TIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
Promising a new horizon of hope and heralding a change in Left
politicalscape, the disgruntled communists, CPM breakaway groups,
socialists and greens will float a new political party. Shornur
municipal chairman M R Murali and former CPM Thiruvananthapuram district
secretariat member S Suseelan are in the forefront of the move and the
party will be formally announced at a convention in Kochi on September
23.
Suseelan told that they had prepared the draft
programme of the party and discussed it at a meeting of Leftists and
greens convened at Thrissur last month.
Following this, noted
environmentalist C R Neelakandan and Leftist sympathiser Azad expressed
their desire to join the new party.Sargadharan, former Sivagiri
administrator, will also join the new party. “There are several takers
for the programme of the new party. The names will be made known
shortly,” he said.
Asked whether CPM rebels at Onchiyam would
join the new party, Suseelan that said Chandrasekharan, their leader,
was reluctant about the merger. Asked whether it will be a new
communist party, he said no communist party had proved effective for
solving the issues of the state, whether it be CPI, CPM or ML groups.
“The new party will be based on socialist principles giving emphasis on
democratic values.’’ He pointed out that there was an urgent
need for considering the change in the character of the working class
and capitalists.
The working class of today is not like that of
the 1950s and 60s. For instance, the most exploited are the employees in
the IT sector and unaided education sector. No progressive
organisation has succeeded in involving themselves with these sectors.
Large numbers of workers are leaving the so-called communist parties in
despair. He also said that environmental issues had to be treated with
more importance and honesty.
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