Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:02:33 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: The RCP, Marxism and class struggle


Hugh R. wrote the below, on 04.12 (partly snipped).

And I thought, seeing the subject line, that he meant
the (phony) "RCP"-USA. But it seems there's one
organization by the name "RCP" in Britain too. Of
small interest to me, then, since that other "RCP"
probably doesn't even pretend to stand for the
line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong.

Rolf M.



>John W writes:
>
>> James' reminds us all the heroic defeat of the miner's strike. The same
>>strike in which the RCP was attacked and it paper The Next Step was
>>attack and burnt by those striking miners. The resentment at the RCP
>>siding with the Coal Board, the Thatcher government, the scab miners, the
>>Labour Party and the TUC against the striking miners was so severe that
>>they had to change the title of their paper to TNS to avoid recognition.
>
>This just about says it all, doesn't it. Wrong then about the miners and
>wrong now about the Liverpool dockers.
>
>Once again we see Marxism used as some kind of chic label and sterilized
>from all  contact with the working class and the poor. John continues:

...(snip)



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