At a meeting of the Axecutive of C.P.0,5., wiich heard reporte from the British delegates to the 22nd. Congress of the %3.F.5.U., a reselution wes paseed which backed completely the new Khrushchoy lina, After preising the new programe of the (.F.5.U. it goea oni :
"The cult of the individual which developed inthe later yeare of Stalin's life took place on the background of axtreme difficulties in which socialiam hed to be constructed in the U.S5,3.7., tha capitalist encircloment, the fascist toreat of the '30s and the consequent world war."
Qoing wn to sar that tho 20th Congress opaned up.a new period with the full restoration of demoorsacy and collective leadership and the -omling of tha Almmises of the Stalin ora it sayss
"The main opponenta of all thia after 1956 wore Molotov, tialenkov. end Kaganovioh. Thay not only bors a personal responsibility for the crimes comitied they bitterly opposed ell the vital political measures, They oppored the 20th Congress and afterwards triad to reverse ite decisions, Thoir political dafaat and the political susceases of tha C.F.5.U. since were the basis for the truioph which the 22nd Congress waa able to record,"
Later in the resolution the Khrushchoy lino.on Albanie is faithfully repeated;
"The executive committees regreta thet the leadership of the Albanian Party of Labour, however, has departed from the political decisions of the 1960 world meeting of the Comminiet Partios, particularly .on the attitude to peaceful oo-axristence and the possibility of preventing war and to the cult of tha indivi-dual,
One wonders what would have bean said about Ehrushchoy had the so-called anti-party group ousted him, It is claar that the Eritish C.F. leadarship intends to continue with tho policy of sutomatioally mupport ...which ever. faction 1s in power in Mosoow, However, 1961 is not 1931 and no doubt the rank and file of the Communist Party willl hove something to say in thia meatier, ITALDAN COMMUNIST PARTY IN TURMOTL AFTER 22nd CONGRESS
The Italian Ootmmunist Party has bean badly shaken by tks disoloaures ef the 22nd Congresa of the CPSU, In tha freer atmosphere of discussion. which oxists in the Italian ยข.P. than moat communist parties, oapecially the French, many voloas haya come forward ta aay that the orrors of the cult of the individual mist have a eocial base, L' Unita the party's newdpapor has reported those opinicia as being oxpressed at regienel conforenoes oven by middle acadres. Younger manbera of the party are reported to have demended a compliste oritieal historical analyais of the whole period of Stalin leading if necessary to tho rahebiliteation of Trotdry, The problems of Togliatti and oo, era much complicated by Nonni. who,. for his owm reasons,ia conducting a theoretical argument rejecting the explanations of tha cult of the individuel,