Paraphenalia or process? | Socialist Action 1983

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PHIL HEARSE'S assessment of Grenada had on. ly 'the paraphenalia of alleged participatory democracy' and consequently ended in a shoot out 'the opposite of proletarian democracy', assumes that in any revolution the transition from old forms to new is immediate and that the people are instantly won to them.

It also jenores the pressure that imperialism applies to destabilise at every turn. That I WOULD like to take issue with your contributor, Valerie Coultas, on some points in her article 'We don't want to freeze this question.

IT we must do. paraphenalia was not a step in the wrong direction, not a sop to the people, but part of a process wallet was acuvel debated by the people and which did put the people first we sure nave been better at this mothe positive gains that have been achieved in the four and a half years of the PRG. and which are sadly lacking from the bourgeois press. doctrinaire approach -we need all the allies we can get in the campaign.

Ms Coultas asks

we usace u using these demands cruise, no Trident)

• the lug all Dases unilaterally, Many iS UNQUESTISNABLE...

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Will anti-freeze cool support?