Thirty delegates atteaded a plansSaturday to discuxs standing a united socialise alate in the next UFTOTEBELLUO The meeting mas called by the International Marxist Group and CHE TEISC BOLSUESU LOOILT Sn wolke te ta rivep el trivialise the VASCUSSION O SON I SUIEY BOACE out of the talks going on berwoen the IMG and Big Flame TAHISCS TUR MAC TACE TIRE IH the last year or so the left has been trying to come to grips with SWOSIOR CESSN LELICHE LEAN fact that the revolutionary left has fought shy of clections ib the past. Wbore it has stood it has done so merely to SUTESDTUUO VENOULT DoHaLng stunt.
The election strategy we are TUSIE SILIS USIUC NI setween these two courses, acring ns a focus for putting over altermaure sockas poncis a0 as a focus for existing struggles.
Represented were all the local SECESHELE CREASTACOOIER EI about standing Unitey Revaldinary anl, ide candidates:
Hull Socialist Allinoce, Tyneside iocialist Centre, and Merseyside TAHIMECE candidates. ln addition several IMG branches intending to stand attended.
The meeting agreed that there W coac a mre due going fight to attempt to involve The Socialist Workers Party in a COmmON SALU Socialist Unity was TrOLIERETs :adoplcd class struggle sinte. But the nam and all other qucations of pro gramme, as well as the basis ot an appeal to ocher individual mslcants. finaily decided at a conference united revilu- thás ButucnD.
Tameside However, in the event of a snap CICORE S SCrEm CaME Socialist Uniry badies invalved was given ful powers to go ahead aod draw up *Phe sering contmites. meet monthly, rotated around ine arcas waere socians ni) candidates wil be sanding: next will take place in Manchester on Saturday 23 July.
the title COT groups and will be of all the the next seering committee will VE HS DUEIEEE The
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 7 July 1977 p8 than the leaders of the Italian, Moscow and its supporters.
Readers will be able lo decide on the meris and demeribe of the book tor themseives when English translatios (presumably be arrille's peblisher intry, Lawrence mod Wishart ecomes avallable.
In eur opinion the book reveals all the contradictions of Eurecommuniom which can be listed an follons:
1. On the streegle for socialisme in Spala itself, Carrille takes op positions which are identieal t bose of classical German democracy, Thai capitalison has to be transformed" not averthrows.
The army has to be by peacefal mesas. Il this cannel be done chea socialism is Imposaible for the oaly ather option is civil For advanced capitalist countries. Carrillo excludes the THE October Revolution produced a state that is obviously not a bourgeois state, but is also nor a muine workers democracy, ever hough the proletariat is organisec a the ruling class.
The Scalinise phenomenon has welled and acte within this state brough a series of formal features milar 1o those of fascist dictator stress formal features, because the essence of the Sovie ocial regime was and is radically opposed to that of fascism This is not merely a theoretica assessment but & truth that confirmed by the blood of the peoples of Lie USSR during the Second World War. And the revolutionary essence of the Sovier social regime was affirmed repeatedly in solidarity with the peoples who struggled against fascism and EMRCHEIST For some time, using the fortwa cult of the personasty. ascribed these phenomene lo the personal characieristies of Stalin, and it i certain that these per onal characteriscice bad serious effects. Marxists do not deny the role of individuals in history.
But why did a person with the characieristics of Stalin mariage to bold sway, characteristics had been denouneed by Lenin? It is true that Stalin was able to play with supremie everness on the contradictions ong various groups within the scie team of the Communes Party of the USSR. posing as the one all those Who could havi But ir must be asked whether ibc practice on Stalm was nol more in consonance wich the type stare that was being formod in practice, wili wbat Toghalti called the system, with the objective rohnes as tney cristea, soan anal of his opponents, especially from Lenin's possihilities for action and It in obvious that the Stalinist of totalitarianism abundanty utilweakened the democratic prestige of the Communist Parties among a part of the population of our countries. Santiago Carrillo, the central leader of the PCE (Spanish Communist Party)has moved farther away from Moscow French Communist Parties. His new book "Eurocomunismo" y Estado ("Eurocommunism" and the State), extracts from which we publish below, contains so extremely sharp critique of the Stalinist regime in the USSR. It is therefore bardly surprising that it has been angrily demounced by possibility and questions the des freebilits of socialist revolution.
1. On the other side, be challer: ges, albeil in a partial and conFused Testion, the theory linka it so the bureaneratie degencration' of the USSR. This Is thi fest occasion on which the leader of a mas Communiet Party has, Je effect, vindicated the theses first iadranced by Trotsky and defended today by Trotskyiels.
3. He trents the Soviet baregucracy un a privileged social laver Tunlike a forner leader and helorian of the Claudin, Tor whom the beresacracy Is a new explotting class]: be admite that chere is no workers democracs in the affirma that the bureaucracy has formal characieristics comparuble Khrushchev's demunciation of the Stalinist horrors temporarily shook the whole system erected by Stalin, both in the USSR and in the socialist countries of the East Events occurred such as those in Hungary and Poland, which a heterogeneous nationa front against the Stalinist system of rule arose spontaneously and tacilly.
Although in Poland thore was a Communis oppositioo lo this system capable of redressing the siruation, this was not the case in Hungary. I war Soviel who te established 'arder"', a new bow to the international prestig ol communise, which also had
[pp. 198-20Л
System not transformed since Stalin In reality, one of the causes of the Tall of Khrushcher perhaps la! in his inability to transtorm the state apparatus crealed Stalin. the system power to which Togliarti alloded which managed to crush bim This system has not been transformed, has not been democrat Ised, and has even many of its aspects of coercion in relations with the socialise states Bemonstrated by che occupation ol Crechoslovakia.
The massive ind repression of the time of Stalin. has disappenred. although deposed, died ar home in hed There has been progress. marred by forina of oppression and repression in certain domains, such as that of culture. Bur we are still not dealing with a score that could be considered as a workers there is much that is formal in the powenu democraties, ESt boe true of the workers democracy attained hy Communists un to па».
Some comrades who resist admicting the truth mas beliere thar "Eurocomunismo" or British t0 those of fascist and sutheri PCE, Fernando tachai regimes 4. He esplicity rehabilitate Trotsky wblch her heen correct on soe • most questions Bernanonias But these questions are bein raised mote or less openly in th workers and Communist ment today, and not because of during che influence of bourgeois propa like to maincain, bue because th unda, as the conformises wouls evidence of reality cannot: ignored.
And can Cammunists, se correctly consider a vanguar force, be the last to admis this evidence, refusing to recognise Monsover, deing soin the only way ta serve th ism, boch in the courtries whie! have eliminared capitalist propers and in those in which it still exists How can this tupe which has arisen in the Sovie Union — which is not a capitalis state because it does not upholc private property, but is also no the state Lenin imagined, with the working class direcly exercising power conception of the state? at politica Tenin said that the state during the first phase of socialise would preserve much of the content o bourgeois law. are desling with has gone beyong maintained the predictions of Lenie it this respect, In has not only nincained some of the conter of bourge bis law. but has moved to detorm military ations and degenerations which in the past me could have imagined annihilaring only in imperialist states And I insist that as the sam Khrushches, time this state has served the progressove policy of lhe social regime on a series of world probles, (pp, 201-202)
Phenomens of bureaucratisation The phenomena of buresucruti sation arise not only our of the traditions of the Tsarist state, bul also but of shis situation, unfore seen by thenry Mari, Fine 150 men Lenin had dictatorship of the proletarial as a regime in which the immense majority would repress a tins minority and in which the org anisation of broad workers den ocracy is the very condition for leader f the PCE Iself Faire endencies arc, of course organisation.
this move in the progressive move within society resulted in whon had died cause of social of But the scace we Sovier imagined the Spasish working dass mardered by the Soviet secret police daring the Cill War.
Carrillo calis this kalling sa sbom Deapite these criticisms Carri HOTE CO NECE TROIE DOTE lociationalised organs of worken dues not call for the abolition of one-party malbr In Rutil Chien and Fautero Eurige. H фосз лої весцизе ввеле кте маст anas wilch wald hive repercie dons nn the internal organicatius Ne atia do not bon D eximple. whether the dapport fo whether dere are divisione wisi tradership, or wbettier ther appositonal cuments atth ase of the parts Factives a Howeree, Carille's book will regardiese of the cructure of th PCF, open up an ipportnes dis cassum amongst militants if the kis wich thes militants shar revolutioning sucin) ista will have la conduct fia Things did not work out this of ile. Workers democracy was cut to the bose and the same proces itsell.
occirred within the party, where the bitterness of the contradictions Congress арата Council vating the factional disputes which no-obe could control once Lenir Thus, a bureaucratie layer devcloped, which appropriated the SANTIAGO CARRICLO-lossening Moscow 1in.
POLIS functions of leadership, convinced that in was the hearer of the social mission of the working class and the personification of the dictatorship of the proletariat, but which developies les ove interess, 025, insensitively sinking roots, ing in accordance with objective and inechanisms specific to In a speech made at the Firs Econom May, 1918, Lenir We do nor close our eyes to the teatiry that we alone, thall noi ce lee de societ revolution in one country, even s this country were much less back ward than Russia, even if we were Eving: under much casier coodi tions than those created after fou years of an snprecedented pais ful, barsh, and ruinous war.
What Is the Telarion herwe this idea, ideologically abandoned in favour of the proclamarion a Eighreenth Congres tha socialism had beer victorious ir the UISSR (which did not preven the greater part of the delegates co coalerence trom later bein physically liquidated on the order or Stalie, nor the holding of th infamous trials) and the charne teristies of the state panstructed in
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