SPAIN: COMMUNIST PARTY RALLY GIVES SENOR CARRILLO RESOUNDING SUPPORT AND ABANDONS LENINISM.

Record ID: 215700

  • Title: SPAIN: COMMUNIST PARTY RALLY GIVES SENOR CARRILLO RESOUNDING SUPPORT AND ABANDONS LENINISM.
  • Date: 24th April 1978
  • Summary: 1. GV: crowds chanting slogans, Madrid Spain. 0.10 2. SV: Senor Carrillo making speech and crowd applauding (4 shots) 1.02 3. SV: Senor Carrillo with Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria) on rostrum. 1.12 4. SV: crowd chanting "Dolores" (2 shots) 1.22 5. CU: Dolores Ibarruri making speech as crowd applaud. 1.42 6. CU PAN: crowd applaudi
  • Embargoed: 9th May 1978 13:00
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  • Location: MADRID, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Reuters ID: LVABTZ19EA71ZI53XCMV2XKFNRC6
  • Story Text: The Spanish Communist party has renounced Leninism after holding a five-day Congress-the first in Spain since the Civil war. This move reinforces the lead taken by the Spanish party among Western European communists in proclaiming independence form the Soviet Union and a commitment to pluralistic democracy.

    SYNOPSIS: Thousands of cheering Spanish communists packed a bullring near Madrid to welcome the new Eurocommunist era and to give resounding support to their leader, Senor Santiago Carrillo. He was unanimously re-elected as Secretary-General, a post he had held for 18 years.

    He told the elated crowd that everybody now had to recognise that in this ninth congress, the Communist Party of Spain had emerged far more united than ever before.

    Senor Carrillo said the party was updating its policies and ideological definitions-and this effort to update was in line with party policy for the past 22 years. The Spanish Communist have now adopted the description "Marxist, revolutionary and democratic".

    There was also unanimous acclaim from the crowd for Dolores Ibarruri.

    The 82-year-old President of the party, the famous "Pasionaria" of the 1936 to 1939 Spanish Civil War, was re-elected by the Congress and spoke rousingly to her supporters.

    She declared that the Communist Party of Spain was triumphant, and was the fundamental force in the struggle against reactionaries, whatever their guise.

    Before leading the crowd in singing the Communist International anthem, La Pasionaria called on delegates to take the congress decisions to the masses and to double Communist support in Spain before the next congress.
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