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The Trotskist
DSP at it again. The list recipients have recently been party to the discussion on the CPGB Trotskyists masquerading as a Marxist - Leninist party. Well they are not alone and the DSP(formerly Socialist Workers Party) from Australia can also be included in that category. The post below speaks for itself and comrades may recall not long ago their post supporting the imperialist backed MDC in Zimbabwe. Their history of supporting scoundrels and imperialist backed fronts is well known in Australia. I will highlight some of their past and present positions to list recipients for you all to make up your own mind. * Anti Sovietism in the extreme. Except when Gorbachev was at the helm. * Anti-China( in fact anti all socialist states except Cuba ) They support the Dalai lama and Tibetan independence. They oppose unification of Taiwan and China * Supported Lech Walesa and solidarity * Supported Havel in the Czech republic. * Supported KLA during the bombing of Yugoslavia . * Supported the PAC in Sth Africa until it was obvious that there was nothing to be gained from that and quickly switched allegiance to the ANC. Comrades these are some of their positions on the international front. Many comrades in Australia were sure that SWP stood for the Splitters and Wreckers Party as they did plenty of both those activities at a local level (which if comrades were interested in I could go into in detail), the DSP which they are now called is little different. I would not support their removal from the list , and am not calling for that because comrades will have the intelligence to read with care or to just delete. Beware of those who dress Trotsky in Lenin's clothes. james.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Green Left Parramatta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,alt.politics.radical-left,alt.politics.socialism.mao,alt.p olitics.socialism.trotsky To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 2:24 AM Subject: [MLL] GLW: HONG KONG: Socialists run in elections This article appears in the latest issue of Green Left Weekly (http://www.greenleft.org.au): HONG KONG: Socialists run in elections BY JIM McILROY HONG KONG -- "Our election campaign is based on a transitional program aimed at gaining the attention of the working masses of Hong Kong", Leung Kwok-hung, candidate for the April 5 Action socialist organisation, explained to Green Left Weekly on July 24. Leung is running for the Hong Kong Legislative Council, a complicated and undemocratic body which limits direct control by the people of Hong Kong and protects the power of the wealthy elite who continue to rule the ex-British colony despite its handover to Beijing in 1997. Leung is well known here as "Long Hair", after numerous public protests over the years, most recently in the chamber of the council in May, which led to a two-week stint in jail for "disrupting the thoughts" of chief executive Tung Che-hwa. Sporting a shorter haircut, thanks to the prison barber, Leung presented a colourful figure in his Che Guevara T-shirt, as he spruiked to passersby outside the railway station in the working-class suburb of Sheung Shui. The electorate he is contesting is based on the New Territories area outside Hong Kong proper. There are 600,000 registered voters in an area populated by 1.5 million people. The election campaign is a huge task for a small organisation. The main planks of April 5 Action's election platform include: the establishment of a system of unemployment benefits; the introduction of a livable minimum wage; the restoration of workers' right to collective bargaining; and the end of discrimination against union and political activists. "The government is cutting back wages of public servants and slashing jobs in the public sector, as well as increasing casual and part-time employment. We are calling for a comprehensive social security system and a tax on business speculation", Leung told Green Left Weekly. April 5 Action also opposes privatisation of state enterprises throughout China, calls for an election for a Chinese people's congress based on a genuine universal franchise, and advocates an end to one-party control and for genuine socialist democracy based on the right to organise and freedom of speech. In Hong Kong, it is calling for a referendum on the system of government and the basic law that controls administration in the territory. _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list |
