WHO ARE THE REAL SOCIALIST FIGHTERS?
1959The NewsletterBrian Arundel 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.
fascist organization.’
Now, for many of them ‘fascist’ is just a word, like ‘revisionist’, which means ‘nasty, wicked, sinful’, and nothing more precise than that.
But for others the use of it in relation to Trotskyists is based on a particular card-castle of lies which was built up between the years 1936 and 1938, by means of the notorious Moscow trials.
How can one shake the confidence of such people in the myth they have accepted for over twenty years? They are often the armour-plated type for whom Khrushchev’s antiStalin speech is still a ‘State Department forgery’.
Well, here is a simple little exercise which I suggest be recommended by anyone who has contact with them. Let them go along to the office of any Stalinist-controlled organSELLERS of the youth paper Rally were told by Arthur Johnson, assistant regional organizer of the Lancashire and Cheshire Labour Party, that they could not sell their paper inside the King’s Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester, where the Labour Party was holding a meeting.
Rally is published by a Liverpool youth section, and supports the paper Socialist Fight, whose adherents joined with the Right wing at the Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party to witch-hunt members of the Socialist Labour League.
Nevertheless, members of the Socialist Labour League present at Belle Vue defended the right of the people selling Rally to do so at that or any other Labour Party meeting.
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