TOWARDS AGRO-TOWNS
USSR
From December 22-25, 1959, the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union again examined the situation in agriculture.
The grain harvest all over the Soviet Union has been worse this year than in 1958, partly because of drought, partly because the work in harvesting was "badly or-
In Kazakhstan, a large part of whose agricultural production comes from "virgin lands," the total amount of grain harvested is thought to have been about five million tons less, and deliveries to the state have fallen by 26 %.
Output of meat and dairy produce has apparently risen considerably. Output of butter per head has for the first time exceeded the American level. The Seven-year Plan for meat production of 16 million tons would be met ahead
The central committee called on workers to produce four to five million tons of meat over that figure in order to catch up with per capita production United States. But the most important aspect of this central committee session consists in the new proposals adopted, put forward by Matskevich, the Minister of Agriculture These cerning the structural reorganization of agriculture.
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They are intended as an important step toward assimilating conditions on the farms to those in industry, toward making each farm a factory, with wages for the employees and profits to be ploughed back into the business.
Among the 55,000 kholkhoz now in existence, pilot enterprises are already to be found where conditions for remuneration do not differ from those in the sovkhoz, and where the village has been rebuilt on the model of an
The Soviet leaders hope that a transformation of this
description, when fulfilled, will raise the rate of productivity in agriculture (now half that in industry) and at the same time free the manpower necessary for the future te tie het of salove concentre, move.
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THE ARAB REVOLUTION
By MICHEL PABLO
Especially at the moment of de Gaulle's new proposals concerning Algeria and the critical vote on the question of the Algerian war and Algerian independence at the United Nations, this 72-page pamphlet is particularly timely. But its value transcends any particular component, however important or timely, for it constitutes a complete survey of the whole subject of the entire Arab revolution. One section provides the necessary historical background of liberation movements, another analyzes the economic structures of the whole vast region extending from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and a third explains, as against the fatal errors of unprincipled
Stalinist zigzags, what should be the policy of revolutionary Marxists on the steadily unfolding Arab revolution.
To the main text, consisting of Comrade Pablo's Report to the XXIst Plenum of the International Executive
Committee of the Fourth International, as reproduced in our issues 5 and 6, there has been added an extensive introduction that updates and increases the impact of the original report.
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