On an Article by M. Azcarate, a Leading Figure in the Communist Party of Spain

Abstract

Questions pertaining to the foreign policy of the Socialist countries, the relationship of that policy to the international class struggle, the interdependence between peaceful coexistence of states with different social systems and the détente achieved in the international arena in the recent past, and the development of the liberation movement in one or another part of the globe are of concern to the communist movement. Positions on these questions have been taken repeatedly in documents collectively worked out by the fraternal parties, such as the documents of the international conferences of 1957, 1960, and 1969, in which entirely clear and unambiguous answers were given. These questions are also dealt with extensively in documents of many of the communist and workers' parties of the countries of the socialist community, the French, Italian, and German communist parties, the communist parties of the United States and India, and a number of others. The documents reveal a common approach on the part of the communist and workers' parties that hold consistent Marxist-Leninist positions regarding these highly significant questions, important not only to their theoretical but practical activities, their daily struggle for the interests of the toilers, and for peace, democracy, and socialism.