'Pravda' features a new attack on

Workers Press no. 42, 25 November 1969 · scan page 5

Topics: Communist Party and Stalinism, Fourth International and the ICFI, Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky

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'PRAVDA' of November 19 features a review of a book just published in the Soviet Union: "The Struggle of the Bolshevik Party against Trotskyism after the October Revolution'.

The book and its review recognize a new stage in the development of the Fourth International. As the reviewer points out :

June 1969] called upon com nunists and all revolutionarie of the world to strengthen heir struggle against Trotsky workers' movement, in the sm and its splitting and anti. socialist activities With the is growing as a force in the working class.

Admitted

This is admitted by the reviewer:

countries of the word Trot i do re he and isolated or routine attack on It is part of the inter lational strategy of counter revolutionary Stalinism to step up its campaign of vilification and intimidation of Trotskyists. 'theoretical' journals of the Soviet Communist Party.

This goes hand in hand with the recent campaign to rehabilitate Stalin and the renewed persecution of the anti-Stalinist opposition.

The Soviet bureaucracy fears above all else the coming together of the internal opposition with the ideas of Trotskyism and the programme of the Fourth International.

Such a development is all the more likely, now that a key section of the opposition (TRICE ORDER THE DAILY Name Address ost to: CIrculation Organizer, Workers Press, 18 lapham High Street, London, SW4. (Tel: 01-720-200 has taken up the fight for a return to Leninism.

In the west, the Stalinist parties are racked by deep internal crises as their leaderships consciously betray the revolutionary aspirations of the rank and file.

The theory and activity of the Fourth International will now make deep inroads into these Parties, particularly here in Britain, where the fight is carried into the working class daily through the Workers Press.

Despite their differences over Czechoslovakia! Stalinists the British and Moscow are united in their fear and hatred of Trotskyism.

The writings of Johnstone, Reid and the Soviet Academy of Social Sciences prove that when it comes to the fight against the Fourth International, they are all in the same die-hard Stalinist camp. wn→ teers NOW Two adillone (For any two dayal O R ou select 4 a year £1 for three months subscribe to Workers' Press for