THE BANSHEE yell ot "Traitor"' rakn n e orasinoer aro n response the revelations AnnOn!
surprising as the fact thar banshees do yell.
Dans e rrime aininier apportunil!
lett-w ingers with her remark that our lask now is to guard againse their (the spies"] counterparts of today' adds an ideological dimension to the attacks the organisation and standards of the working class aiready launched by her gorernment.
But it is the response from the left w'nich #TE(taE "spring," suid an Morning Siar.' isomething we abhor and oppose' *o moles there.
upriyht Rritish huro-l ommunists aiming to be as patriotic as the citizens on the Dail! Telegraph lin fact, more * Labour MPs have been falling over themselves do dennunce spies and aftirm their loyalty lle Dennis Skinner put himself in the front line, barel! managing to raise his voice louder than thal Tories in placing traitors on a par with mass murderers. Blant's HUMUSe AIl was sufficient Willie Hamilton to describe him as a "creature'.
The social democrats and their feliow travellers in the Communist Party hasc a touching heliei in loyalty io 'their nation. which the! suspect ihe establishment does share.
Hence their concern corer-up nser Blunt, with MPs such as skinner describing Thatcher as a "common or parden nark" for lipping nrmner kinight betore her annuuncement in the Commons.
Peregrine Wursthorne editor of the Sunday Telegraph. spell nut the ruling class's vien of loyalty in an article published a fortnight before nen» of the 'Tourth man' broke. Il was headlined: "When treason can be right'.
That. in case you hadn't guessed. i H a LE MCl ECH representing the interests of working class were elected.
'I could easils imagine mysell beins lempied into d disposition under a labour government dominaled by the Marxist left,' Worsthorne wrole, 'Soshocking might he its programme... that it became quite natural lo start looking to the L. nited States for succour.' There would be no question of fourth or fifth men when it comes to those co-operating with the CIA. commented, 'since Iheir number will. I trust, he too numerous to count.
This is no pipe dream admirably frank description of how ine caprransi class acis whenerer its rule threatened by government. During the government in Chile, for example, when the armed forces were riddied with CIA spies. American imperiaism gave every possihle assistance to the Chilean bourgeoisie in destabilising the gnvernment and preparing the coup which established the brutal dictalorship.
Worsthorne and the rest of the class he represents are fully prepared to carry ihrough a similar scenario in britain, snoulo ine delence of their property and rule require it. U'nlike lae social democrals, melr royany Is nod to 'their' country, for the class lhinks internationally, but to their class.
And unless the workine class can be won to thinking likewise, prospects for socialism are grim.
That's whs all socialists MOles. placing ligally proletariat, nationalls and internarlulart, auyre cousuaidis orle nation state • - which was. in any case. altalioi dl lHc uwurcrone.
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