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Socialist Organiser1982 1982-03-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Wa THE whole left reacted angrily to the Sunday Times witch-hunt of Pat Wall except the Communist Party's Morning Star.
'His words will cause concern to many people on the left "ultra-left rhetoric"; "conspiratorial and elitist" - that was the Morning Star comment (Monday 8th) on Wall and the Militant tendency.
The best they could say in defence of Wall was: "The elitism of entrist groups will not be overcome by a witch "Ultra-left rhetoric"? On the contrary, Wall stressed that in his view the replacement of the present Tory-dominated capitalist state machine by a working class system could all be done peacefully, provided Parliament were bold enough. The question, surely, is whether Wall's view does not gloss over the need for the working class to organise and equip itself to meet right wing violence, without relying on Parament "ultra-left"
Wall because he challenges the view that the permanent state power of the bosses is untouchable? The Morning Star argues that the state apparatus must be "transformed' - but gradually. (As if the bosses will peacefully tolerate their armed might being dismantled bit by bit!)
So when the right wing is on the rampage against Marxists, the CP soon discovers that its Marxism is something gradual, for the future, and above all not for now!
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