LET US UNITE ON THE BASIS OF THE MOSCOW DECLARATION AND THE MOSCOW STATEMENT  FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS P E K I N G From Marx to Mao ML © Digital Reprints 2006 LET US UNITE ON THE BASIS OF THE MOSCOW DECLARATION AND THE MOSCOW STATEMENT FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS PEKING 1963 Printed in the People¹s Republic of China CONTENTS LET US UNITE ON THE BASIS OF THE MOSCOW DECLARATION AND THE MOSCOW STATEMENT ³Renmin Ribao² Editorial, January 27, 1963 SPEECH OF GREETINGS DELIVERED AT THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE SOCIALIST UNITY PARTY OF GERMANY BY WU HSIU-CHUAN, HEAD OF THE DELEGATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA January 18, 1963 MESSAGE OF GREETINGS FROM THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA TO THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE SOCIALIST UNITY PARTY OF GERMANY 1 21 34 1 LET US UNITE ON THE BASIS OF THE MOSCOW DECLARATION AND THE MOSCOW STATEMENT ³Renmin Ribao² Editorial, January 27, 1963 The Sixth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany was held from January 15 to January 21. In their attempts to stop the successful development of the people¹s struggles for world peace, national liberation, democracy and socialism, the imperialists, the reactionaries of various countries and the Yugoslav revisionists are at the present time using every means to disrupt the unity of the peoples of the world, and especially the unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement. The Communists of all countries and all progressive mankind are deeply worried and disturbed over the ever-increasing harm that is being done to the unity of the international communist ranks, and they are eagerly demanding the ironing out of differences and the strengthening of unity in the common struggle against the enemy on the basis of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. It was our hope that, meeting in these circumstances, the Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany would contribute to the unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement by adhering to the 2 Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. The German Democratic Republic stands on the western front of the socialist camp, and is facing the menace of the West German militarism backed by U.S. imperialism. The spearhead of the struggle should naturally have been directed against our common enemies; there was not the slightest reason for this Congress to repeat practices which grieve those near and dear to us all and gladden the enemy. Unfortunately, events at the Congress ran counter to our hope. The outstanding features of the Congress were that while much was said about stopping attacks and strengthening unity among the fraternal Parties, extremely crude attacks were continued against the Chinese Communist Party and other fraternal Parties, attacks which further widen differences and damage unity, and that while much was said about supporting the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement, brazen attempts, which were in open violation of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement, were made to reverse the verdict passed on the Tito clique of renegades to Marxism- Leninism. When in the course of his speech the head of the Chinese Communist Party Delegation, which attended the Congress by invitation, quoted and discussed the criticisms of Yugoslav revisionism made in the Moscow Statement, the executive chairman of the Congress repeatedly stopped him. Prompted by this cue, there was an uproar of booing, whistling and foot-stamping in the congress hall. It is indeed strange and almost incredible for such a phenomenon to occur in the international communist movement. When the delegate of the Chinese Communist 3 Party ended his speech, the executive chairman of the Congress went so far as to protest. He stated that he ³most decidedly rejected² the criticism of Yugoslav revisionism made by the delegate of the Communist Party of China and described it as ³contradicting all the norms prevailing among Communist and revolutionary Workers¹ Parties². Following this, the Soviet newspaper Izvestia attacked the delegate of the Communist Party of China for his criticism of Yugoslav revisionism, stating that it was ³utterly impermissible². This Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany has posed the following vitally important questions to the Communists of the whole world: Are the ranks of the international communist movement to be united or not? Is there to be genuine unity or sham unity? On what basis is there to be unity ‹ is there to be unity on the basis of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement, or ³unity² on the basis of the Yugoslav revisionist programme or on some other basis? In other words, are differences to be ironed out and unity strengthened, or are differences to be widened and a split created? The Chinese Communists, all Marxist-Leninists and all progressive mankind unanimously desire to uphold unity and oppose a split, to secure genuine unity and oppose a sham unity, to defend the common foundation of the unity of the international communist movement and oppose the undermining of this foundation, and to uphold and strengthen the unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement on the basis of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. The Chinese Communist Party has always held that the unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement is the reliable guarantee of victory for 4 the revolution of the people in all countries, for the struggle against imperialism and its running dogs, for the cause of world peace, national liberation, democracy and socialism, and for the communist cause throughout the world. The basis for such unity is Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, the Moscow Declaration of 1957 and the Moscow Statement of 1960. These two documents of vital and historic importance were unanimously agreed upon by the Communist and Workers¹ Parties of all countries and constitute the common programme of the international communist movement. Only by strict adherence to them is it possible to strengthen unity and is it possible to have genuine unity. Violation of these two documents can only result in the undermining of unity or in a sham unity. It is the sacred duty of Communists in all countries resolutely to uphold both the revolutionary principles and the common principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties and countries laid down in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement and to wage an uncompromising struggle against all words and deeds violating the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. The Communist Party of China has consistently worked to uphold and strengthen the unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement. In 1956, the imperialists, the reactionaries of various countries and the Yugoslav revisionists organized a world-wide anti- Soviet and anti-Communist onslaught and engineered a counter-revolutionary revolt in Hungary. Together with other fraternal Parties the Communist Party of China waged a resolute struggle, thus safeguarding Marxism- Leninism and defending the socialist camp. Through their joint efforts and full consultations at the 1957 and 1960 5 Moscow meetings, the other fraternal Parties and the Chinese Communist Party formulated a common line for the international communist movement and established common principles guiding the mutual relations of fraternal Parties and countries. At these two meetings, we conducted a necessary struggle against certain wrong tendencies detrimental to unity and also made necessary compromises on certain matters, thus contributing to the unanimous agreement reached at the meetings. At the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1961, when there occurred the first serious incident in which one Party at its own congress made an open attack by name on another fraternal Party, that is, on the Albanian Party of Labour, the delegation of the Chinese Communist Party voiced firm opposition and proffered sincere advice. There and then we pointed out that a practice of this kind ³does not help unity and is not helpful to resolving problems. To bring a dispute between fraternal Parties and fraternal countries into the open in the face of the enemy cannot be regarded as a serious Marxist-Leninist attitude. Such an attitude will only grieve those near and dear to us and gladden the enemy. The Communist Party of China sincerely hopes that fraternal Parties which have disputes or differences between them will unite afresh on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and on the basis of mutual respect for independence and equality.² It is regrettable that our efforts failed to prevent a further deterioration in Soviet- Albanian relations. Our good intentions were even subjected to repeated censure by certain people. In its desire to uphold the principles guiding the mutual relations of fraternal Parties and countries and to strengthen unity, the Chinese Communist Party in 6 April 1962 gave its active support to the proposals made by some fraternal Parties for easing relations and improving the atmosphere, and, in a letter to the fraternal Party concerned, formally expressed its opinion that a meeting of representatives of the Communist and Workers¹ Parties of all countries should be convened to iron out differences and strengthen unity through comradely discussion and consultation. We also pointed out that, prior to such a meeting, all fraternal Parties should make extensive preparations, including the cessation of radio and press attacks on another fraternal Party, in order to create favourable conditions for the meeting and ensure its success. To our great distress, these positive proposals of the Communist Party of China and some other fraternal Parties have not evoked a corresponding response from the fraternal Party concerned. On the contrary, the practice of violating the principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties and countries, and especially the vicious practice of openly attacking other fraternal Parties by name at a Party congress, has gone from bad to worse. At every one of the recent congresses of fraternal Parties the attacks on the Albanian Party of Labour were continued and attacks were made against the Communist Party of China, while at one congress the Korean Workers¹ Party, too, was attacked. This adverse current, which runs counter to the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement and which is disrupting the unity of the international communist movement, reached a new climax at the Sixth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. There, the Yugoslav revisionist clique was shielded in many ways, while the fraternal Party delegate who criticized 7 Yugoslav revisionism in accordance with the Moscow Statement was treated in an utterly uncomradely and rude manner. Such behaviour is extremely vulgar as well as completely futile. In the view of certain comrades, adherence to the principles of the Moscow Statement, which had been unanimously agreed upon by the fraternal Parties, was utterly impermissible and illegitimate while the Yugoslav revisionism condemned by the Moscow Statement was to be welcomed and was legitimate. On the one hand, they wantonly attacked comrades who adhere to Marxism-Leninism, and on the other, they talked volubly of uniting with out-and-out revisionists. On the one hand, they used every conceivable method to deprive delegates of fraternal Parties opposing Yugoslav revisionism of the opportunity to speak, and on the other, they applauded the betrayers of Marxism- Leninism. This outrageous practice was all the more serious because it was carefully planned. Here we must state in all seriousness that the international communist movement is at a critical juncture. The Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement ‹ the common basis of the unity of the Communist and Workers¹ Parties of all countries ‹ are in great danger of being publicly torn up. The unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement is under a grave threat. In the international communist movement of today, one¹s attitude towards Yugoslav revisionism is not a minor but a major question; it is a question that concerns not just one detail or another but the whole. It is a question of whether to adhere to Marxism-Leninism or to wallow in the mire with the Yugoslav revisionists, 8 whether to take the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement as the foundation of unity or to take the Yugoslav revisionist programme or something else as the foundation of ³unity², and whether genuinely to strengthen unity or merely to pay lip service to unity while in fact creating a split. In the final analysis, it is a question of whether to adhere strictly to the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement or to tear them up. The Moscow Statement of 1960 unequivocally declares: The Communist Parties have unanimously condemned the Yugoslav variety of international opportunism, a variety of modern revisionist ³theories² in concentrated form. After betraying Marxism-Leninism, which they termed obsolete, the leaders of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia opposed their anti-Leninist revisionist programme to the Declaration of 1957; they set the L.C.Y. against the international communist movement as a whole, severed their country from the socialist camp, made it dependent on so-called ³aid² from U.S. and other imperialists, and thereby exposed the Yugoslav people to the danger of losing the revolutionary gains achieved through a heroic struggle. The Yugoslav revisionists carry on subversive work against the socialist camp and the world communist movement. Under the pretext of an extra-bloc policy, they engage in activities which prejudice the unity of all the peace-loving forces and countries. Further exposure of the leaders of Yugoslav revisionists and active struggle to safeguard the communist movement and the working-class movement from the anti 9 Leninist ideas of the Yugoslav revisionists, remains an essential task of the Marxist-Leninist Parties. The stand taken by the Chinese Communist Party visà- vis Yugoslav revisionism is exactly that prescribed in the Moscow Statement, a stand which should be taken and must be taken by all Marxist-Leninist Parties. It is the exact antithesis of the stand of the Yugoslav revisionists, who are fundamentally opposed both to the Moscow Declaration and to the Moscow Statement and who set their revisionist programme against the common programme of the Communist and Workers¹ Parties of all countries. In the Programme of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the Tito clique deny the basic antagonism between the socialist camp and the imperialist camp and advocate what they call the ³extra-bloc² stand; they deny the theory of proletarian revolution and proletarian dictatorship and maintain that the capitalist countries can ³peacefully grow into² socialism; they describe ownership by the whole people in the socialist countries as ³state capitalism² and regard Marxism-Leninism as obsolete. All this is as incompatible with the Marxist- Leninist theses of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement as fire with water. The League of Communists of Yugoslavia declared in the communique of the Ninth Plenum of its Central Committee, issued in December 1957 after the Moscow meeting of the same year: The plenum considers that the delegation, pursuing the political line of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, acted correctly by not taking part in the meeting of the Communist and Workers¹ Parties of the twelve socialist countries and 10 by not signing the declaration of that meeting, which contains some attitudes and appraisals contrary to the attitude of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia which considers them incorrect. As for the Moscow Statement, the Tito clique has made wilder attacks on it. The same Vlahovic, who was given a delirious ovation by some people at the recent Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany as the representative of the Tito clique, declared in February 1961 at the enlarged meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia: The Moscow Conference followed the line of seeking a compromise between different standpoints and tendencies, the line based on ³stereotyped, mechanical levelling, and of establishing uniform tactical rules for the struggle². Thus within the framework of a single statement there are to be found standpoints and tendencies reflecting contemporary objective social developments in the world mixed together with bureaucratic-dogmatic conceptions, the most obvious example of which is the position taken towards socialist Yugoslavia. The resolution on the Moscow Statement adopted at the same meeting said that ³the Moscow Statement . . . can have only harmful consequences not merely for the cause of socialism but also for the efforts to consolidate peace throughout the world². Is it or is it not right to criticize Yugoslav revisionism? There should have been no doubt about this in the international communist ranks. The principled stand taken by the Chinese Communist Party in firmly opposing 11 Yugoslav revisionism was approved by the other fraternal Parties. We may all recall that, at the Seventh Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party in June 1958, Comrade Khrushchov said that ³the Chinese comrades and also the other fraternal Parties are rightly and profoundly criticizing the revisionist propositions of the draft programme of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia². We also remember that at the previous Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, that is, at its Fifth Congress held in July 1958, there was no difference of opinion among Communist and Workers¹ Parties on whether Yugoslav revisionism should be criticized. Comrade Khrushchov then said: The anti-Marxist, anti-Leninist views of the Yugoslav leaders were subjected to thoroughgoing principled criticism by the Communist Party of China, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and all the other fraternal Parties. In decisions taken by their leading bodies and in articles in the Party press, all the Parties took a clear-cut position and condemned those views, paying considerable attention to a critical analysis of them. And this was correct. He also said: . . . When the Yugoslav leaders declare they are Marxist-Leninists and use Marxism-Leninism only as a cover to mislead gullible people and divert them from the path of revolutionary class struggle charted by Marx and Lenin, they want to wrest from the hands of the working class its sharpest class weapon. Whether they wish to or not, they are helping the class enemy of the working people, and in return for this they are given 12 loans; in return for this the imperialists praise their ³independent² policy of ³no blocs², which the reactionary forces make use of in an attempt to undermine our socialist camp. He added: In their speeches and official documents the Yugoslav leaders have outlined openly revisionist views that are contrary to the revolutionary essence of Marxism- Leninism. They have taken a clearly schismatic, revisionist line and by so doing are helping the enemies of the working class in the fight against communism, in the imperialists¹ fight against the Communist Parties and against the unity of the international revolutionary working-class movement. He went on to say: In essence, the programme of the Yugoslav leadership is a worse version of a whole series of revisionist platforms held by Right-wing Social-Democrats. Consequently the Yugoslav leaders have not been drawn to the path of revolutionary Marxist-Leninist teachings; they have followed the path laid down by revisionists and opportunists of the Second International ‹ Bernstein, Kautsky and other renegades. In actual fact they have now joined forces with Karl Kautsky¹s offspring ‹ his son Benedict, . . . We cannot understand why some comrades, who formerly took the correct stand of criticizing Yugoslav revisionism, should have now made an about-turn of 180 degrees. It has been claimed that this was because ³the Yugoslav leaders have removed very much of what was considered 13 erroneous². Unfortunately, the Tito clique themselves have never admitted to having made any mistakes, let alone removed them. It is indeed subjectivism pure and simple to assert that the Tito clique have ³removed² their mistakes. We would ask the apologists for the Tito clique to listen to the Titoists¹ own statements. As early as April 1958, Tito declared at the Seventh Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, ³It would just be a waste of time for any quarters to expect us to retreat from our principled position on international and internal questions.² In 1959, Kardelj, another leader of the Tito clique, stated even more bluntly in a pamphlet, ³. . . and now the critics insistently urge on us what they themselves have begun to renounce, and criticize us for what they themselves have begun to accept.² Only recently, in December 1962, the moment he alighted from the train on his return from the Soviet Union, Tito said in Belgrade, ³Discussions . . . about how Yugoslavia will now change her policy are simply superfluous and ridiculous. We have no need to change our policy.² He added a few days later, ³I said there [in the Soviet Union] that there is no possibility of Yugoslavia¹s changing her foreign policy.² These statements by Tito and Kardelj demonstrate the Tito clique¹s firm denial of any change in their revisionist line and policies. In fact, they have not changed at all. What were the apologists for the Tito clique doing if not lying when they said that the Tito clique ³have removed very much of what was considered erroneous²? Certain people have lately been talking a lot about how their views on many problems are coming closer to or agreeing with those of the Tito clique. We would ask, 14 since there has not been any change in the revisionist line and policies of the Tito clique, does it not follow that the makers of these statements are themselves moving closer to the revisionist line and policies of the Tito clique? What is particularly astonishing is that certain people have publicly declared the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement to be a ³stereotyped formula². They do not allow any fraternal Party to expose and condemn Yugoslav revisionism. Whoever insists on condemning Yugoslav revisionism, they say, ³follows the jungle laws of capitalism² and ³adopts this same jungle morality². One might ask, what is the object of describing the Moscow Statement, which was unanimously agreed upon by eighty-one fraternal Parties, as ³a stereotyped formula² or ³the jungle laws of capitalism²? Is it not the object to tear up the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement? If it is ³jungle morality² to condemn Yugoslav revisionism in accordance with the Moscow Statement, what kind of morality is the violation of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement and the eagerness to ³strangle² a fraternal Party and fraternal country? We also note that Comrade Togliatti has gone so far as to say: ³. . . This amply justifies the stand which we and others have taken towards the Yugoslav comrades, hence correcting the resolution of 1960 [the Moscow Statement unanimously agreed upon by the eighty-one fraternal Parties ‹ ³Renmin Ribao² ed.] which is wrong on this point.² We want to ask, what right has Comrade Togliatti to declare one part or another of the Moscow Statement, which was unanimously agreed upon by the fraternal Parties, to be wrong? What right has he to ³correct² or tear up a solemn international agreement at will? If one or several Parties may do as they please 15 in ³correcting² agreements unanimously reached by all the Communist and Workers¹ Parties, will it be possible to speak of any principle that all must abide by? Certain people are contemptuous of solemn documents adopted unanimously by the international communist movement; they not only refuse to abide by documents which bear their own signatures, but abuse others for abiding by them. Clearly, this is perfidy. Here we should like to emphasize that those who are zealously engaged in reversing the verdict on the Tito clique are trying to make a breach in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement on the Yugoslav issue and then to tear them up completely. Were their scheme to succeed, it would be tantamount to declaring that the criticisms of Yugoslav revisionism made by all Communist and Workers¹ Parties over these years are wrong and the traitorous Tito clique is right, that the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement are wrong and the Yugoslav revisionist programme is right, that the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism have become obsolete and modern revisionism can no longer be opposed, still less be treated as the main danger in the international communist movement, and that we should all follow at the heels of the Tito clique and ³join forces with Karl Kautsky¹s offspring ‹ his son Benedict². Were this to happen, the strategy and tactics of the international communist movement would have to be completely changed and the revolutionary line of Marxism- Leninism would have to be replaced by the capitulationist line of revisionism. Were this to happen, what possible common basis would there be for unity among the Communist and Workers¹ Parties of all countries? Is this 16 not a deliberate attempt to create a split in the international communist movement? The urgent task now facing the Communist and Workers¹ Parties is to defend the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement and to uphold and strengthen the unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement on the basis of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. We resolutely uphold unity on the basis of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement, and we resolutely oppose ³unity² on the basis of the Yugoslav revisionist programme or on some other basis. Together with all fraternal Parties, the Chinese Communist Party will work indefatigably to this end. The proletarian cause has always been international. To be victorious in this common cause, Communists of all countries must unite and wage a common struggle. Without the unity and solidarity of proletarian internationalism, the revolutionary cause cannot be victorious and consolidate its victory in any country. The only correct way to uphold and strengthen this kind of unity is to abide by the principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties and fraternal countries laid down in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. The principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties and countries, as set forth in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement, are as follows: the principle of unity on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism; the principle of mutual support and mutual assistance, the principle of independence and equality; and the principle of reaching unanimity through consultation. 17 The primary test of a Communist¹s sincerity in upholding the unity of the international communist movement is whether he conscientiously abides by the principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties and countries. The Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement, the two international documents unanimously agreed upon by the Communist and Workers¹ Parties, are binding on all the fraternal Parties. These Parties have the obligation to abide by them and have absolutely no right to wreck them. No single Party or group of Parties have the right to change them or to declare them null and void. In the international communist movement, the resolutions of any one fraternal Party, whether right or wrong and however important the place and the role of that Party, can be binding on that Party alone. According to the principles laid down in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement, it is impermissible to impose the programme, resolutions, line or policies of any one Party on other fraternal Parties, or to require other fraternal Parties to obey the irresponsible self-contradictory statements made by the leader of a Party who talks one way today and another tomorrow, as if those statements were imperial decrees; and it is more impermissible for one or more Parties wantonly to kick out one or another fraternal Party from the international communist movement or pull in renegades to Marxism-Leninism. Since the international situation is complicated and is changing rapidly and since each fraternal Party finds itself in different circumstances, the emergence of different views among fraternal Parties on one question or another can hardly be avoided. The important thing is that, once differences have emerged among fraternal Parties, they should iron out their differences and 18 achieve unanimity through inter-Party consultation on the basis of equality, basing themselves on the principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties as set forth in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. In no circumstances should they make the differences among the fraternal Parties public in the face of the enemy, nor should they make use of the press and other propaganda media for open attacks on other fraternal Parties, and still less should they make use of congresses of one Party for this purpose. Clearly, if open attacks are directed against one fraternal Party today and another tomorrow, will there be any unity of the international communist movement to speak of? We hold that continuing to make attacks while talking about one¹s desire to halt them is not the attitude an honest Communist should take. As the leader of the Korean Workers¹ Party delegation at the recent Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany pointed out: At this Congress, which is not an international meeting of fraternal Parties, there has been some talk of ending open disputes over differences of view and strengthening unity, and yet differences of view among the fraternal Parties have again been brought up, and in particular there has been unilateral criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. We maintain that this cannot be regarded as a friendly and comradely attitude and that such an attitude is not conducive to the unity and unanimity which we are all calling for. Better a single good deed contributing to unity than a thousand empty words about unity. It is time to rein in on the brink of the precipice! To do so late in the day is better than not to do it at all. We sincerely hope that 19 the fraternal Party which launched the first attack will suit its action to its words, take the initiative, and return to the path of inter-Party consultation on the basis of equality, to the principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties and countries as set forth in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. The Communist Party of China is profoundly conscious of the duty incumbent on it to uphold and strengthen the unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement. As always, we shall spare no effort in making our contribution in this connection. The Communist Party of China has advocated on more than one occasion, and still advocates, the convening of a meeting of representatives of the Communist and Workers¹ Parties of all countries at which all can sit down calmly, and, through adequate and comradely discussion, harmonize their viewpoints, iron out their differences and strengthen their unity on a new basis. Together with all other fraternal Parties, we desire to take every possible step towards easing relations and strengthening unity, in order to improve the atmosphere and create the conditions necessary for convening the meeting of fraternal Parties. Today, the imperialists headed by the United States and all the reactionaries are frantically and vainly struggling to halt and turn back the tide of our epoch, to prevent the emancipation of the oppressed nations and oppressed peoples and to disrupt the socialist camp. In the face of our arch-enemy, we Communists should, more than ever, unite closely and wage the common battle unswervingly. No words or deeds detrimental to the struggles against imperialism and the reactionaries of various countries, to the revolutionary struggles of the peoples of the world, or to the unity of all Communists and the revolutionary people of the world, will be countenanced by Communists anywhere, by the proletariat and working people of all countries, by all the oppressed nations and oppressed peoples and by all those engaged in the struggle to safeguard world peace. The unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement is the source of our strength and the hope of the oppressed nations and the oppressed peoples of the world. The more closely we are united, the more the people of the world are heartened and inspired. The more closely we are united, the greater is our ability to strengthen the revolutionary people¹s confidence in victory and to deal telling blows at the imperialists and the reactionaries of all countries. We should not disappoint the expectations of the people of the world. We must firmly uphold unity and oppose a split. We must have genuine unity and oppose sham unity. Let us unite on the basis of Marxism- Leninism and proletarian internationalism and on the basis of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement! 21 SPEECH OF GREETINGS DELIVERED AT THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE SOCIALIST UNITY PARTY OF GERMANY BY WU HSIU-CHUAN, HEAD OF THE DELEGATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA (January 18, 1963) Dear Comrades, Our delegation has been entrusted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to extend the warm fraternal greetings of our Party and of the Chinese people to the Sixth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and, through your Congress, to your whole Party and to the people of the German Democratic Republic. Under the leadership of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the people of the German Democratic Republic have scored great achievements in the cause of socialist construction. There has been a noteworthy rise both in the level of industrial and agricultural production and in the material and cultural standards of the people. Your achievements in construction are important contributions to our common cause of socialism and communism. We Chinese people rejoice in them and heartily wish you new and greater successes in your socialist construction. 22 The Chinese people very well understand that the people of the fraternal German Democratic Republic are on the western front of the socialist camp and are waging an arduous struggle against the reactionary forces of West German militarism which are fostered by the United States. U.S. imperialism, pursuing its own aggressive objectives on the German question, has been turning West Germany into a new hotbed of war. It obstructs the signing of a German peace treaty, continues to insist on keeping the occupation status of West Berlin and constantly carries out all sorts of provocations and subversive activities against the socialist camp from West Germany and West Berlin. The reactionary forces of West German militarism, which have ganged up with U.S. imperialism and become a pillar of the aggressive North Atlantic bloc, are engaged in criminal activities threatening the security of the German Democratic Republic and the entire socialist camp and thereby threatening the peace of Europe and the whole world. The struggle of the people of the German Democratic Republic against West German militarism, which is being groomed by the United States, their struggle against the policies of aggression and war of U.S. imperialism and West German reactionary forces and their struggle to conclude a German peace treaty and solve the problem of West Berlin, are all struggles which conform not only with the interests of the German people but also with the interests of peace in Europe and the world. The Chinese people will always stand by you in these struggles. The present international situation is continuing to develop in a direction favourable to the peoples of all countries and unfavourable to imperialism. The socialist camp is growing stronger every day. The national and 23 democratic revolutionary movements are engulfing Asia, Africa and Latin America; many of the oppressed nations have won brilliant victories in the fight against imperialism and colonialism. The working people of the capitalist world are becoming more and more united in the class struggle and are intensifying the struggle against monopoly capitalist oppression and enslavement, the struggle for democracy and social progress. The movement of the peoples of all countries against the imperialist policies of aggression and war and in defence of world peace is growing broader and deeper. The peoples of the world have full confidence in the cause of peace, democracy, national liberation and socialism. Imperialism is a decadent force historically destined to die. Its days are becoming more difficult. The contradictions inherent in imperialism are daily becoming sharper. The imperialist camp is further disintegrating because of the struggle for markets, for spheres of influence and for control of nuclear weapons. The process of the capitalist world¹s decline and collapse is accelerating. However, imperialism will never withdraw of its own accord from the arena of history and its nature will never change. The more unfavourable the circumstances in which imperialism finds itself, the more it will intensify its attacks on the peoples of all countries. Therefore, the people of the world must always maintain the highest vigilance against imperialism and never relax in the struggle for a single moment. Kennedy talks profusely about peace but is actually pursuing a more cunning and more adventurous global strategy of counter-revolution. One must not entertain any unrealistic illusions about this chieftain of the U.S. monopoly capitalist class. The Kennedy Administration 24 is employing the dual tactics of counter-revolution: under the cIoak of peace it is actively carrying out the policies of aggression and war. It is pursuing the policy of strength and the policy of nuclear blackmail ever more frantically and stepping up arms expansion and war preparations; while preparing for nuclear war, it is also preparing for conventional war and is actually engaged in so-called special warfare. It is craftily carrying out all sorts of intrigues in the vain hope of stamping out the national and democratic movements, suppressing the revolutionary movements of the peoples, and breaking up the socialist camp. More and more people have come to realize that U.S. imperialism is the centre of world reaction, the most ferocious enemy of the people of the world and the most vicious enemy of world peace. Recently, the situation in Cuba has provided the revolutionary people of the world with extraordinarily rich and vivid lessons. This situation proves that man is the decisive factor in the struggle against imperialism. It was the heroic Cuban people who mobilized themselves and rallied around their revolutionary leader, Comrade Fidel Castro, persevered in the five just demands for the safeguarding of Cuba¹s independence and sovereignty, waged an unswerving struggle against U.S. imperialism and, with the sympathy and support of the peoples of Latin America and the world, won a great victory in defence of Cuba¹s independence, sovereignty and the fruits of her revolution, thus making a great contribution to the cause of world peace. U.S. imperialism bullies the faint-hearted but fears the stout-hearted; what it fears most is the strength of a united revolutionary people. Undoubtedly imperialism can be prevented from launching a world war and world peace 25 can be safeguarded, so long as we firmly believe in the strength of the masses of the people and resolutely rely on their struggles; so long as the great forces of our time ‹ the forces of socialism, the forces of national and democratic revolutions, the forces of the working class and all peace-loving forces ‹ are united and form the broadest possible united front against imperialism, headed by U.S. imperialism, and its lackeys; and so long as we adopt correct policies and wage unremitting struggles against the enemy. This is the only correct way to defend world peace. The Communist Party of China and the Chinese Government have consistently stood for peaceful coexistence between countries with different social systems. China was an initiator of the well-known Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. On the basis of the Five Principles, China has established friendly relations with many countries, concluded treaties of friendship or treaties of friendship and mutual non-aggression with Yemen, Burma, Nepal, Afghanistan, Guinea, Cambodia, Indonesia and Ghana, and achieved a satisfactory settlement of boundary questions with Burma, Nepal and other countriesl. These facts are clear to all. As far as the Sino- Indian boundary question is concerned, China has consistently sought a fair and reasonable solution through peaceful negotiation. Nevertheless, the Nehru government of India has completely rejected negotiations, made every attempt to alter the situation on the Sino-Indian frontier by force and made ever-increasing encroachments on China¹s border territories. And finally it brazenly ordered an attack to be launched on China and Chinese territory to be ³freed² of Chinese frontier forces. Confronted with the massive attacks of 26 the Indian troops, China struck back in seIf-defence; this was a minimum, legitimate measure that any other sovereign state would have taken. Having repulsed the attacks of the Indian forces, China immediately proposed the cessation of fighting, disengagement and the reopening of negotiations, then, on her own initiative, ceased fire and withdrew her troops. It is precisely because of this that the situation on the Sino-Indian border has eased. We have repeatedly explained that the Nehru government¹s persistent opposition to China is the outcome of its domestic and foreign policies, which have become more and more reactionary, and is the outcome of its becoming more and more obsequious towards imperialism and of its repressing the people at home with increasing brutality. The Nehru government is supported and encouraged by the imperialists, and especially by the U.S. imperialists, in its opposition to China and in its increasingly reactionary domestic and foreign policies. It is regrettable that it is also supported and encouraged by some self-styled Marxist-Leninists, who have disregarded the facts and turned right and wrong upside down throughout the Sino-Indian boundary dispute. They have shut their eyes to the large number of relevant documents published by socialist China over the past three years and more, and have turned a deaf ear to all the information and explanations which the Chinese side has repeatedly made to them. In fact, they have joined Nehru in the anti-Chinese chorus. This shocking stand has absolutely nothing in common with Marxism- Leninism and proletarian internationalism. The modern revisionists represented by the renegades to the working class, the Tito clique of Yugoslavia, have surrendered to imperialist pressure, are willingly serving 27 imperialism and are playing a role which the Social- Democratic parties are unable to play, that of undermining the international unity of the working class. Usurping the title of a party of communism, waving the banner of a socialist country and garbed as Marxist- Leninists, the Tito clique is trying to deceive the revolutionary peoples of various countries, to destroy their fighting spirit and to disrupt the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed peoples and nations. It is trying to disintegrate the socialist countries by exporting the so-called YugosIav road, which means degeneration to capitalism. Under the mask of ³nonalignment², it is striving to undermine the unity between the socialist countries and those countries which pursue a policy of peace and neutrality. Today the Tito clique is a task force of U.S. imperialism for carrying out the latter ¹s counter-revolutionary global strategy. As the Moscow Statement points out, the Tito clique ³. . . betraying Marxism-Leninism, . . . carry on subversive work against the socialist camp and the world communist movement . . . they engage in activities which prejudice the unity of all the peace-loving forces and countries. Further exposure of the leaders of Yugoslav revisionists and active struggle to safeguard the oommunist movement and the working-class movement from the anti- Leninist ideas of the Yugoslav revisionists, remains an essential task of the Marxist-Leninist Parties². Comrades, now more than at any other time, we Communists need to be concerned about safeguarding and strengthening the unity of the socialist camp, and of the international communist movement. Uniting against the enemy is in the supreme interest of the Communists and the peoples of all countries, and is the primary task of 28 all Communists. The relations among socialist countries and among Marxist-Leninist Parties are built on Marxism- Leninism and proletarian internationalism. The Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement are the common programme of the Communist and Workers¹ Parties of the world on which they unite together against the enemy. These documents lay down a common line for struggles against imperialism and struggles for world peace, democracy, national liberation and socialism, and also lay down the principles guiding the mutual relations of fraternal countries and fraternal Parties. As the Moscow Statement points out, ³every country in the socialist camp is ensured genuinely equal rights and independence²; ³all the Marxist-Leninist Parties are independent and have equal rights; they shape their policies according to the specific conditions in their respective countries and in keeping with Marxist-Leninist principles, and support each other²; all the Marxist-Leninist Parties should ³work out common views through consultations and co-ordinate joint actions in the struggle for common goals². The experience of the entire international communist movement proves that differences of one kind or another among fraternal countries and fraternal Parties can hardly be avoided; the question is how to handle the relations among fraternal countries and Parties correctly. If the principles guiding relations among fraternal countries and Parties, i.e., the principles of independence, equality and the attainment of unanimity through consultations, are violated, the result can only be the harming of unity, the widening of differences, and even the danger of bringing about a split. The Communist Party of China is consistent in safeguarding the unity of the socialist camp and of the in 29 ternational communist movement, and consistent in defending the principles guiding the mutual relations of fraternal countries and fraternal Parties as set forth in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. That was why a year or more ago the delegation of the Communist Party of China expressed its firm opposition when public attack by name was made for the first time on another fraternal Party, the Albanian Party of Labour, at the Twenty-second Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Already at that time we pointed out that such a practice ³does not help unity and is not helpful to resolving problems. To bring a dispute between fraternal Parties or fraternal countries into the open in the face of the enemy cannot be regarded as a serious Marxist-Leninist attitude. Such an attitude will only grieve those near and dear to us and gladden our enemies. The Communist Party of China sincerely hopes that fraternal Parties which have disputes or differences between them will unite afresh on the basis of Marxism- Leninism and on the basis of mutual respect for independence and equality². However, it is to be regretted that this sincere advice on our part has not succeeded in preventing a deterioration in the situation. Actuated by its desire to uphold the principles guiding the mutual relations of fraternal countries and Parties and to strengthen unity, in April 1962 the Communist Party of China energetically supported the suggestions put forward by a number of fraternal Parties for easing relations and improving the atmosphere, and formally proposed to the fraternal Party concerned that a meeting of representatives of all Communist and Workers¹ Parties should be convened to iron out differences and strengthen unity through comradely discussions and consultations. We also 30 pointed out that pending the convening of such a conference, all Parties should stop attacking each other over the radio and in the press, so as to create conditions favourable to the convening of the conference. We cannot but point out that to our distress such efforts on the part of the Communist Party of China and some other fraternal Parties have not evoked a response from the fraternal Party concerned. On the contrary, the practice which violates the principles guiding relations among fraternal countries and Parties has been steadily intensified, so much so that the recent series of Congresses of a number of fraternal Parties have been used as platforms for further attacks on other fraternal Parties. At these Congresses, comrades of some fraternal Parties continued their attacks on the Albanian Party of Labour and attacked the Comrnunist Party of China and another fraternal Party by name. In addition, they have extensively mobilized their newspapers and other propaganda media to make large-scale attacks and slanders against the Communist Party of China. It is completely justified that many fraternal Parties have expressed deep anxiety and worry at this grave adverse current which is disrupting unity and creating a split. The Communist Party of China has always welcomed any and all words and deeds which are conducive to the unity of the international communist movement. At the current Congress of your Party, we have heard a certain degree of response to the consistent proposal of the Communist Party of China for the cessation of open attacks among the fraternal Parties, the relaxation of strained relations among them and the improvement of the atmosphere. We will be very happy if such expressions are translated into aetion. We maintain that the deeds 31 of Communists should accord with their words. One should not preach the need to call a halt to attacks while at the same time continuing to make attacks. Such a practice is not conducive to ironing out differences and strengthening unity. Here we wish once again to make a sincere appeal: let all of us treasure the interests of the cause of the proletarian revolution and of the struggle against the enemy, iron out differences and strengthen unity through proper channels and strictly in accordance with the principles set forth in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement. In order to iron out differences and strengthen unity, it is imperative to return to the path of adherence to the principles laid down in the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement and to the path of inter- Party consultation on the basis of equality. In this respect, it will be helpful in resolving problems for the comrades who first attacked fraternal Parties to take the initiative. The Communist Party of China maintains that the only correct way to iron out differences and strengthen unity is for everyone to adhere to Marxism- Leninism and proletarian internationalism, to the revolutionary principles of the Moscow Declaration and the Moscow Statement and to the principles guiding relations among fraternal countries and fraternal Parties, and to conduct comradely discussions and consultations. It is in pursuance of this stand that the Communist Party of China has more than once proposed the convening of a meeting of representatives of all Communist and Workers¹ Parties and has supported the suggestions made by a number of fraternal Parties for the convening of such an international conference. Now we still maintain that it is essential to call such an international con 32 ference of fraternal Parties. To make the conference a success, the fraternal Parties of various countries must make joint efforts to overcome numerous difficulties and obstacles and do a lot of necessary preparatory work, including cessation of attacks against fraternal Parties. In the interest of the international communist movement and of the common struggle against the enemy, the Communist Party of China is ready to continue to work unremittingly together with all other Marxist- Leninist Parties for the ironing out of differences and the strengthening of unity. We firmly believe that the international communist movement will eventually surmount all difficulties and obstacles, enhance the unity of its ranks and score great victories in the struggle to oppose imperialism, to safeguard world peace and to promote the cause of human progress. Comrades, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and its Central Committee headed by Comrade Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese people, holding high the three red banners ‹ the general line for socialist construction, the big leap forward and the people¹s commune ‹ have waged struggles in the cause of socialist construction and have achieved great successes. Warmly responding to the call of the Tenth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party and continuing to hold high the three red banners, the people of our country, united as one, are now singlemindedly and courageously advancing and striving for a new upsurge of the national economy and for new victories in the cause of socialist construction. In international affairs, the general line of our countrys foreign policy is: to develop relations of friendship, mutual assistance and co-operation with the Soviet Union and the other fraternal socialist countries in accordance with the principle of proletarian internationalism; to strive for peaceful coexistence with countries having different social systems on the basis of the Five Principles and to oppose the imperialist policies of aggression and war; and to support the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed peoples and the oppressed nations against imperialism and colonialism. Our people will persevere in this general line and fight, together with all the revolutionary and peace-loving people of the world, for the victory of the cause of world peace, democracy, national liberation and socialism. Comrades, the peoples of China and the German Democratic Republic have supported each other and formed a deep friendship in the course of their socialist construction and their common struggle to oppose imperialism and safeguard world peace. We firmly believe that the friendship between our two Parties and peoples will be further developed and consolidated on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism and in the interest of the common struggle against the enemy. May the fraternal friendship between the peoples of our two countries grow with each passing day! Now, please allow me to read the message of greetings from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. 34 MESSAGE OF GREETINGS FROM THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA TO THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE SOCIALIST UNITY PARTY OF GERMANY The Sixth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Dear Comrades: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people, extends warm, fraternal greetings to the Sixth Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, and through it, to your whole Party and to the people of the German Democratic Republic. The Chinese people rejoice in every success scored by the people of the fraternal German Democratic Republic in socialist construction and in the struggle for the unification of the motherland and believe that you will gain new successes in your future construction and struggles. U.S. imperialism is increasing its efforts to carry out its policies of aggression and war throughout the world. With the energetic support of U.S. imperialism, West German militarism is exacerbating its provocations against the German Democratic Republic, thus gravely threatening the peace of Europe and the world. As in the past, the Chinese people will resolutely support the just struggle of the people of the German Democratic Republic against the U.S. policies of aggression and war, against West German militarism and in defence of peace in Europe and the world. In the struggle to oppose imperialism and safeguard world peace and in the cause of socialist construction, the peoples of China and the German Democratic Republic have supported each other and formed a deep fraternal friendship. The Chinese people and the Communist Party of China will continue to make efforts to strengthen the unity between the peoples of our two countries and to strengthen the unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism. Long live the unbreakable friendship between the peoples of China and the German Democratic Republic! Long live the great unity of the socialist camp and of the international communist movement! Long live Marxism-Leninism! The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China January 12, 1963 mnopqrstuvw * abcdxcd ( fg ) 1963 h 1 ij1d kl: ( m ) 3050‹476 00040 3‹E‹540p