The massive rise in leftist activism post-Trump has not benefited old-school communist groups much. While the Democratic Socialists of America hosts major Trotskyist and anarchist factions, they have successfully served as gatekeepers keeping Marxist-Leninists and Maoists excluded and contained. Both Trots and "antifa" anarchists see "tankies" - defenders of the USSR and China - as... Read More

Maybe a Revolution Is a Dinner Party After All The Nepalese Maoists are inching closer to their goal of winning state power. The United Communist Party Nepal--Maoist controls something like 65 to 75% of the countryside. I haven't been able to find a map showing the territory controlled by or under the military shadow of... Read More

Nepal’s government has decided to notify the international community formally of numerous violations of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) by the Nepalese Maoists. The last straw was the declaration of two newly minted autonomous regional governments in Maoist strongholds in eastern Nepal. Good. Maybe then the world will take notice of Nepal’s slide back into... Read More