THE V FS HEADLINE WAS INACCURATE
1958The NewsletterCliff Slaughter Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
(Frances) Phipps’s friends see fit to celebrate was the settingup by a group of anti-Bolshevik politicians, after the German army had occupied Minsk, of a self-styled ‘government’ whose first act was to send a message of thanks to the Kaiser for having ‘liberated’ Byelorussia.
The country’s real independence day is January 1, the day when, in 1919, Soviet power was established there.
Well said, George! ‘It symbolizes the struggles of trade unionists in peace and war. When Mr Tom Yates, TUC chairman, released the T should like to point out that my comments last week on the Victory for Socialism statement of aims were inaccurately headlined.
My point was not that ‘VFS is lagging behind the working class’, for this gives the impression that the consciousness of the working class is more advanced than that of VFS.
All I said in fact was that the objective needs of the working class now are for a unified strategy of struggle against capitalism. and that the VFS statement does not measure up to this need.
APRIL. 5, 1958