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SOCIAL TE Rid London Ni9. 41.50 LABOUR Committee an Ireland Men Ircland elec Thurs 25 Feb 7.30pm, Briton Mancheer T: Open all i LAST WEEK we saw how the trade union bureaucracy was forced to drop its allegiance to the Liberal Party and participate in the formation of the Labour Party.
On the social democratic parties Dult the trade unions not the other way round, Working class OCT LIES swearing allegiance to marxism existed prior to the widespread development factory system.
By the beginning of 1914 the German Democratic Party had than members and published 90 daily had 1.4m subscribers. had a large women's sec tion, youth section cooperative, and cultural organisations and led several million workers proved the need for a new party.
former in social democratic trade unions.
Rosa Luxembourg, the great Polish revolutionary who was a member of the SPD's left wing was Never Ess aDIE describe one of its leaders following way:
There he stands in the like pot-bellied urinal ... In any Serbian village there more hamie of German So that Democracy.
On August 4th 1914, these "pot-bellied urinals', calling themselves ists, joined with their non-marxist counterparts in sending the workThe victory of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution and the murder of Rosa Luxembourg by the Social Democratic leaders ing classes into World War I in the uniform of their respective fatherlands that day on, revolutionary marxists HAVE na d as their chief task, the liberation of the working class from the influence these reactonary bureaucrats and the creation of new mass revolutionary parties.
V I Lenin, who in 1917 led the socialist revolution. explained the new tasks facing revolutionaries the world over. He explained the betrayals of the so-called marxist parties by drawing parallels with the emergence of the labour anstocracy in Britain. The chauvinism of these parties was the result of a split in the working class with the growth