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Altogether, the BNAC looks like a top capitalists' transatlantic club. But remember, it is not only big business that is represented. As the 'handout' tells us. membership is drawn from businessmen, labour leaders : . • a diverse, broadly representative private Trade union leaders involved in BNAC include, besides Jim Conway of the AUEW, Lord Collison, former leader of the National Union of Agricultural Workers (now head of the Supplementary Benefits Commission): G. F. Smith, of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers; and Lord Cooper. The late Les Cannon, of the EPTU, _was also a full member of BNAC:'. 1969)

1959, Cooper of the G&MWU. together with four other PSI members, one of whom had CIA connections, and James Farmer, the American 'Black Power' man who also had CIA connections, went on a 15nation 'organization and recruiting' tour of Africa.

The purpose of their mission was tó encourage the development of pro-western unions in HOPES The man on whom the r hopes came to. centre was Mboya. whose Kenya Federati Labour began to • receive regular CIA • subsidies. Mboya himself became prominent Kenyan politician: was closely He linked,

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would like information about THE SPECTRE of Trotskyism is haunting the reformist bureaucracies of the world.

Having slandered the Trotskyists as 'fascist agents' in the 1930s and having pronounced Trotskvism as 'dead' or 'effete' in innumerable editorials and in the past, the Stalinist and social democratic press is presently undergoing painful convulsions trying to account for the rapidly growing influence of the Socialist Labour League.

Their political agony is made no less bearable by the remarkable success of the Right-to-Work marches and the Empire Pool rally on March 12.

Reformist apprehension now turns into deep anxiety and alarm as the editorial scribblers Moscow and London begin to discern the growing threat of revolutionary Marxism and une prospect of their political demise in the not too far distant future.

What animates this chorus of hatred against the Leninist theory and organization elaborated and created by Leon Trotsky is a genuine fear of a resurgent working class, combined with a wistful longing for the return of the post-war boom and an end to the monetary and economic crises of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The 'New Statesman', in particular, is extremely worried by the growth of Trotskyism and the imminent collapse of the post-war boom because for many decades it represented the highest point in the collaboration tween labour leaders and the capitalist intelligentsia — a collaboration made possible because of the objective economic conditions.

These conditions • tonger obtain today. The crisis propels millions of new layers of workers to the road of struggle and to the same extent-undermines the 'New Statesman's' credibility and reduces its circulation dramatically despite format changes and the sacking of its editor.

The credibility of middle-class Philistinism has never been at a lower ebb and nothing expresses this more crudely and distortedly than Richard Gott's attempt in this week's. issue to bury the SLL under a mole hill Subscribe!

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The purpose of Gott's essay 'Where is the Revolutionary Party?', is to discredit Marxism by slandering the SLL and rehabilitate revisionism by lavishing praise on the International Marxist group in the most slavish manner.

The SLL, writes this pedant, has a 'special attraction for middle-class intellectuals with guilt feelings about their class origins'. How profound! Gott's incredible sneers reflect his abysmal ignorance of Marxism and one of the salient ideas of the Communist Manifesto:

•... in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of society, assumes such a violent glaring character that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class...• The dally paper that leads the fight again the Tories.

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Immediately prior to this passage Marx remarks that sections of the ruling class who are threatened in their conditions of existence with fresh also supply the proletariat elements enlightenment and oLUSICs ('Communist Manifesto', Is this to be condemned and laughed at? Only by those who cannot see. mne imminent hour of the decisive struggle between the working class and oppressors.

Gott's insinuation that the SLL is predominantly intellectua and middle class ; is a preposterous insult to the history and trach tions of the League. Any com and honest observer of League will readily admit that its membership overwhelmingly oroletariar in comDOS TOI ind tha its main, but not exclusive, field of activity has been industry. sections Leo society - from un- The recruits from all employed students and trade unionists, as well as actors, journalists and others the professional groups.

Without this support and this kind of membership the SLI could not have built the basis Curiously who accuses Gerry of being 'wrong, too often for one have much faith in their Socialists joining of sit present showing', remains_silent the Young 1964 and on the Workers Press The daily press could only achieved through the youth. is not only a major conquest of the revolutionary movement, but a distinctive tribute-Gott with standing -to the correctness of the SLI's perspectives and principles.

It is impossible to build a mass revolutionary ree worring class wish ut a daily paporta nt fact of orstory. paper. Gott ignores this all In his desire oblivion, save the IM( from political ne nas discovered that history of struggle. the construction of poes and arenacise. tionary movement. Instead substitutes the awareness of the significance Third World of "Revolutions culture' and constituting the revolutionary left. World Revolutions and •both 'POD Culture' "Third aspects of the capitalist world in crisis.

Accelance of music in organizing Young Socialists discotheques does not connote in any way the acceptance of the middle-class and idealist philosophy which is the basis of John Lennon's 'pop culture'. (We will take the music, but Gott can keep the marijuana.)

But then Gott's obsession with 'pop culture' is not really So surprising. As he aSKS bewilderment:

'But does a revolutionary party in Britain have to be Marxist?' . is perfectly clear from his writing that this is only another way of trying to replace Marxism with the reactionary And it is this English empiricism. method which leads him support the sectarian ' ultimatimistic policies of the International Marxist Group in refusing to support-critically-the Labour Party against the Tories.

This does not end the astonishing ignorance of Gott or his penchant for distortion. He states that the SLL 'is characterized by an insufferable arrogance and intolerance'. Nowhere does Gott adduce any evidence to prove his allegation.

Apparently anyone who accepts the lecessity democratic centralism and the conquest of state power by a disciplined cadre based the working class Dally and armed with Marxist theory is both 'arrogant and intolerable' Gott's scepticism in This matter too glaring even to need extensive comment. 7.05 7.30 8.00 9.00 9.20 9.50 10.40 11.15 11.45 9.20 9.50 10.35 10.40 11.10 6.00 6.20 6.40 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 0.00 0.30 BBC 1 SPY TRAP. 'The Defector'. SONG FOR EUROPE PANORAMA.

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