Militant International Review Archive

The theoretical journal of the Militant tendency, 1969–1995

Czechoslovakia

No. 1, Autumn 1969 · p. 11 of the scan · 157 words

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[page 11]

9 on the firm principles of workers' democracy, a giant stride forward could have been taken.

That the political revolution could spread like a forest fire all over Eastern Europe is proved by the panic and the haste of the Warsaw Pact bureaucracies in stamping out the tiny sparks of revolt that appeared last year in Czechoslovakia.

Brezhnev and Kosygin have had to abandon the role of liberal "technocrats" as quickly as Khrushcher exposed the hollowness of "de-Stalinisation" in 1956. They are totally discredited, open gorlers of the new generation in Russia. Only brute terror maintains the rule of the bureaucracy in Russia and Eastern Europe - and that means that it cannot be long before it is overthrown and the workers direct the revolution back into the democratic and internationalist MARY - ENGELS.

LENIN- TROTSKY & CONNOLLY LEFT WING LITERATURE ALL AVAILABLE FROM - WIR PUBLICATIONS 197 KINGS CROSS RD LONDON WCI

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