STATEMENT FROM WALES - Vanguard 1964

 STATEMENT FROM WALES

 

 the class struggle in Wales has always been of a tempestuous and poignant nature, with the Welsh miners thrust to the forefront in the battle With Our so called betters, know as capitalists by the more class conscious workers. The need for a more revolutionary and militant leadership is all too plain when we observe the situation in which the C.P.G.B. and the trade union leaders are handling the crises in the mining industry, with regards to pit closures and the suffering arising from as such a policy. Without wishing to be too sectarian history once again seems to have designated the lead in the fight in Wales against Robins and the rest of the rabble to the glorious miner. Let us in Wales throw down the gauntlet to those who masquerade under the name of socialism. Capitalism will not give up its ·wealth and privilege without a life and death struggle. Realizing that revisionism and opportunism in the C.P.G.B., the trade unions, and the l about movement in general, will not be eradicated without a determined fight the need for a genuine Marxist Leninist Communist party based on the principles of class struggle and dialectical materialism, culminating in the dictatorship of the proletariat, is most urgent. Let us in Wales help build such a party, dedicated to . the fight against capitalism and those that collaborate and compromise with capitalism. We appeal to all comrades who for one reason or another are dissatisfied with the C.P.G.B. to join our group to help achieve this glorious aim : International Marxist. Leninist solidarity, World Socialism and Communism. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and scores of other brave and glorious us comrades helped usher in the first Soviet State. They knew what it was to want, to go without, to be deprived of so called luxuries and even money, but that did not deter them in any way from struggling for their main objective, a Communist Society.

Neither should it deter us today from following the same correct path if we are to play our part in the Marxist Leninist way. Some comrades say that we want to build a party of the elite and they are quite right in thinking. that. Build a castle on sand and at the least strain is begins to tumble. Some people think that you can transform all elements who come over to us into good revolutionaries overnight. We are not saying it could not happen but pigs could fly if they had wings. We reject completely what is being said in the C.P.G.B that the Labour Party can be transformed into a socialist Party. We need people to join our groups with the intention of forming a Marxist party later on, people who are prepare ed to take part in activity now, not at some distant future or when the revolution starts! The main function of  a political party of the proletariat is to make the masses of workers politically and socially conscious. They are not going. to come to you, you have got to take Socialism to them. Of course, they learn to struggle against the capitalists in their day to day fight with them, but to lead this fight a Marxist party is essential. Surely our intention is to build a Marxist party steeled in battle and struggle. What other point is there in breaking with the C.P.G.B. if we are to follow the same path? 

The stipulation  must be made, that comrades who joint us must take part in activity of the group . otherwise they are  useless to the movement. It might take a bit longer to form a party .but when it is formed you know that you have comrades who you can call on, and rely on in a crisis. This is the only way.

Cliff Roberts, D. Sewell, Glyn Evans,

Welsh Commlttee to Defeat
Revisionism, for Communist Unity.