'Eurocommunism' Implications for East and West
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'EUROCOMMUNISM' IMPLICATIONS FOR EAST AND WEST Also by Roy Godson AMERICAN LABOR AND EUROPEAN POLITICS THE KREMLIN AND LABOR Also by Stephen Haseler THE GAITSKELLITES THE DEATH OF BRITISH DEMOCRACY 'EUROCOMMUNISM' Implications for East and West by Roy Godson Stephen Haseler Research Contributors Leonard Schapiro- Annie Kriegel- Giuseppe Are Fran~ois Bourricaud - Rui Machete- Eusebio Mujal-Leon © National Strategy Information Center Inc. 1978 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover rst edition 1978 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. First published 1978 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Associated companies in Delhi Dublin Hong Kong Johannesburg Lagos Melbourne New rork Singapore Tokyo British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Godson, Roy 'Eurocommunism' 1. Communist parties 2. Political parties-Europe I. Title II. Haseler, Stephen 329'.02'094 JN94.A979 ISBN 978-0-333-25677-0 ISBN 978-1-349-15934-5(eBook) ) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-15934-5 The paperback edition of this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser This book is sold subject to the standard conditions of the Net Book Agreement To Frank, Ed and Frank and others who care Contents List qf Abbreviations Vlll Introduction 1 THE STRENGTH OF COMMUNIST PARTIES IN WESTERN EUROPE 7 An overview 7 Communist Party Membership I 2 Communists at the Polls 20 Communist Parties and Trade Unions Causes qf Communist Strength 2 THE COMMUNIST PARTIES AND DOMESTIC POLITICS 45 The Communist Party as a political party 48 The Communist Parties and their Alliances 65 Policy, Ideology and the Democratic Consensus 78 Has 'Eurocommunism' become 'Social Democracy?' 87 3 THE COMMUNIST PARTIES AND THE INTER- NATIONAL BALANCE 93 The Communist Parties and the Soviet Union 94 The Communist Parties and Europe 97 The Communist Parties and Western Difence I 04 The Soviet Response I I 2 Soviet Sources qf Irifluence I I 6 The International Balance qf Advantages I I 9 Notes I25 Appendix: Research Contributors I37 Index I39 VII List of Abbreviations AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations DC Christian Democratic Party (Italy) CGIL Italian General Confederation of Labour CGT General Confederation of Workers (France) CGTP-IN Intersindical-General Confederation of Workers (Portugal) COMECON Council for Mutual Economic Assistance CP Communist Party CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union DKP German Communist Party (Federal Republic of Ger many) EC European Communities (European Atomic Energy Com munity, European Coal and Steel Community, and Euro pean Economic Community) EEC European Economic Community FDP Free Democratic Party (Federal Republic of Germany) FNLA National Front for the Liberation of Angola GDR German Democratic Republic KGB Committee of State Security of the Soviet Union MFA Armed Forces Movement (Portugal) MP Member of Parliament MSI Italian Social Movement (neo-Fascist) NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization PCE (Spanish) Communist Party PCF (French) Communist Party PCI (Italian) Communist Party PCP (Portuguese) Communist Party PLO Palestine Liberation Organization Vlll List of Abbreviations lX PSOE (Spanish) Socialist (Workers) Party PSP Socialist Party (Spain) SPD Social Democratic Party (Federal Republic of Germany) TASS News Service of the Soviet Union TUC Trades Union Congress (Great Britain) USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions .