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A Communist Manchester in a Communist Britain in a Communist Europe in a Communist World!
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To any genuine communists in the YCL who want to see a revolution, your leadership shows once again here that their biggest fear is being made fun of online. Our comrade here was willing to boldly put forward our ideas, an attitude which has led him to recruit and build a branch
Why are so many left-wing people losers?
Ben Ughetti discusses the factors behind the left's repellent image 🤢
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Fiona: “I’m a revolutionary, not a politician!”
Halima: “I’m a politician, not a revolutionary!”
How weird that Fiona’s getting so much more support? Could it be that a real revolutionary programme resonates much more?
No, that can’t be it, back to the conspiracy board!
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The YCLs reformism shines through yet again. US imperialism is explained to be a result of simply having the ‘idea’ that they should dominate the world. Presumably then US imperialism, the most reactionary force on the planet, could be stopped if they simply abandoned this idea?
Why "Neither Washington not Beijing" is absurd!
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While
@HalimaNyomi
’s campaign has turned into desperate mudslinging and wild tinfoil hat conspiracies trying to discredit Fiona’s campaign, can I ask why is she attacking a left-wing, pro-Palestine revolutionary, while acting so chummy with the likes of Tommy Robinson?
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The sooner people realise the Democrats aren't ineffectual leftists who are bad at doing leftism, but effective liberals who are doing their job of defending the interests of the rich and channeling left-wing movements into paths that are harmless for capitalism the better
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Damn they really got us, we always hide how we want to do this... oh no how did these pictures of recent Socialist Appeal front covers get here??
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Walked out my flat this morning, was immediately stopped by a guy who praised my communist t-shirt, and after chatting gave his details to discuss joining the IMT, then went to meet with the last person who asked to join after seeing my shirt. It's a good time to be a communist.
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@CPGBML
Not only is this just not true
It's honestly shameful of you to deny the repression we've faced rather than extend solidarity, as our comrades did when your comrades were outrageously arrested
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@CPGBML
members arrested yesterday at Palestine solidarity demo, after being harassed by Zionists online for weeks, over the front page of a booklet. Defend freedom of expression. It's not for the Met to decide which literature can be sold. Solidarity.
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I'm so jealous of how easily our American comrades can send bourgeois reactionaries there into a full panic, good work comrades
🚨FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE🚨
State Representative
@azaustinsmith
Condemns ASU’s Support of Communist Organization Meeting
“A responsible society which values freedom must protect those freedoms from abuse at the hands of enemy combatants who cry ‘liberty’ while fighting to
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@bolsh3vik
Enjoying all the people telling me I should have voted Communist League - who are pro-Israel.
My handwriting is crap though can’t deny that tbf
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Weirdest line of attack I’ve ever seen. “My opponent has ideas she believes in! Unlike me, who has none!”
Fiona’s campaign is so successful because of the ideas she stands for, the ideas of revolutionary communism, which people recognise represent their interests, not the bosses
Fiona Lali has repeatedly said she’s using this election.
She was kicked out of Labour in 2022 for supporting Socialist Appeal.
I was suspended in 2021 during the war on Gaza, after I spoke for Palestine and the people in Newham.
I’m standing for my people not “my ideas.”
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Why is "Welsh Trotskyist" in air quotes? Are they suggesting Wales isn't real?
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Joining over 6000 comrades from 115 countries at the start of the 4-day International
#MarxistUniversity
! Revolutionary greetings from Nottingham!
#IMU
#IMU2020
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My only negative takeaway form the
#MarxistUniversity
is that we Brits have the most boring name of any section:
USA - Socialist Revolution
Canada - Fightback
Pakistan - Lal Salaam
Venezuela - Lucha de Clases
Germany - Der Funke
UK - Socialist Appeal
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@vadimnewquist
The Lenin quote is taken out of context, Lenin supported working in bourgeois parliaments, but on a basis of working class independence, not supporting bourgeois parties. I'm not sure how the Marx quote advocating smashing the state supports your point at all.
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The difference between revolutionary Marxists and reformists isn't that the former want to get socialism quickly and the latter slowly, it's that reformists think we can get it while leaving the capitalist class in power, and Marxists know we need the working class to take power
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@ChallengeYCL
Unfortunately you've got Trotsky's position utterly wrong. Trotsky was the main advocate of industrialisation, Stalin opposed it. Trotsky didn't advocate either delaying development or imposing socialism elsewhere by force. I recommend reading this article
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A favourite part of
#RevolutionFestival
for me each year is seeing new comrades make incredible contributions in each session. It's a testament to the quality (and quantity) of the revolutionaries joining us and the unparalleled ability of the IMT to train people up as communists
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@HalimaNyomi
Hi Halima, is that because your ideas include being chummy with Tommy Robinson? Can see why you wouldn’t want to stand on those. Or there’s the ideas of your party leader, which Tristan Tate (Andrew Tates brother) seems happy to support and fund, any comment on that?
While
@HalimaNyomi
’s campaign has turned into desperate mudslinging and wild tinfoil hat conspiracies trying to discredit Fiona’s campaign, can I ask why is she attacking a left-wing, pro-Palestine revolutionary, while acting so chummy with the likes of Tommy Robinson?
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Which party is in the tradition of the Bolsheviks? The one willing to boldly put forward communist ideas even if it means being made fun of on twitter? Or the one who’s main concern is that they personally look cool?
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The Labour right is moving to proscribe Socialist Appeal, claiming that supporting it is incompatible with Labour membership. This is despite the fact that Socialist Appeal has always supported Labour and its candidates.
The
#Labour
right wing are bureaucratically maneuvering to permanently ban Socialist Appeal from the party. This scandalous political attack is the latest attempt to crush the left. Activists across the left must mobilise and fight back.
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Solidarity to the victims of this horrific attack on anti-imperialists, an injury to one is an injury to all!
The Workers Party of Britain have been forced to suspend their campaign in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, after their parliamentary candidate, Wajid Burkey, and other campaigners were attacked by men with baseball bats & machetes shortly after an elections hustings.
#GE2024
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Proud to pledge a week and halfs wage to this crucial campaign! As capitalism descends into crisis worldwide, the revolutionary Marxists need a larger and permanent centre to build from (one that can't be taken away by a landlord on a whim!)
As capitalism descends deeper into crisis, and the class struggle sharpens, the forces of Marxism are growing and strengthening. But now we need your help to continue building, by raising the necessary funds for a new office. 🧵
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And this is the flaw with the idea that reform is more realistic than revolution: "It's like imagining you could win a game of chess where only your pieces can move. In reality the other side attacks back, ferociously if necessary. No ruling class gives up power without a fight"
some folks are answering this as if they were a king in charge of a capitalist system, & ignoring the political reality, i fear. how do you regulate capitalism to the degree you would need to when so much of the political system is already being paid specifically to not do that?
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@behind_labour
@fiona_lali
@revcommunists
@HalimaNyomi
Take your pick! A clique suppressing politics they disagree with, you spreading tinfoil hat conspiracies and Halima being chummy with Tommy vs revolutionaries fighting to overthrow the imperialists arming Israel and for a workers state that will stand with the Palestinian people!
Our respone to the ban on members of the RCP from the Sheffield encampment. We are appalled by this decision.
Every camp discussion about the RCP happened without us present. This ban has been made on the basis of distortions and lies about our actions and organisation. 1/
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@Karlexram1967
@socialist_app
@yclbritain
This quote is actually from a speech where Lenin advocates the CPGB apply to affiliate to the Labour Party, to win the workers there over to Marxism and expose the right wing labour leaderships betrayal, you can read it here
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Sad I can't join
#IMU22
today (can't wait to join tomorrow!) but at least I've been able to get in some great Marxist theory this morning!
WELCOME TO DAY 1 AT THE INTERNATIONAL MARXIST UNIVERSITY
#IMU22
🚩
Where will you be tuning into our opening plenary on "War, Crisis and Revolution: The New Normal" from?
Let us know 👇
#marxism
#socialism
#communism
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This has nothing in common with Leninism. Lenin explained, in opposition to Kautsky, that imperialism is a stage of capitalism, that any advanced capitalist economy will seek to dominate as much of the world as it can. Imperialism is not just a bad policy or “idea” to oppose.
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The working class has the power to overthrow capitalism and build a socialist society. This simple fact is why I joined Socialist Appeal, as only the ideas of revolutionary Marxism can mobilise that power. If you want to see socialism in your lifetime, join us!
The Marxists are recruiting! ✊🚩
Capitalism is barbarism. Socialism is the solution. Revolution is the means.
From Colombia to Myanmar to Palestine, workers and youth are rising up.
There's never been a better time to be a Marxist.
Get involved today!
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Any explanation for why the former leader of the EDL, a group that aimed to terrorise Muslim communities, gets treated with respect and praise, where with Fiona she attempts to bully her into standing down and pours slander and lies on her and the RCP
@HalimaNyomi
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@bolsh3vik
Not only an amazing final front cover, but I also find it very satisfying that we'll be ending on exactly issue 400
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@behind_labour
@JustStop_Oil
@revcommunists
I’ve literally seen JSO stickers and posters deliberately cover up ours because they don’t like the fact we disagree with and argue against their tactics (which also would be a strange thing for us to do if we were the same people). No doubt you have some deranged explanation.
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Am I really qualified to give a leadoff on Marxism and Art tonight? Well, look for yourself...
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@HalimaNyomi
😂 Ah damn comrades she got us, she drew a line between Fiona and Starmer on her literal conspiracy board and put expelled in scare quotes. That’s irrefutable, wrap it up, shows over
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This argument is quite literally backwards, part of what's necessary for revolution is for workers in the first world to understand imperialism isn't in their material interests, that working-class unity across borders against imperialism and the entire capitalist class is.
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I regularly see leading YCLers for example claim that being on our recruitment stalls with our paper would be ‘embarrassing’, despite the fact it is one of our most effective ways to build. Is revolution, the ending of oppression, less important to you than looking cool?
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And while she’s perpetuating wild conspiracies of the RCP being supported and funded by the establishment, I wonder what she has to say about her party leader being actually supported and funded by one of Tate brothers?
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If communism for you isn’t about looking cool, but actually leading the working class to take power to end capitalism and imperialism, to end genocides, war, hunger and poverty, then you belong in a party that thinks the same, you belong in the RCP
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@JessicaLBarnard
@paulmasonnews
I like how this presumably means the 'I spoke to people later who all agreed with me' bit is also made up, he literally did an 'and everybody clapped'. Weird to make up stories about us while defending us, but maybe I'm just not understanding solidarity from a Marxist viewpoint.
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The CPB cannot connect with the biggest international wave of protests we’ve seen in recent years sparked by the genocide in Gaza, because it’s theory is wrong. We have been able to be there boldly raising a revolutionary, communist, internationalist perspective.
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Lenin argued that capitalism produces imperialism so the only way to end imperialism is to overthrow capitalism, whereas Kautsky said imperialism was just a bad policy to justify his reformism and defend German imperialism. The YCL does the same here to defend Chinese imperialism
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If the answer is no, which I hope it is for all genuine communist, also ask why your leadership apparently consider this more important than the genocide in Gaza, which has sparked mass protests, exposed western imperialisms hypocrisy, and which the YCL has not written about
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"You hear much from republican advocates that their opposition to the Crown is that it costs a massive amount and is a symbol of privilege. All of this is true, but it fails to understand the real significance of the British monarchy as a reserve weapon of the ruling class."
Why do Marxists want to
#AbolishTheMonarchy
? One reason is that it represents a real threat to the workers' movement. Far from being a harmless relic, the monarchy is a key pillar of the British establishment - a reserve power for the ruling class.
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@HombreRojo85
@bolsh3vik
We do! Socialist Appeal is ending to be replaced with something even better, our new paper The Communist, launching the 24th of this month, you can subscribe here:
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Thousands are now drawing the same conclusion, this crisis-ridden capitalist system must be overthrown!
The countless horrors we see are not inevitable, they are products of a rotten system, if you want to fight for a world without them, join the Revolutionary Communist Party!
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Perhaps because the position of the CPB, for a two-state solution - i.e. the status quo that led to this genocide, which would mean Palestine remaining economically dependent on Israel however much you might claim it’d be sovereign - is a shameful position for communists to hold.
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Oh and if you want a genuine communist position on Palestine, not Biden’s position painted red, here’s some good places to start
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I suspect this is the case, as the BRS relegates the working class itself to a passive role of monitoring the work of the party in reforming the bourgeois state, and maybe sometimes taking over the occasional state function. A far cry from Lenin’s ‘All power to the Soviets’.
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Marxists in the rights mind: 'With our total control through the EU and UN established all that's left is to make Santa gender-neutral and Marxism shall rule forever!'
Marxists in real life: 'Oh neat I actually managed to sell someone a paper'
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Again any comments on your own party leader accepting money from a complete misogynist facing human trafficking charges
@HalimaNyomi
?
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The CPB only needs passive foot soldiers, just like the Labour Party and every other reformist party. The RCP wants to build you into leaders, into communists who understand Marxist theory, who know how to boldly raise these ideas, to connect them to the working classes struggles
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Unable to make it to the first session of
#RevolutionFestival
due to work sadly, but fortunately able to watch along on the train down to London, ready for the rest of the weekend at the school of communism!
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@CPBlen
@revcommunists
You realise the article doesn't call the CPB anti-communist, it quotes the CPB calling us anti-communist? Which further down you say is sectarianism, so presumably you consider it sectarianism for the CPB to call us anti-communist?
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This idea is so strange because it basically assumes the capitalists are right that exploitation is the only way to produce good living standards. The whole point of socialism is the wealth now exists that everyone can have good living standards, without any exploitation.
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@josephattard02
@CPGBML
Ah thanks, did think I remembered reading about it in one of our articles but couldn't find which article it was (there's quite a few about the repression of Palestinian solidarity at this point after all)
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With this view of imperialism you will not be able to fight any imperialism, including that of Britain and the US, as the goal is then not to overthrow the capitalists, but becomes the futile goal of convincing the capitalists to pursue a different “idea” against their interests.
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The CPB views ‘revolution’ as something carried out entirely by the party, not by the working class taking power led by a party up to the task. The RCP understands our task is not to tinker with the bourgeois state, but to smash it and lead the workers to take power themselves.
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This I can only read as a tacit admission that the gains of the Chinese Revolution have already been liquidated by capitalism. So instead they basically admit China is imperialist and argue from the standpoint of the Chinese capitalists that it’s imperialism is “not a threat”.
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This whole post is confusing given the YCL believes China is still a workers state. If this was the case they could take the exact same stance Trotskyists took towards the USSR and Maoist China, and take to Cuba, that they must be unconditionally defended against imperialism.
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I’m sure there are some in the YCL who would like to change this position, I’d be curious to know if you can? Or if the the party relegates you to a passive role of just leaving the thinking to the party tops, and accepting uncritically the party line they come up with?
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@Staffy_97
@AlfKebab
That is incredibly wrong, where on Earth did you get that idea? Trotsky was the first to suggest they move away from war communism to the NEP. Here's an actual explanation of the Permanent Revolution.
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The victory of imperialism over the Soviet Union meant the liquidation of the remaining gains of the Russian Revolution, primarily the planned economy. If the gains of the Chinese Revolution were still there then it would be easy to say the same here, but the YCL don’t.
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My excitement at getting to write a philosophy essay where I basically argue dialectics is right and can therefore quote some Hegel has very quickly vanished now that I have to try and read Hegel
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Especially when this position is justified on the basis of what would be acceptable to US imperialism. This is the inevitable logic of Stalinist ‘socialism in one country’, gone is an internationalist perspective of overthrowing imperialism worldwide. In its place is reformism.
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@bolsh3vik
Why does this have over half a million views?
Anyway, we all agree that my handwriting is terrible. But if you also agree we need genuine revolutionary communism, not “communists” who side with the oppressor, or who pander to reactionaries, join the RCP!
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Very reasonable that the
@NottsMarxists
account has been put on a public twitter list of 'Marxists' by some Trump supporter which includes 49 accounts, almost all IMT accounts, but also the Archbishop of Canterbury...
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By reducing imperialism to an idea to take the side of one imperialism, you lose the ability to fight any imperialism. Communists should not be pacifying the workers not to feel threatened by imperialism, but explaining the need to overthrow the capitalist system that causes it!
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@comrade_geo_
Don't you worry this is just what the British section of the IMT is raising, our comrades around the world are working hard to raise money, it's an office for the IMT that SA will share. We already raised €800,000 across the international back in July:
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@Southpawpunch
The opposite is true, the layers we're trying to recruit are those looking to communism. Using the four would be more confusing and off-putting because most young people don't know it, but they know the hammer and sickle, so using it says 'you're a communist? So are we, join us!'
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This misses the point of MPs on workers wages. The point is MP shouldn't be treated like a career, Labour MPs are there to be representatives of the labour movement and working class. Workers wages avoids them becoming a privileged layer above the working class.
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The rising imperialist tensions are in fact a threat to the working class of the world. To fight against imperialism, and here the main enemy is at home, we must understand what imperialism is, which Lenin explained, an inevitable stage of capitalist development, not just an idea
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@RMike1820
Came from a comrade (not me I am not this talented) reporting back to their partner about the World School of Communism and being so inspired by it they decided to work together to make it, the power of communist ideas to inspire made manifest!
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@bolshawvik
Made better by the start of this paragraph, gotta admire the boldness of proclaiming your honesty before immediately blatantly lying
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@harshcommunist
@FranklinVH2
Our full-timers do make a sacrifice to be able to devote their time to building a revolutionary organisation, that's why I'm happy to pay my subs each month to help pay their wages and pledge to this campaign to help by them a new office to work in 👍
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This is a disgusting slander, especially one coming from a representative of an establishment actively arming genocide.
@BBCNews
@BBC_HaveYourSay
the Revolutionary Communist Party must be given the right to reply to these baseless lies. Let
@rubanga_a
respond to this hypocrisy!
They never stop lying. Tory minister
@michaelgove
has just accused the Revolutionary Communist Party (
@revcommunists
) of antisemitism live on air.
No one believes you or the rest of the war criminals in cabinet.
@BBCNews
I demand the right to reply to this disgusting smear.
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ADHD is very misunderstood, which leads to people not getting the help they need, here's a petition to try and fix that, please sign
We still need 10,000 for government to respond, and 100,000 for a debate: let's build on this fab start
#ADHDAct
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The idea that imperialism and more broadly capitalism benefits the working class anywhere is the exact lie we as socialists need to expose, not reinforce.
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@maiathotsky
Can always tell when another sections having a big event because tweets like this start to appear
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This argument is also very defeatist, if you're literally saying that it's not in workers in the 1st world's material interest to fight for socialism, it logically follows a mass movement of the working class for socialism will never be seen there.
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Being a revolutionary makes Marius much more annoying in Les Mis. Comes into the branch meeting talking about his new crush meanwhile Enjolras is having to go 'Marius I get she's pretty but we are literally doing the revolution tomorrow can you focus please?'
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@Chris41925077
@socialist_app
This is dishonest. It's equivalent to invoking the memory of soldiers led to be butchered by treacherous generals in order to defend those generals. The heroism of individual workers fighting fascism, whatever they're creed, was betrayed by Stalin and the PCE leadership.
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@harshcommunist
@FranklinVH2
Give space to hire more full-timers so the organisation can continue to grow and build, also means we won't be losing money to rent for a landlord (or be at risk of eviction during a revolution). £200k is what the British section is raising, the whole IMT is raising money for it
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In fact, the only grounds that have ever been given for incompatibility is that Socialist Appeal supports a socialist planned economy, not a market economy. i.e. the right-wing want Socialist Appeal proscribed for being socialists!
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The difference is that the Labour Party is fundamentally a workers party, it was founded by and remains linked to the Unions, it has local branches where ordinary people can discuss and vote on policy and elect their candidates, and its policy is voted on by conference (2/9)
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If you needed more proof of whose interests the Labour right act in here it is, Labour can become a threat to the ruling class because it's the political wing of the labour movement, the Labour right work to prevent that and aim to render it harmless by severing that link
Mandelson says the "hard left factions attached to trade unions have got to go" and party reform should be a priority for Starmer.
This is what you might call ... not exactly a neutral statement.
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Biden doesn't want to drive the socialists out the democratic party because outside it is where they could actually be a threat by organising an independent party of the working class. Inside they can be contained. (8/9)
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That means Labour has the potential to be a means for the working class to organise and fight for their own interests, in their own terms. That is a threat that must be contained, and the Labour left, who if they wanted to could realise that potential, must be crushed (3/9)
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strike in history. It saw workers occupying factories, President De Gaulle fleeing the country, workers rejecting concessions and chanting 'People's Government'. If it hadn't been for the betrayal of the Stalinist leadership French capitalism could have been overthrown then.
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I like the bits in the Chartist Revolution book (available from ) where Engels shows up, it's like watching a prequel and having a cameo from a main character of the original series
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