"It will be shown during the course of this pamphlet that this slogan [A general Election to kick out the Tories and to elect a Labour Government committed to Socialism] is opportunist and that in this instance there is nothing to choose between the revisionists and the Trotskyites; that they both are opportunists; that they are not Marxists but petty-bourgeois democrats with near-Marxist phraseology; that they both betray the interests of the working class and serve the interests of the bourgeoisie by acting as the conductors of bourgeois influence into the proletariat; and that differences of opinion and battles of words between them are of no more importance than the usual jealousy between two department managers in the same store."
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Social democracy - The enemy within (London 1995), pp. 139-40.
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Harpal Brar
Harpal Brar (5 October 1939 – 25 January 2025) was an Indian-born communist political activist, writer and businessman, based in Britain. He was the founder and former Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), a role from which he stood down in 2018. The party was founded in 2004 as a result of a split in the Arthur Scargill-led Socialist Labour Party. In 1991, Brar founded the Stalin Society, an anti-revisionist group defending Joseph Stalin.
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