WEPPLER reports. French told the meeting that the taccune Commatee was Recng cold feet about its decision to have • punoc debale on toe urant in the months leading ap to the CP's why. Feelings ran high on Thundebate. At times the chairperson When Jack Dash appealed for Tands a loud and cynicar ey calk from the audience: "Why don't ou just write to Moscow? An when he lashed out at the Young Communist League He charged the YCL with doinp all it could to incite the Czechosociate Republic. rehey have se overthrow the much success as they've had with heir appeals to the British youth there isn t much to woery about It's not that French was under attack throughout the evening rom leasantoner were out in force and they gave as good BESCUEE SUE BEE PUSHED PARTY from its rank and file right to its Executive Committee was let loose in Merton Town Hail last Thursday.
that the draft British Road to Socialism' is an utterly reformist document that should be rejected. DODIE Agenda of the Congres parin apect tish held to the itions held by the afrey Dutrict Commitice F placed his comments in the context of the deep crisis facine the CF NO SELF CRITICISM One thousand Morning Sta aily readers have been lost sinc per month. The election performance of the CP has been Just as dimal Sell critoso for these failures has yet to come from the cadership. nothing but place the blame on the Sovier Union - and the USSR is he strongest card that CPOI He warned against the militants could turn the tide, even If they were able to democratically organise to win supporters to the How the Morning Star reported the occasion:
meeting in Merton One aspect of his argument was his minicoot on the need use of violence. away from this task, and charged COCONUT LES DETEC ICA CLIMAR DI the Brirish Road with being too short on coercion and too free with the draft beginning with line 1261 asevidence. 'Democracy', besaid, appears 15 times on this pare alone lines often and there are only 65 tis question in his view. It fail to recognise that: 'Parliament is hardly Skely to go unchallenger by a ruling class which can us powerful buill-in has done Дан кость wisng Te seen of it, meaty one. introduce socialiam.' cerning therole of the army.
ALLIANCES policie that CP happily accepts the concept ances contuined in the druf on import controls, he said that alliances on this issae not out of the guilain as as not out of the question only splits the ruting cises"!
Secondiy, Freech explicitly re Jected independent and densc such us soviets, us a vitul com on ponent of the dictatorship of the arpets Let an empty dog proletariat.
mecessity for building soviets with an off-hand joke about the far-of! dass whea the Wimhledna sovie *But et halter des the le, it was the EC's criticisms:
therent response Tackling vehement response. questions on the de-stalinisation Pr00033. French 'mythical lack of freedom in Eastern Europe — as if the talk of He choose to hold up Solzhenitzen as a case in point, mocking the has accrued in Swiczerland. French's mind, the Merelyame te spaceshop denied. Unemploymcat does not exist, food prices are stable, and announced, this has been the first in 40 years, and "even The Guard that wamen fare much better in the AND He didn't sh safeguards : even with organs of workers power was ready and Eastern added.
TENDENCIES In Soviet Union bureaucracy in its from the far left also attended Soviet Union than in the West", he French's policies are marked by a combination of a firm insisteno on retaining the carcept of th dictatorabip of the proletariat and because he equates the two -nise the crimes of the Soviet atempes pany at the expense of the working class. REVOLUTION
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Town The depths of the crisis which Is shaking the COMMUNIST
Eight hundred militants packed into the Hall to hear Sid French of the CP's Surrey District Committee put the view
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