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Weekly Worker Revolution of 1905 A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity weekly Tory grandees sharpen n Letters and debate workern Media’s role their knives after May’s n Scotland and Indy 2 fatal miscalculation n DUP bigots No 1159 Thursday June 15 2017 Towards a Communist Party of the European Union £1/€1.10 THINGS HAVE JUST GOT EVEN BETTER 2 weekly June 15 2017 1159 worker LETTERS Letters may have been from many of those present) - all of and united action was delivered on unelectable, no action when they are in sets one up in Poland, do you defend shortened because of which will be necessary in order to take November 30 2011. That saw the power because that will help the Tories the right of the displaced workers here space. Some names power away from the ruling class. We biggest strike, with 1.4 million workers and media get Labour out! There will to ‘follow the investment’ and stand may have been changed have a lot of political education to do. out, since the General Strike of 1926. never be a right time to join the Labour outside that factory and undercut the A minimal motion from Pete Firmin And, instead of building for an even Party to fight to make Labour more local Polish workers queuing up to Gagging order was carried, after discussion, by bigger strike after PCS had proved leftwing. work for the new lower wages? Should The Labour Representation majority vote, to circulate information that workers are inspired by united, Since Corbyn became leader, has they join the local union and demand Committee’s June 10 members about the June 17 discussion meeting common action, what happened? The the Labour left increased in size and a fair chance of getting those jobs? meeting - announced only five days for the left, convened by Grassroots major Labour-affiliated unions made strength? Has Jeremy made overtures or Should the local Polish trade union earlier as an “open discussion of the Momentum. As Pete and several others their own shabby settlements, leaving assisted the Labour left? Labour Party shop steward tell his fellow Poles to general election result (whatever it were at pains to emphasise, the proposal PCS high and dry. Are you seriously Marxists are also moribund, as are the accept that ‘fair competition’, even if it is) and the implications for the tasks was not to support GRM, merely to suggesting that the fight would have Labour Representation Committee. means most locals do not then get a job facing the left” - attracted over 30 circulate information. carried on had PCS been affiliated to Jeremy knows best and is now as because the Brits, let’s say, are ready comrades, mainly from London, while Graham Bash summed up the the Labour Party? Had that been the unassailable as he is unaccountable. and willing to work longer hours, for “members in Scotland, Wales and the discussion with three action points: case, PCS would not have made that He much prefers mollifying the more output, for less wages with the North of England will be looking to 1. Build and change the party, including call - or if they had, they’d have been Parliamentary Labour Party than the boss knowing that? arrange similar opportunities in the organising left caucuses in each jumped on and silenced. Labour left/LPM/LRC/Momentum. Some Poles over here boast they days following the election”. Having constituency. If all the unions currently affiliated Like Tony Benn before him, Jeremy work seven days a week, 12 hours a day. arrived a little late, I must apologise 2. Recruit new members to the party, to the Labour Party haven’t pulled it never resigned from the Labour Party, I doubt they are in a union - that is their to comrade Mick Brooks for missing especially the new young activists. left, if the creation of the super-unions no matter what it did. What about the competitive advantage over workers his ‘Time to set the world alight’ 3. Put the party on an immediate has not pulled it left, what are the expulsions and membership bars during born here and living here and they know rip-roaring opening speech. general election footing: organise open chances that PCS, plus the RMT and the coup? Has Jeremy demanded these it. They are proud to compete against Personal reports from a range of selections now. NUT can do so? What would actually be overturned? What about allowing each other for title of hardest worker constituency campaigns built up a As one comrade noted, it has been happen is that PCS would be told to left organisations into the Labour and they regard unions as socialistic. picture of unprecedented numbers promised that parliamentary candidates shut up, not to spoil Labour’s election Party? Not a word. Deny many east Europeans are racist, of pro-Corbyn members, along with selected in a hurry for this election chances and, like all the rest, we I had previously mentioned the homophobic and anti-socialist. All dozens of unorganised youth, who by an NEC panel will face an open would be expected to subordinate our further unique barrier to PCS affiliating welcome here? turned up on polling day, winning the selection process for the next. But, members’ interests to those of whatever to the Labour Party is the principle Where’s their solidarity with day for anti-Corbyn candidates imposed of course, as Keith Dunn suggested, is deemed electorally best for Labour. (and conduct policy) of civil service workers here? You don’t go to another by Labour HQ - the “ungrateful let’s not wait till another snap election I have written before about how the neutrality. The RMT and NUT do not country and scab - undermining their bastards”, as one comrade put it. allows the junking of that promise. last Labour government treated the have to consider that barrier; PCS does terms and conditions. During the campaign, Tulip Siddique The friendly atmosphere of the lower-paid civil servants - job cuts, pay and it is formidable. Dave Vincent reportedly told a Green Party meeting, meeting was marred at the end by restraint, regional pay in the ministry of So, for all these reasons, PCS should email “We will get rid of Jeremy”. comrade Mike Phipps, international justice, office closures, outsourcing ... not be affiliating to the Labour Party Simon Hewitt emphasised editor of the LRC’s Labour Briefing, Peter seems to have forgotten it wasn’t any time soon. Just like all the current Republican unity the need to organise the surge of complaining that I was taking notes and the Labour left that powered Corbyn affiliated unions, we wouldn’t be able It was a great, indeed incredible, victory young people towards Labour and would probably report what was said by onto the ballot paper in the first Labour to pull Labour leftwards. In fact, the secured by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour to implement a major programme comrades in the meeting. As if political leadership contest. Corbyn put himself reverse will happen - PCS would be Party over the Tories. Theresa May of political education, particularly discussion should be kept secret - an forward and needed the patronising tamed by the super-unions, as they would be sitting on the opposition socialist economics. Camden Unison unhealthy, patronising, bureaucratic nominations of MPs like Margaret have in turn done to their own activists. benches, having been made to resign branch secretary George Binette culture. Some comrades seemed to Becket to be able to stand. No-one, PCS has the best politically aware by her own party, if it wasn’t for the drew attention to the continuing fall think an account of political discussion including Corbyn himself, expected activists of any union because we are bonkers Tory constitution. in trade union membership and the can be rendered without mentioning him to win. not affiliated to the Labour Party. No Nobody understands how the Tory difficulty of organising under the Trade who said what, but this only works if As Peter well knows, as Weekly other union leadership is under the constitution works. It is a great national Union Act, and asked how we can you are dispensing pre-digested pulp, Worker, in detail, told us, Momentum control of the left. A party that even mystery. I think it is a complex Heath mobilise extra-parliamentary action and fails to develop the critical faculties was neutered to prevent it being any under Jeremy does not encourage new Robinson machine, in the basement to hasten another general election to of the readers, or draw them into the kind of vehicle for the left to transform members to be socialists or to make of Tory HQ. The Tories feed in the oust the Tory-Democratic Unionist discussion. In short, hiding points of the Labour Party. It simply exists to get demands on the party, but just to deliver results, then - hey presto - it translates Party reactionary coalition, which view does not constitute much needed members to get the vote out - Corbyn votes for Labour (no matter how bad into seats in the Commons and prints threatens a reduction of abortion rights. political education. today, whichever Labour leader in in future), is not for PCS to affiliate to. a letter from the queen, on goat skin, Gerry Downing of Socialist Fight After I declined to promise self- future. Momentum has not made any A test - let us see the proceedings at inviting one of the party leaders to visit hailed the “return of class politics”, gagging, Jackie Walker proposed that demands on the Labour Party - the the next Labour Party conference, let Buckingham Palace.
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