COMMUNIQUE ON THE MEETING OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS PARTIES:

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03061A000400030006-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2000
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• Publication Date: November 21, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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21 November 1968
Communique on the meeting of the preparatory committee of the international
conference of communist and workers parties:
The preparatory committee of the international conference of communist and workers
parties held a session in Budapest between 18 and 21 November 1968. Representatives
of the following 67 communist and workers parties took part in the session:
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The Socialist Vanguard PartytbfaAlgeriavthelCommunistHPartraof the UnitedIZtatOs, the
Communist Party,ofhArgentini,i,theuAnstralian?COtamuniStIParty,i)the;Auttrian,CoMmunist
Party;uthe Belgian CommunittcPartn.the Bulgarian Communist:Partyi.the Bolivian Communist
Party, the Brazilian Communist Parts, the Communist Party of Ceylon, the Communist
Party of Chile, the Cypriot Working Peoples Progressive Party, the Popular Vanguard
Party of Costa Rica,the Czechoslovak Communist Party, tfte Danish Communist Party,
the South African Communist Party, the Dominican Communist Party, the Communist
Party of Ecuador, the Communist Party of Northern Ireland, the Finnish Communist
Party, the French Communist Party, the Greek Communist Party, the Communist Party of
Guadaloupe, the Guatemalan Labor Party, the Popular Entente Party of Haiti, the
Communist Party of Honduras, the Indian Communist Party, the Irish Workers Party,
the Iraqi Communist Party, the Iranian Peoples Party, the Israeli Communist Party,
the Jordanian Communist Party, the Canadian Communist Party, the Colombian Communist
Party, the PZPR, the Communist Party of Lebanon, the Communist Party of Luxembourg,
the MSZMP, the Party of Liberation and Socialism (Morocco--MTI), the Communist Party
of Martinique, the Mexican Communist Party, the MPRP, the Communist Party of Great
Britain, the SED, the West Berlin SED, the KPD, the Socialist Party of Nicaragua,
the Italian Communist Party, the Communist Party of Paraguay, the Communist Party
of Peru, the Portuguese Communist Party, the Communist Party of Reunion, the Rumanian
Communist Party, the Communist Party of Salvador, the Communist Party of San Marino,
the Spanish Communist Party, the Swiss Party of Labor, the Syrian Communist Party,
the CPSU, the Communist Party of Sudan, the Turkish Communist Party, the Tunisian
Communist Party, the Communist Party of Uruguay, the Venezuelan Communist Party,
and an illegal party whose name has not been made public for security reasons.
Representatives of the Communist Party of Norway-and the Party of Left (Communist--
MTI) of Swedentook part as observers.
Several parties had informed the preparatory committee by letter that they were
unable to send their representatives.
In accordance with the agreement adopted at the September-October 1968 sess.Lon,
the prepatatory committee examined the question of the convening of the international
-conference of communist and workers parties and the course of its further preparation.
ThOse taking part in the preparatory committee discussed this question widely and
comprehensively.
As a result of this they came to the concloston that tho international conference of
' communist and workers parties would be conveoen in May 196il -in Moscow with an agenda
adopted at the consultative meeting: "Tasks of the anti-imperialist struggle in the
current phase and the action unity of the communist and workers parties and all
'anti-imperialist forces."
They further agreed to convene the next session of the preparatory committee on
17 Mareh 1969 in Moscow. At this session the committee will examine the drafts of.
the documents for the forthcoming conference, take decisions on organizational cliAo7
tions connected with the conduct of the conference, and fix its exact date.
They instructed the working group to prepare the draft documents of the consultati.as
- for the next meeting of the preparatory committee.
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The representatives of the Communist Party of Great, Britain, the Swiss Labor Party,.
an/6 the Communist Party of Reunion, who agree in principle with the convening of an
international conference of communist and workers parties , will, announce the final
views of 'their parties on these decisions after, consultat,ion with, their leading
party organs. +rho other delegatiOns passed the oommunique unanimously..
The preparatory committee conducted its business in an atmosphere of free exchanges
Of views and.' coritradely, cooperation.. it expressed the- resolve the communist and
workers parties, to consolidate on the. basis. of Marxism-tehinism, and proletarian
Anterna,t,Jonai?tran th. ties, of .-friendship and solidarity,. which 310. then to each other,
The cloleeations of all the participating parties' expressed their -warm thanks to the
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MSZNP Central committee for, the fraterna.I? .hospitality and the excellent, organtzatiori
of the. work . of Ltio preparatory committee. They expresscd their'..best, wishes on the
oar:as-A on or the 50th .anri:i vprsary of! the foundationof,4the , party of communists in
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Hungary and they 'witibed. the 'members of the M.SZtv,IP id the ..Hungarian people fresh
r,ucce,?,,ses in soci.a construetion: from the ,bottom'?o.f, their?hearts,
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