In this episode of Garland Nixon and Joti Brar, the two cover how the 7 October operation in Palestine and the special military operation in Ukraine have awoken many who were previously blind to the crimes of imperialism.
However, social democracy is doing its utmost to maintain the status quo.
Whether in the form of the labour aristocracy – the privileged layer of anticommunist workers whose comfortable position motivates them to stop the rest of the working class from rocking the establishment boat – or the organisation which manifests their objectives, the Labour party, the ruling class can rest assured that its imperialist nature will never be challenged while social democrats are in control of the working-class movement.
So-called ‘democratic socialists’ – as if other socialists care nothing for democracy – might sometimes talk a good game, but in the end they will fold on all the matters of true significance for imperialism. Even if they don’t reject the matter explicitly, as with Jeremy Corbyn’s apparent support for the cause of Palestine, for example, their proposed solution always manages to avoid the fundamental question at issue.
Corbyn, as a pacifist, is not able to understand why national liberation is necessary for Palestine, and that the two-state solution endlessly promoted by the west (in words, but not in deeds) is no solution at all.
The success of George Galloway in Rochdale, in a by-election where all the main political parties of British imperialism were decisively rejected, was a testament to rising discontent – particularly in relation to Palestine.
But with record numbers of workers disengaging from the electoral process altogether, having seen for themselves that no change for the better is ever made to their lives no matter who gets voted into office, the illusion that the class struggle can be moved forward via the electoral process is becoming increasingly exposed.
