Fourth International, winch has the proudest record of consistent struggle against stalinism and im- penalism - to raise high the bamier of socialism, intemationalism and com- class cast and west, north and south. that they are controlled not by a new, stable ruling clars, but by a privileged power rests not on ownership of property but on their exercise of Many with stalinist leanings who regarded one of more of the regimes as simply workers" states' have heen shocked to discover the extent of the corruption at the top and repression al the base, and how wafer thin was the vencer of popular suppor for bureaucratic caste whose unstable "state capitalist" have showo in the rapid turnover of leading personnel political control. ing the borders of Eastern Europe. manoeuvres is the strategic political As an heir to Stalin (and to policy of detente set the stage for the While the Warsaw Pact and the vast Soviet armed forces meet the for- of militarily defending the USSR" and guarantee- they are not communism. Marxists defend historic gains not only militarily, but politically: lost un the wash of stalinist bureaucratic/mulitary defence of the USSR through the collaborationist fight for socialist revolution. requirements Brezhnev, whose White House his dealings setbacks of struggles in America" betrayed with the Central Page 18 by the
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