CEYLONESE COMMUNIST GROUP LONVOKES CONGRESS
COLOMBO, Nov, 23 -- A proclamation was issued yesterday by 118 members of the Communist party of Ceylon to all Marxist-Leninists inside the party announcing their decision to convoke the seventh congress of the organization at an early date.
Premal Kumarasiri was named ‘by the group as the secretary in charge of organizational and political preparations,
The full text of the declaration is as follows:
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We the undersigned Marxists Leninists in the Communist Party do hereby accuse the present majority of the Central Committee of the C.P, of having destroyed the unity of the party and brought it to the verge of split and reducing its influence by the following actions.
1. Failure to hold the 7th Congress of the party within 2 years of the previous Congress, i.e., before December 1962 as demanded by party constitution.
Le Abandoning the genuine Marxists Leninists standpoints as embodied in the Moscow declaration of 1957 and Moscow statement of 1960. and adopt~ ing false positions of Modern Revisionism,
Se Taking. disciplinary action against Kumarasiri, Shanmugathasan and E. T.Moorthy for having advocated revolutionary policies in full confrontation with Marxism and Leninism,
4, Refusal to heed the request of many District Committees of the | Party and written requests by more than half the membership of the party to settle the present dispute in the party.
5, Failure to build a strong powerful Communist Party and for suse pending recruitment to the party at a time when the most favourable conditions exist for the boldest recruitment to the party, reducing the number to a paltry figure never reached even under the difficult days of the U.NeP. -=- thus objectively placing the party organisation disarmed. and
~ weakened so that it lost its independence and identity. - oy
6. Opportunism in the refusal to lead the workers struggle particu-. larly, the betrayal of the Ceylon Transport. Board strike of Jan.-Feb. 1963 and the present reluctance to organise a national struggle around the 21 demands approved by the All Island Congress of the Trade Unions,
7. Exclusive reliance on parliamentary method as the means of win-' ning power peacefully for the working class and refusal to prepare the — working class and gather all revolutionary forces for the possibility of non-peaceful transition to socialism,
8, Failure to organise the peasantry.
9. Failure to provide party members and the working class with Marxist education, failure to translate Marxist Classics into Sinhalese,
LO. Failure to produce a daily working-class newspaper,
lL, Attempts to disrupt mass organisations and fronts under the party leaderships,
12... Resorting to communal propaganda to discredit and isolate comrades fighting for revolutionary principles.
‘We hereby declare that these charges are sufficient and serious to warrant a loss of confidence by the rank and file in the leadership of .the Party. :
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-We further declare that the Central Committee is unconstitutional as it has outlived its constitutional span of life and that it has no right to speak on benalf of the party.
Desirous to rectify the mistakes of the present leadership of the party and of ridding the party of the dead wood of revisionists, and deeply conscious of the necessity to give new leadership to the revolutionaries and genuine Marxists Leninists elements inside the party who are a majority and thereby provide a revolutionary leadership to the proletarian movement in our country, and convinced that the present leadership will never convene a democratically constituted Congress; we hereby decide to convoke the 7th Congress of the Communist Party at an early date.
We call upon all genuine Marxists Leninists groups inside the Commun ist Party to accept this invitation and nominate delegates to this congress — and also give us full support for the summoning of the congress,
We hereby appoint a committee consisting of the following:
Premal Kumarasiri Dharmadasa | KV,Krishnakutty
N.sShannugathasan SMP. De Silva S.Janapriya
D,N,.Nadunge S. Abeygunewardene K,Abeysekera
Higgoda Dharmasena ‘D.Alwis E.T.Moortny
D.K.NeJindrapala . Sivadasan D,. Jayakody
K,Manikavasagar - S.De Silva A.De Silva
N.L,Perera Wickremasinghe . M.Mohideen
K,Wimalapala . - A,Jayasuriya S,Ramaiah
K,Kulaveerasingham D.A.Gunasekera Manohar ~- W,Siriwardene C,Kulatunga 8 Wijotilleke '. A.D, Charleshamy K,A,Subramaniam
Watson Fernando S. De Silva
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