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LENIN ON MACLEAN - SUPPLEMENT. "HANDS OFF RUSSIA!" "Even though the British and French papers hide the truth it seems to be making some headway. The workers sense and realise that the revolution in Russia is theirs, a working man's, socialist revolution. Even in France and Britain the labour movement is now carrying such slogans as "Withdraw the forces from Russia!" and "He who makes war against Russ- ia is a criminal!". A socialist rally was recently held in London's Albert Hall and according to information received, which the British government tried hard to repress, the rally demanded "Withdraw the forces from Russia!" and all the workers' leaders condemned the government policy as robbery and violence. We also have news that MacLean, who was a Scottish schoolmaster at one time, called the workers out on strike in the principal industrial districts, cond- emning the war as a war of plunder. He had been in prison earlier. Then he was put in again. But when the revolut- ionary movement flared up in Europe, MacLean was let out and he put up as parliamentary candidate in Glasgow, one of the biggest cities in the North of England and Scotland. This shows that the British labour movement and its revolutionary demands are having a bigger impact. The British Government was forced to set MacLean free, its rabid enemy, a man who is proud to call himself a British Bolshevik". - 4th December 1918. 'Speech at Presnya Workers' Conference', Collected Works, Vol. 28, p. 356. A GREAT WORLD LEADER. "The differences you have had from the outset about pre- serving the 'independence' of the co-operative movement are nothing but vain efforts which must peter out without any hope of a positive solution. This struggle is not serious and it clashes with the principles of democracy..... ".....the resolutions daily adopted by the strongest class in the world - the kind our own Congress is sure to adopt unanimously - greet only the dictatorship of the proletariat all over the world. By adopting such a resolution our Con- gress takes the road which does not and cannot lead to the kind of 'independence' being discussed here today. You are aware that Karl Liebknecht has shown some opposition not only
