Information that came through "Johnson's Russia List". It does strike me how the KPRF do appear to be simply a social-democratic party, and whatever that is worth they should be seen via that. Macdonald (((((((((((((((((((((((((( strana.ru February 16, 2001 Communists remain in irreconcilable opposition but are prepared to cooperate with authorities On the eve of the convention of the Popular Patriotic Union (PPU) that is to be held on February 17 in the Moscow countryside, its leader, Gennady Zyuganov (chairman of the Russian Communist Party) announced that the Russian Communists remain in opposition to the authorities. The Communist Party has been and remains in stiff and irreconcilable opposition to the authorities since the hopes of the Communists were not justified after Russia's president changed. The current political regime is crawling in the rut of what he called "Yeltsinism," he said in a Nezavisimaya Gazeta interview on Friday. Nonetheless, he said that the Communists had been conducting and would continue to conduct a dialogue with President Vladimir Putin. However, the main conditions for their cooperating with the authorities was "a change in the direction of policy, honesty before citizens, restoring a politically normal management," Zyuganov emphasized. The Communist leader said the priority tasks of the authorities were to provide the country with energy supplies, to fill the budget with money, to fight corruption and ensure a living wage for each and every citizen of Russia. Zyuganov believes that within the next two-three months Putin will have to make some very responsible decisions. ------------------------------------------- Macdonald Stainsby Rad-Green List: Radical anti-capitalist environmental discussion. http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/rad-green ---- Leninist-International: Building bridges in the tradition of V.I. Lenin. http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international ---- In the contradiction lies the hope. --Bertholt Brecht _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
