Communist Fight Issue 2:13 is out now. This is the first we have put out in around 3 months, due to some recent logistical difficulties, but the contents of this issue are certainly appropriate. The front- page lead is about the new party initiated by Zahra Sultana, and centrally involving Jeremy Corbyn, at the beginning of July. The massive outpouring of support and interest in this – it rapidly signed up hundreds of thousands on putative supporters in a matter of weeks via website signups – now up to a million – is a seminal event in British politics. Through the new party is still in the process of formation, it has mobilised the mass base that gathered together in support of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in 2015 and then expanded it further. The expectations this has aroused among millions are massive – as the article makes clear, this is the culmination of four decades of class polarisation around divisions that have ebbed and flowed over that time, but have always been centrally about the role of pro-NATO, pro-Zionist, neoliberal ideologues in the apparatus of the Labour Party, that has finally pushed it to this split.
The issue contains also a brief analysis of the divisions in ‘Your Party’ over Zionism and the legacy of the witchhunt and election defeat, both engineered by deeply embedded Zionists in Labour, and the neoliberal right generally.
There is a short article on the Starmer regime’s attacks on democratic rights and civil liberties, crucial questions to be dealt with today.
There is an extensive treatment of some of the scientific aspects of capitalist-induced climate change and the seriousness of it for the future of humanity – an existential problem that the world working class must take power to deal with. This can only be resolved by rational socialist planning of the world’s resources for use, not for profit, under the democratic control of the victorious world proletariat.
And there is an article on the wave of fascist activity and violence against refugees, and oppressed minorities generally, that swept Britain this August, following on last years horrors. It puts this in the context of social decline, and the changes in the class composition of Britain occasioned by neoliberal and its jobs massacres in the past few decades, and the political demoralisation and lumpenisation of key parts of the working class. It puts this, again in the context of the creation of ‘Your Party’; which can offer solutions for this if it adopts a programme that really attacks the root cause – capitalism. The article overall makes the case for the new party to organise its own militia to guarantee the inviolability of workers’ organisations and the defence of oppressed sections of society.
