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Weekly Worker Is a Major Journal to a Monthly Newspaper to Ingness to Tell the Truth, No Matter R Achievement of Our Organisa- Keep Pace with Events London Socialist Alliance - p2 weekly CU’99 controversy - p3 Taaffe loses Pakistan - pp4-5 EU and the left - p6 Russia in crisis - p8 € eaching the 300th issue of the when we leapt from the theoretical all its manifestations has been its will- Weekly Worker is a major journal to a monthly newspaper to ingness to tell the truth, no matter R achievement of our organisa- keep pace with events. While the heat- who it upset. Whether it has been tion. On behalf of the leadership of ing up of the class struggle developed warning of the liquidationist crisis the Party, I send congratulations to our organisation positively, it acted threatening the CPGB in the 1980s; the editorial team, the comrades in to accelerate the degeneration of the the crippling limitations of Scargill’s charge of the technical arrangements opportunist trends we fought in the tactics in 1984-85 and again in 1992; of its production, the regular contribu- Party. the death agonies of bureaucratic so- tors to its columns and to its coffers. Second, a new stage in our strug- cialism; the fatal illusions of so much Comrades, we have a paper we can all gle came in November 1990 with the of the left in the promise of a Labour be very proud of, a publication that is 5th Conference of the Leninists of the government; the need for openness indispensable reading for anyone who CPGB. It had one purpose. In the light in our movement and exposing the wants to really know the state of the of the Euro leadership’s unanimous crass infringements of elementary revolutionary left in Britain today. vote to rename their organisation, we working class democracy by Scargill Our paper has carved out a political were determined to preserve the name and Fisc in the SLP; the crude econo- space for the politics of the Commu- and idea of the CPGB. Even as we did mism that passes for Marxist politics nist Party. Our opponents on the left so, we emphasised that “our main task across large swathes of the left - this grudgingly admit to regularly reading remains reforging the CPGB. Al- paper has told the truth. the Weekly Worker for the information though we have the name of the Party, As issue 300 of the Weekly Worker it provides on other trends. Of course, the Party itself has been liquidated” hits the streets, the left in this coun- when it comes to our reports of the (my emphasis The Leninist January try presents a sorry picture. Mired as developments in their own organisa- 30 1991). it is in sectarianism and befuddled by tions, these same people lamely insist By taking on the name of the Party, the crisis of its various programmes, that it consists of nothing but “lies” however, we assumed some very the entire left now seems to be threat- and “gossip”. heavy responsibilities. Lengthy dis- ened by the liquidationism that totally The point hardly needs to be made cussions were held on how to trans- sunk the CPGB by 1991 (the Demo- that if this journal filled its pages with form our journal, how to intervene in cratic Left now wishes to change it- “lies” and “gossip”, no one would day-to-day struggles, how to draw self into a quiet and educational trust, want or need to read it. Our circula- fresh forces from the class and the possibly to be called the New Times tion levels - which must make the movement into the Party’s ranks. The Network: the liquidators liquidate). Weekly Worker the most successful Leninist had a proud history, but it One key factor that would facilitate paper on the left relative to the size of was essentially a factional journal a positive resolution of this crisis of the organisation that produces it - are and thus by definition had a narrower the left would be the consolidation sufficient proof against these slanders. most invariably start as the viewpoint to join the Communist Party of Great remit, one based on the extensive and growth of this organisation and The revolutionary openness which of a minority, or even an individual - Britain”. The organisations we then political agreement of the comrades the ideas it defends. As I have illus- characterises our press and for which to struggle, conquer and find concrete targeted for this call underlined our involved. trated above, this is not a sectarian it campaigns vigorously is not a po- expression in practice. origins on the left wing of the official The social explosions around the aim. It simply recognises that, in a litical quirk or eccentricity. It is a di- This is the task to which our paper world communist movement and now miners in 1992 transcended these de- world where the old is dying, the new rect product of the project we fight and the organisation that sustains it have little more than historical curios- bates. Immediately, we transformed has to struggle to be born. for, a reforged Communist Party united are committed. So, as we reach this ity, but the method is the key. Despite the paper, changing its name from The Despite a committed and assured on the basis of a genuinely commu- landmark, it is timely to survey where our “many disagreements” with these Leninist to the Daily Worker. As the cadre, our organisation still exists as nist programme. we are and where we come from. organisations, we wanted “them all to movement around the miners ebbed, a school of thought on the revolu- To reforge a real Communist Party The defining struggle of our organi- orientate themselves to the Party” we retreated to the production of the tionary left rather than a coherent - an organisation that will unite the sation has been against the sectari- (The Leninist No3, September 1982). Weekly Worker, gradually expanding national organisation able to affect advanced part of our class itself - we anism that plagues the left. We In other words, our defining project its size to carry more vital debate and the political outcome of events by need openness. Lenin leaves no room originated in the factional struggle that was not a politically narrow, exclusive polemic. Our stated aim was to pre- social weight, not simply by force of for misinterpretation when he states tore the Communist Party of Great Brit- one. We have always believed that serve and enhance the best features persuasion or argument. This is some- that “there can be no mass party, no ain apart in the 1980s. The core of to- the fight to recreate the CPGB required of both The Leninist - its rigorous and thing we must strive to remedy. party of a class, without full clarity of day’s Party leadership organised drawing fresh forces into its ranks extensive theoretical polemics - and The role of our newspaper will be essential shadings, an open struggle around the journal The Leninist, the from other traditions in the revolution- the Daily Worker - its fresh, essential in this. If you are a regular between various tendencies, without only factional publication to be explic- ary left and - crucially - the advanced agitational and bold style. reader and accept the need for the type informing the masses as to which itly banned by the Eurocommunists. part of the working class itself. Many things have changed since of workers’ party it fights for, I urge leaders … are pursuing this or that It raised the banner of principled, By issue 100, The Leninist had been then, of course. The historically low you to make a commitment to help line” (VI Lenin CW Vol 13, Moscow open struggle against the liquidation- transformed from a quarterly theoreti- level of the class struggle has shifted build it. We need readers of our press. 1977, p159). ist cancer gobbling up our Party and - cal journal into an influential fort- the emphasis of the Weekly Worker But, more than that, this paper needs Likewise, the open clash of ideas is significantly - in issue number three nightly paper. The milestones in this heavily in the direction of polemic and active partisans l the only environment in which the printed a ‘Call to all communists’. qualitative development were, first, debate. Yet one thing has not altered. Mark Fischer scientific ideas of Marxism - which al- This urged “all genuine communists the miners’ Great Strike of 1984-85, Characteristic of our publication in national organiser Page Party notes Letters I am a member of the Swedish Socialist Party who visited the newly opened (and cancelled) website launched by Workers Power. It was sup- posed to be an open space for discussion, but cooperation with each other whilst also having these were the ‘democratic’ practices: genuine connections with social movements 1. Cut, distort and delete messages that did not and, most importantly, the working class. Whilst please the LRCI’s Stalinist leaders. I for one had it is not my belief that an electoral alliance of all that doubtful honour. the small left groups such as the AWL and 2. Show a complete inability to counter the sim- SPEW is a way forward or that a mesh encom- Around 30 comrades representing several left a new workers’ party”, then so must be the plest arguments. The overwhelming majority of passing left-talking greens and sectarians is a groups attended a meeting billed as a willingness of the left groups to join together the political criticisms have not been answered. better idea than that, I think that both show a “relaunch London Socialist Alliance confer- in order to present a united challenge to Blair. When questions are raised the LRCI answers real desire to move forward and recognise the ence” on August 1.
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