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A
Brief Introduction to the Policies of the C.P.N. (Maoist)
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Summary
Political
Strategy
The
basic political strategy of the Party is to free the Nepalese society from
feudalism and imperialism through the bourgeois democratic revolution.
The military strategy of People's War (PW) is objectively based on the
goal of achieving this political strategy.
Political
Tactics or Immediate Policy
A
round table conference, an interim government and election to a Constituent
Assembly are the minimum political tactics proposed by the Party in this
context. Only a new constitution made by a Constituent Assembly can in
reality institutionalise the sovereign rights of the Nepalese people. There
can be no reason for anybody to disagree with this supreme modality of
democracy to let the Nepalese people determine their own destiny and future.
On
the basis of this flexible tactical line the Party entered into negotiations
with the old regime twice. However, both the times it was proved that the
old regime was not in favour of a political solution but was in the path
of conspiracy and regression. Rejection of the supreme democratic method
of Constituent Assembly to make a new constitution by the old regime merely
proves that it does not rely on the people but on armaments, army and terror.
In
this context, the Party once again reasserts its commitment to the following
minimum policies and programmes:
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The Party still maintains the proposal of round table conference, an interim
government and election to a Constituent Assembly to make a new constitution
as its immediate minimum political proposal for a forward-looking political
solution to the present crises in the country.
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The Party wants to institutionalise a republican form of state through
the Constituent Assembly and believes that in a free and fair election
the mandate of the Nepalese people would be in favour of a republic.
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In the given context of the existence of two ideologies, two armies and
two states in the country, the Party is agreeable to demobilization of
both the armies and carrying out of elections to the Constituent Assembly
under the supervision of United Nations organisation and international
human rights organisations.
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The content of the new constitution would be:
(a)
Political
Full
sovereignty to the people; secular state; elected house of representatives
as the highest representative body of the people; reorganisation of a unified
national army; provision of national and regional autonomy along with rights
of self-determination; provision of
constitutional
changes or refinement according to the wishes of the people; guarantee
of multi-party competition, periodic elections, adult franchise, rule of
law and fundamental rights including freedom of speech and press; provision
of special rights for women and dalits (i.e. oppressed caste); etc.
(b)
Economic
Revolutionary
land reforms for judicious redistribution of land on the principle of 'land
to the tiller'; self-reliant and national industrial policy; promotion
and development of national capital; formulation of an integrated national
policy for proper utilization of natural resources; etc.
(c)
Social
Development
of a mechanism for strict punishment to the corrupt, smugglers and profiteers;
development of employment-oriented national and scientific education system;
universal health service; provision of state care for the destitutes, the
elderly and the children; end to all forms of exploitation, discrimination
and dishonour to women and dalits; guarantee of minimum wages and worker's
participation in industrial management; guarantee of intellectual
& academic freedom and professional rights; promotion of democratic
and scientific culture in place of feudal and imperialist reactionary culture;
plan of integrated national infrastructure development; guarantee of full
employment to all; fulfillment of demands of class and mass organisations;
etc.
(d)
Foreign Policy
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Independent foreign policy of maintaining friendly relations with all on
the basis of Panchasheel (i.e. five principles of peaceful coexistence)
and non-alignment.
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Abrogation of all unequal treaties from the past and conclusion of new
treaties and agreements on a new basis.
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Promotion of good neighbourly relations with neighbouring India and China
with mutual cooperation in the fields of utilization of natural resources,
trade and transit, etc. for mutual benefit, keeping in view the particularity
of economic, political, cultural, historical and geographical relations
with them.
January
12, 2004
Author:
Prachanda Chairman, C.P.N (Maoist)
| Source:
C P N (M a o i s t) Bulletin - Maoist official statement - January
2004 |
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