Garaudy's expulsion confirmed

BY A WORKERS PRESS THE FRENCH Communist Party's Central Committée has expelled Roger Garaudy, the 'heretic' who was until recently one of the Party's leading ideologues.

In doing so they ratified the decision of his Party cell to expel him — a decision itself taken on the basis of a document from the Political Bureau recommending expulsion.

The unanimous decision to oust him-for 'leading an anti-communist crusade' — comés at the height of a furore sparked by Garaudy's statement that the Party leadership had provided the Czech Stalinists with documents for use against Alexander Dubcek, now suspended from the Czech Party and 'under investigaby a special commission.

Garaudy at the PCF's February Congress Garaudy has said that despite his expulsion he will continue to be a 'communist militant'.

The paradox in the affair 1s that on most questions, his political position is, if anything, to the right of the French Party.

He claims the working class no longer has the main révolutionary role in developed capitalist society.

Yet what has really led to his expulsion is his raising of certain questions about the policy of the Party leadership that are potentally explosive among communist militants and in the working class.

Before he raised the question of the Party leadership's collaboration in the

his opinion on how important each requirement is - the report states:

'Members of the panel each doing his own rating will not come up with the same answer every time. At first, especially there will be many divergencies.

'But when the members discuss these, they can often reach agreement. If they cannot, their ratings can be averaged.' Also extra 'weight' would be given to requirements considered more important than others.

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For example, whereas exertion might be marked out of five points training might be marked out of ten or 15 points because it is considered much more important quality.

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