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01 Cover 30/10/2017 09:14 Page 1 CHARTIST for Democratic Socialism #289 November/December 2017 £2 Strictly Not Dancing #289 working_01 cover 30/10/2017 09:14 Page 1 CHARTIST For democratic socialism #289 November/December 2017 £2 Strictly not dancing Prem Sikka Budget blues Martina Anderson MEP Julie Ward MEP Don Flynn Brexit blues Bryn Jones Taking Control Naomi Winborne- Idrissi Jewish Labour Duncan Bowie Councils under cosh plus Book & Film reviews ISSN - 0968 7866 ISSUE 8 9 www.chartist.org.uk #289 working_01 cover 30/10/2017 09:14 Page 2 Contributions and letters deadline for Editorial Policy CHARTIST #290 The editorial policy of CHARTIST is to promote debate amongst people active in 08 December 2017 radical politics about the contemporary Chartist welcomes articles of 800 or 1500 words, and relevance of democratic socialism across letters in electronic format only to: [email protected] the spectrum of politics, economics, science, philosophy, art, interpersonal Receive Chartist’s online newsletter: send your email address to [email protected] relations – in short, the whole realm of social life. Chartist Advert Rates: Our concern is with both democracy and socialism. The history of the last century Inside Full page £200; 1/2 page £125; 1/4 page £75; 1/8 page £40; 1/16 page £25; small box 5x2cm £15 single has made it abundantly clear that the sheet insert £50 mass of the population of the advanced We are also interested in advert swaps with other publications. To place an advert, please email: capitalist countries will have no interest [email protected] in any form of socialism which is not thoroughly democratic in its principles, its practices, its morality and its ideals. Yet the consequences of this deep attach- ment to democracy – one of the greatest advances of our epoch – are seldom reflected in the discussion and debates amongst active socialists. CHARTIST is not a party publication. It brings together people who are interested in socialism, some of whom are active the Labour Party and the trade union move- ment. It is concerned to deepen and extend a dialogue with all other socialists and with activists from other movements involved in the struggle to find democrat- ic alternatives to the oppression, exploita- tion and injustices of capitalism and class society Editorial Board CHARTIST is published six times a year by the Chartist Collective. This issue was produced by an Editorial Board consisting of Duncan Bowie (Reviews), Andrew Coates, Peter Chalk, Patricia d’Ardenne, Mike Davis (Editor), Nigel Doggett, Don Flynn, Roger Gillham, James Grayson, Hassan Hoque, Peter Kenyon, Dave Lister, Puru Miah, Patrick Mulcahy, Sheila Osmanovic, Marina Prentoulis, Robbie Speakers at the Chartist-TWT Labour fringe meeting on Brexit. (From left) Sarandra Bogujevci Scott (Website Editor), Mary Southcott, Josef Weidenholzer, Paul Maskey, Julie Ward, Mike Davis, Marina Prentoulis & Marianne John Sunderland. Kasperska-Zegar (see report p. 13) Production: Ferdousur Rehman Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the EB CHARTIST Join the growing body of supporter FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM subscribers for which you will receive Contacts occasional discussion bulletins and an invitation to readers’ meetings Published by Chartist Publications and the AGM. Alternatively, just take PO Box 52751 London EC2P 2XF out an ordinary subscription. tel: 0845 456 4977 £15 ordinary subscription Printed by People For Print Ltd, Unit 10, Riverside Park, $30 supporter subscription Sheaf Gardens, Sheffield S2 4BB – Tel 0114 272 0915. (6 issues) Email: [email protected] V isit Website: www.chartist.org.uk www.chartist.org.uk/subscribe for Email:[email protected] details Twitter: @Chartist48 Newsletter online: to join, email [email protected] #289 working_01 cover 30/10/2017 09:14 Page 3 CONTENTS FEATURES THE BUDGET WE NEED Prem Sikka predicts sops and austerity from 8 Hammond TOWN HALLS-ROCK & HARD PLACE Duncan Bowie on tough choices in local 10 government VIEW FROM EUROPE Jack Simmons on Juncker’s State of the 12 Union No people’s budget says Prem Sikka – EURO-LEFT V AUSTERITY page 8 Left politics in Europe is route says Julie Ward & Chartist 13 Cover by Lorna Watson NO TO IRELAND HARD BORDER Martina Anderson MEP on Brexit threat to CHARTIST 14 peace FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM TORY SPLITS Number 289 November/December 2017 Trevor Fisher warns against triumphalism 15 REGULARS TAKING REAL CONTROL Bryn Jones draws out Corbyn on POINTS & CROSSINGS 16 empowering workers 4 Paul Salveson on UK impact of Russian Revolution JEWISH LABOUR VOICE EDITORIAL Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi celebrates and 5 Tories in a spin 18 cautions GREENWATCH 1 6 Nigel Doggett on two cheers from Rohingya-Britain & EU must act now – WHY LEXITERS ARE WRONG Labour fringe page 22 Don Flynn shakes down the nationalist left 20 GREENWATCH 2 7 Dave Toke no cheers for green Labour WESTERN SHAME ON ROHINGYA OUR HISTORY 75 Muddasser Ahmed argues EU must act on 19 Douglas Jay –The Socialist Case genocide 22 FILM REVIEW 25 Patrick Mulcahy on Death of Stalin RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 100 YEARS ON Duncan Bowie on a mixed bag of books BOOK REVIEWS 26 Duncan Bowies on land reform, spies 23 and Boris Johnson, Nigel Watt on Israel, Don Flynn on migrants, Nim BLACK DWARF 200 YEARS ON Njuguma on Mackham Singh, Dave Phil Vellender looks back on Regency Lister on Brexit folly, Glyn Ford on Hilary Clinton 24 Republicanism WESTMINSTER VIEW 32 Fabian Hamilton MP on banning the bomb A new model of nationalisation – pages 16-17 November/December 2017 CHARTIST 3 #289 working_01 cover 30/10/2017 09:14 Page 4 P & C Siding with the future here’s been lots of good stuff around about right, including Philip Snowden. In many ways, the centenary of the Russian ‘October’ Snowden was right. Revolution of 1917. Some informed The radical democratic politics that had infused debates, stimulating exhibitions and fasci- pre-WW1 British socialism was squeezed between nating programmes on the music inspired the ideologues of the CPGB and the right-wing ‘real- Tby 1917. Most of us brought up in the 70s still have ism’ of the Labour Party, eager to take power. a reverence for ‘1917’ which is perhaps being rekin- Whilst the two political organisations hated each Paul dled with everything happening this year. But is it other, they also had much in common: a disdain for mis-placed? democratic engagement, a highly centralist Salveson I think the Russian Revolution and the emer- approach and a touching faith in the power of the gence of a highly centralised, autocratic Soviet state state and the ability of Labour or the CP to ‘mould’ on the under Stalin was a disaster for socialism – in the it to deliver socialism. UK and in many other countries too. The Soviet The CPGB’s impact wasn’t totally negative. It m ixed but legacy is complex and contradictory. But the actual attracted some highly talented leaders, not least dam aging revolution and the creation of the Communist Harry Pollitt, a young boilermaker from International (‘Comintern’) in particular had dire Manchester. The CP played a mostly honourable legacy of results for British socialism. role in many industrial struggles, in combating fas- Here’s why. Up to 1917 there was a healthy cism in the 30s and in supporting the republican O ctober socialist tradition in Britain, mainly represented by side in the Spanish Civil War. The hundreds of CP t h e activists who Independent volunteered did Labour Party so from the best (ILP), strongly of motives. The influenced by role of the CP radical inter- during the pretations of Second World Christianity War, after the and the demo- USSR had cratic ideals of entered the war William Morris at least, was a and Edward positive one. C a r p e n t e r . The role of the Alongside the Soviet Union in ILP, and often d e f e a t i n g sharing joint Hitler inspired candidates, the a new genera- British Socialist tion of social- Party had a CPGB leaders Palme Dutt and Harry Pollitt overlooked by Lenin and Stalin ists, in Britain more orthodox and across the Marxist under- world. But it re- pinning but retained some of the ILP’s democratic inforced the dangers of hero worship and pushing socialist politics. Uniting the two and going beyond uncomfortable ‘facts’ aside, and seeing socialism as party boundaries was the Clarion movement, social- synonymous with total state control. Most people in ist clubs, choirs and a very rich socialist culture the CP by then knew that Stalin was a ruthless dic- which was genuinely working class, very much root- tator and the ‘gulags’ were a reality. But they were ed in the North, South Wales and central Scotland. prisoners of a religious-like faith in the ‘leading role The Russian Revolution and the creation of the of the Soviet Union’ in which mass killings, torture Comintern as a means of imposing a rigid Soviet and repression were merely ‘administrative errors’. model on the left, world-wide, did its best to destroy Today, there is a real danger that the activists, that distinctly British socialist culture. The once again, will be intoxicated by their own internal Comintern’s acolytes badgered and bullied the BSP successes and forget that political power is won by and parts of the ILP, and some of the smaller social- winning over some of the middle ground. That isn’t ist groups, to form the CPGB in 1920 but with a an argument for diluting a radical programme. It’s very different organisational structure from any- an argument for thinking through what a radical thing the ILP or even BSP had been used to. There programme should really look like, that can be pop- had been much discussion in the British left about a ular.
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