p Yes, comrades, the experience accumulated since 1960 shows that hushing up the ideological differences between the Chinese leaders and the entire international workers’ movement only egged on the Chinese leaders to intensify their subversive work against Parties true to Marxism-Leninism.

p They began their systematic subversion with verbal attacks, often pitiful and ludicrous, but soon passed to direct attempts to disorganise and split the workers’ movement.

p Nor did they have any qualms about using a motley crew of renegades and adventurers in launching their attack against the Communist Parties. They did not hesitate to provoke bloody incidents on the border of socialist countries. They are preparing the Chinese people for a war against the USSR. Lastly, their 9th Congress consummated the break with the international communist movement by proclaiming Mao Tse-tung’s ideas the “Marxism-Leninism” of our epoch.

p I aks you, comrades, can our forum remain silent and passive in face of this new escalation of splitting activity?

p Can our Meeting fail to justify the great hopes for unity it has awakened in all real revolutionaries—the peoples of the socialist community, proletarians of capitalist countries, fighters of the anti-colonial front, victims of savage imperialist repression, all our brothers languishing in prisons and being done to death by the class enemy?

p In the judgement of our delegation, silence or indifference would be an expression of weakness. We must firmly and consistently uphold our MarxistLeninist ideology. In this particular case our delegation believes we have to fight back by all the Communist and Workers’ Parties participating in this Meeting solemnly reaffirming the principles of Marxism-Leninism. In practice this means approving the Main Document and all the other statements the Preparatory Committee has placed before us.

p By doing so, comrades, we will have taken a big step in fighting imperialism and the renegades in our own movement, and in consolidating international 498 communist united action. This would be proof of our faith in scientific socialism in the face of the splitters and adventurers.

p Yes, comrades, our peoples would then tackle the tasks before them with renewed confidence, and our firm resolve to carry these tasks to completion would echo across frontiers, helping the courageous Chinese people eradicate the virus of Maoism. We would, at the same time, give the peoples of Iceland, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan and China a clearer understanding of our tasks and win mass support in other countries, too.

Just as you can’t save a plant by leaving a worm in it, just as you can’t cross incompatible organisms, or cure a disease without removing its causes—we cannot improve the health of our Party family as long as an opposing trend persists. There can be no compromise with anti-communism; it must be fought, isolated, destroyed.