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Download Solidarity 537 PDF Here & Workers’ Liberty SolidarityFor social ownership of the banks and industry 50p/£1 • No 537 • 4 March 2020 • workersliberty.org BUILD UNIONS Women's NOT BORDERS Fightback 16-page Women's Fightback for International Women's Day 2020, also available to buy separately See pullout Third runway blocked Misha Zubrowski reports on the fight against climate change after the court decision against Heathrow expansion Pages 8-9 Hegel, Marx, Arendt Eduardo Tovar completes our survey of Robert Fine's books by discussing the 2001 book Political Photo: Gemma Short, @g_for_gemma Investigations Pages 10-12 ≫Block Tory drive for hard Brexit Inside Open borders for Syrian refugees Labour ≫ The case for voting RLB ≫Get Labour on the streets See page 5 Page 13 2 Upcoming events at www.workersliberty.org/events Bernie Sanders’ Cuba problem Agenda ver the next ten days or so, to 14 March, the main activ- Oities for Workers' Liberty people Sanders will be organising for our "Class Struggle Environmentalism" day campaign school on the 14th, and activity to support the UCU strikers, whose By Eric Lee fourth week of strikes runs from 9 to 13 March. s the possibility grows of We're also continuing distri- Bernie Sanders winning the bution of the Workers' Liberty ADemocratic nomination for Pres- Postalworker bulletin (bit.ly/ ident, his opponents are looking post-b). The new CWU union for vulnerabilities that can be ex- ballot in Royal Mail runs to 17 ploited. March. This shouldn’t be difficult, as This issue of Solidarity includes Sanders has been politically active (printed as a pull-out to reduce for some six decades. Surely he has costs) a new issue of Women's written or said something embar- Fightback, which has published rassing during that period. in various forms and frequen- But after trawling through the cies for 40 years now, on and off, various archives, they have found since 1980. It is timed for use es- very little to work with. Until now. pecially at International Women's Last week, the attention of the Day events on 8 March, but is de- mainstream media focussed on signed also for longer-term use things that Sanders had said about and engage with Cuba have been people in Cuba can now read, they Sanders has shown that he can over coming weeks and months. Cuba in the past. reversed by Donald Trump. In have been very limited in what do this, as his views on Israel and Our Workers' Liberty London It seems that many years ago, March 2016, Obama said that “The they can read. The regime has Palestine have shown. He does not forum on 28 February, to discuss Sanders made reference to two United States recognizes progress never tolerated dissent, and strictly see the world in black and white. In our new book Solidarnosc: the achievements of the Castro re- that Cuba has made as a nation, its limited what kinds of books can be fact, his understanding of the tragic workers' movement and the rebirth gime: raising literacy levels in the enormous achievements in educa- published or sold in the country, as nature of the conflict in that region, of Poland in 1980-1, drew about country and creating one of the tion and in health care.” well as print and online media. It is his empathy for the people on both 40 people, including a number of best health care systems in Latin But this did not stop Sanders’ true that there are some exceptions, sides, has helped turn him into the Polish people living in London America. When pressed on these critics, and not only Republicans, such as Leonardo Padura’s 2009 most popular politician among and people who were active in comments by CNN’s Anderson from attacking him for being an book, The Man Who Loved Dogs, both American Muslims and Jews. the Polish Solidarity Campaign Cooper, Sanders doubled down apologist for Castro. One British which is sympathetic to Trotsky. He has also shown that he knows in the 1980s. and said, “We're very opposed to writer blasted him in a Facebook But for many years, such dissident to speak clearly about dictators in Workers' Liberty union activ- the authoritarian nature of Cuba post, saying that Sanders “has a writing was banned. a way that the current American ists in the National Education but you know, it's unfair to simply record of being a bit soft (and a bit President has been unable to do. Union (NEU) and the civil service say everything is bad... When Fidel daft) on anti-western dictators”, COMPLEX For example, he says of Russian union PCS are busy with prepa- Castro came into office, you know comparing him to Jeremy Corbyn. President Vladimir Putin, “He is an rations for those unions' confer- what he did? He had a massive lit- The problem with what Sanders This view is, I think, unfair to autocratic thug who is attempting ences: 6-9 April, in Bournemouth, eracy program. Is that a bad thing? says about Cuba is that it's compli- Sanders. to destroy democracy and crush for NEU; 18-21 May, in Brighton, Even though Fidel Castro did it?” cated. Yes, the regime has done a The first thing to say in Sanders’ dissent in Russia.” for PCS. When asked about the dissidents few good things. But overall, it is a defence is that what he says is not He needs to show the same clar- If you want to liaise with us Cuba’s Communist government repressive society, noted for a lack wrong. Or as he put it, “facts are ity when talking about Castro and at either conference, email awl@ has sent to jail, Sanders replied that of human rights and ugly forms facts”. Literacy rates in Cuba did Cuba as well. □ workersliberty.org and we'll put “we condemn that.” of prejudice, including state-sup- rise dramatically following the • Eric Lee is the convenor of "Lon- you in touch. Later, he said that his view dif- ported homophobia. This means 1959 revolution. And Cuba does don for Bernie", writing here in a Dates for your diary (details of fered little from that expressed by that when discussing Cuba, one is have the best health care system in personal capacity. For all Eric's col- all these at workersliberty.org/ former President Barack Obama, required to display an awareness the region. umns on Sanders, and other Sand- events): whose efforts to end the blockade of the complexities. But it’s not that simple. While ers coverage, see bit.ly/el-bs. 5 March: Uyghur solidarity protest at the Chinese Embassy 8 March: International Wom- en's Day. 14 March: dayschool on class struggle environmentalism Behind the Rutnam case 21 March: UN anti-racism day march. Together with others, we By Luke Hardy nationalist politics and centralise We do not see the senior civil governments assault on the civil are supporting a free movement power in the hands of Boris John- service as a neutral arbiter. It is a service. Or perpetuate comforting bloc on the march n a basic trade union level we sons chief adviser Dominic Cum- tool of class rule. Tony Benn wrote fictions about their role. 27 March: Workers' Liberty should be against the bullying mings. about that in relation to civil-ser- We want a radically democratic London forum - debate with So- Oof even a very well paid civil serv- Cummings sees the traditional vice pressures on the Labour gov- workers' state that cannot be won cialist Alternative ant like Philip Rutnam, head of the levers of state power as domi- ernments of the 1960s and 1970s. by simply laying our hands on the 18-21 June: Workers' Liberty Home Office, who resigned on 29 nated by wishy-washy "Oxbridge bourgeois state and its civil ser- summer school, Ideas for Free- February, complained that many of humanities graduates" (though he INSTITUTION vice. We seek government through dom his staff had been bullied, and said himself is one of those). He sees his However, the senior civil service elected and recallable delegates, 22-26 July: Workers' Liberty he would sue the government for role to clear out the liberal infec- is also an institution that can be with full transparency, and with residential week school on Trot- "constructive dismissal". tion and centralise power so that subjected to laws, parliamentary all official jobs done at workers' sky's History of the Russian Revo- There clearly is a turf-war ele- the chosen leader can operate with oversight, rules and regulations wages. lution ment here, as in the resignation of the mandate of the silent majority. more than an absolutist cabal led Millions of people are un- 9-19 November: COP26, Glas- Chancellor Sajid Javid over prime Cummings wants like-minded by Cummings can. convinced of the need for a social- gow minister Boris Johnson's insistence "radicals" committed to the trans- If Johnson and Cummings ist reconstitution of society on a At bit.ly/mo-pe, you will find on replacing Javid's staff by staff formation of the British state, smashes the senior civil servants' international scale but are deeply suggested text for motions on: under Johnson's control. Or the though even he had to let the union, the FDA, and reconstituting concerned about the authoritarian • "Get Labour on the streets" case of Javid's adviser Sonia Khan, openly racist Andrew Sabisky re- the civil service in its own image, rightward turn across the globe. • Free movement who was marched off the job last sign (18 February) after journalists then the way is clearly open to They are looking for movements • West Bank annexation September by armed police called dug out Sabisky's blog posts.
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