Cpsu Congress Splits Widen

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All arrogance on the one id, and on the other all hility' - such was the 25th gress of the Communist ty of the Soviet Union, ich las week ended in scow, and in predictable nimity among Soviet ¡gates. But it was marked, ve all, by the foundering of zhney's attempts to ger al agreement with the or Stalinist parties of tern Europe. • one form or another the ich, the Italian, the Spanish and • British Communist Parties minced their intention to ne collaboration with their i capitalist classes and the twing in the labour movement pendently of Moscow's wishes. hereby they knocked further ! into the coffin of Brezhnev's • for a conference of European munist Parties which would (in underwriting the Kremlin's mational strategy.

EVIDENT BREAK his qualitative turning-point in iplitting of the world Stalinist iment had to be discerned -tual with Stalinist conferences an a very few key phrases in an • of routine verbiage from ! functionaries. Much of this unashamed flattery of Leonid Inev in tones which istakeably recalled the obscene ation of Joseph Stalin. *e most evident break to the i came from the leadership of Spanish Communist Party -le general secretary Santiago Lo did not attend the CPSU fess at all, but stayed in Rome • he gave an interview to lere della Sera (the reactionary paper of big capital in Milan). ¿ spoke of the primitive state scialism in the USSR' , which led the quasi-feudal system • it overthrew and of which it a cries the stigma', , and went on adare that the international Communist movement nO longer ta church' Italian CP general secretary Enrico Berlinguer did travel to Moscow - but only to deliver there a 'fraternal' speech which underlined not only his Party leadership's intention to enter a "democratic" combination with the Christian Democrats (the main capitalist party? but also to allow Italy to remain within NATO.

FOLLOWED

Berlinguer was followed by Gaston Plissonier deputyto Georges Marchais, general secretary of the French Party. (Marchais himself, having just presided over a French CP Congress which officially buried the goal of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat', pointedly remained in Paris.)

Plissionier outlined a policy for 'socialism' draped 'in French colours' and based upon the 'union of the left' with the French Social Democrats.

And as he was speaking the Swiss Communist Party, in a discreetly theoretical" article in the party paper, also brought its theory into line with practice by dropping the 'dictatorship of the proletariat".

Bringing up the rear was British CP leader Gordon MacLennan with a hymn to the 'independence and sovereignty of every Communist Party and the need for 'individual freedoms and pluralism. His remarks were neutered by the Morning Star - doubtless with a view to sales in the USSR and the 'People's Democracies'.

'DIFFERENCES'

All these covert and diplomatic assertions of 'differences' were in Iesponse to Brezhnev's opening report, with its equally veiled attack on 'those who make concessions to opportunism, and who may get temporary advantages' *Proletarian internationalism' Brezhnev declared (meaning of course obedience to requirements of Soviet policy)

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wedesday March 10ch, 1976 RMANY correspondent