[news] Nepal: The Saga of Compromise and Struggle

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

(T)he corporate media around the globe smelled Maoist activists' and pamphlets' presence in the post- April 6 protests as proofs of the Maoist infiltration. The BBC reported on April 24: "There are very real fears that Maoist rebels could well use the opportunity to fill the void and take control of the protests"...Such rumour mongering by the corporate media is definitely sufficient to send their own masters to psychotic fits of Global McCarthyism. It can also buy a compromise between the King and the anti-communist section of the Nepali middle class trained during the US' Cold War aid regime who grabbed the leadership of many moderate democratic parties after the 1990 arrangement. However, it means nothing to the local population. They know that the Maoists were the only force facilitating their politicisation to the degree that they could sustain mass strikes for so many days.

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