p Other fraternal Parties, too, find themselves obliged to combat “Left” or Right opportunism, or both. Our comrades in the French Communist Party .are waging this complex two-front struggle. And they are doing so successfully.

p The differences concern not only tactics, but also the over-all strategy of the 496 world communist movement: estimation of the imperialist forces; leading role of the working class; roads to socialism; the decisive role of the socialist community, led by the Soviet Union, in the battle against imperialism; the problem of war and peace, etc. Some suggest that we abandon the Leninist principles of Party organisation. National chauvinism, that common denominator of all opportunist trends, is boosted in place of the basic principles of proletarian internationalism. There have been attempts to resurrect the personality cult. The culminating point of this escalation is open anti-Soviet and anti-communist propaganda. Splinter movements are being organised and supported, and they quickly slide into abusive polemics, provocation of violence, and armed aggression. Ail this breeds doubt and distrust. The result is political confusion. No wonder an ill-informed worker will say: "I can’t make head or tail of it. Yesterday there was a united and disciplined communist movement. Now there are Moscow Communists and Peking Communists, hurling abuse at each other.”

p In defiance of known facts, some journals persist in describing the divergences between the Maoists and the overwhelming majority of Communist and Workers’ Parties as a Soviet-Chinese feud.

p This political confusion has its impact on the anti-imperialist front.

Assassination of prominent leaders, destruction of large detachments of the world revolutionary army, and the excessive caution of certain elements, hamper, to a definite degree, a consistent rebuff to the imperialist aggressors.