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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

British Road to Socialism

Red Weekly No. 188, 24 February 1977 · p. 9 of the scan · 287 words

The scan: rw-no188-feb-24-1977.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 9 of the scan

France:

*The Commune was to be a HOLd body, executive and legislative at the same time... Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to represent and suppress the people in Parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people, constituted in Communes, as individual suffrage serves every other employer in the searen or workers oremen accountants for his business.* So Marx and Engels, in a Pretace German Communist Manifesto printed ir 1872, stressed again their conclusion from the last revolutionary u. meer aso understood unis. I affiliated to the Communist Internanonal. I repudiated Ine rerorm ist view that a social revolution can be achieved by the ordinary meth ods of parliamentary democracy, and declared 'for the Soviet (or Council) system as a means whereby the working class The British Road to Socialism Draft offers no evidence as to why such a strategy should be over turned. The writers maintain that: coming from parties which stand in the one sals Tacon oru suppression of workers cracy. They might also be mor mpressive if the Communist Part les had a consistent record o opposition to the presence a British trooos in Ireland * Czechoslovakia A document smuggieu out Czechoslovakia reveals that 23 oint of the 241 sionatores to tr Charter 77 human rights appea revealed last week when polic arrested a number of signatories to a human rights appeal. The appea called for the implementation o various sections or te mumania constitution. But then Prince Vlac Dracula never had much respect for constitutions either * Netherlands Large sectors of Dutch industry continueto Denit ov wades SunKe Workers in more than tu compan! es have taken action in the pas

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