INFORMATION REPORT report no.
CD NO.
Guatemala
SUBJECT Tha Ccramuniat Line on Agrarian Reform
DISTR.2 NO. OF PAGES3
OF INFO.
OF ENCLS. annus biiom
ACQUIRED Ouateoala, Guatemala City
1, The CcBBsuniet line on agrarian reform was openly and publicly statedeport entitled "About the agrarian Queation ofy Jose Manuel Por tuny, Secretary Oeneral of the Conaaunlst Party of Guatemala, to tbe Central Committor of that Party on It, andnd published in the CcBXJunist Party organ,n its issue
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Without attempting to wake an analyaia of the many and Tarioue points indoctrinaire dooument given by Fortuny, the Coomunist Party la giving
full support to the Agrarian Refora Lav and is making every effort to make itaelf popular with the farnsrs, with tbe idea of having thea feel indebted to the Party for what benefits may result from agrarian reform*
uDofi 3. Fortuny, ia discussing the ways ln which the weight of tha "revolution"be brought to bear oa the gr*at landowners, and in particular the possibility "of expropriating their lands in theirecognised tha Party's lack of sufficient strength among tha farmers whan be stated that to expropriate the lands in their entirety "would presuppoea thatosition to realise the proletarian socialist revolution, orthe conditions existed for the establishment of th* dictatorship of
the workers andit would have to be supposed that there
lose and effective alliance with the peasantry| and that there was
the-a'aauraaae that the latter would march" with the workers.* For tuny
^ont?.nued by saying that these suppositions are distant end will not cone tram in th* immediate future. Fortuny explained that there ar* two Hirfff of "capitalist* agrarian revolutions and took the position that the Guatemalan agrarian reform program is faablonad after the "American" system, differentiating it from thehe former having been characterised by tha sale of unused land to homesteaders, and other faaturee.
v ia moat proper revolutionary path Tor tha liquidation of tha greet feudal holding* of the country." Later ca la hia report, Fortucy stated thatCcataunirt Party la not fighting now for the transfer of power to the proletariat, but, considering hietorie coalitions and given thaee conditions, It must support whatever atspad to the final liquidation of feudalism."
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limm-aiiui Pnrty organisation among rural ccuaitanitiea should be undertaken with fill realisation of the rural social structure, tha artlola pointed out, and attention should b* directed prinoipally to the rural proletariat, Parsers who had to hire themselves out for eupplecentary income, and to poor peasants, but care should be taken to distinguish betveen tha rich peasants vac did aanusl labor on their an land and tbe large farmers andlawL-wTwa who did ant.
B-3 6. There la ao praciso informationthe lins the Party oxpecte to take at auy future tin with regard to agrarian refora. For tha presenta endaaTorlng to improve and, apparently, establish ltaelf soundly a? the friena aad leader of tha faraerj. The Indian faroera are dlfflo-olt toheir ways. They are religious, and thiar iaz*>aUbIlo la tbe path of tha ftsBBuniste, although thewill eaaeaTcc to dispel any faera by claimlag that the Party "repeats' religioa,
B-Doa 7. la hi* efttarta to win the support of the faro workera* Fortuny criticised tee ineffective efforts of the past and celled for the Connunlst cells,ad pro^aga-odlata to stay in ae cl-.ae jontaet aa pocalbla vithpeasaji<Ji, recruiting those who are tha moat aggressive and audacious, St'-hatPolitical GcoElttw of the Party had approvedroup of propagaxdirj sad agitates to go Into the ooartrr-Hda and Itated trjtt ia eroaa where Spanish Is not spoken they rust haby interpreters.
Ftciuiy stated that tha agitators and orSanishould not lose eight of-.hat. tho struggle for ^puaw* ua* the Party's permanent oentralby remeca of tin fact that if international conditlone became worse, the padiA oi war, agraiian refora would baacaM ao difficult it would beoor^ period.
"MMa U3atvjd that aacampaign laae beam, undarraJcen by any group to areata sn atmosphere of anxiety
th* fara: worker* in order to defeat ths purposes of the Agrarian Boftca lew, She law providsit penalties for acts ia opposition to its ustareeMBb, Hcvtrfor, the landowner a' intereata are suoh that they wouldhatever psyohologleal teehrdque the/ thought would beia iaflaanrins Ue farm worker* oa thsir own farm* to oppose firffariaii refect.
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caplarlaB that the Agrarian Rann Lav was oreated to keep Goraaafanrn aepr-vpsrty baa becctui generally accepted,iu tc bethat thia lair will serveool to punishathiaara of tfc* Arbeas goverxment. Accordingr. SalvadortnavSgr ooaneoted idtt the military hoapital in Ouateiaala City aad
alatodumber cf mlLftary men, they" believe the agrarian
..as willatural death ardo applied to exiatlna conditions ia Guatemala.
Vttruth, indicating that the '
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