soviet state.
The German, Polish and Hungarian revolutions also demonstrated that soviet (i.e. socialist) democracy without a spatle oo farming ar revolutionary party government, could not succeed.
It is true, as Charlie says, that in the 'Transitional Programme' Trotsky calls for multi-party soviets but at the end of that section he says: 'There is but one arty capable of leading the the party of the Fourth Internatonal!'.
Can 'multi-partyism' achieve this task? No, and our criticisms of Stalinist 'one-partyism' must not create illusions that 'multipartyism' is really a substitute or a single revolutionary party that unites all class-conscious workers and socialists.
Both Lenin and Trotsky unIt is, for wrong to link - as Charlie does the March 1921 banning of factions with the later victories of Stalin over the Left Opposition and the Bolshevik Party.
Ihe arving force or the degeneration was a shortage of basic necessities etc. allowing a relative affluence for only a minority.
The essence of democracy was destroyed when policy deviated from a proletarian line, i.e. when it began to prioritise minority interests above those democracy of both the maTOEsE state and Formal party played no independent role in this tragedy - it simply be came one of its victims.
Roy Rudditt London the points raised (and not raised) n SO 11 on reland. In nether Liam Mac Uaid's article nor the back cover article do the authors ut the revolutionary marxist posi critical) support for the armed struggle.
dike to take up the spocilic points raisod in the articles. Liam's articie accuses the IRA of 'deteriorating into Liam ctes tombs on protestant estales and protestant business people have boen killed on the grounds that they were supplying roods to the Brtish Army of the RUC.
o say the kiling of capitalists Ic is 'deteriorating into avonturism' is campaign that attempts both to isolate collaborators and the repressive In Liam's article, this tactic is cited with bombs on protestant estates' as description IRA's adventurism that there IS A WAR of national ibera tion in reland. Within this war we support the linkage of national anc democratic working class anc anti-capitalist goal Why thon shouk wo targoting of capitalist collaborators? On a class basis we might question the lache o Domos on protestan estatos: Liam nogales such class criteria by putting thoso tao things togother On the back page, last Saturday's bombing of Belfast Military Hospi