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[The ‘following is ‘the ‘full text of a - pesolution cited in World Outlook last week, stating the stand of the French Communist students on-.the ouster. of Khrushchev... The resolution was passed October -25 by a two-thirds: majority - of the ‘National Committee of the Union des Etudiants. Communistes.] 01. 0.”
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< ores “The. ‘National. Committee. of - the UEC met more . than a week after . Comrade. Khrushchev. had. been replaced as head of the CPSU [Commun- .. ist party of.-the Soviet Union].and.the Soviet government. The. com. mittee discussed the event in the spirit of solidarity that binds the Communist students of France to the Soviet Union. Conscious of the -emotion throughout the University and throughout the democratic forces. of. our country, the committee -decided that it would be useful to make public its..opinion.on,these -questions.. The truth is. that in sthe struggle for socialism which the. UEC.is conducting,. the image of .socialism-has -great. importance. ‘The. practices in the changeover | pkace.in question the value of ‘the example of the socialist countries in the struggle for socialism. The solidarity that links us objec-. tively to the Soviet Union places great responsibility on us in relation to the mass of students- with: whom we expect to struggle for socialism,: _ og et es
That ‘is why we consider ‘tt our duty to state our disagreement with the methods which, -insofar..as. the facts are known, were employed at the, time of the replacement. of Comrade K.. More than a week after this..exceptional event,- the:.Communists and the masses of the entire world are still waiting: for..the . true: explanation: of -the change that took place. ‘The Communist parties have been obliged to send delegations to Moscow, All those who are concerned about this. event. are left with nothing but the speculations of the non-Communist press, The official reason given -- resignation because of reasons of health, cannot be seriously entertained.
In the eyes of the Communist students, in the eyes of all the students who are interested in socialism, the methods by which Com~rade K. was replaced pose in the sharpest way the problem of social~ ist democracy. How much participation is there by members of the party, the Soviet people, in solving the problems posed in the Soviet Union? How is it possible, eight years after the Twentieth Congress, for the phenomena which that congress sought to break with to be reproduced? This shows how much the problems of the Stalinist and post-Stalinist epoch must be studied in a scientific way, something that has not yet been done in a satisfactory manner, in such a way that the militants might be better able to understand, foresee and control events, .
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The uneasiness of the. students with whom we work, our own questions, lead us to call for the immediate and complete publica~ tion of the minutes of the cc [Central Committee] of the CPSU for October 14, including, naturally, what Comrade Khrushchev might have said there.
Doubtless, the grave differences dividing ‘the international
Communist movement have something to do with this political overturn, The problem of the unity of the Communist movement is in fact a problem of the greatest importance,
- The National Committee of the UEC holds that complete return to Communist democracy in all fields constitutes one of the elementary conditions needed to bring about the resolution of the internal contradictions of the socialist countries and the problems posed in the organization of the workers movement,
But this problem cannot be resolved, in the opinion of the National Cammittee, except by deepening and continuing the essentially antidogmatic policy, the bases of which were laid down at the Twentieth and Twenty-second congresses, which also pointed out the dangers of opportunism, and in which Comrade Khrushchev, what- -ever may be the criticisms lodged against him, played the important part assigned by his role,
The grave differences that have arisen in the workers international movement cannot be resolved except by deepening the discussion among the ranks before bringing the debate to a close.
-For its part, the National Committee of the UEC, which has. sought in practice to draw the necessary consequences of this policy in our organization, will hold to that line; we believe that there is no other policy for the Communists today than the one that came out of the Twentieth and Twenty-second congresses, and that our task is to go forward in deepening it.
Directeur-Gérant: Pierre FRANK. teur).