In July 2001 Prime Minister Deuba announced a cease-fire, which the Maoists pledged to observe, as part of a government effort to seek a negotiated solution to the conflict.

Unrest reached Kathmandu in 2004 when the Maoists announced a blockade of the capital city.

" Maoists also draw inspiration from the ‘ Revolutionary Internationalist Movement ’, Peru's left wing guerrilla movement — the Sendero Luminoso ( Shining Path ), and from radical communist parties in different parts of the world.

The Maoists ' aims in the ‘ People's War ’ were to establish a ‘ People's Democracy ’ in Nepal.

Some time later, the decision of the leadership of the People's Republic of China to seek rapprochement with the United States in the 1970s was an especially interesting application of the " lesser of two evils doctrine ", since the United States ended up being deemed a lesser threat by the Maoists than was the Soviet Union.

He is the national Vice-President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties ( PUCL ). On 24 December 2010, the Additional Sessions and District Court Judge B. P Varma Raipur found Binayak Sen, Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata businessman Piyush Guha, guilty of sedition for helping the Maoists in their fight against the state. They were sentenced to life imprisonment. However he got bail in Supreme court on 16 April 2011.

The Nepali Civil War ( labelled People's War by the Maoists ) was an armed conflict between government forces and Maoist fighters Nepal which lasted from 1996 until 2006.

The conference resolved that coordination would be deepened and extended, while asserting that Nepali Maoists would not meddle in the ' Indian People's War '.

* Nepalese Civil War ( 1996 – 2006 ) – the conflict ended with a peace agreement was reached between the government and the Maoist party in which it was set that the Maoists would take part in the new government in return for surrendering their weapons to the UN.

Without actually naming the UK-based Stop the War Coalition, he discusses the membership of its steering committee: " 18 come from various hard Left groups: communists, Trotskyites, Maoists, and Castroists.

The decade-long war ultimately led the Maoists to Nepal ’ s parliament.

Latest reports indicate that the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines, Southeast Asia ’ s longest-lived communist insurgent group, has been reported to have engaged in training activities for guerrilla warfare with Indian Maoists.

The ideology itself, however, came into conflict on both sides of the spectrum with Maoists as well as progressive liberals, culminating with other social factors to cause the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests.

Other political persecutions under bureaucratic parties have resulted in a strong historical antagonism between anarchists and libertarian Marxists on the one hand and Leninist Marxists and their derivatives such as Maoists on the other.

Parliament was subsequently dissolved by the king in 2002 on the pretext that it was incapable of handling the Maoists rebels.

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Prestes went on to lead the pro-Soviet faction of the party known as the Brazilian Communist Party or PCB while the Maoists formed the Communist Party of Brazil PCdoB.

Following the election, the party held extended discussions on power-sharing with the Maoists and proposed that Koirala become the first President of Nepal, but ultimately the Nepali Congress decided to go into opposition and Koirala resigned in late June 2008, clearing the way for the Maoists to form a government.

* 27 September: " Fifteen people including 8 Rebels and 4 Policemen were killed on Saturday and suspected Maoists bombed five government utilities despite the guerrillas ' plans for a nine day truce from 2 October, officials said.

In Janakpur, an industrial hub on the Indian border 260 kilometres south-east of Kathmandu, the Maoists under the direct command of Prachanda carried out five early morning bombings that disrupted telephone service and power, police said.

The parliament and the new government supported the ceasefire and started negotiations with the Maoists on the basis of the twelve-point agreement.

The Workers Party of Korea still claims an anti-revisionist political line, but the communist movement as a whole and anti-revisionists from the Maoist and Hoxhaist camps in particular tend to insist North Korea is a revisionist state, however many if not most Hoxhaists and Maoists are critically supportive of North Korea on grounds of Anti-imperialism.

The parliament and the new government supported the ceasefire and started negotiations with the Maoists on the basis of the twelve-point agreement.

On January 29, 2005, his helicopter was set on fire by Maoists during his campaign tour of Gaya, Bihar.

* 29 January – Former BJP president Venkaiah Naidu's helicopter is set on fire by suspected Maoists during his campaign tour of Gaya, Bihar.

The actual grounds on which they have resigned is due to life-threat to the TRS party members from the Maoists of the Telangana region.

That the US Government considered Venceremos a serious threat is evident in the 202-page 1972 U. S. Congress House Committee on Internal Security publication titled " America's Maoists: the Revolutionary Union, the Venceremos Organization: Report "

" In the document, the Maoists denounce globalization as a war on the people by market fundamentalists and the caste system as a form of social oppression.

This incident was the most serious one since the Maoists called off the cease-fire on August 24, 2003.

Parliament was dissolved by the king in 2002 on the grounds that it was incapable of handling the Maoists rebels.

The streamlined document ( 30 articles compared with 106 in 1954 ) reduced even further the constitutional restraints on the Maoists.

These government tactics led to physical confrontation between those who supported the Maoists and those who were against the Maoists, that resulted to the death of a prominent Maoist student leader Saydal Sokhandan, who was assassinated by Gulbadin Hekmatyar on the Kabul University campus.

* 15 February: Ganesh Chilwal is shot dead in his Kathmandu office by two suspected Maoists.

On 18 February 65 Maoists are reported to have been killed, though this conflicts with other reported death tolls of 35 and 48.

* 18 February: Lawmaker Khem Narayan Faujdar, a member of the parliament dissolved by King Gyanendra in 2002, is shot dead by two suspected Maoists riding a motorcycle in the Nawalparasi District, 200 km southwest of the capital, according to the police.

On February 3, 2011, because of support by the UCPN Maoists, who are the largest force in Nepal's legislature today, Jhala Nath Khanal was elected Prime Minister of Nepal, securing a vote of 368 out of 601 in the Constituent Assembly.

Tensions between Maoists and security forces emerged in February 2001 when the Bhojpur VDC headquarters were destroyed.

* 13 October: At least 42 Police Recruits and 9 Maoists are killed when an estimated 3, 000 Maoists attempt to storm a Police Training Center in Bhaluwang.

The deal allows the Maoists to take part in government, and places their weapons under UN monitoring.

In the eastern states of the mainland India ( Jharkhand, West Bengal and Orissa ), they are usually known as, or refer to themselves as Maoists while in southern states like Andhra Pradesh they are known under other titles.

To help fill their ranks, the Maoists force each family under their domain to supply one family member, and threaten those who resist with violence.

The Maoists have also taken care to demolish government institutions under their de facto jurisdiction.

Following the ban, the Maoists are liable for arrest under the UAPA.

Maoists and Hoxhaists argue that flaws in the system under Lenin and Joseph Stalin were due to a lack of the party's faith in the masses and that this resulted in the party disconnecting itself to the needs of the people, which was then exploited by Marxist revisionists who turned the Soviet Union away from Marxism-Leninism after Lenin's death.