Imperialists prepare as make big concessions

Workers Press no. 927, 22 November 1972 · scan pages 3, 4

Topics: Soviet Union, Communist Party and Stalinism, Marxist theory

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At a Press conference in New York yesterday, Needham estimated that the Russians need $100,000m in capital for the continued development of their economy. He has asked a newly-formed advisory committee on international markets to look into *ways for Wall Street to answer this need'.

Capital export from the west to the Soviet Union on anything like this scale would be a direct threat to the foundations of the workers' state, the nationalized property relations, the state monopoly of foreign trade and all the gains won in struggle by the soviet working class.

The Stalinist bureaucrats are driven along this road by their fear of the Soviet working class. They see the import of foreign capital as a bulwark against the danger of political revolution in the USSR.

Needham and his Wall Street friends are slavering at the mouth over the prospects opened up for them by the Stalinist bureaucrats in the Kremlin. This, con. this alone, explains their version' to the idea of peaceful co-existence with Moscow.

For them the arrangement of capital exports to the USSR is a step--and only a step-along the road to their ultimate ambition: the restoration of capitalism in the USSR and the enslavement of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe.

Sam Russell, writing in the British Communist Party's 'Morning Star', notes that the Helsinki meeting opens on the 30th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. He writes that the conference is essential 'to ensure that Europe is protected against any recurrence of that nightmare'.

This is the crudest Stalinist

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