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Except in isolated arcas where individual Labour Parties have been led by Marxists, the reaction to the war threat over Cuba was noticeably —— at least in London = channelled through organisations outside the mainstream of ths Labour liovement. For the first two or three days leadership of the campaign remained disastrously in tho hands of the Committee of 100, who fatuously paraced their supporters from Jimbassy to -imbassy protesting in approved sitting posture against tho three governments held equally responsible for the war threat! those of the U.eSeley the U.S.S.R. and of revolutionary Cubalf! Only by Saturday, and against the Rassellite leadership, had the protest begun to be directed against Macmillan at admiralty JHouse3 and hardly anyone lobbied Transport House to demand of the "loadership" of the working class that they do their duty! The overiding weakness of the campaign, as led by C.N.D. and the Committes of 100, was that the issue was presented as primarily a horrified squeal against nuclear bombs, instead of a determined defence of the Cuban anti~imperialist revolution at any cost. The plain fact emerged that at this stage Marxists are still trailing behind the pacifists “hen the dust has cleared, a sustained campaign of propoganda in explanation of the revolution against neo-colonialism must be begun. Defence of this revolution and of the workers' states, by whatever means, must be seon as the primary issue, yather than panic-stricken snivelling over the spread of the mushroom,
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