This discussion forum took place on Zoom on 19th April. The presentation and discussion are available as a podcast. Slides and notes from the presentation are below:

This is an agreed response from International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity to the substantial comment placed by Patrick Downey beneath the ‘IUAFS statement on the suspension of Bill O’Brien’, which was published on this site as well as the IUAFS site.

 Today, with the prospect of the defeat of the US and Israel in the war against Iran, we are seeing, for the first time since the US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, the prospect of a direct military defeat of US imperialism, the greatest war machine in all history.

IUAFS statement on the suspension of Bill O’Brien from International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS), and relations with the Truth and Neutrality Alliance (TANA)

The Anti-Fascist International is one strand of what we feel we should be involved in, given its formation as a campaign to fight against imperialist and fascist aggression in the Americas. It is obvious that the International does not concern itself solely with the Americas, as the recent discussion on slogans regarding Iran reveals.

For Marxists, participation in bourgeois elections has always been a tactical issue. However, while for most of the left, electoralism is their raison d’être, for a minority influenced by leftist and anarchist ideas, casting a blank vote or boycotting elections is also an existential principle, a testament to being “revolutionary.”

The Brazilian Chapter of the Anti-Fascist International, organized in several Brazilian cities such as Brasília, São Paulo, Campinas, and Rio de Janeiro, is one of the many national chapters created by the World Meeting of the Anti-Fascist International , which brought together 1,100 delegates representing 76 countries in Caracas on November 28, 2024.

Red Partisan is a new Marxist journal published by Consistent Democrats and like-minded others involved in Your Party, the party initiated by Zarah Sultana last July, and less than whole-heartedly endorsed by Jeremy Corbyn.

50 years ago, on March 24, 1976, a coup took place in Argentina that gave rise to a nationwide genocidal dictatorship.

As ‘the Holocaust Memorial’, it will further aggrandize Jewish victimhood, just as Israel and the billionaires of world war criminalise any reference to genocide in Gaza. As Norman Finkelstein says, the Holocaust is used by the Jewish establishment, to exploit the Memory for political and financial gain.