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Newssheet No. 1 – 2024

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Editorial

Global Messenger sends New Year Greeting to the workers of the world in their struggle for socialism.

Monopoly capitalism is in its second stage, the stage of Globalization. This stage is premised on the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation discovered by Karl Marx. Marx argued that this Law in its absolute form expresses that as capital accumulation vastly increases the working class becomes poorer. At present monopoly capitalism is making billions in profits whilst working people and the working class become poorer as expressed in the cost-of-living crisis and Inflation. Capitalism does not exist to benefit the working class. Capitalism is a mode of production where the capitalists own and control the means of production and is of benefit to the capitalist class. Capitalism in the stage of Globalization is dominated by finance capital as represented by the ‘global banks’ which are making billions in profits in relation to other forms of capital such as manufacturing capital. This is the economic basis of capitalist rule.

At the political level, the stage of Globalization is dominated not by Imperialist Powers as claimed dogmatically by ‘Marxism-Leninism’ but by the “International Community” comprising of the G7 countries and led by the USA whose sole purpose is to maintain the existence of the capitalist system by any means necessary. The “International Community” sets the ‘rules’ which it expects the rest of the world to follow, especially the ‘Global South’. The stage of Globalization is not immune from wars. Witness the wars in the Ukraine and in Palestine and the many local wars around the world especially in Africa. The working class is faced with tensions and war in the stage of Globalization which, when it takes power from the capitalist class, it must resolve. This is the state of affairs which the working classes, the workers of the world is faced with.

 

The War by Israel in the land of Palestine

January 7th marks the first three months of the Zionist State of Israel “war” against Hamas and the Palestinian population. Global Messenger condemns the Hamas attack on Israel as it has not been in the interest of a solution. It is important to draw conclusions on these first three months by discussing the conduct of (a) the Zionist State of Israel; (b) the conduct of the “International Community” comprising of the G7 countries led by the USA and the Biden Administration, and finally (c) world opinion.

1. The immediate aftermath of October 7th saw the Zionist State of Israel invoke the bourgeois right of the “right to self-defense”. The United Nations (UN) officials have pointed out that the Zionist State of Israel cannot invoke this right because it is an “occupying power” in the Palestinian territories as stated in the Jerusalem Post. The UN position contradicts the Zionist State of Israel claim of the right to self-defense. This “right” was lapped up by the “International Community” especially the USA and its allies and their respective bourgeois media. The “International Community”, comprising of the G7 countries led by the USA, completely ignored the fact that the Zionist State of Israel is an “occupying force” and became oblivious of the ‘reality’ of the Conflict because Israel is the only ‘democracy’ in the Middle East and is part of the “free world”. It is this factor and to assuage its guilt over the Holocaust that led the “International Community” especially to the USA and Biden the American President to be ‘blind’ to what the UN Secretary General called “fifty-six years of suffocating occupation”. The Zionist State of Israel propaganda comprised of stating that Israel is a ‘democracy’, that it is part of the “free world” and is fighting the “war against terrorism” as it and the “International Community” led by the USA regard Pan-Islamic fundamentalist militant organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations. It is within this context that there is a discussion of the Zionist State of Israel conduct of the “war”. For the first three months there has been barbaric bombing of the Gaza social structure. Schools, Churches, hospitals, mosques, UN facilities have been targeted. This is a violation of “international humanitarian law” according to UN officials. The Palestinian people have been ‘deprived’ of food, medicine, fuel, electricity, and shelter by the horrific and barbaric bombing by the Zionist State of Israel. This is a violation of “international humanitarian law”. This treatment of the Palestinian civil population is in contradiction to the Zionist State of “war objectives” of the “elimination” of Hamas militarily and politically and to ensure that Gaza is not a “threat” to the Jews. What is the consequence of this continuing barbaric bombing? It is to make Gaza unhabitable and “unlivable” which is one of the aims of the Zionist State of Israel concerning the Palestinians population. The Zionist State of Israel is violating “international humanitarian law”. The treatment of the Palestinian civilian population by the Zionist State of Israel constitutes, according to a UN official, “genocidal intent”. The death rate due to this barbaric bombing of the Palestinian civic structure has reached over 21,000, the majority being women and children. Thousands are buried under the rubble and thousands more injured. This is the cost in the Zionist State of Israel trying to achieve its war objective of eliminating Hamas. This is “collective punishment” of the Palestinian people by the Zionist State of Israel and is a violation of “international humanitarian law”. These ‘violations’ of “international humanitarian law” by the Zionist State of Israel are tantamount to “war crimes”. Why has not the Zionist State of Israel not been made accountable for its “war crimes”. It is because of the “International Community” led by the USA role which is now discussed.

2. The “International Community”, comprising of the G7 countries and led by the USA and the Biden Administration, gave unconditional and absolute support for the Zionist State of Israel in its so-called “right of self-defense” against Hamas at the beginning. Its bourgeois media followed suit and was not ‘critical’ of the Zionist State of Israel approach. The latter did not provide ‘analyses’ of the ‘reality’ on the ground. Anti-Zionism is treated as been antisemitic.

This “uncritical” attitude at first led to the Zionist State of Israel being emboldened. It could do whatever it wanted to do, and it did. Soon ‘cracks’ started appearing within the “International Community” concerning a ceasefire especially at the UN Security Council and only the USA and Biden have remained unwavering in their support of the Zionist State of Israel with their use of the ’veto’. Biden has been ‘critical’ of the Zionist State of Israel with its “indiscriminate bombing”. This shows the difference between the approaches. Biden wants targeted, precision bombing of the Hamas leadership and its operatives and the barbaric approach of the Zionist State of Israel in its bombing of the Palestinian civilian population is not to his ‘liking’. Biden does not realize that his criticism of “indiscriminate bombing” is levelling a charge of “War crime” against the Zionist State of Israel because “indiscriminate bombing” is a “war crime”. The Zionist State of Israel has paid little heed to Biden’s criticism, and it is pursuing its own agenda. Despite this, Biden is arming the Zionist State of Israel with bombs and munitions and giving it financial support. Biden, in his unwavering support of the Zionist State of Israel is ‘complicit’ in the “war crimes” committed by the Zionist State of Israel on the Palestinian people not Hamas. The “International Community” which has been ‘silent’ over the “war crimes” committed by the Zionist State of Israel in the recent period is also guilty of ‘complicity’ because it has not stood up to the USA and the Zionist State of Israel.

1. World opinion is for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the war with the Palestinian people by the Zionist State of Israel. This has been the main demand of peoples all over the world which has led to ‘cracks’ in the position of the “International Community”. World opinion also wants to see the ‘establishment’ of a Palestinian State as a means of resolving the Conflict. World opinion, the demand of the peoples of the world, have come to an understanding of the ‘double-standard’ of the USA and Biden as the leader of the “International Community”. Biden was quick to call Putin the Russian President a “war criminal” but has kept ‘silent’ over the “war crimes” committed by the Zionist State of Israel. The ‘advanced capitalist countries’, the big capitalist powers, have set the rules of modern warfare yet its violations by the Zionist State of Israel is not paid heed to because the latter is its ‘ally’. It is this ‘double-standard’ that is lessening the leadership role of the “International Community” and its leader the USA for world opinion. World opinion, the demand of the peoples of the world, the power of the people, must show its ‘influence’ in the Palestine Conflict imposed by the Zionist State of Israel. Within “World opinion”, the working class has an important role in pressurizing its bourgeois governments in reaching a just solution for the Palestinian people after the ‘barbarism’ committed by the Zionist State of Israel. Working class support, as an integral and important factor in world opinion, can shape the future of the Palestinian people. Proletarian internationalism is central for a just solution for the Palestinian people.

Newsletter No.12 – 2023

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Editorial

The first article discusses politics in the stage of Globalization through the concept of the “International Community” as it shapes political relations. The second article looks at the rise of antisemitism and Ben Chacko’s, the Editor of the Morning Star, argument on the matter. The third article is brief on the situation in Myanmar (Burma).

Politics in the stage of Globalization

Monopoly capitalism in its first stage, the stage of Imperialism, saw the world dominated by the major Imperialist powers with their ‘empires’ comprising of the colonialist system. On this basis there developed a racist ideology to justify the colonial subjugation of the oppressed peoples of the world. The success of the national liberation revolution in the second half of the twentieth century saw the termination of the colonial system of Imperialism. In the 1980s, the capitalist world led by Reagan and Thatcher saw monopoly capitalism modus operandi change with the adoption of neoliberal orthodoxy supplanting Keynesianism. This ‘change’ coupled with the implosion of Soviet socialism led to bourgeois commentators claiming that monopoly capitalism had entered the stage of Globalization. They were in general correct.

The author of this article in his book “Essays on Scientific Socialism” states in the Essay on “Globalization” that the development of the stage of Globalization is premised on the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation through its four features: concentration, centralization, the organic composition of capital and the industrial reserve army, discovered by Karl Marx, and expressing the domination of finance capital. The author generally discusses the political economy of Globalization and had to neglect politics in the stage of Globalization. This article is a development of a recent article, in the past six months, published on Global Messenger to address this ‘neglect’.

In the stage of Imperialism, politics was determined by the major Imperialist Powers. This was clear when they set up the United Nations to maintain domination of the world after the Second World War by selling its propaganda of “Democracy”. It was during this late phase of the stage of Imperialism that the notion of the “International Community” originated. The development of monopoly capitalism into the stage of Globalization from the stage of Imperialism sees vestiges of the latter in the former. One of these vestiges of Imperialism that has survived is the notion of the “International Community”.

The notion of the “International Community” in the stage of Globalization has a different substance to it compared to its understanding in the stage of Imperialism. It no longer reflects the “World” but reflects the G7 countries and European Union (EU) which can be regarded as what the South African Communist Party calls “the advanced capitalist countries”, their ‘unity,’ rather than the ‘rivalries’ that characterized the stage of Imperialism as argued by Lenin. It is the ‘unity’ of the “advanced capitalist countries” or the “International Community” that determines world affairs in the stage of Globalization. The objective of the G7 countries and the EU, as the “International Community”, is to maintain the existence of the global capitalist system and their domination, politically, economically, and militarily. This notion of the “International Community” has supplanted the notion of “Imperialist Powers” in the stage of Globalization. It sets the rules for nation states to conduct themselves within global capitalism. Some commentators argue that this “International Community” is concerned with a “uni-polar” world with the leadership in the hands of the world’s capitalist ‘superpower’, the USA. It is the USA and its monopoly capitalism, especially finance capital, the big Banks, that shapes the political, economic, and military stance of the “International Community” which, in turn, determines how the “World” is to behave.

The “World”, comprising the rest of the nation states and the handful of countries embarking on the socialist path, are faced with this ‘domination’ by the “International Community” led by the USA. The rest of the “World” is faced with economic exploitation and political oppression by the “International Community” in the stage of Globalization. Some commentators argue that developments like the BRICs ‘alliance’, the Russia-China axis, is leading the “World” into a “multi-polar” world which is contradiction to the “uni-polar” world of the “International Community” led by the USA. This is the basic contradiction of world politics in the stage of Globalization.

The stage of Globalization is not immune to wars. There are about 30 wars in the world, most of which are ‘local’. The two main wars in the world are the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Palestine Conflict. The “International Community”, led by the USA, with the aid of the Ukraine fascists and Nationalists and the eastward march of NATO goaded and provoked Russia into invading the Ukraine. The “World” is ‘sympathetic’ to the Russian position by not following the position of the “International Community” whose response, led by Biden, the President of the USA, was that it was an attack on “Democracy” and the “free world.” The “International Community”, led by the USA and Biden, was quick to call Putin a “war criminal” and the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant to that effect. Putin is a “wanted man” by the “International Community” in true “Wild West” style historically speaking as regards the USA. This shows the ‘behaviour’ of the “International Community” led by the USA.

The other aspect of the ‘behaviour’ of the “International Community”, led by the USA and Biden is shown through the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Hamas attack on Israel on October the 7 is condemned by Global Messenger. Hamas is regarded by the “International Community” as a “terrorist organization”, not by the UN, the “World”. The Zionist State of Israel response was it had the “right to self-defense” and to fight the “War against Terror”. The Zionist State of Israel vowed “vengeance” and the “eradication of Hamas” as its “war objectives”.  In its war against Hamas to eradicate it the Zionist State of Israel has subjected the Palestinians population to barbaric bombardment. Some have called it “ethnic cleansing.” UN rapporteurs have called it “genocidal incitement”. Hospitals, which the Zionist State of Israel propaganda for the past decades were Hamas “command centres” and using civilians has “shields”, have proven to be false by their attacks on Al Shifa and the Indonesian hospitals. For the past seven weeks the barbaric bombardment of Gaza has led to the displacement of nearly a million Palestinians. These are expressions of “collective punishment” on Palestinians and is a “war crime” due to the violations of international humanitarian laws and certainly not the ‘eradication’ of Hamas. The Zionist State of Israel is using its “”war objective” of the “eradication of Hamas” to destroy the Palestinian social infrastructure in the Gaza Strip with its barbaric bombardment.

It is the ‘behaviour’ of the “International Community” led by the USA and Biden that must be noted. The “International Community”, led by the USA and Biden, its President, is giving the Zionist State of Israel to act with impunity with its absolute and unconditional support in the latter’s “war objectives”. The Zionist State of Israel in the past seven weeks has been responsible for the killing of 15,000 Palestinians civilians including nearly 5000 children. Biden, the President of the USA, and the leader of the “International Community” have both turned a ‘blind eye’ to this “war crime”. They see this as “collateral damage” in the “War against Terror” and the Zionist State of Israel right to defend itself against Hamas. The “International Community” led by Biden have not called the Zionist State of Israel and its leader Netanyahu “war criminals” and refer them to the International Criminal Court as they did with Putin. Only South Africa, from the “World”, the Global South, has asked for the matter to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC has been slow to act. This is the “double standard” that the “International Community” led by Biden of the USA, operates. The “World” is increasingly becoming aware of this behaviour of the “International Community” led by Biden of the USA. The “International Community” led by Biden of the USA wants the “World” to follow the rules of behaviour that it has set, yet, at the same time, it breaks these rules with impunity in its and its allies’ own interests.

The basic contradiction within politics in the stage of Globalization is between the “International Community” and the “World”. It is leading to tensions and calls for a “multi-polar” world to ‘reduce’ the economic, political, and military domination of the “International Community” led by the USA. The ‘problem’ for the nation states of the “World” is that faced with this economic domination by the “International Community” led by the USA, they have not differentiated themselves from the latter because of the employment of the capitalist mode of production and that the indigenous bourgeoisie is itself in cahoots with the bourgeoisie of the “International Community”. Secondly, the “World” is not as “unified” as the “International Community”. The times where they show “unity” is at the United Nations, for example, on the Israel Palestine Conflict where they have called for a ceasefire. These nation states of the “World” are half-way in and half-way out in relation to the global capitalist system dominated by the “International Community” and led by the USA. They are engaged in what the South African Communist Party calls the “integration and marginalization” of ‘developing countries’ within the global capitalist system as propagated by the “International Community”. How the nation states of the “World” react to the domination of the “International Community” led by the USA depends on the ‘maturity’ of the working class especially and the peasantry, the rural workers, in those countries. The working class of the nation states of the “World” must develop concrete forms of proletarian internationalism with the working class in the “advanced capitalist countries”, the “International Community”. In the stage of Globalization, the time has come where Marx’s call: “Workers of the world unite!” must become a reality. Scientific Socialism avers that this is the main task for communists and socialists as well as progressives and democrats.

In contrast, “Marxism-Leninism”, the ideology of the Communists, which was created by Stalin and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, avers that monopoly capitalism is still in the stage of Imperialism. This is incorrect because there is no “concrete analysis of a concrete situation”, as Lenin advised, in the changes that monopoly capitalism has undergone in the past forty years. It is ‘dogmatism’ and must be rejected by the “advanced workers” of the world. Scientific Socialism presents its scientific position on monopoly capitalism and its politics in the stage of Globalization based on a “concrete analysis of a concrete situation”.

 

The struggle against antisemitism

The British ‘socialist’ newspaper, The Morning Star, has published two Editorials concerning the struggle against antisemitism. The increasing rise of antisemitism and the use of the Right and the far Right to support the struggle against antisemitism is negating the Left traditional strategy against racism especially antisemitism in Europe and Britain.

The plight of the Jews from persecution throughout History, from ancient times must be noted. Modern day antisemitism has its roots in Germany in the 19th century. It was the precursor to the Nazi treatment of the Jews resulting in the Holocaust during the Second World War. The Jews were an oppressed minority in Europe and Britain in the 19th century and in the first part of the 20th century.

 In 1917 there was the Balfour Declaration which envisaged a ‘homeland’ for Jews in the land of Palestine. During this period, Zionism, in terms of both religion and politics came to the fore. The aftermath of the Second World War saw the establishment of the State of Israel by the victorious Imperialist Powers in 1948 based on UN mandate supported by the Zionists which chased the Palestinian people out of their ancestral homeland. The Imperialist Powers did not grant the Palestinians ‘statehood’. The State of Israel, led by the Zionists, developed in the 1950s and 60s to the detriment of the Palestinian people. In the 21st century, the Palestinians who live in the State of Israel are classified as second-class citizens. Some commentators have argued that Israel is an ‘apartheid state’. There is occupation by the Israel Defense Force of the West Bank and the siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip at present. The Jews are no longer the oppressed as they were In Europe. In relation to the Palestinian people, they are the ‘oppressor’ and the Palestinians the ‘oppressed’. The Jews support the actions of the Zionist State of Israel against the Palestinian people. This is clear in the ‘war’ against Hamas. This relation between the ‘oppressor’ Israel and the ‘oppressed’ the Palestinians has led to the ‘de-humanization’ of the latter by the former. It has led to an increase in antisemitism. It is this fact that is not considered by Ben Chacko, the Editor of the Morning Star and Jeremy Corbyn, the MP. They both agree about “… rejecting any conflation of Jewish people with the actions of the state of Israel…”. Let us be clear what these Left figures are saying. They are saying that the Jewish people must be separated from the ‘actions’ of the State of Israel. First and foremost, they fail to recognize the State of Israel as Zionist. They are ‘fearful’ that classifying the State of Israel as Zionist is being antisemitic. Secondly, they fail to understand the strength of Zionism in Israel. This is made clear by Jewish commentators themselves. The Jewish people support the actions of the ‘State of Israel”, the Zionist state of Israel in the present war. Thirdly, the separation of the Jewish people from the ‘actions’ of its State is ‘false ideology’. It is going too far in trying not to be antisemitic. It leads to the ‘truth’ not being told by Chacko and Corbyn in their endeavour to not being antisemitic. What political ideology is the professed communist Chacko espouses which separates the “actions of the state of Israel” from the “Jewish people”. It is certainly not what Chacko calls “Marxism-Leninism. Chacko does not understand dialectics. He does not understand the great German idealist dialectician Hegel’s concept of “reflex-relationship” as in ‘King-subjects’, in ‘Republic-citizen’. Chacko does not understand the reflex relation between the “Jewish people” and the “state of Israel” and its actions by trying to separate the two to show that he is not antisemitic. Chacko and Corbyn are both petty bourgeois socialists and in trying to not being antisemitic they land in a state of confusion leading to opportunism, especially in Chacko case. Chacko does not understand the reflex relation between the oppressor and the oppressed in relation to Palestine. Due to the “actions of the State of Israel” and supported by the “Jewish people” in the present war they are shown to be the “oppressor” and the Palestinian people the “oppressed”. It is this ‘fact’ that has led to the rise in antisemitism in Europe and Britain.

The rise in antisemitism in Europe and Britain is not in the interests of the working class because racism in all its forms cannot be tolerated and leads to division not ‘unity’.    

 

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Myanmar (Burma)

 

In Burma, the struggle against the Military is intensifying. There is the growing ‘unity’ of the forces against the military in Burma. The growing ‘unity’ is very important, not only in military terms but also in political terms for the future of Myanmar. It is the ‘unity’ of the working class and the peasantry with the National Forces like the Shan, the Karens, and the Arakanese which will defeat the military and augment a positive and progressive future for Burma.

There is no real international support for those ‘forces’ fighting the military. The Communist Party of China (CPC) professes proletarian internationalism with the working class of other countries, yet when it comes to Myanmar (Burma) it still has ties with the Burmese military and turning a blind eye to the working class and peasantry when it needs support in the struggle against the military. Russia, similarly, has ties with the Burmese military. The CPC shows that when it comes to Burma it has no principles. The policy of the CPC is based on what is ‘good’ for China and not on proletarian internationalism. The working class and peasantry need the support of its powerful northern neighbour and the Chinese working class. This is not forthcoming at the present time and is not aiding the struggle against the military. The support of the international forces is very important in the struggle against the military and for the national ‘unity’ forces to succeed.

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Newssheet No. 11 – 2023

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Editorial

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This month’s issue concerns two articles. The first is the ongoing Israel-Palestinian Conflict. The second article is a brief analysis of the referendum result in “Australia” and the plight of the Aborigines.

The leaders of the “advanced capitalist countries” in the stage of Globalization are faced with crisis after crisis and engaged in wars that are detrimental to the interests of the international working-class movement which must strive for socialism and in the process transform capitalism into socialism. These articles are to ensure that the international working-class movement is educated in the principles of Scientific Socialism, the scientific ideology of the working class, to achieve this transformation.

The Israel- Palestinian Conflict 2023

The Middle East is rife with conflicts. The main cause and form is the Palestinian Question, the Palestinian right to self-determination, the Palestinian right to statehood, the Palestinian right for national independence, the Palestinian right to be a “democracy”. This has been the contention since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which saw the British grant a “homeland” to Jews in in the land of Palestine which was a territory of the Ottoman Empire. In 1948 Palestine became a United Nations (UN) mandate. The UN envisaged a Jewish state and a Palestinian state with Jerusalem becoming “internationalized”. It was the Zionists, backed by British Imperialism who engaged in the first Arab Israeli War of 1948 which saw the “Nakba” as Palestinians called it, and led to the forcible loss of land and homes of the Palestinian people in relation to the formation of the State of Israel as a ‘country’ led by Zionists. The major Imperialist Powers wanted to resolve the Jewish Question in Europe and granted them a “homeland” in Palestine to the cost of the Palestinian people. The development of the State of Israel since then had first the backing of British Imperialism and then after the Suez War the support of US monopoly capitalism after Britain had lost its position to the USA as the foremost Imperialist Power in the capitalist world. The issue of a Palestinian State was lost sight of in ensuring a “homeland” for the Jews to resolve the Jewish Question in Europe because of Hitler and the Nazis persecution resulting in the Holocaust during the Second World War. The State of Israel developed as a ‘nation-state’ on the land of Palestine backed and supported by the major Imperialist Powers especially the USA in military and financial terms in the 1950s and 60s whilst nothing was done for the Palestinian to develop a ‘state’, to recognize Palestinian self-determination. During this period, Zionism became a dominant force and entrenched within the ‘State of Israel’ as pointed out by David Rosenberg in his article on the Morning Star website.

This development has led to conflicts with the Arab World in the Middle East. The second half of the 20th century saw wars between the Arab World and the Zionist State of Israel backed by US and British Imperialism and their allies like France and Germany, for example, the 1967 and 1973 wars. Since 1967 the Military apparatus of the Zionist State of Israel backed by the US monopoly capitalism has occupied Palestinian ‘territory’ as an oppressor force and denied Palestinian right to statehood. The Zionist State of Israel has become the most powerful military force in the Middle East armed with nuclear weapons whilst the ‘interests’ of the Palestinian people have been sidelined by the major capitalist powers, especially by the USA because of its strong “Jewish Lobby”. The UN has called for a return to pre-1967 boundaries through its Resolutions and the establishment of Palestinian State which has fallen on the deaf ears of US and British monopoly capitalism and its allies. This was the ‘situation’ in the late stage of Imperialism.

The Arab world, in the stage of Globalization, which arose during the 1980s when this stage came to the fore due to the Thatcher-Reagan Axis which demanded that monopoly capitalism operate on a neoliberal orthodoxy and propagating that finance capital, the banks, were the dominant form of capital, has shown consternation at the situation concerning the Palestinian issue. During the early days of the stage of Globalization, in the late 1980s and early 1990s Afghanistan became a hotbed due to Communist control. The US backed the Islamic Fundamental militant organizations like Al Qaeda to the hilt in the war. The Communists were defeated, and the Taliban and its allies came to power. The Pan-Islamic militant organizations became emboldened and declared war on capitalism, especially Western capitalism, and the USA. It resulted in 9/11. Pan-Islamic militant organizations were called by US capitalism and its allies like Britain as “terrorist organizations”. Capitalism and specifically US capitalism called for a “war against terrorism” and in relation to the “axis of evil” which is the phrase of Bush the former President of the USA under which 9/11 took place. Western capitalism has had to ‘confront’ what it calls “terrorism”. It is the US, Britain and its allies which have called Pan-Islamic militant organizations like Hamas “terrorist” not the United Nations (UN). One of the main issues for these Pan-Islamic militant organizations is the issue of Palestine right to statehood, right to self-determination and the ‘eradication’ of the state of Israel. It is within this context that Hamas, Islamic Jihadists in Gaza, and Hezbollah in Lebanon have come to the fore in the ‘war’ against the Zionist State of Israel. Hamas has come to the fore in Gaza due to the maladministration of the territory by the Palestinian Authority as represented by the PLO which was rife with corruption and not serving the interests of the Palestinians in Gaza. The Palestinian Authority as represented by the PLO ‘rules’ the West Bank and has renounced ‘armed struggle’ and called for a two-state solution since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accord. As the UN Secretary-General has pointed out the Palestinian people have lived under “suffocating occupation” for fifty-six years. Since 1993, thirty years ago, there has been no resolution of the Palestinian issue in relation to the “two-state” solution and an end to the “occupation”. The Zionist State of Israel has shown by its deeds that it is not interested in a “two-state” solution, and this has been supported by the USA, Britain, and its allies through their deeds not their words. The USA has armed the Zionist State of Israel to the teeth both militarily and financially. The USA, Britain, and its allies, in the “war against terrorism” have unconditionally and absolutely defended the Zionist State of Israel “right to defend itself” even at the cost blinding themselves to the “crimes” committed by the Zionist State of Israel in the occupied West Bank in the form of “illegal settlements” and the Gaza Strip which is blockaded and led to the Palestinian people being held ‘hostage’ to the Zionist State of Israel. Over 2 million Palestinians are held in ‘hostage’ by the Zionist State of Israel in Gaza due to the blockade and siege by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) for nearly two decades. The USA, Britain and its allies have not abided by UN Resolutions on resolving the Palestinian issue and give full support to the Zionist State of Israel in its “right to defend itself” against “terrorism”. The USA, Britain and its allies turn a ‘blind eye’ to the “crimes” committed by the Zionist State of Israel in its “war against terrorism”. It is against this background that the Hamas October 7th, 2023, attack must be analyzed.

As the UN Secretary General correctly pointed out this attack by Hamas did not occur in a “vacuum”. It was, according to him, due to the “suffocating occupation” of the last fifty-six years. He condemned this attack by Hamas. He pointed out that the Zionist State of Israel is responsible for this situation. Global Messenger condemns this attack by Hamas as well. It is not in the interests of the Palestinian people.

As Marx and Engels pointed out “No nation can be free if it oppresses another”. The Zionist State of Israel cannot be free, the Jewish people cannot be free, whilst it oppresses the Palestinian people by denying them statehood and the right to self-determination. The oppression of the Palestinian people by the Zionist state of Israel breeds resistance, hatred, and violence on the part of the oppressed and this shows itself in the October 7th pogrom on ‘innocent’ Jewish civilians by Hamas and Islamic Jihadists which are Pan-Islamic militant organizations deemed by the Zionist State of Israel, the USA, Britain, and its allies as “terrorist organizations”. The US President called this attack by Hamas as an attack on “democracy” in the same manner as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an attack on “democracy”. Biden takes a ‘popsy’ granddad approach to the Palestinian issue. The Zionist State of Israel by its oppression of the Palestinian people cannot lay claim to be a “democracy” because no country professing “democracy” can oppress another people like the Palestinians are by the Zionist State of Israel. Amnesty and other progressive organizations have pointed out that the Zionist State of Israel oppresses Palestinians within their State in an apartheid fashion. This is not “democracy”. US President, Joe Biden, shows himself to be “delusory” with power. It has allowed him to be blind to the “crimes” committed by the Zionist State of Israel on the Palestinian people in Gaza in retaliation to the Hamas attack like the “collective punishment” on the Palestinians in the Gaza with their bombardment and deprivation of food, medicine, fuel, and water. The Palestinians living in Gaza, as the world knows, are living in an “open prison” imposed by the Zionist State of Israel through their blockade and siege. This is a “crime against humanity”, a “crime” in international law which was shaped by the major Imperialist powers in the stage of Imperialism. Biden, the US President, who pretends to be a “democrat” is blind to these “crimes” by the Zionist State of Israel. So are Britain, France, Germany, and others who are his allies and allies of the Zionist State of Israel with their unconditional and absolute support for the Zionist State of Israel and its “war against terrorism”. “Democracy” does not tolerate an “apartheid” State. This is a “crime against humanity”. One Palestinian commentator has stated that the Zionist State of Israel is committing genocide, ethnic cleansing and “collective punishment” in Gaza in its “war against Hamas”. The bombardment of Palestinian homes, schools, mosques, churches, and other shelters to a rubble does not represent actions deemed as the “war against Hamas”. It is “collective punishment” against the Palestinian people in the Gaza which is a “war crime”. It is not an ‘attack’ on Hamas. It is an attack on the Palestinian people to attack Hamas.

It is interesting that one Israeli commentator on Television News called Hamas “Nazis” to equate Hamas with Nazi-ism. This commentator is ‘blind’ to the fact that one of the ultra-right-wing Minister of the Israeli government called himself a “fascist homophobe”. For a Jew to call himself a fascist is beyond belief. It shows that Zionism is a form of fascism in its oppression of the Palestinian people. Israel has called the Hamas October7th attack its 9/11 moment. This is to ensure the support of the Western capitalist powers, specifically the USA. This is ‘exaggerated propaganda” which is Goebbels- like and does not consider what the UN Secretary-General called “suffocating occupation” for fifty-six years by the Zionist State of Israel. The Zionist State of Israel propaganda is used as a smokescreen to hide the “war crimes” that it is committing in Gaza. Israeli ‘commentators’ have called Palestinians “human animals” and “human beasts” and present themselves as “democratic” and “civilized”. The world and working people are not fooled by such propaganda. As Frantz Fanon, the Black rrevolutionary, wrote the ‘oppressor’ must picture the ‘oppressed’ in inhuman terms so as to ‘justify’ their oppression. This is the case with the Zionist State of Israel. This ‘kind’ of propaganda is used to justify the oppression of Palestinians in Gaza by the Zionist State of Israel. It is used to justify its “war” against Hamas by oppressing the Palestinian people with its bombardment of the civil infrastructure of Gaza at present.

The Fascistic/Zionist State of Israel states that it is conducting a war against Hamas “terrorism” and for its “eradication”. If religion dominates in the form of Judaism and Islam in this region the Zionists and the Pan-Islamic Fundamentalist militants cannot be eradicated, even given a negotiated “two-state” solution. In Gaza, the Palestinian youth of the present generation only know of resistance through the eyes of Hamas and Islamic Jihadists which are Pan-Islamic militant organizations. The Zionist State of Israel cannot ‘eradicate’ them because of the struggle for Free Palestine. This goal of the Zionist State of Israel in retaliation to Hamas October 7th attack is not realistic and not achievable. It is an excuse by the Zionist State of Israel to intensify its “terroristic” oppression of the Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories and to deny them the right to self-determination, for Palestinian statehood.

The only solution to the Conflict is the UN position of a “two-state” solution with each respecting each other’s sovereignty to reduce the tensions caused by the religious divide. The Palestinian struggle for statehood, for the right to self-determination, for national sovereignty, is one of the few vestiges from the stage of Imperialism that is showing itself in the stage of Globalization. It is time for the “advanced capitalist countries”, (South African Communist Party words), the Western capitalist powers, the USA, Britain, and allies to rein in the Zionist State of Israel and give statehood to the Palestinian people thus reducing tensions in the Middle East, the Arab World, and reduce the ‘scope’ for Pan-Islamic Fundamentalist militant organizations like Hamas to operate. It is over a hundred years, since the Balfour Declaration of 1917, that Palestinian people have been struggling for national independence, for statehood. It is high time that this situation is resolved in accordance with UN Resolutions for the region to be at peace and the world free from “terrorism”. The ‘stumbling block’ to peace are the “advanced capitalist countries”, the Western capitalist countries, the USA, Britain, France, and Germany. They give full and unconditional and absolute support to the Zionist State of Israel and the “right to defend itself” and have turned a ‘blind eye’ to the war crimes committed by the Zionist State of Israel because it is a “democracy”. For example, these “advanced capitalist countries” have turned a ‘blind eye’ to the transgressions or atrocities committed by the Zionists in the occupied territories in the West Bank like desecrating the Al-Aqsa Mosque by Zionist settlers which were some of the main causes prior to the Hamas October 7th attack. Under the ‘smokescreen’ of “democracy” of the Zionist State of Israel, the big Western capitalist Powers are denying the Palestinian the right to self-determination, the right to national independence, the right to be a “democracy”.

The resolution of the Jewish Question in Europe in the stage of Imperialism by the major Imperialist Powers, Britain, USA, France with the creation of the Zionist State of Israel on the land of Palestine whilst denying the Palestinian people the right to statehood, the right to self-determination, the right to national independence, the right to be a “democracy” is now shown to be a ‘crime’ by the big Western capitalist Powers. It is they who are responsible for the present situation. They have failed in their responsibility to put the “two-state” solution of the Oslo Accord into practice, in political reality. They have failed to put UN Resolutions into practice to solve the Palestinian Question in this region in the stage of Globalization. The major ‘culprit’ is US monopoly capitalism which gives unqualified, unconditional, and absolute support to the Zionists State of Israel by arming it to the teeth and financially because it is a “democracy” as stated by the US President Joe Biden and is followed by the other big Western capitalist Powers like Britain in the stage of Globalization. In the stage of Globalization, the peoples of the world are demanding ‘justice’ for the Palestinian people. Only ‘justice’ for the Palestinian people will end the present conflict in the Middle East in the stage of Globalization.

 

Australia

Australia held a referendum on limited constitutional recognition for the Aboriginal population, the “First Peoples” of Australia. It was rejected by the majority of those who voted. It is important to understand this ‘development’.

According to Wikipedia, “Australia” was first ‘discovered’ by the Dutch. It was James Cook who first ‘discovered’ “Australia” and claimed it for the English Crown. It was a ‘penal colony’ for the English. According to Wikipedia, the English began the ‘colonization’ of “Australia” to the cost to the Aboriginal population. In the 19th-century, “Australia” transited from a “penal colony” to “civil society”. This concept of “civil society”, according to Wikipedia, must be analyzed.

 The development of “Australia” as a “civil society” was the development of a colonial social structure by the English which involved and comprised the influx of “non-convict settlers” who were “Whites” and predominantly from England. The economic mode of production of this “civil society” is the capitalist mode of production. The political ‘superstructure’ that developed in “Australia” had its roots in the English political system with its own unique features. A “white” capitalist class arose with a “white” working class as well as a middle or petty bourgeois class. This social structure that developed was based on “White rule” and did not consider the interests of the Aboriginal population and their rights as the “First Peoples”. “Australia” was a colony of Britain until 1986 when it was granted ‘independence’ with the Australia Act of 1986 whilst showing allegiance to the British Crown. “Australia” is in part a ‘reflection’ of the “mother country” England. The Whites in “Australia” have a “kith and kin” relationship with the English. Since ‘independence’ in 1986 for the “Whites” there has been ‘neglect’ of the rights of the Aboriginal population at the same time. This development was indicative of British colonial rule in New Zealand, North America or the USA and Canada which has seen the trampling of the rights of the indigenous populations.

The referendum result showed that Australia is still a “White society” which does not want to grant ‘limited constitutional recognition’ not ‘rights’ to the Aboriginal population. It is a racist society by propagating an ‘apartheid’ system through the treatment of the Aboriginal population as “second-class citizens” in their ‘homeland’. This referendum result signifies the ongoing oppression of the Aborigines in their ‘homeland’.

The ‘International Community’ and especially Black people are not severely critical of the “Australians” concerning the referendum result. The leaders of the “advanced capitalist countries” are notably conspicuous by their ‘silence’ on the matter. The British Monarch, Charles Windsor, has not made comment concerning “Australia” as a Commonwealth country as he is the Head of the Commonwealth. The ‘silence’ is ‘deafening’ concerning the rights of the Aborigines in the stage of Globalization. Progressives, Democrats, Socialists and Communists must develop a campaign to reverse this referendum result and support a campaign for Aboriginal rights and an end to the ‘apartheid’ system in “Australia”. This is the way forward in the stage of Globalization.

The ’question’ of the Aborigines rights is a democratic one. It is the “National Question”. The working class in “Australia” can never be free until it resolves the “National Question” in “Australia”.

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Newssheet No. 10 – 2023

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Editorial

Monopoly capitalism is in the stage of Globalization. It is not, as claimed by the Left and especially the ‘Marxist-Leninist’ communists, that it is still in the stage of Imperialism. The Reagan-Thatcher axis in the 1980s put an end to the stage of Imperialism by introducing neoliberalism orthodoxy to cope with the success of the national liberation revolutions which led to the formation of hundreds of new nations. The old reflex relation between Imperialism and the colonies in the stage of Imperialism was superseded by the new reflex relation of “advanced capitalist countries” and “developing countries” in the stage of Globalization. The stage of Imperialism is not noted for ‘unity’. Imperialism, as Lenin characterized it, is faced with contradictions and rivalry. In contrast, the stage of Globalization is characterized by political unity in the form of the G7 countries which dominate global capitalism. The following article looks at the implications concerning world politics in the stage of Globalization.     

World Politics in the stage of Globalization

The recent past has seen the G20 Summit in Delhi, India. The international politics of monopoly capitalism in the stage of Globalization is structured on a two-tier basis. The first tier is the G7 Summit comprising of what the South African Communist Party calls the “advanced capitalist countries” (ACC) with its neoliberalism orthodoxy. It is the G7 that dominates the global capitalist economy with their ownership of global financial institutions like the World Bank. The second tier is the G20 countries comprising of what is called “developing countries” or “emerging nations” and the G7 countries.

The G20 summit has developed because the “advanced capitalist countries” have ‘conceded’ to the “developing countries” a ‘voice’ within global capitalism. This can be seen in the accession of the African Union as a member of the G20. Africa is the most underdeveloped continent and the most exploited for its natural resources by monopoly capitalism. Its membership gives the African Union a voice on the world stage. It is a shift towards what commentators are calling a “multi-polar world” rather than a “uni-polar world” led by the US monopoly capitalism and its allies in the G7.

One of the features of the stage of Globalization is the discovery by the South African Communist Party (SACP) of the “integration and marginalization” of developing countries into the global capitalist economy. The development of the G20 up to its present form is an expression of this feature operating within global capitalism.  

Global capitalism in the stage of Globalization is faced with a contradiction between the interests of the “developing countries” of the G20 and the interests of the G7 led by the USA. This expresses itself in the contradiction between a “uni-polar world” and a “multi-polar world” as demanded by the “developing countries”. This demand for a “multi-polar world” by “developing countries” is reinforced by the strengthening of the BRICS alliance and its projected enlargement. The call for a “multi-polar world” is a ‘challenge’ to the ‘hegemony’ of the G7, expressed in the form of a “uni-polar world”, within global capitalism. It is a ‘challenge’ to the G7 policy of the integration and marginalization of developing countries within global capitalism. Marginalization is defined economically as the rapacious and predatory exploitation of resources of developing countries by monopoly capital of the G7 countries. The “advanced capitalist countries”, expressed in the form of G7, are going to fight tooth and nail to maintain their ‘interests’.

The early period of the stage of Globalization still sees vestiges of the stage of Imperialism, the first stage of monopoly capitalism, especially in the military apparatus with the enhancement of the global role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by the “advanced capitalist countries”, the G7 countries, led by the USA. This is especially manifest with the war in the Ukraine. Russia, since with the implosion of the Soviet Union, is seen as a military nuclear threat. There is also what ‘Left’ commentators are calling a new ‘Cold War’ with China because of the latter’s economic and political development. The “advanced capitalist countries” are using all means available to maintain their domination of the global capitalist economy and resist all attempts to ‘democratize’ the global capitalist economy especially in relation to the ‘developing countries’.

 The increasing trend of economic integration which has developed within ‘mature capitalism’ in the stage of Globalization has seen the weakening of the nation state. This is clearly manifest within the European Union (EU) with its centralization and breakdown of national boundaries due to economic union as a form of economic integration. This trend is leading to economic and political centralization based on the breakdown of national boundaries. This trend is an expression of the development of monopoly capitalism in the stage of Globalization and has affected the understanding of the National Question. This weakening of the nation state due to economic integration resulting in the breakdown of national boundaries is leading to what Marx and Engels called for in the Communist Manifesto, the “abolition of countries and nationality”. Monopoly capitalism, especially the EU based on economic integration in the form of an economic union resulting in the breakdown of national boundaries, is preparing the ground for this development and the resulting centralization.

The G7 and G20 are expressions of the centralization tendency within monopoly capitalism in the stage of Globalization. Centralization, based on political unity as characterized by G7 and G20, is indicative of its importance within world politics in the stage of Globalization. This expresses the contradiction between the G7 and G20 conflicting interests. This is the current state of affairs of world politics in the stage of Globalization.
 

Newssheet No. 9 – 2023

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Editorial

Summer is over and the bourgeois political calendar starts anew for the forthcoming year. This month’s issue has three articles. The first is concerned with the BRICS Summit and its significance. The second article is concerned with Socialist Theory and the Marx Memorial Library exposition of Marx and Engels position on the national Question. The MML is selective in its exposition on the matter. The third article is concerned with “Starmerism” that dominates the Labour Party.

World Politics - The BRICS Summit

One of the features of the stage of Globalization is the “integration and marginalization of ‘developing countries’ into the global capitalist system”. This feature is the discovery of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in its propagation of “Globalization as Imperialism”. The SACP contention that Globalization is Imperialism has been shown to be incorrect. Globalization is the latest, second stage in the development of monopoly capitalism. Its economic premise is the operation of Marx’s “the absolute General Law of Capitalist Accumulation” which differentiates it from Lenin’s economic premise of ‘concentration’ as the basis of Imperialism, of the stage of Imperialism.

The BRICS ‘alliance’ is a political development in the stage of Globalization that attempts to counter the power of the ‘advanced capitalist countries’ (SACP phrase) and their financial institutions the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that dominate global capitalism in the latter’s rapacious exploitation of the extractive resources of Asia and Africa.

BRICS is not a formal political organization, nor is it an economic ‘bloc’. It has not reached any kind of formality. BRICS is a ‘loose alliance’ of countries ranging from capitalist Russia, India, China ruled by the Communist Party of China with its ‘Belt and Drive’ policy and Brazil and South Africa from the Global South. One point of the discussion during the Summit is the expansion of the BRICS ‘alliance’ with countries from the Global South like Nigeria and Vietnam applying to join. Countries from the Global South are applying to join as a counterweight to the power of the World Bank and the IMF owned by the “advanced capitalist countries”. The countries of the Global South seeking for an expansion of BRICS by applying to join is to view it as a counter to the rapacious exploitation by the “advanced capitalist countries” of their extractive resources and their ‘developmental’ programs. This is a ‘fall-out’ from the “integration and marginalization of developing countries into the global capitalist system” in the stage of Globalization.

Another point is the transformation of the BRICS ‘alliance’ into a formal organization to counter the power of the “advanced capitalist countries” with their domination of the global capitalist system and their financial institutions.  The formalization of the BRICS ‘alliance’ into a formal body either political or economic or both is now coming to the fore in the stage of Globalization. This formalization will ‘challenge’ the power of the “advanced capitalist countries”.  

The implication is that any ‘challenge’ to the power of the “advanced capitalist countries” in the stage of Globalization is progressive in the struggle for the transformation of capitalism into socialism. If the BRICS ‘alliance’ can be transformed into a formal body by attracting countries from the Global South this will reinforce that ‘challenge’. BRICS is progressive and how it will develop is of utmost importance for countries of the Global South and their working class. The BRICS ‘alliance’ is becoming a focal point for the discontent of the ‘developing countries’ of the Global South in the stage of Globalization.

Socialist Theory – Marx Memorial Library (MML) propagation of “Nations, nationality and Nationalism” on the Morning Star website

 The Marx Memorial Library (MML) published a two-part article on this issue on the Morning Star website. The MML sees itself as the ‘guardian’ of Marx’s works. On this issue it quoted extensively from the Communist Manifesto written by Marx and Engels. The quotes used did not give a full exposition of the position of Marx and Engels. They did not quote this position of Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto which is of utmost importance that Communists are reproached for “desiring the abolition of countries and nationality”. This is the ‘internationalist’ position of Marx and Engels. Communists are not for the existence of nations in the bourgeois sense. Communists, according to Marx and Engels from the above quote, are not for “progressive federalism” as propagated by the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), as it still maintains the existence of countries and nations not their ‘abolition’.

The ’theoreticians’ of the MML who wrote this article and are propagating the position of the CPB, have done Marx and Engels a disservice by not explaining the truth of their position in the Communist Manifesto on the National Question. Their ‘approach’ is an eclectic petty bourgeois socialist position and not based on materialist dialectics of Scientific Socialism as founded by Marx and Engels.

Britain – The Labour Party

In Britain the summer holiday period is over. It is the end of what Bourgeois commentators call the “silly season”. The annual bourgeois political calendar, like the school year, begins in September when Parliament re-convenes. The Conference season of the major political parties begins. It is within this context that Global Messenger analyses the position of the Labour Party led by the right-winger Sir Keir Starmer concerning the forthcoming year when a General Election is set to take place.

For the past thirteen years the political party of the capitalist class, the Conservative and Unionist Party, has in the main being the dominant governing party.  This was due to the failure of Blair and Brown’s New Labour project which saw the Labour Party enter a ‘compromise’ with monopoly capitalism. New Labour bankrupted the Treasury coffers with their spending policy within the bourgeois democratic framework. New Labour jettisoned Clause 4 which stipulated “common ownership” which was the Labour Party only claim to socialism. Working people and the working class, especially the trade unions became disillusioned with New Labour with its lies. Working people voted out New Labour. This attempt by Blair and Brown’s New Labour to turn the Labour Party into a bourgeois-democratic party instead of a party for socialism in a limited sense was rejected by voters in the 2010 General Election. The Labour Party entered a ‘leftward’ approach in the forthcoming years by electing Ed Miliband as their leader. The Labour Party under Miliband, [ “Red Ed” as he became known by the bourgeois ideological apparatus especially the media, the newspapers] failed to change the ‘fortunes’ of the Labour Party. The next ‘leftward’ approach was the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party with his petty bourgeois socialism of ‘public ownership’ or ‘state ownership’ under capitalism. Engels pointed out that that ‘state ownership’ under capitalism is not the solution. There was no talk of the transformation of capitalism into socialism. Clause 4 was not reintroduced. “Corbynism” was an expression of petty bourgeois socialism with anti-imperialist features. It was ‘loved’ by the Communist Party of Britain who saw in it an expression of their transition to socialism with the election of a ‘Left government’. Such is the opportunism of the Communist Party of Britain and its sister organ, the Morning Star, who gave Corbyn column space and still do. In the 2019 General Election, “Corbynism” came up against the bourgeois nationalism of Boris Johnson “Brexit: Get it Done”. The working people and most of the working class ditched “Corbynism” and voted for Brexit and bourgeois nationalism. It was a setback for the Left, especially in the Labour Party. Corbyn resigned and “Corbynism” suffered an ignominious defeat. A new leader was elected. The leader was Keir Starmer who ‘promised’ to continue “Corbynism”. What has been the consequence over the last three years of Starmer as leader?

First, “Starmerism” consists of jettisoning all that is concerned with “Corbynism”. Secondly, this has led to a ‘purge’ of the Left in the Labour Party for any reason whatsoever. Thirdly, it has given rise to a new form of “Blairism” which is the ‘compromise’ with monopoly capital in Britain to be electable.  Marx remarked that history occurs twice. First as tragedy and secondly as a farce. New Labour and “Blairism” was a ‘tragedy’ for the working class “Starmerism” is a ‘farce’. Fourthly, it is to turn the Labour Party into a bourgeois-democratic party to be electable at the cost to the trade unions that finance it. Fifthly, the ‘role of “Starmerism” is to throw ‘sops’ at the working class and the trade unions whilst compromising and collaborating with monopoly capital in the latter’s interests. This is the ‘essence’ of “Starmerism”. There is not an ounce or gram of socialism in “Starmerism”.

“Starmerism” is only concerned with been electable and serving the interests of monopoly capital, for example, it is not going to introduce a wealth tax. As pointed out, it will throw ‘sops’ at the working class and the trade unions to show that it is acting in the interests of the working class and working people. “Starmerism” is concerned with subjugating working-class interests to bourgeois, i.e., monopoly capital, interests. “Starmerism” has no policy to resolve the cost-of-living crisis which the working class and working people are faced with and caused by monopoly capital in Britain through Inflation. The Trade Unions who are members of the Labour Party are ‘silent’ and ‘muted’ to the project of “Starmerism” in the ‘hope’ that if elected Starmerism” will take their interests into account. “Starmerism” is the ‘injection’ of bourgeois ideology into the working-class movement and does not serve the interests of the working class and working people in its struggle for the transformation of capitalism into socialism.