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POLICE BEGIN RAID ON OCCUPIED NYU!

After offering to begin good faith negotiations, NYU has arrested and suspended the student negotiator team and initiated a police raid of the occupied space. This follows police pepper spraying and arresting supporters overnight, and NYU shutting off restroom access, internet, and power this morning.

In United Kingdom

Around the UK, thousands of students have occupied lecture theatres, offices and other buildings at more than 20 universities in sit-down protests. It seems that the spirit of 1968 has returned to the campus.

While it was the situation in Gaza that triggered this mass protest, the beginnings of political enthusiasm have already spread to other issues.

John Rose, one of the original London School of Economics (LSE) students to mount the barricades alongside Tariq Ali in 1968, spent last week giving lectures on the situation in Gaza at 12 of the occupations.

"This is something different to anything we've seen for a long time," he said. "There is genuine fury at what Israel did.

"I think it's highly likely that this year will see more student action. What's interesting is the nervousness of vice chancellors and their willingness to concede demands; it indicates this is something that could well turn into [another] '68."

Beginning with a 24-hour occupation at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) on 13 January, the sit-ins spread across the country. Now occupations have been held at the LSE, Essex, King's College London, Birmingham, Sussex, Warwick, Manchester Metropolitan, Oxford, Leeds, Cambridge, Sheffield Hallam, Bradford, Nottingham, Queen Mary, Manchester, Strathclyde, Newcastle, Kingston, Goldsmiths and Glasgow.

Among the demands of students are disinvestment in the arms trade; the promise to provide scholarships for Palestinian students; a pledge to send books and unused computers to Palestine; and to condemn Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Technology has set these actions apart from those of previous generations, allowing a national momentum to grow with incredible speed. Through the linking up of internet blogs, news of successes spread quickly and protests grew nationwide.

Source : Independent on Sunday

In France

News Flash CRS have entered the Sorbonne and violently attacked students

Certainly, ministers in Paris are wary of some form of insurrection.

Recent intelligence reports talk about an "elevated threat" from an "international European network… with a strong presence in France" and a "new generation of activists", possibly a "re-birth of the violent extreme left".

A spokesman for the interior ministry, Gerard Gachet, told the BBC that the threat was real.

"The term 'ultra-left' was used by the interior minister to set this group apart from the extreme left who turn up for elections and keep within the parameters of democratic debate," he says.

But talking of more radical groups, he points to recent pamphlets and books published anonymously, but sometimes with a circulation of about 20,000, with titles such as How to Start a Civil War and The Insurrection That is Coming.

"They say that the fires of revolt will spread everywhere," he says, "and we see acts like damage to bank branches or state buildings and claims of solidarity with the Greek rioters.

Source: BBC News

Prachanda said that human rights can not be ensured until the country fulfills the basic needs like food, clothing and shelter of the people

KATHMANDU, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Nepali Prime Minister and Chairman of United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) Prachanda on Friday said that human rights can not be ensured until the country fulfills the basic needs like food, clothing and shelter of the people.

Nepali Prime Minister Prachanda (5th R, front), participates in the first national assembly of Nepal's National Human Rights Concern Center in Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 20, 2009. Prachanda said that human rights can not be ensured in Nepal until the country fulfills the basic needs of the people like food, clothing and shelter. (

Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the 1st national assembly of Human Rights Concern Center organized in capital Kathmandu, he admitted that the present republican government has not been able to work as per the people's aspiration.

He said that although the people had high expectations from the UCPN-M led government, the constant friction between the political parties has made it difficult to give an appearance of change to the people.

"People thought that there will be many changes for the good after Prachanda comes, but I myself am not that satisfied looking at the way things are now. I have not been able to do all the things I intend to do and the people have started to get the feeling that their hopes of a big change has been shattered," Prime Minister Prachanda said.

Stating that he was eager to open the doors of progress and development after he assumed the power and people also were hopeful of the country's development once the Prachanda led government was formed," he said. "But things didn't go as I have thought. Change could not be possible due to the old malice," Prime Minister Prachanda added.

The present working system is fighting against the old mischievousness, Prime Minister Prachanda said, urging all to accept this as a movement till the new constitution was framed.

He said that he had valid information of various quarters conspiring to topple UCPN-M led government and install a new one in its place. He also said that these activities were the main reason behind the delay in the constitution writing process and doubted if there will be lasting peace in the country if this continues.

Prachanda said he was sad to hear the decision of Matrika Yadav

The abruptly called gathering of the Mithila State Committee of the Unified CPN (Maoist) has begun at Lahan in Siraha district Thursday shortly after the Maoists decided to intensify party campaign in Terai districts.

Inaugurating the gathering of over 350 members, Prime Minister and chairman of the party Prachanda said he was sad to hear the decision of Matrika Yadav who decided to leave the unified party to reorganise CPN (Maoist). He said Yadav's decision was a mistake but would have no affect on party.

The decision of the party central secretariat to appoint Bishwo Nath Prasad Shah, a new entrant from CPN (Mashal), as the head of Mithila state committee had irked Yadav, who had resigned from the post some four months back due to disputes with his deputy Prabhu Shah.

The party denied journalists from entering the gathering. Security personnel deployed around the venue said even the security personnel were restricted to go in.

Bishwo Nath Prasad Shah told journalists afterwards that PM Prachanda has urged the party cadres to intensify campaign in Terai and that the party has planned new strategies for it.

He quoted PM Prachanda as saying that the current government is extremely serious towards addressing the grievances of Teraians. nepalnews.com ia Feb 19 09

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Long live the struggle for a Peoples’ Republic in Nepal

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A great struggle is taking place in Nepal between reactionaries who want Nepal to be a bourgeois ‘Federal Democratic Republic’ and progressives who want to see the establishment of a Peoples’ Republic. The supporters of the Peoples’ Republic, who represent the interests of the great mass of the people, are led by the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) or UCPN (M). Those who simply want the bourgeois ‘Federal Democratic Republic’ consolidated, and want no further progress, are the supporters of feudalism and imperialist domination of Nepal. They include leaders of Nepal Congress, the main opposition party.

There have been many recent discussions in Nepal’s media about the issues of integrating the UCPN (M) led People’s Liberation Army and the reactionary National Army. There have also been many discussions about the framing of a new constitution for the country. However, it is this struggle between the supporters of a People’s Republic and a reactionary republic that defines the nature of these other struggles.

This is a fight for Nepal’s independence against the forces that would keep it’s people in neo-colonial servitude and poverty. It is clear to all progressives in Nepal that the mass of the people there will not benefit from efforts to create development unless there is national economic independence. Otherwise the rural people will remain enslaved by landlordism and debt to money-lenders. The urban workers and national bourgeoisie will be strangled by Nepal’s integration into a regional and international trading and investment system in which it’s national economy is systematically suppressed by imperialists and bureaucrat capitalists and discriminated against by Indian expansionists.

To escape from this situation, the UCPN (M)’s strategy is for the working class to lead the other revolutionary classes to establish a New Democracy, which has been defined by the UCPN (M) as the Peoples’ Republic. This New Democracy can implement a strategy of national capitalist development that will create the necessary preconditions for the transition to socialism.

Therefore WPRM (Britain) resolutely supports the UCPN (M)’s decision to create a movement to oppose the consolidation of the Federal Democratic Republic and support the Peoples’ Republic. As Comrade Kiran, a senior Nepalese Maoist has said, this movement will principally be a movement of the people from the streets.

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Prachanda speaks at 8th General UML Conference

"It is the time for the communists and to show off their skills," said Prachanda at 8th UML Conference in Butwal .He, however, said that was hopeful about the establishment of one communist center eventually in the country and that it is not a far cry.

"We are not in favour of pardon the elements that are trying to inject ill practices again by dividing the leftist and the progressive forces and we are ready to struggle against such attempts," thundered Prachanda.

"Now, my personal assistant (PA) was shot at in Kathmandu and is fighting for his life at hospital," said Dahal and wondered why the CPN-UML leaders including General Secretary Jhalanath Khanal remained reluctant to mention the issue at the convention.
Prime Minister Dahal said that regressive elements active in the country who do not want to see peace in this country are behind the incidents of Pyuthan Police Post attack and firing on his PA.

The prime minister said that the country has arrived at the juncture of estructuring the country in a 'federal republic' which ensures inclusive participation of people regardless of their caste, creed and region, which he said, is a bit different from the traditional feudal structure.

Asking for support from all the participants, Prachanda appealed to the political parties to forge a political consensus in order to take the peace process to a logical end and draft a new constitution.

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