Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:01:26 +0100
From: m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Hugh Rodwell)
Subject: Re: History of SWP (US)


A detail in Adam's piece:

>[ Looking back, we bent the stick a little to far. The students completely
>ignored the colleges, and this let the IMG ( Tariq Ali etc : the 4th
>International which wasn't the WRP - couldn't tell you which secretariat
>they supported - I think Hugh's lot ? ) recruit a whole generation of
>students, which were subsequently led up the garden path into the Labour
>Party. ]

They were the Mandelites, the United Secretariat of the Fourth
International, also known as USec, terminally infected with Pabloism (an
objectivist opportunist deviation, holding that leaderships of radical
movements (eg the Sandinistas) or workers' states (eg the Stalinist
bureaucracy in the ex-SU) will be forced by historical pressure to
implement real socialist policies to assure their own survival, and since
this is the case, their is no need for separate Bolshevik-Leninist
organizations to be built in the countries concerned).

Since this was in the seventies, the Morenist current did not have any
great influence in Europe. The British scene involved Adam's lot, the IMG
Mandelites, Militant (perpetual petrified entrism sui generis) and the
Healyite SLL. Maoism was insignificant. The Euro-Stalinist CP was in decay.

Cheers,

Hugh




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