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Owen Jones, ever the regime collaborator.
British socialism can only grow and gain strength by waging ruthless struggle for fundamental principles against the middle class and class collaborationist tendancies within the socialist movement.
That includes the literal leader of the Green Party!
Nobody who speaks like this is interested in building a left-wing majority for transformative change.
They're only interested in settling scores on the left, on driving out traitors, and embracing righteous irrelevance.
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Under the British Republic all workers will have a share in stocks when the King is in them.
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PAUL COCKSHOTT EXPELLED FROM THE CPB ⛔️
Last night, @PaulCockshott, renowned Marxist economist and one of the greatest communist intellectuals and theoreticians in Britain, published the details of his expulsion from @CPBritain, part of a wider crackdown on anti-revisionists, anti-Zionists and @ACPMain supporters within the organisation.
paulcockshott.wordpress.com/…
His disciplinary has been ongoing since last year, and coincides with the election of the new general secretary @alexgordon4me whose no-tolerance approach to any Marxist-Leninist opposition has led to multiple suspensions, resuspensions, and expulsions, as well as a gutting of @yclbritain via its sympathisers in the leadership.
This happens at the same time that a special congress called by YCL members to address concerns about CPB overreach has been unconstitutionally banned, leading to a wave of resignations and the collapse of what remains of most of the YCL's branches across Britain under the leadership of @georginaycl.
communistpartyofgreatbritain…
Paul Cockshott's expulsion is just the latest chapter in the leadership's purge of Marxist-Leninist opposition to the Labour Party, Israel, etc., from within the CPB and its youth wing.
But on paper, these are the allegations against him:
1. Antisemitism and Conspiracy Rhetoric 🇮🇱
In March, Paul shared tweets by @CraigMurrayOrg and @Tracking_Power, supporting the claim that the attack on a Jewish ambulance service in Golders Green in London was most likely a false flag operation used to justify military escalation against Iran.
The Zionist leadership of the CPB has been engaged in a bitter struggle with its anti-Israel members, particularly among the Party's youth, with leading figures like executive member Mary Davis zealously defending Israel's right to continue its occupation of Palestine.
With the successful anti-Zionist motion within the Green Party in favour of a One State Solution, this conflict will only intensify, since both the Labour Party and the CPB consider this position antisemitic.
2. Support for the ACP ☭☰
The CPB jealously guards the name, if not the legacy of communism in Britain and is terrified that by undermining the liberal, pro-Democrat CPUSA in America, the ACP could inspire a similar reorientation of Marxist-Leninists in Britain against itself, and by extension, against the Labour Party.
This fear has led to a hypervigilant sectarianism against support for socialist and communist organisations outside of their accepted bubble, including the ACP, despite the fact that such support does not break any rules, and in fact aligns with their party's rhetoric on the importance of a "united front".
A spectre haunts such parties, because they see within this spectre a vision of their own collapse.
3. Breach of the disciplinary/social media ⚖️
Due to the party's own incompetence, Paul's disciplinary dragged on for months, past the party's self-imposed deadline of when they would get back to him. Understandably, Paul made a short public statement of this fact in response to the CPB breaching its own protocol.
Aware of the CPB's recent crackdown on activists via its disciplinary process, Paul took a transcript of his hearing for his own defense. This was then retroactively used to justify a suspension which had no justification in the first place.
4. Involvement in YCL Materials 📕
While the CPB kept Paul at arm's length, the YCL at one time valued his contributions and sought him out for education work, including educational events, webinars, and an updated print/online study guide.
Since the crackdown under Alex Gordon and Georgina Andrews, this material has been purged from the YCL's website. The Party's crackdown on education demonstrates a severe intellectual anxiety over the vulnerability of its doctrine.
The expulsion of a great intellectual like Paul Cockshott, as well as anyone who resists YCL/CPB revisionism and sectarianism, has proved definitively that there will be no communist restoration within these organisations.
After 75 years of failed attempts to reverse the decline of Marxism-Leninism from within the legacy structures of the CPB and CPGB, this project is weaker than ever before.
While liberals detaching themselves from these organisations will most likely gravitate towards other liberal-left alternatives, such as the Green Party or Your Party, communists seeking a leadership which supports their talent and discipline should instead join up with communists in @WorkersPartyGB.
There, they will be put in touch with like-minded comrades, their contributions will be valued, and their skills and experiences will be put to productive work.
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CYCLONE retweeted
ON MY EXPULSION FROM THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRITAIN
Paul Cockshott has been expelled from the Communist Party of Britain for supporting the ACP (not a rule in the party’s own constitution), supposed anti-semitism and conspiracy theorizing (based upon a retweet of a post about a terrorist attack that was pinned on the IRGC for some reason), and allegations of breaches in the disciplinary process and social media protocol.
It shouldn’t need to be said that all of these allegations are unfounded.
Paul Cockshott is an invaluable Marxist-Leninist scholar who has spent decades education and advancing the theory of Marxism.
The Communist Party of Britain is a sham organization. It has substantiated none of these claims, and has undemocratically and unconstitutionally kicked Paul Cockshott out of the party for seemingly no other reason than “we don’t like him”.
Read Paul Cockshott’s own article about it here:
paulcockshott.wordpress.com/…
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CYCLONE retweeted
We cannot ever unite with this monster at the heart of the Green Party. His left Zionist justification for amending the Zionism is Racism motion is exactly in the same vein as Zio Zack.
Socialism must destroy Leftism.
.@TheGreenParty conference motion condemns "Zionism as racism". But there are two types of Zionism:
1) a legitimate liberation movement against antisemitic oppression such as Nazism.
2) a supremacist movement that ethnically cleanses Palestinians.
Amend the motion!
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CYCLONE retweeted
Stand against empire!
Stand against imperialism!
Stand against Zionism!
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Whilst the class collaborators in the @CPBritain abstain entirely from the leadership of the working class, the @WorkersPartyGB have set about a campaign on firm socialist principles. The beauty is in the simplicity.
In the Workers Party there are five key principles that form the foundations of British socialism in theory and practice:
1. Britain is a class society that exploits the great majority of workers for the benefit of the minority of capitalists - we serve the working class.
2. Britain is an imperialist nation, that is, it is capitalism in the epoch of parasitic finance capitalism and this results in predatory wars to expand markets - we are anti-imperialist.
3. The democratic struggle in Britain for liberty, such as freedom of speech, assembly and ultimately a republic, can in this period unify politically the broadest range of society against the British state - we are republican.
4. The solution to these issues is socialism, when not just the state but also the towering heights of the economy, the means of production and the markets will be in the hands of those who can use them, i.e., the operatives of various kinds - we are socialist.
5. It is around the prior points that we unite, those subordinate issues on which we differ we overcome by prioritising those principles on which we are all agreed - we uphold unity.
These principles should not and do not bar us from working with others. We endeavour to work with other forces in society on one, some, or all. As we believe it is in the struggle to change material conditions that consciousness changes.
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By “abroad”, did you mean exile? @M_Star_Online
Statement from the Communist Party of Britain on the upcoming Holborn & St Pancras by-election
On 8th October, the people of Holborn & St Pancras will go to the polls.
The choice on offer is not a choice for working people. A Labour candidate whose record as a Camden councillor is "brief and inglorious." A Green leader who supports sending British arms to Ukraine and whose party has abandoned even the policy of leaving NATO. A Workers Party campaign "run from abroad with few roots in local communities."
"If the reason for standing a principled anti-imperialist candidate in elections is to build grassroots organisation for working class power, then Galloway falls at the first hurdle."
Faced with these unpalatable choices, the Executive Committee of the Communist Party calls for a principled abstention.
The crisis of working-class political representation cannot be resolved by voting for any of the candidates on offer. It can only be resolved by building a stronger Communist Party, one rooted in communities, in workplaces, and in the fight for peace and social justice.
The needs of the hour are clear - build a stronger peace movement, end imperialist slaughter in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine, get Britain out of the NATO war machine, and strengthen working-class communities to fight for better housing, public services and jobs.
That work will not be achieved by voting for hopium or hype. It will be achieved by organising.
Read our full statement.
Join the Communist Party of Britain.
#HolbornAndStPancras #BuildTheParty #CommunistParty #ByElection
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CYCLONE retweeted
Whatever the outcome of this election, standing in Holborn and St Pancras has already been a worthwhile endeavour. You don’t get many opportunities to expose the so-called political left quite like this.
We exposed Polanski as a Zionist along with the deep division within the Green Party: the party bureaucracy and the well-meaning Palestine activists inside the Greens. We demonstrated how us standing FORCED Zack to identify himself as an anti-Zionist in total contraction with his best efforts to dilute the Zionism is racism motion. This demonstrates how small parties like ours can punch well above their weight and influence national politics in a meaningful way.
We exposed the treachery of the so-called Communist Party of Britain, a ‘communist’ party that readily endorsed the blood-soaked genocidal Labour Party in Makerfield but not the anti-NATO socialist George Galloway. Everyone could see through the CPB’s pathetic excuse of ‘lack of grassroots support’ as indulging bitter sectarianism instead of mucking in and helping build such grassroots support for a socialist and anti-imperialist alternative.
On to the cranks, the CPGB-ML, after lambasting us for standing down in Gorton and Denton, hypocritically refuse to acknowledge us providing an anti NATO anti Zionist alternative in this election. They applauded the CPB’s ‘principled’ sectarian line solely because it harmed our campaign efforts. Workers Hammer joined the chorus with baseless allegations of hostility to transgender people. We successfully united the degenerate left in their hatred of us.
Holborn and St Pancras puts the Workers Party at the vanguard of advancing socialist and anti imperialist politics in Britain. You are either with us, or with them.
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Agreed, it's despicable really. Joining the WPB is the best fightback against left-liberalism which has done more harm than good to our movement. ⚙️✊
I wanted to give a longer response to this statement, not because I find it surprising or even because it makes me as angry as it would have done earlier this year, but because I think it reveals something fundamental about how the CPB operates as a party and I hope that members and sympathisers will see this and give it some thought.
The CPB executive does not make political decisions based on what's best for the working class, for socialism, or even based on its own party programme, but begins from the decision which most benefits itself then works backwards to find a reason to justify it. This is what we mean by opportunism.
The CPB backed Tony Blair's Labour Party three times to "oppose Toryism," despite sharing broadly identical politics and reinforcing the two-party system.
It backed Keir Starmer's Labour Party to "oppose fascism," despite the fact that fascism is strengthened by Labour Party governments.
It then backed Andy Burnham's leadership bid via the Makerfield by-election to "weaken Starmerism," which Burnham clearly hasn't done. "Starmerism" and "Burnhamism" are broadly the same thing.
But the specific reason isn't actually important, the goal of these moves is simply to maintain the party's own survival which is predicated on the electoral fortunes of the Labour Party and opposition to any effective socialist alternative.
One significant reason for defending Labour is the Morning Star, around which the CPB was formed and without which the CPB wouldn't have much significance at all. The Star's business model relies on courting donors and supporters from among the labour aristocracy, including Left-Labour MPs, fat, pro-war, strike-averse trade union leaders, and all the good people who genuinely believe that it represents a working-class, socialist politics.
When I was a member, the CPB also survived on so-called "legacy donations" from dead supporters who believed that the party was a vehicle for socialism despite all evidence to the contrary. These donations can reach hundreds of thousands of pounds and, vampire-like, the party uses them to breathe life into a party machinery which, in practice, defends the Labour Party, defends Israel, defends Liberalism, neutralises productive activists, etc.
If this support were withdrawn, the Morning Star would soon collapse without switching its support to an alternative class base (ideally, the working class). But it refuses to do this, so instead jealously defends the link between workers and the labour aristocracy.
But let's look at the reason for this particular decision to endorse an abstention in Holborn:
Firstly, the reason is not (on paper, at least) George Galloway's actual politics, which I would argue are more "communist" than the Communist Party's.
The CPB defends Israel, George wants it dismantled.
The CPB defends Labour, George wants it destroyed.
The CPB want Russia to stop defending itself against NATO, George wants NATO defeated.
The CPB wants the working class shackled to liberals, imperialists, and anti-communists (their version of a "united front"), George wants the working class to regain its political independence from these forces but will work with anyone furthering socialist or anti-imperialist goals, etc.
But as I said, the CPB doesn't mention George's politics at the risk of exposing their own. Instead, their argument rests on a claim that they do not usually make and which actually contradicts their own party programme: "the reason for standing a principled anti-imperialist candidate in elections is to build grassroots organisation for working class power" which they then claim George is unable to do from exile (or "abroad" as they sneeringly put it.)
The core of the CPB's reformist strategy in Britain's Road to Socialism is to form a Labour/Liberal/Socialist majority in parliament, and we can quote from the document itself:
"The opening stage in Britain’s socialist revolution will therefore have to culminate in the election of a left-wing government at Westminster, based on a socialist, Labour, communist and progressive majority at the polls."
The CPB does believe in a grassroots movement (usually the "official" movement tied to the trade union leaderships and Labour Party), but sees this as more of a pressure or lobbying group, while the really important political work is delegated to the elected politicians of Westminster.
Essentially, the CPB programme can either be a sacrosanct rulebook or conveniently ignored, based entirely on the whims of an opportunistic leadership clique which opposes socialism.
Because if the CPB genuinely believed in its own programme, then our own party would surely be natural allies, since we are the only socialist and anti-imperialist political party actually capable of winning elections. They can support us at election time, we can support them in mass movement work. We even have a dual membership structure which would allow for this and have repeatedly stated our willingness to work together on productive activity, so why doesn't this happen?
Because the actual politics of the CPB is not the one depicted on its flag, in its iconography, in its language, or in its activists eulogising the revolutionary traditions of our country which their own party, the CPB, had nothing to do with.
The actual politics of the CPB is to defend the Labour Party and maintain the link between the working class and the labour aristocracy which our own party has committed itself to destroying. This puts our two parties in a conflict which on the surface may seem strange, but makes perfect sense in practice.
The CPB is socialist in form, capitalist in essence, while the WPB is happy to scrap the communist window-dressing but will never abandon its revolutionary politics.
We are also the best vehicle for building grassroots working-class power. We are not reformists, and we understand that the government throws out the electoral rulebook as soon as its power is threatened.
As it did when the Prime Minister condemned George for winning the Rochdale by election, claiming that this was a "threat to democracy".
As it did when violent attacks were made on our activists, including with machetes and baseball bats, and running them down with cars.
As it did when George and Gayatri were interrogated at Gatwick airport for many hours, and had their devices confiscated for connections to a country which we are not officially at war with.
And as it did when George's bank account was closed without warning and when no guarantee was given that either he or Gayatri could safely return and be united with their family.
Not only this, the campaign in Holborn has actually contributed to our party's goals of expanding our extra-electoral work and working-class power in two key ways:
1. By strengthening ourselves. Through the Holborn campaign, we have had hundreds of on-the-ground conversations, knocked hundreds of doors, and made hundreds of phone calls, all of which allows us to build networks of activists and supporters which can be mobilised for future work. Some of these contacts have already been identified for work in other non-electoral campaigns, including our No Conscription League.
It is insulting and frankly ridiculous to imply that a party with thousands of members and even more supporters, with seven elected councillors and capable of winning hundreds of thousands of votes, is just George Galloway posting on the Internet. We have been running an on-the ground campaign and it doesn't take much research to see this.
Many of these volunteers are sacrificing their own time and incomes and working their asses off, others have even faced workplace disciplinaries for their activism, a level of sacrifice that I never saw within the CPB over anything. Apparently, the more productive work is for the CPB leadership to have a Zoom call, slag us off, and then tell workers not to even bother with the election because the choices are too "unpalatable".
2. By weakening our enemy. Our campaign has held up a mirror to the Green Party to show many thousands of people what an actual socialist and anti-imperialist candidate and party can look like. The Green Party is pro-NATO, pro-war, pro-Israel, and votes through cuts in power. More and more people are waking up to this, but that's only because we actually work to expose the Greens through our campaigning. The Green Party has been losing members as a direct result of this exposure.
Zack Polanski has also had his own, highly convenient political awakening that he is now an "anti-Zionist". Let's be clear, this would not have happened if he was not sensitive to the fact that a genuine anti-Zionist party is cutting into his vote share. Polanski is not an anti-Zionist, his support for watering down the Zionism Is Racism motion makes that clear, and it is likely that the outcome of that vote this weekend will have been influenced by our campaign as well.
Finally, and this should be obvious, we are contesting this election to bring one of the most successful, militant, socialist and anti-imperialist politicians back from exile and place him at the heart of the British establishment.
George will have much greater security from political repression if he is an elected MP, and he does actually have a chance, however slim, of winning. He has won more elections than any other politician in British history bar one, and he's done it before at worse odds than this one.
All we can do is continue to expose opportunists of every stripe, continue to do our work and aim to do better work than we were doing previously. I can't speak for the feelings of CPB members and supporters reading this, but I do know from my own experience that the CPB is hostile to productive work internally and sectarian towards productive work externally.
I was kicked out of the CPB essentially because I insisted on productive work and insisted on challenging the structures and positions which obstructed that work, and many others have been kicked out for similar. If you do challenge these structures, you will also be expelled. If you don't, most of your time which could be spent on productive activity is redirected to pointless nonsense.
At best, those who leave the CPB will usually abandon party work and move to other areas of struggle. At worst, they will become demoralised, depressed, and politically nihilistic.
What I can say for the Workers Party is that the complete opposite is the case. All we care about is your contribution to the party and to the class, and the leadership is desperate for more people ready to do that productive work and will help you if you signal your commitment.
You don't have to join as a member to work with us or support us, but if you want to you can sign up here: workerspartygb.org/join
Or if you have any questions about how we work, reach out to me, and we can have a call or chat. My DMs are open.
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The Left & the WPB
The Workers Party is not a Left party. We are too effective to be lumped in with those politically constipated relics of a now bygone era.
The twentieth century was tumultuous. The world is still coming to terms with it. The working class movement, despite many twists and turns, even reverses, scored brilliant victories. The men and women who particpated were dynamic, sincere and ground-breaking.
The inheritors of this legacy, reeling from some major strategic defeats, have been unable to come to terms with our past and have failed to rise to the challenges of today. These are the parties of The Left. The perennial losers. Unable, unwilling and unconscious of the need to re-engage a mass audience in the 101's of Socialism. Handcuffed by a preoccupation with tactics that suited a different era, and which were carried out by a movement in the ascendancy.
These groups are preoccupied with preserving their fishing rights amongst one another in whatever bend of the river they presently occupy.
Such a party is the Communist Party of Britain, which today struggles to find excuses to give their members who yearn for action. There must surely be many who would relish the opportunity to campaign alongside us in Holborn & St Pancras against Nato warmongering and Zionist interests. And we would welcome their participation.
But the CPB is one of the sclerotic parties of rrrevolutionary rhetoric and are left quite at peace by both the British State and British workers. For those who wish to do more than abstractly "build the party" it must be incredibly frustrating.
Their scholastic version of history, culture and political agitation has contributed to a paralysis in the Socialist movement in the face of the onward march of global capitalism towards an all out imperialist world war.
The CPB work so hard to keep the movement facing any which way but towards the Workers Party. One minute Andrew Murray will extoll the virtues of Your Party, the next, its the Greens.
Only the Workers Party is demonstrating in practice (not in mere words) how to go forward. A legitimate and by Socialist standards successful party with election victories under our belt. A campaigning party targeted by the State for sincere and unrelenting hostility towards racism and war. A multiethnic working-class party that looks, sounds and talks like todays working-class and still holds true to the achievements of the past and the inheritance of our parents and grandparents. A party almost alone in upholding the historical truth concerning the history of the defining moment of the twentieth century, our wartime alliance with the USSR.
Eventually the morbid relics which seek to build a monument rather than a movement, will be swept aside, as they were in the twentieth century.
Statement from the Communist Party of Britain on the upcoming Holborn & St Pancras by-election
On 8th October, the people of Holborn & St Pancras will go to the polls.
The choice on offer is not a choice for working people. A Labour candidate whose record as a Camden councillor is "brief and inglorious." A Green leader who supports sending British arms to Ukraine and whose party has abandoned even the policy of leaving NATO. A Workers Party campaign "run from abroad with few roots in local communities."
"If the reason for standing a principled anti-imperialist candidate in elections is to build grassroots organisation for working class power, then Galloway falls at the first hurdle."
Faced with these unpalatable choices, the Executive Committee of the Communist Party calls for a principled abstention.
The crisis of working-class political representation cannot be resolved by voting for any of the candidates on offer. It can only be resolved by building a stronger Communist Party, one rooted in communities, in workplaces, and in the fight for peace and social justice.
The needs of the hour are clear - build a stronger peace movement, end imperialist slaughter in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine, get Britain out of the NATO war machine, and strengthen working-class communities to fight for better housing, public services and jobs.
That work will not be achieved by voting for hopium or hype. It will be achieved by organising.
Read our full statement.
Join the Communist Party of Britain.
#HolbornAndStPancras #BuildTheParty #CommunistParty #ByElection
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I wanted to give a longer response to this statement, not because I find it surprising or even because it makes me as angry as it would have done earlier this year, but because I think it reveals something fundamental about how the CPB operates as a party and I hope that members and sympathisers will see this and give it some thought.
The CPB executive does not make political decisions based on what's best for the working class, for socialism, or even based on its own party programme, but begins from the decision which most benefits itself then works backwards to find a reason to justify it. This is what we mean by opportunism.
The CPB backed Tony Blair's Labour Party three times to "oppose Toryism," despite sharing broadly identical politics and reinforcing the two-party system.
It backed Keir Starmer's Labour Party to "oppose fascism," despite the fact that fascism is strengthened by Labour Party governments.
It then backed Andy Burnham's leadership bid via the Makerfield by-election to "weaken Starmerism," which Burnham clearly hasn't done. "Starmerism" and "Burnhamism" are broadly the same thing.
But the specific reason isn't actually important, the goal of these moves is simply to maintain the party's own survival which is predicated on the electoral fortunes of the Labour Party and opposition to any effective socialist alternative.
One significant reason for defending Labour is the Morning Star, around which the CPB was formed and without which the CPB wouldn't have much significance at all. The Star's business model relies on courting donors and supporters from among the labour aristocracy, including Left-Labour MPs, fat, pro-war, strike-averse trade union leaders, and all the good people who genuinely believe that it represents a working-class, socialist politics.
When I was a member, the CPB also survived on so-called "legacy donations" from dead supporters who believed that the party was a vehicle for socialism despite all evidence to the contrary. These donations can reach hundreds of thousands of pounds and, vampire-like, the party uses them to breathe life into a party machinery which, in practice, defends the Labour Party, defends Israel, defends Liberalism, neutralises productive activists, etc.
If this support were withdrawn, the Morning Star would soon collapse without switching its support to an alternative class base (ideally, the working class). But it refuses to do this, so instead jealously defends the link between workers and the labour aristocracy.
But let's look at the reason for this particular decision to endorse an abstention in Holborn:
Firstly, the reason is not (on paper, at least) George Galloway's actual politics, which I would argue are more "communist" than the Communist Party's.
The CPB defends Israel, George wants it dismantled.
The CPB defends Labour, George wants it destroyed.
The CPB want Russia to stop defending itself against NATO, George wants NATO defeated.
The CPB wants the working class shackled to liberals, imperialists, and anti-communists (their version of a "united front"), George wants the working class to regain its political independence from these forces but will work with anyone furthering socialist or anti-imperialist goals, etc.
But as I said, the CPB doesn't mention George's politics at the risk of exposing their own. Instead, their argument rests on a claim that they do not usually make and which actually contradicts their own party programme: "the reason for standing a principled anti-imperialist candidate in elections is to build grassroots organisation for working class power" which they then claim George is unable to do from exile (or "abroad" as they sneeringly put it.)
The core of the CPB's reformist strategy in Britain's Road to Socialism is to form a Labour/Liberal/Socialist majority in parliament, and we can quote from the document itself:
"The opening stage in Britain’s socialist revolution will therefore have to culminate in the election of a left-wing government at Westminster, based on a socialist, Labour, communist and progressive majority at the polls."
The CPB does believe in a grassroots movement (usually the "official" movement tied to the trade union leaderships and Labour Party), but sees this as more of a pressure or lobbying group, while the really important political work is delegated to the elected politicians of Westminster.
Essentially, the CPB programme can either be a sacrosanct rulebook or conveniently ignored, based entirely on the whims of an opportunistic leadership clique which opposes socialism.
Because if the CPB genuinely believed in its own programme, then our own party would surely be natural allies, since we are the only socialist and anti-imperialist political party actually capable of winning elections. They can support us at election time, we can support them in mass movement work. We even have a dual membership structure which would allow for this and have repeatedly stated our willingness to work together on productive activity, so why doesn't this happen?
Because the actual politics of the CPB is not the one depicted on its flag, in its iconography, in its language, or in its activists eulogising the revolutionary traditions of our country which their own party, the CPB, had nothing to do with.
The actual politics of the CPB is to defend the Labour Party and maintain the link between the working class and the labour aristocracy which our own party has committed itself to destroying. This puts our two parties in a conflict which on the surface may seem strange, but makes perfect sense in practice.
The CPB is socialist in form, capitalist in essence, while the WPB is happy to scrap the communist window-dressing but will never abandon its revolutionary politics.
We are also the best vehicle for building grassroots working-class power. We are not reformists, and we understand that the government throws out the electoral rulebook as soon as its power is threatened.
As it did when the Prime Minister condemned George for winning the Rochdale by election, claiming that this was a "threat to democracy".
As it did when violent attacks were made on our activists, including with machetes and baseball bats, and running them down with cars.
As it did when George and Gayatri were interrogated at Gatwick airport for many hours, and had their devices confiscated for connections to a country which we are not officially at war with.
And as it did when George's bank account was closed without warning and when no guarantee was given that either he or Gayatri could safely return and be united with their family.
Not only this, the campaign in Holborn has actually contributed to our party's goals of expanding our extra-electoral work and working-class power in two key ways:
1. By strengthening ourselves. Through the Holborn campaign, we have had hundreds of on-the-ground conversations, knocked hundreds of doors, and made hundreds of phone calls, all of which allows us to build networks of activists and supporters which can be mobilised for future work. Some of these contacts have already been identified for work in other non-electoral campaigns, including our No Conscription League.
It is insulting and frankly ridiculous to imply that a party with thousands of members and even more supporters, with seven elected councillors and capable of winning hundreds of thousands of votes, is just George Galloway posting on the Internet. We have been running an on-the ground campaign and it doesn't take much research to see this.
Many of these volunteers are sacrificing their own time and incomes and working their asses off, others have even faced workplace disciplinaries for their activism, a level of sacrifice that I never saw within the CPB over anything. Apparently, the more productive work is for the CPB leadership to have a Zoom call, slag us off, and then tell workers not to even bother with the election because the choices are too "unpalatable".
2. By weakening our enemy. Our campaign has held up a mirror to the Green Party to show many thousands of people what an actual socialist and anti-imperialist candidate and party can look like. The Green Party is pro-NATO, pro-war, pro-Israel, and votes through cuts in power. More and more people are waking up to this, but that's only because we actually work to expose the Greens through our campaigning. The Green Party has been losing members as a direct result of this exposure.
Zack Polanski has also had his own, highly convenient political awakening that he is now an "anti-Zionist". Let's be clear, this would not have happened if he was not sensitive to the fact that a genuine anti-Zionist party is cutting into his vote share. Polanski is not an anti-Zionist, his support for watering down the Zionism Is Racism motion makes that clear, and it is likely that the outcome of that vote this weekend will have been influenced by our campaign as well.
Finally, and this should be obvious, we are contesting this election to bring one of the most successful, militant, socialist and anti-imperialist politicians back from exile and place him at the heart of the British establishment.
George will have much greater security from political repression if he is an elected MP, and he does actually have a chance, however slim, of winning. He has won more elections than any other politician in British history bar one, and he's done it before at worse odds than this one.
All we can do is continue to expose opportunists of every stripe, continue to do our work and aim to do better work than we were doing previously. I can't speak for the feelings of CPB members and supporters reading this, but I do know from my own experience that the CPB is hostile to productive work internally and sectarian towards productive work externally.
I was kicked out of the CPB essentially because I insisted on productive work and insisted on challenging the structures and positions which obstructed that work, and many others have been kicked out for similar. If you do challenge these structures, you will also be expelled. If you don't, most of your time which could be spent on productive activity is redirected to pointless nonsense.
At best, those who leave the CPB will usually abandon party work and move to other areas of struggle. At worst, they will become demoralised, depressed, and politically nihilistic.
What I can say for the Workers Party is that the complete opposite is the case. All we care about is your contribution to the party and to the class, and the leadership is desperate for more people ready to do that productive work and will help you if you signal your commitment.
You don't have to join as a member to work with us or support us, but if you want to you can sign up here: workerspartygb.org/join
Or if you have any questions about how we work, reach out to me, and we can have a call or chat. My DMs are open.
Statement from the Communist Party of Britain on the upcoming Holborn & St Pancras by-election
On 8th October, the people of Holborn & St Pancras will go to the polls.
The choice on offer is not a choice for working people. A Labour candidate whose record as a Camden councillor is "brief and inglorious." A Green leader who supports sending British arms to Ukraine and whose party has abandoned even the policy of leaving NATO. A Workers Party campaign "run from abroad with few roots in local communities."
"If the reason for standing a principled anti-imperialist candidate in elections is to build grassroots organisation for working class power, then Galloway falls at the first hurdle."
Faced with these unpalatable choices, the Executive Committee of the Communist Party calls for a principled abstention.
The crisis of working-class political representation cannot be resolved by voting for any of the candidates on offer. It can only be resolved by building a stronger Communist Party, one rooted in communities, in workplaces, and in the fight for peace and social justice.
The needs of the hour are clear - build a stronger peace movement, end imperialist slaughter in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine, get Britain out of the NATO war machine, and strengthen working-class communities to fight for better housing, public services and jobs.
That work will not be achieved by voting for hopium or hype. It will be achieved by organising.
Read our full statement.
Join the Communist Party of Britain.
#HolbornAndStPancras #BuildTheParty #CommunistParty #ByElection
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The Communist Party of Britain’s call for a ‘principled abstention’ from the Holborn and St Pancras by-election is the product of a most unprincipled sectarianism. Such hostility shown to the Workers Party hasn’t been demonstrated by the CPB to Labour whilst the latter was struggling to wash Palestinian blood from its hands along with the victims of uniparty austerity.
Instead of building the united front against austerity and war, the CPB opted to denigrate our campaign for lacking the resources the rival establishment parties have. The wise thing for the CPB to have done would be to stay quiet rather than advertise their treacherous tendency.
Let the CPB wait for approval from the ‘official movement’, we’ll push on without them.
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Denounced by a Prime Minister.
Detained by counter terror police.
Debanked by the Bank of Scotland.
Driven into exile by the regime.
Vote rebel, not regime!
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The regime will goose step your boys to their graves.
The enemy is at home, not abroad!
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The Workers Party proposes rebuilding British industry, creating secure jobs, strengthening the NHS, reducing household bills through public ownership of key utilities, and investing in local infrastructure. Vote for @georgegalloway for #HolbornStPancras on 8th October
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The Green Goddess will be familiar to older viewers. It was a fake fire engine deployed by the state to undermine the real firefighters in times of dispute. The Green Party is the same. They take socialists by the hand merely as a prelude to taking us by the throat. They are nothing to do with us. Class politics are entirely alien to them. That’s why they endlessly fixate on everything but class politics. One divisive fad after another.
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Vote for @georgegalloway on 8th of October in #HolbornAndStPancras #Holborn #StPancras @WorkersPartyGB @georgegalloway
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