YOUR 'Open Forum' on other revolutionary traditions (16 November) was the worst form of condescension. In asking that question one would have expected either concrete examples or a debate. But no! Your only 'proof that non-Trotskyists can be revolutionists is that Trotsky said so Similarly, the article by Cannon on splits and regroupment was from the narrow Trotskyist standpoint. On the failure of reunification with some other group all he could say was: *After seven years... changed their position on the Soviet Union.' Trotsky defines sectarianism (in the Transitional Programme) as socialists who have only convinced themselves of their socialist programme. Most "Trotskyists' suffer from just this today.
TONY SHARP [Liverpool] Mary Marxism they had not longer in NAG. the NALGO Action Group.
PARLOUS TIMES 4. NAG is in fact a rank and file political current in NALGO (one of several) and not 'the union's rank and file group'. It has proved by and large to be hostile to the unity of the left in NALGO. That is one of the reasons why I, and many other people, are no Whilst it is true that the strike needs to be supported by other unions and departments, those of us who are on strike have been working to do this for months. It is, of course, a lot despite names or pretensions.
At the other end of the scale are the situations parties alignments form out of the major events of the class struggle. Thus the Comintern established drawing all those supported the October revolution and saw the need to construct a WaS after parties had been formed that the political fight was waged to transform them into Bolshevik parties, capable of leading the working class and On the contrary, unify theory and practice is in and classical tradition of Marxism.
support can be gleaned from the Marxist tradition position, which, rather, is an effusion who from the economist/syndicalist and politically underdeveloped tradition of the British labour movement these In the early 20th century, the page of the German SPD organ Neue Zei reverberated with just such polemic: as we see in Socialist Challenge today, but on a much vaster scale. the attempt to the No ence.
for Kerry's moved from Birmingham and Mersseyside to have a recall ANL conferThe motivation was that the steering committee was undemocrati and accountable to no-one; that two major initiatives had been rather badly cocked up (Remembrance Day and Brick Lane); and that we need a clear line on immigration controls. Unfortunately none of those criticisms related to trade union work, nor were they drawn out of the previous discus. sions that had taken place.
I voted for a recall conference be