Three black students were killed and nearly fifty others wounded by white police and national guardsmen at South Carolina State college at Orangeburg February 8. The shooting took place after four days of demonstrations against a segregated bowling alley.
Students had gathered around a bonfire on the state college campus, when national guardsmen and cops, claiming they had been fired upon, charged the students.
Chilean and a Spanish representative,
who termed the "Soviet path of develop-
ment the most effective." But there was
trouble here too.
"In the paper presented by the
Cuban delegation it was said that the
term 'vanguard,' closely tied to the
name of Lenin and the Bolshevik party,
had later been ‘mechanically transferred
to all Communist parties no matter what
their activities were or whether this
corresponded to the reality.' For this
reason, the paper stressed, 'a breach had
occurred between the political and the
cultural vanguard.' The Cuban delegation
suggested the building of a 'scientific-
technical international' in support of
the 'third world' and the printing of
appropriate literature. Delegates from
France, Italy, and other countries did
not agree with this proposal."
Polyakovsky concludes his round-
up by naming the resolutions approved
“with applause but without voting" at
the closing of the congress. His only
hint as to the content of these resolu-
tions is that they called for heightened
revolutionary consciousness among in-
tellectuals and for the strengthening
of their struggle against U.S. imperi-
alism "by all means available to then."
Polyakovsky fails to mention that
the final resolution, among other things,
also declared that revolutionary change
"can only be attained through armed strug-
gle; this makes revolutionary violence,
and in particular armed struggle, a neces-
sity."
Likewise, he fails to indicate the
content of Fidel Castro's speech at the
closing of the conference. Of interest
to Za