Solidarity Cons of the Basingstoke Workers Strike
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-01-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 13 →
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the story of the victimisation of Socialist Organiser 'supporter Alan Fraser and how the fight to defend him was sold out by the union officials. 25p plus postage from 75 Freemantle Close, Basingstoke. Stalin's Soviet Union.
We hear a lecturer at a CP camp defend Stalin's 1939-41 pact with Hitler. What is not in te film is the CPs all over the world, and in the US too, making pro-Nazi propaganda; down across the border in Mexico, the Stalinists embracing anti-semitism and denouncing the 'Jewish Trotskyists'; in German-occupied Paris, on the eve of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, the CP negotiating with the authorities to publish a legal daily.
A large part of 'Daniel' is made of convincing - but uncritical - pastiche recreations of the mental and emotional world of the CP USA in the "30s and '40s - not only in sepia, but saturated with music. sentiment. and high romanticism. It finally. a glorification of what it depicts.
Colourful, enthusiastic May Day marches, with the YCL singing 'We shall not be moved' and adding their own lines: 'Stalin is our leader, we shall not be moved' The camaraderie of CP camps. Students fighting police to defend union picket lines as the modern American trade union movement
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Socialist Organiser, 26 January Page 14 1984