Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): meeting soon after McShane’s resignation from the Communist Party in July 1953 at which led to the creation by him, Eric Heffer and others of a federation of Marxist groups based in Liverpool (1-4); publication by the federation of Rosa Luxemburg’s last speech (5); break-up of the federation after about eighteen months (5-6); McShane adopting the views of the Marxist Humanists in the United States around 1963 (8); doing historical research for the centenary of Glasgow Trades Council in 1958 and on the shooting of weavers in Carlton in 1787 (9-10); various chairmen of the trades council (12-13); emphasis by Communist Party after the Second World War on the punishment of Nazi war criminals and on economic planning (14-15); desire of Harry Pollitt at this time for a national government to include ‘progressive Tories’ like Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden (15-16); McShane’s rejection of the communist leaders’ enthusiasm for international agreements and uncritical support of Stalin (16-17); liquidation of the party’s industrial department in 1951 or 1952 and closure of its factory branches (18-19); McShane’s opposition to proposal to liquidate the party whilst maintaining the ‘Daily Worker’ (20-21).
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Recording at 842/37.
English
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