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The European Security Conference - long major goal of Soviet foreign policy-will oper in Helsinki, Finland, on uly 3. 2e the conference we were final- The agenda and details have lasted more than six months.

The 34. da iniatie Spain, tries, which Portugal, Greece and Monaco but not Albania, have decided to hold the talks in stages.

The sessions will be attended by the countries foreign ministers who will then delegate the detailed work to commissions of experts whose reports could take up to eight months to prepare.

The agenda covers four points, the main one being The agenda details ten "principles' to form the basis of this discussion.

These are: • recourse to sovereignty; threats or the use of force; inviolability of frontiers; territorial integrity; peaceful settlement of differences: nonintervention in the internal affairs of other countries; respect for the rights of man and basic freedoms "including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion and onion equality of the rights of peoples the right of self-determination; co-operation between states; carrying out 'with goodwill' of obligations under international law.

This list of good intentions, like the Biblical Ten Commandments, is a cover for the most heinous violations. Not for nothing is the forthcoming conference being compared with the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the Versailles Conference of 1919 which imposed a predatory peace on Europe.

These were the two previous occasions on which all the European states were around the table together.

Both led to counterrevolutionary settlements.

At Vienna, following the defeat of Napoleon's armies, Metternich (the Old Fox) cemented the Holy Alliance of Tsarist Russia, AustriaHungary and Prussia.

According to Trevelyan the result was 'that nationality and popular liberty were disregarded on the continent outside the boundaries France eat Powers who itself. Except England, triumphed were Powers of reaction and despotism and even Castlereagh cared nothing for Parliaments outside England. The rulers of Russia, Prussia and Austria divided up Poland Germany and Italy as if inhabitants were so many head of population to be bartered among royal hagglers.' The avowed purpose was to maintain the status quo of monarchy and reaction and prevent any resurgence of the revolutionary struggles sparked by the French revolution.

At Versailles, just over 100 years later, the Allies got together to grab as much territory as they could from the defeated Central Powers and to see and on by rae defeated countries.

Versailles was conducted cents of us President misoe- under the "humanitarian' known as the 14 points.

Today the fraud is conducted behind the façade of 'peaceful co-existence' which in counter-re lutionity collaboration between the Stalinist bureaucracy and the capitalists against revolution.

The difference today is that instead of taking place after a major war, the conference is allegedly designed to make such a war more difficult.

In the words of Mr Bill Simpson, the Labour Party chairman who headed a delegation of Labour MPs to the Soviet capital, the conference 'offers the opportunity for Europe to construct a framework for co-operation which will remove Europe for ever from the list of the regions which can be deemed a threat to peace'.

Nothing could be further from the truth than this pious reformism. In reality the development of the economic and political crisis within the capitalist countries is systematically laying the foundations for a new war.

The European employers whose export trade is increasingly threatened by US protectionism and by the persistent under-cutting of their currencies must turn east to resolve the mountainous problems they face.

They need the Stalinist bureaucracy to help them maintain capitalism in the west —as the May-June events in France demonstrated Con. clusively.

But the bureaucracy's value to the employing class is only conditional and limited. The experience of the 1930s demonstrated this. The Stalinists' policies in Germany allowed Hitler to come to power, but once in power he began to prepare ruthlessly for war with the USSR.

No amount of collective security' nor even the treacher'non - aggression' pact Molotov signed with Ribbentrop in 1939 deterred the Nazis from their goal of conquest in the east.

Hitler simply expressed in the most consistent and ruthless manner the ambitions of all the capitalists of the world, who hate the Soviet Union and dream of restoring capitalism there. Versallles, 1919—Clemenceau, Woodrow Wllson and Lloyd George. Centre: Vienna, 1815—a counter-revolutionary settlement. Top: Brandt and Kosygin signing a previous treaty while Brezhner and Sovlet bureaucrats look on.

No amount of treaties, conferences, and talk of peaceful co-existence can obscure the basic drive of the capitalist class who correctly see the nationalized property relations in the Soviet Union as a conquest of the international working class.

The phraseology Stalinists is a crude deception FRANCO'S TOP MAN Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco (70), the former submarine commander who has taken over the post of Spanish Prime Minister from General Franco, had been tipped for the post for many He is one of the longeststanding fascist functionaries described as 'deeply conservative with an ingrained loathing of demagogues of either the right or the left'. His antiSemitism is equally ingrained He is, above all, a faithful disciple of the Caudillo. In one of his rare interviews Carrero Blanco said: 'I am a man totally identified with the work of the in the donnelly formed The principles national movement and in the fundamental laws of the Kingdom.