Communist Party UK statement on GRR

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https://www.communistparty.org.uk/the-gender-recognition-bill-and-equality-law/

Gender as an ideological construct should not be confused or conflated with the material reality of biological sex. Gender is the vehicle through which misogyny is enacted and normalised.

I think I know who's getting my vote this year!

As does this review, in the Morning Star, of a book about 'Luxury Communism" by Aaron Bastani.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/fully-automated-luxury-comunism-review

Isn’t that awful woman Ash Sarkar a communist? How does she square that with her TWAW stance?

Oh, but that’s completely different. She’s a libertarian communist.

I’m expecting this weeks Spiked podcast to be hilariously withering.

I do really enjoy the Spiked podcast. That probably makes me a bad person :D

Fascist!

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When I was a student (early 1980s) a fellow student was an active member of the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist). He was keen to make sure people knew this was very different from the Communist Party of Great Britain. People's Front of Judaea indeed!

Wikipedia tells me this about the CPB(M-L), which I am amazed to see is still in existence.

The party was formed in 1968 by Reg Birch as a Maoist, anti-revisionist breakaway from the Communist Party of Great Britain, siding with the Communist Party of China in the Sino-Soviet split.[1] From 1979 onwards the CPB-ML sided with Enver Hoxha in the Sino-Albanian split.[2] A small number of members split from the party in 1975, forming the Nottingham Communist Group. In 1976, three branches of the CPB-ML split and formed the Communist Workers Movement, initially under the leadership of Ian Williams.[3] This group later joined the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain. In the 1980s, the CPB-ML came to support the Soviet Union again for a period, before dropping this line over Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. More recently, the CPB-ML has developed a national line for Britain: "Rebuild Britain"; the party is strongly opposed to the European Union.[4] The party published The Worker from 1969 until 2000, when it became Workers.

That last sentence cracks me up. 31 years to persuade a second worker to support them!

It all reminds me of the endless schisms in the Free Church of Scotland.

That last sentence cracks me up. 31 years to persuade a second worker to support them!

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Billy Bragg doesn't seem to be having much fun on twitter. He's been told that the"little transactivist island he is on is being consumed by the rising tides"

Apropos of nothing in particular. I think berets can look quite natty. Can you get them in suffragette colours?

I quite fancy a furry hat with ear flaps but I suppose I’d be best just waiting for the Autumn/Winter 2023 collection to be released?

One for me, one for Ash.

These are quite useful in Arctic winter temperatures. When I wore one, I looked like my spaniel with long ears. We were a matched set, running through the snow drifts.

But the hats were popularised by Soviet leaders, of course, though they really are apolitical.

4.1 million views!

Succinct summary. Well done The Communist Party for laying it out so clearly. Shame supposedly mainstream parties are in such a fankle over this.

Here we are... It's a must watch this week!

Interesting! Thanks for informing me on that.

The Socialist Party has weighed in…

Bogus Dickus strikes again.

And the Anarchist Federation. Although rumour has it that there are only half a dozen members in this organisation so probably doesn't mean very much.

https://twitter.com/AnarchistFed/status/1641427906369814529

Has anybody asked the anarcho syndicalists?

I do remember there was dissent among some of the grassroots anarchist groups, some of whom were supportive of women and some supportive of genderists. I'm sure I saw a couple of statements to support the former views.

Chile 1973. Causing Kissinger to say : we cannot allow a country to go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

Tens of thousands died in the CIA coup and subsequent purges. Including the democratically elected President.

Nicaragua 1980s.

Spain 1936 iirc . A Socialist and Communist coalition elected.

Kerala state in India. Communists frequently elected. One of the few states with good health , education , welfare etc.

Sure , it's no magic bullet. But what we have now is the limited democracy the Corporations are willing to allow us.

' I don't think government is really the way forward ' Mark Zuckerberg.

Quite.

Real penis has never been tried

Truly a rallying cry for the ages! Love it.

I know quite a few anarchist types. After the Anarchist Bookfair 2017 when Helen Steel was attacked by activists it created a split in the scene that has never resolved. Now it's pretty much like every other political sphere with accusations of transphobia and bigotry against anyone (or any organisation) who won't openly state that TWAW with zero reservations.

I don't think it's unfair to say that most people on the anarchist left have little interest in theory.

What puzzles me are the Marxist groups with theoretical journals coming out with this stuff.

I read the Socialist Party article and there's no attempt to explain why TWAW, just the usual Stonewall claims. No analysis there.