the 1960s for leftism'. But its leading group, around Rossanda and Magri, trom Stalinist Failing to develop a homogeneous politics or cadre, the organisation has numerOus internal crises, and has ended up going back - the key role of workers control in the Now it sees its central role as left pressure on the PCI, in Rossanda's words making the 3½ million legs of the PCI march Crucial in this whole development absence of firmly-rooted revolutionary Marxist organisation capable of intervening to forces experience has been repeated in slightly different ways by the other two major organisations of This represents a major tragedy for the European revolutionary moveThese huge numbering nearly 50,000 militants at one time, each with daily papers, are being frittered away because of their inability to answer central questions of orientaNo modification can occur in the state of the existing revolutionary left without a co-ordi by revolutionary Marxists. Any national revolutionary organisation which takes its own ideas must attempt an interand this immediately poses the question of international organisation. Any other approach simply leads to constructing alliances with the most diverse trends, incapable contributing anything to changing the * The extracts above are from the Trotskyism and / the Fourth International'. The pamphlet contains two essays: 'On the Fourth International' and 'Big Flame on The last article will be of particula concern to many Socialist Challenge readers who were critical of our Big Flame's pamphlet. We would urge them to order a copy of the pamphlet from:
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Pigeon post YOUR pigeon racing correspondent labours complete apprehension when he February and pseudonyms are Trotsky and Tariq Ali?) that Beakless Benn could be one of those birds unable to get out of its shell.
Those in the know recall that this winged wonder once ruled the skies, nanc missuggests (l sort of of Lord particular THIS EXIST? HAVE THEY SURVIVED? /NEVER MIND • TRY DIGESTING THE ECTAKIAN KAVINGS C 1LEFTTHATSOME OF HE SKIESH A WONDER WHO THEY'RE TALKING
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