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3 Left parties hold joint congress today

By Nurul Kabir
Three Ie ft -leant ng political parties of the country will hold a Joint congress today for merging Into a single party.
The parties are Workers Party of Bangladesh. United Communist League and Bangladeshcr Sammaybadl Dal.
The Joint congress to be held at the auditorium of the Engineers Institute Bangladesh is likely to give a call for a broader left unity.
According to sources, the new party to emerge through the Joint conference will be named Workers Party of Bangladesh (WPB)
Amal Sen of the Communist League and Rashed Khan Menon MP of the Workers Party are likely to be made President and Secretary General of the new party.
An 11-member standing committee — six from the Communist League, four from the Workers Party and one from the Sammaybadl Dal — would be formed at the congress as the policymaking body of the new party while a 90-member central committee would be constituted to run the party, sources said.
About five hundred delegates representing more than one hundred units of. the parties are expected to attend the congress, sources added.
According to the draft political report of the Joint conference, the new party will uphold Marxism-Leninism as Its Ideology while the party will alm at replacing present bourgeois democracy with people s democracy.'
The draft report maintained that despite the fall of a military Junta in the face of a people upsurge in 1990 and introduction of parliamentary democracy through a general election, democracy for major ity of the people was yet to be ensured.
Branding the ruling BNP and principal opposition party In Parliament Awaml League as the representatives of the Imperialist Interests reluctant to establish democracy and en sure national development, the draft report also said, They can neither go for basic democratic changes In the society nor even uphold a people- oriented social reform programme."
A people's democratic revolution under the leadership of the working class of the country is necessary for bringing about a fundamental change In the present undemocratic social system, the draft report stated.
The report also apprehended that despite the military bureaucracy's departure
from the state power In the face of a people s upsurge In 1990, one still could not rule out its desire to stage a come back.
The draft report of the Joint congress regretted that the nine-year-long democratic movement failed to establish working class- hegemony over the dominant ideology of society.
In a bid to evaluate the failure. the report said. The parties' indifference to the importance of class-struggle during the democratic movements of the eighties was responsible' for such a consequence.
On the question of the collapse of socialism in Soviet Union and the East European countries, the report said that the fall of socialism there do not disprove the fundamental Marxist-Leninist propositions on economy, state etc.' 'Rather', the report maintained, 'the ruling parties' departure from the Marxism-Leninism was the main reason for the collapse of the socialist system in Soviet Union and East Europe."
In Bangladesh, the united party would not surrender to the bourgeois-pettlbourgcis ideologies, the draft report said