COMRADES WINTER AND DUTT

It appears that, after all, Comrade Pollitt has not interceded with Stalin on behalf of the recently vanquished (and possibly soon to be liquidated) Comrade Colonel Professor Winters, leader of the Presteigne Soviets in the Herefordshire VBCW.

Whatever fellow feeling Comrade Pollitt may have for a brave battlefield general fighting on behalf of  "(Marxist-Leninist) truth, (Stalinist) justice and the Soviet way", he has been specifically instructed by the CPGB's leading theoretician (and rigorously hard-line Stalinist), Comrade Raj Palme Dutt, that Winter's fate is not a matter for the CPGB, but for the Communist International, or Comintern.

Rajani Palme Dutt - inflexible Stalinist and CPGB "power behind the throne".
The photograph is said to capture Dutt's ruthlessness - and complete lack of a sense of humour.

Critics of Dutt (none of whom, of course, dare to speak openly) ascribe Dutt's ruling to personal animosity. It appears that, before the VBCW broke out, Dutt was openly jealous of Winter's academic credentials as a Professor (although of what institution remains somewhat of a mystery), and the two entered into sharp exchanges on various obscure points of dialetical materialism - in even more obscure academic journals (readership of some of which is said to have been limited to, er....two).

The party line, however, is that, as Herefordshire is clearly of critical importance to the balance of power within Europe, Winter's fate transcends mere national party business. Long term readers of this blog may consider that such reasoning ironically reflects that of the German Fuhrer and Reichkanzler himself, Adolf Hitler, as set within his notorious "Herefordshire Speech" to the Reichstag.

Upon learning of Dutt's ruling, a frustrated Winters in the King Street HQ.
During this period, Comrade "Bill" Winters even grew a bushy moustache
in order to curry favour with Comrade Stalin.

Slavishly adherent to the party line, the best that Comrade Pollitt has been able to do for Comrade Winters is gently to suggest that he obtain some legal advice, and possibly a super-injunction against immediate liquidation, and to type out an introduction to the foremost Communist KC of his generation, Mr Dennis Pritt..... 

Notes : for more on Raj Palme Dutt (although, strangely, the long running Dutt/Winter's theoretical dispute is not mentioned) see WIKI HERE