About RevSA
This “Revolution in South Asia” (RevSA) site will be developed, as rapidly as possible, as an extensive, lively and interesting resource of information around the Maoist revolutions of South Asia — including breaking news, documents, analysis, and key controversies.
Please joining us in making this happen. Contact us if you are willing to join in this effort, and if you have materials that should be posted on this emerging RevSA site.
This work has a special urgency — here and now — because of the rapidly unfolding events in Nepal, because of the role of the U.S. in orchestrating counterrevolution there, and because of the intolerable silence here in the U.S. surrounding the South Asian Maoists.
In a world where communism has been declared dead and buried — these living movements of millions, under Maoist banners, give the very question of communist revolution an exhilarating “dignity of immediate actuality” — in a way that can help awaken many more people to the possibility of real, revolutionary, liberating change.
Join us in this internationalist informational effort!
There are many ways you can help this effort around RevsA:
- Promote this new website — link to it from your own site,s email the url to interested people, post this announcement on relevant discussion boards/lists. All people interested in radical change need to know about these important revolutionary movements.
- Use this site to raise your own understanding of the issues and controversies surrounding of these Maoist “New Democratic” revolutions.
- Help us uncover substantive materials to post here. The RevsA site will not be limited to cheerleading: We will post critical articles and the charges of the revolution’s enemies. We want explore the differences and debates developing among the revolutionaries — as they face difficult choices and dare to propose unexpected solutions. we hope to provide readers with an many-sided sense of these living conflicts. Please email us if you know of material we should post,
- Make your own comments on the materials and controversies posted on RevSA.
- Get in touch right away if you are interested in helping in an ongoing way. We need to be developing posters, flyers, teach-in materials, study guides and other online materials. We are planning public event at campuses. And we need help moderating and maintaining the new site.
Events are moving quickly in Nepal, in unpredictable ways. There are several armed forces in the field, and the broad Nepali populations is mobilized to transform Nepali society — with very high expectations. The future is unwritten.
The possibility of deepening revolutionary crisis and the danger of counterrevolutionary action all demand that we act quickly and boldly.
Kumar Sarkar said
I would like to welcome your efforts on South Asia. I find the website interesting and useful. Wish you all success.
Fraternally,
Kumar Sarkar,
Secon Wave Publications and Distribution,
London, UK.
K A said
Thaks a lot for such wonderfull blog. We are a group of Bangladeshi young writers who are trying to make a strong voice against imperialism. We want to contact with you and joint with it. How we joint and contact.
n3wday said
K A,
Please send an email to – kasamasite@yahoo.com – and we can discuss that. It may be a little while before you hear a response.
Yonjan shakya said
Interesting Blog Posting, I appreciate your effort to explore issues in south Asia region.
Regards,
Yonjan
Just Nepali
chris said
great site on the updates Asia and the movement.
keep up the good work.
Green Red said
Howcome, with all due regard to of course movements in India and Nepal but, on Sri Lanka and Pakistan where serious killings occur under direct imperialism order we do not have the faintest idea of say, Pakistani revolutionary communists or, truly, the politics of Tamil Tiger whose actions have had profound impacts on other places?
Paul said
Dear Green Red,
Yes I do agree with you. Unfortunately areal bombardment of Tamil areas in Srilanka and tribal areas of Pakistan, where thousands are killed has not been given enough coverage in the media, let alone in the progressive journals and websites.
I gathered some bits and pieces of information from my Tamil friends on the genocide of Tamils in Srilanka:
As per Tamil sources in Europe about 300,000 Tamil people have been killed from areal bombardment and shelling by Srilankan government, though European media puts the figure as 60,000. Almost all the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leadership has been killed in the battle and /or after surrender. According to a human rights organisation inside Srilanka, the army has buried thousands of dead and wounded in mass graves that are even visible in the satellite images. The media was not allowed into the war zones, nor any NGOs. The doctors who treated the wounded Tamil people have been arrested and there is no trace of them.
Srilankan government received help from various channels for this war that she fought with the LTTE. Indian, Chinese, British and Israel governments have given all kinds of support to the Sinhalese chauvinistic government. Indian army and Israel army gave training to the Srilankan army while China and Briton supplied arms.
After the war millions of Tamils are kept in the concentration camps to make sure that no Tamil fighter is left alive and no chance of any future reorganisation of LTTE. Tortures in the name of interrogation have become everyday affair. There are reports that every morning scores of dead bodies of raped Tamil women are found next to the barbed wire fences of the concentration camps. There is no doubt that they are the bodies of either captured women LTTE guerrillas or their supporters. Thousands are crammed into tiny tents with no proper food and water and medical aid for the wounded. Diseases are spreading due to lack of medical aid. The government says the camps are going to be there for at least 6 months but it appears they might be there for more than an year.
Unfortunately this genocide has not been given any media coverage. The suffering of millions of innocent Tamil people in concentration camps in Srilanka under fascist torturous Rajpaksa government need to be brought to the notice of the people around the world.
LTTE are not communist revolutionaries, but they are fighting for the self-determination of Tamil nationality in Srilanka.It is the responsibility of all progressive minded people, particularly all Leninists of the world, who believe in the right to self-determination of nationalities must support all the national liberation movements including that of Tamils in Srilanka.
The genocide of Tamils has been so much isolated that to my knowledge not a single organisation, except Maoists of India and ILPS (International League of Peoples’ Struggles – Canada) has condemned this.
I found this article on tamilnet.com, which needs to be circulated among progressive minded people.
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=27505
and here is the original link for the article by Democratic Students Union of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India:
http://dsujnu.blogspot.com/2008/11/public-meeting-sri-lankas-genocidal-war.html
And here is the link for ILPS – International League of Peoples’ Struggles – Canada:
http://ilps-canada.typepad.com/