anti-racist and anti-fascist Only IB05E sectarians, hlinded by their own impotence, could deny due credit tor SULELS of Anti-Nazi ECaRuC We have continue to do so, just as we will continue to give nur fullest support, But credit must be given where credit is due the SWP deserve top marks tor the way they built the ANL One criticism often made of SWP to way alienate large soctions of the movement boustful claims such as "we organised Lewisham' DEEPER These differences over lactics in the ANL and style intervention might seem minor problenis. But in fact they are merely the surface expression of much deeper problems about thic WADIC WEY the appronches anti-racist The publication of three new SWP pamphlets provides good opportunity to take a look differences pamphlets, The Case Against STAIITAELES Controls, Fight Against Fascism and For Socialism, and Fascism and the Nationul Front, give a good trengths of the SWP, but alse adication of the organisanone hiphlight some of their political weaknesses.
important revolutionaries say what is . especially when dealing with grawing reactionary forces. is all too casy to ery wolf. Unfortunately this is exactly movements, TALBOT this week looks at the views of the Socialist rabid what Colin Sparks does in Fascism and the NF the *50 writes the 'they (the NF) have only made a The small start. But tocO looked pretty small 1923. Ten however..?
EXPLICIT This suggestive statement is made more explicit: possible for them to build a mass Nazi party in Britain an they the next few years.
However, he doesn't go on to explain that fascise. "party of counter-revolutionary despair, has only become a mass moverbent working class has tried and hope.
As Trotsky pur it: 'Halian fascism was the outgrowth of the betrayal by the reformists of the uprising of the halian prolerarial.
SWP This is because a fascist and movement needs both a mass of shaken and despairing middle class and lumpen troops and fimancial backing from a badly shaken and worried section of The capitalists in order to develop. The DISTORTED Today the SWP have become so absorbed against the NF that everything becomes discorted: short distance, tben, separates Tbatcher from repatriation -that the policy of the Nazi Frontor The politics al repatriation are the polities of Auschwitz and Dachan... The first step on the road to a British Dachau was taken when inmigration F COLIN Sparks, Hitler beer later as the the (The insmediate Immigration Controls)
Thus even the fight against state racism, winch today is the main attack on black peonie's rights, has to be posed in terms of fascism and the NF, not to mention being somewhat melodramatic.
The SWP manages to adopt both a sectarian attitude to the anti-Fascist movement and an opportunist approach.
Thematic are companied bad theoretical with the fight thorough mis estimation of the role of fascism in Britain today. -Only a adopt important aspects of Trotsky's analysis of failure to understand Tracsky's united frant policies and his insistence on socialist democracy weakens and flaws licir Case -Aguinst A healed debare Flame has resulted becoming These solidarity While they are happy lo self-organisation liberation.
Their tascism, Asian and
old timeless truths offered us by Alex Callinicos (20 July) if we are to take advantage of the eurocommunism to win montans from the Communist parties towards WENEED rather more than the same | soft on Eurocommunism.
development of democratically Callinicos's other major criticism concerns Mandel's remark that a clected assembly could exist in a socialist democracy alongside a congress of workers coun 15,16&17 September. The dates to remember for the second
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Lewisham last August — SWP claim we orgunised il controls were first imposed in theory and practice.