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Pravda charged that "the leaders of the P.C.I. speak of aspirations to struggle for peace, but at the same time they slander the principal, fundamental force in this struggle: the U.S.S.R. and its socialist allies." The PC.I.'s "position against world socialism," said the article, was "an aid to imperialism, to anti-Communism and to all forces hostile to social progress...
...opposite side of the spectrum, Roosevelt confronted not only the small, vociferous Communist and Socialist parties but also a gaggle of zealots appealing to all the embittered victims who felt that the New Deal had failed them. The most dangerous and fascistic of these, in Roosevelt's eyes, was Huey Long, who had combined graft, violence and promises of "Every Man a King" to build a kind of populist police state in Louisiana. Long was already threatening to run for President when he was shot down in the late summer of 1935 by a man whose family...
...French Socialists took advantage of the Communists' contradictory positions to try to discredit their junior partners, who lost almost half of their parliamentary seats in last year's elections. "Arrest Marchais-not Walesa," one Socialist loudspeaker trumpeted during a pro-Solidarity demonstration. Nor has the Communist Party's pro-Soviet attitude gone down well with the rank and file in France. A number of town and city councils, either dominated by or including Communist members, have passed resolutions backing Solidarity. In the giant 2.3 million strong Communist-led Confédération...
Whatever their future course, the widening gap with Moscow has forced Eurocommunists to search for new ideological ground that will distinguish them from Western Europe's myriad Socialist and Social Democratic parties. Berlinguer's answer is a terza via (third way) that rejects Soviet-bloc Communism while "overcoming" the flaws of social democracy. So far his idea remains vague, serving as little more than a rallying slogan...
...being held. Union members in Paris also published the text of the loyalty oath that employees were being forced to sign in order to keep their jobs. The pledge stated: "Bearing in mind the fact that . .. Solidarity recently opposed the constitution and government . . . with the aim of undermining the socialist system, I hereby resign from the above-mentioned organization...