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Socialist Party of Kalistan begins plans to dissolve"Kalistan is virtually unrecognizable", says John Henry Bennots
Kaliburg, Ananto
July 15, 4481


Speaker Bennots addresses Convention last Month

Speaker of the Socialist Party of Kalistan, John Henry Bennots, addressed the annual gathering of Socialist activists in Kaliburg last month.  His comments stunned many of the attendees.

"There is no place for us in Kalistan," he began.  "When you look at the political landscape, and see the damage that these Conservatives are doing to the state, and then you realize that the future is simply more of the same, things begin to look pretty grim.  Kalistan, as we know it, as the Socialist Party proudly had a hand in building, is unrecognizable today."

The comments came after the disappearance of the Agramontian League from the Assembly.  The League had been one of the few Parties in Kalistan actively interested in helping the Left defend Kalistani institutions from the onslaught of Conservative factions that Kalistan has seen in recent years.  But their withdrawal from Kalistani Politics leaves a hole in the defenses, through which anti-institutionalist, Right Wing reactionary forces are now expected to flood.  "Those who seek to wipe out hundreds of years of Kalistani Stability are now in the determined Majority.  We will limp along, splitting votes with the Workers Front, and being unable to accomplish much, if anything at all to keep Kalistan intact.  The forces currently working on our institutions and our traditions today will shred the Constitution tomorrow."

Bennots proposed that the Socialist Party throw its support to the United Workers Front, the only other Leftist Party in Kalistan.  "As of today, we will be deactivating our Militia, storing our weaponry in the Armory, and we will begin winding down Party operations.  The SP is an institution in Kalistan.  Perhaps someday, when the conservative mania which has swept Kalistan in recent years has subsided, there will be a place for the SP once more, but as it is right now, we are being squeezed to death, and as a result, are incapable of opposing any of the changes that the Right are forcing down all of our throats."

The Speaker has called on the SP to refrain from running candidates in the next election and to endorse the UKWF as the main Leftist Party.  The President of the Republic has already said he will not be seeking another term.

Following the Convention, the SP began closing its offices in the District, and within 6 months, only the Kaliburg HQ of the Party is expected to remain open.

"We'll return someday," said Bennots in closing.  "But as for today, we've hit a dead end."  Delegates left the convention in a somber mood.  Before concluding the business, however, the delegates to the Convention endorsed the Speaker's resolution to dissolve the Party before the next elections by a slim majority.  Many socialists have agreed to form a new pressure group to remain active in Kalistan:  They have revived the old configuration, the Socialist Study Group, to attempt to keep Kalistani Socialism alive, and the offices of Izquierda will remain open even after the SP dissolves.