Letter from Vienna

The recent call for a World Communist Conference, and various other symptoms, suggest that Moscow hopes to regain leadership in the Communist world by reviving the old Comintern strategy. In so doing, the Russian Communists seek to curb the striving for more independence in some Communist states and parties, and also to strengthen international support for their own foreign policies.

There are signs that the former Comintern Secretariat, which had its headquarters in Moscow until its official dissolution in 1943, was re-established some years ago under the camouflage of the editorial office of the World Marxist Review in Prague. The work of the “editors” seems to be rather complex: not only do they publish the Review, the leading ideological organ of the pro-Soviet Communist parties in eighteen languages, but they are also active in coordinating the activities of pro-Soviet Communist parties and their agitprop front organizations.

LT

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L. M. Taubinger

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The recent call for a World Communist Conference, and various other symptoms, suggest that Moscow hopes to regain leadership in the Communist world by reviving the old Comintern strategy. In so doing, the Russian Communists seek to curb the striving for more independence in some Communist states and parties, and also to strengthen international support for their own foreign policies.

There are signs that the former Comintern Secretariat, which had its headquarters in Moscow until its official dissolution in 1943, was re-established some years ago under the camouflage of the editorial office of the World Marxist Review in Prague. The work of the “editors” seems to be rather complex: not only do they publish the Review, the leading ideological organ of the pro-Soviet Communist parties in eighteen languages, but they are also active in coordinating the activities of pro-Soviet Communist parties and their agitprop front organizations.