The Relevance of Red Action Today

https://network23.org/rottenpleb/2016/07/04/the-relevance-of-red-action-today/

In regard to contemporary politics Leninist ideology and the cult of Lenin is the authority quoted to justify all sectarianism. The concept of one party rule in a one party state is the end that justifies THEIR means. As such Leninism is the major ideological impediment to the renaissance of the revolutionary left. As long as the left is dominated by conservative sects, the left will be dominated by conservative thinking. For the influence of RED ACTION to grow the dominance of the Bolshevik left will have to be broken.

…[as RED ACTION] we proclaim that the singular objective of revolutionary Marxism is the establishment of unconditional democracy. This is the self rule of the producers without qualification…this means there is no privileged position demarcated for the revolutionary party or indeed for the revolutionary class within the proletarian dictatorship. (1992)”

And the Socialist Standard article on Red Action not seemingly on the archive

http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/bar-room-rebels.html

Not so long ago the Islington branch of The Socialist Party had a debate against a bunch of bar-room rebels called Red Action. Their main speaker argued that winning the war against the British state in the north of Ireland is the key issue in the class struggle, exhibiting a degree of sincerity unusual on the Left. His comrades cheered him when he made his comment and spoke loudly about the important and brave struggle of the Republicans in Ireland. But killing workers is not a theoretical position, it is a practical one. Why don't those who are so eager to cheer when it comes to supporting military violence get in on the act? After all, if socialists genuinely believed that defeating the British army in Ireland was the decisive issue in the class struggle (a nationalistic belief which no socialist could share) we would have an obligation to join the armed struggle. But for the bar-room rebels it is much easier to sing a few nationalistic songs (it is a sight worth seeing: these so-called Red Internationalists sitting in a pub on a Saturday night singing A Nation Once Again) and paint a few slogans on the toilet walls than to go and do what they urge other to do.