Hudson's father Carlos, here under the pen name Jack Ranger in 1942,
wrote typical Trotskyite blather like this:
It was Trotsky’s hypothesis that the anti-Fascist revolution in Italy,
after beginning from one or another sectional clash, will inevitably go
through the stage of the general strike. Only in this way, he thought,
will the present disjointed Italian proletariat once again feel itself
as a united class and match the strength of the enemy’s resistance. It
is certain that once the workers of Italy reassemble in their own
organizations they will make short work of Mussolini and the
dictatorship of Big Business. In their march to liberation they will not
stop at bourgeois “democracy,” that democracy which betrayed them so
savagely in the early 1920s. Churchill and the Italian bourgeoisie,
fearful of the awful upheaval that is stirring in the depths of Italy,
invoke the name of the phrase-monger Mazzini. The Italian masses will
march under the banner of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky, to the socialist
revolution.
--"Anglo-American Plans for Italy," Fourth International magazine,
vol.3 No.4, April 1942, p 127.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/fi/vol03/no04/ranger.htm
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