LONDON PUBLIC MEETING: building an anti-imperialist anti-war movement
Ed | 31.10.2001 18:36
FIGHT RACISM! FIGHT IMPERIALISM! Public meeting building an anti-imperialist anti-war war movement. Fight Labour imperialism!
A public meeting against the war, with the aim of laying the foundations for a truely anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-war coalition in this country. The meeting is at 4pm on SATURDAY 4 November - THIS SATURDAY! At the Millman Street Community Centre, Millman Street, (Russell Square tube).
A chance to meet people from different backgrounds already active in opposing the war and in other anti-imperialist struggles. OPEN TO ALL! We will be building an anti-imperialist contingent for the national anti-war demonstration in London on SUNDAY November 18.
A chance to meet people from different backgrounds already active in opposing the war and in other anti-imperialist struggles. OPEN TO ALL! We will be building an anti-imperialist contingent for the national anti-war demonstration in London on SUNDAY November 18.
Ed
e-mail:
frfiwye@hotmail.com
Homepage:
www.revolutionarycommunist.com
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seeing rcp,swp,ircl,all trot fronts
01.11.2001 02:17
for anarchy.........
watch the state
Wrong on all counts
01.11.2001 11:51
Secondly we don't operate any "fronts" unlike some organisations (eg the SWP's Globalise Resistance). We do not hide the fact we are communists because we are not ashamed of who we are.
Thirdly the RCG has nothing to do with old Trotters (we're not Trotskyist)
So wrong on all counts!
NB, the public meeting is this Saturday 3 November, 4 which is a Sunday.
LEAFLET
FIGHT RACISM! FIGHT IMPERIALISM!
STOP LABOUR'S IMPERIALIST WAR
As US and British forces bomb Afghanistan night and day, the British Labour government continues to let the world know that this is not merely a revenge attack by George Bush's government. This is Britain's war too and Labour is setting about it with jingoistic determination.
Blair led the 'diplomatic initiative' which preceded the start of military aggression, building up the 'alliance against terrorism' through bullying and bribing any state which might otherwise have dared to dissent. Home Secretary David Blunkett announced a series of repressive measures to 'combat terrorism'. Most of these measures, in reality, will be used to further attack and criminalise asylum-seekers.
If 'democracy' and 'civilisation' are measured by the presence of a McDonalds on every street and are to be paid for by the oppression of half the world, we are not 'with them', but against them. We are against the imperialist war on Afghanistan; we are against George Bush and the Republican Party's 'crusade' and we are against the imperialist war-mongering British Labour Party.
Labour's barbarity is not new. Every single previous Labour government has been willing to use military means to defend the interests of British imperialism:
Between 1945 and 1951 Labour:
*Brutally put down the liberation struggle in Malaya
*Assisted the restoration of French colonial rule in Vietnam and Dutch rule in Indonesia
*Blockaded Iran, following the nationalisation of the Anglo-Persian oil company
*Ruthlessly exploited the British empire in Africa to aid post-war reconstruction in Britain
Between 1964 and 1970 it:
*Unconditionally supported the US onslaught on Vietnam
*Defended apartheid South Africa and on every occasion used its veto to block sanctions
*Sent troops into the north of Ireland
Between 1974 and 1979 it:
*Continued to defend apartheid South Africa at the UN
*Supported the Shah of Iran as he faced a popular uprising against his tyrannical regime
*Began the sale of Hawk aircraft to Indonesia at the height of the genocidal war in East Timor
Back in opposition, it supported the war in the Falklands/Malvinas, and egged on the Tory government against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Between 1997 and 1999, British forces dropped more bombs than they did in 18 years of Tory rule. The attack on Afghanistan is the fifth overseas military intervention Labour has organised. Anyone who remains a member of this racist, imperialist party demonstrates nothing but contempt for the working class and oppressed. This includes the ridiculous 'left wing' - Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Benn and so on who have no intention of challenging British imperialist power.
Building an effective anti-war movement means we have to challenge the Labour government and the Labour Party. As in the Gulf War, and during the onslaught on Yugoslavia, the SWP and the rest of the social democratic left are trying to prevent any criticism of Labour. Their strategy is to tailor any anti-war movement to what is acceptable to the narrow, self-interested sectarianism of the Labour left. It will police its so called 'broad based' movement to drive out any anti-imperialist tendency. It will prove once again that there is no crime that Labour can commit which will drive the social democratic left into open campaigning opposition. But it is clear that there can be no anti-war movement unless it is anti-imperialist and therefore anti-Labour. We have to break with the imperialist Labour Party now. This is the movement that Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! is building. We call on all socialists and democrats to join us.
Fight Labour racism and imperialism!
FIGHT RACISM! FIGHT IMPERIALISM!
Revolutionary Communist Group
www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk
Ed
marxist/leninist sect declares what it isn't!
01.11.2001 13:38
sleepy
go easy on these guys !
01.11.2001 15:22
on this point, bear in mind that the SWP are clearly "False Trotskyists", for they reject much of his ideology, and oddly enough they even dismiss the Marx-Engels Manifesto of 1848! funny "Marxists" the SWP, you might think! in the 80s they allied themselves with creepy christians at one point , and even now they admit such types to the party, more easily than they would a worker !
to hell with the SWP!, but if you want a better Marxist party to join (I dont personally ) try FRFI!
auguste
marxist/leninist sect gets piss taken out of!
02.11.2001 01:47
barely awake
Anarchist mush easily liquidated by SWP
02.11.2001 14:04
They thought if they ignored the SWP/GR it would go away or all they had to do was a bit of sniping, but the opportunists are winning easily because they are well organised and well resourced and experienced and the movement was completely unprepared for the attack. We could see this in Brighton at the Labour Party conference where in the city that the 'anti-capitalist' movement developed in and became strong in, they were not even confident enough to be sure of being able to organise an even independently of GR's respectable one.
The RCG knows that to build a genuinely revolutionary, anti-imperialist anti-war movement we have got to battle those like the SWP who defend the imperialists all along the line. We don't underestimate them, we know it is a long and hard battle not just a small skirmish and that is why we are organising against them. We need to build a strong anti-imperialist movement that can withstand attack, we want to build links with different anti-imperialist struggles such as the one in Turkey where at the moment over 2,000 political prisoners of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C, recently banned in Britain by the Labour imperialists), Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist-Leninist) (TKP (ML)) and Turkish Union of Revolutionary Communists (TIKB) are on hungerstrike against the fascist imperialist puppet regime.
FIGHT RACISM! FIGHT IMPERIALISM!
Ed
e-mail: frfiwye@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.revolutionarycommunist.com
fight everyone! fight each other!
02.11.2001 17:41
a nonny mouse