Workers Press no. 50

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What we think Lying eulogy of Voroshilov The British Communist in the real t Livi. Beneath a picture of the old Sore Unt They then reported that the

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Stewards retreat, but.. truces purpose the ther at the New Year.

PANTHER

BY DAVID MAUDE

DISGUST

and Col fusion was expressed British- See so ice a enemade Leyland workers yes- terday and indicted himsecret at the oulcont of Wednesday's Birm- ingham A SECOND cargo-handling consortium yesterday ference of senior shop Stop Wilson's visit stewards. Dy our Induetrial reporter threatened to pull out of Tilbury docks in London.

There was disgust conviction to Nixon campaign a to fin years in prison an their failure to carry two This was announced as important resolutions. London's other port em- ployers got down to con- sidering new union propo-

US VIETNAM CASUALTIES:

ban sals for ending the Merseyside's there on working new unit- standard-Triumph strikers load and containers lo berths. Like seaboard Seaboard sarable tensions here of con the and THE CAMPAIGN to stop Wilson's visit to Vashington has got off to a very encouraging Critical s of Stalinist and No. 1 docks group's ban. most popular campaigns we have launched. ALIAN SiRikes: Ira Rome was brought to ah "The ban a dorsalesman Dozens resolutions cana tee have been passed by many city hour sike for a new union branches and thous tinued even as tack meeting ands of signatures have been Seal Tird alected on petition forms i hate he port nearby insutute Wilson timber and plywood supplies.

Lord Stoke: •Contrast sides and reave pract Contrast this with Gollan's slander labour. Many dockers will regard Students out in Sheffield in

CONFERENCE:

support or lne leacaers-sce page lour story•

NALU

hous bluff Unlike these the Tater, who is going to Ment that Teachers blast back from pay?' are today enter i crating old maxim so-day meeting Anxious in ruseels which is discussing at Powell Less di tried to mee However

T&GWU

negotia- petrated by the US forcesper- i security i he ban same We ANOTHER union officially y our educati светь і вМс Sete conference sun ested Durin the nesosed moets Joined at the neant ass teachers ch • ever mere oper bougher patter ni Although w the stewa imme- ince of the diately foected and western Europe. of tie oca half-day wh strikes Thighe nd disgust in condemnation campaign for a f135. side to the war when the believ employ the tional ballot showed or al us tops now. Boeing 707 were very reluctant to Publicize. than 150 bionches in *aNore than 3,00 members Thing to thin chine nat demild that the Labour gor on Catacas, Venerati duty. withe rehen Dissent A melamazed Engement The nd Foundryworkers pre Tube men Castle's brainchild- amongst the doing survive stay out The had made ployers ampaign to build

LONDON

trade unionists

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Work have been invited to a rally the -say French workers Trades at Westminster's Central

GREET

Alliance is now Halls on Monday in support ben gas. packed Paris Wednesday

AT A

meeting of the ten-week-old strike Derin schemete Unite night, Gérard Bloch of the Trotskyist Organiza- of maintenance engineers tion for the R 5,000 tworkot thEd students.

substantial inc from the Acton railway without stringsease workers students national workshops. 'the fight for the fight for liberty, is justice, No redundancies!

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inseparable from the fight for socialism.

with. the the By Liza Cartwright 1 ne meeung N.L.F. denounces : Nixon No compensation to the em Mutuante campaign initiated by cruitment of craftsmen owners! French rotskvisIs to ae- Pront dating a the Pal South Vietnam. mand the trial of brutally by and monthas been done coat nor deie So an is mas "emam talks charged yester.

thugs

STOP WILSON'S WASHINGTON

brutally at public meetings attacked Jean-Pierre Speller Comrade aftert young trade But one ang

VISIT!

See the film of the first issue being prepared and beel barbarous crimes. administration

FOR THE DEFEAT OF US

his. de- printed and the film 'Young Socialists, 1969' feated de Gaulle.

IMPERIALISM IN VIETNAM!

CANTERBURY

WEATHER

stated tha on the Cats a mine fascist ebode of this ord

DEMONSTRATION

Saturday

SW, NW

Monday, December 8, 8 p.m.

Minister. dee traditional Stalinist Central The Cornwallis Building Corea ates Cominder Spelle beat drizzle, the

SUNDAY JAN. 11

and attacked by a notowed by clear University of Canterbury police dog. wind Mamon

LIVERPOOL

ASSEMBLE: Speakers' Corner (Marble Arch), Feated i Ga the in which de- Nothing done 2 P.M. Linister openstice he sai Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

meeting was addressed via Oxford Street, Regent Street,

MARCH:

broad has fought fot snaresoury motel mount cleasant perate and Trafalgar Square past Downing Street.

Speakers at Liverpool and Canterbury will be : the MEETING: Lyceum Ballroom, near Aldwych, falling I hate fascisme Militant SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the 4 P.M. Moderate Nw winds resolutions Auspices Young Socialists

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toung socialists) Ine only answer comrade

workers press

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What chink Lying eulogy of Voroshilov The Communist Partv s response to the death or vorosnilov was in the real stain tradi. tion. statist Picturer headlined Stalinist tribute She way the wind is blowing Khe Bresh wich sage deals of te my sal, but Vard shilov, Russel as a trumped-up charges it° the dered Red Arm of 22nd Congress of the sPL 1961. gr followied investigatior abuses eir a y - 32-343. Em The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

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Stewards retreat, but...

VIETNAM TRUCES :

PresI 24-hour the other at the New Year.

BY DAVID MAUDE

ARRESTED:

David Hilliard

DISGUST

and con- fusion expressed was President Nixon. many British- by ere state ensemar Leyland workers erday at the outcom nd indicted him. ingham unst Hillar one-day con- A SECOND cargo-handling consortium yesterday 00,0 weeks ference of senior shop - to more thai demonstrators in Cetitor. ar By our Industrial roporter stewards. threatened to pull out of Tilbury docks in London.

A conviction There was disgust their failure to carry two This was announced as important resolutions. London's other port em- Norkers PresS, ip ployers got down to con- strike posa sidering new union propo- were rals for ending the Dam there on working new unit- and containership LOAd berths.

OCL-ACT,

Seaboard Pioneer meering. place be atmos THE CAMPAIGN to stop Wilson's visit Washington has got off to a very encouraging Critical start—in fact it has proved to be one of the most popular

STRIKES:

have Caldous we Haunchedd Rome was brought to a Dozens of resolutions ban has forcedkesman the city to mark the start of have been passed by about alterna- Ilarly their 48-hour strike for a new union brancnes ana tnous- live allangemicals. anas or signatures nave been work contract. Since collected on petition forms In Milan thousands of metal corkers marched to the •CIty blood suppl paper, Sure to cary our this wor -Contrast to carry out this ployees. Comptible lies and with the minimum amount of searcast casincies in tie imperialism ther They are helped as usual by Students out in semed in support or tae teachers see page lour story.

CONFERENCE:

vious bluff. Teachers blast back he heroic Vietnan attending the second Anxious at Powell porated by trous fores European 'security organiza- your education insure one Wednesdays

ANOTHER

ont he turer trom ever have al- Wider pattern college principals, et Lord Devlin's with bureau the resting one od is start the underse trade andking class have tom in loch lately inree attacked tha tn claim, Poleonard All Arance teachers indifference en al were eng an nice sot so te ur of this and Biee the action. demand that the Labour gov- More than 5,000 members is this which the en most because lnis is un Tube men thinking ove The Boating debrers stay out not prevent LONDON trade unionists to Paris.

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have been invited to a rally -say French workers Westminster's

GREET

Central one Thanksgiving Day Halls on Monday in support and instead went on a silent packed Paris of the ten-week-old strike Wednesday AT A meeting on • Devlin Schemet night, Gérard Bloch of the Trotskyist Organiza- engineers an immediate and mannielance Pressed bo ado tion for the Reconstruction of the Fourth Inter- substantial railway trom the

ACION

students told 5,000 and call can nee theons victime workshops. nauollal seeing men liberty, without sulugs d fight for 'the fight for justice, yesterday • No redundancies.

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inseparable from the fight for socialism'.

ful nationalization. nationalization the The meeting Board under By Liza Cartwrignt N.L.F. denounces Nixon Mutualité of them as that che case was Don compensation to the callpalgal case was being * Gaul- Prench investigated. nand the trial of the Seven slaughter is neither an

STOP WILSON'S WASHINGTON

thugs Or tally at public meetings evelation attacked ean-rierre spenci

VISIT!

and two other voung trade unionists the nignt o thousands of See the film of the first issue being prepared and April 26, 1969, the eve of

FOR THE DEFEAT OF US

printed and the film Young Socialists, 1969' referendum which de- feated de Gaulle.

IMPERIALISM IN

VIETNAM!

CANTERBURY

WEATHER

DEMONSTRATION

Con Saturday, Gaullist Monday, December 8, 8 p.m.

Showers The Cornwallis Bullding districts.

TODAY

SUNDAY JAN. 11

University of Canterbury police dog and attacked by a

LIVERPOOL

ASSEMBLE: Speakers' Corner (Marble Arch), Nothing done 2 P.M. N. Abland d Glasgow area, letter Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

Oxford Street, Regent Street,

MARCH:

via Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant Trafalgar Square past Downing Street.

Speakers at Liverpool and Canterbury will be : MIKE BANDA (Editor of Workers' Press) MEETING: Lyceum Ballroom, near Aldwych, 1 bare toncis the working class, SHEILA TORRANCE (National Secretary of the 4 P.M. Militant resolutions and Maderate 7C (SE) Young Socialists)

LOU. DOCIE

The only answer Comrade

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PAGE TWO

TWO EVENTS dwarfed This article all others in the year be published following the 12th Con- gress of the Bolshevik Party in March 1923. The first was the defeat of the German Revolution in the autumn of 1923. the second the death ol Lenin in January 1924. The Bolshevik Party could possibly have withstood either of these blows. But their particular combination broke the back of the Party and the International. Lenin's death and the defeat of the German Revolu- tion cast a shadow over the world class struggle for at least two decades. Spartacist prisoners bein The death of Lenin was not the German Revolution i defeat as a bitter blow t simply the loss of a great Communist leader. Lenin embodied at an un- From his earliest di precedented level the entire Lenin grasp Marxist, continuity of the Russian and the Russian revolutionary movement, from Revolutions were a his break with his brother's entity. Narodnism, through the bitter after And the factional struggles against Revolution, he state revisionism to the final split that the B than once of from the Menshevism Party had to be prepa Martov and Plekhanov, cul- to risk losing state P Russian minating the Russia to ensure the Revolution and the founding of the German Revolu Third, Communist of the While opposing the International. ates of revolutionary In that deeper, historical early 1918, Lenin still sense, Lenin was Bolshevism.

"the that interests In periods of deep political Russian Revolution ha crisis, the Bolshevik Party subordinated to the leadership without Lenin re- development of the vealed definite shadings and revolution. tendencies that were not But while there always visible at other times.

immediate prospect of Under the stress of new tion in Germany, Leni political problems and de- that at that stage th rigid velopments, either a revolution was best si 'orthodoxy' pragmatic the preservation of or improvization became the sub- power at any price, i for development the loss of the stitute the even Marxist and enrichment of (The 'Brest-Litovsk Pe theory that Lenin But the developmer always fought for at such times.

German and West With Lenin still in exile, revolution would de March 1917 found the Russian- rapid change of tac based 'old Bolsheviks' support- Lenin pointed out: ing the Provisional government 'It is quite conceiva of Prince L'vov. given these premises, Lenin's return, followed by be not only expedie 'April his struggle the but a downright duty possibility of de Theses' and the overthrow of the the still-imperialist Provisional the possibility of the drove Stalin and Soviet government, power Kamenev back to the left.

Collected Works p.72 In May 1918, Lenin Revealed to the same theme, ' from a new angle: But only days before the In 1918, Germa October insurrection Russia have become nine months later, Zinovier and striking embodiment Kamenev revealed through realization material the non-Party press the pre- economic, the produc parations of the Party for the the socio-economic c for socialism on the uprising. And though not involved in and the political cond this action, Stalin shared their the other. opposition to the revolution 'A successful pr revolution in Germar itself. under the and As in March, immediately vel pressure of historic tasks, 'old smash and should firi Bolshevism' became a brake would bri on the development of the the victory of world ? (Ve Party and the working class.

for certain .. Only the pressure of the 340.) struggling for working class power, combined with the political authority and struggle Bitter bl waged by Lenin within the The defeat of the Central Committee, drove the Party on to the conquest of Revolution of 1918-1 therefore a bitter power. 'Old Bolshevism' died hard, Lenin and the Russiar and Lenin knew it. After his tion, softened only foundation and rapi illness and death, it was to become the receptacle not of the German Cr simply for a centrist vacilla- Party. tion, but for the bureaucratic Through his

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degeneration and eventual de- leadership in the C the Leninist International, Lenin c struction of Bolshevik Party. assisted in the pol termination of Lenin's velopment The political activity after March Communist Party, br permitted 'Old 1923 now above all other par Bolshevism' to raise its head the key to the as never before. The uneven development of Lenin's the Bolshevik leadership, munism' proved de which in the past had provided overcoming much i an enormous theoretical chal- German Party's u lenge and the the stimulus to approach development of Marxist theory influenced workers. by Lenin, now became an even Through the use bigger handicap. United Front tactic a the Party Fused as it was with the began to rank and file away f defeat of the German Revolu- it became a gigantic Social-Democratic le tion, obstacle. By the summer of Throughout his life, as even bulk of the workin with his death, Lenin and the were broken from tl ship of the Social-D German Revolution were linked. Party, which was no always

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18. 19. thin saen tois le Russian Revolution. If today the lifted from the 'Kulak' and the disintegrating. With in- in vermany as a to speak, see hold od Nepman reaching power, that nanonary CrISIS pressure of bureau- irman for Communists peak, the road opened up sant fall the conquest of power. tney with the bore But faced with this sudden craso was also une forces change in the character of the Stalin-Zinoviev-Kamenev (relatively speaking) ine struggle, Bolshevik Party. Party orior to the Russian October cent of Revolution of 19171 clung now- 1344. nevIk 'Of the fascists are United Front, Its members nad neid raru even lacuil not asleep, fattour cares before Marc from conver uns Lacul that The ranks cution umph fetish. Into a duvalliage only helped to increase this decade later, this • A instead emergine as une lISt pressure. dvoc- vanguard of the entire working was acam to De olallns socal German and poor peasantry, the 'After acital TOr Cutier. sisted bureaucracy Party be- began Come the can i t Communist our turn. saddle more in Social. 1St be opinion the Germans securely he After death, must Lenin's they Democrats. to De the no active pre- spurred on seizea. slalill, verat 1 hele was i Over the next 20 years and rems ao becan to steer world parallon

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power. merely evasions and postponements more, me workers, not merely uncharted free of Germany or even the Soviet What had been a minority last from the lash opportunist grouping the Union, but the whole world theoretical whip. Bolshevik Central Committee were to pay with their blood rgued eve of October this 'curbing' the Stupendous now German Revolution. Fascism the nee ea Di and Second World War German sovie yeals latel. bitter fruits of that an were the conservatism uding bureaucrau rally and Old Bolshevism whelmine maority Disor levelse. Germany, now merged with st the revolutonar sicuation 1 ne events peasant matured-and then passed by.

coupled continued and wit lne lallall By 1924, forces reaction re- decline in Lenin's health, gave acous uveness oclow. opiecave Donucal welent petty- ThIS I Madonast. bourgeois offensive was stupendous that, Only an international break- would through could Only levelor e Party could the understand and withstand it. this hostile class 27, Party pressure, IntO trough tne bureaucracy. urned mounted its attack on the pro- time of the Party and the International. and disguised attack most Bolshevism in the of the name strictest open

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ana Bolshevism with revIsion the adóption of Stalin's 'Social- ism in One Country, ine open- ns on the faction fight ina shots in had been fired. tarian The first the to tight tor Leni would Party Lenin's pro- easily a boul from AS asunct 27, p. opposition groupines lne artv (sue as tne synaicanst workers unposition) tot began with a detence от bo. shevik methods and principles revision the ermas of 'Old Bolsheviks' •Platform 46' Was based itself on a sober analysis evolu- The boost grouped and passed nextensive wellen ered, rowth social layers that Weeks later ine privileged energetic the omensive planned munist staged Viunica taken forth- are not Putsch', The whole class the soviet bureaucracy with. if the present absence ol of balance Germany tipped For as the approach of zeadersno conunues. Lacc over to the right. the Revolution the bossiouv or an extemely stanly acute Even in 19. the bureau- pumpea new eners) InIO economic oreakcown. o e. cratic virus infecting the Soviet working class and raised which will inevitably ermar Bolshevik Party had already internal colitical complications use Interatis nat fervour and via not exnerienced since held spread, ropean the Civil War, its failure swung externa the class pendulum hard over action.

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cavalily right, as it had done in to Com- secuons. last. Germany. more necessary to us now than letter Zinoviev IVe The rapid industrialeraper and ever. on t depends Lne lalt (Stalin's Trotsky Ine all y and swift I ot the word revolution and - eTTIST ano chairman une Inter gress towards collective farmin the working class of all coun- ormist- nationa sta recommended now faded with the consolida tries. the following course of action tion of the Stresemann regime in Germany: 1921, the Communists German heavy industry re- interplay between lit the strive seize German internal Social-Democrats?' mained tied to the fortunes of • their the and capitalist world Party that the market and oresumably Delleyeu Com- drive for Soviet et one leadershiD olven Dy tne 4. The rarty wnIen Crusneu Lilt munist internamonal une demning masses Kevolution ana struggles of the class continued working murdered Luxemburg and Western Europe and China.

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Many of us consciously ac- submission to such cepted regime. 'The turn of policy in the year 1921, and after the illness of comrade Lenin, de- manded in the opinion of some of us a dictatorship within the Party as a temporary measure.

'Other comrades from the adopted very beginning a sceptical attitude towards it.

•.. By the time of the l1th Congress of the Party • this regime had outlived itself....

Links with the Party began to weaken. The Party began to die away. . . Those who doubted the correctness of the 1921 ban on Party factions were right.

Instead of serving as a in the fight against weapon the petty-bourgeois pressures : Kronstadt dramatized by the revolt_and legalized by the New Economic Policy (NEP) the ban became a cudgel in the hands of the Party bureau- cracy (following the illness of Lenin) against Marxist critic- ism and initiative from the ranks. Even at the time of its im- position, Lenin fought against those who interpreted the ban on factions as ending minority or tendency rights within the Party : cannot deprive 'We the Party and members of the Central Committee of the right to appeal to the Party in the event of disagreement on fun- damental issues. I cannot imagine how we can do such a thing. [Stalin was to do just than within five years.] "The present Congress can- not in any way bind the elec- tions to the next Congress.

Suppose we are faced with a say, the con- question like, clusion of the Brest peace?

Can you guarantee that no such question will arise? No, you cannot. 'In the circumstances, the elections may have to be based on platforms. • I do not we have the power to think prohibit this. .. If the cir- cumstances should give rise to fundamental disagreements, can we prohibit them from being brought before the judgement of the whole party? No, we . I move we reject cannot! it.' (Vol. 32, p. 261.) Indeed, as we have shown, Lenin himself broke that ban forming with by his bloc Trotsky against Stalin over the 'Georgian case' and the fight in defence of the mono- poly of foreign trade. survived his Had Lenin stroke, there can be no doubt that the temporary ban would have been lifted By 1923, it clearly hindered, not assisted, the fight against bureaucratic degeneration.

Though not a signatory of the 'Platform', Trotsky was in sympathy with its general line.

(Many of its supporters were soon to become active mem- bers of the Left Opposition : Preobrazhensky, Serebryakov, Antonov-Ovsey- Beloborodov, enko, I. N. Smirnov, Pyatakov, Ossinsky, Muralov, Sapronov, Sosnovsky, Boguslavsky and Vaganyan -- and later still, to pay for this first valiant stand against bureaucracy with their lives.) Opened up At the end of 1923, he too opened up on 'Old Bolshevism' in a series of articles later New Cedrse der the ditle The 'Does bureaucratism bear within it a danger of degenera- tion, or doesn't it? He would be blind who denied it. In prolonged development, its bureaucratization threatens to Friday, December 5, 1969 detach the leaders from the and conservative social layer Re- masses, to bring them to con- within the Soviet Union. treating from the Leninist pro- their attention solely centrate upon questions of administra- gramme of world revolution as tion, of and the only long-term salvation of "appointments transfers, of their the Russian Revolution, the narrowing horizon, of weakening their Stalinist faction disguised its that is of opportunism (even, in its early revolutionary spirit, less from itself behind the provoking more or stages, degeneration of slogan of consolidation and opportunistic the Old Guard, or at the very unity. least, of a considerable part of From 1925 onwards, accept- Such develop ance of the theory of 'socialism processes slowly and in one country' became a con- almost impercept- ibly, but themselves dition of Party membership.

reveal abruptly. More than 40 years on, the "To see this warning, based Reids, Gollans, Rothsteins and Marxian fore- Johnstones still cling and upon objective "outrage", defend this reactionary 'theory' sight, as an an "assault" really as best they can. etc., requires the skittish susceptibility and They know that the whole of arrogance of bureaucrats ..

Stalinism hangs on it. With such a degeneration of They will give up anything the the principal rather than surrender on that leadership, of the Party, Johnstone superiority its single question. multiple collective experience, 'condemns' the Moscow Trials retires to background. and post-war purges (20 years Leadership takes on a too late) but he will not budge purely 'socialism organizational character and on in one country. frequently Neither will Reid: degenerates into order-giving and meddling It is necessary to comment 16-24) The New Cours double 6b2r.)

upon the Trotskyist claim that Stung the revelations of the 20th of 'The New Course' and the Congress of the CPSU have 'Platform of the 46', Stalin shown the Trotskyist opposi- attacked Trotsky personally at Stalin to been tion to have the 13th Party Conference held This is to confuse two correct. just after the death of Lenin.

separate questions. the future 'There be doubt Already grave- can no digger of Bolshevism was flex- about the main political lint advocated by Trotsky and hi.

ing his muscles. The Party Congress which This supporters. is a maller followed May of history. Trotsky first, as we was not Inl Bolshevik gathering. Its dele- have seen [of course we have gates had been handpicked by "seen'. This is the first. nOL Stalin through his control of reference Reid makes to the the apparatus. dispute over 'socialism in one Selected not for their loyalty country'. That question, as she to the principles of Bolshevism, herself admits, has been left to but personal loyalty to Stalin the more expert touch of John- and the requirements of his stone] attacked the policy of machine to they owed building of which up the strength their advancement, this career- the Soviet state, claimed that ist layer hardened into a solid it was impossible without the that rallied to Stalin as development of further social- caste their political and ist revolutions ... It was thus patron spokesman. developed by ihe CPSU while principal It after this Congress while Stalin was its general that the attack upon pro- secre- tary which we believe are at gramme and principle became explicit. And it was Stalin who issue. 'On the contrary, it was became the spokesman. these policies [i.e., "socialism in 1924, Stalin In April one country'] which inspired a addressed of the students whole generation, gave a hope in Mos- Sverdlov University mankind, and when the to His theme was the cow. provided the crunch came, 'Foundations of Leninism'. In major obstacle, at the cost of of the first published edition twenty million Soviet lives, to Stalin figures as his speech, the advance of fascism a firm opponent of the theory (p.16.) of 'socialism in one country': We shall in due course prove "The bothrowise the do wee that Mrs Reid's 'crunch' (the the bourgeoisie Nazi invasion of the Soviet establishment of a proletarian Union) was, in fact, the direct government one country result of the policies she does not yet guarantee the stupidly describes as giving 'a complete victory of socialism.

hope to mankind' main task of The socialism, The Soviet General Staff (or of the organization socialist more correctly, the remnants still lies ahead. production, Soviet of the General Staff) Can this task be accomplished, looked at it in a somewhat can the victory of socialism in more critical light, Mrs Reid.

one country be attained, with- And in her 'Marxism Today' efforts of the out the joint article of September 1964. proletariat of several advanced Reid also upheld this same countries? Stalinist theory: this is impossible. 'No, "Trotsky had always opposed For the final victory of social- could the view that socialism for the organization of be built in one country! ism, socialist production, the efforts So did Stalin up to late of one country, particularly of 1924, Mrs Reid. And so did such a peasant country as Rus- Lenin, right up to his death.

sia, are insufficient. .? ('Lenin When we replied to Tohn- and Leninism', p. 40.) we let him off rather stone, the second edition, But in lightly on this question.

We published a few months later, of Dely presented only a handful the text of the same speech countless refutations was 'edited' in the following of 'socialism in one country'.

manner: we present a far This time "But the overthrow of the richer selection. of the bourgeoisie and power Reid and company slander the establishment of the power they foist Lenin when onto of the proletariat in one coun him Stalin's reactionary Rus- try does not yet mean that the Utopia sian isolated of socialism complete victory divorced from socialist state. been assured. After con- has world economy and free from solidating its power and lead- the threat of military interven- the the petariat in its wake tion. proletariat the It is time to hit back. torious country can and must Permit us to quote at length build a socialist society what Lenin had to say: (Stalin: "Works' vol. 6, p. i10.)

November 7, 1917: "impossible' What had been in the spring of 1924 became • THE Soviet is convinced in a few short months a task that the proletariat that 'can and must' be carried the West-European countries will help us to achieve a com- out. This theory of 'socialism plete and lasting victory for now became the the cause of socialism. (Vol.

one country' 26, p.241.) rallying-cry for every privileged

to the internal Party regime, ill where the contradictions were at their most acute : 'Beneath the external form of official unity we have in practice one-sided recruit- a ment of individuals, and a direction . of affairs which is one-sided and adapted to the views and sympathies of a narrow circle. 'As a result of a Party leadership distorted by such considerations, the narrow Party is to a considerable ex- tent ceasing to be that living independent collectivity which sensitively seizes living reality because it is bound to this reality with a thousand threads. ..? The Platform bluntly faced up to the vexed question of factions, resolved only tem- porarily by the ban imposed at the 10th Congress of the Party in 1921: "The position which has been created is explained by the fact that the regime of the dictatorship fraction a within the Party, which was in d the fact created after the 10th Congress, has outlived itself reau- Many of us consciously ac- erva- cepted submission to such a tiny regime. The turn of policy in es of the year 1921, and after the illness of comrade Lenin, de- nt of manded in the opinion of some Party of us a dictatorship within the Party as a temporary measure.

ranks • 'Other comrades from the this adopted a beginning very sceptical attitude towards it.

efeat, •. By the time of the 11th o sit Congress of this the Party iddle. regime had outlived itself....

they Links with the Party began to the weaken. The Party began to steer die away. ..? into Those who doubted the at e correctness of the 1921 ban on enin's Party factions were right.

Instead of serving as a weapon in the fight against the petty-bourgeois pressures Iramatized by the Kronstadt atism revolt and legalized by the t the New Economic Policy (NEP) prole- the ban became a cudgel in asant the hands of the Party bureau- 1924, cracy (following the illness of reight Lenin) against Marxist critic- petty- ism and initiative from the was ranks. Even at the time of its im- reak- position, Lenin fought against Only those who interpreted the ban rxists on factions as ending minority stand or tendency rights within the Party : class 'We cannot deprive the Party Party and members of the cracy, Central Committee of the right to appeal to the Party in the • pro- d the event of disagreement on fun- issues. I cannot damental kon imagine how we can do such of the a thing. [Stalin was to do just doxy. than within five years.] "The present Congress can- open with not in any way bind the elec- jocial- open- fight 1 the • pro- gainst nator- le 46'. evious the icalist le '46' f Bol- ciples y the e 46' alysis M dered, etic forth- tions to the next Congress.

nce of Suppose we are faced with a • face question like, the con- say, remely clusion of the Brest peace?

down, you guarantee Can that no nvolve such question will arise? No, ations you cannot. sis of the circumstances, the 'In sS and elections may have to be based d this on platforms. .. I do not think we have the power to NS, is prohibit this. .. If the cir- w than e fate cumstances should give rise to n and fundamental disagreements, can we prohibit them from being coun- brought before the judgement of the whole party? No, we phetic future . I move we reject cannot! it' (Vol. 32, p. 261.) gener- Soviet Indeed, as we have shown, d the Lenin himself broke that ban Com- forming bloc with by his o the Trotsky against Stalin over case and the g class the 'Georgian China. fight in defence of the mono- turned poly of foreign trade. Had Lenin survived his stroke, there can be no doubt that the temporary ban would ried A lendar, have been lifted. By 1923, it clearly hindered, and Welby not assisted, the fight against 10.30 bureaucratic degeneration.

Friday. Though not a signatory of the 'Platform', Trotsky was in edlines, 5.00 sympathy with its general line.

captain (Many of its supporters were The Our soon to become active mem- 7.30 bers of the Left Opposition : Friday Preobrazhensky, Serebryakov, Iohn Dorothy Beloborodov, Antonov-Ovsey- • South enko, I. N. Smirnov, Pyatakov, Ossinsky, Muralov, Sapronov, and Sosnovsky, Boguslavsky "Texas Vaganyan — and later still, to pay for this first valiant stand 1 Ford. 10.55 against bureaucracy with their Friday. lives.) h East Opened up sroom. day At arkin's 8.00 At the end of 1923, he too adleigh. opened up on 'Old Bolshevism' 11.45 ht The in a series of articles later published under the fitle "The New Course': Head- Castle 'Does bureaucratism bear Gram- within it a danger of degenera- h? 6.35 tion, or doesn't it? He would s. 8.00 Takes • Load be blind who denied it. In its prolonged development, bureaucratization threatens to Friday, December 5, 1969 detach the leaders from the and conservative social layer bring them to con- within the Soviet Union. Re- masses, to treating from the Leninist pro- centrate their attention solely gramme of world revolution as upon questions of administra- the only long-term salvation of tion, of appointments and the transfers, of narrowing their the Russian Revolution, their Stalinist faction disguised its horizon, weakening OI revolutionary spirit, that is of in its early opportunism (even, less stages, from itself) behind the more provoking Or of consolidation and opportunistic degeneration of slogan the Old Guard, unity. or at the very of a considerable part of From 1925 onwards, accept- least, Such ance of the theory of socialism it. develop processes in one country' became a con- slowly and almost impercept- ibly, themselves dition of Party membership. but reveal More than 40 years on, the abruptly. Reids, Gollans, "To see this warning, based Rothsteins and Marxian still cling to and upon objective fore- Johnstones "outrage", sight, defend this reactionary "theory' as as best they can. "assault" etc., really requires They know that the whole of the skittish susceptibility and Stalinism hangs on it. arrogance of bureaucrats .. of They will give up anything With such a degeneration the rather than surrender the leadership, principal on that of the Party, its Johnstone superiority single question condemns' the Moscow Trials multiple collective experience, the background. and post-war purges (20 years too late) but he will not budge Leadership takes on a purely 'socialism organizational character and on in one country. frequently Neither will Reid: degenerates into order-giving and meddling.

It is necessary to comment ('The New Course', pp. 16-24.) upon the Trotskyist claim that of the double barb revelations the 20th Stung by the 'The New Course' Congress of the

CPSU

have of and the shown the Trotskyist opposi- 'Platform of the 46', Stalin Stalin to attacked Trotsky personally at tion have been the 13th Party Conference held correct. This is to confuse two just after the death of Lenin.

separate questions. be doubt Already the future grave- "There can no main political lint digger of Bolshevism was flex- about the his muscles. advocated by Trotsky and hi.

ing The Congress which This Party supporters. matter followed in May of history. Trotsky first, as we was Bolshevik gathering. Its dele- have seen [of course we have 'seen'. gates had been handpicked by not The Stalin through his control of reference Reid makes to the dispute over 'socialism in one the apparatus. country. Selected not for their loyalty That question, as she to the principles of Bolshevism, herself admits, has been left to but personal loyalty to Stalin the more expert touch of John- policy of and the requirements of his stone] attacked the of machine to which they building the strength owed the Soviet state, claimed that their advancement, this career- ist layer hardened into a solid it was impossible without the caste that rallied development of further social- to Stalin as and their political patron ist revolutions ... It was thus spokesman. the principal SU while after this Congress developed by the while was the Stalin general secre- that attack upon pro- was its became tary which believe are at gramme and principle tATA And it was Stalin who issue. explicit. 'On the was became the spokesman. it

CONTAIN

these policies [i.e., 'socialism in 1924, Stalin In April one country"] which inspired a addressed students of the whole generation, gave a hope University in Mos- Sverdlov and when to mankind, the His theme was cow. crunch came, provided the *Foundations of Leninism'. In cost of at the major obstacle, of the first published edition Soviet lives, to twenty million his speech. Stalin figures as the advance of fascism a firm opponent of the theory (p.16.) of 'socialism in one country': We shall in due course prove 'The overthrow of the power that Mrs Reid's "crunch' (the bourgeoisie of the of Soviet Nazi invasion the establishment of a proletarian in fact, the direct Tinion) was. government country of the policies one result che does the not yet guarantee stupidly describes as giving 'a complete victory of socialism. hope to mankind'. task of The main corialism The Soviet General Staff (or of socialist the organization correctly, the remnants more still lies ahead. production, of Gonoral Staff) the Couiet Can this task be accomplished, looked at it in a somewhat can the victory of socialism in more critical light. Mrs Reid.

one country be attained, with- And in her "Marxism Today' efforts of the the joint of September 1964. article proletariat of several advanced Reid also upheld this same countries? Stalinist theorv: *No, this is impossible *Trotsky had always opposed For the final victory of social- could the view that socialism for the organization of be built in one country? ism, socialist production, the efforts did Stalin late So up to of one country, particularly of 1924. Mrs Reid. And so did such a peasant country as Rus- Lenin, right up to his death.

.: (Lenin sia, are insufficient. When we replied to John- and Leninism', p. let him off rather stone,

WATA

But in second edition, the We lightly on question. this published a few months later, only handful of nrecented a the text of speech the Lenin's come refutations raintlace 'edited' following wac in the of 'socialism in one country. manner: This far TImA

INA

present a the of the overthrow richer selection. 'Rut power of the bourgeoisie and slander Reid and company the establishment of the power Lenin when they foist Anto of the proletariat in one coun- him Stalin's reactionary Rus- try does not yet mean that the Utopia of isolated complete victory of socialism divorced from socialist state, been assured. After has con- world economy and free from solidating its power and lead- the threat of military interven- ing the peasantry wake in tion. of the proletariat the vic- It is time to hit back. toring country can and must Permit us to quote at length build a socialist society what Lenin had to say: (Stalin: 'Works' vol. 6, p.

November 7, 1917: impossible' What had been convinced & THE Soviet is in the spring of 1924 became proletariat that of in a few short months a task tho the West-European that can and must be carried countries will help us to achieve a com- out. and lasting This theory of socialism in plete victory the cause of socialism. (Vol.

now hecame the one cantay rallying-cry for every privileged 26, p.241.) Friday, December 5, 19 November 17, 1917: • N° internauona. use the expressic West disgracefully order organized fraternizatio renches and helj the t te west to start cıble socianst revoruu (Vol.26, pp.291-292.) November 25, 1917: • WE put our December 27. 1917. is the immediate stepp! complete

VICLOTY

January 14, 1918: ever : on thi world revolution ranks the January 21, 1918: • 'HAI the Socialls tin ir hurd come and will come, i hopes victory of the it more ald at Inis racner. lution can be betty Keid it is country countries . final victory 01 has been unity Englishman will and W1l torious.y (Vol.26, pp close thl: Congress the sign of the under the Orst the sociali torch tion, omot the most p.492.) he said: the be a triply unfortur • peace terms are in- that the socialist revolu- says and Nevertheless tion is what is dearest severe. highest for us, and that we vill come into its own; id will come-even if must take account of whether it will soon break out in the quickly as we should West, and the other line-the steadily maturing line-which revolution in other bourgeois says that for it the character of the ... We have friends, state as a Great Power and rs, very loyal helpers. national independence are late—owing To dearer and higher than any- of conditions indepen- (Vol.27, thing else their will-but they pp.290-293.) ne . . .9 (Vol.27, (This contrast of the two 2.) lines-proletarian and bour- 'NATIONAL imperi- geois--was of course to be- the essence of the split come could sm . not, between Trotskyism and Stal- y conditions, live side which after 1923 inism, em- with the Soviet Repub- braced the second bourgeois because of its objec- programme outlined by Lenin.)

of ition and because omic interests of the April 30, 1918: * THEREFORE, the tactics t class embodied in it, of the Soviet Republic of commercial connec- must be, on the one hand, to international financial effort . In this sphere a con- exert every to ensure the country's speediest econ- nevitable. This is the difficulty of the Rus- omic recovery, to increase its volution, its defence capacity, to build up a greatest 1 problems—the need powerful socialist army, on the other hand, in international • international prob- policy if manoeuvring, retreat, tactics must ne need to evoke a volution, to effect the those waiting for the moment when n from our strictly revolution the the international proletarian to volution. This problem revolution-which now s us in all its incred- maturing more quickly than before in a number of ad- culty. from the world- fully vanced ded countries matures ...9 (Vol.27, p.314.)

1 point of view, there loubtless be no hope May 14, 1918: • TO wait until the working ltimate victory of our on if it were to remain classes carry out a revo- there were no revolu- lution on an international scale movements in other means that everyone will re- s. When the Bolshevik main suspended in mid-air ...

ckled the job alone, it It may begin with brilliant suc- in the firm conviction cess in one country and then revolution was matur- go through agonizing periods, all the countries and since final victory is only pos- he end-but not at the sible on a world and scale, eginning--no only by the joint efforts of the matter difficulties workers of all countries ...y we ex- d, no matter what (Vol.27, pp.372-373.) in for were store June 27, 1918: world socialist le • WE workers, class-con- on would come. scious workers, in all , our salvation from all our agitation and propaganda, ¡ficulties is an all-Euro- in every speech we deliver, in At all volution every appeal we issue, in our under all conceivable talks in the factories and at tances, if the German every meeting with peasants, ion does not come, we must explain that the disaster med..." (Vol.27, that has befallen us is an inter- national disaster and that there is no way out of it except Congress considers world revolution ... Since we le only reliable guaran- must temporarily stand alone, he consolidation of the we must exert all our efforts revolution that has to bear the difficulties of this torious in Russia to be period staunchly, knowing that version into a world in the last analysis, we are -class revolution ...y not alone, that the disaster we Resolution on War and are experiencing is creeping vol.27, p.119.) up on every European country, 3, 1918: and that not one of these have only just taken countries will be able to extri- the first steps towards cate itself except by a series of revolutions... (Vol.27, off capitalism alto- p.464.) nd beginning the trans- socialism. We do not July 29, 1918: ind we cannot know • WE never harboured the stages of trans- any illusion that the forces socialism there will be. of the proletariat and the revo- epends on when the lutionary people of any one European e socialist country, however heroic and on begins. (Vol.27, however organized and disci- might be, plined they could 11, 1918: overthrow international im- ERYWHERE we issue perialism. That can be done the call for a world only by the joint efforts of the workers of the world ... We revolution ... Russia ome mighty and abun- never deceived ourselves into she abandons all dejec- thinking this could be done by of one country d all phrase-making, if, the efforts alone. We knew that enched teeth, she mus- Our efforts were inevitably leading her forces and strains world-wide revolution, erve and muscle, if she to and that the war begun by the that salvation lies only imperialist governments could • emphasis] along the world socialist revolu- not be stopped by the efforts of these governments them- on which we have set stopped 9 (Vol.27, pp.160-161.) selves. It can be by efforts of only the 14, 1918: all workers: and when we \M well aware, com- came to power, our task .

des, that the banner is was to retain that power, that k hands. I have said torch of socialism, so that it tright several times al- might scatter as many sparks and the workers of the as possible to add to the grow- ackward country will ing flames of socialist revolu- able to hold that banner .9 (Vol.28, pp.24-25.) tion the workers of all ad- August 9, 1918: countries come to their • THE workers of the world are looking hopefully We shall wait until the towards us. We can hear their tional socialist comes so our aid ald cry: "Hold on a little longer!

You are surrounded by ene- then begin second mies, but we shall come to t revolution that will be your aid and by our joint vide in its scope ...9 effort we shall finally hurl the 7, pp. 188-190.) imperialist vulture the over precipice" ...9 (Vol.28, p.53.) 3. 1918: i shall achieve final vic- August 20, 1918: tory only when we suc- • WE are now, as it were, t last in conclusivelv in a besieged fortress ng international imperi- waiting for the other detach- which relies on the tre- of the world socialist ments us strength of its equip- revolution to come to our relief and discipline. But we .. We are invincible, because chieve victory only to- the world proletarian revolu- with all the workers of tion is invincible.9 (Vol.28, countries, of the whole p.75.) Our backwardness August 23, 1918: it us in the forefront, • WE have been cut off from • shall perish unless we our comrades; but we pable of holding out had to act first because vur re receive powerful sup- om workers who have n revolt in other coun- ..9 (Vol.27, pp.231- 9, 1918: must exert all our strength to hold out as as possible, until the revolution matures. which estern revolution uring much more slowly re expected and desired, undoubtedly maturing; undoubtedly absorbing cumulating and more nflammable material.. sk, since we are alone, maintain the revolution, serve it for at least a bastion of socialism, er weak and moderately- until the revolution in other countries, ther countries come up We are, strictly speak- ced with two main lines The peace negotiated with the Germans proletarian line, which intolerably severe, large areas of Soviet li

WORKERS

gun as a revolution • our tasks the help

NOIRCL

of the word...‹ Vol.28. D.78 August 28, 1918: • OUR army. . goes to the [it] front aware tha fighting for the destin world revolution as wel Russian the Rus may rest assured la ian Revolution und to end ...s (Vol.28, p.87.) October 22, 1918: That ecaus since mae world revo 1s why intelligent Communists такс sacrifice for arch in step with the • (Vol.28, p.123.) November 6, 1918: • WE are full of hope and ialist but with the workers of Vienna and Derin. not for the Russian Revolutior alone but tor the world social .9 (Vol.28, pp.145-150.) November o. 1918: and inter- been relation the main questions facing Not merely from now world on all the states o. inconceivable and de mos active severa. been world proletarian revo. lution. Even if they crush one never the crush they revre toel Only to them ames Vol 4, pр.151-164) November 20, 1918: * he transformation of oul Kussian kevolution into socialst revolution was nou auDious venture vul a reces othe world socialist revolution world Bolshevism. triumpn .. (VOl.20, p.100.) March 15. 1919;

6 COMPLETE

and final vic- tory on a world scale cannot be achieved Russia only alone: it can de acnevea the wnen toriou vanced abuse te confidence the cause the tariat nas triumpned, objecuve Soviet second established, power been on a

Friday, December 5, 1969 November 17, 1917: • N° Internationalist can use the expression: "The West is disgracefully silent" We believe in the revolu- • • • tion • in the West. We know that it is inevitable, but it can- not, of course, be made to • We shall conduct order. organized fraternization in the trenches and help the peoples of the West to start an invin- cible socialist revolution ...4 (Vol.26, pp.291-292.) November 25, 1917: • WE put our trust in the international solidarity of the working masses, who will surmount every obstacle and barrier in the struggle for socialism ...9 (Vol.26, p.346.)

December 27, 1917: torious, peace between the capitalist states will only truce, an interlude, be a time of preparation for a fresh slaughter of the peoples ..

We have now reached the stage of world economy that is the immediate stepping stone to socialism. The socialist rev- olution that has begun in Rus- sia, is therefore, only the be- ginning of the world socialist revolution. Peace and bread, the overthrow of the bourgeoi- sie, revolutionary means for the healing of war wounds, the complete victory of socialism —such are the aims of the struggle.y (Vol.26, p.387.)

January 14, 1918: • COMRADES, I greet you as the living embodiment of the Russian proletariat's determination to fight for the triumph of the Russian Revo- lution, for the triumph of its great slogans not only in this country, but also among the peoples of the whole world...

We must show that we are a force capable of overthrowing every obstacle on the way to world revolution Our army's ranks will soon be swelled by the proletarian forces of other countries and we shall no longer be alone.9 (Vol.26, p.420.) January 21, 1918: * THAT the Socialist revolu- in Europe must tion come and will come, is beyond doubt. All our hopes for the final victory of socialism are founded on this certainty and on this scientific prognosis...• In other words, the underlying principle of our tactics must not be which of the two im- perialisms is it more profitable to aid at this juncture, but rather, how the socialist revo- lution can be most firmly and reliably ensured the possibility of consolidating itself, or at least maintaining itself, in one.

133 Betty Reid country until it is joined by other countries ...9 (Vol.26, p.433.) January 24, 1918: • WE are tar from having completed even the transitional period from capi- talism to socialism. We have never cherished the hope that we could finish it without the aid of the international pro- letariat. We never had any illusions on that score ... The final victory of socialism in a single country is of course im- possible. Our contingent of workers and peasants which is upholding Soviet power is one oi the contingents of the great world army, which at present has been split by the world war, but which is striving for •. We can now unity . see clearly how far the develop- ment of the revolution will go.

The Russian began it-the German, the Frenchman and the Englishman will finish it, and socialism will be vic- torious.y (Vol.26, pp.465-472.)

January 31, 1918: • WE close this historic Congress of Soviets under the sign of the mounting world revolution, and the time is not far off when the working people of all countries will unite into a single world-wide state and join in a common effort to build a new socialist edifice. The way to this con- struction runs through the Soviets, as a form of the in- cipient world revolution ...4 (Vol.26, p.482.) January 26, 1918: • THE Russian people were the first to raise the torch of the socialist revolu- tion, but they are aware that they are not alone in their struggle and that they will accomplish their task with the help of the most loyal com- rades and friends..." (Vol.26, p.492.) February 24, 1918: • TRoTSKy was right when he said: the peace may be a triply unfortunate peace that Nevertheles tion highest aid must quickly not like- maturing r csh, ail Lill other have sumber their 1 but te- thing pp.290-293.) will come

DD. J1-)Z.

"lns но за. inism by side braced the of its objer tive position becaust of the economic iSR tS the defence greatest -the need nistorical solve prob- world the strictly probler its Meture nin ible difficulty before "Regarded the world- historical there view. of the buolies ou remain t he salone Bolshe did conviction the through Inlal the sible by matter only orker st soe i tist the come. revolution pean ventr mner German pp.92-98.) laron o. 191 the only socialist conversiol worla War and lutionart nop fie sist selves. only aware. Com rades, the cannel weak have ers os ala • • We aid role You shall chenes an are that will effort (Vol. 27, PP imperialist April 23. 1918: t Tast WE the trn. warting ments tS ct We shall achieve or tne wnole backwardness

UUI

ers who have in revolt other coun- pp.231- 434.) April 29, 1918: WE must all our strength long until the Western matures, which

LIIC

but is ll and we are alone, vur task. revo utior preserve at least a bastion

WORKERS' PRES

volu- country was the most back- Marc and ward. Our revolution was be- t we gun as a general revolution, ether and we shall tackle our tasks with the help of the workers n the and peasants of the world...

-the (Vol.28, p.78.) says if the August 28, 1918: and are • OUR army... goes to the front aware that [it] is any- fighting for the destiny of the 1.27, world revolution as well as the Russian Revolution; for we two may rest assured that the Rus- bour- sian Revolution is only a sam- ) be- ple, only the first step in the split series of revolutions in which Stal- the war is bound to end...

em- geois (Vol.28, p.87.) enin.) October 22, 1918: • OUR chief task is to carry actics on propaganda for a ublic revolt in the Ukraine. That is id, to correct from the standpoint of nsure the world revolution because econ- Germany is the main link in se its this chain, since the German up a Revolution is already ripe; and n the the success of the world revo- tional lution most of all depends on t be it.. • That is why intelligent treat, Ukrainian Communists must when say: "We must make every tarian sacrifice for the victory of the now world revolution, but we than should realize that the future • ad- depends on us and we must fully march in step with the German .314.) Revolution" •.. 9 (Vol.28, p.123.) rking revo- November 6, 1918: scale • WE are full of hope and Il re- assurance that we are I .. • fighting in the interests of the t suc- socialist revolution world as then well as the Russian Socialist riods, Revolution... we must realize • pos- what is lying in store for us and ... We shall meet it not alone, of the but with the workers of Vienna ...9 and Berlin, who are moving into the same fight . . . Our slogan must be, put everything -con- into the fight once more, and remember that we are coming in all anda, up to the last, decisive fight, er, in not for the Russian Revolution n our alone, but for the world social- nd at ist revolution ... (Vol.28, sants, pp.145-150.) saster November 8, 1918: inter- there • FROM the very beginning xcept of the October Revolu- ce we tion, foreign policy and inter- alone, national relations have been efforts the main questions facing us.

f this Not merely because from now g that on all the states of the world are being firmly linked by im- e are perialism into er we one, dirty, eping bloody mass, but because the untry, complete victory of the social- these ist revolution in one country extri- alone is inconceivable and de- series mands the most active co- 01.27, operation of at least several advanced countries, which do not include Russia . . . We d the have never been so near to world proletarian revolution as • our 1 forces we are now. We have proved revo- we were not mistaken in bank- one ing on world proletarian revo- lution. ... Even if they crush disci- one country, they, can never could im- crush the world proletarian revolution, they will only add done of the more fuel to the flames that • We will consume them all. (Vol.

28, pp. 151-164.) into one by November 20, 1918: untry • THE transformation of our t our Russian Revolution into ading ution, a socialist revolution was not a dubious venture but a neces- by the sity, for there was no other could efforts alternative: Anglo-French and American imperialism will in- them- evitably destroy the indepen- opped dence and freedom of Russia if of the world socialist revolution, n we world Bolshevism, does not .. • triumph...4 (Vol.28, p. 188.)

, that hat it March 15, 1919: sparks • COMPLETE and final vic- grow- evolu- a world scale tory on 4-25.) cannot be achieved in Russia alone; it can be achieved only world when the proletariat is vic- efully torious in at least all the ad- • their vanced countries, or, at all onger! events, in some of the largest • ene- of the advanced countries. ne to Only then shall we be able to joint say with absolute confidence ırl the that the cause of the prole- the r tariat has triumphed, that our p.53.) first objectivethe overthrow of capitalism - has been achieved. We have achieved were, this objective in one country, ortress and this confronts us with etach- cialist a second task. Since Soviet : relief power has been established, since the bourgeoisie has been ecause overthrown in one country, the evolu- /01.28, second task is to wage the struggle on a world scale, on a different plane, the struggle of proletarian I from the state sur- capitalist states rounded by ut we ...9 (Vol.29, p.58.) e vur the Germans at Brest-Litovsk was eas of Soviet land being forfeited.

VORKERS PRESS

March 18, 1919: • WE are living not December 5, 1919: • Вотн prior ana auring Revolution, nternational tion, regarded as final when of t November 20, 1920: Mensheviks a single link in th world revoluld never nave oursel p.431. Means December 6, 1920:

• WHILE

capitalist socialism exist ae. tney cannot live one or th December 22. 1920: borderland vord it would be ah ridiculous, fantastic a hope and "Ridiculous lantasi Utopian' -yet unat Stalin four years warning.) rebruarv n.lyzi: :1917 undamental conditiol victory is to spread the at least, a few tion. to. most advançed countri main difficulties their April 21, 1921:

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know only t plete tries the USA. could help us with thei developed industr capitalists the notning more dangero illusions joint ettorts of the wo several aavanced count needed pioneer nternaton: Dare you claim bedrock nationalism hard the counter-revolunor national working class, for the international unity of the nerely working class is not only an in idea and a programme, but the is in- reality living of the class et re- struggle it develops in a of the world dominated by the inter- any national character and scale of the capitalism and its productive e end. forces. adoption The of Stalin's series national reformism as the pro- tween post-Lenin gramme of the the Bolshevik Party doomed the 01.29, Communist International to a terrible death. From the organizer of world revolution Stalin converted it, ctober after a bitter internal struggle, ctober into a humble frontier guard said for the Soviet bureaucracy.

s and The history of that great es transformation is also the his- of the tory of a series of betrayed and army crushed revolutions. at the Trotskyism to full maturity only in the struggle be ly to fight against that degenera- Lenin fought against all those in the Bolshe it be- tion and understand the main- resisted the conquest of power by the work = pro- springs of its development.

al ad- 101.30, assert ed to

FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF MARXISM

chain and By G. V. Plekhanov 's the Together with an appendix of the essays The mati by out Materialist Conception of History' and 'The Role of 701.31 the Individual in History'.

Lawrence and Wishart Pp. 190. and de bi peace: nately equies or the world 1. 31, epub- olated italist lutely Uto- can nic in- all (Vol. I THINK it proper to Lenin and became a Menshevik.

observe for the benefit of 'Fundamental Problems' was after this written break - in the young members of • and 1908. It was addressed to the the Party that one cannot those-including that tendency nbrace become an intelligent, a led by Bogdanov in the Bol- enin's shevik Party- -who attempted real Communist unless to undermine the materialist one has studied-I say foundation of Marxism in the advisedly studied-every- guise of introducing the 'latest we thinking' from the fields of g the thing which Plekhanov natural science into Marxism.

that has written on philo- The book begins by refuting sophy, for it is the best those who claimed that no- in world Marxist litera- where did Marx and Engels set evolu- of the ture.' down their basic world out- look in systematic form. . And er the Thus Lenin's verdict on Even with the material en due which was then available ('The Plekhanov, written in 1921. West Economic and Philosophical Young members of today's anaged Manuscripts of 1844' and The In and İdeology' revolutionary movement now German pub- were lished long after his death he have the opportunity with the demonstrates that such a claim Fundamental re-issue of is nonsense Problems of Marxism' in a Plekhanov concentrates in his rfectly revised translation to study early chapters on the relation- ake at and Engels to ship of Marx his last major philosophical Feuerbach. Here f this he correctly work. stresses their common material- ig the ist outlook. Included as an Appendix are ion in period two of his famous •... it is perfectly clear that shorter educed works providing basic ex- it the materialist that was Marx and Engels saw in Feuer- evolu- position of the ideas of his- torical materialism. bach. True Engels speaks of or Feuerbach's inconsistency, but ny Plekhanov will always be p.350.) that does not in the least pre- remembered and honoured in vent him from recognizing the the history of the revolutionary of er that fundamental propositions movement as the person who purely his philosophy as is im- first fought to establish Marx- materialist. ears of ism on Russian soil. Such an emphasis upon the has no His Emancipation of Labour ocialist materialist foundations of Group, formed in exile, was Marxism is perhaps more which founded the on struggle necessary today than it highly- was Narodism, or those 60 years ago. ır that who saw the peasantry as the lember force only revolutionary in highly- Russia. ngs to Not only is Stalinism busily ighting engaged in courting the Catho- Church, lic but it is now In his early work Plekhanov almost orthodox in revisionist showed the falsity of such nished circles to declare that the early views. Marx was philosophical foun- He and demon- stressed idealist and only later did he onomy strated the inevitability of become a 'crude materialist'.

capitalist development in i mori- ill de- Russia and showed how this But it is also true that must was leading to the emergence Plekhanov over-emphasized the and of the working class as the continuity with Feuerbach is decisive instrument of revolu- and in fact with the material- nere s than tionary change. ism of the 18th century. insisted, is As Engels always His most famous work is basic there can only be two le .. "The undoubtedly Develop- world outlooks in the develop- truth; ment of the Monist View of philosophy. The ed and ment History', a book which Lenin materialist asserts that matter, lentary refered to as one 'which had nature, is primary compared to at the helped to educate whole mind spirit; the idealist kers of or of Russian Marx- generation starts from the opposite posi- ies are ists of tion: mind or spirit is primary ry Three-quarters of a century and matter or nature merely p. 206.) after it was written it remains its reflection. le and the best all-round introduction Both these systems, in this if le Bol to historical materialism.

form, have been unable to re- undoubted But despite his how tect of talent Plekhanov solve one basic question: genius and does human thought originate and the able only to take the

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and develop ? munist development of Marxism to a The mechanical materialist certain stage. sees thought as a mere passive as you of the The early years reflection of nature: it changes e past, funda- present century saw only in response to changes in inuator the mental changes within nature. So how explain changes capitalism _ the structure of nature? in ts, the emergence of imperialism.

the idealist, who Similarly always In Russia a rapid develop- starts with ideas spirit, is on the or ment of capitalism was thrust- of unable to explain the origin inter- ing forward the working class such ideas without to increasingly powerful as an God. truggle These and decisive force. Marx's breakthrough great le Der- changes demanded a sharp turn understand and grasp was te move. by the Marxist movement. that ideas, while arising from great the real objective world which inter- exists independently of them- ravages the basic materialist position ucratic A revolutionary party struggling for leadership of the develop only in man's struggle to change the world. class had to replace which working the old 'circle existence' of the Only in the struggle to con- 'bury does man, himself Plekhanov proved quer nature 'bury movement. a part of nature, change him- Id have of making such incapable turn: after 1903 he broke with self and his ideas. inter-

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se in the Bolshevik Party who wer by the working class in 1917.

Such a conception was a break from both idealism and the contemplative materialism.

taken this old Feurbach had materialism to its highest point in his attempt to overcome the contradictions of the Hegelian system. As Engels noted: 'Feuerbach •.: in many respects forms an intermediate link between Hegelian philosophy and our conceptions'. Feuerbach's weakness which Marx brings out in • his famous Theses—was that he still saw man in the abstract, not as a social animal engaged in a struggle with nature, which at a certain point in history involved the division of society into antagonistic classes. Feuerbach replaced the old religion with a new humanism.

Alienation was to be over- of come not as part the struggle of the working class overthrow that capitalist to society which produced alien- ation and exploitation, but merely through the power of criticism. His 'philosophical commun- ism' was identified neither with the proletariat in struggle, nor with the overthrow of the bourgeois order. Marx's ability to overcome the contradictions of the old materialism were possible only through his adoption of the dialectical method. Hegel had insisted that change in all phenomena through the occurs only struggle of opposites within all phenomena. Such conflict produces leaps, breaks, discontinuities and un- evenness in development. Hegel had seen such dialec- tical development in an idealist form-as the development of ideas of which the real world was merely a reflection. Marx, rejecting this ideal- reworked the dialectic ism, materialistically. The conflict and changes in the sphere of ideas were a reflection of material conflicts in nature and the social world as part of man's struggle to change the world. It is this revolutionary de- velopment which Plekhanov tends to obscure and confuse : for him Marx simply made a 'masterly correction' of Feuer- bach. Thus "The the chapter Materialist Dialectic as Method' is certainly the weak- est in the book. He sees dialectics as merely a general theory of development and not fundamentally as a theory of human knowledge and cogni- tion. This was always the kernel of Lenin's criticism Plekhanov's weaknesses in the theoretical field. He paid in- sufficient attention to this basic nature of the dialectic. Thus in his notes on Hegel's on the History of 'Lectures Philosophy' (in the Philosophi- cal Notebooks) Lenin writes : 'Plekhanov wrote on philo- sophy probably about 1,000 pages. ... Among them, about the large Logic, in connection with it its thought (that is dialectics proper, This : theoretical weakness was probably connected with Plekhanov's political errors and opposition to Bolshevism eventually the Russian and Revolution. By failing to stress the role of consciousness in the work- ing class as the decisive factor in overthrowing reality-itself a product of the mechanical and dogmatic strain in his thought—he became to prey the ideas of Menshevism which stressed the inevitability of certain fixed stages in social evolution and relegated the working class to a supporting role behind the bourgeoisie in the fight for democracy. Despite all these weaknesses and onesidedness, Plekhanov's work remains rich in ideas and an invaluable basis on which to commence a real study of the Marxist world outlook.

Every young comrade in the movement is urged to study closely and in detail the three works contained in this volume.

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By an education correspondent OVER 2,000 training college students marched in support of the teachers' pay claim in Sheffield on Wednesday. At least four colleges in the area had gone on strike and many students were on the march and attended the City Hall meeting afterwards.

Staff from the largest college, Sheffield City Govt. Students who turned out College, sent a letter of so magnincently Wednes support the student day in onele snould beware crackdown or ten omclal leadership and strikers. Ine vul executive danger that they Ninety-nine teachers on on student will accept a compromise on strike from seven Sheffield thishe pay claim Sheffield schools attended the meet- meeting conditions that teachers ing. The cuesuon unans wered by the however the

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government pallorin. out walde WIll teachers nuneover tne meeting was must learn the les. nas alred wlans for a sweeps where next in the fight for sons or ine dockers, dustmer attack on student standards an all-out ana miners-only and on the whole of meier Many of the banners strike which builds an education its document ried the leadership •University native Development for ther unions will win. dis- banners Students and teachers must a Are The spokeman from bring "per week?!. to continue fight chancellors, civil servants and £135 for in this way. Com- University Grants compromise-the full muttee Union The document, prepared by

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students No the attacks on education vulnisters une vebarl vave Loran from the NUT department spending! ment of more an explain the history able waro s suggestions for cuts education. were No teacher unemployment! in service. the education They include the replace- of the pay claim and state that teachers were worth more.

of student students; Real role overseas lwU•ycal The real role of the correspondence courses io re union leaders in this strike was seen Diace present unree-year at the beginning. courses: more students living the meet- when at home and attending univer- chairman salu for the Ul SUDDOr stafion of the teachers be put, but that and build. was lu use equipment amenaments were ings intensively. allowed which read These proposals i ne same tactic was used

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al te mass meeting of 2,500 on half-day strike "black raDer represent Ine teachers most Sheffield at the beginning thoroughgoing crack.

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down student the campaign standards chief of the bodyguard had i the resolution, ever attempted by any govern- It was speakers tO in the accident support of is clear that the govern- out the real questions Was actuall point escorting intends put some involved in the pay claim.

him.' (Ibid, phasis added.P. 343 Em- all of John Brownhill, executive member of the Sheffield Asso.

next perIod, Then Khrushchev ciation and one of the strikers, LIke ine Gaullist covern- turned ment in rrance. The asked Lne acuvines or voroshilor in the anti-Party group: surplus government is already prepar- tne economic ing its Fouchet de- aiming for the wilson •The question arises _now cimate universities good Come European ot the Comrade Voroshilov got higher the erst the himself mixed up with that Ble 13? money is avail. Some comrades question of priorities; claim, he said. wess bet know of the university there between ike Voroshilor Molotov, these ing College, a member of th Voroshilov between must nave me run backine ou and the working class against these Socialists. Kagan explained ovitch, between and a vicious cuts. government Malenkov nat ine Labour Voroshilor policy meant not only backing *Yet, in spite of these relations up the local education author Pay claim ities in relation to the teachers basis? but Because after the 20th Congress they sible for unemployment among by 7,000 newly qualified teachers. ex- posures unlawtua therapists Pay fight achions In tae period of the ansier be. personality cult, would have to DETAILS of a pay claim on was loudly applauded fore the Party. National when she said: Denall all, it is no secret that were not question service payslotnerapists abuses at that time disclosed London yester- teachers tha In were committed with daYhe claim, submitted to thes that, more- with nor Whitley Council (abid, p. 352 active need highes to of the wages verdust and polici want liceLe about 1,000 part-timers all they members of the us usat is a ponucal nent.

group', this was All these e ot Voroshilov these are damitea and documented What, then, does kussell nave about them in sav obituary? demonstration After Voroshilov was annals in that his own FIVE THOUSAND students sell us Short. 'Don't and jeneral Staff thar he colleges

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Liverpoo students came ITOm marched Wednesday solel une lanks oll colleges or eticanon Union's sovie enemies support of the teachers pay Ine college commerce Such a feat surelv should be and colleges Calmn. the technical recorded! the college of building. ¡neir pacards demanded far as the Stalinist But as "More nay for teachers The Russell concerned, universit was nol better education for kids', represented because The "Teachers need f135 at least' Guild Council informed no- the Red happened between 'When Wall St. of the Army Ivlarsilal [abolished remsulutea. the Revolutioni voroshilot share crisis first waste to and Union of Women remind to tar that rank. remained Commissar and later Defence Ministe worsens intil June when Dassed a resolunor replaced Marsh was Is compiele support to the SHARE prices Wall on humoshenko. Teachers that : Voroshi- Russell tells Street plunged below the co-operation in any action lov was the first Red Armi 800 'barrier' taken by the teachers. on Wednesday, does not Marshal. but ne were the next the lowest level for tell us MOre three. For than two vears. nurdered US financial Large-scale experts agree Stalin that and Nove var alues points since 10) fighting in based pessimistic forecasts for profits devote a paragrapi and business acurvity zenerally 'partner- Yemen Ine montas anead. ship with Semyon Bud- state Many now … that tne who later become US faces a recession next year.

This with Nixon's not shot] Is line AT LEAST 50 Saudi-Arabian wages atio investment drive became famous troops • tha were reported killed and song throughout he sun to control the fighting with story arge-scale Republican forces of the Soutl Soviet Union the and la. -but lemen around the borde post Devona money supply. Al-Wadeiah yesterday. S through- With the word the sCreWs It purges in thể beginning to tighten. out the Soviet Tae working Class laces far beyond' struggles nitter Russell beyond. believed to b attach oil deposits, and thi temen governmen Aden nas accused the noya. deorce Maltews ar tae re forces saudi- Arabian cent cr congress acting oil collusion with suspension of the powerful monopolies. faculties"?

WORKERS' PRESS

Two statements by the Bolivian La La. Workers' Party made its state- Revolutionary Workers Party Dil Nationalization and Moscoso 5 WE ARE publishing two texts we have jus coker Noon American the Re received trom their Workers' volutionary abroad and boycert, is s (ŘWP), Party the andards the wordesel 1 nis snows tnat bollvians Bolivian Trotskyist or- cons Get the and its Whether the nationalization in this material. The first is a statement (1) The Bolivian RWP does by the Central Committee guerrilla ot the KWP about the re- cent nationalization of the national task Company by Guit i17 drace lies in General Ovanda's govern- Opens up take the ment. vian Pabloins don't have hey national Since the military ively to thrower brought Gen d'etat which enter eral Ovanda pover hat. tried, roces and what as happening Army. and chan so hermen an of one. fdants nel the masses That is what the USA and so on ca Interior. by putting on a social face revolution with the Today ' that' seriouS sals indemnific- on Deal set allzing witn colonizing country, fear.

foreign the Bolivian alon) certain big with Amerisme It is question not a companies government rite of progresve by cat.

another bethayal of the This is he RW people national kead sliss dissipat all alusions in the October 20,1969 fully this great the working class in toric task. La raz Ovanda's Non of here pileder- Isolated Statement : in the The RWP of Bolivia feels obliged making knapsacks. nothing He wea be le or ot the resent nich.

a crude deeption indicates, is This is Conware and there my -But that" Central Committee Resolution: Generance hationallation.

and moreover has always bee nationalization political activityany union or petrol nose its part the ollowing documer ose who don know in to 1 The lanonalizatio planned economyction Gulf fruiticle el reached in onsciousnes Alberto Saenz, working class. Press Secretary of demands the KWP fication to the usurpers, ex- La Paz. Bring Gaullist thugs to justice threaucracy is realed to nise working class statemen French

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attattack standered paper k on th des leung aims of the po justice is Pledged support Members otth

ORDER THEDAILY

an of Scientific Researna!

Harrassed general secretary, pointed Stop , that in th ets caling to for three and Nixon and all he vere harrasse

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bys ommunist Party thugs.

stands for. Heartened That wont sand for it, he sara.

are greatly heartened ake movement %, whose liter head ust support the Name Washington School the trial Address ients herea cos is tae : believ cause tod nds. sword, is mark 'Nixor Friday, December 5, 1969 By the foreign editor AFTER one session of the US Army's inquiry into the events surrounding Pinkville' the massacre, a spokesman stated yesterday that Army chiefs were not satisfied with the scope and nature of the original investigations carried out last year: 'The fact that it took over a year to get to the department of the army obviously indicates that something should be

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looked into', said Brigadier- Longbridge Dick convenor Etheridge General Sinant Sidle, Army from the singing praises of his union's president Chief of Information. at some length at Wednesday's The hunt for scapegoats Both Etheridge and Bill continues. Moore, Stalinist convenor of Captain Medina may noW Liverpool's Cross Hunt's be charged with offences in Standard-Triumph plant, sup- with the massacre connection the AÉF executive's at 'Pinkville' withhold decision to official 11-week support from the Standard

SUMMONED

strike. Etheridge, we have re- He has been summoned to ported previously, before an army board appear more versatile. for failing to report the kill- inss in My Lai village. 'Victory' not 'AEL November has yet been In of charged issue with any specific the Journal', he de- offence. scribed the 10lst Trades Union Congress at Portsmouth

HALF EIRE'S

as 'victory all the way' for his union. Singling out the fact that all

GOLD SOLD

the rule-amendments neces- the TUC's sary to operate June 18 undertaking to stop THE Irish Republic has sold strikes carried, he gold were re- under half of just its ported that 'this first year in stocks as part of the general its second century marked up re-deployment of reserves, that will changes determine central bank spokesman said the role of the TUC for the yesterday. future' A total of £6.7 million gold Scanlon's role in preparing Republic's the recent the ground for Measured-Day £27.3 million reserves of was Work and for the TUC's sold to the US to raise dollars, appalling retreat are thus ig- mainly million TO Day Communist nored by the dollars the International to Party, and the right wing are Monetary Fund. happy to go along with this. What confidence be can placed in a national motor in- dustry stewards' organization —one of the proposals carried Wednesday-led by such on people? Finally, why did the British- Leyland trade union commit- chairmen tee's joint Etheridge and Eddy McGarry out that the main points of Wednesday's meet- ing were demands for lay-off pay, parity of earnings within the combine and holiday pay?

Everyone who attended knows that most of the dis- cussion centred on the strike fund levy, the national motor industry stewards' organiza- tion and the Standard-Triumph dispute. The question is not so much what are they trying to hide -although the meeting was a closed one, all the reporters covering it had the opportunity with to discuss the agenda the but why and platform from whom? Is it that having retreated on two important fronts they want to sweep this under the from the critical carpet away of workers British- gaze in Leyland's plants?

NOW

Final peace talks for Two editione Lodge (For any two daysi OR you select) £4 a year £1 for three months negotiators 45th met today their subscribe to Workers' Press for session yesterday-the last for Henri American newit Lodge-with little prospect of getting any further than they have in the past ten months. Mr Lodge said before enter- ing the meeting that he would review the proposals made by his side and the other side's reactions. He would also discuss 'some of the most persistent which and erroneous beliefs on Organizer, Workers Press.

impede progress' and et, London, SWA. (Tel: 01-720-2000) outline his views of 'what is the hope for the future'.