And Why Not Irish Unity?

& Workers’ Liberty SolFor siociadl ownershaip of the branks aind intdustry y No 482 17 October 2018 50p/£1 And why not Irish Unity? See pages 5 and 9 Jews and Arabs standing together Hannah Pollin-Galay, an activist with Standing Together in Israel/Palestine, talks to Daniel Randall. See pages 6-7 Fighting capital or Labour Party conference on 23-26 September saw an anti-Brexit surge from the ranks, with more motions from local Labour Parties against Brexit than ever before on a single issue for a single conference. just the “greedy Now that needs to be nailed down by the movement pushing the Labour leaders into opposing Brexit outright and returning to support for few”? keeping the freedom of movement within Europe which has existed for decades now. The ranks of the labour movement are, by a strong majority, against Brexit. Labour is the only party capable of stopping the Tories and Dale Street reviews Corbynism — a crit - stopping Brexit. More page 5 ical approach. See page 8 2 NEWS More online at www.workersliberty.org Women rise up against Bolsonaro By Olivier Delbeke Bolsonaro’s election would signal a and pentecostalist churches, who green light to full impunity. In have gained momentum and dom - Jair Bolsonaro [the leader in the other words, they could tell their inance over the last few years. race to be president of Brazil] is henchmen to fire at will. Jair Bolsonaro, who boasts of known as the man of three Bs. He recently said: “We are going having no ideology, vindicates B for Bala, the army bullets . Jair to give our rifles to rural producers, three models of masculinity in pol - Bolsonaro was trained in a Brazil - it will be their calling card against itics: Donald Trump, Rodrigo ian military school during the dic - the invaders”. It should be noted Duterte, the Filipino president tatorship. He came into politics that those he deems invaders are leading a brutal war on “delin - through campaigning to increase the real rural producers; that those quent” teenagers, and the man officers’ salaries. he calls producers are the destroy - whose name is a plan for action: In 2016, he dedicated the vote he ers of the land, and already have ri - Augusto Pinochet. cast in parliament in favour of im - fles. It is difficult to say if Bolsonaro is B for Biblia, that of the “evange - peaching Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s as stupid as Trump or, more likely, lists”. elected president standing in for The evangelical Church of his boundless cynicism explains Lula (Workers’ Party, PT), to the re - the Assembly of God and that of each of his remarks. cently deceased colonel Ustra, who the Pentecostalists of the Christian In the course of 2018, Bolsonaro had tortured Dilma Roussef as a Congregation of Brazil and of the rose to second place in the polls be - young guerrilla. According to Jair Universal Church of the Kingdom hind Lula, if Lula had been able to Bolsonaro this is ethical, the way of God. stand, and then first overall for the world should be. All are with the angels when they Brazilian presidency. His stabbing B for Boi, the cattle belonging to hear Bolsonaro say “I’d rather my on 6 September further boosted his ruralistas, the big landowners de - son was dead than gay”, and other support and his accession to the Millions of protestors took to the vanaughs, in West Virginia just as stroying the rainforest, firing at similar remarks. Although himself presidency of the United States of streets of Brazil on Sunday 29 Sep - in Brazil, the new women’s move - the peasants who claim land, a Catholic, Jair Bolsonaro has be - Brazil, South America’s largest tember. It was the day Bolsonaro ment links with the working-class spilling their agro-fuels. come the idol of these evangelical state, seems like a likely danger. For them, left hospital, and therefore his offi - struggle and raises important ques - cial return to the scene. These tions. protests rallied thousands of mili - A brute who approves of murder tant trade unionists and left- and torture shouldn’t come to wingers who, since the acceptance power. To stop him we will have to of Rousseff’s impeachment and vote for Haddad, in a dynamic of Lula’s invalidation, have been like democratic regroupment and a orphans, robbed of an outlet for ex - move from the defensive to the of - pression. fensive. Such will be the long polit - But it wasn’t their traditional or - ical battle between the two rounds, ganisations that allowed them to between Sunday 7 October and do it. A new organisation emerged Sunday 28 October. Democracy against barbarism! on 30 August: Mulheres Unidas Women’s rights against bar - contra Bolsonaro, Women United barism! Against Bolsonaro, with the hash - tag #EleNão, Not Him. Faced with the barbarism of the • Abridged from Arguments pour Bolsonaros, Trumps and Ka - la lutte sociàle. Discussing left antisemitism By Ira Berkovic meetings, including the extent to Support Turkish construction workers! which the issue of antisemitism on Workers’ Liberty branches the left can be separated from around the country have in the questions of policy towards Is - By Pete Boggs ments, including of Ozgur Karabu - the presidency has used this excuse last month been organising rael/Palestine, and whether left lut, the president of the Progressive to massively strengthen its own meetings on left antisemitism, antisemitism is a form of The Turkish government has de - Union of Construction Workers powers, instituting a state of emer - discussing what this phenome - “racism”. tained hundreds of construction (Dev Yapı-İş, which is part of the gency which was only lifted a few non is and how to fight it. Most meetings have been at - workers after they demonstrated broader trade union centre in months ago (yet in reality many of Meetings have taken place in tended by attended by some hold - against conditions at the build - Turkey, DİSK). the emergency powers granted Sheffield, Lewisham, King’s ing views different, sometimes ing site of Istanbul’s new airport. These declining working condi - have remained). Cross, Oxford, Bristol, Northamp - wildly so, from Workers’ Liberty. tions come as a direct result of the Despite its loss of 22 seats in the ton, Brixton, Newcastle, and Although there have been sharp There have been long-running exchanges, in general the meet - complaints from workers at the financial crisis in Turkey, which has June parliamentary elections earlier Durham. seen the lira drop 40 percent in the this year, the AKP under Erdoğan The attitude from some in the ings have been characterised by building site of the currently under openness and an atmosphere of construction airport in Istanbul, last year. Karabulut said: “Because still remains in power thanks to its Momentum and Labour leader - the costs are growing for the sub - coalition with the far-right MHP, ships has been to treat the ques - free speech. which if completed would be the The aim of the meetings, how - largest airport in the world. contractors, to make profit [they] who are associated with the fascist tion as one of embarrassing public cut from everything, from helmets Grey Wolves. The government has relations optics, perhaps to be ever, has not merely been to pro - Workers have complained about vide a space for debate but to appalling living conditions, insuffi - to safety shoes,”. continued its attacks on the rights dealt with by expelling a few of State-awarded construction proj - of workers and national minorities, the worst offenders; serious dis - convince comrades of a particular cient pay, as well as massive health view: that antisemitism does exist and safety violations. The govern - ects have been a central part of particularly the Kurds, and has cussion and debate of the issues, President Erdoğan’s economic pol - continued its occupation of Idlib in involving proper historical analy - on the left, and in a specific and ment has confirmed the deaths of distinct form, and that the way to 37 workers over the four year con - icy, and the new airport in Istanbul Syria. sis, has not, on the whole, been en - has also served as a vanity project It is the job of the labour move - couraged or facilitated. uproot it is to replace the conspir - struction project, but workers claim acist form of anti-Zionism that that this number could in reality be for his presidency. ment in Britain to support the re - Workers’ Liberty’s meetings The AKP (Justice and Develop - sistance against the authoritarian have attempted to supply this de - currently predominates on much up to 400 people. of the far left with a consistently Following a shuttle bus accident ment Party) regime in Turkey has Erdoğan regime. This resistance in ficiency. presided over a clampdown on Turkey takes many forms, and we Comrades have attended from democratic policy that upholds which injured 17 workers, protests the equal right of all peoples to erupted on the site. The response to democratic freedoms, particularly should support the Kurdish strug - local Labour Parties and Momen - since the failed coup. In July 2016, gle for self-determination. self-determination. these protests has been brutal re - Above all however, it is the tum groups, showing a real ap - If you want to organise a there was an attempt at a coup d’é - pression through the use of the mil - task of the embattled Turkish left petite amongst many activists to meeting on this topic in your tat by supposed Gülenists, follow - itary and water cannons, in and working class movement to properly discuss the issues.

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