[Southall anti-racialist demonstration letter by the late James…]
Socialist Press1976 1976-07-28Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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Southall anti-racialist demonstration letter by the late James Cannon dealing with Stalinist infiltration of the Trotskyist movement, which it describes as "politically odorous" and links directly to the accusations against Hansen and Novack.
Does the WRP now wish to insinuate that James Cannon was also a GPU agent? Is this their "highest point of the practice of cognition'?
EXCLUDED
6. Why have the WRP and their collaborators in other countries made a regular practice of excluding political opponents from their "public' meetings?
In Britain we have seen elected trade union delegates kept out of 'All Trade Union Alliance' conferences. What is the WRP afraid of!
7. News Line has carried not a word of comment on the WSL book "The Battle for Trotskyism' in which a detailed documented account is given of the bureaucratic methods and threats applied to those who tried to discuss vital political differences in the WRP Miss Redgrave is not only famous as an actress and Central Committee member of the WRP. She is well known for sending her children to private school.
She is also the proud recipient of a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire - motto: 'For God and Empire; Sovereign: Her Majesty the Queen.
The Times of February 14th 1968 makes instructive reading. Page 1 reports an additional 10,000 US troops being sent to Vietnam. Page 2 carries a photograph of Miss Redgrave displaying a patriotic grin together with the insignia of her CBE, just received at a Buckingham Palace investiture. Two weeks later she was writing protest letters against the US war in Vietnam. A few months later John Lennon of the Beatles returned his MBE (a lower decoration of the same order) in protest against British government support for US genocide in Vietnam and, in particular, the Mai Lai massacre.
But Miss Redgrave retains this reactionary trinket (though we have no means of knowing if she now sports it at WRP Central Committee meetings).
Yet the WRP conference resolution hypocritically quotes Trotsky's contempt for those who are "tied to the apron-strings of the bourgeoisie"
"CONVERTED"
WRP members would do well to ponder the question of those who are 'converted' to revolutionary socialism but hang on to such decorations as the CBE.
The Order of the British Empire
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The document pointed out that the Trade Union committees of the AKRU TET