Keen interest in suppressed Marxist text
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There was a brisk response by Socialist Press readers to the cut-price prepublication offer on the new book 'Communists' Against Revolution-to be published by Folrose Books on June 14.
A campaign on these issues-demanding the complete repeal of the Official Secrets Act as part of the fight to expose the role of the capitalist state and its The book deals with the post-war role of Stalinism and defends Trotsky's method of analysis and the Transitional Programme against those who have thrown aside or attempted to revise them in the light of post-war events.
It makes widely available the hitherto suppressed 1964 essay by Tim Wohlforth The Theory of Structural Assimilation together with a critical analysis by Adam Westoby .which develops supplements and corrects certain aspects of Wohlforth's work.
Wohlforth At a time when the sections of the revisionist 'United" Secretariat of the Fourth International are once more sinking to new depths of accommodation to Stalinism (see page 9), the publication of this material and the stimulus it offers to a thorough discussion on Stalinism is crucial to the fight for the continuity of the Trotskyist programme.
Copies of 'Communists' Against Revolution are still available, and may be ordered through bookshops or direct from Folrose Books.
A full length review will appear in next week's Socialist Press.