'Changes?

policies of the 1935 Congress.

This was acknowledged by Aaronovich, as it has been by many other CP leaders.

The 'British Road' is a programme of class-collaboration like the people's front. It preaches the parliamentary road to socialism through the organs of capitalist state power.

Aaronovich attempts to give it a new theoretical gloss just when big business is preparing for extreme right-wing, Bonapartist forms of rule over the working class.

In the trade unions, the Stalinists disarm the working class with reformist illusions about 'peaceful roads to socialism' in alliance with "labour lefts'.

So the December 8 strike is presented by the Stalinists as a protest action • which will force the Tories to 'change their minds' over their anti-union legislation.

True to Popular Front traditions, • everything is staked on divisions within the ruling class, leading to a Tory retreat over the anti-union Bill.

And because of this, the middle class, caught in between the sharpening conflict of the working class and the monopolies, is thrown into political crisis.

They will be attracted not by a 'democratic' protest, but only by a powerful working-class movement united behind a socialist alternative programme, which in defending all existing rights and conditions wrung from the ruling class, takes the offensive against the bankers and the monopolies.

This is the political purpose of the All Trades Unions Alliance Aaronovich, in his speech, warned against the danger of socialist demands splitting the New Park Publications 186a Clapham High St, SW4.

YOU The point is, this alliance is not intended to defeat the Tories, but to change their policies:

... the movement is still a very long way from reaching the level required to compel the Tories to withdraw their anti-union measures and cuts in the social services . . . Such an alliance could compel changes in current policies and open the way, for more basic changes ... (Emphasis added.)

Basic changes ... in what? The Tory Party?

Since the editorial nowhere makes the call to bring this Tory government down, and talks only of changes in its policy, then this is what it must mean.

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'Under the banner of the October Revolution, the conciliatory politics practised by the "People's Front" dooms the working class to impotence and clears the road for fascism. "People's Fronts" on the one hand - fascism on the other: these are the last political resources of imperialism in the struggle against the proletarian revolution.' Trotsky's analysis of Stalinist class-collaboration retains all its validity today.

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