LETTERS The curt ease with which you dismiss A.J.Cook in The Dileituna of the Trade Union Lefts' [RW' 371 was rather painfui lo read. Any miner, any son of a miner, would rell you how wrone you are, You really cannot wave aside.a man's life as a revolutionary with the ill fornied cribieisms you make. "Cook was a man of the starure of Larkin or Connolly, Indeed, Cook did see the need of a revolutionary orgarisation- the SLP which he was stil talking of in 1936, ten years after you say he turned into the pet poodie of the TUC right.
Cook, a man on the right of the TUC? What sheer rubbish. He SOnT MNS TrOmS DOrs DIT country to exchange axperiences and diiscuss mora generally the contribution students have and can maice to the #truggle for socialism.
Leading representatives of the student movsment from Francs, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Chile will be speaking.
Warkshops will deal with the anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and antiTERVOCT SWUeDIDs For turther details, tickets, or materiat produced for the Rally, contact: IMG Student Commiseion, 97 Caledonian Road, LOROOD HT.
was a fine revolutionary, an honest pitman. No mun is without fauits, we know, but he certuinly did nor have the faults you mention.
Dave Douglass Hatfield Main Branch, NUM Far from dismissing out of land the CONLIOU DOM DE ALIL OOR WE SEECSSCU in "Dilemama of die Trade Union Lefts' that "There can be no doubt that both Cook and Smith were devoted fighters in the cause of the woeking class But we mart not bet tbis smoorlant act blind us to their serious political fanits.
Conrade Douglass is misinformed about Cook's later political activity. After leaving the Communist Farty he joined the E abour Party, and was associated with various left-wing social democratic currents: first James Maxton of the IL/P and then, very brielly, with the left reformist ineas of Oswakl Mosley (before the latcer's LEI CISOW So LOsIxi, 3E LUSI Cook died in 1931.
of tbe strugging yoong Communist Party (rhse organisation which, aibeit in embryonic and distorted fonm, embodied the colleges.
A.J.Cook and the dilemma of the T.U. lefts tics. tive for the class stnuggle CELUIZEOM!
The fact remains that Cook walked out
the necessary cash). year, exports of meat rose by 30%