MALCOLM KITSON (letters, June) informs as of a devastating truth: "Surely the main point af John Ross's letter (4 May) is that the debate on the Morning Star can only be taken up through a critique of the political and orientation CPGB.
But every Socialist supporter who is active in the trade knows this. What we need an swer to tac question: now relate to the crisis in the CPGB and assist the develonment current moving towards revolutionДУ ПОЗНАЕ!
The British far left has traditionally had a one-sided view of the CPGB: that i H 'counter revolutionary through and throught, will always betray, etc. But even Trotsky, softy on Stalinism, rejected such a simplistic approach:
"They are a very contradictory phenomenon. They began October as the base, become deformed. but We can't -antipathies of our moral feelings sway us. I think that we can hope to win these workers crystallication of October TY DE2S 1939-40, 0. 26M in the meantime, from Yugoslavia to vietnam. socialist revolutions led by bureaucraof the world revolutionary process on Ine LPOB has beco lo te-emphasise the point that many CP militants identify with socialist revolution but between this ideal and the party's caught the reformist domestic programme What can Socialist Challenge do in this situation?
«one of the main weaknesses in holitical armoury of the left has been the lack of a concrete action sperm the socialist policies round out the socialist policies around which the workers movement should unity. Such plan counterposed to the reformist British Road and used to create a much hroader political audience for our Secondly, we have seen Socialist Unity draw individual CP members into action. We should seek to extend this by involving CP groups in joint itervention around delence of the closed shop the Tribunal on Britaia's Presence in Ireland, and so on. In particular, the Kudoll Bahro Detence Campaign provides an excelient opportunity for building a massive campaign against the Stalinist bureaucracy's usurpation. of democratic rights.
la this way -assemble dissident CP elements and independents around an alternative strategic road to socialism. NOEL HIBBERT (Hall)
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