Peoples Review Weekly

Voices are being raised against the forcefully introduced federal structure for Nepal. Leaders of some political parties, constitution experts, journalists and the civil society are saying that federalism could fragment the nation.  But even when such concerns are being raised, the leaders of different political parties at the moment are totally engaged a game of political tug-of-war only. The people have elected through a direct election and through a proportional system...

BY OUR REPORTER
Even as the top three parties in the Constituent Assembly (CA), the UCPN (Maoist), the Nepali Congress and the CPN (UML), which is currently leading the government, started negotiations for the smooth running of the Parliament, none less that supremo of the Maoists and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), has warned of a “third people’s movement”. Prachanda said this at a press meet organized by the Revolutionary Journalists’ Union, at Simbhanjyang n...

Iran’s 12 June presidential elections produced a landslide victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, triggering massive protest demonstrations alleging systematic rigging particularly by supporters of his main rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi. It has led to all manner of speculation including that such large scale demonstrations may be a prelude to a 1979-type revolution that swept away the Shah’s secular regime and installed an Islamic republic led by the iconic patriarch, Aya...

BY OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
There were fourteen days of bandhs in different parts of the country in the last fifteen days. And as can be expected, most of these bandhs were organized by the Unified CPN (Maoist), which has stepped into the shoes of the opposition party after it was forced out of the government due to pressures from various sides, including outside pressure.

But the moment it stepped out, the Maoists, as predicted by some analysts, have started their offensive and ano...