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Volume 8, No. 1, January, 1946 INTERNAL B UL L E T.I N SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. Volume VIII Number I January 1948 ~ .. Price ZO Cenu CONT~S The First National Conference of the RCP and Its Empirical Leadership, by Pierre Frank . I LeHer from the Revolutionary Communist Party .... 7 Reply to Letter from the Revolutionary Communist Party, by M. Stein .. 9 Copy of a Letter from Gerry Healy to a Friend 11 Letters to England, by Felix Morrow .. 11 Comrade Stuart and the ILP-Fads Versus Baseless Assertions, by Bill Hunter 12 The Minority's AHitude toward Theory, by S. Simmons.............. 16 The First National Conference of the Rep and Its Empirical Leadership By PIERRE FRANK It is only several weeks since the racHcaUzation of the labor­ numerical strength and without political character. 'n1e most ing masses in Great Britain, together with that of the laboring . important progress was 1ihe un1floation. To be sure, it could !lIM masses in the whole world and most particularly on the European resolve aLl the problems raised by the transition trom a cirCle continent, expressed itself in the vote which gave the Labour existence dominated by clique struggles to the life of a revolu­ Party an overwhelming parUamentary majOrity. tionary grouping seeking to open a path for itself into the work­ All the members of the Fourth International have taken note ing class. Bllt at least it did eliminate a number of obstacles of the importance of this vote in the present period. 'nle con­ ha.nging over from the past. In such a s1tuation. While everf Sfl!quenCes which it will produce on the entire continent and the group partiCipating in the un1flcation was duty-bound to strive new level to which the class struggle is going to be raised in Great with all its might to merge into the new organ!zat1on, the heavi­ Britain, ril be the subject of discussions with a view to deter­ est responslbWty in this respect fell upon the shoulders of the mining the tasks posed by the new situation. majority group, of the group which beCause of its numertca1 The holding of a national conference by the British Trotsky­ superiority took the leaderShip into its hands. ists during the very days in which the Labour government was Eighteen months elapsed J:>etween the un1ftcation and the being formed, even if this event was known only to a l1m1tecl tlrst national conference. That is sufiicient time to draw up a number of workers, is an important element of this situation. balance sheet. Without exaggerating in the least, we must say It is evident to everyone that objective conditions will open up very clearly that the conference of the Rep has shown-for any­ enonnous opportunities for us, but the results will depend in one at all familiar with workers' organizations-that the party II great part on the relatively gOod functiOning of the instrument facing grave dimculties. Moreover, the main responslbWty for of the proletarian revolution-the revolutionary party-in the these diftlculties rests with the leadership Which has shown grea' course of the grandiose events which arebe1ng outlined on concern, not to clarify political questions, but to maintain an un­ tIhe horizon. contested hold on the organization. OUr article aims to arouse the 'nle author of these l1nes has been able to follow closely the international organization, whose intervention is indispensable in Ufe and the activities of the British Trotskyists for several years, aiding the party to surmount this situation. It proceeds from a especially since the unLfication. He has been in contact With discussion of the party conference .itself. We assume that the nuql.el'OUs militants of the party and, finally, he was able to get documents of the latter are at the disposal of those who will read a very 8OO.d picture of the party itself, of its leadership as well as what we have to say, which w1ll permit us to dispense with its membership, in the course of the conference discussions. Im­ lengthy and numeroUs quotat1ons. Nevertheless, this article, treat.,; portant .progress has been achieved since 1939, for at the begin­ ~ with multiple aspects of the ~rty life, will be rather IOlli. r.ing of the war then! only existed conmcting groupS without But the subject and circumstances demand it. The Preparations for the Conference IS being the only quallfled body in this respect and, besides. because there were not ~ient political forces to ful.fU1 such & The Confenmce suftered in the first place from absolutely function in London. The RCP leaders, wbo considered them­ lnsumcient preparation. The first documents of the Central Com­ selves qualified for international leadership, wanted to create mlttee came out only about four weeks before the opening of the a commission with politlcaa powers, that is, a substitute for the IS, conference. The minority documents followed a little ~ater. Con­ on condition that the decidve vote in this commission would be sequently, there were almost no discussion articles. Not a single allocated to the Political Bureau of the RCP. In other words, the member O'f the majority of the CC wrote an article to develop a emigre comrades were simply to be allocated the role of providing single point in anyone of the resolutions. At the very last mom­ international window dressing for the positions of the PB, which ent, three or four days before the conference met, a long reply at the time appeared to us to have a very poor opinion of our of the Political Bureau appeared in answer to a minority artiole. sections. The most extraordinary fact to underscore is the failure to present a written orga.nization report, examining in critical fash­ (b) In opposition to the IS, the leadership of the ReP con­ ion the activity of the party since its formation, the political tended that the Irish organization was merely a part of the positions taken in different Circumstances, the work in the vari­ British organization. No matter how weak the Irish Trotskyists ous fields of activity and the state of the organization. A verbal might be, their organization into an independent national group report was, to be sure, made at the conference. But it was is a vital condition for their development. In Q. country in which manifestly inadequate and could not permit the members of the the nation8l1 question takes on such Importance, in which even party as well as the other sections of the Fourth International to the reformists themselves are organized separately from the Iform a precise opinion on this subject. British reformists, to belong to a national organization whose As a consequence of such faulty preparations there was: (a) leadership is in London could very well be catastrophic for our extraordinary discord between the views expressed by the var- Irish comrades. 10U!l delegates voting for the resolutions of the CC, notably a (c) In the Neath election, the leadership organized an "inter­ crying discord between most of the contributions made by the national rally," which could not take place for reasons that are comrades from the field and those of the leaders of the party; not relevant here. To put forward the internationalist character (b) a visible weakness in the discussion as a whole, and no dis­ of our organizations, to make known in the course of an election cussion at ell to speak of, on questions on which the minority campaign the activity of our sections all over the world, is highly did not take the floor. laudable. Since the present cireumstances do not permit our sections to be directly represented, the RCP could have denounced The Reports and the Discussion upon Them the measures of the bourgeois states which permit the leaders o~ We shall take up each of the reports, one after the other. the Stalinist and reformist parties to cooperate internationally in order to deceive the working class but deny the same right to the 1. The Organization RePOrt, which was verbal as organizations which defend the rights of the workers and fight already noted, was above all a descriptive picture of the party, for the world revolution. But for this rally in Neath, preparatiOns entirely divorced from any politica1 evaluation. Consequently, the were made to have "representatives" of the following countries: past policy of the party was not discussed at all in any of the Germany, France, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Burma and conference sessions. On thi8 report, the discussion consisted in the India. The formula "countries," not "sections," was an ambiguous main of detailed observations on the manner of circulating of one, but that did not make matters better because, outside of the press, on fund raising and on a campaign to double the mem­ Belgium and IndJa, for which the given comrades could, without bership in the coming year. No discussions on the positions taken actually having mandates, honestly speak as militants who par­ and the results obtained in the strikes, in the struggle against ticipated in the clagg struggle of these countries, the "representa­ repression, in the ILP or labor Party work, in the elections, etc. tives" of the. other countries did not represent anything at all. No dtscussion either on the contents of the Socialist Appeal, lt was a masquerade, a wretched caricature ot the Stalinist carni­ which is the principal instrument in the work of the party. vals of the past, something entirely alien to our internationa.list L The International Report, likewise verbal, was also a conceptions. collection of quite superficial information material on the (d) The most dJsquleting symptom is the following: the RCP activity of our sections, the aftirmation of the need for an inter­ leadership shows an extraordinary sensitivity to criticlsm.
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