The Daily Worker of Jan 8th carriod reports of tho polemic between Russia and China. To show its impartiality, apparently, it placed extracts from the Pravda article “Let us strengthen the unity of the Communist movement for the triumph of Peace and Socialism" side by sido with extracts from the Rod Flag article Leninism and Modern Revisionism, However there was a diffcrence; whereas the Pravda article was given 30 column inches, the Red Flag piece had less than Il column inches, seg
13 The Chineso Communist Party leadership havé followed their blast at
Togliatti with tw rore salvyoos in their ideological war against the "modern revisionists" i,6., the Krushchevy leadership. The first 1963 issue of Red Flag, the fortnightly journal published by the Contral Committee of the Chinese CP,, containing “"Leninism and Modern Revisionism" and "Revolutionary Dialectica and how to appraise imperialism". The latter is mainly a defence of Mao's “paper tiger" theses, but the former is an all-round attack on “Modern Revisionism" and contains an answer to the Krushchey charge of certain people "sliding into Trotskyist positions", Tyo quotations will suffice to illustrate thisg " We are in favour of compromisvewhich are in the interests of the people's cause and against those that are in the nature of treachery. It is perfactly clear that only those who are guilty now of adventurism, now of capitulationism, are the ones whose ideology is Trotskyism or Trotskyism in & new guise." Later the article goes on “In fact, shortly after Lenin's death 4» serious strugule between larxist-Leninistsand anti-llarxist—Leninista arose in the international conmmimnist movement, That was the strugzis between on the one hand, the Leninists, headed by Stalin, and on the other hand, Trotsky, Bukharin, and other'Left! advonturists and right opportunists."