Workers Press no. 41

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• PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 41

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1969

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

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BY DAVID MAUDE

the conduct of union officials and senior shop stewards at one of tho toal* the war. Britain's most militant car factories this week.

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MP Mr John earlie esterday c Though forced by raa series have to be cleared atroctes ana tne ImDaci on wali rardoe (cornwall orta), 1s In the US itselt, of the news is already mak- workers took scapegoats punished. worktrg led olaer setback to take up witn uae vilnister time as • the sertio lisen lem amonssl Delenct case British-Leyland Vietnam war her is a erect asured as those until now, narching in the revor Martin. „44 who is Container firm wno. Il! aster working with nerve Lav ti SupPOrteU

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ric the osalons repare baric se ted its battle ma oriLy tho o. Three me atta walea ad have died "Budget' Burecto may pull out workers. Nixon Many feading capitallsi fiscal and put down a private noliticians are alreadu Concessions manding a full inguiry into oops from Vietam now, es the Mini ster; Mr By our industrial reporter vorkt British-Leyland workee untee) Pardoe said. Film studio THE OCL-ACT container At ot-inntrol Workers Past Nixon has ured: s motor cam paign duction-contro alitt vall consortum is sellousiy con and pin the on he quesion of ao Constiony jobs in Icspulsibs reduce hausts, sidering pulling out of the meir acturer

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this i ts thom Senate minal at hilbury tollowing proposals sured-Day London dockers' rejection bality council launched ent.

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Yienay London filming 'Evenings' "reshufle in the US. every day and every every bonto N.U.T. leaders y iz. up to 6d.

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hadle selpe ato atrocitie Standard are hemselve at three public meetings gainst the people flannel ase are exioust getting meetings Americar a spokesman så so toe Us roops i eray See the film of the first issue being prepared and hurled it down Dess bol eved that Leyland printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' hopes "Trade unions and the tominaio in the tilbury its engin had forcec end ou la starin starti gest the increase. yeat rabour covernment Union of Teac ofs he Nationa!

Monday, November 24,

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Suleistudent decide which schools growing ome o wilful e anslaugharies, • D.In. on strike Ford men face civitans asy US First step Sunday, November 23, 7.30 p.m.

WEATHER

oad work-stedy assesment suport shown fore ew York wrote big parity fight

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to maindi vor 8 p.m picocuce. зорано в their usual hous to discuss their claim for parity of earnings with st Schoolm the higher-paid Midlands car plants.

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County Hotel, Neville Street The realers ure of the anti- bridge, Ipswich the ords may w bright Periods o ranty as such see a tigh with Teachers meeting stop work at the same time. | for parity *Fight the attacks on

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England: Mosdy is not met 8 p.m. Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant Young Socialists mont tto wina diab rise. and Bristol Road Street Corner So that the war can be sold Speakers at all meetings will be : in al eat mo rat e.

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Milan police mutiny MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers" Press) E. Vandr l Cereo dy nera somleelow

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SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the sheaers ande ico, a section or ie atys Young Socialists) nad been allowed tos rares Pro Mn P report Saturday, Nov. 29 (46F) mutinied Protest against Soviet ma inu ei eie lu orkers durin Canning Town Public Hall writer's expulsion involved in the mutiny are in ll. doors open 12 Maring thea geetade nstr- eman ane idespread van you sewe kalamaua eo year aximum 6C make sometning for our bazaart Thy poet bilat Oiea va, ha b buas oth antoborc to

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

:: 9 1970 workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

NUMBER 41 • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1969

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durabathe next few days. Post peace ators on Viet paris A NEW MEASURED DAY WORK threat took shape that Flood of yet anony deep-going in discussions between company representatives, US sout in tie Tunne union officials and senior shop stewards at one of class over the conduct of Britain's most militant car factories this week.

• year at 13 anger over Dayworkers at Morris mmediately by Motors, Oxford, are to be malling your offered greater security of donation to : American employment against lay- Workers Press Monthl: offs. British- n high street ondon, S.W Leyland proposes a package atrocities emolency or working to pay M.P. to increases already vear. the take up mento e aosoronon or present incen THE US Defence Department has still refused on the nd foods will damain.

tive • schemes into a new to comment on the flood of reports concerning structure wate nerve the massacres in Vietnam.

based on job-evaluation and Nearly Americal By a foreign correspondent gas case newspapers have featured

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may pull out ll after working Many leading capitalist ease already notice question or a and harder polacials alc monetary restraints. tine Minister: Concessions manding a full inquiry into three). By our industrial reporter workers Puresto said. allegations - troops from Vietnam now. Film studio THE OCL-ACT container coubt to take the steam our Stokes' campaign Nixon has urged soon of the anti-war consortium is seriously con- and pin the responsibility intensity sidering pulling out of the jobs in on military, and not govern

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White minal at Tilbury following Armed stereo to Senate, call her environme tal London dockers' rejection proposalS.

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the com- Quality council Greater : se suarant emplo is of proposals for the imple- is virtually certain to Motors, inderstood guaranteed, mentation of Lord Devlin's American Motors MADAME Nguyen Ill DIl only if incentive studios wer which employ about "modernization', Paris per see workers ar. tne whole factory. was announced yesterday. agains The expected, closure war on the Vietnam London completed part bro only few follonpany's war to an end. rpetrated san the nachine-gun: ment reshuffle in the us.

'Evenings' would establish work- berth every day and every boat.

* administration i Decemb N.U.T. leaders

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See the film of the first issue being prepared and its ensintismoud it down Oes to lad hat He lacese. printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' 52300,00 in the Tibi "Irade unions and the Labour government' year. Monday, November 24,

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8 p.m. or the massacre one of wilful manslaughter planned to began on acade Ford men face First step The Dolphi Sunday, November 23, 7.30 p.m.

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Partick Burgh Hall big parity fight Senato Charlese: Goodell of would be

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(nr. Merkland Street underground) foon 24 hours from Friday "The next stage in the miners' struggle' ment of work. Tuesday. November 25 FORD WORKERS meet in Dagenham tomorrow Vietnam.

NEWCASTLE

Leyland, would then 8 p.m. moes every sere. or usual ho to discuss their claim for parity of earnings with now at time mostly over hills. ewington state Midlands car plants. Sunday, November 30, 7.30 p.m.

Cynical • Most coo

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County Hotel, Neville Street warhe readersture of the anti the 1962 rout of shop stewards Teachers' meeting for al to Be in this erniel over parity as such an apport 'Fight the attacks on

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statement. Sena ine education conferenford Thursday, November 27

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under us cupation of South Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

8 p.m Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant The Wellington inde so Winds Young Socialists offic Corner Street and Bristol Road months to win a £10 rise.

So that the war can be sold Speakers at all meetings will be:

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Milan police mutiny MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers" Press) 1790 Central Northern

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SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the Acco, a secion of the city.

report Saturday, Nov. 29 Protest against Soviet es during withhet Cracke seneral to Town canninore Public Hall writer's involved in the mutiny are expulsion he fittips sparked death tion, chine. Ene sparral anan knit? paint? you as a se At least eight other writers Have some hing or ardgery?

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THE I

Extracts from WHY SHOULD anyone want to maintain the silence about the first months of the Second World War? Deborine and Telpukhov- sky are trying to convince the reader that by carefully examining the concrete causes of the defeats we suffered at the beginning of the war in 1941, we weaken the scope of our final victory and denigrate the role that our social and state structure played in that final victory over the enemy. It would be impossible to speak greater untruths. Just look at the long list ol so-called 'mistakes' and 'error Russian prisosers captured in the early mom!

were moved in open freight trucks in sub-ze Complained a German officer: "There is no manpower in open unheated cars because we unload'. of calculation' committed by our leaders. Such an impudent deliverance of a country to the fire and iron' of the enemy is unprecedented in history.

That our country, under such conditions, was able not only to resist but to triumph sur- passes the imagination. Our bitterest enemies must recognize that this was because of the internal strength of our social and political structure, the force of our people. We can only emphasize this truth forcefully, we can only make it even more evident and more convincing by revealing the terrible trials our people had to surmount - trials brought about by the errors and per- haps the crimes of the leaders responsible for the preparation of the country for war. Hinders cover up the facts is to play the game of those really re- sponsible for our defeats, be.

ause it hinders the possibility of preventing the repetition of those terrible trials. It is above all to play the game of the Nazi falsifiers.

It has been common know- ledge for a long time that any country at war tries to mag- nify the forces of its van- increase ade value of its vio tory. Read von Tippelskirch— you won't find any indication of the unprepared state of our army in his work. If one follows the funda- thesis of Nekritch's mental two critics, the work of the German von Tippelskirch is the most objective analysis of the initial period of the war.

Generally speaking, accordin to him, our High Command never made a mistake. We didn't even blow up our forti- fied old sectors since, accord- ing to his work, the valiant "broke German divisions through the Stalin line'.

This is the illustrious com- pany that those who refuse to study facts and only try to discover in them confirmation the Soviet to face a Union the attack. In all of their own priori views surprise which were at war risk keeping. countmes and with Hitler's Germany The Hitlerites and neo- allied with us, the errors of fascists have good the pre-war period have more falsify the this way. truth in or less been judged. hide the But why would we truth of the of England removed Chamber- urst montis the war 22 years after it is lain's government only because over ? it was incapable of preventing war from breaking out in con- and By becoming silent ditions unfavourable for Great minimizing all the weaknesses Britain; it was removed only -which —whatever they were for its errors of foreign policy our defence suffered from, and (Munich). by boldly refusing to analyse of The United States set up a and. completely the causes Congressional commission the inadequacies existing in just Pearl the years 1941-1943, we risk to investigate Harbour surprise attack on the not digging out their roots.

Pacific fleet by the American Japanese Air Force. Ne are leaving a menace to over over the future securit France arraigned its govern- over the life of of our country, ment before tribunals for That is in our people. why having allowed its army to be history betrayals and mistakes beaten, an army very much in the preparation of a country inferior-above all in arms and for been war have never equipment-even to the troops forgiven. of our frontier regions. the And in our country people paid for the mistakes mistakes of our government, which were terrible betrayals. The people paid first of all with the fantastic losses sus- tained the front. The at Germans on the Eastern, Western, Southern and African fronts lost about four million killed men-four million or wounded and then dying from their wounds. On the German-Russian front alone we lost 13.5 million men, approximately three-and-a-half times as many. But none of those directly responsible for the paralysis of in the face our country accepted the aggression least responsibility for these deaths - not moral respon- sibility. Difficult This is strange, almost un- believable. If, however, one 20th considers all that the Congress revealed, it all be- comes comprehensive. But today it is much more ditiont t0 explain the publi- Deborine and cation Telpukhovsky's article, which not only tries to hide the truth about our defeats, but openly threatens whoever to months of Hitler's Invasion unveil this truth. trucks in sub-zero weather.

1: "There is no sense transporting •And where are they threat- cars because we have only corpses to ening? official review of the In the And it would be strange if Marxist-Leninist Institute! For they were pardoned or not whom and for what does such That would be spoken about. an article serve? It is hard to of form the most dangerous it appeared the believe on forgiveness of sins' for future initiative of its two authors or generations and for the leaders comrade editor. No, of you, for will be responsible who someone ordered this libel.

the defence of the country.

Forces exist-and they are obviously influential forces- It would directly encourage in of and which have interest the repetition errors an maintaining the silence about crimes. the first months of the war.

the last During war no The published in country was less prepared than article To Comrade L. Brezhnev, Central Committee of the CSPU.

To Comrade Gorkin, Supreme Court of the USSR.

To Comrade Rudenko, Procurer General of the USSR.

To Comrade Blokhin, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. Party member. 2 Pereulok From Zinaida Grigorenko. Komsomolksy. Apt. 94, telephone G-6-27-37.

DURING the Ginsburg-Galanskov trial my husband, Piotr Grigorenko, was called as a witness by lawyer Kaminskaya.

this Judge Mironov, president of the tribunal, refused certificate from and based this refusal on a request district psychiatric dispensary number 1 in the Lenin stating that Grigorenko was mentally irresponsible. This certification is not genuine.

decision of the medical In December, 1965. by declared commission, my husband was psychologically normal, taken off the psychiatric hospital list and called back to the hospital.

A certificate proving his good health was moreover presented to the tribunal.

In perfectly good health, Piotr Grigorenko works as a foreman in the SU-2 assembly workshop and leads Party discussions as a Propagandist.

The circle he is in includes 20 people; 13 communists and seven non-Party people. On the one hand my husband leads a political circle and on the other hand it appears he is mentally ill. Could that be a mistake? Not at all, because it is a violation of the law that has lasted for five years.

On February 1, 1964, Major-General Grigorenko, master of sciences, arrested on suspicion of anti-communist was activity. Instead of proceeding with an investigation of his however, it referred to the Serbsky Institute, case was where he was declared irresponsible and sent to Leningrad Prison Hospital for treatment.

When I asked when my husband had lost his reason, as I myself hadn't noticed, the military judges, Lieutenant- Colonels Kuznetsoy and Kantorov, explained to me that his political points of view and his persistent dissemination of these views, made him a socially dangerous individual.

They also told me that my husband would be retired as an ill man and keep his rank and his pension.

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your review is merely an force the first traitors or even a fairly attempt period of war into the large and coherent organiza- tion could have successfully infiltrated our state machinery.

with no consideration for the fundamental interests of the But this is so preposterous defence of our country. that I cannot even express these ideas. It appears indubit number of disturbing A questions are posed in relation able to me that any organiza to this article: tion of this kind woud have been unmasked and disarmed Whose interests does it very quickly in any country.

serve? However, an enormous Who is afraid of the truth betrayal, unprecedented in about the first months of the history, did take place. war? What are the forces who, to the direct detriment of our and its defensive country Disarm potential, are obstinately try- ing to wipe out this whole period? These are terrifying forces And after taking place, it for our country. succeeds to this day in hiding itself from the eyes of the It is time sound the to people. Only terrible forces about this; today, alarm are capable of that. mounts in the entire tension world. the imperialist aggres- The live people cannot sors spread their pillage to the peacefully in this world full of four of corners our planet contradiction as long as such world and new war forces Sures deal and disarmed abd exist. must If, knocks at our door. under conditions, the forces these of the quickly. needs who committed what can only defence of our country require be called treason when pre- this above all. paring for the last world war, survive and even extend their It is finally time to say: no more ! We have had enough influence, we must, at the top of our voices, cry danger.

insipid declarations and hollow What happened on the eve talk ! of the Second World War was The human conscience can terrifying. no longer compromise with hypocrisy and lies. It seemed as if someone was with unwavering waiting We cannot allow anyone to patience, persistence and hide behind the deeds of un- understanding to facilitate the died known heroes who victory of the fascists; waiting direct fault of through the to put our entire people under amateurs with pretty phrases their yoke. about the heroism of othets.

When I think about that I We can no longer scoff at the In Party circles, I learned that a directive ordered the temporary expulsion of the mentally ill, but allowed them be reinstated in the Party after their cure. What has to happened since then? By Khrushchev's decision of August 29, 1964, my husband was reduced to the rank of private and expelled from the Party as mentally ill.

All the people hospitalized with my husband, except him, received their pensions.

The law was strictly observed who killed for murderers; Lieutenant-Colonel Chechenko, his own daughter, and Lieutenant-Colonel Burkovsky, who shot three people, were retired but kept their ranks and pensions. On April 29, 1965, my husband left hospital with a second infirmitv. Although provided with this category certification and wounded in the war, he could not get his pension or work for ten months. He therefore had to take a job as a stevedore. In December, 1965, by decision of the medical com- mission of dispensary number I in the Lenin district, my husband was declared sane and taken off the psychiatric hospital list. He was not, however, reintegrated into the Party, his rank was not restored and the pension he had earned after 34 years of faithful military service was not given to him.

Wounded several times, he could not even get a certificate stating he is a war invalid. ...

The story I have told here is a grotesque parody of justice. I think it is only a prelude to new reprisals arainst my husband. It fills me with horror- more so as during the even years of the cult of the individual, I lost my first husband, my sister and my brother-in-law, not to mention the repression I myself was subjected to.

As a communist and citizen of the Soviet Union I demand an end to the illegal acts of which my husband and family are victims. I demand an end to the persecution unleashed against my children and myself. I demand the complete restoration of my husband's rights as a Party member and citizen, and that the rank that was his in the army be returned to him.

January 23, 1968 Saturday, November 22, 1968 ALEXIS KOSYGIN was part of Stalin's government. Then, one llegality of such nroceed at Khrushchev's side he ccuned the post or kirst vi without esident of the Council of Ministe the absurd idea that nothing sh do therefore shares resnonsibility for the activitie and mistakes of these two governments ot the unitorm. Wa ron allow such deeds to sink into darkness and h Kut t wasn't oficialy ir conseous diseas ta that the imn icated man has gainst mi suffered their conse does not intend to ny arrest I naven't received a kop repeat them. pily this is not true in Alexis Kosygin's case. He due to of Stalin and Chrushchev nrecisev in I was refused the pension les socialist law. Indeed, Kosygin does not think In Februar with the threat of deprivin head of the this that he him ent bitrarv action against me and th a guilty of such of such confidence Ther Kosygin and I call on the electors 1 tial. However no one has yet dealt with this problem. here the there Was. prodigious turnover Party economic anoi The boot other oranianons the ickers. unt stanaerers ncapabl and rormers lose unqualified fo for and ee position, 11° posts. Colary mandespania corollary expanded sumptuously. Unrestrained hardenec forced and situation. appoin Undermined These on the budget and undermined succumbed flourished. atron Yor ation were of those who tell many of them eminent special- the battlefied the on the economy, languished is perhens what gave Dare Oning thic in embers tors. in the camps bitiko china phenomena DaS1 hirth all cons attitidle must demand a pobic investi which consists in cAnding he real tellicenco information that wil sae defeat Guards please pleas problem too is sail to be hierarchic studied. Nokritch That will increase our coun silent try's but this. . On. international authority, reinforce poten- ite defancive this ground he is a pioneer an tial and like out the man Golikov's Predeces int veil cor covering staff hidden the general ot intell. Force Pimelar masses for such a lone Ance AlT Lieutenant. General who Proskurov. wac that only complaint cent to his death hu Stalin and because Remia's executioners false give comes from retused Golitovchina about the chief of intelligence formanon enemy shed hearily - Red in fal order to please Stalin. war speci Stalination will serve as iodd false arcellent of the Soviet armed forces What has the result of hee Nekritch's research ? He reached the conclusion all these problems, but macy and more circumlocution Not good His book forces his de briping war; evolution Previousiv hove this problem approached lock from specifically militomy angle. the made vent During arrests every area chain og society. and charina the all the chain cul- conomic political and Towns such as the one above fell quickly to Hiter's invading Panzers.

hiral fe of the countri TO the even in •.. And in our country the people paid for the mistakes of our millions government, mistakes go On the Germanen seich front alone fost is million men..?

qualified men combat.

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an try to imagine how a handful first of traitors or even a fairly the large and coherent organiza- ects, tion could have successfully infiltrated our state machinery.

the the But this is so preposterous that I cannot even express bing these ideas. It appears indubit- tion able to me that any organiza- tion of this kind woud have been unmasked and disarmed it very quickly in any country.

However, an enormous ruth betrayal, unprecedented in the history, did take place. , to our sive Disarm try- hole rces And atter taking place, it succeeds to this day in hiding itself from the eyes of the the people. Only terrible forces as are capable of that. tire res- The people cannot live the peacefully in this world full of anet contradiction as long as such war forces exist. They must be ader surrounded and disarmed, and rces quickly. The needs of the only defence of our country require pre- this above all. war, heir It is finally time to say: so more! We have had enough top insipid declarations and hollow talk! eve was The human conscience can no longer compromise with hypocrisy and lies. was ering We cannot allow anyone to and hide behind the deeds of un- : the known heroes who died iting through the direct fault of nder amateurs with pretty phrases about the heroism of othets.

at I We can no longer scoff at the arned that a directive ordered the the mentally ill, but allowed them Party after their cure. What has ecision of August 29, 1964, my the rank of private and expelled ly ill. italized with my husband, except ons. The law was strictly observed at-Colonel Chechenko, who killed ieutenant-Colonel Burkovsky, who retired but kept their ranks and my husband left hospital with a ty. Although provided with this d in the war, he could not get his months. He therefore had to take , by decision of the medical com- umber 1 in the Lenin district, my ane and taken off the psychiatric er, reintegrated into the Party, his ad the pension he had earned after tary service was not given to him.

he could not even get a certificate d. . . • old here is a grotesque parody of 1 a prelude to new reprisals against rror-even more so as during the individual, I lost my first husband, other-in-law, not to mention the subjected to. nd citizen of the Soviet Union I legal acts of which my husband and • the persecution unleashed against I demand the complete restoration s a Party member and citizen, and ais in the army be returned to him.

January 23, 1968 Saturday, November 22, 1969 Saturday. November 42. 1989 The illegality of such proceedings is so flagrant that the without wanting responsibility for the activities He theretore snares and mistakes or unese two goverumicuts.

I suffered their consequences. From the day of orgotten ay arrest I haven't received a kopeck the law I should receive Nevertheless, according to the, not do to mon the sethic pa d. was struck off the army in which the old seriously. attesting demned to From 1961 I nable and Ollen of waiting, I received pension and in the all mdicati mdicating that i would be paid nere: i will oofy the t out that an aperdice of leghate of the investigation and judiciary debates. 1964, given to the the college of the Supreme aligned shelved my and of Ministers had a teally decided upat ey dismissa tro | asked him in une army. didn't answer cluded from this General Lo soldier, then Kosygin and I call on the electors to do the same.

June 3, 1966 10 hog ve should be made adanst Dam R sharp edges. lusions toes. only "mistakes' question calculation i Stali for Nsible whole corollary expanded umptuously fete delirion- Stalin's policy favoured best of his worki best situation. poured appoint- secrets- Their 'criticism' sh wis ret ments Nekritch conducted search direction that, fea Undermined Defame the budget an defame achinera The spirit of initia Consider- I firmly believe that Nekritch ation sub- "position' was historiall authentic MarxisI stituted for interests being Will served. memory of those any of them eminent specia Who Iel OI by a the economy, languisher battlefield ists This perhaps pardon? past in the camps. ublic invest Guards defeat we suitered during establish the hrst months or the war.

molete truth in the interes That will increase our coun • our count • he joss raised men it is good raised even greatest crume masses for such a lone general commit against our people and contingent and the nesd for reserves hausted ent to his only complaint that greate shantes wise and re troops should remembe Beria's executioners because refused hermetion about falst warning. their Falsifiers of history must be order to please Stalin. nunished mst as countere ters vould please Stalin. nallv it will serve as are dunisncd defensive poten- excellent ming to t muture hat has been the result ekritch's research ? all these problems, bu diplo maty and more circume diplo form, Not good His of Soviet evolution militar Rec robler arom nilita arrests al life of the hove el ancy to duers ivadle raner.

millions of qualified men combat DAVE SPOONER'S review of the volume 'Selected Works' of Lenin (November 14) contains a number of misleading pas- sages. For example he writes: "The development of imperialism in the late 19th century exerted pressure upon the enormous traditional working-class parties. 'Kautsky 'was the major theoretical spearhead of this revisionist trend, which was based on the labour aristocracy which enjoys privileged position within imperialism.'

Kautsky certainly became, in the period following the out- break of the First World War in August 1914, a bitter oppon- ent of the Russian Revolution and Marxism. He was a centrist covering up for the right on the basic questions of the struggle against imperialist war and against the German bourgeoisie.

But when Bernstein attacked Marxism in the 1890s and thus 'spearheaded' the revisionist attack, Kautsky •was one of his opponents. The writings of Lenin before 1913 acknowledgements of Kautsky's contain many, Marxist contributions to and he replied analysis, heatedly to those who at that time suggested that the Bol- sheviks were "a different kind of Marxists' from Kautsky.

Trotsky points out his Revolution' 'Permanent that both he and Lenin arrived at similar conclusions to Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg on the probability of the working class achieving power in backward Russia in advance of the rest of Europe. Comrade Spooner is rightly anxious to point out the unique contribution of Lenin on the building of the revolutionary party, and the fact that this role required the defence of Marxist theory against enemies like Kautsky, but this cannot be properly understood if the actual history is distorted.

To write about the revision."

ists revising Lenin's character- ization of imperialism, and then to quote against them Lenin's article 'Marxism and Revision- ism', , can only mislead. The article in question was written some seven years be- fore Lenin even set down his characterization of imperialism.

here that The danger Marxism is not grasped his- torically, in its contradictory development, but presented as Kautsky: Made important contributions to Marxism before his support of the First World War. a fixed truth, to be defended from outside attacks. In dealing with Lenin's 'Left- Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder', Comrade Spooner makes similar errors. Lenin certainly strongly attacked the oversimplified 'no compromise' talk of Gallacher and Pankhurst in Britain and 'left' other communists in Europe. But it is wrong to say that •.. Pankhurst, like the middle- class protesters of yesterday, defends the the undoubted in- Whatever fluence of middle-class radical- ism on Pankhurst's group, that certainly cannot group with the reactionary equated of middle - class protesters recent days. On the contrary, Lenin did not direct his criticism against any 'defence of personal ideals'.

He considered that 'Sylvia Pankhurst and Gallacher are mistaken in thinking that this [urging the workers to vote Labour] is a betrayal of com- munism, or a renunciation of the struggle against the social- traitors'. Gallacher's letter to Of Pankhurst's paper, Lenin says: opinion, this letter In my to the editor expresses excel- lently the temper and point of view of the young communists, rank-and-file workers or of who are only just beginning to accept communism. 'This temper is highly gratify-

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committing, commit, or and valuable; about are ing we must learn to appreciate it and sup- This puts the criticism in a port it for, in its absence, it different perspective. would be hopeless to expect basis of the victory of the proletarian In fact, on the Lenin's advice and the work revolution in Great Britain.

of the first four congresses of . At the same time, we Communist International, must tell Late of mind and the them the fight for a change frankly that a state was insufficient for begun for the British Com- is by itself munist Party to overcome its leadership of the masses in a but this to revolutionary struggle, sectarianism, turn great of mass work was to fall victim, and that the cause the revolution may well be harmed as Comrade Spooner indicates, to the growth of Stalinism after by certain errors that people 1925. most devoted to who are the C.S. cause of the revolution are

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Lenin considered that Sylvia Pankhurst and Willie Gallacher were mistaken in thinking that urging workers to vote Labour was 'a betrayal of communism'. In 1921, as can be seen in the picture, the British CP, heeding Lenin's advice, changed its policy but this turn to the mass movement was to fall victim to the growth of Stalinism after 1925. Seated (I. to r.) Tom Bell, Albert Inkpin, Arthur MacManus, Willie Gallacher, Fred Peet.

body, the ASTMS leadership -CONGRATULATIONS on the excellent technical quality and refused to back them unles they struck in rotation, one the only news coverage paper to the left of department at a time. daily Stalinism. A techniciar Despite my differences with Trotskyism, I find its contents instructive and informative es- detailed report- pecially the ing of the miners' struggle and opposition in Russia. the Leftists who slate the SLL "sectarian', whilst in the as belittling breath the same themselves being. daily, are and are guilty sectarian, crying 'sour-grapes.

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As a white-collar worker I as BBC.1 except at th All wilmes: regions have concerned that been over the past 18 months the workers, struggle of such Midlands and East Anglia, South an est: 12.02 12.ngland: 12.02 the Norther other than the teachers, have North of almost unmentioned in gone News Summary Scotland: 5.03-5.15 315.10-1i.5s One Over Th your press. Sportsreel. collar The white Sight. major 5.15-5.40 Disc A Daws Wales: p.m unions—CAWU,

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Programme. Fil manual lines. 2.30 Day Time. 3.05 His view is that Matinee : "Behind The Mask workers' wages should be al- 4.40 Here's Lucy. 5.10 Speci that lowed to rise, so em- Project Air. 5.55 Clangers. find it profitable to ployers 6.05 News and Weather. replace them by machines. Muggeridge asl 6.15 Malcolm he In other words, wants Why. The Question manual workers price to see 6.50 Songs Of Praise. themselves out of the market, Paul Temple. 7.25 and 8.15 Play Of The Month industry Danny La Rue in 'Charley consequent increase Aunt'. nician members of his union.

Mons and Wother. Flyin 9.35 the Woolwich Further, over Python's 9.45 Monty shutdown negotiations, Jen- Circus. accepted favourable re- kins a portrait 10.15 Omnibus: dundancy terms for his mem- George Eliot. condition that they Weatherman. bers on 11.30 co-operate in running down thus aiding Wein- as BBC-1 except at t the works, Allo meto regions stock in splitting manual and times: Midlands and Ea Midians technical workers. for and weather Finally, during the GEC dis- Anglia. Coventry early this pute in of England, South and Wer Nortl 11.32 p.m ews Summary. when the technicians year, Wales: 2.30-3.15 Docto: wanted to strike as a united Ebbw 3.15.4.00 Rugby Union:

Saturday, November 22, 1969 such proceedings is so flagrant that the t wanting to rescind the decision, t about it. This is no doubt because of it nothing should 'tarnish the honour t officially informed of the sanctions d their consequences. From the day of eceived a kopeck. cording to the law I should receive p to the day I was struck off the army he service pay. le pension legally due to me. I received g that I'd left the military, and deprived : I could not find work. Accordingly, cludes two invalids, and I were con- t accept such arbitrary action I pro- gained my freedom. December 1965, almost two years after long months of waiting, I received a : mail indicating that I would be paid e law gives me a right to.

ested again. 6, after a long silence, I was answered priving me of my pension, sending me shutting me up in a psychiatric hospital e threats, I wrote directly to Kosygin.

etter to tell me at least if the Council ually decided upon my dismissal from • government didn't answer me. I con- t he himself was an accomplice in this ist me and that he was perfectly aware ch I was the object. f such conduct does not deserve the lectors. Therefore I will vote against the electors to do the same.

June 3, 1966 should be made against him is that he constantly smooths sharp edges. • He pares down his con- clusions to such an extent that he gives the impression, in spite of the correct facts he reports, that it really was only a question 'mistakes and 'errors of calculation' 'inadequacies' for which Stalin alone was responsible. And that is far from the whole truth. But can Nekritch be blamed for that? No, of course not. And the est proofs of this are th critics' of his work Their 'criticism' shows that Nekritch conducted his re- search in the right direction and on the road he reached. And those who fear this truth are alarmed. Defame They set out to defame Nekritch and terrorize other historians. I firmly believe that Nekritc and all authentic Marxist historians will have enough courage not to be frightened by the pitiful-and harmful to our country-terrorist incan- tations of the Deborines, the Telpukhovskys and other pro- pagandists of the lie. They must pursue their re- search on the period we have establish the looked at and complete truth in the interests of our country. As for those who, in the fashion of Deborine and Telpukhovsky, try to oppose the truth, they are committing the greatest crime one can commit against our people and our country. They should remember the great Cervantes' wise and true warning: Falsifiers of history must be punished just as counterfeiters are punished. DAVE SPOONER'S review of the volume 'Selected Works' of Lenin (November 14) contains a number of misleading pas- sages. For example he writes: "The development of imperialism in the late 19th century exerted enormous pressure upon the traditional working-class parties. 'Kautsky was the major theoretical spearhead of this revisionist trend, which was based on the labour aristocracy enjoys privileged which a position within imperialism.

Kautsky certainly became, in the period following the out- break of the First World War in August 1914, a bitter oppon- ent of the Russian Revolution and Marxism. He was a centrist covering up for the right on the basic questions of the struggle against imperialist war and against the German bourgeoisie.

But when Bernstein attacked Marxism in the 1890s and thus 'spearheaded' the revisionist attack, Kautsky •was one of his opponents. The writings of Lenin before 1913 contain many, acknowledgements of Kautsky's Marxist contributions to analysis, and he replied heatedly to those who at that time suggested that the Bol- sheviks were 'a different kind of Marxists' from Kautsky.

Trotsky points out in his •Permanent Revolution' that both he and Lenin arrived at similar conclusions to Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg on the probability of the working class achieving power in backward Russia in advance of the rest of Europe. Comrade Spooner is rightly anxious to point out the unique contribution of Lenin on the building of the revolutionary party, and the fact that this role required the defence of Marxist theory against enemies like Kautsky, but this cannot be properly understood if the actual history is distorted.

To write about the revision.*.-- CON ists revising Lenin's character- ization of imperialism, and then to quote against them Lenin's article 'Marxism and Revision- ism', , can only mislead. The article in question was written some seven years be- fore Lenin even set down his characterization of imperialism.

The danger here is that Marxism is not grasped his- torically, in its contradictory development, but presented as Kautsky: Made important contributions to Marxism before his support of the First World War. a fixed truth, to be defended from outside attacks. In dealing with Lenin's 'Left- Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder', Comrade Spooner makes similar errors. Lenin certainly strongly attacked the oversimplified 'no compromise' talk of Gallacher and Pankhurst in Britain and other left' communists .E Europe. But it is wrong to say that ... Pankhurst, like the middle- class protesters of yesterday, defends the Whatever the undoubted in- fluence of middle-class radical- ism on Pankhurst's group, that be certainly cannot group equated with the reactionary middle - class protesters of recent days. On the contrary, Lenin did not direct his criticism against any 'defence of personal ideals'.

He considered that 'Sylvia Pankhurst and Gallacher are mistaken in thinking that this [urging the workers to • vote Labour] is a betrayal of com- munism, or a renunciation of the struggle against the social- traitors' Of Gallacher's letter to Pankhurst's paper, Lenin says: 'In my opinion, this letter to the editor expresses excel- lently the temper and point of view of the young communists, or of rank-and-file workers who are only just beginning to accept communism. "This temper is highly gratify- ing and valuable; we must learn to appreciate it and sup- port it for, in its absence, it would be • hopeless to expect the victory of the proletarian revolution in Great Britain.

•... At the same time, we tell them openly and must frankly that a state of mind insufficient for is by itself leadership of the masses in a great revolutionary struggle, and that the cause of the revolution may well be harmed by certain errors that people who are most devoted to the cause of the revolution are

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Lenin considered that Sylvia Pankhurst and mistaken in thinking that urging workers to 'a betrayal of communism'. In 1921, as can b the British CP, heeding Lenin's advice, chan but this turn to the mass movement was to of Stalinism after 1925. Seated (I. to r.) Tom Arthur MacManus, Willie Gallacher, Fred Pr - CONGRATULATIONS on the excellent technical quality and news coverage of the only daily paper to the left of Stalinism. Despite my differences with Trotskyism, I find its contents instructive and informative es- pecially, the detailed report- ing of the miners' struggle and the opposition in Russia.

Leftists who slate the SLL as 'sectarian', whilst in the the same breath belittling are themselves daily, being and are guilty of sectarian, crying 'sour-grapes'. Even if the pessimists are proved right and Workers Press has to cut back for fin- ancial reasons, this will be a reflection not on the compe- tence or politics of its con- on our bour- tributors but geois-democratic society in which 'freedom of the press' is open to all-like the Ritz Hotel! I was pleased to see in your October 23 issue the article headed 'Speed-up pro- posed for clerical workers'.

As a white-collar worker I been concerned that have over the past 18 months the of such workers, struggle other than the teachers, have gone almost unmentioned in your press. The major white collar unions--CAWU, DATA and comparable in ASTMS-are the size and importance to Boilermakers' and Blastfur- nacemen's unions (to which adequate attention). you give Such inverted snobbery is a mistake. Automation means that inevitably the technical will grow and it is unions essential that a revolutionary party must take account of them. In particular, Clive Jenkins, centrist', op- the 'cybernetic poses the incomes policy not as an attack on the prole- tariat, but as against the national economic interest.

view is that manual His workers' wages should be al- lowed to rise, so that em- ployers find it profitable to replace them by machines.

In other words, he wants to see manual workers price themselves out of the market, industry modernized, and a consequent increase in tech- nician members of his union.

Further, over the Woolwich shutdown negotiations, Jen- kins accepted favourable re- dundancy terms for his mem- bers on condition that they co-operate in running down the works, thus aiding Wein- stock in splitting manual and technical workers. Finally, during the GEC dis- pute in Coventry early this year, when the technicians wanted to strike as a united Lenin's of the first four congresses of intemnadonal as Comrade Spooner indicates to the growth of Stalinism after , Pankhurst and Willie Gallacher were leadership struck in A technican

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I AM 22. I've been in the CP for two years and I was in the YCL for a few years before I joined the Party. I have always tried to remain faithful to the gains of the October Revolution, to the thoughts of Marx, Engels and Lenin and I've always fought for socialism, for freedom, for democracy. I was shocked by the atti- tude of the French CP during the General Strike in 1968 but I did believe they were right.

I was shocked by Stalin's crimes and I put a lot of hope in the 'de-Stalinization', until I realized there has never been de-Stalinization in the FOR DECADE upon decade the workers of this country have been in conflict with their employers. But never for many a year have so many different sec- tions of workers thrown down the gauntlet and locked them- selves in battle with their bosses. for the-strikes The reason and sanctions which the wor- kers use at their place of work is simply one, money. Many workers after working 50 or 60 hours a week take home a wage-packet which should make this government blush with shame. At this year's Trades Union Congress the Prices and In- comes Board was voted out.

Workers should take their from this cue decision and make every claim a straight- forward one with no strings attached — after all produc- tivity deals are a means of reducing labour and mean the surrendering of conditions over the years which the workers fought very hard to attain. The millionaire gutter-press as always decries the efforts of the workers to obtain a decent living wage; they take sides bosses and make with the scurrilous attacks on the workers. It is heartening to see 'The Newsletter' now published as a daily paper with the title of Workers Press and, I may add, it is an appropriate name, for its policy is to defend the workers and put their case in proper perspective. 1 am a regular reader of the Workers Press and I shall go on reading it, for it gives me all the information on struggles

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10.30 Review: Alphonse Mucha and Art Noureau. 11.15 Line Up. 11.40 News Summary. 11.45 Midnight Movie: "The Tall starring Randolph Scott.

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News Review and 7.00 p.m. Weather. 7.25 The World About Us. 8.05 Bach: played by the Chamber Netherlands Orchestra. 9.00 A Year In The Life: of Thamesmead — Town for Tomorrow. 9.45 Thirty Minute Theatre. Martin's 10.15 Rowan and Laugh-In. 11.05 News Summary. 11.10 Line-Up.

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11.00 a.m. Church Service. 12.15 p.m. Sunday Session. 12.40-1.05 1.25 The Your Living Body. English Sickness-Fact Or Fic- tion? 1.55 Out Of Town. 2.15 Sports Arena. 2.45 University Soviet Union and Brezhnev does not intend to bring one along. I was also terribly shocked military by the aggression against Czechoslovakia and although I tried to justify it, to understand it from their point of view, could not a ree cannot agree to the Soviet athletes going to Greece.

But as you point out, it is not enough to say 'yes' or 'no' to the Soviet aggression against Czechoslovakia. One must analyse the facts and find out why they happened.

Doing that I came to the conclusion that not only de- necessary, Stalinization was but also the recognition that that are taking place through- out the country and indeed the world, for no matter which part of the world a strike takes place it is for the same prin- ciple — the right to have a decent wage. This government, and many trade union leaders, have paid too much lip-service to social- ism. The workers are now looking for action. ONE GOOD thing about the Workers Press is its freedom from commercial advertising.

It's refreshing to read the truth without having to avoid advertisers' the announce- ments. Capitalism in decay spreads corruption all over the earth, poisoning fish and birds.

In the same way our minds constantly assaulted by are the varied techniques of sales promotion. The toddler eats not the most nourishing cereal, but the one with the nicest plastic toy inside and learns his letters from the cornflakes packet.

The lonely old woman can- not get her goods delivered, but receives a steady supply of circulars extolling the super- market where she would be completely overwhelmed and lost. Nationalized enterprises are as much tied up with manu- facturers' advertising gim- micks as any other business.

When you order a fire you can have a canteen of cutlery 'free'! Doctors' letter boxes are stuffed with chemists samples.

Tube trains may be packed Fiction? 12.05 p.m. Thunder- birds. 12.55 News From ITN.

1.00 World Of Sport. 1.05 On The Ball. 1.20 They're Off! 3.10 International Sports Special. 4.00 Wrestling. 5.00 Results Service.

5.15 Bonanza. 6.10 News From ITN. 6.15 Parkin's Patch. 6.45 The Saturday Crowd. 7.30 Please Sir! 8.05 • Funny Face' starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. 10.00 News From ITN. 10.10 Saturday Night Theatre: "The Full Cheddar' Merchant. and Vivienne Daniel Massey. Frost On Saturday. 11.10 12 midnight All Our Yesterdays.

12.25 a.m. Music From Malinee Peris. AlV except at following times: independent channels as London CHANNEL: 12.55 p.m. National News. 5.15 Tarzan. 6.15 Wheel Of Fortune. 3.05 The Sarday Fum i, "The Interns' starTing George aal. 11.50 Weacher. Challenge. 3.15 The Big Match.

4.15 The Flaxton Boys. 4.45 The Golden Shot. 5.30 Hark At Barker. 6.00 News From ITN. 6.15 All Creatures Great and Small. 6.35 Appeal — Your 6.55 Their Lives. 7.00 Stars On Sunday. 7.25. Randall and Hopkirk (De- ceased). "Blossoms In The Dust' 8.20 starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. 10.10 News From ITN. 10.25 This Is . . . Tom . Jones. 11.20 Tonight With David Nixon. 12.05 a.m. Music From Malinee Peris. All independent channels as London ITV except at following times:

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Families Talking. cer Today's Feature 2.15 Star Soccer. Road' starring "Thunder Robert Mit- chum and Gene Barry. 4.45 The Golden Shot. 5.30 Bugs Bunny. 6.00 National and Channel News Headlines. News 7.25 Feature Film: "The Kentuckian' starring Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Strange Diane Foster. 9.10 Report. National midnight 10.10 News. 12 Weather. pilogue OUTHERN: 1.30 p.m. All Our Yester 2.00 Farm Progress. 2.25 Seaway.

3.l5 Southern Soccer. 4.05 My Three 5.30 The Sons. 4.35 Southern News. Flaxton Boys. 8.20 "The Sunday Film: Wackiest In "The Ship The Army' starring Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson Lund. 12.05 and John a.m. Weather Forecast, Question Time. Leon Trotsky the was not agent' "traitor', the 'fascist we thought he was. He was only a communist, a Bolshevik, and also a close comrade of Lenin during the decisive days of October 1917.

And the fact that the Socialist Labour League and Workers Press exist should also be admitted by the Party.

The ban on Workers Press as I think, a was, as far shameful action by the Party.

There is plenty more I could say. I thought I'd write a bit Workers Press because to every time I write my worries to the 'Morning Star', they in Readers' never appear Letters. Those who think they can ndeed flirt with capitalism and still achieve socialism are dis- honest. Socialism can never be achieved within the frame- work of a capitalist society.

Once again I send my best wishes to the Workers Press and look forward to the day on which it will be published six days a week. Harry Shult and like sardine-tins run erratically, but the posters hanging round are brilliant.

The controversy about the dangerous properties of cycla- mates is the latest example of the principle of 'sell first, test later'. This method was respon- sible for thalidomide babies and the cancer-stick addiction.

Manufacturers produce for profit and build up the market aggressively. Profits can be used for advertising to avoid taxation. The well-being of the con- sumer hardly enters into it, and only downright, specific lies are forbidden. Women at home with their children are particularly ex- posed to the advances of the tally-man and women out at work may be pressurized into many little purchases to make up for their absence-the I'll bring you something nice back' syndrome. When the workers take over industry and distribution, we may expect a massive release of talent and effort wasted on sales propaganda, and a great sigh of relief from the public.

B. Russell. ham

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5.15 Saturday Please Sir! 7.30 Edgar Wallace. 8.30 Ruby Charlton Heston.

Gentry' starring Jennifer Jones and 2 midninht Weather. WESTWARD: 1.05-1.25 p.m. You And Your Child. 2.00 Farm and Country News, 2.15 As Channel. 6.00 National News. 6.15 As Channel. 12 midnight Faith For Life. 12.06 a.m. Weather.

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5.30 The Flaxton Boys. 7.25 Strange Report. 8.25 Screen On Sunday: "Elmer Gantry' starring Burt Lancaster and Simmons. 10.10 News. 10.20 Screen On Sunday 11.20 (part two). Tom Tones. 12.15 a.m. This Weather. Harlech Wales) as above except .30-6.00 p.m. Testrun Traford ANGLIA: 1.05-1.30 p.m. You And Your Child 1.55 Weather Trends. 2.00 Diary. 2.30 The Baron. 3.25 Farming Parkin's Patch. 3.55 Match Of The Week. 5.30 The Forest Rangers. 6.55 In Our Time. 7.25 Star Movie: 'Father and Theirade starine Spends range and Elizabeth Taylor. Strange Report. 12.05 a.m. Reflection.

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Stalin's birthday - then and now makes it appropriate to recall Stalin's reply to birthday greetings from Ribbentrop in 1939. In acknowledging the mes- Stalin referred to the sage, friendship between Russia and Germany which had been "cemented with blood'. The blood in question was, of course, that shed in the joint Hitler-Stalin operation against Poland in the previous September. This callous cynicism of Stalin's was regarded by some at the time as proof of his masterly • statesmanship—until the Nazi onslaught on Russia in June 1941, and the terrible losses then suffered as a result of Stalin's "cleverness', gave them a jolt. The British Communist Party leadership have remained ever since then • acutely em- barrassed by this episode of quasi-alliance Stalin's with Hitler in 1939-1941, and have always striven to suppress dis- cussion of it, because of its far-reaching implications.

I remember how when, on returning from the Far East in "political 1946, attended a rehabilitation course' at King Street, I was made to feel a proper cad because I tried to question the glossing-over of that period which was attempted by the tutor. But I did much later have the satisfaction of learning that this tutor had gone to Pollitt and told him that he would not deal with the sub- ject again on any of these courses, it was too embarrass- ing! achieves One sometimes effect by such efforts more than is immediately apparent from the brass faces that Party officials are trained to main- tain. I mention this to en- courage those Communist Party members who may now be struggling to force discus- sion of 'awkward' questions in branches, at political their education classes, and so on.

Brian Pearce Editorial footnote : Brian Pearce, as many of our eaders will know, was a mem er of the British Communis Party from 1934 to 1957, and wrote, under the pseudonyn of Joseph Redman' , a number of studies of Communist Party history including "British Socialists and the Moscow Trials' (available in "Moscow Trials Anthology' from New Park Publications, 186a Clap- ham High St., SW4. 12s. 6d.).

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Saturday, November 22, 1968

WORKERS' PRESS

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Dick Etheridge

CEYLON

all ution &t tae comel Trotskyist praises Feather youth in Party

MR DICK ETHERIDGE,

Communist of the Austin executive member, convenor Scanlon Birmingham, and motor factory at Longbridge, TUC, is AEF delegate at the best perhaps known for his private tea-time chat with Prime Minister Wilson during the car-workers' lobby defends conference of the Labour Party conference in 1966.

On that occasion,

BY JOHN SPENCER

T.U.C.

announced that Wilson Wilson as a major victory.

would do something ior car workers, and unree verrs painted up his chat with idge is still following out plan THE Ceylon Trotskyist youth organization, Revolutionary Com- We complain of distortion By a Workers Press munist Youth, held its highly _corresponden successful second conference in in The Observer' Colombo on October 24.

HUGH

SCANLON,

con deted and toul Dear Sir, of Engine I wish to correct the factual A correspondent writes: day WE ARE publishing for the information of our readers the fuli text of the correspon- Any course MORE than 200 young workers, unemployed entirely o dence between ourselves and "The Observer' youth and students attended the conference, the Workers Press concerning the story on which showed the rapid expansion of the Trotskyist forces that has taken place during readers The Newsletter the past year in Ceylon. nei The International Resolution adopted • The Oberver to bout the source of surely conference stated its determination to fight for the building of a revolutionary Youth International support- attended the call lea ing the Fourth International.

ossip about our pape to our com report in l be Worter. perspective John Spencer, mlemmallullal union: Assistant Editor. This You TUCY was firmly accepted by the 812,00 conscien bit Pressunner The conference, which saw its work in Ceylon as an in-

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