defence of the environment against the ravages of international capital and the cynical Stalinist bureaucracies.
The 1938 programme was not written as a Bible of unalterable and fixed pronouncements, to be dusted off and quoted: it was a not invalidate the programme: it was written as a topical analysis in which the general political principles of the new Interna iional were strengthened by the use of current, concrete ples.
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