-Rajesh Tyagi/ 31.7.2017
SUCI, renamed in 2009 as SUCI (C), is one of the five main
Stalinist Parties in India. Organised by Shibdas Ghosh in 1948, the Party had
only two congresses till date: first in 1988 and second in 2009.
Despite its proclamations to the contrary, over a period of
around 70 years, SUCI has consistently practised core opportunism- crude economism
outside and political cretinism inside the Parliament. Inside Parliament and
legislative assemblies, SUCI has sought every opportunity to hang out with this
or that bourgeois party. On the ground, since its inception it has swooped down
to economism, focusing on agitations on petty everyday issues coupled with massive box collections, as its chief activity.
For instance, during the 2011 Assembly elections in West
Bengal, SUCI (C) alongwith CPI (Maoist) had supported the rabid right-wing bourgeois
TMC under Mamata Banerjee and assisted it to come to power defeating the 34
year old Stalinist Left-front government led by CPM. Later, kicked aside by TMC
immediately after the polls, Provash Ghosh, the General Secretary of the disgraced
and humiliated SUCI, wearing a grin, said in a press statement, "The CPM
government had turned ‘anti-people’ therefore it was extremely important to end
their 34-year tenure in the state. Asserting that “SUCI had made an alliance
with TMC for the sake of people of West Bengal”, he added that “Our main target
of dislodging the CPM led government has been achieved, and we are no longer an
ally of TMC.”
