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as a "phony war" instigated by both by Western capitalists and the Soviet Union. He "never really believed the thesis, but... found it intriguing enough to try to figure out what they were talking about."
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and claiming that even the Revolutionary Workers League was "an enemy of the international working class. It is a sabotaging agency in the struggle of exposure and destruction of the Stalinist reaction."
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While initially a tiny group, a small degree of press attention enabled the League to grow slightly. It published several books, and remained hostile to other left-wing currents. Its 1937 publication,
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Marxism and the Bolshevik State; workers democratic world government versus national-burocratic 'Soviet' and capitalist regimes
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movement, but rejected Trotskyism in 1937. A few members felt that it had not gone far enough, and, led by
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among the left, and disagreement about its direction caused the group to dissolve itself in about 1950.
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After sixteen years of silence: (on Trotsky's article: "Did Stalin poison Lenin?").
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Did Trotsky collaborate with Stalin: a reply to J.R. Johnson of the Workers Party "
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An explanation of the real meaning of Trotsky's article "Did Stalin poison Lenin?"
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Solzhenitsyn, the "communist" power : and the answer to the SALT delusion
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Cannon's "Struggle for a proletarian party": an exposure of a political career
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Earl Browder, communist or tool of Wall Street; Stalin, Trotsky or Lenin
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One person who was influenced by the Marlenites was a young
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to be a "phony" war, obscuring the real war of Western
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The murder of Trotsky and the fight against Stalinism.
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In defense of Bolshevism; behind the betrayal in Spain
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