• a fifth to a quarter of the Communist Party's members were arrested during the strike - could substi•.• shop or a library. New from Penguin is General Strike (E1.50) edited by Margaret Morris.
For the Communist Party then as seen by the Communist Party now, James Klugmann's History of the Communist Party of Great Britain - two volumes at £5 a throw, currenty beme reoried - covers me years up to ana mauame the generd Strike. L.J. Macfarlane's The British Communist Party: Its Origins and Developments until 1929 (out of print) is packed with information but little analvsis. The CP's anniversary publication is 1926: The Generar otrike (tz). carted by sertrey skeney, it reads back the CP's current perspectives into 1926.
Except where stated otherwise, all are available from Red Books, 97 Caledonian Moad. London vi. nao zoo postace and packing for a single title, 50p for two or more.
Yet as we have seen in recent weeks In une Cr s nal-neartea mod ilisation for 26 May, when the 'lefts' of yesteryear like Scanlon and Jones turn sharp right the CP chases after them and makes no overt criticism.
the way the Communist Party writes history. In contrast with the Stalinist practices of former years, sins of commission are now replaced by SES OSSUE For all John Gollan's talk of socialist democracy and the new "self-critical' posture adopted by the CP leadership on past 'mistakes' like the Moscow trials and Stalin's purges, the CP is incapable of confronting its own history in the General Strike - precisely because it would mean confronting the political strategy they pursue today. That is also a lesson of the 'lessons of the General Strike' to be learnt! Finally, a word must be said on J. H. Thomas to Ramsay MacDonald: You've got to hand it to Purcell, Swales and that lot though. Without the help they gave me I could never have got away with begging and grovelling to Baldwin.'
According to official capitalist economic theory, prices are supposed to be regulated by competition in the market. If demand falls then prices fall. By cutting back demand in the economy - "deflation' as it is generally known - prices are supposed to be stabilised. this is the official theory on which the Labour Government operates. a gallop.
Red Weekly 20 May 1976 OF Ever since the Second World War the rate of price increases has been speeding up. In recent years the increase has become The capitalist press blames the increase in prices on 'excessive' wage demands. The figures show that this is rubbish. Throughout the whole period of soaring inflation, the share article we look at some of the real causes of inflation - and Prices