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Lom il PARTY DIRECTIVES, STATEMENTS MADE BY CLAUDIA JONES WHEN A MEMBER CF TH NATIONAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY, USA (1945-1948 NY 100-18676 €) in the September, 1945, issue of "Political Affairs," there is set forth a statement concerning the "resolution of the National Convention of the Communist Party, USA, adopted July 20, 1945." The following excerpts have been taken from this resolution as set forth in this article: "This revision of Marxist-Leninist theory regarding the role of monopoly capital led to other erroneous conclusions, such as to utopian economic perspectives and the possibility of achieving the national liberation of the colonial and dependent countries through arrangements between the great powers. It also led to tendencies te obseure the class nature of bourgeois democracy, to false concepts of social evolution, to revision of the fundamental laws of the class struggle and to minimizing the independent and leading role of the working class. "In consequence, we Communists began to carry on the historic struggle against fascism, for democracy and national freedom, in a way that was not always clearly distinguishable from that of bourgeois democrats and bourgeois nationalists, forgetting the class character and limitations of bourgeois democracy and nationalism. Finally, this right-opportunist deviation also tended to ignore, revise or virtually discount the fundamental contradictions of capitalism, declaring wrongly that the changed and changing forms of their expression indicated that they had ceased to CONFIDENTIAL