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SolFor siociadl ownershaip of the branks aind intdustry y No 467 25 April 2018 50p/£1 Windrush scandal shows depth Inside: How Labour The unfolding scandal of the denial of health and so - of inequalities cial care to the now-aged children of the Windrush responded to is a warning sign. It shows the sharp end of government racism, and the immense store of racist malice that the British ruling “River of blood” class is capable of unleashing on any group of foreign- born people it chooses. It is the fruit of years of right wing demagogy, in the press and in government, against migrants. More page 5

How did Labour respond to Enoch EQUAL Powell’s 1968 “River of blood” speech at the time? See page 3 Revolt against RIGHTS FOR Macron grows

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Workers’ Liberty debates free-market academic Mark Pennington. See page 8-9 Vote Labour on 3 May! See page 10 2 NEWS More online at www.workersliberty.org How the ground was laid for Enoch Powell

By Matt Cooper Much of the coverage in the lib - eral media has presented the Last week saw the fiftieth an - speech as bringing a subterranean niversary of Enoch Powell’s racism to the surface in British pol - “River of Blood” speech”. itics, but greater damage had al - The contents of the speech are ready been done by the Labour well known, arguing that black and government then in power. Both Asian people were an immutable Labour and Conservative govern - and alien pollutant in Britain and ments had considered controlling that immigration should be Black and Asian immigration after stopped and reversed through 1945. Eventually, the Conservatives repatriation. introduced racist controls in their The speech’s classicism sounds 1962 Common Immigrants Act. odd today, but it was a highly func - Labour’s opposition to this meas - tional mask of over-educated re - ure was always contingent. While spectability which barely concealed they branded these controls racist, its main content — vernacular they framed their opposition in a racism. Powell alternated between “reasoned amendment” stating allusions to ancient Greek history that the governments of Common - and vox populi stories purportedly wealth countries should be con - from people in his constituency. sulted. These stories are almost certainly PANICKED fiction – the old lady with a house On the whole immigration was a matter days in February 1968 lated, suitably compassionate, and claiming to be building up a rank- on a street where now lived only not an issue in the 1964 election, passed another Commonwealth thinking mouse.”) After a Cabinet and-file movement, produced a “Negroes” who pushed “excreta” but Labour were panicked by the Immigrants Act removing the revolt in early May the government leaflet written by a leading mem - through her letter box with “wide- loss of their Shadow Foreign Kenyan Asians’ right to settle in did hesitantly make cautious anti- ber, Paul Foot. No copy of the grinning piccaninnies” chanting Secretary, Patrick Gordon Britain. Even more than the Con - racist statements and even attempt, leaflet appears to have survived, after her their one word of English, Walker, in Smethwick where the servatives, it was a Labour govern - although without fanfare, to direct but chunks that have been quoted “racialist.” This mix of the sacred local Conservative candidate ment that racialised and some slight funding to inner-city suggest it attacked Powell for being and the profane allowed people to had refused to condemn the stigmatised black and Asian immi - areas through the Urban Pro - a Belgravia-dwelling rich Tory, but see their own racism as respectable local use of the slogan “If you grants. The ground had been pre - gramme. This was too little, too late failed to mention immigration or as the suited former classical want a nigger for a neighbour, pared for Powell by Labour, and too much in the shadow of racism. The forerunner of the AWL, scholar who spouted it. vote Labour”. although the liberal-faced Conser - years of anti-immigration meas - Workers Fight, although only a This opened the door to the re - vatives contributed too, having in - ures. Even before the election many handful of people, did better. cently formed National Front to cluded tighter immigration control The response of the left did not Labour MPs had been edging to - Workers’ Fight March-April 1968 present its fascism in respectable and voluntary repatriation in their adequately fill the gap left by the wards supporting control. In concluded: “We can only combat electoral clothes in the following 1966 election manifesto. government. Widespread support power, Labour not only accepted racialism by organising the rank decade — they averaged eight per The Labour government’s initial for Powell was reflected by a small the Commonwealth Immigrants and file of the labour movement cent of the vote where they stood in response to Powell’s speech was but significant numbers of strikes, Act (after an entirely fake consulta - against it, utilising the strength local elections the following year. also dreadful. As the hatches were firstly by TGWU members at tion with Commonwealth govern - of the working class. We cannot Of more lasting significance, Pow - battened down, Home Secretary Heathrow, then by steelworkers in ments) but in 1965 drastically expect to look to the organs of ell brought to the fore the long ex - James Callaghan went on BBC1’s the Midlands and most famously reduced the number allowed to the capitalist state to abolish isting right wing of the Panorama to emphasise that the by London dockworkers. enter under it. what is essentially in its inter - Conservative Party. They combined government’s tough controls meant The Communist Party, with a Worse was to follow. When in ests,” a conclusion that remains the economics of the free-market pro-Powell strikes were pointless, base in the London docks, could 1968 the Kenyan government true today. (Powell had resigned from the Cab - and highlight an existing low-pro - only responded by taking a Protes - began to drive out its Asian popu - inet in 1958 demanding spending file repatriation scheme (one of his tant vicar and Catholic priest to the lation, many of whom held British cuts), populist racism and opposi - own civil servants criticised him, docks, appealing to the brother - • Full text of Workers’ Fight arti - passports and promise of refuge in tion to the European Union. Their calling it a “mouse of a scheme” hood of man. The International So - cle: bit.ly/2Fdbx7U Britain, the Labour government ultimate heirs to this were Thatcher which was “at least a well-regu - cialists (now the SWP), who were and the Brexit right. again took the racist option and in Protest Trump on 14 July Food delivery workers unite across Italy

By Hugh Edwards Only a week previously, an in - between one shift and another, and By Michael Elms most likely date for the visit is 14 dustrial tribunal in Turin ruled the resolution of myriad of on-the- July. On Sunday 15 April in Bologna against an action brought against job problems. These fights have In January 2018, US President By the time of this visit, Trump’s the first national assembly of the food giant Foodora by six been integral to the formation of a Donald Trump cancelled a most important foreign policy food delivery workers took workers arbitrarily sacked, ruling collective to push for contractual planned trip to the UK. business in Europe — smoothing place. that “you are not workers but vol - status and other demands of inde - His stated reason was that the the way for a more aggressive turn Organised by the “Riders’ Union unteers”. pendent workers in the city and re - famously unsuccessful realtor did - in US policy on Iran — will be Bologna”, it drew delegates from It was the first such case and rul - gion. n’t fancy the “off-location” US completed, as the latest of the 90- nearly all of the largest cities as well ing in Italy, and almost certainly the Bologna’s success has seen the Embassy. But the real reason was day deadlines for renewing the as delegates from similar collec - precursor to others as the challenge collective’s “charter of rights of dig - almost certainly that Trump nuclear deal with Iran will have tives in Belgium and France; and by those gathered in Bologna on ital workers” presented to and ac - wanted to duck the huge wave of passed. The purpose of the visit from Italy, observers came from the the 15th mounts. The experience of cepted by the city’s council. The protest that anyone could see will be much more to do with de - main trade unions, federal and oth - the comrades in Bologna has been charter lays out the conditions for would meet any visit. The racist, fying popular opposition to erwise. crucial, beginning with local protecting of guaranteed wages as authoritarian and climate-change- Trump and his politics. The left and the labour move - The initiative was the culmina - protests, marches and mass meet - against piecework, hours of denying policies of the Trump ad - ment, especially Young Labour, tion of a series of actions involving ings, seeing a network of solidarity work and rights, including trade ministration stoked a storm of should start organising now to militants from Bologna over the last slowly emerge, which is the pri - unions, and protection from dis - indignation and a series of huge present a socialist, democratic mary and crucial condition to crimination, racism and so on. 18 months, collectively addressing The decision to launch a one rallies at the very suggestion of his and humane alternative to the smash the isolation so instrumental the needs of the thousands of work - day general strike of “Riders” at visit. grim nihilism of Trump’s project to the power of the bosses. ers in the gig economy increasingly the end of the month is proof of In mid-April 2018, Trump an - — and organise a demonstra - The network has addressed im - at the mercy of the multinational the growing combativity and sin - nounced a new trip to the UK, for tion of international signifi - mediate needs like the collectivisa - corporate grip on the home deliv - glemindedness of these workers a “working meeting” with Theresa cance. tion of bicycle maintenance, ery food industry. as May Day approaches. May. At the time of writing the accommodation to use Workers’ Liberty @workersliberty NEWS 3 Syria, chemical weapons, and bombing

By Colin Foster They do so in a way conditioned by disruption to central nervous sys - the world-wide profit-grabbing, so - tems of those exposed. On 14 April the USA, Britain, and cial-resistance-suppressing inter - “More than 70 people sheltering France made air-strikes which, ests of the USA’s and the UK’s big in basements have reportedly died, so the US says, disabled some of capitalist corporations. with 43 of those deaths related to the Syrian government’s chemi - Frequently “peace-keeping” has symptoms consistent with expo - cal-weapons sites. been a pretext for war, or for inter - sure to highly toxic chemicals”. US Defence Secretary James Mat - vention to help whatever local fac - Syrian exile organisations have tis described the operation as a tion best suits the US or British collated more detailed reports “one-off”, and in fact further sub - rulers. (bit.ly/sohr-d), and charged the stantial military action by the USA One particular operation going Assad regime with using chemical and its allies seems unlikely in the “well” — if it did — is not such a weapons against civilians. Assad near future in Syria, where Russia, prize as to disqualify radical dis - has a history of using chemical Iran, the Assad government which trust. In this case, the air-strikes weapons and of murderous Russia and Iran support, and leave Assad and his allies in control reprisals against civilians even be - Turkey in some areas, control most and with ample military capacities fore the 2011 uprising. casualties at all. the 7 April attacks were real and of the territory (bit.ly/syria-t). to kill and to oppress. The attack was followed by the For the following two weeks it “likely carried out by Syrian regime The Russian government, which Islamist rebel group which had agitated as if war in Syria were not forces”, Socialist Worker on 17 April DISTRUST controlled eastern Ghouta fleeing, a reality of many years, but only a stressed that “details of the re - vehemently condemned the air- To have an attitude of radical dis - strikes, made no charges about and the Assad government taking threat which might be opened by ported attack had not been con - trust of and intransigent inde - control of the area. US military action. firmed”. In any case, its 10 April civilian casualties from them pendence from the big powers’ (bit.ly/putin-s). Investigators from the Organisa - report started with condemnation actions is, however, a different tion for the Prevention of Chemical CHIMED not of the attacks, but of what SW From a socialist point of view, it matter from presenting the Rus - cannot but be a good thing if Weapons were able to get into the The Stop the War campaign, now saw as the greater evil: “the bluster sia-Iran-Assad axis as a lesser now Assad-controlled area only on run by Counterfire, chimed in, and grandstanding of Western Assad’s chemical-weapons capac - evil. ity has been diminished. 21 April. A UN reconnaissance with the Morning Star website leaders”. That does not imply that we en - According to the World Health group working with the OPCW carrying an audio interview with The Socialist , while assuring read - dorsed, or should have endorsed, Organisation, on 7 April in the Is - was forced to withdraw by small- Stop the War convenor Lindsey ers it gave no support to Assad, fo - the military action by the USA and lamist-rebel-held city of Douma, in arms fire on an earlier attempt, on German (24 April). cused on exculpating him. “Why 18 April. its allies, let alone that we endorse the eastern Ghouta area on the out - Socialist Worker and The Socialist would the Syrian army launch a Britain taking part without the skirts of Syria’s capital, Damascus, Yet the Morning Star reported no chemical attack now? ... this recent details of the casualties on 7 April. were more willing to think that Government consulting Parlia - “an estimated 500 patients pre - Assad might have carried out at - attack might have been initiated by sented to health facilities exhibiting It was indignant only against the ‘rebel’ jihadist forces...” ment. tacks, but still saw the US-led The left needs to break from signs and symptoms consistent reports that the Syrian government We have no confidence in the strikes on military targets as a presenting the most reactionary with exposure to toxic chemicals. In carried out the attack (bit.ly/ms- USA, or the British state, as world much worse thing than the civilian forces as lesser evils simply on particular, there were signs of se - douma), arguing alternately either police. They have sought to act as casualties on 7 April. the grounds that they are in con - vere irritation of mucous mem - that Islamist rebels had carried out world police for many decades. After conceding on 10 April that flict with the USA. branes, respiratory failure and the attack, or that there had been no Brexit is more and more troubled

By Gerry Bates empty. nomic harm. the June 2016 vote — based on tion on Europe is “like walking a Most experts believe that avoid - On 15 April Liberal-Democrats promises now exploded, like the tightrope”. In truth much of it is The House of Commons will vote ing a “hard” border in Ireland — and Greens launched a “People’s supposed £350 million a week for like sitting on a fence. soon on a proposal for Britain to border posts, checks, etc. — is im - Vote” campaign for a referendum, the NHS, or the prospect of slick On 11 February he said Labour stay in a customs union with the possible without either Britain re - before Brexit goes through, on new trade deals around the world would not necessarily oppose a sec - EU after Brexit. maining in the Customs Union at whatever deal the Government — as a mandate for whatever deal ond referendum, though he would On 18 May, the House of Lords least. Unless Northern Ireland is comes up. They were supported by they scrape together. prefer a general election. On the defeated the Government on that given a special status in the Cus - pro-EU Tory MP Anna Soubry and And it is basic in a larger sense economic issue, he has said (11 De - issue, voting through a recommen - toms Union, with the rest of Britain Labour right-winger Chuka that we use every democratic open - cember): “We want to be as close as dation that ministers take steps to outside it — but that would mean Umunna. ing or opportunity we can find to we possibly can to ensure tariff-free negotiate a new customs union a “hard” border in the Irish Sea, The leftish campaign Another fight to retain the freedom of move - access... as close a relationship with with the EU. and is rejected both by the Tories Europe is Possible commented: ment for workers between Europe the single market as we can and On Monday 23rd, the Govern - and their DUP allies. “Another Europe has a different and Britain which currently exists, possibly a customs union... We ment declared: “We will not be The Tory government has sug - perspective to Remainer Tories and and to defend the rights of EU-ori - want to keep all the options on the staying in the customs union or gested that hi-tech wizardry could others on the right of politics. Our gin people already in Britain. table and that way we think we can joining a customs union”. Pro-cus - finesse this contradiction, but the rallying cries are internationalism, Since late 2016, the Labour Party protect the economy...” He has also toms-union Tory MPs may blink, EU has comprehensively and offi - solidarity, democracy, social and has refused to back freedom of said that Labour will be “flexible” cially rejected those Tory sugges - economic justice, free movement, movement. Labour Party confer - on free movement. faced with the prospect of the Gov - Solidarity will campaign to tions as “magical thinking”. workers’ rights, environmental ence 2017 was pushed and per - ernment being defeated, but it will stop Brexit, for a second referen - The EU is asking for an agreed protections and human rights. suaded into not debating the issue. only take a few Tory rebels to de - dum, for free movement, for solution on the Irish border by an “But this news is big — because That has to be changed. feat Theresa May’s administration. workers’ solidarity and unity EU summit on 28-29 June. it means that the parliamentary Shadow Chancellor John Mc - The EU’s Customs Union is a across Europe, and for a work - arithmetic for a referendum on the Donnell told the Financial Times (2 common set of tariffs on items im - SHIFT ers’ united Europe. ported from outside the Customs terms of the deal could well be March) that Labour’s current posi - Although opinion polls show only there. In October, Theresa May will Union area. Customs Union mem - a small shift in the Leave-Remain bership, or partial-membership, put her deal to a vote in parliament. Protest at Israeli shootings in Gaza: Two nations, split since the June 2016 referen - If it falls, the case for a fresh popu - rules out negotiating trade deals dum, that small shift has been two states with other countries distinct from lar vote ought to be overwhelm - enough to create a small Remain ing”. those the EU may have with those majority. countries. That is the Tory right’s AEIP said it would step up its ac - Monday 30 April, 7 May, 14 May 6.30-7:30pm stated reason for opposing Cus - Surveys also show a 56%-28% tivity in the coming weeks, and it is Kensington Court, off High St Kensington, toms Union membership, though majority reckoning that the Gov - right to do so. The right for minori - in fact their promises of quick and ernment is doing a bad job on ties to continue to campaign, and to London W8 5EA (near Israeli embassy) easy trade deals with non-EU states Brexit, and a 42%-24% majority be - become majorities, is central to More info: bit.ly/ken-ton to come with Brexit has proved lieving that Brexit will bring eco - democracy. The Tories cannot take 4 WHAT WE SAY Email your letters to [email protected] Momentum left resists drive to purge

By Lewisham AWL was not a pub room at all, but the public front be officers or vote on any of Momentum’s de - On 23 April, slanders like that were delib - bar of a pub. Its capacity was much less than cisions. Lewisham Momentum has consis - erately used to draw out all kinds of (right- On Monday 23 April the Momentum group that of the original venue. tently voted to say that those who have been wing generated) fears and hostilities towards in Lewisham (south London) held its An - In that bar, in chaotic conditions, an elec - excluded unjustly from Labour should not be the AWL, and to demonise the AWL and the nual General Meeting to elect a new set of tion was held without hustings and a com - barred from voting and standing in Momen - Lewisham activists who work with us and officers and plan future work. mittee was elected. It was a farce, as can be tum. Rightly so: to do otherwise would be to have worked with us over the last three seen from a video (bit.ly/2HYqCgr). Yet a na - participate in a witch-hunt of the hard left years. Social media slurs even included call - Up to 160 people turned up. Around 30 tional Momentum official acted as teller, and started by the Blairites as they tried to pre - ing us “antisemites”. people were not able to get into the venue as thus endorsed the farce. vent Corbyn’s victory. The left should be In the run-up to the meeting, one bright it was full to capacity, and therefore were ex - That committee is claiming it is the new united behind getting unjustly-expelled peo - spark piped up on social media to claim that cluded from the discussions. Lewisham Momentum. The number in the ple reinstated to the Party. the AWL had distributed a leaflet supporting Maybe 60-70 had no previous record of pub AGM was around 60-70. Almost as many Yet now sections of the Labour left have transphobes and declaring “TERF is a slur” local activity in Momentum or the Labour stayed in the original venue to discuss what been drawn into that witch hunt. Some of at an NUS Women’s Conference in 2016. Party, and had been mobilised simply to vote had happened. The best way forward now is them are youth, and might have the excuse The nearest thing to that in reality is this, out members of the existing steering group a properly reconvened AGM, with a debate that they have little knowledge of the history from text put out by the National Campaign who were standing again for different roles, and a contested election. of Labour, as a broad church in which social - Against Fees and Cuts (not AWL): “Over the and specifically members of the AWL, which Over the last three years Lewisham Mo - ist and Marxist groupings have always been past few years the political discussion and for months now has been the target of vicious mentum has been active, lively, open for de - active. Ex-Trotskyists have no such excuses. debate within the movement has been stifled slanders. bate, and embraced a variety of different The main target now is Tom Watson’s main and strangled. It is impossible to ask ques - Because not everyone could get into the political strands. Unlike many Momentum target as he manoeuvred against Corbyn — tions, explore topics or disagree without meeting, officers of the local group proposed groups these days, it has regular organising the AWL. And the real objection to Sacha Is - being labelled a racist, a transphobe, a white reconvening the meeting at a later date and meetings in which its members vote on pol - mail and Jill Mountford is not that they have straight man… [but] in a society that is racist in a bigger venue. This proposal was made icy. been expelled from Labour but that they sup - and transphobic it would be impossible for calmly and reasonably, but there were imme - Workers’ Liberty members have been port the AWL. me not to be those things. I mess up. I do, but diate objections, some reasonable, but mostly prominent because they have been active and Slanders against the AWL have come from then I learn and change and my politics barracking from the audience. done much work to keep the group going. a select and relatively small but growing evolve. And that’s okay.” One person volunteered to find a larger We have argued our political views on many clique of people within Momentum, again, It is indeed. Not okay is that Red London room at nearby Goldsmiths college, and issues, from free movement through anti - many young, who have been inculcated in and “Check Their Minutes” have been ped - while this was being investigated Alex semitism to support for industrial disputes, the mindset of “if you’re not with us, you’re dling the idea that the AWL condones pae - Nunns spoke about his book, The Candidate . but always to convince, never to impose. against us”. Anyone who raises serious criti - dophilia. Quotes taken out of context from a Towards the end of his speech he was inter - cisms, or questions Jeremy Corbyn’s line on 2009 article which condemned child abuse rupted and the meeting was told that a big DEBATE issues, as thinking political activists are wont and discussed ways to tackle it were turned room at a local pub was available — big We have worked with some fantastic to do, is “against us”. Some of that group are into memes. enough to hold everyone. comrades in Lewisham Labour Party to self-described Stalinists, and some of them Officers of Lewisham Momentum objected build up this group, to create a structure part of the Red London clique. Some just go RECKLESS because the time was late and maybe people where democratic debate can take place along with the micro-culture created in and These reckless accusations have real-live had gone home, maybe because they were and disagreements can be aired. We will around that group because of friendship net - implications for many people, for exam - baffled, frightened or disgusted with the continue to work with those comrades works. ple, those who are parents or work with meeting, or they were not able to get in in the through thick and thin. That culture has involved shaming and children. It is time that the labour move - first place. The officers repeated the proposal ment outlawed Red London for this and If democratic processes should put us in a shouting down political opponents on social to reconvene at another date. That provoked similar behaviour. minority, so be it. If there is a political transi - media as “cranks” and “splitters”, and threat - further barracking. tion, so be it. But it must all be properly con - ening to “drive them into the sea” (for an ex - The mobilisation for 23 April was a rotten Eventually, with a national Momentum of - ducted and argued-for. ample of that outside Lewisham, see the bloc of different groups which came together ficial now in the chair, a vote to go to the pub The mobilisation for a takeover on 23 April “debate” on Facebook after Red Labour pro - to drive out the AWL because we are per - was held, with a majority in favour. But it came from an amalgam of groups and indi - posed making an alternative left slate for the ceived as a challenge to the consensus of “no was based on misinformation. The pub room viduals behind a slate headed by Aaron Bas - Labour Party National Executive). Marxists please, we are the Labour Party”. tani from Novara Media. There was no open Red London’s method is trolling, melded That consensus, will, if it is not challenged, Statement from Maria Exall on the statement about what politics Bastani and the with Stalinism, and drawing on backward poison the Labour Party for radical politics conduct of Lewisham Momentum’s rest of his slate stood for. ideas, including misogyny. for years to come. What happens when class meeting in support of trans rights Bastani had never previously attended a In the run-up to the Lewisham AGM, Red struggle revives in the UK, and many more local Momentum event. In typical Stalinist or London added another slander, via their as - people are ready to declare themselves boldly “I saw the article about the 21 March right-wing Labourite fashion, the whole cam - sociated blog “Check Their Minutes”. Accu - as Marxists and Trotskyists? Lewisham Momentum on trans rights paign for his slate was organised “behind the sations of “transphobia” were constructed by National Momentum was invited in by the posted on the ‘Check their minutes’ scenes”. People on the slate denied its exis - putting together selected clips of an audio splitters, not by the elected committee. Its website. It is a distortion of what the tence right up until the meeting itself. The recording of Jill chairing a Lewisham Mo - representatives did not play a good role. meeting was, and much of it is total in - slate had no common goal except the ousting mentum public meeting held on 26 March to They tried to run the AGM from the outset vention. of the AWL. discuss support for reforms to the Gender but they did not do a fair job. One reason Recognition Act and to build solidarity for “I was the only platform speaker at the Its political cement is no spelled-out polit - people were left outside is because Momen - trans rights in the labour movement. Yes, that meeting, as Natacha Kennedy pulled out ical statement or strategy, but misrepresenta - tum delayed the start of the meeting. We was the billing of and the purpose for the that day due to childcare issues. She sent a tion and artificial scandal-mongering. shall be demanding a Momentum investiga - meeting: yet Red London has systematically note to the meeting. I am chair of the TUC’s Most recently, AWL members on the steer - tion and that Momentum uphold basic lied about it, presenting it as a platform for LGBT Committee and was invited to speak ing committee Jill Mountford and Sacha Is - labour movement standards, one of which is transphobes! in that capacity. I was explicitly invited to mail have been called transphobes, a slander that only people who are eligible should vote. Some people at the meeting spoke against speak from a pro-trans rights and socialist spread by the Stalinist meme group Red Lon - We believe some of those organised by the GRA reform on the spurious grounds that it feminist point of view and about the im - don. Stalinists are not Lewisham residents. would erase women’s rights. Local anti-trans portance of the labour movement and left This was a rotten-block of a mobilisation, Leftists looking at this from the outside activist Venice Allen, recently expelled from fighting for trans rights — which I did. To bringing together young Stalinists, disaf - may be baffled. But they need to try to think the Labour Party for her transphobic views, be clear, that included support for amend - fected ex-Trotskyists, some of the soft-left, it through for themselves. Read what we was also there. ing the Gender Recognition Act and for a and individuals who don’t like the AWL for write. Don’t be content with social media Jill, as chair, controlled those speakers who social model of gender identification (‘self particular reasons (because of our two-states connections, the here-today-gone-tomorrow were hostile to the meeting and the people identification’). position on Israel-Palestine, for example). bits of rumour and scandal-mongering, the who organised it. She made sure the meeting “A small number of people in the audi - The takeover was organised on the basis of blogs which casually and maliciously de - witch-hunting the hard left out of the Labour was able to continue and everyone present nounce groups like the AWL. ence argued for a reductionist ‘radical fem - The people who feel despair that the left Party. Both Sacha (current co-secretary) and could ask questions of the speaker, Maria inist’ position, which I answered, I hope can get to this point also need to look at Jill (current co-chair) were targeted as not Exall, the chair of the TUC LGBT committee forcefully. They were kept carefully in line how these divisions have been created: in Labour Party members because they were (see statement on this page). by the chair, Jill Mountford, who also spoke the first place by Labour’s right wing and “auto-excluded” (without charge or hearing) Jill made a speech in favour of transgender herself from a pro-trans-rights position, as secondly by the left, absorbing the meth - by the right-wing in the run-up to Corbyn’s rights, and many other speakers thoroughly did many others of the attendees. ods and attitudes of the right, shutting “This kind of misrepresentation can election as leader. challenged the speeches against GRA reform. down debate in Momentum and turning a only damage rational debate within the That witch-hunt has been facilitated by None of that has been reported in the selec - blind eye to political thuggery. labour movement on moving forward Momentum’s current constitution, which tion of secretly-recorded material used by positively on trans rights.” stipulates that non-Labour members cannot Red London. Workers’ Liberty @workersliberty WHAT WE SAY 5 Equal rights for migrants!

The unfolding scandal of the denial of izens, resident for decades health and social care to the now-aged in the UK, have been de - children of the Windrush is a warning nied life-saving treatment sign. and social care, because It shows the sharp end of government their decades of national racism, and the immense store of racist mal - insurance contributions ice that the British ruling class is capable of weren’t considered ade - unleashing on any group of foreign-born quate proof by the Home people it chooses. It is the fruit of years of Office of their right to live right wing demagogy, in the press and in in the UK. government, against migrants. After the Guardian However, it is only the tip of the iceberg — newspaper broke the scan - and unless the left and the labour movement dal, Home Secretary rally to defeat the Tory government and Amber Rudd apologised, Brexit, more is to come. and announced an ex - It was in 2012 when then-Home Secretary panded Home Office team Theresa May made her bid in the ongoing would look to resolve such auction of racism, playing to the gallery of cases. the right wing press and man-at-the-bar big - Rudd said that the otry, declaring that “The aim is to create, here “Home Office has become in Britain, a really hostile environment for il - too concerned with policy legal immigrants.” and strategy and some - The June 2016 Brexit referendum raised the times loses sight of the in - stakes in that particular auction, dramatically. dividual. This is about The success of the long-running ultra-reac - individuals…” tionary campaign of Brexit demagogy saw But it is not about wor - the Tories playing catch-up with their own thy individuals who have base. And in October 2017, the Home Office been the victim of individ - released new guidelines for the NHS and the ual administrative errors. patchwork of social services and schemes re - It is about racism in British lying on NHS money: they would be legally society. The “policy and being put through such misery? So the gov - charity Doctors of the World write: “At our required to check every patient’s immigra - strategy” is precisely the issue, and racism ernment can put on a good show of “tough - clinics across London, we treat vulnerable pa - tion status to see whether they should pay for has been the policy and the strategy of the ness” on migrants and those who “look tients including asylum seekers, undocu - their care. If the patient was an undocu - British ruling class since the Second World foreign” (i.e. who are not white or western mented migrants, victims of trafficking and mented migrant, they would have to pay in War. Black and apparently-foreign patients European), hatred of whom they have homeless people. Almost nine in 10 of our pa - full before receiving any treatment. are guilty until proven innocent; they are worked so hard to stoke up. tients live in poverty. We have no doubt that In recent months, it has come to light that obliged to prove a negative or face crippling The Windrush generation is a particularly the new rules will deter many of the people an unknown number of Commonwealth cit - up-front costs for care. And for what are they shocking case, but it is not special case: the we help from accessing services they need, wrong done to them is a part of the same and we’re particularly concerned about the 21-24 June Birkbeck College, London wrong which is being done to other black impact on mental health services.” people and migrants. That wrong — racist Compare Powell’s speeches with the Daily demonisation, removal of rights, denial of Mail headlines about criminal floods of East - care — has to be fought across the board. ern Europeans and the Tory-UKIP Brexit Talk of more or less “deserving” cases, campaign rhetoric — or indeed, compare the more or less “welcome” or “integrated” mi - slogans of the dockers who marched to sup - grants undermines the fight against racism, port Powell with the arguments now made which is either universal or meaningless. by segments of the trade union bureaucracy The travellers on the Windrush have been against freedom of movement. described as migrants invited to Britain. In m fact they needed no invitation. They enjoyed WHOLE s Racism, attacks on freedom of move - ociali freedom of movement to the UK as “Citizens S ment, murderous denial of basic services of the United Kingdom and Colonies” under the 1948 British Nationality Act. and rights, from the 1948 generation to e today, all form a rotten whole. s Sens Those citizenship rights and that right to ke free movement were wiped out in the 1981 Ma Every generation of arrivals to the UK is as British Nationality Act, which came after deserving as the last, because all people of all years of racist agitation against migrants backgrounds are as deserving as each other. from former colonies, led by such forebears Labour should commit to removing all of the Brexit brigade as Enoch Powell. NHS and social care charges. A Labour gov - 18 It was the revocation of citizenship rights ernment should treat all migrants — whether om 20 and the closing-down of the borders that s for Freed they are economic migrants, asylum seekers, Idea opened the way to the inhuman attacks on documented or undocumented migrants — these black people’s right to healthcare and exactly the same as people with UK citizen - Challenges of a Labour government stream: The Corbyn road to social care. And the attack on black people’s socialism?; The left in government: lessons from history; Can we stop ship when accessing public services. And free movement was a government attempt to Labour should come out clearly against Brexit? What should Labour do on crime and policing?; Reimagining local cash in on, to catch up with, the racism of Brexit. government; Fighting the anti-union laws; and more Enoch Powell and the most degraded ele - To strike at the root of the outrage perpe - ments of British white society. 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Actions speak louder than words: and all attacks on freedom of movement and everyone understands the meaning of both control debate; Revolt in the degree factories: the UCU strike and student rights for foreign-born people, be those at - Thatcher’s 1981 Nationality Act and Rudd’s tacks motivated by right wing or “left wing” solidarity; The legacy of Steven Hawking ...and more.? 2017 guidance to NHS services. politics. But the attack on NHS users doesn’t only We defend freedom of movement and Book your ticket online today at www.workersliberty.org/ideas affect the Windrush generation. Healthcare decent public services for all. More online at www.workersliberty.org Workers’ Liberty @workersliberty “We’ve all got just one thing on

By Keith Road have been the main drivers. On the political terrain, the hard left is in - Workers’ Liberty supporters and friends fluential within sections of the strike and stu - recently spent a number of days in France dent movement. The two largest to learn from, and take part in, the move - organisations, the NPA and Lutte Ouvrière, ment in opposition to President Macron’s are prominent but only number a few thou - reforms. sand each. The Front de Gauche – a lash up We spoke to French socialists, trade union - of ex-Socialist Party minister Jean-Luc Mélen - ists and student activists. During our stay we chon, the Communist Party, and others – has visited occupied universities, attended work - broken down. The Socialist Party is in total place and student general assemblies, and disarray, with its Presidential candidate took part in a number of smaller and large Benoit Hamon (the incumbent Socialist Pres - demonstrations. ident, Hollande, did not even seek his party’s The background to the current unrest is the nomination) breaking away with most of the push by President Macron to reform the uni - party’s youth to form Génération.s. versity application system; open the way to Within the trade unions the PCF still holds privatising the SNCF, French state railway a number of positions in the CGT bureau - company; and make massive cuts to the cracy, while the NPA and LO mostly have French welfare state. At the same time, people active at a workplace level as the Macron sent armed police to violently crush equivalent of shop stewards. the occupiers of a proposed site for an airport France Insoumise, the party founded and (the “Zadistes”). led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is a populist elec - Workers’ Liberty supporters also visited toral campaign, divorced from and in com - France during the last wave of struggles petition with the labour movement. It has a against the El-Khomri labour law, which was nationalist policy about putting France first. pushed through by the Hollande govern - It talks about the people rather than the ment. That movement was defeated and the workers and at its rallies the Tricolour is trade union leaderships haven’t learned the flown and the Marseillaise is sung, as a con - lessons of that dispute. But this time, many scious move to dispense with the red flag and of the activists we spoke to observed that the the Internationale. Mélenchon has spoken in movement is growing and reckoned that support of Putin and he is recycling the Macron can be beaten. Gaullist tradition of setting up France as a A vital question is the political alternative pole of opposition to the USA. to Macron, and the division of the left. France Insoumise doesn’t function like a The trade union movement has been in normal political party: there are no branch slow retreat in France since the 1995 wave of structures, none of the norms of labour strikes which defeated the Juppé plan, a se - movement democracy. Its strategy is to sub - ordinate the labour movement to its electoral ries of neoliberal reforms which tore up pen - the strikes. A big controversy was the question of project, and the way it has related to this sions, particularly on the railways. In the Unlike in Britain where strikes are nor - when to strike. The CGT’s strategy for the strike movement illustrates that. 1990s there was a rightward turn in the CFDT mally accompanied by pickets and maybe a dispute is to strike two days in every five for One of Mélenchon’s lieutenants, film- union, which now has a “social partnership” small rally, French workers combine strike a period of several weeks. The more radical maker and journalist François Ruffin, has put policy. The CFDT has not been involved in days with large demonstrations like the one but smaller union confederation SUD is ar - out a call for a big demonstration on 5 May. the latest round strikes. called on 19 April in Paris. This huge demon - guing for “reconducting” the strike – going It is billed as a family fun day, specifically The largest union federation, the CGT, and stration, coordinated by the CGT the largest for an all-out strike, renewed by show of called on a Saturday so as to divorce it from others like SUD, FO and smaller federations union federation brought together workers hands voting every morning. Supporters of and activists in cities across France from this position say that the whole movement many sectors of the economy. needs a shot in the arm from an escalation on There is a need to develop a governmental the part of the transport workers, and they alternative to Macron. In the absence of a enjoyed widespread support from many sup - Railworkers speak out strong political wing of the labour move - porters of both SUD and CGT at the stations ment, perspectives for getting rid of the we visited. Supporters of sticking to the CGT railworkers who work here [loud booing Speech from a railworker at the Gare du Macron government are weaker. The ability calendar argue that all-out strikes threaten to and whistling, cries of “Awoo!”]. Nord General Assembly 19 April to pose a political alternative is as urgent a exhaust workers too soon. “We’ve come to a bone-breaking moment condition for toppling a government as a These general assemblies form a model for in this mobilisation. And that’s normal, be - powerful industrial movement. But that po - how the trade union movement in the UK “The railworkers won’t give up! We have cause we want to win! Because no matter litical alternative must be on the basis of so - ought to conduct itself: all-grade, all-union a duty to get active, to go and bring out what union badge you wear, no matter if cialist, democratic, working-class politics. workplace meetings, instead of dictats from other rail workers, because they’re de - you’re union or non-union, we’ve all got on high. Of course, anti-trade union laws in stroying our terms and conditions, de - just one thing on our mind and that’s the ASSEMBLIES the UK prevent a show of hands at a demo - stroying the SNCF, they’re beating up on win! It’s winning – it’s stopping Macron, it’s Our delegation visited mass meetings in cratic mass meeting from being accepted as a us, and so we all need to come out to - stopping the rail reform – and no matter the railway stations of Austerlitz, Paris legal strike vote. But the practice of General gether. whatever else you might be, what we all Est, and Paris Nord, where about a hun - Assemblies in France is a backbone of the “I hope that tomorrow, we will break this want is that: wiping the smile off Macron’s dred workers at each, from all grades and strike, allowing workers to build their politi - reform. No-one will ever break up the unity face, because he’s taking the piss out of all all unions, were debating how to carry for - cal confidence by sharing ideas, discussing of the railworkers. We can’t accept that to - of us. We have to give battle now. We can’t ward the fight against Macron. the mood of their colleagues, and planning a roll over. And he wants a battle too, because morrow, there will be employees of the The debates were interesting and wide- variety of actions, from brief workplace occu - he wants people to call him the French freight, employees of [this rail network, of ranging, from windy speeches about auster - pations to mass workplace tours, or visits to Thatcher! that rail network]. We can never, will never, “He wants a place in history as the ity to detailed discussions of how to other local workplaces. accept this social regression and this de - man who terrorised the railworkers. But maximise engagement in the strike, and the The General Assemblies help build solidar - struction of a public service, or the destruc - are the railworkers scared of Macron? strike’s impact, to serious political arguments ity in the local community. At Gare d’Auster - tion of the Gare du Nord, because they’ll [crowd roars: no! Applause, whistles, about how to confront the government and litz, the railworkers were also addressed come [to privatise] this station, and all the cries of “Awoo!”] what to demand. briefly by students from the occupied Tolbiac campus down the road, and a CGT officer HISTORY 6-7 our mind, and that’s the win!”

day. movement has been the brutality by which One of the biggest sectors of the movement the CRS and BAC (riot police) have broken is university students. Currently, anyone who up demonstrations (using water cannon and holds a Baccalaureat qualification in France “flashball” bean-bag guns) and violently bro - can go to the university of their choice, places ken up the occupation of Tolbiac campus of permitting. Paris-1 University. Macron is proposing a reform which TOLBIAC would introduce a selection system to uni - Tolbiac, which had been occupied since versity applications based on grades. But stu - 26 March, and which was a centre of ac - dents point out that this is the road to a tivity, organising and socialising during UK-style model of elite institutions for the the movement, was violently cleared out rich and bargain-basement colleges for work - by riot police on 20 April. ing-class students. Initially the fight against the reforms was slower to build then previ - Over 100 people were in the occupation ous, struggles, but, following an attack by a when the police forced their way in and fascist gang on the occupation at Montpellier forced all of the occupiers out, chasing some law school, probably arranged by the right- occupiers over a ledge. Word spread that one wing dean of the school, there were huge of the occupiers had been hospitalised and general assemblies were called in Marseille, was in a coma. A demonstration the next day Toulouse, Rennes and then in various univer - culminated in another General Assembly at sities across Paris. Censier, Paris-3, which called for a protest on 21 April at a local hospital demanding to STUDENTS know if any student or occupier had been se - Over half of French universities are now riously injured and ended up at the hospital. involved in the fight. Samya Mokhtar, General Secretary of UNEF These assemblies, like those in the work - (one of the French student unions) in Paris-1 places, allow anyone to speak, to put forward told Le Monde that, “one person was directly a proposal and have it voted on. National present at the scene, which happened when student co-ordinations are held on a weekly the CRS intervened. A young man wanted to basis with delegates coming from the various jump from a low wall to outside auditoriums campuses to discus how to build a more ef - and, according to the direct witness, he was fective and stronger movement. destabilised by a policeman. He fell head first on the floor. There was a lot of blood”. Since 1968 universities in Paris have re - Paris police denied that anyone re - mained almost entirely free of the police. quired hospital treatment. A demonstra - After the demonstrations against the labour tion of around 100 people on Saturday law and the huge police repression, police 21st demanded the truth from the hospital have managed to make their way back onto and the police. who gave a report on solidarity work with services and networks) into separate sub - the campuses. One of the features of this staff at a local hospital. sidiary companies – a move which workers believe will open the way to a UK-style shat - CLICHY tering of the service into many different com - On 23 April, a strike day, around a hundred panies, with different terms and conditions railway workers from different trade for their workers. The workers made clear unions occupied the offices of the SNCF that their unity in action today will defend freight organisation in the rue de Vil - the unity of their terms, conditions and col - leneuve in Clichy, in the Parisian region. lective agreements tomorrow. The workers were protesting against the The striking workers entered the building proposal to break up the SNCF railway com - and draped it in their union banners. 200 pany and place freight (as well as other rail members of management had to leave the building and break off work for most of the UK students support the occupations

National Campaign Against Fees and occupations have also been part of an ex - Cuts statement in solidarity with the pression of solidarity from students in sup - student occupations in France port of the mass strikes across France, including striking rail workers. On the night of the 19th-20th April, the Occupations have been taking place CRS (French riot police) violently cleared around France in opposition to Macron’s out an occupation at Université Paris-1 Pan - education reforms, of which a key part théon-Sorbonne which had been taking is the introduction of selection in the uni - place for four weeks. We condemn the violent tactics of the versity application process. police and offer our solidarity with the Not only are the criteria of selection du - occupiers and all students who have bious, but the introduction of selection is been injured, and join students in France clearly part of a larger move to create a in their call for the release of information number of ‘elite’ universities in France ca - from hospitals of students who have pable of charging more for tuition, thereby been hospitalised by police. marketising French higher education. The 8 FEATURE More online at www.workersliberty.org Socialism or capitalism ?

On 17 March Katy Dollar of Workers’ where you live. It can destroy your health. It ism. It was separated from socialism by a does not exclude some forms of state owner - Liberty debated Mark Pennington, is the central focus of your life. river of working-class blood. I don’t say that ship or the redistribution of income. But what Professor of Political Economy and There is obviously one answer to this: don’t after the event, because it failed. People like distinguishes it from socialist regimes is that Public Policy at King’s College London, be the worker, be the boss instead. One small me said that for decades. there is a preponderance of private owner - class of people own the means of production, The tradition I am proud to be a part of ship of the means of production. on Socialism or the free market? the means of production being the resources championed underground workers’ move - Even if the pragmatic objections to social - and facilities needed to make goods and serv - ments who challenged the “actually existing ism could be overcome, capitalist institutions Here we present extracts from their ices. One set of people own the resources to socialism” in Russia and elsewhere. We are preferable because they hold people to a speeches. The full audio of the debate get rich on the results of others’ work. cheered when people rose against those higher ethical ideal. can be found at bit.ly/SovCa Into this system is built a layer of unem - states. The first pragmatic objection is that it is not ployment. That means poverty. Depending Since the 1880s Marxists had argued possible to have an advanced economic sys - on where you are, that poverty takes different against state socialism, against bureaucratic tem without substantial reliance on market Katy Dollar forms. In a wealthy country like ours, control of the economy. They had insisted prices. Prices convey dispersed information through class struggle we’ve won a number that socialism is democratic and controlled about the changes in scarcity, supply, and de - of rights, benefits and safeguards. Even here by the working class. mand, of countless different inputs and out - Capitalism has brought us progress, an you might lose your home, you might face 1917 was socialist in the sense it was the be - puts. Profit and loss accounting within the explosion of technology and industry, un - the choice between three meals a day or ginning of the international revolution. But, context of market pricing enables producers precedented productivity and efficiency. It school shoes for your kids. In a country like as the leaders of the 1917 revolution said, and to learn which goods generate the maximum has connected globally and built human the US where struggle and political represen - as Marxists had said long before 1917 was value from the minimum of inputs. cooperation on a scale not yet known be - tation has won less, you may lose your access that the prerequisites for socialism grew out Any economic system which is remotely fore. to healthcare. If you are sick, you will get of advanced capitalism. rational needs to be able to communicate Markets have produced products to meet sicker. If you are in pain, you will suffer the Stalinist economics developed not from the where the maximum value is compared to the needs of people of whom they have no di - agony. best achieved by advanced capitalism, but in the minimum. Without market prices you rect knowledge. We have stuff people 100 It gets worse in other countries. Even the competition with and in imitation of the cannot have a rational allocation of economic years ago did not have and some things they unemployed in the UK or US you are un - West. It was motivated by growth, not by a resources. did not even know they wanted. likely to be one of the parents of those 22,000 reduction of control over the economy in We see the consequence of that in all sorts If I took a serf into my house and showed children who die every day from poverty. human life. It was much more part of the his - of socialist regimes that have moved away him my bed, my mobile and my fridge, if I We can do better than this. Rather than the tory of the era dominated by capitalism then from markets. They have always been char - showed them my 90-plus year old grand - free market, we propose socialism. it was part of our socialist future. acterised by the systematic production of mother who is still alive thanks to better diet What is our socialism? You cannot agree The new technologies which arise under things that people do not want, and produc - and medical advances, they would be im - with all of Bevan, Stalin, Mao, Trotsky, Pol capitalism are developed by collective social tion with inputs that are too expensive rela - pressed. We are living through a period of Pot and Kautsky. Our socialism means class processes. The development of mobile tive to the demands of the people for whom peak in global life experience. struggle against the capitalists which re - phones was funded through a series of large the goods are produced. But that isn’t the whole story. Everyday moves them from power; social ownership of contracts with the LAPD. In computing the If prices are to be effective communicators 22,000 children die because of poverty. the means of production; co-operative and big advances have originated in academia, in of information, they cannot be determined ef - Half of all deaths of under-fives in the democratic management of the economy; state-funded programs for the military, and fectively with a single public owner of the world are attributable to hunger. Babies and and the end of the oppression and exploita - more recently with open source develop - means of production. They need to come toddlers die because the market doesn’t tion, hunger and poverty. ment. from a bottom-up process where decision- allow for the food to get to them. 168 million Socialism is possible because of the Some major advances support the “market makers are at liberty to bid up or down on children are engaged in child labour. Over changes brought about by capitalism, by the drives innovation” theory, but most have not. prices in response to circumstances with half of those are in hazardous work. expansion and socialisation of production. Fridges and vaccines and the internet all which only they are familiar. What is it in the free market that breeds Ruling classes have existed necessarily came out of the public sector. Major innova - In a market economy each person is a data these inequalities? throughout history because of scarcity. One tion requires failure after failure after failure point. Each time someone chooses one pur - It is a particular exchange, the exchange be - class built a life and a civilisation on the work in order to make breakthroughs. That is not chase over another or one investment over tween worker and employer. I sell my ability of others. Poverty came from the inability to sustainable for a private business. another they transmit a piece of information to work, my skills, my time and energy, and provide the basics for the whole population. The biggest driver of technological devel - about their circumstances to other actors that someone buys it. It is like selling or buying That scarcity no longer blights us. We have opment in the 20th century was the US Army. they can then adapt to. anything else in the market, a mobile phone, the chance to build a new more equal system If that progress had been based on human a nuclear weapon, the difference being that through democratic planning. Democratic need and liberation rather than death and RISK you don’t simply have a moment of exchange planning requires other things from us. It re - power, where we could be and what we Multiple ownership of property disperses and then move on with your life with either quires the habit of co-operation. It requires could have right now! risk, whether it be equal or not. If you have your money or a commodity to consume. In education, literacy and culture. It requires in - The market keeps some people very rich a single owner and that owner makes this exchange your boss then controls the formation and connectivity and it requires and others in absolute poverty. That is the mistakes, then the whole system is af - bulk of your life. The exchange decides the will to bring these things about. Those are supposed freedom and rationality of the mar - fected in a negative way. If ownership is where your skills and energy go. It decides all provided by capitalism. ket. dispersed, there will be mistakes, but the You are pushed down, not because you effects can be minimised because they GLOBALISATION stopped working hard, or you stole some - are dispersed in a regime of private and Globalisation has linked people together. thing, or you attacked your boss — not even not social ownership. Across the economy, in the public and pri - because people do not want what you pro - A private property regime would allow for vate sectors, cooperation happens every duce. There was no natural disaster to ex - what I would describe as permission-less in - day at work, and even more on the picket plain the housing crash, and it didn’t come novation. Progress in all fields of human en - line and other arenas of struggle. through the newly-homeless all exercising deavour occurs when some people — Democratic planning would mean the end - their freedom to try camping, but lives were entrepreneurs — break from the way the ma - ripped apart. ing of insecurity and hunger. Work would be Under capitalism, right to live for the jority believes is right, and do something dif - shared out, ending long work-hours. The majority falls below the right of the rich to ferent. Then their ideas are copied and we shortening of the working week and the loss get richer. We now have everything we have progress occurring by a ripple effect. of insecurity would mean we would have need to leave that system behind. We Progress never occurs by a majority decid - more time to think, to be with the people we should do that. ing what counts as innovation. It is what mi - love, to read, to play. Human culture could norities spot and move ahead with without flourish from that leisure. Rational distribu - requiring the permission of large numbers of tion of resources will chip away at the source Mark Pennington other actors. of violence and war. In real world capitalism we have too many We have all the building blocks of that examples of privatisation of the gains and the I’m going to make the case that to achieve world. We can do away with this wretched socialisation of losses as in the financial crisis, workers’ liberty you need capitalist insti - system. the bailing of the banks and agricultural sub - tutions and substantial, although maybe I will cover some of the arguments against sidies. They are genuine problems. But they not exclusive, private ownership of the socialism and for capitalism. The most dam - are bugs in the system, not inherent features means of production. aging of them is that we have had socialism, of it. Buy online for £6.20 including postage. with Stalin and his like, and that it led to state You need a regime where individuals or The top 100 companies across the world ac - workersliberty.org/sms terror, removal of freedom and starvation. groupings — firms, corporations or coopera - count for about 6% of global GDP. Those I would answer: Stalinism was not social - tives — own the means of production. 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through the welfare state. If people were properly socialised into re - specting the moral worth of others, then cap - italism would provide more and better opportunities to the disadvantaged. People would not need to be coerced into doing the right thing. We could dispense with the entire apparatus of the welfare state and rely on voluntary giving — not patron - ising charity but giving on the basis of gen - uinely wanting to improve the lives of others. Others say that to keep the system operat - ing, it requires a massive system of coercion to enforce property rights. But if people were properly socialised, then we could dispense with the entire apparatus of state coercion. We could have a world where we could abol - ish the criminal justice system, an anarcho- capitalist society where the state withers away as it supposed to do but never does under free-access communism. Many socialists will argue that this is fan - tasy. It is fantasy to ask people to transform themselves under a capitalist system that have because they sell things that people not to be preferred because it expects more ism. Real world capitalism already out-per - makes people behave badly. If we are sup - want. They require the consent of people from people than capitalism? forms really existing socialism but it could posed to accept that socialism will not end in who buy those products. Socialism has failed, say some people, be - work far better if people could be socialised famine, dictatorship and gulags, then we They might use their power inappropri - cause people are too selfish. If people were out of some of the behaviours they have in should also accept that it is possible to so - ately to steal from others and to get favours not selfish and were socialised to think about today’s world. What are those behaviours? cialise people to mitigate the morally repre - from the state. But in general those corpora - the common good and not private greed, Capitalism today falls short of its potential hensible aspects of the capitalism we see tions have to compete for people’s money. then collective ownership could work. They because people do not treat each other as today. The arguments I have sketched explain would not need private property rights to in - ends in themselves. They treat them as in - It seems to me that both socialism and cap - why capitalism has been so successful com - centivise them to act in the right way. People struments to be used and exploited. There is italism would perform better if people were pared to the failure of socialism. They explain would give freely to the disadvantaged be - nothing inherently exploitative about trade. more morally virtuous. In my view though why capitalist societies are more prosperous cause that is the morally right thing to do. It represents the principle of reciprocity. But capitalism would still be the morally superior and why living standards for the working To continue the argument, it is said that so - in today’s world people take advantage of in - option. class have increased by 1800% since the in - cialism has failed because its leaders have formational imbalances and misfortunes of To suggest that people will be incapable of dustrial revolution. abused power, but if people had proper re - other people to rip off their trading partners. respecting the humanity of others unless dif - They explain why in the last 20 years we spect for others then those in positions of If they were socialised out of such selfish ferences are eradicated is not to appeal in the highest in human nature. have seen the biggest ever global reduction power would only ever do what is right for trades, then we would have the benefits of Asking people to respect differences, in poverty as China has moved towards a the common good. They would not dream of trade and division of labour without the including differences in wealth, that result capitalist model. They also explain why in so - privatising gains and socialising losses. downsides. Capitalism falls short of its po - in different value judgements and choices, cialist regimes, people have to be kept in. There is no need for the collective owner - tential because those who lack the opportu - and still to respect others with humanity, There are very few people running to go to ship of property to lead to famines or lead to nity to live a good life through no fault of is to hold people to a higher ethical stan - socialist regimes! gulags. their own are often neglected. In so far as dard. I think these are persuasive arguments but The problem with this kind of argument is their interests are catered for at all, people there is an important objection. Is socialism that it can be applied to the case for capital - have to be coerced into doing the right thing Why Greece’s “left government” failed

There was a distinct change in Syriza, in streets, talking about getting rid of the Mem - have an influence within Syriza. And so An - CHALLENGES OF A LABOUR terms of who made decisions, between 2012 orandum at all costs. tarsya has not been able to relate to the peo - and 2015. As Syriza was moving towards The referendum majority was for No; but ple who were betrayed by Syriza. GOVERNMENT government, there was a shift towards petty- Syriza capitulated. The anti-Memorandum In terms of the splinters from Syriza, Pop - bourgeois technocratic politics. In 2012, movement was defeated. ular Unity, formed by a split in August 2015, Syriza was a more left formation, talking Syriza started adopting a language that is a formation that believes in the Drachma about a European social movement, about sometimes the Labour Party adopts as well, road to socialism. They talk about fighting for Greek socialist Dora Polenta spoke to working-class control, talking about nation - at the council level: we need to implement sovereignty and reconstruction. That has Solidarity about the challenges that alising the banks. That was all wiped out the Memorandum, but in a less aggressive been amplified now. Nationalism is building were faced by Syriza and the lessons when Syriza moved into government. With way than a Samaras government would. over the Macedonia issue, and tension with for a Corbyn government Yanis Varoufakis, there was the idea that Today, interestingly, Syriza is claiming Turkey, and Popular Unity has adopted Syriza was going to outsmart the creditors. ownership of the Memorandum. Syriza cab - openly nationalistic, chauvinistic positions. Syriza gained power and there was ini - inet ministers are claiming that if the Memo - They co-operate with openly nationalist, anti- The Syriza election was a reflection of the tially an anaemic attempt to create a pro-gov - randum didn’t exist, they would have working-class forces. hard, militant class struggle by the work - ernment social movement, with rallies and invented it. They have adopted the language The most important lesson for us here and ing class and neighbourhood community demonstrations supporting the government and the politics of the previous government. now from the Syriza experience is full de - movements against the attacks of the implementing the Thessaloniki Declaration. They have slipped from being a quasi-social- mocratisation of the party; it is very impor - “Black Block” Memorandum govern - But soon Syriza abandoned any attempt to democratic formation to being a fully centre- tant to fight against a leadership clique that ments of the years 2010 to 2012. relate, even in a top-down way, to any left neoliberal formation. becomes unaccountable and detaches itself friendly forces in other countries in Europe. from the democratic decision-making of the Syriza gave political substance to this A team around Alexis Tsipras took control, LEFT party. It is important to build unity between movement, and it carried all of this move - and they conducted negotiations with the EU The majority of the revolutionary left was the party and trade unions at the rank and ment’s political contradictions. in a secretive way. Democracy within Syriza part of the Syriza experiment. But this part file level. The movement had only a vague idea of was strangulated, and there was no attempt of the left lost its autonomy, dispersed it - Most importantly, we must prepare for the what it expected of the Syriza government. It from the Syriza rank and file to control what self within Syriza. It was not distinct within ferocity of the class struggle which will be expected some form of relief, to get rid of the was happening in the negotiations. Syriza, it was very slow to make a re - unleashed by both national and international Memorandum laws and privatisation, to re - For six months, the Syriza government was sponse to what had happened. forces. We need a programme that recognises store wages and pensions and collective bar - like a person free-falling from a block of flats, the transitory nature and fragility of forma - gaining, to give some right to housing. These Much of the left outside Syriza was sectar - and we were looking for the final crash. tions like Syriza. demands were concretised in the Thessa - ian. They predicted and declared in advance We must understand that the revolu - There was a hope that gravity might be de - loniki Declaration. the reformist nature of Syriza and the failure tionary left, should participate in centrist fied when Alexis Tsipras called the referen - People were hoping that the Syriza govern - of any attempt by the left to engage with it. formations like Syriza, but also educate its dum in June 2015. Up until that time, the ment would restore what they had pre-Mem - They expected the crash to happen; they cadre and maintain its autonomy while movement was in a sort of limbo. It was wait - orandum. It was a defensive rather than an were slagging off the tendencies on the left being a part of these movements. ing – the government was waiting as well. aggressive type of hope. who were trying to engage with Syriza or Now there were all these people on the Where we stand More online at www.workersliberty.org Workers’ Liberty @workersliberty Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to another, the capitalist class, which owns the means of production. Far right in local elections The capitalists’ control over the economy and their relentless drive to increase their wealth causes poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives by overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the environment and much else. LABOUR Against the accumulated wealth and power of the capitalists, the working class must unite to struggle against capitalist By Luke Hardy power in the workplace and in wider society. The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty wants socialist revolution: On 3 May UKIP and groups to its collective ownership of industry and services, workers’ control, right are likely to face a well-de - and a democracy much fuller than the present system, with served drubbing in the local elections. elected representatives recallable at any time and an end to bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges. UKIP will be standing in only a fraction of the seats they stood for We fight for trade unions and the Labour Party to break with in 2014, the last time most of the “social partnership” with the bosses and to militantly assert same council wards were up for working-class interests. election. In 2014 UKIP got 16% of the vote and won hundreds of new In workplaces, trade unions, and Labour organisations; councillors. This time round among students; in local campaigns; on the left and in UKIP’s support is likely to continue wider political alliances we stand for: to drop, as it did in the 2017 general • election, when it got under 2% of Independent working-class representation in politics. the vote. Since then they have been • A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the through two more leaders and have labour movement. shown little sign of revival. They have managed to unite lim refugees in Germany. much of the far right with some of For Britain’s policy platform is • A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, to The newly energised Labour Party, organising and campaigning, the more populist UKIP activists. explicit about opposing what it strike, to picket effectively, and to take solidarity action. Tommy Robinson, previously of calls the Islamification of Britain. • which has won back some of the Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, disaffected working-class voters the EDL, is involved and the party They vilify millions of British peo - education and jobs for all. who voted UKIP on the basis of its seems to be well funded, if their ple from Muslim backgrounds and • A workers’ movement that fights all forms of oppression. faux anti-establishment credentials. website and the glossy leaflets they more recent migrants as an existen - are using in Leeds are anything to tial threat to “British culture” and Full equality for women, and social provision to free women But that is not the sole, or the main reason for UKIP’s decline. go by. blame Islam for the fringe who are from domestic labour. For reproductive justice: free abortion on In Anne Marie Waters they have terrorists. demand; the right to choose when and whether to have BREXIT a leader with a profile and an un - The labour movement needs to children. Full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and The vote for Brexit and a shift to usual biography — she started out confront and defeat organised transgender people. Black and white workers’ unity against the right by the Tories under as a Labour Party, LGBT and racists in elections, through a com - women’s rights activist. However bative Labour Party fighting on the racism. Theresa May has cut the political ground from under UKIP. The To - she has decisively moved to the ground against the spread of their • Open borders. anti-Muslim right, working with ideas. ries are adopting much of UKIP’s We need to mobilise to drive • Global solidarity against global capital — workers street racists from around the EDL policies and rhetoric. them from the streets when they everywhere have more in common with each other than with as part of a failed attempt to repli - A new ultra-Eurosceptic party, organise racist demonstrations. their capitalist or Stalinist rulers. cate the Pegida movement and its Democrats and Veterans, led by mass demonstrations against Mus - • Democracy at every level of society, from the smallest former UKIP leadership candidate, workplace or community to global social John Rees Evans, is also standing in organisation. these local elections. • Equal rights for all nations, against On the fascist far right there is the welcome news that the last BNP sit - imperialists and predators big and small. ting councillor is standing down. • Maximum left unity in action, and Their decline has been even more openness in debate. dramatic. As recently as nine years ago the BNP won nearly a million If you agree with us, please take some votes and had 50 councillors, a Greater London Authority member copies of Solidarity to sell — and join us! and two MEPs. Now the husk of the BNP is standing a handful of paper candidates with no hope of winning. Events A new party of the far right, the “For Britain Movement”, is stand - ing in just 15 seats. Saturday 28 April Tuesday 1 May For Britain was founded by Anne What organisation of socialists London May Day march Marie Waters, who was also a can - do we need? Workers’ Liberty Assemble noon. Clerkenwell didate for the leadership of UKIP. day school Green; march to Trafalgar Square. She called for UKIP to become a 12- 5pm, room 736, IoE, 20 Bed - bit.ly/md-2018 party organised around anti-Mus - ford Way, London WC1H 0AL lim populism and demagogy. She bit.ly/21-28ap Monday 7 May won 21% of the leadership vote in Chesterfield May Day march September 2017 and then left to Saturday 28 April and rally form For Britain. Hope Not Hate, 11am, Town Hall, Rose Hill, an anti-racist group, characterise Sheffield March for the NHS the group as “a British attempt to 1.30pm, Barker’s Pool, Sheffield Chesterfield S40 1LP bit.ly/2JnZdUO build a ‘counter-jihad’”, that is a S1 2JA counterpart to parties like AFD in bit.ly/2IqM5P6 Thursday 10 May Germany and the PVV in the Monday 30 April NHS Free for All! Activists Netherlands. A party which will focus on scaremongering about Anti Semitism and the left- A Meeting 6.30pm, Unite, 128 Theobalds Muslims and opposition to Muslim discussion migrants. 6.30pm, 208 Woodhouse Lane, Road, London WC1X 8TN bit.ly/tuc-12 Hope Not Hate rate For Britain’s Leeds LS2 9DX electoral and organisational bit.ly/2HL2kci prospects as poor. The left and anti- racists definitely needs to be vigi - Have an event you want listing? Email: [email protected] lant about For Britain. REPORTS 10-11 UCU: new network launches

By Ollie Moore

Planned strikes by members of the University and College Union (UCU) in pre-1992 university, aimed to stop cuts to the Univer - sity Superannuation Scheme for academic workers’ pensions, have been suspended after union members voted to accept an employers’ offer. CWU conference debates UCU members voted by 64% to 36%, on a turnout of over 60%, to accept an offer from bosses’ organ - free movement isation Universities UK which pro - posed to set up a joint “expert By a CWU member Labour manifesto. Corbyn also panel” to review pension reform. the deal and mobilised for a no engaging in transformative strug - spoke at the conference and was However, many UCU activists ar - vote. The website “USS Briefs” gle within the union. The Communication Workers′ well received. gued that the deal, which did not published regular bulletins Members have been discussing Union (CWU) conference met The CWU ratified the decision contain any firm guarantees to analysing and commenting on par - what a transformed UCU would on 22-23 April, with sector con - to affiliate to Momentum, which abandon plans to reform pensions, ticular aspects of the dispute, and a look like on Twitter using the hash - ferences following. was overwhelmingly carried. Al - or any long-term commitment to new network, “UCU Rank-and- tag #UCUOfMyDreams. though there were criticisms of retaining the status quo, could only Workers’ Liberty members ac - At the general conference one of File”, has been provisionally estab - Momentum, the overwhelming postpone, rather than defeat, the at - tive in UCU will attend the meet - the big issues debated was the lished, with a formal launch feeling was it was better to be in - tacks. ing of the new UCU Windrush scandal, and the union meeting due to take place in Lon - volved. Activists also argued that the Rank-and-File initiative to argue overwhelmingly expressed its sol - don on 29 April. Discussion was also held on the UCU leadership, including General for a genuine rank-and-file ap - idarity with Windrush migrants The existing “UCU Left”, which redesign of the union. The current Secretary Sally Hunt, effectively proach, based on the structures and their families. is dominated by the SWP and leadership is looking to change gerrymandered the ballot by circu - of the union, which fights for Unfortunately this compassion whose supporters will meet on 28 how the union is organised, there lating misleading emails about the greater democracy and more from migrants did not last into the April, functions almost exclusively were some good contributions on UUK deal. radical and creative industrial same afternoon when a motion as an electoral machine rather than maintaining a lay organisation The substantial minority which calling for the CWU to affiliate to and particularly getting young voted to reject the deal and con - the Labour Campaign for Free members involved. There will be tinue striking reflects a significant Movement fell heavily. The union a special conference in the Au - upsurge of rank-and-file organisa - made sure it was tailing the tumn to make decisions on the re - tion in the UCU. Dozens of End UoL outsourcing! Labour leadership′s position on design. It is likely that any moves branches passed policy opposing the response to Brexit and free movement. General Secretary to cut back on democracy, for ex - By Gemma Short Dave Ward spoke against the mo - ample by moving away from an - tion,claiming it was “about push - nual conferences or to more Luton airport Cleaners, porters, se - ing Labour beyond where it is appointed officials, will be op - curity officers, recep - now”, and “about elevating above posed by members. tionists, gardeners, any other consideration the free The telecoms conference, which workers post room and audio- movement of people.” happens from Tuesday 24 April, visual staff at the Uni - On a more positive note there will be meeting in the shadow of a versity of London will was a debate on pushing forward controversial deal on the closure balloting over of the BT pensions scheme. strike on 25-26 April. with the union′s already existing Debate on the scheme is un - pay The workers, organ - A series of strikes and protests policy on the public ownership or likely to overturn the deal but it ised by the IWGB union, are em - has already forced the university post and telecoms. The union now may see significant opposition. ployed by a range of outsourcing to initiate a review into its out - needs to make sure it gets further By Simon Marks companies that have contracts with sourced contracts, but it is re - commitment on this in the next the university. They are fighting to fusing to involved the union in Workers at London Luton Air - be directly employed by the uni - this process. The outcome of port have given management versity and for parity of terms and this review was due in March but notice of an imminent strike conditions with currently directly- was postponed until May. Shoddy and divisive pay offer ballot in protest over a paltry employed workers. Outsourced pay offer, despite sky-high pay workers currently receive inferior ? ? By a delegate year, below-inflation, pay rise , increases for the bosses and pensions, and less holiday, sick, • Find out more and support the with additional increases for some record passenger numbers. maternity and paternity pay. strike: iwgb-universityoflondon.org The main discussion at the Uni - through abolition of band 1 and a The latest financial statements son Health conference (16-18 reduction of increments, alongside showed that Luton Airport’s di - April) was the current pay offer. a step towards performance related rectors’ remuneration increased 24 hours before delegates de - pay. It’s a shoddy and divisive 59% and the highest paid director For a work/life balance! offer, which dilutes rather than received a pay increase of 48%. bated the issue, the ballot was sent out to members with a recommen - builds up the industrial strength of Despite months of negotiations From Tubeworker bulletin ules, the line manager was absent. the union, but the leadership ar - the company have offered to in - dation from the leadership for ac - We are now told these sheets are ceptance. After this undemocratic gued the negotiations had broken crease workers’ pay by just London Underground Jubilee good for us as workers as they give the pay cap and won big gains for 2.15%, at a time when the Retail move the debate was fairly mean - Line drivers are unhappy with a better service to passengers. Great ingless, but anyway, a 65:35 major - the lowest paid. We should oppose Price Index (RPI) is 3.6%. In a the leadership and fight for better. new duty schedules forced on for them, but that doesn’t help im - ity stuck with the position of the The ballot closes on the 5 consultative ballot, workers them by management. prove our work life balance. solidly rejected the company’s executive. June. Like much of the Tube, the Ju - It was agreed at the 2015 Pay Dis - The basics of the deal are a three- offer and backed an industrial ac - pute that weekend working would tion ballot. bilee Line gets busier and busier each year, and working patterns go down. It hasn’t, it’s gone up. There are 750 people employed And not just on the Jubilee Line. by London Luton Airport, work - deteriorate with the pressure Tubeworker believes work/life DLR strikes suspended ing in areas including security ramped up too. balance is a crucial concern for staff, engineers, fire services, fi - Drivers have decided it is time to all Tube workers. Something we nance, administration and pas - say enough is enough, with both should all fight together to im - By Gemma Short nificant progress” made in talks at senger services. unions likely to declare a dispute. prove. ACAS with contractor Keolis The workforce believe they The key issue is work/life bal - Workers on the DLR were due to Amey. No further details have deserve a fairer share of the ance, in particular weekend work - strike on 20-24 April. • Follow online: emerged of what that progress profits they helped deliver. ing. When reps negotiated with Tubeworker www.workersliberty.org/twblog Strikes were suspended after may involve. management on the draft sched - what the RMT union said was “sig - SolidaFor a workers’ giovertnment y No 467 25 April 2018 50p/£1 Support the May Day McStrike!

Workers at five McDonalds about it, it was really important for restaurants (in Crayford, getting people into the campaign. Cambridge, Manchester, and We recruited a lot of people from two in Watford) will strike on the publicity of the last strikes. Tuesday 1 May. Richard, a We’ve been out speaking to peo - Bakers’ Food and Allied ple outside of the restaurants and Workers’ Union (BFAWU) recruiting people to the union. activist from Watford, spoke We’ve been talking to them about to Solidarity . the importance of our bold de - mands and linking up their expe - I first got involved through one riences with the struggle of our organisers, Gareth. I’ve nationally. It’s been brilliant hav - been a member of the union ing some of the people who were since before the September on strike last time being organisers strike but we didn’t have the for the union and going into stores numbers in Watford at that point organising. We will be growing the to ballot, but I attended the membership up until the day of strike committee meeting in the strike. Crayford. I helped build up the What’s really interesting is how campaign with workers from the many people now know about the other stores. McStrike. People talk about it in the workplace. Watford is the them with skills to fight back. We really enthused a lot of people, and always ask questions of work - I joined the BFAWU online hometown of the CEO, and this are getting workers to put in griev - lots of people joined the union at ers, find their main concerns when I started working at McDon - has raised the profile of the cam - ances about issues such as sched - that meeting. and talk about how to the union ald’s. I had previously been a paign. He even visited Watford The biggest lesson I’ve learnt ules being up late. When we win can address those issues. member of Unite Community and last December. I think the cam - is that the best thing to do is to those cases workers are able to see I had heard about the Bakers’ paign is having an impact on the what we are able to achieve and union being the union for some - wider industry. There are now are joining the union. one working in McDonald’s. workers organising in TGI Fri - Join the May Day demonstrations The first strike was mostly about When I was in Unite Community I day’s (Unite), Burger King and publicity rather than hitting Mc - Manchester McStrike picket and demonstration was involved with solidarity activ - KFC (BFAWU). Donald’s profits, and it’s some of ity with PCS members on strike, It’s true the strike has had an im - Midnight picket for one hour from midnight on Monday 30 April the same this time. The impact on and with Labour in the last elec - pact in the wider labour move - until 1am Tuesday 1 May profits is a secondary issue, but if tion. ment. It helps that we’ve had the Morning picket 7-8am Tuesday 1 May we hit them where it hurts with After the first strike McDonald’s support of people like McDonnell McDonald′s 36/38 Oxford Road, Manchester, M1 5EJ their public image we can win. announced a pay rise for lots of and Corbyn, and Laura Pidcock More info: bit.ly/2Hq1NwY McDonald’s usually have workers workers. But our core demands are MP (a former McDonald’s who have been prepared for the Crayford, Cambridge and Watford pickets and still the same. £10 an hour, and an worker). That has had a big im - strike, sometimes by getting in demonstration end to the youth rates; scrap zero pact, particularly in popularising workers from other restaurants. hour contracts, and a choice of it. Two years ago talking about a Pickets at 8-9am in Crayford (Tower Retail Park, DA1 4LD) and Their strategy is damage limita - fixed hour contracts; union recog - strike in McDonald’s would have Cambridge (Newmarket Road, CB5 8WL). tion. nition; and an end to bullying in been impossible, but this shows it Rally and demonstration at noon at Watford McDonald′s, 128 High The best experience during the the workplace. can be done. Street, Watford, WD17 1EA dispute has been the sheer amount Since the strike last September We have frequent meetings with More info: bit.ly/2qUwSgY of support from the wider labour we’ve built up strength, we now the union organisers, and train us movement — meeting McDonnell May Day Precarious Workers’ Bloc have five stores striking. After the and give us practical help. We are and Corbyn was a highlight. 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