February as being counterproductive) and also by the in which you have slid into apologetics over the question of Afghanistan What is the common thread that underlies these differences?
We base ourselves squarely on the insistence that знанранон or lne working class is tne aci or he working class itself'.
We regard it as substitutionist nonsense to talk of workers' states where the working class has no con -trol over the state power, to see students, third world guerilla leaders or left' trade union officials as able lo act in place of the working class, to identify the armed forces of the Russian state as the 'Red Army' ling as the agent of Socialism or to love up to left But that common appreciation does not exist yet and without it we will merely get continual sectarian pro-Russian wrangles. Under such circumstances your invitation for discussions of a 'fight for unity' is a waste of time.
We do however repeat our call of two years ago to those of your preciate what we are about: break with the sectarians. who still see us as centrists: break with those who talk normally break with those who still see defence of the actions of the 'Red Army' pontics and join with us in building a party to lead the working class self activity in the struggle for socialism.
Yours Fraternally, CHRIS HARMAN the interests of the working class a good thing that the members who are beginning to aptowards as the lodestone for their world We do — a party regime of the SWP is an obstacle tions' of your organisation. significance compared with the epithets these comrades had put on paper about each other. But they were able to realise their greater common loyalty to True, that was in a different situation. But was it of arianism were so deep that it took a world war and the Russian revolution to break them? Must we wall for a united organisation of revolutionaries until a revolution occurs somewhere else? We certainly cannot afford to wait until another world war!
not disguise our view inat the present not just to uniting with the IMG, but to the building of any truly mass party. This is not out of opposition to the 'tradi.
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