•Could you briefly describe for us what are the main political curinside class WOTAINO opoSitor movement n me uson.
The left-wing opposition, as part of the whole democratic opposiengaged primarily fight for democratic rights, for the monts wnien are ensnninea in ine SOVIeT consTITuTIon. But ine ler wing differs from the rest of the in that it considers political to essentany relatea to mne ano nationalissues Within the left wing itself, largely because of the absence of Information about political Hoyements the West. alen tany realy ciear demarcation lines, any clear programmes. It is possible to divide the left sition, however, into certain broad ideological currents..
First of all, there are the liberal MarxisTs inink inat under the influence instance under pressecondiv. Inere are inose wno support the October revolution but wrong and that what is necessary is to 'christianise" can include under unis nedding the Tolstoyans.
A third current is the close to the Menshevdemocratic parties of the West. And finally. vou navestne neo-marxists wno consider the big defeats events Marxis, Ineor isel There is an interest, amona the left-wing oppositionists, in the old opposition associated Trotsky. But it is almost impossible lo cer any intoraron on Scottish Socialist.
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tnis in the soviet Union. it is tar easier to get hold of Mein Kampf be You have referred to the Sovie union as a rottino society did the 'rot' begin and what do you think are its causes?
Stalinist
populaliol -inere sudion- acket. Anvone witn oIs senting views was simply sent off so-called official ideology.
The Stalinists were followed by Ine naruschevites ano! opinion, they are even more open to corruption than the lot. At one time there really was a section of the population sincere v deleveo narne ganwas leads where mne youn are es to cruas crime and into a complete spiritu al vacuum. A large section of the their family circle but on the place they say that they support the regime. Only a small part of the population actually goes over This unfortunate Bo oposito of what has happened to Soviet society.
criminal acts Dina unConsCIOUs protest against the total system. Leonid Plyushch, the exiled Ukrainian dissident, came to speak in Glasgow in December. He was interviewed by Gus Fagan for He was exiled from the Soviet Union in January 1976 after a world-wide protest campaign against his confinement in a KGB controlled psychiatric hospital prison. He is 37 years of age,a Ukrainian, and a mathematician by profession.
in soo rayusnen, a marxist oy convicion, Degan to articles for the Samizdat press, the Chronicle of Current Events which sere struggle for democratic rights in the Soviet Union. He was one • wner . Then …In my WIHICH situation Stalinist police arrest Crimean Tartars.
Similar to this also is the tendency or desire not to work, not to go to work to embezze. property for one's own ends.
Line uber lavers cont need to be corrupted because they have greater privileges. The Stalinist terror, the also a Dureaucraric corrustion cism, the spiritual vacuum. Those are the causes and the symptoms write TOT to use state basically are the serning the soviet Union Russian state revolutionary - orotest nations patronism and of the founding members of the Initiative Group for the Defence of Human Rights set up in the USSR in 1969. protested violations of the Soviet constitution and the UN Declaration of Human Rights:
In January 1972 he was arrested and put in isolation in Kiev prison. From there, in May of the same year he was sent to the From July 1973 to January 1976 compelled to undergo forced 'treatment".
Great tion refusal of the Hortelaic terms of Aligning for thett Because Ukrainians ture and party independence Manionalics of what I referred to as the 'rotting Tore or Would you describe for us what national question in ine urst and basic problem is tre nationalism and chauvinism of the fact face at re-emergence Chauvinism Tecle Dasic non-Kussiar against this form breaches within the army were group of Cossacks opened fire on the police after the : demonstrations near the Alexander III monument.
an ultimatum for a return to work, 25/26 February over one hundred worker caucrs were arresica, amons mem five of the Bolshevik Petrograd Sunday. The factories were shut, did not deter anybody demonstrations took Vyborg district, the Drolerarian srongo a orretro grad, was under the control of the workes. c bonce neadotantes had been sacked. No police were to be seen there. During the day 40 iks, were eramole uewas regiment, LINKS The group legally The was confined to the Hospital - where was course esen banicuar nation nas its own problems and the national pronounced form of Russian Chauvinism me cevora whole peoples Russian state to allow them to return to their native Anomer form waich Inis takes Is ine state ant-semiism reaches extraordinary heights in the reduction Big nations like the Ukraine are Line - maintenance culture and language language constantly hussial and ine idea gains more and So all the non-Rus sian reduples are nontine nere one orm or other independent development •Did not the theory of the Bolshevik Party under Lenir febresent a conscious atemor to Mont ne brosems Creat Hus sian Chauvinism? If roots problem such an acute form?
Line cancer Great Kussian Cnauvinism in the But the October revolution not itself solve this The October revolution solved the people were killed at the hands of the police and the training squad officers. The decisive moment was fast approaching. Would the strugunaer a volev or wel-aled bullets, now collapse?
The strike leaders were unsure ol their next move. The leaders of the workers partes. even me bosney trailing events. For February that the Bolsheviks called that already existed. Events made WOrKCIS During the Sunday night the first regiment mutinied. The Pavlovsky on hearing that their training squad hac opened fire on the crowds during the day, took Over LiCI DarracKs coleters The following day they - WCIC followed by the soldiers of the -problem oi Hussial Chauvinism and remained and became worse, particularly under Stalin #What kind of measures are used ov une , mussian siate lo comoa the national movements?
They use the , same measures as opposition blackmail, NOS and DrIson camos Fron 1972 the Russification campaign campaign, especially Not the national itself uncerooes pression, but also the higher party party bureaucracy in the Ukraine ano tne same inino naboens in tne coinen reoublics as well Russian Bolshevik clique doesn't trust the CP in the republics.
attempt and poison the relations between the resueles. to serone acalnst une other Wis the working class involved in novements or is mainly the intellectuals?
ine intelectuals wno are invoivec class greater dos Involvement The struggle of une crimean artars involves unt whole population.
true of the Jews differentiatior national democratic and -workine class - oemands extent of working class involve ment varies then from one repub Wha t do you think can be done ano workine class ooposition in the Soviet Union? Do you think this is The most important and the first ssue lo suppor is ine gemano to cemocrane nons Inis is main!
what the working class movement democratic rights in ane sovier union inev wil nave d big influence on the composition of the democratic movement itself important for the let-wine oooosition in DOVIe union to oolainen-wino terante from their supporters in the West soldiers and the Vyborg. Plans were being made to scize alle disarm the police stations, to release political prisoners and to win ove the rest of the garrison.
Monday evening plans had been implemented. Virtually all the troops had been won to the side of the workers. arsenal had been taken over and weapons carried away. Officers were tearing off their insignia and The political prisoners were freed.
CZAR Finally the Tauride Palace, the stronghold of the Czar in- Petrocentre of the strikers Peter anc Fortress, situated on an island on raver INeva Petrograd was in the hands of the