e Party must not and will now retreat a step or even timetre in the defense of m-Leninism,” states an 1 appearing in Rude Pra- ‘organ of the Czechoslovak ymmunist Party. editorial on the results of je April plenary meeting criti- the “deformation of the e of post-January policy” its “depreciation” which place because “we were not to face up to such attacks etically and with complete jiveness”, and appeals for need “to draw conclusions the tragic consequences the deformations brought the Action Program, jopted by the Central Commit- of the Communist Party of oslovakia on April 1, 1968, Party unambiguously de- d itself for the important d pressing task of transform- g an unsatisfactory system of an ement marked by strong nents of bureaucratic cen- m, which had become a 2 on social development. “The thing was that the prin- of democratic centralism ld finally be valid and the ty of the Party, about e leading role there can be ‘doubt in any socialist system, d be strengthened. "The changes were to have n based on the consistent re- for our internal conditions, the specific features of our tions, while at the same strengthening our interna- relations. 'e wanted to continue mak- efforts for a positive evalua- of the general experiences ® construction of socialism Other countries, especially in | Soviet Union, and develop- the generally valid teachings “The Central Committee of ‘Communist Party of Czecho- kia stressed to all its mem- and the whole people its Stand: we do not want to e the political conception, ‘do not want to change the continue to be the imple- ation of post-January -pol- Contained in Party docu- : ,» particularly the Novem- Der resolution.” was said by Karel Pola- Chairman of the Central il of the Czechoslovak lutionary Trade Union vement, in an interview. m of the same opinion as ent Svoboda, that the con- mces of incorrect acts by individuals and groups it be allowed to fall on the of honest people, includ- “the overwhelming majority honest journalists, cultural ientific workers, the intel- a, trade unionists or I am not for universal ions. I am also. not for a g accusation of all pub- of Marxism-Leninism,” the edi- torial says and rejects the view published a year ago in the writ- ers weekly Literarni Listy (No. 8, 1968) that it was a matter of a “solidly based rational seek- ing and proposing of complex in- Stitutional bases of an entirely new model of Czechoslovak democratic socialism.” The Action Program of the CPCz “urged the creative inten- sive seeking of new ways, new forms of political leadership and management of society that would be aimed towards releas- ing the initiative of the people, awakening their interest and profounder democratism” and “in no case followed the goal of abolishing present institu- tional bases of society and cre- ating an entirely new model of a ‘Czechoslovak and democratic socialism’. “The ideas of the Action Pro- gram were based on the unity of national specific features and internationalism and were to have strengthened this unity. “The conception connected with the slogan of creating ‘an entirely new model of Czecho- slovak democratic socialism’ aimed ultimately at upsetting this unity and strengthening nat- ionalism. Historically, the slogan ‘democratic socialism’ is insep- arably connected with a right- wing denial of the Marxist- Leninist conception of socialist ‘power as a class power, as a power of the working class, and it was. always used for attacks on the Soviet Union. “The fact that an over-all negation of post - revolutionary past, however open or concealed, was connected ever more fre- quently with expressions that finally culminated in an anti- Soviet campaign, belongs to the tragic side of post - January development.” licists. However, the fact re- mains that some forces, by their propaganda and incorrect slo- gans, have disturbed ideological unity, weakened socialist ideas, the leading role of the Party and friendship with the _ socialist countries. “The Party does not intend to allow a return to the fifties, it will not allow a repetition of the methods which weakened the Party in the past. Adherence to socialist lawfulness and the con- sistent respecting of our laws continues to be a firm social principle. “The aim of the measures adopted is to get rid of the un- certainty and crises in the life of our people, to strengthen the people’s confidence in the Party and socialist state, to lead the country to further prosperity. “For this, however, it is not necessary to change markedly the approach to this line, to its implementation. “We must count on the fact that some members of the Revo- lutionary TU Movement will ask Crechoslovak Party will defend Marxism-Leninism On the basis of this evalua- tion, the editorial then draws conclusions from the last plen- ary meeting of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia: to purge the concept of post-January policy of conceptions that have nothing in common with the ideas of the Action Program and the princi- ples incorporated in the Novem- ber resolution (from the Novem- ber plenary meeting of the Cen- tral Committee in 1968), in which the critical experience of post-January development is re- flected. “We base our policy consis- tently on Marxism-Leninism, on the basis of proletarian inter- nationalism. “These principles are abso- lutely incompatible with any ex- pressions of anti-Sovietism which has become the ideology of the anti-socialist forces and the forces of opposition to the Party. “Liberalism, which appears tolerant and coincides with the demands of democratism, is im- permissible, incompatible with Marxism-Leninism. “Democracy as conceived by anarchists, practiced by those who wrongly refer to the values of post-January policy, has shown its limits very closely. It has been shown that at present it is the greatest threat to post- January policy, that it is the ideological weapon of people who are indifferent to the basic demands of the workers, farm- ers and a large part of the intel- ligentsia, that it is thus a dan- ger to socialist democracy which we shall always understand as an order of lawfulness,” the edi- torial writes and appeals to the “conscious discipline of com- munists and all honest citizens who think socialistically”. Decisions of CPCz aid 0 new trade union policy whether the measures adopted are in harmony with the line of the trade unions ... If we sum up the content of the new trade union policy we see that it rests on four main props: 1. Primarily on unity; 2. On the implementa- tion of the leading role of the CPCz in society; 3. On ensuring and developing socialist achieve- ments, civil freedom, social and legal certainty; 4. On interna- tional cooperation. “In the critical periods of last and this year we made it quite clear that we shall not allow ourselves to be diverted from the consistent implementation of the new trade union program. The measures of the Party Cen- tral Committee do not demand such a thing from us, on the contrary they create the precon- dition for consistent implemen- tation of the new trade union policy. We thus have every rea- son not only for agreeing with the conclusions of the plenary meeting of the CPCz Central Committee, but also for actively helping in their implementation.” Rejoicing peoples in Moscow May Day May Day in Moscow this year set a precedent —for the first time the military did not take part. “The CPSU Central Commit- tee and the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. have found it expedient to hold, beginning with this year, parades of Soviet troops only on November 7th marking the Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolu- tion,” said a Tass statement issued three days before May Day. Heroes of Labor, represen- tatives of Moscow’s working class and intelligentsia, opened the procession in Red Square following a short speech by Leonid Brezhnev, general secre- tary of the CPSU Central Com- mittee. Brezhnev said that a new five-year plan is being drawn up. He greeted the peoples fighting for liberation from national op- pression and said the Soviet people will always support such struggles. “The patriots fighting against imperialist aggressors in South Vietnam are well aware of this. This is also known by the Arab peoples fighting against imper- ialism for their sovereign rights, by the men of the liberation armies in Angola and Mozam- bique, by the peoples which have overthrown the yoke of colonial- ists and have embarked on the road of independent develop- ment. The Soviet people will always be a true friend of op- pressed peoples.” Brezhnev reiterated the Len- inist principle of the peaceful coexistence of states with dif- ferent social systems and called for the solution of unsettled in- ternational questions by way of talks. Referring to the coming inter- national conference of Commu- nists, he said that the “CPSU would do everything within its power for this conference to pass successfully and become a new important milestone in the common struggle against im- perialism, for peace, democracy, national liberation and social- ism.” Red Square was gaily deco- rated with national flags of 15 Soviet Republics. On the stand of the Lenin Mausoleum Soviet leaders Brezhnev, Kosygin, Pod- gorny and others watched the procession of hundreds of thou- sands of workers. Guests of honor from 70 coun- tries, including many trade union groups, packed the stands on both sides of the Mausoleum. Keynote of the tremedous four-hour demonstration was the idea of solidarity of the work- ing people in the struggle for a better world. 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