A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity Mike Macnair: Neil Faulkner n Letters and debate n Covid-19: one million deaths and his dreadful mangling n Covid-19 conspiracies of basic Marxism n UN biodiversity posturing No 1317 October 1 2020 Towards a mass Communist Party £1/€1.10 FREE JULIAN ASSANGE weekly 2 October 1 2020 1317 worker LETTERS Letters may have been an hour of moderate exercise a day - of any suggestions of what leftwing are with sadistic formality deemed ‘fit as an exciting race! Now surely this is shortened because of something that can be easily undone Americans should do. ‘A plague on to work’. what people who know perfectly well space. Some names (and more) in five minutes by both your houses’ is a popular way of I would suggest that nobody now they’re the working class are waiting may have been changed drinking a 330ml can of the world’s absenting oneself from any action or has the faintest idea of how many to engage with - these messages most advertised and biggest selling responsibility, and in my mind it is a workers are unemployed. The press, being sent out that their ears will hear soft drink. dereliction of duty. again, quotes figures every now and as music. This communist truth is Obesity James Linney If DL is correct, and change has to then, generally without question, but about a future of clean-air woodlands Thank you to Gary Simons for email come to the US - and possibly soon I think we can confidently assert that with dappled glades, rather than a his considered letter, raising some - then surely any leftwing person they are woefully underestimated. It clambering over slippery rocks in rat- objections to the scientific content Infinite would want to help energise the forces may be that an academic or a union encouraging caves, as is the promise of my article about the government’s Sorry, but Engels is right when he that might propel that change. With researcher can get some idea by from our current elites. recent published obesity strategy says: “The productivity of land only 16% of workers being in trade poring over assorted statistics, but But, then again, as Van ‘The Man’ (September 3). can infinitely be increased by the unions, massive struggle is not going certainly neither the government nor Morrison advises in his song, “My I agree with his first point that application of capital, labour and to come from that direction. So surely the mainstream media has any interest mother told me there’d be days like studies have shown obesity to be a science.” And Chris Gray makes Americans have to look for another in letting us know the truth. this!” significant risk factor in suffering a an elementary mathematical avenue in which to help foment action. There are millions of workers Bruno Kretzschmar serious Covid-19 illness. My point, mistake when he says, “Yes, these Unfortunately for political struggle, now classed as self-employed - either email however, was that it is by no means powers of nature can do good, but the US is enormous, and there is no struggling with a small business the only risk factor; and weight loss the possibilities are certainly not left party that appears in all states. All of their own (window cleaning, Real world strategies, no matter how successful, limitless” (‘Arguing against the third parties throughout the history of anyone?) - or are forced to describe A friend of mine once asked me why I are not going to ‘beat’ Covid-19. wrong “Marxism”‘, September 17). the US have reached at most 20 states. themselves as such to get work in write letters to my local newspapers, My point that even a good obesity Engels was not talking about So activists have to work where they the so-called ‘gig economy’. I recall given that I cannot change things. strategy would be unlikely to have limitlessness, but about infinite are. The only party that appears in all reading that a very high proportion of My answer to him is that I am not a significant impact on Covid-19 increase, which is very different. The states is the Democratic Party. the ‘self-employed’ are getting less trying to change things: I am just was made to highlight how quickly best example of the latter is Zeno’s Certainly, the Democratic Party is than half the minimum wage. trying to make people think. This is Covid-19 is able to spread and kill, paradox about an arrow in flight. The not leftwing, but some of its adherents People who have their benefits cut something that also applies to the versus the time it would take millions arrow takes a certain finite amount are moving in that direction. Surely off are taken from the figures until, in letters I write to the Weekly Worker. of people to successfully lose weight. of time to complete half its journey, the appropriate thing to do in these so many cases, they win their appeal. By the method of contrasts similar A point made not to discourage another finite amount to complete the circumstances is to be involved in both Asylum-seekers don’t count, and to a mini-polemic, I try to make the people from losing weight, but to next fourth, yet another to complete a left organisation and the Democratic many immigrants stay under the radar readers of the Weekly Worker think, counter some of the misguiding the next eighth, and so on. Increase Party, and to work to undermine the to avoid the risk of deportation - look even though many readers often hyperbole made by the government’s is infinite, since the process can go right from within. what happened to so many of the fervently disagree with what I write. PR supporting its obesity strategy. on indefinitely. But ultimately the If one votes in the US (as I do) one ‘Windrush generation’. My letter writing became Moving on to his objections to distance the arrow travels is finite. cannot simply sit in a corner and carp. This government is set to make a more prolific in 2003 after I read me citing the ‘set point’ theory for To put this in the language of One has to be involved in some way bad situation even worse - it seems Persistence - the story of a British weight loss/gain in humans: firstly, ecology and Marxism, this means that - in my case by helping get the vote to be what they do. Millions of communist, the autobiography of in my defence, the intricacies of we can keep increasing agricultural out there and being involved in left workers and their children face utter John Peck, who had been a CPGB the biochemical mechanism of output year in and year out with no politics here. I know that Biden is a destitution and homelessness. There district organiser for Yorkshire in weight homeostasis was slightly end in sight. In the US, agricultural conservative, and I know that we’re are foodbanks and Momentum is the 1950s. In 1988 Peck became a beyond the scope of both my article land usage has declined roughly 25% dealing with the ‘evil of two lessers’, launching an “eviction resistance CPGB councillor in Nottingham. and my expertise. I am prepared since 1948, while corn output has which is what they used to say in my campaign”. The fight against Unfortunately, by the late 1980s, he to concede that, as the authors of more quadrupled and real consumer young days. But I agree with Lazare evictions played a big part in working was a Eurocommunist, and in 1991 the paper (Muller et al) that Gary prices have steadily fallen. To be sure, in this sense - that what is happening class struggles in the latter part of the joined the Green Party. quotes from conclude, there has the picture is less impressive when now is possibly one of the greatest 19th century and the beginning of the However, what I learnt from been an overreliance on the textbook environmental externalities are taken threats to not only American politics, 20th. And good luck to them all, but the book was the importance for biological ‘set point’ model for into account. But the basic trend is but to world politics. But, unlike DL, the working class needs a lot more communists of writing regularly to explaining weight homeostasis. That unmistakable - rising productivity I am not going to sit still and let it than this; the need for a Communist our local newspapers. In the book said, there is nothing in the literature means a growing ability to make more happen for another four years. Party becomes ever more urgent. John Peck details a conversation that contradicts the point I was out of less - and there is no indication Gaby Rubin Jim Nelson he had in the early 1950s with Phil making, which was that weight loss that the process is about to end any London email Piratin - former CPGB MP and at the in obesity is a more complex process time soon. time circulation manager of the Daily than simply individual willpower This doesn’t mean that limits Unemployed Days like this Worker. Phil’s advice to Peck was and dieting; one involving our genes, don’t exist. Theoretically, they must Every day the press - or at least the Faced with rising tides of rightwing that he had a short name, so he must epigenetics and the effects of a exist somewhere. But we just don’t finance pages - bears grim news populism and even neo-Nazi let everybody know it by regularly modern obesogenic environment.