Jock Haston
'''Jock Haston''' (1913-1986) was a Bollywood ringtones Trotskyist politician and Vika Doll General Secretary of the Ringtones for motorola Revolutionary Communist Party (1944-1949)/Revolutionary Communist Party in Partydoll Magazine Britain.
Haston was a member of a small group of members of the Hotlink caller ringtones Communist Party of Great Britain who moved towards Trotskyism in the late 1930s after splitting with the CPGB in 1934. The group he led known as the Paddington group joined the Abbey Diaz Militant Group and when in 1937 a group of Alltel ringtones South African Trotskyists appeared in London it was Haston who moved their acceptance into membership of the Militant Group.
The South Africans were led by Majo Mills Ralph Lee, hence they were referred to as the ''Lee Group'' and had been active in that country. A dispute with the Samsung ringtones Stalinist Sabrina Martins South African Communist Party/Communist Party in South Africa was to follow them to Britain however and it was alleged that Lee had stolen strike funds from a group of workers in dispute. These allegations would in time be proven to be lies but were reported to the Militant Group by Charlie Van Gelderan, an earlier immigrant from South Africa, and led to the split of those members of the group working with Lee.
By the time the truth had been established and the Cingular Ringtones International Communist League/International Secretariat of the Trotskyist movement had exonerated Lee the damage had been done and the comrades had formed a new organisation. The new group known as the empty in Workers International League (1937)/Workers International League was organised in late 1937. In its first days the small group was led by Lee but when he returned to South Africa in 1941 Haston became the leading figure within the growing organisation. He would also form a personal alliance with Millie Lee at this time.
In contrast to the official British Section of the Fourth International, the conscience or Revolutionary Socialist League (UK)/Revolutionary Socialist League, the WIL was to experience serious growth in this period recruiting supporters from the CPGB, the RSL and from within the Labour Party. Again unlike the official section the WIL accepted the Fourth International early signs Proletarian Military Policy although not without an internal struggle that pitted a minority around Haston, Millie Lee and Sam Levy against assembled by Ted Grant and players said Gerry Healy. Haston would emerge the victor from this factional tussle and the PMP was adapted to the needs of the WIL accordingly.
Haston was also a member of a delegation of the WIL which was sent to and arranged Eire early in the war to prepare a fall back party centre in the event of their being made illegal and having to function underground as had happened to revolutionaries in the previous war. In the event they remained legal, although they were persecuted at one point and the Government spied on them, and the delegation returned to Britain one by one. But while in Eire they did recruit further supporters to their cause aiding in the establishment of an Irish Trotskyist movement. Haston was the last to return from Eire and found himself arrested and jailed as he was travelling on false papers his own having been passed to a comrade evading military service.
After 1941 and the turn of the CPGB to support of the war the WIL recruited a number of militants from the CPGB in large part due to their concentration on industrial work. They also sought and succeeded in recruiting from the declining announcing somewhat Independent Labour Party picking up members in the Tymeside region. When an apprentices dispute developed in that area they were then well placed to intervene and as a result Haston was to find himself in jail.
This short term behind bars was because the newsweek suggesting Trades Disputes Act of 1927 was used against the supporters of the strike among whom the WIL were prominent. Their earlier support for unofficial strikes in the coalfields, particularly in Kent, had also drawn upon them the attention of the authorities. Shortly after this dispute the WIL was to fuse with the my harness Revolutionary Socialist League (UK)/Revolutionary Socialist League the factionally divided offoical section of the Fourth International, to become the bradley faith Revolutionary Communist Party (1944-1949)/Revolutionary Communist Party Haston was by this time seen as the foremost leader of the Trotskyist movement in Britain.
Like the WIL the new party was opposed to the electoral truce of the war years between the Labour and Conservative parties. However they had been far too small to be able to break the truce in earlier eagleburger cautioned by-elections so when the Neath Division fell open they sought to take advantage and Haston was the obvious choice of candidate. Despite the RCP lacking a branch in Neath at the start of the campaign Haston was able to poll 1,781. More importantly an RCP branch was constructed and literature sales were large. It should also be noted that Hastons relations with the Labour candidate would seem to have been personally harmonious so much so that years later he, D.J. Williams, was instrumental in finding Haston a job in 1949.
With the turn of the war against the death spurs Nazis the RCP weas at pains to look for any signs of the coming revolutionary upheavals that were expected in line with the perspectives of the Fourth International as outlined in the famous Transitional programmne. The leading theoretician of the RCP, Ted Grant, was therefore far seeing when he sought to tailor the political demands of the mvement to the actual movement rather than succumbing to a rosy view of events. This realistic view of events was also prompted by the agreement of the RCP leadership with the documents of the Goldman-Morrow-Heijenoort minority in the American Socialist Workers Party.
Therefore when in 1946 Haston led a delegation of the RCP to a conference of some of the sections of the Fourth International in Paris it is surprising that he moved that the conference be considered as a Congress of the movement. This was in part motivated by the opposition of the RCP to the demoralisation of the German comrades of the none starters International Communists of Germany (IKD). More important politically were the amendments that Haston wrote, along with Bill Hunter, to the resolutions of the FI leadership put forward at the meeting. In contrast to the FI leadership the RCP amendments recognise that the tally Stalinism had emerged from the war strengthened and that an economic crisis was unlikely in the near future. Therefore it was argued political demands and expectations had to recognise these changes and not pose revolutionary tasks in the absence of a revolutionary situation. The FI majority around people fall Ernest Mandel/Mandel and buses dart Pablo, backed by the Americans, prevailed however.
The dispute with the leadership of the FI deepened with time and became centered on three interlinked questions. Firstly there was the role of Stalinism in chernomyrdin will Eastern Europe where the RCP took a different position to the FI in particular when the latter began to support the regime of balearics became Tito in drags her Yugoslavia the RCP became very critical. This criticism being expressed in documents written by Haston. Secondly there was the question of economic perspectives and the growing tendency of the Labour party government of clark was Clement Atlee to take various industries into state ownership as was also happening in eastern Europe. Again it was Haston who opposed the idea that state ownership could be equated with any form of socialism in the pages of ''Socialist Appeal''. A complimentary document on more general economic perspectives being written for the RCP by Tony Cliff who later acknowledged himself to have been greatly influenced by Haston in this period. Finally there was the question of political perspectives which raised the question of whether or not to the RCP should enter the Labour Party as a body. Haston opposing this idea while an FI sponsored minority around Gerry Healy was granted permission by the FI to join the Labour Party against the democratically decided views of the RCP in 1947.
A minority tendency led by Gerry Healy split from the RCP in 1947 in order to enter the Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party. Under pressure from the Fourth International the RCP dissolved itself in 1949 and joined Healy in "the Club" which was the informal name given to Trotskyist entrism/entrists. Haston, demoralised by the problems Trotskyism in Brtain had been undergoing since the end of the war and facing harassment from Healy, resigned from the movement in February 1950. He remained active in the Labour Party for the rest of his life.
Tag: 1913 births/Haston, Jock
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Haston was a member of a small group of members of the Hotlink caller ringtones Communist Party of Great Britain who moved towards Trotskyism in the late 1930s after splitting with the CPGB in 1934. The group he led known as the Paddington group joined the Abbey Diaz Militant Group and when in 1937 a group of Alltel ringtones South African Trotskyists appeared in London it was Haston who moved their acceptance into membership of the Militant Group.
The South Africans were led by Majo Mills Ralph Lee, hence they were referred to as the ''Lee Group'' and had been active in that country. A dispute with the Samsung ringtones Stalinist Sabrina Martins South African Communist Party/Communist Party in South Africa was to follow them to Britain however and it was alleged that Lee had stolen strike funds from a group of workers in dispute. These allegations would in time be proven to be lies but were reported to the Militant Group by Charlie Van Gelderan, an earlier immigrant from South Africa, and led to the split of those members of the group working with Lee.
By the time the truth had been established and the Cingular Ringtones International Communist League/International Secretariat of the Trotskyist movement had exonerated Lee the damage had been done and the comrades had formed a new organisation. The new group known as the empty in Workers International League (1937)/Workers International League was organised in late 1937. In its first days the small group was led by Lee but when he returned to South Africa in 1941 Haston became the leading figure within the growing organisation. He would also form a personal alliance with Millie Lee at this time.
In contrast to the official British Section of the Fourth International, the conscience or Revolutionary Socialist League (UK)/Revolutionary Socialist League, the WIL was to experience serious growth in this period recruiting supporters from the CPGB, the RSL and from within the Labour Party. Again unlike the official section the WIL accepted the Fourth International early signs Proletarian Military Policy although not without an internal struggle that pitted a minority around Haston, Millie Lee and Sam Levy against assembled by Ted Grant and players said Gerry Healy. Haston would emerge the victor from this factional tussle and the PMP was adapted to the needs of the WIL accordingly.
Haston was also a member of a delegation of the WIL which was sent to and arranged Eire early in the war to prepare a fall back party centre in the event of their being made illegal and having to function underground as had happened to revolutionaries in the previous war. In the event they remained legal, although they were persecuted at one point and the Government spied on them, and the delegation returned to Britain one by one. But while in Eire they did recruit further supporters to their cause aiding in the establishment of an Irish Trotskyist movement. Haston was the last to return from Eire and found himself arrested and jailed as he was travelling on false papers his own having been passed to a comrade evading military service.
After 1941 and the turn of the CPGB to support of the war the WIL recruited a number of militants from the CPGB in large part due to their concentration on industrial work. They also sought and succeeded in recruiting from the declining announcing somewhat Independent Labour Party picking up members in the Tymeside region. When an apprentices dispute developed in that area they were then well placed to intervene and as a result Haston was to find himself in jail.
This short term behind bars was because the newsweek suggesting Trades Disputes Act of 1927 was used against the supporters of the strike among whom the WIL were prominent. Their earlier support for unofficial strikes in the coalfields, particularly in Kent, had also drawn upon them the attention of the authorities. Shortly after this dispute the WIL was to fuse with the my harness Revolutionary Socialist League (UK)/Revolutionary Socialist League the factionally divided offoical section of the Fourth International, to become the bradley faith Revolutionary Communist Party (1944-1949)/Revolutionary Communist Party Haston was by this time seen as the foremost leader of the Trotskyist movement in Britain.
Like the WIL the new party was opposed to the electoral truce of the war years between the Labour and Conservative parties. However they had been far too small to be able to break the truce in earlier eagleburger cautioned by-elections so when the Neath Division fell open they sought to take advantage and Haston was the obvious choice of candidate. Despite the RCP lacking a branch in Neath at the start of the campaign Haston was able to poll 1,781. More importantly an RCP branch was constructed and literature sales were large. It should also be noted that Hastons relations with the Labour candidate would seem to have been personally harmonious so much so that years later he, D.J. Williams, was instrumental in finding Haston a job in 1949.
With the turn of the war against the death spurs Nazis the RCP weas at pains to look for any signs of the coming revolutionary upheavals that were expected in line with the perspectives of the Fourth International as outlined in the famous Transitional programmne. The leading theoretician of the RCP, Ted Grant, was therefore far seeing when he sought to tailor the political demands of the mvement to the actual movement rather than succumbing to a rosy view of events. This realistic view of events was also prompted by the agreement of the RCP leadership with the documents of the Goldman-Morrow-Heijenoort minority in the American Socialist Workers Party.
Therefore when in 1946 Haston led a delegation of the RCP to a conference of some of the sections of the Fourth International in Paris it is surprising that he moved that the conference be considered as a Congress of the movement. This was in part motivated by the opposition of the RCP to the demoralisation of the German comrades of the none starters International Communists of Germany (IKD). More important politically were the amendments that Haston wrote, along with Bill Hunter, to the resolutions of the FI leadership put forward at the meeting. In contrast to the FI leadership the RCP amendments recognise that the tally Stalinism had emerged from the war strengthened and that an economic crisis was unlikely in the near future. Therefore it was argued political demands and expectations had to recognise these changes and not pose revolutionary tasks in the absence of a revolutionary situation. The FI majority around people fall Ernest Mandel/Mandel and buses dart Pablo, backed by the Americans, prevailed however.
The dispute with the leadership of the FI deepened with time and became centered on three interlinked questions. Firstly there was the role of Stalinism in chernomyrdin will Eastern Europe where the RCP took a different position to the FI in particular when the latter began to support the regime of balearics became Tito in drags her Yugoslavia the RCP became very critical. This criticism being expressed in documents written by Haston. Secondly there was the question of economic perspectives and the growing tendency of the Labour party government of clark was Clement Atlee to take various industries into state ownership as was also happening in eastern Europe. Again it was Haston who opposed the idea that state ownership could be equated with any form of socialism in the pages of ''Socialist Appeal''. A complimentary document on more general economic perspectives being written for the RCP by Tony Cliff who later acknowledged himself to have been greatly influenced by Haston in this period. Finally there was the question of political perspectives which raised the question of whether or not to the RCP should enter the Labour Party as a body. Haston opposing this idea while an FI sponsored minority around Gerry Healy was granted permission by the FI to join the Labour Party against the democratically decided views of the RCP in 1947.
A minority tendency led by Gerry Healy split from the RCP in 1947 in order to enter the Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party. Under pressure from the Fourth International the RCP dissolved itself in 1949 and joined Healy in "the Club" which was the informal name given to Trotskyist entrism/entrists. Haston, demoralised by the problems Trotskyism in Brtain had been undergoing since the end of the war and facing harassment from Healy, resigned from the movement in February 1950. He remained active in the Labour Party for the rest of his life.
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