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...leaders have privately pledged that "no one will be arrested here for his political beliefs," the agreement also calls for a step-up in "efforts to increase the leading role of the Communist Party." Most important of all, the agreement provides for reinforcing the party and government with "true Marxist-Leninists" -a qualification that, in effect, lets Moscow pass on the orthodoxy of all important appointees in Czechoslovakia. Having failed to subvert the leadership's intense loyalty to Dubček, the Kremlin has seemingly decided to undermine it by attrition...
After this, the box is supplied with a raised platform so that it seems like the sun deck of an ocean liner. On it sit and stand four characters. One is Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Wyman Pendleton), who mouths Marxist-Leninist platitudes about the irreparable decline of the imperialist West. Another character is a decayed society drone (Nancy Kelly) who recalls her frustrated attempt at suicide together with such intimate details of her sex life as the smooth tautness of her husband's scrotum. Another woman (Sudie Bond) recites the doggerel couplets of a poem called Over the Hill...
...concept of proletarian internationalism has been subordinated by the top leadership of the Soviet Union to a strategy of stabilizing and maintaining their own dominant position." Says Tariq Ali, the Oxford-educated Pakistani who leads Britain's New Left: "What has been made clear in Czechoslovakia is that Marxist concepts are not being applied in the Soviet Union. If Moscow felt the need to intervene somewhere, it should have been in Viet...
Somebody was bound to try, and now Director Richard Fleischer is set to start filming 20th Century's biography of Che Guevara, Marxist folk hero killed while trying to export Castrostyle revolution to Bolivia. "We're already being blasted from left and right," says Fleischer. "The rightists don't want Che glorified, and the leftists are sure their idol will be defiled." As for the Cu bans, says Fleischer, "I don't think we'll be playing Che in Cuba-though they might acquire a print so they can shoot at the screen...
...outlawed movement that started in 1953 as a youth group. It has since split with the Basque Nationalist Party, which has worked peacefully for independence since the late 19th century. E.T.A. now campaigns on behalf of what it calls "colonized and oppressed" Basques with nightrider tactics and a Marxist vocabulary. "We have gathered our forces to form a national liberation front," says one of its leaders. "We will not stop until we have achieved the creation of a truly democratic socialist state...