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HOW DID DIFFERENCES ARISE?

Special to. the PT

PEKING — Listing numerous
articles by Maurice Thorez and
other French Communist Party
leaders which ‘‘attacked the Chi-
nese Communist Party,” an edi-
torial in Renmin Ribao on Feb.
27 replied to Thorez under the
title “Whence the Differences?”
, The editorial claimed the dif-
ferences between parties were not
brought into the open, as Thorez
claimed, by the Chinese publica-
tion of the pamphlet ‘“‘Long Live
Leninism’’ in all languages in the
y summer of 1960, but on the eve of
the Camp David talks, on Sept. 9,
1959.

“On that day a socialist coun-
try, turning a deaf ear to China’s
repeated explanations of the true
situation and to Chinese advice,
hastily issued a statement on
Sino-Indian border incidents
through its official news agency.

ising unemployment and the

breakdown of the Common
Market negotiations have, all of
a sudden, made the expansion of
East-West trade a ‘‘respectable’”’
demand iin certain quarters of
Britain.

That the grass-roots pressure
for a change in trading policies
is making itself felt was proven
by the recent announcement that

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cept nuclear weapons. These were
commitments to the Canadian
people, but the only commitments
Pearson cares to honor are the
ones he has made to the Penta-
_ gon and Wall Street.

HOW CAN OUR SECURITY
REALLY BE SAFEGUARDED?
The only defence is world
peace. The way to world peace
plete world disarmament. To ac-
cept nuelear arms would be to
take Canada in the opposite diree-.
tion, at. the very time when in
the aftermath of the Cuban crisis,
world opinion is demanding the
dismantling of all foreign bases
The very best contribution we

would be to withdraw from NATO
and NORAD and proclaim our
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Tradebecoming ‘respectable’

a British trade mission, sponsor-
ed by the London and Birming-
ham chambers of commerce, will
leave London for a ten-day visit
to the USSR on May 6.

New premises
for book store

HE People’s Co-op Book Store
has announced that it will be

_ Moving to a new location — 341

West Pender St., Vancouver—on
Monday, March 18.

The official opening will be held
on Friday, March 29, and will be
marked by a mammoth book sale,
starting on that date.

The new (and modern) premises
promise to make the Co-op Book
Store one of the finest in Canada
and will enable this store, which
is already one of the most popular
in the city.

country Canada could make a
powerful contribution to total and
complete disarmament in the
councils of the world.

The action that Canada can take
now is to refuse to contribute to-
wards the spreading of nuclear
weapons by rejecting U.S. pres-
sures to accept nuclear arms. _

‘Such action by Canada would
be viewed by peace-loving peoples
in all countries as an outstanding
contribution to the world struggle
for peace. It would be seen as a
resounding rebuff to the U.S. nu-
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“Making no distinction between
right and wrong, the statement
expressed regret over the border
clash and in reality condemned
China’s correct stand. They even
said it was tragic and deplorable.
“Here is the first instance in
history in which a socialist coun-
try, instead of condemning the
armed provocations of the reac-
tionaries of a capitalist country,
condemned another fraternal so-
cialist country when it was con-
fronted with armed provocation.”
The editorial states that ‘‘since
we have already answered their
erroneous arguments there is no
need to go over the same ground
again.” :
On China’s attitude to the 20th
Congress of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, the editorial
said it had both its positive and
negative aspects..On certain im-
portant questions the Chinese —
have held different views all
along but in the interests of the
international Communist move-
ment have never discussed them
publicly. :
Following the Camp David
talks ‘‘certain comrades of a fra-
ternal party.put forward a series —
of erroneous views on many im-
portant issues . . . These includ-
ed the possibility of banishing
war from the life of society and
bringing into. being, while im-
perialism exists, a world  with-
out weapons, without armies and
without war.”’ “3
After the U-2 spy plane in--
truded into the Soviet Union in
May, 1960 and the four-power
summit meeting in Paris was
aborted ‘‘we then hoped that the
comrades who had so _ loudly
sung the praises of the so-ealled
Spirit of Camp David would
draw a lesson from these events.”

Instead, at the general council
of the World Federation of Trade
Unions in’ Peking, in June, 1960,’

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‘certain comrades still refused to
denounce’ Eisenhower, spread
many erroneous views and op-
posed the correct line put for-
ward by the Chinese comrades,
the editorial said.

“And late in June, 1960, ‘“‘some-
one went so far as to wave his
baton and launch an all-out and
converging surprise attack on
the Chinese Communist Party at
the meeting of the fraternal par-
ties in Bucharest... .

“After the Bucharest meeting
some comrades lost no time in
taking a series of grave steps
applying economic and political
pressure against China.

“Disregarding international

practice they perfidiously and
unilaterally tore up agreements
and contracts they had conclud-
ed with a fraternal country:
._ “These agreements and con-
tracts are to be counted not in
twos or threes or in scores but
in hundreds.”’

Replying to Thorez’s criticism

that the Chinese Communist
Party at the 1960 Moscow meet-
ing “did not approve the line

China attacks views
of Communist leaders

of the international working-class
movement,’’ the editorial said
that for ‘‘the good of the interna-
tional Communist movement we
prefer not to go into details here
about what went on at this inter-
national meeting”’ but “‘we intend
to give the true picture and clar-
ify right and wrong at the proper
time and place.”

On the question of improving
Soviet-Albanian relations the edi-
torial said ‘‘some comrades ac-
tually deprived other fraternal |
parties of the possibility of ef- —
fectively contributing to the im-
provement of these relations by
completely ignoring our repeated
advice.” :

Speaking of controversies at the
Stockholm conference of the
World Peace Council in Decem-
ber, 1961, the editorial said that
“certain comrades of a fraternal
party’ energetically ‘‘peddled
the wrong idea that a world
without weapons, without armies,
without wars can be realized
while imperialism and the sys- —
tem of exploitation still exist.”

See China Page 10

Publish our statements challenge

PEKING—Red Flag, theo-
retical organ of the Commun-
‘ist Party of China, published
an article of 100,000 charact-
ers in its March 4 issue titled,
“More on the Differences Be-
tween Comrade Togliatti and
Us — Some Important Prob-
lems of Leninism in the Con-
temporary World.”

Written by the magazine’s
editors, the booklength pole-
mic deals exhaustively with
such subjects as: The Nature

. of the Great Debate Among

Communists; Contradictions
in the Contemporary -World;

War and Peace.

The introduction says.
“Togliatti and the other com-
rades are bent on continuing
the public debate. Well then,
let it continue!”

Remnin Ribao, the Com-
munist Party newspaper, is

-reprinting the entire article

in four instalments. Red Flag
challenges other’ parties to al-
so print it in full, in these
words: ;
~“Something very interest-
ing has been happening on a
wide scale in the international
Communist movement today.
What is the interesting phen-
omenon? The doughty war-
riors who claim to possess the
totality of Marxist-Leninist
truth are mortally afraid of
articles which the so-called
dogmatists, sectarians, split-
ters, nationalists and Trots-
kyites they so energetically
condemn, are writing in re-
ply to their attacks.

“They dare not publish
these articles in their own
newspapers and journals. Co-
wardly as mice, they are
scared to death. They dare
not to let the people of their
own countries see our articles
for themselves and have en-

_deavored to impose a water-

tight embargo. They are even.
using a, powerful station to.

jam our’ broadcasts and pre- -

vent people from -Tistening.

‘Dear friends and com-
rades who claim to possess
the whole truth! Since you are
quite definite that our articles
are wrong, why do you not
publish all» these erroneous
articles and then refute them

_judge who is right and who is

‘selves. : :
‘Ts this not fair and reason-
able?
“You, modern revisionist

Please answer!”

advanced in previous Chinese’

“that the forces of the interna-

point by point, so that the —

people in your conutries will
come to abhor the heresy —
which you call dogmatism,

sectarianism and anti-Marx-

ism-Leninism? Why have you

not the courage to do this?

Why such a stringent em-

bargo? 2

“You fear the truth. The
huge spectre of inner ‘dogma-
tism’, that is, of genuine Marx-
ism-Leninism, is haunting the
world, and it threatens you.
You have no faith in the
people and the people have
no faith in you. You are di-
vorced from the masses. That
is why you are afraid of the
truth, and go to such absurd |
lengths.

“Friends, comrades, if you
are men enough, step forward, -
let each side in the debate -
publish all the articles in
which it is criticized by the
other side and let the people
in our own countries and the
whole world figure out and —

wrong. «

“That is what we are do-
ing, and we hope you will fol-
low our example. We are not
afraid to publish everything
of yours in full. We publish
all the masterpieces in which
you rail at us. Then in reply,
we either answer them point
by point, or we answer the
main points. Sometimes we
publish your articles without
any answer, leaving it to the
readers to judge for them-

masters! Do you dare to do
the same? If you are ‘men
enough, you will. But having
a guilty conscience and an un-
just case, being fierce of vis-
age but faint of heart, out-
wardly as timid as mice, you
will not dare. We know you
will not dare. Is this not so?

The Red Flag article covers
in greater detail arguments’

editorials and statements and
ends by saying, ‘‘We believe

tional Communist movement.
must unite, and they will cer-
tainly unite.” epi