MURDERS OF MILITANT WORKERS.

direct opposition to the decisions of the party.’

If such decisions were in fact taken, then they are: (a) contrary to the decisions of last year’s National Congress; and -(b) contrary to the present practice of such leading party building workers as Comrade Jack Pascoe and Comrade Joe -‘Rootes,;-the former of whom is closely associated with the - building workers’ rank-and-file movement.

Yet for being associated with this movement myself I am thrown out of the party!

4) ‘That-in spite of the discussion which took place at the. district committee on November 3, you carried on these activities.’

I was called up to the Kent district on that date, along with other party members, about the internal affairs of the Published by Peter Fryer, 180, Clapham High St., London, S.W.4. Printed by the Plough Press Ltd. (T.U.), r.o. 180 Clapham High St., London, SW4. by EOKA gunmen the Daily Worker of 24 January editorializes: ‘Why should a small group of people now embark on the assassination of trade unionists? The only people who \benefit from such action are the im-_ ~ perialists.”

This is absolutely true. Why, then, had the Daily -Worker— and, still more notably, its Paris ‘equivalent, Humanité—nothing to say against the recent wave of murders of Algerian trade union leaders in France?

Scores of active members of USTA, the Algerian workers’ . organization, were shot dead by gunmen of the FLN, the body which corresponds in the Algerian national movement roughly to the Cypriot EOKA.

The answer is, of course, that the USTA is a non-Stalinist organization—indeed, the French Communist Party regards it as ‘Trotskyist’—so the party line is ‘good luck to the gunmen’.

When a similar wave of murders breaks out in Cyprus, and the victims this time are members of a Stalinist body, the Daily Worker protests.

The murders of militant workers by bourgeois-nationalist . thugs, among the Algerians and the Cypriots alike, have been made possible by the Stalinist policy in the colonial revolution —the policy which produced its first disastrous harvest in the massacre of the Shanghai workers by Chiang Kai-shek in 1927.

Newcastle-on-Tyne SOME QUESTIONS FOR JOHN WILLIAMSON In John Williamson’s recent Daily Worker article he tried to present a picture of a militant, class-conscious Communist Party fighting on all fronts against ‘the ruthless ruling class of the U.S’. , All who: were critical of the party line were ‘revisionists’, ‘liquidationists’, ‘hangers-on of the capitalist. Press’ etc: ‘who strove to strip the working class of the experience and leadership of a fighting Communist Party based on Marxist-Leninist principles’.

Perhaps it was lack of spacethat prevented John Williamson from informing his readers that the main political line of the leaders: of this ‘fighting Communist Party’ is to urge the workers to vote for the Democratic Party, which represents this same ‘ruthless ruling class of the U.S’.

Jack Gale