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The Red Star
The Red Star is a bi-weekly magazine published by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), formerly known as the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
This magazine has by no means been banned in Nepal. In fact, the party publishing it was for a short period the leading party in the government! However, there have been efforts by reactionaries to block access to the magazine on the Internet, either by sabotaging the krishnasenonline.org site where it is posted, or else by at least claiming that this site has been sabotaged and that it is dangerous to visit it. Therefore we at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET decided to also make the magazine available here.
The most recent issues are at the top. All the issues which have been published as one complete file, in either the PDF or MS Word formats, are now available here starting with vol. 1, #1 (Nov. 8, 2007).
Update (September 2009): We have both bad news and good news. The bad news is that The Red Star seems to have stopped publishing regular formal issues in English, at least issues which are available in their entirety in a PDF or MS Word format. Those issues listed below include all those available in this complete format. On the other hand, The Red Star now has a revamped website, free of problems with malicious software, which posts individual articles in English. It is located at: http://krishnasenonline.org/main/index.php?pubid=87
Update (July 2010): The UCPN(M) is once again making new issues of The Red Star available in PDF format. We are posting the ones we have access to below.
- The Red Star, vol. 4, #3 (Feb. 1-15, 2011): PDF format (1,446 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 4, #2 (Jan. 16-31, 2011): PDF format (3,333 KB).
- Issue vol. 4, #1 (and any issues of vol. 3 later than #17) have not been made available online by the UCPN(M).
- The Red Star, vol. 3, #17 (July 16-31, 2010): PDF format (4,070 KB). [Unfortunately this issue is hard to read; most of the words are seriously run together.]
- The Red Star, vol. 3, #16 (June 16-30, 2010): PDF format (2,601 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 3, #15 (June 1-15, 2010): PDF format (2,809 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 3, #14 (May 16-31, 2010): PDF format (4,612 KB).
- Issues from vol. 2, #7 through vol. 3, #13 not available in this full-issue format.
- The Red Star, vol. 2, #6 (March 16-31, 2009): PDF format (985 KB), MS Word format (112 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 2, #5 (March 1-15, 2009). [Not available.]
- The Red Star, vol. 2, #4 (February 16-28, 2009): PDF format (7,318 KB), MS Word format (96 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 2, #3 (February 1-15, 2009): PDF format (1,146 KB), MS Word format (111 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 2, #2 (January 16-30, 2009): PDF format (10,894 KB), MS Word format (100 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 2, #1 (January 1-15, 2009): PDF format (8,208 KB), MS Word format (107 KB). [Note: The version in Word format is erroneously labeled "Vol. 2, #2, January 1-15, 2008".]
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #20 (December 20-31, 2008): PDF format (1,414 KB), MS Word format (118 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #19 (December 5-15, 2008): PDF format (1,014 KB), MS Word format (125 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #18 (October 24 - November 7, 2008): PDF format (842 KB), MS Word format (134 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #17 (November 16-30, 2008): [Working version in PDF format not available.], MS Word format (119 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #16 (October 1-15, 2008): [Working version in PDF format not available.], MS Word format [Mislabeled as "Oct 21-15"]. (122 KB)
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #15 (September 21-30, 2008): PDF format (913 KB), MS Word format (131 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #14 (September 1-15, 2008): PDF format (2,103 KB), MS Word format (109 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #13 (August 18-31, 2008): PDF format (1,016 KB), MS Word format (132 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #12 (July 25-Aug. 10, 2008): PDF format (1,098 KB), MS Word format (126 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #11 (July 4-15, 2008): PDF format (2,119 KB), MS Word format (126 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #10 (June 19-30, 2008): PDF format (1,147 KB), MS Word format (123 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #9 (June 1-15, 2008): PDF format (1,791 KB), MS Word format (116 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #8 (May 16-31, 2008): PDF format (868 KB), MS Word format (141 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #7 (May 1-15, 2008): PDF format (1,095 KB), MS Word format (123 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #6 (March 16-31, 2008): PDF format (1,243 KB), MS Word format (113 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #5 (March 1-15, 2008): PDF format (1,762 KB), MS Word format (131 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #4 (February 16-29, 2008): PDF format (1,690 KB), MS Word format (114 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #3 (February 1-15, 2008): PDF format (1,702 KB), MS Word format (91 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #2 (January 1-15, 2008): PDF format (1,116 KB), MS Word format (105 KB).
- The Red Star, vol. 1, #1 (November 8, 2007): PDF format (1,170 KB), MS Word format (108 KB).
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