unification of the campaign.
P. MITCHELL (Bristol)
YOUR new year editorial (4 January) certainly rang out the old. Exactly a year ago J. Ross's preview of 1978 convincingly argued that the setbacks in the class struggle were due to the bankrupt leadership of the working class, and not, as the CP claimed, to the enormous strength of bourgeois IHSULUEOES The CP's refusal to challenge that leadership.
Ross' sargument was of course our old friend the "Trotskyite dogma' that the world crisis is essentially a crisis of working class leadership true in 78 as in letting this old forgot: *...the last year has shown the enormous recuperative power of the bourgeois-democratic through which mediates its rule in the West'.
on bourgeois institutions stressing the makes this possible are there to see in the current positions of the CP and SWP. Both, for different reasons, fail to build a real challenge to the labour bureaucracy through a united front approach based democracy.
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