Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): McShane’s resignation from the ‘Daily Worker’ and the Communist Party in July 1953 because of his disagreement with the leadership’s support for a peace pact between the Soviet Union, United States, China, France and Britain, and its emphasis on increasing industrial production, as described in Harry Pollitt’s ‘The British road to socialism’, including possible alternative courses of action available to him (1-10); his rejection of the demonisation of Trotsky (10-11); state of the Glasgow party in 1953 (11-12); McShane’s opposition to proposal to shut down the party’s industrial department and to liquidate the party whilst maintaining the ‘Daily Worker’ (12-13).
14 pages
Open
Recording at 842/37.
English
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