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use of THE SPLIT in the Communist Party over the Morning Star is now unfolding amid scenes bordering on farce. The Glasgow meeting of the Society — the Morning Star's publisher broke up in disorder.
Tony Chater which controls the Star, is replying to ecutive's instructions to change the editor not by argument, but by ruling the question out of order.
Other sections of the press and labour move ment have also got pulled into the struggle. The lew stalesmon assiduously supporting the Eurocommunists of Marxism Today and the CPGB executive. Ernie Roberts MP has been drawn into supporting Chater Tony Benn.
The attitude the labour movement have is that the more splits in the CPGB the better. The Eurocommunists have no long term future at all. When Chater wins the battle for the Morning Star, and the split follows, the CPGB will doubtless attempt to 'creative application OT Socialism. even the rightest verve of Marxism Today - for there is no future at all for a Communist Party which is far to the right of many members of the Labour Party.
Today's politics would sink without trace.
As for the Chaterites, and the openly proKremlin forces allied with them, they give an image of standing for a more militant policy. that is just the fashion of the moment. needs of Soviet foreign policy ever required a sharp shift to the right they obedient dogs. munist Party politics is of the type which could go from the of the early 1930s, to attacks on 'Tito fascism' in the early 1950s, to opposing a Labour government in 1945 in order to maintain a bloc with progressive Tories' such as Churchill.
The CPGB long ceased to be a party with any historical or political reasons for its existence. is outflanked on its left by tens, and hundreds of thousands of workers in the left wing of the Labour Party. It has been progressively losing its base in the trade unions. It long since ceased to attract people to its youth organisation. Its past is polluted with its incessant manoeuvres and adaptations first to Kremlin's foreign policy and then to its waving of the Union Jack in the nationalist British Road to Socialism. It is a party with nearly sixty years of inglorious past and with no future. The sooner it disappears off the face of the earth the better Hopefully, cess.
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