NOT the END of HISTORY Weekly 2 November 14 2019 1265 Worker LETTERS
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A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity Blairites who prefer Johnson n Letters and debate n Palestinian resistance to Corbyn. Hardly a surprise, n Chris Williamson’s stand they were Tories in disguise n Michael Roberts on profit No 1275 November 14 2019 Towards a Communist Party of the European Union £1/€1.10 NOT THE END OF HISTORY weekly 2 November 14 2019 1265 worker LETTERS flourished under president Jacob Zuma seriously. The applies today. The Weekly pupils in school admissions. No child Letters may have been Keep it up shortened because of might still be a problem, “The meeting Worker can play a major role in rearming should be discriminated against because space. Some names reiterated the alliance’s unwavering I can well understand Jim Cook’s the labour and trade union movement of their parents’ religious beliefs. Faith may have been changed commitment to fighting corruption … trajectory from revolutionary politics in with a correct revolutionary theory. schools should be stripped of their across the entire state, economy and the form of membership of the Workers The Weekly Worker continues to get ability to discriminate against pupils society at large”. Revolutionary Party to his exit (Letters, better with every new issue. However, in admissions - and against teachers in African Trotskyism What about the workers? Well, October 31). I had a similar experience, there are a few suggestions I would like employment, too. John Smithee rightly notes that the certain (unnamed) “alliance components starting with my joining the Peterborough to make: 3. Abolish the collective worship revolutionary (Trotskyist?) left has very appreciate the historic leadership role of branch of the Revolutionary Socialist I would like the Weekly Worker to requirement. The law requiring children little presence in the African continent, the working class as the main and most League (better known as the Militant have more, shorter book reviews. The at all maintained schools “on each school and he mentions groups in just four reliable motive force of our revolution”. Tendency) in 1981 to my exit from the Leninist (forerunner of the Weekly day take part in an act of collective countries: Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa So, in view of that, “the meeting also Socialist Party of England and Wales in Worker) usually had three or four short worship” is as ridiculous as it is outdated and Zimbabwe (Letters, October 31). In reiterated the absolute necessity for 2001. book reviews in each edition. I’m sure and unjust. Even in schools with no fact one of the largest African Trotskyist the implementation and therefore I left SPEW after they spiked an Gerry Downing, Tony Greenstein, and religious designation, the worship must groups is the Workers Party in Algeria, compliance with the national minimum article I’d written, where I called for Steve Freeman would be happy to help be “wholly or mainly of a Christian whose leader, Louisa Hanoune, was wage” (my emphasis). In other words, the legalisation of prostitution (SPEW out here? character”. There should be a duty on recently jailed. The Workers Party is part in several sectors of the economy the opposes prostitution from a rightwing, I would like to see a series of articles schools to ensure that assemblies are of the Lambertist Fourth International, (pitifully inadequate) minimum wage small ‘c’-conservative, point of view). on Antonio Gramsci, giving a genuine respectful and inclusive of all pupils, which is currently in the throes of a legal requirement has simply been As the ‘What we fight for’ column of Marxist analysis of his writings. I’m regardless of their religion or belief, major split, following a rupture in its ignored. But the Political Council the Weekly Worker clearly states: “There currently reading An introduction to including non-belief. The same should French section. And, on the topic of “reaffirmed the firm commitment” exists no real Communist Party today. Antonio Gramsci by George Hoare apply to religious education, which splits, it is worth noting that Trotskyism made in the ANC’s election manifesto to There are many so-called ‘parties’ on and Nathan Sperber. Unfortunately, should be suitably reformed to ensure it in South Africa comprises no less than 11 advance “towards a living wage”. the left. In reality they are confessional it’s written from the perspective of a is never used to indoctrinate or promote organizations, attached to nine separate You might have heard that the sects. Members who disagree with Eurocommunist - the late Stuart Hall. a particular worldview. ‘Fourth Internationals’. SACP at its 2017 congress agreed the prescribed ‘line’ are expected to I would like to see some articles 4. Promote free speech as a positive John Kelly to go for a “reconfigured alliance”, gag themselves in public. Either that about how robots, lasers, artificial value. A healthy democracy is Author of Contemporary Trotskyism: whereby the Communist Party would or face expulsion.” The legalisation intelligence and automation will affect underpinned by the fundamental human parties, sects and social movements in contest elections under its own name of prostitution was then, and still is, a future society and the world of work. I’m right to free speech. The conflation of Britain (Routledge, 2018) and then take part in a subsequent very important issue for me. Hence my currently also reading Fully automated criticism or mockery of religion with governing coalition - what some hoped disagreement with SPEW over the issue luxury communism by Aaron Bastani. ‘hate speech’ is threatening everyone’s Reconfiguration would be the first stage of the SACP led to me resigning my membership. Unfortunately, it’s written from the right to speak freely. According to a statement from the breaking with the ANC in order to It was only in 2003 that I came across perspective of Paul Mason and Owen 5. End non-stun slaughter. Stop allowing African National Congress’s ‘Alliance genuinely champion the cause of the the CPGB/Weekly Worker website. In Jones. religious considerations to compromise Political Council’, consisting of the ANC working class. Well, this statement 2004 I plucked up the courage to travel to The Weekly Worker is an excellent animal welfare. The religious exemption itself, the South African Communist has a whole section entitled “Alliance London to attend its annual Communist paper. So I say to the production team: that permits certain religious groups to Party, the Congress of South African reconfiguration, organisational renewal University, attending again in 2005. The keep up the good work. slaughter animals without prior stunning Trade Unions and others, it “held a and unity”, but the “reconfiguration” openness to debate - following years of John Smithee should be repealed. Ending unnecessary plenary session” in Johannesburg earlier seems to consist initially of measures keeping my mouth shut as a member Cambridgeshire pain, suffering and distress to animals is this week. like “a targeted common programme to of SPEW - was a revelation. Since then a reasonable justification for restricting The council says that it “reaffirmed unify and strengthen the South African I’ve become a supporter of the CPGB’s Weep religious freedom. the continuing strategic relevance of National Civics Organisation (Sanco)” Marxist unity project. Proudly self-declared anti-imperialist 6. Review laws on assisted dying. the national democratic revolution” and “unifying the South African Student I have recently started selling the president Evo Morales now has The law banning the terminally ill and (NDR), with the Freedom Charter Congress (Cosas) and the Congress of Weekly Worker at the monthly meetings been ousted in Bolivia - also the first people facing intolerable and incurable as its “lodestar”. Of course, in its South African Students (Sasco)”, since of Fenland, Peterborough and King’s ‘indigenous’ occupant of that role. suffering from being helped to end their original form the Freedom Charter was these comparative nonentities are “part Lynn Unite Community branch and This follows a well-rehearsed pattern, lives must be reviewed. The debate over supposed to mark the first, short-lived of the organisational motive forces of Wisbech, March and District Trades as enacted by oligarchical/reactionary assisted dying in the UK is still unduly stage of the two-stage revolution, after the national democratic revolution”. Union Council. I would sell the Weekly forces within other Latin American influenced by religious dogma. A full which, under SACP leadership the More vaguely, “the alliance must Worker at Labour Party meetings, but countries, in varying formulations or review needs to cut through this and working class would quickly overthrow move with the times and thus take into the Corbynistas who control North degree always with the direct, but hidden, reach conclusions based on evidence, capitalism and start to introduce USSR- account the continuously changing East Cambridgeshire CLP rejected my involvement of the USA gangster state. compassion, ethical principles and style ‘socialism’. But now it seems strategic challenges facing our application to rejoin the party. Leftists of the world should learn, respect for patient autonomy. the “motive forces of the national democratic transition”. There will be Over the last 27 years I’d upset the absorb, remain furious, weep! Then 7. End all forms of non-consensual democratic revolution remain essential “further discussions” about a possible Old Guard too many times, starting immediately we must remember how genital cutting. No-one, regardless of age, for the realisation of our national vision new framework “in the various alliance with my support for Militant Labour, Bernie Sanders calls for “political sex or religious or cultural background, of a non-racial, non-sexist, democratic components” and the Political Council followed by SPEW, and ending with the revolution”, whilst leaving the should undergo non-therapeutic surgery and prosperous society, underpinned by will then “consider consolidated Socialist Alliance.