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Tuesday 9 February 2010
Political Report to the January EC 2010John Foster, International Secretary of the Communist Party30 Jan 2010
The Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change Glasgow Anti-Cuts Meeting organised by Glasgow Unison branchplanned cuts expected to be around £30 million. 23 Jan 2010An Glasgow Anti-Cuts Meeting organised by Glasgow Unison branch was attended by 80 activists on Saturday (23rd Jan). Mike Kirby Unison Scottish Convener began by placing the meeting within the context of the Glasgow City Council budget meeting this coming Thursday, after which we will find out the extent of the planned cuts, expected to be around £30 million. Read more from Glasgow Anti-Cuts Meeting 2010 - United we standBliadhna Mhath UrThe British labour movement is heading for the rocks in 2010. The biggest rock on the horizon is the general election. If as still seems likely the Tories win in May or early June, then the ruling-class offensive against public services, trade union and employment rights and civil liberties will intensify. The poor and the elderly, single parents, the homeless and others who need the welfare state safety net will be hit by at least two massive waves of public spending cuts. The trouble is that this ruling-class offensive will continue even if new Labour is re-elected. Read more from Robert Griffiths, general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain. Some Highlights of 2009Scottish Communists work in a broad manner to gather as much suppport for progressive ideas, build wide movements and earn respect for Marxist-Leninist ways of working. We put a lot of effort into Marxist education, helping members and friends to see and understand the world with a class analysis. The following are a few highlights recorded in 2009, with much more to come in 2010!
See more for earlier years here in our media archive - masses of Marxist education and more! The movement is gathering momentum - The World Communist Movement exposes the international Capitalist recession and rally for a humane Communist future11th annual meeting of the world's communist and workers' parties in New Delhi
Financial and travel difficulties reduced the attendance in New Delhi from last year in Sao Paulo, Brazil, when more parties from Latin America were able to attend. Moreover, on this occasion, delegates due to arrive from Russia, Peru and Palestine were refused exit visas. Nonetheless, this year's three-day event drew together representatives from 57 parties in 48 countries from every continent. Morning Star Xmas Bazaar ReportQuotation from the Fighting Fund 9/12/09..... then up pop our wonderful Scottish comrades who not only knock the £14,000 barrier into a cocked hat, but nearly take the £13,000 one along with it. Helped by £20 from a Warlingham reader and £50 from our standing orders team, the Scots contingent's tremendous £980 from their Glasgow bazaar made a daily total of £1,050 and gave me real hope for the month. And all that despite the difficulties we face getting the paper to Scotland! Now that's what I call real socialist dedication. Donate to the Morning Star Online here. Glaswegians run SDL fascists off city centre streets
A tiny group of 80 thugs chanting slogans such as "No surrender to the IRA" were escorted out of Glasgow by police for their own safety after roughly 3,000 people turned out to protest against their anti-Muslim rally. Organisers said they were overjoyed by the response of Glaswegians to their call for a counterdemo on Glasgow Green. Read more .....Glaswegians run SDL fascists off city centre streets Crisis of CapitalismVideo Recording of Prof John Foster
What are the causes of the current crisis, Capitalism has been in crisis before, and there are solid lessons we need to draw from these times in order to combat the assault on the working class who will be made to pay for it. Watch the Crisis of Capitalism online.... Letter from new secretary of the Party in Scotland Tom Morrisonalso NATIONAL APPEAL TARGET £1845 FOR SCOTLANDWhile New Labour with their dismal record of war, privatisation, attacks on civil liberties and the welfare state etc deserve the distain of the British people the Tories will be even worse as can be seen by the anti-working class rants at their conference in Manchester. New Labour have paved the way for an even more vicious attack on working people and their families as the Tories move the political agenda even more to the right. It is too simplistic to say there is no difference between the Tories and New Labour. Because of the affiliation of the trade union movement to Labour the potential is always there to compel Labour to move to the left. There is no such possibility with the Tories. However it must be acknowledged that there has been little sign of the trade unions reclaiming the Labour Party for the labour movement and the constitutional changes brought in by the right wing make that all the more difficult to achieve. So what do we do? Read more from the new secretary of the Party in Scotland.... Two Big Bombshells at the TUCThe 2009 conference went out not with a whimper but with an almighty bangThere are rarely any fireworks on show at the last day of TUC Congress. It's a day for tying up loose ends and clearing up unfinished business, not heated debates and bold statements of intent. Not this year. The 2009 conference went out not with a whimper but with an almighty bang. Two of them, in fact. Drinks giant Diageo rejects offer to save jobsTurning their backs on 200 years of history in Port Dundas and Kilmarnock Diageo workers have been left shell-shocked after the drinks giant rejected a Scottish government proposal to save 900 jobs.
The company, whose operating profit for the year was up 10 per cent by £217 million to £2.44 billion, had been considering an alternative business proposal prepared by the Scottish government, but workers were told it had been rejected. Read more....... Toeing corporate lines - political posturing in Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's conviction
Forget the doubts over Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's conviction, which has already been questioned by the Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission two years ago. Leave aside the issue of legal process - 23 other terminally ill Scottish prisoners have been released on the same basis over the past three years. What is strange is that Labour leaders in Scotland should have taken up a cry started by the US-owned media, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats. 'Fascist party should not be on the BBC,' says CPB Britain's communists have condemned the BBC for inviting the far-right BNP onto Question Time, stating that the corporation has no duty to give fascists a platform. Speaking at the Communist Party of Britain's (CPB) political committee meeting, Anita Halpin said the election of fascist MEPs had not turned the BNP and its criminal leadership into a democratic, legitimate political party. The CPB said that it intends to launch a range of materials at the Communist University on November 6-8 celebrating the role of the Soviet Union in defeating fascism. No excuse for Afghan warLabour's great imperial folly, not for combating terrorism
It wasn't our original reason for invading. That was in theory to catch Osama bin Laden - remember him? - and in practice because the US told us to. But bin Laden is proving as elusive as Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. And so, just as with Iraq, we get a constantly shifting stream of alternative excuses to continue the occupation, none of them convincing. Preventing terrorism? Our occupation of Afghanistan is causing it. That is the simple truth that Brown either cannot understand or cannot admit. Read more from Labour's great imperial folly, not for combating terrorism Scottish Committee statement on the release of al Megrahi24 August 2009Scottish Communists meeting at the weekend welcomed the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi from Greenock prison. However with withdrawal of his latest appeal there is now little chance of a public enquiry and the truth of the Lockerbie atrocity being exposed. His conviction was based mainly on the identification by an individual who received a several million dollar US payout. The atrocity was probably in retaliation to the shooting down of the Iranian Airbus in 1988 killing 290 innocents with the Iranian connection being ignored by the US as it was about to invade Iraq in the first Gulf war. The hail of abuse directed by the US and others at the Scottish Government who refused to be bullied by the US, need to recall that the the crew of the USS Vincennces who shot down the Iranian Airbus where given a heroes welcome when they returned to port in San Diego. Kenny MacAsgill the Scottish Justice minister made the correct decision albeit the divine retribution of Magrhi's terminal illness claims were frankly embarrassing. The Scottish Committee also elected Tom Morrison as its new Secretary. Cuban Communist Party in ScotlandVideo of Nancy Coro Aguair, Central CommitteeNew Video available online
Cuban revolution: Scotland's communists salute you! First Bus Workers Strike Aberdeen ScotlandJuly 2009Newsflash - UNITY BOOKS NOW ONLINEMeeting you needs for progressive materials
Unity Books has an extensive range of new and second hand books, including a wide selection of Marxist texts and histories of the British and international labour and socialist movement. With over 1110 titles, Unity Books offers you a unique range of progressive materials. New Pamphlet: Scotland's Future
This new pamphlet puts the detailed position of the Communist Party on modern Scotland. Only the united force of working people across all the nations of Britain will be able to roll back, and eventually break, the power of big business and its state apparatus. Scotland's future depends on building this wider unity. Order by Post: Contact us including payment of £3.10 (2.50 + 0.60 p&p) Order Online SoonAs part of building Communist understanding, Unity Books & Parxis Press will soon be offering ONLINE Scotland's Future and a wide range of new & secondhand Marxist books. Check back soon for details. A World in Turmoil - current shifts in the world balance of forcesJohn Foster on the Communist Party of Britain's international resolution In the lead-up to its 50th congress, JOHN FOSTER runs through the Communist Party of Britain's international resolution. CURRENT shifts in the world balance of forces will provide a central focus of discussion at the forthcoming 50th congress of the Communist Party.
The dominant international position of US imperialism has received a significant check over the past two years and the general crisis of the capitalist system has deepened and become more complex. Read more the Communist Party's international analysis..... Free market fatality - exposing the myth of the free market, and their obituaryRobert Griffiths exposes the myth of the free market
THE myth of the "free market" is finally dead and not before time. Its pulse ceased - it didn't have a heart - on Monday April 21.This was the day that the Bank of England, at the behest of the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling, announced its willingness to hand Britain's banks at least £50 billion in Treasury bills.
This bail-out to save the money and housing markets is the biggest in British history. Communist Party in ScotlandThis is a compilation of images from campaigning work of Communists in Scotland - from peace work to Pride Scotia!
In short....Our rules state that "this necessitates a revolutionary transformation of society, ending the existing capitalist system of exploitation and replacing it with a socialist society in which each will contribute according to ability and receive according to work done. Socialist society creates the conditions for advance to a fully communist society".
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The following political report was delivered to the Executive Committee of the Communist Party.
International Secretary John Foster gave the Political Report which focussed on three issues:
"May 2007 saw Scottish politics enter new territory. For the first time in half a century Labour slipped into
2nd place electorally... a major change in political horizons. Electors have shown that they want something better than
New Labour's neo-liberal policies ... Scotland's future has become the subject of active debate."
