Vanishing mandate'
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-01-20Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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words, they are "linked inseverably by their common spirit of adventurism.
VLAI IMIR DERER London IN his recent article, ''Wafer-thin margin in CLPD poll" my colleague John Bloxam 1 gives an interesting account of CLPD and the Register issue.
However, in part of the third paragraph:
'In fact a resolution submitted earlier that the EC should recommend the AGM accept the ballot was withdrawn."
John inadvertently implies by writing • ''In fact") that the withdrawal was by a Bolshevik member disgusted by the narrow Actually, the motion had een submitted by an overconfident Menshevik member, Walter Wolfgang, and was pompously accompanied on submission by the testimony that:
'When the ballot votes have been counted I may find that I disagree with the result. Nevertheless I am convinced that we should treat that result as our mandate."
Needless to say, following the unfavourable result Mr Wolfgang is now "convinced" that we should not treat that result as our mandate"
To formally accuse Mr Wolfgang of opportunism above and beyond the call of duty would be quite monstrous of me, but it would be nice to clear up the strange case of the disappearing mandate.
DOUGLAS HAYWARD DOUGLAS HAYWARD London N2