ONE MORE SPLIT IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY
The recurrent crisis in the Brazilian Communist Party recently hit a new high with the resignation of 17 top leaders. Five were São Paulo Central Committee members ; the remaining 12, youth leaders. The head of the dissident group is Taibo Cadorniga, hitherto the main liaison between
Brazilian and the other Latin American Communist
Parties. Among the others are : Vitorio Martorelli, a newspaperman who lately interviewed Khrushchev in Moscow;
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL Argileu Gonçalves, head of the Commercial Clerks' Union of São Paulo; Dante Placani, president of the National Printers' Union; and another trade-union leader, Orlando Piott.
In a manifesto explaining the reasons for their break, the 17 protested against the party's bureaucratization, sharply criticized it for its opportunistic and unprincipled support of the capitalist candidate Adhemar de Barros for governor of the State of São Paulo, and, most importantly, stated that in
67 view of the accusations launched by Khrushchev against Stalin, all the 1930-1940 Stalinist purges must be completely reexamined. It added that men like Trotsky, Kamenev, and others can no longer be considered "abortions of the human species," as Stalin called them in his history of the Russian Communist Party. They termed the 1955 Soviet intervention in Hungary "incredible," and condemned the execution of Imre Nagy.
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