The NDFP International Office expresses its deepest solidarity with the people of Nepal as they rise against the entrenched system of bureaucrat capitalism, corruption, and foreign domination. In recent weeks, spontaneous waves of youth and working peoples have taken to the streets to demand accountability and an end to the looting of public wealth by ruling elites. Instead of addressing these just demands, the UML–Congress regime has unleashed brutal repression, culminating in the massacre of at least 51 youth and student protesters. This fascist response exposes the state’s true character as a defender of comprador and bureaucrat capitalists, not of the people.
At the same time, we condemn in the strongest terms the maneuvers of US imperialism, its allies, and agent provocateurs who are seeking to hijack the people’s outrage for their own ends. By inserting their puppets into the interim government, preparing for military intervention, and pushing the return of monarchy as a “solution,” they reveal their strategy: to roll back Nepal’s hard-won democratic gains and recreate a government that will represent US interests in the country.
For the US, Nepal is a crucial geopolitical outpost as it is strategically situated between China and India. Nepal provides a strategic vantage point for US efforts to encircle and contain China while tightening its influence over the region. By installing a pro-US government and entertaining the return of monarchy as a ruling force, the US aims to secure a reliable client state that will open the way for US military presence, intelligence operations, and economic penetration in the region. The return to monarchy serves US imperialist interests by restoring a reactionary order that is easier to manipulate and less accountable to the people, rolling back the gains won through years of struggle for democracy.
We salute the determination of the people, the youth, and the revolutionary forces within Nepal who continue to resist despite repression and blatant US intervention. The unfolding situation in Nepal echoes the conditions in the Philippines today, where the US continues to tighten its grip through military bases, war exercises, counterrevolutionary funding, and support for corrupt and fascist regimes. In both countries, the people’s spontaneous movements against corruption, exploitation, and bureaucrat capitalism are met with repression and US-backed schemes of destabilization. The US has a long and bloody record of intervening in the affairs of its neocolonies and client states, propping up coups, assassinations, and political destabilization plots whenever people’s movements threaten its dominance.
The people of Nepal and their revolutionary parties have shown time and again that they will not bow to monarchy, nor to US imperialism and its comprador allies. The NDFP stands firmly with them in this critical moment.
Long live the struggle of the Nepali people!
