A paper of Marxist polemic and Marxist unity War of the drones: n Letters and debate n Labour Left Alliance Ted Crawford looks at fast n Migration: 39 dead changing military technology n SWP pre-conference No 1273 October 31 2019 Towards a Communist Party of the European Union £1/€1.10 JEREMY CORBYN MUST APPEAL TO CLASS LOYALTY BUT BREXIT ISSUE CANNOT BE AVOIDED weekly 2 October 31 2019 1273 worker LETTERS Letters may have been to get an extension until January 31 2020. Frank - to name but a few. I’ve also read their conversion to Christianity - or their similarities between Africa today and pre- shortened because of If Labour wins the general election we quite a bit of Lee Child and Jo Nesbo, burning in hell. The fact that Zionism was revolutionary Russia. space. Some names will still be in the EU by September 2020. but I feel no impulse to join either the US originally a Christian ideology surprised What is needed is a Communist Party may have been changed This is surely the greatest example military or the Norwegian police. me, as did the demonstrable anti- of Africa (because of the advanced nature of guerrilla warfare since Fidel Castro To go back to my political history: it Semitism of its adherents. Nonetheless, it of the economy in South Africa, the South - with only 19 supporters, more than took me a few years to decide that I was was later picked up by a small minority of African Communist Party will play a major Election at last Corbyn has in the Parliamentary Labour no longer a Trotskyist and a few more to Jews and, especially after World War II, role in such a development). The population In the Weekly Worker back in July I argued Party - conducted a brilliant campaign decide that I was not a Leninist, though attracted many Jews of widely disparate of Africa is predicted to double by 2050 and that “The election of Johnson as prime in the Sierra Maestra mountains. No I still believe that they both contributed values. quadruple by the year 2100, making the minister is a time to reflect on the dangers wonder Corbyn hailed Fidel Castro much. I retain my belief that I am a For me, Ilan Pappe got it right when he possibility of a socialist revolution in Africa the working class movement now faces. as a “champion of social justice” (The communist and a Marxist, though Marx described the Edinburgh-Gaza twinning more likely. At the same time, Nigeria will Johnson can win as long as he avoids Independent November 26 2016), whilst would no doubt disown me. After all, I campaign as a “blessed initiative”. have a population of 300 million by 2050, imposing a no-deal Brexit and avoids a Boris Johnson compared Corbyn to “Fidel haven’t accomplished much in the field ‘Blessed’ can be used to refer to something making it the sixth biggest country in the general election before the UK leaves the Castro, Goldilocks and Count Dracula” of revolutionary politics. But then neither welcome, and in these divisive times, world by population. The working class in European Union on October 31. After the (Andrew Gimson, Conservative Home). has anyone else lately - with the possible what could be more welcome than a Nigeria, that of alongside South Africa, will deal is ratified by the Commons, Johnson By pretending to be useless, Corbyn exception of Gerry, of course. proposal that brings people together - one- be the key to the African revolution. will use this patriotic kudos to call and win has lured or even forced the Tories into Gerry points correctly to “inspiring stater, two-stater, Brexiteer and remainer? In Africa, from what I can make out, a general election” (Letters, July 25). two general elections in two years despite working class uprisings” (though there Could the twinning of Edinburgh the international revolutionary left only How could this happen? “We can only having a law which only allows it once may not be enough Trotskyists in Hong with Gaza, though to an extent symbolic, has small groups in South Africa, Nigeria, guess how Johnson will get his revised every five years! He held his nerve and Kong apparently) and I’m sure that he not at least recognise and begin to make Zimbabwe and Egypt - the latter being May deal. The most straightforward is to has now come out fighting for an election. would agree that there are also individual amends for the role played by a son of a bridge between the African revolution draw the economic border with the EU While he is doing that, he has at least a examples of extraordinary courage the former in the plight of the latter? and the revolution in the Middle East. The down the Irish Sea and do the checks in chance, with an army of close to half around the world, by journalists and Potentially, it could mean much more than International Marxist Tendency has a few Liverpool, etc. There is then no need for a million ready to go to war against a activists - mostly not Marxists. mere gesture, however. It would promote members in South Africa and a section an Irish backstop. Of course, Johnson will Tory Brexit and their anti-working class We need “the theory and practice cultural and commercial ties, certainly, but in Nigeria - Workers Alternative. The have to throw the Democratic Unionist austerity policies. of the revolution itself”, as Gerry says it could also provide practical assistance Committee for a Workers’ International Party under the bus. Yet the Tory rank and Who would have a chance against - and aren’t we lucky to have his pure to a people under siege. has sections in Nigeria (Socialist Party file have already said they would happily the combined leadership of Castro, version to guide us. Gerry is also happy to Unbelievably, the initiative has not of Nigeria) and in South Africa (Workers lose Ireland if only they could get Brexit Goldilocks and Dracula? Not many. So explain the resumption of the relationship received backing from those who you and Socialist Party - Wasp). The British and defeat Corbyn.” the last word belongs to the Tory, Andrew between Hannah Arendt and Martin might expect it to. Neither Edinburgh Socialist Workers Party’s International In October The Sunday Times editorial Gimson: “Corbyn, the disregarded Heidegger. Apparently, and I may have Action for Palestine nor the Scottish Socialist Tendency has a small group in came to a similar conclusion: “A prime Corbyn, may turn out to have greater misread him, it was so that they could Palestine Solidarity Campaign have Egypt (Revolutionary Socialists) and a minister who has delivered Brexit affinity with Middle England than opinion cooperate in providing a “rationalism for lent it support - doubtless the shades of small group in Zimbabwe (International would be in a strong position to inflict polls suggest. He could be the underdog capitalism” - very romantic. sectarianism and egotism that often plague Socialist Organisation). a heavy defeat on a hopeless Labour who was underestimated.” Soon we Arendt was and is not an answer to our progressive movements. But the support However, in my opinion, the key to leader, particularly one around whom will find out the next twist in the Brexit prayers, but I believe that she was not a of pro-Palestine Scottish politicians too the African revolution is for Marxists to the vultures in his own party are already revolution. Zionist or a Nazi either. has yet to venture beyond mere rhetoric. carry out systematic work within the South circulating” (October 13). The birds of Steve Freeman Jim Cook At least part of the psychology behind African Communist Party, which has more prey - Swinson, Watson, Blair, Starmer, London Reading these jitters among politicians and activists than 180,000 members. As the Weekly Thornberry and McDonnell - were seen almost certainly lies with the fact that Gaza Worker has pointed out, the SACP needs to in the skies squawking for a second Party line Twinning is currently governed by Hamas. Another break from the African National Congress referendum to finally finish Corbyn off. Gerry Downing has kindly explained It’s not every day you get the opportunity consideration is the fear of being labelled and stand its own candidates in elections to Rachel Sylvester in The Times noted my trajectory from revolutionary politics to ask a direct question of your country’s anti-Semitic, given the current ludicrous all levels of government in South Africa. that “most Labour MPs would prefer to (in the Workers Revolutionary Party?) leader. I was lucky enough to do just claims about the British Labour Party. Whilst I’m not a fan of Martin Jacques have a [‘remain’] referendum first. Some to the exit, from reading Hannah Arendt that at an event in this year’s Edinburgh Fortunately, ordinary people still have (former Eurocommunist editor of the of them hate the idea of campaigning for and books about sects. Apparently what Book Festival. Following an interesting a voice and can still make a difference. now defunct Marxism Today magazine), a hard-left Labour leader to become PM; I should have done was note “the defeat chat between Scotland’s first minister, They can take three minutes of their time Spiked Online and the Academy of others fear that the party’s position on of the miners’ strike, the fall of the Berlin Nicola Sturgeon, and the Booker Prize to add their names to our petition. Ideas, I do agree with them that Africa Europe is so confused that they would Wall and restoration of capitalism in the winning Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, the If you agree, please sign the petition at needs more capitalist development.