A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity weekly Camilla Power: primitive n Closing head shops workern Iran: CIA papers communism can teach us n SACP vs ANC? about ourselves and our future n Bernie Sanders polemic No 1110 Thursday June 9 2016 Towards a Communist Party of the European Union £1/€1.10 Once a dangerous radical 2 weekly June 9 2016 1110 worker LETTERS Letters may have been turned to using anti-Semitism when the I accept that the Bolshevik failure or if the ruling class in the west had when the Russian Revolution had shortened because of first line of attack proved ridiculous. to develop socialism was based on a believed, that the working class was not yet happened? Henry Ford must space. Some names The second point I would make is failure of the market system and their already ideologically committed to then have had a crystal ball too, as a may have been changed that Mann’s own position on Israel/ trust in a belief that they could through such an overthrow rather than, as was pioneer of welfare capitalism, when Palestine in the days when he was a bold leaps bypass the obstacles of the case, and as the ruling class actually he introduced the $5-a-day in 1914 - a False premise witch-finder general inside the National social and economic development and knew was the case, that workers in full three years ahead of the Russian Speaking as a Jew (to use a turn of Organisation of Labour Students was I’m sure Phil is sufficiently well-versed those countries had no such ideological Revolution. But, in fact, Ford was phrase that David Aaronovitch, David the exact opposite of his present one. in Marxism to understand that “new, commitment and were solidly wedded rather late in the day, because, as with Hirsh and other Blairite/Likudniks The supporters of Militant held to a higher relations of production never to social democracy. Indeed, had the the policies of Bismarck in Germany, regard as beyond the pale, when used version of the two-state solution (in appear before the material conditions workers in the west been ideologically welfare capitalism had started to be by anybody with a Jewish background their case two socialist states) and did of their existence have been matured committed to an overthrow of the implemented by US capitalists as early who does not share their adulation of not give unconditional support to the in the womb of the old society”. capitalist class, no amount of social as the 1880s, much as Engels also Netanyahu), I have to take issue with Palestine Liberation Organisation, Those material conditions in Russia democratic concessions could have describes the adoption of such policies some recent articles in the Weekly whilst the youthful Mann was a one- in 1917 could not accommodate the bought them off. in Britain, in his later Prefaces to The Worker. stater (opposed to the existence of the establishment of socialism. Lenin, The only other sense in which condition of the working class. The decision to prevent Rhea state of Israel) and gave unconditional therefore, moved the goalposts, Sean’s argument here could make any At the time Russia was embroiled Wolfson standing for the Labour support to the PLO in the days before changing the Marxian objective to suit sense would be if the actual disparity in civil war and starving workers were Party’s national executive committee it adopted a two-state perspective. He the realities existing in Russia at the between the living standards in the returning to their villages in search of would suggest that the interpretation accused the Militants of not being in time. Capital development through USSR and in the west were not that food, US workers were enjoying the of the recent furore about alleged anti- favour of Palestinian rights - slandering state monopoly was the only option great and were diminishing, or if start of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ and Semitism within the Labour Party them in a diametrically opposite way to open to the Bolsheviks, but it led to a the propaganda put out by Stalinism hugely rising living standards. By being advanced by Tony Greenstein his current defamation of Corbynites political dishonesty that had serious about living standards and conditions the mid to late 1930s, workers in the and others in recent issues of the Weekly as anti-Semites. In short Mann is an consequences for the worldwide in the USSR was actually believed by Midlands and south-east of Britain Worker rests on a totally mistaken opportunist who cares not two hoots working class. workers in the west. But neither was the were being employed in new, high premise: namely the alleged dominant about Israel/Palestine, but just uses the I have to bow to Phil’s superior case! Even if we discount the phoney paid jobs in car production and in the and initiating role of a pro-Israel lobby issue for witch-hunting, from whatever scholarship, for I have read neither statistics put out by the Stalinists about production of new electronic consumer in this series of events. angle is politically convenient. Tony Smith nor Kevin Hudis, and Soviet economic performance, there is goods and petro-chemicals industries, It strikes me that this utterly absurd Lastly, once we see everything in only some extracts of Bukharin’s and no doubt that economic growth in the which formed the basis of the new decision to refuse a nomination to a a British perspective, as primarily an Preobrazhensky’s works, such as the USSR in the 1930s was impressive. boom after the war. Jewish potential candidate, indeed the aspect of the factional struggle within ABC of communism, which reads in It is what enabled the USSR, after it None of that was due to concessions only Jewish potential candidate, for the Labour Party, it is sensible to take one part: was attacked by Nazi Germany, to win to western workers out of fear that they election to the NEC on the grounds a pragmatic position and on occasions “The communist method of the war in Europe more or less single- might be attracted to the Soviet prison of the alleged anti-Semitism of when somebody in an important production presupposes in addition handedly. The continued strength of camp! What it was due to is what Momentum as an organisation reveals position says or does something which that production is not for the market, that economic growth after the war Marx had explained. Modern industrial quite clearly that the prime movers is damaging to the left in the party, as but for use. Under communism, it is no and the failure of the claims of people capital is based upon the extraction of are the Blairites - in this instance the well as being stupid in itself, it is not our longer the individual manufacturer or like Hayek and Mises about the relative surplus value, by continual ultra-Blairite and totally disastrous job to defend them unconditionally in the individual peasant who produces; impossibility of planning certainly did rapid improvements in technology that former leader of Scottish Labour, the way we might defend an ordinary the work of production is effected by worry western capital. sharply raises productivity, and thereby Jim Murphy, who persuaded Rhea’s member who suddenly finds themselves the gigantic cooperative as a whole. However, that is a far cry from any reduces the value of variable and Constituency Labour Party to withhold under attack for a comment they made In consequence of this change, we of that being of any benefit for Soviet constant capital, which enables both a the nomination - without which she on Facebook years before. I refer, of no longer have commodities, but workers. Even setting aside the fictions rise in the rate of surplus value, and of was not entitled to stand for the NEC, course, to the idiocy of Ken Livingstone. only products. These products are not about Stakhanovite workers, the deaths the annual rate of profit, and along with no matter how many other CLPs or Anybody who leads the general public exchanged one for another; they are of millions of Soviet peasants, and the it a rise in the accumulation of capital. affiliated organisations nominated her. to believe that he thinks Hitler was quite neither bought nor sold. They are simply fact that the primary accumulation of This makes possible, and indeed Given that Rhea, although ever a reasonable bloke “before he went stored in the communal warehouses, Soviet capital was also achieved on necessary, a rise in workers’ living critical of Israeli policy towards mad” - and then, instead of shutting and are subsequently delivered to those the backs of a squeeze on workers’ standards alongside a rise in profits. It is Palestinians in the West Bank and up or apologising, gives four or five who need them. wages, hardly indicated any pass- the material basis of social democracy. elsewhere, was certainly not an absolute successive media interviews within a “In such conditions, money will on of the benefits of that economic Arthur Bough anti-Zionist, had been an officer of a day, digging a deeper and deeper hole no longer be required. Communist growth for workers that might have email Jewish society at her university and, not just for himself, but for the entire society will know nothing of money. been attractive to western workers. By apparently, had the support of the so- left - deserves to be suspended. He Every worker will produce goods for the time the Russian tanks rolled into Called it wrong called Jewish Labour Movement (the damaged Naz Shah’s chances of speedy the general welfare.