This issue is obviously centred on Your Party, which is the most important development in the British working-class movement for many years, and despite numerous problems, appears to be taking root around the country in a manner that is very encouraging.
In hindsight, it probably would have been better to have studied this before taking on Trotsky’s The Revolution Betrayed, as this gives a grounding in some very basic Marxist concepts that are invaluable to understanding that later work…..But this chapter makes a very clear start on what we are addressing here.
The following programme for a platform was, in its original form, put forward by the Spartacist League, under the title: A call to socialists: Lets build a revolutionary caucus in Your Party. They invited others to join them….
Anti-imperialist declaration distributed at COP 30 in Belém by the a number of leftist organizations
The following is the notes/text of a presentation delivered by a Consistent Democrats speaker on 9th November on this chapter. The recording of the presentation and discussion is also here
In exchanges around our 2020 split, Socialist Fight’s Gerry Downing said that Zionist represented the “racism of the oppressed” and denied its genocidal character (see text below). Whereas we said that “Zionism can quite conceivably exterminate the Palestinians”. This is a clear objective test of who was right and who was wrong about Zionism
We print below three items., relating to the Spartacists’ attempt to create a ‘Revolutionary Caucus’ in Your Party, which to us appears to be a laudable thing to attempt to do.
We held an online discussion forum today on this subject as a one-off using CLR James essay “Every Cook Can Govern’ from 1956.
A podcast of this discussion is available here
He called for a coalition of nations to form a “powerful army” to defend the Palestinian people and “liberate Palestine ,” framing it as a continuation of Latin America’s anti-colonial struggles. “It is Bolívar’s sword, of freedom or death,” Petro declared
