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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