Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party

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Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party (Communist Workers Peasant Party), a political party in Pakistan formed in 1995 through the unification of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) and the Mazdoor Kissan Party (MKP).

In 1986 the MKP had condemned Gorbachev’s policies whereas the CPP continued to support Glasnost and Perestroika. The MKP argued that those policies would eventually lead to the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union. The break-up of the Soviet Union had an enormous impact on the left in Pakistan, as elsewhere in the world. A great number of factions abandoned Marxism and the Communist movement. At this difficult juncture in history the Communist Party of Pakistan and the Mazdoor Kissan Party came together to uphold the banner of Communism. In 1995 both parties engaged in criticism and self-criticism. Comrades of the CPP were critical of their underestimation of the impact of Soviet revisionism. Comrades of the MKP were critical of their former characterisation of the Soviet Union as social imperialist. Both parties came together and formed the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party.

In 1999 much of the former CPP broke away and reconstituted themselves as a separate party.

In the 2002 parliamentary elections the party was denied registration.

The CMKP, made up of mainly former MKP elements, later went back to calling their party MKP. In 2003 a group led by Sufi Abdul Khaliq Balooch broke away and formed a party called CMKP. This party today publishes the magazine Surkh Parcham (Red Flag).