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Grippa Group replios to Moscow

The Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 8, 6 September 1963 · p. 7 of the scan · 447 words

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In reply to the attack on them in the C,.P.S.U., Cpen Letter of July 14th the Brussels Provincial Committee of the Belgian Commnist Party (which is controlled by the Grippa group) issued on August 15th a resolution entitled “\iarxist=-Leninists, Unitei", The resolution covers the views of tho Grippa group on the major issues in the international Communist movement. It is divided into 13 parts. We will only refer to points of special interest, Port one claims that Polyanov, editor of Iavestia and Khrushohov's envoy to Penl-Henri Spaak, demanded that Spaak close the Isinhua News i.gency in Brussels, Tracing the development of ‘the Grippa group it explained that the fTevisionists Lad expelled and excluded hundreds of comrades from the ranks of the Belgian Comminist Party, flagrantly violnting the party condsitution and the principles of democratic centralism, In accordance with the party constitution, the Brussels Provincial Committee of the Belgien C.P. called a provincial congress in the latter part of June, The congress adopted a rea olution declaring null and void all artitrary and unconstitutiongl mensures, the suspension and dissolution of party organisations ond the decisions to exclude from the ranks of the party those comrades and organisations that have upheld a lTlarxist-Leninist stand. The congress demanded an extracrdinary ational congress be called. The resolution claimed that there has been a growth in the activities of liarxist-Leninists in the other provincial party conmittees, ;

In part six, the resolution emphasises the question of relations between the Soviet Union and the other countries of the socialist camp. It says: "It is certainly not an expression of socialist ideas to sell to fraternal countries at high prices, especially industrial goods, and, to buy from then at low prices, especially raw materials, secking profits out of trade anong socinlist countries....15 +¢his not creating an economic basis for ties of subjection?" A charge that Khrushchovy tried "to grab the naval vessels of socialist Albania and ordered the warships at the Valona base to be abolished.." appears later in the resolution, In part sight, the resolution says that "Khrushchov....attacks the work done by the Soviet people from 1924 to 1953 under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Sovist Union, headed by Comrade Stalin. This is 'anti=—Sovist and Anti-Communist." "His attacks are vile, groundless slanders, “hat he complains of is not Stalin's nistckes, but his achievements. In attacking Stalin, Khrushchov is attacking Leninism," The resolution asks: what was Khrushchov's motive when he extolled Stalin? ‘hen is he sincere? "Who, either inside or outside of the Sovist Union, knows the political circumstances of Molotov, Kaganovich or many others, Many names have mysteriously disappeared from the leadership since Khrushchov became first secretary of the C.F.5,.0."

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