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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1970

After the Cambodian invasion U.S. aggression

BY ROBERT BLACK

What OVER THE CORPSES of Ohio students and We Cambodian peasants, the US High Command is think now marching towards Nixon's 'New Frontier': China and the Third World War.

Peter From the very beginning of the Viet- nam adventure, US military leaders Stock Frver and never disguised that their main enemy was not the National Liberation Front, nor even the government ot N Vietnam.

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As in the davs of General MacArthur's Market march to the Yalu River at the height 3004851 C of the Korean war, the goal of the US military today remains the overthrow of the Chinese People's Republic and crisis the opening up of the country to im- penaust dominanon and exploitation.

worst since '63 dividuaial power by an in- By John Crawford Harsh clashes HIT BY the further escalation of capita dass on many the war in Indo-China, Kosygin's statement and the violent opposi- dancy it workers face reden.

tion to Nixon's war policies inside the US, Wall Street suffered on on and bene TUC leaders Monday its biggest fall since the Kennedy assassination in 1963.

The Dow Jones Indus- meet as print trial index of share prices Student ended the day 19 points down, losing Is points in strike nears May Day the first hour of trading.

day. China is for the US ruling marchers class super one i poten THE TUC's General Purposes committee-the so-called disciplined While an resources "inner cabinet'—is to meet the national executive of the approaching 800 mi National Graphical Association today in a last-ditch Powerful whip attempt to stave off the lock-out threatened from Friday by the newspaper employers.

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BY DAVID MAUDE

St Helens. Tuesdar EIGHT THOUSAND Pilkington glass workers continued their five-week-old strike here today with the threat of intervention by Mrs Barbara Castle's Department of Employment and Pro- ductivity hanging in the background.

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against China near? workers press

• WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

NUMBER 156

After the Cambodian invasion U.S. aggression

BY ROBERT BLACK

What OVER THE CORPSES of Ohio students and Cambodian peasants, the US High Command is think now marching towards Nixon's 'New Frontier': China and the Third World War.

Peter From the very beginning of the Viet- nam adventure, leaders Us military Frver and Stock never disguised that their main enemy was not the National Liberation Front,

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nor even the government of N Vietnam.

the S.L.L. As in the days of General MacArthur's Market maren to une au kiver ar une neignu of the Korean war, the goal of the US IN A LETTER to The Times millary tocav remains tne overcaron of the Chinese People's Republic and crisis the opening up or the country To im perialist domination and exploitation.

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me an challen geling nome the as bean drivent markets TulIng common into economic corner. Birkenhead by corn crawtord Cammet taird of wives of Harsh clashes abore) HIT BY the further escalation of of the he House of Comm drive * on the wore capital the war in Indo-China, Kosygin's was forthcoming. statement and the violent opposi- ,000 workers face redur ancy if the yard close tion to Nixon's war policies inside that ket, Japan and Britain. the US, Wall Street suffered on drastic thoust Monday its biggest fall since the TUC leaders etical clarification Kennedy assassination in 1963.

on China. Bire Tor emancipation. The Dow Jones Indus- meet as print trial index of share prices High Student ended the day 19 points brillant but esti down, losing It points in strike nears individuals May Day marchers THE TUC's General Purposes committee-the so-called disciplined 'inner cabinet'—is to meet the national executive of the 3o0 mon O National Graphical Association today in a last-ditch Repe Mar ben suspented Poi attempt to stave off the lock-out threatened from Friday Powerful whip by the newspaper employers.

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BY DAVID MAUDE

St Helens, Tuesday EIGHT THOUSAND Pilkington glass workers continued their five-week-old strike here today with the threat of intervention by Mrs Barbara Castle's Department of Employment and Pro- ductivity hanging in the background.

Strike committee secre- tary Bill Cowley told the Workers Press that yester- day's telegram to the DEP was 'just a move to try Pilkington's and get to talk'. Other strikers were nat so sure 'The DEP's no good, com mented one at luSt oe Pakington's talking.

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THIS SELECTION of Lenin's letters (dating from December 1893 to October 1917) gives a fascinating — and politi- cally highly rewarding insight into Lenin's methods of work. The material assembled here is so rich, it is possible to deal only with a few of its many facets — one of them being Lenin's ability to select, train and integrate the most diverse Party workers and sympathizers into a central- ized leadership based on the Bolshevik press. Even before the split from Martov and the group that were to become known as Mensheviks (i.e., 'of the minority') after the second Party Congress in 1903, Lenin was the main political driving force on the editorial board of the central Party organ 'Iskra' ('The Spark'). After the split of 1903 and the defection of Plekhanov to the minority, Lenin had to assemble a new team of writers for his Bolshevik faction..

All the old propagandists and theoreticians of the pre- vious period-Martov, Axelrod, Zasulich, Potresov and Plek- hanov - had gone over to Menshevism. And with them- until 1904 had gontalented of Trotsky, the most talented of the younger generation Marxist writers. Proof of Lenin's regard for Trotsky's powers as a writer at this time is the letter writ- ten to Plekhanov, dated March 2, 1903, which because of its great historical and political Trotsky at the period Immediately he escaped, he we importance, we reproduce in full : ('Pero', as a note in the volume points out, was the pseudonym used by Trotsky at that time: "To G. V. Plekhanov. 2.111.03 'I am submitting to all mem- bers of the Editorial Board a proposal to co-opt "Pero" as a full member of the Board. (I believe that for co-option not a majority but a unanimous vote is néeded.) 'We are very much in need of a seventh member both because it would simplify - voting (six being an even num- ber) and reinforce the Board.

• "Pero" has been writing in every issue for several months Available from NEW PARK London, S. W.4 now. In general he is working for "Iskra" most energetically, delivering lectures (and with tremendous success), etc.

'For our department of topi- cal articles and items he will be not only very useful but quite indispensable. 'He is unquestionably a man of more than average ability, convinced, energetic and prom- ising. And he could do a good deal in the sphere of trans- lation and popular literature.

'We must draw in young forces: this will encourage them and prompt them to re- gard themselves as professional writers. And that we have too few of such is clear-witness 1) the difficulty of finding editors of translations; 2) the shortage of articles reviewing the internal situation, and 3) the shortage of popular litera- ture. It is in the sphere of popu- "Pero" lar literature that [Russian' for "Pen"] would like to try his hand. 'Possible arguments against: 1) his youth [Trotsky was at this time-1903—only 23]; 2) his early (perhaps) return to Russia; 3) a pen (without quo- tation marks) with traces of feuilleton style, too pretentious, etc. Party man 'Ad [i.e. in favour] 1) "Pero" is suggested not for an in- dependent post, but for the Board. In it he will gain ex- perience. He undoubtedly has the "intuition" of a Party man, a man of our trend [emphasis added]; as for knowledge and experience these can be ac- quired. That he is hardworking is likewise unquestionable. It is necessary to co-opt him so as finally to draw him in and encourage him. [Plekhanov in fact blocked Lenin's plan to bring Trotsky on to the 'Iskra' Board.] ky at the period of his first exile in Siberia.

e escaped, he went to join Lenin in London (October 1902) to write for 'Iskra'.

'Ad 2) If "Pero" is initiated in all aspects of our work he may not leave so soon. And if he goes, organizational links with the Board and subordin- ation to it are not a minus but a tremendous plus. 'Ad 3) Stylistic shortcomings are not a serious defect. They will be ironed out. At present "corrections" in he accepts silence (and not too readily).

In the Board there will be debates, things will bè put to and the "instruc- the vote, tions" will acquire a more definitive and imperative form.

"Therefore, I propose: *1) that all six members of the Editorial Board voté on co-opting "Pero" full as member; 2) if he is accepted, to tackle the final settlement W PARK PUBLICATIONS, 186a C of relationships and voting procedures in the Editorial Board, and to draft precise rules. This is necessary for us and important for the congress [the Second Congress of the Party, due to meet later the same year]. P.S. I consider it extremely inconvenient and awkward to put off the co-opting, for I can see that "Pero" is already quite annoyed (he has not of course openly said so) with being left hanging "in the air" and treated, so it seems to him, as a "youngster". If we do not accept "Pero" at once and he leaves in, say, a month for Russia, I am cer- tain he will take it is a sign that we simply do not want him on the editorial staff. We might lose him, and that would be very bad.' (pp. 110-112.)

But Lenin did 'lose him'— for 14 years. Pulled by ties of friendship and misplaced personal loyalty towards the group that Lenin intended to remove from the 'Iskra' board—namely Axelrod, Zasulich and Potresov-Trot- sky sided with them and Martov at the Second Con- gress, and after a year with the Mensheviks, spent the next ten years vainly attempting to bring the two factions to- gether again — the political error that Lenin correctly named as 'conciliationism'.

So in 1904 Lenin was almost alone. He now had to search for and train new writers for his Bolshevik organ, and begin the political and theoretical struggle for the leadership of the Russian working class in battle with the now Menshevik- dominated 'Iskra'. Much of the material in this volume deals with that fight.

Working against the oppor- tunist stream and all the diffi- culties imposed by conditions of isolation from the struggle in Russia, Lenin began to assemble the material resources and writers necessary for the launching of a Bolshevik organ.

In a letter to G. D. Leiteisen new Journal's (one of the financial benefactors) on Dec- ember 12, 1904, he was able to report: "Today we finally, and prac- tically, settled the question of the organ we propose to begin publishing as of January 1-10; the size will be half the old "Iskra" ..: (p. 144.) also asked Leiteisen (Lenin to be the new organ's French correspondent.) But without deep roots in the Russian movement itself, the journal would remain a commentator on and not an organizer of the fight against the autocracy. Contacts Fresh political contacts in Russia were therefore the life blood of the new organ. Lenin's eagerness to seek out and de- velop them is most evident in his letter to L. B. Kamenev, dated December 14, 1904 : 'Many thanks for your letter and the beginning (the end has reached us) of the not yet article "'Iskra's' Military Cam- paign". I was especially happy to receive your letter since we so rarely hear from Russia, so rarely do people write us not "in duty bound" but to ex- change ideas.' In Kamenev (shot by the Stalinist bureaucracy after the Trial) first, 1936 Moscow Lenin detected political and literary talent, even on the basis of an unfinished article.

The main problem with the modest and often hesitant Kamenev was to give him con- fidence and encourage him to develop as both a writer for the press and a leader of the movement. Lenin's many letters to Kamenev throughout the rest of the volume show the foun- der of the Bolshevik faction NS, 186a Clapham High Street, Price 12s. 6d.

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(Correspondence, December Progress Publishers, Mosc Lenin in 1917. and Party patiently encour- aging Kamenev, despite all his weaknesses, vacillations and lapses into total temporary silence and inactivity, to har- ness his talents to the work of the Party and the struggle of the working class. And never once did Lenin - as his bitter clashes with Kamenev in the April and October of 1917 prove--make • concession on basic ques- tions. With Lenin, flexibility was combined with complete in- transigence on questions of principle. Already in this first letter to Kamenev, Lenin is encouraging him to come out of his shell : *Please write more often and collaborate more closely with our new organ, which we shall begin publishing in the near future ... I would say that your article is unquestionablé evidence of your literary ability, and I ask you not to give up writing ..: (p. 147.) Lenin's journal ('Vperyod'— 'Forward') could not have been launched at a more auspicious time. On January 9, 1905, the Tsar's troops shot down hun- dreds of workers demanding reforms—under the_leadership of Father Gapon. From peti- tioning the Tsar, the workers went over to the mass general strike, the Soviets and the first attempt at revolution. Now Lenin's journal began to attract new talented writers of the same generation as Kamenev-among them Bog- danov and Lunacharsky-who, while the revolution was in the ascendant, developed Bolshevik agitation and propaganda bril- liantly through the pages of "Vperyod'. They only began to clash with Lenin - first on tactics, then on matters of Marxist theory and philosophy-when the working class began to be forced back by the reaction and the new situation called for a deep assimilation of all the lessons of the first revolu- tion. After 1906, Krassin, Bog- danov and Lunacharsky began to move away from Lenin, both on the question of legal Party work (the ultra-left Bol- sheviks called for a continua- tion of the parliamentary boy- cott after the obvious decline of the revolution in 1907) and the need to defend the Marx- ist, dialectical materialist world outlook from attacks by ideal- ism. Assistance It was in this period of retreat that Kamenev and Zinoviev forward came as Party leaders. They gave Lenin in his invaluable assistance fight to prevent the liquidation of the Party both by the 'left' liquidators (the Bogdanov group) that turned their back on all forms of open Party work in Russia, and the right, Menshevik liquidators, who tried to dilute the Party into a reformist, legal 'labour con- gress'.

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, December 1893-October 1917) ishers, Moscow, 1969. 18s The degree of collaboration between Lenin and Kamenev in this period can be measured by the regularity of their cor- respondence. Between his break with the ultra-left in 1909 and the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Lenin wrote to Kamenev no fewer than 35 times. All but two of these letters are contained in Volume 43.

The other two are in another Volume of Lenin correspond- ence-No. 36. And, as we have already noted, this collaboration did exclude principled and not comradely criticism. In a letter to Zinoviev (August 27, 1909) he commented : 'I am sending you "Vorwarts" [organ of the German Social- Democratic Party] and Kam- enev's article. I believe it must be printed and without delay.

... It is a pity that Kamenev works carelessly. The subject is a most rewarding one, but he rambles on and on, beating about the bush, unable to gét to the heart of the matter properly' (pp. 216-217.) But Lenin did not leave the matter there: "Perhaps we should send the second half back to him for rewriting from this angle...

I have no great hopes that he will re-do it, but we must keep insisting? And in an attempt to in- volve Kameney in active Party work, thus helping him to re- orient his literary activities, Lenin made the following pro- posal to Zinoviev: 'There is no point in keeping Kamenev in Arcachon. If he has had a rest, let him return, and under all circumstances he must be sent out to lecture' (p. 217) Lenin's firm but patient way of dealing with Kamenev paid political dividends. On March 21, 1910, Lenin wrote. 'Dear L.B., 'The article about Kostov received, read and passed on.

... I liked it very much, I think it turned out quite well..: (p. 235.) Another letter to Kamenev —written on April 6 of the year-is interesting in same that it shows Lenin's reluct- ance to break with Trotsky's journal 'Pravda'. Even at the height of the faction fight against the liqui- dators and Trotsky's concilia- tionism, Lenin wrote to Kamenev: withdrawal from "Is your "Pravda" essential for us? You seem in mosin geady haste yes —again being write after the very first con- flict with Trotsky ..: (p.

243.) The break, if it had to come, should be made on of principle, and questions after careful political prepara- tion: 'Your withdrawal from "Pravda"-if it is inevitable- should in my view be arranged with the utmost care (write an article against the liquidators and against "Golos", ', let Trot- sky turn it down!) ... (p.

244.) Retrenchment By_this time, both Zinoviev and Kamenev were editing the Bolshevik organ with Lenin. And it was in this vital period of retrenchment, preparation and rearming that another Bolshevik murdered under Stalin came to the fore—A. I.

Rykov-to whom Lenin wrote a succession of important let- ters in 1911. The real bonds of affection that developed between Lenin and Kamenev come out in many of these letters. For example: 'Dear L.B. First of all hearty Zinoviev greetings to all friends, thanks for the telegram and heaps of best wishes! (Never mind the blot) ..? (p. 294.) Kamenev's stature in the Russian movement by 1912 was such that he represented the Party not only at the Ger- Party Social-Democratic man Congress in Chemnitz in the September of that year, but the Austrian Party also at Congress in October. And on November 10, 1912, Lenin wrote to Kamenev: I have just learned that the Congress [of the Second Inter- national in Basle will take place, in all probability, on November 24. ... It is pos- sible that I shall not go, and that we shall appoint you. So begin to prepare at once!

In contrast with Lenin's political confidence in Kam- enev at this time, it is highly significant to note his opinion of Kautsky: • • collect all the mani- festos against war, get the last

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XI) where Kautsky advances purely opportunistic arguments, etc. ..: (p. 306.) These revealing lines were written well over a year before Kautsky's betrayal of the reso- lution against imperialist war carried at the Basle Congress of the Second International.

And Kamenev did in fact go to Basle: 'You are the national secre- tary. No one but you and Plekhanov has the right to receive admission cards ..?

(p. 308.) After the Congress, Lenin again wrote to Kamenev: 'In my opinion you handled things in Basle-under the cir- cumstances- superbly. It couldn't have been done better.' (p. 310.) But then the weaker side of Kamenev begins to come out.

He is unable to grasp the im- of the decisions portance. arrived at during the Congress, decisions which committed the International to revolutionary against the threat of action imperialist war, and its con- version into a civil war should between the major a clash powers in fact break out.

So in Lenin's next letter to Kamenev we read : 'Shame-Shame-Shame! 'Not a word for "Pravda" [the daily Bolshevik organ launched earlier the same year] about Basle!! What's the mat- ter?? You had five aides and not a single letter from Basle to usll-not a single despatch to "Pravda"!!' (p. 311.) It rapidly, becomes evident " * that Kamenev had not wanted to make the trip to Basle at all.

Self-etlacing to the point of political timidity, he obviously wanted Lenin to take the leading role in all Party work.

This episode with Kamenev gives the lie to those anti- communist publicists who attempt to present Lenin as a man motivated only by a lust for personal power. Kamenev 'Honestly, L.B., I simply can- not understand you-although we have been working together so long - when you begin making "domestic scenes" about (a) the trip to Basle, (b) delegating you (as was pro- posed) to the meeting. ... What was so bad for the cause about your trip to Basle? Explain, for God's sakel ... Why, if you wrote the pamphlet, should I have to go? ... Reply more pre- cisely, more directly, more resolutely. I shall go nowhere if you carry the "scenes" to the point of refusal, I shall get 313-315.) (The meeting Kamener pre- ferred Lenin to attend was : oint session with the Germar Party over a Russian dispute concerning Party finances.)

These letters of Lenin there- fore help to fill out a side of his personality and political method either ignored or dis- Wednesday, May 6, 1970

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torted by both bourgeois and Stalinist writers. Lenin's relations with even his closest comrades - and Kamenev and Zinoviev with whom he shared lodgings for several years while in exile were among his most intimate contacts - were never put above Party principles. When Zinoviev and Kam- enev betrayed the decision of the Bolshevik Party to prepare the uprisingthrough an article in the non-Party press-Lenin roundly denounced them as strike-breakers and called for their expulsion from the Bol- shevik Party. But after the revolution, Lenin advanced both of them to important Party and state work. Zinoviev was elected Chairman of the Communist International, while Kamener, serving on the apart from Soviet delegation to the Con- gresses of the International, headed the Moscow state organization. With all their Lenin sought to weaknesses, encourage them to make their political contribution, while punches never pulling any whenever principled differences arose. It was in this spirit that Lenin in his famous 'Testa- ment', advised the Party not to mistake' 'October hold the against either Zinovier or Kamenev, while at the same time not ignoring the political weakness-an organic inclina- tion towards conservatism— that led to their openly oppos- ing the uprising. Contrast We should contrast Lenin's approach with that of the Stalinist editors of his works.

already noted, As we have Zinoviev and Kamenev played a key role in rebuilding the Party after the defeat of the 1905 revolution. But this his- fact, which proclaims torical itself in literally scores of letters included in this volume, not only to be ignored has but turned into its opposite: "The volume also contains letters criticizing the anti- Marxist views of N. I. Buk- harin [shot after the third 'Moscow Trial' in 1938] G. L.

[shot after Pyatakov the second in 1937] and Yevgenia Bosh. Firmly and consistently upholding the basic principles of Marxism, Lenin combated at the same time the concilia- tory position taken by G. Y.

Zinoviev.' (p. 34.) * As a matter of fact, the volume contains fewer no than 70 letters written by Lenin to Zinoviev-far and away the most to any one single member of the Party (Stalin has two.) What the Stalinist falsifiers cannot bring themselves to admit is that Zinoviev stood with Lenin against the im- perialist war and endorsed his demand that it must be turned into a civil war. Lenin's con- stant stream of correspondence with the 'conciliator' Zinoviev bear irrefutable testimony to Stalinist that. But all the editors can find to write about Zinoviev, co-founder with Lenin of the Bolshevik group in the anti-war 'Zimmerwald International' is that he 'con- ciliated'—with whom and on behalf of whom we are not told. Distortions These distortions are taken much further in the biographi- cal notes at the end of the volume, where not only Zino- viev and Kamenev, but every Bolshevik identified with an anti-Stalinist grouping has his record in the Party presented in a completely negative way.

The slanders dredged up against the 'old Bolsheviks' pale, however, in comparison with those used against Trot- sky. The same biographical section tells us : "Trotsky (Bronstein) Lev Davidovich ("Pero") (1879- 1940)—joined the RSDLP in 1897 [wrong-there was no Russian Party until its found-

Wednesday, May 6, 1970 Congress at Minsk in ing Menshevik. [Also 1898), wrong. Trotsky left the Men- shevik faction in 1904.] 'After the Second Congress (1903) [so our editors already have Trotsky a Menshevik be- fore the Congress where the two factions took shape-and even before the formation of the Party itself!] opposed the Bolsheviks on all issues in- volving the theory and prac- tice of socialist revolution. Returned from emigration in 1917, joined the Mezhraiontsi with whom group was admitted to membership of the Bolshevik Party at the Sixth Congress. Key posts 'After the October Revolu- tion [in which, according to the testimony of Stalin a year later, he played a decisive part] held a number of key posts. [So despite his being opposed [to] the Bolsheviks on all issues involving the theory and practice of socialist revolution', Trotsky was still placed in 'a number of key posts' for i.e., Commissar War, the Presidium of the Communist International, the Politbureau of the Bolshevik Party etc., etc., etc.] 'Carried on a bitter factional struggle against the Party's general line [so much so that Trotsky drafted all but one of the manifestos for the first five Congresses of the Com- munist International, together policy state- with numerous ments and resolutions for the Bolshevik Party while Lenin was alive.] against Lenin's pro- gramme for building socialism; argued the impossibility of socialism the winning in USSR. [Trotsky, with Lenin Out this month: Where is Britain Going?

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The editorial board of Iskra, 1900-1903. Left to right, Upper: P. Axelrod, Lenin, Vera Zasulich. Lower: Julius Martov, G. V. Plekhanov, Alexander Potresov and N. Krupskaya (secretary of the board). Right: (top) Iskra' first published in 1900 (below) 'Pravda', first issued as a legal Bolshevik daily newspaper in April 1912. 1903-1909 — "Menshevik" and "Bolsheviks". In "Neue Zeit" you will find articles by repre- sentatives of both trends.

'Bibliography: Cherevanin (Menshevik), reviews in "Vor- warts" and "Leipziger Volks- zeitung". Trotsky, middle posi- tion [emphasis added] Ver- mittlerstelung) ("Russland in Revolution", 1910). myself belong to the 'I Sure enough, the show opened with this recording was followed by some highlights of the week's sport.

Then came the big turn, the Prime Minister. He carefully and skilfully trod his way down the middle on the question of the road of the S African cricket tour.

On the one hand people should be free to demonstrate; on the other they mustn't go too far. On this side he conceded the cricket authorities every right to do what they liked, on the other he wished they might show themselves as good sports and change their minds about the tour. Liberally sprinkling sporting metaphors through his finely executed pirouettes, he tried to avoid offence both to the black Commonwealth govern- ments - with whom British capital has so much trade and to the S African govern- ment - with whom British capital also has so much trade.

He told us of his golf handicap, apparently reticently, and with a suitable display of self-deprecating humour, but throughout maintained the grave features of the office he loves so well. David Coleman provided an excellent foil, giving his usual clipped and efficient per- formance. The night was also well chosen because it apparently just happened that Heath was due to appear on commercial television at the same time!

This clever manoeuvering was accommodated by the impartial BBC though and it was arranged that Mr Wilson should finish almost exactly before Mr Heath was to begin.

Dutifully changing channels we then witnessed the con- less adroit Tory leader doing his public dance with three journalists to pro- vide the "tough' questions in accompaniment. Hesitating only micro- seconds before answering he too did his best to create his image of the responsible, com- passionate man of affairs.

Neither of these men exactly leave an impression of can- dour, but being less technically accomplished Heath also appears to be shifty. The open-faced, attentive smile clearly hides the real in- tensions. This was highlighted at one РОССІЙСКАЯ СОЦІАЛЬ• ДЕМОКРАТИЧЕСКАЯ РАБОЧАЯ ПАРТІЯ N: 1. ДЕКАБРЬ 1900 ГОДА НАСУЩНИЙ ЗАДАЧИ НАШЕГО ДВНЖЕНІЯ ЕЖЕДНЕВНАЯ РАБОЧАЯ Г Aº 1. ОТКРЫТА І "Bolshevik" trend.' (p. 231.)

for Trotsky's So much 'Menshevism'! This volume is best studied alongside the other collections of Lenin's letters covering the same period-to be found in Volumes 34 and 35 of the 'Collected Works'. And, in Lenin's turn, letters - in essence a political 'shorthand' of his whole method and style Harold Wilson point when he requested Paul Foot of 'Private Eye' (now sharing a new respectability as 'The well as the table with Times' and The Guardian') not to take the statements of trade union leaders on threat- 'reform' ened Tory union at their face value. Quite; that would be ex- tremely foolish. Needless to took up this say. no one cynical request. The News at Ten (ITN) then carried extracts from both performances and next day the papers did their bit too.

Clearly the preparations for the General Election are under way. The use and manipula- tion of television and the press part of the is an essential build-up of lies, half-truths and deceptions. As the press pursues a ruth- innuendo spared, less, no campaign against the 'Reds'.

as ITN offers money for in- formation and tries to intimid- ate by its presence, so they also lend themselves, along with the BBC to more subtle uses. Offers of facilities to a documentary unit in NIre- land by the Home Office in return for a copy of the film; decisions not to transmit even the mildest programme on Peterloo last autumn because 'This is not an appropriate time to put it out'; banned films at the BBC and else- where which deal with 'sen- sitive areas; cynical careerism on the part of many re- searchers, directors and pro- ducers who sell their skills to the highest bidder-all this and much more like new appointments and subtle purges add up to the growing attempt by at tighter control bourgeoisie. And the very next night we were treated to yet another edition of the Harold Wilson show. This time he had a different partner in the shape of Alastair Burnet, but the dance was remarkably similar. The Prime Minister at Chequers' (LWT May 1) was clearly a recent inspiration of the government's advertising • in that it replaced the men publicized programme at quite short notice. „Ить искры возгорятся пламе"* MINn COnswdsyy e = N 1.

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of work -- should be read in conjunction with his major theoretical writings. the efforts of his Despite Stalinist 'editors', the real Lenin springs alive from the pages of this splendid volume, and, through the mirror of his own letters, we can catch at least a glimpse of those who, under Stalin, were hounded to their deaths as Hitler's agents.

Again, under the guise of non-political programme, a Mr Wilson attempted to put himself over us as dis- on tinguished by a conspicuous restraint. Done as an outside broad- cast, using cumbersome tele- vision and edited cameras video-tape rather than film, the programme was a model of stilted informality and fluid rigidity. It was a clumsy, clodhopping and ponderous piece of non- designed sense that was as another vehicle for election year. They strolled in the grounds (with a dog of course), they posed on the front steps where Wilson used the same gag about his golf handicap as the night before. Wilson freely associated himself with the long line of distinguished agents of British capitalism who have used the place during their time of office, especially with "Win- ston' , that great character. We were then invited by homely Harold to 'come and have some coffee with Mary', which we did, only to sink into some paralysed dialogue about the weather and the air and the problems of 'running a home here'. (The place : is run by the WRENS and WRAF, anyway.)

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Price: Two shillings and sixpence Available from 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 Mary then told us how last Commonwealth eight Yrime Ministers, led by Mr Holyoake of New Zealand, who has such a nice bass voice, sang 'Happy Birthday' to her at her teaparty and Harold affectionately told of Churchill touching up a Reubens. Far from finding such an act disgusting in its Philis- tinism, he went on to say that never touch up a he would Reubens 'still less a Reubens touched up by a Churchill'.

We heard of Mr Wilson's good work with paraplegics from Stoke Mandeville hos- his admiration for pital, practically everything Arthur Bryant has written on English history' and we then settled down in the Long Gallery for a series of justifications of Labour policies under the pre- text of 'going over some decisions made here'. He propounded how he be- came convinced of the neces- sity of putting our defence effort into Europe and then of into Common going the Market, despite his announced policy the Election; he explained how British influence has risen in the UN and the Commonwealth (despite his warnings on 'Sportsnight' that the S African tour prejudiced relations with the Common- wealth countries). Finally he hinted that the future trade-union legis- lation was not at all settled.

Suitably the whole thing was produced and directed by the team who do the David Frost and Simon Dee shows. And all this play-acting came in the same week that the BBC announced a big cut- back in its drama schedule one of its most exciting and, for a period, stimulating pro- grammes. This will be only in the developing one step collapse.

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