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WHAT DISTINGUISHES OUR PARTY – The line running from Marx to Lenin to the foundation of the Third International and the birth of the Communist Party of Italy in Leghorn (Livorno) 1921, and from there to the struggle of the Italian Communist Left Sept ­ October 2019 against the degeneration in Moscow and to the rejection of popular fronts and coalition newspaper of the of resistance groups – The tough work of restoring the revolutionary doctrine and the Issue 15 | 25¢ 25p party organ, in contact with the working class, outside the realm of personal politics and international communist party electoralist manoevrings Hong Kong working class will The Stresses, Strains and return to fight only for itself Chaos of Brexit Britain has become a curious place in recent years as the Brexit saga rumbles on, against patriots and autonomists showing no signs of reaching a conclusion. In our press we have characterized it as a For more than two months now, so­called "socialism with Chinese the "protection" of such legislation would bourgeois argument about how best to make the UK more “globally competitive”, hundreds of thousands of protesters in the characteristics". The same formula is also make the citadel stretching out over the primarily by imposing worse conditions on the working class. There is intense and streets of Hong Kong have been clashed proposed for the return of Taiwan to its South China Sea unattractive for often bitter disagreement on all sides about how to achieve this. The pro­Europeans with the police, so much so that it is homeland. capitalists, since there would no longer hold up, for example, BMW in Oxford as a great example of the benefits of the EU, but feared that the Chinese army will The Jacobin centralism of the People's be any difference between Hong Kong keep quiet about the fact that the bulk of manufacturing is being exported to “low cost” intervene. Republic and the will to defend its and any of the large Chinese countries either in the EU or countries linked to it (such as Turkey), which in turn The first demonstrations were launched territorial integrity by force is another metropolises, Shanghai and Shenzhen, reduces workers’ bargaining power. On the other side the globalists want to make by the Civil Human Rights Front confirmation that the economic and which are all on the rise. They therefore London “Singapore on the Thames” and open “free ports” in places like Hull, burning (CHRF), a platform that unites about social regime in China is capitalist and supported the protest movement against all the regulations that (theoretically, at least) create a level capitalist playing field fifty pro­democracy groups, with protest that the theory of "socialism with the bill: in June, more than a hundred across the EU. And thirdly, companies whose interests are limited, or largely limited, to marches on March 31 and April 28. In Chinese characteristics" is nothing more companies, with the consent of the the British domestic market, argue a “Britain first” position that appeals to naked June, membership of the Front grew than a formula to cover the brutal various international chambers of chauvinism. enormously, with impressive exploitation of the proletariat. The commerce, encouraged the participation The British working class is therefore the victim of a struggle between the interests of demonstrations. emphasis on the "two systems", capitalist of their employees in the protests, domestic, European and global (mainly American) capital. The farce that is playing out Faced with this massive opposition, the one as much as the other, rather than granting "flexible" working hours or in parliament and the media reflects this struggle, but also deliberately distorts and Hong Kong government announced the wanting to preserve in Hong Kong a type even closing their offices. obscures the underlying realities. suspension of the bill on 15 June. of society qualitatively different from It should be noted that the autonomist Our understanding of the anti­working class nature of all of these positions should not But this did not stop the protests, which that in mainland China, has only served tendency of the Hong Kong bourgeoisie however be interpreted as indifference. Brexit could have a devastating effect on continued uninterruptedly until to allow the trafficking of the Chinese comes not only from the interest in workers in many sectors. What happens when car workers are put on short hours or the September. The most significant: July 1, giant, which has been useful to recognize preserving its business paradise, but also plant closed? What happens to agricultural workers who would be thrown out of work on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary the former colony a "special from the desire to maintain the freedom when 30­40% WTO tariffs are slapped on beef and lamb exports? And of course, of Hong Kong's return to China, with administrative" regime. So the formula to squeeze its own proletariat Brexit has the potential to disrupt the lives of millions of migrant workers and their hundreds of thousands of protesters, a "one country two systems" worked well. "autonomously", without the intrusions families. group of whom broke into Parliament Over time, however, it has undergone of Beijing. Moreover, the entire Brexit “debate” has thrown up some atrocious demagoguery waving the flag of the former colonizer. changes that have affected the degree of But the Hong Kong bourgeoisie is designed to mislead and disorient the working class. All sides in this democratic contest On 5 August there was a general strike in autonomy granted to Hong Kong. This is beginning to feel the effects of the base the legitimacy of their position on “the will of the people”, thereby exposing the the city, which, according to figures where the current dispute revolves, the current protests, with the fall in the stock very absurdity of the expression, and indeed, the absurd pretensions of democracy provided by the Hong Kong causes of which are all economic. exchange, and fears the serious itself. We see millionaires railing against the rich elite, Lords draped in ermine railing Confederation of Trade Unions, one of consequences that an intervention by the against the privileged elite, globalists railing against globalism and well­heeled, the main trade union centers in the The decline of the former colony Chinese army could have on the city's overpaid London journalists railing against the metropolitan elite, all in the name of metropolis, deployed with pro­ economy. But what he fears most is the “the people”. It is the same on both sides: Ministers like Philip Hammond, who reduced democracy forces, participated in 350 Under colonial rule, while mainland possibility that from the current protests a thousands of people to dependence on food banks, have the nerve to tell us we will all thousand, and which hit hard the China was an economically backward working class movement will develop be poorer outside the EU! transport, with 200 flights cancelled and country with an almost exclusively with very different objectives than the Such rank hypocrisy is easy to debunk but it has a strong appeal to the petty the blockade of the subway buses and peasant population and limited industrial current democratic demands. In the case bourgeoisie. Though economically weak, this class is numerically strong and it is the offices; on 18 August when in response areas, the influx of foreign capital of an autonomous entry of the working class that various bourgeois factions are most intent on mobilizing behind their to police brutality the CHRF convened a allowed Hong Kong to develop trade and class into the scene for its own projects, because they are susceptible to the most philistine arguments, for example the peaceful demonstration in which, manufacturing activities, making the objectives, the Hong Kong bourgeoisie notion that “the Establishment” is in league with foreign capitalists to undermine the according to the organizers, participated peninsula an advanced stronghold of would have no problem in reaching an British (or English or Scottish etc.) “way of life” and “culture”. The petty bourgeoisie in 1.7 million. capitalism in the East, an urban agreement with Beijing for the violent is incapable of creating a coherent ideology of its own; rather, it nurses a whole ragbag In addition to the withdrawal of the bill, metropolis with a highly concentrated repression of the proletariat. of resentments and grievances that provide fertile ground for opportunist politicians. the protesters call for: the resignation of and combative proletariat, as evidenced So the bourgeoisie now wants an end to These grievances, real or imagined, are poisonous to the working class because they the Governor of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam; by the great workers' struggles of the the protests and a return to order and identify the wrong enemies (or the right enemies, but for the wrong reasons) so we the release and acquittal of the arrested twenties. As well as being a regional discipline. This is the sense of the cannot remain indifferent to them, either. protesters; an "independent trade hub and an important industrial appeals to the beginning of September of The parliamentary clash over whether the UK leaves the EU with or without a “deal” investigation" into police violence; the centre, Hong Kong has built its the main banks of Hong Kong (HSBC, on 31 October (Hallowe’en! – but there are only tricks, no treats in store) is escalating withdrawal of the qualification of prosperity on its role as an intermediary Standard Chartered and Bank of East out of control. In 2019 the Conservative Party clung to a precarious House of "revolt" with which the authorities have between foreign capital and the vast Asia) and of a dozen other large groups Commons majority with the help of Northern Ireland’s loyalist Democratic Unionist defined the protest. All of this was within continental hinterland, a function that in the city's newspapers have Party (DUP) but was unable to get a vote in favor of the withdrawal agreement (WA) the framework of a general demand for strengthened with the birth of the condemned the "violence" and called for negotiated with the European Union. The determined opposition of the most extreme greater democracy. People's Republic. the return of social peace. pro­Brexit faction, the European Research Group, and the DUP, blocked the WA. The The definitive withdrawal of the But with the progressive opening of the The movement of young people and majority of the Conservative Party’s membership convinced itself that Theresa May proposed law on extradition, announced People's Republic in the late seventies, students, on the other hand, is more had been too soft in the negotiations and that someone who could shout louder would on 4 September by the Governor of Hong the Hong Kong foreign market it became determined to oppose integration into the get a better deal. Kong, has not brought back order: the less and less important for the Chinese Chinese motherland. The petit­bourgeois Enter Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Old Etonian, Daily Telegraph columnist, law has given rise to protests, but there economy. In recent years its financial classes feel threatened by a complete ex­Mayor of London. The “anti­Establishment” candidate. are much deeper contradictions that role has been undermined by other integration into the People's Republic. Johnson immediately purged 21 pro­EU Conservative MPs, wiping out the undermine the social peace of the great markets that have developed in China, Behind the words of Democracy and Government majority, and prorogued parliament in an attempt to drive through Brexit metropolis. such as the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock Freedom there is a defensive motion of by executive fiat. The left (meaning, in this case, everyone from Tory dissidents to exchanges. More than forcing the former these strata, nostalgic for some past anarchists) mobilized demonstrations in defense of democracy under the banner “Stop "One country, two systems" colony to become "Chinese", it is privileges and appearances of Western the Coup”. The Supreme Court agreed, declaring the prorogation null and void. Chinese society and economy that have lifestyles, but also the typical uncertainty But, legal detail aside, what does “defense of democracy” really mean? Democracy is Hong Kong has been a colony come to host more and more monstrous of the half classes that, crushed by the bourgeois state, pure and simple. It exists to maintain the idea that the bourgeois practically since 1841, when British concentrations like Hong Kong. The capital, seek protection in vain in law and state is an expression of that (fictional) “will of the people”. The mistake made by troops occupied it during the First Opium "integration", in the practical life, is in the State. Boris Johnson and his éminence grise, Dominic Cummings, was in claiming that they, War, which was formalized the following therefore almost already done. This has given rise to a "democratic" and not the Mother of Parliaments, with all its arcane procedures, represented the true year with the Treaty of Nanking which The Hong Kong peninsula has suffered and micro­nationalist movement, “will of the people” based on the 2016 referendum result. sanctioned the Chinese defeat and the a decline not because it is conditioned by strongly anti­Chinese, which in the beginning of the series of so­called the central government in Beijing but desperate struggle for autonomy from the That Margaret Thatcher started it "unequal treaties" that foreign powers because of its new position in the global People's Republic goes so far as to appeal imposed on China to subdue the great market. But it is only a relative decline to American imperialism and the former The current parliamentary deadlock reflects the deep disagreements about the future Empire to imperialistic appetites. Apart compared to the mother country: Hong British colonizer. The most violent direction of the British economy. Is it inside or outside the European Union? By the late from the Japanese occupation during the Kong remains a financial and actions come from these very sectors, fifties, much of British industry was no longer able to compete with the USA and the Second World War, Hong Kong will commercial centre of world importance, which in general have a great media “defeated” nations of Germany and Japan. This, together with decolonialization, fanned remain a British colony until July 1, one of the areas where the capitalist visibility, especially for the references to seething resentments in the British petty bourgeoisie, which already regarded the 1997. From the 1980s onwards, Great mode of production has reached the apex an alleged noble struggle for freedom bourgeoisie’s decision to throw in its lot in with the Common Market in the 1970s as an Britain and the People's Republic of of its parable. When it returned to China that so much pleases the putrid Western “act of surrender”. China began to negotiate the future of the in 1997, Hong Kong was home to about democrats. Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Prime Minister throughout the 1980s, therefore had to metropolis, reaching an agreement in one fifth of China's entire economy. If, on the other hand, it has been perform a delicate balancing act. She won a series of battles against the British working 1984 that on July 1, 1997 the colony that Today, after the tremendous development possible for hundreds of thousands of class, notably the coal miners in 1984­5, clearing the way for deindustrialization. She would come under Chinese on the continent, Hong Kong produces protests to follow one another, it is promoted the European single market, seeing a huge opportunity for Britain to sell administration. only 3% of China's GDP. The former certainly because these demonstrations financial and other services to European companies and, in turn, to be a conduit for This agreement stipulated that Hong colony is no longer so fundamental to the have been swollen by the participation of inward investment. London became Europe’s financial capital. Economically, the UK’s Kong should maintain "a high degree of trade of Chinese capitalists as to justify the proletariat. The Hong Kong working future seemed clear, although some Cabinet ministers such as Michael Heseltine autonomy" with "independent" the granting of special treatment. class certainly does not benefit from its wanted to go further in reducing American influence. legislative and judicial powers, China's pressure to integrate more wealth. Since the arrival of British On the other hand, Thatcher’s electoral victories depended entirely on fanning the democratic government and closely with the metropolis and to erode imperialism, that prosperity has been flames of anti­European (and, in particular, anti­German and anti­French) resentment. "fundamentally unchanged" the laws in the terms of "special status" is therefore based on the ferocious exploitation of Her 1988 speech to the College of Europe (the “Bruges speech”) gave the rural force at the time of signing the already increasing. This puts everyone in workers. Even today, industrialists in backwoodsmen of the party encouragement. Over the course of three decades, they Declaration. The only areas of concern the peninsula in turmoil and benefits Hong Kong squeeze the proletariat for have steadily grown in strength to the point that in 2019 they elected someone they for the People's Republic would have from the economic advantages of the more than 50 hours a week. One fifth of considered “one of their own” to lead the Tory Party with a crushing majority over his been foreign policy and defence. Hong "special position". the population is in poverty. The rivals. In today’s Conservative Party, saying anything in favor of the European Union is Kong would maintain until 2047 its minimum wage is set at just over $4.5 now suicidal. And Boris Johnson, who had made all the right pro­European and liberal "economic system" and its "social Social causes of protests per hour, which is largely insufficient for noises to ensure his election as Mayor of London in 2008, now made all the right anti­ organization", that is, its "way of life", one of the most expensive cities in the European and reactionary noises to ensure his election as the leader of the Conservative the customary individual and corporate, To explain the vast movement that has world. Party. civil and commercial law inherited from developed, one has to dig into the The dramatic aspect for the proletariat Such is the utter dishonesty and rank opportunism of bourgeois democracy. British rule. contradictions of the capitalist monster is the housing issue. In little more than The State of false Chinese communism that is Hong Kong, distinguishing the 1,000 square kilometers are crammed The political crisis caused by Brexit with the formula "one country two role and interests of the social classes about 7.5 million men, and this makes systems", which expresses the principle involved. Hong Kong one of the places with the The European Union has also provided a useful scapegoat for mainstream politicians, of the unity of a nation with a single First of all, the law on extradition has highest density in the world. This even those who own holiday villas in Tuscany or on the Algarve. This is not, of course, destiny, would grant that portion its own been criticised by the commercial and situation is compounded by the fact that, "economic system", different from the financial giants based there. The loss of under pressure from a few landowners page 2 the Communist Party Issue 15 Sept ­ October have an army of more than 50 million demonization of immigrants (and not just and partners” but “stubborn and The Educators’ proletarians at their disposal would be immigrants from the EU) proved unreasonable”. But of course, an election poured into them. The one that would extremely popular with the petty cannot change reality and the stresses, Elections in form around Shanghai would have 150 bourgeoise, but also with some sections of strains and chaos will continue. Struggle is the million inhabitants; another, called Jing­ the working class in regions hardest hit by Jin­Ji (Beijing­Tianjin­Hebei) 112 million. deindustrialization. Democracy has no Israel Workers’ They will be wonderful explosive Consequently, the referendum ended answer Proletarians! proletarian concentrations where with a narrow victory for leave, a result The "civil society" is convulsed, the capitalism will make a disastrous failure that Boris Johnson himself did not expect, Democracy is to bourgeois politics what bourgeois electoral system in Israel in a Struggle! in the precipitation of the world crisis, let alone plan for, throwing the United the stock exchange is to bourgeois crossroad. CUNY workers, communism objectively presses and the Kingdom into the ongoing political crisis. economics. It mediates and resolves the Next September, a new general election, Once again, we are in the midst of struggle for communism will mature until demands of the institutions and full of bourgeois contradictions and a stalled contract negotiations with the it just waits to be triggered. The ties that bind the individuals who have the greatest worrying tendency towards apathy and university and the state of New York. Hong Kong's future is therefore already Republic of Ireland to investments in the system. All this is part general fatigue of the working class, must “Our” negotiating team (who never cease understood in this inevitable evolution, of the normal functioning of capitalism. be repeated after an unfortunate election to remind us of their supposed electoral with the further strengthening of its the UK But at a certain point the system is thrown of the Prime Minister Netanyahu, where a mandate) fail to fight for any of the international role as a financial centre, Even though the Republic of Ireland into an unsustainable disequilibrium. In coalition government could not be formed meaningful demands we make, in transport and trade centre. Moreover, the achieved its independence almost a the case of Brexit, the link between between the various currents of the particular that of $7K per course for fact that Hong Kong's integration with the century ago its economy remained tied to politics and economics is in this respect bourgeois parties, whether they call adjuncts. This is intentional: the mother country is not waiting for 2047 is that of the United Kingdom for decades. rather less opaque than usual: the themselves the left or right. leadership of the PSC­CUNY are witnessed by majestic infrastructural From the 1920s onwards the British currency speculators and hedge fund But what has drawn the most attention of capitalist lackeys. Their negotiations are a works such as the series of 55 km long Government maintained a Common managers backing Brexit make life the bourgeois domination, has been the process of finding out where they can bridges, partly under the sea, connecting Travel Area in which there was an difficult for exporters and importers who growing proportion of abstention. retreat in our fight against the State. Later, the peninsula to Macao. unrestricted right of Irish citizens to travel would face all kinds of tariff and non­ It is not enough the indistinct and they will present themselves as the It is inevitable that sooner or later without a passport, work and settle in the tariff barriers to their business; the terrible means of propaganda and wash conciliatory voice of reason above a legislation will also adapt to the process. UK. The Irish pound was tied to sterling. capitalists that want to rip up EU brain carried out today in the educational dangerous rank­and­file. They do not So Chinese capitalism will not give in to And until the 1960s, Ireland was under the regulations to push down workers’ living system of the bourgeois capitalism, dream of our liberation – instead, they lust the autonomist demands of Hong Kong political control of a party (Fianna Fàil) standards cannot resolve their interests putting the democratic system above all after their own private benefit, as whose fate is marked. A unification that is that drew its supportr from rural farmers with those dependent on selling into political value to bring the proletariat technocrats serving the bourgeoisie. certainly not to the detriment of the future who – while playing lip service to the European markets, and so on. The closer to the polls in a massive way, not The petty­bourgeois elements that class struggle. nationalist, anti­British tradition of the functioning of society can eventually even the war drums and the living make up the right wing of this union prove Neither Democracy nor 1916 uprising – sold the bulk of their come under an intolerable strain, which is conditions to which they are subjected, in this fact about themselves when they produce to the UK. As agriculture became why there are constant dire warnings a state of paranoia and widespread make “professionalization” a central tenet Chinese Homeland more efficient and there were few against pushing solutions to extremes: alertness, in a running tendency to no felt of their negotiations with the university. opportunities in the cities, a large Brexit will lead to the break­up of the in mendicancy. They do so to divide us from our friends Whatever the form of the state, proportion Ireland’s “surplus” population United Kingdom, a return to the Troubles It is clear, for the bourgeois domain, that in other occupations, who struggle for the democratic in Hong Kong or one­party in continued to migrate to the UK. on the Irish border, etc. the survival of the bourgeois democratic same things as we do: strong wage Beijing, it does not change its nature as a The UK and the Republic of Ireland The bourgeoisie can never bring institutions is possible with the immense increases, stabilization of precarious bourgeois class, a bureaucratic and both applied at the same time for capitalism entirely under control because participation of an increasingly apathetic employment, improved working military machine aimed at the subjugation Common Market membership in the capitalism itself is riven with working class. One could go so far and conditions, more funding, and more of the working class to the needs of 1960s and finally joined in 1973, bringing contradictions that are beyond any human say that the entire creation of the Israeli hiring. But the PSC leadership have made capital. both parts of the island of Ireland in 1973 control. Nevertheless, the idea that Brexit State as such depends on the sacred union clear their opinion that we are somehow Only an autonomous and supportive within this enlarged economic bloc. shows that the British ruling class has lost between the classes and their above the rest of the working class. One intervention of the working class of Hong Nevertheless, the economic impact was the ability to resolve its differences is a predisposition to die in the constant wars. of them scornfully told a Graduate Center Kong and China would upset the plans of very different. In the eighties and nineties dangerous one. The ruling class will Within the Arab proletariat, the value of chapter meeting that “the other unions the opposing factions. the Republic saw an economic boom, always unite whenever it sees a threat Israeli democracy is more and more won’t accept” the wage increases that we So much so that the prospect of the largely thanks to its geographical position from its true enemy: the working class. simply what it is: a fraud. One of the demand. Our illustrious bargaining team, working class entering the scene and language, which made it an appealing Until then it will feel free to bicker biggest abstentions, more than the half of they plead, is not at fault for the failure of autonomously with its own claims base for American capital to penetrate amongst itself ad nauseam. the population, shows the dissatisfaction negotiations, nor is the State that this disturbs the dreams of its exploiters in European markets. But Northern Ireland with the political and social system union bows down to, but rather the rest of Hong Kong as well as in Beijing. An lost out as deindustrialization hit Loyalist destined to fail. the working class is responsible! explosion of workers' struggle in Hong communities hard, and discrimination hit The capitalist social system, This is not the position of a militant Kong could extend to the metropolises of Republican communities even harder. Letter from individualizing to the extreme, separating class union. It is the bleating of a regime nearby Guangdong, where millions of The situation was eased somewhat by the proletarians from any form of union union that is in the hands of the bourgeois proletarians are squeezed out of Chinese the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, with different methods, in an abyss of State. When the PSC leadership and international capital. which sought to bring to an end the 30­ N. Ireland personal perspective, egoistic and a social emphasizes professionalization, militants It is a not without foundation year conflict between these two In early 2017, it came out that a apathy with the consequence of the reply: we fight alongside the whole perspective if one retraces the history of communities: for the first time since growing alienation of social relations. working class! When they blame other the Chinese labor movement, with the Renewable Heat Initiative by the state, partition, Ireland could function as a meant to incentivise petit­bourgeois shop unions for our troubles, militants reply: all great proletarian struggles of the 1920s single economy within the European Proletarians! trade unionists are our comrades! When characterized by class solidarity that owners to use heating from renewable single market. Brexit puts this in doubt, resources, had cost the state close to £500 they attack the rank­and­file $7K or Strike transcended the boundaries of companies, and this has proved to be the main sticking But it is the material conditions that movement, militants reply: the leadership sectors and localities. We remember the million. This was because the moneybeing point preventing a conclusion to the entire paid out was greater than the cost of fuel, today move the proletariat away from the are traitors in the class struggle! seafarers' strike of 1922 which, supported Brexit saga. bourgeois politics full of fraud, corruption, Our real liberation as educators, and by the general strike of the whole colony so profit could be made simply by heating The end to the free movement of one's home so long as renewable heat was war and betrayal, and create in the the liberation of our students, will only and by the solidarity of the proletariat of commodities would have a proletarians hatred towards the entire come with the liberation of society as a all the Chinese cities, after 56 days of used. Fraud in the system became rampant disproportionately adverse impact on the by about April of 2015, but was covered corrupt political system, which tomorrow whole. This social liberation will be struggle bent British imperialism; and the Irish Republic, not just because of will drive it to the to the class struggle. communism. The means to achieve it is Hong Kong­Canton strike of 1925­1926, up by the Democratic Unionist Party that disruption to trade across the land border, had implemented it, until January of 2017. With the deterioration of the material the revolutionary struggle of the the longest in the history of the workers' but also trade across the Irish Sea. The conditions of the life of the workers, the international working class to overthrow movement (from June 1925 to October The scandal that broke out then UK is the second biggest customer for triggered the collapse of the Stormont union between proletarians is a must, a capitalism. The International Communist 1926!).), with about 250,000 workers on Irish goods, but it is also the main transit necessity to defend their class interests. Party is the vanguard of that struggle. Our strike in Canton, to which were added parliament, which since the 1998 Good route for goods to reach Europe through Friday Agreement has required support Between these two variables, the party understands that building militant another 100,000 Hong Kong workers who British ports, road, rail and the Channel foundations of the next revolution are laid, class unions is essential to the success of left the city and moved en masse to from both the main Nationalist and Tunnel. The situation has been rendered Unionist parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin. which includes not the "citizens" but the the workers’ revolution. We take part in Canton, where the proletariat was armed insoluble by the British government’s so­ class regardless of their race, creed, or rank­and­file campaigns around the world and practically controlled the city. The latter saw an opportunity to gain the called “red lines”, which require the upper hand in some of its desired policies origin. No more citizens, but proletarians to lay the foundations for unions that are But today, an autonomous resumption of United Kingdom of Great Britain and in struggle. able to revolt against the bourgeoisie. You the proletarian struggle must necessarily that were and remain unacceptable to the Northern Ireland to leave the European unionists, such as the implementation of Our Party, organized today in the can help us fight for educators and for the pass through the affirmation within it of a Union’s customs union as a single unit. International Communist Party, owner of a whole working class by joining our party. party that is based on two cornerstones: an Irish Language Act and the legalisation Consequently, the UK and EU of same­sex marriage. The two parties unique strategy and tactics worldwide, the the rejection of nationalism and the negotiators agreed the so­called result of the study and historical Workers of the World, Unite! rejection of inter­classism cloaked in have since been in a deadlock position “backstop” as a temporary measure even till now. experience of the communist movement, democracy. defends abstentionism not as a moral As in all the other capitalist keeping Northern Ireland in the customs As always, this inter­bourgeois struggle union, and under the same regulatory has taken its greatest toll on the workers. imperative against authority, nor as an metropolises, the proletariat must not abstract principle, but a real and proven allow itself to be deceived by the regime, until a comprehensive free trade To take the example of Derry, one of the agreement is signed or alternative lowest­performing cities in the UK, tactic in the historical experience of democratic myth that the small strengthening the path of revolution, the Hong Kong... bourgeoisie passes on in all corners of the measures to border checks can be found. employment has hovered around 50% This would keep the Irish border open, since 2009. The worst areas are those empowerment of a lethargic working who control the property market, only world: Occupy, Arab spring, yellow vests, class, and that is why it calls proletarians luxury housing is being built there. The although at the base there is the worsening protecting the single market, customs typically associated with the Catholic union and the Good Friday Agreement. working class, such as Creggan and the to practical abstention. price of rents is therefore skyrocketing, so of the living conditions of masses of And we say proletarians, no citizens, much so that tens of thousands of workers workers, have all been inter­classist For the EU, this is critical: otherwise Bogside. These areas remain largely there would be a gaping hole in the single ignored by the reformed police force the because as well as equality in bourgeois are forced to live in cells of a few square movements that divert the struggle of the society it is a fraud, the same goes for the metres, some of which, called 'coffins', are proletariat towards objectives that are not market, allowing, for example, lorryloads PSNI, and are largely left to the various of goods into the EU via Northern Ireland paramilitary organisations remaining after democratic decision of the most masked two square metres in size. The theirs and compatible with the domination dictatorship over proletarians, and we participation of proletarians in the of capital. while dodging EU tariffs and regulatory the Good Friday Agreement. standards. The EU has therefore given its The paramilitary organisations still include those who have no chance to vote, ongoing struggles therefore takes place unlike all the fauna bourgeois. under the pressure of precise material absolute support to the Republic of Ireland remaining such as the UDA, UVF, and the in any Brexit negotiations, while the "New" IRA, are largely criminal rackets We include them and tell them that the needs. solution does not happen to obtain the But, as far as we know, without making Democratic Unionist Party and the right now, engaging in extortion and acting as wing of the Tory Party have dug in their brutal police forces in working class right to vote, but the total suppression of any claims of their own. They therefore the right to vote that is in itself, the right seem to be towing half classes and Brexit... heels to resist any move that puts areas. A common activity is "knee­ Northern Ireland in an all­Ireland market to fraud of the bourgeois dictatorship ad students, who soften the movement with ... a purely British phenomenon. But it has capping"where drug dealers and other separate from the UK. offenders are brought to secret locations infinitum, and we call to organize around the rotten democratic ideology. In Hong added to the political crisis. Most of all, the workers' struggles towards the Kong, the proletariat is now called upon However, this also gives the EU and shot through the knees. Often times their rhetoric has given credibility to the leverage over Ireland, which for years has relatives and others in the community, out formation of an Class Workers Union, and to fight for objectives that are not its own. then organize as a class for themselves, in The five demands made by the movement most rabid anti­Europeans led by the attracted disproportionate inward of terror for their own well­being, demagogue Nigel Farage, first with the investment through its low tax regime, participate in the process. These the Communist Party. This is and will be have nothing to do with the interests of the the first step for the emancipation of the proletariat, with its class defense, are United Kingdom Independence Party with internet firms in particular basing paramilitary organisations have seen an their European operations in Ireland while increase in recruitment in the past few proletarians in Israel, of a democracy that objectives of the small bourgeoisie that (UKIP) and more recently the Brexit is now sinking, and that although it would like to involve the working class in Party. It was in order to counter the legitimately dodging the payment of taxes years, as the failure of the bourgeois state on revenues derived from sales elsewhere already demonstrates all its fierce this struggle for democracy and electoral threat of UKIP and neutralize the has become more apparent. in Europe. The EU is now insisting that As well as this, the labyrinthine Brexit repression against a part of the proletariat, autonomy. anti­European wing of the Conservative in the near future it will do so even with The proletariat, certainly determined to taxes are paid in full. discussions have tied up the UK Party that Prime Minister DavidCameron The whole mess could have a parliament and prevented it from taking the same Hebrew proletariat, which lives move for its material interests, can only in awe of a fraudulent democracy, do so with its class autonomy, political, called a leave/remain referendum. particularly dire impact on the working control of the situation. Even if it wasn't class of Northern Ireland, which has been so occupied, the DUP would vigorously supposedly the only one in Middle East. ideological and organizational, certainly This was a huge miscalculation. Having not under the direction of opposing social without a government and parliament oppose it, and the Tory's reliance on the spent months attacking the European since the alliance between Sinn Féin, the party is well known by this point. As well classes and bourgeois objectives, ending Union and trying to negotiate more up being enlisted on one of the two main Republican Party, and the DUP over as this, the possibility of a hard border has privileged terms of membership a Renewable Energy Initiative that the brought out Republican paramilitary bourgeois fronts, as has historically (Cameron often faced the cameras in happened and continues to happen DUP administered corruptly. The activity further out. Brussels with his stern face, “battling for Northern Ireland economy is already These paramilitaries, more so than unfortunately, taking the form of a Britain” like some comic book World War struggle in the Hong Kong question under strain, with unemployment hovering collaborationist trade unions, present a 2 hero) Cameron’s leadership of the around 50% since 2009 in some of the great threat to Northern Irish labour between a pro­democracy faction, remain campaign was unconvincing, to autonomist and pro­western, and the hardest hit areas. This provides organisation, as they sap working class put it mildly. Moreover, the entire opportunities for the paramilitaries to strength and redirect the class's militant historical Chinese homeland. Cameron government, and in particular The process of disintegration of the recruit. The imposition of a border would struggle against sections of itself rather the pro­European Chancellor George make things far, far worse. than the bourgeoisie. They replace the Chinese countryside frees up millions of Osborne, had spent six years ruthlessly peasants who pour into the cities. In At the time of writing the UK has fight for the human community with that attacking working class living standards. proposed a bizarre “two­border” for the Irish national community. China, this process is taking on enormous By contrast, the leave campaign was free proportions. It is estimated that over the arrangement whereby Northern Ireland to blame austerity, the loss of British would be aligned with the EU on some next few years, an additional 250 million manufacturing, the near bankruptcy of the Chinese will be upset. 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