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7 Continued from Page 6. ing this period. Great successes were won in the election campaign, and the Workerand Peasant Union is to continue. The newspaper L'Human- ité Rouge on March 17th car- ried an article and speech by its political director Jacques Jurquet and high- lights of a speech by Max Cluzot, a leading comrade of PCRMLF. They stressed the necessity of uniting to build a single Marxist-Leninist party. Comrade Jurquet pointed out, "The progress made in the unification process... is being watchedin France with great hopes, confidence and enthusiasm."He pointed out that the founding of the Party had been regarded as an urgent task since 1963. "The present endeavour to develop a current of the masses against capitalism and revisionism, as initiated by the PCRMLF and PCMLF has al- ready achieved positive res- ults." "The progress in the uni- fication of Marxist-Leninists in the past month or so was more decisive than that in the past 2 years." Comrade Cluzot pointed out, "Both the demands of the class struggle and the posit- ive balance-sheet of our com- mon work call for the unific- ation of Marxist-Leninists, and...we will do everything possible so that this year will not pass without the realisation of unification of our 2 parties." MARXIST-LENINISTS UNITE! *** Birch sinks lower The CWM was founded by ex-members of an organisation called the "Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)" which is led by Reg Birch, member of the AUEW executive and the TUC General Council. Since our organisation was founded, we have seen Birch and the clique around him sink further and further in- to the swamp of revisionism (revisionists are people who revise away the revolutionary essence of Marxism-Leninism, scientific socialism). Now Birch has joined the camp of the Soviet social-imperialists andtheir agents. Since the early 1970's, Marxist-Leninists around the world have recognised the fact that capitalism has been restored in the Soviet Union, and it has become an imper- ialist superpower, which is socialist only in words. That is why the communists of China, Albania, and the gen- uine Marxist-Leninists of all countries attack Soviet social-imperialism. Precisely because some people (though they grow fewer every day) are taken in by the "social- ist" words the Soviet Union uses to cover up its imper- ialist character (as shown most recently in its inter- ference in the Horn of Africa) it is important for Marxist- Leninists to show that the Soviet Union is no friend, but a social-imperialist enemy of the peoples of the world. But Birch has consistent- ly refused to refer to Soviet social-imperialism; he has just spoken about "Soviet imp- erialism. Recently, he has even done that less and less. These days, he generally just mentions the Soviet Union, not even calling it imperial- ist. There are clear signs that he is trying, in his own little way, to reverse the correct verdict of the international communist TRAVAILLEURS FRANCAIS IMMIGRES UNIS French M-L poster- French and immigrant workers united. ZIMBABWE SOLIDARITY The Central Committee of the Communist League of West Germany (KBW) issued an appeal on March 24th supporting the armed struggle in Zimbabwe, and denouncing the seizure of funds collected for ZANU in West Germany. A collection eaucrats, NATO generals and under the leadership of Int- ernational Imperialism march in a new crusade to destroy Russia and quite incident- was being organized with a view to gathering in enough money by May Day to fully equip a ZANU motorized div- ision. The state seized 105, 000 marks deposited in the Central account in Mannheim. The statement stressed the determination of the KBW to reach its target for May Day, and to recover the seiz- ed funds. "OUR TIMES" It has been decided to discontinue the story "Our Times," which has come in for quite a bit of criticism. It has been said that, "It's messageis unclear, the char- acters are cardboard." It is "out of character with the rest of the paper." These points are valid. ing sentence of the article says, "Because of the diff- erent system of society, the unions' functions are ent- irely different to ours." Reg Birch, Chairman of the CPB(M-L), talking with Chang Chun- chiao, one of the Gang of Four. This was on his last visit to Peking, before Chairman Mao died. On his return, he told some members of CPB(M-L) that China's foreign policy was revisionist, and that the CPB(M-L) should not change its policy, since there would soon be changes in China. Could it be that he knew some- thing about the plans of the Gang of Four to seize power? Could it be that Birch was something to do with the "illicit foreign relations" the Gang of Four were accused of maintaining and was involved in wider conspiracies in the international communist movement? movement on the Soviet Union ally, all Europe." and its agents. Our organization supports In several recent articles the Three Worlds Theory of in the CPB(M-L) paper, "The Mao Tse-Tung, yet we don't Worker", the Birch clique have support these things-it's attacked those who uphold the just more of Birch's non- Three Worlds Theory and acc- used them of calling for a war against the Soviet Union (A complete lie, since all the supporters of this theory have done is to point out that there is a growing dan- ger of war-which Lenin said was inevitable while imper- ialism existed-and that the world's peoples better get ready for it). In an editor- ial of March 23rd, Birch (the article is unsigned, but is in his peculiar style) wrote, sense. But that's not really the point. If "International Imperialism" is to march in a"new crusade" against Russia, what is the Soviet Union? Does this mean it is not part of "International Imperial- ism?" "Now, giving up the str- uggle to survive and becom- ing slaves to their exploit- ers, abandoning national sov- ereignty, workers are asked (I.E. by the supporters of the Three Worlds Theory, among others-Editor's note) to accept Common Market bur- This is undoubtedly the conclusion Birch is moving towards. This is confirmed by an article called "The USSR as we saw it", which app- eared in the March issue of the AUEN journal, written by J.G. Russell and Birch. The whole tone of the article is approving; there is no criticism at all of the Soviet Union, not even the mild criticisms which members of the older-style revision- ist "Communist Party of Great Britain sometimes allow themselves. The most reveal- Birch recognizes that Brit- ish society is capitalist, so if Soviet society is a "different system," then doesn't Birch mean it isn't capitalist? Birch never really broke with the revisionism of the CPGB, of which he was long a member; he and those around him are degenerating fast, as revisionists will. His latest pronouncements on the Soviet Union are just further evidence of this, and he is bound to get worse. Honest revolutionaries should put no trust in him, should oppose his revisionist line, and, if they are in the CPB (M-L), they should leave it and turn to a genuine Marx- ist-Leninist organization, for the Birch party is so much under the control of Birch and his close assoc- iates that they will not succeed in changing any- thing from within, as ex- CPB(M-L) members in CWM know from bitter experience.

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