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Read m also all agreed on the
Mak, Coordinated action to
Petialism, Struggle against im-
mperjay? Petticularly American

to counten more effective and

a European Secur-

a its global strategy.”
Mnanime Shtan said, “There was
Appeal US agreement on The

the Vietnamese people

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With Leonid Brezhnev, first secretary of the

for World Peace; in sup--

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of the People’s Revolutionary
Government which. has been

established and which marks a.

new stage of struggle by the
Vietnamese people against U.S.
aggression.

“There was also unanimous
agreement on the commemora-
tion of the Lenin Centenary,”
he ‘said, “and, not least, every
delegation which participated in

_the conference expressed in dif-

ferent ways a criticism of the
Maoist provocative actions on
the Chinese-Soviet border and
the splitting policies pursued by
the Maoists against the world

movement. . /
“In short,” Mr. Kashtan con-

tinued, “the Conference agreed ©

on a strategy of unity as the
most efiective means through
which to counter the global
strategy of imperialism, to
check and defeat it and to
create the conditions for a new
stage of advance in the strug-
gle for peace, independence,
democracy and socialism.
“Some parties have reserva-
tions on some questions,” he
said. “The Italian and Austral-
ian parties signed the third sec-
tion having to do with a com-
mon program of action against
imperialism. The British and
Norwegian parties declared that
the final decision rested with
their central committees. Some
parties, like the Party of Labor
of Switzerland and the Com-

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William Kashtan; Sam
tive Secretary of the Communist Party are shown chat-

CPSU. at the Conference.

William ceshion)

speaking at a press conference at

munist Party of Spain, had some
reservations on some formula-
tions in the main document, but
they signed it.

“Thus the efforts of the cap-
italist press to make a big to-do
about disunity disterts the Con-
ference and slurs the fact that
the overwhelming majority of
Communist and Workers’ Par-
ties signed the main document
as an effective weapon against
imperialism.

“This is not to deny,” he went
on, ‘that some of the questions
raised in the debate will require
continued discussion by all
Communist and Workers’ Par-
ties. The proposal of Leonid
Brezhnev from the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union for
the organization of internation-
al theoretical conferences and

seminars will go a long way to- .

wards coming to grips with

eet Fe Eas. Ps ea!

Walsh, President of the Parti

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head of the Canadian delegation to the World Cornarence

the press centre in Moscow. ‘

questions and help to cement
the unity of the Communist
movement throughout the
world.

“The important point here,”
Mr. Kashtan stressed, “is the
fact that the majority of the
parties at the Conference focus-
ed on the main questions and
did not allow secondary matters
to get in the way.”

Turning to the events in
Czechoslovakia, he said that
“the capitalist press hoped this
would be the. source of disunity
at the Conference. It did not
happen however. 5

“The contribution of the
Czechoslovak delegation headed
by Gustav Husak was particu-
larly helpful in this regard. They
had insisted at the beginning of
the Conference that the Czecho-
slovak situation not be debated,
that this was an internal matter
for themselves. Some delegates
however ignored this request
and dealt, with these events in
the course of their remarks.
When the Czechoslovak dele-
gates spoke they deplored this

and outlined the ‘political devel- °

opments that had taken shape
in Czechoslovakia in a way that
made clear that the danger of
counter-revolution existed, that
the party unfortunately was div-
ided and therefore unable to
deal with the dangers that had
developed. That contribution
was particularly useful to re-
emphasize points made by many
of the delegates of the danger of
revisionism and opportunism of
a right character.

“The conference had no se-

crets,” Mr. Kashtan emphasized.’ ~

“Debate was sharp and speeches
of all delegates were published
in the Soviet press and made
available to the representatives
of the world press covering the
Conference in Moscow.

_ “Press conferences were held
continually so that the press
would have access to the mater-
ials of the conference. This cut
the ground from under the cap-
italist press which was looking

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for sensational news. At the
same time it made it possible
for Soviet citizens to be fully
aware of the various points of
view being advanced in the de-
bate and the stands of different
parties on the main questions
being considered.

“It also,” Mr. Kashtan noted,
“destroyed the argument of the
capitalist press that the Soviet
leaders are afraid of their own
people. The reaction of the
Soviet citizens showed a high
degree of political conscious-
ness and awareness of the is-
sues being debated.

“It can be said therefore, that
in the balance, the main feature
of this Conference was the
growing trend towards unity as
against diffusion in the Com-
munist movement, and that the
Maoists’
defeat.

“There is no doubt that the
outcome of the Conference will
lead to the achievement that it
set for itself; strengthened unity
of the Communist and Workers’
Parties and stepping up the
struggle against imperialism. In
this connection there was un-
animous agreement for conven-
ing a world anti-imperialist con-
ference at a future date.

““For progressive forces in
Canada,” the Communist leader
concluded, “the International
Conference is of major signifi-
cance. The sharper the struggle
against imperialism the stronger
will become the forces for
peace, Canadian independence/
democracy and socialism in
Canada.

“The Communist Party of
Canada will be devoting con-
siderable attention and study to
all the documents agreed to by
the International Conference
which coincide closely with the
positions advanced by our 20th
convention. All these docu-
ments and contributions will be
printed and should, we hope, be
carefully studied by those con-
cerned. with the future of
Canada.” _

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