Top Communist leaders from various parts of the country would converge for the six-day 20th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) beginning in this historic city tomorrow. More than 800 delegates, including politburo and central committee members, would deliberate in detail international and national issues, including electoral set back suffered in the West Bengal ending more than three-decade long Left Front rule. The meet is also expected to adopt a strategy for the 2014 general elections. However, no fraternal delegate from abroad would attend the meeting this time, sources said.
Touted as significant, the meet was scheduled to adopt organisational, political and ideological resolutions after incorporating amendments following detailed deliberations by the delegates and expected to amend the party constitution. CPI (M) Kerala Unit Secretary and Reception Committee Chairman Pinarayi Vijayan will hoist the flag being brought from Alappuzha, at the Kozhikode beach venue for the congress titled as M K Pandhe Nagar", Tuesday evening.
The 734 delegates, 70 observers and 11 senior partymen gathering here for the six-day event will have to introspect on its reverses and ways to overcome them, especially in West Bengal where Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress made history, breaking CPM's 34-year stranglehold.
After its narrow miss in Kerala in last year's assembly polls, the party is now only left with a state government in Tripura.
The party has set as its prime agenda the fight against neo-liberal economic policies detrimental to the interests of the nation.
"Imperialist offensive has sharply intensified in all spheres threatening the party's strategic objective of human emancipation and liberation," the draft resolution says.
The fight against growth of communal forces disrupting the unity of people in the country by dividing them on communal lines is also high on the party's agenda, sources said. "There will be threadbare discussions on CPI-M's ideological line in the party congress. The party's organisational work since the last Congress in Coimbatore in 2008, will also be reviewed," party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said.
According to CPM state secretary and PB member Pinarayi Vijayan, the Central Committee would meet here tomorrow to finalise the agenda of the Congress.
There would not be any foreign delegates in the congress this year as leaders of Communist parties are now in constant touch with one another.
Interestingly, the all-India meet is taking place without fraternal delegates at a time when the Indian Left has taken on as a key campaign theme the crisis of capitalism and resurgence of working class movements in many parts of the world, including the 'Occupy Wallstreet' campaign in America.
When the party held its state meet here in February, its central slogan was "Marx is correct."
The march carrying the flag to be hoisted at the congress venue, which began from Punnapra-Vayalar martyrs' column in Alappuzha on March 31, would reach here tomorrow.
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