Description
This pamphlet features two extensive lectures from Chris Marsden, the National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK). It details how the objective decline of British imperialism drove the ruling elite to relentlessly attack the wages of coal miners, provoking a potentially revolutionary response from the working class. The work exposes the critical role of the Comintern under Joseph Stalin, whose opportunist policies subordinated the Communist Party to the trade union “lefts”, ensuring the bureaucracy acted as “the final line of defence for the capitalist state”. Grounded in the writings of Leon Trotsky, this historical appraisal serves as a vital weapon in building an “independent, internationalist, socialist and revolutionary party” for today’s mounting class battles.
