Wir - In their latest document entitled "Apologists of Neo-Colonialisn” — tho Chinese illustrate their criticism of Khrushchoy's attitude towards the eolonial revolution by referring to the Algorian war of liberation. The say:
"Take the example of the Algorian people's war of national liberation The leadership of the C,P.5.U. not only withhold support for a long period but actually took tho side of French imperialism, Khrushchov used to treat Algoria's national independence as an “internal affair" of France, Speaking on tho Algerian question on October 3, 1955, he said, "I had and have in view, first of all, that the U.5.5.R. does not interferes in the internal affairs of other states." Recsiving a correspondent of Figaro on March 27, 1958, he said, “we do not want France to grow weaker, we want her to become still greator." To curry favour with the French impcrialists, the leaders of the C.P.5.U. did not dare to recognise the Provisional Goverment of the Republic of Algeria for a long timey not until the victory of the Algerian people's war of resistance against Fronch agerossion was a foregone conclusion and France was compelled to agrea to Algerian independence did thoy hurriedly recognise Algeria, This unseemly attituds brousht shame on the socinlist countries, Yet the laaders of the C.P.5.0. glory in their shame and assert that the victory the Algerian people paid for with their blood should also be oredited to the policy of "pe®ceful coexistence,"
In relation to the French Communist Party they add:
"On the question of Algeria, the chauvinist stand of the leaders of the C.P.F. is all the more evident. They have rocently tried to justify themselves by assorting that they had long "recongised the correct demand of the people of Algeria for freedom." ut what are the facts?
‘Tor a long time the leaders of the C.F.F. refused to recogniss Algeria's right to national independence; they followed the French monopoly capitalists, crying that "Algeria is an inalienablo part of France" and that France “should be a great African power, now and in the future." Thora, and others were most concerned about the fact that Algeria could provide France with “a million head of sheep" and large cuantitias of whent yearly to solve her problem of the shortage of meat and “make up our deficit in srain,™