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A new stage of resistance: Burmese communists return to armed struggle
The Communist Party of Burma has re-established its People’s Liberation Army. In an exclusive interview with the Morning Star, a party representative tells KENNY COYLE why communists have resumed armed struggle against Myanmar’s junta
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AFTER a gap of more than 30 years, the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) has re-established its People’s Liberation Army, to fight Myanmar’s military regime.
The return to armed struggle has been years in the making. However, the process has been given a fresh impetus by the Spring Revolution, the mass upsurge inside the country that erupted after the military coup on February 1 this year.
Then the army leadership ousted civilian parties, grouped around Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), from government.
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