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making a mechanical transference of the events and problems they cover to those that contront us today, selecting quotations to justif whatever course of action seems most appropriate. What we must try to grasp 1S the essential method behind the theoretical and political struggles they reveal, and bring the heritage they contain into the strug building of revolutionary leadership that lies before us for the in the working class and the establishment of socialism.
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The difference was clearly expressed by Morris Stein, writing for the majority within the Socialist Workers' Party on the eve of the SWP's split with the Pablo leadership in the International Secretariat, in November 1953. (The SWP is prevented by reactionary US legislation trom being affiliated to any international organisation, but it was in 1953 in political sympathy with the Fourth International, and is now a smith sin attacked the fathe ite resolution on The Rise and Decline of Stalinism' because it: cussion bulletins the volume of paper in the recent history of the though was not a Since three tendencies (A, B' and D) in one form or another supported the Mandel majority within the USFI against the SWP faction some delegates were elected on the basis of votes for two tendencies Moreover, while the two largest tendencies (Tendency B, led by John Ross and Robert Pennington which gained an overall majority of votes, and Tendency A led by Pat Jordan and Robin Blackburn) both claimed to be the true intespreters of Mandel's perspectives for Europe and Britain, Mandel himself tendency leaders are too "diplomatic to demand openly that he take a position. Under such conditions it is impossible for IMG members to develop and fight politically, and consequently the mood is one of cynicism and impotence.
One story circulating at the IMG conference told how an IMG member asked Mandel what he would do if John Ross (the majority tendency's main 'theoretician) were to declare that black was white. And the international "leader" replied "Well, in England, perhaps.
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THEORISTS SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursder. 17th April, 1