Tag: communist

  • A Fatal Alliance

    On 17 May 2018, three months after jointly winning the national elections, Nepal’s two major communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) announced their coalition into a unified Nepal Communist Party (NCP). Unlike most communist parties that gained power by violent means, the NCP and…

  • The Communists Ruling over A Parliament

    With the coalition of the two major communist parties and the communists’ subsequent total victory in the nation’s legislative and provincial elections in October 2017, the good old “communist-ruled countries family” embraced its brand new sixth member: the Himalayan state of Nepal. Nevertheless, distinctive from its other communist friends, Nepal stands as a parliamentary democracy…