The CPB-ML and 'Worker's Nationalism'

[ATC]

The Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), formed in 1968 by Reg Birch, are a curious bunch. They advocate a policy of 'Worker's Nationalism' and have issued leaflets and published articles in their magazine 'Workers', calling for 'British Jobs for British Workers' and opposing the introduction of cheap foreign labour to undercut British workers. They seem to promote a national line and are strongly anti-EU.

Workers | Journal of the Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist

[Remington Steele]

Yes, definately a curious mixture going on there. For example, Marx believed in a stateless society, with a bond between workers of all races and nationalities. These guys seem to bounce in between that theory and statism/nationalism. I guess that must be the Leninism bit...

[ATC]

QUOTE: "BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS. Workers' nationalism is misunderstood as 'racist' by those who either fail to understand capitalism's tactics in the war on workers, or who connive in this war...Throughout the country, British workers have allowed themselves to be displaced by imported labour...Now every worker must take up the fight. Stop immigration! Out of the EU! Let's fight for our future!"
-CPB-ML leaflet

[ATC]

Stalin was denounced by the Trotskyites for advocating 'Socialism in One Country' instead of permanent World Revolution. I doubt whether Trotsky would have agreed to the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939-1941.

[ATC]

The CPB-ML should adopt National Bolshevism, Strasserism and the Third Position against Globalism and Zionism.

[Village Idiot]

I was going to suggest the same thing! CPB-ML may be one's to watch - stranger things have happened! My memory's not what it was - I thought Workers was the rag of the Communist Party of England (a Maoist crowd) Oh what I wilfully wasted youth I led!

[Levi]

They all chop and change.. I think that there are about 5 different commie groups, all with allegiances to one type (county version) or another. I thought National Bolshevism was Nationalist one county Socialism? Whereas Commies, of whatever hue, are all about world socialism?
I remember reading an article about one of the CPUK groups.. all in their 60s and like a stuck record (or is that a 45?)

[ATC]

Trotskyites have attacked Stalin as a "Slavic nationalist and anti-Semite". See the booklets 'Stalin from the Perspective of Realpolitik' and 'Was Stalin Jewish? Stalin the Georgian's Conflict with the Jews' by Dr K.R. Bolton, 'Caution: Zionism!' by Yuri Ivanov and 'The Kremlin and the Jews' by Wilmot Robertson, all published by Renaissance Press (New Zealand). Google search: 'Renaissance Press'.

Antisemitism and Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rootless cosmopolitan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Village Idiot]

In recent years we've witnessed a subtle shift from sections of the left toward nationalism. Of course, while the left (apart from anarchists and extreme internationalist types) have always championed national liberation movements, for them that was where it ended. But today, as well as the 'National Communist' CPB (the Morning Star lot, not the CPB-ML!) we've seen the nationalistic No2EU electoral pact led by Bob Crow and the British Wildcat led Lincolnshire (and elsewhere) strikes against foreign labour which, I believe the Socialist Party (ex-Militant) supported. Maybe the Left are beginning to wake up to the fact that life isn't just about bread 7 butter issues - its about identity & blood.

[Eaca Sorg]

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