Speech to Foreign Delegates to the Eighth Congress of the CPC
(Excerpts)
(September 21, 1956)

Source: RMRB (Sept. 22, 1956), 1.

These excerpts are quoted in a news report on a banquet given by the Presidium of the Eighth
CPC Congress for representatives of “fraternal parties” from fifty-five foreign countries
and political entities. For dates of the Eighth Congress, see text Aug. 30, 1956, note 1; also
see text Sept. 15, 1956, penultimate paragraph of text.

Delegates from fraternal parties of fifty-five countries are attending this Congress of our Party. This demonstrates the strength of the great friendship and unity



among the working classes of all countries. . . .
We wholeheartedly thank your parties and people for the inspiration and support
they have lent us. . . .
[Let's drink:]
To the common cause of communism; to the unbreakable unity among the
working classes, communist parties, workers' parties, laboring peoples' parties,
labor parties, and people's revolutionary parties of all countries; and to the glorious
enrichment and promulgation of the invincible teachings of Marxism-Leninism!
Bottoms up!