article in Nippon Dokusho Shinbun thus created a considerable sensation.
ARTICLE ON CHINA BY NOVACK AND HANSEN PUBLISHED IN CUBA AND MEXICO
A certain deepening of revolution-~ ary consciousness appears to be occurring in vanguard circles in Latin America. Various recent developments testify to this but none more directly than the publication in Cuba of an article on the "Cultural Revolution" presenting a frankly Trotskyist point of view on this subject.
The article, "The Upheaval in China --. An Analysis of the Contending Forces," was written by George Novack and Joseph Hansen and published as a special supplement in the January 23 issue of The Militant, a New York revolutionary-socialist weekly that has been a consistently strong supporter of both the Cuban and Chinese revolutions as well as the Soviet Union and the other workers states.
The article, which is a rather long one, took up the entire March 16 issue of a bulletin issued by the Revolutionary Orientation Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. The bulletin, published once a week, offers editorials and articles from the foreign press. Selections are made from journals and magazines of all kinds and publication of an item does not necessarily mean that the commission agrees with it.
It is of considerable interest, nonetheless, that this particular article was chosen, inasmuch as it refers extensively to Trotsky's analysis of the rise of Stalinism.
This is done by the authors in polemicizing with the editors of Monthly Review, an independent New York socialist magazine, who have taken a favorable view of the "Cultural Revolution" in China and Mao's role in it.
While vigorously defending the Chinese Revolution and its great achieve ments, Novack and Hansen oppose Mao's bureaucratic rule and speak in behalf of a program of proletarian democracy.
As against the editors of Monthly Review, who tend to take the "Cultural Revolution" at its face value, the two Trotskyist authors analyze it as part of a bitter factional struggle, one of the principal aims of which is to keep the Mao faction in power and to bolster a cult highly reminiscent of the one fostered by Stalin.
Besides appearing in Cuba, the article by Novack and Hansen has just been published in Mexico City. El Dfa, a well-known leftist publication, began it in installments in its issue of May 2.
Merit Publishers in New York have announced that the article is included in a pamphlet containing other articles on recent events in China which should soon. be off the press.