Party

The growing mmbar of groups on the far left teday has the affect of puzzling may militants particulacly when a sumber of these groups declana the National Qucatien to iss the central focua af activity for peralutdanaries io Ireland, The reed to unifying these sroupe in Ireland waa declare themselves Tretaiyler, eventually wider tha Famer af the Fourth Toternustion Ls beset with.miny obetacles,one of which is confuaian over what constitutes the basis ef splite aml fosieos. Mon of these currently justify thelr separation frat tue F,l, by dimokiog Lenins name aed what thoy assum to be his tiethods, The 45R fied taken the first and what iw beliess to be a fundamentally importent step, that of mity in action with a number af palitical organisations we find ouraglves clase to in different ficlds of werk ,Thring actita unlty we a will all find curselyes having to cyer= som: divigive obstacles. Whet then are we principles for real unity, fer fusing, amd whet are the cdocrete details of the Trish situation thar wuld make upiry a prinicipled and workable ohei7.

iis the qapetdon of regroupment has been posed bath br the preesure ef the objective altustion,spd discussion among certain pelitical organiautions,in this and sub= sequent articles we show viet Lenin 2nd Trotakyis position really wai and explain it's more cateral and in the case of Ireland specific, amplication ta the problem of bmidding a revolutionary party.

The conorptian sometimes held ef Lenin # an inveterate “splitter”, cant be upheld in any aerigus etodhy of Lecios fight to establish « revolutionary party dit Russia, Nurine the eleven year stowele which Lenin had with the Mensheviks, culninating in a complete break in 1914, there were Hany tines vhen Lenin teupgit for unity with the Mensheviks as asainat « aplit, Kis method af fighting can be divided inte te separate Wisterical periads,.,berare 1914 and after, Lesina struggle after the formation of the Bolshevik ractian in 10d,was 4 poldtical and ideological struggle against the Heosbeviks,and simil= tanncusly for 2 umnifisd party, smadnet what be termed the stiarchistia actions af the Honshevike, which thraatened the party with a aplir, Turing thie period Lenin wus well aware af the refermiat implications of Heoshivism, fut he did pot advocate a sclit because of this. He was torally Spposed ta 4 split so long as they, Menshivicks cheved the revolutiowarr dincipiiae af a common party. A Pew quotes trem his pritings will illastrate this 4 The refasal af Martev to serve on the aditerial beard fof Iskraj,bis refusal and that af ether party writers te collakerate, the refugal-of a nuftber of perstos to work an ths Central Committee and tbe propaganda af 2 boyootet,ar paceive reeist— ahice , are boi! te lead ee tf 4 the wishes of Marcoy { his frieeda,te a sphit in the party'thid Lenin declared his couplete opposition to asplit in the parg"(i}4 strugmie of shades in the purty is inevitable and sasential as leur ae it is caofined within teuods apprayed ter the ceanmar consyit at at against Che clght wh of toe party, wt the thnaress, again Akio and Aol oat bounds ™ (Li).

Thus Lenin decided not te apt for a apie in the LF, bot ta wae the method of faction wgle,iefot an oranigation within a Party, united net by itts place of work, language Nor waa his flexabilin: on political Lh re the Solshoyiecks found Phensel ves Shey the majority decisions of the.

the competent bedies have decided gl)

; EAL the Hefshevicks were in 2 Wha erect ; decided, that « split with Monshivisin wos necessary: lide decision was haaed exclugively oof onganisational criteria of the Menshiricks to chew party discipling, Thus he complained af the Menshivicks “using the colume of degaldy published magazines to heap slander and abuse on the dllegsl party CRSDLF), calling an werkera te macurd the niclei of the party and itta hierarchy as dead?! ete"

tae because of these acte of organigatienal sabotage aod net because ef political differences thar Leoin seperated fran the paforttists, Of course Lenin waa well aeare of the trtecheros he was also aware that their reforman underlay their ongdliinereas ta opbeld -rerdlutionary party discipline, Hut he recorded the relative autonomy of political pargpectives and organdaational UTR» : canrudes and party ounkers.And our atrigebs:

Hariyndy aod Martov,dn ne way exceeded those War other objective camdition, -froshivicks., but hy 4 particular view on party -questiona'™ difference and bia tasistance en ore isnation cisiplice hased cn the fuct that he had a majarity within the RSDLE, Brea io a minerity, Lenin insdated that they Henshevichs, For eonple he werate Mafpor of us, aa fembers of the party, must act One A Delehevick in (dessa (here majority) must cast inte the ballet box a ballot paper bearing 2 Cadet nom, even df it sickens ives oon the omdllingmess and imabdlity Rerersitcec.

iiplicationa af the Manahdyieky politics;