NOTÍCIAS DA GUERRA POPULAR: Re: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Revolting Students

Dear Maoist Revolution

This post suffers from the left-wing error of reading all sorts of
things into a fairly, general, non-specific statement of intent. There
is nothing in my post that relates to the New Synthesis. Of course,
given the choice between the Bhattaraist, revisionist sell-outs that
have proliferated in recent years and the line of the RCP-USA, I would
support the RCP-USA. What revolutionary wouldn't? It doesn't mean I
would necessarily support each and every statement by RCP-USA or Bob
Avakian. Everyone in the UK-worker, student or middle class
intellectual benefits from the exploitation of the Third World. This
is just completely obvious-look at sweat-shop labour to produce cheap
goods for the West. Look at 40 years of war against the people of the
Third World oil-producing nations to try and keep the price of oil
cheap. The privilege of First World peoples has played a very important
role in preventing revolution in the West. Many leftists deny this
because the truth is just too hard for them to face up to. Like all
those in denial they have to tendency to get angry with those that
try to explain the truth to them.

There may be a possibility of revolution in the West in the coming
years, I believe, due to the current crisis and the fact ithis crisis
may be part of a wider trend of economic decline for reasons too
involved for me to go into here. I therefore believe First World
communists should do what they can to encourage and lead current events
in the West. Your point about students is true but I'm not naive, I've
experienced what you are saying myself. If you want to make
revolution, you have to unite all forces in society, other than class
enemies. This includes vacillating sections like the intellectuals. I
don't think students are likely to be the most militant in society. I
think we're in a situation like 1960s America. There were some pretty
militant students around at the time but obviously groups like the
Black Panthers tended to be tougher and more radical because of where
they were from. However, organised labour in the 1960s in the US was
not the leading force. My experience of the anti-cuts movement in the
UK is that the students are more active and militant than the public
sector workers in UNISON (the firefighters, railway workers and postal
workers do tend to be fairly militant however). I think we need to
link the struggle of the students with the unemployed and the poorest
who are likely to be more militant still. I've got no problem with
people working with organised labour but they need to be aware of the
limitations of organised labour in a priviliged nation like the UK,
especially. Other than the 'key sectors' I identified, you will often
find real problems with organising in a militant way. Originally, the
Chinese Communist Party were encouraged to think that industrial
workers would be the main force to make the Chinese revolution but for
(admittedly very different reasons) they had to change their mind.

I have no problem with British Maoists organising a group, although I
don't think people can really do this online. However, if anyone does
decide to do this they have to have a revolutionary line , not a
revisionist line. There's no point in organising something that
throws out the example of the Cultural Revolution and throws out the
teachings of Lenin on the need for the dictatorship of the proletariat.
There are loads of revisionist 'Communist' groups around in Britain
who do not follow the revolutionary road at all, instead following Deng
Xiaopingism, parliamentarism, Songun, Castroism, the Bhattarai line or
God knows what else. There's absolutely no point in people wasting
their time setting up yet another of these groups (e.g. one that
supports the Bhattarai-Prachanda line like many of the groups that post
on Maoist Revolution) and then blame others when they can't inspire
anyone to join and the whole thing fizzles out. Leadership of the
proletariat is a very hard serious business. It involves no glory or
personal reward or gratification. It involves only self-sacrifice.
The leader of a communist group must take responisibility for their own
errors and the errors of their subordinates. They must ruthlessly
challenge revisionism in themselves and others and not go along with
revisionist ideas simply for the sake of 'getting along' with others
whether these be individuals or parties that wave the communist flag
but practice revisionism.Two-line struggle is the struggle against the
capitalist line in the party, it is not an excuse for endless
disorganisation, personal conflict and organisational paralysis as
everyone pursues their personal ambition and refuses to work as a team.
Members of the group not in the leadership must learn to follow their
instructions and not endlessly seek to undermine the leadership with
contant criticism as they pursue their own leadership fantasies.
People have to put aside personal feelings about others aside in the
interests of unity. People who join communist groups have to be
prepared to serve the people, not their own agendas. If anyone in the
UK can do all that, go ahead and set up your group. I wish you well.

Best Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: MAOIST_REVOLUTION@yahoogroups.com
To: MAOIST_REVOLUTION@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:25
Subject: Re: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Revolting Students - Rebellion
in Britain !

Dear Joseph,
Yes Harry's article is indeed an "excellent statement", objective and
basis itself on concrete conditions. Though once again and
unfortunately there is no call for leadership led by Maoists to lead
these struggles, to organise or to build the necessary organisation
leading to the party of the Proletariat. All we have is a name of an
organisation that the masses are none the wiser, not even advanced
Workers including many Communist Maoists who view this list have a clue
or they are.
Your reply Joseph is also ontradictory and plays a 'cheer leading' role
with little ideological and political content. Of course the leaders of
both the official NUS and trade union movement are a 'leadership'
bought off from the crumbs of imperialist exploitation of the worlds
Nations and people's. You state "There are clearly some courageous
militants among the
students. I wish the same could be said of the trade union leaders! "
There is a complete contradiction is this line and in it'self between
the militants and trade union leaders, just as there is a contradiction
between militant workers and the trade union leaders and student
movement leaders alike.
Why is it that Maoists in Britain should all of a sudden carry out work
amongst middle class though militant students (if work is carried out
at all and I doubt it) though criticise and refuse to have anything to
do with militant workers under reformist reactionary leadership?
Sure Joseph I know your response as I have analysed your line. Workers
in imperialist countries are priveliged. I agree as are middle class
students who want a better deal albeit through struggle under the
capitalist system. For over 20 years now I have carried out political
work with militant students who have come into political struggle and
enter out to find good or excellent jobs - through the mill only to be
replaced by other activists and so on and so forth. Does this mean I /
we oppose student struggle? No and to the contrary! We have to carry
out politcal and ideological work and bring them into the organisation
of the working class and I will add just as we must do though opposed
by many Maoists in relation to militant workers in the tarde union
movement under the reactionary and reformist leadership of the Labour
aristocracy.
We are running against time and Maoists in Britain should start to
unite and establish a basis for an organisation relying on our own
strengths and ideas as opposed to copying and attempting to replicate
the line of 'New' synthesis.

--- In MAOIST_REVOLUTION@yahoogroups.com, josephball924@... wrote:
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> Dear Maoist Revolution
>
> I wish to express my complete solidarity with Harry's excellent
> statement. There are clearly some courageous militants among the
> students. I wish the same could be said of the trade union leaders!
> As usual they are acting like complete class traitors and sell-outs!
> Just like the careerist, middle class bastard that runs the NUS! This
> is the institutional role of such people within the capitalist system
> and this will not change. Let's unite with the unemployed, the
> oppressed immigrants and radical rank and file elements in the
> workplace to go all-out to smash captialism! If not now, then when?
>
> Best Joseph
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Powell harrypowell@...
> To: Maoist Revolution MAOIST_REVOLUTION@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:27
> Subject: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Revolting Students - Rebellion in
> Britain !
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> REVOLTING STUDENTS
> Â
> The militant actions by students against the Coalition Governmentâ€™s
> public spending cuts are showing the way forward.Â This massive
assault
> on our living standards will not be defeated by the old, established
> and largely ineffective forms of protesting.Â We need to find new,
bold
> ways of really counterattacking the Governmentâ€™s assault on us.
> Â
> COALITION CUTS
> Â
> It is not only young people that the Government are targeting.Â They
> are going for most vulnerable groups in society: unemployed,
homeless,
> disabled, sick and old.Â The aim is to make us pay for the folly of
the
> reckless and greedy bankers who created the financial crisis.Â The
last
> Labour Government bailed out bankrupt banks such as Royal Bank of
> Scotland and LloydsTSB by borrowing vast amounts of money from other
> banks.Â They used one lot of bankers to prop up another lot of
bankers
> and they are trying to make the rest of us pay the costs.
> Â
> CLASS WAR
> Â
> The ConDem Government led by Cameron and Clegg is acting in defence
of
> the interests of the ruling monopoly capitalist class.Â These are
the
> tiny minority of the population who own and control most of the
economy
> including financial institutions.Â Most of the leading members of
the
> Government are wealthy members of this class who went to elite public
> schools such as Eton and St. Paulâ€™s.Â It is their friends and
relations
> in the City of LondonÂ responsible for the financial crisis.Â It is
> these people who should pay off the Governmentâ€™s debts and not the
rest
> of us.
> UNITY IN ACTION
> Â
> In order to halt and turn back the Governmentâ€™s attack on us there
> needs to be a broad unity of action among those affected.
> Students should unite with other people in the Governmentâ€™s sights,
> especially workers in the public sector who face massive job losses.
> Around the world, actions by students have often sparked off a wider
> revolt against oppressive regimes.Â These include:
> Â
> Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The May 4th Movement
against imperialism in China
> in 1919.
> Â
> Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The French students in
May 1968 whose
> demonstrations encouraged millions of workers to occupy their
> workplaces.
> Â
> Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Greek students in
1973 who fought the Greek
> army which led to the collapse of the military junta.
> Â
> Already in countries such as France, Spain and Greece students have
> joined with workers, migrants, old people etc. to fight back against
> the Europe-wide cuts.Â Unite and fight!
> Â
> WORKERS, STUDENTS AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
> Â
> REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS
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> Contact: revolutionary praxis@...
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