Trotskyism and Maoism
The Irish Communist Group of the mid-1960s, the subject of the article “Stoking up on theory” in the last issue of Solidarity , was part of a wider scene of Trotskyist-Maoist regroupment efforts at the time. Stalinist Beijing and Moscow had fallen out in the early 60s. The Chinese criticised Moscow from the “left” — for instance, questioning the dogma of the Stalinist parties controlled by Moscow that there could be a peaceful parliamentary road to socialism. If you didn’t know, or let yourself forget, what and who Mao and his comrades were, it was good Marxist critique of Moscow and East...