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By Ted Grant in 1944
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
 In 1944 the Labour Party held its annual conference while British
troops were being used to crush the Greek workers. The Labour leaders
scandalously supported British imperialist policy in Greece, but even
worse was the fact that the Labour left had capitulated on this issue.
Ted Grant put forward a revolutionary Marxist position on the question.
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 11 October 2007 |
Che Guevara was a dedicated revolutionary and Communist. He was also an
internationalist and understood that to defend the Cuban revolution it
was necessary to spread it to other parts of the world. He attempted
this in Africa and Latin America. This was his strong side. His weak
side was that he saw the revolution fundamentally as a peasant
guerrilla struggle and did not fully understand the central role of the
working class in the socialist revolution.
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By Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
Ernesto ("Che") Guevara was executed by
Bolivian troops near the town of La Higuera on 9 October 1967, following an
ambush. The operation was planned by the CIA and organized by US Special
Forces. On the 40th anniversary of his death it is appropriate that we make a
balance sheet of this outstanding revolutionary and martyr. Alan Woods in a
two-part article looks at the evolution of Che Guevara from his early days to
the day he was killed.
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By Jon Avis
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
Forty years ago this month, in a small school hut in La Higuera,
Bolivia, Ernesto ‘Che' Guevara was brutally executed by the Bolivian
army. Since Che's death, the popular media have tried to
assimilate his image and turn it into a harmless symbol. They have,
however, not succeeded in burying the memory of Che, just as they have
not managed to solve the problems of poverty and destitution in the
third world.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
The Third International was created by Lenin and Trotsky as an
instrument of world revolution. However, as Ted Grant wrote in 1943,
the Comintern under Stalin quickly degenerated "into a kept whore of
the Stalinist bureaucracy, applying its policy according to the
changing moods of Kremlin policy. In reality the creation of the
International was not a question of sentiment or convenience, but arose
directly from the objective tasks posed in front of the international
working class."
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By Ted Grant in 1941
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Monday, 24 September 2007 |
Against the background of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Ted
Grant wrote in 1941 that, "In spite of the ravages of the bureaucracy,
the basic conquests of the October Revolution still remain: the
capitalist class has never regained its possessions and private
ownership in the means of production has never been restored. It is this
that the masses, despite their aversion for the bureaucracy, have
rallied to defend, just as the British workers would rally to the
defence of their Trade Unions against capitalist attack, in spite of
their aversion for the Bevins and Citrines."
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By Mick Brooks
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007 |
Kinder Scout in the Derbyshire peak
District is one of the most beautiful areas in Britain. The high
moorland has no farming value, yet working people were denied all
access. The area was reserved for grouse shooting, a hobby of the
rich. In the Great Depression after 1929,
walking and cycling were two of the only leisure activities young
workers could afford. On April 24th Benny Rothman
led the mass trespass that eventually gave chunks of ‘our'
country back to us.
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By Ted Grant in 1944
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
At the 1944 conference of the ILP there were
clear indications that a steady move to the right on the part of the leadership
was taking place. This posed the question of what the left wing of the party
should do. Here Ted Grant raises the need for the left to sharpen up its ideas
and take a firm stand.
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By Ted Grant in 1988
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 |
Just before the collapse of the Berlin Wall and later the Soviet Union,
Ted Grant delivered this speech on the crisis in the USSR. To deflect
any blame, Gorbachev and co. heaped blame on Stalin and Brezhnev, even
going so far as to rehabilitate some of the victims of the purge trials
- including those accused of "Trotskyism". But Trotsky was not
rehabilitated: he was still hated by the bureaucracy because they
feared the ideas he represented.
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By Jamil Iqbal
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
Could the Communist party of India have made a decisive difference in the independence movement? Here Jamil shows they were above all the prisoners of the policies imposed by Stalin, which were normally reformist, indeed counter-revolutionary. But occasionally Stalin lurched into an ultra-left phase as in 1947-48, called the 'Zhdanov offensive.' In lurching from right to left, a drunk will at one point be found upright. That is the significance of the correct perception of what was happening in India by the Moscow commentators Dyakov and Zhukov.
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By Rob Sewell
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
Leon Trotsky's murder was no accident or spontaneous action by the dictator Stalin, but
a monstrous preconceived act that was the culmination of a murder campaign against
the whole of the old Bolshevik leadership of the revolution and those who stood
by the genuine ideas of Marxism. We republish this article published in Militant in 1985.
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By Natalia Sedova Trotsky
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
Today is the 67th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky. Together
with Lenin, Trotsky was one of the great Marxist theoreticians of the
20th century, who dedicated his life to the emancipation of the working
class. Not only did he work for the overthrow of capitalism, but also
for the overthrow of Stalinism, a monstrous totalitarian regime which
held the Russian working class in submission. As a consequence, Stalin
sought during the Purge Trials to murder the entire leadership of the
Bolshevik party, and ordered the assassination of Leon Trotsky. After
the failed attempt in May 1940, Stalins assassin eventually succeeded
in murdering Trotsky on the 20th of August in Mexico city. Today we
publish Natalya Sedov Trotskys original account of the assasination.
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By Ted Grant
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
The threatened invasion of India by Japanese imperialism in 1942
brought the question of India front and centre before the British
working class. Rather than arm the Indian people and risk India falling
into the hands of the Indians, the British imperialists would have
prefered it to fall, temporarily, into the hands of the Japanese.
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By Rob Sewell
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Friday, 27 July 2007 |
The times of the post-War boom were fat years for most
working class people. Living standards went up year after year and there was
virtually full employment. As a result the labour movement had built up
enormous strength.
The following episode is taken from Rob Sewell's book ‘In
the cause of labour ', on the 35th anniversary of the historic events of that year.
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By Ted Grant in 1942
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
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In the middle of the war the ILP was floundering. Not having
a fully worked out Marxist programme, it combined opportunism and sectarianism
at the same time. They could not understand the method as outlined by Ted Grant
at the time, which was not to issue mere denunciations of the Labour Party
leaders. It could "only be done by demonstrating to the masses, by their own
experience, that their leaders are incapable of representing their interests."
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