Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:52:06 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: The "Unity" List at Jefferson village(Declaration)


With the reorganising of the lists at Jefferson village I submit the 
following declaration on the "unity" list. It is a document that i take full 
responsibility for alone. Hopefully this will be remembered in history as 
one of the documents, if not the first of the struggle against the new 
Internet trend of reformists, neo-Stalinists and fake Trotskyist liquidaters 
who are programatically trying to build a 9 and 1/2 international under the 
guise of "Unity". A Trotskyist document which opposed and opposes this "new" 
trend from the beginning. This project can only lead to new disasters for 
the International Proletariat because it is based on a combination of 
politics which have been tried out in history and failed! But it is also a 
document which sees a *real* communist International in the future which has 
a program for victory.

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki

"Unity" List,Organising the 9 and 1/2 International.

All of the people who have been watching or taking part in the struggle 
around the creation of the "Unity" list at Jefferson Village and all others 
who are new to this subject deserve and uppdate on the struggle. 

The struggle began because the creators of the "unity" list started off on a 
course of banning and exclusion of groups and individuals from taking part 
in the discussions around the question of unity in the workers movement 
after all of the estounding events that have taken place in the last few 
years (foremost the fall of the former Soviet Union). These bans were 
strictly political and directed at the old hard line Stalinists and the 
people who claim to stand for authodox Trotskyism! 

The struggle against this sectarian approach to discussing issues which are 
extremely important to the workers movement internationally quickly led to 
and open battle between the five man moderater "junta" that controlled this 
new list and a principled opposition to these exclusionists and banning 
policies. The struggle escalulated when people who in principle defended 
these attacks by the "unity" list creators against fundemental bougeois 
democracy and workers democracy in the workers movement. For defending those 
who had been banned or excluded from "Unity" numerous people were expelled 
>from the "Unity" list and a new rule about discussing Malecki or the 
creation of the list was imposed on pain of expulsion.

This bureaucratic attack on the principled opposition to exclusionism, bans 
and expulsions was not stopped but in fact grew where we have now numerous 
contacts who are acting as moles on the "Unity" list and keep those who have 
been banned,excluded or expelled well informed of what is going on at 
"Unity" on a daily basis.

Thus we knew about the creation of a new charter in its 6th (!) version 
which has taken away most of the horrible open attacks on workers democracy 
with a long document which gives unlimited power to the five man moderater 
junta to decide who will be allowed on the list and who will be turned away 
at the door. Above this is a secret docuement with special rules for those 
who led the opposition and some of the people who were expelled. The rule is 
tha Malecki one of the leaders of the opposition and who was never allowed 
in from the first for 
being a "Spartacist" is banned from discussion on pain of expulsion. And all 
those who do not accept list policy on the banning of certian groups and 
individuals will 
also be show the door.

In fact when the new charter came to a vote it received under ten votes 6 of 
the votes were the moderaters and co moderater at "Unity" that imposed the 
bans in the beginning. The opposition recieved more letters of solidarity 
then the new list charter
(6th version) got votes in favor of!

We also know that Louis Proyect who was one of the main instigators of the 
hate Malecki campaign left the list in a rage because the "Trotskyists" had 
invaded the list anyway. Proyect has continued his hate Malecki campaign and 
as turned to yellow journalism and provacative accusations that Malecki is 
lying about his Vietnam war activities and is and agent provacateur in the 
pay of imperialism who is here on and errand of sabotaging all lists that 
discuss the workers movement. Naturally not one shred of evidence has this 
yellow journalist supplied for his grave accusations against Malecki. 
Malecki on the other hand has supplied dates and times, names and places, 
letters fron Phil Berrigan confirming his story and even a woman in 
Cleveland openly said on Usenet which library to go to in order to check 
Malecki's story out. But the slanders without evidence by Proyect the yellow 
journalist continued and appear to be growing in intensity.

At the same time Proyect has reapplied for membership on the "Unity" list! 
Is this the price demanded by the the "Unity" list moderaters or is Proyect 
acting alone after the expulsions of the opposition from "Unity? At this 
point i think that Proyect is acting alone. However if the "Unity" list 
allows this yellow journalist back on "Unity" after the serious personal 
slanders against one of the leaders of the way the "Unity" list was created 
then things change! This means that they support these unfounded accusations 
against Malecki who is banned from their list. And will use people like 
Proyect to smear the opposition to their rotten unity project. So i warn 
them now! Taking on Proyect again at this point will be political suicide 
for the "Unity list!

Getting on to what is the "unity" list project in communist reality? This i 
say is a fake unity project dreamed up by the 9 and 1/2 ers. That is a 
collection 
of reformists from the 2 International, a group of liberal Stalinist left 
overs from 
the 3 International and a collection of fake Trotskyists of the 4 
International of the United Secretariat that was destroyed by Pabloism. The 
sum total of the 3 groups is 9 and 1/2. If you count this present fake 
attempt of false unity on the politics of these leftovers from 
reformist,Stalinist,and liquidator internationals.

There idea of "unity" is trying to patch together 2 International trends in 
the labor movement that have historically betrayed the working class. And 
the fake 4 International liquidators who have never been big enough to 
betray the working class appear to be in the lead in taking this iniative. 
In fact liquidating Trotskyism as they always have for a new opportunist 
creation based on the politics of all three of these International trends. 
It is a creation that 
is doomed from the outset and at the first serious sign of class struggle 
will blow this rotten block apart because it is based on three theorys that 
in history have shown themselves  completely bankrupt. The 2 International 
Lenin wrote off 
after the outbreak of the first world war. The third International built by 
Lenin was declared dead by Trotsky after the Stalinist reponsbility of the 
victory of facism in Germany. The Fourth International build by Trotsky was 
destroyed by Pabloist liquidationism and his plans of entering the Stalinist 
parties after the second world war. Thus liquidating the neccessity of 
building a world party of revolution. The Mandelites under the false banner 
of the 4 International contined along this course in order to chase the 
third world guerilla movements, organisations like Solidarnosc' in Poland 
and the Mullahs in Iran saying that Trotskyists parties would develop of 
themselves through some sort of dynamic pressure. In other words we tail and 
support anything left 
sounding if it moves. Sooner or later they will become "Trotskyist".

After the fall of the Soviet Union the Mandelites, the neo Stalinists, the 
left wing reformists are trying to create a new "Unity" Internationally on a 
program whichis partially taken from any spontaneous movement on the left 
that develops or various cleaned up reformist and neo-Stalinist projects and 
trying to build 
Unity in the framework of a combination of all this. The "Unity" list at 
Jefferson Village is and expression of this new fake left unity project 
going on 
Internationally.There we all can agree to disagree as long as we keep our 
table manners and endlessly discuss the importance of this new found fake 
unity of left reformists, neo-Stalinists, and fake trotskyist liquidators! 
This is the common denominator of this group.

The only thing that they really agree on unanimously is to do everything 
they can to bureacratically exclude,ban and expell any serious left 
opposition and have special rules for the revolutionary Trotskyist 
opposition! This opposition they fear because if the opposition was allowed 
to discuss politics on the "Unity list" the 9 and 1/2ers would
run for cover. They have no answers to the communist revolutionaries that 
defend the left opposition and founding documents of the Fourth 
International which they destroyed! And the liquidators are cheered on by 
the reformists and neo-Stalinists because the new "unity" they are talking 
about is to their advantage and on their rotten political programs that have 
been responsible for so many defeats of the working class in the last decades. 

Now these fakes want to cover their rotten line in a furry of discussion 
around "Unity". Unity on the same god damned stuff that has failed time and 
again!  The Trotskyist opposition to these bankrupt politics and 
bureaucratic methods of bans,exclusions, and expulsion need to be seen in 
the light of the rightward moving liquidaters to make this rotten block The 
struggle has raised important questions and serious people will be watching 
this continuing struggle both from the inside and the outside.

Now the struggle around the unity list will enter a new phase. With the 
reorganisation of the lists at Jefferson village the following will take 
place.Those that are on the outside will be posting to Usnet occasionally in 
order to struggle against the Unity list and its plans of building a 9 and 
1/2 International. As well others will be taking up the struggle being 
fought from the inside of those that oppose this unity project from the 
left. So the struggle will continue and take on a new form and hopefully 
drawing more people into this battle in the struggle to forge a new 
communist International!

Because in the final analisis it is not who is banned or who is allowed in 
which will decide the outcome of the struggle. Because this struggle is not 
only going on at Jefferson Village or Internet but around the real world 
outside of cyberspace Internationally. The struggle is between those who 
want to struggle for Trotskyism based on the history of the Bolshevik party 
and the Left Opposition, but also the Transitional Program written by 
Trotsky. It is the struggle of those who stand and struggle for a Trotskyist 
International based on these documents against allof those who have no 
program or a program that has failed miserably.

Against the reformists, neo-Stalinists and fake Trotskyist liquidators.

Against the 9 and1/2 fake "unity.

Forward to a Trotskyist Communist International.

Based on Trotsky's left opposition and the Transitional Program.

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki




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