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further weaken his positi<strong>on</strong>”. 1 They say, “The Administrati<strong>on</strong>is now c<strong>on</strong>vinced that the U.S. should <strong>of</strong>fer Khrushchevmaximum support in his dispute with Red China.” 2The Trotskyites, who have l<strong>on</strong>g been politically bankrupt,are am<strong>on</strong>g those applauding the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU. Theformer actively support the latter <strong>on</strong> such fundamental issuesas the attitude <strong>on</strong>e should take <strong>to</strong>wards Stalin, <strong>to</strong>wardsU.S. imperialism and <strong>to</strong>wards the Yugoslav revisi<strong>on</strong>ists. Theysay, “The situati<strong>on</strong> created by the Twentieth C<strong>on</strong>gress <strong>of</strong> theCPSU and still more by the Twenty-sec<strong>on</strong>d C<strong>on</strong>gress iseminently favourable for the revival <strong>of</strong> our movement in theworkers states themselves.” 3 “We have prepared for this formore than 25 years. Now we must move in, and move energetically.”4 “In relati<strong>on</strong> <strong>to</strong> the Khrushchev tendency, we willgive a critical support <strong>to</strong> its struggle for destalinisati<strong>on</strong> againstthe more c<strong>on</strong>servative tendencies. . . .” 5Just c<strong>on</strong>sider! All the enemies <strong>of</strong> revoluti<strong>on</strong> support theleaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSU with alacrity. The reas<strong>on</strong> is that theyhave found a comm<strong>on</strong> language with the leaders <strong>of</strong> the CPSUin their approach <strong>to</strong> <strong>Marx</strong>ism-Leninism and world revoluti<strong>on</strong>,and that the revisi<strong>on</strong>ist and divisive line <strong>of</strong> the leaders <strong>of</strong> theCPSU meets the counter-revoluti<strong>on</strong>ary needs <strong>of</strong> U.S. imperialism.1“Communist Unity Seen in U.S. as Thing <strong>of</strong> the Past”, the L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong>Times, January 17, 1962.2“The Periscope”, Newsweek, July 1, 1963.3“The Internati<strong>on</strong>al Situati<strong>on</strong> and Our Tasks”, resoluti<strong>on</strong> adoptedby the Reunificati<strong>on</strong> C<strong>on</strong>gress <strong>of</strong> the Trotskyites’ so-called Fourth Internati<strong>on</strong>alin June 1963, Fourth Internati<strong>on</strong>al, Eng. ed, No. 17, Oc<strong>to</strong>ber-December 1963, p. 47.4“The New Stage <strong>of</strong> the Russian Revoluti<strong>on</strong> and the Crisis <strong>of</strong> Stalinism,resoluti<strong>on</strong> adopted by a meeting <strong>of</strong> the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Committee <strong>of</strong>the Trotskyite Socialist Workers’ Party <strong>of</strong> the U.S.A., April 13-15, 1956,The 20th C<strong>on</strong>gress (C.P.S.U.) and World Trotskyism, New Park Publicati<strong>on</strong>sLtd., L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong>, 1957, p. 36.5“The Repercussi<strong>on</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the 22nd C<strong>on</strong>gress <strong>of</strong> the CPSU”, resoluti<strong>on</strong>adopted by the Internati<strong>on</strong>al Secretariat <strong>of</strong> the Trotskyites’ so-calledFourth Internati<strong>on</strong>al <strong>on</strong> December 5, 1961, Fourth Internati<strong>on</strong>al, Eng.ed., No. 14, winter issue, 1961-1962, p. 25.325

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