Ne hear a lot of talk about Britain boing an ovorcrowdod island and that this alone would bo reason for somo control of immigration to Britain. iivon if wo accopted this }:ind of argument, which wo don't, and even if wo disregarded the figuros of umigration boin;: much Sroater than immigration tho boot would bo on the other foot. The only way of comparing such movement, is not in absolute figures but by tho numbers as a porcontage of tho total population. When wo do this wo find that, for 1960, the numbor of Britains going to Jamaica, as a percentage of the Jamaican population, is fivo times as high as tho number of Jamaicans coming to Britain as a porcontage of tho British population.
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Waltor Holmes of the Daily Worker's column Woykers Notebook, reproducod ‘ oxtracts from a recent specch by Thorez in which he attacked, Trotsky. Repeating many of the old slandors (without bringing in accusations of Boing a police spy, otc. , however) Thorez says "Contrary to the myths which have been put around y— Trotsky never was a Leninist, nor a Bolshevik...." Porhaps Thorez would consider Lonin contributed to this 'myth' when he described Trotsky as '...porh is the most capable man in tho present C(entral) C(ommitteoe)...' of the Bolshevik Party. Or when Lenin and Trotsky were the joint Russian signatories to tho ‘Invitation to the First Congress of tho Communist Intornational. Porhaps Thorez himself is not blameless because, as reported in Isaac Deutscher's Prophet Unarmed, he...approved much in Trotsky's criticism of socialism in ono country (page 444). “hat is of intcrost, however, is what motivates this attack. It is,in its distorted way, yot one moro proof that the 22nd Congress far from closing the discussion about Stalinism,has laid the basis . .. for a real discussion, which in its turn means facing up to tho challonge of ''rotskyism.