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’ Te ome pans anen. LU aw VAL NY 100-18676 The November, 1948, issue of "Political Affairs" contains an article entitled, "Approaching the 30th Anni- versary of the C.P.U.S.A.," which, it was noted, was & “Statement of the 14th National Convention of the C.P.U.S.A. Adopted August 6, 1948." The following excerpts are taken from this statement: "Roughly between 1923 and 1929, the Communist Party of the U. S.A. underwent a serious internal atruggle against Lovestoneism and Trotskyism. Complicated by the factional situation, the fight became a prolonged onc, at times threatening the existence of the Party. But the loyal, devoted, and healthy Marxist and working-class forces of our Party succeeded in defeating and climinating both Right-opportunist, reformist Lovestoneism and the countcr-revolutionary agent and ally of fascism--Trotskylism. "Again, in 1945, the Cormunist Party of the U. S.A. was confronted with the menace of Browder revisionism and ligquidationism. The Party's Marxist-Leninist theory was being replaced with non-Marxist and anti-Marxist ideas and theorics, and the Party itself was in fact being liquidated, And once morc, the lcoyal and devoted Party forces, the ; healthy Marxist and working-class elements, rose to the defense of the Party and its Marxist-Leninist theory. Rrawaani am T90 faAndamnsA and reatantrd anda a Krank oPOWGCOPISMm was conacmned nda rejecuca ana Aa Droad ideological struggle against it initiated. The fight against the theoretical and political sources of Browdcrism must continuc. It must become intensificd in the light of the historic ideological and political struggle initiated by the Communist Information Bureau and waged by all Communists, against the anti-Marxist, anti- Leninist, bourgeois nationalist positions of the leaders of the Yugoslav Communist Party. "From the same Marxist-Leninist positions we must now wage the struggle against Right opportunism and Leftist sectarianism, as outlined in the main political resolution of this, the Fourteenth National Convention of our Party. - 65 - Lore Vw