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Communist Workers-Peasants Party
Pakistan
Communist
Workers-Peasants Party
Pakistan
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10,
Marina Elevation FL-7, Clifton Block 2, Karachi, Pakistan
E-Mail:
za49@super.net.pk Phone & Fax 92-21-5878366
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OUR
PARTY:
Communist Workers-Peasants Party, Pakistan (abbreviation: CMKP. Its
name in local language is Communist Mazdoor-Kissan Party, Pakistan). The CMKP is
the vanguard of the working class and toiling masses plus deprived sections of
the society. Anchored on the historic prowess and dynamics
of
Marxism-Leninism, the CMKP under its subjective condition is in the political
arena for the social change, free from exploitation of man by man.
PARTY
HISTORY:
Before the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Communist
Party of India (CPI) was the main political vanguard of the working class of
this undivided country. After the creation of the Pakistan, some old stalwarts
of the Communist Party of India formed the Communist Party of Pakistan, and
started its political activities under the very hostile political environment,
caused by MaCarthism, which let loose reign of terror in this newly born
country, with the active collaboration of pro-imperialist ruling cliques of
Pakistan. Frightened of utter failure of the ruling oligarchy and the scope of
spread of anti-imperialist democratic struggle in which Communist Party of
Pakistan played a key role, the Party was banned in 1954 under American
instructions to the Pakistani rulers. Before the imposition of ban on it, it had
worked with the People's League (AL), National Party, Pakistan Freedom Party
(APP) and National People's Party (NAP). The underground Communist Party worked
as an integrated Communist force until the Sino-Soviet ideological question,
causing rift in international Communist and national liberation movements. Since
this quagmire adversely affected the communist movement world over, the
Communist Party of Pakistan, which operated underground, was also not exception
to this conflict, and subsequently the Party was divided into pro-Soviet and
pro-Chinese factions. Later on several groups and factions on both sides of the
divide emerged, each claiming to be the only genuine communist force.
The reality on the ground, however, was that the underground pro-Soviet
Communist Party of Pakistan and the Workers-Peasants Party, a mass political
front of the underground pro-Chinese Communist Party, were the formidable
political forces in Pakistan under their ideological base and tactics. (At the
later stage of China's ideological deviation plus tactical line in regard to
international communist movement, anti-imperialist stand and solidarity with the
working class Parties all over the world, disappointing and frustrating
Workers-Peasants Party, it adopted its own independent line in keeping with the
international and national objective situation). When the National People's
Party (NAP) was divided into two pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese factions. Some
committed communist leaders and workers got disillusioned with the policy of the
pro-Chinese NAP led by Moulana Bhashani, though Moulana himself was a diehard
anti-imperialist, anti-feudal and was committed to the cause of working class.
Misfortune was that he was surrounded by opportunists and self-seekers harming
the working class politics. A strong section of this Party under the leadership
of retired Major Ishaq Mohammmad formed their own group named
NAP(Workers-Peasants). Soon they launched their own Party called
Workers-Peasants Party (MKP) in the former West Pakistan, led by Major Ishaq
Mohammad. Retired Major Ishaq Mohammad was a prominent and a central leader of
Peoples League, Pakistan Freedom Party and undivided National People's Party
(NAP). He was also elected the General Secretary of the pro-Chinese National
People's Party (NAP). He was implicated and imprisoned in the so-called Pindi
Conspiracy Case in 1951, alongwith General Akbar Khan, Air Commodore Janjuwa,
Captain Zafarullah Poshni and other military officers including the world fame
poet and Lenin Award winner Faiz Ahmed Faiz, top ranking writer and intellectual
Syed Sibte Hassan, and several political leaders. The underground pro-Soviet
Communist Party of Pakistan had forged united fronts with the liberal democratic
forces belonging to different segments of bourgeoisie. Among such Parties, the
pro-Soviet National People's Party (NAP) and National Democratic Party (NDP)
were prominent ones. Disappointed with such vacillating bourgeoisie, when the
underground pro-Soviet Communist Party of Pakistan had launched its own open
mass political organization named National Progressive Party (NPP), it felt the
need for coordination and cooperation among the left forces to broaden political
action in Pakistan on the minimum common programme. The NPP, Workers-Peasants
Party (MKP) and National Liberation Front (Quomi Muhaz-e-Azadi now merged with a
bourgeois party) made the working alliance in 1981. The NPP was abandoned and it
merged with the Pakistan National Party (PNP) and left it to join People's
National Party (ANP), the top leadership of which later on asked the communist
elements to leave the ANP and do their own jobs. Having no alternative to work
with any bourgeois party, the pro-Soviet Communist Party of Pakistan emerged on
foreground in 1986-7 as an open organization after 1954.
Necessitated by
the dictates of the time, the Left political forces of Pakistan with their own
ideological moorings, formed a Left Democratic Front (LDF) in 1988, in which the
open Communist Party of Pakistan and Workers-Peasants Party were also its
prominent members. Irony was that the LDF was not attached due importance by the
certain conglomerates in the fold. Despite drawback in initiating active
cooperation among the Left political parties, there has always been urge for a
broad-based alliance.
The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of
1991 witnessed a terrible situation in Pakistan. Most of the pro-Soviet
communist organizations and their stalwarts in Pakistan deserted
Marxism-Leninism.
Only the two top notch leaders of the Communist Party of
Pakistan, Comrade Imam Ali Nazish and Comrade Syed Rashid Ahmed remained
committed to Marxist-Leninist revolutionary ideology. Comrade Imam Ali Nazish,
the former Secretary-General of Communist Party of Pakistan and Comrade Syed
Rashid Ahmed the member of the Central Committee including some newly inducted
members of the Party worked for the merger with Workers-Peasants Party, and
finally the merger saw the light of the day in 1994 since there remained no
ideological, political and tactical conflicts between these two Parties the
aftermath of the disintegration of the erstwhile Soviet Union that is
interpreted as the end of the Cold War. After the merger, the name of the
organization was adopted as Communist Workers-Peasants Party, Pakistan (CMKP).
Two National Congresses have already been held since then. First Comrade Imam
Ali Nazish was elected as Chairman of the CMKP in the fourth National Congress
of the Party in 1995. On the request of Comrade Imam Ali Nazish to drop him from
the Chairmanship of the Party on his rapidly deteriorating health ground,
Comrade Sufi Abdul Khalik Baloch was elected Chairman in the fifth National
Congress of the CMKP held in 1998. The former Chairman of the Party, Comrade
Imam Ali Nazish died in March, 1999. The CMKP remains engaged in working to
bring about social transformation through People's Democratic Revolution.
OUR STRUGGLE:
It resists imperialist stranglehold on Pakistan, and
is opposed to imperialist hegemony in our South Asian region and elsewhere in
the world. It is committed to fighting archaic feudalism brought into play by
the British colonialists in the 19th century when India was colonialised for the
trading interests of the British East India Company. That time the subcontinent
comprised present Indian Union, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND:
Present Indian Union, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one under
British India prior to August 14-15, 1947. Interestingly, British colonialists
reshaped feudalism in the subcontinent, while feudalism was abolished in Britain
by the bourgeoisie for the expansion of the market and political hold of this
emerging triumphant class. Before the control of the subcontinent by British
colonialists, there was no hereditary feudal system in the subcontinent and land
belonged to the central power, which was the proper authority to award certain
landholdings holding to those it liked who had provided a particular number of
soldiers and certain amount of revenue to the central authority under monarchy.
The central authority was empowered to take back land from any one the former
wanted. Karl Marx traced the historical and economic background and scientific
reasons on colonialisation of India. However, the disastrous effect of the
Second World War on British economy and politics was enormous, and the
government in London under the American pressure had to leave the subcontinent.
But while leaving, the British colonialists divided Indian subcontinent into two
separate countries, namely India and Pakistan, on communal line. Later on the
former East Pakistan also broke away in 1971 from Pakistan for economic and
political deprivation. Now, the subcontinent is divided into three parts----
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which are still under the grip of
neo-colonialism, dominated by the United States of America because of its
economic and military power.
KASHMIR DISPUTE:
Kashmir still remains
the bone of contention between India and Pakistan due to hypocrisy of the United
Nations. The United Nations is not sincere and serious to resolve the Kashmir
dispute despite the passage of two resolutions by itself. Both India and
Pakistan are now equipped with nuclear arsenal and the weapons of mass
destruction, while more than 40 percent of the people of India and Pakistan lead
a very miserable life below the poverty line and the population of both the
countries bears brunt of heavy foreign debts. Moreover, the South Asian region
is under constant nuclear threat because of Kashmir dispute which already
triggered three wars between India and Pakistan. The immediate need of the hour
is the solution of the Kashmir dispute on the basis of right to
self-determination of the Kashmiri people, who are the only sovereign to decide
their destiny, and India and Pakistan must be pressurized to accept the verdict
of the Kashmiri people. It is necessary to mention here that whenever the people
of India and Pakistan launch struggle for their genuine economic and political
rights, ruling classes of both the countries drag the Kashmir issue to the
flashpoint, dynamiting the people's struggle and manage to maintain
socio-economic status quo.
IDEOLOGY:
Since Pakistan is a
developing country with the relics of backward feudal values and tribalism under
enormous imperialist influences, with no strong industrial base and no
anti-imperialist national bourgeoisie worth the name to carry out successfully
democratic revolution to dislodge Western dominance on the domestic market plus
replace feudal and tribal-ridden society with the
prerequisites of modern
state craft, the CMKP has reached a conclusion through the analysis of the
objective situation and experiences of other countries that the, "People's
Democracy" is the only path
to accomplish the immediate political task. The
successful People's Democratic Revolution would ultimately pave the way for the
attainment of socialism at the later stage of development. However, neo-colonial
machinations have virtually deterred the bourgeois role at the present
complicated international political and economic environment. But despite of all
the inherent weakness, if any section of bourgeoisie dares fight imperialist
manipulation in Pakistan, the CMKP is prepared to join hands with it.
LEADERSHIP:
The CMKP has a 15-member Central Committee. It has
been elected by the Central Council which
has been itself elected by the 5th
National Congress of the Party in November, 1998. The Central Committee later
elected its office bearers according to the constitution of the Party. Comrade
Sufi Abdul Khalik Baloch has been elected Chairman, while Comrade Choudhry Abdul
Latif and Comrade Moula Bukhsh were elected senior and junior Vice-Chairmen
respectively. But Moula Bakhsh
and a member of the Central Committee, Imdad
Kazi were expelled from the Party for their sheer violation of the Party
discipline. Comrade Afzal Khamosh and Comrade Zahoor Ahmed have been elected as
General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary respectively. There is a Central
Secretariat consisting of office bearers of the Central Committee.
FRONTS:
The Central Committee has deputed some of its members as the
Incharge of Fronts. Sufi Abdul Khalik Baloch is the Inchage of Foreign
Relations. Zahoor Ahmed is the Incharge of Labour Front. Ghulam Nabi Kaloo the
Incharge of Peasants Front. Zafar Aslam the Inchage of Students and Youth Front
and Ejaz Ghani the Incharge of Intellectuals and Cultural Front.
OTHER
COMMITTEES:
Provincial and District Committees are operating in the four
provinces of Pakistan (namely Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and North-West Frontier
Province), which have been duly elected according to the Party constitution.
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES:
The CMKP initiates struggle on different
issues related to economy, politics and joins alliances in order to broaden
democratic base in the country, which has been very fragile due to imperialist
manipulation and military intervention. It exposes the rulers, strives to
mobilize the people and enhance secularism. Democracy, progressive polity and
secularism have been the victim of the pro-imperialist reactionary ruling
classes of Pakistan.
PARTY ORGAN:
The Central Committee publishes
its official monthly organ "SURKH PARCHAM" (Red Flag) in Urdu language. We are
trying to pool financial resources to publish a monthly organ of the Party in
English language with a view to communicate our point of view to the brothers
working class Parties of the World.
