120 people heard IMG member John Ross (standing) debate Geoff Roberts of the CP (seated left) at University College, London last week.
for discussion Renegade Kautsky, Lenin wrote a polemic which could have parliamentary, directed against today's CPGB and their desire to change and improve' the 'existing democratic institutions and organisations.... more effectively serve the needs of *We", the revolutionary Marxists, never made speeches to the people that the Kautskyites of all nations love to make, before the bourgeoisie, adapting themselves to the bourgeois parliamentary system, edition of the about the bourgeois character of modern democracy and demanding only its extension, only that it bo carried to its logical conclusion.
•Democracy can be carried to its geois restrictions to it, through the society, including the State, in all the stages of struggle'. (Lines 1110-2).
Nowhere does the Draft attempt to explain when Parliament and the State themselves cease to be the very "bourgeois restrictions" to the extension of democratic rights.
Nowhere does the Draft explain now in ine words or tne communis. International the 'bourgeois armles, ponce, oureaucratic merareny the judiciary, parliaments etc.' no oneer neca to be destroyca Dur Car be democratised to express the will of the vast majority of the people At what point in time did this transformation take place? When did Parliament suddenly gain such power? Unlike Marx and Lenin, the Draft draws the lessons of no actual The falsity of the Draft's claim on 'our actual political and social conditions is drawn our by any examination of where this strategy has been applied What is the difference between the Draft's claim that the bourgeois army can be democraused and won to the side of the vast majority people have been arrested or subjected to continual uncaleyyan One of the public representative or ine sionatones. vaclay navel, Is VACLAV HAVEL still under arrest. Ota Orest, the film director, is also being held. H is diabetic and has suffered two neart altachs A woman wno nad a miscallact was forced to return to work without a medical examination to see whether she was fit, while another woman was forcibly admitted to a nospital annougn inree medica tests snow ed that she was perfectly healthy.
document says that authorities have attempted to get remn onaner tr. mis mey Ta retuse to do witnout seemne tetul text of the manifesto. The Government, of course, is not prepared to publish thedocument * Poland The British Communist Party has felt obliged to criticise the Czech oslovak Govemment for its per secution or the chanert sionator Poland nowever. •Still presented as a model of socialist democracy Where else, says the CP would price increases be reversed in 2 nours as aresuor mass Messure: This conveniently ignores the tac that it was mass working class action which protected their livin stanadius not debate inroug The CP also tums a blind eye to the persecution of working class militants by the Gierek regime. The follwing example is typica Ireneusz Majewski tells of howhe and his brother were beaten up b nolice aner me ursus cemonsid tions last summer. His brother's aw was broken. A few days later armed with clubs were lined up on each side of the stairs escing into ne sulleine. As reached the third step I had already had as much as I could take and fell 'As i lay on the floor I was kicked. hen inev took my Comes d IC!
me in just my pants and shirt. Then l demand automatic compensation for inflation and ar ine sinkes staned It DocKs and spread to the engineenng building and printing industries. A number of national newspapers dic not appear for a few days last week In Amsterdam the Ford factory has Deen closed, wille in moweroan 25,000 demonstrated in support o the pay demands.
, companies have met the despite the attempts of the unior Headershe manucular Christian CNV. to limit the scone o strike action. The mass of no the alon that the indexation can protect ineir living Standaras Students have occupied Rome University germaname chances i the eaucation laws ane an end t fascist violence.
Last week the Communist Party (PCI) sent Luciano Lama, a leadin member of the party and the genera ion toadcress ine students. Lannk spoke from the back of a lorry guarded by a band of PCI heavie The purpose of the visit was to cal the ultra-left students to order, si nemain meme ortne soccen was d denunciation of "left-wing terror Considering —Ine numbe killed by people who nave fascist violence in Italy, including students. ineresponse ortne ronk chudents is not suronsing. Cam was shouted down and pelted with stone called in to protect him, but he was chased on tHe Calous After this incident the PCI will be pressing even more strongly fo intended to clamp down on the The PCI, howTascIst TerronSIS ever makes ne CISTINCTIO!
between the fascists and those in the workers and student movement who wish I to organise self defence againstight wily allaund
10 RED WEEKLY 24 Fabruary 1922