The Maoists issued a 75-point manifesto just before the breakdown of the last truce in November 2001. In language straight out of 1960s China, and containing seeming contradictions about land appropriation and individual property, the document calls for "nationalisation of the property of bureaucratic capitalists and brokers", "freeing national industries from the shackles of Indian monopoly reactionaries" and warns that anyone who "played the role of counter-revolutionists.shall be deprived of all political rights for a certain period". All land titles will be "null and void", all forms of prostitution will be banned. The manifesto pledges to close Gurkha recruitment, stop INGO financing, and wants to set up a "South Asian Soviet Federation". An unofficial translation of selected excerpts:
United Revolutionary People's Congress Nepal's Minimum United Policy and Program
Chapter 1
Fundamental Policies
1. The principal purpose of the new people\'s congress is to institutionalise a people\'s republic. The fundamental tenets of the new people\'s republic are to end all forms of exploitation by national capitalists, imperialists and expansionists in the leadership, the unity of labour and peasants, and the enforcement of the dominance of people\'s rule over class enemies.
3. Absolute sovereignty shall be vested in the people and guaranteed by a new constitution comprised of representatives elected through adult franchise by an interim government.
4. All fundamental and political rights of the people such as the right to speech and expression, to elect and be elected, and to own or disown religion, and freedom of movement will be guaranteed. Employment, education and health shall be guaranteed.reactionaries who played the role of counter-revolutionaries and acted against the interest of the nation and the people shall be deprived of all political rights for a certain period.
7. The nation shall entirely be made sovereign, independent, self-dependent by ending all semi-colonial and neo-colonial agreements including of the treaty of 1950, and freeing the nation from loans imposed by imperialists and expansionists. All citizens shall be provided employment opportunities by closing the Gorkha Recruitment Centre and running [it] as a national college. The rampant exploitation of imperialists over water resource shall be ended and it shall be used for the common interest of people.
8. .An appropriate balance between private, united and joint ownership or the collective ownership by the state of prioritised industries will be maintained.there will be no nationalisation of individual property, except in accordance with the law...
Chapter 2
State System
11. The people\'s assembly and people\'s committee\'s government shall be formed in four tiers: central, autonomous region, autonomous district, and village/municipal level...
12. The people\'s assembly shall be vested with the supreme legislative and executive power, not the bourgeois parliament. It shall be representative of all groups, castes, people of all areas and representative of the people\'s military.the people reserve the power to recall their representative if they are dissatisfied with their performance.
13. The national conference or people\'s congress shall exercise the power of a national people\'s assembly until such time as the election of a Revolutionary United Front can be held. This election is to be held based on adult franchise where the people\'s assembly, labour, peasants, the people\'s military, lower capitalists, national level capitalist, ethnic communities, women and immigrants will be represented.
17. All laws, orders and judicial systems of the old reactionary rule shall be repealed and terminated.
Chapter 3
People\'s Military and People\'s Security System
22. A united people\'s military force shall be formed with the participation of the main force, subsidiary local force and militia to dismantle the old reactionaries\' rule and to keep the people\'s rule safe. The supreme commander of the people\'s military
shall be the president of the central committee of the communist party.
Chapter 4
Agriculture and Land Reformation
26. The peoples' revolution will have an agrarian revolution as its main goal. It will end feudal, semi-feudal and bureaucratic means of production and develop a national capitalistic means of production under which land will be distributed to the landless and poor farmers.no expropriation of the land belonging to rich people and absentee landlords shall be made.
32. The help of the local level revolutionary peasants shall be obtained to determine the character of landless, poor, semi-feudal and feudal, to prepare actual land records, and to mobilise the community as a whole...
33. Land expropriated from feudal and capitalist bureaucrats shall be distributed to local farmers without any discrimination and such land will be their private property.
36. Land shall be distributed equally to the representatives of peoples' government as it is distributed to other peasants. A special priority shall be given to the families of martyrs...
37. All documents pertaining to land loans, ownership and transactions shall be declared null and void until land reforms come into force and the people\'s government issues new land deeds.
38. Cooperatives shall be promoted to increase production, for the maximum utilisation of labour, and to contribute to economic growth...
Chapter 5
Industry, Finance and Infrastructure Development
40. There is no possibility of national economic transformation without rapid national industrial development... industrialisation shall be taken ahead with nationalisation of the property of bureaucratic capitalists and brokers, and by freeing national industries from the shackles of Indian monopoly to achieve rapid economic development.
44. The trade in essential items and foreign trade shall be in the hand of state whereas other trade shall be in the hands of the private sector. The monopoly by the Indians of the trade sector shall be terminated.
46. Exploitation and misery within the country and nation shall be liberated from foreign loans. Financial institutions will be free to carry out lending transactions in rural areas but the interest rate will be controlled.
48. The imperialists\' financial intervention caused by ngos and ingos shall be ended.
50. Small-scale hydropower projects will be prioritised as against large projects.
Chapter 6
Culture and Education
52. Education shall be made free, compulsory and fair...
54. A special consideration shall be given for the preservation and development of culture and art.priority shall be given to people\'s military and people\'s forum for dancing.a ban shall be made on vulgar literature and films.
55. The peoples' right to free speech and expression will be protected. The publication of factual newspapers will be encouraged.
Chapter 7
Health and Social Welfare
57. Health services shall be free for all citizens, and the health sector\'s development shall be emphasised in rural areas.
Chapter 8
Questions Relating to Caste and Region
60. All castes and languages will be treated equally.in the new rule problems shall be settled in accordance with the policy of autonomy.which shall have exclusive powers over matters relating to the people\'s military, foreign relation, finance, communication, international trade and basic industries etc.
61. If there is more than one caste in an autonomous region, there shall be proportional representation of each caste.
62. All marginalised castes shall have a right to be recruited in the people\'s military and the militia shall be formed under a command centre for local security.
64. Local level autonomous rule shall be formed in high mountainous regions like Karnali, Seti and Mahakali which are neglected and suffer unbalanced development.
65. .The tarai will be a separate autonomous region where languages like Maithali, Bhojpuri, Abadhi are spoken and different ethnic groups live. All types of discrimination in the tarai shall be stopped, and the long pending problem of citizenship shall be resolved in a scientific, judicious way.
Chapter 9
Women and Family
66. All types of patriarchal exploitation over women shall end, women will have equal rights to men in all areas. Sons and daughters will have equal inheritance rights over ancestral property. All sorts of prostitution including badi, jhuma and the social evils will be stopped. There will be strict punishment for those engaged in the trafficking of women.
Chapter 11
Foreign Policy
72. The main thrust of the foreign policy of the People\'s Republic of Nepal shall be to preserve the nation's freedom and sovereignty and to defend the people\'s rule, to promote the happiness and prosperity of its citizens, to support national freedom movements against imperialists and expansionists all over the world...
74. A strong relation shall be extended with different revolutionary groups and national freedom movements that are fighting against Indian expansionism, the main external enemy within South Asia. And, an effort shall be made to form a South Asian Soviet Federation with revolution in all countries.
