[ Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968. ] Duplicated typed document issued by 'Kilburn VSC', titled 'Czechoslovakia - A Marxist Analysis'.

1p., folio. Printed in red. Sixty lines of text. In fair conditon, lightly aged and worn. The first paragraph reads: 'The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia has provoked the expected emotional outburst from the reformist Left, tailing as usual behind the hypocritical phrases of the British ruling class, who weep over "poor Czechoslovakia" while actively supporting the 100-times-worse suffering inflicted by the US on the Vietnamese. But as Marxists we must avoid being swept away in this orgy of righteous indignation and judge the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia from the standpoint of socialism, and not from abstract moralisms about self-determination.' The final paragraph reads: 'The position of the Soviet leaders is the inevitable dilemma faced by the bureaucratic regime that has served its progressive function and has long been ripe for overthrow. It can attempt to preserve the gains made by the social revolution, but even in doing so it prevents its further advance which would mean the regime's own dissolution. In order to save socialism in Czechoslovakia, Brezhnev and Kosygin have to destroy it!' No other copy traced. The address in West End Lane was later used by Aubrey Walter of the Gay Liberation Front, and it may be that the pamphlet was written by Walter while a radical student at the London School of Economics.