“14-00000 -10- the meanwhile I throw the Forum open to your editorial board, ly other proposals were unthinkable! Give the Forum’s readers a chance to hear counter-revolutionary" viewpoints? Never that! I could only display my revo lutionary purity by acceding to your dem”
“parties, there. He pretends to be Marxist but claims that he dispute is not involved in the Sino-Soviet Betica. He doesn't want anything to do with that. That is the reason he sever wrote anything for the magazine. though I did see him. ± 12”
“money not for itself but for prestige. After all, Verges's father was of the founder of the Communist party Reunion, member of the French Assembly.‘ Bis A------- / 8 Be grew up in this sort of French Left-wing upper class, Hu brother is the head of the Communist party of 64%.”
“but he was willing to deduct the price of the mimeograph machine. & Be didn't receive that either. So he can't be considered very (important), At one point, to show you how silly he is, he was in contact with Kevin 7 DELVID ! ' Delman of Radio Free Europe, in Munich, asking h”
“despite ars of devoted cultivation. In the long debriefing rarely, if ever. entioned rose who felt had really accomplished anything rofessional left-wing revolutionary. There are indications that regards his activities over recent years comihat * trewardina though there littl”
“14-00000 4 often. Many countries call themselves democratic but in reality ? are nothing but militarist, demagogic, and many simply go through 4 the motions of elections. Many are sinely totalitarian governments •. which are living off the blood and toil of its people. T”
“thirties. About 35. Married. He is Egyptian. Be is anti-Nasser really. Be feels that the Egyptian Communist Par ‘has'* Pheas VecauseSunny & -- really abdicated any constructive role inside Egypt, even from the”
“12 ft 13 must be forgotten until liberation is won. Then, we can disagree among ourselves as much as we 76 like over leftist, rightist, socialist or liberal 1: ideas... - Ke continue?: UDo I got money Port th: A We are not a party. We are a group of konts? To, I zel it f”
“1" .*. - 6 - of all basic revolutionary vues tiers, w U. free play to unorthodox as well as orthodox views. If your views were correct, I argued, it would be : distinct advun- .tage to you to have such an opportunity to display their brilliance alongside the puny efforts o”
“He was involvedin that and again, it was the 0 Trotskyites who came to his support. Bags with other Kiberal groups. In terns of organizational support it was the Trotskyites. I heard of hin at the tine I was in CBS and I thought that it was very understandable and sent him m”
“sort of a prestige operation.r Expected tjree tjree or 4 issue to get out, before it would be seized, but that was enough for them. I think what they wanted to do was to establish themselves on an international plane, even nationally, as the leading left Party MOEC They’ve ”
“complications. If we deal with the situation in ‘icntist than in the world? No are move lortict can the Soviet oad 00vac. simple terms, we can understand it better. Words Union itself, because the Soviet Union calls for a do not mean a thing. What is important is action sottl”
“Italian Communist party. The Italians look with great favor on him because of his openness, his critical approach his Anti-Stalinism. Andersson says he got money from the Chinese for this book on China. Verges has tried desperately to smear him with the Chinese,but• apparent”
“4-00000 concentration camps where they were held putting out secret clandestine tracts supporting Nasser, which was the craziest thing I've ever heard. „Because now they've been liberated - in fact the old Communists are now being given very high organizational posts in the ”
“editorial policies should be. effectively put into practice, I offered (1) to continue publication strictly as before, meanwhile arguing out my. differences with you in discussions on the side; (2) to throw the columns of the Forum open to a general discus sion of all basic”
“new rovo- 'imperialist base and outpost for the protection of lutionary movement have a social content. Do you imperialist interests, a direct clash with all want us to specify the nature of the regime to be in imperialist forces?" Palestine after its liberation, now? That dis”
“member of the Congress Alliance in South Africa and she is married to an Indian. several , , She has some children and she lives here in London. She comes from a wealthy family in South Africa, I Imagine. She was found by Patricia Migowan Pinheiro to work for Revolution. Tha”
“1 who were unsatisfied with the reformist tactics the Social democratic tactics of the ECA and EDANX youth. Be got in contact with the magazine he wanted material to reproduce in Greek. I suppose he did. I took one year of Greek and I know nothing of modern Greek, I could just ab”
“is academic • be has contacts with Trotskyist groups. His contacts with the British : Communist party are not very good. He is very easy going. rather soft I personality. He is by no means 100% or even 50% pro-Chinese. In fasti- 1 particular because he doesn’t approve of Chin”
“people i you call "counter-revolutionary Trotckyists" - the only I people tho are facing these problems today in.a fearless, . revolutionary way : You demanded that the China Forum -80 become a stereotype for the policies and vulgar factional slanders which I could neither t”
“14-00000 / -9- raise them in print. You demanded more. You demanded that I attack anybody who did so - primarily the people you call "counter-revolutionary Trotskyists" - the only people who are facing these problems today in a fearless, revolutionary way. You demanded ”
“« concentration camps where they were held putting out secret clandestine 1* tracts supporting Nasser, which was the craziest thing I've ever heard. - Because how they've been liberated d- in fact the old Communists are now being given very high organizational posts in the n”
“anict suthoro, capcsinlly Latin. is also fuszy in that Ineg’s to soa20 U.S. pesitione CS baing propaganda positions and does not hastad the 1for Bassian positions. At the same time, he gave a impression of sincerity. quite e tit of criticism for Eussia, and nious search for t”
“draughty empty spaces which stretch behind the impressive facade and early tradition of the Communist International. I would like to go to the Soviet Union for a visit someday but I had to refuse your offer on your terms. I had to refuse, in short, to become a hack prostitut”
“enemy. The regular foods their poison, the left became a negative and impossible philosophy. What next? They became Racists, dropouts and began to wonder in search of their next "high". Dinallv s coH vaen % an-i-r}. and the entire drug culture began to become = shadow of thei”
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“recognised that they. were based on the "profound logic of experience". In time, however, it became increasingly apparent that the publication was lending its support to the Marxist-Leninist theory of revolution, and the Chinese Communist interpretation of it. The principal a”
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“rebels, Congolese,' .• with missal in one hand and machine gun in the other, a. ohao-zt, always gun-running, but had very high protection in the ( hurch ,his ‘ 2 were / ties with Cardinal Gemier of Lyons, who just died. , d ties with the Algerians. ****Y-C th / 9 / Cardinal”
“birds of a feather do flock together... C _ The person living with me that you mentioned in your * letter is a lady,' mother of the young student at the University of Wisconsin that you met at my hotel' in Chicago when I was last there. He is still very much in .the revision”
“is in his thirties. About 35. Married. He is Egyptian. 1 gkenuneRese He is anti-Nasser really. He feels that the Egyptian Communist Party has * .. 0 sng really abdicated any constructive role inside Egypt, even from the”
“East African correspondent of the Sow China Sows Agency in 1961 and went to China again in October 1963. Cuban Support A ow 7. ’ A Spanish edition of the publication was envisaged as early ae 1 May 1963 and it has baon reported that members of its staff have been in me ”
“in the rest two yours by having abundant harventa. Te said that hardly a Communist Party in the world now supports Red China, mentioning specifically as those that do the : Aiatralian, New Zealand and Viet Nam parties. jo. He commented at length on the Indencsian situation, b”
“ones - I could move throughout Africa, but one has to chart toouru). Poyinstance, Arncut Strand for to go to Ghana would create,* at this ling. 0/09 point, innumerable suspicions, but to ;o to Algeria when I have people 2 like GeorgesArnaux who is a very close personal f”
“their opposition, to the reetzsistel*i*iex progressive labor group and to the Regisze POC, Provisional Organizing Committee for new Marxist- Leninist party which to RAXA*HXH* was as an old pro-Albanian group. Progressive — from ,+ Labor is of course a split—off the Communist”
“They go in and out. In fact it's almost- it's very good reference if you've been in and out of the party. You’ve got so many people who have been in and out of the party that you can go almost anywhere and find sympathy and jobs and so on. wore. People at Expresse and so on ar”
“form of ian ultimatum and you told me that if 1 did anything but- .accept I would forthwith enter the camp of the "counter revolution". . - I had to refuse the se termn. I had to refuse to . lend myself to a slanderous and baseless struggle against the International Left O”
“involvedin that and again, it was the Trotskyites who came to his support. Shasex with other beral groups. Gadaxiat In terns of organizational support it was the Trotskyites. I heard of him at the time I was in CBS and I thought that it vas very understandable and -AERA CLP”
“maneuver. Of course \ whatever he tolls then generally turns out to be disastrous for them. I % For example, the so-called pro-Chinese students inside of the UEC, the Union des Etudiantes Gasuakqus Comunistes at their congress last year- let’s sea they’ve got one coming ”
“contacts with Trotskyist groups. His contacts with the British ; Communist party are not very good. He is very easy going. rather soft 1 personality. He is by no means 100% or even 50% pro-Chinese. In ***** ‘ particular because he doesn't approve of Chinese support for Preside”
“)0000 . Here ends the tape (recorded) by comrade [Galani]. [Wo appreciate]the material aid, the songs, the greetings, all of which make firmer in the Juggle and demonstrate that are going well, that the struggle was mewhat limited in the beginning it was because of lack clea”
“Soviets are right, and number of questions lite that. I realise very well that when I say this you nay say that I era half out of mind or that I am unwilling commit myself to a position. That hot sot shall try to explain my idea as clearl as I can. My idea is this: When yo”
“sense of writing : - an article,if someone asked me to write an article about Communisn.-ac. attractions for African students inFrance- in fact the Communist Party Lew has very little sikamkkmmmfor African students in France. It's just the 'association FEANT opposite. The ”
“GIBSON was working for Communist splinter ETC ps in Europe to the detriment of the international Communist movement, and that he was dealing tactlessly with the magazine’s 5Eints and contributors. The situation VAs such IAMAOWYArt that VERGES visited the C.K. in rid-July to”
“intervenes. The State taxes the rich one and then distributes subsidies to the poor ones, but this debate that is still going on in Algeria, wad curiusly enough these Trotskyists have been incontact, very close contact with the Yugoslavs. As you recall,the campaign, the so-cal”
“colonialism and imperialism at the same they have, until this time, reservations about the time?" He answered: “Yes, certainly $2 • 6 • Resistance Movement, and they (the Communists) say that we are fanatics and extremists, driven by - "Are Israel’s designs limited to Palest”
“subject. It was reproduced newspapers in the United States, in Europe — for instance, L’Estrelle de Paris reprinted it: was reprinted the New Statesman Londonj newspapers broad but important left wing in Europe —I even have a magasine from New Zealand which reprinted the reportag”
“anyhow, have the time to spend on arguing government in Qatar or Bahrain or ary other Arab left or right. Am I in a position to refuse the state. We aro not willing to discuss the problems ■ participation and help of any human being? Do you aid orientations of any Arab governm”
“They have lost . cadres here in (Ixtabal?) and elsewhere , suffered the consequences of the struggle; some comrades of the POT are actively persecuted —but always in connection with support activities. I believe your role is to drag them into more active participation in the ”
“Mona%- with missal in o-r Grand, sub machine gun in sclent. former worker priest,O.now involved in Congolese, ote. rabal ro- Always Extraordinary priest. Bad high protection in the Church, with Cardinal Geolie (Ph) Lyons to help from Cardinal. . who recently died. When pri”