MURPHY examining its tion of Parliament. *Towards Socialist Revolution' is the chapter of the new Draft in which me communist rar Great Britain outlines its attitude to raniament *The working class and its allies must have the aim of winning the leadership nation, thereby deciding its future destiny.
*The broad alliance, developed and strengthened in mass struggles in the places or work and ine localities, has to be reflected in carnament. Which political expression of those struggles. Parliament has to be wor by the people, made into the mirror or the country. will c acuvily or the working class parties in Parlia ment being intimately linked to the mass struggle outside it, each interacting on the other. In this way, the growth of the broad alliance will result in a parliamentary majority enabling the formation of Left, and eventually Socialist, governments. (Lines 1074-83 of the Draft.)
It goeson:
*Parliament, itself the product of past battles for democracy, can be ranstormica into me aemocrane instrument of the will of the vast maony or ine people. - (Lines 1103-5).
And in a chapter entitled 'Socialist Democracy' the Draft explains that capturing Parliament is the political goal of itsstrategy:
This does not mean abolishing exis ine democraticins i unions and organisations, but changing and needs of INC as well as crealme new organisations where necessary.
*Parliament would be the sovereign body in the land, exercising its powers as the elected representative of the people without restrictions imposed by the Common Market or by the actions of the big monopolies and financial institutions. (Lines 1739-44)The writers claiminal position. as with tne rest or Enc Draft, is "firmly rooted in Marxism the parliamentary road to socialism is in complete contradiction with that tradition.
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx, while recognising that the state was an organ of class rule, did not exclude the possibility that the working class could take political power inrougn the extension or tne parliamentary vote and the transtormauon or ine bourceos salt into a state which would be the proletariat organisca as une runng hoto: G.M. COOKSON. (Red Weekly Red Weekly continues its reply to the new draft of The British Road to Socialism published this month with BOB most important concept: democratisation of the capitalist state and the transformaclass.
But the experience of the revolutionary struggle in France in 1848-51 convinced him that the working class had not to perfect the state but actually to smash it, since no matter now democrane was nOT. 16 and bourgeois state could only act as an oostacieromesezureor power Actual revolutionary events again showed Marx what would replace the state. He described the experience of the Paris Communeof 1871 in his book The Civil War in upsurge of the masses in 1848, that *the working class cannot simply lay Teady machinery and wield it for its own purposes.
OPPORTUNISTS Marxisis nave nao to cons stenty ignt against peopic wno wy divest the socialist transformation character. The British Communist - Partv is simply the latest in a long line of opportunists and reformists.
Lenin fought a tremendous battle against the German ex-revolutionary Kautsky Proletarian Infantile Disorder:
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shall achieve power democratic so that they revolutionary struggle that it is based cringing to those realities. keeping silent Not ine working that "Britain" sroad to Socialism will De citerent rom une soverroad "Export of revolution isamyth".
what maopenca mn wussia was governed by the historic conditions and background of zarist auto cratic rule, imperialist intervention, ism' democracy. and une uevelopment or bre counter coup. Reliance Indeed it is true that each revolution will follow its own specific path. But as Lenin said in making an assessment of some of the chiet features of the Russian revolution in Communism An 'Experience has proved that, on certain very important questions of revolution, colniries wi nevaDy nave to ed what Russia has done' (Lenin's And what was this very important question to which Lenin was reter only workers' Soviets, not parliament, can be the instrument enabling the proletariat to achieve its aims; those who have failed to are, of course.
It was because this question was written into the Programme of the *The conquest of power by the proictanaris une vidient overtron of bourgeois power, the destruction of the capitalist state apparatus (bourgeois armies, police, bureauthe judiciary, parliaments, etc) and the substitution in its place of new organs of At its founding conference in defend democracy?
No, the Draft is not new or a specific strategy for Britain. It is a reformist strategy which corres ponds to the continual rightward shift of so-called Euro-Commun Star, in the direction of social The conclusion of a left reformist strategy is tne trageay or tne chicar on parliamentary acuvity, on gelug a ice govern merely supported by mass struggle, will lead to tomorrow's The Draft says that in the event of a 'right wing coup being launched, the left government should have no hesitation in using force to defeat Communis Party newspaper Rude Pravo and rague radio have denounced th double standards of the press in condemninue dracus ur Chaner wmile remainine quie about British torture in Ireland.
sadalmi Szemle *Eurocommunism as an inventio or moenalismanda catchword to bourgeois propaganda.
These observations on double standards of the bourgeois press are timely but hypocritica armed forces, as the Draft suggests George Matthews, writing in the 10 February issue of the Morning explains that - 11 15 reformists who claim that the state is "neutral'', while 'the Communists call for the democratisation of the This is hairsplitting. Both the left reformists and the CGB believe that the state can be 'neutralised" through the same strategy employed by Allende. It is a strategy de nounced by Marx and Lenin. And it Is a strategy wnieh nes the brat into the bloody debacle that was Chile.
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