INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM MONTHLY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A004900020003-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 2013
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• Publication Date: November 1, 1949
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OIiE COMMITTEE ON INTEULNl'~TIONE;L COP~IUNISM
OFFICE OF iiEPOi',TS l.ND ESTIMl;TES
CENTP,l~L IPdTELLIGr,NCE 1'~GENCY
II1TEIiN1~TI0N!'~L COMMUNISM MONTHLY
IvTovember 1949
The material used in this publication was
reported during the month of October 19490
NOTICEo This document is a working papery not
an official CIlI issuanceo It has been coordinated
within O~Ey but not with the Il~C l,gencieso Tt
represents current thinking by specialists in OP,E
and is designed for use by others engaged in
similar or overlapping studieso It is intonded
solely for the information of the addressee and
not for further dissemination,
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PART I N~-JOR DEVELOPMENTS IN YJORLD COI~~IIUNISM DURING OCTOBER
PART II SURVEY OF SIGH?IFICANT TRENDS
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PART III FOIRTHCOMING COPllrrtUNIST EVE1~~T5
S E~'RET
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IJi6JOR IJ~VEL~RN(~NTS !N WORLD COIiViUNISP:7
During the month of October, there was striking evidence from
areas outside Communist domination that Co~rmunist control of organ-
ized labor is steadiYy diminishing.. It is apparent that most non-
Communist~workers beyond the .Soviet orbit are now aware of the
danger of Communist exploitation of their economic grievances for
political purposes. As a. result, Communist agitators have, on the
whole, been less successful in~their efforts to capitalize on labor
disputes than they were., for example., in the London Dock strike and
the French Miners' strike, Vdith the possible exception of France
a.nd Italy, it is unlikely that the Communists will succeed in.pre-
cipitating any strike of ma.~or proportions this fall,
Recognizing these~setba.cks, the Communists have intensified
their attempts to compensate for them, mainly by using the World
Federation of Trade Unions (VdFTU), now completely Communist-con-
trolled., for infiltration of non-Communist labor organizations.
Proceeding cautiously, they h~.ve de-emphasized political issues
and stressed social and economic problems. They are seeking to
infiltrate non-Communist labor by setting up VJFTU "trade depart-
ments.," which are international organizations of workers within
one trade or industry, and by bringing into these departments
such key workers as the miners, metal workers, seamen, communi-
cation workers, and petroleum workers. The VuFTU is still in
the process of building up e.nd numerically strengthening these
"departments", of which there will be sixteen by the end of
1950. It will then claim that it represents organized labor
in all significant industries throughout the world.
The success or failure of this tactic will depend largely
upon the unity and povaer developed by the non-Communist unions,
However, the possibility should not be oltogether dismissed that
this device, which is being used to redress Communist losses in
labor movements of the !~;~est, may hHVe some effect, even though
political sophistication in these areas has considerably in-
creased..
E>nother device which the Communists continue to use - and
not entirely without success - is the "peace" campaign. Vulzile
the Communist-sponsored International Peace Day (October 2) and
the peace congresses which followed during October apparently
left little impression on non-Communists, they were, by Commu-
nist standards, not altogether unproductive. Activities of
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this sort se~t~e nbt only to tUin; C~nver~~~ ~i~tt also to increase
the experience and efficiency o~,;lacal G~itfmunist organizatio~s~
In ac~clitiori to the failure of their efforts to extend con-
trol over predominantly non-Communist elements, the Communist
leadership in a number of countries 7remains internally divided,
as demonstrated particularly in Norway, Italy and Japan, It
should be kept in mind, however, that the differences of opinion
center about the choice of methods which Communists should employ
in attempting to gain power; The activists, who want to fight
against non-Communist regimes with all means, fair or foul, are
ready to go unde4ground and are opposed to temporary compromise;
the legalists, who ostensibly want to remain within the consti-
tutional framework of their country prefer to avoid illegal
methods until the moment is opportune for them to abandon
constitutionality and become overt rebels again, It would be
erroneous to assume that Titoism is necessarily at the bottom
of these struggles even though the victorious faction of a
party may accuse the defeated leaders of such a crime, Present
events in Norway are a case in point,
From the standpoint of US security, the protraction of
internal differences within the Communist parties - and among
the separate national parties - is of considerable importance.
If the warring factions cannot unite and one of them is elimi-
nated from official party leadership, those disgruntled Commu-
nists may transform their opposition into enmity against princi-
ples for which the conquering faction stands, It is at this
stage ths.t the Tito-Cominform struggle may enter their field
of political consideration and that the tactical dispute could
bat~ome an ideological fight, Before the Tito dispute, fallen
Communists had no rallying point other than the ineffective
Fourth (Trotsky) International, The development of Titoism
has encouraged them to form an opposition without abandoning
Communisma
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PART ZI
SURVEY OF SIGNIFICANT TREIu'DS
This survey of significant trends
it the internationn.l Communist movement
vThich have become apparent during the
month of. October contains only those
developments which are believed to have
rn ir.:portent effect on the potential
of world Cor:.munism..
1. Communist Labor Control
I RTTERNATIONAL
Recent V;orld Feder tion of Trade Unions (6JFTU) moves to
este.blish new "trade deps.rtments" and to exploit those already in
existence represent an incre~;sing Soviet effort to penetrate stra-
tegic l~,estern industries and professions. In Fddition to the Inter-
n?..tional Unions which the YdFTU h~3s already established for the Metal
workers (in Paris), IUIiners (Brussels), Secmen and Dockers (Marseilles),
Building Tr~:de ~~corkers (Helsinki), Leather and Fur Workers (Prague),
Textile .tivorkers (Viarssw) and Teachers (Paris), the T:FTU hes recently
'set up a Postal, Telegraph and Radio ~~corkers Union in Berlin and
is prepo.ri ng to form an lgriculture.l Viorkers Federation in Bologna
Pdew international unions will be organized during the next three
months for the food