RESOLUTIONS
OF THE INFORMATION BUREAU OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’ PARTIES
(During the second half
of November, a meeting of the Information Bureau was held in Hungary attended by
the following representatives.
From the
Communist Party of Bulgaria: Comrades V. Tchervenkov, V. Poptomov; Rumanian
Workers’ Party: Comrades Gh. Gheorghiu-Dej, J. Chishinevschi, A. Moghoros;
Hungarian Workers Party: Comrades M. Rakosi, A. Gero, J. Revai, J. Kadar; United Workers' Party of
Poland: Comrades J. Berman, A. Zawadski; Communist Party of the
Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Comrades M. Suslov, P. Yudin; Communist Party of
France: Comrades J. Duclos, E. Fajon, G. Cogniot; Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia: Comrades R. Slansky, S. Bastovansky, L. Kopriva, B.
Geminder; Com monist Party of
Italy: Comrades P. Togliatti, E. d'Onofrio, A. Cicalini; The meeting
heard the following reports: Comrade M. Suslov-“Defence of peace and
the struggle against the warmongers”; Comrade P. Togliatti-“Working
class unity and the tasks of the Communist and Workers’ Parties”; Comrade
Gh. Gheorghiu-Dej-“The Yugoslav Communist Party in the power of murderers
and spies”.
Having
exchanged opinions on these reports, the delegates reached complete agreement of
views and unanimously adopted corresponding resolutions.)
1. Defence of Peace and Struggle against
Warmongers
HAVING
discussed the defence of peace and the struggle against the warmongers, the
representatives of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, the Rumanian Workers’
Party, Hungarian Workers’ Party, Polish United Workers’ Party, Communist
Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), French Communist Party, Italian
Communist Party and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia unanimously reached
the following conclusions:
The events
of the past two years fully confirm the correctness of the analysis of the
international situation given by the first meeting of the Information Bureau of
the Communist and Workers’ Parties in September 1947.
During this
period two lines of world policy took shape even more clearly and sharply:-the
line of the democratic anti-imperialist camp headed by the U.S.S.R., the camp
waging a persistent and consistent struggle for peace between peoples and for
democracy; and the line of the imperialist, anti-democratic, camp headed by the
U.S. ruling circles, the camp whose main object is forcibly to establish Anglo-American
world domination, to enslave other countries and peoples; to destroy democracy
and to unleash a new war.
Moreover;
the aggressive character of the imperialist camp continues to grow. The ruling
circles of the United States and Britain openly pursue a policy of aggression
and preparation for a
new war.
In the
struggle against the camp of imperialism and war, the force of peace, democracy
and Socialism have grown in number and strength.
The further
growth of the might of the Soviet Union; the political and economic
consolidation of the People’s Democracies and the fact that they have taken
the path of building Socialism; the historical victory of the Chinese people’s
revolution over the combined forces of home reaction and U.S. imperialism; the
formation of the German Democratic Republic; the consolidation of the Communist
Parties; the growth of the democratic movement in capitalist countries and the
tremendous scale of the movement of the partisans of peace -all these signify a
considerable extension and consolidation
of the anti-imperialist, demo critic camp.
At the same
time the imperialist, anti-democratic camp grows weaker. The successes of the
forces of democracy and Socialism, the maturing economic crisis, further
sharpening of the general crisis of capitalism, the sharpening of the external
contradictions of this system are all evidence of the increasing weakening of
imperialism.
The change
in the correlation of forces in the international arena in favour of the camp pf
peace and democracy evokes fierce anger and rage among the imperialist war
mongers.
The
Anglo-American imperialists hope, by means of war, to change the course of
historical development; to solve their external and internal contradictions and
difficulties; to consolidate the position of monopoly capital and to gain world
domination.
Aware
of the fact that time works against them the imperialists feverishly and
hastily hatch various blocs and alliances of reactionary forces to realise their
aggressive plan.
The
entire policy of the Anglo-American imperialist bloc serves the aim of preparing
a new war. It finds expression in frustrating a peaceful settlement of relations
with Germany and Japan; in completing the dismemberment of Germany; in
turning the Western zones of Germany and also Japan occupied by U.S. troops into
centres of fascism, revenge and springboards for the realisation of the aggressive
plans of this bloc.
At
the service of this policy is the onerous Marshall Plan and its direct
continuation -Western Union and the North Atlantic Military Bloc aimed against
all peace-loving peoples; the unrestrained armament race in the United States
and West-European countries; the swelling of military budgets and the extension
of the network of American military bases.
This
policy also finds expression in the refusal of the Anglo-American bloc to
prohibit the atomic weapon despite the fiasco of the myth of U.S. atomic
monopoly, and in whipping up war hysteria by all means.
This policy
determines the entire line of the Anglo-American bloc in the United Nations
Organisation, a line aimed at undermining UNO and making it a weapon of U.S.
monopolies.
The policy of unleashing a new war by the imperialists found expression
also in the conspiracy exposed at the Rajk-Brankov trial in Budapest, the
conspiracy organised by Anglo-American circles against the People’s
Democracies and the Soviet Union with the help of the fascist, nationalist, Tito
clique which has become an agency of international imperialist reaction.
The policy of preparing a new war means, for the mass of the people in
the capitalist countries, the continuous growth of an unbearable tax burden, the
growth of poverty of the working people alongside a fantastic growth in the
super-profits of the monopolies which wax rich from the armament race.
The growing economic crisis firings even greater poverty, unemployment,
starvation and fear of the morrow to working people in the capitalist countries.
At the same time the policy of war preparations is bound up with
continuous encroachments of ruling imperialist circles on the elementary
rights and democratic liberties of the mass of the people; with increased
reaction in all spheres of public, political and ideological life; with the application
of fascist methods of reprisals in relation to progressive and democratic forces
of the peoples.
By these measures the imperialist bourgeoisie seek to prepare the rear
for a predatory war.
Thus, similar to the fascist aggressors, the Anglo-American bloc
prepares a new war in all directions:-military-strategical measures, political
pressure and blackmail, economic expansion and enslavement of peoples,
ideological stupifying of the masses and intensified reaction.
The U.S.
imperialist chiefs draw up their plans of unleashing a new world war and of
gaining world domination without taking into account the real correlation of
forces between the camp of imperialism and the camp of Socialism.
Their
plans for world domination are even more groundless and adventurous than those
or the Hitlerites and the Japanese imperialists.
The U.S.
imperialists obviously overestimate their strength and underestimate the growing
power and organisation of the anti-imperialist camp.
The
present historical situation differs radically from the situation in which World
War Two was prepared. Under the present international conditions it is
incomparably more difficult for the warmongers to realise their sanguinary
designs.
“The horrors of the recent war are too fresh in the minds of the people,
and the social forces standing for peace are too great for the Churchill
disciples of aggression to overcome them and turn them towards a new war.” (J.
Stalin)
Peoples do not want war and hate it. They are increasingly realising
into what a horrible abyss the imperialists try to plunge them.
The tireless struggle of the Soviet Union, the People’s Democracies and
the international working class and democratic movements for peace, freedom and
independence of the peoples and against the instigators of war, meets daily with
increasingly powerful support from the broadest strata of the population in all
countries throughout the world.
Hence, the
development of a mighty movement of the partisans of peace. This movement,
rallying in its ranks over 600 million people, is growing and extending,
embracing all countries of the world and drawing into its ranks ever new
fighters against the menace of war.
The
movement of the partisans of peace shows clearly that the masses of the people
are taking the work of defending peace into their own hands, thus demonstrating
their unbending will to uphold the cause of peace and prevent war.
However
it would be erroneous and harmful for the cause of peace to underestimate the
danger of the new war now being prepared by imperialist Powers headed by the
United States of America and Britain.
The
enormous growth of the forces in the camp of democracy and Socialism, should not
give rise to any complacency in the ranks of genuine champions of peace.
It would be a profound and unforgivable delusion to think the danger of
war has diminished.
Historical experience teaches that the more hopeless things are for
imperialist reaction, the more it rages and the greater danger of military
adventures.
Only the greatest vigilance of the peoples, and their firm
determination actively to fight by all means and ways for peace will secure the
failure of the criminal designs of the instigators of a new war.
Under the conditions of the growing danger of a new war the
Communist and Workers’ Parties bear a great historical responsibility.
The struggle for a stable and lasting peace, for the organisation
and consolidation of the forces of peace against the forces of war should now
become the pivot of the activity of the Communist Parties and democratic
organisations.
To carry out the great and noble task of saving mankind from the
danger of a new war, representatives of the Communist and Workers’ Parties
see the following as their vital tasks:
1. To work even more persistently to consolidate organisationally
and extend the movement of the partisans of peace, drawing new sections of the
population into this movement and making it universal.
Particular attention should be devoted to drawing into this movement
trade unions, women’s, youth, cooperative sports, cultural, educational,
religious and other organisations, and also scientists, writers, journalists,
cultural workers, parliamentary and other political and public leaders who act
in defence of peace and against war.
Today the task of rallying all genuine peace supporters, regardless
of religious beliefs, political views and party affiliations on the broadest
platforms in the struggle for peace and against the danger of a new war
threatening mankind arises with particular urgency.
2.
Of decisive significance for the further development of the movement of the
partisans of peace is the ever more active participation of the working class in
the movement, its consolidation and the unity of its ranks.
Therefore
the paramount tasks of the Communist and Workers’ Parties is to draw the
broadest sections of the working class into the ranks of the fighters for
peace; secure firm working class unity, to organise joint action of various sections
of the proletariat on the basis of a common struggle for peace and for the
national independence of their countries.
3.
Working class unity can be won only in a resolute struggle against Right-wing
Socialist disruptors and disorganisers of the working class movement.
Right-wing
Socialists like Bevin, Attlee, Blum, Guy Mollet, Spaak, Schumacher, Renner,
Saragat, and reactionary trade union leaders like Green, Carey and Deakin
carrying out a splitting anti-popular policy are the main enemies of the unity
of the working class; they are accomplices of the warmongers and servants of
imperialism who cover their treachery with pseudo-Socialist, cosmopolitan phrase-mongering.
While
tirelessly fighting for peace, the Communist and Workers’ Parties must daily
expose the Right-wing Socialist chieftains as the worst enemies of peace.
It is
necessary to develop and consolidate in every way cooperation and united action
with basic organisations and with rank and file members of Socialist Parties; to
support all genuinely honest elements in the ranks of these parties explaining
to them the disastrous nature of the policy pursued by reactionary Right-wing
leaders.
4.
Communist and Workers’ Parties should contrast the misanthropic propaganda of
the aggressors striving to turn Europe and Asia into a sanguinary field of war
with the broadest propaganda of a stable and lasting peace between the peoples.
They
should ceaselessly expose aggressive blocs and military-political alliances (especially
Western Union and the North-Atlantic bloc); they should also explain that a new
war would bring untold disasters and colossal destruction to the peoples and
that the struggle against war and for the defence of peace is the cause of- all
peoples in the world.
It
is necessary to ensure that war propaganda and the preaching of race hatred and
enmity between peoples made by agents of Anglo-American imperialism should meet
with sharp condemnation by all sections of democratic public opinion in every
country.
It
is necessary also to secure that not a single statement by propagandists of a
new war should be left unanswered by genuine supporters of peace.
5.
New and effective forms of mass struggle for peace must be widely applied-forms
which have completely justified themselves, such as peace committees in town
and countryside, the signing of petitions and protests, the questionnaire
widely used in France and Italy.
The
publication and circulation of literature exposing war preparations; the
collection of funds for the struggle for peace; the boycott of films, newspapers,
books, journals, broadcasting companies, institutions and leaders propagating a
new war-all these are vital tasks for the Communist and Workers’ Parties.
6. Communist and working class Parties in capitalist countries consider
it their duty to merge the struggle for national independence with that for
peace, tirelessly exposing the anti-national treacherous nature of the policy
of bourgeois governments which have become direct lieutenants of aggressive U.S.
imperialism to rally and consolidate all democratic patriotic forces of the
country around slogans of ending the shameful bondage expressing itself in
servile subordination to U.S. monopolies and of returning to an independent
foreign and home policy corresponding to the national interests of the peoples.
It is necessary to unite the broadest masses of the people in the
capitalist countries to defend democratic rights and liberties, tirelessly
explaining to them that the defence of peace is indissolubly linked with the
defence of the vital interests of the working class and the working people; with
the defence of their economic and political rights.
Important
tasks confront the Communist Parties of France, Italy, Britain, Western Germany
and other countries whose peoples the U.S. imperialists want to use as cannon
fodder in realising their aggressive plans.
Their duty is to unfold with even greater energy the struggle for peace
to frustrate designs of the Anglo-American warmongers.
7. Alongside the exposure of the imperialist warmongers and their
accomplices, the Communist and Workers’ Parties in the People’s Democracies
and the Soviet Union face the task of further consolidating the camp of peace
and Socialism in the cause of defending peace and the security of peoples.
8. A considerable role in the realisation of their aggressive plans,
particularly in Central and South-East Europe is assigned by Anglo-American
imperialists to the nationalist Tito clique which is in the espionage service of
the imperialists.
The tasks of defending peace and of combating the war-mongers,
demands the further exposure of this clique which has deserted to the camp of
the inveterate enemies of peace, democracy and Socialism, to the camp of
imperialism and fascism.
For
the first time in the history of mankind an organised peace front has appeared,
headed by the Soviet Union, the bulwark and standard-bearer of peace throughout
the world.
Reaching
out to ever wider masses of the people in the capitalist countries is the
courageous call of the Communist Parties declaring that the peoples will never
go to war against the first Socialist country in the world; against the Soviet
Union.
During the war against fascism the Communist Parties were in the van of
the popular resistance struggle against the invaders; in the postwar years the
Communist and Workers’ Parties are the front rank fighters for the vital
interests of their peoples against a new war.
Rallied
under the leadership of the working class, all opponents of another war -people
of labour, science and culture- are forming a powerful peace front capable of
frustrating the criminal designs of the imperialists.
Upon the energy and initiative of the Communist Parties depends largely
the outcome of the ever-extending titanic struggle far peace; on Communists, as
vanguard fighters, depends above all, the transforming of this possibility of
frustrating the plans of the warmongers into reality.
The forces of democracy and the partisans of peace are greatly superior
to the forces of reaction.
The job is now to raise to higher levels the vigilance of the peoples in
relation to the instigators of war; to organise and rally the broad masses of
the people for active defence of the cause of peace for the sake of the vital
interests of the peoples, for life and liberty.
2.
Working Class Unity and Tasks of
Communist
& Workers’ Parties
THE preparations far a new war carried out by the Anglo-American
imperialists, the crusade of bourgeois reaction against the democratic rights
and the economic interests of the working class and the mass of the people call
for intensified struggle of the working class to maintain and consolidate peace
and to organise a resolute rebuff to the warmongers and the onslaught of
imperialist reaction.
Unity in the ranks of the working class is a guarantee of success in this
struggle.
Postwar experience shows that the policy of splitting the working class
movement forms one of the priorities in the arsenal of tactics applied by
imperialists to unleash a new war; to suppress the forces of democracy and
Socialism and drastically to reduce the living standards of the mass of the
people.
Never
before in the history of the international working class movement has, the unity
of the working class, both within individual countries and on a world scale,
been of such decisive significance as at the present time.
Unity of the
working class is essential to safeguard peace; to frustrate the criminal designs
of the warmongers; to foil the conspiracy of the imperialists against democracy
and Socialism; to prevent the establishment of fascist methods of domination;
resolutely to rebuff the crusade of monopoly capital against the vital interests
of the working ~lass and to secure an improvement in the economic conditions
of the working masses.
The
realisation of these tasks can be achieved, above all, on the basis of rallying
the broad mass of the working class, irrespective of party' affiliation, trade
union organisation or religious convictions.
. Unity from
below - such is the most effective way to consolidate all forces of the workers
to defend peace and the national independence of their countries and to defend
the economic interests and democratic rights of all working people.
Working class
unity is attainable despite the opposition of the leading centres of those trade
unions and parties headed by splitters and the enemies of unity.
The postwar period has been marked with big successes in eliminating the
split in the working class, and in rallying the general democratic forces;
successes which were expressed in the formation of the World Federation of
Trade Unions, the International Federation of Democratic Women, the World
Federation of Democratic Youth and in the convening of the World Peace Congress.
Unity
successes find expression in a consolidated C.G.T. in France, in the creation of
a united trade union federation in Italy (C.G.T. of I.) and in the militant
actions of the French and Italian proletariat.
In the
People’s Democracies historical successes in working class unity have also
been won: united working class parties, united trade unions, united cooperatives,
youth, women’s and other organisations have been established.
This
working class unity has played a decisive role in the successes achieved in the
economic and cultural advance in the People’s Democracies; in securing the
leading role of the working class in the State and in a radical improvement in
the material welfare of the working masses.
All
this shows the tremendous desire of the working people to consolidate their
ranks and shows the real possibility of creating a united working class front
against the combined forces of reaction-from the U.S. imperialists to the Right-wing
Socialists.
U.S.
and British imperialists and their satellites in European countries strive to
split and disorganise the proletarian and the people’s forces generally,
pinning especial hopes on the Right-wing Socialists and reactionary trade union
leaders.
On
the direct orders of U.S. and British imperialists, the Right-wing Socialist and
reactionary trade union leaders split the ranks of the working class movement
from above, seeking to destroy united working class organisations created in the
postwar period.
They
tried to destroy the World Federation of Trade Unions from within; they
organised splinter groups such as “Force Ouvriere” in France and the so-called
Labour Federation in Italy, and they now try to prepare the formation of a
disruptive international trade union body.
Similar
attempts to split the workers were also made by leaders of Catholic
organisations in individual countries.
The
characterisation of the treacherous activity of the Right-wing Socialist leaders
as that of most rabid enemies of working class unity and accomplices of
imperialism-a characterisation made at the first meeting of the Information
Bureau of the Communist Parties-has been fully confirmed.
Today
the Right-wing Socialists appear not only as the agents of the bourgeoisie of
their own countries, but also as agents of U.S. imperialism, turning the Social
Democratic parties of European countries into American parties and into direct
weapons of U.S. imperialist aggression.
In
those countries where Right-wing Socialists are in the Government (Britain,
France, Austria and the Scandinavian countries), they emerge as ardent
champions of the “Marshall Plan”, “Western Union”, the “North Atlantic
Agreement” and of all other forms of U.S. expansion.
These
pseudo-Socialists perform a foul role in persecuting the working class and
democratic organisations which defend the interests of the working people.
Sliding
further down the path of betrayal of the interests of the working class,
democracy and Socialism, and having completely abandoned the Marxist doctrine,
these Right-wing Socialists today appear as champions and advocates of the
predatory ideology of U.S. imperialism.
Their theories
of “Democratic Socialism” and of the “Third Force”, their cosmopolitan
ravings of the need to give up national sovereignty are nothing but an
ideological cover for the aggression of U.S. and British imperialism.
The so-called
Committee of International Socialist Conferences (COMISCO)-miserable offspring
of the Second International which rotted alive -has become a rallying point for
the most rabid disrupters and disorganisers of the working class movement. This
organisation has become an espionage centre in the service of the British and
U.S. intelligence services.
The unity of
the working class can only be won in a resolute struggle against these Right-wing
Socialist disruptors and disorganisers of the working class movement.
II
THE
Information Bureau regards as the cardinal task of the Communist Parties a
tireless struggle to unite and organise all forces of the working class in order
to render a powerful rebuff to the insolent claims of Anglo-American imperialism
to frustrate its calculations on a new world war; to safeguard and consolidate
the cause of peace and international security, to doom to failure the onslaught
of monopoly capital on the living standards of the working masses.
In the present
international situation it is the duty of the Communist Parties to explain that
if the working class does not secure unity in its ranks it will deprive itself
of the most important weapon in the struggle against the growing danger of a
new world war and against the onslaught of imperialist reaction on the living
standards of the working people.
While waging
an irreconcilable and consistent struggle in theory and practice against the
Right-wing Socialists and reactionary trade union leaders; and while ruthlessly
exposing them and isolating them from the masses, the Communists must
patiently and persistently explain to the rank and file Social Democratic
workers the entire significance of the cause of working class unity; draw them
into an active struggle for peace, bread, and democratic liberties and pursue
a policy _of joint action to achieve these aims.
A
well-tried method to effect the unity of the working class is the unity in
action of its various detachments to co-ordinate joint actions at individual
enterprises, in whole branches of industry, on a town, district, national and
international scale; mobilise the broadest masses to fight for their immediate
and most easily understood demands and thus help establish permanent unity in
the ranks of the proletariat.
Working
class unified action from below may find expression in the establishment of
peace committees in factories and offices; in the organisation of mass
demonstrations against the warmongers; in joint actions of workers to defend
democratic rights and improve their economic conditions.
Particular
attention in the struggle for working class unity should be devoted to the mass
of Catholic workers and working people generally and to their organisations.
When
doing this it should be borne in mind that religious convictions are not an
obstacle to unity of the working people, especially when this unity is needed to
save peace.
Concrete
joint actions in the sphere of economic demands and the coordination of the
struggle by class trade unions and Catholic trade unions, etc. can provide
effective means of drawing Catholic workers into the general front of the
struggle for peace.
The
most important task of the Communist Parties in each capitalist country is to do
everything in their power to secure trade union unity.
It
is of great importance at present to draw workers who are not professionally
organised into trade unions and into active struggle. In capitalist countries
such workers constitute a considerable section of the proletariat.
If
the Communist Parties get down to real work among the non-organised workers they
will secure great successes in achieving working class unity.
The
information Bureau is of the opinion that on the basis of working class unity it
is essential to achieve national unity of all democratic forces, to mobilise the
broad masses of the people for the struggle against Anglo-American imperialism
and reaction at home.
Of
extreme importance is the day-to-day work in the mass organisations of the
working people; women’s, youth, peasant co-operative, and other bodies.
The
unity of the working class movement and the consolidation of all democratic
forces is essential not only to solve the daily tasks of the working class and
of the working people; it is essential also to solve the cardinal issues
confronting the proletariat as a class leading the struggle to abolish the power
of monopoly capital, and to reorganise society along Socialist lines.
On
the basis of successes achieved in creating unity in the ranks of the working
class movement, and in the consolidation of all democratic forces, it will
become possible to develop the struggle in the capitalist countries for the
formation of governments which would rally all the patriotic forces opposing
the enslavement of their countries by U.S. imperialism; governments which
would adopt a policy of a stable peace between the peoples, put an end to the
armament race and raise the living standards of the working people.
In
the People’s Democracies the task of the Communist and Workers’ Parties is
to consolidate even more the working class unity which has been attained and
the unity of trade union, cooperative, women’s, youth and other organisations.
The
Information Bureau believes that further successes in the struggle for working
class unity and the consolidation of democratic forces depend, above all, on the
improvement of the entire organisational and ideological work of every Communist
and Workers’ Party.
Of outstanding significance for these Parties is the
ideological exposures and irreconcilable struggle against any manifestation of
opportunism, sectarianism, and bourgeois nationalism and the struggle against
the penetration of enemy
agents into Party ranks.
The
lessons arising from the exposures of the Tito-Rankovic espionage clique
urgently demand that the Communist and Workers’ Parties should heighten
revolutionary vigilance to the maximum.
The
agents of the Tito clique appear today as the most rabid disruptors in the ranks
of the working class and of the democratic movement; disruptors carrying out the
will of the U.S. imperialists.
It
is necessary, therefore, resolutely to combat the machinations of this
imperialist agency wherever it tries to be active in the working class and
democratic organisations.
The
organisational and ideological-political consolidation of the Communist and
Workers’ Parties, on the principles of Marxism-Leninism, is the most important
condition for a successful struggle of the working class, for the unity of all
its ranks, for the cause of peace, for national independence of its country, for
democracy and Socialism.
3.
Communist Party of Yugoslavia in the Power of
Murderers
and Spies
THE
Information Bureau, consisting of representatives of the Communist Party of
Bulgaria, Rumanian Workers’ Party, Working People’s Party of Hungary, United
Workers’ Party of Poland, Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks),
Communist Party of France, and the Czechoslovak and Italian Communist Parties,
having considered the question: “The Yugoslav Communist Party in the power of
murderers and spies”, unanimously reached the following conclusions:
Whereas,
in June 1948 the meeting of the Information Bureau of the Communist Parties
noted the change over of the Tito-Rankovic clique from democracy and Socialism
to bourgeois nationalism, during the period that has elapsed since the meeting
of the Information Bureau, this clique has travelled all the way from bourgeois
nationalism to fascism and outright betrayal of the national interests of
Yugoslavia.
Recent
events show that the Yugoslav Government is completely dependent on foreign
imperialist circles and has become an instrument of-their aggressive policy,
which has resulted in the liquidation of the independence of the Yugoslav
Republic.
The
Central Committee of the Party and the Government of Yugoslavia have merged
completely with the imperialist circles against the entire camp of Socialism and
democracy; against the Communist Parties of the world; against the New
Democracies and the USSR.
The
Belgrade clique of hired spies and murderers made a flagrant deal with
imperialist reaction and entered its service, as the Budapest trial of
Rajk-Brankov made perfectly clear.
This trial
showed that the present Yugoslav rulers, having fled from the camp of democracy
and Socialism to the camp of capitalism and reaction, have become direct
accomplices of the instigators of a new war, and, by their treacherous deeds,
are ingratiating themselves with the imperialists and kow-towing to them.
The
change-over of the Tito clique to fascism was not fortuitous. It was effected on
the order of their masters, the Anglo-American imperialists, whose mercenaries,
it is now clear, this clique has been for long.
The
Yugoslav traitors, obeying the will of the imperialists, undertook to form in
the People’s Democracies political gangs consisting of reactionaries,
nationalists, clerical and fascist elements and, relying on these gangs to bring
about counter-revolutionary coups in these countries, wrest them from the Soviet
Union and the entire Socialist camp and subordinate them to the forces of
imperialism.
The
Tito clique transformed Belgrade into an American centre for espionage and
anti-Communist propaganda.
When
all genuine friends of peace, democracy and Socialism see in the USSR, a
powerful fortress of Socialism, a faithful and steadfast defender of the freedom
and independence of nations and the principal bulwark of peace, the
Tito-Rankovic clique, having attained power under the mask of friendship with
the USSR, began on the orders of the Anglo-American imperialists, a campaign of
slander and provocation against the Soviet Union, utilising the most vile
calumnies borrowed from the arsenal of Hitler.
The
transformation of the Tito-Rankovic clique into a direct agency of imperialism,
and accomplices of the warmongers, culminated in the lining up of the Yugoslav
Government with the imperialist bloc at UNO, where the Kardeljs, Djilas and
Beblers, joined in a united front with American reactionaries on vital matters
of international policy.
In
the sphere of home policy, the chief outcome of the activity of the traitor
Tito-Rankovic clique is the actual liquidation of the People’s Democratic
system in Yugoslavia.
Due to the counter-revolutionary policy of the Tito-Rankovic clique
which usurped power in the Party and in the State, an anti-Communist, police
State-fascist type regime -has been installed in Yugoslavia.
The social basis of this regime consists of kulaks in the countryside and
capitalist elements in the towns.
In fact, power
in Yugoslavia is in the hands of anti-popular, reactionary elements. Active
members of the old bourgeois parties, kulaks and other enemies of People’s
Democracy, are active in central and local government bodies.
The top
fascist rulers rely on an enormously swollen military-police apparatus, with the
aid of which they oppress the peoples of Yugoslavia.
They have
turned the country into a military camp, wiped out all democratic rights of the
working people and trample on any free expression of opinion.
The Yugoslav
rulers demagogically and insolently deceive the people, alleging they are
building Socialism in Yugoslavia.
But it is
clear to every Marxist that there can be no talk of building Socialism in
Yugoslavia when the Tito clique has broken with the Soviet Union, with the
entire camp of Socialism and democracy, thereby depriving Yugoslavia of the main
bulwark for building Socialism and when it has subordinated the country
economically and politically to Anglo-American imperialists.
The State
sector in the economy of Yugoslavia has ceased to be people’s property, since
State power is in the hands of enemies of the people.
The
Tito-Rankovic clique has created wide possibilities for the penetration of
foreign capital into the economy of the country, and has placed the economy
under the control of capitalist monopolies.
Anglo-American
industrial-financial circles investing their capital in Yugoslav economy, are
transforming Yugoslavia into an agrarian-raw materials adjunct of foreign Capital.
The ever growing slavish dependence of Yugoslavia on imperialism
leads to intensified exploitation of the working class, and to a severe
worsening of its conditions.
The
policy of the Yugoslav rulers in the countryside bears a kulak-capitalistic
character.
The
compulsory pseudo cooperatives in the countryside are in the hands of kulaks and
their agencies and represent an instrument for the exploitation of wide masses
of working peasants.
The
Yugoslav hirelings of imperialism, having seized leadership of the Communist
Party of Yugoslavia, unloosed a campaign of terror against genuine Communists
loyal to the principles of Marxism and Leninism and who fight for Yugoslavia’s
independence from the imperialists.
Thousands of Yugoslav patriots, devoted to Communism, have been
expelled from the Party and incarcerated in jails and concentration camps. Many
have been tortured and killed in prison or, as was the case with the well-known
Communist, Arso Jovanovic, were dastardly assassinated.
The brutality with which staunch fighters for Communism are being
annihilated in Yugoslavia, can be compared only with the atrocities of the
Hitler fascists or the butcher Tsaldaris in Greece or Franco in Spain.
Expelling from the ranks of the Party those Communists loyal
to proletarian internationalism, annihilating them, the Yugoslav fascists opened
wide the doors of the Party to bourgeois and kulak elements.
As a result of the fascist terror of the Tito gangs against the
healthy forces in the Yugoslav Communist Party; leadership of the party is
wholly in the hands of spies and murderers, mercenaries of imperialism.
The
Communist Party of Yugoslavia has been seized by counter-revolutionary forces,
acting arbitrarily in the name of the Party. Recruiting spies and provocateurs
in the ranks of the working class parties is, as is well-known, an old method of
the bourgeoisie.
In
this way the imperialists seek to undermine the Parties from within and
subordinate them to themselves. They have succeeded in realising this aim in
Yugoslavia.
The
fascist ideology and fascist domestic policy, as well as the perfidious foreign
policy of the Tito clique, completely subordinated to the foreign imperialist
circles, have created a gulf between the espionage fascist Tito-Rankovic clique
and the vital interests of the freedom-loving peoples of Yugoslavia.
Consequently,
the anti-popular and treacherous activity of the Tito clique is encountering
ever-growing resistance from those Communists who have remained loyal to Marxism-Leninism,
and among the working class and working peasantry of Yugoslavia.
On the basis
of irrefutable facts testifying to the complete changeover of the Tito clique to
fascism and its desertion to the camp of world imperialism, the Information
Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties considers, that:
1. The
espionage group of Tito, Rankovic, Kardelj, Djilas, Pijade, Gosnjak, Maslaric,
Bebler, Mrazovic, Vukmanovic, Koca Popovic, Kidric, Neskovic, Zlatic, Velebit,
Kolishevski and others, are enemies of the working class and peasantry and
enemies of the peoples of Yugoslavia.
2. This
espionage group expresses not the will of the peoples of Yugoslavia, but the
will of the Anglo-American imperialists, and has therefore betrayed the
interests of the country and abolished the political sovereignty and economic
independence of Yugoslavia.
3.
The “Communist Party of Yugoslavia”, as at present constituted, being in the
hands of enemies of the people, murderers and spies has forfeited the right to
be called a Communist Party and is merely an apparatus for carrying
out the espionage assignments of the clique of
Tito-Kardelj-Rankovic-Djilas.
The
Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties considers therefore,
that the struggle against the Tito clique-hired spies and murderers-is the
international duty of all Communist and Workers’ Parties.
It
is the duty of Communist and Workers’ Parties to give all possible aid to
the Yugoslav working class and working peasantry who are fighting for the return
of Yugoslavia to the camp of democracy and Socialism.
A necessary
condition for the return of Yugoslavia to the Socialist camp is
active struggle on the part of revolutionary elements both inside the
Yugoslav Communist Party and outside its ranks, for the regeneration of the
revolutionary, genuine Communist Party of Yugoslavia, loyal to Marxism-Leninism,
to the principles or proletarian internationalism, and fighting for the
independence of Yugoslavia from imperialism.
The loyal
Communist forces in Yugoslavia, who, in the present brutal conditions of fascist
terror, are deprived of the possibility of engaging in open action against the
Tito-Rankovic clique, were compelled in the struggle for the cause of
Communism, to follow the path taken by the Communists in those countries where
legal work is forbidden.
The
Information Bureau expresses the firm conviction that, among the workers and
peasants of Yugoslavia, forces will be found capable of ensuring victory over
the bourgeois-restoration espionage Tito-Rankovic clique; that the toiling
people of Yugoslavia led by the working class will succeed in restoring the
historical gains of People’s Democracy, won at the price of heavy sacrifice
and heroic struggle led by the peoples of Yugoslavia and that they will take the
road of building Socialism.
The Information Bureau considers one of the most important tasks of
the Communist and Workers’ Parties to be an all-round heightening of
revolutionary vigilance in Party ranks; exposing and rooting out
bourgeois-nationalist elements and agents of imperialism, no matter under what
flag they conceal themselves.
The Information Bureau recognises the need for more ideological work
in the Communist and Workers’ Parties; more work to train Communists in the
spirit of loyalty to proletarian internationalism; irreconcilability to any
departure from the principles of Marxism-Leninism, and in the spirit of loyalty
to People’s Democracy and Socialism.
Source: Communist, Vol. 3, January 1950,
Re. 1,
The Manager, COMMUNIST, R.K. Building,
190-B, Khetwadi Main Road, Bombay 4, Printed by M.B. Rao at the New Age Printing
Press, 190-B, Khetwadi Main Road, Bombay 4, and edited and published by him at
“Communist” Office, R.K. Building, 190-B Khetwadi Main Road, Bombay 4, Page
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