(Forwarded)
At the 3rd Congress of Revolutionary Young Communist League
(Bolshevik) (also known as Komsomol) in August 1999, a number of
individuals declared about setting up various platforms. (One of them
was in fact expelled, because he had sympathetic views to Trotskyism.)
This heterogeneous composition of delegates has forced the members of
Russian Communist Workers' Party to form a fraction. Having
consolidated the votes on important issues, they managed to affect the
Congress decisions. The founder members of the organisation turned out
to be in majority in the end as compared to Maoist platform of Zhutaev,
Seliverstov and Torbasov.
As D. Kuzmin, the Secretary for Organisational Work (Leningrad)
reported, the main result of the 3rd Congress was nevertheless that
"RYCL(B) acquired its own political face". The new First Secretary has
been elected, Oleg Alekseev from Ufa, and he is a normal RCWP (RKRP)
member.
Although there may be some Maoists in the ranks of RYCL(B), there
is no reason to call it a Maoist organisation.
However, there is another problem with the youth organisation,
more serious than the Maoist platform. These are the spoilt relations
between the Moscow Committees of Russian CWP and RYCL(B). The former
regards the latter as ultra-leftist and semi-anarchist. Young party
members in Moscow have been instructed to leave the Moscow Committee of
RYCL(B), lead by A. Buslaev and P. Bylevsky.
If that is not enough, four members from the Moscow Organisation
of RYCL(B) are currently in jail for revolutionary activity. (See
messages I posted to Marxist-Leninist list in July.) (This is one of
the reasons there was no Congress this Summer.) But even that situation
does not resolve the conflict, and RCWP (RKRP) is only supporting the
three girls, having withdrawn its support for Andrei Sokolov.
To be more precise, RYCL(B) is currently in a critical condition.
For this reason, there will be a special motion at the 10th Congress of
Russian Communist Workers' Party about its position towards the youth
organisation. The situation will only clarify there. In light of this
motion, it would be wise not to publish any news about RYCL(B) before
the Congress (October 22). Let us hope that the Congress will find a
solution to create conditions for a strong young communist organisation
on the territory of USSR.
With communistic greetings,
Viktor Bourenkov.
