IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Poles apart

Red Weekly No. 195, 21 April 1977 · pp. 9-10 of the scan · 944 words

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A BOOK which goes a long way towards reabilitating Trotskyism workers movement has been published _ In Poland. Nor is It any old book but the thind and fina volume of the history of the Polish LOMMUnIST CarL OMo11E10 1838. published by an official Stale publishing house argues thal Trateky Kowalski.

CAPIOSDOD 19305 COCOTIERINA olicy of the unitod front agains social democracy as 'social DACISE.

WIDSO CUMANOIHICHH INCIIT B Hitlers riso to power in 1933 Kowaiski aiso datanda Isaac Deutscher of the opposition inside the Polish HOTINU HDE COnSE quentiy to become Trotsky's biographer.

Deutscher — atil described ofITS Wnen TC ATOLE Bn AuICiR afler Hitler's takeover calling for Communists Socialists in Germany, Forsaeing the likelihood of a DUOELIE Зние зоино с che corman Communiat Party was too weak 1o ordarad him lo saying that it would only lead to panic"

Kowalski says that this docision Pe wokey movane to t novamant"

entral committee of the PCF ar WE SHOGUIYE OF AC InECmaTOnE LU INCH OTNME eSSEnSRaEI this and other signe of confusion and doubts in the parly, and above all to have precisely with reality' Kowaiski mcalls thai the PCP leadership even resorted to cruda anti-semitism against the opposiMam yet einie origin. Tl ln. ticism has a direct echo today. tor ASimiFar wave Or anl-semiism against the Jewish revolutionar intelligentsia was launched by Ih pat2. Kawatsh was ome af tha taw 1о зоник вит нокльс ос іо ліга TOU MOnt hina mm si thr hatan un tamay in folamd on is now underway in fortunately not.

SEICIRL M DOUSHONE CEA MOOdI only Just come to notice in the West [mainty through an article b Manuel Lucbert in the Paris dail Fol sh regime thoughi i nea Mondel. Why? Because th sary to print anly 3,000 coples of this third volume the first, contentious volume. merited 30.000 coples): country of more than 30 million HUOHT The massage: 'Fecte may show that Trotsky wasn't a lascist agent alter Allhough this L.Ptyarshch:

by contrast This in a from the The Crisis Worsens Letter to the itafiec, Spanish, aud Fronch Conumunist Parties ns' by Livlo Malien; dossier c tram: Inpracer is 1183.11 These econome and Saci tramework the present reviewer considen the conclusion 1o be essontially corTO MORCOCTOLOLUWIIIT! Lion.

presented by Anderson there are dangers and errors — notahly a dangerous, potentialiy ultra-leit, theoretical tendency lo confusion of consent to a partic Uiar Jarai oi bogrgeois Tue wTEn consent la bourgecis rule os suck; HE LO BESEr8 S BE eRaH! insrance properly inso ithe ail, a failure to sile the central cole WE TET CUBU CIS-CICHE cracy by the Inbour bureaucracy discussed TRUSEOC OLLI Overwhelmingly, however, the res

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cannot be ignored.

But it is also a victory for the Government's reform plan. It had hoped to avoid a tricky problem by COCER Me Case I LIE DUDES court handed the problem back to the Government, laying that since this was a political question a political body should makethedecision.

The opposition of a number of rading officers in the armed forces was the first serious opposition from inside the regime faced by the Government for many months. that i got away with no more than a THE SPANISH Communist Party has been legalised.

Tens of thousands of workers will see this as a victory, a recognition that the major party of the working class couple of resignations shows how Now the Government has to decide whetheror not to legalise the far left. Even if the right wing in the army decides to take its opposition to the CP*s legalisation no further it will put up massive resistance to this 1103009 The CP hasno intention of taking up that campaign. Onthe contrary it has decided to recognise the "democratic monarchy as the legitimate ruler of Spain.

LCR/LKI prisoners welcomed in Ondaron. From lelt to right: Andoni Arizabalage, Andoni Bedlalaunets and Inaki Garcia Aramberni. lets onstrated in Durango body MUNE PANY-WHERENU banner Fied driving snow, rubber bul- pollce and police baricades ho town.

About 8,000 poople also demaway.

The call for an Aberri Eguna of struggle wae made by united left wing nationalist Д ПО Fourth International.

Communist and Socialle Parties and the Basque NationBETTE a peacetul one under the single Basque day before Aberri Eguna, arm C130 set up road blacks on every road into he Militants from all over the Deterreo neiner Dy uns Easter Sunday. Vitoria woke up lo a blankel of snow thousande of militants who had marched over the moun tains and slipped into the town Pollce were they tried to assemole in she centre bf the lown. Rubber He is still there.

Enrique Cesalagn, a Basq orker, was one of the Burg defendents in 1990. He was shot in the lung when he was arrested. bet he escaped from his 50 year stretch in Segovia jail. Recaptured by the police, he is still there.

The knowledge that our combrades were still in jail was not the anly cause for bareroes in Ondarroa. Some nationalists saw the comrades" membership of the Fourth Internabional as i betraya al the Basque cause. They tried to tea: doen the red Hags and sit the Trousk vists as "Spanish' Our comrades explained how the fight for national riehis in the Rasgue county could on successful through an alliance with the workers of the Spanish stale as a whole. The 1.KI dnes not betray the Basque struggle. On the contrary we are uncompromising in our support for self determination What further price do our comrades have to pay to show that determination!

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