Guys. I hate to intrude upon private grief. But as you are bringing this “conversation” to my attention, allow me to say that the problem with the @CPBritain is not “what it looks like”.
The problem of the CPB is its love for the Labour party. Its forerunner (CPGB) once “looked like” the working class because it was a large, even mass party of the working class. But its adoption of the BRS (and following Khruhschevism then eurocommunism) led to its collapse.
Todays CPB is a parody of the original CPGB. the fact that it still clings to the BRS makes it no more than a small and ineffective pressure group clinging on to the coat-tails of the social chauvinist social democrats (the CPB follows Labour, led by Kier Starmer, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown - no matter how much it may whine about these leaders following “tory policies” as INDIVIDUALS).
Effectively the CPB has been reduced, by its program, to being part of the british imperialist system.
Until CPB ditches Labour, it simply is not a communist party. Its leading clique hold the keys to its finances, and they are tied to the trade unions which in Britain remain tied to labour also. CPB does not pose the question of BREAKING THE LINK BETWEEN ORGANISED LABOUR AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. It seeks to reinforce it.
The CPB’s loosely affiliated journal (MS) is also dependant upon funding from the trade union movement that is tied to labour. Hence The MS’ eclectic paupers broth of liberalism and social democracy, and always the position that voting Labour will bring Socialism.
How will labour bring socialism??!
CPB’s program states: Labour AND the CPB MPs together (!) with all “left wing” groups and organisations (TUC, SNP, Greens, welsh Nats, Cornish Nats, LGBTQ+ individuals, Trotskite comrades etc. etc. - don’t laugh!!) as part of the “broad democratic front”, will put pressure on the government (a “left” labour government - they still entertain fantasies about Corbyn for this reason!) and PAY the state functionaries of british imperialism so well it will win their loyalty (!!) and use the british “westminster” parliament itself, and the bourgeois state apparatus in general (courts, army generals, police spies, the soldiers trained to shoot down the revolutionary workers) in order to bring the “left wing program”….
So. the CPB thinks it will take the British imperialist state (by electing Labour!), and make it an instrument of working class rule (through the Labour party AND the People’s assembley!!)… and then maybe, just maybe, if problems arise… this will lead to… [unstated]… and this is the “British road to socialism.”
It is the british road to nowhere. https://t.co/E9NYaffBfq We are serious in this point. Please read this analysis of the CPB’s program. It has been a disaster for the working class in Britain.
And so the CPB is shot through with a “left” social democratic culture and ideology.
You will not find even a shred of Marx in its practice. Let alone Lenin. Unless you depend very heavily on the line “win the battle of democracy” from the manifesto, while studiously ignoring the lesson of the Paris Commune that “the proletariat cannot simply lay hold of the ready made bourgeois state apparatus and wield it for its own ends”. And ignoring the lessons of the Great Socialist October Revolution. And every other successful revolution of the working masses.
Ignoring all lessons of history will not help the british workers. It is a service only to the bourgeoisie.
That’s why CPB is happy to cooperate with trotskyites of StW. Was happy to supervise the expulsion of communists - us - from “stop the war” for raising the question of supporting Gaddafi and opposing British imperialism when Britain and NATO destroyed that country in 2011. Because the Trots too support Labour.
So. The CPB is a dead end. To join it is to end your useful political life.
@FeralJacobs@l_n_n_26 This is the final paragraph of my book on 'The City: London & the Global Power of Finance', published in 2016, highlighting its parasitic role:
Hermann Göring, 6 days after his surrender, just walking his dog and chilling with American soldiers on May 15, 1945. They were temporary competitors, not ideological enemies like with the Soviet Union.
North Korea’s determination to build a strong defence capability and establish itself as a nuclear power has underpinned its ability to resist the imperialist war drive and to continue to advance its planned economy in every field, from housing and healthcare to industry and agriculture.
Over the years, many people, including many on the left, have criticised or slighted the DPRK – for its nuclear policy, for its staunch adherence to socialist principles in politics and the economy, and on this or that spurious pretext.
But as tragic and sanguinary events unfold one after another – in the middle east, in Latin America and the Caribbean, and elsewhere – they provide stark confirmation of the correctness of the policies consistently pursued by the DPRK and the WPK, even when other options might have seemed easier, or when superficially attractive blandishments had been put on the table.
Had the DPRK not stood firm on its principles at all times, the potential and all too tragic consequences are confirmed with each day.
By standing firm, even in the face of temporary hardships, the people of the DPRK can now enjoy a steadily better and more fulfilling life – in an atmosphere of internal and external safety, security and stability that should rightly be the envy of people around the world.
https://t.co/ndn5o9jYRH
You can talk about nationalising industry and building council houses all you like, but if you’re not prepared to sweep away the system entirely and replace with a state run by and for workers, you might as well promise fairies at the end of gardens.
Never forget where fascism comes from. It is the open, naked and aggressive dictatorship of the capitalist class over the workers. Its chief aim is to crush the workers independent program and leadership - Marxism, Leninism, communism.
As Britian slides towards social repression and fascism, lets remind ourselves who are the enemy: the capitalists. The financiers. The billionaire elite. It is they - “the respectable ones” - who make the wars, who make the wounds, who manufacture consent for the genocide, and repress all opposition.
“Who Financed Hitler” [Book James and Suzanne Pool]
Henry Ford (USA), Emil Kirdorf and Fritz Thyssen (Germany), and ultimately, the entire monopoly capitalist class:
“Thus Thyssen [Mager German Steel magnate and industrial tycoon] began to think, as Hitler had already, of the lower classes away from Marxism. When this idea was combined with the beliefs that Thyssen drew from his unpleasant personal experiences since 1918, the result was amazingly similar to Hitler's basic political program.
“In October 1923, just a month before Hitler's putsch, it looked as if there was about to be another Communist revolution in Germany. Thyssen decided to visit General Ludendorff in Munich and ended up giving him 100,000 gold marks to distribute between the Nazi Party and the Free Corps Oberland. On November 9, 1923, Hitler's attempted putsch was brought to an abrupt halt.”
“Thyssen spoke of Hitler and Göring “with warmth" and explained that they were a kind of "new men" who would make Germany united and strong again and put an end to the threat of Communism. To his more apprehensive fellow industrialists, Thyssen would say, slightly irritated: "None of us can get the country out of the mess!" And he would shrug off that part of Hitler's program that advocated discrimination against the Jews. Hitler himself did not mean it, he assured Jewish friends. As for Hitler's socialism: "Good God, a leader of the masses on the make has to say many things." The revolution was to be a strictly national revolution, not a social one.
He had Hitler's word for it.”
“Yet, unlike Henry Ford, Thyssen never became an ideological anti-Semite.
He continued to be on good terms with Jewish business as-sociates, separating in his mind "good Jews" (patriotic and pro-capitalist) from "bad Jews" (Communists and socialists).
“This he regretted; but, as he wrote to a Jewish friend, the prominent Berlin banker Dr. Arthur Salomonsohn, the antiSemitism of the National Socialist Party was only a pragmatic means used to win popular support. Once the masses had turned away from Marxism and become nationalist-minded again, Kir-dorf assured his friend, such unsavory methods would be dispensed with.“
https://t.co/YCnmbopnRZ
On the morning of Thursday 9 April, the police again came to the home of Dr Ranjeet Brar, general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), to arrest him for making a political speech outside the US embassy (see video attached), on charges of “antisemitism”.
Not only have the police arrested him, they arranged to have him suspended from his work as an NHS surgeon for at least two weeks – no doubt with a view to further suspension and ultimately with the aim of depriving him of work.
We call on everyone who supports free speech and opposes imperialist war crimes to share this information far and wide. And to send us video messages of support.
Let the Labour government know its crimes are not going unnoticed and will not be unopposed.
Stop political policing in Britain before we lose all right to political speech and political organisation!
@antjazz83@ZackPolanski We agree that housing isnt free to run. Where we diverge is that all those costs can be covered by the surplus of industry. The current model is on of private interest an a quarter of the housing stock is mold infested and another 1 million properties remain empty. Insane system.
@antjazz83@ZackPolanski I've been arguing against your ridiculous idea that rent controls will delete housing. If there is no money (exchange value) to be made from renting housing, housing will be more a place to live, raise children, rest, and recreate (use value).
@antjazz83@ZackPolanski I have nothing in common with Greens. Merely spotted you claiming that landlords would fold up their houses, pop them in their pockets and leave if they couldnt make a living off others work.
@antjazz83@ZackPolanski If the government didnt serve landlords and had could control over market forces youd be right. But they do and they don't.
The government of big business and landlords wont increase wages and lower rents. Ever. And no matter who sits in parliament, the executive stays the same
@antjazz83@ZackPolanski Yes you know the answer. I stand with the impoverished, those without jobs, those without homes. Gladly, proudly.
Put a picture of your favourite millionaire in your wallet. Hug it tight to your chest while you watch us rise. We'll all be getting on with progress and building.
@antjazz83@ZackPolanski Im talking about Britain now and Vietnam now.
You choose the period when Vietnam was destroyed by bombs napalm and chemical weapons?
Compare 'peaceful' Britain of the Great Depression? Britain post 2008 austerity? Why not Britain of the workhouses and armies of child labour?
@antjazz83@ZackPolanski A better question which will expose who we are is: do we want all to be housed, or do we want a portion of the population homeless to maintain a tiny group of exceptionally wealthy?
Poverty at one pole is necessary for extreme wealth at the other pole. I say lets get rid of both
@antjazz83@ZackPolanski The Greens not propose anything beyond some legal efforts to curtail the housing market. Those laws will be unenforceable and therefore innefective.
Vietnam's home ownership rate (90%) dwarves ours in Britain plus their living standards improve year on year while ours drops.