After a meeting last week end the executive committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain announced that it will oppose the calling of a preliminary consultative conference of the 81 Communist and Workers' Parties on world international problems, It gave as its reason an opinion that such a conference will only become possible when the main parties are agreed on its composition and convocation. The statement said that the QP.G.B. had participated in the recent Moscow conference on the understanding "that it was solely a consultative meeting.". It endorsed the call of the meeting for efforts to strengthen the unity of the international Communist movement,and other apsects of the statement issued after the meeting. But when it came to the suggestion of a preliminary consultative conference it said: "..,we do not regard this proposal as practicable so long as the present problems, which have so far prevented the meeting of an inclusive conference, remain unsolved."
The statement concluded: "..we urge renewal of the bilateral talks between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China with this aim in view," This act of independence from the 'Moscow line' is yet another symptom of the irreversible break-up of the former Stalinist monolith. Whilst in most countries this has led to what the Chinese call revisionism, the net result can only be beneficial because of the likely improvement in the exchange of ideas between different sectors of the working class movement,