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Weekly Worker Last Week A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity weekly Second independence n Letters and debate workern Martin McGuinness referendum and Scotland’s n Dutch elections right to self-determination n Russia 1917 No 1147 Thursday March 23 2017 Towards a Communist Party of the European Union £1/€1.10 MISSION MARS, OR MISSION EARTH? 2 weekly March 23 2017 1147 worker LETTERS Letters may have been the old Czechoslovak Communist monarchy in Russia, but were revolution of the imperialist epoch the rush of volunteers became a shortened because of Party. only occupied with various hidden to a ‘plot of freemasons’ and “more cautious flow” and calls space. Some names If I am right, turning the Labour manoeuvres, with the aim of a ‘intrigues of foreign puppet- for conscription intensified. may have been changed Party into a socialist party is possible transfer of the throne to masters’. We do not accept the King George V wanted it. Lord magical. It is like trying to turn a a more obedient and less hated hypocritical lamentations about Northcliffe, owner of The Times Frog into prince frog into a prince. emperor than Nicolas Romanov. ‘the end of the thousand-year and the Daily Mail was also Is it possible to transform the Labour So how can Marxists The overthrow of tsarism, Russian statehood’ in February vociferous. Party into a socialist party? The then transform trade union the proclamation of democratic 1917. We are against underlining The conscriptionists seized recent formation of Grassroots consciousness into class freedoms, the freeing of political the destructive character of the on registration as a first step. Momentum and the exclusion of consciousness? Perhaps it will prisoners, the liquidation of revolution, while remaining silent The National Registration Act the left of the Labour Party from continue to include debating and shameful national restrictions, about its undoubted achievements was pushed through parliament participation within its official passing resolutions at branch the winning of the eight-hour - thanks to which Russia, in the in a week in July 1915. Men structures will - I guess - cause or delegate meetings of trade working day, from the viewpoint words of VI Lenin, “became the who didn’t register were fined or members of Labour Party Marxists unions and reformist political of the president of the central most free country in the world”. faced jail. So the NCF saw which to rethink the group’s aims. parties. Perhaps it will also committee of the CPRF, Zyuganov, We bow our heads in homage way matters were heading. They The positive answer to the include an active and attractive do not merit much attention. to the memory of those who began to make their voice heard. question is that the working programme of Marxist education And this doctor of philosophical died in the days of the second In addition to Brockway, they had class has an objective interest in and propaganda within and sciences, to reduce the value of Russian Revolution - workers, Catherine Marshall (a veteran socialism. The Labour Party is outwith the labour movement. This those outstanding gains, says that soldiers and peasants. By their suffragette, into non-violence) as the political means to this end in could be targeted at productive the February revolution “cannot blood they gained freedom for a key organiser. They had Bertrand the UK. It is funded, staffed and workers, who are keen to develop be called a revolution in the full the people, who victoriously led Russell on their committee and they supported by its working class their consciousness beyond the sense of the word”. our fatherland through February built links with Quakers and with members. As long as there are immediate experience of their In fact joining with the to October. the Fellowship of Reconciliation. class-conscious members of the oppression and exploitation. Most orthodox Christian and monarchist We once again call on honest When conscription was Labour Party there will be the real likely it will involve a continued assessment of the process of the communists who find themselves actually introduced - originally potential for transformation. critique of forms of political and revolution and its aftermath, some in the ranks of the CPRF to for unmarried men - the NCF The negative answer is economic organisation limited by participants in the roundtable of consider to what inglorious end successfully campaigned for the that belief in the potential for bourgeois and Stalinist horizons. the CPRF fraction also ventured their party is heading under such legislation (the 1916 Conscription transformation is based on at least This means the creation to describe very specifically a leadership. Act) to include a ‘conscience three mistaken assumptions. of Marxist political parties the role of the Bolsheviks in Glory to the heroes of revolutionary clause’. This clause allowed men The first is that the Labour worldwide. that revolution. In their opinion, February 1917! to claim exemption from military Party remains a ‘bourgeois Paul B Smith Bolsheviks “were not at that time After Februaries come Octobers! service on conscience grounds. workers’ party’. Whereas in the Lancashire close to the events”. And that Long live the future socialist Nationally about 16,000 men 1920s there were many class- was said about the party which revolution! claimed this exemption. However, conscious members organised Liberal February organised strikes in the enterprises Power - to the workers! they had to attend tribunals stuffed as socialists in groups such as On February 16 2017 the parliamentary of Petrograd, arranged meetings October 100 with councillors, civic leaders the Independent Labour Party, fraction of the Communist Party for women’s day on February 23 Leningrad and military representatives. Not now there are a handful. Even of the Russian Federation held (March 8 new style) and called on surprisingly many claims were the number of members with a roundtable discussion entitled February 27 for armed rebellion! No conscription rejected! trade union consciousness are ‘Liberal February and proletarian The thesis on the negative On Saturday April 1 the Wakefield Alan Stewart presently in decline. These days October’, with leaders of the consequences of February came Socialist History Group are holding Wakefield Socialist History Group the left of the Labour Party seems CPRF, other social and political in Zyuganov’s introductory a ‘British socialism and World War more concerned to keep the latter figures and representatives of the speech. The leader of the CPRF I’ event at the Red Shed, Vicarage Consistent? alive than in developing class mass media. declared that the October Street, Wakefield WF1 1QX, starting In 2014 the vast majority of the consciousness. This is consistent In the title itself the organisers revolution “raised and solved at 1pm. One of the topics that will left campaigned for a ‘yes’ vote, with the death of Labourism as a crudely distorted the historical essential questions of the social be being looked at is conscientious claiming that an independent Scotland whole. Lenin’s characterisation, picture. Giving the main and economic arrangement of objection. would be able to reverse austerity based in part on an assessment of contribution, CPRF vice-president society”. And at the same time, in It is perhaps worth making a few and create a workers’ state (I’m not potential support for the October Dmitry Novikov MP expressed the opinion of Zyuganov, “ended remarks about the No Conscription making this up!). Then the same left revolution, no longer applies. his opinion of the character of the the chaos and further degradation Fellowship, which was founded by campaigned for a ‘yes’ vote in the The second is that the election February revolution: “Speaking born of February”. Lowering Fenner Brockway three months Brexit referendum, saying virtually of a reformist leader signifies of February 1917, one has to ask: the revolutionary value of the after the war had started. He was the same thing: we had to leave the a shift in awareness of the need what was it, an overthrow or a February revolution, interpreting editor of the Labour Leader paper pro-business European Union to end to replace capitalism with a ‘colour’ revolution? Yes, signs of the events of the first revolutionary of the Independent Labour Party. austerity. democratically planned, classless both were present. Conspiratorial process undertaken in 1917 When the war was announced Now, with the spectre of a society worldwide. It is true that a liberal organisations were active, Russia as a growth of “chaos in 1914, there were plenty of second referendum for Scottish leader who occasionally mentions and there were links with the and degradation” conquered volunteers, but Brockway was independence looming over the UK, the word ‘socialism’ is a lesser embassies of the countries of the by the October revolution, the looking towards the future. I assume the same left, to remain evil than one who rejects the Entente.” leaders of the CPRF probably He knew “not everyone was consistent, will have to campaign doctrine outright. However, when Leaders of the CPRF, blinded believe that they are enhancing the enthusiastic about the war”. This for a ‘no’ vote - they won’t want ‘socialism’ is associated with a by hatred of liberalism, see the value of October. But such ritual became “increasingly apparent, Scottish workers left behind after the mildly redistributive programme main source of present troubles in glorification of October, without a as the horrors of warfare became UK workers’ paradise leaves the EU. based on mainstream Keynesian those politics, but not in capitalism class assessment of its premisses, increasingly known” (according Steven Johnston economics, it is arguable that itself. Such thinking does not without a scientific, dialectical to Scott Lomax). By early 1915 email the linkage misleads rather than allow the CPRF to acknowledge analysis of the transitional growth informs.
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