ON THE 21st CONGRESS
(Note: In the Elysian Fields, it is sometimes granted to the inhabitants that they should be given a glimpse into the future. Comrade McGonagall was recently granted this privilege, and had a vision of a time, not so far in the future, when his undoubted poetical merits would be fully recognised by the Executive Committee of the British Communist Party, and he would be commissioned to do Executive Committee resolutions into verse for publication in the Daily Worker. The following is his version of the Executive Committee resolution which will be promulgated after the 21st Congress of the Soviet Communist Party.)
On behalf of the Executive Committee
We send fraternal greetings warm and hearty
To the Congress lately held in Moscow city
Of the Soviet workers' one and only Party.
Along with all progressive-minded nations
We rejoice that the decisions were unanimous;
We welcome the collective condemnations
Of comrades who were weak and pusillanimous.
We welcome Stalin's rehabilitation,
And the downfall of the Khrushchev-Kadar cliques
Which nearly caused the Party's liquidation
(Especially in 1956).
It emerges from the Soviet discussions
That we must have solidarity or burst:
We're always glad to criticise the Russians
(Provided that the Russians do it first).
What though false information may mislead us? -
Our discipline is based upon conviction!
What though the toiling masses never heed us? -
We've solved the basic social contradiction!
Our efforts we shall double and redouble
In London, Cardiff, Aberdeen and Donegal,
And pulverise the Tories into rubble.
I am, sir, yours fraternally, McGONAGALL
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