So if we are to reject Chris Harman's sketch of the basis for unity of revolunonaries we nave to put somelning else in its place.
Following the First World War and the victory ol ulc Russial nevoluton, revolutionaries everywhere founded new parties elements working were disgusted with the attitude social democratic parties In Britain the Communist Party was founded in 1920 through a fusion of a number or smaller revolutionary groups.
the period preceding obstacles raised because terences Delec wese groues on une cues• tion of whether it was right to take part in elections to Parliament, attitude to the Labour Party.
Writing to Sylvia Pankhurst in 1919 Lenin expressed his view of the overriding issue in this debate:
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