Tuesday June 18th, 2013, 1:19 am (EDT)
Featured Books!
Socialist Register 2013: The Question of Strategy edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber
Capital Accumulation and Women’s Labour in Asian Economies by Peter Custers with a new introduction by Jayati Ghosh
Women’s Role in the Nepalese Movement
Making a People’s Constitution
At this very moment Nepal is making a constitution through the historic Constitutional Assembly (CA). It is important to note that up till now all prior constitutions handed over to the people of Nepal were through direct intervention of oligarchs or kings. It was the historic ten years of People’s War (PW) (1996-2006) complimented with 19 days of People’s Movement (April 2006) that made it possible to bring about a free and fair CA election in April 2008 as a means to make a people’s constitution by the people themselves. It is under the leadership of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [CPN(Maoist)] and its skillful use of a united front with various parties that the monarchy system was abolished in 2008.… | more |