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:
*'LENIN ON TRADE UNIONS' The Moscow produced collection of Lenin's writings and speeches on trade unions is now back in print. This 540 Daot Dook contains neary ail or whdt Lenin wrote and saia on the questions or the unction of trade unions under capitalism and atter the revolution!: revolutionary intervention in the unions; the characterics of unions in various countries; etc. Especially interesting is the material for the famous 'trade union' discussion in the Bolshevik Party in 1920/1921. Price £1.50, post 47p. SOUTH ASIA MARXIST REVIEW No. 3 of this journal is now available and contains articles on india can examina tion of recent political developments); on the struggle in the Arab East; on the theory of 'Soviet Imperialism' (a reply to Banaji); on technocratic trends in the cultural revolution. ano an important document from the Progressive Organisation or women (Hyderabad). Price sop, post 9p.
SALTY AND CLASSRUGGLE We have bargain copies of Sexuality and Class Struggle by Reimut Reiche. Originally published in English as an NLB book in 19/0 at ts, we are able to sell this pioneering work for only E1 (post 32p). * NEW LEFT REVIEW The latest issue (no. 97) of NLR con. Tains a malor articie surveving Marx and engels theory or proletarian revolutior by Robin Blackburn. In this, Blackburn seeks to cemonstrate inat the centre: scientific contributions of Marx and Engels lie in the field of proletarian revolutionary politics. This is underpinned by a close study of the writings of Marx and Engels. This article promises to spark off a lively debate, and the implications of its thesis for the day-to-day activity or revolutionaries are nude. ine issue aiso contains articies on te attempt or us imperialısm to reassert ms international necemony two items on ine General Strike and the 1931 betrayal, and discussion on workers control psychoanalysis and feminism, etc. Price 75p, post 17p. Destroyed The comrades state that 'Pabloism destroyed the Fourth International through adaption to Stalinism in 1953' (p26); that since then 'Pabloism has passed through several distinct stages or turmer accenerauon too mar ln renton to our own oranisaton une distance between the IMG and the ransiona rosramme which is unbridgeable' (p28); and that, quoting the September 1975 issue of the OCT's La Verite, it is necessary to speak of 'the "United Secretariat", the destroyer of the Fourth International' (p 20).
Such characterisations are unfortunately in line with previous. ones which have come from the OCRFI - for example, that the Ligue Communiste in France put forward in elections 'cryptoStalinist candidates propelled by the Trotskyist Moscoso was "suspected' of working on benal or the Bolvian Government'; and that the Socialist Workers Party of the United States were valets of the class enemy ..... actions placed them outside the camp of rotskvism and of the working class As the comrades of the OCRFI in britain evidentv do not see the contra diction between such characterisations and the type of discussion which they have requested internationally, it is necessary to point out to them what is involved. In so doing we can also illus about revolutionary regroupment. Elementary •Ine basic contradicuon in tne position of the Maxist Bulletin group comrades, as with so many other organisations in Britain, is that they do not appear to understand either the necessity for a clear characterisation of any political force or even what a clear characterisation is. Most important of all, however, they do not draw the practical conclusions from the characterisations they give.
Take, for example, even such an cementary quesuur as talkie aoout the 'revolutionary left and revolutionary