Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): McShane’s campaign in the ‘Daily Worker’ on inadequate air-raid shelters in Glasgow at the start of Second World War (2-3); strict enforcement of Communist Party line during the war (8-9); Trotskyists’ support for strikes in Scotland in opposition to Communist Party line (10-12); popularity of Communist Party support for the war in order to help the Soviet Union (12-14); increase in Communist Party membership (14-17); enthusiasm in the party for economic planning after the war (17-18); disagreement within the party over Tito (18-19); opposition around 1952 by McShane and others in Glasgow to party policy of advocating a peace pact between the Soviet Union, United States, China, France and Britain to the exclusion of other activities, which was construed as an attack on the leadership (19-24).
24 pages
Open
Recording at 842/18.
English
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