Re: Labour still the same as always?!!!??

[malecki@xxxxxxxxxx (Robert Malecki)]

>Robert Malecki writes:
>
>> But the
>> prerequisites for giving critical support to a labor party really has
>> nothing to do with your argumentation.
>>
>> I think the key is whether the particular LP is standing candidates
>> independently against the bourgeois parties.
>
>Here you seem to be ignoring the possibility that the LP may actually
>be a bourgeois party, or in the process of transforming itself into
>one.  I'd argue this has happened/is happening with all the
>traditional workers' parties.  Do you agree?
>
>Steve.

Well steve i think we should be extremely careful here. Unfortunately their
are groups in England that use a very superfiscial analisis of LPs and
unions to write them off in the class struggle. Not in the least regarding
Bolshevik Leninists tactics.

What i say is that the Labour Parties after the disintegration of the Soviet
Union have taken a quantitive leap to the right towards the bourgeoisie! The
Stalinists did in fact play a role in keeping the LPs as reformist
organisations in the workers movement. The LPs have also undergone a basic
change in a large part of the upper political superstruture. That being that
many of the bureaucrats, members of parliment, in all the structures of the
party have never actually been in touch with the labor movement. in fact
many of them recruited direct from universities or coming up through their
post war youth organisations.

These two devolopments conincide and completement each other as these
parties make this present leap. It is and extremely dangerous development
and out of this a whole lot of things can happen. Perhaps for the first time
since the 1800s the working class stands without a party that clearly
represents it in the class struggle even in reformist or centrist ways.

I think we will have to see what kind of things that develop out of this. At
present here in Sweden, there is a very deep split developing in side the
Social Democratic Party between it trade union base and the party. The only
thing at present holding it together is the trade union bureaucracy who
despite developments are not prepared to break with the party.

Although things are moving quickly and the attacks this summer against the
trade unions have been intensifying, the Party is either going to make a
compromise to keep the loyalty of the trade union bureaucracy or will have
to defeat the unions and its very base that it depends on.

Many of the workers are at present disorientated and disgruntled. They no
longer recognise the LP here as their party. The trade union bureaucrats
understand this because they are closer to the class then the party is. So
we have to look at all of this and see where its leading.

Another aspect is there is no clear alternative to the left of the Labor
Party here. In fact the leftgroups are to small or has been working so long
in a petty bourgeois envionment that i do not think that any of them can
possibly come to the head of things as these events develop.

I am not hard on any of this, nor in anyway at present firm on what should
be done tactically to meet this new situation in regards to disintegrating
mass reformist parties moving into the bougeois camp as the Stalinist
centrist organisations disintegrate or become something entirely different
then when they came into existence. One can hardly call the Euro Communist
trend centrist for example..

So i think that there is a lot of room for discussion here. However without
the creation of Bolshevik Leninist Trotskyist parties and a new reforged
Communist International their won,t even be a neccessity of discussing
tactics in relation to all this stuff..

malecki




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