Correction

In our article “On Marxism and Religion” in the previous issue of Australasian Spartacist (No. 204, Autumn 2009), we wrote:

“SAlt’s political origins go back to the late Tony Cliff and his followers who bowed to the pressure of anti-communist Cold War hysteria during the Korean War. Capitulating to the British bourgeoisie and the then-ruling British Labour Party, they refused to defend the Soviet Union, China and North Korea against imperialist attack and were expelled from Trotsky’s Fourth International for reneging on their revolutionary duty.”

While some followers of Tony Cliff were expelled, others, including Cliff himself, broke from the Trotskyist Fourth International on this question of defence of the Soviet Union and other workers states.