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There are none So those who Will not see

By John Spencer

Workers Press no. 402, 13 March 1971 · scan pages 2, 5

Topics: Marxist theory

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Given by Peter Jeffries W LONDON Wednesday March 17 Wednesday March 24 loom 3a, University of London Union ' Malet St, WC1 Given by Michael Banda In the upper ranks of the the reverse: the growth of a reserve industrial army.

In order to restore their sharply declining profit rates, which fell from 14.5 per cent of the total domestic income in 1964 to 10.1 per cent in 1970, the monopolists and the government have now decided to break No amount of one-day stoppages by the Canutes of the trade unions can turn this counter-revolutionary tide. To say so is to disarm the working class and facilitate the attacks of the Tories.

We urge all trade unionists— and in particular T&GWU members — to demand of their leaders that the 'TUC document not only be rejected, but that March 18 be the signal for the calling of a definite General Strike to make the Tories resign.

Russian Revolution, this was a simple undertaking.

Stalin's whispering campaign in fact had as its main not Krupskaya, but Leninarget Khrushchev now readily admits:

'He wasn't just indulging in frivolous gossip, either. wanted to influence us psychologically, to undermine our limitless love for Lenin, and to increase his own stature as the uncontested leader and great thinker of our era. (Khrushchev was one of the most fanatical advocates of the Stalin 'cult' while the 'great thinker' lived.)

'To this end he cautiously but deliberately sprinkled into the consciousness of those around him the idea that privately he wasn't of the same opinion about Lenin that he professed publicly... : (It is in this context that Khrushchev relates his story about Kaganovich.)

But did Stalin's anti-Lenin campaign prevent Khrushchev from joining in the onslaught on Lenin's old comrades?

On the contrary!:

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