Resolution on Organisational Plenum
The Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) while reviewing the Lok Sabha results observed that there is decline in the mass base of the Party and the Party had failed to expand its political influence and increase its organizational strength. In order to find out the reasons for the present situation, the CC had decided to review the political-tactical line Party has been pursuing, to study the changes in the socio-economic conditions since liberalization and their impact on various classes and to review the functioning of the Party organization and mass fronts.
The Party Congress has adopted the Review Report on the Political-Tactical Line. The Party has taken up the task of studying the changes in the socio-economic conditions. The Party has to undertake the task of reviewing the functioning of the Party organization and the orientation of the work among the people and reviewing the functioning of the mass fronts, their activities including their independent functioning and their relations with the Party.
An organizational Plenum was held in December 1978 at Salkia and it gave specific directives for the expansion of the Party. The Party made efforts to implement the Salkia directives and made some progress. Despite this, many shortcomings and weaknesses are continuing and the Party has not been able to register substantial progress and increase its independent strength.
The Political Resolution calls for building Left and Democratic Front as the real alternative to the BJP, the Congress and other bourgeois-landlord forces. The success in building Left and Democratic Front to a great extent depends on expanding the independent role and enhancing Party’s strength and mass base. The Party has to provide leadership to the class and mass fronts to develop their independent functioning to launch broad-based movements and struggles. The Party has to take bold initiative to take on the politics and programmes of the bourgeois-landlord parties and to counter them by projecting the politics and programme of the CPI(M). The Party has to politically and ideologically equip its cadres to undertake the political and ideological struggle to counter the ideology and politics of the ruling classes. For carrying out these tasks, there is need to revamp the organization and reorient it to take up the political and ideological tasks and capacity to conduct militant struggles.
The Political-Organisational Report presented before the Congress points out some of the important shortcomings and weaknesses which are restricting Party’s effort for expansion. There are other shortcomings and weaknesses in the functioning of the Party and mass fronts. A Concrete review of the organizational situation at the all-India level and state levels is necessary to formulate future tasks for the expansion of the Party and mass fronts. A routine review of the work of the Party and mass fronts and evolving tasks would not be sufficient.
The 21st Congress, therefore, directs the new PB and CC to convene a Plenum to discuss the functioning of the Party organization and the work among the people, expansion of the Party especially among the young generation and basic classes, orientation of the mass fronts, their activities including their independent functioning and their relations with the Party. The Plenum should be held before the end of 2015. The Plenum has to be properly prepared for. To this end:
1) The PB shall prepare a questionnaire on the basis of which State Committees can prepare reports on the state of organization of the Party and mass fronts, the specific problems connected thereto, the ways in which these problems are proposed to be tackled and the task of rallying the Left and democratic forces in each state.
2) The PB shall study these state reports and prepare a draft report and present it before the Central Committee for its consideration. After necessary amendments by the CC, the draft report shall be sent to the State Committees.
3) The State Committees shall then send their views on the draft report to the PB and CC so that a revised report can be presented to the Plenum.
The PB and CC shall decide the quota of representation at the Plenum.