But if the Social Democratic parties had become rotten, and fit only for the scrap heap, nevertheless what sort of organisations were they? Clearly they still contained millions of workers. Therefore, so it was argued, they must be workers parties. This position was put forward by the British Communist MacLaine at the Second Congress of the Communist International. He described the Labour Party as the "political expression of the trade unions -the formula which incidentally is still used today, in complete contradiction of Marxism, by supporters of the Militant. I how they could help crush the Portuguese revolution .....the possibility of this situation 70 years later. The leaders of European social democracy meeting in the garden at 10 Downing Street at Harold Wilson's invitation to discuss with Portuguese Socialist Party leader iviario Soares weapons. (13)
In coming issues of Red Weekly we will be looking at the kind of situation in which it is correct to apply these tactics.
(1) Lenin-Collected Works (CW), Vol 21, p94; (2) Lenin- CW, Vol21, p129; (3) Lenin-CW, Vol 21, p205; (4) Lenin-CW, Vol 31, p213; (5) TrotskyNotes of a Journalist, September 1930; (6) Trotsky The ILP and the New International; (7) TrotskyNotes of a Journalist, September 1930; (8) Trotsky What Next?; (9) Trotsky-For a Workers' United Front Against Fascism; (10) Trotsky-The ILP and the New International: (11) Trotsky Theses on the United Front: (12) Trotskv-Revisionism and Plan ning: (13) Trotsky-Are There No Limits to the Fall?
red weekly 23 october 1975 request. entatives of the labour movement such as MPs who refuse to implement and be bound by the TUC and Labour Party Conference decisions to campaign for free abortion on Conference also decided that a