During the Sydney book launch of Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism, I was asked by WSWS correspondent Max Boddy to explain the relevance of Marxist theory in the context of present-day events.
I am grateful for the invitation extended by the Socialist Equality Party, the Australian section of the ICFI, to present during the past week my recently published books-Socialism Against War and The Logic of Zionism at meetings in Melbourne and Sydney.
@DavidNorthWSWS Indeed. The SEP takes its history seriously. Beatty's non-responses and personal attacks are of the same character as his attack on Gerry Healy.
On November 23, a podcast sponsored by Bay Area middle-class radical Steven Zeltzer - a longtime opponent of the Socialist Equality Party - invited DSA member and Zionist-funded historian Aidan Beatty to promote his scurrilous biography of Gerry Healy. Zeltzer assembled a panel of four other SEP haters to laud Beatty's hackwork.
After 90 minutes of diatribes against Healy and the SEP, I was finally allowed to speak. Within little more than three minutes, Zeltzer interrupted me to stop my exposure of Beatty's lies as well as his decade-long reliance on funding from Zionist and pro-Israel organizations.
Despite the disruption, I challenged Beatty to explain his falsification of history and why Zionist foundations funded his anti-Healy and anti-SEP project.
Beatty refused to explain his connections with pro-Zionist organizations. Beatty was also challenged by labor historian Tom Mackaman (@MackamanThomas), who elaborated on Beatty's historical falsifications, and SEP national secretary Joseph Kishore (@jkishore).
We are posting the audio record of my remarks and those of Mackaman and Kishore, as well as Beatty's refusal to respond to the issues raised by these speakers.
@EricLondonSEP That Tissot is just fine with Beatty taking money from genocidal Israeli-Zionist institutions to attack Trotksyism demonstrates there is no limit to the lengths to which either will go to defend capitalism and imperialism -- as long as the moneys good.
Beatty's career & book were funded by Zionists--that's not in dispute. Those who aren't bothered by this are nothing but pathetic careerists on the make. Will Beatty release the document asking the Zionists for funding for his anti-communist book?
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Tissot says Aidan Beatty simply "took money where available."
This is the language of a collaborator--a statement of political & moral degeneracy. Beatty took $ from Zionist orgs to manufacture consent for genocide by slandering anti-imperialist socialists like Healy & North.1/
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On November 24, I participated in a discussion of my two recently published books, The Logic of Zionism: From Nationalist Myth to the Gaza Genocide and Sounding the Alarm: Socialism Against War. The questions posed by David Walsh, arts editor of the WSWS, and Christoph Vandreier, national secretary of Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei in Germany, covered a wide range of historical and contemporary theoretical and political issues. I appreciated the opportunity to explain the program and perspective of the Trotskyist movement in the fight for socialism.
In the Socialist Equality Party's online event on November 3, I warned that the outcome of the election would be a political disaster. That warning has been confirmed. I emphasized the urgent necessity for the building of a socialist movement against war and fascism.
Trump owes his political triumph to the bankruptcy of the Democratic Party, whose fixation with the identity politics, indifference to the impact of inflation, and support for war in Ukraine and genocide in Gaza led to the election debacle.
https://t.co/ziE2Us9E09
Clinton cites scripture to justify genocide in Gaza. There is no evidence that King David ever existed, much less that he ruled over what is now the West Bank. But what may or may not have happened in the Bronze Age has precisely zero bearing on contemporary international law.
Unsere Kampagne in Nürnberg hat begonnen! Heute haben wir Plakate für unsere Buchvorstellung am nächsten Samstag aufgehängt:
David North „Leo Trotzki und der Kampf für Sozialismus im 21. Jahrhundert"
Sa, 2. Nov, 18 Uhr
Linke Literaturmesse Nürnberg
https://t.co/ZcPk4Ms5hb
"Why are the police collecting the names, photos and whereabouts of SEP candidates? And if they are acting on an order from the top, as they claim, who issued these orders? Have they come from the Ministry of Public Security and/or the Dissanayake administration?"
HANDS OFF TROTSKYIST CANDIDATES
A FASCIST WITCHUNT BY POLICE & CAPITALIST STATE
Sri Lankan SEP demands an end to the illegal state harassment of its election candidates in the North https://t.co/CiUw62PqPa
4/ A reminder - in Lebanon, at least 600 people have been killed and at least half a million people have been displaced by indiscriminate bombing by Israeli aerial assault
3/ A reminder: Israel has been carrying out genocide w/US backing- against Palestinians in Gaza & the West Bank for a year now. It’s conservative to say 300,000 Palestinians have been murdered (the #s may be much higher) 90% of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced
2/ A reminder: at least 116 Palestinian journalists have been murdered by Israel. Israel will not let foreign journalists into Gaza. Israel has targeted and shuttered Al Jazeera. Israel and the US do not want us to know what they are doing in Palestine.