Homage To Catalonia
14th October 2010, 17:04
The six counties of Ireland are one of the harder places to set out a coherent and unified strategy.
Wether we as marxists want to admit it or not, there are heavy influences on the two communities, that go beyong which side of Imperialism they stand.
1. There is certainly a strong religeous divide, which some people try to deny on the left.
2. There is the problem of children being indoctrinated by loyalist parents, to the point where they are sure that the Republicans want to impose a catholic regime on them, which as we know is not true.
3. People in Catholic Nationalist Areas have been betrayed by SF and their career politics, which has led to apathy and a strong rise in delinquent behaviour among unemployed dissafected youth.
4. All previous groups have been hierachial and have not been autononmous groups, made up of workers from both sides, who want workers control, it has mostly been nationalist groups who are either leninist and lack popular support or social democrats like PIRA.
I believe the solution is to organise in communities all across England Ireland Scotland Wales and cornwall.
Huey Newton formulated a theory called intercommunalism, I am not a Leninist, but i think this theory, if ran in a non hierachial way, like the POUM or CNT in spain, could unite the proletariat in all of the countries under the name of united kingdom and great Britain, and could create a federation of independant but united territories, with each one having no power over the other, but cooperating with each other in the production of goods for the whole federation.
This could happen as so.
An area in wales could be radicalised, but rather than focusing on national liberation, it could fight, with english and scottish and Irish workers, and create liberated territories which would become safe havens for cadres of autonomnous Peoples Militias.
In rural Wales and Scotland for example, Rural bases could be built up and used to wage a war of attrition against British armed forces and police.
In England housing estates could be expropriated and held by the people who will refuse to pay rent and arm themselves.
North wales could see communities rise up and sabotage economic interests like holiday hotels and foreign investment.
These small liberated groups would be able to spred the numerically superior forces thin, and start hammering the nails into the British economy by carrying out bombings on vast numbers of economic targets like bangs and hotels and shops, aswell as engaging the police and troops.
As the liberated territories get bigger, then militias in England and Wales and scotland and Ireland can start to organise seperate modes of production and governance.
Large agriculture projects could be started to make sure enough food was produced to ensure self sustainability, aswell as expropriating food from supermarkets and siezing bakeries and farms.
Factories could be siezed and ran by the workers themselves, to carry on producing, and to show the people how the society would look on a small scale.
After huge parts of all countries are on the side of the revolution, but not large enough to win by force, then strikes would be called to shut down the economy and stop Britain from running.
All major links to cities and across rivers needed to link troops and police will be sabotaged and all public workers like bus drivers, bin men, people who control the lighting and traffic lights will not go into work
The situation will become unmanagable and troops will not be able to move about freeely and will be blocked from connecting with each other.
This will minimise our casualties, but we would still probably face heavy casualties.
After the government has fallen, the councils that were started will continue to control the means of production and rather than having small divided nations a confederation of regions, made up of workers councils will control society.
Lastly, a compromise between leninist and anarchist policies could be formed.
Where all aspects of society to do with internal security and production are strictly ran through councils, without state intervention.
But there will be an army and navy to defend from imperialism and help spread the revolution, but the Military would not be allowed to interfere with internal matters, such as policing wich would be handled by peoples civil militias, and thee whole publiuc would be armed to make sure the military could not perform a junta.
This would give us the freedom and workers control of anarchism and councilism, but the deterent to imperialism of leninist military.
What do you think of the strategy and what would you suggest should happen?
I think that focusing on Ireland liberating itself from another state, all the workers must be seen as the key to remove Irish imperialism, as the English Scottish Irish and welsh workers are equally exploited, there is no such thing as a nation freeing itself, as nations are npo longer independant, as they are interlinked by capitalism to the point where they cannot extricate themself from it, so rather than focusing on nations, we should organise instead with the view of all places being territories and not focusing on freeing one small set of people in one landmass, but getting all workers to struggle together from different communities, which will rise up together and fight the new face of globalised capitalism, which is now so progressed that it rules all communities, except a few places, which are heading back to capitalism through isolation
Wether we as marxists want to admit it or not, there are heavy influences on the two communities, that go beyong which side of Imperialism they stand.
1. There is certainly a strong religeous divide, which some people try to deny on the left.
2. There is the problem of children being indoctrinated by loyalist parents, to the point where they are sure that the Republicans want to impose a catholic regime on them, which as we know is not true.
3. People in Catholic Nationalist Areas have been betrayed by SF and their career politics, which has led to apathy and a strong rise in delinquent behaviour among unemployed dissafected youth.
4. All previous groups have been hierachial and have not been autononmous groups, made up of workers from both sides, who want workers control, it has mostly been nationalist groups who are either leninist and lack popular support or social democrats like PIRA.
I believe the solution is to organise in communities all across England Ireland Scotland Wales and cornwall.
Huey Newton formulated a theory called intercommunalism, I am not a Leninist, but i think this theory, if ran in a non hierachial way, like the POUM or CNT in spain, could unite the proletariat in all of the countries under the name of united kingdom and great Britain, and could create a federation of independant but united territories, with each one having no power over the other, but cooperating with each other in the production of goods for the whole federation.
This could happen as so.
An area in wales could be radicalised, but rather than focusing on national liberation, it could fight, with english and scottish and Irish workers, and create liberated territories which would become safe havens for cadres of autonomnous Peoples Militias.
In rural Wales and Scotland for example, Rural bases could be built up and used to wage a war of attrition against British armed forces and police.
In England housing estates could be expropriated and held by the people who will refuse to pay rent and arm themselves.
North wales could see communities rise up and sabotage economic interests like holiday hotels and foreign investment.
These small liberated groups would be able to spred the numerically superior forces thin, and start hammering the nails into the British economy by carrying out bombings on vast numbers of economic targets like bangs and hotels and shops, aswell as engaging the police and troops.
As the liberated territories get bigger, then militias in England and Wales and scotland and Ireland can start to organise seperate modes of production and governance.
Large agriculture projects could be started to make sure enough food was produced to ensure self sustainability, aswell as expropriating food from supermarkets and siezing bakeries and farms.
Factories could be siezed and ran by the workers themselves, to carry on producing, and to show the people how the society would look on a small scale.
After huge parts of all countries are on the side of the revolution, but not large enough to win by force, then strikes would be called to shut down the economy and stop Britain from running.
All major links to cities and across rivers needed to link troops and police will be sabotaged and all public workers like bus drivers, bin men, people who control the lighting and traffic lights will not go into work
The situation will become unmanagable and troops will not be able to move about freeely and will be blocked from connecting with each other.
This will minimise our casualties, but we would still probably face heavy casualties.
After the government has fallen, the councils that were started will continue to control the means of production and rather than having small divided nations a confederation of regions, made up of workers councils will control society.
Lastly, a compromise between leninist and anarchist policies could be formed.
Where all aspects of society to do with internal security and production are strictly ran through councils, without state intervention.
But there will be an army and navy to defend from imperialism and help spread the revolution, but the Military would not be allowed to interfere with internal matters, such as policing wich would be handled by peoples civil militias, and thee whole publiuc would be armed to make sure the military could not perform a junta.
This would give us the freedom and workers control of anarchism and councilism, but the deterent to imperialism of leninist military.
What do you think of the strategy and what would you suggest should happen?
I think that focusing on Ireland liberating itself from another state, all the workers must be seen as the key to remove Irish imperialism, as the English Scottish Irish and welsh workers are equally exploited, there is no such thing as a nation freeing itself, as nations are npo longer independant, as they are interlinked by capitalism to the point where they cannot extricate themself from it, so rather than focusing on nations, we should organise instead with the view of all places being territories and not focusing on freeing one small set of people in one landmass, but getting all workers to struggle together from different communities, which will rise up together and fight the new face of globalised capitalism, which is now so progressed that it rules all communities, except a few places, which are heading back to capitalism through isolation