Two branches of the British Communist Party have called on the party leadership to make inquiries in Moscow about alleged anti-Semitism in Russia, it was learned today.
The demand was disclosed with the publication of the British Communist Party’s agenda for its annual congress here later this month. A resolution by the Northwestern England Prestwich branch noted “with concern, criticisms made by prominent individuals in the international Communist and general peace and progressive movements of the attitude of the Soviet Union to the religious and cultural requirements of the Jewish minority.”
It called on the British party’s national executive to obtain from the Russian Government either a satisfactory rebuttal of the criticism or an assurance that their causes would be removed as speedily as possible.
Another resolution urged the party’s annual meeting to express concern “at the lack of rights and facilities for Soviet Jews compared to those, for example, of Poland.” It asked the party leadership “to inquire into the failure of the Soviet Government fully to rehabilitate the Jews as it has other minorities which suffered under Stalin and to restore to them the institutions they had before their unjust suppression in the postwar period.”
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