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Ian H. Birchall

Uninstructive

(Spring 1965)


From International Socialism (1st series), No.20, Spring 1965, pp.31-32.
Thanks to Ted Crawford & the late Will Fancy.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’ Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).


United We Fall
Douglas Hyde
Ampersand Books, 3s. 6d.

Mr Hyde was a member of the Communist Party for twenty years; he has now turned to hysterical anti-communist exposure-mongering. The value of the book can be judged by his claims that the British Shop Stewards Movement is ‘Communist-led’, and that modern Communist Parties follow closely the teachings of Lenin. Mr Hyde teaches us only one thing, about the Communist Party – its total failure to train its members in political analysis and judgment.


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