Thornett makes another major right-wing turn!
Thornett is capitulating to the right wing Social Democrats in not posing demands on not to implement the Tory-Lib Dem cuts. The pessimistic rationale that the workers are at a lower stage of struggle than the 1980s is a wrong assessemt and such conservatvism is always the hallmarks of Trade Union and Social Democratic Bureaucracies. Remember what Cannon said about the Cochanites!
In reality there are potentially millions of workers and layers of the middle class can be mobilized as the Conservative Bourgeois elements are not leaving them any way out. Trotsky said one of the conditions for revolution is that the masses have no way out. The Independent said on Sunday that there could be the same size demonstration during March 26th as the stop the Iraq war march on February 15th 2003. Trade Union Bureaucrats are being forced to organize it due to mass pressures building up.
Thornett is classicaly insular not seeing how the revolutioanry upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt could impact on Britain. You, Thornett are commiting political suicide with the radialising youth and millions of workers, combined with the middle class who want the labour movement to fight. The publication of your new book on the 1960s and 1970s with your line of not posing demands on labour councillers is a left cover for capitulating to the labour bureaucrats. Ralphie who I will have no relations becasue of his line on Sheridan makes correct criticisms of Thornett from the left on calling on Social Democrats to fight cuts because otherwise mass despair will set in. Due to a middle and working class radicalization I have been writing on my blog the Fascists have been marganlized over the past 12 months.
If Social Democray betrays this radicalization Fascism could become a greater threat with middle class despair effecting the Lumpenproletariat. Your ultra-leftism from 1995 played into the hands of the BNP due to not challenging Blairism effectively and not participating in millions of workers experiences with Social Democracy so a revolutioanry leadership is forged. Then you strengthened the FN in the medium-term with your opportunist turn on supporting right wing Bourgeois politician: Chirac. Two years ago I-read Trotsky’s “Whither France” and Daniel Guerin’s “Fascism and Big Business” where they correctly argued that voting for Bourgeois candidates is supporting Capital pauperizing the middle class.
Thornett’s new capitulatory turn on right wing Social Democratic or even Blairite Councilers will have the disastrous effects I have mentioned. The radicalization is so big they will not get away with it. The Social Democrats and Liberal Bourgeoisie will not sit around and allow the revolutionaries to gain a mass base. Trotsky made this point at the 3rd world congress of the Comintern against Ultra-Lefts who believed Social Democracy could be outmanouvred easily. Thornett is using formalistic arguments about the weakness of the Trade Union left compared to the 1980s and downplays possibility of even bigger mass struggles which could break out. In May 2007 on my blog I predicted the ruling class could be so crude having so many victories go so far it could reverse their sucesses by dialectically turning into its opposite of causing mass upheavals. Since the May 2010 general election there is a mass middle and working class youth radicaliazation; Social Democracy is strengthening their position within the Labour Party; and could be mass workers demonstrations and strikes.
In France the Bourgeois media are suggesting the FN could reach the 2nd round of the Presidental election during April 2012. This is premature as the rise of world revoluton could marginlize them again. The ex-LCR’s capitulation to Popular Front pressures on Chirac led to the middle class to lose confidence in them which led to the rise of Sarkozy. Now with him in crisis Fascism is re-emerging as a major danger due to the middle class having no confidece in ex-LCR!
Monday 21 February 2011
Thursday 10 February 2011
Document on historical factors which led to political situation after last general election?
I am publishing this document for readers' information as it is very unlikely to be added before March 26th becasue I am busy on 3 other written projects.
ANALYSIS OF BRITISH POLITICAL SITUATION SINCE THE MAY 2010 GENERAL ELECTION! BY ANTHONY BRAIN.
WHY LIBERAL AND CONSERVATVIE BOURGEOIS ELEMENTS CLOSED RANKS BEHIND THE COALITION GOVERNMENT INITIALLY!
The coalition government when it was formed in May 2010 was a compromise by two factions of the Tories and Lib Dems who do not want to upset the main ruling class over their EU project. Despite their neo-Liberal socio-economic policies they are opposed by right-wing Tory backbenchers who want to reverse reforms from the oppressed so they can build a right wing populist movement. They have not organized to remove Cameron as Tory leader because they are subordinating their sectional ruling class interests to stop the Social Democratic wing of the Labour Party coming into government through an early general election.
WHY THE PRO-TORY FACTION OUSTED CHARLES KENNEDY AS LIB DEM LEADER?
The Guardian on 23rd September 2003 reviewed major British Bourgeois papers; one leading Scottish Bourgeois paper; and one regional English Bourgeois paper which all criticized Kennedy’s leadership. Conservative Bourgeois elements were trying to oust Kennedy in revenge for him opposing the Iraq war. Liberal Bourgeois papers such as the Independent utilized that crisis over Kennedy’s leadership to extract concessions towards what has become Coalition policy of localism. This has come to mean attacking and privatizing public services. All the Bourgeois papers cited in that article called for Kennedy to move towards Localism. (Guardian 2002)
How far the Liberal Bourgeoisie goes in these policies is the balance of class forces and whether it deepens a radicalization. They have a dual tactical approach to the coalition government of hoping they can successfully implement some austerity measures and at the same time oppose their excesses if it causes mass unrest.
LIB DEMS UNTIL JOINING THE COALITION GOVERMENT AIMED TO CONTAIN ANY MIDDLE CLASS RADICALIZATION!
In a Guardian article on September 16th 2008 by author Helen Mullholland mentions a devious Lib Dem policy of containing any potential middle class revolt by promising to stop 45,000 expected repossessions. Julia Goldsworthy who was Lib Dem spokesperson for communities and local government is quoted moving a resolution at the 2008 Lib Dem conference calling for mortgage holders facing immediate repossessions to have a chance to sell their equities into council or other forms of social housing such as housing associations. This particular resolution passed at that conference called for more social housing by councils having the ability to buy unsold houses. Goldsworthy lost her seat the 2010 general election. A few days after the coalition government was formed I saw her defend its formation on Andrew Neil’s Thursday evening TV programme called “This Week”.
Vince Cable then Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson made a demagogic speech supporting the resolution by calling for an end of repossessions and for social housing to be re-available once again for millions of people. The Guardian was apprehensive of the Lib Dems entering the Tory Coalition because it could force the middle class more towards the working class towards Social Democracy and ever further left. There is a whole layer of middle class youth looking to the Trade Unions to resist the cuts and begin to transform society. It is an international phenomenon of whole sections of the middle classes looking to the workers to resolve the crisis within the semi-Colonies and Imperialist countries. This could create a potentially revolutionary dynamic as the Tunisian and Egyptian events have shown so clearly.
TORY-LIBDEM COALITION HAS UNDERMINED POPULAR FRONT POLTICS WITHIN THE ORGANISED WORKING CLASS!
The Guardian has been promoting a Labour-Lib Dem pact since the late 1980s. It is interesting to note that in the run up to the June 7th 2001 general election there appears an article by Anne Perkins, written on May 11th 2001 promoting ‘tactical voting’ for Lib Dem MP Norman Baker who was contesting the parliamentary seat of Lewes. Baker is now a minister in the coalition government.
Perkins was expressing arguments used by Liberal Bourgeois elements of an ‘anti-Tory alliance’ to re-elect Baker. Behind this manouvre was to strengthen Liberal Bourgeois elements against Social Democracy (Labour Party still remaining a Social Democratic party despite the rise of a Bourgeois New Labour faction) and against Conservative Bourgeois wing who hijacked the Tories who cut across their interests on the EU. Both of these analyses are confirmed in this Perkins article when she criticizes the Social Democrats in Lewes (East Sussex – AB – My Emphasis) during 1997 general election and threatened to do same in 2001 election expel anybody in the Labour Party who backed Baker in any way. During the article she quotes Billy Bragg backing ‘tactically voting’ Lib Dem. Nearly nine years later Bragg called for a Lib Dem vote in the 2010 general election. Finally a Lib Dem election news conference in May 2001 Perkins deals with a London Lib Dem news conference which launched their general election campaign attacked racist elements within the Tory Party.
The Revolutionary Marxist arguments for class independence against voting for the Bourgeois Lib Dem party have been proven correct in the practical class struggle. This makes it harder for Ed Miliband or the Stalinists to argue in the labour movement for a political; electoral; or governmental alliance with the Lib Dems after their true class character has been shown by their role in government. This is why the Liberal Bourgeoisie have been nervous about the coalition government potentially strengthening Social Democratic or even more further left forces such as Centrist or revolutionary groups.
Guardian 2002 – ‘Kennedy must sparkle or step aside’ - September 23rd 2003.
Perkins, Anne 2001 – Call for tactical voting to save Lewes MP – Guardian:11th May 2001.
ANALYSIS OF BRITISH POLITICAL SITUATION SINCE THE MAY 2010 GENERAL ELECTION! BY ANTHONY BRAIN.
WHY LIBERAL AND CONSERVATVIE BOURGEOIS ELEMENTS CLOSED RANKS BEHIND THE COALITION GOVERNMENT INITIALLY!
The coalition government when it was formed in May 2010 was a compromise by two factions of the Tories and Lib Dems who do not want to upset the main ruling class over their EU project. Despite their neo-Liberal socio-economic policies they are opposed by right-wing Tory backbenchers who want to reverse reforms from the oppressed so they can build a right wing populist movement. They have not organized to remove Cameron as Tory leader because they are subordinating their sectional ruling class interests to stop the Social Democratic wing of the Labour Party coming into government through an early general election.
WHY THE PRO-TORY FACTION OUSTED CHARLES KENNEDY AS LIB DEM LEADER?
The Guardian on 23rd September 2003 reviewed major British Bourgeois papers; one leading Scottish Bourgeois paper; and one regional English Bourgeois paper which all criticized Kennedy’s leadership. Conservative Bourgeois elements were trying to oust Kennedy in revenge for him opposing the Iraq war. Liberal Bourgeois papers such as the Independent utilized that crisis over Kennedy’s leadership to extract concessions towards what has become Coalition policy of localism. This has come to mean attacking and privatizing public services. All the Bourgeois papers cited in that article called for Kennedy to move towards Localism. (Guardian 2002)
How far the Liberal Bourgeoisie goes in these policies is the balance of class forces and whether it deepens a radicalization. They have a dual tactical approach to the coalition government of hoping they can successfully implement some austerity measures and at the same time oppose their excesses if it causes mass unrest.
LIB DEMS UNTIL JOINING THE COALITION GOVERMENT AIMED TO CONTAIN ANY MIDDLE CLASS RADICALIZATION!
In a Guardian article on September 16th 2008 by author Helen Mullholland mentions a devious Lib Dem policy of containing any potential middle class revolt by promising to stop 45,000 expected repossessions. Julia Goldsworthy who was Lib Dem spokesperson for communities and local government is quoted moving a resolution at the 2008 Lib Dem conference calling for mortgage holders facing immediate repossessions to have a chance to sell their equities into council or other forms of social housing such as housing associations. This particular resolution passed at that conference called for more social housing by councils having the ability to buy unsold houses. Goldsworthy lost her seat the 2010 general election. A few days after the coalition government was formed I saw her defend its formation on Andrew Neil’s Thursday evening TV programme called “This Week”.
Vince Cable then Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson made a demagogic speech supporting the resolution by calling for an end of repossessions and for social housing to be re-available once again for millions of people. The Guardian was apprehensive of the Lib Dems entering the Tory Coalition because it could force the middle class more towards the working class towards Social Democracy and ever further left. There is a whole layer of middle class youth looking to the Trade Unions to resist the cuts and begin to transform society. It is an international phenomenon of whole sections of the middle classes looking to the workers to resolve the crisis within the semi-Colonies and Imperialist countries. This could create a potentially revolutionary dynamic as the Tunisian and Egyptian events have shown so clearly.
TORY-LIBDEM COALITION HAS UNDERMINED POPULAR FRONT POLTICS WITHIN THE ORGANISED WORKING CLASS!
The Guardian has been promoting a Labour-Lib Dem pact since the late 1980s. It is interesting to note that in the run up to the June 7th 2001 general election there appears an article by Anne Perkins, written on May 11th 2001 promoting ‘tactical voting’ for Lib Dem MP Norman Baker who was contesting the parliamentary seat of Lewes. Baker is now a minister in the coalition government.
Perkins was expressing arguments used by Liberal Bourgeois elements of an ‘anti-Tory alliance’ to re-elect Baker. Behind this manouvre was to strengthen Liberal Bourgeois elements against Social Democracy (Labour Party still remaining a Social Democratic party despite the rise of a Bourgeois New Labour faction) and against Conservative Bourgeois wing who hijacked the Tories who cut across their interests on the EU. Both of these analyses are confirmed in this Perkins article when she criticizes the Social Democrats in Lewes (East Sussex – AB – My Emphasis) during 1997 general election and threatened to do same in 2001 election expel anybody in the Labour Party who backed Baker in any way. During the article she quotes Billy Bragg backing ‘tactically voting’ Lib Dem. Nearly nine years later Bragg called for a Lib Dem vote in the 2010 general election. Finally a Lib Dem election news conference in May 2001 Perkins deals with a London Lib Dem news conference which launched their general election campaign attacked racist elements within the Tory Party.
The Revolutionary Marxist arguments for class independence against voting for the Bourgeois Lib Dem party have been proven correct in the practical class struggle. This makes it harder for Ed Miliband or the Stalinists to argue in the labour movement for a political; electoral; or governmental alliance with the Lib Dems after their true class character has been shown by their role in government. This is why the Liberal Bourgeoisie have been nervous about the coalition government potentially strengthening Social Democratic or even more further left forces such as Centrist or revolutionary groups.
Guardian 2002 – ‘Kennedy must sparkle or step aside’ - September 23rd 2003.
Perkins, Anne 2001 – Call for tactical voting to save Lewes MP – Guardian:11th May 2001.
Plans for documents/books which I publish at whatever stage I at am one/two days prior to British TUC demonstration!
DOCUMENTS/BOOKS I AM WORKING ON WHICH I PUBLISH A DAY OR TWO BEFORE THE TUC DEMONSTRATION ON MARCH 26TH I BE ON!
1. In defence of class independence.
This document will look at how class independence principles; methods; strategies; and politics developed through Marx and Engels; the fight by Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg against Social Democratic opportunism; Trotsky’s fight against Stalinist Popular Frontism.
The document will deal with how the programme of class independence is applied today:-
1) Why Trotskyists do not vote for Liberal Bourgeois parties such as the Lib Dems and Liberal Bourgeois Liberal candidates such as Obama. United Fronts Trotskyists can have with Social Democrats to drive out remainder of Bourgeois New Labour faction out of the Labour Party. American SWP line when they wrote a Transitional Programme for Afro American liberation for correct slogan “Black control of the black community!”
2) Why it is in the interest of workers to unconditionally defend the Colonial revolution against Imperialism; and defend workers’ states against Capitalist restorationist forces, and threat of Imperialist military attack. Why Chinese workers’ state despite ruled by Stalinist Bureaucratic caste and limited Capitalist inroads is an alternative to Capitalism. At the same time Trotskyists fight for our programme of Permanent Revolution within the semi-Colonies and Political Revolution against what remains of the Stalinist Bureaucratic Castes.
3) An analysis of the contradictory class forces in the Egyptian revolutionary upheaval. Middle class revolt which Tunisian and Egyptian workers took advantage of. Manoeuvres of Liberal Bourgeois elements such as ElBardi and Conservative Bourgeois Muslim Brotherhood. If Mubarak resigns workers strikes and mobilization decisive over the last three or four days.
2. Analysis of Egyptian revolution will cover similar themes as Class independence document but in more extensive detail.
3. Historic tendencies which led to eruption of World War 1. How these tendencies evolved to the current day?
1) How the revolutionary wave starting from Russia in 1905-09 delayed World War 1.
2) Roots of Italian and French Fascism before World War 1. Role of Sorrel.
3) Despite Stalinism workers’ states show superiority over Capitalism.
4) Lessons of Trotsky’s fight against Stalinism within the Soviet Union. Battle in Cuba against Stalinist pressures which revolutionary Castroists have fought such as the execution of Escalante during 1968 and Rectification beginning in the late 1980s. A programme for revolutionary tendency within Cuban CP which Trotskyists would support against Capitalist pressures which the economic reforms shifting a million workers out of the public sector and moves by Stalinists to crystallize a more hardened caste. Themidor (political counter-revolution necessary for Stalinists to win) would require massacre of layers of the revolutionary Castroists.
5) The upturn in world revolution since Yeltsinites were kicked out of power in Russia during 2000; the semi-Colonial masses rising up against poverty imposed by Imperialism which has carried on despite Imperialism taking advantage of crisis within Eastern European workers’ states after 1989; Imperialism losing Afghanistan and Iraqi war; and why the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions signify a new upturn which will deepen the process of radicalization within the Imperialist countries.
1. In defence of class independence.
This document will look at how class independence principles; methods; strategies; and politics developed through Marx and Engels; the fight by Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg against Social Democratic opportunism; Trotsky’s fight against Stalinist Popular Frontism.
The document will deal with how the programme of class independence is applied today:-
1) Why Trotskyists do not vote for Liberal Bourgeois parties such as the Lib Dems and Liberal Bourgeois Liberal candidates such as Obama. United Fronts Trotskyists can have with Social Democrats to drive out remainder of Bourgeois New Labour faction out of the Labour Party. American SWP line when they wrote a Transitional Programme for Afro American liberation for correct slogan “Black control of the black community!”
2) Why it is in the interest of workers to unconditionally defend the Colonial revolution against Imperialism; and defend workers’ states against Capitalist restorationist forces, and threat of Imperialist military attack. Why Chinese workers’ state despite ruled by Stalinist Bureaucratic caste and limited Capitalist inroads is an alternative to Capitalism. At the same time Trotskyists fight for our programme of Permanent Revolution within the semi-Colonies and Political Revolution against what remains of the Stalinist Bureaucratic Castes.
3) An analysis of the contradictory class forces in the Egyptian revolutionary upheaval. Middle class revolt which Tunisian and Egyptian workers took advantage of. Manoeuvres of Liberal Bourgeois elements such as ElBardi and Conservative Bourgeois Muslim Brotherhood. If Mubarak resigns workers strikes and mobilization decisive over the last three or four days.
2. Analysis of Egyptian revolution will cover similar themes as Class independence document but in more extensive detail.
3. Historic tendencies which led to eruption of World War 1. How these tendencies evolved to the current day?
1) How the revolutionary wave starting from Russia in 1905-09 delayed World War 1.
2) Roots of Italian and French Fascism before World War 1. Role of Sorrel.
3) Despite Stalinism workers’ states show superiority over Capitalism.
4) Lessons of Trotsky’s fight against Stalinism within the Soviet Union. Battle in Cuba against Stalinist pressures which revolutionary Castroists have fought such as the execution of Escalante during 1968 and Rectification beginning in the late 1980s. A programme for revolutionary tendency within Cuban CP which Trotskyists would support against Capitalist pressures which the economic reforms shifting a million workers out of the public sector and moves by Stalinists to crystallize a more hardened caste. Themidor (political counter-revolution necessary for Stalinists to win) would require massacre of layers of the revolutionary Castroists.
5) The upturn in world revolution since Yeltsinites were kicked out of power in Russia during 2000; the semi-Colonial masses rising up against poverty imposed by Imperialism which has carried on despite Imperialism taking advantage of crisis within Eastern European workers’ states after 1989; Imperialism losing Afghanistan and Iraqi war; and why the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions signify a new upturn which will deepen the process of radicalization within the Imperialist countries.
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