Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:52:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki) 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 --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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