from a Melbourne Correspondent. B 1441 After a brief flirtation with the Chinese side in the current ideclagical dispute, the leadership of the Australian Commmist Party has sided with Krushchey, and is coming under inersasing pressure from the rank and file membership. In the Victorian section of the Party, circulars are being distributed attacking the leadership, an attack which is not confined to ideclagiaalissues, but accuses the leadership of "having adopted positions sf self-interest rather than those of the best interests of the working class." The originators of this circular are supporting the call of the New Cealand C.P. for a World Congress of Communist Parties to discuss the differences in the Communist movement. Sharkey, a leading member of the Australian C.P. originally supported this proposal, bat since siding with Krushchev, this is no longer the case. Much suppomt for the rebels ig centrod on the Sydney area,
A relevant fact is that numerically more of the local cadres have roceived their Marxist training in China,. than in the U.S.S.R., and the pro-Chinese membership has a larger base than the leadership.