SWPE - Socialist Workers' Party of Britain - Language Policy

SWPE is changing.  We have broken away from regionalism into a total acceptance of the need to keep our island nation together as a single country.  We oppose with absolute rigour, the false nationalists of Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party.  We equally oppose the lunacy of Mebyon Kernow, whose own platform is just more of the anti-English divisiveness which the more known separatist parties espouse.  Mebyon Kernow push the most absurd anti-English hatred, calling the county a 'nation under colonial occupation', and arguing for home rule from the UK, whilst having open borders to the whole world (except England!) and becoming an EU State - swapping rule from London for rule from Brussels.  This divisive politics serves only to weaken us all and to allow globalisation to continue unfettered, with the Working Class losing the natural defence from global tyranny which comes from strong external borders and absolute internal unity.

So, the problem is, how can a party which goes by the name Socialist Workers' Party of/for England be seen as a Party of/for Britain? This is a problem which we are considering, and members and supporters are encouraged to make suggestions to this end.  Britain is a geographical name for the main island and those close to it, so maybe a name change would be in order.  Get in touch with your ideas.

So how do we deal with the cultural/linguistic differences across Britain?  We propose a national solution to the regionalisation which the sycophants of the EU have encouraged.  The various languages in Britain should not be used as weapons to divide us.  English is understood and spoken in every part of the country, and its closely related fellow Germanic language, Scots, is widely spoken in the north.  There is no problem with the various dialects of the English/Scots language, as everyone across the country can converse regardless of dialect (albeit with slight confusion in the broadest cases).  The weaponisation of language comes from the likes of PC, SNP and MK, who are using tax-payer money to push Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish as languages required to work in the areas they have influence over.  This is blatant anti-English language discrimination, aimed to split Britain into mutually hostile regions.

We oppose the regional language divisions, and propose that Scottish Gaelic and Welsh be taught across Britain in addition to English.  This would allow for all our people to embrace our common culture.  For all who enjoy the Arthurian tales, what better way to enjoy the stories than to be able to read them as written in the Mabinogion? We deliberately omit Cornish from the languages which form our shared culture, due to it being a bastardised from of Welsh which died out and was resurrected by people who did not know how to pronounce it, purely as a way of causing anti-British mischief.  A national teaching of language would see our differences becoming a part of our strength, with an end to the pathetic hostility which the regional division causes.  When there is every possibility that all the people can understand the language spoken, it no longer can be used to intimidate and exclude the listener, as is now very much the case in certain regions of Britain where non-English language is used as an anti-English weapon.

Our approach to language brings with it a desire for a deepening of unity, with the ability of the diverse culture of the Working Class to be experienced by all of us.  Unity is Strength.  A Strong Free Socialist Britain will have no place for regional antagonisms, rather our Regional diversity will be weaved together into a National unity, as a living barrier against globalisation.  We cannot let the global Ruling Class split us apart by seducing us with the fake nationalism of their PC/SNP/MK Kalergi Plan devotees.  A Britain divided, is a Britain broken, is a Britain which cannot resist becoming absorbed by a Global Capitalist Corporate State.  By viewing the Nation as a whole promoting each distinct cultural/language group in every part, we will bring our people together.  Those who promote regionalism geographically, may do so out of  love of the area they live in, but they aid those who have less noble motives.  We propose exploring our internal diversity nationwide, breathing new life into every area and making us stronger than ever,

Israeli manipulation of Kurdistan

SWPE has long had a policy of supporting the right of all people to their own homelands.  This is a central part of the ideology of Socialism in One Country.  Because of its very close association with Global Capitalism, Zionism is a very serious problem which has to be addressed by all anti-Capitalists.  Our own policy of National Zionism seeks to offer a solution which does not pander to anti-Semites, but does not allow for the Capitalist butchers to go unchallenged.

The proposed referendum in Iraq by the Kurdish people in the north of the country, highlights the need to stop Zionist Imperialism.  What should be a simple referendum for independence and sovereignty - something we naturally support - has become marred by Zionist interference, with the Kurdish Israelis plotting to use a free Kurdistan as a means of creating a second Israel.  It is obvious that this is a way of creating a Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates, subjugating all who fall between the two rivers.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has called for the establishment of Kurdistan as a new country.  His motivation is further division in the Middle East, and the creation of another Zionist country, adding to Jewish Zionist Israel and the Salafi Zionist country of Saudi Arabia.

Zionism does not equate to Judaism. It is an oddity to be sure.  Zionism was put forward as an alternative to the demise of the Jewish religion, culture and people through Assimilation with Europeans, and was the justification for the confiscation of land in Palestine for the creation of Israel. The term Zionism is still associated with the Jewish nation, although this is now nothing other than a smokescreen to keep people focused upon the territory of Israel and away from the reality of a criminal network of Capitalist exploiters who operate globally, controlling the money system, stock markets, military and governments of nearly every country in the world, as well as the corporations which operate with no regard for borders.

The meddling by Israel in the affairs of other countries, is not due to a belief in the myth of the Jews being chosen by their god to rule over humanity.  Religious Jews reject the State of Israel as a mockery of their faith - although there are still Orthodox Jews who manage to live in Israel in spite of their own religious texts forbidding them so to do!  The sincere Neturei Karta actively oppose the Zionist ideology, especially what they see as the theft of Palestinian land.

The 'meddling' by Israel takes the shape of instigating fake revolutions, conducting military operations which destabilise entire countries, creating the circumstances in which the mass migration of 'refugees' leads to unrest in far away lands, with mass unemployment undermining wage demands and over-population pushing up the cost of rents / housing prices.  The meddling of Israel boosts the coffers of the arms industries and allows for the USA to build permanent bases in country after country, while oil/drug revenue and other wealth is concentrated in the hands of the criminal corporations and the piles of bodies of people murdered to gain said wealth grow higher and higher. Its convenient and simple to blame Israel for all the woes of the world - and for anti-Semites it is easy to add the Jewish diaspora into the equation to give the Jewish people as whole responsibility for all that is wrong with the way global events are unfolding.  Anti-Zionist Jews are ignored by the media. Non-Jewish Zionists are treated as if they are not Zionists at all.  All focus is aimed on Israel, because in this way, the global capitalist system can be upheld as the saviour of humanity, not as the real villain of the piece.  Israel is a scapegoat by design.  Of course there are Zionist Jews in Israel!  But there are far more non-Jewish Zionists than Jewish ones, and without the entire Zionist network, the global crimes against humanity would not be possible.

SWPE's National Zionist policy would only work if Jew and Zionist were interchangeable words, but they are not.  It should really be a National Jewish policy, which as we can see with the Orthodox NK, is a self-contradiction.  We refuse to play the Zionists' game of painting 'the Jews' as a monolithic people hell-bent on global domination.  The closest that the National Zionist idea has come to actualisation was with Comrade Stalin's Birobidzhan project.  If this had been allowed to grow into a genuine homeland for the Jewish people on land which was free for everyone to use, then the capitalist crime state of Israel would never have come into existence.  Anti-Stalinists ensured that the project came to nothing.

As we can see with the failure of the US-created Islamic State to break up Syria, the Zionist machine is not all-powerful.  Its next ploy is to push for an 'independent' Kurdistan, which although officially sovereign, will belong to the Zionist network, alongside Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the USA, UK, EU amongst many.  The leaders of Kurdistan are Zionists. They are utilising Kurdish Jews to keep the anti-Semites excited and screaming about Jewish power.

SWPE supports a free Kurdistan, not a Zionist criminal operation.  We call on Kurds to throw off the corrupt Ruling Class and make their homeland a Socialist State answerable to the Kurdish people only.

The National Zionist ideal is a worthy ideal, but it is one which cannot work until the poison of Global Capitalism is gone.  Zionism needs to be seen for waht it is - the war against humanity for the acquisition of wealth and power, by the greedy capitalists who have no allegiance to any religion or culture, and to no people except their own class - a multiethnic global parasite class.  It is not for us to answer the 'Jewish Question', if there is even such a thing.  We would advise Jewish supporters to examine the ideology of Bundism as a possible way of breaking the propaganda of anti-Semites and Zionists alike.  As long as the Jewish people (especially Israelis) are portrayed by capitalists and anti-capitalists as the epicentre of capitalism, they will be useful to the enemies of humanity as human shields, targets, distractions.  We call on all Jews to expose the wicked lies of the Zionist terrorists and to break the link which unjustly makes them the focus of the ire of the world.

National Zionism and Bundism - Not Contradictory but Complimentary: A reply

The Jewish Bundist Movement was originally formed in 1897 it formed around the same year of the World Zionist Congress who according to the original Bund was aiding in the spread of anti-Semitic propaganda. This has caused a huge split between Zionism, who is seen as an enemy to the Jewish world, and the Bundists, who was fighting for Jewish culture. This leads me to my reply to this post on our blog

http://socialistworkerspartyengland.blogspot.com/2014/10/national-zionism-and-bundism-not.html     

At first glance I can see how the SWPE's NatZionism could be complementary since in Jewish tradition they can't return to Palestine till the coming of the Messiah. They can employ Bundism for the time being and during the Messianic age employ NatZionism. But the issue comes to the very nature of Zionism itself which from the very birth has always been antagonistic to the Jewish religion itself while Bundism was not and fostered unity amongst Judaism in general. This antagonism will exist even with the NatZionist theory as long as they reject the Yiddish language, doikayat, and the Jewish culture as the heart of the Jewish people there can be no co-existence between the Bund and any form of Zionism. 

I don't really see it as a middle way between assimilation and Zionism and it sure isn't anything like multiculturalism. If anything it is a fourth-way which allows Jews to exist within society and contribute. The early Jewish Labour Bund wanted to create their own society that didn't effect the non-Jewish society. They wanted to segregate Jews from the rest of society in my opinion this is more desirable than effecting the autonomy of a whole civilisation of people as Zionism has done. It will on,y require the creation of Autonomist Jewish Communes like the early Zionist Kibbutzim. 

Here are some links so that the readers can learn more about the Bundist movement: 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundism

http://www.bundism.net

http://bundist-movement.org

National Zionism and Bundism - Not Contradictory but Complimentary

SWPE believes that every people has a right to live according to their own traditions, culture and ethnic predisposition.  This applies to the Jewish people as much as to every other.  The 'Jewish Question' is one which has plagued humanity for such a long time that it has become an obsession for Jews and non-Jews alike.

SWPE does not support the concept of Assimilation for any people into any other.  We oppose 'multi-culturalism' because we understand that it is the long-term objective of the global Ruling Class to destroy all vestiges of culture, sovereignty, nationhood and identity, which differentiate the peoples of the world.  We fully support global diversity and oppose the liberal Capitalist drive to create a world of slaves whose purpose is solely to create wealth for the self-appointed Masters.

The Jewish role in global Capitalism, especially Banking, has led many people to accuse the Jewish people as a whole of having an agenda to enslave non-Jews.  We do not accept this over-simple generalisation of the Jewish nation.  There are certainly Jewish elements in the Ruling Financial Oligarchy but there are also many non-Jews who exploit Jews and non-Jews in equal measure.  The religious Jews who believe in a Master Race ideology give credence to anti-Jewish propagandists, but the extent of influence of the supremacists in general Jewry is grossly exaggerated by many 'anti-Semites.'

SWPE support the concept of a Jewish State.  This is why we have a part of our ideology which we have chosen to call National Zionism.  It is Zionist insofar as it supports the right of the Jewish people to live amongst their own kind.  It is National Zionist because it opposes all imperialist tendencies, whether they are concerned with the financial exploitation of others, or as is the case with Israel and Palestine, with the theft of land which belongs to other people.

Historical support for Zionism from within Socialist circles include the following, which we gratefully quote from the site http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/gercke.htm (full written permission was obtained from the author Randall Bytwerk and can be seen on request):

Solving the Jewish Question 

by Dr. Achim Gercke

All proposals that include a permanent presence, a permanent regulation of the Jews in Germany, do not solve the Jewish Question, for they do not eliminate the Jews from Germany (denn sie lösen die Juden nicht von Deutschland). And that is what we want to do. If the Jews are able to exploit their host peoples forever, they will remain a constant source of the open, destructive flame of Bolshevism, making it easy to repeatedly kindle it again, not to mention the political uncertainties resulting from disunity within the people and the danger to racial unity. Let us swear off such thinking forever, whether it results from poor thinking or evil intentions. To summarize, the state can and must focus on systematical elimination, on emigration.

If we destroy any organizational cooperation of the Jews and expel the dangerous, subversive Jewish agitators who show any signs of conspiratorial activities, the Jews will still have the synagogue, the rabbi, to shield them. If we support Zionist plans and attempt an international solution by establishing a homeland for the Jews, we will be able to solve the Jewish Question not only in Germany, but in Europe and the entire world. The entire world has an interest in such a solution, on eliminating this source of disorder, which constantly proceeds from Bolshevism. We must establish that clearly.

Perhaps the Jews will be able to become a nation, a people. That would require that Jewish workers, craftsmen, and settlers would develop from the Jewish population. If we regulate this plan, they we will create new foundations for such a settlement. Scattering the Jews to the four winds does not solve the Jewish Question, but rather makes it worse. A systematic program of settlement, therefore, is the best solution.

Plans and programs must have a goal pointing to the future. They may not be focused only on a temporarily unpleasant situation. A better future demands the systematic solution of the Jewish Question, not the organization of the Jews.

We must build our state without the Jews. They can be only stateless foreigners among us, with no legal permanent standing. Only so will Ahasver [the legendary wandering Jew] be forced to take up his walking stick again, and then turn it into axes and spades.

The End of Jewish Migration

by Dr. Johann von Leers

The only imaginable, positive solution that will finally resolve the Jewish problem in Europe and at the same time provide the real possibility of becoming a people, of becoming rooted to land, and even perhaps allowing its less valuable elements to be influenced by the more valuable elements, is a healthy region outside Europe. The Dutchman von Dinghene, in his book Vollzionismus, has proposed the island of Madagascar, but one could also imagine certain other suitable African or South American regions. On the one hand, such a settlement area must give the Jewish people a space where they can work productively, within the framework of providing space for peoples who now lack space. On the other hand, in those countries where the Jews are being separated from the Gentile population, the Jews will lose a large number of jobs. They must today be trained in work groups, receiving education in practical skills and agriculture so that they will be prepared to settle in this area. Those major Western European colonial powers, who are always worked up about the Jewish Question and its effects in Eastern and Central Europe, without however really seeing the connections, would perform a work not only of humanity, but also statesmanlike wisdom that would bring peace to the world and the solution of one of its most serious problems were they to make such a settlement area available. That would not only relieve Europe of the Jewish problem, but also enable Jewry to become a people.

Of course, there is a danger that such a Jewish settlement area would become a world-famous El Dorado of criminality, given the deep moral decay of a large part of Jewry. There will have to be a force to provide just and honest supervision. This would also be possible, and details could be worked out. The danger may not hinder a broad solution of the Jewish Question by resettling Jewry to an appropriate settlement area outside of Europe. We propose this to the world: Give Ahasver a homeland, as far as possible from us, but sufficient and attractive. If he makes of it a garden he may keep it, and will be protected. If, however, he makes of it a den of thieves, then one will keep him there. However, we must attempt a decent solution to this question. Those Jews who for centuries have recognized the battle of the Jewish Question are called to contribute to a real solution, those Jews who recognize that the dream of Jewish world domination has failed, and who are therefore ready to become a people among peoples. Those peoples among whom the question burns the hottest because of the Jewish masses among them area also called, particularly the major Western European colonial powers with vast possessions, for it cannot be permitted that a decent solution be prevented by cheap humanitarian slogans. With a single blow the Jewish question, which has always surfaced, can be resolved.

The above historical justifications of Zionism are arguments we applaud and share.  However, there is another alternative to Assimilation which we need to give our attention to.  This alternative is Bundism.  At first glance, Bundism seems to be a half-way house between Assimilation and Zionism, and therefore a step back towards multi-culturalism.  This, it is not.  SWPE believes that Bundism offers an immediate solution to our woes, whereas National Zionism offers a long-term and final solution to the woes of Jews and non-Jews.  A new writer for SWPE will highlight this important area of discussion in depth.  It is no exaggeration to state that a synthesis of National Zionism and Bundism may be the long sought after peaceful and just solution to the Jewish Question.