inside the party.
festival organised by the PCF's youth "Avant-garde'.
member the FOR the leadership, it was the political perspective which gave birth to the crisis of the PCF, nor the TCHS 10 8735155011 forums in the Communist press — it was the ill feeling of a few "intellectunis'.., INSULTS It was already apparent in The Marchais Central Committer: imprecations and insults blossomed there for no BONUSUA reason (petty-bourgeois anarchists* lectuals seated behind their desks'), alongside disconcerting replies to questions refuted all the more casily in that they were made up out of nothing and attributed always to anonymous comrades.
lous ac neo up tor u scorn of the militants "those THE leadership of the French Communist Party (PCF) has pledged that it will not use the traditional weapon of expulsions to resolve the present crisis But its domination of the apparatus gives it plenty of opportunities nevertheless to suppress discussion and intimidate critics. Opponents of the leadership from the Union of Communist Students (UEC) in Bordeaux were even physically attacked at the recent These methods were highlighted in an article which appeared in last week's issue of the French magazine "Le Nouvel Observateur'. Below we reprint the bulk of this article, written by SERGE LEWISCH (a UEC in and ROUCAUTE ( a PCF member from Arcueil).
everything, no matter what" chose who want factions and that the masses "can organise spontaneously those who 'attack the full-time officials and, still more dishonestly, those who have chosen' to express themselves outside the party. As if they had had any choice!
STYLISTIC The way this mapped out, but pursue it. Our national intel- as certain militants say bitterly among themselves has 3inco socot 1s time in hipping up the atmosphere LILLIANE increases stylistic amalgains: Althosser Elleinstein = Garandy the Socialist Party Threats follow I presence of Elleinstein Althusser at cerlain debates becomes "unacceptable". worst slanders are aired: The comrades who the party are bought by che bourgeoisie" (as one councillor L'Humanite and certain men from the apparatus, is happening as if the leading faction hoped to impossible to pose political GUES ONS CONDEMNATION YVES To do this, it has just taken a further step in bolstering its practices: it is mounting trials, political trials. In dozens of section committees hundreds of cells, "they" DELEINE I0 D condemnation of the letter of Tartare BEELER. as a factional which challenges the party and it's political line.
The general, the text is drawn up by Committee. or by leader. It is then vote at the levels below. When the result is positive, there is nothing more to do but let it wing its way to L Humanite.
And all this happens without those having had any knowledge of the form and content of what they without compose OUCH TO TIES. SHE WORSE. without the accused heing able The write outside assistance , everytring reach the are TENSIOLE undertaking leaderships':
is sameer tbe federal put to the TOE abroad. cunrades country.
The accused condent ever condemn, knowing the reasons happening Czechoslovak and publish texts 'Charter 77, lo delend theniselves in the paper read by Communists At the time of Scalin also, Communist parties ensured the condemnation of certaio their members who described their confidence the real conditions I He and of struggle in the Were. Condemned on the strength of countries. abbreviated doclarations by the unaninsous leaderships of the Commurist parties. This is sill scandaloos today the signatories af whose delence has, however, been taken up YVES ROUCAUTE (left] and SERGE LEWISCHE: We must cease having a blind confidence in our Communists should 1 recall and ponder on what that means. We must cease naving i blind confidence. Being can to our leadersaps. it military itust be replaced by a critical it is time to asseis for ourselves what is meant by the criticisms addressed to the Teaderships of the "socialist — to anguish and despairThat is why all Communists who agree today to sign these condemnations are, uL ou vica, accompaces of the Gulag. For the Gulap is the Avant-garde tesaral, simply the exerination of all those who utter criticisms gutside the party and aside it, chiss socialism. Very few people in it is aiso a state of mind and the methods which lend to il.
The Gulag, as extermination camp, is only the end resuit oi a certain practice, of a Stalinis iselation which driven orlain comrades wo had devoted their life to an idea — a classless society and freedom Ir is a practice of amalgam, lies, ever violence, as is shown by the blows struck against the Bordeaus comrade:
Gironde lederation ofticials, at When one tolerates, covers up for that. the yes, the Gring 1 is not so far off was