Happy May Day

In just a few days it will be May 1, the international day of the working class. A lot has been happening this year. The Republican Part at home (US) is taking a beating for the war and recession. There has been a great victory in Nepal. Maoist parties are beginning to build in Asia and even Afghanistan and Iraq, the hart of our US empires military direction.
I can only hope the tide is finally turning on backward reactionary politics and that the left will finally make some strides and replace Islamic fundamentalism and Christian fundamentalism as the main opposition to capitalistic imperialism.
So HAPPY MAY DAY
-史蒂夫・奥多/ スティーブオットー/ s더v어오토/ សតិវ អតុ/ Стив Отто

From the
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA:
In an announcement released on the Kasama website, supporters of the "9 Letters to Our Comrades" announced that they held a recent conference in New York City and united in creating a new communist project within the U.S. (http://mikeely. wordpress. com)The "9 Letters to Our Comrades" had been first published in late 2007 as a sharp Maoist critique of the line and direction of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA. Since then the polemic had helped initiate a pole around which revolutionary and communist forces have started to "reconceive as we regroup." In this initial announcement few details about the conference or the new communist project were released. It said:"Supporters of the 9 Letters and this Kasama site gathered in New York City in April to consolidate their common new communist project. The days of meetings pressed press forward on a number of practical political plans. We will be describing the discussions and decisions reached in more detail shortly. However today we want to announce that Kasama has initiated work aimed at building broad knowledge, support and controversy around the Maoist revolutions in South Asia — especially India and Nepal. 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."

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The revolutionaries regrouping around Kasama are seeking to start this important work of building political support for Maoist revolutionaries in South Asia. There is particular urgency to develop internationalist political support for the Maoist movements of South Asia -- particularly after the Nepali election of April 10 and the new reports of U.S.. intrigues to prevent revolutionary advances there. There has been considerable criticism of the existing Maoist forces, grouped around the RCP,USA, for their almost complete silence in regard to the Maoist revolutions of India and Nepal and their stark refusal to build support in the U.S. for those revolutionary struggles.This announcement on Kasama unveiled a new "Internationalist info project" -- focused for now on an online resource "Revolution in South Asia" (RevSA, http://southasiarev .wordpress. com/). The announcement ended with the following words:
"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 counterrevolutionar y action all demand that we act quickly and boldly."

Mayday