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Great. So this non-entity will continue to hang over the CP like a low-grade virus as it slides inexorably further and further to the right. Sometimes I wonder if he and Gus Hall were separated at birth:-) Louis Godena ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:40 PM Subject: CP Russia re-elects Zyuganov [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > > Moscow Times. 20 January 2002. Dissatisfied Party Re-elects Zyuganov. > > MOSCOW -- The Communist Party re-elected Gennady Zyuganov as its leader > Saturday, but cracks appeared in the ranks with some members suggesting > selective cooperation with the Kremlin. > > Zyuganov was backed by all but a handful of the 300 delegates at a > special congress, said Gennady Seleznyov, a Communist and the speaker of > the State Duma. > > But Zyuganov, beaten in the last two presidential elections by Boris > Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, came under attack after his 80-minute > address from some delegates who wanted a new strategy to boost their > electoral chances. > > Mikhail Mashkovtsev, governor of the Far Eastern region of Kamchatka, > said Communists should consider cooperating with Putin on "key issues" > as he was sure to be re-elected in 2004. An attractive, dynamic > Communist candidate was needed for 2008, he said. > > "Large sections of the population denounce the ills of capitalism but > have no intention of going back to socialism for the moment," he said in > televised remarks. "Our task, a long and difficult one, is to work on > society's views for a return to a socialist form of development. You > cannot achieve that merely by criticizing everything." > > The Communist Party gave up its constitutional monopoly on power in > 1990, a year before the collapse of Soviet rule. It wins about a quarter > of the vote in parliamentary elections. > > After an initial period of tacit backing for Putin when he took office > in 2000, it is now firmly in opposition. Zyuganov accuses the president > of leading the economy to ruin and yielding too much to the United > States in foreign policy. > > "Putin in essence is surrendering the whole geopolitical space of a > thousand-year-old state. At the beginning of last year nobody could > dream in a nightmare that the United States would have military bases in > Central Asia," Zyuganov said before the congress started. > > Zyuganov also criticized the government for keeping the economy > dependent on oil exports and for utility tariff hikes, which he said had > "essentially devaluated those slight increases gained for the workers." > > After the congress, called to bring party rules into line with a new law > on political parties, Zyuganov dismissed any talk of a major rift. > > "You only get unanimous votes in a cemetery. We all want the same > thing," he told reporters. > > He told the party the situation in Russia was "extremely serious and > getting worse" and said it was "the essence of nature to make calls in > favor of socialism." > > Delegates at the closed-door congress heard greetings from Putin wishing > them a "constructive and creative meeting" and saying Russia's problems > needed "the unity of efforts of all positive forces in the country." > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > Barry Stoller > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews > > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
