The Active Participation Of Workers Is Necessary For Final Victory
The Iranian Revolutionary Marxists’ Tendency (IRMT) is the Iranian section of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT). Last year, IRMT spokesperson Maziar Razi published an open letter to the workers of Venezuela, admonishing the IMT’s Bolivarian hunk-of-the-moment President Hugo Chávez, for his support of Iranian President Ahmadinejad. Chávez has made a mistake. With his support for Ahmadinejad he has [...]
Why Revolutionary Marxists should not support Islamic fundamentalists – Part Two
By Maziar Razi — reproduced from the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Marxist Tendency Chris Harman sides with reactionary Islamic Fundamentalists If Tony Cliff parts from the basic ideas of revolutionary Marxism and revises Trotsky’s permanent revolution, Chris Harman, by extending Tony Cliff’s deviation, sides with counter-revolutionary Islamic fundamentalists. This position potentially places the SWP [...]
Why Revolutionary Marxists should not support Islamic fundamentalists – Part One
By Maziar Razi — reproduced from the website of the Iranian Revolutionary Marxist Tendency Introduction The question of Islamic fundamentalism has been one of the central tactical issues facing Marxists over the past few decades. In fact the origin of this dilemma and discussion dates back to three decades ago and the establishment of the [...]
PRC ‘Solidarity’
Xinhua, the official organ of the nominally ‘Marxist’ People’s Republic of China (PRC) has published an article about the race riots in Calabria which calls migrant workers a ‘burden’ and further implies that they are responsible for crime in Italian cities. This is the Chinese Communist Party’s current line on worker solidarity. Only naive fools and [...]
Southern Italy Like Alabama In 1920s
Scylla and Charybdis were mythical monsters which preyed on sailors passing through the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria. African migrant workers in Calabria are caught between a modern and very real Scylla and Charybdis. One one side is the parasitic criminal organisation known as the ‘Ndrangheta, which profits from the super-exploitation of low-paid [...]
Too Many Of Whom And Too Much Of What?
What the new population hysteria tells us about the global economic and environmental crisis, and its causes. A No One Is Illegal discussion paper There is a conventional view in Britain that racism has been driven onto the defensive or even banished completely from most areas of daily life. The political Right, indeed, constantly portrays [...]
