The program implies "active rallies of protest against the policy of the authorities, a nationwide referendum and formation of a broad coalition to form the government of national interests," Zyuganov said at a press conference on Monday.
On April 9 the regional initiative group on the referendum will hold a session in Moscow on April 9, said Ivan Melnikov, KPRF vice chairman.
In his words, 17 issues will be submitted to the referendum. They are divided into three blocs - social, economic and political. Among the issues are the establishment of minimal wages, which exceed the subsistence level, the cancellation of the law on the replacement of social benefits in kind with cash payments, the restoration of pre-reform savings of citizens, the nationalization of subsoil, forest, water and other natural resources, as well as key economic facilities, the restoration of state property in land and direct elections of regional leaders.
"We are convinced that the referendum will take place," Melnikov emphasized.
According to him, "in addition to traditional KPRF allies, Sergei Glazyev, Dmitry Rogozin (Rodina), Eduard Limonov (writer and leader of the National Bolshevik Party), TV reporter Sergei Dorenko and others were invited" to join the initiative group.
"Some of them have already given their consent," Melnikov said.
Gennady Zyuganov called the new program "April Theses". This is the title of the Bolshevik program, which Vladimir Lenin wrote in 1917 to turn the February bourgeois-democratic revolution to the socialist revolution.
"Seventeen Moments of Political Spring" is the name Zyuganov gave to the 17 issues, which will be submitted to the referendum. "Seventeen Moments of Spring" is a popular Russian TV series about a Soviet spy who worked in Nazi Germany.
