of the word Leninism changes nothing in reality.
Manuel Azcarate, Carrillo's TROOTEST slightly different land more honest)
WHILE they're slugeing it out in the Communist Party, the Socialist Party (PSOE] has its own problems. General Secretary Felipe Gonzalez last week announced that would propose the ahandonment of the word 'Marxist" from the party statutes at the Congress!
Presumably the proud possessor of a hotline Highgate Cemetery, explained that 'Marx wouldn't like the word Marsise if be was alive today.
He added: To the left of the PSOE the electoral space is occupied by the Communist Party, so it's on the right thut tur party must gain vales. People'll suy I'm an electoralist. Idon't deny it. Everyone is. What I want to do is to win the eight million votes necessary to form a government.
Gonzalez said he was not ashamed of being called a social democrat. His tone changed when he heard his party's reaction.
All of a sudden he denied being a social democrat. This may have been connected with the revelation by the new purty president, Tierno Galvan, thut he had not been consulted over the statement.
member Pablo Castellano said that Renounrebouncing the law of gravity or nuclear physies.* The powerful Corslan federation pointed out that the 1976 Congress had defined the marly us varsise and that thes positions were binding on the ieudership us well us the rank and file, The Madrid Federation densanded. emergency congress and rather pointedly heid a massive celebration of the 160th anniversary Marx's birth. In the Basque country this is compounded by the political challenge from the far left, which won 40 per cent of delegates at the recent *The Workers Commission In Malaga, another oppo tion centre, it was the question of the statutes and the lack of self criticism which concerned self criticism of. notorious defeats victories, the abandonment areas of struggle and the translormation Di Us Dany into a bourgeois-style clectoral organisation.
Many of the same criticism were voiced in Asturias and but opposition is more disparare, ranging through dissident EurocomSUPPOTECIS Feruando Claudin, leader expelled in 1964. next he ALVAREZ ARECES i suces oppose Inc lack of democracy Congress inself. They Stabnists and our cook box to use Stalinist methods," party member commented One problem was the election of delegares. A Madrid delegate spinted but Sanchez Montero was president of his having been clected: There's no Sanchez Montero on the liat of of delegates ciected." strong proportional to numbers (nor SENE positions).
For example, in Catalonia the the delegation consisted of all the Central Committee meminto branch of more than 300 branch of SIDES members. Since the opposition tended to be in the larger branches it was underrepre sented at Congress It was the isue of democracy above all which the delegales to walk out of the Asturian regional conference pro-Moscow, DEUTE COMESTWES the first орел and one the PCE leaders, Vicente Areces, a Central Committee member, threatened to resign from the party if there were any sanctions.
So the 113 were able to meet formulate platform. But one miner, who was not one of the 113, warned that They have distributed to us a bist of delegates who must not under any circumstances be Teelected or go the the National Congress.
PETTY Areces has been subject to continual pelly harassment. In bis capacity as bead of Culture in the Asturian party he wrote to the East German Brecht: The reply. posters, care back throueh the national office in Madrid.
Areces was factiomal activity und cornesponding with a pro-Moscow government!
Even worse: experience of Malaga dissidents WTOtE document.
the bourgeois press and denunciaare LI0B3 frown the parly leadership.
Hue they insist it was not they ODC who leaked the document. The penalty was Chice suspension from the party.
Simon Bet they were disciplined under the new statutes, which without had sot yet been passed by Congress!
Alfredo Martinez Robles. spokesperson for the group, Delegates are not elected commented: "The purges have 'Up with the PCE, agninat Carritio's opportunism'. -PCE opposition poster.
ровани days of Stalimism.
than stand this opponents. file leadership, led gate remarked.
show of of its Alvarez embassy posters of Hertoll witle the secuised of MARTINEZ ROBLES was an internal Next thing they to Carrillo -schema: you've got Interests of LIDULTS secretary PCE.
communism. started, like in the good old CRLS Many delegates remarked on parties. Carrillo's Stalinism. They were also surprised at the low level of contrary to debate from the leadership.
"The workers can't effect on Carrille could tell bis Madrid jargon, MISS *The fucking rank is much more similar story. theoretically prepared than the one Madrid deicsuggested that: "Stalinism is not just the Gulag purge.
clandestinity.
Commissions certain Promotion Gerardo and apparatchik. a turn away from the working towards the bourgeois And the Ascurians add that.
the leadership's assertions, this has had a dire party membership which has fallen From 10,000 to 7,000 in their region, Malaga and Madrid dissidents tell a It is generally felt that the virtual majority gained by the opposition in Catalonia rules out the possibility of a full-scale LIQUIDATE But the Asturians explain the liquidate politically a series of who have greater prestige among the rank and file and a better theoretica and intellectual level than the leadership, and replace them by a personnel from the Workers whose succesa in the trade union elections is the only trick Carrillo has to give him a credibibiry with the bourgeols parties.
That was indeed the case at the Congress, which saw the of figure Iglesias, the secretary of the Asturian party Workers Commissions
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*Marx IS dead'
For the murder of opponents. This is its exireme resuit. 16 DasIs woRd appoes pertecE is the following SALUSE when the interests of the class subordinated interests of the party; when the ILTE the subordinated to those of the Secretariat; when the interests of the Secretarial are subordi- IVal. nated to those of the general the That's the situation today it And he added, 'Stalinism is a fascist use ol These critics point out that I Carrillo's "democratisation" THE growing dissent in the Communist Parly the bighlighted in this week's issue of Intercontinemal PICSS Inprecor with a major analysis hy Pierre Julien which traces development of the HOOSEE CUTCHES Also featured in this issue 16. No. 19] are * Argentina Two Yeurs Coup', the Marroguin anti-deportation esse USA, the clection campaige in Peru, the French intervention in Chad, and the struggle for lunguage rights in the Sore! combined i Inprecor republics, as well as a report of IMG conference In London.
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