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What is to be done?What changes should the CPI(M)make in it's mode of functioning in this critical juncture?Local body election has proven without any doubt that the party's mass base has shaken.Why this?Why the 'enlightened' voters in the state took a clear cut stand against the Party,even when they abstained from raising any sharp criticism against the functioning of the Govt.lead by the Left Democratic Front.I strongly feel that the people of Kerala,I mean the majority of them give support only to a party that can genuinely claim to have a strong political philosophy and vision.Until recently they stood behind the CPI(M)because it had a history of anti imperialist, anti fascist struggles from the very beginning, the spirit of which,they hoped the party would be able to sustain.But things have changed.The party leadership found it unnecessary to conceal their strong inclinatin to the developmental schemes sponsored by multinational capitalism and thus proved their poverty of philosophy and their total disinterestedness in approaching and analysing the effects of globalisation on Indian economy and Indian politics,using the tools of Marxism.They went even beyond that and became totally apolitical in their stand in many areas.They tried in vain to compensate their lack of philosophy with impertinence.Leninist organisational principle and stalinist practice joined hands with neoliberal develpomental politics and there developed a strange combination which aroused in the common mass only aversion to the Party.Now history has given a chance or it has made a demand from the Party to critically examine it's politics and programmes and redefine them not in the light of global economic realities only but by giving due consideration to the material and intellectual needs of our people also.People don't live by bread alone.They should also be able to maintain the feeling that they are part of a great movement with an inspiring past and a respectable vision of the future.Otherwise they will have no hesitation in saying 'goodbye!'to the party.Everybody who thinks that there should be a strong political party and a vibrant Organisational set up to fight the evils of the unbridled invasion of transnational capitalist forces is keenly watching whether the CPI(M) will be able to meet the challenges by being straight forward in admitting that it has to make immediate changes in it's political line,programmaes and day today functioning.