ington still advocating the Trotskyist have been established in Spain in 1936. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consider the following.
Any attempt
transform the war against Franco capitalist revolution would have brought a crushing counter-blow just from the Axis forces but also Britain and seriously believe after the experiences of revolution and the wars of intervention in Russia (1918-21), BR 31 would stand idly by see a repetition in Spain? No Neither is the analogy of Kerensky's policy Russia in Feb 1917 (ie the separating of the feudal overthrow from the overturning of capitalism the policy Republican Government feasible at all.
In 1917 workers had nothing to lose bringing • the first workers state into being In 1936 they had everything to lose the very existence of the Soviet Union itself Ultra-left adventurism in Spain if 181000000138 sion would have thrown Hitler/Mussolini into the arms of Anglo-French-US Cabilals! it would have prepared the ground for ECSUNDLOR terventionism on a higher scale.
The confirmation of the correctness Dmitrov' strategic wisdom, 'keep thy enemies each others' throats', elaborated at the Comintern Congress of 1935, is surely the presence of twenty workers states on the world stage today. А 2000 рег cent increase on the situation in 1936! I AM SURPRISED indeed to see Bob Pennmisconception that a Workers State could These are states by the way comrades, which Fourth defends. Yet none of these states would have come inbeing Trotsky's strategy had been plemented in Spain The Comintern leadership made many errors. But their calculation of the wona balance of Torces lr relation to Spain, that one Soviet defencism with stopping Franco's advance, fundamentally Let Luigi Longo, leader of the Italian Brigade and later supremo ot the PCI, put the case:
*In 1936 the Trotskyites and former General Secretary of this party, Bordiga, said a socialist revolution could be achieved in Spain this point time. al C men today? One died in lonely exile. The other is a parial the fringes of the movement and Togliat, then, Dmitrov and communist parties that speak for tens of of workers and their families. parties which have played their part in creating an international SoNals col munity of states inconceivable decades ago 'Workers will not back a horse that has never won a race, our stallions have won over twenty. History has spoken on the question was correct on this debate. comrades Now let cease. (Speech to 1964 PCI Congress) LOU NOVA Manchester