Spanish CP Congress in time nalt The split?
Socialist Press1978 1978-04-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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The Spanish Communist Party has just held its first legal Congress since 1932.
For the Carrillo leadership, the only leadership of any major Spanish political party :oday to have been politically active in the Civil War, the Congress came just in time.
In time, that is, to prevent the wave of opposition within the party from developing out of control.
Already, however, the discussion leading up to the Congress has been marked by some body blows to the ieadership.
In Catalonia the leadership lost its bid to get a majority a the Central Committee for the deletion of the description "Leninist" from the party statutes.
Reinstalled
The main pro-Carrillo leaders in Catalonia resigned after the defeat and were only reinstalled after some panic-stricken manoeuvrings by Carrillo who managed to restore his majority in the local Catalonian Congress.
In Asturias, leading CP members, opposing Carrillo walked out of their local congress and have publicly criticised the leadership and demanded the replacement of party President Dolores Ibarturi (La Passionaria) as is mamharaf narliamant in nearly every other provincial precongress meeting the party bureaucrats encountered sharp hostility not only from pro-Moscow sections of the party but also from rank and file opponents of the party's class collaborationist policies which are symbolised in the renunciation of "Leninism".
In comparison with all this, the four-day was a peaceful affair Filtered Opposition had largely been filtered out in the process of selecting the 1500 delegates.
Even so about a quarter of the delegates voted against the leadership.
The ceremonial burial Leninism was just one part a long display of loyalty the Spanish bourgeoisie.
Not only were other workers parties present as guest observers at the Congress but so were Spain's bourgeois parties including the ruling Francoists of Premier Suarez' Union of the Democratic Centre and the ultra-right Francoists of Manuel Fraga's Popular Alliance.
Oppressors
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