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

the working class, of all the working people, and in that senseit is a class struggle.Our party, all fraternal parties, remember, and are guidedby, the conclusion drawn in the Statement that the struggleagainst the danger of a new world war has to be developedwithout waiting for the atomic and hydrogen bombs to bedropped. The struggle must be waged now, and intensifiedfrom day to day. The main thing is to curb the aggressorsa in good time, prevent war, not allow it to break out. Fightingfor peace today implies maintaining supreme vigilance, tirelesslyexposing imperialist policy, keeping close watch on thewar instigators’ manoeuvres and machinations, rousing thewrath of the peoples against those whose policy is war, enhancingthe organization of the peace forces, constantly intensifyingmass activity for peace, strengthening co-operation withall states not interested in new wars.The struggle for peace and peaceful co-existence weakensthe front of imperialism, isolates its most aggressive circlesfrom the people and helps advance the revolutionary struggleof the working class and the national-liberation struggle ofthe peoples.The struggle for peace and peaceful co-existence is organicallylinked with the revolutionary struggle against imperialism.“In conditions of peaceful co-existence,” the Statementof the 81 Communist parties says, “favourable opportunitiesare provided for the development of the class struggle in thecapitalist countries and the national-liberation movement ofthe peoples of the colonial and dependent countries. In theirturn, the successes of the revolutionary class and nationalliberationstruggle promote peaceful co-existence.”In conditions of peaceful co-existence, new important victorieshave been scored in recent years in the class struggle ofthe proletariat and in the struggle of the peoples for nationalfreedom. The world revolutionary process is developingsuccessfully.554