Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

to impose their views on all the fraternal parties. In June1960, during the Peking session of the General Council of theWorld Federation of Trade Unions, the Chinese leaders, withoutthe knowledge of the leadership of fraternal parties,arranged a meeting of representatives of several parties thenin Peking and launched open criticism of the position of theCPSU and the other Marxist-Leninist parties and the Declarationadopted by the Moscow Meeting in 1957. Furthermore,the Chinese comrades aired their differences with the CPSUand the other fraternal parties from the open tribune of anon-party organization.Such steps by the CPC leadership aroused anxiety in thefraternal parties. In view of this, an attempt was made atthe Bucharest Meeting of Communist Parties in 1960 todiscuss the differences that had arisen with the leaders ofthe CPC. Representatives of 50 Communist and Workers’parties subjected the views and actions of the Chinese leadersto comradely criticism and urged them to return to the pathof unity and co-operation with the international communistmovement, in conformity with the principles of the MoscowDeclaration. Unfortunately, the CPC leadership disregardedthis comradely assistance and continued to pursue its erroneouscourse and deepen its differences with the fraternalparties.Anxious to prevent such a development of events, the CPSUCentral Committee suggested talks with the Central Committeeof the Communist Party of China. These took placein Moscow in September 1960. But then, too, it was impossibleto resolve the differences due to the stubborn unwillingnessof the CPC delegation to heed the opinion of afraternal party. At the Meeting of Representatives of 81Communist and Workers’ Parties in November 1960, theabsolute majority of the fraternal parties rejected the incorrectviews and concepts of the CPC leadership. The Chinese delegationat this meeting stubbornly upheld its own particular534