FLTI does not hide the head in the sand: it denounces SZ’s Peace and Freedom Party is a liberal bourgeois party of Obama’s imperialist left.
The truth is that we have now officially to intervene from SCI in the rich open discussion in the CEI on the case about SZ. We can call this moment “from a scratch-to the danger of gangrene”.
Before going into this debate, it is an obligation to introduce to all our readers the party in which SZ is a member of its national committee, and its program, that [CR] has been hiding from the FLTI rank-and-file. We ask all the comrades to read that program, which is in English and Spanish, so then they can have their own opinion in the discussion.
If we read all the mails of the debates between our leaders on the JRCL and SZ case from November 6th up to now, we see that the positions are starting to open a 180 degrees angle between them and that the programmatic differences get deeper and deeper and the principled questions become ever more serious. Though, if one watches back to the different positions given by the different players, everything resembles a great soap opera. This great confusion has its origin in that [CR] and HWRS have been hiding to the entire FLTI the program and the character of the party which this alleged “independent cinematographer” leads: a petit-bourgeois imperialist party, a left leg of the butcher’s Democratic party.
As it happened around the Chinese question, each time a difference appears, a cloud of dust arises. The point is to let the dust settle down so to be able to distinguish precisely the shape of the building to define well who is who or which questions are the crux of discussion.
From the first moment SZ established a relation with the FLTI, he has been declaring 1) that the JRCL accuses him to be a CIA agent, and 2) that as a reward for their betrayal to the ‘80s railway worker strike; the Japanese state has given them the control of the railway union.
Here we don’t see a single grain of political discussion; it is all about a moral accusation. Maybe during his long years of militancy [CR] has became used to think that everything is permitted in the discussion of political differences; however, we are not going to be convinced by hollow claims. To say it is not a moral problem to exchange a strike for the control of one of the unions (which would mean leaving thousands of workers jobless); to characterize Masusake (someone whom we do not know) to be a member of the JRCL – without presenting any proof – and to conclude accordingly that JRCL is a fascist group in the Democratic Party government’s payroll (as the mails sent to the WIVL by SZ inform us), and moreover to call this a political discussion against the JRCL is not to distinguish an ant from an elephant or a Trotskyist from a Stalinist.
Since SZ has contacted us through [CR], he has systematically devoted himself to make moral accusations asking us to pronounce ourselves politically. What [CR] seems not to understand – as if he would have neither considered properly the best Marxist traditions nor the Trotskyist experience during the 30’s – is that to mix moral questions into political discussions is absolutely alien to those traditions and experience. And it is evident [CR] does not get it, nor in his program and principles or in his flesh and blood.
Now. Let’s assume that [CR] is correct. Let’s suppose that Masusake is a corrupt fascist leading a fascist union supported by the Democratic Party and let’s also suppose that he’s a member of JRCL. Let’s suppose that everything we have been told before now is a lie, that JRCL has cheated us and that it has not had to go completely underground in Japan, and that it does not have had 93 of its members killed. Let’s suppose that what you may download from Internet cannot ever be apocryphal and that it is always true. Let’s suppose that JRCL accuses American “Lenin” SZ to be a CIA’s agent. Even in that hypothetical case, our friend [CR] wouldn’t be right. Why? Very simple, because SZ (and now his spokesperson [CR]) would have to show which campaign for an IMT his party “Peace and Freedom” of Los Angeles has launched to judge morally the JRCL’s attacks on the working class and its corruption in the fascist trade union of Japan that had given in to the bosses the railway workers strike.
For SZ, as for Stalinism, the moral problems are arguments in the political struggle, without minding if this demoralizes or breaks the will of thousands of vanguard workers in the world. They don’t mind if thousands of workers are watching horrified how their leaders are in a race to see who is more corrupt, better paid by the transnationals or an aptest CIA’s agent. The reason is that SZ and his petty bourgeois party “Peace and Freedom” are a group of petty bourgeois dressed as “socialists”, who are the left wing of the imperialist Democratic Party in USA. This is the Stalinist method; it is not the method of the revolutionary workers’ movement or the method in the best Bolshevik traditions. Never in the international workers’ movement are political differences discussed in an obscene mixture with moral arguments, accusations or attacks. That is pure Stalinism of the worst kind!
This simple truth has been obscured and forgotten; so much has been [CR] blinded by his friend SZ that he does not understand now the fundamentals of Trotskyism and Bolshevism; we insist: moral arguments are banned from political discussions.
And this is the ESSENCE of the discussion. Moral accusations must be settled in morals institutions. But Peace and Freedom Party is a liberal bourgeois party. Now, [CR] delights about SZ having cheated Socialist Action, which is a reformist, treacherous, … but nevertheless a working class party! So, it is a symptom that [CR] does not distinguish a bourgeois party from a working class party, be it a revolutionary or a reformist one. And so he is happy that PFP, a bourgeois party, has make fun of Socialist Action. Here we send you the entire program of the PFP which tries to paint a dovish landscape and to say that a country that has taken under its military grip the entire world may become a democratic haven with only some revamping. It is clear the PFP is a tool of Obama’s party to deceive some naïve people in Los Angeles.
Now then, [DW of the HWRS] realizes something in his mail on November 6th (in which he says “ SZ is a provocateur” and affirms that the latter takes the arguments of a dissident fraction of the JRCL as if they were those of the same JCRL that is discussing with us). However, [CR] afterwards replies “No”. With arguments provided by SZ and copies of texts downloaded from Internet, he says “It is our JRCL”. And then, both [CR] and SZ together send articles clipped from a paper Solidaridad Obrera Internacional – Whose paper is it? Who knows them? – denouncing that Masusake belongs in the JRCL. At the same time the JRCL that is discussing with us denies him to be one of them, telling us instead that he is a corrupt, fascist agent belonging in the Japanese Rengo fascist unions. After that, comrade [AC] who had the honour of seeing the graves of the martyred 93 JRCL comrades murdered by the Japanese imperialist state also gives his reply.
But [CR] and his friend SZ don’t care anything about this truth. They’re so blind that they do not understand that essence: moral arguments are banned from political discussions. Let’s repeat it once and for all.
In short, for [CR] and SZ the only truth is that in Japan, the entire working class vanguard, the entire Japanese left is a gang of murderers of workers, of fascist agents of the transnationals. So acting as “guardian angels” of the working class, those bourgeois parties as PFP of Los Angeles which according to [CR] are “socialists” although they don’t call themselves “socialists”, but “fighters for peace and freedom” in the US, accuse the JRCL – without any proof.
Really, if one takes the time to watch this hellish show, one cannot but feel disgusted and cry together with Trotsky who warned young Cannon: “Wherever you see intrigues, malicious remarks, moral accusations mixed with political differences… put a big lens and you surely will find the KGB’s fingerprints”.
Because after all this filth, how can our program that we presented before the 47th Anti-war Assembly – which says that the Japanese working class vanguard must call Oakland’s vanguard to put again in place the million workers march against the war to break with Obama and the left that put the US working class to the feet of Obama – to unite again the Japanese workers that confront the Democratic Party with the US working class? Now the US worker would say “why have I to unite with the Japanese workers, who are murderers, fascists… next to whom Mr. Obama is a liberal democrat?”. And the Japanese worker would say: “Who is this SZ, whom we do not know and of whom I’m told is a CIA agent, though we haven’t discussed him as a CIA agent in any of our public congresses?”
To mix moral discussions with political discussions is an old trick of Stalinism’s for rotting and making the proletariat degenerate, and for breaking the unity in the workers ranks. And we have already stated it clearly: we’re not, do not want to be and wont’ be part in that kind of politics. Besides, in this case, these amalgams come not from a worker organization but from a liberal petty bourgeois/bourgeois organization to the left of the Democrats.
We have no proof of anything of what is being commented other than SZ‘s slander. Why do we say it is a slander? Because he transforms his accusations into a political argument without having called before to a moral tribunal to prove his sayings. But, how is SZ going to call a working class moral tribunal? He cannot, he is a member of a liberal petty bourgeois/bourgeois party that does not fight for the defeat of its “own” troops all over the world or for the expropriation of the imperialist bourgeoisie!
He and his PFP would have had to call for a Dewey-like tribunal. With all the influence he has, why did he not call such a tribunal to clean his morals and his honour as Trotsky did before Dewey’s tribunal? Why didn’t he do as we did when we were attacked by the PO in Argentine, or when we were attacked by the Brazilian PSTU, or as the Zimbabwean comrades who even hold that they are not going to defend themselves before the bourgeois justice?
Let’s try to explain it more clerly. Let’s imagine a hypothetical example, just to see if through it comrade [CR] can understand what we say when we say that it is forbidden for a Bolshevik to mix moral discussions with political discussions. Let’s imagine that we are in the same strike with comrade [CR] and a group of striking workers that think he has an incorrect policy for the strike, and let’s suppose that those workers, instead of discussing his position about the strike, accuse him of stealing the strike fund. Do you think that it is possible to discuss in the same assembly the better program for this strike to triumph, after hearing this moral accusation and leaving it in the middle of the discussion? No. Never. Because even in the case that this group of workers think better and retire their accusation, and even in the case they say that they had had only some vague and neligible doubts about his managing of the fund, [CR]’ morals and honour as a striker would have received an indelible stain, because the suspicion would have been installed. So after that it would be very easy to win the political discussion over him because he would have lost any moral weight. Such is the way used by the union bureaucracy and Stalinism.
That’s why when you discuss politics you cannot mix moral problems in it. And following the example of the strike, if there are differences about the figures in the strike fund, the correct way is to constitute a workers committee to review and report about the money collected, the expenses, etc., before the assembly. Once things are clear, it is possible then to discuss in the assembly the differences we have around how to better get victory in the strike.
Union bureaucracies, reformists and the renegades of Trotskyism work exactly contrariwise. For them, this is not important. They are used to live within a movement that has been completely carried to bankruptcy by union bureaucracies and the paid agents of Capital. In that world, everything goes. Words are for free.
For us it is not so. For us, Trotskyists, things are different. Even to insinuate a suspicion on the moral behaviour of a working class fighter amounts to stain him for his entire life. Take into account (before the class enemies do take that into account and act correspondingly) that to accuse someone means to win the discussion in front of the masses, beforehand. That’s why it was a method used by Mensheviks against Bolsheviks accusing them of being German spies. And it was also used by Stalinism which accused Trotskyists of being Japanese Mikado and US CIA’s agents, so facilitating the KGB’s murdering us from behind and the Mikado, the CIA and the Gestapo’s murdering us openly in the ‘30s or during the 2WW.
For example, if I’m SZ and write pithy articles in the name of my PFP in the international papers of that “JRCL” put in place by the imperialist Japanese government and MNCs – which killed a number of JRCL militants during several years – and after that I accuse this martyred JRCL of having exchanged the railroad union for the betrayal of a strike (and I hide that I’m in direct political fight against them) I’m a rascal, because it is clear that with the moral accusation I want to win a political discussion. This is the program of Stalinism. Nothing has it in common with the program of Bolshevism.
And we give a dime for the quantity of members that SZ has behind him. Stalinism had the whole workers states, some millions more that the members SZ boasts of. It seems so preposterous to hear such pitiful arguments coming from people who claim to be Trotskyists!!
Oh, come, come… The JRCL is up to know completely ignorant that such a discussion is being carried over them. How could they be able now to discuss the railroad strike when SZ and the fraction invented by the Japanese imperialist government have already created a campaign in the world working class movement telling everybody that they‘re fascists and have surrendered the strike, that they left undefended 1047 worker jobless in the streets and that in exchange for that the government has given them the union as a gift? This is the same trick that Stalinism played against the Trotskyists. They told everybody that Trotskyists were agents of capital and after that, who could go to discuss into the communist cells? There the own workers beat the Trotskyists and then the Stalinists sent them to the Vorkuta concentration camps.
Against that method alien to the proletariat the Left Opposition rose and then Trotskyism and Trotsky’s magnificent works “Our Morals and Theirs” and “The New Course” were written. Political discussions never mix with moral questions. Whoever utilizes these same Stalinist dirty tricks is as despicable as them.
To settle moral questions there exist morals organizations, institututions, where the moral accusations are presented. For politicalquestions there exist the political discussions between parties and the workers’ democracy in the worker organizations to discuss the differences. And if SZ has any moral problem with the JRCL, he should call for a Moral Tribunal. But first he has to pronounce about the giving up to the police of our comrades in Zimbabwe, for the freedom of the Guantanamo prisoners and for the military defeat of US imperialism in Iraq and Afghanistan, for pointing back the gun at home, and for the expropriation and defeat through revolution of the US imperialist state. If he is not williing to do that, please tell him to stop meddling with his walking all over the world. And this is not a moral discussion, it is a political discussion.
Let him assume the responsibility for his program and for his party’s program which is not even a “social imperialist” one: it is a case of a thorough imperialist party, even one disguised as “sociaist”. Meanwhile, Trotskyist militants of the FLTI open him the door so that people like them –liberal bourgeois organizations that are so cheeky as to call for an “universal basic wage”!!!- can enter worker organizations. Please, naive comrades that invite these miserable rascals: they are philantropists who work to calm down the masses in favor uf the bourgeoisie, people that call to make scientific reseaerch “no only for the rich, but also for the poor”. A party that calls to ban a work in the prisons that yields profits... And the factories are not also prisons of slavery for the proletarians? But this bourgeois filth... who are them to influence the life of the worker organizations? Our friend [CR] will at any moment draw a class frontier between him (us) and this liberal bourgeois/petty bourgeois US party? SZ is a member, a leader, a representative of a BOURGEOIS party. Who lets this kind of people enter our ranks to discuss the problems of the worker organizations class morals? Attached please find the entire program of the PFP.
We propose that the million workers march is again put in place against the war and that the unions opposed to the Rengo unions of Japan call a rank and file congress to unite the US and Japanese working class. That was the demand we raised before the JRCL in the letter that we presented before the 47th Antiwar Assembly in Japan.
SZ, his allies and his PFP are enemies of this. We denounce them before the masses, that is what we have to denounce time and again before the masses and we shoud not be discussing another thing but this.
They are the bourgeois left of Obama’s. Now that the US masses are getting disapointed with the hollow promises of Obama, their objctive is that no worker current can emerge to the left of the Democrats in the US. This is their raison-d’etre. And if they are servants to their own imperialist bourgeosies, if they are treacherous reformists, the JCRL will also refuse to take this proposal we raised before them in the 47th Antiwar Assembly. But that would be showed and clearly demonstrated before the masses, without accusations, without intrigues, without amalgams, without slanders, without demoralizing the hundreds of thousands of workers that could follow up this discussion and that are looking for a road to their liberation.
Besides, if the fight is a clean political fight, and we do not let any moral discussion be entangled with the political discussion, the servants in the payrol of Obama will not be able to disguise themselves, nor the liberal bourgeois parties as PFP and SZ that are pinned to Obama’s coattails and because of that have betrayed the fight of the Local 10 workers in the same level as Alan Benjamin who is a Lambertist. We aski you, please, [CR]... Will you please imform all of us in the FLTI, the position of the PFP before Obama, the million workers march, the Honduran coup, the developments in Afghanistan, Boliva, South Africa? Have SZ and his party already signed the call for a IMT from the Zimbabwean comrades? And the campaign for the freedom of the Peruvian miner prisoners?... Is SZ heading that campaign among the entire US working class with his enormous prestige and moral authority that he himself has? No, SZ does not at all speak about these trifles, nor does his new ally [CR]. What a shame!
The JCRL has said “let us strike together!”. They have not yet pronounced in fvor of the putting again in place of the millon workers march and they do not yet call to coordinate with them. What do we tell them? That they are traitors to the 1985 railroad strike, as SZ says? Or we’d better demand them that they pronounde for the unity of the US working class with the Japanese and European workers and with all the world working class, and that is what defines in 2009 who has betrayed the 1985 strike? WE affirm that this last policy is what we have to apply.
We Hill discuss very toughly this point with them, because this is the point where we Hill have to strike together, as in the question of the Peruvian miners, Zimbabwe, etc.
But before the campaign of slanders and calumnies that SZ and his PFP (where also the LIT was attending for its foundation) have launched we will also affirm that everything is being made for the sake of preventing the coordination of the best of the vanguard of Oakland working class with the best of the Japanese working class, and that the campaigns of slanders, and trying to entangle this political discussion with moral accusations is (or tries to be) a means for the preventive manoevre.
Even if we had to effectively expose the JRCL and/or a part of its leadership as as opportunists, this way that SZ proposes is the worst and filthiest, because it breaks the unity of the world working class and demoralizes it.
So blined is now our friend [CR] thanks to his liberal moviemaker friend that nothing of this makes sense form him. It’s a pity, we feel sorrow for himand for SZ. The interests of the working class and its organizations are well above the men, and specially above all those that sit down in the CC of Obama’s left to betray the world proletariat. If not, why dos not [CR] and the HWRS go and sit themselves in that CC of the PFP of SZ and make a united party with him? [CR] defines this party as “socialist”, of what kind? Opportunist, reformist, counterrevolutionary? Can he explain what is the relationship of this party with Obama, with the AFL-CIO, with the Castrites, with Alan Benjamin and with the Bolivarians?
Here befre our eyes we have the program of SZ’s party. It is a liberal bourgeois party as there are many that wants to dress as “democratic” Obama’s party. SZ is a goodboy Obama with “socialist bonheur” and 40 Celsius degrees. And the Trotskyists are covering this lowlevel political trick!
It has not arrived yet to the WIVL e-mail address or to our e-maill address any call by SZ to put into place the million workers march, to unite the left of the Japanese unions that confront the popular front government of the Democratic Pary of Japan and Stalinism, and to unite with the European working class to wield our class ranks in a sole response to the world crisis, and much less what to to with the uprising in Tonghua, China of the Chinese workers that execute their bosses and accomplish in that way to get untouched their jobs.
Let the PFP convene a tribunal of bourgeois and petty bourgeois to demonstrate that they are not in the payrlll of the CIA. That is not our problem. That is not a problem for the world workers organizations. We know by their program that they are for the cessation of the CIA in the US. But they do not speak about the dissolution of the armed forces, of the sheriffs and of the bourgois state. Then, they are a bourgeois party, and we are not going to ask a bourgeois party that they raise to dissolve the band of armed men of capital, which are the backspine of their state, or better said, they are what the state ultimately boils down to.
And taht we should say to the entire workers vanguard in Los Angeles, that each time they see the liberal burgois, and the more they pose as left, the more the workers have to watch them and take care of their own pockets; and that they must take of not being recorded by any fillmaker, because the liberal bourgeois do not suffer any retaliation, but the sriking workers usually do, they are beaten or imprisoned. Not to say if we workers stage a strike in Afghanistan or Pakistan, or if it is the Palestinian Resistence which is fighting. We are gunned down, or taken to Guantanamo, etc.
Any way the PFP could unify with the Communist Party of UK, which accuses the victims (the JRCL that has been murdered 93 of its militants by the rengo unions and by the fractionsinvented by the Japanese state and MNCs) as victimizers, and they both together please demonstrate us, with prooofs befote a IMT, that the JCRL is what they say it is. Meanwhile, we are not going to permit any moral accusation of any kind, come from anywhere it may; because we do not accept, when political relationships are established to discuss a moral problem in any other places than in a moral institution.
This is an elemental principle, which perhaps due to his militancy during years in the Pabloist fraction of the SWP, our firnd [CR] does not understand. He is covering the Stalinist-bourgeois actions of SZ with the spurious argument that he has a large audience, when it is exactly the other way round: the more audience he has, the more we have to make a campaign in the US saying that no moral accusations are permitted to be mixed into political discussions, and much less can be allowed bourgeois liberal parties to meddle with questions within the workers organizations, because we only discuss within the organizations of OUR class. And we remember [CR] that Stalinism used to put up these “committees for peace and freedom” with any bourgeis, clergyman, left liberal of philantropist paid by the KGB that it could collect. Let’s recollect. Wasn’t that PFP founded in 1967 for the cooperation and the peace among the peoples of the world...? Please, whom are you speking about?? Please identify whom you are helping to pass as a victm, tell us, please cofrade [CR]… Thanks to our informs, all our rank and file nows about the accusations tha the Japanese JRCL is suffering. All our militants are with their eyes wide open. You... are you going to tell them all the truth about to what kind of a party belong in this bourgeis militant that tries to pass as a moviemaker? From what time has it come to be a habit that the bourgeoisie enters the workers ranks? How is it that we are going to give a bourgeois the right to say anything about the morals of the combatants of the working class?
Moreover, in the confronttion between Socialist Action and this bourgeois rubbish, we are alongside Socialist Action. Who does not make a distinction and establishes a class line between workers and bourgeoisi, cannot begin to discuss reform or revolution to the interior of the labor movement.
And we remind [CR] that Stalinism, that calumniated Trotskyism, had a million more audience that SZ and a huge power to corrupt the World proletariat.
We in our political offensive towards refrouping the vanguard in Asia and the US, do not make ourselves responsible for what our circumstantial allies may do. While we strike together and march sepaatedly with the JRCL, as Trotsky said about the Bloc of Four, we ony make responsible for the FLTI. We have not any “JRCL or ours”, as [CR] says. We are working on the JRCL, that is a centrist phenomonon, as we have already informed. This is not a fact that may be falsified to win a discussion and “justify” a bourgeois movimaker.
We only make ourselves responsible from the political and moral point of view for what our militants and our fraction does. And this responsibility means that we do not accept that anyone, be it SZ or the JRCL, or anyone, mix moral discussions where there are political discussions. That why we have called for a Moral Tribunal in Zimbabwe, to judge Gwisai that gave in to the police and the bourgeois state our comrades. Thats why we have condemned in our ranks the attitude of [CR] thay has made a secret society with SZ at the backs of this SCI to attack and judge morally the JRCL.
UIT the JRCL we only establish political and programmatic discussions and agreements that could serve the working class.
In 5 years of relationship that we have carried on with the JRCL we have not had any motive to make it any moral condemnation of any kind. And much less after having traveled to Japan and seen with our own eyes the conditions in which they are militating.
From the JRCL we are separated by huge poltical differences, that is the only thing we are interested in discussing. To present proofs is the obligation of those that accuse them morally, it is not our obligation to do that. In 5 years of political relationship we have nota had any moral attack form them. We have only had solidarity when the PO handed us to the bourgeois state and police.
What [CR] and SZ have to do is to call themselves to a moral tribunal, if a bourgeois liberal party tothe left of Obama has any morl to discuss about morals with the working class and their organizations, when they at the same time support the state of Israel, massaccrer of the Palestinian State. This shameless guy wants to discuss the morals of the workers organizations, when he does not call to destroy the US bourgeois state, only to reform it, and that in a liberal way? Now we see much more clearly how is the JRCL that discusses with us, when wesee what kind of enemies ithas to the interiorofthe US!!!
It is not by chance that SZ is the spokesman of one of the diserting factions of JRCL. They are perfect for each other. In this case, [CR] and SZ are in a hurry. They have collected all the denounces against JRCL from Wikipedia, from web pages created by the bourgeoisie and imperialism, and not from workers organizations. This is so embarassing…
SZ writes in Internet on the JRCL-Chukaku web page that openly attacks the JRCL that is engaged in discussions with us. In that web page, Kuroda’s JRCL receives thousands of moral accusations without proofs.-
And so we have the extraordinary, “accidental” coincidence that JRCL-Chukaku uploaded on their web page on November 5th as the lastest news in English the balance sheet document of the 1985 railway workers!, which is a real falsification written after 24 years and uploaded on the web page exactly the same day SZ and [CR] decide to send that document to WIVL asking for a pronouncement. And all this happened one day before comrade Dov bravely dennounce, in an email sent to all the FLTI, that SZ is a provocateur, announcing that this issue of SZ is closed for comrades of HWRS, since, as [DW] says, we have nothing to do with those who are enemies of the working class.
How many casual coincidences all together! On November 5th, Chukaku faction uploades on internet a balance sheet telling that the JRCL we are discussing with has sold out the railway workers strike and left 1047 workers dismissed as a condition for taking the leadership of the union, which was given to them by the imperialist Japanese state.
It is also a big coincidence that in the middle of the strike of Kraft-Terrabusi in Argentina, one member of the factory cell has taken out his Trotskyist worker’s mask and Freddy Krugger appeared declaring that PCR’s politics in the factory was correct against us.
How many coincidences happened all together on Thursday November 5th! Coincidentally, just that day when all the bourgeois prosecuters and judges were visiting the former prisoners of Las Heras – each one in their houses where they are on parole – to tell them that if they don’t break with FLTI, they’ll all go to jail again.
How many coincidences! What is which has provoked such a planet alignment that made, also on November 5th, this international centre receive an email from Socialist Fight celebrating PTS’s victory over PCR, while 85 workers were dismissed as dogs and the factory left divided!
On the next day, Friday 6th the trial on Zimbabwe was about to take place, before the bourgeois tribunal where the comrades of Zimbabwe that had established relations with FKTI were taken by Gwisai.
And all this happens in a moment when [CR], with SZ, try to recruit people aginst this centre, according to his own letter of November 6th.
Actually, all these are not just coincidences, as comrade [SM of WIVL] bravely says today in an email. It is a front of counterrevolutionary organizations concocted to destroy Trotskyism with the worst methods extracted from Stalinism. This is a centralized action pepetrated by the worst of the reaction against Trotskyism that is grouping its ranks.
Our friend [CR] hasn’t realized that, in our opinion, he is acting as an unconscious pawn that is being moved and used by the counter revolution forces, and that is possible for his not having strong principles firmly planted in revolutionary Marxism.
Why is [CR] so dedicated to make us pronunce about the fact that JRCL accuses SZ of being part of the CIA, when SZ writes in JRCL web pages, where it is publicly said that this JRCL is a faction linked to the state and that has attacked and killed 80 members of Kuroda’s JRCL? Do [CR] and SZ want us to enter to this disgusting discussion that will demoralize all the world vanguard, as the CPGB national office want us to? Oh, Come one!
Historical light won’t be able to shine in Japan on this issue until a true authentic revolutionary Trotskyist vanguard emerges, as part of the true Trotskyist party in Japan.
But in Japan it will be clear that the only organization who condemned the methods of PO of taking workers to the police is Kuroda’s JRCL. The other JRCL applauded. It will be also clear that the only organization that refuses to mix the moral problems with political discussions is the FLTI, which is demanding JRCL to call themselves on favor of the IMT in defense of the comrades of Zimbabwe, as they did yesterday when our comrades from Argentina were attacked by PO.
If the condemnable methods of Stalinism of workers organizations attacking against each other have entered deep in the Japanese proeltarian vanguard, this is the only policy to regenerate it.
On November 6th, this leadership has received an email from Kuroda’s JRCL: “We share great indignation with you against the Peruvian rulers repressing the miners union. The JRCL is planning to write an article for weekly Kaihoh, in which we will express our warmest solidarity with Peruvian miners and inform Japanese workers and students that the Bolivian FSTMB is calling on them to fight for the imprisoned miners. (I will send you a translation of the article.)(…) As to the Zimbabwe issue, I ask you to wait for days before our response.”
Then they announce all the lessons drawn from the strike of Kraft-Terrabusi of Argentina and the lessons of the strike of the textile workers written by WIVL will be published in their literature together with all the signatures and endorsements to free the Peruvian prisoners.
[CR] must show us if these positions –that the JRCL will publish- have been uploaded in the web page of the Peace and Freedom Party of SZ, junior partner of Obama. If he can’t, he has to keep his mouth shut and stop conspiring against Trotskyists with the enemies of the international working class.
JRCL is paying the prize of having several splits and of being isolated from the international Trotskyist movement, as we’ll see later, not only due to their own responsability but because of the treasons of western Trotskyism.
[CR] says he kind of tremble as a leaf in the storm and doesn’t know what to answer to SZ, the party of the servants of Obama, acording to what’s written in his letter in response to Rene Armas on November 6th.
Here’s what to discuss with this representative of the parties of the American exploiters, that doesn’t even have the name of socialist: We don’t discuss the moral problems, say what’s your program for China, what’s your program for the Anti-war Assembly. You, servant of Obama, member of the Peace and Freedom Party, tell us what’s your program on Honduras and South Africa?
We won’t allow to become into spokesmen of a liberal imperialist bourgeois party or a conveyor of their moral accusations within the workers movement, much less into a tool of British Stalinism, who has its hands stained with Trotskyist blood. No chance of that!
Of course we will advice JRCL to call for a IMT, but not in their defence, but to accuse those who accuse JRCL within the international workers ranks such as CPGB, Peace and Freedom Party from USA, and, unfortunately, today our friend [CR] too, repeating as the echo of that crap, who has lost his compass and has introduced himself deep in the swamp.
Since moral issues and political discussion ave mixed, everything has become meaningless. [CR] is seeking and recruiting those who oppose to this SCI in Obama’s friends world. The only thing he tries to do is to defeat our common offensive given in the anti-war assembly that shook the entire Japanese working class and youth.
In order to save its petty bourgeois prestige, our friend [CR] wants to discuss everything FLTI has built in its offensive on the Japanese Trotskyism. We’re sorry for him and his bad companies.
From all this, everything is a fallacy, including our offensive on JRCL. There are some response drafts to their letter, which should be discussed by [DB of CWG], [DW of HWRS] and [AC of LOI-CI]. Everything tries to be swept out by this offensive by [CR] and SZ.
Now, In [CR]’ opinion and for his friends recruited from the US Obamamania sewers too, the letter to the JRCL (national committee) should have to ask them if they accuse SZ of being part of the CIA (when there is no proof showing this). According to [CR], the letter should also ask them for the proof – since SZ and a liberal bourgeois party from USA demand so – that they have not betrayed the railway struggle in 1985. That letter should also ask them if it is true that they left 1047 dismissed workers in order to win the control of the railway union. We should also make a private investigation to see if Masusaki, the leader who sold out the railway union, is a hidden member of JRCL, as SZ and his Chukaku friends accuse; for this, we would have to do a real infiltration that lasted for years.
Is this what HWRS and [CR] are proposing us to discuss with JRCL, after we took hundreds of IWO there? Should we open a discussion about the principles within the international workers movement just because a liberal bourgeois party demands it? Are you really proposing this to us? Or is it that you have a double moral where you will send a letter to JRCL discussing all the political positions and at the same time you will launch a dirty moral campaign, by this means imposing on us a double moral?
Our friend [CR] and the party of the servants of Obama, of the democratic imperialism, the party of the peace, the freedom and the dove, want us to change all our politics to make a whole sector of the workers and youth vanguard turn left at the stroke of a pen. They want us to turn ourselves in the speakers of the slanderers such as CPGB against JRCL. Do this people think we’re stupid?
They are so used to handle the renegades of Trotskyism as servants that they believe they are facing broken crap. Who do this people think we are? Just some broken scum that can be manipulated at will and that is corrupted for pennies? But please… There is an international centre here that was voted to fulfil the resolutions of the congress of FLTI. All the offensive on Japan was voted in the congress of FLTI. We wont just change it because [CR] and his friends of the liberal party of the dove just think so.
CPGB and the servants of Obama suffer and bleed through their wounds. They suffer. They feel sick when the FLTI Trotskyists received an ovation by the Zengakuren and the Japanese workers vanguard. This process which has already started is what they want to destroy. But they won’t succeed. Because we’ve learnt political discussions and moral accusations are not to be mixed and we won’t be the spokesmen of those who want to demoralize the Japanese working class. We are who won’t allow the heroic revolutionaries of Zimbabwe to be broken. We won’t allow their combat morale to be broken by taking them to the bourgeois justice. We won’t allow the impostors of PTS to appear as “the Trotskyists who defeated the Maoists”. Because in this moment of brutal crisis of the world economy, the fabric of deception woven by reformism can’t last even a week.
And we are sending to Socialist Fight, to the servants of the British imperialism, an article from the paper “Clarin” from Argentina. Their celebration did not last for long, less than two weeks, since, as it is said in that article, the so called “Trotskyist” shop steward of the PTS asserts that the workers of Terrabusi were defeated, that there is no chance of making any strike, that all the dismission have to be accepted, that is to say, that the so called “totskyists” of PTS are actually from the same party than the Maoists of PCR. And both are paid by the same boss of Kraft, which is served by the British SWP that sends our comrades in Zimbabwe to the bourgeois courts; and by the same SOB´s that pay the slanderer SZ who has dazzled his friend [CR] with his movimaker´s spotlights and cameras.
HWRS comrades, every serious sensible worker understands that before this shame and swamp where [CR] has fallen, and where he tries to take the FLTI…. Obama in the oval room stands up and claps his hands…. AFL-CIO, Stalinism, the fascist Rengo unions from Japan and all the union bureaucracies from all around the world stand up to applaud and pay tribute to SZ and our friend [CR]’s miserable politics. Whoever wants to get drowned in the swamp, so be it. We, the Trotskyists, refuse to discuss a single moral issue and mix it up with political discussions, until the programs and politics are clarified before the world working class.
Let SZ answer politically to our letter to the 47th anti-war assembly, point by point to all the programmatic points we raise there. Let him claim to be for the IMT to defend our brothers in Zimbabwe. Let him pronounce that he is for the freedom of the Peruvian prisoners. Let him condemn the Israel state which slaughters the Palestinian people. And if he defends the Israel state, we will accuse him before the world working class as a killer of the Palestinian people and as an agent of Zionism. He has to pronounce himself!
How come a shameless bourgeois has cornered [CR] who can’t answer to him? Or is it that [CR], subordinated by the Obamamania, is imbued with all the prejudices of the American petty bourgeoisie and is afraid of bravely defending our program?
SZ has to hand in a list of the struggles of the world working class where he has been and tell where the videos of those struggles are. There are over 500 secret jails of the CIA only in Europe and in Latin America. He has to do this if he wants to have any relation with us. And even more, we want you to explain why do you get your info and proof from Wikipedia, the dictionary created by CIA and all the intelligence agencies around the world.
For example, if you enter Wikipedia, everybody will realize that you can find a report in detail about all the relationships the FLTI has, even who they are, detail by detail, each one of its groups that are in relationship with Kuroda’s JRCL. Also you will be able to see how our organization in Bolivia is shown to be in the to key cities where it is: Oruro and La Paz. This report on wikipedia, was given by the SCI or the FLTI? No, those data were given by the intelligence services. From there [CR] and his new friend SZ have taken the “proofs”. [CR] is not only drowning in the swamp, he risks to end in the drainage system. Someone has to take this valuable comrade out of this course, because he has lost his compass. Because if he who errs theoretically a millimetre, then in the program and the politics he risks erring several kilometres. Who errs in the morals and in the principles goes directly to the drain and goes bankrupt in the same way as the treacherous leaderships and the bourgeoisie. Please comrade [CR], see where you put your steps! It’s not tale yet.
Let SZ pronounce himself on Honduras, on Iran, for the return of the US soldiers from Afghanistan and Irak inside bodybags. Because if we excavate, who’s behind this Peace and Freedom Party?
How dare comrade [CR] assert that the Peace and Freedom Party from USA are reformist and socialist “in general”? Why don’t you tell us what’s the truth about it? Are there in USA independent socialist parties that are called “Peace and Freedom Party” and who haven’t got even a single socialist meassure in its program? We insist once again, can YOU tell us please what’s their program? What paper do they publish? What’s their position on the Bolivarian bourgeoisies? What’s their position on Obama, on the Muslim bourgeoisies, on Fidel Castro and on the Castroite bureaucracy? How come you consider SZ just one more member of the left? So far, you have not fulfilled that internationalist obligation of reporting to us what’s the program of the organization you are discussing with, when we have actually written thousands of letters and reports on JRCL, and we take full responsability on those reports and letters.
We are sending in attached file the demo-liberal program of that Californian organization, who doesn’t even deserve to be called “socialist” or “working class party”.
With regards to SZ and his party, servile to the imperialist bourgeoisie, this SCI and the FLTI only discuss political discussions before the masses. Apart from that, if [CR] and HWRS are interested, then you may call to a Moral Tribunal, composed by the Histadrut –which SZ recognizes-, the AFL-CIO, Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson, and all the liberal left that says that the Democrats can be painted even pinker than with Obama, and that SZ and his party show before that tribunal and provide evidence of what they denounce in all their up to now unfounded attacks and accusations.
Just because Obama and his Democratic Party are starting to reveal their true ugly nature, so losing any attractive to the masses, they need SZ and his party. [CR] is now stuck to the liberal left of USA. How regrettable!
If you comrade [CR] believe that you and SZ have gathered enough evidence from Wikipedia and dictaminated that SZ was unfairly accused, without the JRCL knowing anything you are speaking about and disseminating worldwide, and you call this a Moral Tribunal, that’s your problem, not ours; it’s your morals, not ours. If you and SZ have ruled against JRCL, mixing political discussions with moral accusations within the workers ranks, that’s not a Moral Tribunal nor an inocent politician showing the political differences existing among the different organizations around the world. You and your friend SZ seem to act like the Holy Inquisition, or even worse, like the Moscow Trials.
Anybody who mixes political discussions with moral issues demoralizes the world proletariat and is a legatee of the Stalinist methods. We won’t go to the SZ and his party’s “everything-is-allowed” swamp. If [CR] has unfortunatelly fallen there, here’s our helping hand for him to grasp it and get himself out of there.
Of course we will advice JRCL to call to a IMT, which has to have more magnitude than the Dewey Tribunal called by Trotsky. But this will be part of our effort to convincing them first to break with their international isolation, as a part of the tough political fight we have ahead. Our discussions with JRCL are political theoreticall and programatic discussions. We know that the responsibility for even their worst right-wing vices and the degeneration of Japanese Trotskyism falls on western Trotskyism. When Kuroda and other brave comrades split from Stalinism in the times of the Hungarian revolution, the entire western Trotskyism were supporting the Red Army that was killing insurgents in Hungary, Poland and Checoslovakia. But the Peace and Freedom Party founded by Breznev in USA didn’t care about it, did it? Ask that moviemaker, SZ, what program did he raise then in front of those events?
There are thousands of anomalies and atrocities perpetrated by national Trotskyism. We won’t forget the Pabloite International Committee put all the Trotskyist parties it led inside the CPs while they all toghether were betraying the working class by participating in the feast of the treason to the Bolivian revolution (supporting the bourgeois government of Paz Estensoro!!) and supporting the popular front in Sri Lanka. And all this was soaked with the heoric blood of Ta Tu Tao and the Vietnamese Trotskyists.
We assume the responsability for taking JRCL out of their swamp, but with the method of discussing politics, not with the methods of the LA liberal petty bourgeois / bourgeois servants of Obama and their submissive allies who claim to be principled Trotskyists, but copy and repeat the worst methods of Stalinism.
Only breaking with the national isolation, pushed forward by the world revolution and under the blows of the unbreakable fight of our iternational fraction, JRCL or some sectors of it will be able to settle things straight in History and regenerate themselves from all the decomposition they have within their ranks. Actually, all those who like us come from the degeneration and rotteness of decades of treasons and capitulations of the leadership of the Fourth international that bastarded its program, lessons and principles have the same task before us. Our combat for the acid tests is also a fight for recovering the class principles and morals. In our opinion, that is also the fight for refounding the IV International and for the regeneration of the world workers movement, which has been corrupted again and again by Social Democracy, Stalinism and the fake Trotkyists.
BE SURE WE WON’T ALLOW THAT IN THE NAME OF THE FLTI, WHILE WE ARE DISCUSSING TOUGH POLITICAL DIFFERENCES WITH JRCL, TO MAKE THEM BREAK WITH THE NATIONAL ISOLATION -MORAL ISSUES GET MIXED IN THE POLITICAL DISCUSSION. THAT IS THE STALINIST METHOD OF CHOICE TO CORRUPT THE WORKERS MOVEMENT, TO DEMORALIZE ITS FIGHTERS AND TO BREAK THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. We have had a lot political discussions with JRCL in five years and it has never launched a moral accusation to settle the political differences we have. And that’s a fact. They have never launched moral accusations against any workers organization in the world while discussing with us. Even more, they say that the 93 members of their organization where killed by the attack of the Japanese bourgeois state. Regarding all their factions and splits they had in 1959, 1961 and 1963, as enumerated in Kuroda’s book which we have been consulting and reading from A to Z, they don’t mention any moral accusation made against any of them. Actually, who have launched a brutal campaign against the entire Japanese Trotskyism are the dissident factions from the European (specially the British) Stalinism.
We will be very careful in this question, because if the truth is as we suspect it is and JRCL is under the fascist attack of a “JRCL” invented by the Japanese state that killed over 90 of their members and also under the attack of a slander campaign launched by Stalinism around the world, our becoming the spokesmen of the moral attack against them – as SZ would like to happen – would be shooting them in the back. We are not willing to do such a thing. We won’t be spokesmen of such moviemakers who operate confortably within the Peace and Freedom Party. Japanese workers don’t have that confort in their lives, a confort that SZ enjoyed unmolested even under the Bonapartist Bush government. Or are we wrong?
We have here before us the program of the Peace and Freedom Party. It does not call to expropriate a single banker or a single MNC. It does not call for a US military defeat in Iraq or in Afghanistan. Their opinion is that the problem is solved in the same way all the liberal bourgeois that want to deceive workers say: with a little tax, with some ecology, and with a disguised (Human) capitalism. This is not a socialist party. It is a wing of tthe Democratic Party of the likes of Jimmy Carter or Jesse Jackson’s. We have to oppose the program of Trotskyism to this shitty party. Discussing whether they are CIA agents is the way of avoiding the discussion about their being ennemies of expropriating Citibank and JP Morgan, of defeating the US warmachine, of destroying the US imperialist state; and therefore tamed servants of the NGOs and the World Social Forums. HWRS comrades! Be consequent with your declared adhesion to healthy Trotskysm! We appeal to you for fighting against that moviemaker’s bourgeois party, friends with Jimmy Carter! Those parties are just coins that the “Republicrat” regime saves, as it is Nader, a “proggresive” “ecofriendly” bourgeois millionaire supported several times by the renegades of Trotskyism as a candidate for president who is always willing to break and corrupt the American left.
After reading the program of the Peace and Freedom Party and [CR]’ letter, it makes us want to write In Defense of Marxism again as a response, but this time against the Californian petty bourgeois. We don’t accuse SZ of being a CIA agent, we are accusing him of being politically a servant of the MNCs who doesn’t call to expropriate them.
For us, whenever there is a discussion among worker organizations, not to mix the political discussion with moral issues is a matter of principles of the same kind as those held by the comrades of Zimbabwe who won’t defend themselves if it means accusing another worker organization before the bourgeois courts, even if that results in their going to jail.
Because if SZ is right and JRCL is everything SZ says, with his method of mixing moral issues with political discussions, the only thing he does is strenghten the alleged treacherous leadership and demoralize the workers that follow JRCL. It seems that [CR] and SZ do not care about them. Instead, with our method of discussing program and politics, we can unmask JRCL and educate the working class that in the workers movement slanders are not allowed nor mixing moral issues with political discussions. Because we do care about the Japanese workers that follow JRCL and to demoralize them would amount to an unforgivable crime. Nobody has the right to mess with class morals. Whoever has moral accusations against someone and has no proof has to keep quiet. And if he has proofs, those have to be submited to a Moral Tribunal. The honour of the revolutionaries is the only asset we have.
Because everything is also about regenerating the proletariat and its institutions after years of corruption made by Stalinism, Social Democracy, union bureaucracy and fake Trotskyists. Moral arguments are not piece of reasoning in the political fight between parties. We won’t get tired of repeating that to the point of saturation.
And if JRCL is eventually a decomposed organization, that position and this principled programatic fight we are giving is the best way to make layers of the Japanese working class and revolutionary youth overcome JRCL without decomposing or demoralizing themselves.
For example, in the beginning of the workers movement, back in the 19th century and until 1914, those methods of mixing politics and morals did not exist. Differences between Marx, Engels, Bakunin and Blanqui in the world workers movement where not settled by pickax or amalgams. In several unions of the 19th century and at the begining of the 20th century, Moral and Honour commissions existed, which made a summary trial, a workers tribunal. If a worker accused another workers of being a traitor and stealing money from the union, both of them had to go to a room with a gun under the supervision of a honour tribunal voted in an assembly, and lock the door. If who had made the accusation was right, the accused had to shoot himself. If not, the accuser had to shoot himself, because, as there was no bureaucracy or corruption, there was no fucking with revolutionary honour.
Those examples were in the statutes of the unions in Argentina, Chile and in all over southern Latin America that were under the influence of Anarchist and Socialist migrations from Europe who came from being chased by the capitalists in the times of the First International at the end of the Ninteenth Century. Continnuing this tradition was the big task undertaken by Bolshevism against Social Democracy and by Trotskyism against Stalinism in USSR and all around the globe.
This was a point of the Pulacayo Theses, when the Trotskyists won with their program the leadership of COB in 1951. For example, no congress from any union of COB could start if the leadership din’t first prove that not a single penny of the union had been used for their personal matters.
Even today, this is a point in the statute of the Huanuni miners’ union. A huge difference with the union bureaucracy of AFL-CIO, the Peronist bureacracy of Argentina, the Socialist and Stalinist in Europe, the Charros in Mexico and so on!
In the times of Lenin and Trotsky and the 3rd International, never a political discussion between workers organizations in the world, where there were the IWW, the French Syndicalists, the Italian centrists mixed with a moral discussion.
Please comrades, study the statutes on moral issues and you will find out that the behaviour of [CR] and that liberal bourgeois of SZ would have not tolerated by the IWW and even less by the SWP of the young Cannon who fought Stalinism that corrupted all the world proletariat and converted mixing moral accusations within political discussions a rule in the workers movement.
This was most expressed in the exemplary behaviour of Lenin and the Bolsheviks on the issue of Marinowsky, who was the responsible in the CC of taking Iskra abroad in the times of the autocracy and Tzarism inside Russia. Several cells and regionals had fallen in the hands of the police. Even the Menshevik left accused Marinowsky of being a cop. Lenin and the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party firmely opposed and treated as a slanderer everyone who accused Marinowsky without proof. That was a similar discussion to that we are doing now against SZ and [CR] who has been unfortunately and unconsciously acting as a transmision belt inside our organization.
Why did Lenin said “We won’t allow this!”? Because if there is a provocateur within our ranks, what he wants is to destroy the trust among revolutionaries by mixing political discussions with moral suspicions against the revolutionries in the workers organizations. Trust is the only thing that keeps us united to defend a common program against autocracy or organizing ourselves together to fight the bourgeoisie and the bosses in a strike.
This is trust, the life of a comrade under torture and repression is worth more than ours. The honour of the comrades that are in the strike with us is key to fight the bosses.
If everyone just starts saying everyone is a cop, that everybody is in the payroll of the bosses, and they mix this with the political discussion, not only Bolshevism in the clandestinity will by destroyed, but also any chance of a serious struggle against the exploiters.
Bolsheviks seized power and they searched the files of the Ojrana. In those files, they found the proof that Marinowsky was truly a secret agent infiltrating the Bolsheviks to prevent a new attempt against the Tzar. There they’ve got the proof and Marinowsky was killed.
That was the method to stop the provocateur: we don’t mix political discussions with moral discussions, because that makes the provocateur win, since what he sought was precisely to break the trust among revolutionaries and working class militants.
That’s why moral discussiones are not open publicly. They are only discussed in Moral Tribunals. Our comrades from ISOZ, led by the African Secretary of the FLTI have advanced a lot in Leninism, even though they didn’t know this tradition, since it was destroyed by the fake Trotskyists which used the same methods of Stalinism to get rid of their left wings.
We have already explained the tragedy of the JRCL and the historical anomaly of having built themselves intenally isolated in Japan, and also the awful things every national group would surely have accumulated due to being isolated.
Does comrade [CR] believe we are some sort of silly philantropists who are not aware of the decomposition that national isolation creates? Do you believe we have not wondered thousands of times what to do on this very serious issue of moral acussations and moral aggravations against Japanese Trotskyism?
IT IS MORALLY ACCEPTED FOR OUR CLASS EVERYTHING THAT RISES UP THE FIGHTING MORALS AGAINST OUR CLASS ENEMIES. IMMORAL IS EVERYTHING THAT DEMORALIZES OUR CLASS. IT IS MORAL EVERYTHING THAT MAKES THE WORKING CLASS MORE CONFIDENT IN ITS FORCES. IT IS INMORAL EVERYTHING THAT SUBORDINATES THE WORKING CLASS TO THE CLASS ENEMIES. Therefore FLTI’s letter to the 47th Antiwar Assembly is moral and politically correct because it aims to lift the morals of the Japanese proletriat. Everything else is a crap, an inmoral campaign that demoralizes the Japanese proletariat, beyond the particular interests of SZ or JRCL apparatus.
On this question there are two choices. Either you are for the Trotskyist and Bolshevist’s politics and program. Or you are with Stalinism. Our friend [CR] must choose.
In this last month FLTI has focused all its strenght on the international fight around two key principled campaigns: Free the Peruvian prisoners and For an International Workers Tribunal in defense of the comrades in Zimbabwe who were taken to the bourgeois courts by Gwisai. We haven’t received a single line, comment, or signature, or an official position from HWRS or [CR] on those campaigns. We think this is a bad sign and is a result of recruiting oppositors against this International Secretary.
And please note that in this point SCI will be implacable. If you disagree, then prepare yourselves to discharge us from the leadership in the next congress. We think we have sufficient political and programatic arguments to separate reformists and oportunists from revolutionaries and honest workers from corrupted decomposed workers, and also the incorruptible leaders from those who serve the bourgeoisie and its parties. We’ll do it based on clean healthy political fights that educate and regenerate the international proletariat, that do not demoralize the workers. This discussion on Their Morals (the one of the bourgeoisie and its counterrevolutionary agents) and Ours (the one of the revolutionary Trotskyists) is part of the programatic discussion that has become a new acid test for all the FLTI, which as the discussion on China, concentrates the problems of principles and strategy of all the revolutionary movement. Zimbabwe, the case of SZ and the Chinese question are a big challenge in the road towards our congress.
We’ll leave aside the small low-level fractional maneuvres behind, which are totally unloyal, as trying to discuss behind the back of this SCI SZ messages with groups such as WIVL. WIVL, as any group of the FLTI would have done, immediately sent us those letters, as comrade [SM of WIVL] denounces today in his letter.
Even so, we want to reaffirm there are two different methods that express two different conceptions about the revolutionary party. One of the methods is not loyal. The other method is which this SCI uses, that even having differences on China, it gave the minority on the point of China (to comrade [DG] from NZ and comrade [DW] from HWRS, as members of the International Executive Committee) the leadership and the responsability of the relation with JRCL. That is to say, that the method of this SCI is to fight for a democratic centralism (that we see [CR] has broken) based on trust between revolutionaries.
And we will demand from them that if they want to fight together with us, let’s strike together for the Peruvian miners, for our Zimbabwean comrades, for the freedom of the Guantanamo prisoners, for putting in place the miullion workers march with the program: “Let Greece and Paris take fire again”; we will demand from them that they be who convene an international congress. All steps that they have began to give in tht sense endorsing the campaign for the freedom of the Peruvian workers in prison.
Of course, the SZ couldn’t care less about this in the same way that they couldn’t care less about the world working class because they are Obama’s servants.
And this is the only policy of this SCI for the JRCL until our congress of December which will be in charge of taking the final decision.
We ask from the HWRS for an Official Statement on this question.
We already have had a very serious discussion with [CR] about SN, in the sense of how we should act before moral problems in our current. We wrote a 20 pages document in response to him and had to retract from what he had said.
Our friend [CR] is always demanding democracy for those who have no moral principles or spread slanderous rumors but he is not afraid of condemning in advance and with no evidence whatsoever those he dislikes or who are not his friends.
The HWRS has to define if, both in SN’s case and now in SZ’s case it supports the moral and principles of comrade [CR] that are not the moral and principles under which the FLTI was founded . They are stated in point 20 of the 23 points: “In defense of the morals and the principles of our class, and against the infamous methods of the Stalinists, the social democracy and the ‘Trotskyist’ renegades who persecute, assault, slander and attack the revolutionary currents in the organizations of the masses where they are in the leadership. For example, the Lambertists falsely slandered the Hungarian revolutionary leader Varga, accusing him of being an “agent of the CIA” in the middle of the workers ‘revolution in 1956, an attempt to suppress political differences. We saw this current doing the same against Ricardo Napurí in Peru. We saw the POR-Lora in Bolivia blaming Juan Pablo Bacherer – a leader of its own current that had political differences – of being a police agent, using that slander to expel him. Finally in Argentina in 2002, the Worker Party (PO) of Altamira beat Juan “Pico” Muzio, leader of LOI (CI)-Workers’ Democracy and handed him over to the bosses’ police and justice system. These are some of the many examples of the ways the renegades of Trotskyism have broken with the elementary principles and morals of our class, and have taken over the role of the Stalinists in the use of these infamous methods”
For us all discussion with the PFP is out of question because this party is mixing up moral discussions with political discussions. This party must be denounced as what it really is: Obama’s servant; it must be unmasked before the American working class. We will write a letter to the JRCL informing them of all this, we will even send them to their e-mail this letter if the HWRS declares itself in favor of the discussion and the position of [CR] and SZ, because we never will cover up any moral attack behind the backs of any working organization of the world.
From now on it is a proposal of this SCI, considering we have acknowledged serious differences with comrade [CR] on questions of principles and how to act in this sense, to stop immediately this discussion as a political discussion because we are not going to publish any slander or moral discussion against the JRCL or any comrade of the international working movement, unless it is a part of a campaign for an International Moral Tribune.
We also propose to send this letter to the Commission of workers responsible for the control and surveillance over the full-timer comrades of the FLTI that was voted in the last congress to declare itself in favor of or against the proposal.
We propose as well, asking comrade [CR] to explain why he and SZ have sent that letter to the WIVL today and why he didn’t send it to this SCI because if he is using moral discussions as a fractional method, that means a serious break with any trust between us and so, the organization of a common Congress, at least with him, is now under question.
From this moment on the relationship with the JRCL lays absolutely in the hands of this SCI and we will imform them that the definitive response to their letter answering our proposals made in our letter to the 47th antiwar Assembly will be sent on december 10th when all of our groups are gathered together in the congress of the FLTI, that will be which will ultimately take a decision on this question. Meanwhile we will advance with them all the proposals of striking together among the international working class worlwide, as is the feeling and the opinion of the 99% of the members of the FLTI.
Thirty days are left before the congress. About this point we won’t intervene again; we will do it in a Congress where morality and principles should be the first point of the agenda to clear the air and be able to go forward then to the rich list of topics we have ahead.
We will devote all our forces to edit the IWO part two in English and the different documents towards the Congress of the FLTI. What we write here is our position before the problems of class morals and principles established in the Congress of the FLTI and approved by all the constituent groups in that Congress, the 23 points among them point20, “In defense of the class morals and principles of the proletariat “
So this present letter is an official document for the Congress of the FLTI proposed by this SCI. From now the HWRS is free from acting as it pleases in this issue but, what it cannot do is to establish any relationship with SZ and his petty bourgeois party (at least) in the name of the FLTI and much less with the JRCL. Before the JCRL, the official position of the SCAI will be adopted up to the international congress which will be held in thirty years.
We affirm we have political differences with comrade [CR] about how to deal with problems of class morals and principles. There is no problem if any doubt or moral questioning among us or about this SCAI could emerge. In that case, all the groups would vote delegates for the December congress to constitute a Moral Tribune to rule on that respect.
All kinds of democratic guaranties have been given and assured for everyone who intervenes in this discussion. And we state here that we are not responsible for the relationship established between [CR], SZ and his PFP.
The second congress of the FLTI will have to issue about this statement.
We are taking into account the principled proposal of comrade David of the CWG and propose it as another alternative to be presented at the congress; we’re also sending the position of the comrades of the LTI of Bolivia we received today.
Finally, we would like to make one thing clear. In a report of November 9th, comrade [CR] declares that RA and AC have turned this episode with SZ into an attack against his (CR’s) personal integrity (?). What does he mean? This is a political discussion against comrade [CR], When was his personal integrity in danger? At most his political positions, which we consider are wrong, may be at risk.
[CR] accuses us of hiding the positions of the currents that are opponents of the FLTI, when he hides who he really is and which is the program of the “Peace and Freedom” party. All the ranks know the positions and the discussions with the JRCL. This same SCI is which is sending the program of this party supported by [CR], which he has hidden all the time from the whole FLTI.
He accuses us of hiding the head under the sand ?, when he is who has been hiding the program of the party of SZ, who in turn is far from being as alleged “ an independent film maker around the world”. Is this or not “hiding the head under the sand”?, this is something worse even: this is hushing up sand over the eyes of the militants of the FLTI. The only one who hides the head under the sand, is [CR] not declaring the actual program of SZ’ party; who wants us not to print the IWO part two, not to centralize all our forces in the International Moral Tribune when the reactionary forces are preparing to smash our comrades in Zimbabwe. He wants us to go behind the steps of a bourgeois film maker in California, discussing with American demo liberals instead of taking the lessons from Kraft and of writing our international thesis. He doesn’t care we arrive on time at the revolutionary uprising of the Chinese proletariat. And in a disloyal way and behind the FLTI’s back he is looking for opponents to this international center, which is a Trotskyst’ conquest. Why doesn’t’ he look for opponents to the Clinton-Obama- Jesse Jackson-SZ´s party for “peace and freedom”? And take notice that this is not a moral but a political accusation!
Our personal discussion with [CR], we insist, has come to an end. From now on we will discuss officially with the HWRS; let him present his position to the congress.
From now up to the congress, we won’t discuss about this anymore except they want now a moral tribune of the FLTI. In that case it could meet a few days before the congress to define if there is any moral doubt from or about any of its members. We won’t allow opposition blocs to this SCI that is in the midst of a civil war against all the counterrevolutionary leaderships which are attacking us from everywhere through members of imperialist bourgeois parties. The HWRS ought to respond immediately to clarify this point because in such a case we would be before a liquidationist current inside the FLTI.
We are sending [CR]’ e-mail where he says he is a recruiting opponent people who are against this international center. One of this is SZ, member of the central committee of one of the bourgeois parties, exploiters of our people, servants of the Kraft and supporters of Honduras’ coup and the US military bases which he intends to cover up with a sweet and liberal democratic program. We have evidences: the liberal democratic yank program of the peace and freedom party which we are sending to the FLTI.
This will be the first point in the Congress’ agenda. And if [CR] believes he can recruit people against the leaders of the ILTF with any program, with any policy and united with any rubbish of counterrevolutionary parties, we shall see eye to eye in the congress and the Congress shall decide about this question.
The positions are already clear: A bulletin with the official translations into English and Spanish shall be edited, the same as an International Correspondence in Spanish with all the positions of the minority about China is already being edited.
The democratic discussion towards the second Congress of the ILTF has begun.
As Greece, Madagascar and Guadeloupe are not anymore in the horizon, the outlines of the buildings could seem to blur. The reaction attempts to retake the fight against the revolutionary working movement, but with patience, internal democracy and honest and loyal discussions we are sure we will be able to keep the course.
We’re attaching the program of PFP to all the ILTF and the November 9th note by comrade [CR] as well as all the pertinent correspondence. All this discussion will be edited to all English, Spanish and Portuguese speaking militants of the ILTF. Light, light and more light!
International Coordination Secretariat of the ILTF
PS: We’ll make a detailed report for the Congress about all the currents, either the splits of ’59, ’61, ’63, and ’69 from the JRCL which all of them claim as origin and still say they are part of. They’re all called JRCL and claim to having broken from Stalinism in the ’56. Is there any dreamer who believes that in such a capitalist crisis, the intelligence services, the provocateurs and the entire Stalinism are not going to meddle?
Only a correct program and an irreproachable revolutionary morals –not entangled with discussions that demoralize the proletariat- could regroup the ranks of the revolutionary internationalist workers from Japan, China, Korea and Vietnam to set up again the party of Den Tu Tsiu –who intervened in the Founding Congress of the Fourth International in ’38. And this is our honor commitment as revolutionary workers and we affirm that: we’ll not re found our party by the hand of SZ and Obama’s servants, and neither [CR] nor any petty bourgeois from imperialist countries will convince us. They’re upset because Trotskyism is reaching China where the future of the world working class will be defined.
This is the real purpose of the provocation against the Japanese Trotskyists, so that their best elements cannot join the workers of Tonghua and follow their example against the Japanese corporations. That is our program – as expressed in the letter to the JRCL read before the 47th Antiwar Assembly – for the Japanese, Chinese and American working class and for those who want to listen to us without renouncing what the international fraction have conquered.
Imperialism and the international counterrevolutionary forces know that preventing the Trotskyists from getting Tonghua, Shanghai, and the future Soviets of Beijing is for them a question of life and death. But there we go! And because of that they are nervous, jealous, acting like monkeys, etc.
We refuse to abandon the International Center as the coward leadership of the SWP of Cannon did in the 40’s! This time neither Trotsky nor Sedov or Rudolph Klement will lose. This time the Stalinists and the slanderers of the international proletariat will be the losers!
This time Coyoacán will not be defeated. It is protected by the mineworkers of Huanuni and Peru, the workers of Argentina, of South Africa, of Zimbabwe, and it will be taken as theirs, with no doubt, by the workers of China and USA.
Long live the Fourth International!
¡Let´s kill the Stalinism and its legacy of corruption and degeneration of the international proletariat vanguard!
The party of the young Cannon – led by Trotsky – will be re founded over the ruins of the liberal petty bourgeoisie who already deserted with Burnham and Shachtman, breaking with the SWP, in order to go to the left of the Democratic Party.
Stepping in the footsteps of Burnham and Shachtman, never!