h.moss@swansea.ac.uk
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Yes, write to the Standard. There aren’t enough letters in the Standard. It’s good for debate and copy.
‘The best thing for Ukraine and for all of us now would be for the Ukrainians to oust Zelensky and agree to Putin’s demands, ending the war.’
Much more likely that Putin gets ousted than Zelenskyy. Though I agree with Robin that, whatever happen, the Donbas and Crimea are most likely to end up Russian.
Interesting article here. Well worth reading.
And in one of the other letters in yesterday’s Weekly Worker, the Party is mentioned too (albeit in a less than flattering way). It’s from Andrew Northall, a former SPGB member, I believe. As below:
‘As a long time reader and subscriber to the Weekly Worker, I have long understood this basic approach to minimum or immediate demands is core to its basic approach and that of the rather tiny group which exists behind it. I was pleased to see this basic approach clearly reiterated by Jack Conrad (‘Labourism without Labour’, April 3) – and, I have to say, in vivid contrast to the voluminous confusion and obfuscation of Mike Macnair, who, in far too many self-indulgent wordy confusing and obscure articles, reveals no real communism at all, but more a throwback to 19th century social democracy, and two of its later key outputs – the Socialist Party of Great Britain and the Mensheviks in Russia.’
‘A strange assessment of China saying it is neither capitalist or socialist! A crumbling state capitalist regime that has long ago succumbed to the realities of global capitalism despite all of the propaganda. The author would probably have said the same about ‘soviet’ Russia and we all know how that turned out.’
How typical this is as a strand of left-wing thinking.
If this is ‘provocation’, then what about the ‘provocation’ Ukraine has had from Russia since the day it was invaded and its inhabitants bombed to smithereens? As socialists, we just shouldn’t be taking sides in these conflicts or saying that one side or its supporters should do one thing or another.
