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Weekly Worker 1499 now online!

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A banger in this week's WW:

Deal with the arguments

The left needs to stop tailing spontaneity and start thinking strategically. Mike Macnair takes issue with Steve Bloom’s canonisation of Luxemburg and criticisms of democratic republicanism

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"The practical effect of this one-sided ‘official optimism’ is [...] necessary to keep the rank-and-file membership running around like blue-arsed flies without time to think or to question their leadership", Mike Macnair in @marxistcom @revcommunists

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IMT comrades reading this week's article "Delusions of ‘official optimism’" from Mike Macnair may also like to read "A communist appeal to Socialist Appeal" from November last year: And as always our letters page is open to all: editor @weeklyworker .co.uk

A communist appeal to Socialist Appeal

Going from Fabian clause four socialism to self-declared communism is welcome progress, says Mike Macnair. But what that poses is unity in a Communist Party

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@marxistcom @revcommunists Perhaps @specompodcast @josephattard02 would like to invite Mike Macnair on to discuss the perspectives in this article published this past Thursday, as well as those in "A communist appeal to Socialist Appeal", published November last year?

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"In actual revolutionary crisis, it turns out that small groups, however good their politics, are not able to find the road to the masses by bypassing the larger trends", writes Mike Macnair in

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Two-faced hypocrisy – The Ahed Tamimi affair exposes the failure of western feminism to oppose Zionism and imperialism, writes @TonyGreenstein #Palestine #FreeAhedTamimi #Israel

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#BasicIncome needed as defence mechanism against iniquities of capitalism #Newsnight #UBI

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"For all the denunciations of Stalinism in the Manifesto, this offer is actually - Stalinism, with Alan Woods as a ‘little Stalin’ like Gerry Healy, Tony Cliff, Pierre Lambert, Nahuel Moreno, James Robertson, David North, [...]", writes Mike Macnair in

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All welcome this Sunday via the usual joining link:

WorkersHammer I Spartacist League Britain

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“General election 2024 and communist perspectives” Spartacist League debates CPGB this Sunday at 5 pm. Details in the link! @Weekly_Worker #Election2024 #elections #london #events #marxism #socialism #communism #ToriesOut #StarmerOut

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Turn the tables on the right: #LabourCoup #KeepCorbyn #ChickenCoup

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Edmund Griffiths speaking about his article "How we should contest":

How we should contest

While Corbynism has produced little more than demoralisation, Tusc’s approach to elections has been a complete failure. Edmund Griffiths offers a contribution aimed at leaving behind puny goals and...

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

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Here it is! New podcast where @EdmundGriffiths outlines for Alexei how the left may actually achieve an effective place in British Politics. Let's make it happen gang! Wherever you get your podcasts & here: #UKPolitics #Socialism #Election #Labour #Tory

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"It is not surprising, but merely depressing, that Socialist Worker is unwilling to maintain a clear defence of freedom of speech, including freedom of objectionable speech", writes Mike Macnair in @SWP_Britain

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Scandalous - nobody at WW towers has a shirt that stylish

Cosmonaut ☭

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Left to right: @Prometheus_Jrnl , @Marxtranslated , Cosmonaut and @Weekly_Worker in our last international meeting.

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"[N]o personality vehicles; maximum canvassing effort focused on a minimal number of constituencies; cooperation where possible, including appealing to unaffiliated far-left activists; standing to be an opposition" - Edmund Griffiths's electoral advice in

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"[...] ‘anti-schematism’ actually refuses to attempt to construct an alternative theory. It operates to deny the possibility of future experimental testing of theories", writes Mike Macnair in

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Antisemitism? It’s Israel, stupid! – @TonyGreenstein responds to the false accusations made against him as part of the rightwing-driven witch-hunt. This is an edited version of his submission to Labour’s national constitutional committee

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Review of Lewis H Mates, 'The great labour unrest' #Syndicalism #DurhamMinersGala #Durham

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What was Straight Left? The political origins of Corbyn’s director and deputy director of strategy & communications

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3 years

Weekly Worker 1344 now online:

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Why have Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell stitched up @DerbyChrisW ? Why did McDonnell tell the odious Alastair Campbell that “Tony Blair is not a war criminal"? The politics of ambiguity are becoming the politics of treachery, argues Carla Roberts.

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An Open Letter - Tony Greenstein addresses Labour MP Joan Ryan

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"[P]artyism [...] and attention to questions of the constitutional order and high politics, is an element of the workers’ movement - alongside trade unions, co-ops and so on - which is *missing* in the modern practice of the left" - Mike Macnair in

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Despite the best McCarthyite efforts of the likes of @GuidoFawkes (thanks for all the free publicity), Communist University went ahead as planned with speakers such as @TonyGreenstein and Moshe Machover. To find out what you missed, read our report here:

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#UCU members at the #No2Austerity march in Manchester. #TakeBackMCR #CPC15 http://t.co/6ZMcMM41Mf

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"Notes on the war" by Jack Conrad, in this week's Weekly Worker:

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At #Newcastle 's #EndAusterityNow demo. @pplsassembly @peepsassemblene http://t.co/fSGZkL8VkP

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#BasicIncome urgently needed. We need defence mechanisms against capitalism's iniquities

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Now available on Soundcloud: and YouTube:

Mike Macnair: Communist Unity and its Refuseniks

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Join OCF on Sunday, 5pm:

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While the WW is on its summer break, we're looking back at archive articles from the legend that is Mike Macnair. Here, Mike looks at the long, tortured history of Trotskyism in the Labour Party. Enjoy. #mikemacnair #labour

In, out, shake it all about

How did the far-left policy of Labour Party entry develop? Mike Macnair looks at the changing attitudes of British Trotskyism

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Make sure to read Ben Lewis on "Socialism and socialising" in this week's Weekly Worker:

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Celebrating International Women’s Day: Mike Taber and Daria Dyakonova speak about their new book "The communist women’s movement 1920‑22, proceedings, resolutions and reports". Use this link to join the meeting:

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Tomorrow at 12pm! Mike Macnair: 'History of imperialism in the middle east', join at

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"Not a case of the ‘streets’ versus the ‘ballot box’ [...]. No, the difference between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was about opportunist parliamentarism versus revolutionary parliamentarism" - Jack Conrad in

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Too early to celebrate – Iain McNicol gone, JLM calling the police, rumours about Ken Livingstone being reinstated … But it’s not all plain sailing for the left, warns Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists #Jennie4GS #LabourNEC

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Origin of #language lies in #song . @RadicalAnthro 's Chris Knight explains how. #anthropology

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Don’t be disheartened – Despite the expulsion of Moshé Machover, Labour’s pro-Zionists are increasingly isolated

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Antiracist #No2EDL march in #NorthShields , northeast England. Happening now http://t.co/CZu5Y2zvxi

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It's our right to be rude to and to politically undermine politicians! "The proletariat... must demand that MPs, especially right-wing Labour MPs, suffer greater job insecurity than the slowest Deliveroo rider in London." Read more in this week's WW:

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Moshé Machover's "Two impossibilities" article (12/05/2022, issue 1395) has been translated into Dutch:

Communistisch Platform

@CommunistischP

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Zowel een eenstaatoplossing als een tweestatenoplossing is onhaalbaar, stelt Moshé Machover in het vertaalde artikel van de @Weekly_Worker . 🇮🇱🇵🇸 Lees het artikel hier!⬇️

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#Momentum supporters at the @PplsAssembly #4Demands March for Health, Homes, Jobs and Education. Happening now.

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WW reviews Angela Nagle, Kill all normies: the online culture wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the alt-right and Trump

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By your advisors shall you be known. John McDonnell’s pledge of responsibility #Budget2016

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Join OCF on Sunday, 5pm:

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Supporting the #Right2Strike at the #No2Austerity march in Manchester. #TakeBackMCR #CPC15 http://t.co/7MhBTppHjc

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The struggle for abortion rights is an essential part of the fight to end women’s oppression, writes Alan Gibson

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Partisan of reaction

ML Miller reviews Ben Lewis, Oswald Spengler and the politics of decline Bergharn Books, 2022, pp238, £99

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As always our letters page is open to all: editor @weeklyworker .co.uk

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It's actually Extinction Rebellion that's at risk of extinction due to a refusal to make hard-edged political choices. Paul Demarty looks at a movement which, despite all the brouhaha, is quickly coming to a crossroads. #ExtinctionRebellion #protests

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Big Meeting gets bigger – The 133rd Durham Miners’ Gala will see some 150,000 march through the ancient city

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"A robust critique of the monarchy is a necessary precondition for confronting the organised structure of power as such in this country." @FilbenDemarty on the funeral of Phili Windsor

Death by numbers

Instead of treating the monarchy merely as a quaint feudal relic, the left needs a much sharper critique, argues Paul Demarty

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#Balfour100 - @TonyGreenstein looks at the reasons underlying British support for #Zionism #BalfourDeclaration

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Prof Norman Finkelstein speaking about John Stuart Mill at this afternoon's #CU2016 session. #CommunistUniversity

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Giving 1917 real meaning: Chris Gray reviews China Mieville's October: the story of the Russian Revolution

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As Israel moves further and further to the openly racist far right, there is no longer any room for a hypocritical Zionist left that talks equality and practises ethnic cleansing, according to @TonyGreenstein . Read more:

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The monarchy has not just been 'dragged' into politics over Brexit. "Behind every handshake the Duchess of Cambridge exchanges with somebody driven to destitution... lies a pernicious, reactionary political agenda that is rotten to the core." #TheQueen

Holy trinity of reaction

The queen's jubilee is a timely event for the forces of reaction in an age of austerity, argues Ben Lewis. For its part, the workers' movement needs to rediscover the tradition of militant republican...

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"That Graham had nothing to say about capitalism, imperialism, racism was ignored. Her lack of any criticism of Keir Starmer too. It was as if Unite members had no life outside the workplace", writes Tony Greenstein @TonyGreenstein in

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"By its very nature, capitalismcannot tolerate any ‘eternal’ monopoly. The endless battle to increase profit and the share of the market means monopolies are continually under threat from new rivals." Michael Roberts on monopolies and anti-trust

Leopard and its spots

With or without monopolies, the basis of capitalist exploitation remains the same, argues Michael Roberts

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Everything to play for. Corbyn looks like a winner in #Labourleadership race http://t.co/EuNZw9JBKx http://t.co/DxlNBPKeSn #jeremy4leader

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Our comrade Mike Macnair on @FromAlpha2Omega talking about the politics of #Brexit . In the intro, Mike also discusses why he no longer considers himself to be a Trotskyist and the benefits of being open about revolutionary politics.

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The left really, really shouldn't be cheering on Supreme Court judges versus #Bojo . The decision on prorogation could be used as a precedent to block radical measures by a Labour government. Read more:

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Expelled for opposing #Zionism - @TonyGreenstein reports back from his Labour Party disciplinary hearing #witchhunt #antisemitism

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"A world turned upside-down" by Mike Macnair:

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Mainstream politicians, obnoxious jetting royals, ‘progressive’ capitalists and their paid persuaders have no serious programme to avert runaway climate change. Fortunately, the Marxist left has. Read more: #ClimateChange #ClimateAction

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If you're stuck for something to do of a September evening, the latest issue of the WW is now online, featuring articles on, inevitably, Boris, the Labour Party, the future of the Brexit Party and more of our fab debate on Kautsky. Go here to read more:

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"Communist unity and its refuseniks" by Mike Macnair:

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Mike Macnair continues his multi-faceted discussion of the interesting Karl Kautsky debate in @jacobinmag , seeing evidence in some writers of what Trotsky called “anti-parliamentary cretinism". It's more polite than it sounds, honest. #kautsky

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"Speech codes, prissiness about etiquette, ‘safe spaces’ - all are precisely forms of the bureaucratic dictatorship of the bourgeoisie within the workers’ movement, and lead precisely to the rule of a caste of mediocrities [...]" - Paul Demarty in

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Determined to win - Dave Douglass reviews Steve McGrail and Vicky Patterson's 'Cowie miners, Polmaise colliery and the 1984-85 miners’ strike' (Scottish Labour History Society, 2017, pp146, £6) #BigMeeting #MinersStrike

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Over 2,000 people have already signed!

Labour Against The Witchhunt

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Labour Party NEC: Open letter to Labour NEC: Chris Williamson's re-suspension is a travesty of justice - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange

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. @FromAlpha2Omega is currently hosting a great series of podcast discussions on Mike Macnair's 'Revolutionary Strategy' (becoming something of a slow-burn Marxist classic). You can check them out here:

creating A Political Economy Podcast

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"The big stories which journalists ought to be pursuing are Greensill, and cronyism in handing out Covid contracts." Mike Macnair on corruption and sleaze

Behind the Lulu Lytle wallpaper

Sleaze stories about the Downing Street flat and Boris Johnson’s character aim to protect the general regime of corruption. Mike Macnair paints the bigger picture

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No criticism permitted – @TonyGreenstein reports on the case of Stan Keable, whose employer is threatening to dismiss him for his opposition to #Zionism

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"[Tusc] is explicitly a project to repeat the Labour Party experience with the same dominance of the trade union bureaucracy in place [...] The working class deserves a better future, concluded comrade Macnair on behalf of the CPGB", writes Eddie Ford in

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Still pulling in the crowds - Report on the CWU's #PeoplePost meeting in Manchester ( http://t.co/mc34z5apJ3) http://t.co/XG25pllJi9

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Musicians' Union members at the #No2Austerity march in Manchester. #TakeBackMCR #CPC15 http://t.co/dT72tUU7ZG

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Labour HQ has finally started to implement the new trigger ballots... let's get deselecting comrades! LAW has produced useful guidelines on how to launch a trigger ballot:

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The Weekly Worker. As seen on TV: http://t.co/rNL35k2wYO #Labourleadership #jeremy4leader http://t.co/Lt9PhHbP9j #Labourleadership #c4news

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Congratulations to @DerbyChrisW Chris Williamson - his suspension was a great injustice.

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The @JewishLabour Movement, like Zionism itself, has no place in the labour movement, argues @TonyGreenstein

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Abolish the monarchy! As a counterpoint to the half-hearted republicanism and 'democracy' on show in the last few days, we draw on the more radical traditions of Cromwell and Chartism, as this WW archive article explains #ProrogueParliament

Republicanism and the form of working class rule

As the constitutional monarchy state proclaims its commitment to privilege and the status quo, Michael Copestake looks back to a rather different tradition

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