Nepal's Maoist Party has won around 220 seats in the recent Constituent Assembly (CA) election, about one-third of the total. Though the largest party, they don't have an overall majority; they have stated their wish to lead a coalition government.
Marshall
Networking and politics
- Political label
- libertarian socialist
- Region
- UK
- Country and town
- SE London
- Employment sector
- media and culture
- Union membership
- NUJ
- Occupation
- Hack
- Political group membership
- Solidarity Federation
- Favourite thinkers
- Maurice Brinton, Cornelius Castoriadis, The Frankfurt School, loads of others, plus the usual suspects
- Favourite political books
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, Homage to Catalonia, The World Turned Upside Down, Minima Moralia, Wobblies!, Maus
- Comrades re-united - political groups you were a member of
- I once, mistakenly, went to an SWP-sponsored "discussion" about global capitalism and couldn't shake them off for ages. A bad case of "the trots" you might say.
Personal
- Favourite books
- Lanark by Alasdair Gray, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Shakespeare, Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
- Favourite films
- Ran, The Battle of Algiers, Throne of Blood, Blazing Saddles, Solaris, Matewan, The Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West
- Age
- 20 - 29
- Gender
- Male
- Music
- I listen to anything: for example, Aphex Twin, Bob Dylan, Squarepusher, Velvet Underground, Sly and the Family Stone, Ricardo Villalobos, King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, BB King, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, etc, etc
- Dislikes
- Money, Employment, The state
History
- Member for
- 40 weeks 5 days
