PRT deepens left unity
MEXICO evolution of the left has led to big changes. Whereas most of the groups in the UNIR, knowing that they had a crisis perspectives, plunged deeper into sectarianism and developed a hostile attitude to the PRT, other currents, like the Revolutionary Socialist Party (PRS), or the Mexican Workers Party (PMT) adopted positions converging with those of the PRT on the big questions of national polities."
The PMT is a radical nationalist party that rejected integration of the
AT THE SEVENTH plenum of their Central Committee held in
Mexico in early February 1986, the PRT (Revolutionary Workers
Party, Mexican section of the Fourth International) decided among other things to convene their fifth national congress and to organize a series of public events starting next September to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the party and the successes and growth registered since then.
The PRT also decided to set up local versions of their national cadre school and to launch a recruitment drive for 500 new members between now and September.
The Central Committee also had to make an assessment of the parliamentary fraction and discuss the perspecof left unity.
tives revolutionary
Because of recent developments, the
PRT's Central Committee will propose a political reorientation of the party increase united activity with left to forces in Mexico. In the framework of a general conception of building a mass revolutionary party, which has always remained the PRT's perspective, the last congress had been politically unified above all by its attitude to the organizations making up the UNIR (National Unity of the Revolutionary Left), with which they developed joint relations.
PRT's newspaper, Bandera Socialista, noted on March 17: "From the fourth congress until now, the
United Mexican Socialist Party (PSUM), which was the product of a fusion in 1981 between the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) and several nationalist and Stalinist groups. The PRS was founded in February 1985 by militants who came out of the PSUM.
One of the factors in this increased unity within the Mexican left lies without doubt in the attitude adopted by these organizations in relation to parliamentary work.
The PRT responded positively to these proposals, advancing a series of objectives to concretize this unity process and to test how quickly it was progressing. Its proposals included the following: opening discussions in the different sectors of mass activity where militants of these organizations are present; increasing joint work; initiating a political discussion between the various national leaderships on programmatic and tactical questions; fixing a precise timetable for these discussions; involving crank-and-file militants by
MİsCi MÜCADELESİA publishing a common internal bulletin; and establishing a parity committee to follow up the discussions.
Moreover, the PRT intends to invite the Organisation of the Revolutionary Left-Mass Line (OIR-LM) -a formation of the UNIR with whom united relations had progressed favour-
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İsci MÜCADELESİ ably in the electoral campaign in 1985 — to participate in the process initiated with the PMT and the PRS.
Finally, the parliamentary fractions of the PRT and PMT have decided to coordinate their activity in the Chamber of Deputies by forming a common parliamentary bloc with the following objectives:
* "Fighting for, political freedom for urban and rural workers in connection with bills presented to the Chamber;
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* "Both in parliament and outside rejecting all measures which would adversely affect the standard of living of the dispossessed in Mexico; * "Fighting to broaden the areas of political participation of workers; * "Jointly presenting bills along these lines."
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