SPEAKS IN ROME
ROME, Dec, 1 -- Jacques M,-Vergas, editor of the monthly magazine Révolution spoke at a conference held here yesterday under the auspices of Tiers Monde, a leftist publishing house. The conference brought out a number of young people associated with working-class organizations.
Vergds said that. while his publication supported the orientation of the Chinese Communist party, its aim also was to provide a kind of forum open to contributions of various origins, He said that beginning with the next. number, the magazine would no longer concentrate solely on Asia, Africa and Latin America, but would address the workers! movement as a whole, including the workers in the advanced capitalist countries.
‘In the discussion, Vergds was asked - for further explanation of his or the review's positions, some of which were criticized, in particular the
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Livio Maitan of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International spoke on the present orientation of the Chinese Communists on the decisiveness of the colonial world in the victory of the world revolution, He .. criticized distortions which have been made by opponents of the Chinese in presenting their positions. He then criticized the defense of Stalin made in certain texts of the Chinese, declaring that on the basis of pro-Stalinist positions it is not possible to work for the revolutionary renewal of the workers! movement, particularly in Italy.
In his reply, Vergés paid special attention to the latter part of Maitan's remarks, Vergés said that in the first place two analyses had ‘been made up to now of the work of Stalin, one by Trotsky and the other by Khrushchev, As for him, he did not accept the one made by Trotsky. He said this, however, without offering a word of explanation. He then said that he considers the analysis made by Knrushchev to be absolutely non- Marxist. Thus, the problem must be studied. But one cannot fail to note that many of those who criticize the Chinese for their position on Stalin were once rabid Stalinists themselves and still continue to utilize execrable :methods, :
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