Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): pacifist and anti-English element in the Scottish National Party (1); electoral success of SNP since Winifred Ewing’s election for Hamilton [in 1967] (1-2); formation in 1953 by McShane, Gerry Healy, Eric Heffer and others of a short-lived federation of Marxist groups based in Liverpool, and reasons for its demise (2-3); publication by the federation of Lenin’s last letter calling for the removal of Stalin (3-4); examples of the withholding from British Communist Party members of facts which would damage Stalin’s reputation (4-5,7); resignations from the party following the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 (6, 8); Nikita Khrushchev’s speech condemning Stalin (6-7); uncritical support of him by some Glasgow Trades Council members over the Cuban Missile Crisis (7); McShane’s wish to avoid splitting the party in the 1950s (8).
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Recording at 842/39.
English
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