A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity David Broder: active ruling class n Letters and debate n Glasgow migrants freed collaboration was central to the rise n Il Manifesto: 50 years and triumph of Mussolini fascism n Ulster unionism in crisis No 1348 May 20 2021 Towards a mass Communist Party £1/€1.10 TRUMP’S PERSONALITY CULT TAKES ON BONAPARTIST TRAITS weekly 2 May 20 2021 1348 worker LETTERS pronged counterrevolution in for people than under the most you earn’. The other 5% are those stronghold of Fenland, if only Letters may have been Syria! advanced capitalist society, this people who are paid, say, more Labour would campaign for shortened because of space. Some names For the sake of accuracy it is does not mean that communists than £50,000 per year, such as them! may have been changed also important to be a bit more should have avoided power in MPs, senior state employees and John Smithee fine-grained about political 1917 Russia, or China in 1949. company directors. The Marxist Cambridgeshire Islam than Lazare, who paints Communists can take power in definition of the middle class can No evidence movements from the Muslim backward countries, providing be summed as the five-million Intangible Daniel Lazare’s article, ‘Syria Brotherhood to Daesh (Islamic they realise that the transition self-employed, including builders, Last week’s article from Moshé and the usual suspects’ (May 13), State) with the same broad to full-blown socialism cannot plumbers, electricians, etc, along Machover (‘Stench of Zionist is a good illustration of the kind brush. As I write these lines, I am be an immediate goal. Indeed, with self-employed doctors (GPs), colonisation’) and the letter from of “anti-imperialism of fools” hearing the news from Palestine/ as pointed out above, this is the accountants, solicitors, etc. Andrew Northall (‘Electability’) that the Syrian intellectuals Israel, where Israel is once conclusion Lenin and Trotsky The other definition is that - to my mind both of exceptional and others criticise in their again killing Palestinians and came to by 1921. Thus the used by the Office for National pertinence and thus value - statement that Lazare purports to destroying property by pounding course of the Russian Revolution Statistics (ONS) and the polling led me to knock up an email savage. Lazare writes that “the Gaza - a small besieged enclave was actually a repudiation of organisations. This defines the communication to contacts of my evidence concerning America’s of two million people, governed Trotsky’s permanent revolution working class as social groups own, including close family. central role in the destruction by Hamas. What is Hamas? It is theory. And the repudiation came C2, D and E (skilled manual, Despite voices in my head of Syria has mushroomed” (my a movement that was founded in the palpable form of NEP. semi-skilled, and unskilled that whisper it all goes way emphasis). as the Palestinian branch of the What is being taught here manual workers, respectively). At beyond what will be considered There is no such mushrooming Muslim Brothers. Would that be is that, when communists take the same time, the middle class appropriate, I’d like to share those of evidence. The quotes Lazare an argument for the left to be power in backward countries, is defined as social groups A, B thoughts of mine with readers of provides show that the US silent about massacres and ethnic in a world where capitalism still and C1 (managerial, professional, the Weekly Worker. Triggered created a jihadist Frankenstein cleansing by Israel? predominates, their economic and white-collar workers, by the newest horror stories to in Afghanistan in pursuing Recall also in this connection strategy should be one of a respectively). emanate from Palestine/the Gaza its geopolitical, imperialist that Syria and Palestine are very mixed economy: that is to say, Why are these different Strip (aka Israel), these thoughts interests in late 1970s. As to close neighbours, who were a strong state sector plus small- definitions so important? The represent identical messages and the intelligence report and the separated only by the imperialist business private enterprise. This answer can be seen in the collapse analysis to the mainstream of speech by Joe Biden in 2014, powers after World War I. The combination of the state sector, of the ‘red wall’ in the north- the Weekly Worker/CPGB, but they show that the US was wary most advanced radical, leftwing or the commanding heights of east and the Midlands. At the are proffered in a different style, in committing itself to support group in the area - the socialist the economy, as Lenin put it, same time, we are witnessing as well as with somewhat more potentially dangerous forces in organisation in Israel, Matzpen with a petty bourgeois small- the collapse of the ‘blue wall’ intangible motivations. Syria. There is no contradiction - stressed the unity of the whole business sector is the first stage outside London. As Ben Page of The email concerned simply between these two ‘revelations’. Arab east already in the 1960s in the transition to communism polling organisation Ipsos-Mori asked: “Are the courtrooms Trying to rule the world is not and based its internationalist in backward countries. Trotsky has accurately pointed out, age at Nuremberg still in working easy. socialist programme on it. himself made allowances for this and home-ownership is now the order? The same going for its Until the Iranian and Lazare calls “usual suspects” in his semi-ultra-left transitional predictor of how people vote, not hanging-scaffolds!” Here and especially Russian intervention some of the signers of the programme in 1938. This strategy social class. now I wonder whether modern- of 2015, the fate of the Assad statement he tries to savage. The may even apply to advanced Using the ONS definition of times communism would have regime really hung in the expression comes from the end capitalist countries, where a social class, we can see that Labour the guts to promote this specific balance. It would have been very scene of the film Casablanca, state sector can be combined is now the party of the middle take on things, albeit in its plainly strange if the US as the strongest where one of the main characters with a small-business sector in class, whereas the Tories are now irony-soaked nature, with its imperialist power in the world - a police chief in Vichy-governed the transition to communism. the party of the working class. I am provocatively educational/brutally had not been interested in the French Morocco - gives an order Downing is also wrong about reminded of the famous Spitting enlightening intentions. nature of a prospective post- to “round up the usual suspects”: Mao’s bloc of four classes. image sketch, which followed the But once again other voices Assad Syria. So the Americans that is, people suspected of anti- Class alliances are based on the unexpected Tory general election bounce around inside my gave arms and material support fascist activity. Well, not a bad political goals for the revolution. victory of 1992. This showed head, bringing an expectation to the rebels, some of it through epithet! As an ultra-left approach to Norman Lamont and John Major of disappointment, thankfully Saudi Arabia. Turkey and Qatar Hannu Reime revolution, Trotskyism opposes knocking on the door of a thick accompanied by a dash of hope also aided anti-Assadists. Helsinki alliances between classes, working class Tory voter. When he - hope that the very best of But no evidence supports regardless of what such alliances opened the door, Lamont and Major everything will dominate, will the contention that the US has Mixed economy are supposed to achieve, and started jeering at him: “Stupid, arise supreme: as it were (indeed, actively sought to overthrow I was sorry to hear about the so we have the condemnation stupid, stupid!” This accurately somewhat supernaturally?) that Assad, as it did to Saddam passing of Cliff Slaughter on of Dimitrov. Those who share sums up the new Tory voters in the Marxist ‘validity’ will remain Hussein in neighbouring Iraq May 3 and would like to defend Trotsky’s ultra-left position that former ‘red wall’. sufficiently virile, potent, in 2003. The strongest US him against the arguments put socialist revolutions in backward As I mentioned earlier, we are sufficiently filled with vibrancy commitment in Syria has been forward by Gerry Downing countries should be attempted starting to see the collapse of and red-hot dynamism to its air campaign, in which it (Letters, May 13). as the immediate goal - an idea the ‘blue wall’ outside London. determine both humankind’s and destroyed the Isis ‘caliphate’ in Firstly, it is necessary to point which even seduced Lenin and Labour won five out of the 10 planet Earth’s ultimate destiny. the north and north-east of Syria. out that Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin later Mao - will no doubt oppose seats up for election on Worthing Nothing presented here stems The Americans made an alliance and Mao are all individuals who, Mao’s bloc. But the bloc of four council on the south coast. It from any misplaced belief in with the Kurdish forces and their although they had a positive classes was correct. The problem also won a couple of seats in ‘sage-like’ prophecy, let alone Arab and Assyrian allies. This side, nevertheless, to one is that Mao did not stick to its Chipping Norton, home of David from any special genius. In has enraged Turkey, an important degree or another, damaged the economic underpinnings - ie, the Cameron. At the same time, fact it’s quite the opposite - it’s Nato ally, whose nightmare is image of socialism to a certain strategy of mixed economy in the closer to home, Labour won the identical to a sort of secret-world permanent Kurdish autonomy extent, which gave the enemies transition to communism - and metro mayor for Cambridgeshire undercurrent to life.