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Passed by votes against 248 with abstentions.

"The Communist Party of Spain (PCE) is a Marxist, revolutionary and democratic party, which is inspired by the theories of social development worked out by the founders of scientific socialism, Marx and Engels and their methods of analysis.

The contribution of Lenin, all parts of it that remain valid, like that of other great revolutionaries, is incorporated by the PCE on the premise that it is no longer possible to hold the view that "Leninism is the Marxism of our epoch"

We consider ourselves the heirs of those who, in the difficult conditions of Russia in 1917, with Lenin at their head knew how to lead the world's first socialist revolution which opened up the process of world revolution which we find ourselves in today.

From that derives historic differences with social democracy.

On the other hand, while we consider as our own heritage of the October revolution and all the socialist revolutions which have freed their people, we reject _as something foreign to Marxism the phenomenon of bureaucracy and Stalinism.

We, Spanish Communists, thanks to self-criticism, have overcome Stalinism and are in the course of recovering the democratic and anti-bureaucratic essence of Marxism. We will continue to go forward in that direction.

"The way of arriving at socialism never depends on the peoples but on their adversaries. It is never peoples who want war...

'In his book Eurocommunism and the State, Carrillo quotes a letter from Stalin to Largo Caballero foreseeing the peaceful road to socialism. It was not the Popular Front which opened hostilities, but Franco...

'Lenin said that the main weapon of the working class was not violence but creative work"

New conception "It is a new conception of classes with which we agree because we are not sectarians, and we also believe it is positive to combine in this Carlos are more democratic than those of Franco"

Afanassiev was more than anything else thankful for the CP's position against Spanish entry into NATO.

Though he did not mention (nor, tactfully, did anyone else) the CP's continued support for US bases in Spain, Afanassiev used the NATO decision as a basis for a considerable degree of reconciliation between Carrillo and Moscow.

Once his party had thrown out Leninism, Carrillo himself joined in by praising Lenin as the "greatest revolutionary of our epoch"

There even seemed a chance that Carrillo might not turn the face of the USSR's gift to him (a portrait of Lenin) to the wall.

Haven In turn the Lynch government has responded by pressing ahead with its plans to preserve the Irish Republic as a haven of capitalist super-exploitation.

The Industrial Development Authority is to offer even greater incentives to overseas investors, while the government is in the process of setting up a Commission on Industrial Relations.

The aim of this commission is to establish far stricter state control over the labour movement-in particular by the 'rationalisation' of the present trade union structure, and the introduction of compulsory 'cooling off' periods as strikes develop, along with the other familiar paraphernalia of similar labour legislation internationally.

While each day more blatantly exposes the Fianna Fail as the dedicated agents of capitalism and implacable enemies of the working class in the south of Ireland, the occupation forces of British imperialism have