A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity weekly Tony Greenstein explains n National Left Wing Movement workern Stand Up To Racism why the Jackie Walker n Turkey clampdown case is so important n US fall in profits No 1126 Thursday October 13 2016 Towards a Communist Party of the European Union £1/€1.10 Momentum or inertia? 2 weekly October 13 2016 1126 worker LETTERS Letters may have been the region. shields, and we would all be expected to treacherous way. They have given has led to alienated discontent, which shortened because of We cannot grant any such critical swallow that they were responsible for ammunition to the right wing in the expresses itself in terms of support for space. Some names but unconditional support to the YPG/ the civilian casualties. As we will surely Labour Party and the mainstream media. nationalism. Thus the political situation may have been changed Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) be told shortly when the attack on Mosul By supporting and pushing for comrade is not as favourable as the economic and Rojava, whilst they remain clients of begins. And the million dead Iraqis from Walker’s demotion, they have given in relation to the tendencies for the Third-campism the USA, as Yassamine correctly points the 2003 invasion and the dead children credence to the ludicrous notion that realisation of socialism. Yassamine Mather’s article, ‘Syrian out. Inevitably they will come into more in west Aleppo and all the other Syrian the Labour Party is ‘overrun by anti- In other words, Ticktin’s perspective disaster’ (October 6), is very informative conflict with Assad and Russia. This cities under government control (at least Semites’. In effect, they are sabotaging relies on automatic impulses from on the conflicting forces in Syria and does not mean we abandon support for as many as under rebel control) get no Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour left. the economy in order to justify the the whole conflict in the region, but it the self-determination of Kurdistan, mention. We all know about the fog of And this is not the only scab possibility of change. His approach is is ultimately third-campist. but not on these terms. We must take war, but a simple Google search will get campaign they are involved in. They not based on the dynamics of the class This is exemplified by the view that the greater global class struggle as our you these statistics. are also pushing the open letter, entitled struggle, which is the primary basis for “The Russian intervention, which started chief guiding principle. These wars are all driven by the ‘Speak out on Syria’, that criticises understanding whether transformation a year ago, was a disaster from the Similarly, we should have opposed insatiable search for profits by the great Jeremy Corbyn on his “silence” on the to socialism can occur. Instead of beginning and is proving to be a major the US-sponsored coup against Erdoğan finance houses of Wall Street and their war in Syria and urges him to “condemn, any analysis of the relationship of factor in the escalation of the conflict”; on July 15 unconditionally but critically. associated transnational corporations. clearly and specifically, the actions of the class struggle to the prospect for and the final paragraph: “There is no No support for his use of the crackdown We should be absolutely certain on Assad and Russia in Syria, which have socialism, Ticktin contends the system is short cut to defeating all the region’s not only to arrest and imprison the coup this point and not vacillate on it by caused the overwhelming majority malfunctioning and is in a crisis: “And, reactionary forces - IS, Iran’s Islamic plotters (absolutely justified), but also attempting to find an equally culpable of civilian deaths and which present as I have argued, it is a crisis from which Republic, Assad, etc - nor to building to crack down on the trade unions, the ‘eastern imperialism’ operating in the the biggest obstacle to any workable there appears to be no end, except via a viable force to oppose Russian and left and the Kurds (100% opposition). Middle East, in Latin America, south- solution to the Syrian crisis” (https:// socialism.” American-led interventions. Yes, it Similarly, no support for the Turkish east Asia, Africa or anywhere else. speakoutonsyria.wordpress.com). Ticktin outlines his view that market will be long, hard struggle. The PYD’s invasion of Syria, using the bogus excuse Gerry Downing Again, they are playing right into socialism is impractical and unrealistic, actions have played into our enemies’ of attacking Islamic State - in reality to Socialist Fight the hands of the rightwing media, the but then has to admit: “… by 1921 the hands”. attack the YPG and the Kurdish struggle right in the Labour Party and even Bolsheviks retreated and reintroduced In the first place let us define third- for self-determination. This brought into Scab conference Boris Johnson, who seemed to have the market. It is quite obvious that you campism. It may be understood as conflict two USA-sponsored proxies: Should we call on members of the Labour been paying attention to the AWL in cannot make the jump in one go.” succumbing to the demands of Stalinism the Kurds sponsored by the Pentagon left to attend the forthcoming ‘National his speech in the House of Commons This is precisely the point. Actual and bourgeois nationalists that we and more Obama-preferred; and the conference to fight the purge’, organised this week: “There is no commensurate practice indicates that the perspective give them uncritical support against Free Syrian Army, more sponsored by by the campaign, ‘Stop the Labour horror, it seems to me, amongst some of a transition period aiming to realise imperialism and it is true that Trotsky the CIA and John Kerry. The audio that Purges’? It does sound like a good idea of those anti-war protest groups. I’d socialism cannot do without the market. used it in this sense in the mid-1930s. is now online of his meeting with FSA to do something to fight for the rights certainly like to see demonstrations The Bolsheviks realised this because In those circumstances the independent supporters at the United Nations is very of the thousands that have unjustly outside the Russian embassy. Where war communism was a terrible failure, stance of the working class globally for revealing of the difficulty faced by the been suspended, expelled or denied a is the Stop The War Coalition at the and the seizure of grain from the world revolution was third-campism. USA here: they have basically run out vote in the recent Labour leadership moment? Where are they?” (Daily Mail peasants without providing them But he rejected the term totally in the of options. election, surely? October 10). with incentives only led to unrest. late 1930s, because Max Shachtman Of course, Turkey and the FSA won Our answer in short: no. We urge all Labour Party members Hence it was necessary to retreat and was beginning to use the term to suggest on that one, because the priority now Stop the Labour Purge has been set and those purged to boycott the AWL’s allow freedom to trade. The crucial that that there was no fundamental is to stop Erdoğan leaving Nato for the up by members and supporters of the conference. Instead, we call on the problem, as Trotsky pointed out, was obligation on the international working Russia-China bloc. And the US project Alliance for Workers’ Liberty. For a Labour left to move motions in Labour to provide industrial goods at low class to defend the USSR on the basis of a client Rojava with US bases to long time, the campaign concentrated Party and Momentum branches and prices in exchange for agricultural that it was a degenerated workers’ surround Russia and China must be exclusively on those being suspended Labour organisations that condemn the goods. Furthermore, the attempt to state. So he began defining the USSR postponed for now to secure this more and/or expelled from the Labour Party purges, the demotion of Jackie Walker end the New Economic Policy with the as ‘bureaucratic collectivism’ - a non- pressing need in the preparation of for their association with the AWL. by Momentum and call for democratic introduction of forced collectivisation class designation short of actual state World War III. And Erdoğan plays that However, they show less solidarity when structures in our organisations. There are meant the justification of economic capitalism, which made it possible game of manoeuvre to his advantage. it comes to others experiencing the same a number of model motions available on adventurism, which was seriously initially to still defend the USSR, then In all this IS and al Qa’eda, al-Nusra/ fate - especially those painted with the the LPM website. criticised by Trotsky. to be equidistant from both ‘camps’. Jabhat Fateh al-sham and all the other scandalous ‘anti-Semitic’ brush. Carla Roberts We know that this attempt to abolish But this led via a series of adjustments jihadists (Yassamine is correct: there are Jackie Walker is the prime example Labour Party Marxists the role of the market was actually to support for US imperialism itself; no ‘moderates’ left) also manoeuvre. here, of course. When the pro-Zionist about strengthening the domination Shachtman abandoned Marxism by Israel is important here, as is Saudi Jewish Labour Movement leaked Pro-market of the bureaucracy over the control of initially defining the USSR itself as Arabia. Israel does not simply want the secretly taped contributions from A major aspect of Hillel Ticktin’s the surplus product.