THE OUTRAGEOLS bomb attack on the Morning Star was undoabtediy the work of right-wing extremists annoyed by the growing anti-Nazi coverage in the paper.
has recently appeared in the paper. Sid French and the New Communist Party must have found Tony Chater's two articles on IS LITT DULINLLIT AUT HE SUSOISTD TN SITUT SEE extremely distasteful. And opposuouiss comoo E nave oeco too picasco cuacr pentiy chided lbe bureawerses, and exolamed thal socialism aos weakened and not strengthened by these trials. But while the publication of these articles is a tiny shows the extreme caution of the CPGB Ieadership. For Chater refuses to go the whole way. He stops short of his own logle.
assesments, the more the collective wisdom of the society as a whole will he brought to bear in secking the correct path forward. Good, We agree. differing views' within the framework established by the existing structures of the Soviel state?
Kevwuuonary Muras opponents or stalmom nave conssenty (starting with Trotsky) arqued that the political monopoly of the HUTEHUETIC T O UORE CR MIME USAHI require mass stroggles, and that on the beels of these we shall see ше сане maco! e SocEnst detocracy.
EMULAASO AV DONIN KROHAR BUNNRE HHHHICHL grotesque caricature of reality." This is an empty assertion unless LIHEE NICARS CORELISIESOUSRKE HACP CHR COHEOURB,RES do. But on the cultural and literary fronts there is less discussion than there was in the karusbcher period, And in the sphere of polities the monopoly of the buresucracy is sopreme.
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Socialist Challenge 3 August 1978 Page 2 Bat there ane otbers who must be almost as scandalised by whut John Foster and the Glasgow Chater's articles strongly criticined the treatment of dissidents.
He writes: The freer the confrontation of differing views and But how cun there be a 'confrontation of Who decides what views ure acceptable or not? The 'collective wisdom of society as u whole'? Fine, but how is this expressed? | Chater writes: Those who present the Soviet Union us a Is Chater for pluralism in the USSR? Is he for rights of tendencles and factions in the CPSU as exisied in that party at the height of the Civil War? Is what exisds in the USSR today a MAC U "million times more democratie" than the most udvanced bourgeois democracy? And if not, why not? These are the questions which And lustly: it is correct to defend the Soviet dissidents regardless of their polities. But why no serious article on Rudolf Bahro? Why no campaigo to demand his release? The ruting classes in the West are not interested in Babro, but we most certainly are. Is the