reports from Sweden.
Twenty per cent of its members split from the VPK. The differinces are longstanding Ineb Stalinist" faction has always bac a daily paper, and they have criticisms of the leadership But during the last three years mainly because of the attitude of the leadership: spectacular expulмоля, готова то дус сос оррод tion an adequate representation on the national leadership and so •The political questions nave been raised by the development of Eszocommunisn"
*K leadership condemned 1 ina, Sache City explain from the Soviet Union, and has doesn't want to break links with the CPs in the East, bur it has expressed views which are to a certain stent opposed to those of the astern Europcan burcaucracie ABANDONED The political framework for this was already outlined in the mid 19r0s when the VPK anandoned the conception of the dictatorship of the proletariat perlin and o Poli propagating a Though equally committed to the "parliamentary road", the oldвізи заднінь орроей L15. They argued that the leadership had adapted its needs of the vouth and student and had thereby turned into an intellectual, petit-bourgeois parLEADE TO SEEDECES! Tuence in the working clas INFLUENCE has steadily year's trade union elections the only factory where the VPK made gains in comparison with ie Socialist Party was the hug Colvo plant in Goteborg... an there they had a united slate with the : Trotskyistst Above all the VPK has no answer to the crucial problem of vantage of the fact that last year Come in severent for the firs time in The APK has a more serious attitude to this problem, though their answer is one of opportunism May Day it politely refrained from raising its own slogans on the old workers, the VPK of much ounger people, many with a backgrour APK's implantation is limited to the north of Sweden policies to the absence of any democratic proce political sed way intide the party — so it the party have never received any clarification of the issues.
PREDICT The APk's future is easy ti redict. In its present form it is party with no future. It will die two. For the VPK the perspecchallenge th tives are more complex. It coD tendencies.
One — left radicals — is very which was running a campaign on pole Tar leibeers in allance Another current is concerned above all not to let the party fall below the 4 per cent needed to win seats in the next parliament ary elections, and thereby lose a was marked by th questions lot of subsidies from the state ments. The To do that it wants to cut all links with the irritating and offensive The thind - which is dominant in the leadership — puts all its faith in international develop1177 Eurocommunist VPK to forces for "social change Europe as a whole. And this, they think save the credibility of Swedish Communist Party.
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