The retreat of the Secialist Party
An analyels of the results of tha recent electicnsa indicates & oonsiderable reduction in the naubar of votes naaet for the SP, This in fact means that the illusion of the gredual orgenic in= orease of tha 5P has collapsed ; The retreat of the Commmist Perty ; ies
As With the §PF, the vetoes ceet Tor the CP are roducad. It: has been seid that the GP had recovered considerably in the past faw yeeare, especially within the trade unions. Yet an snalysis nf the present situation shewsa that the CP influences only ebout 1/loth or 1/14th of the working class,
The SP is still the miin centre uf werkins-class political activity. Moreover, the SF has tended tu set as a pipeline through which tha Pressure of the workers has been channelled. Therefore, the incressed autharity of both the October revolution and the Chinese revolution are a positive factar te both the OF and the SP. Within the foreaesabla Tutire, a4 drastic and radical change in tha ralatioenship of forces is not likely to oecur, This fact, & fact that wha recoeniséd at the time of the local elections, indicates thet the SP will play s central role in the coming period of instability, mass ferment, split and regroupment of the workers’ nartier. Meaning of tho increased vote for the SOKA GAKEAT
The SG, which is a militant Buddhist politicel organisation, got 2,470,000 votes in the 1959 elections, about four end.a half aS Many voted as the cP,
The classebase oP the SG is in the lower petty bourgeoisie and unorganised workers = this in competition wit mh the fe, The CP has Jost some voter amone tha lower atrat Se the SG, while gaining some among the organised workera.
Has the SP lost votes to the Sa? hore Ard ronsons For thinking so. i. further analysis of the election figures shews that the other parties remain relatively even compared with the 1956 figures. This ie, of gourkee, based not of the conerete Substantial anslysia tat on political lois. it ta tar tore reasonable to suppoee that hundreds of thousende of CFP und SP Supporters maved towards £¢, waleh ia quite alien fron the traditional parties, then to suppose that they moved towerda the Liberal Democrsita,
In the next period there is: ea porsibility thet the 86 will grow at the expense af tha liberal Denocrat
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Ferty. The: THe ecanemle decline besina to affect the ower strete more deapiy, millions of the t2s8een will lose #11 hepa end belief in the present order. THe S66 having sbteined already four and a hel? times the ¢P vote in the present period is the prelude to tlonz=j{term dealings.
The potter isis of this oreenisetion, far saberior ta thet the GP, equels thet of the Cr. It must be regarded as e powerful neat for the role.of a masa fasnipt organisetion, its ideolosy will possibly tum towards conscious faseiam, which hims at the exterminstia- of tha working=<oless orcanisetiona, by the reorientation of the lesdorship when the political ailtuation entars the preqre vo lusionary period, end the Lawer SIYSatS are stirred: mare: profoundly.
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the poor people. Tie is the reason why 8G nor ased its vote", The SF leader, Susuki, did mot secthe danger signal in bre electLlon resulta, Such stupid optinisn ip & ahsarseteristia of the + +aformist. « T= hone thet he will nct lose Kis eoneciousnes when faced direetly with the: enemy.
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Total 29,419,00¢ LOG. 8 160.0 (Condensed from The Workerst Voice, June 1),