The book aims to provide readers with an introduction to the People's War in Nepal and brings together a Unique collection of documents includes statements and analysis by the Maoist leadership as well as critical essays by various political analysts and activists on the left in Nepal. It revails the thinking behind the strategy of the Maoists, it underlines the importance of gender ethnicity and caste as well as class in the armed struggle being waged 'against neo-fedualism and imperialism', it charts the evolution of the People's War, it provides a range of commentaries on the Moist movement in the insurgency by members of other leftist groups and its offers some possible alternative for radical change.