Workers' Liberty

I agree with much of Martin Thomas’ latest response in our ongoing debate (Workers’ Liberty 18) about the attitude of Marxists to Parliament in the transition to socialism.

I enjoyed Sean Matgamna’s review of Bill Hunter’s They knew why they fought: unofficial struggles and leadership on the docks 1945-1989 (Workers’ Liberty 21).

For decades Lenin’s small body of work on Ireland, filtered through a number of Stalinist pamphlets purporting to expound the ideas of “Marx, Engels and Lenin” on Ireland, has helped shape socialists’ views.

The big change for black Americans was World War 2. Men went to fight and found that they got respect.

[In 1845] England stood face to face with a crisis, solvable to all appearances by force only. … The working masses of the towns demanded their share of political power — the People’s Charter.

In the 19th century European capitalism developed industry, cleared away feudal restrictions, and also developed the working class.

“Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn”. The Bible said it long ago. It might serve as the text for Tory MPs who now bellow their outrage against Lord Nolan and his committee of inquiry into sleaze at the top in politics.