[Saturday February 1st saw Enoch Powell and Clive…]

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Saturday February 1st saw Enoch Powell and Clive Jenkins sharing a 'Get Britain Out' platform at Folkestone.

Trade Union leaders like Jenkins ignore the fact that the Common Market is a class question, and that lining up with these enemies of the working class exposes it to danger.

These actions are given a left cover by the nationalist propag anda of the Communist Party. Yet this even causes problems within the CP's own ranks. John Gollan's statement on the Common Market that : 'At the heart of the matter is the supreme issue of British sovereignty, our right to make our laws and decisio on the crucial questions concerning the future of Britain at the moment when it faces its greatest post-war crisis.' has even caused a stir inside the Communist Party as shown by the number of letters in the "Morning Star' taking it up. (The 'Star' Editor obviously only publishes critical letters if he has to.)

As the struggle against the Comm on Market builds up towards the referendum the pages of the Morning Star' are more and more filled with Gollan's nationalist position, while the statement by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto that 'the working men have no country' is of course forgotten. COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY This is not because as the revisionists say the CP is reformist (though of course it is ) but because it is counter-revolutionary as is Stalinism on a world scale. The British CP echoes the statement of Carillo, the General Secretary of the Spanish CP: "The reality of Spain today is that freedom has to be restored and every thing has to be subordinated to the national necessitv.' ('Star Jan 21st)

Tony Chater, Editor of the 'Star' puts his alternatives to the Common Market in an article on Jan 11th: •Furthermore, we could seek to open up the vast potential market of the developing third world, where, by advancing the necessary credit, there could be long-term trade deals and economic co-operation. This approach offers a real alternative to the Common Market. And it maintains the sovereign rights of the British people to impose their will through Parliament for basic progressive changes in our political, economic and social life which would be in the interests of the overwhelming majority?

NATIONALISM

This nationalist, Parliamentary Road put forward by the CP is des-l igned to turn the workingclass away from the fight against the Market on clear class lines, which must be based around the perspective and struggle to attain the United Socialist States of Europe. This demands continued on page

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