the programme necessary for such a party. The International Marxist Group has streak of that programmatic arrogance.
How then do you think a mass revolutionary will be built in Britain today? party • LS: We know that the revolutionary left has no popular base in Britain today. have to show the highest level of flexibility and creativity in beginning to build that popular Not just the legacy of Stalinism but also the reality of the Sorter-type Russian Wage 11 October 1979 Page 12 La strong facilitate the greatest SR: I feel uneasy in • questions because 1 disagree we are going to scope of socialist politics. authoritarianism of the helps We face contradictions in dealing with the The women's movement has been in the forefront of fighting for a new kind of a socialist alternative in the NHS and with battered women's refuges, and so have those workers who have produced plans for useful I do not see a possibility for building a single revolutionary party in Britain today. What I do see are possibilities for creating structures that possible revolutionary unity in practice and strive to build the belief in a possible socialist alternative to capitalism.
responding to these rundamentall with the political framework in which they are set. They present an overview which rests on a self-confirming but narrow definition of the It becomes a block to trying to work out what we should do by sharing our experiences.
THE extraordinary news has reached Europe that Zheng Chaolin (Cheng Chao-lin), a leader of the Chinese Trotskyists, was freed on 5 June this year, together with his wife Wu Jingru (Wu Ching-ju), herself revolutionary, who voluntarily shared his last seven years of captivity. were allocated a flat in the city centre by the Shanghai Municipality. an old They party, they along with Honens nawezen. their expulsion from the officia directed their energies towards building an independent Trotskyist tendency In May 1931 both Zheng and Wu were arrested by the Kuomintang most other Trotskyist leaders. Wu was released after several of interrogation and Zheng was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.