Britain's Communist Party launches "Hand-0ff-China" campaign

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: chinaview

LONDON, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The Communist Party of Great Britain launched on Saturday night a campaign in support of China amidst the China-bashing craze among western media.

The campaign dubbed "Hands off China" is aimed to defend China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, support the "One China" principle and the country's just stands on issues of its vital national interest such as Taiwan and Tibet.

It is also expected to refute hostile propaganda and misinformation of western media and uphold the great revolutionary traditions of the Chinese communists, working class and people, and support the achievements of the Chinese people in eliminating poverty and building a strong, powerful and modernized socialist country as well as China's contributions to realizing a multi-polar and peaceful world and to the independent, anti-imperialist development of the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The campaign will be designed to support Chinese workers, students and other members of the Chinese community in Britain in their struggles against racism and for their rights.

"China has done no harm to others but has suffered a long in history," said Harpal Brar, chair of the party, citing efforts made since New China was founded in 1949 to stand on its feet.



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[JohnLocke]

1. Yay for Stalinism.

:eyes:

[Spouting Horn]

2. China is fascist

not communist.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. In a sense.

That said, what it is is what it always has been: Royalty and war lords. Oh, they might embrace one political system or another to give themselves a veneer of progress and respectability, but the bedrock of their system was the same it has always been.

Their embrace of Stalinism was not surprising, either: Stalinism, filtered through Mao and his Missus, was just the deal for Royalty and War Lords. Tailor-made. Perfect fit.

[robcon]

12. You really think there is a difference in fascist and communist systems?

Both systems need to subjugate the working class to keep them from revolting against their overlords. Denying human rights is the only way those systems survive. Open elections would throw the dictators out in China, just as they would in Cuba, North Korea, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, etc.

[BearSquirrel2]

3. misguided ....

China is no longer communist. They are now a fascist dictatorship.

[zehnkatzen]

5. Can you LEAVE CHINA ALOOOOOOONE! (sob) k/r n/t

[izquierdista]

6. My own "Hands-off-China" policy

Whenever I see "Made in China" on some piece of merchandise, it's Hands Off! Just put it down and walk away, before you get poisoned or injured.

[TroubleMan]

7. LOL, right now China is one of the most capitalist countries in the world.

They haven't been communist in a long time, other than in name only.

[LeftishBrit]

8. They launched this campaign...

from the telephone booth in which they always hold their bigger meetings.

[T_i_B]

9. Which lot is this anyway?

The Communist Party of Great Britain? The Revolutionary Communist party? The Workers Revolutionary Party? The Socialist Party? The Socialist Labour Party? The Socialist Workers Party? The Spartacists?

:shrug:

[JVS]

10. People's Front of Judea

[zehnkatzen]

14. No, I think it's the Judean People's Front. n/t

[D-Notice]

15. You missed out

the CPCB (Trotskyist) and CPGB (Marxist-Leninist)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

16. they are the CPGB-ML

Descended from old school Stalinists that split from the old CPGB because the old CPGB were "revisionist." They were in Scargill's Socialist Labour Party for a while before he expelled them.

[fedsron2us]

11. What China -bashing craze in the media ?

Must have passed me by.

Great to see the CPGB maintaining its long history of pimping for totalitarian regimes.

Still at least more people have posted on this thread than read the Morning Star so this must count as something of a publicity coup for the CPGB.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

17. different organisations

The Morning Star is associated with the CPB, while the OP is about the CPGB-ML, a microsect of 20 people that split from Scargill's Socialist Labour Party a few years ago.

The historical CPGB perished in 1991. The Morning Star split with the old CPGB in 1988 and went with the CPB splintergroup.

Contemporary UK communists have about a dozen or so parties to choose from, each having the "only correct line" of course.

[fedsron2us]

19. Sadly I am a bit out of date on these matters

When I was a union official back in the 1980's I used to mix from time to time with people from some of the left fringe parties. My favourite was a small Marxist group whose members all appeared to wear small beards and dress like their hero Lenin (needless to say thre were no women). If you got two or three of them together in a room it was like a small lookalike convention.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

20. I don't think things have changed that much

The far-left is full of well-meaning people, but they have their fair share of cargo cultists as well. My favourite nutters are the CPB-ML, a Maoist group who wish to base their revolutionary doctrine around Britain's er... peasantry?

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. There's a lot of pent-up anger in the Ed Grundys of this country

Don't rule out a storming of Grey Gables or Lower Loxley just yet ...

[robcon]

13. "China has done no harm to others but has suffered a long in history,"

Ask the people of Tibet if that is true.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

18. there's no principles of anti-imperialist thought here by the CPGB-ML:

The CPGB-ML and its fellow travellers consider post-1953 USSR to be revisionist and capitalist, and the post-Mao PRC to be revisionist and capitalist.

So why the change of heart regarding China by these ultra-Stalinists?

Access to Chinese Communist Party funds. To maintain fraternal relations with states such as China which are Communist in name only, means access to funds for propaganda back in the home country. Hence you see old-school Stalinist sects who shunned China's "restoration of capitalism" now coming to its aid to compete for access to Party cash.