Draft Program of the CMKP

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I. The domination of the capitalist system is becoming more and more complete in Pakistan. The ruling-class of Pakistan serves the interests of U.S. imperialism. The IMF, Multinational companies, World Bank and the World Trade Organization determine the economic, political, and foreign policy of Pakistan. The civil-military bureaucracy, big capitalists, and feudal lords are the ruling class of Pakistan. Pakistan is a neo-colonial capitalist country with substantial feudal remnants.



II. The continuous advance of capitalism results in small-scale producers being squeezed out by big capitalists. Capital and wealth is becoming concentrated in the hands of a relatively insignificant number of civil-military bureaucrats, capitalists, and big landowners as their private property. A few rich families control all the land, factories, tools, machinery, means of communication, educational & health institutions and so on. Peasants and small producers are being more and more ruined and becoming transformed into workers and servants of big capital.



III. Poverty, inflation, unemployment, corruption, starvation are all a product of this developing capitalist system. The labor of workers creates the wealth of the rich, yet today in Pakistan one in every three persons cannot afford a decent meal. Every kind of humiliation is becoming the lot of the Pakistani working people. This process is still further aggravated by the economic crisis in Pakistan. Thousands of factories remain closed while workers are starving from unemployment.



IV. All the development in Pakistan has only benefited a tiny elite. The rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer.



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V. But while all these inevitable contradictions of capitalism grow and develop, the numbers and the solidarity, the discontent and the indignation of the workers’ also grow. The struggle between the working class and the capitalist class increases and the desire grows to overthrow the capitalist system.



VI. Only the workers can overthrow capitalism. All the other classes of modern society stand for preserving the foundations of the existing economic order. The real liberation of the working class requires a revolution. A revolution that abolishes private ownership of the means of production. A revolution that transforms private property into property of the state. A revolution that organizes production on a socialist basis that benefits society as a whole. A revolution that lays the foundation for the greatest benefit and the free and all-round development of all members of society.



VII. This workers revolution will create a society without classes and social and political inequality.



VIII. In order to carry out this revolution the workers must win political power. Political power will make the workers masters of the situation and allow them to remove all obstacles that stand in the way of their great objective. Therefore, the dictatorship of the workers is a necessary political condition for this revolution.



IX. Our party sets itself the task of showing to the workers that the interests of capitalists are opposed to the interests of workers; that these class interests are irreconcilable. Our party sets itself the task of showing to the workers the historical signficance, character, and condition of the revolution it is destined to carry out. Our party sets itself the task of organizing a revolutionary workers party capable of directing all the aspects of the struggle of the workers.



X. Our party regards itself as a Marxist-Leninist unit of the world army of the workers and as part of the international communist movement. Our party rejects Trotskyism, social democracy, and revisionism on the one hand and the theory of social imperialism on the other.



XI. The immediate objectives of our party are to destroy the neo-colonial and semi-feudal chains in which the people of Pakistan are enslaved. The pillar of support of these neo-colonial and semi-feudal chains is the civil military bureaucracy. This is the worst and most dangerous enemy of the movement for the freedom of workers and of the development of democracy.



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For this purpose our party sets itself immediate task of a Peoples Democratic Revolution that will pave the way for socialism. Such a revolution will overthrow the current neo-colonial system and lay the foundation for a new democratic society that would secure:



1. Democracy

a. The complete restoration of democracy and national sovereignty of the people. Universal, equal and direct suffrage in elections to the parliament as well as to all the organs of local government for every citizen above the age of 18. Election by secret ballot; the right of every elector to be elected to any representative assembly. That is, the concentration of all power in the elected representatives of the people without outside interference.

b. Complete accountability before the people and an end to all corruption. Recovery of the money that has been embezzled in tax evasion and loan frauds

c. Unrestricted liberty of conscience, freedom of speech, of the press, of meetings, or strikes and of association.

d. The recognition of the rights of self-determination including the right to form a separate state for all nationalities in Pakistan.



2. Secularism

a. Complete elimination of all discriminatory practices and laws against women including the hadood ordinance against women. The principle of equal pay for equal work in the work place. Full integration of women in all aspects of national life.

b. Complete equality of rights for all citizens irrespective of sex, religion, race or nationality.

c. Religion to be the private affair of the individual completely indpendent of the affairs of the state. The conversion of deeni madrassahs into state schools run on the basis of a progressive and scientific national syllabus.

d. The right of all religious groups to freely practice the religion of their choice.



3. Socialism

a. Workers control over all the basic large scale industries of Pakistan

b. Land to the Tiller -- Complete and comprehensive uncompenstated land reform. Distribution of all feudal land to the landless peasants.

c. Elimination of poverty, inflation and unemployment through a planned economy.

d. A house to every citizen of Pakistan.

e. 8 hour work day and a ‘living wage’.

f. Universal free and compulsory education up to the age of sixteen; poor children to be supplied with food, clothes and school appliances at the cost of the state.

g. The provision of free and universal basic health facitilites to all the people of Pakistan.



4. Anti-Imperialism

a. Fraternal assistance to all progressive movements all over the third world to overthrow the rule of US imperialism and Zionism. We will especially render our fraternal assistance to the war of liberation in Palestinians, Afghanistan, and Iraq.