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by 1926 to influence at least a quarter of the organised workers in Britain. Disciplined faction work in the unions, a whole organisational turned towards the building of factory groups and PAMPHLET A clean break with the 'lefts' and the development of an alternative strategy for the continuation and extension of the strike around political demands would have produced such a deep crisis within social democracy that the betrayal of 1931 by MacDonald and Co. could have cleared the way for a rapid growth of the Communist Party in Britain, and its winning of the majority of British workers to the banner of revolution.
Instead, the lett and right zigzags by the Comintern, responding at every turn to the requiremede impossible the dariation ments of the working class that Lenin had fought for in 'Left-Wing Communism'.
The Marxist movement today has to work in a working class, considerable numbers of which passed through or has been influenced by these 40 years of miseducation and betrayal, and must, therefore, proceed with this history in mind.
Today, when the split between the unions and the Labour government is so openly posed political clarity is essential if the older generations are to be won to a correct programme. The
CLIFF SLAUGHTER writes:
THE NEWSLETTER has already dealt at length with the attacks on Trotskyism by Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro at the * continental Conference in January, and this speech is treated e more detail in the issue of the magazine, 'Fourth International' Fidel Castro press.
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