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p PROBLEMS OF PEACE AND SOCIALISM
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p contents

p First Step Towards a Nuclear-Free World. Commentary. Disarmament
Is Possible!....................................................... 5

p The Ultra-Right Will Not Stop This Process Lee Dlugin (USA) ...___...... 11

p Czechoslovakia, February 1948: Dialectics of Revolution Alo’is Indra
(Czechoslovakia).................................................. 13

p Reawakening Hope Louis Van Geyt (Belgium) ......................___ 22

p Costa Rica and Crisis in Central America Humberto Vargas Carbonell
(Costa Rica)...................................................... 30

p WMR Questionnaire Michael O’Riordan (Ireland), Kalevi Sorsa (Socialist

p International), Salvador Clotas, Alejandro Sercas (Spain)............... 36

p the party

p Unity Is Now Real Haydar Kutlu, Nihat Sargin (Turkey) .................. 43

p Backing Slogans With Action Batmunhiyn Ligden (Mongolia)............. 48

p The Communists and Youth. Who Are They Going to Follow? Ginette
Despretz (France) ................................................. 50

p Learning Lessons and Righting the Wrongs Francisco Frutos (Spain)........’ 57

p A New Impetus to the Policy of Reform. The Chinese Press About the 13th
National Congress of the CPC..............._:...................... 62

p INFORMATION

p From the Press.................................................... 69

p WMR Introduces.................................................. 70

p In Brief.......................................................... 71

p looking towards the 21st century

p Options for Global Economic Development Ferenc Kozma (Hungary) ...... 73

p US-Soviet Relations: Confrontation or Co-operation? Henry Kissinger (USA)

p 78 Sharing Benefits Together. A Joint Interview by Nuclear Physicists from
China, the USA and Japan.........................................

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p exchange of views, discussion

p INVITATION TO A DISCUSSION. Reflecting on the Concept of the Party Dimitr Ananiev (Bulgaria). Commentary of the Commission. Topical for Us All .. ₁................................................ .... 89

p International Economic Security: The Communists’ Stand. Review of the Discussion.................................................... 96

p viewpoints

p Breaking the Vicious Circle Mohammed Ibrahim Nuqud (Sudan)........... 108

p The Right to Be Masters of the Country Phan Van Khai (Vietnam)........... 116

p Financial Slavery Julio Silva Colmenares (Colombia)..................... 122

p Is There Such a Thing as ’People’s Capitalism’? Ben Fine (Great Britain)..... 129

p Education—for Whom? Julius Mende (Austria) ................ ..’.... 136

p By Anti-Nuclear Unity—Towards People’s Unity William Sommerset
(Ireland)......................................................... 142

p Limitless Possibilities for Co-operation Jose R. Lobaton Heredia (Peru)..... 147

p Uprising in the Occupied Territories Nairn Ashhab (Palestine)............. 149

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p surveys, letters and diary

p Pages of History. 60th Anniversary of the Paraguayan Communist Party

p Hugo Campos .................................................... 151

p THE READER WANTS TO KNOW

p ‘Abolishing’ the Working Class? Fawziya Ayed (Iraq)................... 154

p We Are Not Discarding Socialist Values Sergei Kolesnikov (USSR)....... 156

Letters to WMR.................................................... 158