party, the Partido Communista de la Republica Dominicana [PCRD]. Secondary splits occurred, all on the question of the class nature of the 1J4. Now there are five MPD factions -- the various positions of which are not at all’ clear. The confusion created by the splintering process in the Dominican left can be seen in the party labels. The new Maoist PCRD is distinct from the PCD [Partido Communista Dominicana], which is the current name of the traditional pro-Moscow tendency. Before 1965 the old-line Communists used the same name as those in prerevolutionary Cuba -- Partido Socialista Popular [PSP].
A congress of the 1J4 was held in November. Presumably it would resolve the "transformist" dispute. Those MPD'ers who still remained in the movement successfully dominated the congress, although which splinter they represented was hard to tell. Their political line was carried at the congress, namely that Santo Domingo is a "semifeudal and semicolonial country," that the task at the present stage is the restoration of the constitutionalist government (i.e., the bourgeois democratic revolution), the same stand substantially as that of the class-collaborationist PCD. This similarity of political line did not prevent the Maoist elements from pushing through the congress a whole series of slanderous and sectarian denunciations of the pro-Moscow Communists.
Finally, these "leaders" declared, as though inspired by divine revelation, that the 1J4 "has been, is, and will be a petty-bourgeois party."