UNDER the headline 'The Revolutionary Way to Fight War' the Newsline, daily paper Workers Revolu. tionary directed a one and a halt page tirade Alex Mitchell against mv intormationai piece or the Group for the Establishment of Trust between the USSR and the USA (SA 25 March).
Mitchell's main thrust was that the USSR did not need a peace movement presumably because the Soviet bureaucracy is doing such a good job that any activi Campaign paign New Hope for Britain', based. upon Partv Con.
ference resolutions, will undoubtedly allace le support of millions of workers suffering under the effects of four years of Thatcherism.
Militant supports this programme will fight plemented. If wins the party ranks must see that there is no retreat under capitalist pressure.
Across the English Channe. however, France, a country automatically places on the same side as US imperialism.
I shall reply to some of the points raised because they express ideas with a certain currency on the left detence Soviet Union and our attitude the dissident movement Eastern Europe generally.
Firstly, since the rise of the Stalinist bureaucracy revolutionary have defended only the socialised property relations resulting from the October Revolution.
Secondly, the has materia! bureaucracy the defence of these relations.
Neither Socialist Action nor, for that matter the Soviet call Soviet unilateral nuclear disarmament in the face of monopoly of the forces repression the dissemination of informa. Lon these circumstances the fight for basic civil liberties takes on help the Soviet class break out of its enforced passivity.
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