Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 16:42:39 +0200
From: Robert Malecki <malecki-AT-algonet.se>
Subject: M-I: Cockroach Extra! (British Elections and Workers Struggle.)




Workers Struggle-Fake Trotskyists and Pabloite revisionists!

The Lcmcri/Workers Struggle group (who claim to be Trotskyists) with the
article "REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISTS AND THE GENERAL ELECTION." (in
Britain)quite clearly shows its obvious political bankruptcy on the
question of how Trotskyists apply the question of "critical support" in
regards to reformist workers parties and in this case the situation
developing internationally around the "new" and "old" Social Democracy
which have become explicitly clear political trends after the demise of the
Soviet Union and the former deformed workers states in East Europe.

 Workers Struggle backhandidly is giving critical support and calls on
workers to support building an imperialist "Democratic" Party of the
American model in Great Britain today! Under the guise of whining that the
majority of workers have not broken with labor "workers and oppressed
peoples" should vote for labor. So instead of telling the workers the hard
truth about Tony Blair's "new" labor which has not only deserted the
working class even in the reformists sense, openly admits that it will in
power carry out the anti-trade union, anti-worker legislation of the Tory
Party. De facto turning the Tory program into their own and these Pabloite
liquidators are tailing the working class rather then trying to lead it! 

In fact the Workers Struggle line is and expression of a leap to the right
by these characters, while paying lip service to Trotskyism and the
question of working class independence and the struggle to reforge the
Fourth international they in practice (in deed) are opportunist to the
core. And in fact are using classical pabloite revisionism of capitulating
to anything that moves, as long as you can call it a worker in order to
justify there rotten "critical" support to these "new" Labor traitors Not
only that these fake Trotskyists with this prove that they are hardly
interested in building a vanguard party of the proletariat, nor reforging a
revolutionary International, but a party of the whole class! including its
rear guard!

It also reaffirms the Lcmcri's softness for anti-imperialist united fronts
albeit with a British flavor of if you are against the Toryies "Vote for
it"..Unfortunately "Blairs" new Labor party is in fact a De facto answer to
the Tories with a political program that appeals to the middle class and in
political reality the British road to popular front politics of the future
not to mention that they have incorporated the anti-worker and trade union
laws of the Tories as their own! And the Lcmcri/Workers Struggle group
appear to have already jumped on the bandwagon. If these fake "Trotskyists"
do not change course they in fact will become nothing else but a English
expression of Pabloite liquidationism  where the movement is everything the
goal nothing..Not only that, they show that they have not understood one
thing about "Proletarian Independence" which they try to pay lip service too!

In fact calling for critical support to "Blair's" new labor while even
themselves (Lcmcri) admit that Blair is trying to create a American
Democratic Party for British Labor ( I would like to remind the LCMRCI that
the American Democratic party is one of the twin parties of capitalism and
not a workers party, despite the support of millions of workers) shows
quite clearly that the Lcmcri are calling on the working class to support
not a labor party in the traditional sense but a party which has broken
with its historical base in the trade unions and is doing everything in its
power to smash the working class and its organizations in its attempt to
streamline new labor into a party of the middle class! And the Lcmcri and
Workers Struggle Group's only answer to this is that a majority of workers
still support it thus we do too!

So in fact the Lcmcri's call for support for "Blair's  "new" labor is in
fact De facto saying to the workers exactly the opposite of what they claim
and helping to build illusions that new labor represented by Tony Blair
actually is doing something in the interests of the working class. The only
prequisite for the Lcmcri calling for a vote to Blair's new labor is that
part of the working class support it thus it is OK to call for a vote for a
party which has broken with its mass organizational base in the trade
unions for a pro imperialist Democratic Party solution of the American
model! Since when do Trotskyists have the line that "critical support" is
determined by the amount of workers who support something? 

And in England the development of Scargill's SLP which in a very clear
sense represents "old" labor and the traditionalists and back to the good
old times. And in fact a clear class struggle alternative expressing the
both bitterness and reformist illusions of the new developments in the
Social Democracy not only in England but elsewhere. The SLP must be seen
for what it is, a classical left right split of the Social Democracy along
the lines of having illusions in going back to the good old times and the
growing army of poor and working class people who quite clearly see the
difference of the SLP version of back to the good old times and the anti
working class and anti-trade union policies of "New Labour". But our fake
Trotskyists of the Lcmcri obviously can see no difference and draw the
obvious conclusions of using the tactic of "critical support" to deepen and
widen the horizons of these workers who in fact have seen and experienced
for themselves what Tony Blair's "new" Labor party really means. The Lcmcri
now has placed itself in a position to the Right of the traditionalists and
are calmly telling workers to support a party which has deserted them even
in the reformist sense!

Naturally the only clear line of tactical support in the British elections
is a call for "No Vote" for the strike breaking, anti-union, anti-working
class "New" Labor Party of Tony Blair. no support to these traitors who are
adopting the politics of the Tories and not in the least the "American"
model of the democratic party. While at the same time giving "critical"
support to the SLP candidates. Communist revolutionaries in these elections
will patiently explain to workers that there is no fundamental difference
between the last years of Tory conservative politics and the politics of
the "new" labor party of Tony Blair. It will also explain that critical
support to the SLP is just that! Communinists/Trotskyists/Bolshevik
Leninists do not have any illusions that the program of the SLP which
basically is the program of back to the English model of traditional Social
democratic politics is a reformist pipedream. And that only by fighting for
the construction of a Bolshevik Leninist alternative in the elections, in
the trade unions, and the entire workers movement which will fight on a
program of *real* proletarian Independence and a struggle for power. This
program is not a return to the utopian traditionalist politics of the good
old days. But a program which leads to the destruction of the present
system and replacing it with the dictatorship of the proletariat.

A step in this direction must be the creation of a Bolshevik Party in Great
Britain as elsewhere which against all these fake Trotskyists and so called
leftists who can not even tell the difference between a Labor Party which
has deserted the working class and supports not even the traditional
reformists program of Social Democracy (Tony Blairs new Labor Party) and
the SLP which encompasses the bitterness and aspirations of the growing
army of workers who at this point in time still have many reformist
illusions about going back to the good old times of "traditional
labor"..But understand that Tony Blair's "new" labor is the deadly enemy of
every class conscious worker!

Unfortunately it is the Lcmcri and Workers Struggle group who with their
appetites  of being so called authodox "Trotskyists" and part of the
necessarily regroupment Internationally in the creation of a reforged
International have shown with there new found love for Tony Blair's New
Labor (because there are still workers that support these traitors) that
they are no better then the typical Pabloite liquidators who understand
nothing about revolutionary politics nor the fairly simple equation of
telling the truth to the British working class about new labor. They have
shown that rather then "struggle" for a *real* split of the Social
Democratic base from the top is also a struggle for the formation of a
revolutionary vanguard of a mass character led by the Bolshevik Leninists
that there real appetite winds up by not even being able to come up with a
correct line in the British General Election and in fact are joining the
anti Tory British expression of popular front politics.  In fact rather
then acting like Communists and Bolshevik Leninists  fighting for a
revolutionary regroupment around the fundemental program and tactics of
Trotskyism. They have leaped into the arms of Pabloite liquidationism and
the most vulgar sort of workerist opportunism!

Any militant who might have mistakenly thought or seen that the Lcmcri and
workers Struggle group as a revolutionary alternative in the present
regroupments going on Internationally after the demise of Stalinism must
clearly see that the Lcmcri and Workers Struggle Group are nothing other
then a bunch of centrists who at best have shown not that they have
anything to do with Trotskyism. But in fact are trying to find and easy and
opportunist way of not telling the workers the elementary truth of the
present situation in British politics. A group who pays lip service to
revolutionary regroupment who can not even see the difference between a
critical vote for "new" Labor and a critical vote for the SLP will never
create the human material and cadre necessary for building a strong section
of a reforged Trotskyist International. 

Instead what we have is a group who is foundering around in the mud
muttering "Trotskyist" phraseology without having understood one fucking
thing. "Critical" support is a revolutionary tool to form the future
vanguard of the Proletariat. To raise its consciousness and its ability to
struggle around clear and defined goals and to forment a political split
between the base and the top of the parties they at present follow with the
goal of the Bolshevik Leninists coming out on top and standing at the head
of the struggle.

The Lcmcri tactic is to sow confusion and fake unity against the "Tories"
and the most vulgar sort of capitulation to workerism and the most backward
layers of the class. Tail enders who will lead nothing no where.
In fact the Lcmcri when push comes to shove are no better then the pro
American Labor Party people who support staying inside the Democratic
Party! That is the bottom line of their line of "critical" support in the
coming British elections to the "new" Labor party of Tony Blair.  

And the British Working class should turn there backs on these fake
Trotskyists because they are not trying to lead the working class forward
but at best backward!

Cockroach hereby says to all militants who might of by mistake thought that
this group could play a role in helping in the struggle of a reforged
Communist International should take contact with the International
Communist League (ICL) or their British section who in their document
"Revolutionary Regroupment" (the entire document is at my homepage) quite
clearly points out the political thrust of this grouping. The latest
article by them only confirms what the ICL has been saying about the
political trajectory of this group. And if you really want the Lcmcri and
Workers Struggle group to be part of any revolutionary regroupment it is I
am afraid to say that Comrades in the organisation should immediately take
contact with the ICL and discuss the possibility of creating a real
revolutionary opposition inside of this organisation in order to win the
best elements to the program of Trotskyism.

No political support to Tony Blair's "new" Labor.

For the tactic of Critical support to the SLP.

Towards the Rebirth of the Fourth International!

Warm regards
Bob Malecki
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