Lost and Disoriented, Stalinists Return to Blind Alley of Popular Frontism, Form AIPF

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 15.3.2015

Defeated and isolated completely in recent past, various Stalinist parties, groups and leaders have come together to float a popular front under the banner of All India Peoples’ Forum (AIPF).

The Forum, that alongside the Stalinists of various shades, includes a whole stream of petty-bourgeois organisations, from Royists to communal Sikh Youth Forum and religious heads, is having its convention on 14-15 March in New Delhi.

As a direct concession to its petty-bourgeois constituents, the founding document published by the AIPF, completely omits to mention the working class, revolution or socialism. Instead, it resorts to empty and meaningless petty-bourgeois rhetoric 'to defend and expand democracy', 'Indian Peoples' battle for comprehensive democracy, dignity and justice' and similar jingles to appeal to sections of middle class.