A Left Convention was jointly organized by the West Bengal State Committee of CPI(ML) Liberation and the Marxist Communist Party, a breakaway group from CPI(M) belonging to the Danton area of Midnapore district, on 20th December at the Vidyasagar Hall of Midnapore town. Apart from the state leaders of CPI(ML), the Convention was attended by Comrade Swapan Mukherjee (CPI(ML) Central Committee Member), Comrade Mangatram Pasla (CPM(Punjab) General Secretary), Comrade Aloke Nandy (General Secretary of Marxist Communist Party) and Comrade Jayanta Gupta Bhaya (General Secretary of Marxbadi Mancha, a left group from Burdwan district).
In his speech, Com. Swapan Mukherjee emphasized the importance of holding such conventions, given the turbulent situation in West Bengal where the degenerated Left led by CPI(M) is fast giving way to a reactionary Trinamool Congress, and the prospect of resurgence of a revolutionary Left is brightening. Com. Pasla talked about the root causes of degeneration of the CPI(M), of which he was once a part. He said that the CPI(M) has abandoned the toiling poor and has adopted big capital instead. He expressed a strong optimism about the immense prospect of building a revolutionary Left co-ordination throughout the country by uniting the struggling left forces. Com. Alok Nandy and Com. Gupta Bhaya also welcomed the initiative taken by the All India Left Co-ordination (AILC) to unite the revolutionary and struggling Left forces in the country and expressed their primary willingness to be part of such an initiative.
Com. Partha Ghosh, state Sectretary of CPI(ML), underlined the significance of holding the convention in the district of Midnapore which has, of late, emerged as the most turbulent hot bed of political activism in the state, be it at Nandigram or in Jangalamhal. Com. Kartick Pal, another State Committee Member and Politburo Member of the party proposed further interactions among such like-minded parties and groups in West Bengal to chalk out a future course of action and to forge stronger unity.
