Nepal

Prachanda is Nepal’s new PM!

Strange Times - August 16, 2008 - 3:57pm

Prachanda

Pushpa Kamal Daha (better known as ‘Prachanda”, meaning “the fierce one”) has just become Nepal’s new Prime Minister. He received 464 out of 577 votes in Nepal’s Constituent Assembly. Read more »

New Meme from Nepalese Maoists?

Strange Times - July 25, 2008 - 12:44pm

“We need capitalism before socialism” says Prachanda, the head of the Communist Party of Nepal (Moaist), according to a report in the The Independent .

This is one of those old Marxist ideas that must take off again if a genuine left is to re-emerge from the ether. It has to become a new meme. Read more »