First Published: The Guardian, November 3, 1976.
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The Call, newspaper of the October League, has again demonstrated its flair for comic inaccuracy. In a half-page polemic Oct. 18 headlined, “RCP, Guardian, Hinton ’Debate’: 3-Ring Circus Protects Superpowers,” The Call alleged the Guardian was one of the “main forces” behind a RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party)-initiated conference on the international situation scheduled for Nov. 13. If the OL had bothered to check any sources about the story, it would have found that the Guardian–like many other groups –was contacted by the RCP about the conference but decided not to participate.
The only correct thing about the Guardian in The Call article was that this newspaper calls for directing the main blow of the world’s peoples against U.S. imperialism. The OL, on the other hand, makes clear its position of fighting U.S. imperialism by directing the main blow against the Soviet Union: “The USSR and modern revisionism are the main prop of imperialism within the international struggle.... The main blow in that struggle must be directed at them.”
The OL lays out its objectively class-collaborationist position in an editorial in the same issue of The Call, “intervening” in the presidential elections to infer the Republican candidate is soft on Moscow. The editorial attacks President Ford for “appeasing Brezhnev” because of his idiotic “great debate” mistake about the USSR not dominating Eastern Europe–which The Call chose to take seriously–warning: “This attempt to legitimize Soviet expansion may bring back memories to the older generation of the late 1930s when Hitler was arrogantly expanding into Austria and Czechoslovakia.”