In the January issue of Labour Monthly, a Communist Party controlled journal edited by Palme Dutt, Kay Beauchamp, one the Communist Party's experts on African affairs writess
“,.Tho problems arising from the budget and the strikes were largely ' due to this inexperience and the lack of socialist understanding, both among the leaders and the peoples...eeeeesinternal and forcign enemies of the government, including the United Party, which has always beon a reactionary opposition, were — able to fan the discontent of the workers, market women and fgpmers who were n convinced of the need for sacrifico.." These arguements are the samo those which explain all strikes in Britain as being due to ‘Moscow tators' and cover up support for Nkrumah's actibns of imprisoning trad without trial and dissolving trade union branches.