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By John Crawford

Workers Press no. 159, 9 May 1970 · scan pages 3, 4

Topics: Italy and Germany, Communist Party and Stalinism, Fourth International and the ICFI

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SUNDAY TV and abetted by the Stalinists, and the new offensive against the left in France-also connived at by the Stalinists there-has its counterpart in Brezhnev's warnings and 'Difficulties' We can be sure that despite all their internal problems and differences, the leaders British Stalinism will take DUR UN E We must see to it that they have many more.

Stalinism constantly proclaims its desire to co-exist peacefully with the enemies of the working class and the colonial peoples.

For the real Leninists of today, the Fourth International, they have nothing but fear and hatred.

BOOK REVIEW 'THE GERMAN RESISTANCE TO HITLER' By H. Gram, H. Mommsen, H-). Reichhardt Saturday, May 9, 1970 THE DEVELOPMENT of independent action by the German working class in the strikes of last September had profound significance for the building of the Fourth International.

Betrayed in 1933 by Social Democracy and Stalinism, the German workers' movement was chained down by the Nazi dictatorship. degree of illegal work, but now SPD literature began to be distributed.

But what effect could this have but to demoralize workers, for one of the main problems for the working class was to grasp the treachery of this Party itself.

Reichhardt reports that an illegal Berlin Regional Committee of the SPD was arrested and further committees operated until the beginning of 1936. But further opposition activity was not conducted by the SPD as such.

Turning to the Stalinists, THREE lead the German workers in united struggle against fascism, but saw this only as a matter of organization, not of theory.

Solidarity

IT IS only Trotskyism, the struggle to resolve this crisis, which can grasp the significance of the facts reported by Reichhardt. No other tendency maintained the struggle for international solidarity with the German workers during the 1939-1945 war.

It was German Trotskyists

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