The following is the notes/text of a presentation delivered by a Consistent Democrats speaker on 9th November on this chapter. The recording of the presentation and discussion is also here
In exchanges around our 2020 split, Socialist Fight’s Gerry Downing said that Zionist represented the “racism of the oppressed” and denied its genocidal character (see text below). Whereas we said that “Zionism can quite conceivably exterminate the Palestinians”. This is a clear objective test of who was right and who was wrong about Zionism
We print below three items., relating to the Spartacists’ attempt to create a ‘Revolutionary Caucus’ in Your Party, which to us appears to be a laudable thing to attempt to do.
We held an online discussion forum today on this subject as a one-off using CLR James essay “Every Cook Can Govern’ from 1956.
A podcast of this discussion is available here
He called for a coalition of nations to form a “powerful army” to defend the Palestinian people and “liberate Palestine ,” framing it as a continuation of Latin America’s anti-colonial struggles. “It is Bolívar’s sword, of freedom or death,” Petro declared
The detention of George and Gayatri Galloway on 27th September is an outrage against civil liberties and basic democratic rights, and a very sinister attack on one of the best-known left-wing politicians in Britain, and his family.
This presentation with slides was given at a Consistent Democrats educational discussion on 28th September 2025. It is a preliminary discussion of the history of Christian Zionism. It cannot be said to represent a Marxist analysis in itself, but it could lay the basis to enrich our Marxist understanding of aspects of the history of Zionism.
What’s going on in Your Party is a faction-fight against Zarah Sultana MP for her strong and seemingly strengthening anti-Zionist views, by the other MP’s in the Independent Group in parliament, working with the soft-Zionist apparatchiks around Jeremy Corbyn – James Schneider, Karie Murphy and co. These latter group, it will be recalled, were closely … Continue reading CD Statement: Whither ‘Your Party’?
These are the prepared notes for the presentation at today’s forum (14th September 2025). A recording of the presentation and discussion is here. We are living through the biggest split in the Labour Party’s history, though it is happening in a long-drawn-out and novel manner. This is the continuation of a struggle that has been … Continue reading Your Party – New Start for the Workers Movement?
