Jer 45 a) You state that it is mistaken to say that the nationalists as a whole are merely bools of the bourgeois opposition. We agree with this fully, but the article does not say it. The article, in this connection, speake not of the nationalists AS WHOLE but of the nationalists, and from the context of the sentence as well as from the whole lhe of the article, which you endorse, it is clear that here were meant the nationalists that are Etagx actually fighting Machado and not the leaders that are in the camp of the bourgeois opposition, e) You state that we correctly emphasize the chief danger as the Right tendency in the CP of Cuba and you observe that at the same time we ought to have exposed another danger, the danger of left deviations and putchism, such as, the slogans of permanent strike. armed rebellion, and immediate formation of Soviets in October, 1930. We wish to point out that the article does expose also the left dangers but not in detail and not with sufficient concreteness.
The article speaks of remnants of petty bourgeois reformism and RADICALISM as still hampering the growth of the party, The article also calls upon the party to wage detem ined struggle aga inst all tendencies toward. putchism and conpiratorial romanticism, and remnants of anarchit ideology. But the article concentrates on the Right tendencies, firstly, because they constitute the main danger, second ly because the letter of the American Party to the Cuban Party, which preceded the letter of the Buro and to which on we refer in the article, deals with almost exclusively the left tendencies. We are in agroement with you tla while emphasizing the fight against the Right danger as the main danger we must expose and fight systame tically the leftist and putchist tendancies.
f) You state tht for conspirative reasons we should not have published the number of members of the Cuban party nor should we have stated that the Cuban party has a small percentage of natives. The first point could have easily been left out of the article, but this cannot be said of the second point. The small percentage of native Cuban workers in the party is a real weakness which must be overcome in the most BXXantia determined manner. Although this weakness is especially characteristic of Hauang, it exists in other places also.
Besides, the Havana organization is the biggest and most important part of the Party. In order to and use the party to the vital need of over ming this weakness, it is necessary to speak about it and to fight against it in such a manner to mobilize for our correct instructions the party membership and its sympathizers.
And, under the existing circumstances, there is no other way in which this can be done effectively except through the El Communista.
That such statement in our press may be made is quite true, but this is true of EVERY open discussion of ouf weaknesses. Nevertheless, we do discuss them in the open, because it is necessary and because it helps us more than it can help the enemy.
PE On the article Our Immediate Tasks in Nicaragua and Honduras you make the following observations: a) You endorse our correct estimate of the latest events in these countries, but you criticize our failure to give any concrete ind cations of the immediate tasks of the Conunun ists in Honduras To this we wish to reply that the Buro had worked out for both countries a very elaborate program of immediate work which has been sent to the cor ades of these countries even before the article Документы Советской эпохи http: sovdoc. rusarchives. ru