Sri Lanka to Nepal: Lessons From the Revolutionary Wave - Revolutionary Communists of America

Sri Lanka to Nepal: Lessons from the Revolutionary Wave - Revolutionary Communists of America

One day, it seems that a country is calm and the ruling clique there is firmly ensconced in power. The next day, the revolutionary masses stand in front of the burning parliamentary building.

Nepal is the latest of Asia’s unfinished revolutions that keep politics stuck in a loop

Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina begins with the famous line, “all happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”.

Sri Lanka to Nepal: lessons from the revolutionary wave - The Communist

From Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya to Bangladesh, a revolutionary wave has blown across countries dominated by imperialism. Ben Curry analyses the meaning of this wave and the generalised lessons to be taken by revolutionaries.