Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin concluding the Yalta agreement.
various national bureaucracies, each pursuing its own 'seit-interest' - na: brought to light too many uncomfortable tacts tor ignorance to be an answer even in their own ranks. The violent way, In such a The real significance of the recent declarations of the Western Communist Parties is not that they are.
'breaking' from Stalinism. It is that, in being forced to echo todav the criticisms of Stalinist crimes voiced long before by the Trotskyist movement, they serve to open up a serious debate among the many thousands of hones members who wish to discover the truth.
situation, socialists have a real possibility of explaining that it is not sufficient to dissociate from the crimes or slalin wich nave done more than anything else to discredit socialIsm in ine eyes or milions. It is necess ary to root these crimes in the political legacy of Stalinism - which still guides the Western CPs - and to break from it.
Based on an article by David Frankel in INTERCONTINENTAL PRESS