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& Workers’ Liberty SolFor siociadl ownershaip of the branks aind intdustry y No 507 22 May 2019 50p/£1 Fence-sitting won’t beat Farage and far right Climate strike 24 May Page 3 US-Iran stand-off Iranian socialist Morad Shirin con - demns Trump’s war talk but without backing the Iranian regime p.2 Labour: lead fight Discussing against Brexit! neurodiversity Janine Booth unpicks the debates An open letter to Jeremy Corbyn But even should your calculation here prove to be accurate, your around “neurodiversity” approach is wrong in principle. The relationship to the European Page 8 Comrade Corbyn! Union is Britain’s most important political issue in decades. Your wishy-washy politics on Brexit are usually explained as elec - To approach it in terms of manoeuvring for votes is a sign of polit - toral manoeuvring in an attempt to attract both anti-Brexit interna - ical and moral bankruptcy. This is an enormous issue in its own right. Renew Labour tionalists and pro-Brexiters to the Labour Party. Where the Labour Party stands on it is a measure of what Labour is It is likely to satisfy neither. “Because thou art lukewarm, and nei - about. ther cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth”, as somebody said a long time ago. More on page 5 Talks broken off with Tories Labour and Brexit: call a Special Conference! See page 5 2 NEWS More online at www.workersliberty.org US and Iran in stand-off increases, the more miscalculations tinue. channels for discussions with the brought in the al-Hashd ash- become likely. In any event, the The EU set up Instex in February US, through Switzerland or Aus - Sha’abi, the Shia militia force it set- worst scenario would be small skir - 2019. It is supposed to be a parallel tria. Oman has also helped with up in Iraq, to control the unrest — mishes, rather than something like barter system to allow European this, and its foreign minister was in threatening to use it against pro - By Morad Shirin the invasion of Iraq, or anything companies to trade with Iran, ini - Tehran a few days ago. testers. These mercenaries are cur - near that. But obviously even tially for medical and humanitarian Inside Iran, social conflict has rently stationed in the south of Iran, The US is applying pressure to smaller clashes could have reper - supplies. The EU says it should do picked up. On Monday 13 May in a region that includes the Haft get the Iranian regime to give cussions in the region. its first transactions in the next few there was a big demonstration by Tappeh. more concessions. On the first anniversary of weeks, but nobody knows how ef - students outside Tehran university, As regards our political position, Trump pulling out of JCPOA (the fective it will be. When it gets mainly about the compulsory hejab Marxists must not support this As long as something doesn’t go Iran nuclear agreement), and after going, the EU wants to expand it to rules. There have been more regime. This is a naked dictatorship wrong, that is precisely what will the US had said it would cancel the other types of trade and other protests and arrests at Haft Tappeh. of the capitalist class that even uses happen: the regime will give waivers which allowed a lot of countries. Many areas were hit by the floods to smash any mass organisa - ground after making a show of countries, especially China, to buy This is an important moment for floods in March and April. The tion independent of its state! being defiant. Proletarian class independ - oil from Iran, on 8 May the Iranian European imperialist countries. regime hasn’t done much to help. Things are more complicated ence has to be maintained no government gave 60 days’ notice The US is applying extra-territorial So people organised their own re - than before because the US has matter what happens. that it would suspend some aspects sanctions against Iran, and in a few lief efforts independent of the state. people like John Bolton, the Na - of the agreement. months maybe against China: do The Workers’ Action Committee tional Security Adviser, in charge of It has given the Europeans, and they fall in with the Americans’ re - has been organising independent • Morad Shirin is a member of the this policy. Generally speaking, the to some extent Russia and China quests, or step out of US control? deliveries of provisions for some Iranian Revolutionary Marxists’ US government is not intending to too, 60 days to come up with plans Officially, in front of the cameras, flood-affected people. Tendency, militaant.com. go to war. But obviously the more to allow some oil exports to con - the Iranian regime is always defi - The regime’s response has been their military presence in the Gulf ant. But they have always had back to arrest the organisers. It has even Organise for 4 June Salvini, leader of the Euro-right By Maisie Sanders brexit). Lots said the school was their first Labour event. By Hugh Edwards of La Lega’s historic core base of euro entry penalty for every mi - Young supporters of Labour for support — thousands of small and grant rescued by the NGO vessels. As a follow up, Young Labour With rosary beads in hand, and a Socialist Europe went to activists are discussing getting to - medium sized businesses — retains To the cries of “racism”, “fas - Young Labour’s Political School flanked by eleven of the leaders priority. cism”, etc. from the centre-left and gether a youth presence at the of Europe’s most reactionary and in Birmingham on 11 May and demonstration opposing Trump’s His “flat tax” demand is pushed their backers in the liberal media, spoke to lots of attendees racist political parties, Matteo along without a cheep of serious he calmly points to their own state visit on Tuesday 4 June. Salvini, the leader of Italy’s La about Brexit. Another Europe is Possible and protest from the trade-union lead - record of studied indifference to the Lega and Minister of the Interior ers, or from the PD (Democratic thousands dying in the Med, and We also hosted an evening so - Labour for a Socialist Europe are in the country’s coalition govern - calling an anti-Brexit bloc: details Party), which still describes itself as their own measures of attempts to cial with Spoons Workers Against ment, rounded off his last Euro- “left-wing”. criminalise and ban the humanitar - Brexit. There was no mention of soon at anothereurope.org. election campaign rally in Milan’s Join the Young Labour for a So - Two decades of centre-left and ian vessels. Brexit on the agenda or in Jeremy Piazza Duomo. centre-right regimes effectively But a growing rash of growing Corbyn’s opening speech, but we cialist Europe Facebook group here: tinyurl.com/young-labour. He wound up, as he had begun gouged out from Italy’s distinctive protests has more and more fo - had a good reception with Labour The “Together against Trump” socio-economic formation a neo- cused on Salvini. His notorious for a Socialist Europe material and protest assembles from 11am his campaign, with a war cry against immigrants. liberal warren of the most preda - cynical latitude when former pub - the Young Labour Left against at Trafalgar Square, London. tory privatisation, and razed one lic buildings are occupied by the Brexit statement (tinyurl.com/yl - “With the support of my govern - ment I have replied to the appeal of after another rights and conditions fascist groups Casa Pound and the pontiff with deeds not words to etched in the history of working Forza Nuova is well known, at the reduce the deaths in the Mediter - class life and struggle. same time as he (and his predeces - ranean… A historic moment of lib - The scale of that defeat repre - sors of the centre-left and centre- Labour must face up to eration of the continent from the sented by the victory of the Lega- right) have physically and brutally abusive occupation organised from Five-Star coalition and what it has forced immigrants onto the streets. Brussels by the Europe of the finan - unleashed is still unfolding. The countless political meetings new antisemitism storm ciers and uncontrolled immigration and marches of Salvini and his sup - LENS porters are massively protected, is approaching. I trust in the im - Salvini, like Bolsonaro, has ruth - maculate heart of Mary to carry us but anyone opposing them with By Martin Thomas I’ve seen the evidence”. lessly exploited the race card. banners or signs is immediately The Labour Party has been in - to victory”. According to the 16 May issue The anti-immigrant pitch, in sub - He has used it as a lens through forced to desist. Banners hanging jured and skewed by a reflux of from windows overlooking his ral - of the satirical magazine Private people who were trained politi - stance, accounts for his meteoric which large sections of a defeated “former Labour staffers rise, and the support from millions class, defenceless politically and lies have been forcibly seized by the Eye, cally in the 1980s, in the era of fire service. have… collected 100,000 bans on university campus Jewish of Italy’s working masses far be - ideologically, are invited to make emails, including tens of thou - yond what, beyond parts of the sense of conditions in which The atmosphere of mounting re - societies and the like, and have not pression reached an even more sin - sands showing how the party re-educated themselves since.