Only through such united action can the working class advance social democrats of all shades should he pulled into such anited action semiting programmatic struggle must aged with le social democracy over the ams, and the most appropriate means tor carrying the struggle forward.
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have used the mass movement but an leaderships LEFT BUREAUCRACY af *left the lefts in the counter-posed conditions the agains: the Tories, to encourage CP militants within it not least, time apparatuses of the unions and into the The CP Icadership Thier posed to cathe her. not ally each principie. oossible lo do both. But in the unions then, these alternatives tended to contradict each other.
political extendi which have taken place since the war.
could have greacly swelled th anks of the CP itself in industr Such a left turn would not necessur My bave implied a stracegic break with the STILY STROLLIDE COULd SIOUS MaTE Involved a decision by the leadership to make a tactical left rurn, strengthen its base Chen reconsolate it: anancs wire the lens trom a new poston of. strength. The French CP leadership Is currently demonstrating Mexibility enough for such rash oil turns Bart Ramelson and his colleagues on the executive of the CPB were totally lacking Pm. What has been the result? The such CP bas certainly strengthened its number o cading officials in the higher councils o the trade union movemem Bur the Party been able to block the sharp right turn by the lefts.
And K5 real influence amongst the mass workers has not been transformed since the membership figures and Morning Star sales militants of the marty have paid a heavy anything price for the narrow routinise and lack o imagination of King Street.
sin and lack of revolutionary even where the cherished relation directly expressed: the Irish question. Even our a tactical left turn on issues contrally affecting relacions with the letts, And, product of 50 sears of Stalinism, steady decline historical tradition, organisation into which many of the most dedicated Marxist militants in Britain have devoted tacit Lives over In the ahsence of a stronger revolutionary alternnive co the CPGB. that beganisation's disintegration right among minny present members of Lie Party. Such a prospect pleases only nitra left A double tragedy faces CP militance: a leadership bent on progressive liquidation to that leadership which offers nothing bu the dead-end of caregenerate Stalinism The CPQB has no prospect of becoming a mess party like its counter-parts on the pontinent. It is a small cadre organisation of ova cot strength to the prearisatsons ar the revolutionary left in France, Spain or Italy: The CPGB has unions, but its trade union foroes have ar increasingly tenupus relationsbip to the real pollica life of the party And purside the trade union field, the CPGB has a weaker political capacity thar continent, Like the French Fourch International, the CPOB has a daily tabilising ability ou the strocts is wencer Sid French to CPGB's active militars are about the sam many decades practica mould pro.
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