SENDS FRATERNAL MESSAGE
[The following is the text of a message sent from New York, October 31, by Farrell Dobbs, national secretary of the Socialist Workers party, to Fidel Castro. ]
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The delegates to the twenty-second national convention of the Socialist Workers Party wish to extend to the Communist Party of Cuba and to the Cuban people our heartfelt condolences on the death of Che Guevara. Revolutionaries everywhere mourn his death, as do millions of the oppressed. But we know that for the Cuban people the loss is particularly painful.
We share your conviction that even in death Che will prove to be a powerful example and that the struggle against capitalism and imperialism will be intencommittee. Several professors made passionate speeches against the party's unjustified actions. The participants were sharply divided between hard-liners and liberals. Adam Schaff, the foremost Polish Communist philosopher and member of the Central Committee, had been absent from the country on November 15. His views were tensely awaited since his vote could tip the scale to one side or the other.
Schaff himself had been under fire in the leadership for some unorthodox: opinions published in his recent book, Marxism and the Human Individual. But Schaff had been disarmed. Before the December 12 meeting he had been called into party headquarters where Kliszko told him: "Either you march with us, or you take the consequences."
Schaff buckled. He attacked Kolakowski sharply and said he wanted to damage the party. It would be absurd to maintain that there was no free discussion in the party; there was such discussion in the Central Committee! He himself discussed matters freely in the Central Committee; he was just writing another book on Marxism and would discuss it -- in the Central Committee.
Schaff's ignominious role in bringing victory to the bureaucracy has seriously damaged his prestige. Students call him "opportunistic" and "insincere."
Now, a year after Kolakowski's expulsion, relations between Gomulka's regime and the dissident intellectuals simmer with hostility.
TO CUBANS ON DEATH OF CHE
sified. As revolutionaries functioning in the heartland of imperialism, we recognize our special responsibility in this regard and pledge a redoubling of our efforts.
In his magnificent message, published in the Tricontinental magazine, Che declared that revolutionary struggles such as that of the Vietnamese people "continue to provoke repercussions within the United States; it is going to arouse a factor that was attenuated in the days of the full vigor of imperialism -- the class struggle inside its own territory."
The swift growth in both the size and militancy of the movement against the Vietnam war, as well as the rebellions in the black ghettoes confirm Che's analysis. For our part we will do everything in our power to accelerate this process.