The Palestinian-led movement Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) has called for "maximum pressure on all states to impose immediate targeted sanctions on Israel" following the unprecedented International Court of Justice ruling that Israel’s settlement policies and exploitation of natural resources in Palestinian territories violate international law.

Флэтайрон - Билдинг, Нью Йорк 1902г

Lebanon’s Hezbollah issues a warning to Israel should it attempt any kind of ground invasion:

"If your tanks come to Lebanon's south, you will not suffer a shortage of tanks because you will have no tanks left."

Not only are revolutionaries in general lagging behind the spontaneous awakening of the masses, but even worker-revolutionaries are lagging behind the spontaneous awakening of the working-class masses. This fact confirms with clear evidence, from the “practical” point of view, too, not only the absurdity but even the politically reactionary nature of the “pedagogics” to which we are so often treated in the discussion of our duties to the workers.

This fact proves that our very first and most pressing duty is to help to train working-class revolutionaries who will he on the same level in regard to Party activity as the revolutionaries from amongst the intellectuals (we emphasise the words “in regard to Party activity”, for, although necessary, it is neither so easy nor so pressingly necessary to bring the workers up to the level of intellectuals in other respects). Attention, therefore, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not at all our task to descend to the level of the “working masses” as the Economists wish to do, or to the level of the “average worker” as Svoboda desires to do (and by this ascends to the second grade of Economist “pedagogics”).

I am far from denying the necessity for popular literature for the workers, and especially popular (of course, not vulgar) literature for the especially backward workers. But what annoys me is this constant confusion of pedagogics with questions of politics and organisation. You, gentlemen, who are so much concerned about the “average worker”, as a matter of fact, rather insult the workers by your desire to talk down to them when discussing working-class politics and working-class organisation. Talk about serious things in a serious manner; leave pedagogics to the pedagogues, and not to politicians and organisers! Are there not advanced people, “average people”, and “masses” among the intelligentsia too? Does not everyone recognise that popular literature is also required for the intelligentsia, and is not such literature written? Imagine someone, in an article on organising college or high-school students, repeating over and over again, as if he had made a new discovery, that first of all we must have an organisation of “average students”. The author of such an article would be ridiculed, and rightly so. Give us your ideas on organisation, if you have any, he would be told, and we ourselves will decide who is “average”, who above average, and who below. But if you have no organisational ideas of your own, then all your exertions in behalf of the “masses” and “average people” will be simply boring.

You must realise that these questions of “politics” and “organisation” are so serious in themselves that they cannot be dealt with in any other but a serious way. We can and must educate workers (and university and Gymnasium students) so that we may be able to discuss these questions with them. But once you do bring up these questions, you must give real replies to them; do not fall back on the “average”, or on the “masses”; do not try to dispose of the matter with facetious remarks and mere phrases.

Lenin - What Is To Be Done

Just to reiterate, it is now a century since Britain had its first Labour government – a government which Lenin advocated workers should elect SO THAT THEY WOULD LEARN FROM THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE that it was a servant of imperialism and not a friend of the workers. So they would realise it was not and never could be a vehicle for socialism.

That very first Labour government in 1924 shocked workers by using police, army, spies and emergency powers to break strikes and sabotage the labour movement, which had begun the year on a wave of militancy. It left the civil service and state structures entirely intact and its ministers allowed themselves meekly to be directed in their new roles as frontpeople for a system of government over which they should expect to have no meaningful say.

Their eagerness to please their ruling-class masters and their rampant chauvinism in regard to the rightness of the criminal enterprise known as the British empire may surprise readers today, brought up as they have been to believe in the socialist foundations of this anti-worker organisation.

A few choice quotes from members of that first government can give an idea of where their loyalties lay then, and where they still lie today. (Spolier: it's not with the workers at home or the oppressed abroad.)

That same government appointed a Fabian, Sydney Olivier, to run the India office who stated:

The programme of constitutional democracy ... was not native to India ... It was impossible for the Indian people or Indian politicians to leap at once into the saddle and administer an ideal constitution ... The right of British statesmen, public servants, merchants and industrialists to be in India today was the fact that they had made the India of today, and that no home rule or national movement could have been possible in India had it not been for their work.

The same Sydney Olivier had formerly been governor of Jamaica, and remarked:

I have said that the West Indian negro is not fit for complete democratic citizenship in a constitution of modern parliamentary form, and I should certainly hold the same opinion with respect to any African native community.

Former railwaymen's union leader JH Thomas was appointed to the colonial office, and expressed the pious wish that

... it would be realised, when the time came for them to give up the seals of office, that they had not only been mindful of their responsibility, but had done nothing to weaken the position and prestige of this great empire.

Three months later this great traitor to the working class reiterated that the Labour government

... intended above all else to hand to their successors one thing when they gave up the seals of office and that was the general recognition of the fact that they were proud and jealous of, and were prepared to maintain, the empire.

This first Labour administration, which was so keen to make it clear that the British empire was "safe in our hands" imprisoned communists in India and arrested nationalist leaders without trial, bombed Iraqi villages, supported counter-revolutionary attempts to overthrow the government of Dr Sun Yat-sen in China.

As leading Labour politician JR Clynes put it:

In the same period of years, no Conservative or Liberal government has done more than we did to knit together the great Commonwealth of Nations which Britain calls her empire ... Far from wanting to lose our colonies, we are trying to keep them.

All this only came as a surprise to those who had not been paying attention to the words and actions of the Labour party's founders.

As far back as 1901, the man who would go on to become Britain's first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, told an audience in London:

So far as the underlying spirit of imperialism is a frank acceptance of national duty exercised beyond the nation's political frontiers ... it cannot be condemned ... the compulsion to expand and to assume world responsibility is worthy at its origin.

The Fabian Society was the home of the chief theoreticians of the Labour party. Leading Fabians Beatrice and Sidney Webb were the authors of the Labour manifesto's clause iv, which was supposed to gull the general populace into believing the party had socialist intent.

Of course, clause iv was never acted on by the party in office, it remained a piece of paper until such time as the Labour party of Tony Blair in 1996 decided that such a genuflexion before the socialist-leaning sentiments of the masses was no longer necessary.

The Webbs wrote the following in an article in the New Statesman (which they founded) in 1913 discussing the falling birthrate amongst the upper stratum of workers and intelligentsia, which they plainly considered a disaster:

Into the scarcity thus created in particular districts, in particular sections of the labour market, or in particular social strata, there rush the offspring of the less thrifty, the less intellectual, the less foreseeing of races and classes – the unskilled casual labourers of our great cities, the races of eastern or southern Europe, the negroes, the Chinese possibly resulting, as already in parts of the USA, in such a heterogeneous and mongrel population that democratic self-government, or even the effective application of the policy of a national minimum of civilised life, will become increasingly unattainable.

If anything like this happens, it is difficult to avoid the melancholy conclusion that, in some cataclysm that is impossible for us to foresee, that civilisation characteristic of the western European races may go the way of half a dozen other civilisations that have within historic times preceded it; to be succeeded by a new social order developed by one or other of the coloured races, the negro, the kaffir or the Chinese.

Perspective.

Once again Patriotic Alternative hijacked a sensitive issue and turned it into a riot.
Reminiscent of the Knowsley suits riot where false information was given to stir up racial hatreds.

A good way of directing workers away from class issues. Useful idiots for the ruling classes.

https://open.substack.com/pub/liverpoolpost/p/southport-mourns-then-burns?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=hv410

'The ties of home'
Gerald Harvey Jones

This seems to be quite a decent report of the recent horrific events in Southport. First the terrible mass stabbing of little children and their carers at a holiday club. Then the twisting of that event by fascistic demagogues, stirring up hatred between workers that only serves the ruling class.

Whatever motivated the teenage boy who carried out these murders, you can bet some sickness of this decaying imperialist society is at the bottom of it. No 'deporting of migrants' (apparently a demand of the rioters) can possibly solve this sickness. This demand has been implanted by our class enemies to keep us impotent and weak.

All we do by allowing ourselves to be divided along 'racial' lines is to extend the lifespan of the senile and bloodthirsty system of monopoly finance capital.

Black and white: unite and fight!

https://www.livpost.co.uk/p/southport-mourns-then-burns?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=hv410&triedRedirect=true

The bourgeoisie turns everything into a commodity, hence also the writing of history. It is part of its being, of its condition for existence, to falsify all goods: it falsified the writing of history. And the best — paid historiography is that which is best falsified for the purposes of the bourgeoisie.

Friedrich Engels - Notes for the “History of Ireland”

Wonderful speech from last week's 20th anniversary meeting by our party chair Ella Rule, focusing on why our party exists and what needs to be done if workers are going to escape from the downward spiral of imperialist crisis and war and build a society that can give them a decent and prosperous future.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/08/03/tv/ella-ruleproletarian-revolution-number-one-objective/

SOLD AND FORGOTTEN. CRIMES OF THE KIEV JUNTA AGAINST UKRAINIAN CHILDREN.

The distinctive feature of the Kiev regime, which usurped power in Ukraine in 2014, has become systematic crimes against children, despite the fact that "preserving the gene pool of the Ukrainian people is the main duty of the state."

A huge number of killed, maimed and stolen children, most of whom are listed as missing. Crimes related to surrogacy, open sale of children to pedophiles and black transplantologists. This is far from a complete list of crimes committed by the current Ukrainian government.

This book is a collection of my documentary investigations, as well as an attempt to convey to the international community the terrible facts of solved crimes against children.

I would like to express special gratitude to the Chairman of the Union of Writers of the LPR Gleb Bobrov and the information agency "Lugansk Information Center", thanks to whom I was able to hold a presentation of the book in Lugansk, as well as transfer part of the print run to the Gorky Lugansk Republican Universal Scientific Library and the Central City Library of Pervomaysk.

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