When will the socialist return.. Taiz is waiting for the comrades to return to the square of struggle

English - Tuesday 31 January 2023 الساعة 08:26 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, Exclusive:

 During the elections of 93 Sultan Al-Barakani faced a strong socialist competitor in his constituency, which was among the many constituencies in Taiz Governorate, which witnessed a loud presence of the voice of the left and the Workers' and Peasants' Party, which greatly delighted the residents of Al-Hujaria to hear it.

The images of the electoral campaign for the socialist candidate, Muhammad Abdul Aziz Al-Senawi, went beyond the Al-Barakani district to reach all the districts of Taiz, and were people's talk and the source of their discussions, because the competition is between a senior representative of the ruling General People's Congress Party and his partner who is strongly present in Taiz and Al-Hujaria in general, the Yemeni Socialist Party.

Sultan Al-Barakani was a leader in the strongly rising Congress Party in Al-Ma'afer, as an extension of his social and political presence from the Shura Council in the elections that were held before the unity in the north.  While the Sunni Socialist was to blame for the presence of the party and its penetration in Al-Hujaria and Taiz in general since before unity, and a mass passion for the Socialist and its history of struggle.

In those elections, the Socialist Party got a percentage and number of votes that exceeded what the Islah Party got, despite the coordination that took place between the Islah Party, the Congress, and the Baath Party at the time against the Socialist Party, which won 413,404, which constituted 18% of the number of voters, which is a percentage close to a quarter of the participants in the elections, especially since  There are 12 socialists who won as independents and later joined the party bloc.

The socialist did not get the constituency and Sheikh Sultan al-Barakani won. However, the percentage of votes for the party in the constituencies of Taiz was sufficient to determine the position of the comrades in the political scene and their share of the popular base that was not affected by social and regional loyalties and was a clear representation of belonging to the idea and the struggle project despite all the obstacles it put in place at the time.  The Congress and the Muslim Brotherhood alliance against the Socialist Party and the extent of incitement against its leaders and its revolutionary ideology.

The party, as it is called, is positioned in Taiz, Aden, and the south in general, in an important area, and it is almost the only party whose leadership is renewed in Taiz, despite the state of estrangement between it and its supporters, which only needs a communication mechanism and building organizational formations, even with little effort and cost, for the party to return to its place in the hearts of the people  before the polls.

The socialist in Taiz is a political identity for a large segment of the population, workers and peasants who are waiting for someone to speak only with their tongue and restore the momentum of their party and its position in society as an opponent of injustice, exclusion and extremism, and a civil voice in the face of the Brotherhood's militarization of all aspects of life and their control over the scene.

What is happening in Taiz today is that the party has turned into an elite party that has cut off its connection with its popular base or lost the ability to communicate with it for reasons that may be objective. However, this current reality of the Socialist Party requires organizational acceleration that restores the scene, extending from workers and peasants to the leadership component and using the student sector as a link  Reliable arrival in this aspect.

The absence of the Socialist Party, the voice of civil struggle, the lever of work in labor unions, and the engine of strong rejection of the ideology of extremism and exclusion, from the governorate of Taiz and from the areas of Al-Hujaria opened space for the Brotherhood organization, its groups, and its militias to penetrate the theater of the popular and organizational presence of the left forces, whose party represents the spearhead in its audacity and struggle.

Al-Hujaria needs the fighter who stood in competition with Al-Barakani in 93 AD to lead a rejection of the extremist presence of the groups that arose in the throat of Al-Hujaria and its urban metropolis, perching on the chest of Taiz and its ancient civilization, and for a mass and political movement that confronts the trapping of society with the ideology of political Islam groups and the extremist groups spawned by these groups.

Taiz lacks the party's voice and the resounding of its civil discourse in the face of the militarization of the parties and the one-party control in the name of the state and in the name of the army and security over all aspects of life, state institutions, and the decision of the local authority, so that the dreamer can regain her true position, valid for the national project, carrying the aspirations of the struggle and confronting the projects of extremism and priesthood