RUSSIA LAYS BARE PLAN TO TAKE OVER PEACE MOVEMENTS

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• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
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• Publication Date: September 1, 1983
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LONTON' DAILY TELEGRAPH
1 September 1983
Russia aye bare..
plan to take over
peace movements
B NIGEL WADE in Moscow
THE latest issue of the Soviet ideological
a journal, COMMUNIST. lays bare with
startlinc, candour Moscow's tactics for taking
control of the international "peace move-
ment."
.allies.
The journal's leading article spells out how
Communists are already working within Western
trade unions, anti-nuclear groups, pacifist organisa.
lions, and even environmental groups to oppose the
United State and, its Nato
It s" that some Western
Communists have been too
slow in Datong such
smups but that this is being
co-McLeCL
Cosorug rT denies that super-
poMw rivalry is the cause of
the nuclear arms' race and puts
the blame solely on the West.
It advances the theory that
the fundamental antagonism
between " socialism and
imperialism" has assumed a
" new inc highly important
form " and is turning into a
rtubal antatonisn: between
the forces? of imperialism and,
the interests of all mankind,."I
To lead the masses
or. this interpretation, of
America versus the rest of the
world, the article says it is the
duty Of Communists to lead the
world's wo:iang maces in
efforts to avert nuclear
catastrophe.
'Cbm'chmen, too
COMMV nST also notes that
anti-war campaigners in
!Western Europa and the United
-States are increasingly making
a connection 'between arms
expenditures and the problem'
'of unemployment. It describes:
how doctors, scientists, business-
men, churchmen,. trade union-
fists and local councils in the'
West have joined. the " peace "
campaign.
Nevertheless the world situa.
tion urgently demands " new,
additional efforts" frnm workers
to ."save human civilisation"
the article says, and a special
responsibility lies on Cam
munsts.
The communist parties of
West Germany, France, Greene,
Austria, Sweden, Switzerland,
and the United States all get
a pat on the back from
CoMMIIA'lst.
But the journal says that
some Western Communists were
slow to exploit independent
pressure groups, although it
adds " These defects have in
the main been overcome."
Tt goes on: " It is no secret
that at first certain comrades
showed a lack of understanding
of the essence of the antiwar
movetttents." They " did not
see in the members of these
.movements their objective allies
in the struggle for peace."
The article says that Corn.
mumsts consider active party
cipation in such organisations
a crucal means of consolidating
ties with the public and
strengthening their influence on
floe organisations concerned.
A lot depends on Western
europe's Social - Democratic
parties in this "peace cam-
.paign," the journal says. Some
?' Social-Democrats " are gradu.
ally acknowledging that the
r' threat to Europe" comes
rfrom the United States'
militaristic strivings.
Communists in dozens of
countries understand that peace
can be preserved a n d
strengthened if peace-loving
forces of the planet manage
to take under their control the
ce%'elopment of contemporary
international life," the journal
ArM
COMMUK1ST is the chief
theoretical publication of the
Soviet Communist party.
It adds: "The firm guaran.
tee of peace, in the final
analysis, is connected with the
progressive and . democratic
structuring of all countries."
The Journal notes the big
anti-nuclear demonstrations in
the West last spring and looks
forward to even bigger ones this
autumn. The article remarks
with evident satisfaction that
the demonstrations are increas.
inglr being directed spedfically
against the United States.
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