class the same thing - and the results will be the same.
munist Party correctly sought to apply a united front tactic towards the 'left' leaders based on the specific demands of the Minority Movement's programme. Indeed, this was the major reason for the Minority Movement's initial success and growth to an organisation capable of attracting representatives of one million workers to its conference in March 1926 - a quarter of all trade unionists at that time.
Between 1924 and 1926, the Comof the Stalinisation of the Third InterSeptember 1924: İt would be a suicid- don area miners on 2 May to set up al policy, however, for the Communist recalls the meeting:
It was only after the betrayal that And this was continued in the General Strike itself. Hardy recalled in Those Stormy Years that on the eve of the strike: *...we sent out from Minority Movement headquarters instructions to our members to work for the establishment of Coun cils of Action in every area. We warned, however, that the Councils of Action were under no circumstances to take over the work of the trade unions.... The Councils of Action were to see that all the decisions of the General Council and the union executives were carried out..
A revealing indication of what this meant was contained in an interview in the Morning Star on 8 May with Robin Page Arnot, a veteran CP member who had just been released from jail in May 1926 and immediately went to North-East England to help organise the strike. An 'all-in non-exclusive meeting was called by Chopwell and Blaya Council of Action - more precisely, to adopt Arnot's own proposals for the conduct of the strike. Arnot *No time to be spent tonight on discussion of purpose of strike (to aid the miners) or origin of possible ending, or national aspect or international aspect. Not concerned for such that it really did begin to ch lenge the power of the capitalist state, taking over completely the distribution of food and supplies But if these embryonic elements dual power were to be consolidat it was precisely 'time for politics that was needed The whole ideological attack the ruling class was centred on th threat to the constitution. In see