JAPANESE CP SHIFTING AWAY FROM PEKING?
Political observers.in Japan are of the opinion that the Japanese Communist party may be trying to modify its strong pro- Peking: line. Akahata, the official organ of the JCP, has cut down on the number of articles translated from the People! s Daily and other Peking papers. There has been. a- “noticeable shift to. ‘dispatches from: pro-HMoscow sources. ;
A May: a1 editorial in Akahata ‘placed the “emphasis on.. “gtruggles on two fronts"; i.e., against both doctrinairism and revision -evident allusions to Peking and Moscow. The editorial followed. a. two-day meeting of the Central Committee at the: end of April.) ne
In addition, a delegation was ostentatiously sent to Rumania which has been, trying to build an. image of “independence. "
It. is. ‘said. ‘that the fate of the ‘Indonesian Communist party is’ one of: the factors influencing the ‘shift away from Peking.
The JCP may be moving to the bight, however. . Instead of drawing the correct conclusion that the debacle suffered by- the Indonesian Communist party.was caused by lack of militancy, the Japanese CP ledders. may have decided that it was too militant!
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