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Open Letter to Jeremy Corbyn Leo & Workers’ Liberty SolFor siociadl ownershaip of the branks aind intdustry y No 490 9 January 2019 50p/£1 Open letter to Jeremy Corbyn Leo An open letter to Jeremy Corbyn Panitch “I think we need to respect the referendum. As I say, I think that there is a deal which can be struck within Parliament that brings ev - on erybody together, that respects the views and wishes of communities whether they voted Leave or Remain” —Rebecca Long-Bailey, Shadow Secretary for Business, Sky News, 16 Trump December. Interview pages 6-8 Comrade Corbyn! The 2016 referendum vote that the UK FIGHT should withdraw from the EU, after 45 years membership, plunged Britain into a prolonged political crisis. Today, less than three months before Britain is due to leave, that crisis has not yet been resolved. The 2016 vote plunged the Labour Party into a crisis too. In that vote Labour opposed any form of Brexit and advocated a vote to remain. Assessing the Turn to page 5 Gilets Jaunes Michael Elms surveys the Gilets Jaunes BREXIT movement in France, still active despite the Christmas and New Year pause. See page 9 Bolsonaro sets out plans Andressa Alegre reports on the first measures, and the plans, of “Brazil’s Trump”. See page 2 Renew Labour! A new Stop Brexit campaign See page 4 2 NEWS More online at www.workersliberty.org Bolsonaro sets out plans behind lines of armed police to in - was to lower the minimum salary guidelines (though it does seem We haven’t yet quite had a taste By Andressa Alegre timidate the press, Bolsonaro from 1006 reais (approx. £211) to that his regime has backtracked on of what the Bolsonaro government promised to fight socialism, “gen - 998 reais (approx. £209). A few days that one). will be able to pass through the Many Brazilians — especially der ideology”, and the colour red. later Bolsonaro said in an interview Bolsonaro disbanded the depart - Chamber of Deputies, where he those who are (or care for the His inauguration was boycotted that he plans to put an end to ment for diversity of the Ministry does not have a majority. rights of) women, black people, by the Workers’ Party (PT) and the labour law and workers’ rights. of Education, and introduced ideo - Unfortunately, the streets have LGBT folk, workers, or leftists — Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) He delegated the demarcation of logical checks for academic schol - been awfully quiet in Brazil so feared the coming of New Year’s in protest, but neither those parties indigenous land to the ministry of arships. He stated that he is going far. As yet there is little sign of Day 2019, as far-right evangelical nor any other group organised agriculture, headed by agribusiness to invest in training people for the immediate moves by the organ - fundamentalist Jair Bolsonaro major protest demonstrations for figure Teresa Cristina. And he labour market rather than form ised left. took power as president. the day. deleted all mentions of LGBT peo - “slave minds for the ideas of social - In his first speech as president, Bolsonaro’s first act as president ple from Brazil’s human rights ist domination”. Orban rewrites history NUS leaders plan coup this month By Luke Hardy reburial. That was a key event in the overthrow of Stalinism in By Maisie Sanders The Orban government in Hun - Hungry. His statue was put in gary has removed the statue of Martyrs’ Square. On 15 January, the Trustee Board Imre Nagy in Budapest in a The removal of the statue goes [of NUS, the National Union of overnight secret operation. together with Orban rehabilitating Students] will meet to vote to ap - Nagy was the liberalising Stal - and promoting the antisemitic au - prove the calling of a Company inist who was returned to power thoritarian regime of Admiral Law meeting. by the Hungarian Revolution of Horthy (1920-44), a regime that This will be made up of an ap - 1956. He was overthrown by the was allied with Hitler and partici - pointed person from each [student] Russian invasion which put down pated in the Holocaust. union (likely to be the President or A myth is being peddled by the revolution, and then executed CEO). Our source says delegates Orban that the holocaust of in 1958. will be encouraged to “attend” re - Hungarian Jews was entirely in Nagy is not our hero. For most motely and vote via email to guar - the period after Horthy was of his career he was a Stalinist ap - antee no disruption from students. overthrow by the Germans in paratchik. But for many Hungari - Company Law meetings are usu - August 1944. In fact hundreds ans he is a symbolic martyr of the ally only used to ratify constitu - of thousands of Hungarian Hungarian revolution. tional changes passed by National Jews had already been sent to In 1989 he was rehabilitated Conference. The “reforms” [being the death camps before that. under popular pressure and pushed by NUS leaders on pretext 200,000 people turned out for his of a financial crisis] could be rati - fied and set in stone by such a meeting. [NUS has already an - nounced that elections for all officer positions are suspended until after the onus will be put on student reaucracy, including the corporate- National Conference, completely union Presidents to form a new style senior management structure. Aaron Bastani’s overriding the constitution and steering group to hold NUS officers The student left also needs to dis - democratic process]. to account termly. cuss urgently how we can trans - According to our source, the pro - National Conference will be cut form our student unions from posals are currently being worked from two and a half days to just “service providers” into campaign - capitalist realism on by NUS Acting Chief Executive two days and one night. The dele - ing, democratic bodies that fight for Peter Robertson and unelected gate entitlement for Student students, unrestricted by charity trustees such as Aiden Grills, CEO Unions will be cut to potentially law. of Leeds University Students’ Trade deals with states that re - just one delegate per union. This is It’s vital that the NUS NEC [Na - By Natalie Cassidy Union. likely to be taken up by a President tional Executive] vote no confi - press independent working-class The six full time Liberation Offi - organisation such as Cuba, or other sabbatical officer. dence in the Trustee Board before As someone once said, for cers (Women’s, LGBT (x2), Trans, Minimal elections will happen at its meeting on 15 January can ratify some: “it is easier to imagine the Venezuela, and a Bolsonaro-led Black, Disabled) will be down - Brazil, may at best be deft realpoli - National Conference. National a Company Law meeting to sign off end of the world than the end of graded to part time, possibly un - Conference will be a room of sabbs on the coup. capitalism”. tik, but do nothing to improve the paid roles. Part time Sections balance of class power within those talking to themselves. So far, no NEC members have Novara co-founder Aaron Bas - Officers (International Students’ NUS will become even more of a come forward to say they will tani tweets about Brexit: countries. Officer and Postgraduate Students’ Why is Bastani advocating fossil- careerist club, with no space at con - stand up for NUS democracy. “Bilateral trade deals under a Officer) will become unpaid volun - ference for serious political debate, We need to keep up the pres - Corbyn government: Brazilian food fuel based trade deals at a time of teers, and these roles will be sub - ecological crisis? Or talking of dissident left wingers and students sure! and coffee; Cuban healthcare work - sumed into the three new Vice from underrepresented groups, or ers; Venezuelan gas. All while help - Cuban doctors as goods with no President roles: Higher Education, agency to be traded across borders likely any students who aren’t sab - •Campaign fb group — ing them in value-added areas like Further Education and a new batical officers. tinyurl.com/stopNUSshutdown pharma, hi-tech manufacturing in exchange for British goods and vague “Student Opportunities” services? Or forgetting that Brazil, It’s clear that these reforms go be - •Model email — and aviation. Cheap mojitos, a well post. These will replace the five yond making “necessary cutbacks’ tinyurl.com/NECmodelemail staffed NHS, assisting the global despite recent “de-industrialisa - current Vice President positions tion”, is a major aircraft exporter, [NUS claims a financial crisis, ap - •Speaker tour — south. Winning.” (Welfare, Society and Citizenship, parently caused by mismanage - tinyurl.com/NUSspeakertour He proceeds to accuse his critics and Britain isn’t? Union Development, HE and FE). Bastani’s view of socialism is en - ment of its commercial operations]. •SLN Conference 2-3 February — of tearing their hair out at this, and The Nations will have funds for The £3 million deficit is being tinyurl.com/SLNconference doing so because they are infected tirely void of any conception of just four officers between them. class struggle. It is “socialism” to be used as cover for a complete shut - Abridged from studentleftnet - by that “capitalist realism”. Currently NUS Scotland and NUS down of NUS rank and file democ - work.com. But Bastani’s idea of a socialist administered from above by a mild Wales have four and three officers Social Democratic government racy, drawn up by unelected and trade policy actually speaks very respectively. highly paid CEOs and forced •Justine Canady is standing for little to socialism of any sort, even through a shift in trade policy. The Block of 15, the portion of the Even in Bastani’s most vivid through with no say from the mem - NUS president, and demanding the of a reformist bent.
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