cP BRitAiN
cP BRitAiN communist-party.org.uk
March 2019
Workers of all lands, unite!
Racists and fascists off our streets RACISM AND FASCISM ot siNce the 1930s have we seen fascists and racists confident enough to take to the streets in such numbers. in Britain, across europe and worldwide, we see demonstrations by far-right groups who exploit the issues of terrorism and grooming gangs to stir up hatred against all Muslims. But it is extreme-right terrorism that is a growing problem while British fascist groups are riddled with convicted sex offenders and child abusers. A new generation of well-funded extreme-right groups have turned to online propaganda and social media to spread their poison. emboldened by the election of trump and with big money and active support from people around trump, British fascists draw on support from the KKK and openly neoNazi organisations and by european racist and far-right groups such as Generation identity. Funded by wealthy backers they are attacking workers on strike and on picket lines and increasingly directing hostile attention to the labour and trade union movement and to the left –showing clearly whose interests they serve.
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Brexit and the EU the peoples’ vote to leave the european Union threw UKiP into crisis. it has now reemerged in the network of openly racist and
islamophobic organisations which includes far out fascists and neo-nazis. communists oppose the eU as a neo-liberal bosses’ club and campaigned for Britain to leave. Millions of working people voted for Britain to take back control of its laws – the same millions who oppose austerity, want water, gas, electricity and public transport back in public ownership. it is a reactionary tactic of divide and rule to identify support for Brexit with racism and fascism, and shows how the contempt an arrogant elite has for working people. the politicians responsible for Britain racist migration laws policies and the inhumane treatment of refugees are the political representatives of the big business bosses, bankers and bureaucrats who want Britain to remain in the eU. The price of 40 years of austerity Behind the liberal facade of this parasitic ruling class there are elements who see in the upsurge of fascism a potential mass base for racist and national chauvinist ideas to deflect attention from the nature of the continuing capitalist crisis and from their austerity agenda. Forty years of austerity – since the Maastricht treaty – across eU countries including in Britain have created the conditions for fascist ideas to fester, particularly when social democratic parties are seen as complicit with eU austerity and the attacks on working class living standards.
Kick out the Tories and communists believe that a working class socialist alternative – which meets the needs of the millions – is an urgent necessity. While social democratic parties across europe that followed the eU austerity agenda face electoral oblivion, here in Britain we have a vastly more popular Labour leadership putting forward socialist policies with a strong possibility of forming a left-wing Labour government. this demands working class unity and is linked inextricably with creation of a broadbased alliance of anti-racists and anti-fascists with activists from our communities, trade unions, campaigns and political parties committed to fighting racism and fascism and an end to this racist tory Government. Another world is possible. communists in Britain and throughout the world have always been in the forefront of the fight against racism and fascism. Many British communists volunteered to fight fascism and defend democracy in spain and many did not return. in the resistance movements of europe and Asia; in the ghettos and death camps, and in the soviet Red Army communists fought to defeat fascism. in the anti-colonial movements and against apartheid; in our communities and in our workplaces communists fought against racism and for working class unity. Because racism and fascists are still a threat; a communist Party is needed in Britain now as much as ever. H
s Spain’s “Left” Critics by Daily Worker editor JR Campbell and George Orwell and Spain by Bill Alexander, who was commander of the British Battalion of the International Brigade, provide a valuable insight into the political controversies and realities of the Spanish Civil War. JR Campbell’s demolition of the ultra left delusions which infected a section of the British left at the time gives a refreshingly partisan and contemporary account of the struggle to organise solidarity with the Spanish Republic Many years later Bill Alexander wrote to counteract the damage that George Owell’s mendacious and highly unreliable Homage to Catalonia done to historical truth. The introduction by Tom Sibley to this pamphlet provides a valuable context to the period and discusses George Orwell’s political views and the revelations that he ended his life as an informer who denounced his literary and political contemporaries to the British secret police. H £6 plus £2p&p www.manifestopress.org.uk ce and resistan lism ica Imperialism colonia Latin Amer o centuries of neoTw ne O rt Pa
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