Opinion of C.L.R. James

[C.L.R. James is the author of The Black Jacobins, World Revolution, and other works.]

I want to say that I knew and worked with Joseph Hansen and George Novack for a length of time during which I had every opportunity of forming an opinion of their political and personal conduct. The idea that they have at any time been in contact with or in any way associated with the G.P.U. is utterly false and a dangerous political fabrication. I am most certain of that because of the reputation of the leaders of the organization which accuses them.

C.L.R. James

SOURCE: Healy’s Big Lie: The Slander Campaign Against Joseph Hansen, George Novack, and the Fourth International. Statements and Articles by Joseph Hansen, George Novack, John and Mary Archer, George Breitman, Charles Curtiss, Sam Gordon, Betty Hamilton, C.L.R. James, Pierre Lambert, Bala Tampoe, Ernest Tate, Charles Van Gelderen, Jean Van Heijenoort, ‘Nea Poreia’, ‘Red Weekly’, ‘Socialist Action’, ‘Socialist Press’. Education for Socialists [New York: Socialist Workers Party], December 1976. 87 pp. C.L.R. James, p. 67.

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