A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity weekly Left Unity’s March 29 n Police corrupt to core workern Third camp polemic conference: pious n Miners 1984-85 indecision and irrationality n Prisoners’ solidarity No 1001 Thursday March 13 2014 Towards a Communist Party of the European Union www.cpgb.org.uk £1/€1.10 Bob Crow 1961 - 2014 2 weekly March 13 2014 1001 worker LETTERS Letters may have been Finally, note that increased workers’ movement from without, other countries. I indeed attempted time he wrote border controls didn’t shortened because of productivity in the production of PCs via a section of the intelligentsia. In this when engaging in debate with exist (Letters, March 6). So no-one space. Some names will lead to reduction in their value, a society where 60% of the population pro-independence comrades, but was can definitively assert what he would may have been changed and hence will decrease the organic of St Petersburg were illiterate, when told by comrade Mark Fischer that it have said then! I still await anyone composition of capital in the printing there was widespread censorship of was no more than a slogan. A search quoting anything Trotsky or Lenin Holy writ industry and every other industry the press and literature, at a time when for any analysis by the CPGB on this said in support of open borders after Comrade Bruce Wallace’s letter where PCs are used as capital goods the working class had yet to move vital question will be futile. 1905 - when Phil says the British (March 6) is an excellent illustration - in fact, in the entire economy. decisively as a class into political Comrades, if you cannot even state brought in the Aliens Act, the of the pitfall of reading Marx Moshé Machover action against autocracy, then Lenin’s take your own slogans seriously, first attempt to control immigration. uncritically and quoting him as holy email mistake is perfectly understandable. it is little wonder that the left in I doubt very much the Bolsheviks writ. However, to repeat today, with Scotland has washed its hands of advocated or practised open borders In my article, ‘Saving labour Class disdain almost universal literacy and the you. Unfortunately, your call for in 1917 or later, when engaged in a or capital?’ (October 6 2011), I Ben Lewis, in his response (Letters, works of Marx, Lenin and others the working class to recognise the civil war in defence of the revolution showed that raising the productivity March 6) to my letter defending Peter freely available on the internet, that importance of constitutional concerns - do correct me if I’m wrong here. of labour may be achieved by Taaffe (February 27), does very little the working class is “only capable of is exposed as hypocrisy. Phil moves on from workers being technological changes that decrease to clarify the points and injects plenty trade union consciousness” without Tam Dean Burn able to move anywhere in the world the organic composition of capital of confusion into the discussion. The the intervention of the intelligentsia email without any controls to defending rather than increase it. Arguing key point at issue here is whether from without, really is to hold the the movement of anyone starving - condescendingly against my article, Lenin’s claim in What is to be done? working class in disdain. Fourth degree quite another matter. I’d rather Phil comrade Wallace admits that “it is - that “the working class, exclusively Carl Simmons Toby Abse (Letters, March 6) makes (or anyone, actually) deal with the theoretically possible that an increase by its own efforts, is able to develop email many correct points in attacking the questions I raised in my letter of in the amount of labour per unit can only trade union consciousness … outfit that still calls itself the Fourth February 27. To repeat - do indigenous be more than offset by using much socialist consciousness is introduced Washed hands International, but hits the wrong peoples have any rights or privileges cheaper raw materials”, but asserts into the proletarian struggle from It’s been apparent for some target. Not his fault. they can expect to exercise in their that this is “not [possible] in the real without” - was an instance of considerable time that the CPGB The International Committee own country over and above those world by any manner of means, as polemical excess or an important and has washed its hands of the Scottish of the Fourth International (ICFI, entering from outside? I’d point out Karl Marx pointed out.” And here he fundamental principle of Leninism. question, with nary an article in the associated with the World Socialist to Phil that people in this country are invokes Marx: Lewis appears to be arguing the latter. Weekly Worker for months nor any Web Site) does not hold the views starving - look at the 300% increase “If, for example, productivity in However, even the Lenin quote from debate at Communist University 2013. that he attacks. It has been working in food banks. spinning increased tenfold … why 1907, cited by both Lih and Lewis, But suddenly, like the proverbial bus, under the name of the International Are the native Americans, the should not one negro produce 10 times indicates the former, as does the fact not one but two articles back to back, Committee since 1953, when it parted aborigines, the Palestinians all wrong as much cotton as 10 did previously? that Lenin did not subsequently use saying the same things, and even company with the International to complain about being invaded, In other words, why should the value the same formulation. inclusion in John Bridge’s political Secretariat of Pablo and Mandel, taken over and deprived of ‘their’ ratio not remain the same? … To Lewis ends his letter with the report podcast. which itself later became known as land, ‘their’ resources? Should they this it is quite easy to answer that astounding claim that “the Trotsky So what has provoked this rash the United Secretariat (USFI) when it have welcomed without question all some kinds of raw material, such of 1940 offers a retrospective account of interest? Perhaps the Radical merged with the US Socialist Workers who arrived to settle, regardless of the as wool, silk, leather, are produced that - not least thanks to Lars’s Independence movement and, Party in 1963. This should be the real culture and values they brought with by animal organic processes, work - has been shown to be simply specifically, long-term CPGB target for Toby to attack. them that were totally antagonistic to while cotton, linen, etc, are produced incompatible with those of the time”. debating comrade Steve Freeman’s The USFI used to be led by an the indigenous people already there? by vegetable organic processes, and I can only say that Lewis must have contribution to the RI conference international executive committee. Alan Johnstone (another whose capitalist production has not yet read a different Lars T Lih from me. at the end of last year? No, that’s Now, for whatever reason, clearly letter I enjoyed, even if I disagreed succeeded and never will succeed In Lenin rediscovered Lih deals with all been ignored, as far as I can indifferent to the confusion they with some points) tells us of how, over in mastering these processes in the Trotsky’s recollection in a footnote see. Surely, a critique of the Jimmy are causing, they have started 15 years Lithuanians in Lanarkshire same way it has mastered purely to page 27: Reid Foundation’s Commonweal issuing statements in the name of were unionised (Letters, February mechanical or inorganic chemical “In 1907, he responded to the project? Nope. Well, how about an an International Committee of the 27). Could they have done so if processes … As far as coal and metal Menshevik use of this comment: engagement with Bella Caledonia, Fourth International. This includes other nationalities also settled in (wood) are concerned, they become ‘The sense of these words is clear: National Collective or the myriad the notorious one in International even larger numbers, undercutting much cheaper with the advance WITBD was a polemical correction other blogs flourishing in Scotland Viewpoint on Ukraine. They can the Lithuanians? of production; this will, however, of ‘economism’ and to consider its right now? hardly claim to be ignorant of the How is it one nationality settles become more difficult, as mines are content outside this task of the book is No, I’m afraid not. What’s finally existence of the real ICFI and World in one area (and in London it is Latin exhausted, etc.” Marx then concludes: incorrect’ ... Lenin’s actual words thus provoked reaction is David Bowie’s Socialist Web Site, in view of a long cleaners unionising and organising “This rubbish is herewith disposed provide no justification for Trotsky’s remark, spoken by a model, at the history of differences, unless they in SOAS) to the apparent exclusion of” (Theories of surplus value Vol 3). later statement that ‘the author of What Brit Awards (‘Cyberspace oddity’, are truly lost in a fog of their own of other ethnicities/nationalities? So, this settles it: “Moshé, a reader is to be done? himself subsequently February 27). But even that couldn’t creation. The latter explanation is Is it because they get a toehold by in mathematical logic, erroneously acknowledged the biased nature and be reported correctly. It wasn’t five just possible, since as a tendency undercutting the rate for the job, revives the old ’rubbish’ disposed of’ therewith the erroneousness of his words, only four - there was no they have meandered all over the working hard, then bringing more of by Marx over 150 years ago.” Except theory’ … Note also that Lenin made ‘please’.