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ting hea and Workers’ Par-
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The concluding session of the International Conference of Communist and Workers’

Parties in Moscow.

obliges those contemplating a
new division to stretch out their
hands for any kind of territory,
including highly industrialized
regions, and (2) an essential
feature of imperialism is rivalry
between a number of great
powers in the striving for hege-
mony, i.e., for the conquest of
territory, not so much directly
for themselves, as to weaken
the adversary and undermine his
hegemony.

Lenin made his analysis of
imperialism at a time when
world capitalism held unbridled
sway across the face of the
globe. It alone made the deci-
sive decisions affecting the fate
of mankind. This situation was
shattered by the October Social-
ist Revolution. Today a mighty
new force—the system of social-
ist states—has emerged and has
broken the imperialist mono-
poly. Socialism growing strong-
er with every passing day
merges with the sweep of the
national liberation movement,
and the mighty strength of the
international working class.

Lenin’s definition of imperial-
ism has lost none of its valid-
ity. Its basic roots, features and
contradictions not only remain
operative but are more sharply
defined.

The system of socialist states,
the bulwark of which is the
Soviet Union, stands as the main
barrier to the rapacious aims of
imperialism. This is why world
imperialism, headed by the U.S.
imperialists, resorts to all meth-
ods to roll-back the boundaries
of socialism, to halt the decline
of the capitalist world and re-
gain lost positions and territor-
ies. The imperialist powers

maintain constant military pres-
sure against the socialist states.
They conduct ideological war-
fare and psychological aggres-
sion against the socialist states
aimed at creating internal sub-
version and stimulating counter-
revolutionary activities as was
the case in Czechoslovakia.
They woo socialist countries
with soft words and promises
of cooperation and financial as-
sistance in attempts to entice
them back into the capitalist
orbit.

‘Unable up to now to launch
a third world war for a forcible
re-partitioning of the world, as
well as being fearful of its out-
come, the imperialists light the
fires of local wars all of which
contain the seeds of global war,
ie., the U.S. aggression in Viet-
nam and the Israeli aggression
against the Arab states. They
create hot spots in Central
Europe, Cuba, Korea and South
East Asia. They create war
psychosis in their own coun-
tries as justification of the in-
tolerable arms race imperialism
has imposed upon the peoples
of the world which impoverishes
the peoples, threatens many
countries with national bank-
ruptcy and is a constant men-
ace to world peace.

The imperialists strive to cor-
rupt parties and governments in
the developing countries such
as through the infamous Alli-
ance for Progress foisted upon
the peoples of Latin America by
U.S. imperialism. Leading im-
perialist powers buy up the re-
sources, industries and politi-

cians of the lesser imperialist .

powers as the U.S. trusts are
doing in Canada.

This is the face of imperial-
ism, the main enemy of man-
kind.

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To decisively defeat imperial-
ism and to put an end to its
continuing aggression against
mankind requires maximum
development of united action of
all anti-imperialist forces. Para-
mount to achieving this objec-
tive is the restoration of the
cohesion of the world commun-
ist movement. The Moscow
Meeting of the Communist and
Workers’ Parties.marked a big
step forward in this respect
when it reached agreement on a
common strategy to counteract
the global strategy of imperial-
ism To state this is not to deny
the areas of disagreement which
are rooted in the differing esti-
mations of the strengths of
socialism and imperialism.

Nor is it to be taken as an
attempt to gloss over the great
harm done to the world com-
munist movement and the anti-
imperialist struggle by the lead-
ers of the Communist Party of
China who have now elevated
their differences with the Com-
munist Party of the Soviet
Union to an official state policy
of anti-Sovietism. The  anti-
Marxist, anti-Leninist line of
the Chinese leaders was quite
decisively rejected at the Mos-
cow Meeting and China’s armed
attacks against the Soviet bor-
ders condemned.

Common agreement around a
scientifically correct strategy
for mass struggle against im-
perialism is fundamental to re-
storing communist unity. But it
is only a. first step in reversing
the harmful tendency towards

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disunity and division, occasion-
ed by left and right revisionist
deviations arising out of imper-
ialist pressures. This must be
followed-up by continued dis-
cussions on the basis of mutual
respect and understanding,
coupled with firmness in uphold-
ing principles of socialist soli-
darity and proletarian interna-
tionalism.
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The same patient and princi-
pled struggle for unity must be
waged to achieve united action
of all anti-imperialist forces.
The main link of which remains
the struggle for world peace
against the menace of thermo-
nuclear. war and mass extermin-
ation. The defense of world
peace is inseparably linked up
with the struggle to compel the
imperialists to accept peaceful
coexistence of states with dif-
ferent social systems.

Peaceful coexistence does not
mean support to reactionary
regimes or ideological coexis-
tence with capitalism. Nor does
it mean sacrificing the inalien-
able right of every people to
take up arms in defense against
encroachments by _ imperialist
aggressors and to avail itself of
help of other people in its just
cause. It does, though, mean
respect for the rights of every
people freely to decide their
social, economic and _ political
system, strict observance of the
principles of sovereignty, equal-
ity, territorial inviolability of
every state, non-interference in
the internal affairs of other
countries, and the insurance of
a political settlement of out-
standing international issues
through negotiations.

A primary objective of united
action of all anti-imperialist
forces, and a vital component of
the general anti-imperialist
struggle of the peoples, is to
intensify the struggle to compel
U.S. imperialism to get out of
Vietnam; to press on all govern-
ments to recognize the Provi-
sional Revolutionary Govern-
ment of South Vietnam; .and
full respect of the right of the
Vietnamese people to solve their
problems without outside inter-
ference.

Many hard struggles lie ahead
but the peoples of the world,
through united actions, can de-
cisively establish their power to
end all imperialist aggression.
In the interests of advancing
this great humanitarian goal the
Communist and Workers’ Par-
ties are called upon to consoli-
date the ranks of the world
communist movement, to
staunchly defend the socialist
gains, and to hold high the ban-
ner of proletarian international-
ism.

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