Socialism is the past, Socialism is the future.
It is an aberration that Socialism is not the present.
We are here to correct this tragedy.
We fight for a Free British Isles: a Socialist British Isles.
Our vision is the British Isles of Social Justice: the British Isles of National Freedom.
It is the British Isles freed from Capitalism, Liberalism & Trotskyism.
The EU Referendum is over and WE have won! The Working Class have spoken and we have told the liberals, the middle class globalisers and the fear-mongerers that we are not scared of a future outside the EU, but that we greet it with relish.
The campaign by the Remain camp was a vile hate-filled one of horror stories and blackmail, including horrendous criminal acts to terrify the people into voting to Remain locked into the prison state. The BBC labelled any one who voted Leave as an accomplice in MP Jo Cox's murder! (see http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2016/06/22/are-you-against-jo/) Thankfully, the People are so sick of their lies that the BBC's manipulation failed. Now that the results are in, the BBC has treated us to endless vitriolic attacks, labeling the Working Class as thick and unfit to vote, labeling the people of all races who voted for Freedom as 'racists'. How people in the UK not wanting to be controlled by Brussels is racist, no-one has attempted to explain.
The BBC has rolled out whining loser after whining loser, each one talking more liberal rubbish than the last. The majority of those who voted have been called racists, stupid, ignorant, white man van types, unfit to vote, mentally unstable, too old and many other insults. The liberals have shown their true faces - they call all who do not think as they do all manner of names. They are the real bigots and the real enemies of democracy. The BBC have joined these slanderous attacks with mournful music which would suit a heavy political defeat, but are completely out of place when what has happened is a democratic vote has been taken and a decision made.
Don't let the sour and twisted Remainers spoil our victory. Let them stew in their hatred and please, please, may they go through with their threats and leave our country forthwith!
Congratulations UK. Well done to the SWPE activists who took the time to campaign for a Leave result, talking with waverers at every opportunity. Well done to everyone from whatever organisation or none who did his or her bit. Well done to everyone who voted to achieve Freedom.
For SWPE, this victory is not the end, but a significant step forward in the fight against Globalism. We want a Free England, a Socialist England, and this result takes us a step closer to that goal. First UK out of the EU, next England out of the UK! With Scotland and Ulster showing signs of leaving the UK, that goal now looks possible.
Well done everyone. This vote has shown that we are not powerless and that our real enemies are the haters of the liberal Ruling Class and their sycophants. The more bile they spew out, the more they expose themselves.
Today is Referendum Day. The manipulators have used every lie, every act of deceit, every criminal endeavor to make us scared of voting for Freedom, but we can see through their lies. If you haven't already, get off your computer and get to the polling station to VOTE LEAVE.
Tomorrow is the day of the EU Referendum. The choice the People of the UK face is a simple one - Freedom or Slavery. The outcome is likely to be that the brain-washed population will vote to 'Remain' in the Capitalist prison. Why? Because the UK government, the global media apparatus, global corporations/financiers (including the Soros controlled Open Society Foundations) and Capitalist/Trotskyite (is there a difference?) politicians worldwide have been campaigning to prevent the People from seeing that voting to Leave the EU is the only hope of ever getting onto the path of Freedom.
The 'Remain' camp has lied repeatedly, claiming that the economy of the UK would go into meltdown if the country was to become independent. The UK trades with the EU as a major importer of EU goods, so the idea that the EU would erect tariffs to halt trade is ludicrous. As Socialists, we find this argument beyond pathetic. Both the Leave and Remain camps have focused upon the need for transnational commerce. SWPE absolutely rejects the need for the UK to rely on trade to survive. This argument is as crass as the pro-Monarchy one which revolves around the need for us to keep in place a parasitic Ruling Class in order to draw in global tourism!
SWPE demands Brexit as a first step towards economic and social self-reliance for the UK. We don't need to trade with other countries. We don't need to be a part of the global capitalist prison camp. What we do need is to be self-sufficient and to make sure that the economy is the servant of the people, with every penny made here or exchanged here, staying here. The Capitalists who believe in a 'free market' are arguing that the UK needs to stay inside the EU in order for goods produced here to get to the customers in the EU. This isn't true. The UK imports just about everything we use, and so leaving the EU without drastically changing the economic direction of the country, would not alter the import situation. The Capitalist economy of the UK imports the majority of goods from China, with the rest coming mainly from the EU. The outcome of a 'Remain' result in the referendum would keep us locked into that system.
A 'Leave' result would - perhaps - make imports more expensive, thus making it necessary for the UK to restore its manufacturing base and produce what we need at home. Exports would become cheaper in that circumstance, further boosting the manufacturing sector and creating jobs. The Capitalist argument to 'Remain' makes no sense.
SWPE predicts that tomorrow the Referendum will see a clear majority of those who bother to vote, voting to stay in the EU. The negative campaigning by the Remain team will have swayed the people into voting for the status quo rather than having the courage to make a decision. That campaign has included forecasts of mass unemployment, more expensive imported televisions (!) and the ludicrous argument that we won't be able to go on holiday to the EU unless we're a part of it (forgetting the millions of Chinese tourists who visit the EU but are not from any of the member states).
The worst part of the campaign has been the intriguingly timed murder of the Remain campaigner, Jo Cox MP, and of the helpful and equally interestingly timed death threats against Yvette Cooper MP. The people have been subjected to ridiculous propaganda to the effect that the UK cannot survive on its own and that there is no alternative to Global Capitalism. The murder and death threats at the end of the campaign have only served to give the impression that Leavers are desperate terrorists and that a vote to Leave is a vote for tyranny. Its almost as if the Ruling Class orchestrated the murder of one of their lackeys to ensure the people stay cowering inside the system which keeps them down. Regardless of the truth of that, they have certainly made use of the events which have made Remain appear the anti-terrorists' choice.
The build up to the Referendum has seen the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, reverse years of campaigning AGAINST the EU in which he accurately described it as an anti-democratic imperialistic tool of corporate oppression. The shameful betrayal of his alleged Socialist principles has left the Working Class in the position where those we are supposed to see as leaders, are lined up against us. Of course, Corbyn, like Cooper and the late Cox, is a Trotskyite, and when it comes down to serious political matters, he can be guaranteed to serve his Banker masters. Before exposing himself as an enemy of the Working Class (and before securing leadership of the Labour Party), Corbyn made the following observations about the EU:
[If] Greece leaves both the eurozone and the EU its future would be uncertain, but at least it could be its own. … There is no future for a usurious Europe that turns its smaller nations into colonies of debt peonage.
Switzerland, which is not a member of the EU, has no problems integrating rail services with Germany, France and Italy, and I do not think that any other country should have any problems either. What we have is the worst of all worlds
Public opposition to the EU’s TTIP treaty is “a cri de coeur for democracy and for the right of people to elect a Government who can decide what goes on in their country.
The betrayal by Corbyn has at least highlighted that the Labour Party will never offer any solutions to the problems of the People, regardless of whether they are Trotskyite fake-Socialists or Blairite ultra-Capitalists. But the joining of the vast majority of the Labour Party with the Liberals and most Conservatives, coupled with the obedient pro-EU propagandists of the BBC and most of the mainstream media, has left the Working Class without a voice, save for the likes of UKIP who have been painted as extremists and of course linked to the murder of an anti-Leave MP and the allegation of death threats against another.
Tomorrow we have a chance to say NO to tyranny. We have a chance to Vote Leave. We have to use that vote, even though the odds are stacked against us. The electoral fraud in the Scottish Independence referendum where pro-Scotland (Leave) votes were 'accidentally' counted as pro-UK (Remain), has set a disturbing precedent in which votes have been miscounted so that the will of the Ruling Class can be enforced. The same lies of lost pensions and economic meltdown were used to scare the Scottish People into staying in the UK prison, as are being used to keep the UK locked into the EU.
If we Leave the EU, power will be brought a step closer to the People, allowing us to control our own laws, economy and way of life. For English Socialists this means a big step forwards in the battle against Global Capitalism, with the next step being an end to the UK, followed by decentralisation to the English regions and ultimately giving power to the People.
If we Remain in the EU, this will not mean that things will simply carry on as before. The EU will use the result to push for closer integration, with an EU Army, Police and Legal System in place to make sure no one country ever escapes its clutches. The TTIP will transfer the EU into a trans-Atlantic bloc with absolute power being transferred to the Capitalist corporations. These factors together will make it possible that the imperialist aggressors of NATO will become the combined EU/US military, pushing us towards war with free-Europe (Belarus and Russia). The NHS will be lost forever as will any chance of having our industries owned by and working for us. Mass immigration as a result of NATO aggression displacing people from countries bombed for global profiteers, will ensure that the EU has a constant supply of cheap labour to drive down pay, eliminate decent working conditions, and make Wage Slavery more unpleasant than Slavery with chains.
If you want to be a Slave, to have your children owned by the Capitalist parasites, to have 'education' turned into pure indoctrination, to have the Class System reinforced to the point that you and your descendants will never get any more than the scraps from the table of those who think they have a right to own you, then vote Remain. If you want to be free, join with all SWPE activists and vote Leave.
The murders of 49 club goers in Orlando by Omar Mateen on June the 12th would not have happened if the USA had been a Socialist nation. The murders came about as a direct consequence of having an economy which has the ludicrous aim of continuous expansion and with it the need for an ever increasing population, regardless of cultural origins and deep held ideologies.
Omar Mateen was a religious nutjob. The fact that he followed the religion of Islam is important, but not because Islam is 'evil' as some people like to claim, but because it is a system of living which is incompatible with freedom.
Islam is a religion which compels its followers to destroy anything which does not fit in with their ideology. The rationale behind Islam is that the god they follow has absolute power and nothing happens unless he wishes it to. Unfortunately, that 'god' has chosen to send instructions for living which include cruelty to animals, misogyny, homophobia and hatred of those who do not believe in the mythology of the Ruling Class of the Islamic world. This combination of a strict dictatorship over lifestyle, coupled with fatalism, is an excuse for the most outrageous behaviour imaginable. The murder of 49 people who committed no crime other than to congregate in a place of their own choosing in order to associate freely with one another happened because a system of living which is anti-Socialist was allowed to exist outside its place of origin.
Islam is an ideology which is Capitalistic. It supports the ownership of Slaves, relegating humanity to mere objects to trade. The position of Women in Islam is one of servitude, which is enforced through violence, backed up by misogynistic hate literature which states quite openly that women are dangerous because they have 'evil' in their souls and that for this reason they must be controlled by men. This vile dogma also exists in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and other creeds but is most notable in Islam, where it is made clear that it is the duty of Women to obey Men and to even think otherwise is a 'sin', with all the postmortem punishments that brings.
The religious view of Homosexuality is equal with the misogynistic treatment of Women. SWPE policy on consensual adult sexuality is very simple - we do not regard it as an issue of any significance. We consider sexuality between consenting adults to be a personal matter and as worthy of political discourse as such matters as left/right-handedness or musical taste. Religious bigots take a different view, and a view they support by reference to figments of their imagination and literature which they consider 'sacred' which when analysed are merely old works of fiction which are not even well-written.
SWPE calls for an end to bigotry and for violence in the name of illusions. The murders in Orlando were committed by a man who believed in the Islamic fantasy, but could just as easily have been committed by an adherent of any of the religions which believe in a single point of focus and a supernatural realm which is infallible and unquestionable. SWPE calls for an end to homophobia and sexism and an end to the faiths which promote it. The only way we can achieve this is to end the economic system under which these faiths flourish and upon which they were founded.
The Class System is justified by reference to the belief in monotheism. Sexism and Homophobia are justified by reference to religions which dictate the very minutiae of living and a right of the Ruling Class to interfere in the lives of the Working Class. Capitalism and Monotheism are closely inter-related, with one justifying the other. To be truly free from financial exploitation, we must be free from all exploitation. The Chains of Slavery are easy to see. The Chains of Wage-Slavery are less easy, but more powerful for that. The Chains of the Mind which people willingly accept because past generations have done so and because they fear that the lies of the religious leaders may contain truths, are the hardest of all to see and to break, but break them in ourselves we must, and also break them in others. In a Socialist Society, all Chains will be shattered.
Let the political/religious/economic Ruling Classes tremble at the coming of the Socialist Revolution. Working People of all Sexualities and Genders Unite! Stand firm against the tyrants of illusion! We have nothing to lose but our Chains. We have a World to gain.
Theresa May, the Ruling Class loving Home Secretary of the UK's Capitalist toady government, is using every vile weapon at her disposal to destroy the Fire Service. She has launched a libelous attack on our heroic men and women fire-fighters, referring to them as 'racists' when it is obvious to everyone that they risk their lives every day to save the lives of all the people who live in the UK, regardless of ethnicity.
Her 'solution' to her manufactured problem of the 'racist' (in her mind) Fire Fighters is to demand that the Fire Service be made ethnically diverse. Anyone with the courage, aptitude and strength of character who wishes to apply to join the Fire Service, can do. The recruitment process is not racist in any way, nor is it sexist. The idea that men and women currently serving the People as members of the Fire Service need to be sacked to make it more tolerant, is a vicious lie.
Theresa May is pushing the Capitalist agenda. Her controllers want to make the Fire Service a part of the Police Force, with total political control, putting power and profits before the lives of people. The Fire Fighters have been forced to strike to protest against the undermining of working conditions, the attack upon their incomes and the politicisation of a service which values human life above all else. For resisting the Tory Tyrants, Theresa May is now attacking them as 'racists', ironically arguing for a quota system in employment which will see more ethnic minorities in the service, all accepting poor pay and inhuman conditions, treating them as slaves would be treated by slave owners.
SWPE says Defend Our Fire Fighters. Support them on the picket line. Expose the Tory Party and its Capitalist owners. Download the leaflet below and use it on demos, or push it through doorways. Let the People know that our Fire Service is under attack. Let the Fire Service know that just as we stood with them on the picket lines, so we stand with them now.
SWPE is a tight knit organisation, but not a closed one. For this reason we have not really had any problems with infiltrators. As readers of this site will have noticed, we have had a period of silence. This was required to ascertain whether we had a mole in the organisation. Thankfully we have not, but events have required us to clarify our position on other organisations and just how much cooperation we should have with activists from outside SWPE.
We supported the Populist Party in London when they were set to contest the elections there. We did so because they have policies which put people before profits. Unfortunately they were not able to go forward in the electoral process, but they intend to do so in the future and we continue to support them in their endeavours.
Where we came into difficulties was with one of our most enthusiastic activists taking on too many responsibilities. This led to actions which were well intended but raised questions about exactly how far we as individuals should go in building contacts with other organisations. This had been left as a matter for individual consideration, but this proved to be counter to the interests of the organisation as a whole.
We now have a simple policy which all activists are required to adhere to. Building bridges which link us with organisations which have policies or activities which go against our core values is not acceptable. If anyone is in doubt as to which organisations are worthy of our approaches and which are not, they are to discuss this with local organisers, or where this is not possible (in the case of isolated activists or people higher in the party), they are to contact the central party.
The organisations, parties, groups and individuals which we are happy to build contact with, are listed in the Comrades section at the top of the page. We have not until now had a proscribed list. Due to misguided contacts with organisations which are detrimental to a healthy society, we now have one. The list is posted under the Proscribed section at the top of the page. We have a third list for those which fall into neither category. This is posted under the general heading of Links. All lists are likely to be added to periodically, so it is advisable to check them before reaching out to external groups. If in doubt, discuss your proposals with fellow activists. Ours is not a dictatorial organisation, but without a clear system in place it is in danger from infiltration and ideological pollution.
We have decided to split the duties of the Comrade who prompted this need for a policy on acceptable contact. The Committee feel that whilst enthusiasm is a positive trait for any activist, it is not right to allow any individual to take on too much responsibility. The Comrade in question has been exonerated of any wrong-doing. Thank you to individual members for your cooperation in overcoming this issue, and to supporters for your patience at this time.
The UK Labour Party is in the news at the time of the local government elections, regional government elections and EU independence referendum. The Labour Party is under attack from hostile Capitalist elements within who are creating a fake anti-Semitism scare with the aim of crashing the Labour Party's share of the vote in polls in May. This they will use to give the impression that the public are against the current leadership of the party. The obvious intention is to point to manufactured popular opposition to the Labour Party as an excuse to remove the Socialist hierarchy and replace them with Capitalist ones.
Jeremy Corbyn may be a Revisionist and so operate from the position of a Trotskyite, but he is still at least nominally a Socialist. Corbyn has called for the UK to withdraw from the Capitalist armed forces of NATO and for the removal from the UK of the nuclear weaponry placed here by the Capitalist economic headquarters of the USA. Corbyn has called for the resocialisation of key parts of the economy. Corbyn was elected as leader of the Labour Party on the following manifesto:
A new national investment bank to encourage growth and reduce the deficit
Public ownership of the railway and energy sector
Replace Trident with jobs that retain the skills of the workers
Reduce the welfare bill through growth and investment
Housebuilding programme and rent controls
Integrate social care with the NHS
A new national
education service providing universal childcare, abolishing student
fees, restoring grants and funding adult skills
Scrap zero hours contracts and a national living wage for all, regardless of age
Corbyn has turned the Labour Party around, overcoming the years of Tony Blair, the War Criminal, Capitalist Lackey, Globaliser, Crusher of Trades Unions, Servant of Brussels, Enemy of the Working Class. Tony Blair was supported and payrolled by the likes of Alan Sugar, who he had placed in the House of Lords as thanks for his financial assistance. It is the likes of Alan Sugar who are gunning for Corbyn using the fake moral panic surrounding Livingston's reference to historical facts concerning Hitler's cooperation with Zionists in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
The Ruling Class are scared of the prospects of a Labour Party which will undo the tragic actions of the Thatcher-Blair-Cameron regimes. They are absolutely terrified that the people of the UK will be able to vote for a party which has at its head a man who is not controlled by the Globalist Bankers. The Ruling Class is using idiot political thugs like the Labour MP, John Mann, to attack people who do not support their control of the economy and subjugation of the People. The anti-Semitic slur has been on-going since at least December 2015 when the Capitalist rag, the Sun, stated that Corbyn would appoint a 'Shadow Minister for the Jews', which can now be seen as the opening salvo in the plan to paint Corbyn as a new Hitler!
As an aside, the Sun rag infamously celebrated the murder of young Argentinian sailors on the General Belgrano, sank by the Royal Navy under orders of the hated Thatcher as a means of rallying the people to jingoism so that they would support her regime's destruction of Working Class jobs. The Sun also supported the South Yorkshire Police atrocities against the Miners at Orgreave, mocked the Liverpool fans murdered by South Yorkshire Police at Hillsborough, excused the South Yorkshire Police cover-up of paedophile rapists destroying the lives of 1400 children. It is appropriate that the Sun started the attack on Corbyn and that the allegations of anti-Semitism are keeping the important news of the Hillsborough Enquiry this week releasing its findings of South Yorkshire Police murdering nearly 100 football fans, away from public attention.
Ken Livingstone is no nazi. He has been called an anti-Semite for pointing to the fact that Hitler and the Zionists had a shared ideology of belief in the separateness of the Jewish People from non-Jews. This has been jumped on as a way of creating the impression of division in the Labour Party at the time of the May local elections in England, the national elections in Alba and Cymru, the regional elections in Erin (north) and London, and the Police and Crime Commissioner and Mayoral elections. The most likely aim of the Blairite Capitalists is to discourage people from voting Labour, which will then be used as ammunition to remove the democratically elected Socialist leadership of Labour, Jeremy Corbyn. The government of Cameron will use the decline in Labour support as propaganda to support a 'remain' vote in the EU independence referendum in June, even though Corbyn has gone back on his decades long anti-EU and pro-freedom stance and joined the remain side himself. The attack on Livingston is a Trojan Horse attack on Corbyn. The Blairites are corporate shills who want to smash the Socialists in the Labour Party. They are enemies of the Working Class who are stoking the flames of anti-Semitism in service of their masters in the Banking and Finance sectors.
Opportunistic fascists are already pointing to the irony of Ken Livingston being attacked for stating that people who criticise Israel will be attacked. Leading Jewish figures are lining up to cry anti-Semitism. The list includes Baroness Julia Neuberger, Lord Sugar, Lord Levy and others rewarded by the Ruling Class for making the Labour Party a tool of commerce and an enemy of the Working Class it was set up to defend. The controlled media is working at an alarming rate to craft the imagery of Corbyn as a new Hitler, supported by Hamas and Hezbollah supporters who want to wipe Israel from the map (slandering Palestine Rights groups as genocidal maniacs). The BBC and Right-wingers who are also capitalising on the on-going events are deliberately blacking out any news of Jewish groups who are speaking out in defence of Livingstone and Corbyn, preferring to focus on George Galloway who they are equally slandering.
SWPE does not allow Capitalists to dictate how we are to think. We will not allow the hate-mongers to have the last word. The Labour Party is under attack and the vilest slurs are being used to bring down the leadership. We have considerable sympathy with Ken Livingstone and Jeremy Corbyn and hope that the radical direction the party has been taken in continues. We have criticisms too, or we would simply dissolve our organisation and advise our members and supporters to join Labour! We are Revolutionaries, not Reformers, not Reactionaries, and we are certainly not Trotskyites, so our support for Corbyn ends at sympathy.
We feel it appropriate to quote the 'Statement on "Labour's problems with antisemitism" as issued by the Jewish Socialist Group, a group with whom we have many differences, but which nevertheless is a Jewish organisation of the Left which is not playing the BBC game of 'all Jews hate Corbyn'::
From the Jewish Socialists’ Group
Antisemitism
exists and must be exposed and fought against in the same way as other
forms of racism by all who are concerned with combating racism and
fascism. Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not the same. Zionism is a
political ideology which has always been contested within Jewish life
since it emerged in 1897, and it is entirely legitimate for non-Jews as
well as Jews to express opinions about it, whether positive or negative.
Not all Jews are Zionists. Not all Zionists are Jews.
Criticism of Israeli government policy and Israeli state actions
against the Palestinians is not antisemitism. Those who conflate
criticism of Israeli policy with antisemitism, whether they are
supporters or opponents of Israeli policy, are actually helping the
antisemites. We reject any attempt, from whichever quarter, to place
legitimate criticism of Israeli policy out of bounds. Accusations of antisemitism are currently being weaponised to attack
the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour party with claims that Labour has a
“problem” of antisemitism. This is despite Corbyn’s longstanding record
of actively opposing fascism and all forms of racism, and being a firm a
supporter of the rights of refugees and of human rights globally
.
A very small number of such cases seem to be real instances of
antisemitism. Others represent genuine criticism of Israeli policy and
support for Palestinian rights, but expressed in clumsy and ambiguous
language, which may unknowingly cross a line into antisemitism. Further
cases are simply forthright expressions of support for Palestinian
rights, which condemn Israeli government policy and aspects of Zionist
ideology, and have nothing whatsoever to do with antisemitism.The accusations do not refer to antisemitic actions but usually to
comments, often made on social media, long before Jeremy Corbyn won the
Labour leadership. Those making the charges now, did not see fit to
bring them up at the time, under previous Labour leaders, but are using
them now, just before mayoral and local elections, when they believe
they can inflict most damage on the Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn.
The attack is coming from four main sources, who share agendas: to
undermine Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Labour; to defend Israeli
government policy from attack, however unjust, racist and harmful
towards the Palestinian people; and to discredit those who make
legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy or Zionism as a political
ideology. As anti-racist and anti-fascist Jews who are also campaigning
for peace with justice between Israelis and Palestinians, we entirely
reject these cynical agendas that are being expressed by:
• The Conservative Party
• Conservative-supporting media in Britain and pro-Zionist Israeli media sources
• Right-wing and pro-Zionist elements claiming to speak on behalf of the Jewish community
• Opponents of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour party.
SWPE has a platform of National Zionism. We will not interfere in matters which are exclusively Jewish. But National Zionism is fiercely opposed to Global Zionism which is the force at work here. We will not support tyrants of any origin.
In defence of his comment that Hitler and Zionism shared a common objective, Ken Livingstone has quoted the book 'Zionism in the Age of Dictators' by Jewish Marxist, Lenni Brenner. The hysteria around the orchestrated campaign of hate against the Socialists in the Labour Party has reached the point where Brenner himself is being labelled an anti-Semite! Read the book for yourself and share the information. The Capitalists are closing in on freedom. We can not let them succeed in slandering and libeling Socialists.
