CAI point is 'the need through the (election) campaign to prepare the working class for the autumn offensive of the ruling class". He is somewhat shortsighted in limiting our horizons to the autumn; nevertheless, it is true that the elections were a platform to educate the worker: in the spirit of class action and self-organisation independently of the A vote for Pato combined with aggressive criticism of his programme allowed the LCI to do that. A vote for Carvalho would have done precisely the opposite. It would have encouraged the illusions of workers in a section of the bourgeoisie, and thereby strengthened the class collaborationis policies of both the Stalinist and social democratic leaderships. - BRIAN NOTE: We reserve the right to cut letters of more than 600 words. This right has been exercised in both the above cases. Red Books is now in temporary premises at 183 Pentonville Road, London N.1, and its hours of opening are still 10am to 6pm, Mondays to Saturdays inclusive Among recent publications of interest * CRITICUE No. 6 of this journal contains a wide range of articles covering Eastern Europe and socialist theory: Lowy on Lenin's study of Hegel, Ticktin on Bettleheim's views of the Soviet Union, Kay on the falling rate of profit, and a • study of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag from Czechoslovakia - to name only the key ones. Price 70p, post 20p * WORKERS CONTROL IN PORTU This is the title of a new pamphlet from the IWC. A report by British members of the second commission sent by the Russell Committee for Portugal, the authors include miners" leaders Ray Ellis and Joe Burke. The report notes the rich and enormous variety of forms of organisation which the Portuguese workers have created, and con tains much information not available elsewhere. Price zup, post p * AGNES HELLER We have acquired a stock of an American university magazine which consists of an essay by Agnes here! (student of Lukacs, a leading light in the Budapest school of Marxism) -*Towards a Marxist Theory of Value" Value is meant in the ethical sense Not hitherto available in English, this is a systematic and detailed examination of the relationship betweer general Marxist tneory and the question or value. A unique writi which will become a classic. Price 85p, post 11p.
TROTSKY ON TRADE UNIONS Pathfinder have published a second edition of Trotsky's writings on trade unions. These cover a collection of writings on syndicalism; articles on trade union strategy and tactics, with references to particular nationa problems (Britain, Holland, and the US); and the famous Trade Unions in a Period of Imperialist Decay. Price 85p, post 11p.