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"RLF" - Workers' Literary Front. I leaf through the yellowed pages of this veteran with excitement. Here every slogan, every article, every verse and story is colored by the flame of the class struggle. The end of 1929. The wound from the September Uprising, from the pogroms in 1925 is still alive. The headscarves of the thousands of mothers, wives and sisters of the murdered are black. Even blacker is the blackness of fascism, hanging over the entire country. But the people who survived the five centuries of Turkish slavery, the people who fought with black bullets against the Sultan's empire, the people who refused to kill their brothers at the front and sprinkled Vladaya with their blood, the people who, in the name of communism, rose up in the first anti-fascist uprising in the world - this people is awake. It is gathering strength for a new struggle, for the last decisive battle. It is enough to felt the first breath of the rising revolutionary wave in our country and abroad, to erect a camp, to rise from the fire like the legendary bird, the ranks of the fighters. And again the fiery banner is raised and taken off. The Bulgarian working class, the working peasantry and the progressive intelligentsia are writing new glorious pages in their heroic history. An important place in the fierce ideological struggle, and especially on the literary front during this period, is occupied by the newspaper "RLF", which was published from December 1929 to June 1934 in the conditions of the bourgeois fascist state, of the dominant bourgeois, fascistizing culture, in it openly and boldly proceeded to organize and unite the progressive artistic intelligentsia in the name of communism. Of course, even before "RLF" in general political and special publications the party defended Marxist understandings of literature and art, fought for affirmation and development of the seeds of socialist culture. However, never during the period of capitalism and fascism was this struggle waged so openly, so massively, offensively and effectively as in the "RLF". For this, of course, the accumulated experience and revolutionary traditions of the past played a significant role. After all, among revolutionary democrats such as Rakovski, Botev, Karavelov and others, literature and art were an integral part of the common struggle for the liberation of the people! These traditions, in the conditions of capitalist society, were continued by Blagoev, Kirkov, Polyanov.

SPEECH OF COMRADE TODOR ZHIVKOV AT THE MEETING OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL CENTRAL CENTRAL PARTY WITH WORKERS OF THE CULTURAL FRONT, DELIVERED ON APRIL 15, 1963 Dear comrades, At the beginning of April, as Comrade Mitko Grigorov announced in his opening remarks, a meeting lasting several days was held at the Central Committee of the Party with a wide range of representatives of the creative intelligentsia and other workers of the ideological front - the leaderships of the creative unions, the bureaus of the party organizations at the creative unions, the editors-in-chief of the central daily newspapers, the editors-in-chief of newspapers and magazines on issues of literature and art, the leaderships of the ideological institutes, of cinema, theater, radio and television, the secretaries for propaganda and agitation of the district committees of the Party, the members of the ideological commission of the Central Committee of the Party and the Council of Ministers. The meeting held a frank discussion on the urgent issues that concern our cultural community, and discussed in detail the work of the creative unions to implement the party decisions, and in particular the decisions of the Eighth Party Congress in the field of literature and art. The meeting of the Central Committee of the Party once again unequivocally confirmed that the vast majority of our creative intelligentsia correctly understands the role and tasks of the ideological front at the current stage in the development of our country and tirelessly and consistently implements the policy of our Party after the April Plenum of the Central Committee and the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party. What comments could arise in connection with this meeting of ours?

One of the most striking manifestations of the struggle of Bulgarian writers against capitalism and fascism is the founding and activity of the Union of Labor Writers. Labor writers! Today this concept is almost forgotten. It is connected with a certain period of political and literary development in Bulgaria - the beginning of the 1930s. This is a period of great revolutionary upsurge of the masses, a time when the clash between the exploited and the exploiters acquired such a sharp character that many expected it to end with an open armed conflict, with the overthrow of the fascist dictatorship. This is the time when, despite terror and violence, despite special laws for the protection of the state, the red communes reappeared in the country - the workers in a number of cities and villages won the elections and seized local power. Even Sofia, the capital of bourgeois-fascist Bulgaria, was captured! The initiative to create a unified anti-fascist union - the Union of Labor Writers - belongs to the proletarian writers, grouped around the newspaper "Workers' Literary Front". Already with the establishment of the Union - February 1932 - a decision was made to publish a special organ - the Front of Labor Writers", the first issue of which was published in June 1932. An important part of the activities of the Union of Labor Writers and its organ "Front" was occupied by problems of the Soviet Union and Soviet literature. This problem already occupies one of the central places in the draft platform of the Union. In point 3, the main task of the union was defined as: "Protection of Soviet culture and the USSR, against the preparing anti-Soviet war". The words with which the project ends are remarkable: Long live the USSR - the true fatherland of the workers and toilers of the whole world and the hearth of culture". Proletarian today and the universal tomorrow This attitude of writers, of the toilers in our country towards the Soviet Bulgarian Proletarian Union is the result of the deep traditions of the Bulgarian Communist Party of loyalty and devotion to internationalism, to the liberation cause of the proletariat. The Soviet Union is the country where the socialist revolution first won, it became the vanguard of all humanity in the struggle for the destruction of the hateful exploitative society, for the triumph of the communist ideal. This is why the USSR is the fatherland of all toilers of the whole world, it must be protected like the apple of the eye. The Soviet people are tracing the path to the future in all areas of life and their experience is a lesson and an example for all. In this spirit, the Bulgarian Communist Party has been educating its members and the entire working Bulgarian people for decades. people.