Archive for the ‘armed struggle’ Category
New People’s Army in the Philippines – Enviromentalism in Action
(The New People’s Army, military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has attacked and destroyed buildings and machinery belonging to the Philex Mining Corporation, which was conducting gold mining operations in the area. It’s operations were causing grievous enviromental destruction to the area, and the people of the area were suffering from this. The NPA is proving through it’s actions it’s commitment to the wellbeing of the Philippino masses, it’s commitment to the national demoratic revolution and the socialist revolution, and it’s opposition to the enviromental destruction inflicted by capitalism on the world.
Nepalese Maoists threaten to take up arms again
(as far as i know, this is the first time since the Constituent Assembly elections that the Maoists have made an open and serious threat to take up arms once again. I see this as a positive development – it shows the Maoists are not willing to abandon their goal of radically transforming Nepalese society, and if they can’t advance these goals through peaceful means, they will retrun to using violent ones.)
