Dear Comrades:
Further to our letter of July 6th and in reply to yours dated July 5th again addressed to the International Committee.
It would be useless for you to entertain illusions that it is possible to stampede this section into a unity which does not take into account the real political positions of the tendencies. This section was opposed to your document 'The Rise and Decline of Stalinism' in 1953, and it is opposed to your document 'The Decline and Fall of Stalinism' 1957. There is nothing you can do about that except to speed up your reply to Sinclair [Hunter].
We fail to understand how this approach impedes a unification such as outlined in our letter of the 6th instant. If we are to make the best use of the present most favourable situation then we must know where we stand politically now. If you do not appreciate this, then you are, whether you like it or not, holding up a real unity.
Here in Britain your supporters Grant and Fairhead press home the attack against our organisation privately and publicly on every conceivable occasion. We do not protest to you because we believe that this is the type of unification procedure which the comrades consider necessary.
It will in no way prevent us from attaining a principled unity if such a thing is possible.
Anticipating an early reply to the Sinclair document, we remain
Yours fraternally
Burns [Healy]
Secretary