In its February 28th issue, "Pooplo's Voice", weekly paper of the New Zealand Communist Party reported on discussions in the Political Committee of the Party. The latter had docided that it could not possibly takos sides, at the present time, in the dispute between the Soviot Union and the Albanian Party of Laboure In a resolution it endorsed the action of its delegate to the 22nd Congress in not referring to the dispute in his contribution.
The Political Committee sent identical letters to the Communist Parties of China and the Soviet Union calling upon them to meet and settlo thoir theoret— ical differences. In the resolution the way the matter was introduced at the Congress was criticised. The resolution called for a proper discussion of the views of the Albanians3;
"Bocause an objective discussion of the many points of criticism made of, and by, Comrade Hoxha and the Albanian Party of Labour has not as yet taken place, we cannot, as many Partios have done, condemn Comrade Hoxha and the leader= ship of the Albanian Party of Labour as non—Iarxian"
Reporting this, our Australian comrades commofit’
"The same issue of People's Voice contains an interesting resolution by the Political Committee on 'de=stalinisation'. It does not, in our opinion, embody a correct Marxist analysis of the phenomenon of 'Stalinism! - which is essentially the political idcology of a group usurping power in a workers! state, going far beyond the actions and quirks of one individual. Ilowever, the two resolutions together give an impression that the N.Z. Political Committcoe is striving towards an independent pos¢t¢ion, instvad of simply picking "which horse to back" in an unprincipled way.