SOVIET POLITICS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 November 1926, Page 5

SOVIET POLITICS.

DIVIDED OPINIONS. DRIFT TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHi.. MOSCOW. Nov. 3. A long resolution condemning the •policy of Zinovieff. Trotsky, and Kameneff .and stressing the importance of unity, was the upshot of the Communist conference, according to the official “Tass” agency. The resolution, which followed a speech 'by the General Secretary, Stalin, characterised the programme of the Opposition as a drift towards social democracy, tending to lead to revolutionary adventurousness, whereas the starting point of the Communist Party was that everything necessary and adequite for Socialist construction existed in the Union of the Soviet Republics. Trotskyism, on the contrary, started •from the viewpoint that a successful development of Socialist economy would only he possible after a victory of the proletariat, in the principal countries of Europe. Ha ving no f in the interna j forces of revolution, and falling into despair at the delay of the world revolution, the Opposition bloo was falling into a condition of ultra, self-de-ception, and denied the existence of partial capitalistic stabilisation, thus going astray in the direction of Putschism.

The resolution further accused the Opposition of rejecting Lenin’s fundamental idea of the union of the proletariat and the peasants, which is shown in their proposals, to; raise the prices of manufactured goods and impose the maximum burden of taxation on the peasantry, a policy calculated to disrupt the union of the working -bass with the peasantry and undermine the possibilities of real industrialisation of the country. The resolution emphasised the victory of the party which had forced the Opposition openly to renounce sectional strife, and added that the most important tasks of the party now were to recreate the minimum requisites of party unity, to struggle resolutely against the social democratic drift cf the Opposition, to get the .latter to recognise the mistaken nature of their mews, and to cut short all attempts to provoke sectional strife.