Letter from the CPGB to Talking About Socialism
Comrades, your announcement, breaking off talks between TAS, the CPGB and the pro-party faction of Prometheus is something that we deeply regret. We still have before us a great opportunity to take forward what is our joint project of forging communist unity and building a mass Communist Party in Great Britain.
You, however, have set this project back by your decision to walk away from what we always envisaged as a highly promising, but prolonged, process.
The CPGB is and remains committed to talks, debates and, crucially, the perspective of fusion in the struggle for a mass Communist Party. Our door remains open.
We would, therefore, ask you to reconsider your decision to break from FCU. We would ask you to invite a member of the CPGB’s PCC to speak at a TAS membership meeting. An invitation that ought to include the pro-party faction to Prometheus too. This is, remember a tripartite process that also reaches into RS21 and, in fact, considerably beyond. Good communists here in Britain, and internationally, are closely following our debates and efforts to achieve organisational unity.
If you seriously believe that the CPGB has behaved in an underhand, reprehensible or unprincipled manner that is something that ought to be openly addressed. We are certainly ready to account for our commitment to robust and open polemics.
We therefore issue our own invitation. Provide a speaker for one of our regular Online Communist Forums. You will be given as much time as you feel you need.
TAS, surely have nothing to lose. Together our cause has everything to gain.
In solidarity,
Provisional Central Committee
CPGB