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There is now intense diplomatic activity between the leading politicians of the European bourgeoisie and the Soviet and East European The accord is the outcome USSR — a visit arranged for General de Gaulle before his political demise, but eagerly draw police Italian government be withdrawn and all prisoners released.

Police are still afraid to move freely on the streets in the town, where demonstrators have erected barricades and are collecting a toll of petrol from passing motorists. The petrol is to be used to make petrol extended to his successor by the Soviet bureaucracy.

Couched in the usual vague language of secret diplomacy, the deal provides for extremely wide-ranging discussions between the two parties twice a year at foreign minister level on 'questions of mutual interest'.

'Such consultations will deal with the development of the situation in Europe, promotion of a detente, co-operation and security on the continent, the situation in all parts of the world where international security is in danger, the problems of common interest which are the object of multilateral international discussion —especially those which are under examination by the UN -and all other questions on which the parties think it would be useful to exchange views.' For both the Soviet bureaucracy and the French employers, 'peace' in Europe means the stabilization of the status quo and the prevention

hid of revolutionary working-class struggles.

Their collaboration is aimed at policing Europe, just as Stalin and Churchill policed Europe under the Yalta and Potsdam agreements from 1944 onwards.

The key role in the Franco-Soviet agreement is assigned