SLL'S WARNING

Workers Press no. 941, 8 December 1972 · scan pages 9, 10

Topics: Socialist Labour League and the WRP, Revisionism and the left groups, Marxist theory

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against the other, this biting controversy, this uncomradely attitude".

• "What a splendid, splendid thing our Congress is!" replied. "A free and open struggle. Opinions have been stated. The shades have been revealed. The groups have taken shape. Hands have been raised. A decision has been taken. A stage has been passed. Forward! That's the stuff for me! That's life!"

"The comrade from the Centre stared at me in perplexity we were talking different languages.' ('Collected Works' Vol. 7, p.346.)

The petty-bourgeois, the 'centre', hates conflict. But the Unified Secretariat is turned towards the petty-bourgeois. And SU. particularly, is Hansen's S0, own Socialist That is why that Party disgraced itself by permitting its secretary Farrall Dobbs to send message of condolence to President Kennedy's widow when that leader of world imperialism was struck down in 1963.

Mandel, Hansen and the rest of the gang know the charges against Tampoe are true. And SO do their members-or at least, those who have been allowed to hear of them. Yet they conspire to keep up the fiction that Tampoe is an 'honest revolutionary'. Why?

Because in that way they hope to preserve a facade of a 'section' in Ceylon.

Their relationship to Tampoe is exactly the same as their relationship to his predecessors, the leaders of the LSSP. Hansen is now extremely hostile to 'the former Trotskyists who betrayed the movement and accepted posts in the Bandaranaike government', But we outlined in detail the relationship of the Unified Secretariat to these men in the the Socialist Labour League was entirely principled.

We warned: 'One cannot separate the problems Loor revolutionary wing Irom TrOn Summon this degeneration [of the Unified Secretariat] . . . many comrades who support the minority are only now beginning to realize the relations between the international and national degeneration of the Fourth International.

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Certainly, Bala Tampoe was re-elected to the IEC of the Unified Secretariat at its ninth congress in 1969 and remains there to this day.

It was at this same congress that Ernest Mandel presented a report laying down that the slogan 'Victory to the NLF' should be the slogan of all Unified Secretariat sections IN THOSE COUNTRIES WHICH DID NOT HAVE TROOPS IN VIETNAM. TOMORROW: The International Marxist Group.

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