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Poverty in Manila.
it developed again? After all the theory of the colonial revolution was an extension of the permanent revolution in the post-war environment with the existence of a strong degenerated workers' state, the USSR. It is necessary
Durban, South Africa finally found that they could not continue, and there was no possibility of getting the wage cut restored. This had little or nothing to do with the scabbing that was being organised.
The splinter union, the Amalgamated Marine Workers, which supported the strike in Britain, was consulted and agreed. A week later they called off the strike (p70). The strike in Australia continued for another month. It was the foreign support for the strike that was so crucial in its continued action, after it had all but collapsed in Britain.
On the matter of racism and the seamen, an entire chapter is devoted to this subject. Unfortunately, racism was endemic among seamen, including the
to make a further of the theory in the climate.
development post-Stalinist
ours comradely Sue Wilkie, Birmingham
most radical section (p36) since the earlier part of the century in Britain (and for much longer in South Africa and Australia).
This had its effect on the strike, and must be condemned, but not always as claimed in the above passage. In South Africa racism (anti-Indian) even won the strikers support from whites because of the threat of scabs being recruited from India.
Nor was there much evidence during the strike of foreign scabs being employed in Britain. In those days of depression scabs were two-a-penny, and the NSFU recruited them for the shipowners.
Yours sincerely,
Baruch Hirson,
London
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