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Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party کمیونسٹ مزدور کسان پارٹی | |
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| Abbreviation | CMKP |
| President | Hkmat Shaw |
| Founded | 1995 (1995) |
| Dissolved | 20 December 2015 (2015-12-20) |
| Merged into | MKP |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colours | Red |
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TheCommunist Mazdoor Kissan Party (Urdu:کمیونسٹ مزدور کسان پارٹی,lit. 'Communist Workers and Peasants Party') was a minor political party inPakistan formed in 1995 by the unification of theCommunist Party of Pakistan (CPP) and theMajor Ishaque faction of the Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP).[citation needed]
In 2015, it merged with thePakistan Mazdoor Kissan Party, forming the currentMazdoor Kisan Party which is headed byAfzal Khamosh.
The break-up of theSoviet Union had an enormous impact on the left in Pakistan, as elsewhere in the world. A great number of factions abandonedMarxism and the Communist movement. At this difficult juncture in history the CPP and Major Ishaque's MKP group (one of three factions resulting from a split in theMKP in 1978) came together to engage in criticism and self-criticism and form the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party in 1995.
In 1999, much of the former Communist Party of Pakistan broke away and reconstituted itself as a separate party.
In 2003, after further organizational problems and ideological disagreements, a large section of the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party separated and reformed the Major Ishaque MKP group, whereas a group led by Sufi Abdul Khaliq Baloch and Taimur Rahman remained aligned with CMKP and its Marxist–Leninist program.
In late 2009, CMKP faced yet another split when several long-time members, including Sufi Abdul Khaliq Baloch, separated from the party and joined theWorkers Party of Pakistan, a broad-left political party. CMKP continued as a distinct Marxist–Leninist-Stalinist Party.Taimur Rahman, the former General Secretary of the CMKP, stopped working with and being a part of CMKP. Instead, the party was led by central committee memberMehfoz Khan Shujaat from Multan, withHkmat Shaw fromHashtnagar as party president.
On 14 February 2015, it merged withPeoples National Congress to formPeoples Mazdoor Kissan Party.
On 20 December 2015, Peoples Mazdoor Kissan Party merged withPakistan Mazdoor Kissan Party forming a new party namedMazdoor Kissan Party.[1]
The party's politics were based on Major Ishaq's philosophy, and were focused on working with the peasantry of Pakistan. It arranged study circles regularly throughout the country and had an official circular namedAwami Morcha, which was edited by Mehfoz Khan Shujaat and published regularly.
CMKP saw theChina–Pakistan Economic Corridor as aneocolonization of Pakistan and believed it would damage the people of Pakistan.
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