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Our Form of Government Is Not a Democracy. It's A A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity Stockholm syndrome: Labour’s n Letters and debate n Biden and UK official left, persecuted n Biden and Middle East became persecutors n Netherlands SP No 1323 November 12 2020 Towards a mass Communist Party £1/€1.10 “Our form of government is not a democracy. It’s a constitutional republic” weekly 2 November 12 2020 1323 worker LETTERS Letters may have been weaknesses and collaborationism government is responsible for certainly of the most vulnerable follow whatever religion they shortened because of of the official left. It gains us a the levels of funding, but it’s over 80, are people in care like, as long as they leave the space. Some names hearing amongst sections of the NHS that makes operational homes, or in hospitals, they are rest of us alone: and they can may have been changed the Labour left who still have decisions in how it uses that already supposedly being ‘looked still join the rest of the working illusions in ‘broad left’ politics or funding. It was not government after’ by the government in one class in taking power. who are unsure how to fight back ministers that told the NHS to way or another. All that is being Of these terrorist immigrants Correct tactics against the witch-hunt. bring back its retired staff - the requested is that the government that Ted is worried about, in Andrew Kirkland, in his response The aim of Labour Party very age group that comprises ensure that those charged with the case of Charlie Hebdo, to my article, ‘Cowardly fake Marxists is to win over a the people vulnerable to Covid; that responsibility in the NHS two were born in Paris; in the left peddles lies’ (October majority of the Labour left to it was not the government that and social care discharge that case of the Bataclan, they were 22), suggests that the single- its programme. As a small, but told the NHS to knowingly send duty of care properly. Instead, the mostly French and Belgian, but transferable-vote electoral principled current, we disdain people with Covid back to care NHS has infected large numbers with two Iraqis; the attack on system used in Labour’s national to conceal our ideas: we argue homes, where they then infected of people with the virus who Samuel Paty was committed by executive elections means that consistently for our position tens of thousands more people, came to it with other illnesses, a Russian refugee of Chechen we need “new tactics to win the within the wider Labour left as many of whom died! just as some years ago it infected origin; the three in Nice were supporters of the groups behind an important part of the struggle Had the NHS established and killed many such people Tunisian. To keep up to date, Grassroots Voice to the politics to build a mass basis for Marxist small, specialist isolation wards, with the MRSA superbug. It has the killer recently in Vienna of Marxism”. Outlining how the politics. Far from detracting from instead of the vast amounts sent infected people back to care was apparently born there. So new system operates, comrade that struggle, working with the spent on the useless Nightingale homes and, instead of vulnerable it would do little good to keep Kirkland argues that, unlike Labour left in joint campaigns or hospitals, it could even have people in those care homes being immigrants out - most of them the ‘first past the post’ system, standing a joint slate in defence concentrated its use of personal protected from the virus, they were already in. If there were STV has a key advantage for of party democracy, freedom of protective equipment where it have themselves become killing only a few Muslims in France the left: namely that “standing speech and against the witch- was required, and would also have fields. In these instances this is then, the police wouldn’t have as a distinct, principled working hunt only adds to and indeed had no need to have cancelled not a matter even of funding, but been able to round up around class candidate will not let the strengthens it. thousands of routine operations, of simple common sense and the 200 in 1961, murder them and right in. There is no need for Following these NEC elections etc, that has itself put the lives of application of adequate working throw them into the Seine. horse-trading with organisations there undoubtedly will be a countless thousands more people procedures, and standard Killing innocent people is that back unprincipled careerist post-mortem and a discussion at risk. This is all of a par of what operating practices. wrong under any circumstances politicians. Joint lists will no on the left about the successes has come to be expected of the For the rest of the people in - though the US with European longer have a purpose.” and failures of the campaign. NHS, and its position within the ‘vulnerable’ category, they allies is quite happy for innocent I disagree: joint lists still Many will begin to debate the the medical-industrial complex are again, in many cases, also in Muslims to die in Iraq, Pakistan, have an important purpose, best strategy and tactics to take that has perpetually increased the care of the state in their own Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon, both in this and future elections the fight to the right, and in the the size of bureaucratic empires homes, and the same principles Iran, Yemen ... One might also as well. As comrade Kirkland process question how far the centred around the large district apply. The rest of us in that note that the people most likely clearly understands, deciding politics and tactics of Grassroots hospitals. They directly channel category, and those like me who to die from a Muslim terrorist whether to stand candidates for Voice can be really effective billions into the coffers of big can simply ensure that we isolate attack are themselves often the NEC and trying to secure the in winning those battles. In pharma, and other medical so as not to come into contact Muslims. maximum vote for principled these discussions the issue of supply companies, at the expense with the virus, should be told to And where do terrorists come left campaigners is not simply joint, principled campaigns and of primary healthcare and ill- do so, so that the whole of society from? Why do they start up? a matter of electoral arithmetic, electoral lists will be central - health prevention. does not need to lock down, and Would the Khmer Rouge have but is entirely a matter of politics not simply because we put them Jim says: “If Hancock wants should be supported in achieving been more than a handful of and the best tactics to advance there, but because for many on to take responsibility then why that, by ensuring that necessary political folk if the US hadn’t the cause of the left in the Labour the left these will be the most shouldn’t we let him?” Because supplies can be delivered to the bombed Cambodia? Would Party. significant issues in the period socialists should be concerned door, which again is not hard, Islamic State have existed As these elections have ahead. In this light, our tactics with more than just cheap attacks because many of us already do without the invasion of Iraq? shown, the Labour left remains and calls for a principled joint on governments, and should that by ordering our shopping Credit where it is due, Ted. an inchoate and disorganised left list in this NEC election were instead try to explain to workers online. One might further note that current. Any number of groups correct - and will remain correct the inadequacies of capitalism, Certainly, a demand for the biggest terrorist attack in and individuals appealing for until such time as we are able to including state-capitalist such simple support is far more Europe recently was that by our votes claim to be on the left, exert a greater influence over the institutions like the NHS. achievable than demanding as the Anders Breivik in Norway. He but, as we know only too well, politics and strategy of the wider Jim says the people in the solution the ultimatist demand was home-grown, but blew up many of them will, if elected to Labour left. NHS have done a better job than that Jim plucks from the CPGB’s eight people in Oslo and then the NEC, join with the right and James Harvey the people in private companies. programme, which essentially shot 69 more in a youth camp. continue the witch-hunt against Labour Party Marxists But the people in the NHS did requires the socialist revolution In the US Timothy McVeigh the left. The central problem not produce the ventilators, the tomorrow. killed 168 in Oklahoma City. we face as Marxists in the Blame NHS too PPE, the test kits, nor the test- Arthur Bough As far as I’m aware neither of Labour Party is how to expose Jim Nelson says: “It seems that and-trace app. Nor will it be email them were Muslim. And what the treachery, careerism and Arthur Bough wants to defend the NHS or local government about immigrants? Well, the cowardice of this fake left and the government from any charges workers who will produce any Terror attacks peoples of Asia, Africa, the win over genuine left activists to of responsibility for the current vaccine, or other drugs to treat I was somewhat amazed to see Americas and Australasia might principled, Marxist politics.
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