THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION by Leon Trotsky

they see a chance of creating a provocation to stampede the electors they will take it.

But even if the party leaders succeed in sending back a critical Assembly, the President iwill not need to worry very much. They cannot break with Gaullism and carry on a struggle outside Parliament. Nor can de Gaulle or the parties resolve the crisis in the French state without a direct attack on the working class and its organisations.

Newcastle march over Cuba 100: Labour Party members, Young Socialists, YCLers and CND supporters marched through Newcastle last Saturday in a 'Hands off Cuba' demonstration organised by the North-east Cuba Committee.

In a press statement the committee declared that its aims were to arouse support for the Cuban Revolution in the British Labour movement and to collect money to send food and medical supplies to Cuba. tion, he went along •with Khrushchev to the brink of disaster. He then belatedly realised what Khrushchev was up to and tagged on legitimate demands about withdrawal from Guantanamo.

LIKE SPAIN

The Khrushchev bureaucracy in essence has done nothing fundamentally different from what the Soviet bureaucracy did in Spain in the period before the Second World War.

They gave military aid and food, but these supplies were inadequate. The one thing that Stalin could not and did not give was a revolutionary orientation to the Spanish people.

Thus the Soviet Union joined the non-intervention pact with capitalist powers and left Spain wide open for fascist victory.

If Kennedy were to decide to invade Cuba-and he may still do so—the Soviet government will not lift a finger in its defence. Now available to English readers in John G. Wright. The volume includes Results and Prospects published for the first time in an These fundamental works on the Russian Revolution in relation to the world socialist revolution fill a longstanding gap in Marxist literature, and will be welcomed by all students of Communism and Marxism. They are of special relevance to the present controversies within the world's Communist Parties, in particular China and Russia.

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A. Rykov M. Tomsky Chairman Trade union Council of Led Soviet Economy. TU delegation Council of TUC, 1925 Right Oppositionist. November 3. 1962 Y. L. Piatakov Founder Ukrainian Soviets.

Head of Soviet industry.

Left Oppositionist. Capitulated to Stalin.

Shot. K. B. Radek Founder German CP. Secretary EC of Comintern. Left Oppositionis Capitulated. Murdered in prison. Supreme leader.

Chairman, to British Commissars. Right Oppositionist. Deposed. Deposed. Shot. Suicide. N. I. Bukhari Party theoretician. Ultra Left and later Right Oppositionist. Leader Comintern. Deposed and shot.