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SPEW Decides Not to Call for a Labour Party Vote ... and Not to Tell Its A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity SPEW decides not to call for a n Letters and debate n Lessons of ISO Labour Party vote ... and not to n Iran and war threats tell its readers anything about it n Cuba and Trotsky No 1252 May 23 2019 Towards a Communist Party of the European Union £1/€1.10 IF BORIS JOHNSON BECOMES TORY LEADER A GENERAL ELECTION WILL SOON FOLLOW. IF HE WINS THAT ELECTION BREXIT AND A JOINED-AT-THE-HIP ALLIANCE WITH DONALD TRUMP IS ON THE CARDS 2 weekly weekly 3 May 23 2019 worker worker May 23 2019 LETTERS put him on the street. Let’s look at this Letters may have been of the evidence. and occasionally loutish. With that in away at internal scabs. As SWP shortened because of Perhaps the most shocking and my mind, it was necessary, even for oppositionists said at the time, it is sentence: “The steering committee space. Some names quite chilling aspect of ‘Sex is not the SWP, to have people who had the perfectly possible to have criticism and proposed to expel Peter Gregson over may have been changed psyche’ is MacLean’s solution to her ability to sweep up from time to time. activity. You can walk and chew gum. his refusal to remove a link from his transgender ‘problem’: the creation of (Being in the SWP ‘diplomatic corps’ Exactly why Birchall still wants to personal website to someone who was “third gender/third space”. This “third wasn’t necessarily a comfortable parade the discredited cultural mores recommending an article posted on Shocking gender” is not a recognition of some position. In Cardiff, many moons ago, of the SWP leadership by implying the well-known holocaust-denial site, One of the things I found shocking in cultural phenomenon, but an imposition I saw those in the SWP who did have his critics are lazy slobs beats me. He Codoh.” Amanda MacLean’s second article (‘Sex of MacLean’s circular logic - with, good relations with the rest of the far really should know better. Fact 1: Change.org is not my personal is not psyche’, May 9) is her attempt one assumes, ‘men’ and ‘women’ left ostracised, with one eventually Lawrence Parker website (I’m not that powerful). to sidestep my concerns about her use genders corresponding to MacLean’s being booted out on trumped-up London Fact 2: Ian Fantom was not of the term ‘gender ideology’, which understanding of sex, and all people charges and slurs about his conduct.) recommending Kollerstrom’s article; he she implies is some sort of misreading that she deems statistically unimportant So I am quite sure that Birchall Mass was just referencing it. of her first article, ‘Decoupled from or having a disorder pushed into this has had to listen in good humour to I primarily want to counter one Fact 3: LAW patron Noam Chomsky reality’ (April 18). Throughout her “third gender”. a fair few jibes about the SWP down political argument in Ian Birchall’s actually had an article on Codoh calling original article MacLean uses the terms, Leaving aside whether this is the years. But, with the mothership reply to my letter of May 7, when it for freedom of speech for real holocaust ‘gender ideology’ and ‘genderism’ or biologically determinist, it does raise limping on after the crises of the last comes to the police and tactics. deniers. ‘genderist’ as interchangeable. a whole range of practical and ethical decade, I suspect that it’s all become a I would state that XR shows that Mr Shearer makes so many more I am troubled about MacLean’s questions. Is there really the desire in bit more painful for the refugees. it takes too kindly to the police and errors, it would fill the letters page to reluctance to even acknowledge the austerity-torn Britain to build a whole Birchall says: “I should think very repression, when they, as I stated go into all of them. Sadly, Shearer even existence of a rightwing assault on array of public toilets, hostels, prisons carefully before involving myself before, yell that they love them and gets the voting wrong - he claims 24 LGBT and women’s rights in various and hospital wards for this new “third with a political organisation that finds their children, while their comrades (or called for my expulsion, but it was only places around the world, through gender”? How is gender to be assigned hundreds of millions of human deaths even random passers-by!) are being 20. This represents but 5% of the LAW attacking transgender people. It is and by whom? And how are these a subject for humour.” I am sorry to tell arrested. There is a difference between membership. I’d previously lobbied to notable, for example, that the assault genders to be policed? This has the Birchall that I am a member of no other bringing a gun to a ‘peaceful’ action allow the 360 LAW members who were on woman’s right to choose in Alabama smell of segregation and ghettoisation. organisation or campaign except the and actually trying to resist police unable to make the meeting the right to has been part of series of reactionary Transgender people have been using Labour Party. I am not a member of the repression and exposing what side the vote by email, but the steering group bits of legislation, including an spaces of the gender that they identify CPGB and I am hardly a prolific writer state is on. There is no evidence that would have none of it. A few members attempt to pass a ‘Bathroom Bill’ that with for years This right was enshrined for its paper. Obviously, I’m not talking this was a conscious tactic to confuse did write in, expressing their support; would prevent trans woman and trans in the Equality Act of 2010. Acts like for the Labour Party either. I could ask the police. Furthermore, in their guide their views were ignored. And the truth men from using woman’s and men’s the proposed new Gender Recognition Corbyn if he needs a spokesman on to doing prison time they put forward is, only 10% of LAW got to the meeting bathrooms respectively. Given this, I Act have been passed in countries ‘the disintegration of the SWP’ but I the absurd claim that prison guards and of those only just over half wanted find it perplexing that MacLean does not across the world, including Ireland, suspect he has bigger fish to fry. are nice people and that most are non- me out. So, the views of those 5% now take the opportunity to distinguish how Malta, Norway, Argentina, Portugal and As for the pompous and censorious white (while in reality an absolute reflect the reputation of the other 95%. she sees the ‘gender ideology’ that she Belgium, with no upsurge in violence injunctions on what should and majority are white). They have since Shearer suggests that I have “no proposes from that of the conservative against woman. shouldn’t be a topic for jokes, I’m taken it down after a backlash. problem in associating with holocaust Christian and alt-right movements. Isn’t it time Amanda MacLean and guessing Birchall has never heard Lastly, I do not have all the answers, deniers”. If he had bothered to read Instead MacLean goes on the people who share her intolerances just of gallows humour. This is bluster of course, and I do try to discuss with the whole exchange of emails, which offence, by claiming that trans people learn to accept the wider diversity of anyway; he knows full well I am more knowledgeable comrades on I put on my website, he would see asserting their rights is somehow humanity and that trans women are joking about the former inmates of a what the relation should be between this is untrue. It is precisely because “racist”. Not only does this overlook women, and trans men are men? deluded political sect and not about the socialist organisations and the different of this kind of skewed and slanderous the fact that many transgendered Richard Farnos imminent destruction of humanity. I environmentalist organisations. coverage that I have felt it necessary to people are black, Asian or from a South London don’t necessarily expect people to find There might be valuable lessons put things online. minority ethnic background, but adopts funny what I do, but I certainly don’t from XR, but they will more likely Being accused of holocaust-denial a counterproductive perspective that Safe spaces intend lecturing to others what they be ‘practical’ rather than political. At support is a pretty serious allegation. sees rights as a zero-sum game and I had to laugh at Nicola Daniels’ letter should get a giggle from either. the same time I think we need to be Bad news travels fast and I do not want that assertion of one identity requires in the Weekly Worker (May 16). Did you Birchall complains that I “make smug from time to time to counter anybody to think I had a fair trial. The the negation of another. MacLean’s omit, for reasons of space, the rejoinder no political arguments”. It may the smugness from XR militants, and motion was untrue: it claimed that I had position is certainly not shared by where she states that some of her best have been oblique, but I did have a the ‘left’ environmentalist movement “refused to distance myself from the groups like Black Lives Matter, who see friends are trans women? serious political point to make.
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