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Oppressed Their basic socialist programme was to unify the peoples, and in the first place the working class. They advocated free eteranoe peoples implied the right not to federate. It means that the Russian Marxists championed the right of the oppressed nationalities in the Tsarist Empire to secede (as some did after 1917).
Tuday, in Western Europe, the stateless nations are still victims of the lack of consistent democracy in the organisation of the European state system. The EEC is not organised as a democratic federation, but as a capitalist cartel ruled by a bureaucracy subject to very little accountability.
In the East and in the USSR, the Marxist programme is as topical and urgently needing to be realised as it ever was.
The biggest conglomerate of oppressed nations in the world today is held within the USSR and on its borders. Poland lacks self-determination; the Ukraine, a nation of 60 million, not only lacks self-determination but is Saturday Channel 4: 7.30pm. Union World. Gus McDonald's series which this week is a film by Anne Lester about the unions in Nissan.
Saturday Channel 4: 10.30 pm. The Comic Strip Presents... War. Godfrey and Hermione on the run from a wartorn Britain occupied by Russians, Americans and various underground armies.
Sunday BBCI 11.20 am. Inside YTS. 'Who needs guidance.. not just the trainees, but the supervisors too.
Sunday BBC2: 8.05. One Pair of Eyes. John Wells of Private Eye fame and Dennis Thatcher impersonator enlists the help of Max, a chimp, to teach him our language and to ask why we work.
Tuesday Channel 4: 6.30pm Cautionary Tales. A guide to your legal rights. Violence in the house. Three women offer practical advice. A leaflet is available free from PO Box 4000. London W3 6XJ.
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