bq. Party politburo (PB) member Anil Biswas, in the latest issue of the CPM?s theoretical quarterly The Marxist, concedes that the party is facing a serious crisis as there was a drastic fall in the number of full-time workers and the new members are neither ideologically nor politically equipped to meet the standards and demands set by the party.

bq. Biswas, who is also the state secretary of the party?s West Bengal unit, says that there is a crisis brewing over the issue of full-time workers of the party. ??In a period of long-term status quo, it is very difficult to find wholetimers with a ideology-driven frame of mind that rejects selfishness and to work without a wage that would at least meet the minimum need for a living,?? he writes.

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