PRO-KHRUSHCHOV_SPLIT IN NEW ZEALAND C.P. from Owen Gager
After a discussion on a world meeting of Communist parties at the Canterbury District Conference of the Communist Party, Frank McNulty, the National Secretary of the Freezin;; Workers' Union, and several others,, walked out. They had supported the call by the Comaunist Party of the’ Soviet Union for a world meeting of Communist parties. Earlier, McNulty and those associated with him had been accused of leading the local party in a pro-Soviet direction by a large pro-Chinese minority who have formed a breakaway organisation.
McNulty is one of the many Communist trade union functionaries in New Zealand who have taken a pro-Soviet line in spite of their party's official pro-Chinese stand, He has stated his intention of forming a new group, though some observers who have worked with him in the C.P. feel this is unlikely. Should such s group be formed there would be three independent groups of marxists outside the Imbour . Party in Christchurch: the Workers Action Movement and the associated Young Communist League, which regards the C.P. as insufficiently pro-Chinese; the official party organisation which is formally pro-Chinese; and a pro-Soviet faction which would receive some support from the local New Zealand-U.S.S.R. Society, and have considerable trade union influence,