For gaey are simply to most ee eloped examples of a are simply the most developed examples of a general trend Other forces breaking, or standing, the Soviet bureaucracy and Communist Parties have and do exist at lower the best known internationally are the mass reformist Workers Party (PT) in Brazil and the Phillipines Communist Party -name, pursues a revolutionary struggle independent of either Moscow or Peking.
In the early 1960s the development of the black American revolutionary Malcolm X was another expression of a similar process.
Within Ireland and the British state the two most advanced examples of such developments to the left of the Communist Party are Sinn Fein, since its leadership was taken by supporters of Gerry Adams, and the Scargill current of the NUM All these phenomena, while part of an international process, are of course at totally development. The socialist organisations. Sinn Fein is a revolutionary tionalist formation. The Scargill current of the NUM is a class struggle force. tional process breaking to the left of Stalinism and the Communist Parties, It is this process on an international scale which has opened up the way to Marxists to gain real contac! with sections of the working class. Both internationally and in Britain it is in these forces that the possibility exists to create a real mass left wing alternative to the Communist Parties and to Stalinism.
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Socialist Action to the left of stages of development. Two of an organisation which, despite its ditterent degrees of and NJM are revolutionary But all are part of the interna • USONCILE CODY (: IT IS almost impossible vantage point to appreciate just left wing alternative to the Communist Party in Britain was in the 1920s and the Stalinisation the beginning.
Reg Groves, one of the founders of British Trotrecalls that the organised left wing opponents of Stalin at that time were less than a hunwith usual audience of a few was able to use every means Irom bonucal argumen physical violence to exclude from serious influence in the 19305 the first small Trotskyist organisaisolated by the CPGB within InP Pae Labour the the Youth, and the other areas of left wing activity of the time.
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