The new issue of Communist Fight journal is out now!
Its lead article is an extensive report on Your Party – the new party initiated by Zahra Sultana with Jeremy Corbyn – which held its founding conference at the end of November. As is well known by now, there was considerable factional turmoil and division even as the party was beginning to form up. The most crucial difference was Zarah Sultana’s public dissent from the record of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership in capitulating to the Zionist witchhunt against supporters of Palestinian struggle. Corbyn on the other hand appeared unenthused about creating a new party at all – and certainly less than enthused about the kind of politics ZS advocated, which brought her support from many whose aspirations are to build something qualitatively to the left of Labour. The various conflicts and even sporadic witchhunting that have accompanied the birth of your party are analysed in some depth here.
There is also an important article on “Russia, China and Socialism” which explains why, for different reasons, both Russia and China should be defended against imperialism. This article is in part a spin off from the Your Party report, dealing with some complex political questions that need separating for explanatory reasons, on why socialists need to defend those states that, in complex ways, are the legacy of the Russian revolution. It also explains our positions on Russia and China in one article, and addresses the relationship between them, so we hope it will be a positive contribution towards educating wider layers.
There is also a substantial article on the multifaceted crisis in the US, triggered by the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis, the kidnap raid on Venezuela, when they abducted President Maduro and his wife, the threat of another US-Israeli war on Iran, the threats to Cuba, Colombia and Mexico. It also addresses the possibility of US-Europe inter-imperialist conflict over Greenland.
Finally, there is also a leaflet that the Consistent Democrats issued on the day of Maduro’s abduction by US imperialism, that was distributed on protests in London.
