MCPI resolves to carry the CPM's 1964 declaration

Chandigarh, Sep 20 (UNI) The Marxist Communist Party of India-United (MCPI) today reasolved to continue with the leftists goal as prescribed in the 1964 declaration of the then Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and to treat the ruling Congress as the ''biggest enemy'' of the country's common masses, especially the labour class and the peasantry.

Giving a clarion call to all like-minded left and naxalite forces to join hands as an alternative to the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the CPM at the first 'All India Unity Congress' of the MCPI, its general secretary Jagjit Singh Lyalpuri here said it was unfortunate both the popular left parties with a political representation in Parliament had failed to halt the implementation of the ''anti-people policies being dictated by the ruling Congress''.

Talking to newsmen after the conclusion of the three-day meet, Mr Lyalpuri said the MCPI had updated the 1964 programme in which the slogan of 'People's Democratic Revolution' had been adopted to curb the supression of peasants and labourers at the hands of big land lords and corporate houses.

''The situation is no different today when the poor are still being supressed while the labourers and small and marginal farmers are being exploited by the multinational companies with the help of the Congress-led UPA government,'' he said.

But, he added, it was more unfortunate that the CPI and the CPM were cooperating with the ruling Congress.

The MCPI's All India Unity Congress also adopted a special resolution on the ongoing NAM summit in Havana, hailing the role of Cuba, Venezuela and other countries for the efforts being made by them in reviving the leftist movement which had become paralysed after the fall of the Soviet Union and the Socialist Camp.

The resolutions on price-rise, unemployment, corruption, agrarian crisis, communalism, Iraq invasion and the situation in Iran and Lebanon were also passed, criticising and holding the US government responsible for the unrest.

A special resolution on the developmets in Nepal was also discussed and passed by the MCPI unity congress in which the party realised that ''the strength and might of the people'' led to the victory of the democratic forces there. The MCPI was now closely watching the developments in Nepal, Mr Lyalpuri said.

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