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Comrades, a chairde,
The International Department of the Irish Republican Socialist Party extend greetings of solidarity to Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) and the People's Liberation Army on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the onset of the Great People's War in Nepal, from all of the party's comrades. As your own slogan has said so appropriately, we are sending our solidarity greetings to the march of revolution on the roof of the world. As has been demonstrated throughout the past ten years of revolutionary struggle and was recently demonstrated anew through the successful, countrywide, three-day general strike, clearly you have won the support of the masses of working people in Nepal. As every successful social revolution must be an act of self-liberation by the class itself, the support of Nepalese working people for the struggle you are waging is crucial to your victory. More importantly, their active participation in the struggle is crucial to their own victory over foreign imperialism and domestic capitalism and the remaining vestiges of feudalism that remain in your country. The recent coup by King Gyanendra, and his assumption of full executive powers of government and imposition of a state of emergency, signals that the ruling class in Nepal is unable to find a way out of the deepening crisis in which it finds itself, and victory is near at hand. His anxious moves to shut down Internet and telephone lines only demonstrates that he, and the rest of the ruling class with him, recognise the support that the CPN-M and PLA have won around the globe. In their desperation, the ruling class has used military force against student protests in recent weeks, a further indication that they are striking out in frenzy and fear. The fact that Gyanendra cited the parliament's failure to stop the insurgency of the Great People's War as the reason for declaring a state of emergency and seizing state power. The Nepalese military, colonialist lackeys from their experience under British imperialism, rattle their sabres and seek to crush the insurgency through brute force, but your struggle, sustained for a decade by the solidarity of the Nepalese working people, is not something to be crushed under the heel of such small, petty men as these. In calling again for peace negotiations, the ruling class is indicating that they find themselves with their backs pressed against the wall. Comrades, do not make the mistake that others made in Ireland in such circumstances. When the ruling class seeks negotiations, it means that they have the bitter taste of defeat in their mouth and it is never the time to sit and talk with them. No compromise can be won between the working masses and the pro-imperialist, reactionary ruling classthere is no middle ground! When your enemy calls for peace negotiations, the time has come to re-double the struggle for liberation. As you press forward in that struggle for liberation, we in the Irish Republican Socialist Party applaud your advances. For every advance of our class in any nation on earth, moves all of the rest of the working class closer to victory. Beir Bua, comrades! Victory to the march of revolution on the roof of the world! Victory to the struggles of the working class throughout the world! STATEMENTS ENDS |