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Now, even he has had outflanked by Militant, and outdone by Peter Tatchell's urging of parliamentary activity, the old bolshevik has finally revealed his true colours.
Last Saturday he warned the conference that another five years of Conservative government could LUTIL the Lauc unions towards 'insurrection and civil disobedience' We understand that the committee of bolsheviks, which basnert leaas, are aistaro ed that Basnett has broken from the entry tactic and openly declared himself.
Some of them thought that Britain's four million had proved too much STor even an adept 'entrist' like David stomach Others thought maybe it had been But it was something SCOEs Ear that which had made him untur the scarlet banne of revolution and sound openly arguing for Marxist ideas, the toscin rallying the bureaucracy to the barricades.
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of ent on economic affairs could an insurSCLEONSE trade union committed to civil The of the luBled Naturally his heart bied at the thought of all his old trade union chums the system causing as possible, being tossed onto the scrap heap. Thẻ stipends would go, the use of the state car would be lost, no more five or six course lunches, and who would supply the free booze and Havanas whic are such a necessary of union official's life?
ment con that ar the ern for the union bureacracy, then that is really class war and can only be answered Like any serious revolutionary action. honary David Basnett knows the difference bet ween important issues like that and the odd irplained with extreme clariiy the basis of the united front and the attitude to the Kerensky government. He wrote: *The Kornilov revolt is a most unexpected... and downright un DelevaDy snare events 'Like every sharp turn, it calls for a revision and change in tactics. And as with every be caulous nor to occome principled.
*It is my conviction that JR)) slip into defen cısm or (like oiner bolsneviks) into a bloc with the Socia Revolutionaries ting the Provisional attitude solute y wrontane cipled Even now we must not heres govern ment. This is unprincin ed We may be asked: aren't we going fight against Kor nilov? 0 course we must! Bu this is not the same thing:
which is beine sienneg over o some Bolsheviks who fall into compromise selves to bo carried away by the course of events *We shall fieht WE CE fighting againstorator st as Kerensky's troops a but we do ot support Kere contrary, we exa suone arterence DUL IL I.
be forgotten Basnett chats up Len on the need for the revolutionary road relevance like an imperialist war the Falklands, or the siting of a few cruise missiles here.
But David Basnett will not lightly embark on the revolutionary road, so do not pack your bag yet on the assumption that Albert Sle and t - Frank Chap and Terry Duffy going to instruct report with rifle in hand a Trafalgar Square next Sunday. He is prepared to call off the insurrection if Lenin explained: *What, then, constitutes our change of the *We are changing the form of our struggle against Kerensky. Without the least relaxing our hostility toward him, taking back single word said against him, Withol renounce me asK of overthrowing him we sal that we must take into unt present shall overinro We shal approach the task of fiehtins him in a different way, name point out to the against Kornilov) Kerensky vacillation.
This has been done in the past as well. Now, however, it has become the important thing and this constitutes the change In practical terms the Bolsheviks supported the struggle against Kornilov verbal position. But the Bolsheviks called for struggle to be carried out in a tar more radica and thorough going way than the prepared to contemplate senin wrote *The all important thing now demands -to De oresented t Kerensky arrest Milvuko capitalist leader), arm the Petrograd workers, summon the government will relent ways and - Такс the bureaucracy to its bosom again.
As he says: 'We want to play our role with a government working towards agreed consensus objective within pluralistic transate into plain English that we will not over. throw the if the government lets us bac into the act.
Helsingtors troops (ong sup Kronstadt, Vyborg and Petrourad dissolve the Dum (the reactionary Parliament), peasants workers control over gran and factories. • ctc, etc.
It these demands not only to Kerensky, and not so much to Kerensky, as to th WOTKCES SOlCICE: neasants une nave peen cur Tied away by he coo struggle against Kornilov.
keep thusiasm, the sureral and ofe deal with the general and ficers who have declared TO Kornilov, urge them to nd the immediate transfe of land to the peasants, necessary zyanko and Milyuko dissolve the Duma, COS down Rech bourgeoi stitute investigations against by 'supportin Kerensky', but definately by fighting Kornilov, the Bolsheviks plaved the kes crushing,, was role in the rightest rebellion. inev and not the provi sional Government who Were the then on Bolsheviks commanded majority sup port in the Russian work ing class. months later they overthrew not merely Kornilov but Kerensky as well. It was because their policy every stage corresponded to the objective interests the working class that the Bolsheviks gained this vic and created the first LOV workers' the Lenin To the Central Com RSDLP Volume of his Collected Works
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