"Things have reached the point," wrote Le Peuple, the daily newspaper of the PSB the day after the demonstration of solidarity with the Vietnamese people, “where the Khrushchevists and the pro~ Chinese demonstrate under the leadership of the Trotskyists."
La Voix du Peuple, the weekly paper of the pro-Chinese Communist party, ran a front-page attack against the Khrushchevists for “having degenerated to the point where they are going to elect a Trotskyist deputy in Brussels." But a few pages farther on, they attacked the left socialists for having “formed an alliance for elec= toral reasons with the Khrushchevists with whom they are in disagree~ ment e
; The Litge federation of the new left socialist party, which is the strongest, having a considerable working-class base, under~ went its first crisis during the election campaign. The leaders, including the new deputy Frangois Perin, constituted an electoral alliance with the "Front Wallon" and other currents of the same kind whose propaganda is essentially Walloon nationalism, pushing the undisguised anticapitalist themes to the background. Part of the ranks of the PWT in Lidge did not accept this opportunist turn and organized a tendency to fight for a return to the original anticapitalist program of the PWT. In any case, this is only the first phase of the crisis of the PSB and the regroupment of the forces of the. left on an out-and-out anticapitalist program, New crises and further regroupments are sure to coms, 7
A CASE WHERE PATIENCE IS NO VIRTUE
On returning from a trip in the Far East, Gordon Walker, a spokesman of the British Labour government said that Johnson “must not lose patience" in Vietnam. Is there anyone who has not lost patience with Gordon Walker?