Baracão's Communists Revitalised?

Former General Secretary returns, Valencia sets eyes on top spot

Koba, former General Secretary of the Partido Comunista Nacional during the Third (Socialist) Republic of Baracão recently applied for citizenship in the Republic, which was granted almost overnight. Even before he had officially been granted legal status as a citizen, the former Communist leader immediately made his interest in the party he formerly headed.

The readmission of Koba into the Republic coincides with a rejuvenation of the Partido Comunista Nacional, which has seen Juan Fidel Valencia, a descendant of the Valencia family that ruled so ruthlessly before the Revolution that swept the Communists to power, apply to become its leader. In a speech made to the Political Bureau of the Frente Popular and distributed to the general membership of the Frente, Valencia, who serves as the Minister of Economics and Finance, said that it was vital to "win back our heartland from the Nationalist scourge and once again campaign for both socialism and the rights of the workers of Baracão". Valencia received support from the former General Secretary Koba and also endorsement from the Chairman of the Frente Popular, leader of the Movimiento para la Cuarta República, a party allied to the Communists in the Frente.

Tiegismo Hoy hopes that Minister Valencia manages to rejuvenate the Partido Comunista Nacional inside the Frente Popular, described recently by the President of the Republic, Alarico Veto Julia, as "a vehicule created for popular progress", and wishes him well in constructing an economic model based on true socialist and Tiegist foundations, one of the many common goals of the constituent parties of the Frente Popular. The heritage of the Communists in Baracão must not only be remembered, but its presence continued. Without the Communists, Baracão would not exist.