In January 2008, a comité de Solidarité Franco-Népalais – French-Nepali Solidarity Committee – was founded in France. It maintained a blog, Nouveau Népal (New Nepal), but since the 19th of June 2012, there is nothing.

The last article announces a new article about the formation of a new “maoist Party” in Nepal, but it never came. Why that? It is easy to understand.

As in France the CPMLM criticized sharply the peace accords in Nepal, there was a wave of support for the “revolution” in Nepal that arose, carried by some forces "upholding" Mao Zedong (like the OCML-VP) or Maoism (like the Group publishing Red Flag). The CPMLM was branded as ultra-leftist and accused of betrayal of the “Nepali Revolution”– whereas on the side of the CPMLM, this “support” was considered as mere pragmatism and support to revisionism.

Indeed, for example, the Red Flag Group, that was struggling for the reconstitution of the Communist Party of France, took as name “Communist Party of France (Maoist)”, so that it looks as the Nepali Party. In case of success of the Nepali, prestige would come from this.

Then, as it was clear that nothing would come out, it took the name “Maoist Communist Party of France”, to be on the line of others organizations, particularly the Maoist Communist Party of Italy.

In this process, the comité de Solidarité Franco-Népalais was of course a failure. It maintained, to save face, the fiction that there was a red faction in the Nepali Party, and then was stopped, without explanation, without balance of the experience.

The reason for this is the formation of a Committee to support the Revolution in India, in September 2010. The support to Nepal just changed to India. The question of Nepal was just “forgotten”.

This support to the Indian Revolution is also interesting if we look at his content. Here is for example what says the OCML-VP, which upholds Mao Zedong but rejects Stalin and the USSR after Lenin, in its declaration at the Conference in Hamburg to support the Indian Revolution:

“DECLARATION BY THE OCML Voie Prolétarienne (France)

Hamburg, 24 November 2012

We are happy to be able to salute the remarkable struggle being waged by our comrades in India. 20,000 armed combatants fighting under the flag of Communism, tens of thousands of people providing political and logistical support facing tens of thousands of soldiers and paramilitaries sent out by the Capitalist power centre in New Delhi. A massive class war silenced by the bourgeois media in France.

(...)

2.      The majority of what were once colonial or semi-colonial and feudal or semi-feudal countries are now dominated by both national and international capitalism and in certain cases have even become regional or ‘emerging’ imperialists. Nevertheless, imperialist domination and inter-imperialist competition are ever more ruthless.

3.      In the dominated countries and the ex-colonies, peasants represent a significant section of the exploited workers. The triumph of the world communist revolution will only be possible through an alliance between the workers and the peasants and between the prolonged people’s war in the countryside and insurrection in the towns and cities in line with the strategies taken up anew by our Maoist comrades in Nepal. This alliance between the hammer and the sickle did not take place during the Paris Commune of 1871, but it did occur during the Russian Revolution in Lenin’s time. This alliance remains vital today.”

The OCML-VP considers clearly India as a capitalist country. It it not at all the line of the CP of India (Maoist). There is a party in India that considers its country as capitalist: the CPIML, member of the international called “ICOR” (the CPIML considers the CPI (Maoist) as anarchist and terrorist).

Supporting the line that India is capitalist is a support to the affirmation of the CPIML and any way the line against People's War in India (as it would be capitalist, and in the logic of the “marxist-leninists” as the OCML-VP there can not be a People's War in a capitalist country).

Moreover, the OCML-VP makes mention in a positive way of the Nepali Party! The Nepali Party made the peace accords in saying that it was organizing a final insurrection in the city of Kathmandu after the success of the People's War in the countryside. And the OCML-VP still takes as serious this “strategy”, that was only here to integrate the people's war in the old state.

We find here a continuity between the “support” to Nepal and the “support” to India. In the same way, the RCP-Canada in contact with the Nepali tried to build up a “Maoist Communist Party” in sending people to France ten years ago, and now they try again, on the base of the support to India.

But the final silent end of the French-Nepali Solidarity Committee speaks for all of this. Internationalist solidarity is a duty, but it must be expression of a national reality. Without this, it is pragmatism and cosmopolitism.