[The Sixth Summit Conference of Nonaligned Countries, held in Havana Sepcember 3-y age in the pren the world adie movement. Here, however, are excerpts from some assessments of the conference, taken from newspapers received by Intercontinental Press/Inprecor.]
"Sekai Kakumei" (World Revolution), central organ of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Japanese section of the Fourth International). Published weekly in Tokyo.
The September 17 issue features an editorial under the headline: "Anti- Vietnam Maneuvers
Smashed-Nonaligned Conference Registers Advance for Anti-Imperialist Forces."
"The Sixth Nonaligned Summit Conference, in which ninety-five countries participated, has attracted international attention as a major event affecting the course of world politics."
The editorial went on to comment on the four most noted points in the outcome of the conference, which it listed as the refusal to seat the Pol Pot delegation as representatives of Kampuchea, the censure of Egypt for its betrayal of the Arab cause, the condemnation by name of major imperialist powers including Japan for their collaboration with the South African apartheid regime, and the admission into the Nonaligned Movement of Nicaragua, whose representative appealed for aid to the revolution there.
"As these four decisions show, despite a crisis that could have split it, the Nonaligned Conference went on, with the antiimperialist positions of Cuba and Vietnam setting the tone throughout. On the eve of the conference, U.S. imperialism stirred up a campaign about '3,000 Soviet troops stationed in Cuba' in an attempt to isolate Vietnam and Cuba, but this met with no success at all.
"The bourgeois media have portrayed the conference proceedings as a conflict of 'pro-Soviet radicals' vs. 'moderates,' and have frowned at the excesses of the Cubans.' But that was not the case.
"On the contrary, the course of the conference reflected the fact that, despite the difficulties facing the working-class side internationally (such as the Sino- Soviet conflict), the world situation is tending to strengthen anti-imperialist forces. It favors the spread of revolution, and is driving the imperialist powers and their colonial stooges into a corner.
"The conference shows that the slogan of Nonalignment' has lost its content, that the semicolonial world is rapidly being polarized between revolution and counterrevolution, anti-imperialism and proimperialism...