workers, peasants, women, students, teachers, professors, doctors, lawyers and journalists to create a storm of movement in favor of full democracy and against autocracy. Please find below the full text of the press Statement.
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
Central Committee
Press Statement
Today, the Nepalese society has arrived at a very sensitive crossroad in its political history. The feudal autocracy that by challenging Nepalese people?s aspiration of achieving full democracy has come to the fore through the so-called royal proclamation is being opposed everywhere. But, the feudal elements that have come up for their last battle of existence are busy in exhibiting drama of conciliation, gift, punishment and intrigue against people under the leadership of autocratic monarchy. Feudal ringleaders, who have already staged the artless drama of repeating 1960, are now playing the same old game of dividing and repressing political parties. The Nepalese people, who were enduring the dirty game of feudal palace since 55 years, will never be deluded from this. On the contrary, the great Nepalese people of the twenty-first century will advance unitedly ahead with full determination of accomplishing the necessity of democratic revolution, the overdue since 1950. It is sure that the feudal elements that by closing all the doors of peaceful and forward-looking way out have adventured to push the wheel of history back with the strength of terror of royal army sustaining with foreign aid will be thrown out into the garbage of history.
Taking seriously into consideration the political sensitivity of the country, our party has been very responsibly emphasizing on the necessity to advance ahead against the feudal autocracy by establishing a broad front of all the political parties, civil societies and intelligentsia. Taking lesson from the bitter experiences of the past, it is urgently necessary to build up, first of all, a concrete understanding among the political parties to unite the broad masses. In this context, our party would like to clarify its preparedness for the sacrifice necessary from our part through this statement. Declaring not to obstruct all political parties that are against feudal autocracy rather to help conduct political activities in any part of the country without any hindrance, our party thinks necessary to go ahead by carrying out criticism and self-criticism among the political parties and maintaining unity in a new basis; and also wants to clarify its preparedness for that. In addition to this, we would like to request humbly all the political parties in and outside of the country not to have any doubt in our party?s declared policy of Constituent Assembly and multiparty democratic republic.
It is known to all that our party had carried out countrywide wheel-jam and blockade as an immediate protest against the so-called royal proclamation. Being responsible to the people, we had suspended that program after 15 days. In that very context, challenging the feudal elements to revoke their totalitarian step, we had also clarified that we could declare a higher level of program of struggle if not complied with that. But the authoritarian elements taking it not as a way out are now adventuring to save their existence through killings, terror, Pancha-rallies and stupid propaganda. In such a situation, our party heartily appeals the masses of the people of all levels and sects including workers, peasants, women, students, teachers, professors, doctors, lawyers and journalists to create a storm of movement in favor of full democracy and against autocracy. For this, our party, along with strikes, wheel-jam, shutdown and blockade in the local and regional level, declares a program of countrywide mass mobilization and military resistance from March 14 to April 1 and a countrywide general shutdown (Nepal Bandh) from April 2 to April 12 on the occasion of the historic mass movement day in 1990. Our party heartily appeals the broad masses of the people again to make this program of struggle a success and let the absolute feudal elements, which are trying to push the country back towards medieval era, know people?s strength.
Date: March13, 2005.
Prachanda
Chairman
Central Committee
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
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