talism's exist"
than its predecessor, the socialism it soon be be virtually tracuona one great pains to alla MLL. 667L fighting for a socialist programme; even though 'the experience of past decades nas aso shown nar cabl crisis cannot be solved within the limits of capitalism nevertheless, "the political condi-tions (for socialism) do not ye A whole epoch of left governments, each one further to the left is therefore required before Britain can reach "it needs'. In meantime, the masses will evidently have to put up with "capitalism's programme proposed for this "left government" turns out to identical with the of lett democracy: no longer 'nationalisation of all monopoles in pro ductive industry', but the wily ine buma and une soviet. ine conflict that was to develop in later months between these two bodies, give them representing different class forces, provisional committee had stated obliged to salute as maine restorduon ol was Hawvers onrase of the key firms among the top which dominate the eco nomy'; instead of socialist national economie planning' an unspecified (and unspecifiable!) *ef fective government control over the operation of the economy; a ban on the export of capital and selective import controls; increased social spending, and so on. GRADUALIST The CPGB's perspective of 'left governments' represents a turther step along the road back to traditional gradualist positions. It appears to offer a realistic way forward to socialism, but, by postponing to some future date the struggle for socialist solutions, it leaves the working class helplessly Soviet; to keep control of weapons in the soldiers committees and not officers; maintain discipline on duty while off duty they have complete rights of citizens, for example not being When it appeared in 1951, th first version of The British Road Tine statement rightist positions any West European Party. However, the subsequent evolu TOn or ine maTor continenta parties has left the CPGB wel benine and given us programm the dangerous appearance of soc BALANCE The proposed new draft is an attempt to restore the balance by bringing the CPGB into line with its sister parties. From now on, th Labour Lefts will define the hori zons of their "Communist" satel lites in a rather more precise Scarcely ever before in the his tory of the working-class move ment has there been such a shar conflict between the tasks facin the movement - • rooted in the severe social and economic crisis — and its inherited political tradi ons Caracuary balain struggle for socialism requires the clearest dead weight of Fabian parliamentarism and gradualism The CPB was founded more than half-a-century ago on th basis of that break. But today it is one of the major obstacles in the development of advanced workers towards positions of revolutionary communist internationalism.
The rebirth of the Petrograd Soviet marked a decisive point in 1917. The working masses had begun Here the workers and soldiers made common cause. In Februar the Mensheviks held the leadership