COLLABORATORS BETRAY MOVEMENT
By Royston Bull
1973Royston BullCommunist Party and StalinismSoviet Union Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
The Communist Party of Great Britain subordinates itself to the foreign policy require nents of the bureaucrac which rules in the Kremlin.
Peaceful co-existence with imperialism is one of the main planks of Stalinism's revision of Marxist revolutionary theory. It flowed out of the basic counter-revolutionary conception of socialism in a single country' which Stalin adapted Soviet policy strength of imperialism following the failure of revolutions in Germany and elsewhere.
This reactionary theory has used justify heinous capitulation forces imperialism ever since. In the course of it, the revolutionary movement betrayed time and time again throughout the world. There have been no enthusiastic followers of these counter-revolutionary policies than the British Stalinists. They accepted the revisionist 'socialism in a single country' theory right from the start. In the 1926 General Strike, they backed Moscow's line of all support to The entich Council of the which made it certain that the revolutionary crisis would be headed off and the movement tied to the hind quarters the reformists.
In World War II, they loyally supported the Churchill government and helped the state authorities to break strikes in various parts of the country.
After the war, the British CP adopted the 'peaceful road to socialism' programme, dictated personally by Stalin.
The 'British Road to Socialism' was the logical outcome of the policy of peaceful coexistence. Having consistently headed off revolutionary movements in practice, as in China in 1927, Spain in 1936-1937, France 1936 and throughout western Europe following World War II, it made sense extinguish revolution altogether from party theory.
Despite all the disasters that the foreign policy requirements of the Kremlin bureaucracy inflicted on the world revolution the 50 years, the King Street Stalinists are still loyally carrying them out.
The latest turn in Soviet conclude disarmament' and trade and friendship treaties with the most reactionary of imperialist circles, the US, West Germany, France, and Britain.
Kremlin leaders have welcomed Nixon's re-election because they had been able reach 'understanding' with him: put enormous pressure on the Vietnamese Communist Party to end the war in order that they could please Nixon; praised the Tory government for its 'progressive' attitude In relation to trade with Russia; signed treaties with fascist Spain; established friendly relations with the Greek colonels; and welcomed the Common Market for creating the possibill Europe. new 'understanding' in In line with these requirements, and meeting their own reformist inclinations entirely, the British Stalinists are preparing to fall in with these new policies.
The chief need is to avoid revolutionary confrontations in the west at all costs so that charges of 'subversive influence' cannot be levelled against the Kremlin and the new 'treaties' torn up.
The British CP has the task of making sure that the strike movement against Tory government's attempts to troduce a corporate state does lead revolutionary crisis; and if such a crisis does occur, to head it off down some harmless wage demand path as the French CP did in the events of May-June 1968.
Simultaneously, the Stalinists in both countries are meant to be quietly ditching their anti-Market stances.
British CP leaders went to Moscow late last year to hear Soviet bureaucracy's demands on these issues, and French CP secretary Georges Marchais came to Britain soon after to synchronize policies.
work of heading off the strike movement from developing towards revolution is already well under way at King Street.
The Stalinists have covered up for transport union secretary Jack Jones and engineers' president Hugh Scanlon, "lefts' deliberately implementing the TUC's special Congress decision of March 5 to co-ordinate action in port of unions struggling against the pay laws.
The CP covered up for Jones and Scanlon when these 'lefts' moves for General Strike at the special Congress by proposing their 'day of national protest and stoppage' motion after the delegates had defeated the General Council's attempt to rule out resolutions from the floor altogether.
In the various wages struggles. the Stalinists have either tried to get groups of workers to accept the fl plus 4 per cent pay norm, or else have gone along with the rejection of Phase Two offers where strong feelings have been aroused, but have then done nothing to lead a real fight on the issue.
In the docks in London and Liverpool, the Stalinists have recommended acceptance of Phase Iwo settlements.
Stalinists on the Union of Post Office Workers (UPW) executive have remained silent Industrial 'Un Wednesday, added