1602 ‘he New Statesman! of 24th May printed a roport of an interview given by Togliatti to K,8, Kerol, Some of his state ants abe the clearest expression of his 'revisionism' we have yet seen, We produce herewith some of the more important:
"The comminists must do everything in their power to extond and strengthen this unity in every country, For its part the CPI is ready to face and discuss the problems of reconstituting a fully united working class movement with the leaders of other political tendencies, This must be based upon a clear programme of democratic struggle for socialism, estern Europe, freed from its present fascist, authoritarian and conservative regimes, and with its working clase united with all democratic forces, would recover its leading role. and would have a decisive part to play in inaugurating an era of peace throughout the world and in accelerating tho renewel of the entire social structure,"
"Wa have already said during the election compaign that we regard the freedom of artistic creation to be very important and that in this field our idess are quite different to those cf the Soviet comrades, We don't understand the recent criticia in— Moscow levelled against such intel&ectuals as Nekrassov, Vozniossenali and Yevtushonko. We would have been very happy if Yevtushenko had been able to come to Italy in March as plamned, The problem of artistic freedom seems to us so important that we want to have a full discussion of it during the forthcoming international communist meetings, We have already, by way of opening this discussion, published several articles on this subject,!
"When the Chinese comrades decided to create agricultural commines, this was a complete innovation. We atudiced this subject very carefully tut wo always felt that it was not for us, but for the Chinese comrades, to decide whethor it was a good idea or not, In the same way wo feel that the Chinese comrades should not intorfers to judgs or to condemn some of our ow political initiatives, lines of policy or slogans,"