Bs DOtOVaNT
The unity of the world Communist movement threatens to be disrustod as novor before, The claim by Nehru that India will still receive Russian Migs and that the Russians will help India to build a factory to make these planes and the fact TH.T THIS RSPORT HAS NOT Bu DAVID BY THS KHUSHCHOV REGIME make it cloar that far from boing tnoutral’ in the Sino/Indian border war the Khrushchovites aro more favourable to the Indians. Thus the responsibility of any public split and the subsequent damago to the unity of the workers states will bo ontirely the that of the present Russian ruling clique. To do this at,this time, when tho U.S. imperialists havo adopted a most aggressive policy, is a most dangerous OXSTCISC. ™g should not be surprised however at Khrushchov continuing the policy of Stalin in putting the intorests of the ruling bureaucracy above those of the fight against imporialism. He will bo morely roppating at a higher level his action in isola= ting Albaina and thus objoctively working for the rostoration of capitalism in that country. Only the action of tho ~hinese in coming to the aid of :lbania prevontod such an evontuality and, no fatter the terrible features of the Hoxha rogine, the Chinese were correct to do this.
No doubt the Chinese have committed many orrors and their Stalinist background and training leads them to rely more on military strength than an appeal to the masses, Howovor, in relation to tho presont Sino/Indian border war everything points to the whole affair having beon blowm up firstly, to divert the attention of the Indian people from their miserable conditions, and secondly, at bohest of U.S. imperialism, whose aid has cnabied the Indian bourgeoisie to avoid complete bankruptcy. The timing of the affair, coming as it did at the tine of the U.N. debate on China's membership of that organisation and tho Cuban crisis, lends weight to tho latter supposition. In tho hue and cry of the capitalist press the continued boasts by Nohru pad his military leaders that they would clear the Chinese out of torritory which Chanay aq occupied for years without any ques ’ tion boing raisod (that is until 1959) have been complotely forgotten. The whole campaign of jingoism and national hysteria which the ruling class of India has triocd to whip up points to the aim of thoir oxercise, ‘When Nehru talks of the 'tspirit of Dunkirk't and calls upon the Indian people to tighten their belts he is playing tho typical role of capitalist politicians ths world over — that of shouting stop thiof and picking the pockets of all those who aro foolish enough to have their attontion diverted.
Revolutionarics can use this development, whothor it comes to an open split or not, to carry out a campaign to oxplain tho nature of Stalinism to the ranks of the Communist Party. No matter what advantage may seem to come from such an open split in making theso oxplanations OUR STARTING POINT MUST BE A COND DB ATION OF THE DISRUPTING OF THE UNITY OF WORKERS MOVEMENT BY THs KHRUSHCHOVITES. Secondly, to the forefront of our activities mist be defence of the Chinese wakors state, and this will be of immense importance as the likelihood of U.S. aggressive action against China will be immensely increased in the event of open split in the camp of the workers states. The leadership of the British Communist Party will certainly continue to follow their policy of blindly following which ever clique is in control in the Kremlin, and. many sectiomof the so-called left wing of the Labour Party #0 vying with the right wing in their denunciation of China (the series of articles in Tribune by Murarka being a typically poisonous example), The attitude of both these tendoncies show the danger of a lack of a class approac.* in analysing such questionse Im particular we must oppose the sending of war mai-: crials by the Tories to India, and the parallel to this we must call upon Communist Party members to fight, through their organisations, the sending of war material to India by the Khrushchovites.
J. (Nottinghan)