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p Dear Comrades,

p On behalf of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party and Mongolian Communists, our delegation conveys warm, heartfelt greetings to the representatives of all the fraternal Parties present here. In the person of the participants in this Meeting we greet the Communists, the working class and all other working people of all continents and express our sincere solidarity with their courageous struggle for common aims, against imperialism.

p The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party assesses this Meeting as an outstanding event in the life of the fraternal Parties, in the development of the international communist movement. The participation in the Meeting of representatives of the overwhelming majority of Communist and Workers’ Parties shows the success of the line of strengthening the cohesion of the international communist movement.

p Experience shows that international meetings of Communist and Workers’ Parties are the most effective form of co-ordinating common tasks of the struggle for peace and socialism, and of working out the platform of united action. We firmly believe that the present forum of the world communist movement will successfully carry out the honourable tasks before it and that it will be a new landmark of the joint vigorous actions of the world’s Communists in the struggle against imperialism, in strengthening their unity.

p The preparations for the Meeting, which were conducted in the course of many months, brought to light and convincingly demonstrated the desire of fraternal Parties for unity in the anti-imperialist struggle on the principled foundation of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism. This desire, stemming from the consciousness of the community of aims and vital need for unity, made it possible to create an atmosphere of understanding and close co-operation among Parties and lay a sound foundation for our Meeting’s success.

p This international communist forum was prepared by the collective efforts of Communist Parties on the most democratic basis, with consistent observance of the norms of comradely co-operation and equal rights of all the participating Parties.

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p We consider that the work of the Preparatory Committee was useful and fruitful. This was facilitated by the active efforts of the fraternal Parties which took part in the work of the Committee, particularly the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who created all the necessary conditions for the work of the Preparatory Committee.

p The speech made at this Meeting by Comrade Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CC CPSU, contains a profound and objective analysis of world development, clearly defines the tasks of the anti-imperialist struggle and is a valuable contribution to the theory and practice of the international communist movement. An important contribution has also been made by the speeches of the representatives of other fraternal Parties, which are consistently guided by the great Marxist-Leninist teaching.

p Comrades, drafts of extremely important documents, drawn up as a result of careful and detailed discussion in the course of the preparations, have been submitted to our Meeting. They are the fruit of the collective experience of Communist Parties, the result of co-ordinating their stands’on key problems of the anti-imperialist struggle. Our Party approves with satisfaction the drafts of the Main Document, the address on the centenary of V. I. Lenin and other documents, and favours their adoption by our Meeting.

p The draft Main Document deals with the most pressing problem of modern times, the basic subject of discussion at our Meeting, from Marxist-Leninist positions. This is the question of the tasks in the struggle against imperialism at the present stage and united action by the Communist and Workers’ Parties and all other anti-imperialist forces.

p We consider that in its structure and content the Main Document is an integral whole and fully conforms to the tasks confronting our movement. It contains a concrete analysis of the policies and contradictions of modern imperialism and objectively assesses the leading trends of world development. Such an analysis is absolutely necessary for a correct determination of the tasks of the anti-imperialist struggle and for uniting the forces opposing imperialism. On the basis of this analysis the Document substantiates the need for and the tasks of intensifying the struggle against the aggressive policy of imperialism.

p Developments over recent years show that, forced to manoeuvre under the pressure of the revolutionary forces, imperialist reaction seeks to preserve and strengthen the system of exploitation and oppression, hated by the peoples, and retrieve the positions it has lost. The imperialists, above all the US imperialists, are launching counter-attacks against the forces of peace, socialism, democracy and national liberation in an attempt to stop the advance of the world revolutionary process.

p Resorting to the most diverse means, including provocation, counter- revolutionary conspiracies, reactionary coups and armed interventions, imperialism seeks to force the peoples of the world to accept its policy and tries to keep international relations in a state of .constant tension. By their aggressive actions, the reactionary imperialist circles generate crisis situations in different parts of the world.

p In the draft Main Document it is emphasised that although as a world system imperialism has not grown stronger it remains a serious and dangerous foe. The 507 aggressiveness of the USA, the chief imperialist power, has increased. This correct and realistic conclusion, which allows for neither an underrating nor an overrating of the forces of modern imperialism and fully conforms to Lenin’s definition and analysis of imperialism, can best serve the cause of mobilising the broad masses for the struggle against imperialist reaction.

p The world situation is characterised by a steady growth of the forces of the international revolutionary movement and a further change of the general relationship of forces in its favour. No matter to what counter-measures it has resorted, imperialism has not been nor will be able to reverse the development of the modern world.

p The most striking testimony of the bankruptcy and doom of the forces of imperialism is the failure of the US plans of aggression in Vietnam, Far from having forced the heroic Vietnamese people to their knees, and having failed in their far-reaching aims, the US imperialists have found themselves isolated morally and politically and been compelled to sit down at the negotiating table with representatives of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The historic successes of the Vietnamese people are the result of their unshakable will, courage and staunchness, and of the massive assistance and support for their just struggle by socialist countries, chiefly the Soviet Union, and the result of the fraternal solidarity of all democratic and progressive forces of the world.

p Like other fraternal Parties, our Party considers that today one of the prime tasks of the anti-imperialist struggle is, through the efforts of all progressive and peace-loving forces, to compel the US ruling circles to end the aggression in Vietnam and agree to settle the Vietnam problem on the basis of the Vietnamese people’s just demands, which have been once again clearly stated in the 10-point programme of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Our delegation hails the creation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, which will unquestionably play a big role in mobilising the country’s patriotic forces and ensuring the final victory of the Vietnamese people.

p The attempts of the imperialists to overthrow progressive regimes in Arab countries and restore the positions of colonialism in those countries with the help of the Israeli aggressors have been frustrated thanks to the determined resistance of the Arab peoples and the effective support given them by the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. However, backed by the US, West German and other imperialists, the Israeli ruling circles persist in their policy of annexation and expansion, committing inhuman crimes and launching new military provocations. The Mongolian people and the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party resolutely support the just struggle of the peoples of Arab countries, regarding this struggle as part and parcel of the common struggle of the peaceloving forces against imperialism and neo-colonialism.

p The socialist world system, the most powerful revolutionary force of modern times, is in the vanguard of the struggle for humanity’s social progress. To a decisive extent the growth of the socialist world system’s might facilitates a further change of the world balance of power in favour of socialism, to the detriment of imperialism.

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p The Soviet Union, the first country to blaze the path to socialism for mankind, a country which is successfully building communism, is the main force of world socialism and the mighty mainstay of the revolutionary movement of modern times. This historic role of the first land of socialism is determined not only by its growing economic and military potential, decisive contribution to curbing imperialist aggressors, defence of the revolutionary gains of socialist countries and support for the national liberation movement of peoples. In the present complex international situation the Leninist Party and Soviet state show an example of a high sense of responsibility for the international revolutionary movement, utter devotion to its internationalist duty and consistent struggle for the vital interests of the working people of all countries, for the consolidation of the revolutionary principles of Marxism-Leninism against all forms of distortion and misrepresentation. That is why, in spite of the slanderous inventions and fabrications of the imperialist bourgeoisie and anti-Soviet elements of every hue, the working people and Communists in all countries turn their eyes with profound hope and trust to the great Land of Soviets, the glorious homeland of the October Revolution, the inextinguishable beacon of the revolutionary movement of our day, drawing their inspiration from its successes and example in the struggle for a happy future.

p Sincere fraternal solidarity with the Soviet Union, with its Communist Party, all-round support of their titanic efforts aimed at consolidating the positions of socialism, at the defence of peace and the security of peoples, have always been an integral part of proletarian internationalicm in our movement. Mongolian Communists, loyal to Marxism-Leninism, attach vital importance to the further all-round strengthening of the unbreakable fraternal friendship between the Mongolian People’s Republic and the USSR, and cordial and close ties between the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

p Our Meeting naturally devotes much attention to the struggle of the peoples of the socialist countries who are being directly subjected to imperialist aggression and encroachments—the peoples of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Korean People’s Democratic Republic, the Republic of Cuba and the German Democratic Republic. On the strength of these socialist outposts in Asia, Latin America and Europe, on the success of their peoples in socialist construction and the defence of their revolutionary gains will largely depend the future of socialism in these parts of the world. That is why we fully support the tasks and calls, contained in the documents of the Meeting, to strengthen solidarity with the fraternal Parties and peoples of these countries, who are in the frontline of the struggle against our common enemy.

p Under the leadership of their Marxist-Leninist Parties, the peoples of the socialist countries are scoring outstanding successes in economic and cultural construction, in the improvement of their socialist social relations. The experience gained in building the new life shows that, despite the difficulties, the leading tendency in the socialist world is the ever fuller manifestation and action of the advantages of its economic, social and political system, and consolidation cf relations of class brotherhood of the peoples of the socialist staten on the principles of socialist internationalism, equality and mutual assistance. The attempts to 509 depict the socio-political system of the socialist countries, guided by the MarxistLeninist Parties, as non-democratic, and their relations as unequal are incompatible with the class, proletarian approach to the phenomena of social life.

p It is necessary further to note that the forces of international imperialism are spearheading their struggle above all against the countries of the socialist system. These forces have repeatedly tried to "roll back" socialism with the aid of military gambles, and have not even now abandoned the idea of direct armed struggle against it.

p At the same time, the imperialist circles have been mounting ever wider political and economic pressures and ideological subversion against the socialist countries, pinning special hopes on undermining socialism from within by activating and supporting anti-socialist elements. In their attempts to restore the old system, forces hostile to socialism—external and internal—link up with each other and resort to refined forms and methods of struggle. In this context, it should be said that the view that the socialist countries and the Communist Parties may display international solidarity with the people of this or that socialist country only in the event of an armed imperialist attack, remaining indifferent in face of other forms of imperialist encroachments on their socialist gains, is obviously wrong. This standpoint clashes with the principles of international class solidarity, the interests of the peoples of the socialist countries and the world communist movement. The defence of socialist gains against any encroachments by imperialist and internal reaction is an internationalist duty of all the socialist countries and Communists throughout the world.

p The working-class movement is a most important component of the antiimperialist struggle, its most active force which undermines the foundations of monopoly domination in the capitalist countries.

p We follow with wholehearted solidarity and admiration the courageous struggle of Communists in the capitalist countries, who, in complicated and difficult conditions, despite sacrifices and privations, fierce repression and terrorism, head the working people’s class battle against the system of exploitation and oppression, against the military gambles of the imperialists, the revival of fascism, and for democracy, national independence and socialism. The powerful strike movements and other actions by workers, peasants, intellectuals, young people, students, and the broadest masses of people which swept the United States, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, the Latin. American countries and other areas of the world in recent years show the fresh great possibilities of the antiimperialist class struggle and the enhanced role of the Communist Parties.

p The national liberation struggle of the peoples has risen to a qualitatively new stage. In connection with the collapse of the colonial system of imperialism and the emergence of a great number of new national states in Asia and Africa, the task of eliminating the last vestiges of colonialism is on the order of the day.

p A most important feature of the present stage of the national liberation revolutions is the entry of some young states on the non-capitalist path of development, which opens up the possibility of surmounting the backwardness they inherited from the colonial past, and creating conditions for transition to socialism.

p There are great difficulties and trials in the way of the new direction of 510 development of the newly independent countries. In order to stamp out the liberation movement’of the peoples, the imperialists try to make use of the difficulties facing the states in this zone, support and foster reactionary forces in them, weave criminal conspiracies against the legitimate governments and seek to sow discord in the ranks of the fighters for national independence and social progress.

p In these conditions, we must stress the exceptional importance of unfolding a resolute struggle against the designs of the imperialists and their menials, strengthening co-operation of the peoples of these countries with the international communist movement and its product—the socialist world system. Historical experience, including the experience of our own country, shows that only by consolidating the alliance with the socialist countries and the international working-class movement is it possible for the newly independent countries to achieve progressive social development and to safeguard their independence against encroachments by imperialism and neo-colonialism.

p Comrades, in the present conditions of world development, when the growing strength of the forces of socialism and democracy opens up fresh possibilities for extending our action, all the Communist and Workers’ Parties are faced with great tasks in activating the struggle against international imperialism, which is stepping up its moves against the socialist countries, the national liberation movement and all progressive forces.

p Our Meeting, proceeding from the collective experience of the fraternal Communist and Workers’ Parties, gives a clear-cut definition of the main directions in the struggle against the common enemy. The united action platform for all torrents of the world revolutionary movement continues to be based on the struggle against the danger of another world war, in defence of peace and the principles of peaceful coexistence. Participants in the Meeting justly stress the importance and significance of united action to achieve these aims. The activity of the Communist Parties aimed at solving these pressing tasks will naturally promote further cohesion of the international communist movement, and will raise our unity to a higher level. This will undoubtedly have a positive effect on consolidating the alliance of the socialist, national liberation and democratic forces of the World.

p The strengthening of unity and cohesion of the international communist movement is the main factor for uniting all the anti-imperialist, democratic forces and intensifying their actions in the struggle against imperialism. It is known that there are serious difficulties and differences in our movement. In view of the penetration of .the eroding influence of opportunism into some sections of the communist movement, there are stronger tendencies acting to the detriment of its international cohesion.

p However, these difficulties and differences are not decisive in the development of the socialist countries and the communist movement, because the constantly operating factors uniting the fraternal Parties and countries are much stronger than that which divides them. The existing differences can be overcome only as a result of tireless, active efforts by the fraternal Parties, and through united and concerted action to achieve common goals.

p At our Meeting, which has concentrated on the problem of fighting 511 imperialism, differences cannot be brought to the fore. It would be even more erroneous to demand the resolution of these differences as a condition for co- ordinated action against the common enemy. The very fact that the Meeting has been called and the adoption of the ’documents submitted to its consideration will undoubtedly be an important step in the gradual elimination of the existing difficulties. Our Party has come out and will continue to come out together with other Parties for the patient elimination of differences between Communist Parties on the principles of proletarian internationalism,

p Our delegation expresses its full agreement with the proposal of the CPSU and a number of other fraternal Parties to organise systematic exchanges of opinions and to hold international theoretical conferences.

p Uncompromising ideological struggle against all forms of opportunism is the prime task of all Communist and Workers’ Parties. Lenin stressed time and again that if unassociated with struggle against opportunism, the anti-imperialist struggle is no more than an empty and specious slogan. It should be noted that both Right and “Left” revisionism more than just distorts the Marxist-Leninist teaching. It also weakens the ideological pillars of the Communist Parties, leading to abandonment of the class struggle, to departure from the principles of proletarian internationalism.

p The reactionary forces are not just by chance banking on greater activity by all kinds of revisionists and splitters in the communist movement; they know perfectly well that, interlacing closely with nationalism, Right and “Left” opportunism ultimately causes Communists to shed their revolutionary qualities, to degenerate and merge with their class adversaries.

p Comrades, as we speak of the struggle against imperialism, of making it effective, of taking joint action to cement the world communist movement, we are obliged to touch on those obstacles that impede our struggle and are used by imperialist and reactionary forces. We cannot, therefore, by-pass the question of the great-power chauvinist, anti-socialist-line of the Mao Tse-tung group in China. This is doubly important, because after the so-called 9th Congress of the CPC, which officially endorsed the Maoist political line, the danger emanating from the Chinese leaders to peace and socialism has grown more acute.

p As we know, the present Chinese leaders, who subsucute struggle against the socialist community and the world communist movement for struggle against imperialism, have been for years working to weaken and subvert the world antiimperialist front by their actions and are thereby helping the forces of reaction and war.

p Having broken with Marxism-Leninism, with proletarian internationalism, the Peking group conducts an undisguised and unbridled ideological and political struggle, as well as subversive activities, against the Marxist-Leninist Parties, seeking to split their ranks, to corrupt the communist movement and saddle it with its anti-Marxist ideas and the Maoist line. The Maoists proclaim any Communist Party or socialist country that refuses to follow the Peking line to be “revisionist” and guilty of "betraying Marxism-Leninism, the socialist cause”.

p In their anti-socialist struggle, the Chinese leaders are aiming the main blow against the CPSU as the staunchest and most experienced contingent of 512 the communist movement, and against the Soviet Union as the principal and powerful bulwark of the socialist community. The Peking leadership is bent on discrediting the policy and high international prestige of the CPSU and the Soviet Union by all the means at its disposal, and to sow distrust towards them. Whipping up nationalist frenzy and anti-Soviet hysteria, the Mao Tse-tung group applies every effort to purge the minds of Chinese working people of all friendship and sympathy for the Soviet people, of all gratitude for its truly internationalist aid and support in liberating China and in China’s socialist development. The Chinese population is told that war with the Soviet Union—the friend and ally of the Chinese people—is inevitable. The rabid anti-Sovietism of the Chinese leaders led to the disgraceful armed provocations which they organised on the Soviet-Chinese border. These hostile Mao group’s sallies are viewed by the Mongolian Communists as an act of aggression against the other socialist countries as well.

p Considering the present situation, it is proper to say in no uncertain terms that it would be a big mistake to ignore and underestimate the threat of armed conflicts coming from the Mao group. We cannot help noting that failures in home and foreign policy only accentuate the adventurism of the Chinese leaders. The recent Maoist congress that approved Mao Tse-tung’s thesis about the inevitability of a new world war and, in particular, a war against so-called "social imperialism", set the sights on war preparations against the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. The Peking leaders are mobilising China’s material and human resources for militarisation, for stepping up war preparations, generating a war psychosis in the country.

p It should be stressed that the situation created through the fault of the Chinese leaders should not be viewed as the sole concern of the CPSU and CPC, the USSR and CPR only. The Maoist anti-Soviet policies and actions directly affect the basic interests of the entire socialist community, the entire world communist movement. China’s ruling circles are bent on undermining the unity of the socialist countries, on sowing distrust and hostility among them, and on subjugating them to their dictates.

p The Mongolian People’s Republic, one of China’s neighbours, is directly affected by the Mad group’s anti-socialist policy, being exposed to its hostile attacks all down the line. In trying to impose their anti-Marxist line on our country, the Peking leaders have for years exerted direct political, economic and ideological pressure upon us. The sharp reduction by the Chinese authorities of economic tiesj of all types of co-operation, with the Mongolian People’s Republic has naturally inflicted, and continues to inflict, great harm on the economy of our country. The Mao group conducts a frenzied anti-Mongolian campaign. Subversive literature pours into Mongolia, roundthe-clock radio broadcasts are saturated with lies and slander. Calls resound from Peking continuously, urging our people to rise against the People’s Revolutionary Party, overthrow the people’s government and abolish the existing social system. Resorting to demonstrations of force, the Chinese authorities have whipped up tension along our nearly 5,000-kilometre-lcng border with China. Peking’s firebrand and propaganda campaigns are designed to impede the Mongolian people’s bfJlding of socialism, to discredit our country 513 internationally, undermine the traditional Mongolian-Soviet friendship and drive a wedge between the fraternal peoples.

p The Mao group’s anti-Mongolian policies and actions are based on its great-power chauvinist claims to our country, which they picked up from the Chinese militarists and the Chiang Kai-shek clique. As you know, Mao Tsetung’s latest statement of intention to annex Mongolia was made as recently as 1964 in a conversation with a group of Japanese Socialists. It is easily seen what the plight of Mongolia’s working people would be if Mao Tse-tung’s greatpower designs were to materialise. This may be seen from the oppression and humiliation suffered by Mongolians, Kazakhs, Tibetans, Uigurs and other national minorities in China, from the gross violations of their rights and freedoms.

p Speaking of Peking’s expansionist policy, we refer not to any imagined threat sometimes arising in the imagination of individuals as a result of erroneous appraisals of reality or of allergic reactions to questions that, among other things, concern sovereignty and independence. We speak of a real danger emanating from the Chinese ruling circles, aimed, above all, against countries neighbouring on China.

p The Mongolian people flatly reject the groundless claims and slanderous attacks of the Maoists. At the same time, the Communists and the working people of the MPR, who have deep respect for the great and hard-working Chinese people, for Chinese Communists-internationalists, are determined to preserve and strengthen normal relations between our two countries, consistent with the interests of the Mongolian and the Chinese peoples. Our Party and government applied, and continue to apply, every effort to normalise relations with the CPR, But far from meeting us half-way, the Chinese leaders are intensifying hostile actions against our country.

p The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party has always conducted a principled struggle against the anti-Marxist course and subversive activity of the Chinese leaders. As we see it, exposing the essence of the policy and practical activity of the Mao Tse-tung group is of vast importance in the present conditions for cementing the unity of all the revolutionary forces, for repulsing imperialism. This is not only the cause of separate contingents of the communist movement, but the internationalist duty of each Marxist-Leninist Party.

p Dear comrades, it is noteworthy that the Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties is taking place at a time when Communists and working people the world over are preparing to mark the centenary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

p A man of genius who continued the teaching and the revolutionary cause of Marx and Engels, the acknowledged leader of the international working class, Lenin was a great friend and teacher of the oppressed peoples, showing them the only correct way of achieving their national and social liberation. The Mongolian people rightly associate their freedom and independence, their successes and victories in building the new life, with the name of the immortal Lenin, with his great teaching, the militant weapon of all the contingents of the world communist movement.

p As they approach this historic date, the Party members and working people 514 of socialist Mongolia are becoming more conscious of Lenin’s greatness, the greatness of his brilliant ideas, of his revolutionary struggle. Our Party sees it as its sacred duty to be unflinchingly loyal to Lenin’s ideas, to be irreconcilable to all signs of opportunism as Lenin was, and firmly uphold the purity of Marxism-Leninism. It is determined to mark the Lenin jubilee by stepping up activity in guiding the building of socialism, by redoubling its political, ideological and organisational work among die masses, by consolidating in every way the time-tested Mongolian-Soviet friendship, the friendship and co-operation with the peoples of other socialist countries, by invigorating fraternal solidarity with the Communists and working people of all countries.

p In our epoch, the ever-living teaching of Lenin has become a source of strength and inspiration for millions of people in all countries in the struggle for peace, democracy, national and social emancipation, for socialism and communism. Unquestionably, the Lenin jubilee is the outstanding event that will cement still further the great army of fighters for the happy future of mankind battling under the invincible banner of Marxism-Leninism.

In conclusion, allow me, on behalf of our delegation, to express to the Central Committee of the CPSU our heartfelt gratitude for the splendid facilities provided to our Meeting, for the immense efforts made to assure its success, for its consideration and fraternal hospitality.