prepares sell-out to Zionism

STALINISM BRITAIN NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS PRICE 22:6d ' High St broke and seizes his uncle, John of Gaunt's land. The old 'Take Hereford's rights away •charters and his customary downtall, and more than that, brings into question the IMPORTANT READING TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS ONE manifestation of the opportunism of the Communist Party has always been a strong pro-Zionist element, and not only among its Jewish members.

There have been times when Stalinist policy in the Middle East has not been popular in these circles, but Soviet support for the formation of the State of Israel in 1948 kept them happy for some time, even through the most open periods of Stalinist anti-Semitism which followed.

Moscow line

At the present time, CP leaders can defend the Moscow line without offending their pro-Zionist supporters in the slightest. Soviet acceptance of the existence of a Zionist state can be openly proclaimed, although in fact it has been their policy for 22 years.

As the Soviet bureaucrats and the imperialists have moved towards a deal at the expense of the Arab people, the line of the 'Morning Star' has had two main themes.

First comes praise for Nasser, and opposition to those who criticize him for going along with the Rogers plan.

Second, the 'Star' has stressed the division of opinion in the Israeli camp.

Last Wednesday, Foreign Editor Sam Russell wrote a feature headed Israel's hawks are not yet caged', which, while developing these lines of NASSER and Israel's new 'dove' MEIR argument, comes very close open Zionism.

To those who 'accuse' the Soviet Union of arming the Egyptians, Russell has an answer:

'But in his speech of July 23, President Nasser made it quite clear that ... the mere replacement by the Soviet Union of the arms lost by Egypt was not sufficient to ensure the defence of Egypt.

'As for offensive aircraft' says Russell 'the US and Israel know that so far no Soviet MiG-23 planes have been supplied to the Egyptian air force.' Russell clears the Soviet bureaucrats of the charge that they really defend Egypt against the Israel stooges of imperialism!

He stresses that the Rogers plan is in line with the United Nations resolution of November 1967, and declares:

Israel knows quite well that the intention of the resolution was to ensure withdrawal from all occupied territories. Only when this is done can Israel obtain the guarantees for her security within the borders she had before June 1967.

Repeatedly

'As for the Soviet Union, it has repeatedly stated • that "every state in the Middle East has the right to independent national existence and to independence and security"' Russell assures the Zionists that Stalinism is quite prepared to defend the existence of their state, based as it is on the oppression of those Palestinians who remain in their own country and the permanent exile of hundreds of thousands of others.

The only condition laid down by Moscow is withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders.

But just how essential is this proviso?

A pointer to the future RUSSELL course of the negotiations provided by Russell :

'The Soviet Union,' he says in his eagerness to show how 'reasonable' he is, 'did not exclude the possibility of modification of its proposals, providing the principles were accepted by Israel and the US.

Now Russell turns to the defence of Arab 'unity' behind Nasser and the attempt of 'Israel's hawks' to exploit 'differences among the Arab States' • Israeli 'doves':

It is noticeable that the 'Star' has never explained who the Israeli 'doves' are, by the way. Now Moscow Radio implies that Mrs Meir has qualified for the title!

Before concluding his article with an irrelevant quotation from a Soviet admiral, Russell gives us the following classic Big effort 'But a big effort is being made to overcome the difference and secure full Arab appreciation of President Nasser's action in accepting the US plan, even though it contained nothing new? (Our emphasis.)

Russell brings to the work of preparing the most direct and open betrayal in the history of Stalinism many decades of training in such treachery.

Nationalism

As Arab nationalism has developed (and in the last three years the Arab guerrilla movement), the Stalinists have pretended to be a friend of their struggle.

They have all along been quite conscious that this was only preparatory to selling the Arab people to Zionism and imperialism.

While Russell's friends have been fond of cloaking their anti-Semitism in the guise of fighting "Zionism', their true aim has been quite consistent with the real Zionists.